Integral sacrifice

Let’s take, for example, the subject of animal and human sacrifice. This is a crime; let’s be honest about it. Specifically, human sacrifice is a crime. In fact, the abuse of anyone should be a crime in simple terms. Many false so-called experts claim themselves to be experts on the subject and would very easily pin those crimes, especially in the old days, on Satanism or occultism or some other -ism, as long as it gives them an easy way to blanket the term and argue it away without actually understanding what’s really going on inside the dynamics.

Yet, if any of us who are experienced practitioners ourselves look at these things analytically, we understand simple basic facts. Firstly, even the Satanic Bible outlaws the abuse of animals, children, and women. So, quite frankly, if someone is committing a crime in that sense, abusing those, it would be a violation of Satanic principles. Next would be these ideas of good and evil, darkness, and invoking the devil. Well, quite frankly, again, another incident of people who don’t understand the actual mechanism and are simply responding to symbolisms due to ignorance and nothing more.

You see, the fact is that in many traditions, when we explore the draconian concepts, the concept of darkness and light are more akin to the principles of magnetism, more accurately described as the principles in music—the concept between harmonious or angelic and disharmonious or demonic resonances. The utilization of both is applied to create certain emotional states in the audience when creating emotional experiences in music. But there is more to this than meets the eye.

In fact, today I’d like us to tackle the subject of sacrifice a little bit more in detail and highlight why so many seem to get it wrong, why the constant drama, and how we can free ourselves from that—or at the very least, educate those who might be going through a process themselves. Sit back, relax, and enjoy today’s episode. And remember to live deliciously.

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To help us better understand today’s subject, I’d like to begin by exploring a very well-known psychiatrist, Dr. Ken Wilber. Ken Wilber is best known for his work in the integral system. Integral thinking is a very sophisticated cosmology that integrates fields of Buddhism, psychology, spirituality, and explores even religion from a more psychological framework. It abstracts the ideas and portions of the mind and has opened many advances in creative thinking as well as business application and just general success in human nature.

Now, one of the ideas in this is something known as the altitudes of development. But before we look at that, the idea of developmental stages of consciousness is not exclusive to Ken. Ken has synthesized this in a more popular framework, moving from the archaic to magical levels of thinking, tribal all the way to integral and higher up.

A simple way to understand this, a simple way to conceptualize this, is to look at this at the stages of our locus of control, so to speak. Individuals, when they’re beginning their paths of personal development or growth and they’re coming out of the world, usually have what we refer to as an external locus of control. Their sense of self is defined by the world outside of them. They are who they sleep with, they are the car they drive, the place they live—they’re defined, their sense of self is defined by the external world. And we very much move into this and define this as an egocentric space of existence.

Now, the problem with this is we’ll find this ego space-centric level of development very much attributed to these lower levels of development in consciousness. These more tribal, more archaic levels also operate at these stages. And so too, if we look at the evolution of ourselves as a species, moving from the archaic to the almost magical levels of thinking where everything had a superpower and another force and the gods were in control of our lives, to moving into a stage where it became more the tribe controlling and alliance to the tribe and following rules and structures set in, to evolving even further to a rational kind of orientation. And as this rational orientation proceeded, it allowed us the scientific advances inside of our experience. And this moves our consciousness further and further inside the progressional models.

Now, this is important for us to recognize because what Ken did and what many others have done as well, is they’ve related these stages of development to the Eastern philosophies of the chakras. The Eastern philosophies of the chakras, the seven major ones, can also be linked very much to the planets of the ancients. Another example is Jesus’ journey, starting off in Bethlehem, or Beth Elohim, which can translate as “House of Bread,” a very appropriate name for the root or base chakra, which is very much orientated to survival. As such, people in that tribalism kind of mentality, desperate, only looking for themselves, they’re in a reaction—a very effective kind of definition for it. Moving all the way to the more integral points where we can associate to the crown chakra, the crown also where Jesus ends in the final position of his journey in Calcutta, which translates as “Place of the Skull.” This, again, appropriate name for the seventh chakra, the seventh kingdom, the seven energies. These attributes are seen across pantheons over and over again, and there’s a very interesting reason for this. And that’s what I want to explore today, and it’s the tiers or the levels of manifestation of truth.

