#06 Is He REALLY the Reincarnation of John the Apostle? | John of New's Spiritual Revelations

The first thing I did was become an atheist. God sent two bears to kill 42 children. In the Bible, he never says he's the son of God. He says he's the son of man. The only reason he's called Yahweh is because it looked like a Roman acronym. His actual name is Adonai. What's up, guys? Uh, this is a really amazing conversation that we got to have. Um, this guy's name is John Davis. He runs two YouTube channels, John of New and The Recovering Catholic. And the reason that we got in touch with John, um, is because Austin and I, we always like to talk about this concept where we should be able to hold anything up in our hands and look at it and inspect it and turn it around and turn it upside down and poke it and prod it. And you should be able to, as a human, you should be able to objectively just look at something. And you don't have to believe in it. You don't have to not believe in it. Um, but we think that there's value in inspecting things. And usually if you can't inspect something, if you if you get uncomfortable when something gets held up and starts getting questions asked about it, I call those sacred cows. And usually those are sacred cows in in your life or my life that you don't really want to talk about or you're not allowed to look at it and turn it over. And I kind of think you're not supposed to have any sacred cows in your life. Or at least it's better if you can identify them and maybe work through not being that way. At least for me, that's where I've seen the advantage. So, uh, one of the ideas that we talk about a lot is reincarnation. And if you're, you know, if you're a practicing Christian or an American for the most part, uh, you probably don't think reincarnation is real. And maybe you do, but you also have to acknowledge that there's probably two billion people in the world that do believe that it's real. And there's and and have believed it is real for thousands of years. And so, it's a really fascinating subject. So John Davis, he believes that he is the reincarnation of John the Apostle and he has memories of playing with Jesus, Jesua is what he calls him. And so he has his own sort of story to tell. And you know what I like about him? I' I've saw I've watched his YouTube channel for a while is he also um like I saw one where he said that he he knows right like everybody always thinks in this reincarnation space like I was Cleopatra or I was John the Apostle and there's like 50 people that think they were Cleopatra and 200 people that think they were John the Apostle and so like what he's not what he doesn't think is that he's like special and he's this one thing. In fact, he actually thinks that there's probably some global one source. And for some reason, there's these pivotal people in history. And as as we reincarnate, then maybe sometimes you identify with these pivotal people because no one ever reincarnates and was like, "Yeah, I was a peasant or I was just a soldier who died in the war. No, nameless, faceless soldier. We all seem to have be these famous people." But that doesn't so there's no pride in him for that. he knows there's other people that and so he thinks that maybe it's like we're tapping into it because you know we're all one source or or you know that that's sort of the way he looks at it. So we really I just wanted to talk to him and give him room to breathe and speak and then just ask him questions about it. So um yeah, I mean if you're a practicing Christian, we're probably going to touch on some things that are you maybe have never thought about, but I would just encourage you to hold it up and look at it and you don't have to believe in it. Um or you or you can. It's whatever. Everything's everything's optional here. Um, but I really enjoyed this conversation with him. He's such a nice guy. He tells great stories. He's funny. He was a motivational speaker before he became John of New. Uh, and we go into his timeline cuz I really wanted to know like how did you figure out that you were John the Apostle? And he has this he has wild stories. I mean, he's going to say that 19 he went to 19 different psychics independently and they all told him he was John the Apostle. And so, he's either lying or it happened, right? Uh, I don't know. And anyways, it was just such a fascinating conversation. So, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. This is John Davis on the Austin and Matt podcast. Thanks for listening. John, welcome to the show. Well, well, I'm so happy to be here, guys. Thank you for asking me. You were just talking about Highlander. I wanted to hear about that. That's real cool. The the Highlander movie, you know, in life, we all need to aim uh big. We need to choose. Don't be limited by what the world's going to give us. And Highlander movie is a fascinating movie because um when it's one of my favorite movies of all time. I love that movie. And when it was originally written, it was written by by a college student as a as a project for a grade. And what happened was a couple of guys came to the college looking for scripts to mine for Hollywood. And they found this script. They thought it was interesting. They thought it'd be it'd be a fine be movie somewhere, right? And Mhm. they uh they pulled it out and they and and they told the kid that he would make I forget what it was. It was like it was like $1,000 and then like a percentage if of the budget when it goes not thinking it would ever go into anything big. Right. Right. So now they have the script in the hand and they're like a Scottish Scottish actor. Who's the most famous Scottish actor in the world? Sean Connory. Sean Connory of course. Right. So they went to Sean Connory and they said, "We want you to be the Highlander." And he said, he says, "No, I want don't be the Highlander." He says, he said in a perfect accent as well, right? Actually, I I I'll share something in a second. Um he says, "I don't want to be the Highlander. I want to be Ramirez." Which made no sense at all, but but he liked that character better. It was also less work and much more money for him. Um, so now these guys have this this script with Shan Connory attached and they're like, "Okay, how do I market this? How do I get the European market to be interested in this film? Who's the most famous European actor right now?" Christopher Lambeer had just finished Grey Stoke, the Legend of Tarzan, and he was a very So they said, "Let's ask him." So they'll go to him and they say, "We have the script with Shan Connory." He says, "Sean Connory's in it. I am in." Yeah. Wow. So now now they've got now they've got Sean Connory and they've got Christopher this the script the budget is going up and up and up. And Hollywood's getting really excited. Incredible. They decide then they want to they want to um cast the villain and the Kiran character and they went to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arnold Schwarzenegger like no I just did the uh the Terminator. I don't want to do that. Right. So, so they said, "Well, what are we going to do? What are we going to do?" And the guy who was actually the director was only known at the time for doing movie I mean I mean music videos. Music videos. And so he wasn't a known guy. He was just a guy who did music videos. He said, "Well, I just worked on a music video with Sting uh about Frankenstein and there's this guy Clancy Brown who was the monster. I think he might be a good shot, but he's a complete no-name." Right. So they interview him. They they they screen test him. They discover that he's great, right? But they don't have to give him anything but a fee. And they don't give him any residuals. He gets like a h 100red,000 bucks for for doing the movie. He made nothing else from that movie. He was like parts of that film, right? Wow. Um but now we've got this movie that goes out, you know, Christopher Lambear fans are getting it. Sean Connory's fans are getting it. And it ends up being a multi-million dollar production. The college kid became a millionaire. Oh yeah. Incredible. Big. Yeah. Yeah. So, when when you're start when you're starting something, never don't, you know, shoot for the moon. Shoot for the moon because nothing's impossible. Yeah. Great advice. That's awesome. What a great way to start this episode. Yeah. Uh yeah, I appreciate you being on here. You know, I' I've been watching your videos for a few months, actually, and really enjoying them. Oh, you're the one. You're the one, huh? Yeah. I see it. One one. Yeah, that's me. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and I just, you know, I I wanted to chat with you because I actually wanted to learn a little bit more about sort of some of your background, kind of how you got to here, and that's that's I mean, I' I've pieced it together, but I I haven't found uh I just wanted to ask you, I I saw you the corporate action hero and you had a prior life of doing that and transitioning between those two seems interesting and I'd love to hear a little bit more about it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I I'll tell give you It's funny you're asking this because this morning I was literally writing the script for my life story video. So So cool. So per perfect time. I was going to ask if you were going to write a book actually, too. I think I have a book. I have a book coming out. I have a book coming out before Christmas this year called The Recovering Catholic's Guide to Spirituality. Oh, cool. Okay. Makes sense. And then I I have another book next year coming out about my life called I John. Okay. And so it'll it'll be coming out later on. But um let's so let's talk about my my weird life. Okay. Cuz because I I have a really weird life. Yeah. Um I was raised in a good Catholic family. Number number six of seven. They stopped naming after four. Um um and uh I mean when I say a Catholic family, my mom had her master's degree in liturgy. She was head of lurggical doctrine in my Catholic church. And that means that when the priest wants to do a sermon, he has to pass it by my mom. And she say fast father you can do it. Go kiss the ring. Go. You were you were really Catholic. Yeah. Right. Really Catholic. And and you know Cath Catholicism didn't work out real well for me because I the fear the anxiety the stresses it really gave me self-worth self-doubt and a lot of other issues that I had to overcome later in life. And I did and I did. Well when I turned 18 my mom was this is the most amazing thing that woman could have said to me. She said John spirituality is a personal journey. Go find what you believe. Wow, that's amazing. She let me go. And if I know you probably can't see in my in the background behind me here, picture my mom is up there on that on that shelf behind her there's a there's a green light and that's because she gave me the green light. Oh, that's awesome. So that's amazing actually. Oh, with her background, you know, head of lurggical doctrine in the Catholic Church to say go find what you believe. I think that was the most beautiful loving thing she could have done for me. Unbelievable. Yeah. So I went and I started studying everything and the first thing I did was become an atheist because I wanted to sleep in on Sundays. Um um right okay found out very found out very quickly when you're an atheist you are you are um victim to the news cycle you know you start you're not you don't have a faith and a belief of something could be greater or better you're just literally living in stimulus I for me it led to depression were you curious I mean you know because I It seems to me there must have been some inherent curiosity of what is truth, what is life, what is this whole thing? Because I think some people at 18 your mom says go study your own spirituality and you would do nothing with spirituality and you would just go pursue something else in that sort of way. So did that was that always in that's why I became an atheist because I was like I'm I'm done with this religion stuff. Right. Okay. Yes. But after a couple years it was like I was like I just I I'm depressed. Right. you know, it wasn't going well. Basically, wasn't going well. So, so then I started just saying, okay, is is there is there something else? And people started, my sister Patty, who I just love and adore, she she was very much in she was very much like a she was like a 1970s hippie, right? She was very much into peace and love and all that. And and I uh I literally she started like saying things to me and and talking to me about things and it never really sunk in. But I I eventually shifted from atheism to agnism. I became an agnostic. You know, I believe there's something greater than me, but I don't know what it is and I'm not vain enough to say what it is. Um, so then I was like in, you know, in that I was going along and I just started talking to people and getting their different points of views on things and I studied Buddhism and Hinduism and Bahigh, which is a lovely faith. Um, and I I just do dove into a whole bunch of different ideologies. And one day I was per I was I used to do a comedy sword fighting show called Hacken Slash and it was at Renaissance festivals all over the world. You did? Cas casually. Yeah, casually. Yeah. Um, when I left co when I left college, I went I went on the road of doing Renaissance vessels. It was a hacken slash show. Um and that that show got really popular got really popular. I was at Renaissance Festival all over the country and doing really well. And u when two in 2001 when there was um uh the tax in New York um I that that day I was asked well I'm sorry not that day two days earlier I was asked to do our hacken slash show for the USO and so I ended up doing six USO tours. What's the USO? I'm sorry. What's the USO? Sorry. Uh, uh, United Services Organization. It's a It's the organization that sends entertainment to soldiers overseas. Oh, okay. Yes. Uh, Bob Bob Hope is the most famous USO guy, right? Yeah. All sorts of people did that. That's right. I went as well. 2001 to 2006, I was on the front lines of Iraq, Afghanistan, and and six in 14 other countries entertaining soldiers overseas with hacken slash. With hacken slash. Incredible. Yeah. Yeah. And you know what? The soldiers are brave and I commend them for what they do. But I stood in Iraq wearing a pair of tights. Thank you very much. True artist. That's right. Not only artist, but brave, man. Brave. Frontline in tights. You're crazy. Come all artists. Yeah. But yeah, I was doing my hacken slash show and I was traveling all over and I found myself in Canada at at um a festival up there. It was a a short-term festival. only lasted a year or two, but I was up there performing and I was staying at a friend's house and a party is going on. I was just kind of sitting back in the room and at this point I was just I was really into just watching people and see how they interact. For some reason, that's just who I was and I want I'm watch and I keep seeing this woman looking at me from across the room and I know she's sitting right next to her husband. So, I know it's not a it's not it's not an attraction thing. So, I'm like, she stands up. She runs across the room. She says, "Um, you know you walked with Jesus, right?" And I said, "Excuse me." Right. Right. Right. Nice to meet you. Wow. And I was like, "What are you talking about?" And she was like, "Um," she says, "Yeah, you've you've got big things to do in this lifetime and and you walked with Jesus." And she says, "Don't you don't you know that?" And the weirdest part about it for me was the words fell out of my my mouth. Yes, I did. Now, I never as a as a coming up Catholic kind of guy coming through all that, I didn't believe in reincarnation at that point, right? I had no but somehow intuitively I knew that that was something that was there. I don't know what it was about, right? So, I immediately went, "What am I saying? I'm crazy. I'm out of here." And I left. Right. You didn't talk to her any like did you ask any follow-up questions? I I I didn't until Oh, okay. I left that that show in Canada. I went to Maryland and I backed in. I set my trailer up and about an hour later, this big RV pulls in and backs in right across from me and it's her and her husband. No way. Now she's directly across from me at the next show I'm at. Right. So I said, 'Okay, let's I I started talk asking people, who is this person? Yeah, she's a psychic and she does this that and I was like psychic. H no psychic. No psychics don't want psychic. Yeah. And but I said okay well let's let's let's have the experience. Let's let's do a psychic reading with her. Right. So I sit down with her and you know out of her what was your mindset? Were you kind of skeptical like like what you never had a reading before? This is your first time you've ever had one and you're like, "Let's see what it's about." kind of thing, right? Never had a reading, but my plan was to debunk it. Yeah, sure. My plan plan was to get this crap out of here and keep on going on with my life. She sits down. Suddenly, this calm comes over her. She says, "John of old, John of new. I love you. I've always loved you. I will always love you. I'm with you. I've always been with you. I always will be with you." And I'm like, "I don't love that." And then she says, "Do you see me?" And I say, "No." And she says, "Take my hands and see." And I'm like, I grabbed her hands and I I swear to you this happened. I was like, it was like my face was sitting in the sand on a beach. We were sitting in my