Mystic Orthodoxy: Hidden Gem of the Forgotten Church

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Sweet eternal balance of wall that is good, true, and beautiful. Friends,
Welcome back to Rogue Ways. For tonight, we're talking about
the Greek Orthodox Church, and it's a mysticism which it
has kept intact unlike most, if not all, of the
other modern Christian churches. We're also going to be talking
about some of the prophecies of some of their saints,
which are different saints than many of the saints you

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may know, and also a little bit of some other
end times prophecy that might connect with some of these themes.
And so we'll be looking at that right now. As
you may know, I am myself much affirmed that we
are in what people have been calling the end times
for some time, and I mean for thousands of years right,

(01:20):
people have been looking for when when will the end times? See?
When will the apocalypse occur? When will armageddon happen? And
it seems to me we're in that time again. I
trust that no one will know the day or the hour,
and also that many have foreseen these times, and it
just seems like it's converging here and now. I don't

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say that ever to scare anybody, to say it, because
it is my understanding of what's happening, and that involved
in that is humanities. Will say ascension into higher consciousness,
which doesn't necessarily mean you're going to turn into like
a light body and float away, or you know, be
seeing aliens or getting med beds maybe, But really what

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it means is that you yourself will or won't, depending
on what you choose, be around to much more deeply
understand who you are and where you are. You know,
we've been living under a cloud, not just of the
Dark Age, which is a lowering of consciousness because of
the universal placements and alignments of various solar asterol celestial

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bodies and planes, but also because the well what I
sometimes call the Dark Brotherhood, or some people refer to
as the aluminat, even though I don't know for sure
if they're quite sure what they mean by that, right,
it's just sort of elites. Some people call them, which
is perhaps not the most fitting name, the psychopath class.

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I like to call them the demonic influences, because they
have basically created the best possible circumstances for people to
lose connection connection to their own consciousness, lose connection to
the earth, lose connection to one another, lose connection to themselves,
definitely lose connection to God. And so we live in

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this very disturbing dark age called the cali Yuga by
many and by myself, which literally just means the dark age.
And even far back, many tens of thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands of years ago, in golden ages, everybody
knew the dark age was coming. The dark Age always comes,

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and then the Golden Age always comes again. So this
is a cycle that goes on seemingly eternally, and here
we are in another dark age, at the end of
another dark age. Some people think it's already over and
we're just sort of seeing the death throes of it,
you know, continuing to sputter. I would say myself, I

(03:50):
wouldn't measure it done until it's done right, until like
the darkness is gone at least the majority of it,
if not all of it right. There's always some that remains.
But until most people are living in a higher consciousness
than they are now, I will not necessarily myself consider
it done. So here we are still in the dark age,

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and we'll see what these Greek Orthodox saints seem to
say about this time. This cut my attention both because
I have a dear friend who is beautiful and she
has found Greek Orthodoxy, and it's been fascinating to then
get a sort of flavor of what it actually is.
I don't think i'd ever in my life encountered it,

(04:32):
which is a little bit crazy, because I have looked
into every religion and every tradition. But I just made
the very incorrect assumption that most, if not all Christian
churches are essentially the same. I know there's huge differences.
I just everyone I've come across is essentially the same.

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They essentially are a group of people who thinks they
believe in God and Jesus. For the most part, some
of them really really do, and some of them just
like think that they do. They sing often they do
different rights, you know, but most of them don't really
believe in demons, for example. They don't really believe in
the giants that the Bible talks about. They don't really

(05:16):
believe in any of these things. They don't really believe
in the things they cling to believe. They just, I
think often have this wish to believe in something and
this feeling that this is probably the right one because
it's you know, their culture, their family's history, and it
feels good. It's good to have community. This is actually

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why I like churches, no matter what flavor they are,
is is they tend to offer people at least this
little bit of community and the opportunity to look deeper
into what they are, you know, their spiritual aspects of self,
instead of just the physical and material. Right, atheism is
a scourge on humanity, and so at least something is
better than nothing. But this is actually not true that
not all Christian churches are like that. There's actually this

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Greek Orthodox Church. I actually still believe in all of
that stuff, and it's not just like a thing that
like some it's like it's part of the church. So
I was really fascinated. So we're just gonna look into
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And now we'll get into this. So again full disclosure,
this is through chat rept. I did ask it to
summarize for me instead of waiting through a bunch of websites.
What's some of the different is between the Greek Orthodox
Church and the rest of Christianity might be it seems
to be pretty spot on. If you're out there and

(10:08):
you are a Greek Orthodox person and you see some
stay here please let me know. But I checked on
what I could and it seems correct to me. And
so we'll go through some of this here together just
to get a flavor of Greek Orthodoxy. So the Greek
Orthodox Church is part of the larger Eastern Orthodox Church,
so a lot of people actually just say Eastern Orthodox,

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which is apparently the same as Greek Orthodox, and that
can include a Russian and Serbian, et cetera. So all
the sort of Eastern European I'm going to say countries
are part of the Eastern Orthodox Church. And this is
one of the three main branches of Christianity. So I
guess I personally was only slightly familiar with the Roman

(10:50):
Catholic and the Protestant branches of Christianity. And then here's
this whole third category I just didn't ever look into
or know about, and that's this Eastern Orthodox Greek Orthodox Church.
Protestant then would include like I grew up slightly, very
lightly flavored Lutheran. Every once in a while we would
go to church, and that's where we had our funerals

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and other important events. And so just a smattering of
Lutheran background here for me, but all the others too,
like I Protestant, obviously Evangelical, these sorts of flavors of
Christianity that were probably more likely connected with here in
the West. You might know some Catholics too. I'm not

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sure which is winning out, but definitely Eastern Orthodox is
not winning out. If I didn't even really hear about
or think about looking into it until the age of
forty three, so all right, so I know probably mostly
Protestants if I know any Christians, and then a few
Catholics in my life, and one Eastern Orthodox ever that

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I know of. I bet I actually knew some, but
I bet I didn't ever know it. So I had
a lot of students, for example, who were Eastern European immigrants,
and they were probably Eastern Orthodox. But you know, you
don't talk about religion and school much, so I wouldn't.
I wouldn't have known. The Greek Orthodox Church, it says,
refers specifically to the Orthodox Church centered in Greece and
Greek speaking communities, but it shares the core beliefs and

(12:16):
liturgical practices of Eastern Orthodoxy. So again, Eastern Orthodoxy is
actually the catch up. I'm going to try to go
with that instead of Greek for the rest of the show.
So the Eastern Orthodox Church is the way to think
about it. In all sorts of Eastern European countries couldn't
fall under that, including the Russian Orthodox Church. So the
origins the split between the Eastern or Orthodox and the

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Western or Catholic Christianity is known as the Great Schism
of ten fifty four. And when I think about this,
I actually did. I've heard about this, I've studied this
at some point. I just still never really looked into
the differences between them, and maybe I just thought it
was so small. Right, Catholicism seems to have won. And
you know, Catholicism means flick actually means like everything contained

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within it, or everyone is contained within it. It's like
the catch all. That's what the word means. So really
catholic was like, let's open this up to get like
everybody in, which also means you're gonna sacrifice something. So
you can already see just in the naming of this
schism what occurred. Orthodox means to stay consistent with your

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previous beliefs or traditions. Right, Orthodoxy is to remain true
to those things, and Catholicism literally means, well, let's change
it up enough that everybody can feel connected to this.
So even in the naming, you can see what happened there. Right,
It says the schism occurred to due to disputes over
papal authority, and this I can totally get down with it.

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I can imagine if I was alive around the schism time,
I would have been down with the Greek Orthodox and
not with the Catholics, because I would have said, who
is the pope to tell me anything about my connection
with God? Right? And just going off of who I
am today in this life, right, I can say, like,
I don't accept that there's anybody between me and God? Right,

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I mean, like Jesus, sure, if you if you're into Jesus,
then yeah, you might say that, but Jesus is God,
So saying difference, right, So I get it. Disputes over
the papal authority. Was the pope actually this person who
should stand between us and God or not? And the
Greek Orthodox said no, And those Catholics were like, oh no,

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we're trying to control the world. We need a pope.
We need a guy who is the guy who can
tell everyone what to think and say and do. Otherwise
you'd just be lying on the Bible, right, You'd be
relying on these collected texts of the things that occurred
around the time of Jesus, and that's all. And who's
to say how you interpret those things? Which is exactly

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the point, right, don't you get to interpret those things?
So also, the and I'm probably gonna butcher this, but
Philio quae phili a clause. And this is whether or
not the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone or
from the Father and the Son. This seems really minor,
I'm sure to a lot of people. So if you're

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familiar with the Trinity, we say the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost. And this
is a debate between whether or not the Holy Spirit
comes straight from God or whether it goes God and
then Jesus and then the Holy Spirit. So we'll get

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to that. And there's also some cultural and linguistic differences
that are involved in this too, especially concerning the Latin
language and other things. So to get into the differences,
if we're looking at, for example, who has authority in
the Greek Orthodox Church or the Eastern Orthodox Church, you
have a decentralized authority. You already got me at decentralized

(15:55):
to find out also these people are still mystical, which
I am also, and that they understand that demons still
actually exists, and that they I mean, the Roman Church
does too, right, they've got exorcists. But you get down
into the actual just people who are going to church,
and almost no one does. They just don't. They're actually

(16:17):
like atheists and culture and then churchgoers by habit almost always.
But anyways, in Greek Orthodoxy decentralized. There's no official human
being who is the authority in your religion. That's just
how it should be. Again, I'm an anarchist at heart
as well, and decentralization is not just something I believe in.