You see, God at a fundamental level, whatever you want to describe it, even if we take out the concept of God, which is still polarized to a form of duality as in God versus the devil, good versus evil, and we abstract that to the original essence of what this is supposed to mean—that which is beyond good or evil, hence the source of both light and dark, good and evil, everything in the universe, the essential creative force, the spark. I speak extensively of that in the Slave God, you know, obsession. So feel free to go jump and look at that one if that’s more of interest for you.

But now, moving along, as we progress under this thought banner, we recognize the simple theology that states that there is a force or dimension of each and every one of us, of me, you, of everybody on the planet, that is shared almost like a group mind. Carl Jung referred to this as the collective unconscious. And the more that he worked through this collective unconscious, he found the more similar our symbols become, our ideologies, our stages of progression. We understand these from practices in the studies of group mind theory. There is the hundred-man, hundred-monkey syndrome, which is quite—or experiment that is quite popular, amongst many others, from a fix of EEG machines, you know, looking at experiments between people in different rooms yet having no conscious awareness of each other. Yet, the brain still calculates the data. It’s still there. We’re still connected, each and every one of us.

Now, the catch is, since we’re all connected, since we’re all technically one thing at a very fundamental level, and again, I do emphasize at a fundamental level—not at a conscious level, not at any of these other seven levels of manifestation and development. None of us are necessarily one or even the same at those tiers. This is purely at a quantum mechanical level where we are one, where we’re one thing at that fundamental level, seeking to express itself until it begins to differentiate. In other words, until, as we look at every divine cosmology of the universe, the divine begins to split itself as the tree of life begins to unfold into manifestation, into the final, most dense level of manifestation of Malkuth, which translates as the kingdom—in other words, personal reality, also more commonly experienced as your personal egocentric world.

Now, as we evolve outside of egocentric thinking, we come more into a unity of the group or a group consciousness. We evolve beyond that, eventually into a more planetary consciousness, and then into a more universal consciousness. Now, these stages of progression are not as easy to accomplish, and the reason for it is very much why so many of us suffer or continue on suffering, as the Buddha describes it so eloquently.

You see, these stages of development are not exclusive to human development. They’re exceptionally accurate in terms of how we experience the multiple layers of reality within ourselves based upon where we are at. In spiritualism, there’s often the description that we can connect with a spirit through the throat chakra, hearing the channeled information or picking it up. But the actual materialization, seeing spirits for those who can, is an event that occurs through the solar plexus chakra. It’s also because of this that many empaths feel very much a hit on the solar plexus center when somebody slams a door or when they’re in an argument or debate. They’re very sensitive to this energy center, which is again a power center because it’s the center that moves into the physical world—it creates actualizations.

Now, this is also why a lot of all traditional rituals are what we would refer to as lower magic rituals—in other words, rituals that are more based upon folk tradition, more based upon an external locus of control, so to speak, are so infatuating and so powerful and so moving and can very much have irrational realizations to it. And this is very common as we can understand because the more we engage the lower centers, the more we actively switch off the other ones. This is simply because we have a limited range of focus or awareness as we are developing, and that focused awareness can very easily become narrow-minded in a certain structure.

Now, the second that structure begins to serve us, that’s where it becomes our reality, our personal reality. And if we look at it from the Kabbalistic point of view, we would say that that is then the sephira or the position of reality or consciousness that the individual is then stuck in. You’re stuck in it because you’re completely identified with it. In other words, the rules of that environment, the stimulation of that universe, is meeting your fundamental psychological needs and as such is constructing identity to it. Thus, your mind, so to speak, is inside of that spectrum, that field, and it can’t see out of it, it can’t move out of it. As such, its operating manual is the same. And we see the same manifestation or expression not only of ourselves but of spirits. If we look at the spiritual construct, fundamentally, there is only one being, one God, we’re part of that God, everything is part of that God. So why the polytheism versus the monotheism kind of mindset, so to speak? It is simply because of the stages of separation. I know many monotheistic practitioners who go to church on Sundays and then worship a completely different god on a Friday night when they are partying with their friends.

