Redemption with James Arthur Ray

• We've been discussing the most important keys to Alchemy and Transmutation.
• Counting the cost before beginning the journey
• Knowing what you stand for
• Being willing to sacrifice for what you stand for.
• These are all important and another key that's equally important is telling the truth.
• This may seem simple, but we live in a world where truth doesn't often appear to be highly valued. In fact, those who tell lies are often rewarded while those who tell the truth are often persecuted, even prosecuted.
• Think about how many have been censored or canceled for stating something against the controlling narrative.
• Consider how many truths have been suppressed and swept under the rug because they didn't serve the powers in charge.
• While again, telling the truth may seem simple—it's just simply not applied.
• Bersabeh and I were discussing over coffee a few mornings back how almost without exception, those who are remembered as heroes in our world are those who went against the controlling narrative.
• Socrates
• Buddha
• The Christ
• JFK
• Ghandi… the list is endless.
• The authors of the US Constitution
• As you think about it now, it would be difficult—maybe impossible to find someone who we believe to be heroic that didn't buck the common way of thinking.
• No one who was normal ever made history.
• Truth starts with being honest with yourself. This takes self-awareness and self-confidence.
• When you live a lie you must remember and protect the lie.
• Unfortunately, many if not most have little of either—self-awareness or self-confidence.
• You can't be honest with others if you can't even be honest with yourself.
• example: God, making a difference, being a good person…
• Ask yourself:
• Who am I really?
• What's most valuable to me?
• For what purpose do I do the things I do?
• Do my actions align with what I've answered?
• Take an inventory: it's not what you say that defines you, it's what you do.

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Are you happy with the state of your world and THE world in general right now?

Are you truly willing to do what it takes to change your world first and then possibly change the world?

Count the cost before you begin the journey because there's always a price for the prize.

Are you willing to make transmuting your own world the primary thing? Or are you just curious?

Let's face it, we live in turbulent times. As we've discussed previously, many are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the state of the world right now.

There has never been a time more so than now where investing in your own growth, mental toughness, and emotional strength was as important as it is right now.

We live in a time in which division is being propagated in the name of inclusion, control in the name of climate change, Woke ideology in the name of acceptance. Fear in the name of prosperity. Any thinking individual finds it difficult to not draw corollaries to the last days prior to the Fall of Past Great Empires.

While we used to be grounded in God, family, country, and virtue… we're now grounded in secular viewpoints that have in many respects made money more important than morality.

Money has become our God. Politics has replaced philosophy. And work has become our religion.

Bersabeh what is our faith?

With this understanding we all must choose how we're going to play going forward. We all must choose which side of history we're doing to stand upon.

What do you stand for?

Until you are forced to take a stand, you'll never really know what you stand for.

What are you willing to sacrifice for what you believe in.

Make sacred. Always will sacrifice.

How do you want future generations to live?

What do you want future generations to remember about you?

These are a few of the questions to ferret out your true values and beliefs; and from an existential perspective, your beliefs are not what you say… they are what you do.

It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you. ~ Batman Begins.

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"Many are called but few are chosen" ~ Matthew 22:14

It's vitally important to count the cost before you begin the journey.

Many are "called" to higher principles, morals, and values. But what soon becomes apparent is that while they may be curious, but they're not committed.

The inarguable fact is that it's difficult to escape the Matrix, or what we call socialized mind and programing.

Some even like to speak about "escaping the Matrix" but then they turn around and talk about how they have 43 sports cars. This is not escaping the Matrix. From where we sit this is being fully under the spell of the Matrix.

The beasts of money, food, sex, and power are extremely strong; and they're very difficult to overcome.

Unless you're totally asleep it's very easy to notice where these primary values have driven this secular society. It's very difficult for those who pay attention and are aware to not draw corollaries to the rise and fall of past nations.

So, the first step to becoming a true alchemist. We've talked extensively about this being the art and science of transmutation. Not literal base metal into gold rather what appears to be chaotic and low value into something orderly and highly valued, possibly transmuting the secular back into the sacred, is to really decide a few things:

Are you happy with the state of your world and THE world right now?

Are you truly willing to do what it takes to change your world first and then possibly change theworld?

Are you willing to make transmuting your own world the primary thing? Or are you just curious?

