October 20, 2024 • 39 mins
This podcast is about integrating your spirituality with your worldly walk as a co-creator with God. In this episode I give a preview about what we'll be covering here on this podcast in future episodes.
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Well, hello, and welcome to the firstepisode of the podcast atonement, the
path of wholeness and total integration.
So first of all, let meask, answer the question.
What is this podcast?
This podcast is a podcast where you willhear real raw and relevant conversations
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about bringing your eternal divinity.
And manifesting it morefully here on the earth.
A lot of our focus here is going tobe what I call practical mysticism.
Mysticism means understanding the greatbeyond the spiritual realities of life,
the unseen part of this world, thatpart of the world that we call spiritual
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in nature, where do we come from?
Where are we going to, whatis this life all about?
And the practical side is it's notjust theory, but like, how does this
information actually impact our lives?
As men, how does it result inus being financially abundant?
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How does it relate to ourrelationships with our spouses
to having more frequent and better sex?
These are the kinds of conversationsthat we're going to be having here.
The kind of conversationsthat most human beings are not
just terrified to talk about.
But actually even terrified to listenabout because ultimately what happens
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when we begin to reveal our truth, whenwe begin to really dig down, dig deep
into the parts of our lives that aren'tworking is we begin to feel exposed.
And then in this exposure,we begin to feel inadequate.
And in this inadequacy, we begin tobe face to face with our own sense
of shame and guilt that somehowthere's something wrong with us.
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That somehow we're not enough.
That somehow we're not measuringup that somehow we're not
pleasing some angry God in heaven.
My name is Enoch Sears, and I'm yourhost on this podcast on this podcast.
We'll be doing interviews.
I'll be sharing specific content
and everything's going to befocused on helping you live.
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Not a life of mediocrity, not a lifeof detached sedation, but a life
of aliveness, a life that you canlook back on, on your deathbed and
know that you've given it your all.
Now, every solution, every good thing inlife comes as a solution to a problem.
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Henry Ford developed the modelT because he saw a need for
an affordable automobile.
So that people didn't need to travelin carriages, Thomas Edison developed
a light bulb because he saw theinefficiencies of using kerosene
lamps and gas to provide light.
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And so, as we enter into thisconversation here on this podcast,
we maybe ask ourselves thequestion, what are the problems?
That this podcast is meant to address theproblems that you may be experiencing the
problems that I've experienced in my life.
So first of all, before we get intothat, let's jump into why the title
of the podcast atonement, the pathof wholeness and total integration.
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Is this some, you know, atonement?
The word atonement is typically aword used in a Christian context
referring to the reconciliationthat Jesus Christ performed in
paying for the sins of humanity.
And certainly we're gonna touch onthat meaning of it, but what I'd have
you consider is that the story of theatonement of Jesus Christ, of the Son of
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God giving His life to pay for our sins,At its very core has a deeper meaning.
And I know I've, I've had friendsand people often ask me, and I've
asked myself, like, why in theworld, like, it doesn't make sense.
Why would a God in heaven?
Why would an angry God, why woulda God make his perfect and innocent
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son suffer to pay for our misdeeds?
Sounds rather vindictive.
Sounds rather odd.
Doesn't make sense.
Why can't God just accept us backinto his presence and just forgive us?
If we have contrite hearts, why doessomeone need to die or suffer because
of our misdeeds, because of our sins,because of our turning away from God?
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And that is going to be a question thatwe will be addressing and touching upon in
many different ways here on the podcast.
But what I'd have you consider isthat more important to you and I.
Then the theater theoretical question andmaybe let me rephrase instead of saying
more important more relevant to you andI then the Philosophical or theoretical
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reasons for Jesus's atonement are whatdoes the atonement mean to you and I?
What is this strange word and how doesit apply to our lives individually?
And what does it haveto do with you as a man?
Having more and more frequent sex andmore satisfying sex with your wife you
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succeeding financially individually Youhaving a massive impact on the world,
you being the paragon, an examplefor your children that they can look
up to, that they want to emulate.
You being the king that your wife adores,that your wife worships, and her being the
queen that you adore and that you worship.
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How does this word atonement, howdoes this principle of atonement
apply to these two things?
And what are the practical, realworld results about why in the
hell this should matter to you?
Well, that's what we're going tobe talking about on this podcast.
And as I mentioned, if you haven'tpicked up already, yes, we are going
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to be talking around about subjectsand topics that in religious circles
are often not talked about or talkedabout quietly and hushed tones.
That are talked about, uh,in embarrassed overtones.
Yeah, we're going to be talking verydirectly about sex and marriage.
We're going to have guests on here.
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I'm going to share my experience.
We're going to talk about how sex goesbeyond just the physical fulfillment
between a man and a woman beyond justthe need to create, but how it is
one of the most powerful life givingand energy giving faculties that you
have as a divine soul on this earth.
We're going to talk about economicproduction, about money, about what it
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takes to be successful business personin today's world, about what it takes to
have impact and leadership, to be the kindof man who can be counted on, the kind of
man who delivers results, the kind of manwho can be trusted, the kind of man who
represents the whole person that JesusChrist gave us the example that we can be.
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And we'll do this through a frame,not of self righteousness, not of
a holier than thou approach.
But we're going to have a look at thesethings as they really apply to you and I.
So let's look at the word atonement.
The word atonement, if you didn'tknow, comes from middle English and
scholars say that it means in harmony.
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It means in harmony.
So just consider this thatthe very idea of harmony
necessitates the need of two thingsthat could be seen as opposing
in the world of philosophy.
This is called dualism.
And Lehi talks about this in Nephichapter two, where he says there must
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needs be opposition in all things.
The basic idea here is that for you tobe able to experience sweet, you need
to understand what the bitter tasteslike for you to experience light.
The only way that you experiencelight is by experiencing darkness.
The only way you experiencepleasure is in contrast.
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This is the nature of duality.
This is the nature of this physicalrealm in which we live, because in this
physical realm, this worldly plane inwhich we exist, there's me, what we
perceive as there's me, and there's you.
I'm sitting here in front ofthis microphone right now.
I'm saying, okay, Ilook at this microphone.
This microphone seems to bea different object than me.
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I perceive myself being here.
I perceive my microphone being there.
This is the idea ofseparation and duality.
So the very word atonement has atits core, the idea behind it, that
there are two separate things.
And atonement is about bringingthese things into harmony.
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Bringing them together.
Now, if we look up the word harmony, wecan see what does harmony actually mean?
According to Oxford languagesdictionary here on Google,
harmony has a number of different.
Definitions.
And I liked the firstone because it's musical.
It talks about the combination ofsimultaneously sounded musical notes
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together to produce chords and chordprogressions, having a pleasing effect.
So isn't that interesting?
Harmony is when you overlapthese different musical notes
together to get something that'sgreater than the individual parts.
Another definition is the quality offorming a pleasing and consistent whole.
So think about this for a second.
Your life is made of dualities.
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What does that mean?
Your life is made of different things.
Separation.
There's you and your wife.