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It is reproducible at every level. In nature, you can
see only decentralization all throughout every aspect of the universe.
So I can look around and look at my experience
of the world and say, obviously, decentralization is the strongest
and most approb method to go about life. And the

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Eastern Orthodox also agrees, so that's fantastic in my opinion.
They're governed by bishops and especially the ecumenical Patriarch of
Constantinople honorary head, not supreme. So there are a lot
of organizations. Roseicrucians are another one that technically have a hierarchy,
but it is also consistently and always emphasized that that

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hierarchy doesn't actually mean anything. It's just a service position.
It's just because someone has to organize things, or someone
has to send stuff out, or someone has to keep
a thing in a certain timehood that's it right, And
people might look up to that person and there might
be a good reason to, but you don't have to
and you don't have to take their word as gospel,
and you don't have to bow to their authority. And

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this is also something that people who are studying anarchy
like don't understand, is that you can have hierarchy and
be an anarchist. I don't know why. It's just like
a popular thing to like not actually onunderstand what anarchy is.
And this is an example of this would actually be anarchy,
or it could be anarchy. I should say. It isn't automatically,

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but it can fit in an anarchical structural structure because
there's still no rulers. There is no supreme authority over
you but yourself. So you have this bishop and you
have this ecumenical patriarch, and you may look up to them,
and you may trust their word, you may enjoy that,
and you may say, I'm sure that person's in that position,
but I don't really respect what they have to say,
so it doesn't agree with me, right, and then be acceptable.

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So that's really powerful actually, and this is actually a
good way to run things in general, to have someone
who's in a position because someone needs to be there
and they're of service, but it doesn't automatically give them
any power. Right, big difference between the pope. That's a
centralized power and authority. If the pope says or does something,

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the pope can excommunicate people, bring people in, for people out.
They can make rules, say now the church believes this.
Now the church is doing this as it's super dangerous.
I mean, that's exactly why you don't centralize power, because
what any given human is fallible, and no matter when
and where and why, everybody is, so you never want

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to give one human any great amount of power. We're
really bad at that. We're really good at giving people
too much power and centralizing things. We're really bad at
understanding to take responsibility for ourselves and decentralized things. Hopefully
we'll get better at it. But the Eastern Orthodox Church
has never forgotten that that's actually the best way to go.
And Protestant all those other branches of Christianity, they don't

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really have a central authority either. It's kind of cool
the scripture. As far as scripture and tradition, there's equal
emphasis on the holy tradition and scripture in Greek Orthodox,
so scripture is important, but there's also the tradition of
the church. I actually think that's really important because there's
things that might not be in scripture but that are important,
especially certain rights and rituals that were practiced, let's say,

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by the scenes or other groups around Jesus that were
not necessarily then written down or transferred through scripture, especially
since so much of scripture was kind of selected, edited
and made a certain way, so there may be things
that didn't make it in you can still keep that
in your tradition in this case, which seems intelligent to me.

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As far as Roman Catholic goes. You have tradition and scripture,
but people and cyclicals have weight. So again what the
Pope says goes, I'm actually gonna leave out the Protestant
one where I was just boring. I'm just gonna go
between Catholic and Orthodox from now on. How language the
Eastern Orthodox uses Greek or other local languages, and Roman

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Catholic use just Latin. Now they have Roman Catholic, you know,
church services that are just in English or whatever vernacular.
But historically and traditionally it had to be in Latin.
I actually kind of like that. Again, I don't necessarily
like the Roman Catholic Church, especially not the pope position

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or authority or power, but I do I do appreciate
the use of Latin, and especially the learning of and
teaching of Latin. So that's just the teacher in me
that on the theological side, Eastern Orthodox is mystical and
focused on theosis or dune with God. This is actually
really important, This is actually huge. I actually don't I

(21:27):
never heard anything mystical in my you know, slight brush
with Lutheranism. I've never heard Catholics be very mystical. They
do tend to get, like I said, to believe in
demons and ghosts, but they don't necessarily believe in their
own ability to be a spiritual being, do you know
what I mean? This is what is to be mystical
to me, to understand that there's mysteries to life, to

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understand that, for example, even consciousness is a mystery, and
like what are we actually and what are we doing here?
What other see you know, skills abilities or what I
sometimes call it, the technology of our bodies will exist
sort of outside of materialists, scientific or atheistic views, for example,

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being psychic, seeing the future or reading taro, or some
other form of mysticism or mystical activities. Eastern Orthodox understands
that those things exist, that you could be psychic, that
you could be inspired by God, that you could see
the future, to be given a vision, and that's really
not true. And it's definitely not true that other traditions

(22:37):
like Catholicism or a Protestant branches focus at all on
a reunion with God. I mean, like, I guess maybe
in the way they're like, yeah, you're gonna die, You're
gonna go to heaven. It's a little bit different though,
in my opinion, to be focused on a union with God.
And I don't know how the Eastern Orthodox Church actually
handles it or talks about it or whatever, but in

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my experience, what we are doing is honing ourselves to
a sort of perfection. That's what enlightenment is. We become
lighter and lighter and lighter, less weighed down by the
material and by what you might call our sin or
our karma, until we actually do get to a place

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where we are just because of our vibration and state
of being closer to God, closer and closer and closer,
and eventually you reunite with God fully. It's a very similar,
to be honest, with a lot of the Eastern traditions
like Taoism, Buddhism, et cetera. Again, I don't know how

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they actually talk about it or think about it, but
that aspect is similar to those other traditions, just fascinating
to me. So that's the Eastern Orthodox. The Roman Catholic
is more legal and scholastic. Their justification sin merit, right,
you say, hail Mary's if you mess up, and that's
somehow he raises your sin. And it's very mathematical, very legalistic.

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Right as far as the sacraments go, there are seven
sacraments or mysteries in the Eastern Orthodox, especially the Eucharist
as the real presence. So I get deeper into this,
but this is this is like rights and rituals happening
in a church. And the Roman Catholics actually have that too, right,

(24:23):
they're also very ritualistic those other you know, those Protestant arms,
you baptism in the Eucharists, and that's it. I guess.
I don't know where communion would fall. I don't know
if communion is the Eucharist or what, but that's all
I ever did. But that's very ritualistic. You're like, come

(24:43):
kneel here and take the body and blood of Christ
into your body. It's very interesting for people who don't
seem to have any mysticism left, don't seem to really
really understand that they are actually a spiritual being, just
in a physical body for a moment, and definitely aren't
looking to reunite with God, specifically reunion, not just like hey,

(25:03):
high five God, we're backed, but like become one again. Right,
very different. Their liturgy in Eastern orthodox is highly sensory
and ancient. They have icons, incense, and chanting, for example,
and Roman Catholicism is structured liturgy more simplified in recent years.

(25:27):
I think they use icons and SnSe. I don't know
if they do chanting, Yeah, chanting, If you yeah, you
might say that, I don't know. Do you sing in
a Catholic church? I'm not sure. The clergy in Greek
Orthodoxy may marry before they are ordinated, and bishops or
celibate or the priests may marry, I should say celibacy

(25:47):
in the Roman Catholic Church, which we most of us
know is not actually what's happening. Maybe there's some that
are actually celibate, but I don't really believe that. There's
so much darkness in that. And in the Protestant lines,
they don't have any requirements on celibacy as far as Mary,

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Mother Mary, and the Saints go. In Eastern Orthodoxy, there's
deep veneration, especially of Theotokos, which means the Mother of God,
Mother Mary, deep veneration of Mother Mary, and the Saints
may actually intercede there. So if you pray for help, right,
it's a prayer of intercession. If you pray for God
or Jesus or angels in this case, saints can also

(26:29):
intercede on your behalf. Roman Catholicism actually similar to that too,
but I don't believe. Yeah, maybe Saints can't do Yeah,
they can in Roman Catholicism, again in the Protestant branches,
and again my experience of it is that almost no

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one even believes in any of it. Yeah, we pray
or whatever it feels me gones out there somewhere, but
they don't actually believe like that an angel could come
and be with you, which blows my mind, I'm like, so,
what are you doing here? What is this church for?
I think it's just a social club, okay. And as
far as salvation, in Eastern Orthodox, you can, salvation is

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seen as the healing and transformation into a divine likeness.
This is kind of the goal of being alive, as
you're attempting to become more and more healed so that
you are closer and closer to the light. This is
actually what I teach, what I practice, and what all
of my spiritual healing and work that I do with
people is revolved around. As I've described many many times,

(27:35):
if you are healing, you are actually opening your spiritual channels,
which is another way of saying, if you are healing,
you are transforming closer and closer to the light. I've got.
But I say, so, like, what I teach and what
I do is this sounds to me very similar to
what the Eastern Orthodox believes. Again, they might actually think
I'm a saint worshipper. That's okay, They're welcome to by

(27:59):
my opinion, from what I am understanding and very similar
actually believes and Roman Catholicism, salvation is deliverance from sin
by Jesus's blood right. So some unique aspects of Greek
orthodoxy ethiosis. So the central ideas that humanity is called
to become partakers of the divine nature. This has very

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different to actually directly become that. This is again what
I say. All people can do this. All humans can
choose to become the light. All humans can choose to
be better and better people. All humans can choose to
heal themselves. You just automatically become closer to the light

(28:44):
as you are healing, just a natural process. Everybody's on
this path. As far as they're icons, they say, it's
not just art. They are literally windows into heaven, and
they're used for veneration, not worships. They're not worshiping the icons.
They're just using it to become closer. This is again
what I do as well. If I talk to people
about you know, if you feel close to a certain

(29:06):
saint or buddha or angel and that feels like something
that's been present in your life, you have like a
little picture, an icon, or something around you that reminds
you of them. You wear a ring or a necklace
of them. It's super handy because it actually helps you
be closer to them. You think of them more often, right,

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that alone is a higher level thought, and you're maybe
reminded that you are becoming closer and closer to the
nature of that higher thing, of how you understand that
higher nature. So that's that's what icons are. Four right
of this art is spiritual art, so it's for and
that's true in the Eastern Orthodox Church too. Mystical theology

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is more experiential and contemplative than intellectual or systematic. So
instead of like that mathematical, legalistic sort of thing we
were talking about with the Roman Catholturish is what it's like.
At least, it's more experiential. So it's really about your
inner experience. And this is another thing that I think
is pretty universal when you get down into the deeper

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aspects of most religions and cultures as far as spirituality goes,
is that it's about your self because there's actually no
external thing that could possibly give you your salvation, your understanding
of God, your understanding of yourself at that level, your
mystical experiences, they're all going to come from inside of you.
So the more you are quiet and go within or

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meditative in this case, contemplative, the easier it is going
to come along to you. The more it's going to
arise in your experience, the more you're going to have
those synchronicities or those intuitions, or those psychic experiences, or
those visions of the future, or any of those types
of mystical things, They're going to come from inside of you. Right,

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It's not an external thing. So I like that. I
like that they reinforce that. In the Eastern Orthodox, see
the Holy tradition includes church fathers, ecumenical councils, liturgy, and
canon law, not just scripture alone. So they've got all
of this. Again, they have their own saints, they have
their own fathers of the Church who have written and
done different things, and all of that can come into

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their understanding of how to be better spiritual people on earth.
Their divine liturgy is liturgy is timeless, rich with chance
and incense, considered a participation in the heavenly kingdom. Yeah. Well, again,
in most mystical traditions, if you are doing something like this,

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especially if you're doing it with a group of people
who is of a like mind as you and of
a like intention as you, then you are literally coming
into contact with the divine. This is why they have
rights and rituals. This is why we have different practices spiritually,
of any different tradition is to get in closer touch
with the divine. So I love that heavenly kingdom. You're

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literally participating in it. As far as fasting and feasts,
they're regular and structured, including long fast like Great Lent,
and this rhythm shapes the Orthodox life. That's also true
in at least in Islam. I don't know if Roman
Catholicism has any fasting. I know there's the idea of
Lent at least, and maybe you should have something up.

