🐾 Shone’s Thoughts | A Podcast on Spiritual Awakening • Truth Seeking • Breaking the Matrix 🎙️🌍

In this very first episode of Shone’s Thoughts Afterhours, Shawn Pederson sits beneath the moonlight beside the flowing Fraser River and simply talks… freely, openly, and without destination. 🌙🌊 From reflections on cannabis research, healing, consciousness, forgiveness, gaming addiction, synchronicities, human connection, spirituality, and the power of words themselves, this audio-only experience becomes less of a structured podcast and more of a living stream of thought unfolding in real time. Moonlit River marks the beginning of a new chapter — a quieter, more intimate form of storytelling where wandering thoughts are welcomed rather than controlled.

Shone’s Thoughts Afterhours is a companion extension of the main Shone’s Thoughts podcast — a late-night audio series designed for raw, unscripted, stream-of-consciousness conversations. Unlike the main episodes, these Afterhours sessions are not topic-driven or heavily structured. They are simply moments of reflection, observation, philosophy, emotion, and exploration recorded wherever life happens to unfold. Audio-only and deeply atmospheric, Afterhours invites listeners to sit beside the river, beneath the stars, or within the silence of the night and simply listen. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and other podcast platforms. 🎧

This episode also serves as the symbolic launch of a new era of the podcast — a transition into what Shawn describes as “Season Two” of Shone’s Thoughts. Rather than focusing only on lessons from the past, future episodes will explore the thoughts, experiences, synchronicities, travels, and human encounters happening in the present moment. The journey is no longer just about what was learned… but what is actively being lived.

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0:00 🌙 Welcome to Afterhours

1:55 🌿 Cannabis, Healing & Conscious Use

7:22 🎮 Gaming, Escapism & Filling the Void

21:21 🌌 Moonlight, Consciousness & The Nature of Reality

27:52 🚶 Season Two Begins

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💭 Shone’s Thoughts | Pokémon, Perspective & Letting Go of Winning explores an unexpected realization I experienced through playing Pokémon TCG battles last night. 🎮✨

For a long time, I viewed each match as a measurement of success or failure — a tally of wins and losses that somehow reflected my worth or progress. But during these battles, I suddenly recognized that life, much like Pokémon, is not truly about winning every encounter… it’s about doing your best with the cards you’ve been dealt. Some battles are impossible to win from the very beginning. Others can completely flip in a single moment through strategy, patience, luck, or persistence.

In this episode of Shone’s Thoughts, I reflect on how Pokémon battles mirror the challenges we face in everyday life — teaching lessons about ego, resilience, uncertainty, acceptance, and learning to release our attachment to outcomes. Sometimes the greatest growth comes not from victory itself, but from how we choose to play the game. 🌿

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Fear shapes reality more than most people realize. In this deeply reflective episode of 💭 Shone’s Thoughts | Is the World Safer Than We Believe?, Shawn Pederson explores intuition, projection, childhood freedom, travel experiences, and the powerful ways our beliefs influence the world we experience every day.

Recorded beneath the 'Fraser Bridge in Hope, BC, Canada, spanning across the mighty Fraser River, this episode journeys through graffiti-covered memories, bicycle crashes, spiritual intuition, human kindness, and the idea that many of life’s greatest adventures emerge through moments we once perceived as mistakes.

🌊🌉 Shawn reflects on:

✨ How perception shapes our reality

✨ Why intuition matters more than fear

✨ Childhood freedom, risk & resilience

✨ Traveling through China, Japan & Mexico

✨ The hidden beauty inside life’s unexpected challenges

This episode of Shone’s Thoughts invites you to reconsider the stories humanity tells itself about danger, trust, and the unknown. Beneath the graffiti, wind, rivers, and memories exists another possibility — that the world may hold far more connection, kindness, and guidance than we often allow ourselves to believe.

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So. Much. Love. — Shawn Pederson 🌍

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00:00 Welcome Beneath the Bridge

00:46 Graffiti, Messages & Human Expression

02:16 Is the World Safer Than We Believe?

04:48 Fear, Shelter & Human Perception

06:05 Bicycle Helmets & Conditioning Fear

07:17 Childhood Energy & Emotional Projection

08:37 The Bicycle Accident Story

09:33 Projection & Collective Belief Systems

10:19 Backpacking Through China, Japan & Mexico

11:04 Intuition, Guidance & Inner Knowing

13:22 Fires, Breakdowns & Unexpected Kindness

16:21 Facing Challenges With Trust

17:22 Mistakes Becoming Great Adventures

18:03 Final Reflections Beneath the Bridge

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💭 Welcome to Shone’s Thoughts — Premonitions of Adventure Forthcoming ⛰️🌎

From a moss-covered mountain peak, Shawn Pederson explores grounding, New Earth consciousness, AI as a creative tool, nature healing, Avalon, moving portraits, and the journey toward a more connected humanity. This episode weaves together spirituality, creativity, photography, YouTube creation, energetic awareness, and the dream of restoring Earth through love, truth, forgiveness, and possibility.

