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What are you willing
to throw your life away on? With
Andrew Reed and The Liberation.It's a serious question, one
worth pondering. Am I living thelife I want, an intelligent
life, or something else? How canI have a better experience of
life?
These are some of the questionsexplored in this series of
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messages without the brag andthe advertisement. Getting
beyond even human institutionsand society into the wilderness,
nature, the reality of how lifeactually operates on this
planet. These messages rangefrom intimate recordings from
the awakened forest to concerts,national conferences, and
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broadcasts on a wide array ofphilosophical topics.
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Your beliefs are
limitations. Okay. In this
message, we confront really thisreality that our beliefs, that
is our view, our perspective ofthe world limit us. And I'll
just say this is a spontaneousmessage. It just happened.
I wasn't meaning to make apodcast at the time. It just
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came out. I was at the gamehouse winding down at night
playing my record player stereoretro with big speakers and
everything that actually pushair and enjoying myself. And
this just came out and I startedto walk towards the church that
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we're building, again the Churchof Reconciliation, of
recognizing the duality in life.And so most of it came out as I
was looking out across the pondin this natural amphitheater,
observing nature.
Perhaps this is the first sermonon the mount, or in this case,
the mountain. Which is probablya very fitting message and I
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like the fact that it's organicin nature. But hopefully this
sets some people free. And Iknow it's a shocking message.
It's a dangerous message.
It's a scandalous message. Butjust an idea that merits some
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consideration. Being beyondbeliefs is truly a dangerous
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position. It makes you adangerous person to society. To
even have the gall totemporarily suspend one's
belief, to embrace or at leastconsider alternative opinions
because this world is full ofopinions of how to live, is
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dangerous.
Yet, it's something I highlyrecommend. And I say this
knowing that relatively fewpeople will ever embrace this
because it is scandalous,because it does depart with the
norms or traditions. But beliefsso often is a competition of the
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real battle in humanity, whichis that of moral superiority,
where one lords over others,deems some inferiors, and
others, usually themselves, asthe superiors, which I find this
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a vain enterprise at best. I'mmoving up to the church now as
it's being constructed just tolook out upon nature, the truth.
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And perhaps people get a bittired of me referring to nature,
but it is the master teacher ofhow this planet actually
operates.
I look at the forest that's beenpushed back so we can have
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audiences here in this naturalred rocks of the Appalachians
Amphitheater, and I see thescars of the big hungry forest
fires, all the charred remains.I think of the devastation and
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all the trauma we've beenthrough this last year from
Helene being cut off for sixmonths only to have a fire sweep
through us and burn most of myneighbor's properties and
everything. In a way, we allbuild our own holy grounds. I'm
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building this church because Ican't be outdone by Voltaire
just because he had his churchto the invisible unseen God.
I've gotta have my owncounterpart just because I do
admire one of the most, at leastfive brilliant brains to ever
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grace this planet.
But take a look at Voltairehimself, how he challenged
virtually all the beliefsystems. He recognized that the
writing even of history was verysuspect at best, that there is
much bias and interpretationinvolved. Yet he endeavored,
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spent many years doing that aswell as advising, you know, top
governments, different sovereignstates, participating in the
arts, from music to comedy, tothe whole thing. There's a fully
actualized human being in myopinion. And what else would be
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expected from a genius?
But the fact that Voltairechallenged belief systems and
Emerson in the American platformof beliefs. And, again, we have
more, you know, poets andwriters, obviously, from America
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now. Again, how many reallycapture the spirit of this
country? I don't know. WithEmerson, Whitman, there's a few
that definitely did in theirday, perhaps the first.
But both and all could look intonature and see that this was the
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truth and proclaim boldly that Iam and that the God or the
intelligence behind thiscreation is in us and surrounds
us all the time. And with theserough electric shocks to bring
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us to our senses that we have itall. And all we have to do is
embrace it in a godlike way, andthat's a scandalous thought to
those that seek to have moralsuperiority or superiority,
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period, over you with theirdictates. I say it is sound
wisdom or advice to question thecommands of almost everybody to
seek if what is called good istruly good in your eyes. That's
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your responsibility in life.