Once you've answered these questions thoroughly and honestly, you can begin the process:

Decide what you want

Decide what you're willing to give up to get it

Get on with the work.

More to come.

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This is our final episode discussing the processes of turning base metal into gold. If you've been following hopefully, you recall that this is an analogy for internal alchemy versus external alchemy.

The gold we are creating is the awakened consciousness of who you and what you are. The awakened consciousness of your full God-given potential.

You'll also recall it's a comprehensive process: of cleaning up, growing up, and waking up. It's not a quick fix or easy… nor is it supposed to be.

If it were easy, then everyone would be fully awake and fully actualizing their potential.

It's not supposed to be easy. But it is meaningful.

Once your body, mind and emotions are clean, then you can truly step into adulthood. Leaving old childhood baggage behind. We discussed this in our last session if you missed it.

If you're not able to let go of old friendships, relationships, and habits then you still have some cleaning work to do.

Relationships that grow together stay together. Relationships that don't grow together invariably grow apart. Or one person has to choose to stay frozen in time.

The ultimate objective of awakening is threefold:

1. The realization of oneness with God and all things.

2. The experience of oneness with God and all things.

3. The experience of Nothingness. While this is hard to describe, the alchemical and mystery teaching tell us that all things came from No-thing.

Likewise, physics tells us that all material objects ultimately come from the Quantum Vacuum. And this experience—not intellectually but experientially—is the ultimate waking up to the reality of what is as well as the reality of what isn't.

When experiencing these 3 stages you are turning your mundane base metal into gold.

In the meantime. Keep your commitment and focus on cleaning up and growing up.

Keep doing the work. It states in the mysteries: Perseverance in the Great Work will be rewarded.

And it will. And it's worth it.

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If you've been following this series, you must realize by now that alchemy—turning base metal into gold—is a long and complex process.

You might recall this process is a 3-step process: clean up, grow up, wake up.

We've discussed the clean-up process pretty thoroughly. Cleaning your body of toxins: substances, poor nutrients, dietary habits, thoughts, emotions, feelings, contrary to most personal development, it's difficult if not impossible to "clean up your thoughts" much less your feelings when your body and brain are toxic.

In this episode we'll move into the Grow up stage of the process.

While this seems like something that happens naturally, it's not. How many times do you know someone who is possibly in their 50-60s who claims that chronology, but they are very immature in their thought processes, habits, and emotionally?

I know people in their 40s who are still living the life they were living in high school, college, or in their 20's. Still partying every weekend, still playing video games every night, still hanging out with the same friends they had in high school.

The fact is that you grow up automatically, possibly to your early 20's but once there, you're on your own.

There are plenty GenX adults who still blame their parents for their life; and they're in their mid to late 40s; and a lot of them are very angry about their early years.

Now, we're not suggesting that possibly some horrible things happened to you in your formative years. We can relate to that. But to place blame upon those things is a childish thing to do.

There are so many things we could speak about here. Still using the same slang and lingo (dude, cursing, "my bad", rapper/gangster talk) that you used in your adolescence. Getting angry when you're asked to work on a weekend. Planning your life around long holiday weekends so you can party. Hanging out with people half your age. I could go on but hopefully you get the point.

Hanging out with friends from high school or college when you're long past this time in your life; and the only thing you have in common is old memories.

IF (big if) these people are growing at the same rate as you are and moving in the same direction, that's one thing. But if they're not… what do you really have in common with them? Chances are great you have a part of yourself, an arrested part of your personality from your past, that's frozen in time.

These are all childish things.

Here's a good one: building your identity and self-worth upon others' attention or opinions. This is an epidemic driven by social media, and it affects people of all ages.

I know adults who are still posing half naked on social media, or putting forward an identity that they know is not true.

I had one client tell me: "Who I am on social media is not who I really am" Seriously? I replied, "Who I am on social media is exactly who I am in life." What would have to happen for you to just be yourself? He replied, "that might not get as many likes and follows".

Unbelievable; and this guy was 33 years old.

There's a particular singer who is in her 60s… 65 to be exact… and she's shooting videos of her dancing seductively on social media like she did back in her 20s. It's not attractive—it's sad.

How mature and grown up are you in your consistent language, habits, and behavior? There is no value in lying to yourself.