You see, the fundamental separation of our spirituality and our reality is a hallucination. Everything is integrated, everything is manifestations or shards, if you will, inside of this rainbow color of experience. Now, this becomes very interesting for us to understand because what the recognition is here is that the spiritual seeker is one who fundamentally and first and foremost seeks to mature his spiritual self. He seeks to unlock his sexual self, the sexual self, the identity that’s limited inside of duality. He seeks to liberate in order to purify it so it may rise up these higher and higher levels of consciousness, achieving detachment, so to speak, as the Buddha described.

But this is a very intricate idea and very important for us to understand because how is it practical? It’s practical in terms of the old Crowleyan statement, “Love is the law, love under will.” Now, there are many variants of that, and the full meaning of it would take quite a bit to truly articulate, but I want to bring it down to a simple biological factor. When you and I like each other, we become like each other. In other words, through the act of establishing rapport with anything—whether it’s a cosmology, a philosophy, a group of people, a behavior, or anything—we begin to wet wire in our brain by associating pleasure to this thing. The moment we start associating pleasure to this thing and pain to not this thing, as in anything that’s unfamiliar to this thing, we actually start to construct a sense of self around this. This sense of self then is where this identity kind of gets locked in.

So this makes sense for us from an evolutionary point of view. We understand that we got locked into these various stages of development for security. We needed the tribe, we needed to believe in these cosmologies in the world that was chaotic and random, so to speak, to try and make sense of it as an attempt to navigate, especially from the brain’s point of view that’s in this black space trying to use limited data to make predictions of the world around it, constantly finding itself in prediction error. Now, that prediction error is something that we experience and means pain too. In fact, have you ever been in a very beautiful relationship, you were truly in love, this was your quote-unquote soulmate, and that person betrayed you or did something? Not only does that now give you such painful prediction error because you have to reassess how you saw this individual, but depending on how deep the relationship, you may even have to reassess what this says about you, who you are. So all those assumptions and predictions that were made were painful. So automatically, human behavior is to find itself in safety. It’s to constantly try and protect itself, whether it wants to or doesn’t. Many people who call themselves extreme adventurers and things like that, they’ve just come to establish an identity that is secure within that framework. That’s why they have confidence inside of it, oftentimes from that repeated thrill rush, which aka is pleasure, and the pain of the boredom of not doing it. These same principles underlie all human behavior.

Now, this is the catch. This means that this is the very thing that keeps us enslaved to a certain quality of life. You see, you cannot experience a different world if you can’t perceive a different world. The old phrase, “The kingdom of heaven is within us and all about us. Lift a stone, and you shall find me. Break a twig, and I am there,” to quote the words from the Gospel of Saint Thomas, the living sayings of Jesus. Whether you believe in the Gnostic versions or not, the statement remains quantum mechanically true. Within every single moment, every single probability exists right now, but you cannot perceive it when you’re in a place of operation.

Now understand that this is not simply a psychological jump. This is a philosophy that the old assassins understood, that political people understand today. In fact, why did Trump win an election when the other party that he was competing against had accurate information? You know, people could see clearly this man was lying. It doesn’t matter what your standpoint is; I’m not pro or anti-Trump, I really don’t care. But the principle behind it is what I’m interested in. The party that was failing in that situation was speaking to the higher values. They were being honest—America wasn’t in the best situation that it’s ever been in, you know, there was all this improvement and stuff like that—but he spoke to the lower levels of consciousness. He spoke to people that were in the Maslowian hierarchy of needs, as simple as it is to say, in a flight or fight and survival level. And he spoke to those needs. He triggered those lower level needs, and they were more able to animate and mobilize and tribalize and gain the support that was needed. Now, is that the right way to do these things? That’s an ethical discussion that you need to have with yourself. I’m simply laying out the facts.

Now, what’s important here to understand, though, is that is the very thing that makes us slaves. If we do not master these things within ourselves, we remain the slaves to others. As such, the old alchemists and the old spiritualists, the old witches, the magicians, and everything like that honed the philosophy of sacrifice. Sacrifice had many forms in its translations and ideas, from animal sacrifice, human sacrifice, all kinds of things like that. Now again, I bring this up now after I brought us through that little bit of a process of the developmental stages of things. So no, sacrifice of animals and humans is clearly bad and very unhealthy, and it’s not going to give you the keys to the kingdom, no matter what some stupid grimoire or idiot on the internet might want to tell you. There’s no selling your soul for instance success; it’s a pop dream that was classic marketing in the ’60s. And if you still believe that, then you are exceptionally dumb and you should just go into a library and start reading everything.