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I don't know if you literally fast, but it is
it's a spiritual tradition, and so it's really popular right
now for fitness and for health and for anti cancer
and anti aging and all this stuff. But if you've
ever done a longer fast, you understand why it's used
as a spiritual experience, cause it is because you really

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do feel this bliss and this just higher connection and
everything is like easier and calmer. It's pretty amazing. It
might be because your body's dying, but I'm just joking.
But yeah, so they've got the Great Lent and fasting
in Eastern Orthodoxy, and they use the Julian calendar for

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many feasts. For example, Christmas is on January seventh in
some branches, and so there are revised calendars in some
of the branches as well, but they might have sort
of different dates and some of the other Christian traditions.
So the structure of their church is autocephalis, or self governing,
but united in faith with other Orthodox churches. So any

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given church governs itself. So again this is that decentralization.
There is no one who could say, okay, all Orthodox churches,
you all do this now, because every church would use
its own structure and its own group and its own
process to determine whether or not they're going to do anything.
You know, in when things like COVID happen and there's

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a sort of mandate by government unjustly that tells churches
they can't meet, these are the churches that stay open
as they should, whether you like it or not. That
is literally their right, not just because with some timefong
ago somebody thought forward or river, but because it's your
right as a living being to worship and be spiritual

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in the way that you choose. And this is no different.
So whether you don't like it or not, whether you
think they're gonna get sick or not, if they do this,
none of your business. They get to do it. And
so most other churches laying down and took it. I
was shocked, to be honest, I didn't expect it. I

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thought most churches would say, this is our right, we're
allowed together. You can't tell us not to. No, not
the case. Very few stood up and said no, gonna meet.
I mean, you don't have to come if you don't
want to, but we're gonna meet, and you're welcome to
come if you want to. So you know, if I
had to choose a church not even knowing anything during COVID,

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it would have made me choose Eastern Orthodox churches for
that reason. So that's that self governing, decentralized model. It's
very cool. They're key leaders the Archbishop of Athens and
all of Greece nationally with spiritual deference to the ecumenical
patriarch of Constantinople or Istanbul, and there's no pope like
figure with global supremacy, so they do. Again, they have

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that hierarchy. You might respect some of the people higher up,
you don't have to, you know, and that's what goes
to it. There's a spiritual emphasis on inner stillness. In
whatever language I'm I'm guessing Greek, it's hessi cosm, hessi cosm.
I'm probably saying that wrong. A contemplative tradition centered on

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the Jesus prayer, Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have
mercy on me, a sinner. And so you know, chanting
or repeating mantras or repeating lines like this is very
effective practice as well. I have many different mantras, I'll
switch them out sometimes, I have any different prayers, I
have ma, any different chants, many different even seed syllables

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or divine sounds, and using them assists you and becoming
in deeper connection with yourself. It just helps you go
deeper in right in that meditative contemplative space. And they
have the same here in Eastern Orthodoxy and the healing
of the soul Orthodoxy see sin more is a spiritual

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illness than a legal guilt, and salvation more like healing
rather than the repealing of your guilt or the forgiveness
of your guilt. And that's exactly how I see it too.
You can't actually just you can be forgiven. It's very helpful,
but you have to actually go through your own healing
process for anything you've encountered or chosen for yourself. And

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this in any life, your sins don't just go away,
or if you want to call them your mistakes, or
if you want to call them your negative karma, or
if you want to just call them your experiences, you
have to integrate them. Eventually, you have to heal. So sorry,
if you've been running from them, they're going to be there.
You're going to have to catch up someday and you're

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gonna have to deal with them. And Greek Orthodo sees
it similarly so chat Gibt's summary of all this is
a Greek orthodoxy preserves ancient Christian practices, emphasizes mystical union
with God, and fosters a deeply embodied spirituality rooted in
community tradition and bewy I love that embodied spiritualities. It

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really is up to you in the end. There's nobody
who's going to be able to save you for yourself
or help you heal all of yourself and reunite with God.
You have to do all that. There's lots of people
can assist you or remind you, you know, just like
you might look at the icon to remember the spiritual
guide you feel closest to. You might see something in
a fellow churchgoer or a church father that reminds you

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and keeps you on track, but you're still the one
doing it for you. It's the same when I work
with people on any level. I do sound healing, or
I do these past life things, or whatever it is
we do together, I'm assisting you that you're doing it
all you have to, or else it's pretty worthless. And
so my goal always is said ten million times, is

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to assist you to the point where you can just
assist yourself, and I'll always be here and have your back.
But you don't need me actually in the end, and
nobody does, and I'm happy to help in the meantime.
Compared to Roman Catholicism, it's more decentralized and mystical. Compared
to Protestantism, it's more traditional and liturgical. This is a

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good way to think about it. So we'll get into
that Holy Spirit and a schism that happened around this,
and so the Holy Spirit is fully divine. In Greek
Orthodoxy or Eastern Orthodoxy, it's the third person of the
Holy Trinity, co equal and co eternal with the Father
and the Son. Co equal and coeternal. I mean, that's

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what the trinity means. I don't know what else anybody
was thinking that the triune God is one God, three aspects,
same thing, just like you have a body and soul
and a mind. God has three aspects. It's all one thing,
just three aspects of it, so to say otherwise seems

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weird to me. So co equal and co eternal, with
a father and the Son. It's not a force or energy,
but a divine person, a divine person, the Holy Spirit.
That makes sense to me too, you know. And people
will say, if you encounter this type of energy, you're
the one sort of humanizing it or giving it this

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personhood or you know, that sort of thing. Maybe, or
it might just be that that's actually the way it
presents itself right in this personhood, so that it's able
to connect with you. Sod you just thrust suddenly into God,
you dissolve, so it contains itself in some way and

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gives you this little representation of itself not a little
bit easier to handle perhaps and connect with it says
the spirit is the giver of life, one who makes
divine truth known and accessible to the human heart. This
is similar to what I'm just saying, right, it's accessible,
it's connectable. The giver of life, the Holy Spirit, which
you know we talk about the breath in this way.

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You say we respire, respire breathing with the spirit. The
Holy Spirit is coming into us. If you are doing meditation,
or you are just becoming more centered and connected with yourself,
the breath becomes quite the center of that stage. Right.
If you follow your breath or just sit with your

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breath long enough, everything else falls away. Is this gentle rhythm,
This is the Holy Spirit coming into you. This is
my teaching at least, this is what I share with people.
Is how I teach people to connect is via the breath,
and so do so many other traditions. And we also
say we're inspired, meaning literally that God comes into us,

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not just oh I got a good idea. That is
how we use it these days. That's our colloquial you
understanding and use of it. But to inspire is literally spirit,
the Spirit coming into you. You're inspired. God is coming
through you. When people say they channel, when I channel.
That is literal inspiration. It's literally the Spirit coming through you.

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So similar here in Eastern Orthodoxy, the Holy Spirit proceeds
they say, from the Father alone, not from the Sun.
And that's a key distinction. And there's more of that
we'll get into from the fatherland, so from God itself,
not from God to Jesus. And then the Holy Spirit again,

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that just even seems right. I don't even know why
you would try to make it that way. Maybe they've
got their reasons to say that the Holy Spirit comes
through Jesus. So this controversy, it's one of the major
theological differences between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic. The
Nicene Creed in the original Greek or Eastern Orthodox version

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says we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the
giver of life, who proceeds from the Father. And so
it's in the original Nicene Creed, and the Catholic version
says who proceeds from the Father and the Son, as
though Jesus is giving out the Holy Spirit interesting proceeds

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from very different to say, you know, for example, the
Holy Spirit comes through Jesus than to say it comes
from Jesus. And the Orthodoxy the Holy Spirit proceeds eternally
from the Father alone, is taught in John fifteen twenty six.
When the comforter comes, whom I shall send to you
from the Father, the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from

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the Father. He will testify of me. The Orthodox hold
that the philioque addition, added to the Creed in the
West in later centuries in the Roman Catholic Church distorts
the original balance of the Trinity by undermining the monarchy
of the Father as the sole source of the Godhead. Yeah,

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I can see how that would degrade this thought. I
could see also how it then, especially in a centralized system,
you could say, for example, here's Jesus. Look he came again,
and he is here the giver of this Holy Spirit
instead of God. Right, you're literally undermining God. So I

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could see how that could become a big problem actually
in the future. Yeah, maybe not to most people who
aren't paying attention anyway, but to the people who are
paying attention it does matter too. That isn't actually huge distinction.
So this blurs the unique role of each person of
the Trinity. It really actually makes it not a trinity
at all. It makes it a duality. So that's really interesting.

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So it says this difference may seem subtle, but to
the Orthodox it protects the mist and relational integrity of
the Triune God. Yeah, I'm going to add to that
that it also undermines the authority, like it said, but
especially in the way that it could then be presented
in a corrupted way that could also be used to
control people. And that's actually the bigger danger in my opinion.