trailer, right? My It was like my face was And I And I raised my head up and I'm looking at the sand. I'm watching stuff fall from me. And I'm looking at the back of my hands in front of me. And I look up a little bit. Right here are a pair of feet. And I look up further. Looking down at me is um that guy, right? Who uh who's laughing at me. And it was Yeshua, who I call Joshua bin Joseph, better known as Jesus, son of Joseph. Um and um I had a a uniquely profound experience that was beyond where I was. Whoa. Immediately. Yeah. Yeah. It was Are your eyes closed? You're grabbing your hands. Your eyes are closed. My eyes are closed. My eyes are closed and I'm seeing all this. And so this is like a This is a vision. Would you say it's a vision or were you transported? Was it visceral? Do you think you could smell the sand and your everything or was you seeing it like a in Yeah. What was that like? Comp completely visceral. Completely visceral. It was it was like I was literally there in that moment. It that's what what would blew my mind because Yeah. You can have imagination, but to add smells and sounds and and and wind, feeling the wind. Yeah. You know, that that to me was that was huge, right? I immediately said, "I'm out of here. Gone. Leaving." Yeah. That scared you? Fear. Fear was the first reaction like what the hell was that kind of thing? Feeling. What was the feeling in the when you were transporter? What was the feeling you got when you saw Josh just Josh just Josh just Josh just Josh just Josh just Joshua the first time? Uh shocking number one but um it was it was complete awe. And what was expression on his face? He was laughing at me. Oh right. He was he was and I mean laughing at me. Yeah. Right. Right. And and I'll explain what this moment was later because I actually had the full remembrance of that moment with more clarity much later. So I'll I'll come back to it. Okay. Um so I'm like I'm like no, I'm not doing that. Not doing that. And I go about my life. Right. So you you you cut the reading. You you let go of your hands and you're kind of No, no, we did. No, we did the whole reading. We did the whole thing. Okay. Okay. Right. And I said, "Thank you and we went on our merry way. Okay. And I was like, "No, no, not doing this. Not doing this. This is no. I don't want to be the guy who thinks he's Napoleon, you know, not like this is why." So I go up and I'm working at the Maryland Renaissance Festival and I sit down with a very good friend of mine who I've known for 20 years and you know, she was a professional mime, you know, so I know weird people by the way. It's incredible. Um, right. And I'm possibly just a yeah. Well, you know, you know, if a if a mime is cutting down a tree in the forest and the tree falls backwards and lands in the mine, does anyone care? Anyway, the the classic mind. So, I'm sitting here, I'm talking to her and I'm like, "So, what's been going on with your year?" And we're just talking. We're, you know, how's what's going on with your family? Out of the middle of the thing, she suddenly says, "You know, you were John the Beloved, right? this person I've known for 20 years now says this out of the blue and I'm like right then another one said it how long did they know when were you like how did you know this like it was it was coming out in the moment okay coming out in the moment right they didn't know that they were going to say it either we never thought about it until that moment she got that information at that moment and and wow very clear so then uh another one said And the way that one happened, I was walking along at a holistic festival. Friend of mine was selling jewelry at a holistic festival and I was walking past the the row with readers and a lady stopped the reading, ran out and grabbed me by the arm. She says, "You know, you're John the beloved, right?" Right. So, and then I had 19 psychics in a row tell me the exact same. One of them I I I found out that she had read for a guy named Nick Munich, who remembered being the Apostle Paul, and there's a book about him called The Messengers. Okay. Um, and I found out who one of his reader was. I said, you know, if I'm going to call her and I'm if see what she gets without telling her who I am, right? I called up to set the appointment. I said, "Yeah, I'd like to set up an appointment." She said, "Oh my god, you're John the Beloved." No way. No way. Oh my gosh. So, I had 19 psychics tell me spontaneously like that, right? Finally, over a period of how many months? How long were those 19 readings, you think? or the bulk of them five months. That's incredible. le less than definitely less than a year. But I'll And was that those were a lot of them were initiated by you then eventually like I mean if I have a bunch of people coming up to me telling me the same message independently over and over eventually I would start testing it. I go well let me call that guy and let me call and what do you say you know you kind of start playing with it a little bit. Not playing with it but investigating it. I started towards the end you know probably half of them were completely spontaneous. They grabbed me and told me and the other half were me going okay is this really true? Right. M and and I would specifically make sure I'd find people who had no idea who I was, right? You know, my hack and slash show and all that stuff was pretty well known. So, I was finding I was walking into weird places in Right. Finally, one night I was like, I am done. I am completely done with this. I don't want to do this. Right. You're still an agnostic at this stage. Yeah. Technically. Yeah. What's the timeline? How how long is this after after you're 18? Uh, oh my gosh, this this happened much later. I was okay when when this happened. Um, I would say well, let's see. My first regression was 1999, says 25 years ago, under 60. So, this is closer to 30 years old. So, you were pretty much an agnostic from like 20 to 30 to for a long over a decade. You were an agnostic. I I I was agnostic and God curious. Are we still we still reading and investigating like religion kind of? Oh yeah. Oh absolutely. I I am mass a massive collection of books and you know and not only old age dogmas like you know Christianity and Judaism and uh uh Buddhism, Dowoism all that but also Echartole Chopra you know Wayne Dyer you know I was studying everything I could find right and I discovered that that spirituality is is is everywhere it's in everything in everyone and when you put yourself on one train track, you only see one view. But when you realize that you go above and you can see all the train tracks, go to the same place, then you find universal truths in all of it. And and to me, I was finding universal truths in all of it. But anyway, so so 19 psychics. And finally, I was like, damn it, I'm done. No more psychics. No more psychics. I I said, God, if you want me to have this information, you bring that information to me directly. I'm done with these these other people telling me. Buddy of mine walks in the house. He hands me a book called Edgar Casey on the Millennium. Edgar Casey. Yeah. Okay. So, I'm I'm I'm reading this book. I get to page 32. John the Beloved will again be named John. That's what Edgar Casey said in 1943. So, I'm like, wow. Crap. Crap. Right. So I said, "Okay, I don't It's closing in on you. This is closing in on you. You can't run from it." Absolutely. Finally, I was like I was like, "I don't want Even Edgar Case is a psychic. I don't want a psychic." And I went and I found a a certified doctor of hypnotherapy who did past life regressions. And I and I went in a week a week prior. This is the sign of a good good real fit hypnotherapist. You go in a week prior, they they they give you a meditation. They they guide you through a meditation. They record it. They send you home to train for a week with their voice. So I trained for a week with their voice and I came back and the most profound experience of my life happened next. Most profound experience of my life happened. She regressed me to the life of John the beloved apostle. And it started out, it's kind of funny. I I I I'm opening my eyes and I'm first of all, I'm smelling fish. There's a pile of fish beside me and nets around me, right? And I'm working on I'm actually repairing nets. I'm tying holes, right? Um and as I'm smelling this, I'm feeling this. The wind's blowing. And I turn and there's a man standing beside me and I just knew that was my father. But he had a he had a like a really deformed back. His back was like hunched over and I literally say, you know, his his back's bad. He can't do the work anymore. So I do it. All right. So it's like, okay, this is really unique. And we're just talking about moving fish to get fish up to them where we're going to how we're going to