As a unique particle, as no twothings are alike in this grand
globe, your only option is toevaluate things from your
particular vantage point becauseno one else has that position.
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The fact that no two snowflakes,no two particles of dust, no two
anything are alike. The person'snext pew doesn't share exactly
your beliefs gives us someinsight that somehow you are to
shape your own beliefs andinterpretation of the world, and
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if you have courage and to liveaccordingly to those insights.
That is a scandalous thought andleads, obviously, to a
scandalous life. The thing is isthat beliefs limit us.
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That any belief you havebasically sets boundaries. If
you believe the world is flat,well, then you are not going to
venture out into the ocean forfear of falling off because fear
is what holds human beings back.Right? So in a way, we're all
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bound by our beliefs. And thequestion is, we have the courage
and the intelligence to expandour beliefs about the world,
about the universe, about theway things operate, about God?
Can we look beyond and say,maybe what I've been taught has
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good merits, and I respect it.Now we'll hold it in reverence,
but yet I must go my own way andcast my own interpretation of
life and the way I see it. Andthe point is you do it anyway.
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That is the default. You don'teven have a choice that you form
your own opinions of the world.
And know that 100% of opinionsof of people on this planet can
be wrong. If everyone believesthe world is flat, that doesn't
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make it true. Or if everyonewants to believe that there's
not such a thing as gravity,they're wrong. So opinions are
no basis of truth. Now I say allthis, and I don't mean to be
preachy.
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I'm not preaching at anybody.I'm not trying to make converts.
All I'm trying to do, perhaps,is just to bring people to
themselves and their own powers,to their own thinking. And in
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that, we can have someadvancement. And that there will
always be the fools, the poor,all those that complain and play
the victim card in this world.
Your job is to become strong, tobecome educated, to become self
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reliant. That's yourresponsibility, and there's no
shortcuts. You have to pay thefull price. You have to pay the
full tuition in this world.There are no shortcuts.
But it's a price worth paying.And then to stand on your
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convictions. And then throughsome elevated consciousness,
know not to, you know, try toagitate people or to cause
commotion or anything like thatbecause that's all low
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consciousness, those people thatbecome angry just because people
don't agree with you. Andthere's other episodes that talk
about the levels ofconsciousness and how you can
kind of size up where you arerelative to this arbitrary
scale. But have acceptance ofall people's views on some
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level, at least in asophisticated intellectual
discussion, to at least be ableto temporarily suspend your
prejudices about things, and weall have them, whether we want
to acknowledge that or not.
But to where we can wipe thisslate clean, hear ideas out, and
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then say, this is where I stand.Or you can say, that's a good
idea. I think I'll adapt some ofthat. That's not such a good
idea. That's like stupid orsilly as I like to say because I
don't wanna call anybody stupid,yet they exist.
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That's do the brilliant and thesmart. So beliefs. The beliefs
that we hold limit us. Allbeliefs limit us, in fact. And
the question is really at theend of the day, can we get
beyond belief?
I think that's in the place ofGod. As this infinite expansion
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into the unacknowledged, theunseen, the intangible from
which all things in the tangibleworld come into existence
through ideas and visions andall that. There's a job, and our
beliefs have a great deal to dowith those ideas and those
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visions. Are you artificiallylimiting yourself through your
belief systems? Maybe that isthe real question.
And I know this idea of seeingeven our beliefs as limitations
is a scandalous idea, yet it'sone worth exploring. Because as
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you know, what are you willingto throw your life away on?
Because we're all doing it everyday in every endeavor. Is it
worth your life, whatever you'redoing? Is it where you want to
go?
All this is an attempt to bringus to ourselves. Thank
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you for listening. If
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