This is a great example.
Or if you're a woman, this maybe your wife and you may be
you and your husband, right?
But in a couple, in a marriage wherethere's male and female, what we
have is we have a man and a woman,we have two partners separation.
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And so harmony is when these twocome together and they form a
pleasing and consistent whole.
We read in the Bible.
The writings of Paul talks abouta man and a woman when they
come together being one flesh.
The Bible talks about this idea ofwhen two people get married, they come
together, they make this covenant,this promise, this commitment, and
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they come together to be one flesh.
There's another definition of harmonyhere, talking about the New Testament.
It says, an arrangement of the fourgospels, Or, or of any parallel
narratives, which present asingle continuous narrative text.
So I want you to consider thatthe idea of atonement is the
rebalancing of the duality of reality.
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So the fact that we need to experiencepain and pleasure, the fact that we
need to experience sugar and bitterness,the fact that we need to experience
light and dark, the fact that darknessneeds to exist for light to exist.
The fact that fear needsto exist for love to exist.
The idea of the atonement isbringing these things together and
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having them operate in harmony.
Now you better believe this applies toyou and your life because everywhere
in your life, you will be blessedand you will benefit from harmony.
If you're leading business teams.
If you're in a position of authority ina business, maybe you run sales teams.
Maybe you're like me,you're a business owner.
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You have people on your team.
A team that does not haveatonement is a team that's pulling
in all different directions.
There's no harmony.
There's no communication.
There's resentment.
There's bitterness.
There's backbiting.
There is striving, uh, for promotions.
There is brown nosing.
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Right.
There is laziness.
There is people, there arepeople not pulling their weight.
This is what happens whenwe have an inefficient team.
When we have an efficient team,everyone pulls their weight together.
One person isn't pulling moreof their fair share of the load.
And what happens in teams when everyone'sworking together in harmony is that
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the output of that team is much, muchgreater than the different and disparate
and separate pieces individually.
So in other words, if you have a teamof 10 people and they're each working
individually, they're not cooperating.
They're not working in harmony.
They're all doing their own thing.
You'll get a certain result, butthat result will be greater if
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those 10 people operate in harmony.
So I want you to consider that this isone of the meanings of the word atonement.
And this points to what Jesusaccomplished, what Jesus showed us,
showed us what the atonement means ina spiritual and philosophical sense.
Sense, but also what applies to each ofus individually within our own souls.
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You see, because here's the thingfor the first 40 years of my life, I
lived my life trying to escape whatI thought were the dark parts of me.
For instance, as a youngchild, I would be sad.
I would cry.
And you know what theadults around me told me?
They told me, Enoch, don't be sad.
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Don't cry.
And although they were wellintentioned the way that I took
this instruction, this training.
Was that there was somethingwrong with being sad.
There was something wrong with crying.
There was something wrong with showingmy Negative so called emotions and
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I would go to church and at churchI would listen to songs like if you
see a frowny face Do not let it stay
turn that frown upside down and smilethat frown away And so I trusted what
the adults around me were telling meI thought that hey, this is the way to
live a powerful life Is to not have thesenegative thoughts and feelings, not to
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have these negative emotions and not tobe sad, not to grieve, or if I did, if
I did grieve, or if I was sad, to hideit away and not to let anyone see it.
If I was feeling like I had afrowny face, just wipe that frowny
face away and have a smiley face.
Sadly, this approach is the opposite.
Of atonement.
This is the opposite of at one mintatonement, as we're going to be talking
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about it here on the podcast forbringing your, more of your manifest
divinity into your life, into life,into your relationship with your
wife, into the relationship withyour children, into your business
relationship, into your career success.
It's not about denying these flawed.
And maybe even people might saynegative parts of our humanity.
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It's about integrating them.
It's about bringingthem back to the table.
It's about listening to them andseeing what they have to teach us,
not trying to pretend we don't havethem, not trying to completely eradicate
them against, uh, from our life.
I was attending a seminar years ago andthe leader, the seminar leader that was
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leading the transformational breakthrough.
That we were experiencing said a quotethat Carly and I, Carly is my wife, that
we often talk about and laugh about that.
What you resist persists,what you resist persists.
And we see this, we see this today.
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We see the disintegration.
Of men today, we see men who don'tknow how to integrate their sexuality,
men who are scared and afraid oftheir own sexuality, and so we see
sexuality in society today beingexpressed in dark and unhelpful ways
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we see sexual expression happeningthrough control, through manipulation,
through one night stands, throughthings that are very devoid and detached
from real heart, from real soul.
And as humanity, what's our.
Response to these things is to demonizethis aspect of humanity, to try to hide
it, to try to sweep it under the rug,to try to pretend like it doesn't exist.
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Dr.
Robert Glover wrote abook called no more, Mr.
Nice guy.
And in this book, hehas a magnificent quote.
And he says that he has,he's a, he's a therapist.
He's a man that does a lot of men's work.
And here's what he saidbased upon his experience.
He said, I've developed a theorythat States the nicer, the guy.
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The darker, the sexual secrets.
He says, I find this tobe consistently true.
Sex is a basic human drive.
Nice guys, most quote unquote, nice guys.
This is from his book, believe thatthey're bad for being sexual or believe
that other people will think they are bad.
Sexual impulses have tobe kept hidden from view.
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And I want you to think about, imaginewhen you were a kid and you had these
These little water balloons, right?
Do you remember those little, thoselittle tiny water balloons that we
get on the playground on the hot dayand we'd throw them at each other
and we just have a blast as kids.
And did you ever trysqueezing one of those?
If it wasn't too full,you would squeeze on it.
And then guess what?
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That water balloon would like bulgeout in one area and then you'd squeeze
on there and a bulge out in another.
And you squeeze that or isbulge out in another area.
Like this is fun.
It was fun to play with this, right?
That is like, What happens when we tryto repress our sexual drive as men.
Now on this podcast, I'm going to bespeaking largely from a man's perspective.
We're going to have a lotof women on here as guests.
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We're going to be talkingabout the divine masculine.
We're going to be talkingabout the divine feminine.
We're going to be talkingabout the relationship and the
dynamic between male and female.
And primarily what we'llbe touching upon here.
Well, we, you know, we won't be dealingwith a lot of transgender issues.
Or homosexuality or homosexual marriages.
We're going to come with the frameof a cisgendered man, white male.
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That's me because that'sfrom my experience.
So typically I'll on this podcast,I will be talking about marriage
between a man and a woman.
I'll be talking about the masculinepolarity, the feminine polarity, and
I'll use these things interchangeably.
But the point is when this sexualdrive, this normal human drive is
repressed, When we attach shame toit, when we're embarrassed, when
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there's any hesitancy of embarrassmentabout this, this shame, what ends up
happening is it opens up the avenue forunhealthy expression of the sexuality.
And so we see terrible thingshappening and human beings doing
terrible things to each other.
Rape, pillage, incest, molestation,sexual abuse, physical violence
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happening between men and women.
And what I'd have you consideris that these things are
symptoms of disintegration.