get them up there and so on. Normal business stuff. I look down. My legs are bare. Now, let me explain something. I'm viscerally and physically feeling this like I'm standing there. But the conversation with the regressionist is the thoughts in my head. It's like we had literally shifted consciousness places, right? So, I'm there and and I'm I'm still consciously John Davis and I'm looking down looking at my bare legs. In my mind, I'm going, "Oh, good. I'm not an apostle." Because apostles wear robes. Right. Incredible. Incredible. And then, Right. And then I found out later on that what I was wearing was called a fisher coat. It was basically a Galilean one piece for for fishermen to use when they were fishing so that the robes wouldn't suck them under if they fell over. Wow. So, I was I was actually more accurate towards an apostle than than the rogues would have been. So you enter this, you go to hypnotherapist, you enter hypno, you enter a state of hypnosis, and in that state, you're transported all the way to there. And you live this moment as if you're there right now. From there. Yep. Yep. Yep. And the next the regressionist says, "What's the next most important moment?" And the next most important moment, I'm I'm watching people run down the beach in front of me. Like literally running. I'm like I said, 'People are running. And she says, 'Where are they going? And I said, 'There's a crowd.' She says, 'What's in the crowd? I I said, 'I don't know.' She says, 'What did you do?' She says, "Oh, well, I'm going right." And I I walk over to this crowd. And as I get closer and closer to this crowd, I start to feel this pure love. I'm not even in the crowd yet. I'm feeling this feeling hitting me. And you hear me in my regression. I'm going, "Oh, oh my god, you could feel him. Oh my god, you can feel them. This is what I'm saying, right? And if you there's a there's a video on my YouTube channel, John of New, that's called um uh two moments for my regression. And you hear this moment and then you hear me witness him on the cru cross on in the crucifixion. And it's it's I I have a hard time listening to that because you hear me actually responding to him on being nailed to the cross. Um yeah, horrible. Yeah. Um but I'm walking towards this crowd. feeling this this pure love and I kind of like push my way in and I get in and I see bad guy, right? I I painted that painting about uh well the regression was in October and I painted that painting in in uh January from memor from memory. Um so um I get into the crowd and he's standing there. I'm looking at him and he he looks at me with the strangest look. It's like like he'd known me his whole life. Like it was like, "Oh, hey." You know, and he kind of walks over and he he raises his hand up. He just pats it right on my chest. And John of old, that's how I refer to that character, John of old, um had what's what a lot of people would have considered a near-death experience. He literally left the physical world and went into pure love. And I witnessed it in my regression. And so how weird is that? Okay, we're talking about weird out. That's very strange. Very strange because it's like, you know, having a near-death experience inside of a past life regression inside of hypnosis state inside of past life regression. And you have that. Wow. And you Yeah. You lived it. You experienced it. You didn't just watch it. You like had the NDE. Yeah. Yeah. This that's why that's why this was the most impactful moment of my life because I not only had the experience of meeting Joshua, but I also had the experience of crossing over and experiencing the pure love of God, right? you know that I I was chatting with Austin uh recently and I've been thinking a lot about uh Jesus and what it would have been like to be around him because I think that a lot of times people think of Jesus and he seems magical and mystical because it's and anyone 2,000 years ago uh is hard to envision anyone because you know you just think of it like a TV show or the chosen or whatever it is and but I but I thought you know thousands of people went to this guy and they had to have had an experience. Like you show up, it couldn't have just been wise words. Like we've heard professors just give hourlong lectures and you don't see all thousand or hundred kids get so excited that they have to like run out and tell all their families and friends. And I and I just thought in this world, in my reality right now, what would have had to have happened that would make this many people just viscerally change their lives and run somewhere? And I've really trying to think about what would that have been like to be around Jesus in that situ or Joshua, you know, in that situation. That that's a great way to take this conversation because what happened next explains all that. Oh, she said literally all Okay, great. Because what hap what happened next? I was in that experience and the regressionist was just hearing me moan. I was just literally moaning because I was feeling this pure love, this purity of love. And she says, "What's the next most important moment?" Well, again, right. And the next most important moment was feeling all my fears, my anxieties, my stresses, my separation from that feeling, from that love, from that God. And I'm watching Yeshua walk away over a hillside. And um she says, "What what what's what's going on?" As I'm watching him walk away, she says there was, you know, I forget what she what she exactly asked, but I said, "He gave me a glimpse of everything, and now I have to be with him. I have to go with him." You always wonder why an apostle would or a person would walk away from their entire life leave everything they have like that the the response is so genuine it couldn't have been faked and it and it it couldn't have just been I've heard a million wise words I've heard a million convincing arguments I've heard a million things that are interesting and right or cool or whatever and never have I been like I have to leave every single thing that I had know in my life do I don't care about it anymore and go this way like what an incredible moment to be a part of that. Yeah, absolutely. And and um in that regard, one of the things that came out of the regression was that everything is love anyway. And the only reason we're feeling our fears and anxieties and stresses is so that we can come to know love more fully because you could never know love without knowing its opposite, without knowing the baseline to measure. Again, it's like it's like living in a in a purely white world without ever seeing another color. You can never give white a description, right? Because you have no you have no other balance. And then you know the Buddha says the secret to enlightenment is the eradication of fear. And the the Sufis say God's on one side of a veil and we're on the other side of the veil and our life is the struggle against the veil and the veil is our fear. And the Bible says though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. Right? So, it's all about this world being a place of overcoming our fears and anxieties and bringing the kingdom of heaven to earth or bringing Nirvana here, you know, however you want to say it. It's a matter of of of releasing our fears and coming back to pure love. What was it about uh Jesus, Jesua, how does how does he do that? How does how does someone just get how does how does he get to just put his hands on someone's chest and and know you forever and you're just boom like you're done. You didn't It's almost like you didn't have a choice. Anybody he could do it to anybody. How does someone do that? And I don't think it was the hand that did it. No. I And I just mean the whole experience. I don't think it Yeah. Yeah. But that How does one person have that? Have you ever been at a party and someone walks in who's just so amazingly charismatic you just spot them and you know them. Yeah. That's a completely that's a person who's fe who has less fear than you. They're comfortable in their own skin maybe another way of saying it. And so they're just there's you know Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No fear. And Jesua had no fear and Buddha had no fear and Krishna had no fear and Muhammad had no fear and Bah had no fear. All the avatars of all We can feel that when someone has no fear, we can feel that they have no fear. Everyone or everyone, most people whatever they can feel that right in the gospel of John literally says perfect love drives out fear, right? So he's literally he is being the essence of pure love. And you can and it's visceral. That's why that's why that person walks in the party. You can feel their presence when they walk in. They own the room. You you hear that room. They own the room. He he had that to the unth degree, right? And you could then you could literally feel it, right? Now, he also was a man and he was a man who found this within himself and was showing us how to find it within ourselves. And that's where the schism of Christianity and I fall away from each other as Christianity makes him the Messiah and the only one and the only way to God. And you know, you know, if you look at the the world of Christianity today, it's fascinating because uh 30% of the world identify as Christian. 