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So the role of the Holy Spirit in the church
in Orthodoxy, the Holy Spirit sanctifies the faithful, illumines the
mind and heart, and powers the sacraments called the mysteries,
and guides the church as the living presence of Christ. Yeah,
it is the sort of eternal, etheric or ethereal presence
that inspires, that brings that truth to our hearts and

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then our minds right and allows us to be in
this connection with God in this sort of stepped down
way that won't shatter you to peaces in the brightness. Right.
So that's really makes a lot of sense to me.
The Holy Spirit is seen as everywhere, present and filling
all things. So other mystical traditions call the Holy Spirit

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something else, but most of them call it spirit. So
that's really interesting, right, they're really very A lot of
different mystical traditions are really actually the same tradition, just
slightly different dressing. So the mystical traditions I have learned
and followed in my life refer to this same exact

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energy that underlies everything in the universe as spirit, as
opposed to soul, which is a more personal thing that
you have sort of attached to you. Still comes from God, right,
but it's yours in a way. It goes with life
to life with you, and so that that's interesting to me.
Holy Spirit and Spirit from the beautiful Orthodox prayer, Oh

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Heavenly King, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit
and Theosis. The ultimate goal of Orthodox life, as we said,
is theosis, becoming one with God or partakers of the
divine nature, so becoming more and more holy in yourself,
or opening your spiritual channels more and more living in
a deeper connection with your soul and your connection to God.

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Says this is only possible through the transforming work of
the Holy Spirit. True, the Spirit does not just inspire
or assist, He dwells within the believer, transfiguring the whole being.
From within. In some other traditions, that energy or that
being within you, that direct connection to the Triune God,

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is called the Master Within, and you are entirely Your
goal is to live in deeper and deeper connection to
the Master within. Again, it's inside of you. I think
it matters so much if you're going to choose a
brand of Christianity, it seems like Eastern Orthodox is the
only way to go because of that decentralization that empowers

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you to bring this forth within yourself and you live
in this connection. Nothing else actually even matters. The rest
is just window dressing on symbolism and experience. The Holy
Spirit is often experienced and symbolized as fire or spiritual purification.

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That's also true in many traditions. Light or the illumination
of the soul also true in many traditions. The breath
or the wind, as we talked about to inspire, to
re aspire, to breathe is about the spirit taking the
spirit in. So the breath with the wind and a
dove as christ baptism doves. Man, that's a heavy symbolism.

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It goes deep and far. You think you've understood the
symbol of the dove, and then it just keeps going
more and more and more. Maybe we'll do a show
on the symbolism of the dove someday. And Orthodox spirituality
emphasizes inner stillness as a way to become aware of
and you with the indwelling spirit, especially through the Jesus
prayer and deep prayer of the heart. So again, it's

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very meditative, contemplative, very much like a lot of Further
East traditions in that way, and a lot of other
mystical traditions as well. To emphasize, you know, you've got
to spend time going within. And you know, I work
with a lot of people over a lot of years,
and the people who make the most progress on all

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levels physical, mental, emotional, spiritual are the people who do
this the most frequently. The more you make time for this,
the better your life goes. It's just like people. I
don't know why people think that everyone's trying to keep
secrets from them, but this has been the most obvious
non secret throughout all traditions of all time. But nobody

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wants to do it because it's hard, because it takes time,
or because something else is happening. They might miss out
on it. Sure, so let yourself be distracted by the world.
That's your choice you're making. It's cool, no one's judging you.
You're definitely not going to get a lot closer to
God or that light or that illumination if you're not
doing it, if you're not meditating, or if you're not

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spending this contemplative inner time with yourself. So it says
there's no charismatic movement as in the West. Orthodox believe
deeply in the gifts of the spirit. They're cautious about emotionalism,
novelty or spectacle. I love that. It's just like, take

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away all the cluster, be take away all the narcissism,
just like cut it out, Like we're not here to
make spectacles. I love it. We need more of this.
They're not saying don't be emotional. They're saying like, this
isn't the thing that gets you energy or power or prestige.
Like we're not looking for this spectacle. Right. So the

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Holy Spirit, they say, works in humble, ordered and sacramental ways,
especially through the liturgy, icons and ascetic practice. So again
it's this internal thing. This is in comparison, for example,
to getting up and just yelling about preaching and like
getting all emotional like rad and flinging things and then
starting to like twitch and fidget and like speak in tongues. Right,

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that's a big production potentially, And while that could technically happen,
they're saying, like, it's probably gonna happen in a very
humble way. And this is the thing people aren't expecting
to in our modern age. People are expecting the spectacle.
So if you're not a spectacle, they're like, well, what
I mean, what about who cares about you or whatever? Right,

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they're not gonna listen to someone often who is humble ordered. Right,
But in the Eastern Orthodox Church, that's actually what's valued more,
which makes sense, and it's actually again safer, there's less
likelihood of corruption in that method. It says true signs
of the spirit include, for example, love, inner peace, discernment,

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and selfless service. Oh can you imagine if those are
the things we valued, If those are the things we said,
that person, they've really got it together and sow many
of us are, but so many arct so not necessarily
outward miracles. So you know, like the Chris angels of

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the world are not what we're looking for here. And
it is also interesting if you're really looking at that
type of thing, right that the people who are claimed
to be actually magic, they almost always will tell you
they're working with a spirit. Sometimes they'll literally tell you
it's a demon and they are performing these things that
would often be considered miracles. But then you have to ask,

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like why, even if you don't believe in angels and demons, Like,
what's the purpose of this? Is it helping people become
better people? Is it helping them get in deeper touch
with themselves? Is it helping them heal? No, it is
making you money? Well, then I I guess have fun
with your demon. It's cool looking, it's fascinating, but you've

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got to have your discernment right and see is that
if you believe it's real? Like is that what I need?
Is that what anybody needs? Is it helping? In summary,
the Greek Orthodoxy, the Holy Spirit is mystical and relational,
not speculative. It emphasizes the spirit's role in deification and
daily sanctification is deeply rooted in sacramental life, tradition, and

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the experience of the heart. If the heart's not at
the center of any given teaching, this is like maybe
cast it out. It clearly distinguishes the spirit as proceeding
from the Father alone and not from the Son in
that Divine Triune or the Holy Trinity. So then we'll
get into saints. Saints are also a bit different in

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Greek Orthodoxy and Greek Orthodoxy, as saints is not simply
a person who lived morally, but someone who was transfigured
by divine grace, who lives even now in communion with God,
meaning they're talking to God. They're literally inspired, they're in
a direct connection or channeling of God, depending on what

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language you're using. They're present and active in the lives
of the faithful through intercession, guidance, and miracles. So they
didn't just become a saint and then like move on.
They're still here. They're still helping. You can pray and
call them. They can help. They can actually change the
world for you, right, change the outcomes of things, or
help you find the way. And they're part of the

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cloud of witnesses mentioned in Hebrews twelve to one, meaning
that the Church is both on earth and in heaven
or whatever you want to call the other side. Right,
Sainthood isn't just the title is a reflection of divine
light in human form. Saints are examples, companions and intercessors
of the path of salvation. I love this too, because again,

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most serious traditional mystical traditions and other mystical spiritual paths
often honor that though there are these sort of larger,
more known, more public, and more collectively effective beings or

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avatars like Jesus, like Buddha, Buddha, Buddha, lots of Buddhas,
but Buddha Buddha, and I'm thinking of mythros or something right,
that they get noticed but not a lot of traditions
outside of the mystical traditions recognize that there's a ton

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of enlightened beings and most of them won't ever be known,
but you might notice some of them sometimes at least
a little bit. And that's what these saints are essentially,
not always for the entirety of their life. Either. There
may have been a mon where they became divinely inspired
and started right living in this more direct connection and

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performing things that we call miracles, but you might notice
that they might not become the ones that an entire
religion is about, or right that everybody knows the name of.
They're not less important though, And the reason why that's important,
I thing is people then remember, oh, like anybody can

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go that way, right, I mean Jesus said it, but
everyone forgets that. That's what he meant, is that like, hey,
you're supposed to do this too. You're supposed to also
become your highest spiritual self. Now that might not happen
in this one tiny life, but you can get closer
in every moment, and that is the direction you're supposed
to be headed. And when you see that there's saints

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like this, and when you see people on them, when
you see that they still have an effect on people
and they can connect in this material world still that
it helps remind you right of what we're all doing here.
That's why I like it at least so the type
of saints in this Orthodox friction, there's the apostles of Jesus,
the original disciples, the martyrs, those who died for the faith,
the confessors, those who suffered for Christ but did not die,

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the desert fathers and mothers, the ascetics who lived in
prayer and solitude, especially in Egypt, Palestine and Mount Athos.
That would also involve the scenes, I would say, the
hierarchs or the bishops and the teachers of the church
today and through the recent years. Fools for Christ saints
who feigned madness to conceal holiness and provoke spiritual awakening.

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I love that. I've never heard of that. I mean,
I've heard of fools for Christ, but I just didn't
know what it meant. I guess I thought it was
just people who were, you know, really excited about it.
But this reminds me of the Buddha I've talked about
before and other shows, who he's the least popular one.
He would throw his feces at people like in the

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like the other you know, monks and sayings and whatnot.
Would be like sitting around doing whatever, debating something or
like writing a holy script, I don't know, and he
just like starts throwing his poop at them. The reason
I love that is because you really do actually sometimes
have to bring people back down a bit. Tatre's still

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just a being who's alive, Like chill, chill, your role bro.
So that's funny. I don't know if that's that similar
for the fools for Christ, but that's what it reminded
me of the New martyrs, those who suffered under Islam
or Communism. That's very important to do include because there's
a lot I don't know. I don't know if you know.
There's just another massacre of Christians. I think it was

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in Kenya. Forgive me if I'm wrong. It's just within
the past few days. It was hundreds of Christians were murdered,
and it happens all the time. Islam is the most
murderous religion that exists, and Communism is the most murderous
ideology outside of Rei that exists. So those two are
definitely well mentioned here. And then Theotokos, the Virgin Mary

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is the greatest of all saints, honored as more honorable
than the Cherubim, which is it's a class of angelic being.
Mother Mary is I are sorry Virgin Mary. Yeah. On
the marry I experienced her as such as well. Personally,
she's one of the most powerful figures that I've ever
been in connection with on the spiritual plane, super beautiful.