The fact of the matter is everything has a cost of exchange of energy, and this is an important one to recognize here. And we spoke about these stages of development. So when a divine mind, with this collective mind, is trying to reach this being, this level of consciousness, it’s going to be interpreted based upon the stage of consciousness and development that that individual is in. So when it tries to express this philosophy of sacrifice, when that principle of energy comes about, it’s going to express it in the only way that it knows how. And as primitive as it may seem, through the act of symbolism and representation, it works. It works to a degree until the consciousness is liberated from that stage, and then it stops working the same way that if you keep exercising, you go to the gym and you keep doing the same type of exercise for your muscles, eventually it’s going to stop working. You’re not going to meet the novelty anymore. You need to vary. You have to grow. You have to change up the routine. You have to evolve with your system in order to get to the next level.

Now, the same thing occurred there. So if your philosophy is still based upon thinking, if you’re just looking at magic and spirituality and systems like that and you’re taking it literally, and then you’re judging religious people for taking their philosophies literally, you’re no better. The truth is—and if you’re watching this, I doubt you fall into one of those categories because this is not a channel for just people that want to believe anything—but this is one where you challenge thinking, especially your own. The idea here then presents itself that as consciousness evolves, we come closer and closer to the truth of the fundamental essential meaning of what everything is. And as we evolve through these stages of development, we recognize that we see the same development in the systems of spiritual hierarchies. I mean, let’s be honest, how many grimoires are out? How many more are coming? There’s a billion spirits, but the thing that’s always interestingly enough common to them, they’re always attributed to the elements, or they’re to the zodiac, or they’re to the planets, or to the tree of life. There’s always a hidden correspondence behind that. In other words, there’s a lower level manifestation and then there is a higher level truth or archetype upon which it is based. And the same thing is true in the magi that begins their practice or their journey. They begin their journey, for example, working through an air or a fire or a planetary element, seeing that inside of their world, and then sacrificing that perception in order to get to the next level.

And this is not just something for magicians. This is something that happens to you by the very impulse of evolution. You just choose to do it consciously so you don’t have to suffer as long. Because here’s the truth: if you put all your faith in love, just in that one relationship and it breaks, oh, that pain. You know, and you get to choose, you get to—if it breaks, you’re like, oh, do I hate this person or I hate people, or do I evolve? What can I learn? What can I recognize from this? Oh, I can recognize that I am capable of loving another person without needing them. In other words, I can learn to value others without feeling myself needing to be completed by them in order to be whole. That is fundamentally part of the spiritual requirement. The spiritual requirement or instruction is the recognition that we are the ultimate divine, we are the one thing. As such, everything we need is within us and all about us. You know, again, to repeat that same quote from the Gospel of Saint Thomas, that means whatever is in our world that we have co-dependencies on will be stripped away in one shape or form so that we can evolve, especially if we’re aspiring to the completion of the great work, we’re aspiring to accomplish more and to grow more spiritually.

It is because of this that we then recognize the value of sacrifice. You see, as we look through the kind of old days, so to speak, the more primitive periods of time, the sacrifice ranged in value. Now, we understand that as modern cultures we don’t do those things anymore. We don’t need to. We’ve attained a higher level of consciousness, and as such, we’re able to do more with less, quote-unquote. You see, the first stages were the principles of animal sacrifice. Now, firstly, I don’t condone animal sacrifice. I myself am a vegetarian. But even if you look at it in context, which is worse? You know, a group of people that sacredly sacrifice a cow, you know, with prayers and offerings and gently taking care of the creature, or, you know, that steak that you’re eating and how it got onto your plate by just being compressed into a pipe and basically sacrificed and murdered? You know, pick your evil, quote-unquote.