30%. Of that 30%, less than half of them are practicing. By far, less than half. Sure. So now we're at 85% of the people don't believe the 100% Christianity, right? But that 15% that are left are the most vicious, viscerally mad people, that you'll ever meet. You know, I have been doing this work since the 19 since 1999, basically 2000, right? I've never had a a Buddhist say a harsh word, a Hindu say a harsh word, a bahigh say a worse, an agnostic say a harsh word, an atheist say a harsh word. But I'm called the Antichrist and the devil almost every day. And it's never it's never never by in your own corner. Yeah. Yeah. And the main the main reason is because they are the only faith that have said that he's the only way. You know, one of the things that makes me think of is I I mean it's said so many times in the Bible that Jesus didn't want to be worshiped. like I he he went into the city on a donkey and he washed his disciples feet and and I think what I think about the works that I have done you will do you will do and I think a lot of Christians think that he did that fake humbly like I'm actually the son of God but I'm going to sneak in on this donkey but we all know I'm really the son of God and so but but I I've actually just thought what if he was genuine what if he was like stop like I'm trying to sneak in here because it really isn't about me and he really means it's not about me. Do not worship me. I'm trying to sneak in here to help everybody or whatever. And and if what if those actions were actually genuine and he's saying don't worship me. This is not about me. In the Bible, he never says he's the son of God. He says he's the son of man. Right. And a lot of times they're like, "Are you the Messiah?" He says, "Who do you say?" Son of man. You're a son of man. You're a son of man. You know, he's pretty cryptic sometimes. Yeah. That's right. Or or Yeah. Right. He's he's actually not cryptic. They're saying he's cryptic. Right. Yeah. Sure. Christianity is a negotiation with ancient texts because even even you look you look at you look at the Old Testament, it never mentions Jesus. But Christians will say, "Well, that prophecy is about Jesus and that prophecy about Jesus." And the Jews say, "No, it's not. What are you talking about?" Right. There's discrepancies. Yeah. Of of the different groups. Yeah. Right. And then you get into Islam and that's even more fascinating because they don't think he was the son of God. They think he was the prophet before Muhammad. And so it's like he they they totally respect him. They think he's coming back. All the stuff they said. The Muslims also say all Jews, Christians, and Muslims are all going to heaven because they're all praying to the same God. Right? Then you get to the Bahigh faith, which is a beautiful faith, beautiful faith. They believe Bahalah was the prophet after Muhammad. So they have this this Abrahamic line. And and so it's really interesting. It's it's only the Christians who say he's the only way. And it's only the Christians who judge the rest of the world that way. And and and if you want to think about it from a and and you know, I know beautiful, loving Christian people. My mom was one, right? Obviously, right? I think there's beautiful people in all faiths. Of course, when when my mom went to my mom went to her Irish Catholic priest and she says, "Father, I'm concerned. My my son thinks he's a reincarnated apostle." and her Irish Catholic priest, and I mean Irish Catholic priest, red hair parted down the middle, wire rim glasses, obe. She says, "Uh, father, I'm concerned. These are card of the apostle." The priest went, "Don't discount it. It might be true." Dang, man. No way. Don't discount it. Yeah. I think there are beautiful people in all religions and all faiths and and I think that when we recognize that we we actually find a closer connection to God because God is everything. That train analogy I used earlier, you know, the all the trains are going to the same places. And when you step back and you look at all of the ancient texts from all the different perspectives, you find several universal truths. One of them being that love is God. Number two, that our thoughts are creating our experience. Mhm. That and that's a big one because the Bible is if you don't know that it takes a while. Well, the Bible literally says when you pray, believe you shall receive and you shall, right? If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can ask a mountain to move if you have faith. Nothing's impossible for you. Uh whatever you're asking, God's name is granted if you have faith. Right. What do you think people a question on that? What do you think uh people think when they read that and they go, "Well, I prayed for this mountain to move and it didn't did didn't move and I have faith that but if you're Christian but if you're a Christian, you your your definition of faith and my definition of faith are completely different." Yeah. As a as a Christian, yours is faith in Jesus. And mine means faith is belief. Mhm. And so people pray to Jesus hoping that it'll happen. Right. It's like it's like the modern new age guys do the affirmations, right? Yep. Now I I don't believe in affirmations at all because the word affirmation means I'm shoring up something I have no confidence in. Why would you need to affirm it? If you're the creator of your experience, you declare things into your experience, right? And and what happens with prayer, it's this it's the same, you know, there's an old Catholic joke. Uh Bob goes to mass and he sticks his hands together and he says, "Dear God, please let me win the lottery." And a week goes by and he doesn't win the lottery. And the second week he goes, "Dear God, please I've been a good Catholic my whole life. Please let me win the lottery." Doesn't happen. Third week goes back, "Dear God, I've been a good Catholic my whole life. When my wife died, I didn't lose faith. Please let me win the lottery." Voice comes down from heaven. Bob, do me a favor. Meet me halfway and buy a ticket. There you go. Yeah, sure. We are we are part of creation. You know the the the Bible the Bavad Gia the Buddha says what you think you become you create your world. The B of Adita says thought by thought you forge your destiny. Therefore to keep your mind on the positive rather than the negative is considered the austerity of the mind. All right. Um Deart the philosopher said I think therefore I am. Shakespeare said there's nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so. Right. Our thoughts are creative and it's found everywhere. And what's also interesting is our present moment is the only moment of creation. And prayer and affirmation is praying for something ahead of themsel rather than believing it's being received in the now. And so that's why they never get it because they're it's praying for a future state. It's out of time, right? And we can we can't go to the store next Thursday right now. We can only go to the store right now. We never leave the present moment. And the past is just a collection of present moment memories. And the future is just a place where we set goals for the next present moment. But we'll experience that in the present moment because we never leave the present moment. So everything we do in creation, everything we do in in prayer and affirmation has to be believed is happening in the now for it to come to to creation. When when you experienced the shedding of fear in the in the past regression, did that shedding of fear carry over into your day-to-day? Yeah. Yeah, that that's I love that question because I am far more fearless than I than I ever was in life. But to be here is to experience fears of some kind. So, you know, to to be in the physical, you can't be perfect, right? So, you come here and you experience the fears. And I I honestly think that when you fully get rid of your fears, that's when you cross over and and you go to the greater awareness of everything. Yeah. The Bu the Buddhus literally said the secret to enlightenment is the eradication of fear, right? So it comes back to this idea that you know we we you know what was the last thing Jesua said is love one another, right? Just be the love be be love. I think that's specifically why he's called John the beloved because the guy just kept saying be love be love be love. Right. Right. So it comes down to we, you know, for me personally, I I I don't I'm the best way I could say this is be in the world but not of it from the Bible, right? I'm here and I and I watch the world as as this oneness, this non-duality. And I see people coming at me and calling me the antichrist. And I recognize that's their fear, not mine. So it doesn't I'm not I'm not attached to because for me to be attached to it would would literally be empowering it. Yeah. You give it you give it your energy. You give it your attention. Yeah. Right. Feeds it. It's like Mother Mother Teresa said they asked her to go to an anti-war rally. She said, "No, have a pro peace rally. I'll come." Because you focus on the anti-war, you're actually focused on war. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. It's it's amazing, right? And and the thing in life is we all have that experience. So let me let me continue on with the life story now. You ready? Yeah. Great. I know. Yeah. Sounds great. So So now I I I I come out into the world and I'm speaking all I spoke at Edgar Casey's house in Virginia Beach. Um, I I mean I was like I was out there doing the doing the work and um I was traveling all over North America and I came kept coming back to the same places because they they liked me because I'm when I speak I'm funny and I and I make it real and I make it simple. And you were already a you were you were a speaker in in a different profession and so not not yet. Oh you weren't a corporate action hero yet. Not yet. You but you were uh but you were you did you've been a show. It feels like you've been in front of people. Hacket lash. I was in front of lots of people. Yeah. A lot for a lot of years. So So now I'm coming back to all the same locations and people are coming back to see me again. But none of them are changing their lives. None of them are hearing what I'm teaching. They're only interested in my past life. So I decided I'm going to leave spiritual work altogether and I'm going to take what I teach and I'm going to write wrap a different vocabulary around it and I'm going to go into one place where I think they need more spirituality which is the corporate world and I created the corporate action hero and I went in and doing teaching the same stuff you know you know creation you know goal setting is achievement right you know you just change the vocabulary around a little bit and build them up and then give them an experience where they can understand that that all the powers within them. So when you were the corporate action hero, you had already had your regression, already remembered all of this and you were living this out in a just a prof not just but a professional setting without uh that's I didn't know that. I thought I thought this came after that but you were actually just living life living normal life just doing your thing. I thought what I want what I wanted to do was be like a spiritual spy. I wanted to get the I wanted to put people on a path as opposed to, you know, just preaching to the choir. My goal was to put people on a spiritual path to start them looking for a spiritual path. And uh I was doing great, but I I didn't feel authentic, you know, because I was not being me. I was not telling my my true story as it is. I was hiding my true story. And I did that. I did that. I was very I was very successful doing that. I made good money doing that. my speeches because of my hacken slash background. Oh yeah. My speeches had like numchucks and bullwh whips in them and I was like I was like it was just crazy. You could incorporate some of the old material. Yeah. And like the the final thing I did on stage is I took the most timid person I could find in my audience and using the techniques of fearlessness and purpose and uh altering your timeline. Uh, I took that most timid person and took her and under five minutes from never having touched a whip to cracking a whip and hitting targets out of my hand. Oh, cool. Yeah. Which was amazing. Yeah. Is managing I could teach you that in minutes because it's it's literally is I did. I did. You did? I I carried a million dollars worth of worth of uh insurance whichever because of the whip. Yeah, I absolutely did. I believe it. Um, but I was I was ne I was I was never hit. Not once. H sorry. Um Um But what happened was is I wasn't I was really not feeling good about what I was doing because I wasn't being me. I wasn't being myself. And COVID hit, which was the blessing of the world for me because guess what? Motivational speakers don't speak during CO. Oh my gosh. You got flat. You got flattened. The business got flattened. Flattened because like you know you don't hire people to come talk into rooms with large numbers of people during co right so I was like oh thank god relief. Oh my god. I was traveling 70 70 days a year you know and it was like it was actually no I'm sorry I had the year before co I had 70 events. I traveled over 200 days that year. Oh there you go. That's a lot of a lot of travel. I was like, "Holy smok, this is terrible." So, um I I was like, "Okay, I I I basically I asked my source because I the way I do it now is I I set my fears aside and I just ask questions and I thoughts pop into my head now, right? So, I'm like, is it time?" That's your practice. You're seeking those answers and so you remove as much fear as you can and ask a question and wait. Yeah. And just listen. Just listen. Yeah. And I was told flat out it was time to come back. Right. And the next day I was invited to be interviewed on a channel called Intuitive View, which is a little tiny little spiritual channel. Okay. And I said, "Okay, if this is going to work, what's what are we going to do?" I said, "I'm going to I'm going to open up a YouTube channel. I'm going to start a website and uh I'm gonna make a couple videos because there's a couple videos on the channel so when people come to the channel they know that it's not just a fly by night, right? And I went out and did the interview and the day before that interview I had no subscribers and next day I had 300. Cool. Incredible. And um I came back to the work. But the reason I went into this into the corporate work was specifically because I wanted the teachings are more important than the person. And which is why Jesua went to the cross. The teachings were more important than the person. He sent he sent John to Turkey. He sent Peter to Rome. He sent James told James to stay in Jerusalem. He sent people all over the world for the teachings and then took took the the headstone of the teachings that everyone thought was the Messiah or whatever out of the equation so the go on. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. He was he was the spiritual rockstar that everyone was looking at and and Rome of course thought and and the Jews as well thought that getting rid of him this whole little spiritual rebellion would would be squashed and it wasn't because it got spread and it took you know it's taken a long time for us to come back out to this reality. But um I think right now it's like over the past 20 years uh Christian churches have lost 54% of their congregations. It's existential for them. Yeah, it's huge. Yeah. When they when they did the studies as to why people were leaving, the number one answer they they got was freedom, people felt trapped by religion as opposed to being um loving edified. Exactly. Exactly. And so to me, when I So that's that's what happened next, right? So now I'm back out. I'm doing the work and I'm like, okay, I want to um I start practicing what I preach, understanding that what I what I think I can create into my life. Now, what is it what has it created into my life? You know, I wanted world travel. I declared I was receiving world travel. I've been to 30 countries. I've been to 32 states. I've been inside the pyramids of Giza on top of Machu Picchu. I swam the blue lagoons of Iceland. So on the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan, you know, I wanted to be in a movie with a major star. I was in a movie called California with Brad Pitt, David Dubny, and Juliet Lewis. Whoa. Um, sweet. I I wanted to be friends with and work with some of the top fight directors in the world because I was a fight director and um like choreographing fight scenes. Yeah. Wow. Okay. My hack is less. It was I was a natural fit for that. Right. Yeah. Sure. So, yeah. Right. I I end up becoming a teacher with the International Order of the Sword and Pen, which is an organization that does the International Stage Combat Workshop up in Canada, and my friends did the choreography for Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Highlander, Batman Begins. I have a friend who's literally in uh Robin Hood: Men and Tights. Thank you very