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So characteristics of these saints include humility and meekness. Even
miracle workers often hit their gifts miracles and prophecy. They
heal people, they have visions, they have clairvoyance even after death.
They can come back and communicate and intercede tears of compunction,
deep repentance, and divine sorrow considered a grace. Aceticism self

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denial not for punishment, but for purification and love. So
it's the same as like fasting doing or fasts for
a spiritual reason is a seedic right when you deny
your senses in order to become in closer contact with
the divine within you. Not just like, oh, I'm never
gonna have anything nice or have any money because that's
what Christians are supposed to do. Maybe you could. Maybe

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that's fine if you want to do that, But this
is much more like, you know, using sensory self denial
as a form of spiritual heightening or purification and union
with Christ. A saint is not admired for their strength,
but for their surrender. They're speaking my language. Notable Greek

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Orthodox saints. We have Saint Anthony the Great of two
fifty one to three fifty six, considered the father of monasticism,
which is being a monk right, lived in the Egyptian desert,
fought spiritual battles with demons. His life was written by
Saint Athanusius I guess as a story written he was

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and of by this person and inspired many to follow
the ascetic path again that self denial of the sense
is Saint Gregory Palamus of twelve ninety six, defender of
the inner stillness meditation, I'll say, taught that through the
uncreated energies of God we can experience divine light, as
in the Transfiguration, and a key figure in Orthodox mystical

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theology Saint Constantine. I think we've all heard of him
and Saint Helen. Saint Constin was the Roman emperor who
legalized Christianity so it was illegal before then. Helen, his mother,
credited with finding the true Cross in Jerusalem and honored
as equal to the Apostles. Saint Nektarios of Igina eighteen

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forty six, a beloved modern Satanan, for his humility, miracles
and healing, founded a covenant on the island of a Gina.
His relics still exude fragrance and heal. It's so funny.
I have a friend, a person who I work with,
who is got some orgon from me. And you know,
my orgone does smell as far as I experience it,

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but his oregon that he got from me does smell
and smell specifically when spiritual things are happening, so you
never know how things are going to come through to you.
But that fragrance thing is real. A lot of people
who experience Mother Mary experience also the smell of roses specifically.
She's associated with roses for many reasons, but that is
one reason is people will have an experience with her

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and the scent of roses will just be thick and heavy.
Saint Paisos the Anthonite nineteen twenty four to nineteen ninety
four modern monastic saint of malt Athos, known for a
spiritual council, prophecy and miracles, deeply loved across the Orthodox
world today. He said, be the bee, not the fly.
The bee looks for the flower, the fly looks for
the filth. Yeah, it's a good reminder, look up, not down.

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Saint Poor Furrios of Cafsulkilivia nineteen oh six to nineteen
ninety one another modern Greek saint known for gentle love, clairvoyance,
deep understanding of humans, offering emphasize joy, beauty, and the
presence of Christ and everything. Saints are honored with feast
days as icons. Their relics are sometimes shared prayers of
intercession can be spoken to a saint, like we said,

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you can invite them to come intercede before God on
your behalf. Saints are central and Greek Orthodoxy because they
prove that the Gospel is real. Like I was saying,
They remind people that this is actually a living thing.
Is This is't something you're just supposed to like think
about and going like yeah, I don't know, maybe something whatever.
You're actually supposed to live it within yourself. That holiness
is possible, that heaven and earth are connected, that Christ

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can live in and through a human being. They're not
far off heroes. They are near to you. They're loving,
and they appear in dreams, visions, or quiet guidance in
the hearts of believers. Here's a few quotes from some
of them. Love should not be a matter of words only,
but of actions as well. We must genuinely feel the
pain of others. Whoever wants to become a Christian must

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first become a poet. The goal is to love Christ
with all your soul, all your heart, all your strength.
When that happens, then the grace of God takes over.
I like this, do not fight to expel the darkness
from the chamber of your soul. Open a tiny window
for the light to enter, and the darkness will disappear.

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I saw the snares that the enemy spreads over the world,
and I said, groaning, what can get through such snares?
And then I heard a tiny voice saying to me, humility,
here we go. This may remind you of recent years.
A time is coming when men will go mad, and
when they see someone who is not mad, they will
attack him, saying, you are mad, you are not like us. Well,

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I walked into a store a few years ago. If
I didn't have a shit covered cloth on my face,
people would literally attack me. To be true, there's a
prophecy that came true. Be at peace with your own soul,
and heaven and earth will be at peace with you. True,

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the one who has seen himself is greater than the
one who has seen angels. Amen who truly sees themselves.
It's a tiny fraction of people. Okay. One more. God
does not ask us to succeed, He only asks us
to try. So that's your overview of Greek Orthodoxy. I'll

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just tell you to Eastern Orthodoxy, as I said, it's
its other name, and I'll just wanted to look at
this map really quick of the world so you can
see where Eastern Orthodoxy exists. And there's actually more of
it in Canada than the US. Interesting, all of the US,
South America, Central America does the light pink. Very few
percentage of the population actually into it. Canada a little

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bit more, a little bit darker. Most of Africa not
so much, most of the Middle East not so much,
most of Asia not so much, a little bit in
Australia just a shit tone. In Russia, like Russia had
this resurgence after their glorious, horrifying revolution and they've come
back to the Eastern Orthodox Church. This is actually part

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of the sort of schism going on in Ukraine right
now as well as they're actually attacking the Eastern Orthodox
Churches there. Nobody really seems to care except the Eastern
Orthodox Church, Russia and most of Eastern Europe, but the West,
which is super atheistic, very communist, and otherwise other forms

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of Christianity that don't seem to care about Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
They don't care. And you can tell people about the
horrible suppression of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Ukraine and
they'll be like yeah, but I mean it's Russia's bad,
like they just don't care. It's crazy. So I would say,
out of the Christians who are persecuted in the world,

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of which there are many, Eastern Orthodox is the most persecuted.
Very interesting, not that it's like a game or we're
trying to win, but you know, this area of Eastern Europe,
like I said, here, you can see it as the
darkest sort of central place here that's the most right,
that's the highest concentration a little bit, you know, towards

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sort of i'll say central and North Europe, so closer
to Canada and Australia levels, and then you get out
to Spain and Portugal and France and stuff in the
UK and it's like hardly any So that's the sort
of distribution of the Eastern Orthodox Church. I'll say too,
this actually corresponds to prophecy, so that's interesting too. So

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recently this also came to my mind, not just because
I said, like I said, I have a friend who
has gotten into the Eastern Orthodox Church and it struck
my fancy, but also I saw this from Elder Doros
Aggio Pherungitis, and I'm sure I'm saying that wrong too,
but that's something like his name and twenty sixteen, twenty nineteen,

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I think he's past. Now I could be wrong, but
in twenty sixteen he seemed to have given a prophecy
that seems to have come true in the last week
as we have seen Israel attack Iran. And so this
is just a quote here from someone called Orthodox Faith.
It says, it appears that the prophecy of Elder Theodoros
from twenty sixteen is being fulfilled before our eyes. That

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the Third Spiritual Dialogue gathering in Cyprus on May twenty second,
twenty nineteen, his eminence, Metropolitan Neophytos of Morpho shared this
prophecy told to him by the Elder. He said, you
will be drinking your coffee and you will hear that
the Jews have struck the nuclear program of Persia, which
is Iran, very specific. In the morning, essentially you'll hear

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that is really struck the nuclear program. And that's exactly
what we heard. And so this prophecy, this is a
prophecy that came through. So the timing of that was
very interesting as my interest in Greek orthoxy was being peaked,
which by the way, is spelled p i q ued
peaked just in case you were wondering, same timing, right,

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the little synchronicity for me. So I think that's pretty
interesting because did they believe again that that anybody could
prophesy or be given a vision or be given an
understanding in this way? So he's one of them that
seems to have had that. And so there's actually a
whole article about it on the Gateway Pundit just two

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days ago, which is when these strikes began, and so
you can check this out. Here's a picture of the guy,
very ascetic seeming lifestyle he may be living. And this
word guys has been different in different quotes, so I
don't know if that's a translation thing or what, but
it says, guys, you'll be drinking your coffee, you'll hear
that the Jews attack the nuclear program of Persia. That's

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when events of greater magnitude will begin. So this was
sort of one of the we'll say, temporal markers that
was at least given to this person to share with
people so that they could measure for going towards again
events of greater magnitude, which you may if you would
like to call end times, even though all endings are

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just beginning, so you could call it beginning times. If
he wants, it's up to you. How do you want
to flavor. It's your choice. And so this Orthodox Saints'
vision has come true. Is he actually a saint? I
don't know. He's an elder at least right, so he did.
He died in twenty sixteen. And you may have seen

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this going around because everybody's sort of talking about it
because it was prophecy and hear it is happening. He said,
you'd casually hear the news of Israel strike while going
about your daily routines. The prophecy continue at the same
time or a little earlier. Air Doowan will fall. Air
Dowan is the leader of Turkey. He's been the leader

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for some time because he's exceptionally corrupt and he essentially
forces himself to remain the leader. So es this is tyrannical.
He has suppressed the occupy and the or the Arab
Spring as it was known over there. I expressed that
brutally he buys off his power. He's an awful person.

