Human change moves through a predictable trajectory throughout the lifespan if growth and development are pursued consciously. The metaphor of specific pills--blue, red, black and white--is related to the Matrix movie from 1999 where this metaphor was first introduced. Blue pill represents conventional reality and socially-accepted narrative and inherited purpose. Red pill represents waking to the actual truth of the world, at least in this relative dimension of time and space. The Black pill represents the despair at the corruption of the relative world which slides one into meaninglessness. The White pill points to the way out of the pit of despair and back into deeper connection to soul, purpose and empowerment. We live in challenging times, but we can wake up and build a better world. Conscious Outlaws aspires to courageously guide those willing to take the journey.

This is an introductory session where we introduce ourselves, our backgrounds and what the podcast is all about. I'm Grant Hunter and I am joined by my esteemed colleague Cynthia Hendricks. At Conscious Outlaws, we want to help people escape the increasing tyranny of the corrupted world AND reconnect with the eternal sacredness of life as spoken of in all the world’s wisdom traditions. It's one thing to wake up--to move from the blue pill to the red pill. But once people see what's really going on in the world, it is easy to slip into a black-pilled despair. Conscious Outlaws is the white pill that offers grounded optimism, driven by deeper purpose and its expression in the world.