Atonement is integration.
Chaos is disintegration.
Unhealthy patterns is disintegration.
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So consider that the word atonement, asit pertains to you, as it pertains to me,
is about us harmonizing within ourselves.
All of the competing forces.
I know as a man, as a human being, Ihave a lot of competing forces within me.
I have sexual drive.
I have the need to sleep.
Sometimes these two forces arecompeting against each other.
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I have sexual drive.
I also have the desire tolove other people, to love my
wife, to not manipulate her.
And so these two things need tobe integrated because what a man
does when he's unintegrated, whenhe's not integrated, when he's
unconscious, when he's actingout his sexuality unconsciously.
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Which happens in marriages all the timeis his wife can feel like one of my female
friends once told me a pincushion she canfeel like she is just a Receptacle for
vaginal masturbation and you may laughbecause you may know that as a man you've
done that I know that I've certainlydone that with my wife as well You know
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just viewed her as something as as as anobject to satisfy This human desire, this
human drive that I have of sexuality.
So if you're experiencing thisand know what I'm talking about,
like these are the kinds of realconversations we're going to have here.
And what I want to invite you intois a conversation about around these
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things that is devoid of shame.
That is devoid of guilt.
That is devoid of judgment.
I was listening to, uh, one of thethings that I really like to do is I
like to listen to near death experiences.
They give me a lot of hope forwhat death is about, and really a
lot of, uh, lack of fear of death.
And there's some, uh, remarkableexperiences, and if you listen to
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them, what you'll find is that There's,there's just these commonalities
in these near death experiences.
But one of them that comes to mindright now is, is kind of a funny story,
uh, because it deals with this idea ofsexuality is this guy talking about how
he died, uh, he went to the afterlifeand, uh, Jesus appeared to him, right?
So Jesus appears to him.
And he recognizes Jesus, eventhough he wasn't necessarily, uh,
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um, you know, a religious guy.
And, uh, and as he's sittingthere talking with Jesus, he
suddenly gets very embarrassed.
Um, and, uh, Jesus has a smile on his faceand, uh, the man says that he's, he tells
Jesus, I'm embarrassed because I just,I thought about something that I like.
And I thought about,I thought about boobs.
Laughter.
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And, uh, I love what he recountsin this near death experience.
He said, Jesus just laughed.
Jesus just laughed, right?
The cool thing is like Jesuswas a human being, right?
Jesus walked on the earth.
Jesus knows what it's like to be a man.
Jesus knows that most guys like boobs.
Like this is no, this is no secret.
And the, the interesting thing,and the reason why I bring this
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up is because we don't need to be.
Ashamed about this.
This will be a place here on thispodcast where we're not going to
be ashamed about our humanity.
We're not going to be embarrassed aboutwhat God has created us to be because
God created us to have these desires.
God create us biology, whicheverway you look at it, we are
created with these sexual desires.
We're created with these thingslike frustrations, irritations,
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anger, resentment, jealousies.
Like these are natural partsof being a human being,
but when we try to pushthese things away from us.
Out of fear, out of shame, or outof guilt, they end up digging their
tentacles into us even more powerfully.
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So the path of atonement, the pathof wholeness refers not only to the
reconciliation that Jesus Christ didon the grand universal cosmic level.
And we'll talk plenty more about thaton this podcast, but consider that
it has to do with your own personalatonement with you atoning, with you
integrating, with you harmonizing.
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These competing forces within yourselfand that your ability to be a powerful,
to be a fully alive and to be a, aman who gets stuff done in the world,
a man who'd be counted on a man whostands as a King for his family,
your divinity will be accelerated asyou're able to harness these powers,
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these powers of sexuality, thesepowers of anger, these powers of
frustration, these powers of irritation.
The desire to win the desire tocompete like these things are
not to be cut out of your life.
They're not to be gotten rid of.
They're meant to be metabolized.
They're meant to be used.
They're meant to be channeled foryour production as a man, as a leader,
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as a divine soul on this earth.
And I want you to consider thatyou and I, we incarnated here.
We came here.
We are souls descended here.
Partially because we wereintrigued by the idea of a body.
We were intrigued by the ability to cometake that divine essence that we are
incarnate into these physical bodies anduse them as tools of co creation with God,
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the problem facing.
Much of Latter day Saint culturetoday, much of Christian culture
today, many faith traditionstoday is this, is that these faith
traditions have become something thatdemonize the human aspects of life.
They become something where theytry to paint this perfect picture
about what a human being should be.
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And we need look no farther than thesex scandals in the Catholic Church
for the priests abusing young boysto see that that is not healthy.
Thank you.
It's not healthy torepress human sexuality.
It's not healthy to liveas a disintegrated person.
And so I want you to consider thatwhatever area in your life is not working
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now, that if we were to peel it back andif we were to look at the root causes of
why this thing is not working for you,at its core, there is a disintegration.
There's something thatneeds to be harmonized.
There's something thatneeds to be integrated.
Whether you feel stuck in yourcareer right now, maybe you're
in financial lack right now.
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Maybe you're waking up as a middle agedman and wondering, how did I get here?
I thought that I wouldbe so much farther ahead.
Or maybe you're dealing with children whoare making choices that disappoint you,
and you're wondering, how did I get here?
Or maybe you're looking at therelationship you could have had with
your kids, but you pour yourself intothe work, you weren't there for them,
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and so that relationship doesn't exist,and you have res you have regrets about
how you showed up for your children.
Maybe you find yourself in a sexlessmarriage, and it's been going on
for so long, you've given up thehope of ever connecting sexually.
And like many men, maybe you've decidedto sedate that because let's face it,
that sexual power needs expression.
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And so you masturbate sadly in the shower
and you resign yourself to that'sjust what your life is about.
Or maybe you completely shut yoursexuality off altogether because
your wife isn't sexually available.
And so this is what we do.
We give up, we give up the dream.
We stopped being honestabout what we want in life.
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We resign ourselves to a booby prize.
Instead of going after allthat life has to offer.
So if there's one thing that I wantthis podcast to inspire in you, it is
to awaken you to the possibility of whatyour life could be like, and you see
one of the biggest challenges for us.
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When I say us, I mean, people livingin a developed nation, middle class
people who have everything goingpretty well, education, married, got
a family, going to kids soccer games.
Like life is working out pretty well.
Maybe you're volunteering with thescout troop, serving in your church
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callings, like life's going okay.
I want you to consider that the biggestchallenge that you will have as you
step into more and more abundance.
Is the curse of comfort is thecurse of getting so comfortable.
That you stop striving because whatI know is in my life, when I've been
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under severe compression, when thingshave not been going well, when I've
been under extreme pain, when I've beenunder extreme circumstances, this tested
my metal, when I've looked and I'vethought, I don't know where I'm going.
I feel like giving up.
I don't know what to do.
It was these times that I pushed myselfeven harder that I came through with
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resolve that I did not know that I had.
And it was the pain.
So you see Christianity and thisidea of finding some eternal heaven
where everyone is in bliss andpeace is missing half of the puzzle.
