Awakened Exchanges

Happy Holidays Awakened Exchangers! This week I’ll be speaking with Neil Gaur, the founder of Portal to Ascension, which organizes and produces content on consciousness raising topics ranging from True World History, UFO Disclosure, Ancient Structures, Alien Life, Sound Work, Breathwork, and Quantum reality. The Portal guests have included researchers, spiritualists, archeologists, quantum physicists, futurists, and yogis including Billy Carson, Bruce Lipton, Laura Eisenhower, and Gregg Braden. Today we’ll also be discussing the April 2023 Portal to Ascension Conference!

Portal to Ascension

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Welcome back to Awakened Exchanges! I’m your host Jay Rich and I want to wish you all a Happy Holiday Season! No matter what you celebrate, or if you don’t celebrate at all, I appreciate each and every one of you for joining us today. For those that are just joining us this week, I want to give you a very warm welcome to the exchange and I hope you enjoy this episode as we start our Portal to Ascension series! I truly value all of your new thoughts and energy and hope you continue to join us with each new episode! Please remember that if you have any suggestions for topics or guests, I do listen to the listeners, and I look forward to hearing from you, either from our website or you can also contact me on twitter @AwakenExchanges. I hope you’re as excited to be here as I am to be back with you!

The first time I tried to record this episode, way back in January, Neil Gaur and I recorded an amazingly fun exchange only to have the audio lost to a failed SD card. That failed recording turned out to be the last time I recorded an episode of Awakened Exchanges for over 8 months. Neil and I stayed in contact and when he wanted to start promoting the upcoming Portal to Ascension Conference in San Diego, I knew it was time to get the exchange up and running again. Since we were planning a long series, I wanted to get a few recorded before we got running, which led to some of our last episodes getting released earlier, giving Nick Hinton and I some divine timing for recording a special 50th episode, which slid ever so nicely to sharing this holiday gift with all of you! I think you’ll find Neil fascinating and I can’t stress enough how pleasantly surprised I was with each and every single one of the interviews with his guest speakers. I truly hope you give them all a listen as they come out. That said, this episode lost video for a minute or so to start the podcast, but we got on track quickly.

Back to Neil though, he’s the founder of the Portal to Ascension, which organizes and produces content on consciousness raising topics ranging from True World History, UFO Disclosure, Ancient Structures, Alien Life, Sound Work, Breathwork, and Quantum reality.

For a very special 50th episode, we’re welcoming back the conspiracy theory guru himself, Nick Hinton! We last spoke to him when he released the Aquarian Singularity and he’s been having a very interesting couple of years since. He’s just released another book, The New World Disorder, so that he could lay the foundation for his next book Stairway to Sirius. Today we catch up and find out about his most recent Journeys into Conspiracy!

Philip K. Dick - Interview

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Welcome back to Awakened Exchanges! I’m your host Jay Rich and I want to thank you all for joining us today. It means a lot to me when I see people tuning in and sharing this podcast with their friends. For those that are just joining us this week, I want to give you a warm welcome to the exchange. I truly value the new thoughts and energy and hope you continue to join us! You listeners are the most important part of this podcast and I appreciate each and every one of you. Please remember that if you have any suggestions for topics or guests, I do listen to the listeners, and I look forward to hearing from you on twitter @AwakenExchanges. 

There are some video issues for those of you watching on YouTube or Spotify. Apparently ZenCastr wouldn’t work with mobile browsers and, as some of you know, I’ve never made it through a recording on Zoom that didn’t have issues. That said, Nick is using a still image anyway, so you shouldn’t notice much on his video, but some of mine will have our logo superimposed over it as a stopgap solution. I appreciate you bearing with me, I do hope to prioritize a new laptop and better camera in the future, assuming that’s the problem and not the software, but I digress. 

That said, I hope you’re as excited to be here for this incredible episode as I was to record it! Today we welcome back one of my favorite guests, the Conspiracy Guru himself, Nick Hinton! Nick first joined us back in December of 2020 on a holiday episode and we finally got our timing aligned again, just in time to record a special 50th Episode! We talk about the literal journey that he’s taken back and forth across America, as well as his metaphorical journeys into conspiracy theories, including a look into his newest books and a couple of off-the-wall new conspiracy theories I’d never even heard of. It’s a fun ride and I think you’ll all enjoy it! 