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And uh so he says air Dowan will fall. So
we'll see if airdwon falls soon then that then this
prophecy continues, right, it says Orthodox eschatology, particularly through the
writings and visions of modern saints such as Saint Paisos
of Mount Athos, is long foretold of major conflicts involving Israel, Turkey,
and other regional powers. Father Pete here As, an Orthodox theologian,

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notes that the prophecies of the saints, not only Greek saints,
but also Russian, Romanian and Serbian saints state that countries
will use nuclear weapons following the Israeli strike. We are,
you know, there's countries who are threatening it. Pakistan has
threatened to retaliate against Israel if Israel uses nukes or
if they don't stop or whatever. US always has the

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potential to do it again. Right, There's lots of people
who may or may not end up using nukes in
this situation. I always like to imagine that people will
remember their highest nature and choose something else, you know,
there's no need to imagine the worst outcome or fear it. Especially.
It will either happen or won't. And I like to

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invite all souls to choose their highest nature instead, and
we'll see. But this is what of the prophecies, it
was given right that specifically nuclear war will break out.
According to these teachings, the attack on Iran may serve
as a trigger for broader geopolitical crises, including the fall
of turkeysleadership and the onset of large scale regional conflict.
Whether or not this would become a world war or

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not is really just anyone's guests, right. Everybody expects that,
and that's actually I think more dangerous than anything else.
I think we should expect not that, but you know,
Russia and China are also keen on what happens here,
and they would be sort of on the side of
Iran if anything, and so it could become a global
catastrophe in that way. It would also serve to mirror

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what I was told by Sai Baba, a totally different
saints from a totally different spiritual and mystical tradition, about
what would happen in exactly these years we are in
right now. So we'll see right well again, a lot
of people seem to predict this, and a lot of people,
just like I said, imagine it. Because our cultures have
been so fixated on the end times for so long,

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it's hard not to write, so yeah, I'm by everybody
to imagine otherwise, even while knowing that anything could happen.
So it's not the only religious interpretation gaining attention. Israel's
large scale June thirteenth, twenty twenty five military operation called
Operation Rising Lion has prompted biblical scholars and prophecy teachers

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across Christian denominations to re examine whether recent events aligned
with ancient scriptural predictions, particularly in light of Iran's direct
attack on Israel in April twenty twenty four. If that happened,
The coordinated strike targeted Iran's new year infrastructure and military leadership,
including key sites such as the facilities, missile bases, air defenses,
as high profile casualties including their generals and majors and

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their military et cetera. The mission's Hebrew code name a
people rises like a lioness, drawn from specifically Biblical the
Numbers chapter called Numbers Chapter twenty three, verse twenty four,
has been interpreted by some symbolizing divine protection and prophetic fulfillment.

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So I think this is written from a point of
view that Israel should attack people, or that that's that
it's protecting something and That's not my perspective, but that's
the perspective of this article. I believe for many prophecy scholars,
this combination of air superiority, weakened Iranian proxies, and the
elimination of Iren's nuclear leadership mirrors the conditions described in
the Ezekiel's End time vision. Evangelical Christian leaders of especially

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vocal in linking recent events of biblical prophecy. Pastor Greg
Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship, a prominent Bible prophecy teacher,
said he believes Iran's attack on Israel fulfilled scripture and
signals the end times. He pointed to the regathering of
the Jewish people in their homeland, specifically, Israel's founding on
May fourteenth, nineteen forty eight, is the moment when quote
their prophetic time clock began to tick. Iran's first direct

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military attack on Israel occurred April twenty twenty four, when
Tehran launched more than three hundred drones and missiles toward
Israeli territory. Although ninety nine percent of the projectiles were
intercepted by Israeli's Iron Dome and Allied defense systems. Biblical prophecy,
teachers emphasized that the significance lies not in the damage,
but in the events alignment with end times predictions. The
primary reference comes from Ezekiel thirty eight, written approximately twenty

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six hundred years ago, which describes a future coalition led
by Magog, widely interpreted as Russia and including up Persia
or modern day Iran, in a coordinated attack against Israel.
I didn't know Magogu was interpreted as Russia. Do you
remember that Bush Senior and Bush Junior's code names in

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like their Secret service or whatever, were Gog and Magog,
which are demon's names. So yeah, I guess they're interpreting
Magog to mean Russia. But we'll see. This interpretation has
gained renewed attention of mid recent geopolitical shifts. Russia and
Iran have expanded their military cooperation what many see as
the prophecy in Magog or Persha alliance with Russia, while

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Iranian proxy forces such as Hamas and his Bola have
been weakened by Israeli operations. At the same time, the
collapse of Syria's Asab regimes granted Israel total air superiority
in Syrian airspace. Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United
for Israel and prominent Bible prophecy teacher, went further, declaring,
we are on the verge of the Gog Magog war

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that Ezekiel described in chapter thirty eight and thirty nine.
While Ezekiel thirty eight thirty nine remains a primary prophetic
focus for end Time's Bible prophecy, scholars religious observers across
denominations are examining several Biblical prophecies in light of recent events.
Jeremiah forty nine thirty five through thirty nine speaks of
God breaking the bow of Elamb, scattering its people, and

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destroying its king and officials. Elam was an ancient region
overlapping modern day western Iran, so that's interesting. Some interpreters
suggest that the bo symbolizes Iran's missile capabilities, and that
the death of senior military and nuclear personnel, including our

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major general whatever, could correspond to the judgment against ILAM's
Leadershi described in the text. A lesser known biblical passage
receiving renewed attention is Psalm eighty three, which describes a
ten member coalition conspiring to wipe out Israel as a nation.
The nations listed include Edam, molab Ammon, Philistia, and Assyria,

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names many commentators associate with modern day Palestinians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians,
and others. Prophecy author Bill Sellis argues that the Psalm
eighty three war precedes the Ezekiel thirty eight conflict and
more closely resembles current threats from Israel' immediate neighbors and
non state actors. I guess that was the end of

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the article, so poor ending, you couldn't tell it with
an ending until there just was no more. So whatever
this Greek Orthodox or Eastern Orthodox A father seemed to
have predicted this just a few years ago. And here
we are with this occurring, this strike against Iran's nuclear program.

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And it also seems to potentially line up with some
other biblical prophecies. And so there's more prophecy out of
the Eastern Orthodox Church on the future of Russia and
the end of the world. This is from hero monks,
Seraphim Rose of Blessed Memory, as he's passed on, and

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so this is what he says. I says, we live
in the times which our Lord warned us about in
the Gospel when the love of many shall grow cold,
that's very true. Like to be loving towards people is
like a weird experience for most people. They're like, why
is this person being nice? No one ever loved you.

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I remember somebody was like, what is this dance called?
And I was like, oh, this dance is called I
don't love myself because no one's ever loved me. That's
what we should call twerking. But anyway, so as we
live in these times, and so in the before the

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Revolution of nineteen seventeen in Russia Communist Revolution, there were
prophecies by spiritual men not only concerning the coming of
atheism to Russia and the epoch of blood and slavery
which it introduced into the world, but also concerning what
would happen to Russia after this epoch if the orthodox
Russian people would repent of the sins which produced it,
so that before the revolution they prophecy that something would common,

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that Russia would become no longer a spiritual nation but
an atheist one. Communism is atheist. By the way, You're
not allowed to be spiritual in Communism. That is something
you're either killed or re educated for any level of spiritualism,
meaning just believing you have a soul killed or re educated.
So not socialists and communists won't always admit this, but

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it is absolutely true. And so they predicted this, and
then this revolution came and they actually did force their
entire country into atheism. But they also predicted that that
would end and that the religion would return. And that
is also true. As we saw by that map. Russia
is now exceptionally Eastern Orthodox, more so than anywhere. So

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they were fully communist and atheists, and they went back
to their roots, and now hold those roots tighter than
anywhere else in the world. Does the general Orthodox teaching
on what is to happen just before the end of
the world, according to Eastern Orthodoxy is the events of
the end of the world are described in a number
of places in Holy scripture, says the twenty fourth chapter

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of Matthew, in parallel places and other Gospels, most of
the Books of Apocalypse, especially chapter eight and onwards, the
second chapter of Two Thessalonians to Peter chapter three, several
chapters of the Book of Daniel, and other passages. The
Apocalypse describes these events in a series of visions, some
bright and positive relating to the fulfillment of God's justice
and the salvation of his chosen ones, which, by the way,

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you could interpret that as the people who have chosen
to be close to God. It is not necessarily in
a religious sense, but in that same way we were
talking about, where you are internally present with yourself and
aware that you are a soul and therefore perhaps loving
and grateful to God, which is a force of the universe,

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not necessarily a guy in a cloud somewhere. And some
of these were dark and negative, relating to the terrible
plagues that will come on earth for the sins of mankind.
Another way you could think of that again, the way
I interpret that is the karma of mankind will have
created these terrible plagus and that's actually what it is.

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You can look at it as sins if you want. Again,
they are mistakes. There are things we did outside of
our godly nature when we fell into our lowest nature
and we were greedy or we were controlling or corrupted. Right,
those are our mistakes we made and they have effects
on the world. So, for example, if you create a
bio weapon and then you release it, that will have

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effects on the world. So plagues that will come from
our sins. This is another way you can interpret that. Right.
Sometimes it says we today emphasize the dark and negative side,
seeing the increase of evil around us, but that comes
from our faint heartedness and worldliness. We must look at
the whole picture. At the time of the end of
this world comes near, It's true that there will be

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a time of tribulation such as the world has never seen.
There will be famines, plagues, earthquakes, wars and rumors of wars, persecutions,
false prophets, false Christs, and the love of many, including Christians,
will grow cold. But at the same time, the Gospel
will be preached to all nations, and those who endure

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to the end with the aid of Christ will be saved.
You can take that however you and can interpret that
into your own language. But this is something that has
been predicted not just by Christianity, but by so many religions,
traditions and mysticulturitions especially, so the language would be slightly different,

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but they'd be talking about the exact same things. And
we can also look at what's happening with the sun
right now and with our magnetosphere and all of this,
we can say that material reality seems to mirror this,
seems to be indicating this. And the things that happen
when our magnetosphere weakens and the Sun is shooting off
these massive amounts of energy to us because of its
galactic alignments are things like earthquakes and plagues, and if

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war is also going on, you're just exacerbated, right, But
a lot can happen in a short amount of time
going into those types of things. The evil and false
religion in the world will culminate in the rain of
anti Christ, a world ruler who will seem to bring
peace out of the world disorder. Will seem to be
Christ come again to Earth, raining from the restored Temple

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in Jerusalem. I will see. If so, it's like pretty
easy to spot, I would think, But you never know.
But there will be those who see through the deception.
In particular, two Old Testament prophets who did not die
will return to Earth, Elijah to convert the Jews and
Enoch to preach the other nations. A short reign of

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Antichrist three and a half years will end in new
disorder in wars, in the midst of which Christ himself
will come from Heaven preceded by the sign of the
Cross in this world will be consumed by fire and
totally renewed. And I'll say it'd be very interesting if
what actually happens is the sun shoots out a massive
type of microNOVA or similar, and then what we would

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see in the sky would actually be a plasma, a
plasma image that would look like a cross. Potentially that's
one of the many plasma expressions that you could see
literally painted across the sky, and the other one looks
like a person coming down out of the sky. So

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it'd be very interesting that it would be very interesting
in either way whether Christ came as a person or
whether Christ came in the way that I was shown
and told that it would come, which is more like
a higher consciousness of many, many people, the collective consciousness
of humanity, not just one person returning that that's how
Christ returns this time. Either way, that's a higher level

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of consciousness for everyone. If you live through something like
that and you see that, you also understand the Holy
Spirit moving through things, creating positive outcome out of the
ashes of the death of the Old, you're a changed
person at that point. It says the bodies of the

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dead will arise from the tomb and be rejoined to
their souls in order to stand before God's final judgment.
I hope that we don't have a bunch of bodies
rising out of the tombs. I just would take that
more symbolically than anything of the Orthodox. They think that's
like a literal thing, and a lot of Christians really do.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:26:05):
Anyways, they're saying Russia will play a specific part of this,
especially the revival of this Orthodox view of religion and
the world. And it is interesting to see Russia's sort
of resurgence. And We've talked about this many times too.
It's like people want to move to Russia just because
it's a safe, higher trust society that has traditional values.

