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  • 078: DON'T HATE. APPRECIATE. - Alpha Reverence with Dean Sanner

    In today's episode, we discuss the second part of Alpha Reverence in which we talk about the secular versions of spirituality from the book "The Power of Ritual" by Casper ter Kuile. He recommends taking some of the things from religious teachings and using them in your life. We can be spiritual even without religion. Sometimes our most meaningful rituals are ones that we create. Spirituality is a connection to yourself, to a higher power, and to others. Sacred and transcendental experiences don’t ONLY exist in churches or synagogues, temples, or mosques. Anyone can access those experiences, we just have to learn how, with our intentions, to invite that to happen. It can be achieved through:

    1. Sabbath - a day of rest and reflection.
    2. Community - synchronized singing or movements (example: CrossFit); and joining a group with a common cause
    3. Sacred Texts - you can find wisdom through texts such as reading a book or joining a book club or some community.
    4. Meal Time - communal, start with a prayer, or a toast. Prepare it with intention. Sacred intentional thoughts about how amazing it is to eat this food. Rituals where people are asked to share something or end with a board game.
    5. Fasting - but not just for health benefits, save calories or get into ketosis. But do it for mental clarity and donate your saved $$ to a shelter.
    6. Pilgrimage - a contemplative journey to a sacred place. Going to the ocean to scatter ashes. A pilgrimage has a purpose. To heal? To find forgiveness? To just experience something new or awesome.
    7. Seasons - honor the beginning of spring, summer, fall, or winter. Connect with nature with a hike, picnic with friends, donate leftover food to a shelter.
    8. Confession groups - such as AA, 12 step type addiction, recovery groups, and other spiritual programs.
    9. Sacrifices - giving up something for other people or charity.

      10. Other questions answered in this episode:

      • What is humility? And how do we do it?
      • What is the value of forgiveness? Why do we need to do that? And how do you do it?
      • To seek out sublime experiences enlarges us. What does this mean and how might we do it?
      • How do you create and foster gratitude?
        • 1 hr 13 min
      • 077: RULES VS. RELATIONSHIP - Alpha Reverence with Dean Sanner

        The 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant asked these questions: (1) What can I know? (2) What ought I to do? (3) What may I hope for? (4) What is man? These are the basic questions of philosophy.  The root of the word PSYCHOLOGY is  psyche, which is Greek for spirit or soul. An evolved man is many things, he is tender and he is tough. He is humble and he is confident.  He is grateful for what is and yet still constantly seeking.  Today we discuss REVERENCE. This is about deep respect.  This is about respect for life, respect for others, and has to do with the connections we can improve with a higher power, with other people, and even to the natural world. Reverence is about RECOGNITION of the purpose of life, the sanctity of life, the significance of life and it includes spirituality but not necessarily traditional religion.

        Questions answered in this episode:

        • What makes it so tough for men to have their connection with a higher power?
        • Is there any obligation following belief?
        • What is religious practice do you do that does help you find that connection to your higher power?

          • Topics discussed:

          Reasons why men find it difficult to connect with a higher power:

          • Sometimes people find it difficult to have any concept of a higher power because they come from dysfunctional backgrounds such as having horrible, abusive, and distant fathers.
          • Some religious models have unhealthy perspectives. They do things to an extreme which is opposite to the biblical perspective of God wanting to have a balance.
          • When a person prays for something that didn’t happen, they don’t have the understanding of the purpose of prayer and that God is not a Santa Claus.
          • It all comes down to readiness of being connected to a higher power because nobody is going to be able to make you do it.

            • The obligation following a belief:

            • Find beliefs, systems, structures that work then study those and apply discipline towards them. It’s beneficial to people.
            • If religion is a vehicle that works for a particular man, apply with caution and be thoughtfully aware of how much influence it has on you.

              • Religious practice that can help men find the connection to a higher power:

              • Service (voluntary)
              • Offering
              • Efforts and Time
              • Giving and Sharing
              • Teaching the Fellowshippers

                • ATHEIST / AGNOSTIC

                How can a person like that explore spirituality? How can a person not interested in the traditional view of God improve their spiritual life?

                • It depends on what they are trying to achieve.
                • You have a decision to make in improving your spiritual life.
                • It can also start on sublime experiences.

                  • Final words, when it comes to a man trying to mend a relationship with God:

                  • One of the things that God says is that if you seek me, you'll find me. And if you want to find God, the first thing you do is look, and I think you can look in creation. Just like in Google, whatever you're searching for in life, you're going to find it.
                  • We start with the rules, but eventually, in spirituality, things have to move beyond that.
                  • There's gotta be more to life than just me, even if it's just others. We connect to God through relationships with others as well, because if he's truly created everybody and we're created in his image, then we can see him in other people.
                    • 1 hr 8 min
                  • 076: ALIVE IN EVERY MOMENT - Alpha Engagement

                    Host: Brad Singletary Co-host: Taco Mike Guest: Justin Mackie  An alpha is engaged. He lives in the moment, recognizing the value of his opportunities and he seizes them like a soldier captures his enemy. He's a master at influencing the energy around him. He works hard and plays hard, keeping his own emotions and reactions in check and taking care of whatever's important in the moment. He's not just a dreamer, but a doer. And he fearlessly puts himself in situations that bring life to himself and those he is associated with. Today we welcome back a man who epitomizes what it means to be an alpha, especially in his ability to live life with no excuses and instead strives to engage himself in every situation with strength.  We begin talking ADHD and managing distractions.  Justin shares how he has learned to use this condition as a superpower by "making friends with it."  We discuss how to focus on the demands of home life, which include allowing your partner to be "Alpha too." That means that if they are highly invested in order and cleanliness, you can "take orders" without having your value threatened.    Finally, Taco Mike and Justin discuss the value of play, and specifically outdoor adventures with other men as a requirement for lasting friendships and personal fulfillment.     🔺️

                    1 hr 29 min
                  • (TRAILER) 076: ALIVE IN EVERY MOMENT - Alpha Engagement

                    Highlights from the soon-to-be-released episode about Alpha engagement with Justin Mackie and Taco Mike.