It's not about denying our humanity.
It's about integrating our humanity.
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It's not about living in aheaven where there's no pain.
It's about having a heaven,even though there is pain.
It's not about trying to do theright thing, trying to achieve
some impossible idea of perfectionby doing the right thing.
It's about surrendering our heartto what's needed in the moment.
And being led moment by moment bythe inner voice that feels like it
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comes somewhere around this heart.
What I will say today is that now morethan ever, our world needs men who
are switched on to their divinity.
Our world needs men who are waking up andnot falling deeper and deeper into sleep.
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Men who are rising up asleaders in their families.
Not through coercion or manipulation,but through servant leadership, not
abdicating the throne to their wifebecause their wife is the organized one.
And now their wife is trying to not onlymanage the household, but also manage
the kids, but also manage the spiritualgrowth of the family, also manage the
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vacations, also prepare for the vacationsand leaving no time for herself.
Now I know that we, as men, wetry to do the best we can with
our sweethearts with our Queens.
We try to provide the support that we,we feel like she needs, but it's hard.
It's hard at times.
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Our wives don't ask for help.
They're so, you know, at least my wife,she's so proficient at what she does.
Oftentimes she won't even reach out forhelp and support until the load is so
heavy that she's almost about to snap.
But I'd have you consider that as men.
We need to be aware of this beforeit gets to the breaking point,
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because this is what causes divorces.
This is what causes sexless marriages.
This is what causes disconnection.
This is what causes men to beand feel alone, to feel like
there's this hole in their heart
that they can never fill.
No matter how much they pour themselvesinto their work, no matter how many
awards they get, no matter how muchfinancial resources they rack up, no
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matter how many athletic events theythey're able to achieve and to crush.
No matter how many church callings andhome teaching visits, ministering visits,
they go on, no matter how much theyread their scriptures, no matter how
much they fast, no matter how much theypray, they still have this hole in their
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heart, their soul speaking to them andtelling them that there's something more.
There's something more available for you.
There's something more available for me.
We live in a day to day when the mediawould have us believe that humanity
is headed to hell in a handbasket.
What I would have you consider is thatthis is a false narrative, that there
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are people today who are waking up totheir divinity more than ever before.
We have people who are moreswitched on than ever before.
And so what I see is I see a diversion.
I see a fork in the road.
I said that, yes, someminority elements of humanity.
Are still propagating the old patternsof greed, of lust, of exploitation,
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of control, but there's a whole nothersegment of humanity that is rising up
into their divinity, that is waking upinto their spiritual capacity as human
beings, as fathers, as mothers, ascommunity members, as business leaders.
And
podcast, maybe you've heard the call too.
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Maybe, you know, that there'ssomething in your soul that
says that you're destined for.
Something greater than you actuallyhave even imagined for yourself
that, you know, that you're meant to bea beacon of light, that, you know, that
you're on this earth at this time, becauseyou have very particular talents that
you haven't even dug into yet, that youhave yet to stretch the full capacity
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of your humanity and your divinity.
So this podcast is primarily a call andan invitation for Christian men and Latter
day Saint men, particularly to wake up.
To wake up to your greatness, to wake upto the areas in which you were asleep,
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to wake up and, and get honest about theareas in your life that aren't working.
Instead of feeling lonely, feelingalone, feeling like there's no way
out, feeling like you're trapped,feeling like you need to settle for
the hand that you've been dealt.
Understanding that you are not alone,
that the majority ofmarriage is out there.
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Are sadly unfulfilled that themajority of men in marriages feel
alone in the relationship wherethey should feel most desired, where
they should feel most loved, wherethey should feel most appreciated.
They feel underappreciated.
They feel like no matter whatthey do, they're never enough.
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And so again, they put on the niceguy smile and they try to be their
best self and they try to let itgo by, by wander under the bridge.
But at the same time, it's themselvesthey're selling under the bridge.
It's themselves that isflowing in that river.
Away from themselves as they live adisintegrated life, a life without
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atonement, they go to church, they takethe sacrament, they participate in the
temple and they think that they areatoned, but they're missing the point.
They're missing the point that atonementis not something you do on the outside.
Atonement is a shift of somethingthat happens on the inside and the
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things that happen on the outside, theordinances, the rituals, the service.
All of these things are simply.
Manifestations of an inner transformation.
And the sad part is, is that thesethings can be done for an entire
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lifetime without ever havingexperienced that inner transformation.
This podcast is about bringingtogether the spiritual life with the
worldly life, bringing together, notonly spiritual attainment in your
realization, your spiritual progression,but also bringing forth financial
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production on this earthly plane.
Because if your religion isn't goodenough to be able to bring you financial
wealth, if you're not for, not for itself,but as an expression of your divinity,
not through lust, not through greed,but again, as an expression of your
co creation with God, if your religionisn't enough to help you have a radically
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turned on relationship with your queen,with your so called eternal companion,
then I would just invite you to considerthat like me, you had never been taught.
The truth that lies behind your religion.
So with that, I'm goingto wrap the episode today.
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We've talked about a number of things.
We've talked about how the mediawould have you believe that the
world is going to hell in a handbasket and how this is not true.
How the world right now needs menlike you to stand up in your divinity.
It needs men like you tolead your family powerfully.
It needs men like you to leadyour business teams in a powerful
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way, in a Christ centered,in a Christ conscious way.
And that this Christ centered andChrist conscious way is not the
disintegrated way that has beenshoved down your throat by cultural
Mormonism, by cultural Christianity,
but that there's an integrated versionthat you know because you've seen it.
You know what I'm talking about.
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And you know there's something wrongwith the way that religious men and
women try to paint a one sided versionof what it means to be a human being.
There's a part of you that recognizesthat your darkness is the key.
To your power.
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There's a part of you that recognizesthat your integration is what is going
to allow you to stand with confidencenaked in front of God, men, and witnesses
and say, here I am, Lord, send me.
Now, the invitation as we end upthis episode is to head on over to
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You'll be part of the conversation as Ishare more about my own personal journey.
The journey I've gone throughwalking through being a disintegrate
disintegrated man, being a man who issedated, being a man who is completely
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separate from myself, being a manwho, although I went through all the
steps that I was taught, stillended up feeling alone and lost.
This is the journey I'llbe sharing with you.
I've gone from that guy to being a guy who
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is confident
in who he is as a human being, notbecause of some special attribute,
but because I am fearless.
When it comes to exposingmyself, I am not afraid to let
people know what is true for me.
And this is the permission that I wantto give you to start to be honest in
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your life with the people around you.
Honest with your wifeabout what you really want.
Honest with your employer about whatyou really think about your workplace.
Honest with your fellow colleagues atwork about what you think about them.
Honest with your team membersabout what you think about them.
Honest with yourself aboutwhat you really want in life.
So with that, it's a wrap.
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Head over to enixseries.
com for more, and as always,Carpe Diem, and goodbye for now.
Well, hello, and welcome to the firstepisode of the podcast atonement, the
path of wholeness and total integration.