What is interesting, though, is the recognition of that unconscious impulse at the earlier stage when made conscious. When we put light and awareness inside of a shadow component or shadow idea, we start to recognize that this boils down to sacrifice of our animal nature, which is essentially the first sacrifice that needs to be made. We begin by sacrificing our own animal nature, our own—you know, sometimes if we take, for example, lust or desire, that need to just have sex all the time, the need to just eat all the time, or other things, or that anger, that jump to rage or anger, all these may give us short-term satisfaction but long-term, they pretty much destroy our vitality, destroy our physical health, destroy our relationships, and ultimately aren’t that good for us. Yet the individual who is able to sacrifice—I mean, we’ve had everything from that no-fap movement, I forget what it’s called, but that entire philosophy that’s actually more evident in the Dao systems where we avoid the shedding of the seed, the releasing of orgasming, and the transmuting of the energy, and we find we’re able to accomplish more spiritual states. There’s actual health benefits or advancements in growth and healing inside of the brain if we’re able to deny hunger for a certain period of time in controlled ways and fast. We’re able to improve our health and our physical vitality as we overcome these things. These are the real sacrifices that were made. This is what underlines those tones, and this is what is important for us to recognize about those.

You see, even the choice in the old artwork of the different animals were symbolic of different aspects of our own psyche that needed to be sacrificed—a pig, quite obviously, for what that may mean, and so on up the hierarchy, depending on the need of the value, the limitations. So all of these were symbolic languages from the collective unconsciousness, very much the same way as your dreams are occurring. Your dreams are a symbolic discussion between yourself and your unconscious or sleeping god, and the more you understand them, the more you understand that language, the more you build the relationship within you and within your own spirit, which is necessary for you to get to the next level, for you to learn to trust yourself.

Because that’s the second sacrifice. The second sacrifice was the sacrifice of others in those traditions. And again, that also seemed brutal. It was—you know, if you look at the old Vikings, it was the sacrifice of someone else for the gods, for the harvest, and it was considered very noble, but again, a very primitive manifestation of a higher principle. We now recognize the sacrifice that can be interpreted as the sacrifice of the perception of others upon us. You see, if we are always out there trying to be who you are or failing to be you are because you’re trying to please everyone else, then there’s no more originality in the world. Everything’s copy-paste. One of the things that disgusts me so much about business marketing out there is 90% of people are just looking for what niches are there. They’re just looking for what works because they’re trying, and again, as we spoke earlier, that’s that safety mechanism of the psyche, so they’re just trying to repeat that whole thing. And the end result is that it just leads to death. There’s no spark, there’s no innovation, there’s no movement, there’s no change. You have to be able to sacrifice the perception and sometimes even the approval of others to follow your own true spirit, to find your own true narrative, to express who and what you are at the deepest and highest level.

And that brings us into the greatest of the sacrifices, the ultimate sacrifice—the sacrifice of yourself. And this is the self-sacrifice that is often so well depicted even in religious cultures, you know, sacrificing yourself for the greater good. There’s a deeper meaning in terms of this in the mystical traditions, and I’m not putting those down. Those are all, you know, noble things if it’s a valuable system for you. It’s a little bit tribal in consciousness, but you know, that’s a different discussion. The notion and the thing that’s important here is that you establish a very certain narrative that helps you free yourself from it and it creates this great independence, this great self-reliance inside of you that helps you stand against the tide and bring about the change. But that in itself is not long-term sustainable. You see, even that, even that version of you is the thing that then finally must be sacrificed. Your addiction to your own story, your addiction to your own bibliography, your own narratives, your own past, your own drama, your own tainted story—because that is the reason you still suffer. You see, that is also the reason why you bias one group over another and the reason why your creativity is sometimes lacking or limited. Because of that old phrase, “That’s just who I am. That’s just me.” You see, “you” is the ultimate illusion inside of that entire progression through those stages of consciousness and those stages of maturing, the sacrifice from the most archaic to the most divine stages where we get to recognize that our sense of self is simply a hallucination produced based upon our process of association in the brain. And depending on how that association is set up, either by ourselves or by others—because right now, if others are setting it up for you, if the media is setting that up for you, if they’re making you scared of going outside and connecting with other people and things like that, I’m not saying don’t be responsible, but I am saying be cognizant of how pain-driven narratives and then pleasure narratives and pain narratives are evident of cognitive behavioral conditioning patterns when they are happening.