                    ENGAGEMENT - he participates with good vibes


                    ✔ He shows up fully present and focused. 

                    ✔ Works hard at home and on the job. 

                    ✔ Enjoys leisure and recreation: he can entertain and be entertained. 

                    ✔ Honors, creates, and participates in traditions.

                    ✔ He connects, listens, laughs, and loves openly. 

                    ✔ Assertively expresses thoughts and feelings. He is bold, honest, respectful.


                    4 min
                  • 075: THE CRAFTSMAN AND THE CASH - Alpha Resourcefulness (with Justin Mackie)

                    EPISODE 75!! The Alpha Quorum Show welcomes unmistakable ALPHA Justin Mackie to discuss resourcefulness.  Justin is an entrepreneur, pilot, boy dad, rancher, private aircraft owner, ADV bike boss, 2021 Alpha Quorum Father of the Year, and licensed Financial Advisor and he and Taco Mike drop some straight WISDOM about:

                    ☑ being resourceful as a man

                    ☑ managing the most important resources you have

                    ☑ how the alpha sees money and other forms of wealth

                    ☑ mistakes you could be making financially

                    ☑ gaining better positioning and judgment with money

                    ☑ and a whole lotta more awesome stuff.

                    Whether you're a first-year apprentice amateur part-time graveyard shift trash taker outer who is out on FMLA from a ruptured scrotum making corndogs at the mall or a qualified investor, this conversation will be a gift, I promise you.  🔺️

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                    1 hr 21 min
                  • 074: THE NEXT RIGHT THING - Alpha Responsibility

                    Brad Singletary and Taco Mike finish the series on Alpha Responsibility with some ultra-valuable lessons about how men can admit wrongs, make amends, accept the things they cannot control and do the next right thing.  


                    We discuss the language of responsibility: examples of words and phrases that men need to be comfortable with in taking ownership of their failures.  But first, Taco Mike describes how he became so comfortable with the language of responsibility by first getting right with who he is as a person and learning to be comfortable in his own skin, having an identity that was purely his own and not the template that others told him he should be. He describes one of the unlikely ways he did this: refusing to go along with something he once believed and taught others to do because it no longer made sense for him to continue.

                    We discuss apologies and how they are more harmful than good if they come from a place of victimhood and how words are usually not enough.

                    Taco Mike describes a moto trip in Mexico with a group of men that went terribly wrong as they became stranded on a treacherous mountainside, the surprising way he went about handling his responsibilities as the leader of the expedition and the outcome that required Alpha-level humility. Find out how things ended up and what he gained from this experience.


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                    1 hr 8 min
                  • 073: FACE TO THE WIND - Alpha Responsibility

                    Episode 73 of the Alpha Quorum Show with Taco Mike from TacoMoto. Mike discusses what he's been up to and drops WISDOM. We discuss how the Alpha accepts responsibility, never plays the role of a victim, and never victimizes others. Host Brad Singletary and Taco Mike call men out for their excuses and share some insights about how to Alpha Up and be a man who accepts responsibility.   


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                    51 min
                  • 071: THE LOVER - A Review of King, Warrior, Magician, Lover (Part 5)

                    This episode is about living life as a man with the energy of a LOVER.


                    When we say “the lover” you may think we are talking about romantic and sexual love, but there a lot of different types of love. You love your homies differently than you love your woman.  You love your mom differently than you love your kids.  The ancient Greeks talked about agape, or non-erotic love, referenced in the Bible as “brotherly love.” They used the term eros to mean sexual love. The romans used amor which means the union of one body and soul to another body and soul. The Latin term libido doesn’t just refer to sexual energy, a general passion and appetite for life, or life energy.

                    Moore and Gillette say that the Lover energy includes vividness, aliveness, and passion. The Lover is driven to satisfy basic human hunger for sex, food, well-being, reproduction, creativity, and a sense of meaning in life.

                    This is about sensitivity to the external environment. This has to do with our five senses, sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. It notices colors and shapes, the feeling of different textures, the beauty of sound and the power of aroma. It is also about the internal environment: changes in sensations of incoming stimulus and the feelings those things produce INSIDE us.


                    We discuss the Lover in his fullness and share example of men living this way. We also discuss the bipolar shadows THE ADDICTED LOVER and THE IMPOTENT LOVER.

                    This is one of our most important topics and most well-done episodes ever.  Check this out. **ADULT CONVERSATION INTENDED FOR ADULTS. 

                    1 hr 25 min
                  • 070: THE MAGICIAN - A Review of King, Warrior, Magician, Lover (Part 4)

                    Brad Singletary, Clint Albright, and guests Jim and Jay continue a 6-episode series on our review of the book “King, Warrior, Magician, Lover” by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, who describe the difference between 'boy psychology' and 'man psychology' and give a very effective model of healthy manhood by helping guys rediscover the archetypes of mature masculinity. In this episode we discuss the MAGICIAN.


                    Topics: 

                    > Magicians are masters of technology and are the ritual elders

                    > They have special knowledge that is passed down

                    > Initiation is important symbolism

                    > They continue to share magic by giving it to worthy apprentices

                    > They put themselves in sacred space and understand things both seen and unseen. 

                    59 min

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