So first of all, let meask, answer the question.
What is this podcast?
This podcast is a podcast where you willhear real raw and relevant conversations
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about bringing your eternal divinity.
And manifesting it morefully here on the earth.
A lot of our focus here is going tobe what I call practical mysticism.
Mysticism means understanding the greatbeyond the spiritual realities of life,
the unseen part of this world, thatpart of the world that we call spiritual
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in nature, where do we come from?
Where are we going to, whatis this life all about?
And the practical side is it's notjust theory, but like, how does this
information actually impact our lives?
As men, how does it result inus being financially abundant?
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How does it relate to ourrelationships with our spouses
to having more frequent and better sex?
These are the kinds of conversationsthat we're going to be having here.
The kind of conversationsthat most human beings are not
just terrified to talk about.
But actually even terrified to listenabout because ultimately what happens
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when we begin to reveal our truth, whenwe begin to really dig down, dig deep
into the parts of our lives that aren'tworking is we begin to feel exposed.
And then in this exposure,we begin to feel inadequate.
And in this inadequacy, we begin tobe face to face with our own sense
of shame and guilt that somehowthere's something wrong with us.
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That somehow we're not enough.
That somehow we're not measuringup that somehow we're not
pleasing some angry God in heaven.
My name is Enoch Sears, and I'm yourhost on this podcast on this podcast.
We'll be doing interviews.
I'll be sharing specific content
and everything's going to befocused on helping you live.
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Not a life of mediocrity, not a lifeof detached sedation, but a life
of aliveness, a life that you canlook back on, on your deathbed and
know that you've given it your all.
Now, every solution, every good thing inlife comes as a solution to a problem.
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Henry Ford developed the modelT because he saw a need for
an affordable automobile.
So that people didn't need to travelin carriages, Thomas Edison developed
a light bulb because he saw theinefficiencies of using kerosene
lamps and gas to provide light.
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And so, as we enter into thisconversation here on this podcast,
we maybe ask ourselves thequestion, what are the problems?
That this podcast is meant to address theproblems that you may be experiencing the
problems that I've experienced in my life.
So first of all, before we get intothat, let's jump into why the title
of the podcast atonement, the pathof wholeness and total integration.
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Is this some, you know, atonement?
The word atonement is typically aword used in a Christian context
referring to the reconciliationthat Jesus Christ performed in
paying for the sins of humanity.
And certainly we're gonna touch onthat meaning of it, but what I'd have
you consider is that the story of theatonement of Jesus Christ, of the Son of
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God giving His life to pay for our sins,At its very core has a deeper meaning.
And I know I've, I've had friendsand people often ask me, and I've
asked myself, like, why in theworld, like, it doesn't make sense.
Why would a God in heaven?
Why would an angry God, why woulda God make his perfect and innocent
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son suffer to pay for our misdeeds?
Sounds rather vindictive.
Sounds rather odd.
Doesn't make sense.
Why can't God just accept us backinto his presence and just forgive us?
If we have contrite hearts, why doessomeone need to die or suffer because
of our misdeeds, because of our sins,because of our turning away from God?
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And that is going to be a question thatwe will be addressing and touching upon in
many different ways here on the podcast.
But what I'd have you consider isthat more important to you and I.
Then the theater theoretical question andmaybe let me rephrase instead of saying
more important more relevant to you andI then the Philosophical or theoretical
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reasons for Jesus's atonement are whatdoes the atonement mean to you and I?
What is this strange word and how doesit apply to our lives individually?
And what does it haveto do with you as a man?
Having more and more frequent sex andmore satisfying sex with your wife you
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succeeding financially individually Youhaving a massive impact on the world,
you being the paragon, an examplefor your children that they can look
up to, that they want to emulate.
You being the king that your wife adores,that your wife worships, and her being the
queen that you adore and that you worship.
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How does this word atonement, howdoes this principle of atonement
apply to these two things?
And what are the practical, realworld results about why in the
hell this should matter to you?
Well, that's what we're going tobe talking about on this podcast.
And as I mentioned, if you haven'tpicked up already, yes, we are going
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to be talking around about subjectsand topics that in religious circles
are often not talked about or talkedabout quietly and hushed tones.
That are talked about, uh,in embarrassed overtones.
Yeah, we're going to be talking verydirectly about sex and marriage.
We're going to have guests on here.
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I'm going to share my experience.
We're going to talk about how sex goesbeyond just the physical fulfillment
between a man and a woman beyond justthe need to create, but how it is
one of the most powerful life givingand energy giving faculties that you
have as a divine soul on this earth.
We're going to talk about economicproduction, about money, about what it
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takes to be successful business personin today's world, about what it takes to
have impact and leadership, to be the kindof man who can be counted on, the kind of
man who delivers results, the kind of manwho can be trusted, the kind of man who
represents the whole person that JesusChrist gave us the example that we can be.
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And we'll do this through a frame,not of self righteousness, not of
a holier than thou approach.
But we're going to have a look at thesethings as they really apply to you and I.
So let's look at the word atonement.
The word atonement, if you didn'tknow, comes from middle English and
scholars say that it means in harmony.
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It means in harmony.
So just consider this thatthe very idea of harmony
necessitates the need of two thingsthat could be seen as opposing
in the world of philosophy.
This is called dualism.
And Lehi talks about this in Nephichapter two, where he says there must
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needs be opposition in all things.
The basic idea here is that for you tobe able to experience sweet, you need
to understand what the bitter tasteslike for you to experience light.
The only way that you experiencelight is by experiencing darkness.
The only way you experiencepleasure is in contrast.
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This is the nature of duality.
This is the nature of this physicalrealm in which we live, because in this
physical realm, this worldly plane inwhich we exist, there's me, what we
perceive as there's me, and there's you.
I'm sitting here in front ofthis microphone right now.
I'm saying, okay, Ilook at this microphone.
This microphone seems to bea different object than me.
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I perceive myself being here.
I perceive my microphone being there.
This is the idea ofseparation and duality.
So the very word atonement has atits core, the idea behind it, that
there are two separate things.
And atonement is about bringingthese things into harmony.
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Bringing them together.
Now, if we look up the word harmony, wecan see what does harmony actually mean?
According to Oxford languagesdictionary here on Google,
harmony has a number of different.
Definitions.
And I liked the firstone because it's musical.
It talks about the combination ofsimultaneously sounded musical notes
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together to produce chords and chordprogressions, having a pleasing effect.
So isn't that interesting?
Harmony is when you overlapthese different musical notes
together to get something that'sgreater than the individual parts.
Another definition is the quality offorming a pleasing and consistent whole.
So think about this for a second.
Your life is made of dualities.
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What does that mean?
Your life is made of different things.
Separation.
There's you and your wife.
This is a great example.
Or if you're a woman, this maybe your wife and you may be
you and your husband, right?
But in a couple, in a marriage wherethere's male and female, what we
have is we have a man and a woman,we have two partners separation.
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And so harmony is when these twocome together and they form a
pleasing and consistent whole.
We read in the Bible.