One quick thing, there are a lot of overlapping holidays right now, as well as a huge portion of people that don’t believe in them at all. No matter your preferences or beliefs, I want to truly wish you a time of peace and goodwill towards all. If we all focused on that even ½ as much as whatever political turmoil or civil unrest we individually choose to obsess over, then maybe the world would start looking a little less like we’re headed towards a dystopia and more like that vision Gene Roddenberry had in Star Trek. Nick even talks a little about how he might’ve been influenced by the “Counsel of 9” channelings by Phyllis Schlemmer. Either way, moving towards a society that is more about cooperation and understanding seems like the way to go to me. I’ll continue to wish that dharma for all of you out there.  

This week I have the privilege of speaking with Ivan “Funkboy” Bodley! Ivan is a bass player and has been a long-time music director for the stars.  He has performed with 52 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees as well as in 13 Broadway Shows, with many more accomplishments to come I’m sure!

Funkboy Ivan Bodley

Working Class Rockstar

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Welcome back to Awakened Exchanges! I’m your host Jay Rich and I want to thank you all for joining us again today. As I said last time, I’m going to try to make these intros a bit more concise, while still letting you all know how incredibly appreciative I am for all of you tuning in and sharing this podcast with your friends. For those that are joining us for the first time this week, I want to give you a very warm welcome to the exchange, and I think you’re in for a fun episode. You listeners are and will continue to be the most important part of this podcast and I am more grateful than I can say for each and every one of you. Please remember that if you have any suggestions for topics or guests, I do listen to the listeners, and I look forward to hearing from you, either from our website or you can contact me on twitter @AwakenExchanges or on Instagram @AwakenedExchanges.

Today’s guest is the Funkboy himself, Ivan Bodley. Ivan has performed with over 50 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and in over a dozen broadway shows. He’s been a bassist and musical director to the stars for over 35 years, and that was after he already had a successful career as a producer in the music industry. His story is beyond fascinating and I barely scratched the surface in our time together. His book, Am I Famous Yet? Memoir of a Working Class Rockstar contains an incredible amount of stories and anecdotes, I truly hope you give it a read. You can find links to it in the show notes. I hope you enjoy this exchange as much as I did. 

Now, before we get into the show, I want to thank each of you personally for your support. Just listening and sharing this podcast with your friends gives me a reason to keep providing the best content that I can. If you have the means and would like to contribute personally, please take a look at our Patreon page where you will get access to exclusive content and deals! Your personal support there and at Awakened Vapes are currently the only means of funding for this podcast and I truly hope you all know how much I appreciate each and every one of you. As for our other sponsors, Awakened Vapes was the first of the Awakened Brands, and has been helping you modulate your high with CBD-only, high-terpene vape products since 2019. Magic Mind, a magical combination of ingredients, designed to help you improve your energy, focus, and productivity. And Genesis Pharms is still making the highest-quality medicinal RSO, among many other fantastic products.  

And remember, if you enjoy this podcast, please follow us on Spotify, subscribe to us on YouTube, or follow us wherever else you’re listening, and please leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts. I know that every podcast says it, but that’s because it really does spread the word. You can also support us on Patreon, or connect with us on the social media of your choice; we are @AwakenedExchanges on FaceBook, and Instagram, and @AwakenExchanges on Twitter. Alright now, stay tuned, and thank you for listening to Awakened Exchanges!

This week I’ll be speaking with world-renowned astrologer Jeff Harman. Jeff uses a unique blend of Classical, Vedic, Naadi and Kabbalistic Astrology to get a comprehensive view of an individual’s astrological makeup. With that information, he can then look at the transitions and progressions coming up and compare them to your unique profile, illuminating personal challenges or positive energies that will be crossing your path.

Jeff Harman Website

Jeff Harman YouTube

Jeff Harman Facebook

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Welcome back to Awakened Exchanges! 