And the only way to free yourself from that is not to throw up another burn another flag or cause another looting or do whatever the primal, the lower levels of consciousness are asking. The way to liberate yourself from that is to begin creating a vibrational change and shift inside of you. You see, when your narrative is no longer defined based upon your animal nature, based upon others, even based upon yourself, but it’s based upon your spirit, about the shared union of us as a people and as a society, you stop looking for the differences in religion and why mine’s right and you’re wrong. You’re able to take yourself out of the equation and objectively realize the boundless abundance that is this universe. But then you are ready to understand that one of the most fundamental symbolisms behind the philosophy of integral sacrifice is that there’s still the concept of blood. You know, blood was always used in sacrifice, but there’s any—even demonology will tell you—the sacrifice, the blood that is most valuable is not from anything else but you. That’s why any actual practitioner of that—and again, I draw a very clear distinction between those who are actual initiates of the mystery versus the edgelords out there that think they’re the big hoo-ha of King Paimon or something—but you know, let’s be honest. If you’re channeling an entity that supposedly can give you boundless kingdoms and wealth and you don’t have boundless kingdoms of health, you are not channeling an entity. You’re manifesting another form of narcissism. There is a mental illness that you need to deal with. There’s a problem there. You’re not making full contact; you’re making psychological contact and you’re not taking the action that’s necessary to grow. So let’s be realistic. There’s a clear definite difference between the edgelords and the Eucharists, the true magi that are practicing the arts. And it is essential to recognize that difference.

There’s a deeper meaning behind the entire spectrum. All the symbols, all the meanings, and all these ideas are symbolic languages very specifically because they come from a time where free thinking was prosecuted. So to take those ideas literally is foolish. You must always perceive the hidden symbolism and meaning, and the only way you’re going to get there is by understanding the maps behind by which those constructed ideas were produced in the first place.

Now, I was teasing about the idea of blood again to give this indication of this journey. There was in the old days the physical sacrifices of blood. Then further on in practices of spiritualism, it was seen that certain manifestations were produced out of the belly and the form of plasma was filled inside of the room. Now, if you’ve ever had a tattoo done, if you’ve ever had your skin cut and you start seeing it heal up, that plasma—that’s a substance, it’s a manifestation base that can be utilized, so you don’t need the others. But what was discovered in spiritualism later on is that neither of those were required. You could simply just focus. If you focused enough in tension enough energy, your body had enough energy available inside of it—I think something like 0.07 megahertz every cell, I forget the exact number—but you have a catacomb of power available inside of you to manifest not even spiritual beings but alternative realities and goals.

And here’s the fact: if you’re not manifesting your dreams, why are you even bothering trying to manifest the spirit? If you have the power to manifest, use it to create your life. But you’re only going to do that through dedication, through commitment, through focus, through sacrificing your narratives, your excuses, your inability to stay focused in the discipline. This is the path of sacrifice, and that is the true meaning of the sacrifice of blood. It is the one of action. It was the same symbolism in any major spiritual religion that the blood and the sweat was the sacrifice that we needed to make because it is the thing that says you need to do the work, you need to do the research. There are no quick fixes. You know, certainly there are examples of many adepts that have gotten great results, but again, the term here is adept. It is someone who has dedicated 10, 20, 30 years or more of their life, has gone through initiations, understood the mysteries, has researched for detailed pieces. There was no quick fix. There wasn’t a power outside of them that did it; it was the power within them that did it. And that power is only able to materialize through sacrificing your excuses and getting the work done.

You see, many people are still finding themselves—and you can be a good, well-mannered person and you can be in a very higher developed state and you can find yourself moving down to the lower centers and looking for manifestations. As any adept will also tell you, your focus and your manifestations will fluctuate. You see, as you begin to bring a certain reality in from these upper more archetypal realms, it will materialize in your body, and there will be spiritual and magical and mystic kind of manifestations that cannot be explained by the current level of scientific thinking. That is because you’re bringing in something new, not studying something that’s been inside of that paradigm, inside of that philosophy.