The writings of Paul talks abouta man and a woman when they
come together being one flesh.
The Bible talks about this idea ofwhen two people get married, they come
together, they make this covenant,this promise, this commitment, and
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they come together to be one flesh.
There's another definition of harmonyhere, talking about the New Testament.
It says, an arrangement of the fourgospels, Or, or of any parallel
narratives, which present asingle continuous narrative text.
So I want you to consider thatthe idea of atonement is the
rebalancing of the duality of reality.
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So the fact that we need to experiencepain and pleasure, the fact that we
need to experience sugar and bitterness,the fact that we need to experience
light and dark, the fact that darknessneeds to exist for light to exist.
The fact that fear needsto exist for love to exist.
The idea of the atonement isbringing these things together and
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having them operate in harmony.
Now you better believe this applies toyou and your life because everywhere
in your life, you will be blessedand you will benefit from harmony.
If you're leading business teams.
If you're in a position of authority ina business, maybe you run sales teams.
Maybe you're like me,you're a business owner.
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You have people on your team.
A team that does not haveatonement is a team that's pulling
in all different directions.
There's no harmony.
There's no communication.
There's resentment.
There's bitterness.
There's backbiting.
There is striving, uh, for promotions.
There is brown nosing.
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Right.
There is laziness.
There is people, there arepeople not pulling their weight.
This is what happens whenwe have an inefficient team.
When we have an efficient team,everyone pulls their weight together.
One person isn't pulling moreof their fair share of the load.
And what happens in teams when everyone'sworking together in harmony is that
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the output of that team is much, muchgreater than the different and disparate
and separate pieces individually.
So in other words, if you have a teamof 10 people and they're each working
individually, they're not cooperating.
They're not working in harmony.
They're all doing their own thing.
You'll get a certain result, butthat result will be greater if
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those 10 people operate in harmony.
So I want you to consider that this isone of the meanings of the word atonement.
And this points to what Jesusaccomplished, what Jesus showed us,
showed us what the atonement means ina spiritual and philosophical sense.
Sense, but also what applies to each ofus individually within our own souls.
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You see, because here's the thingfor the first 40 years of my life, I
lived my life trying to escape whatI thought were the dark parts of me.
For instance, as a youngchild, I would be sad.
I would cry.
And you know what theadults around me told me?
They told me, Enoch, don't be sad.
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Don't cry.
And although they were wellintentioned the way that I took
this instruction, this training.
Was that there was somethingwrong with being sad.
There was something wrong with crying.
There was something wrong with showingmy Negative so called emotions and
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I would go to church and at churchI would listen to songs like if you
see a frowny face Do not let it stay
turn that frown upside down and smilethat frown away And so I trusted what
the adults around me were telling meI thought that hey, this is the way to
live a powerful life Is to not have thesenegative thoughts and feelings, not to
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have these negative emotions and not tobe sad, not to grieve, or if I did, if
I did grieve, or if I was sad, to hideit away and not to let anyone see it.
If I was feeling like I had afrowny face, just wipe that frowny
face away and have a smiley face.
Sadly, this approach is the opposite.
Of atonement.
This is the opposite of at one mintatonement, as we're going to be talking
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about it here on the podcast forbringing your, more of your manifest
divinity into your life, into life,into your relationship with your
wife, into the relationship withyour children, into your business
relationship, into your career success.
It's not about denying these flawed.
And maybe even people might saynegative parts of our humanity.
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It's about integrating them.
It's about bringingthem back to the table.
It's about listening to them andseeing what they have to teach us,
not trying to pretend we don't havethem, not trying to completely eradicate
them against, uh, from our life.
I was attending a seminar years ago andthe leader, the seminar leader that was
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leading the transformational breakthrough.
That we were experiencing said a quotethat Carly and I, Carly is my wife, that
we often talk about and laugh about that.
What you resist persists,what you resist persists.
And we see this, we see this today.
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We see the disintegration.
Of men today, we see men who don'tknow how to integrate their sexuality,
men who are scared and afraid oftheir own sexuality, and so we see
sexuality in society today beingexpressed in dark and unhelpful ways
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we see sexual expression happeningthrough control, through manipulation,
through one night stands, throughthings that are very devoid and detached
from real heart, from real soul.
And as humanity, what's our.
Response to these things is to demonizethis aspect of humanity, to try to hide
it, to try to sweep it under the rug,to try to pretend like it doesn't exist.
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Dr.
Robert Glover wrote abook called no more, Mr.
Nice guy.
And in this book, hehas a magnificent quote.
And he says that he has,he's a, he's a therapist.
He's a man that does a lot of men's work.
And here's what he saidbased upon his experience.
He said, I've developed a theorythat States the nicer, the guy.
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The darker, the sexual secrets.
He says, I find this tobe consistently true.
Sex is a basic human drive.
Nice guys, most quote unquote, nice guys.
This is from his book, believe thatthey're bad for being sexual or believe
that other people will think they are bad.
Sexual impulses have tobe kept hidden from view.
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And I want you to think about, imaginewhen you were a kid and you had these
These little water balloons, right?
Do you remember those little, thoselittle tiny water balloons that we
get on the playground on the hot dayand we'd throw them at each other
and we just have a blast as kids.
And did you ever trysqueezing one of those?
If it wasn't too full,you would squeeze on it.
And then guess what?
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That water balloon would like bulgeout in one area and then you'd squeeze
on there and a bulge out in another.
And you squeeze that or isbulge out in another area.
Like this is fun.
It was fun to play with this, right?
That is like, What happens when we tryto repress our sexual drive as men.
Now on this podcast, I'm going to bespeaking largely from a man's perspective.
We're going to have a lotof women on here as guests.
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We're going to be talkingabout the divine masculine.
We're going to be talkingabout the divine feminine.
We're going to be talkingabout the relationship and the
dynamic between male and female.
And primarily what we'llbe touching upon here.
Well, we, you know, we won't be dealingwith a lot of transgender issues.
Or homosexuality or homosexual marriages.
We're going to come with the frameof a cisgendered man, white male.
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That's me because that'sfrom my experience.
So typically I'll on this podcast,I will be talking about marriage
between a man and a woman.
I'll be talking about the masculinepolarity, the feminine polarity, and
I'll use these things interchangeably.
But the point is when this sexualdrive, this normal human drive is
repressed, When we attach shame toit, when we're embarrassed, when
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there's any hesitancy of embarrassmentabout this, this shame, what ends up
happening is it opens up the avenue forunhealthy expression of the sexuality.
And so we see terrible thingshappening and human beings doing
terrible things to each other.
Rape, pillage, incest, molestation,sexual abuse, physical violence
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happening between men and women.
And what I'd have you consideris that these things are
symptoms of disintegration.
Atonement is integration.
Chaos is disintegration.
Unhealthy patterns is disintegration.
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So consider that the word atonement, asit pertains to you, as it pertains to me,
is about us harmonizing within ourselves.
All of the competing forces.
I know as a man, as a human being, Ihave a lot of competing forces within me.