Today’s guest is world-renowned astrologer Jeff Harman. Jeff uses a unique blend of Classical, Vedic, Naadi and Kabbalistic Astrology to get a comprehensive view of an individual’s astrological makeup, we’re not talking about a “what’s your sign?” kind of astrology. When you listen to him explain about the planets and the stars, you can’t help but be curious about how much we don’t really know. I’m thinking that this will be the first of two episodes with Jeff, as I’m going to go ahead a book a personal reading for myself and share some of it with all of you so that you can get a glimpse of what you’re in for and an idea as to my personal reactions during his revelations. As for today, I hope you enjoy learning about the different kinds of astrology he uses and how they work. Oh, and just a fun little side note, I decided to bump up the release of this episode so that it would be a numerologically significant episode number for me. Why? Why not?

Now, before we get to the show, I want to thank each of you personally for your support. If you have the means and would like to contribute personally, please take a look at our Patreon page where you will get access to exclusive content and deals! Your personal support there and through purchases at Awakened Vapes are incredibly important to the survival of the Awakened Brands and the growth of the A.R.C.; words can’t express how grateful I am for each of you. As for our other sponsors, Magic Mind is a magical combination of ingredients, designed to help you improve your energy, focus, and productivity. Hear more about it in just a minute, or better yet, go to magicmind.co/awake and use the promo-code AWAKE20, that’s A-W-A-K-E-2-0, for an incredible total of 40% off of your first order! That’s just $3 per bottle and it makes for a great way to start any day. Of course, that always pairs well with the original Awakened Vapes, which was the first of the Awakened Brands, and has been helping you modulate your high with CBD-only, high-terpene vape products since 2019. And let’s never forget that Genesis Pharms is still making the highest-quality medicinal RSO, among many other fantastic products, starting back when it was just a medical marijuana community.

For this Halloween episode Kirsten Sandefur is back and she’s bringing her coach Eve with her! Kirsten is an intuitive life coach, Reiki Master, remote viewer and esoteric healer. She owns and operates Psychic Babes, where she offers classes, psychic readings and past-life regressions. On this episode, Eve will be joining her for a discussion about DMT and the healing properties of psychedelics!  

Psychic Babes 

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Welcome back to Awakened Exchanges! I’m your host Jay Rich and I’ve got a very special episode for you this week! Before we get to that, I just want to thank you again for  joining us here on Awakened Exchanges. Please remember that if you have any suggestions for topics or guests, I do listen to the listeners, so please email me from our website or contact me on twitter @AwakenExchanges. I hope you’re as excited as I am to have the Psychic Babe back!   

This week’s episode has been a few months in the making, but I’m glad it finally came together. Kirsten first came on the exchange last year, talking about her role in Nick Hinton’s second book, The Aquarian Singularity. Since we last spoke, she’s been on a very healing DMT journey and she’s been inspired to share that experience with others, including all of  you listeners out there. Also with us today is the coach that’s helped Kirsten along her journey Eve. Eve is joining us today, audio only, all the way from Brazil to help me learn about this amazing chemical and its healing properties. And in the spirit of being open with all of you, this is going to be the first of at least two parts on this particular subject, this episode acting as a kind of “before” episode before I begin my own DMT journey. I know I’ve talked a little about my microdosing experimentation, but this is the first guided journey I’ll be taking, so I thought it might be cool to share updates with all of you as I go. In addition to the updates, I’ll also be doing at least one “after” episode with Kirsten again, and possibly Eve as well, to discuss all of  the personal changes that happen to me on this journey. I’m a bit nervous, but I think it’ll be a great experience.  

And though we’re still a few days aways as I record this, I’m pretty sure this is going to drop on Halloween, so Happy Halloween to all of you! I hope you all have a wonderful All Hallows’ Eve with more treats than tricks!  

The last little thing before we get to the show I just had to mention magic mind again. I couldn’t keep the secret to myself, this magic elixir helps me power through my procrastination and get these episodes written and recorded on time. I packed myself a fairly busy schedule the next few weeks, but I hope that means regular episodes for the foreseeable future. All of that with the incredible assistance of Magic Mind! Consistently creating new content isn’t easy and it requires a lot of focus and energy. I still use our own Energize pens, but even then it can be hard to get the motivation to get writing. When I’d go the energy drink route, I felt amped up and ready to bounce off the walls, but that didn’t help me with my productivity problem. Hear more in just a minute, or better yet, got to magicmind.co/awake and use the promo-code AWAKE20, that’s A-W-A-K-E-2-0, for an incredible total of 40% off of your first order! That’s just $3 per bottle and it makes for a great way to start any day.