Today’s mountaintop conversation journeys through:

🌿 grounding and reconnecting with Earth

☕ creative energy inside Starbucks and community spaces

🤖 finding balance with AI and human creativity

🌧️ rain, nature, moss, forests, and living water

🏔️ future adventures to Mount Fuji, Kilimanjaro, Olympus, and beyond

If these conversations resonate with your spirit, I warmly invite you to subscribe, comment, and join this growing community of explorers, creators, dreamers, and seekers. Every interaction helps these ideas ripple farther into the world 🌎✨

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00:00 ⛰️ Welcome From the Mountaintop

02:20 🌿 Premonitions of Adventure

05:36 🎵 Heaven Is a Place on Earth

06:40 💧 Living Water & New Earth

08:18 🌧️ Calling in the Rain

10:30 📱 YouTube Shorts & Creativity

12:54 🏰 Avalon & Hidden Possibilities

17:50 👣 Grounding With Earth Energy

20:00 🎥 Do No Thing & Healing Through Nature

27:20 ☕ Starbucks Energy & Community

32:20 🤖 AI as a Creative Tool

44:00 🏔️ Future Mountains & Global Adventures

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Self-confidence changes the way we speak, create, dream, and move through the world. In this restored edition of Candid Talks, Shawn Pederson explores the inner process of building self-confidence, overcoming limitation, embracing personal growth, and stepping courageously into new opportunities and higher levels of experience. ✨

This heartfelt conversation reflects on self-worth, mindset, fear, resilience, creativity, and the importance of believing in your own potential even during uncertain moments. Through honest reflections and grounded encouragement, Building Self-Confidence invites listeners to reconnect with their inner strength and move forward with greater clarity, courage, and purpose.

Topics include:

• Building authentic self-confidence

• Releasing fear and limitation

• Personal growth & mindset shifts

• Stepping into new opportunities

• Creativity, courage & self-expression

• Becoming comfortable in your own energy 🌿

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The Matrix movie awakened millions to the possibility that reality may function through layers of programming, fear, perception, and consciousness 🌿✨ In this deeply reflective episode of Shone’s Thoughts, Shawn Pederson explores how awakening from the false matrix begins through awareness, discernment, creativity, and reconnecting with divine purpose.

From revisiting the original The Matrix films to reflecting on AI, fear-based programming, manifestation, consciousness, and the idea of a “divine matrix,” this conversation journeys through personal transformation and the evolving relationship between humanity, technology, and spiritual awareness. Shawn shares how movies, books, imagination, and lived experience helped shape his understanding of reality, free will, co-creation, and stepping toward a more conscious New Earth experience.

✨ Topics explored include:

• Escaping the false matrix through awareness

• AI, consciousness & fear-based programming

• The Matrix films and awakening symbolism

• Divine matrix vs artificial systems

• Law of attraction & manifestation

• Fear, media conditioning & personal sovereignty

• New Earth consciousness and conscious creation

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00:00 Welcome to Shone’s Thoughts

01:44 AI Thumbnails, Metadata & Creative Expression

03:31 Revisiting Karma, Consciousness & The Matrix

06:14 Watching The Matrix in 1999

08:41 Programming, Perception & Media Influence

10:23 Human Energy & Consciousness Exploration

12:34 The Architect, Simulation Theory & AI

15:16 Escaping Systems & Seeking Organic Reality

18:01 Carrie Kay & The Divine Matrix Concept

21:19 Fear, AI & Conscious Creation

23:24 Adventures of Love Over Fear

25:38 Divine Matrix vs False Matrix Reflections

29:10 New Earth, Community & Final Thoughts

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A journey through Christ consciousness, spiritual awakening, ancient texts, and the search for divine truth 🌿✨ From the historic Haney House in Maple Ridge, this episode explores how wisdom, discernment, and conscious living can reshape our reality and deepen our connection to God, love, and higher awareness.

In this deeply reflective episode of Shone’s Thoughts, Shawn Pederson shares insights from the channeled works of Paul Selig, explores the evolving meaning of “Christ” as frequency and consciousness, and reflects on the role of books, spiritual teachings, and personal experience in awakening the soul. Through discussions on the Bible, translation, perception, fear-based media, solitude, wisdom, and the creation of a “New Earth,” this podcast invites listeners into a thoughtful exploration of possibility, truth, forgiveness, and inner transformation.