I just want you to remember one single fact: let go of the bias, let go of the “he said, she said,” “my system, your system,” and simply recognize that we are occult scientists. And that’s the choice. You’re either the victim of superstition or you are an occult scientist. You cannot be both. You cannot believe that fairies and things are going to save you and then sit back in your chair. That’s the same as those law of attraction people—they just positive think their way into life. No, it’s not that way. When you have an intention and a dream that you want to create in your rituals and in your magic, what you’re doing is you’re programming your cerebral to produce an alternative reality and goal, and it sets things in motion because it energetically connects with everything because fundamentally we are all one, and it brings those things into place. But once that journey gets triggered, you need to be ready for the sacrifice, and either you’re going to proactively make it by working on yourself, by doing the shadow work, by healing, by transforming, by changing so you can be in vibrational harmony with the event that comes, or you’re going to just keep adding pressure, keep adding pressure, and that break is going to break you in order to because you are the thing that’s in the way.

So ultimately, I know this has been like one of those straight-on hard conversations, but I don’t want you to feel that at any point I’m speaking down to anybody. I’m sharing this because in my journey, the thing that I’ve had to come close to grips with has been the self-sacrifice, and that’s been the greatest cost. And it’s also been the thing that’s given me the greatest reward. I’ve sacrificed laziness, I’ve sacrificed procrastination, I’ve sacrificed my excuses about my dreams, I’ve sacrificed old and limiting beliefs. The measurement stick, however, is always going to be the same: the results that you are getting inside of your life—whether they are bringing you further or closer away from your goals. Because the word sin just meant to miss the mark. So if you’re missing the mark of your goals and your dream, that’s technically sin. Just keep adjusting, keep altering your approach, keep doing the work and get the results.

Now, let’s do a micro recap. So there are several stages of development of consciousness, and we’ve seen this manifest through the stages of our evolution as a species. And throughout that, what we’re saying is that there is a fundamental shared consciousness that we can call God, the universe, spirit, whatever you like. And it’s trying to express itself and help this thing called matter in the slowest form evolve all the way up so these two can meet in the middle and we can realize what we’re about to step towards in terms of the synchronicity, the synchronistic experiences of our reality in the singularity, and many other events like that. It is the time where technology and spirit merge, it’s the time where flesh and technology merge, it’s this time where we’re able to do impossible things through machine learning and artificial intelligence. But the catch is the more we hold on to our excuses and the limitations, the more difficult it becomes. We need to recognize that this journey and this entity and this force has been coming through us, each and every one of us, since the dawn of time. And it’s important for us to build a personal relationship with it and to recognize where we may be at a lower level of consciousness in our manifestation of it or expression of it and to choose consciously to sacrifice that, those addictions, those limitations, by thinking them through properly and moving up these spheres until we recognize that it’s either together or it’s not at all. And any time you’re making an operational choice that is simply based upon your group, your side, your thing, you have failed. You know, I’ve watched many well-meaning preachers on the internet saying things like “you should not suffer a witch to live,” not thinking how many people got set on fire just because of that selfish statement, just because they were trying to make some idea for their certain group. This is not a time for individual groups. That is something to be sacrificed. We are one people whether we like it or not. We’re not the same thing; we’re different, but those differences are the very things that make us beautiful and interesting. Come forward as yourself, recognize all your beauty, bring all of that into the narrative, and stop being ashamed of it. Stop making excuses for it. Instead, sacrifice those excuses, sacrifice your animal nature, sacrifice your perceptions of others, and then sacrifice the story of yourself that you were holding on to. And then remember to make sure that the life you produce from it is truly delicious.

I’ve always felt a little different, a little uneasy between regular folk. A bit of a dreamer, a lost cause, a little non-ordinary, some would say. I think I’ve always just been this way. My mother said I was special; my father thought I should be feared. But I knew that witchcraft coursed through my veins the first time I tasted the lips of the goddess inside the rite. Yes, I’m a witch, it’s true. And sure, we are the ones who believe in the beauty of nature, who believe in the things science, absent of art, cannot explain, who instead of religion would have romance. And sure, you may think we have lost our way when in the world of predictable things we have such unfamiliar things that we would like to say. But maybe in a world so cold and alone, a little unfamiliar is exactly what is needed to show us the way home.

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