Welcome back yet again friends! Just a brief holiday update and mostly-spoiler-free review of Matrix: Resurrections - assuming you’ve at least seen the trailer. Hope you’re all having a wonderful holiday season and that 2022 is even better for all!

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Intro - 00:15
Ads - 04:31 - Please visit our sponsors Awakened Vapes, Genesis Pharms, and the Caramel Corn Company and help support this podcast!
Interview - 7:44
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Welcome back to Awakened Exchanges! I’m your host Jay Rich and I want to thank you all so much for joining us today. It means a lot to see that you’re still listening to and apparently sharing this podcast with others, it warms my heart during this typically chilly season. As for those that are just joining us, please accept my warmest welcome to the exchange. I truly value the new thoughts and energy and they truly help this podcast and community thrive.  Please remember that if you have any suggestions for topics or guests, I do listen to the listeners, and I look forward to your email, either from our website or you can contact me on twitter @AwakenExchanges. I hope you’re as excited to be here as I am to be back with you!

Well, I was going to get this out to you guys on Christmas day, but…things happened. I’m fairly surprised I’m getting this out before the new year, but I miss the podcast family and wanted you all to know that things are moving forward. I’m looking at selling my house this coming spring and finding some property to start the Hemp and Medical grow. Here’s hoping that 2022 is a better year for us all and that we turn the covid-corner.

What’s going on around here lately? Not a whole lot really. It’s just more of the same around here, looking for a job until I can get growing again and trying to stay afloat. You’d think that’d mean I have a fair amount of time to make more podcasts, and while you may technically be right with the “time” aspect, the stress of the unknown has taken its toll on my motivation. I spend so much time trying to make it through to the next month, that I don’t focus on any of my creative endeavors. I definitely miss the creative side of me and that was part of why I started these podcasts. That said, creating scripted content was never really my goal and guests are harder to get to commit than you’d think. I try to use my other artistic skills, and If you’ve been on my Instagram, then you know I dabble in memes and NFT’s as well. I hope to be expanding on those kinds of things in the coming months, as well as updating Shadow’s instagram, which you can find @ShadowCat420; not only is she one of the most well-traveled cats in the country and she will do tricks for her treats, I’ve also continued her training and am now working on giving her speech via her own custom AAC device. Crazy right? We’re only on day 3 and her brain is working hard. Last night she pressed her first button on purpose and I got so excited. Is it sad that I got that excited?? I don’t know, but I think giving her a way to feel heard is something that every creature could benefit from. Not to mention a testament to how intelligent our pets truly are.

Anyway, what else do I have to share with you today? Well, I’m going to talk a bit about the Matrix: Resurrections movie, giving as few spoilers as I can, but also resetting some expectations, as I think it’s useful to go into it with knowledge of what you’re getting yourself into. I’ll also speculate on how it and the Matrix Awakens demo may fit into the Matrix NFT project that is ongoing at Niftys.com. I really think it should be an interesting one for you, even if it’s short-ish!

Happy Thanksgiving week podcast friends! This week will just be an update and discussion of the state of the world, with a focus on Cryptocurrency and the Metaverse.

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Intro - 00:15
Ads - 04:25 - Please visit our sponsors Awakened Vapes, Genesis Pharms, and the Caramel Corn Company and help support this podcast!
Interview - 7:38
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Welcome back to Awakened Exchanges! I’m your host Jay Rich and I want to thank you all so much for joining us today. Happy Thanksgiving week my podcast friends! I’m coming back after a much shorter break than the last round and I’m trying to still bring you fairly regular content. Sadly, things are still a bit tight and that includes my time to make these, but I will do my best to continue bringing you updates and guests as I can. It means so much to see that you’re still listening and sharing this podcast with others. For those that are just joining us, I want to warmly welcome you to the exchange. I truly value the new thoughts and energy which help this podcast and community thrive. You listeners truly keep things flowing as you are the most important part of this podcast. Please remember that if you have any suggestions for topics or guests, I do listen to the listeners, and I look forward to your email, either from our website or you can contact me on twitter @AwakenExchanges. I hope you’re as excited to be here as I am to be back with you!