🌿 Topics explored include:

• Christ consciousness & resonant frequency

• Spiritual awakening and discernment

• Ancient texts, translations & hidden meanings

• Wisdom versus knowledge

• Fear-based media and conscious living

• The power of solitude, books & self-reflection

• New Earth consciousness and collective reality

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00:00 Welcome to Haney House & Setting the Intention

02:13 Architecture, History & Maple Ridge Reflections

05:05 Discovering Paul Selig’s Book Series

09:01 Truth, Translation & Many Versions of the Bible

13:02 Christ Consciousness as Frequency

17:16 Religion, Perception & Personal Truth

21:42 Reading “I Am the Word” Prologue

27:45 Spiritual Awakening & Resonant Wisdom

30:20 Childhood Faith, Trauma & Rediscovering God

34:29 Co-Creating Reality & Conscious Relationships

37:20 Fear-Based Media & Protecting Your Energy

43:23 New Earth Consciousness & Final Reflections

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A heartfelt message for every traveler walking their own path through awakening, today I speak to my own experiences with dreaming a dream that's far too small for the journey we are upon. This talks speaks to a lesson I once learnt from a former mentor of mine, Steve Scott, where he explained the importance of 'shooting for the moon', and how my own recent insights on my own desires have perhaps be apart of the limitations I have expereinced.

In this podcast, I begin with my dream to own a Nissan Rogue, and throughout I build upon that dream to perhaps experience driving a Nissan Ariya, and even a Nissan Pathfinder, finding my own path to experiecing the utilization of driving these cars, perhaps to the moon and beyond!

I would also love to experience the ID Buzz...!

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A vacant train station becomes the backdrop for a deep exploration of masculine and feminine energy, balance, creativity, Atlantis, Lemuria, trauma, self-expression, and the path toward inner harmony. 🌿✨ Through personal reflection, symbolism, storytelling, and moments of stillness between passing trains, this episode of Shone’s Thoughts invites a deeper understanding of how balance within shapes the world around us.

From the Empress and the Emperor to creativity, parenting, self-expression, and collective healing, this conversation explores the possibility that humanity’s next evolution arrives through harmony rather than dominance. The moving trains, graffiti art, and moments of “doing no thing” become symbols for flow, consciousness, and authentic creation.

00:00 Welcome To The Vacant Train Station

01:33 Delayed Messages & Divine Timing

03:08 The Journey Toward Inner Balance

05:16 Masculine & Feminine Energies Explained

09:15 Cycles Of Humanity & Energy Shifts

12:32 The Passing Train & Presence

15:24 Graffiti, Creativity & Inner Expression

18:21 Atlantis, Egypt & Ancient Energy Stories

24:37 The Battle Between Masculine & Feminine

29:17 The Empress, The Emperor & Self Balance

32:54 Self-Expression, Identity & Authenticity

39:05 Healing Trauma & Returning To Harmony

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Modern society celebrates technology, medicine, and convenience as signs of progress, yet many souls feel increasingly disconnected from nature, community, intuition, and inner peace. In this deeply reflective forest podcast, Shawn Pederson explores whether humanity truly evolved forward over the last 150 years — or whether ancient wisdom, natural healing, and human sovereignty quietly faded beneath systems of dependency and control. ✨

Filmed inside a rain-soaked wilderness sanctuary hidden within an expanding city, this episode of Shone’s Thoughts journeys through consciousness, herbal healing, forgotten technologies, collective awakening, modern housing, historical injustice, and the deeper meaning of human progress. From rose hips and natural remedies to underground geothermal tunnels, from personal healing stories to reflections on belief, free will, and collective consciousness — this conversation invites open-minded exploration without fear, division, or judgment.

🌲 Topics explored include:

• Reframing human progress and technological evolution

• Natural healing, herbal remedies, and self-belief

• Ancient technology and forgotten possibilities

• Collective consciousness and awakening

• Modern society, housing, consumerism, and freedom

• Historical patterns, suppression, and human sovereignty

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00:00 🌧️ Forest Sanctuary Within the City

02:23 🎥 Returning to the First YouTube Filming Location

04:58 🧠 Reframing Human Progress & Evolution

06:45 📱 From Nokia Phones to Global Connection

09:04 ☕ Starbucks Conversation That Sparked This Episode

10:58 🌿 Doctors, Nutrition & Personal Healing Journeys

12:26 🌹 Rose Hips, Herbal Remedies & Natural Medicine

16:44 💫 Belief, Placebo & Healing Beyond Prognosis

20:37 🔋 Ancient Batteries & Forgotten Technologies

22:28 ⚡ Geothermal Cities & Alternative Energy Ideas

24:06 🏙️ Housing, Consumerism & The Illusion of Progress

31:13 🌎 Collective Consciousness & Humanity’s Future

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