Where Two Become One

The restored Gospel restores us, to a knowledge of our true identity. Bringing clarity to the conversation on gender and identity, Doctrine and Covenants 93 reminds us who we were in the beginning, before all beginnings. the tshirt I'm wearinghttps://www.eekbin.usThe Relationship textbook📘 Paperback: https://bit.ly/theonerelationship💻 Ebook: https://amzn.to/37JmXo4Audiobook links:Spotify https://bit.ly/3GNQMFsApple https://apple.co/45ancTXAudible https://amzn.to/44PZaMEExtend our reach✔️ PayPal: https://paypal.me/eekbin?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US✔️ Venmo: @justinmbirdPodcasthttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wheretwobecomeoneLeave a review and share!Be with mehttps://www.tiktok.com/@where.two.become.onehttps://www.instagram.com/wheretwobecomeone/https://x.com/where2become1https://open.spotify.com/user/12121957335?si=9d6058bed3d24262https://linktr.ee/wheretwobecomeone?utm_source=linktree_admin_sharehttps://www.facebook.com/wheretwobecomeonehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/justinmbird/

Welcome to “Come Follow Me! Further.”  A podcast discussing the Come Follow Me content of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints. I’m Justin Bird, a Father, an Abba 😊 I’ll be walking with you into the spirit, psyche and science of at-one-ment.

At "Come Follow Me! Further" we walk the covenant path with wider eyes, following not just the manual, but the momentum of Christ’s light through scripture, self and society.

This isn’t your typical Come Follow Me study. Here, we blend the flow of energy, the depth of psyche, and the truth of science to discover what at-one-ment really does to our bodies, brains, and relationships, and especially what it does to our sexuality & divine identity!

You’ve read the scriptures — now it’s time to feel them. We’re not just asking what would Jesus do… we’re asking what does it do to us when we follow Him?

The scriptures were never meant to stay on the page. They were meant to move through us. Spirit moving through the body is how we got scripture in the first place! And when you feel what they wrote, as another A-B|B-A circle completes, the book of your life becomes as holy as the one lying before you. 

From the spirit moving in their bodies - to the pages before them, that is the first of their work. and from the pages before you - to the spirit moving in your body. That is the last of their work.

Don’t just study the lesson. Become the lesson, here at "Come Follow Me! Further"

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This week we're studying Doctrine & Covenants 84, with Jared Halverson. We take a close look the true identity to which God is wanting to restore us, by way of His restored Church. And we'll look at equality between men and women in this, the Oath & Covenant of the Priesthood.

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Jared Halverson hosts the Unshaken podcast, going verse by verse through the Come Follow Me curriculum. https://www.youtube.com/@Unshaken 

In his public and private efforts to create unshaken faith in the LDS community, he discusses  two themes ad nauseam: the 3 stages of creation, fall and atonement in lived experience, and the proving of contraries to find the truth, or, to find what is needed in any given situation. The Fall and Atonement are, of course, themselves contraries. 

Why is Jared so fixated on the idea of opposites? How is he using them to help people? 

In this episode, I theorize that he is being guided to study the language of the minds of the people God is preparing to receive the restored Gospel, just as he has been in the past. The restored Church of Jesus Christ has already filled North and South America and Europe, and will reach every nation on earth. Is Jared preparing the language of the Saints to bring the gospel to minds trained in taoism and the yin yang?

He has served as an Institute teacher. From 1999 to 2005, he taught at the Institute of Religion in Provo, Utah. Later, he held various roles within the Church Educational System, including positions as an instructor and assistant director at the University of Utah Institute of Religion from 2014 to 2022. He also served as the director of the Westminster Institute of Religion between 2018 and 2020 .In addition to his teaching roles, Halverson has been involved in curriculum development and interfaith dialogue. He has also contributed to various publications and has been a featured speaker in both devotional and academic settings. Currently, he is an associate professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University.

His landmark devotional on the utility of opposites in discipleship (or contraries) is called “Seeking Truth Devotional Featuring Jared Halverson” and was posted on the Highland Utah East Stake YouTube Channel on January 9, 2022. It currently has 230K views. The title of his talk was “Finding Faith in an Age of Doubt.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9_bN7EFOc&t=6s

I made a commentary on that fireside:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u16ruPNRRUA&t=1s

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The adventure begins in a clockwise direction in every Hero’s Journey. The Plan of Salvation is our heroic journey, with God standing at the top of the circle. That means we exited out of His left side when we left Heaven to come to earth (along with a few others 😈). As a symbol of this, did Eve exit Adam’s left side? 

To keep our first estate, we needed birth. To keep our second estate, we need rebirth. Water and blood bring us through both of those transitions. 

Eve and our mothers bring us through the first transition by blood and water.

When Christ "cried out with a loud voice,” (Mark 15:37) was it because something burst inside him? When all of the effects of The Fall found their way back into the side of God, was it His right side? so that all who choose can complete their hero’s journey? Did His private victory become public when the Roman spear pierced His side?

It would be beautiful, full circle, A-B | B-A symmetry.

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Look Abba! There are others talking about Divine Gender in restored Christianity!

01:40 The Yin Yang is in the LDS Temple cermony

04:57 God explicitly gives the formula for creation in D&C 29:30

06:34 Greg Matsen @CWIC

11:02 Meghan Farner and Emily Baker on gender in Zion

14:49 Gender dynamics are a lead topic in building Zion

17:54 LDS doctrine be givin’ its women the itch

19:44 Jared Halverson’s apology

21:38 It’s fine it’s fine it’s fine ... 💣💥

28:09 Amy McPhie Allebest’s article “Dear Mormon Man, Tell Me What You Would Do?” and my comment

33:57 Eventually some feminists will need a Savior who isn’t male

35:16 Heavenly Mother’s got some Mama’s boys, too!