You may have noticed that this isn’t releasing on Tuesday this week and that’s because I’ve decided that since I’m not able to maintain a weekly schedule as before, I’m going to just release content as I can and hope to someday have the time and financial viability to release weekly again. Until then, I hope you keep listening in and joining in on the exchange as we go. It’s also a nice bonus that today is Thanksgiving, which gives me a good excuse to show some gratitude at the end of the year. We’ll discuss cryptocurrency and the booming metaverse, as well as touching on covid, and the future plans of this podcast and the germinating A.R.C. Community. I hope that you enjoy this very personal and thankful Thanksgiving episode.

But, before I get into it, I want to thank a sharp-eared listener, whom I’ll just call by his first name, Paul. Paul noticed that in Agent of Chaos part 2, I had mentioned that Tom O’Neill had found proof of contact between Dr. David Smith and Sidney Gottlieb, the head of the CIA’s MKUltra program. I was mistaken when I said that, I was talking about the letters between Sidney Gottlieb and Dr. Louis “Jolly” West. Good catch Paul and thank you again, you’re very appreciated. In fact, you might  say I’m thankful for you this holiday season.

Now, with that correction taken care of and since this week is going to be another solo episode, I’m just going to just get to the - brief rundown of our sponsors. First off, I want to thank all of you personally for your support. Just listening and sharing this podcast with your friends gives me a reason to keep providing the best content that I can. If you have the means and would like to contribute personally, please take a look at our Patreon page where you will get access to exclusive content and deals! As for our other sponsors, Awakened Vapes was the first of the Awakened Brands, and has been helping you modulate your high with CBD-only, high-terpene vape products since 2019. Genesis Pharms has been making the highest-quality medicinal RSO, among many other fantastic products, starting with the medical community back before 2010. And, last but not least, the Caramel Corn Company!

On this week’s episode, Shawn Shumway finish our discussion on the book Chaos, by Tom O’neill. We’ll tie together last week's MK Ultra-heavy info with the claims that the Manson Family murders and the end of the 60’s may have been brought on by our own government!

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the 60’s (at a local bookstore!)

Mortal Error (at a local bookstore!)

CoIntelPro

Chaos

MKUltra

Charles Manson

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Intro - 00:15
Ads - 04:04 - Please visit our sponsors Awakened Vapes, Genesis Pharms, and the Caramel Corn Company and help support this podcast!
Interview - 7:17
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Welcome back to Awakened Exchanges! I’m your host Jay Rich and I want to thank you all again for joining us today. It means so much to me that you’re here listening and sharing this podcast with others. It’s your new thoughts and energy that help this podcast and community thrive. And for those that are just joining us, I truly want to welcome you to the exchange. You listeners are what keep my energy up and things moving forward, because you are the most important part of this podcast. Please remember that if you have any suggestions for topics or guests, I do listen to the listeners, and I look forward to your email, either from our website or you can contact me on twitter @AwakenExchanges. I hope you’re as excited to be here as I am to be back with you!

And much like last week, I want to thank Shawn Shumway for once again joining us on the exchange. This week we’ll finish our conversation about Tom O’neill’s book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the 60’s. I maintain that everyone out there should read this book, yes you, even after you finish this series. I will not do it justice, no matter how I try, but there are most definitely spoilers so consider yourself very forewarned. In the show notes, I’ve included a link where you can buy Tom O’neill’s book and support local bookstores at the same time. This week we dive into San Francisco and the Manson Family Murders that inspired the book to begin with. We’ve been telling the story in a different way and linking the players together from different angles, showing the connections that I can hypothesize freely about, while Tom O’Neill had to stick to what he could completely prove in the documents. We’ve talked about CoIntelPro, Chaos, MKUltra, Jolly West, the JFK Assassination, but now we get into how all of that is wrapped up with the Manson Family Murders, and how the CIA may have been responsible for the 60’s.

Oh, and one more thing before I move on, I want to once again thank wikipedia for providing the source of a lot of the consensus facts that I use to flesh out the story that Tom O’neill did such a better job of in his 20 year thesis.