This is why the cleanup portion must happen first. A lot of these parts of yourself are arrested due to unresolved emotional issues.

The Christ told us, "Unless you become as little children you will never enter the kingdom." Please remember there's a vast difference between being "childlike" and being "childish." Children have faith, they are open and inquisitive, they are joyful and playful. Children don't have years of socialization and programming.

But being childish is being self-absorbed, throwing tantrums, thinking of no one other than yourself.

It's time to grow up. It's time to take your power back. It's time to rise.

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If you've been following for the last several episodes, it should be obvious that to "turn base metal into gold" is a lengthy and complicated process.

You may recall we discussed some time ago that the first stage of alchemy is "melanosis" which is the blackening or destroying phase.

For anything new to live something first must die.

As we "put to death old dietary habits, old thinking processes, and now emotional processes we "clean the slate" so to speak to bring in the new.

This is why it's imperative to go through the clean-up process first before you can grow up and ultimately wake up.

As difficult as cleaning up the physical and mental body may be, we suggest that cleaning up the emotional body is vastly more difficult. And it's much more time-consuming.

One of the best processes we've experienced and utilized for cleaning up emotional issues is a process called "recapitulation."

In some mystical traditions they call this process a soul retrieval.

In the Toltec traditions they state that you must recapitulate every single experience in your life. That's a lot!

Our experience is that while this may be empowering and powerful, you get a tremendous amount of energy regain as well as freedom from recapitulating your traumatic experiences.

While you can do this for yourself it's very difficult to take a 2nd person perspective or neutral position on your own emotional issues.

Recapitulation is very different than traditional psychological therapy where you basically just recount past experiences to a therapist. In recapitulation you come from a new perspective and bring new resources from life experience that you didn't have at an earlier age.

Psychology does however prove that when you revisit a new memory with new resources you can never think of it, and feel about it, in the same way again.

I attempted to recapitulate my past relationships every morning for a year and while I was somewhat successful, I was not entirely successful.

So, by all means, do something or you'll continue to live from past programming over and over again.

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Continuing with the cleanup theme, we've discussed toxins and diet, now let's move up to your mind and thoughts.

Please remember that it's very difficult, if not impossible, to clean up your thinking when your mind is clouded with toxins and poor nutrition. Once you've made some headway in the body clean up you can start to clean your thinking.

Let me ask you to consider: if you had a friend that was constantly lying to you, constantly telling you you're not good enough, constantly making you feel like the worst is going to happen, constantly causing you worry and stress... would you spend a lot of time with this so-called friend?

When was the last time your own self-talk told you absolute truth regardless of appearances, told you the best is going to happen, constantly reassuring you that there's no need to worry or stress about life situations?

When was the last time this happened?

Then why do you listen? Why do you believe this self-talk? Maybe it's time for a new friend.

We're certainly not advocating a Polyana approach to life—not at all. What we're advocating is a realistic approach to life.

How many times have you worried about something that never happened?

"I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened" ~ Mark Twain

You can't worry enough to fix anything.

You see what the alchemist calls "an adept" is not someone who has extraordinary powers. An adept is someone with an extraordinary point of view.

In the Course in Miracles there's an exercise it encourages you to practice for a full day. To look at everything that comes into your experience and to tell yourself, "I have no idea what that means."

Nothing has any meaning whatsoever in life besides the meaning we give to it.

Everything is meaningless until we attach meaning to it. How many times have you been wrong?

Again, we're not advocating looking at the world through rose-colored glasses—not at all. The Adept, if we can continue with that term, sees things clearly. Not worse than they are, not better than they are... just exactly as they are.

We challenge you to change your perception and point of view this week. Maybe you should commit to the exercise from CIM. Just tell yourself no matter what comes your way for a full day: "I have no idea what that means."

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Jeff's journey started from humble beginnings in Chicago, Illinois. He came from a middle class working family that struggled financially, as most families in America do today. Driven by the motivation to avoid pain caused by finances, Jeff set out to make his own way and pursue his dreams. But, Jeff hit a point where he had a negative net worth. He built up debt to a level that made him feel as though he had no way out.

Well, that was what Jeff thought until he ran into two concepts that would change his way of thinking forever. These two concepts were self-improvement and self-development.They focused on two keys to developing your life: your associations and the books you read.