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And Russia has said, like, yeah, you're going to learn
Russian and you want to come live here, like feel free.
I mean again, if you want to learn Russian and
like become Russian, you can come here. But it's interesting
to see Russia come to this place in the world
where another sort of returned i'd say, to world power

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status as well as this sort of cultural lighthouse right
for things that have been lost for a while, especially
to the West. As we fall into atheism and communism.
And again, I'm never proposing that people have to become Christian.

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I consider myself a Christian and I have no church.
I just am a spiritual person who feels a connection
to God, who loves Jesus. That's just who I am.
But I don't care if anybody's in a church or not.
I know that it's an internal game and not an
external one. I know it doesn't actually matter if you're
in a church, so it doesn't matter to me. I also,

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as always suggest like churches are cool for community, and
the Eastern Orthodox is cool for many other reasons as well.
But I just don't think it matters. But I do
think it matters that we understand ourselves as spiritual beings.
I do think it matters that we have traditions and
we have culture. I do think it matters that we
honor things like the family, because it is the absolute

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lynchpin to all of society. All human culture is built
the family unit, and then the tribe or the community
right and then the state or the government. It all
starts with the families. I think these things are important,
and I think we've gotten far away from what matters
in the world, and so it's interesting to see Russia
as a sort of again lighthouse so that those sorts

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of ideals that otherwise are consistently dying. So they talk
about this Russia at the end of times becoming sort
of a call back to Christianity, and again, whether you
like it or not, this is in their tradition that
would be a very important thing to see, right, They

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also have all these prophecies about Ukraine and Russia, and
that Ukraine would again play a role in marking sort
of the end of times, and that here we are
in that place. So it goes deeper into that Russia

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Ukraine thing too, and the splits in the church and whatnot,
But we won't go deeper into that. Just to mention it, though,
I'll also point out, since we're talking about prophecy as well,
and whether or not we're in the end times or
what's happening or it's maybe likely to happen soon. They
in the Orthodox Church look down on Nostrodamus. I've always

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had a question mark in my mind. I've never been
that impressed. And you can go back to episodes I've
done on him, and I'm like, yeah, because there's so
much of his work that you just interpret however you choose,
and you can be like, wow, he predicted that, and
you're like, well, sure, but until it happened, you didn't
know what to look for, So does it even count, right, Like,

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you've got to get a bit specific for me to
believe your prophet sying. And in the case of this
elder of the Eastern Orthodox Church, you seem to predict
that Israel would strike Iran's nuclear program. That's pretty and
then it happened. The Nostradamis is really like, yeah, again,
you can only look at it after the fact, and

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then you can see to see and make it fit.
But you can do that with anything, because you're a
human being with a brain, and it's crazy what we
can do with it. So they actually think noster Remis
is a demonically influenced person who is leading people away
from the truth or Jesus at least, or angelic energies

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at least. And they point out a couple of his
quatrains which specifically talk about various occult things like this
tripod and this wand that he talks about in some
of them. And again, I'm the last person to think

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that any specific thing is demonic. Again, they would probably
think I'm demonic because they use tarot cards, right, So
I don't say that's why noster Damos isn't that big
of a deal. I say it's again for what I SA,
it's just interpretable to the end of time. You don't
know what he's predicting, but you know from their point
of view, he's demonically influenced, and all of his prophecies

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are from a deven, not from the divine. That's a
little bit more narrow of a view, but that's an
interesting one. But prophecy to the Eastern Orthodox Church, it's
derived from the Greek word profeme, which means to foretell,

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to tell something beforehand. Again, I think that's for me too,
Like you actually have to tell me what is going
to happen. You can't just like say a poem and
then later be like, oh, that's what it meant. But
this is someone who is commissioned by God to speak
to men or man people about what they see. So
God specifically or the Holy Spirit specifically inspires this in

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someone so that they are able to share with people,
so that people are able to know what's coming so
it talks about all the prophets of the Bible and
what they foretold different things, and they often enter insults, hardship, imprisonment,
especially by false prophets, immoralities, or they expose immoralities, superficial reforms,

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and fanatical alliance on the temple. So again, especially in
the Eastern Orthodox, that would be important, right, you would
call out any centralization of power, any usurping of your
divine sovereignty. Says. Prophecy has three tenses, the past, the presence,

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in the future. We shall speak more to truly of
these three tenses of prophecy if we quote the evidence
of Holy Scripture. The prophecy concerning the future, Behold, the
Virgin shall conceive in the womb and shall bring forth
the Sun. The prophecy concerning the past. In the beginning,
God made the heaven and the earth. Or a man
speaks of a time when man was not and a
prophecy we got the present when ain't Paul the Holy

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Apostle says, But if I'll keep on prophecying and some
unbeliever or one unlearned should come in, he is reproved
by all, He is examined by all and thus are
the secrets of his heart become manifest and so falling
upon his face, he will make obeisance to God, reporting
that God is verily among you. So I'm talking you.
You can sort of see and receive an inspired truth

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about any place and time, and all of that could
be considered prophecying, not just future. That's pretty cool. It
also says the prophetic gift shines clear and souls pure
and cleansed from all defilement. Again, this is pretty common
in most traditions that you have to purify in some
way in order to hold that light, hold that energy,

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be a channel for God that God would choose to
come through, or God Holy Spirit would choose to come
through you. You have to be a pure vessel. And it's
not about you know, judgment and like, oh you're not
good enough or whatever. It's just that it is true.
If you have a bunch of stuff mucking up your
field and your energy, you're not going to get the
message very clearly. But if you are meditating a lot,

(01:34:08):
or you're fasting, or you're intentionally healing so that you
don't have all this emotional chaos in your mind and heart,
then you are a clearer channel. So this is also
why I teach people you heal yourself, you become a
spiritual channel. It just is what happens. It's the technology
of your body, it's your connection to source. They say,

(01:34:30):
in a foul or dirty mirror, you cannot see what
the reflection is. Neither can a soul preoccupied with cares
of this life and darkened with the passions of the
lust of the flesh receive the rays of the Holy Spirit.
Every dream is not a prophecy. Visions and revelations were
given to the saints only in mountains and in the wilderness. Ah,

(01:34:53):
I've had visions not in the mountains in the wilderness,
but the mountains in the wilderness are also symbolically the
time when you are in solitude with yourself. So again,
if you're in deep presence, if you're in meditation or
a spiritual retreat, then this is also a moment where
you might be inspired with prophecy. Says they saw and

(01:35:16):
they heard, but the prophetic ear was not the ear
of man. For not as men did they hear, but
as profits. This is also something that you know, I'll
say like, oh, I'm hearing this, or I hear this
or I've heard people are like, oh, you literally hear it.
I'm like, oh no, not most of the time, actually,
and the few times I have in my life has
been a bit overwhelming. But but I just call it that,

(01:35:39):
you know, and people are like, well, what's the difference.
I'm like, it's so hard to describe. Actually, it's just,
you know, the more you know, it's just a feeling
that you understand when it happens, it's a different quality
than any of your other senses. It's a higher energy.
You know. I could go on and on, but you

(01:36:00):
wouldn't understand unless you've experienced it, and so I'm gonna stop.
But it is not as you hear with your ears
or as you see with your eyes, but you might
see and hear or seem to profits was not Oh
the heart of the prophets was not the heart of man,
but a spiritual heart. Yeah. That's why I say too,

(01:36:21):
any tradition that doesn't talk specifically about the heart as
the center of this technology of the body, as I
call it to be in connection with this divine source,
this is not probably not the best tradition to follow.
This is definitely the heart and it's definitely not the
same as your emotions or law for the mundane. All right,

(01:36:50):
So that's just a short Eastern Orthodox perspective on what
it actually is to prophecy. And here's just like a
general question from God Questions dot org. So said, what
signs indicate that the end times are approaching? And someone
answers In Matthew twenty four or five th Raeate, Jesus
gives us some important clues, says, many will come in
my name, claiming I am the Christ that will deceive many.