I have sexual drive.
I have the need to sleep.
Sometimes these two forces arecompeting against each other.
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I have sexual drive.
I also have the desire tolove other people, to love my
wife, to not manipulate her.
And so these two things need tobe integrated because what a man
does when he's unintegrated, whenhe's not integrated, when he's
unconscious, when he's actingout his sexuality unconsciously.
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Which happens in marriages all the timeis his wife can feel like one of my female
friends once told me a pincushion she canfeel like she is just a Receptacle for
vaginal masturbation and you may laughbecause you may know that as a man you've
done that I know that I've certainlydone that with my wife as well You know
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just viewed her as something as as as anobject to satisfy This human desire, this
human drive that I have of sexuality.
So if you're experiencing thisand know what I'm talking about,
like these are the kinds of realconversations we're going to have here.
And what I want to invite you intois a conversation about around these
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things that is devoid of shame.
That is devoid of guilt.
That is devoid of judgment.
I was listening to, uh, one of thethings that I really like to do is I
like to listen to near death experiences.
They give me a lot of hope forwhat death is about, and really a
lot of, uh, lack of fear of death.
And there's some, uh, remarkableexperiences, and if you listen to
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them, what you'll find is that There's,there's just these commonalities
in these near death experiences.
But one of them that comes to mindright now is, is kind of a funny story,
uh, because it deals with this idea ofsexuality is this guy talking about how
he died, uh, he went to the afterlifeand, uh, Jesus appeared to him, right?
So Jesus appears to him.
And he recognizes Jesus, eventhough he wasn't necessarily, uh,
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um, you know, a religious guy.
And, uh, and as he's sittingthere talking with Jesus, he
suddenly gets very embarrassed.
Um, and, uh, Jesus has a smile on his faceand, uh, the man says that he's, he tells
Jesus, I'm embarrassed because I just,I thought about something that I like.
And I thought about,I thought about boobs.
Laughter.
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And, uh, I love what he recountsin this near death experience.
He said, Jesus just laughed.
Jesus just laughed, right?
The cool thing is like Jesuswas a human being, right?
Jesus walked on the earth.
Jesus knows what it's like to be a man.
Jesus knows that most guys like boobs.
Like this is no, this is no secret.
And the, the interesting thing,and the reason why I bring this
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up is because we don't need to be.
Ashamed about this.
This will be a place here on thispodcast where we're not going to
be ashamed about our humanity.
We're not going to be embarrassed aboutwhat God has created us to be because
God created us to have these desires.
God create us biology, whicheverway you look at it, we are
created with these sexual desires.
We're created with these thingslike frustrations, irritations,
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anger, resentment, jealousies.
Like these are natural partsof being a human being,
but when we try to pushthese things away from us.
Out of fear, out of shame, or outof guilt, they end up digging their
tentacles into us even more powerfully.
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So the path of atonement, the pathof wholeness refers not only to the
reconciliation that Jesus Christ didon the grand universal cosmic level.
And we'll talk plenty more about thaton this podcast, but consider that
it has to do with your own personalatonement with you atoning, with you
integrating, with you harmonizing.
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These competing forces within yourselfand that your ability to be a powerful,
to be a fully alive and to be a, aman who gets stuff done in the world,
a man who'd be counted on a man whostands as a King for his family,
your divinity will be accelerated asyou're able to harness these powers,
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these powers of sexuality, thesepowers of anger, these powers of
frustration, these powers of irritation.
The desire to win the desire tocompete like these things are
not to be cut out of your life.
They're not to be gotten rid of.
They're meant to be metabolized.
They're meant to be used.
They're meant to be channeled foryour production as a man, as a leader,
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as a divine soul on this earth.
And I want you to consider thatyou and I, we incarnated here.
We came here.
We are souls descended here.
Partially because we wereintrigued by the idea of a body.
We were intrigued by the ability to cometake that divine essence that we are
incarnate into these physical bodies anduse them as tools of co creation with God,
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the problem facing.
Much of Latter day Saint culturetoday, much of Christian culture
today, many faith traditionstoday is this, is that these faith
traditions have become something thatdemonize the human aspects of life.
They become something where theytry to paint this perfect picture
about what a human being should be.
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And we need look no farther than thesex scandals in the Catholic Church
for the priests abusing young boysto see that that is not healthy.
Thank you.
It's not healthy torepress human sexuality.
It's not healthy to liveas a disintegrated person.
And so I want you to consider thatwhatever area in your life is not working
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now, that if we were to peel it back andif we were to look at the root causes of
why this thing is not working for you,at its core, there is a disintegration.
There's something thatneeds to be harmonized.
There's something thatneeds to be integrated.
Whether you feel stuck in yourcareer right now, maybe you're
in financial lack right now.
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Maybe you're waking up as a middle agedman and wondering, how did I get here?
I thought that I wouldbe so much farther ahead.
Or maybe you're dealing with children whoare making choices that disappoint you,
and you're wondering, how did I get here?
Or maybe you're looking at therelationship you could have had with
your kids, but you pour yourself intothe work, you weren't there for them,
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and so that relationship doesn't exist,and you have res you have regrets about
how you showed up for your children.
Maybe you find yourself in a sexlessmarriage, and it's been going on
for so long, you've given up thehope of ever connecting sexually.
And like many men, maybe you've decidedto sedate that because let's face it,
that sexual power needs expression.
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And so you masturbate sadly in the shower
and you resign yourself to that'sjust what your life is about.
Or maybe you completely shut yoursexuality off altogether because
your wife isn't sexually available.
And so this is what we do.
We give up, we give up the dream.
We stopped being honestabout what we want in life.
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We resign ourselves to a booby prize.
Instead of going after allthat life has to offer.
So if there's one thing that I wantthis podcast to inspire in you, it is
to awaken you to the possibility of whatyour life could be like, and you see
one of the biggest challenges for us.
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When I say us, I mean, people livingin a developed nation, middle class
people who have everything goingpretty well, education, married, got
a family, going to kids soccer games.
Like life is working out pretty well.
Maybe you're volunteering with thescout troop, serving in your church
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callings, like life's going okay.
I want you to consider that the biggestchallenge that you will have as you
step into more and more abundance.
Is the curse of comfort is thecurse of getting so comfortable.
That you stop striving because whatI know is in my life, when I've been
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under severe compression, when thingshave not been going well, when I've
been under extreme pain, when I've beenunder extreme circumstances, this tested
my metal, when I've looked and I'vethought, I don't know where I'm going.
I feel like giving up.
I don't know what to do.
It was these times that I pushed myselfeven harder that I came through with
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resolve that I did not know that I had.
And it was the pain.
So you see Christianity and thisidea of finding some eternal heaven
where everyone is in bliss andpeace is missing half of the puzzle.
It's not about denying our humanity.
It's about integrating our humanity.
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It's not about living in aheaven where there's no pain.
It's about having a heaven,even though there is pain.
It's not about trying to do theright thing, trying to achieve
some impossible idea of perfectionby doing the right thing.