36:37 The “bride” and “man child” of every individual

38:52 Heavenly Mother DECIDED to present us The Plan through patriarchy

40:27 God’s doctrinal use of gender is designed to show us how to create

42:25 Temples are templates for creating new life, both bodies and buildings

43:09 Doctrine refers to flesh as feminine and spirit as masculine

46:06 A bride is a whore with a sustainable strategy

49:12 Other people who are seeing the “pattern in all things”53:35 How is this A-B | B-A pattern important?

55:32 The name to which we cry for a solution, IS the solution: “Abba!”

57:16 Seeing unity precedes acting in unity

Corri Coons is my friend who told me about Larissa (who is offline) https://www.infinitesuncoaching.com

Meghan Farner -https://latterdaydisciples.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@lddisciples

Allie Duzett - https://www.allieduzettclasses.com

Magnetic Femininity, with Allie Duzetthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kI6t7Zo0rU&t=30s

Emily Baker - on Instagram @that.lds.energy.galReligiosity vs. Spirituality, with Emily Bakerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV5igMUfzQE&t=1225s

Greg Matsen - https://www.cwicmedia.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@CwicShow

New Insights On Eve And Her Impact On Women - feat. Meghan Farner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKN_X5mK26w&t=1449s

Amy McPhie Allebest’s article “Dear Mormon Man, Tell Me What You Would Do?”https://medium.com/mormondom/letter-to-a-mormon-man-8d251aa1f062https://www.dearmormonman.com

my comment on her article https://medium.com/@justinmbird/great-question-bea9e70a4546

The Jared Halverson controversy has gotten over 300K views from a dozen videos in one month:Jared’s video that started it all:

Come Follow Me - D&C 23-26 - An Elect Lady by Unshaken 34K viewshttps://youtu.be/TevsIrw1nqs?si=v4EAEJDJqr4fBO5f

Listening to Women: Jared Halverson hosts Aubrey, Kathryn Knight Sonntag, and Bethany Brady Spalding by Faith Matters 11K viewshttps://youtu.be/Q5EgkIPP1Wo?si=om9EQrjOa2mYd9qR

Why Mormon Women are Leaving the Church - Jared Halverson Meltdown by Mormon Stories Podcast 83K viewshttps://www.youtube.com/live/4hOLdtIPuZY?si=shVXVrbdxyaKx10v

Jared Halverson Did Nothing Wrong...Except Apologize by Ward Radio 30K views

https://www.youtube.com/live/ImZH701I_t0?si=kMh3UjhHxte1uUw4

Jared Halverson Did Nothing Wrong! But Faith Matters Did by Thoughtful Faith 60K views

https://youtu.be/tuzIO-UFzko?si=JexH7V93eIStl62G

Exposing Feminism in the Church by Cwic Show 32K views

https://youtu.be/_PjcTi2d0hs?si=Ne0j9yWLeQ5K07bt

Jared Halvorsen: Unshaken...Until the Backlash by Mormon Discussion Inc. 17K views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs3cGG4M_Y4

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Jared Halverson @Unshaken can't explain it. Tyler and Taylor @Scripture Central doesn't touch it. David Butler and Emily Belle Freeman @Don't Miss This! butterfly kiss it 4 years ago. Doctrine and Covenants 29 is the ONLY place in LDS cannon where God's secret formula for creation is revealed!! And this is only Come Follow Me podcast where it is explained.

But sheesh! After an hour and a half of illustrating Christ as the divine center, I still forget to tie it all back into verse 5. As you watch me illustrate the torus as God's creative process, keep Christ's words in mind, "Lift up your hearts and be glad, for I am in your midst."

Parts 1 and 2 of this weeks #ComeFollowMe (#CFM) curriculum for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (#LDS) are very visually laden. I suggest you watch both of them on either Spotify or YouTube, rather than just listen. I outline the pattern of creation, as given by the Lord in section 29 of the Doctrine and Covenants, and expand quite a bit.

In short, we have to say yes to the mortal experience, and pass through suffering, if we want to gain the tools necessary to grow in agency, and create like our creator.

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Have you ever been with a normally reserved friend, when they just suddenly spill all the tea? That’s what Doctrine and Covenants 29 is like. God is having a moment, and we all get to peak in. I slow and narrow the focus to moments of emotional transition, and then try to sleuth out just what exactly “the first shall be last and the last shall be first” has to do with the creation, and why God mentions it in conjunction with evil. 

Jared Halverson @Unshaken can't explain it. Tyler and Taylor @Scripture Central doesn't touch it. David Butler and Emily Belle Freeman @Don't Miss This! butterfly kiss it 4 years ago. Doctrine and Covenants 29 is the ONLY place in LDS cannon where God's secret formula for creation is revealed!! And this is only Come Follow Me podcast where it is explained.

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Do you run to or away from stillness? Are you two close? Or is your relationship shaky? Do you literally, physically shake when there is nothing to distract you?

It's a stereotype that Christians are judgmental. Here is my take on what judgement looks like to those who take upon themselves the name of Christ.

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Is porn primarily a male problem? Or did the advent of screens just bring males up to speed with that age old, primarily female, habit of scrolling through stories in the feed of her mind, which brew dissatisfaction with spouse, and tend toward unreasonable expectations? His initial steps toward mating (and infidelity, in kind) are toward beauty. Her initial steps toward mating (and infidelity, in kind) are toward competence. Therefore, his porn is picture porn. And her porn is story porn. 

There is a short version, and long version, of this episode.

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