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You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but
see that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen,
but the end is still to come. Nation will rise
against nation, kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and
earthquakes in various places. These in the beginning of the
Birth Pains. I liked this one, Steven. Though we talked
about a few of those things, we didn't necessarily talk
about it as the birth pains, and that is actually

(01:37:34):
specifically mentioned. And as I said, you can think of
it as the end times, but I think it's actually
much more helpful to think about it as the beginning times.
We've been in the end times for this entire dark age,
which is many thousands of years long, and it's far
overdue that we get to rise up out of that
now and have a little relief from the constant corruption

(01:37:58):
and demon infest of this modern world. That'll be great.
So even if it gets a bit crazy, I personally
look forward to the rebirth, and it's also what I've
seen and what I've been told outside of these types
of prophecies. They agree with one another right that this
is actually a beginning. I also wonder if these false

(01:38:19):
messiahs are coming in the form of what I was
talking about last week on a different episode about the
Ai sort of messiahs that people are claiming right, and
they're sort of training their ais to act as though
they are divine spiritual beings. And maybe that's at least
part of the false prophets that are coming and claiming

(01:38:41):
that they are divined. So don't be deceived. These are
the birth pains. And here's some more end time signs
according to traditional Biblical interpretation. Not necessarily we're out of
the Orthodoxy now, we're just in like general interpretation, so
the more Protestant maybe interpretation, and we'll go through these

(01:39:06):
war on a large scale take peace away from the
whole earth, So it would indicate a world war, famine,
food shortages, and we've already had that for four years.
Not everybody notices as much, but like I don't know
if you remember when those stores were often empty of
many things, and things got very expensive as well. So

(01:39:26):
it's already a version of famine. And there may be
much more great earthquakes. We've already started to see them
really increase in both intensity and number again because of
the Sun and the magnetosphere and what's going on on
that level. Disease, we've seen some even if it's engineered
or fake, or even if it's injected into people, is

(01:39:47):
still disease. It's not just that though, It's just that
almost everyone is in a state of disease, even if
it's not what we might call it plague or right,
a virus that's taking over a destroyed version of body. Right,
you're in a disease state if you have any sort
of autoimmune issue, if you have any sort of cancer,

(01:40:08):
if you have any sort of neuro logical or degenerative
sort of disease, if you have any of these chronic conditions.
So the disease. We've never seen disease like we've seen
it right now, and people normalize it, like, oh yeah,
I'm on like six medications about chrones and what I mean.
You're just like, you know, go through life. You're like, well,
it's strange. It's strange that there's so many children that

(01:40:32):
are so overweight and chronically ill and we have that
much disease, or like, I feel like we're fulfilling a
prophecy here, but we might see even more crime. Crime
has existed for centuries, they say, but Jesus foretold that
in the last days there would be an increase in lawlessness,
which we've also definitely seen. The ruining of the earth,

(01:40:54):
you know, might be through acts of war, might be
through also all sorts of chemicals like Fukushima and other disease,
radioactive or otherwise, who knows. Deteriorating attitudes, to say the least,
whatever you want to call the filth that has become
culture and personality, at the very least, we could call

(01:41:16):
it deteriorating attitudes. It's the breakdown of the family quite obviously,
in fact intentionally so. It is a communist, Marxist, atheist
tenant to specifically destroy the family. It's not just an accident.
It's not a conspiracy theorist. It's like on the list
of things to do, diminishing the love of God again.

(01:41:37):
Most people more atheism than ever. There has been recently
a sort of resurgence. This is actually really interesting. I
think I was telling you back up Easter this year
that they had the largest Easter attendance that we've had
in decades or something. A lot of young people are
becoming more religious, perhaps in response to just how degenerate

(01:41:59):
our society. So that's really interesting. You know, in general,
we've seen diminished love of God, atheism and communism on
the right, religious hypocrisy that people would appear to worship
God but would not. This is what I've been talking
about why I think most of us relate to that
most of our lives. If you've ever had anything to
do with any religious organization, that most of the people
involved don't actually believe any of it. Increased understanding of

(01:42:22):
Bible prophecies. This is also true. It's more and more
popular to wonder about the end times and what was
prophecied global preaching work. Jesus foretold this good news of
the kingdom would be preached and all the inhabited earth.
I think that has been true for a while, so
I don't know how to engauge that one widespread apathy
and ridicule people would ignore and laugh at the overwhelming

(01:42:46):
evidence of the approaching end and all the prophecies will
be fulfilled. One of the prophecies is that all the
prophecies will be fulfilled. So, you know, most really hardcore
biblical people that I've known in my life have thought
we were living in the end days for my entire life.
But I think we can see also specifically right now,

(01:43:09):
a stark difference to the rest of our lives. So
that's interesting to me. Lots of people in all times
have always thought that they were living in the end times,
and right now we really haven't seen the geomagnetic excursion
on top of the world political situation, economic situation, on
top of the just huge amounts of communists and atheist

(01:43:33):
sentiment and action around the world. So there's a lot
of things that actually are different earthquakes, like I said,
and all of that that's part of the geomagnetic excursion.
So you know, I do think we are here at
this time that I will call the birth times. I

(01:43:55):
don't know if I want to go over this again.
There's a couple more on this that talk about like
more of this sort of geopolitical thing with like Russia
and Iran and different things, but I think we've already
gotten enough out of that. And then we also have
the Vedas, the Vedic prophecies of the Hindu prophecies as
well from the Again where we get the idea of

(01:44:18):
the Yugos, the Golden Ages and the Dark Ages is
from this Vedic tradition, and they also have these prophecies
because they also understand the movement between the Dark and
Golden Ages. So they say there will be a higher

(01:44:39):
progressive energy shift in this cycle. Planetary changes, whether they
appear to be good or severe, will be a cleansing
process to help bring in the needed progress and new
species of humanity at least while the Golden Age with
Caliyuga continues. So and a lot of people are predicting
this too, that like, you know, what is happening with

(01:45:01):
the Sun and the magnetosphere will alter our DNA and
we will literally become like a different species. Some people
think it's because you know, star beings or aliens will
come and like upgrade our genetics. I think it could
happen whatever, but that this seems to also be indicated
in some of the prophetic and scriptures of that tradition.

(01:45:23):
But a lot of the other symptoms are the same,
like that they'll be earth upheavals of the earthquakes, that
they'll be war that they'll be just things like this.
The pole shift is even indicated, or the geomagnetic exclusion
is indicated, you know. And you can even go through
a list from the Vedas of the qualities of the
Dark Age or the cali Yuga, and they nailed things

(01:45:46):
that you would not ever expect people many thousands of
years ago to even have been able to guess, such
as that you would be able to buy pre prepared
packaged food from a store, which was not the case
back then, and no one had ever heard of that.
So it was like one of the weirdest things you
could have prophesied. There it was, and here we are.

(01:46:06):
So all sorts of things were prophecied to be to
let you know that you're in a dark age. Those
have all come true, and their future predictions of what
we again could call the beginning times, because in this
much more stresses that we're going back up towards the
Golden Age, that those are all predicted as well, and
that they're similar to the predictions or the prophecies of

(01:46:28):
the Christian Church. So Eastern religions predict the end times too.
Again in the Vedic scriptures with the bagvad Gita, whenever
there's a decay of righteousness, it says, and there's exaltation
of unrighteousness, then I myself come forth for the destruction
of evil doers, for the sake of firmly establishing righteousness.

(01:46:49):
I am born from age to age. And this is Krishna,
which is the Christ consciousness. If you're translating words and energies,
then that's the same. And just like Christ is said
to return or going to return, so too does the
Christ consciousness of this version of describing things as they are.

(01:47:15):
Also in the Puranas and other Vedic texts. When the
practice is taught by the Vedas and the institutes of
law shall nearly have ceased, and the close of the
caliade shall be nigh. A portion of that divine being
who exists of his own spiritual nature and the character
of Brahma or the Creator, which again is like the
Triune God, saying like the Son of God will come again,

(01:47:36):
and who is the beginning and the end just what
they say about God the Christian traditions, and who comprehends
all things shall descend upon the earth. He will be
born as Kalki and the family of an eminent Brahmin
of Sambala village. They get really intricate here, But I'll
also say Shambala is a mythical kingdom, So they're saying

(01:47:58):
that will be born as this this thing that doesn't
to actually physically exist. So who knows how you want
to interpret that. Endowed with the eight superhuman faculties, by
his irresist well might, he will destroy all the barbarians
and thieves, and all whose minds are devoted to iniquity.
He will then re establish righteousness upon earth in the
minds of those who live. At the end of the
Cali age shall be awakened and shall be as pellucid

(01:48:21):
as crystal. The men who are thus changed by virtue
of that peculiar time shall be as the seeds of
human beings, and shall give birth to a race who
shall follow the laws of the creta age or the
age of purity, so again an indication we actually change
forms somehow develop a new aspect, or you know, are
born again as a new race, which is predicted in

(01:48:43):
many different traditions. Actually, and that you know, all of
the evil will be done away with in this and again,
if you had an actual increase in consciousness, then that
would just happen. It would be a side effect. Actually,
you wouldn't actually have to go hunting all the dark
or whatever. You don't have to go hunting all the
bad people. And so very interesting, right, they'll say. The

(01:49:10):
revolution proclaimed by whoever his followers believe, is divine in origin,
all embracing in scope, broad and its outlook, scientific in
its method, humanitarian and its principles of a dynamic and
the influence it exerts on the hearts and minds of men.
The mission of the founder of their faith, they conceive
to be to proclaim that the religious truth is not
absolute but relative. The divine revelation is continuous and progressive,

(01:49:32):
that the founders of all past religions, though different in
the non essential aspects of their teachings, abide in the
same tabernacle, soar in the same heaven, are seated upon
the same throne, and utter the same speech and proclaim
the same faith. It's very much true, very much true.
We're all saying the same thing, but from different perspectives.
In my opinion, I know that's heresy to some, and

(01:49:52):
I don't care, because in the end, I just keep
calm and trust in God, which is to say, I
trust my own inner channel of divine inspiration, to which
anybody can also choose to be in alignment with at
any time. And if you're still confused about how, go

(01:50:15):
meditate a little or pray a little, and do so
from your heart, and you might be surprised at how
far you can go. And until you do come join
us at the Blazing Brightness Retreat, I won't see you
per perhaps a week, because I will be guiding and
leading this retreat up in the mountains of Colorado Crestone.
And if you want to join us there in spirit,

(01:50:37):
you can go to the shop right now at roaguways
dot org and you can grab your connection to this
field that we will be creating you or receive all
the blessings from Afar, just like you would receive any
blessing from me or through me from God. So I
hope you come join us in that way. And until
I see you again, I have a few things that
will release before I see you live again, So look

(01:50:58):
forward to those. Thank you for being here, for being you,
and remember your connection to that divine source anytime you
choose it. Until then, travel well in for balance and
always look inside.

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