It's about surrendering our heartto what's needed in the moment.
And being led moment by moment bythe inner voice that feels like it
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comes somewhere around this heart.
What I will say today is that now morethan ever, our world needs men who
are switched on to their divinity.
Our world needs men who are waking up andnot falling deeper and deeper into sleep.
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Men who are rising up asleaders in their families.
Not through coercion or manipulation,but through servant leadership, not
abdicating the throne to their wifebecause their wife is the organized one.
And now their wife is trying to not onlymanage the household, but also manage
the kids, but also manage the spiritualgrowth of the family, also manage the
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vacations, also prepare for the vacationsand leaving no time for herself.
Now I know that we, as men, wetry to do the best we can with
our sweethearts with our Queens.
We try to provide the support that we,we feel like she needs, but it's hard.
It's hard at times.
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Our wives don't ask for help.
They're so, you know, at least my wife,she's so proficient at what she does.
Oftentimes she won't even reach out forhelp and support until the load is so
heavy that she's almost about to snap.
But I'd have you consider that as men.
We need to be aware of this beforeit gets to the breaking point,
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because this is what causes divorces.
This is what causes sexless marriages.
This is what causes disconnection.
This is what causes men to beand feel alone, to feel like
there's this hole in their heart
that they can never fill.
No matter how much they pour themselvesinto their work, no matter how many
awards they get, no matter how muchfinancial resources they rack up, no
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matter how many athletic events theythey're able to achieve and to crush.
No matter how many church callings andhome teaching visits, ministering visits,
they go on, no matter how much theyread their scriptures, no matter how
much they fast, no matter how much theypray, they still have this hole in their
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heart, their soul speaking to them andtelling them that there's something more.
There's something more available for you.
There's something more available for me.
We live in a day to day when the mediawould have us believe that humanity
is headed to hell in a handbasket.
What I would have you consider is thatthis is a false narrative, that there
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are people today who are waking up totheir divinity more than ever before.
We have people who are moreswitched on than ever before.
And so what I see is I see a diversion.
I see a fork in the road.
I said that, yes, someminority elements of humanity.
Are still propagating the old patternsof greed, of lust, of exploitation,
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of control, but there's a whole nothersegment of humanity that is rising up
into their divinity, that is waking upinto their spiritual capacity as human
beings, as fathers, as mothers, ascommunity members, as business leaders.
And
podcast, maybe you've heard the call too.
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Maybe, you know, that there'ssomething in your soul that
says that you're destined for.
Something greater than you actuallyhave even imagined for yourself
that, you know, that you're meant to bea beacon of light, that, you know, that
you're on this earth at this time, becauseyou have very particular talents that
you haven't even dug into yet, that youhave yet to stretch the full capacity
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of your humanity and your divinity.
So this podcast is primarily a call andan invitation for Christian men and Latter
day Saint men, particularly to wake up.
To wake up to your greatness, to wake upto the areas in which you were asleep,
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to wake up and, and get honest about theareas in your life that aren't working.
Instead of feeling lonely, feelingalone, feeling like there's no way
out, feeling like you're trapped,feeling like you need to settle for
the hand that you've been dealt.
Understanding that you are not alone,
that the majority ofmarriage is out there.
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Are sadly unfulfilled that themajority of men in marriages feel
alone in the relationship wherethey should feel most desired, where
they should feel most loved, wherethey should feel most appreciated.
They feel underappreciated.
They feel like no matter whatthey do, they're never enough.
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And so again, they put on the niceguy smile and they try to be their
best self and they try to let itgo by, by wander under the bridge.
But at the same time, it's themselvesthey're selling under the bridge.
It's themselves that isflowing in that river.
Away from themselves as they live adisintegrated life, a life without
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atonement, they go to church, they takethe sacrament, they participate in the
temple and they think that they areatoned, but they're missing the point.
They're missing the point that atonementis not something you do on the outside.
Atonement is a shift of somethingthat happens on the inside and the
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things that happen on the outside, theordinances, the rituals, the service.
All of these things are simply.
Manifestations of an inner transformation.
And the sad part is, is that thesethings can be done for an entire
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lifetime without ever havingexperienced that inner transformation.
This podcast is about bringingtogether the spiritual life with the
worldly life, bringing together, notonly spiritual attainment in your
realization, your spiritual progression,but also bringing forth financial
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production on this earthly plane.
Because if your religion isn't goodenough to be able to bring you financial
wealth, if you're not for, not for itself,but as an expression of your divinity,
not through lust, not through greed,but again, as an expression of your
co creation with God, if your religionisn't enough to help you have a radically
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turned on relationship with your queen,with your so called eternal companion,
then I would just invite you to considerthat like me, you had never been taught.
The truth that lies behind your religion.
So with that, I'm goingto wrap the episode today.
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We've talked about a number of things.
We've talked about how the mediawould have you believe that the
world is going to hell in a handbasket and how this is not true.
How the world right now needs menlike you to stand up in your divinity.
It needs men like you tolead your family powerfully.
It needs men like you to leadyour business teams in a powerful
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way, in a Christ centered,in a Christ conscious way.
And that this Christ centered andChrist conscious way is not the
disintegrated way that has beenshoved down your throat by cultural
Mormonism, by cultural Christianity,
but that there's an integrated versionthat you know because you've seen it.
You know what I'm talking about.
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And you know there's something wrongwith the way that religious men and
women try to paint a one sided versionof what it means to be a human being.
There's a part of you that recognizesthat your darkness is the key.
To your power.
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There's a part of you that recognizesthat your integration is what is going
to allow you to stand with confidencenaked in front of God, men, and witnesses
and say, here I am, Lord, send me.
Now, the invitation as we end upthis episode is to head on over to
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iTunes and leave an honest review.
If you've hated this.
Give it one star and say,that was a terrible podcast.
If you loved it, head over there and giveit five stars and say, this is amazing.
Can't wait to hear second episode.
We're going to be releasingan episode every single week.
And in addition, you canhead over to enixsears.
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com and you can signup for the newsletter.
Just put your email in thereand then I'll notify you when
we have new podcast episodes.
You'll be part of the conversation as Ishare more about my own personal journey.
The journey I've gone throughwalking through being a disintegrate
disintegrated man, being a man who issedated, being a man who is completely
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separate from myself, being a manwho, although I went through all the
steps that I was taught, stillended up feeling alone and lost.
This is the journey I'llbe sharing with you.
I've gone from that guy to being a guy who
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is confident
in who he is as a human being, notbecause of some special attribute,
but because I am fearless.
When it comes to exposingmyself, I am not afraid to let
people know what is true for me.
And this is the permission that I wantto give you to start to be honest in
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your life with the people around you.
Honest with your wifeabout what you really want.
Honest with your employer about whatyou really think about your workplace.
Honest with your fellow colleagues atwork about what you think about them.
Honest with your team membersabout what you think about them.
Honest with yourself aboutwhat you really want in life.
So with that, it's a wrap.
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Head over to enixseries.
com for more, and as always,Carpe Diem, and goodbye for now.
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