At that point Jeff accessed his associations and started asking himself, "Who am I really hanging out with? Are they where I want to be in life?" If they weren't, Jeff realized that could be detrimental to him getting the success he wanted to achieve. Jeff also started reading books written by people who were once in similar situations, improved upon them, and then wrote about it. Jeff realized you can borrow someone else's wisdom as a shortcut to achieving your dreams.

Now, more than three decades later, Jeff has transformed his life and the lives of others personally and financially through his Living Life on Purpose Goal Setting Program. Attributing his success to his commitment to his goals, Jeff is now the owner of a multi-million-dollar corporation and an active investor in more than a dozen companies.

As the author of several books on leadership and self-development, Jeff continues to inspire individuals to become more successful versions of themselves. He is committed to helping others live life on purpose and to the fullest.

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We've discussed the literal meaning of turning base metal into gold, beyond the metaphors and blinds of alchemical teachings.

Ultimately, it's about evolving the low-level consciousness of unconscious incompetence into the high level of conscious competence of the Higher Self. Also known as Christ Consciousness or Supreme Buddha Mind.

Obviously, there is no quick fix or magic pill to accomplish this outcome. It takes time and work—lots of it. That's why so few people ever accomplish it.

We suggested 3 steps in the process: Clean up, grow up, wake up; and also suggested that they must happen in that exact order.

So let's begin a discussion of what specifically cleaning up consists of.

In the mysteries it states that you must clean up starting with your physical body, then your mental body, then your emotional body and finally your spiritual body.

So, let's at least begin to address your physical body here today... we may not get finished for cleaning up consists of many things.

The first thing you need to clean up physically are toxins. A toxic body will never have fully functional thoughts and feelings. There are a lot of different toxins that get put into your body. Some are more avoidable than others.

First you should remove all tobacco products, alcohol, marijuana, and any and all other recreational drugs.

Cigarettes are filled with chemicals and vaping is even worse. Cigarettes numb you out to life and suppress unresolved emotional issues—in addition to causing cancer.

Alcohol kills brain cells and studies in brain morphology prove that it atrophies the executive centers of the brain. Furthermore, it kills the microbiome in your gut giving you a greater chance for dementia and Alzheimer's.

While pot is in vogue right now, it's detrimental. I know there are those that like to argue its benefits, but the reality is that it is highly addicting, it also, like alcohol atrophies the executive center of the brain as well. Brain imaging conducted by Daniel Amen has proven that every quadrant of the brain functions at lower levels for those who smoke—and not just while they're smoking.

Finally, new research from Stanford University has found that those who smoke pot have a greater likelihood of heart attack as it constricts the arteries.

These toxins are all within your control. We realize it may be difficult if you have an addiction but unless and until you beat these it will be next to impossible to fully clean up and turn base metal into gold.

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Andre grew up in Southern California, graduating from California State University, Fullerton, and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. He then started his legal career in 2006, as a trial attorney within the Colorado state courts. In 2007, he joined the U.S. Air Force. Over a four-year period, Andre engaged in estate planning and trial work. During that time, he was recognized by leadership as being within the top 5 percent of trial attorneys in the Air Force.

With a desire to have a more stable home life, Andre left active duty and transferred to the Air Force Reserves, where he held the rank of Major. He served as a trial advocacy instructor, government appellate counsel, and estate planning attorney. Andre practiced as a federal trial attorney for the District of Arizona, handling the highest level of federal cases. In 2014, he decided to go into private practice as a full-time Arizona estate planning, wills, trusts, and probate attorney.

Andre cites the Air Force's core values — Integrity, Service, Excellence — as the guiding principles behind Pennington Law, PLLC as well as for his work in the community. He explains them as, "Integrity — when no one's looking you do the right thing; service before self; and excellence in all we do."

As Andre explains, it starts with asking, "'How much good can I give to the community?' I tell my kids every day, 'Have a great day and do great things.' And that's the way I think about it; every day is another day to do a great thing, to change someone's life."

With a yearning to give Arizona children the chance to succeed, he founded residential homes dedicated to the well-being of foster children. In addition, he was appointed and served as a part-time judge for the Maricopa County Justice Courts (2015-2017). Andre holds a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and is a coach and lifetime member at ⁠De Boa Jiu-Jitsu Academy⁠ in Surprise, Arizona.

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