much. Hey, very well. Now, we're getting to the real movies. Well, ex Exactly. But the the point of it is is going back to that Highlander story we told earlier. Nothing's impossible and you should never aim small. You should aim for what you want. What big or small whatever it is you just declare it's happening but believe it's coming into your experience and it's going to come. You know I I said earlier I spoke the AR. Let me tell you the story about how that came to be. Right. What's the sir? Uh the association for research and enlightenment. That's the Edgar Casey Foundation. Oh right. Here we go. Right. Right. Right. Cool. So they So they called me up out of the blue. They said, "Hey, we want you to come speak at Edgar Casey's house." I told you I did that. Right. And what I was like, "Yes, I'll come right now if you want. I'll hop in the truck." I was so excited, man. I was I was all about it. And um they said, "Can you come in three weeks?" I said, "Yes, I can." So I hung up the phone. Now, what they didn't know was that I uh two days earlier had been in a production of Shakespeare's Henry V playing exit and I'd been smacked in the mouth with a broadsword and my front my front tooth was cracked in half. Oh, now I did not want to stand in Edgar Casey's house. Hi there, I'm John. How are you? Didn't want to be that guy. Right. And um I literally said, "Thank you, God, for the perfect tooth I am receiving." Amen. And I ordered my submarine sandwich because once you ask, you have to let it go. Move on. You because it's present moment. I am receiving this. So, it's definitely happening. So, I'm going to get lunch, right? So, yeah. Okay. I ordered us I ordered a submarine sandwich from Jimmy John's. The sandwich came to my house. I turned my television on. I bit into that sandwich. The tooth broke the rest of the way off. Now, anybody else would have said, "Well, that didn't work." That was the opposite. Right. Right. But I have faith. I said, "Oh, it's going to happen fast." Because I know that this if something happened to my tooth after I declared I was receiving a perfect tooth, this had to be part of the process. It's in motion. Yeah. Yeah. It it comes in through the path of least resistance, right? So I I said, "I am receiving this perfect tooth." Tooth breaks off. Two hours later, the phone rings. Hi, John. This is Carol Black, the entertainment director of the the Florida Renaissance Festival. How are you? I said, "Uh, well, honestly, Carol, my my tooth just broke off." She says, "That's really weird you'd say that to me today, John." I go, "Why?" She says, "This morning I became president of the Rescue Foundation." I said, "I don't know what the Rescue Foundation is." What's the Rescue Foundation? It's an organization that helps Renaissance Festival entertainers get medical and dental work done for free. No way. Oh my gosh. And she over she overn me a check. No way. Wow. Incredible. So the the thing is is understanding that even the thought of how things happen is the declaration that it's not happening now of doubt. Yeah. Yeah. How's this? Yeah. How's not your job? How's not your job? You know, you're you're the inspiration. God is to paint the paintbrush and the canvas. And the paint paintbrush in the canvas is the how, right? So all you do is is put it out. You know, whatever you ask in God's name is granted if you have faith. It does not say whatever you ask in God's name is granted if you can figure out how. Doesn't say that, right? Sure. So, it comes back to this idea. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Even the thought of how something is happening. Can you finish that sentence again? That was so good. Yeah. Well, you think about it. If I'm if I'm asking how it's going to happen, I'm declaring that it's not happening now. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. So, so it's like whatever you ask in God's name is granted. God's name is I am, not I was or I will be, right? It's here and the now that we create, right? And I'll give you another example, another house story. This one will make you laugh. This is a funny one. Uh, I was going to be short on rent one month. I was going to be short short 400 bucks on rent one month. Thank you, God, for the unexpected income I am receiving. Amen. Now, notice what I just said. I said unexpected income. Right. couple hours. And you would only pray this one time because you don't ask. You don't even wait. Well, and let's let's talk about let's talk about the way I prayed it, too. When you thank for something, you believe you're receiving it. So, hey, can I have a glass of water? You say thank you when the water is coming, right? Thank you, God, for the blank. I am present moment declaration. Also, God's name receiving present moment action, not received or will receive. Amen. Amen means so be it. And he's right here, right now. It's done. Everything I said was present moment. Everything I said was present moment. And you think it requires patience then as well. No. No. I don't think it requires patience as as just letting it go. In fact, letting it go. Letting it go. The con the concept of patience is a restriction on it. It's still doubt. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I just go go. What is that? And the less doubt you have, the fa the faster it comes. And and let me give you an example is this this asking for unexpected income. Two hours later, I walked out my front door. There was an envelope lying on the ground outside of my house. Not in my mailbox. On the ground outside of my house. I picked it up. I turn it over. It's addressed to me. I tear it open. There's a check inside of it made out to me for $400. Just exa exactly what I needed. Right. And this in this letter. Hi John, this is Dr. Basiotus from the urology clinic. When we performed your vasctomy, we overcharged you by $400. Here's your refund. Incredible. Right. Now, the first miracle, of course, was that the doctor gave money back. Right. That's right. Never. Never. Never. The second miracle was that I only paid $600 for the procedure in the first place. Oh, man. And he sent 400 of it back. Now, if you guys can tell me where I can get a $200 vasectomy, I'll go have a second one because that's a good deal. That's right. That's right. Give me Give me a BOGO on that one just to make sure it takes. Oh, I'm gonna I'm going to use the BOGO line. But it it what did I ask for? I asked for unexpected income and I never asked again because I just believed it was happening. If you have faith means if you believe it. Yeah. And so it's a matter of coming back to that. what you think you become. You create your world, right? But you can only think in the present moment. So is believing basically just getting rid of all fear that another possibility is gonna take place? It's it's a very interesting question because I think that it's simpler than that. I I just think it just is. It just is. It's just a thing that's going to that is happening. It is is happening. Yeah. I am receiving this. And I I I could tell you so many things that that have created in my life that have been like just amazing how they happened, right? And and I'll tell you some some screw-ups, too, right? I'm sitting here. I'm sitting here in my studio, which is a very nice studio. It's pretty well set up. Got all my rigs and all that stuff. But right above my head, there's a stain on that ceiling. And there's a stain on the ceiling because a squirrel got into my attic. Right. See that? Okay. I had it live trapped and taken somewhere and let free out in the nature somewhere. And I came in here with a can of Kills primer paint and a brush. And I sat there and I started painting across that that stain. And I as I'm painting, I glanced over and I saw on on a table about seven or eight feet away was a brand new button-down collared shirt, black one. And I'm painting. I look over and go, "Oh man, I'm going to get paint on that." He certainly did. That second a dot flew off that brush through flew a soft spoon and landed on the front of that black shirt. All right. Be careful what you think. That's right. All All I could do was laugh. Yeah. Right. Laugh because I understand. I know exactly what happened. Right. You know you you guys probably both know a negative person. Right. Sure. You ever you ever notice they always have something to be negative about? Yeah. That's because that's because they believe the world is negative and they see a negative world. Right. I went into a restaurant one time with a guy and walking into the restaurant, he says, "I hate this place. Why do we always come here?" I said, "What are you talking about?" I love this place. It's the perfect greasy spoon. You know? Yeah. That's right. Sometimes it's what you need. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. And we're we're walking in. He says that I we walk in. We sit down at our table. The waitress comes over. First line out of her mouth. I'm sorry. I'm having a bad day and it's got to reflect in your service. Literally what she said. I found it hysterical. I started to giggle, right? That's what I do in life, right? Yeah. He was the guy across from me was just angry. He was just angry about the statement. I turned to the lady and I said, "I'm so sorry you're having that kind of day. Why don't you sit down? I'll get you some dinner. I'll take care of the rest of your tables." And she started laughing and I started laughing and we started joking. We started flirting and we had a great conversation and she'd go and she'd wait on somebody else to come back to me because I was making her feel good. Yeah. I was giving her the unconditional love that she was lacking in that moment. Yeah. This guy across from me was just angry, right? He and I both ordered steak dinners with salads. Our salads came to the table. My salad, I swear to God, she handpicked every vegetable. Choir choir should have been singing when this choir when this salad hit the table because it was like a perfect salad, right? His comes to the table. It was the core of the iceberg lettuce cut into four chunks. All right. Is that right? Yeah. What is this? Sends it back. Comes back out. It's now eight chunks. Right. What? She cut it a couple more times. Brought it back out. Our steak dinner's come. I ordered mine medium. Well, he ordered his rare. I cut into my steak. I swear my mom must have been in the kitchen because it was a perfectly cooked steak. Awesome. Right. He cut it in the center of his. There was a thin line at the center of his that was still frozen. Oh, it was rare. Yeah. Yeah, he got it. Yeah. He had a terrible meal. He had a sirly waitress. He had everything he said he he was going to get when he said, "I hate this place." I had a magnificent meal. I had a fun conversation flirting with a waitress. I got her phone number. I dated her for several months. We're still friends on Facebook. Wow. Right. Well, so what happened? When I sat down at the table, there were two negative people. When I got up, there was one. I changed the world. Right on. Yeah. Right. And that that's really the key is this is your job is not to uh save the world. Your job is to make your part of the world so bright that the world chooses to save itself around you. But understand the rest of the world, some of them might not choose it. That's okay. That's their choice. They're allowed. Yeah. That's incredible. I have a question I need to ask you. Uh we've chatted with a few people and I've seen a couple of documentaries and this is a totally different direction. Uh but about G Jesus being in India for the last 18 years. Jesua, I hope it's okay. I I hope it's okay. I call him Jesus. It's a you can call him whatever you whatever you want. But just the speculation and Issa over at the ashrooms and written about in books and that one Russian guy in 1900 that put that forth and you know I don't know and you know I don't know so I figure have an opinion on it or or Well I I actually do have an opinion on it and um I don't have any distinct memories of that. Okay. But but I am more inclined to believe it than not. And that's because when I traveled in India, I studied about Shri Issa and Yeah. Yeah. And you you you you go and you you they tell you where he went. They tell you what he did. They have the whole timeline of where he was when he did, right? And then when you ask them what happened to him, they say he went back to his country was crucified. Now, here's the part that most people don't talk about. They also believe that after the crucifixion, he came back with his wife and raised children there and died there. Whoa. Now, now, now I'm going to bring you back to the moment that I talked about earlier with my face in the sand. Okay. Okay. The next question people always ask me is, did he resurrect? I get that question all the time. Now, shoot. Right. In India, there are story after story after story of gurus who come to a raging river. They can't cross the river. So they sit down, they project their consciousness to the other side, they manifest their body around them and they keep walking. So basically they resurrect their body on the other side of the river. Sure. Right. Lots of stories like that. Lot lots of stories like that. Lots of stories like that. when I was uh months after the crucifixion, I had a memory of being back in Galilee, literally sitting on a boat talking to someone. I'm not even sure who it was I was talking to at the time, but we were just like deflated. And it was months after the crucifixion. We were back away from Jerusalem because we couldn't stay there, you know, and we're like on this boat. We're like, we're not even really, you know, present because we're so deflated. Distraught. Distraught. Depressed. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Right. And then the guy with me goes and he jumps overboard. Now, I'm going to biblically this would be Peter. Sure. Right. But I didn't know at the time. Um, I look over and and Joshua was standing on the shore. This is months after the crucifixion. Wow. And and I get out. I I get back and I get out and I run to him and I drop on my face in front of him and I look up at him and he starts laughing at me. So that moment when I first saw him from the first regret, first psychic reading was after he was crucified. Now I that's the last memory I have of him. So I don't know whether he went back to India with his wife but but I do know he had a wife. That's also a bold statement. Yeah. And the reason I know he had a wife Yeah. The reason I know he had a wife is because he called her Ishty in my regression. And Ishty is Hebrew for wife. And this is what she looked like. Oh wow. I I painted that painting recently because I think it's important to get her face out. Amazing. She was She was absolutely a lovely lovely person who laughed and joked and smiled and um I I loved her to death and he loved her with every every part of his soul. They they were the giddy couple that giggled until they cried laughing all the time. It was just a beautiful beautiful relationship. And someone about four months ago, I'm one of those guys that because of the regression, um there's a certain percentage of people who get regressed who continue to have spontaneous regressions. Yeah. I was going to ask if you keep getting more memories or more, you know, I'm one of the one I'm one of the ones that does and usually what happens is somebody will ask me something and it'll trigger a memory. Sure. It unlocks something. Yeah. About six months ago, somebody said, "What did what did Mary Magdalene look like?" And I had this visceral memory of she and I together clearing a table, laughing so hard we were crying. It was and I was and that's why I wanted to paint that picture because I wanted people to see her face and to understand and you know he literally did call her Ishty which is means wife. So I have to say that she was his wife. Amazing. Well, and then also if you just look biblically, uh, they call him rabbi. Now, in the Jewish tradition, to be a rabbi, you have to have a wife. So, because it's it's the male and female representation. So, to me, I I I look at it from it's just he was a man who found his divinity and was showing us ours. At one point in the Bible, he says, "Take heart. I have overcome the world." You don't say take heart to somebody unless those people are trying to get there. Right? He literally is telling them they have the power within them. Ye are gods. Ye are gods. Right? It always it always comes back to this idea that you know he was a man who found his divinity. And quite honestly, it's a better story than the me messianic one because it it gives us hope that we can be it as opposed to falling in line of subjugation. It puts the power within. Yeah. Yeah. Which is what he which is what the kingdom of heaven is within you. You know, I mean, it's it's all there. It's just a matter of interpretation. And and unfortunately that that the interpretation the messianic interpretation has made Christianity the deadliest religion in the world. But bar none bar the closest one is Islam. But Islam has a one-third the body count count of Christianity. [Music] One-third. If you think if you look at the um just the Iraq the Iraq war was George Bush, right? 5,000 Americans died in that war. 1.5 million Iraqis died in that war. 1.5 million, right? Their army wasn't at all. Their army wasn't that big, right? But George Bush told the Saudi prince that God told him to invade Iraq. And South and Central America was wiped out by the concisador spreading Catholicism. Native Americans were wiped out by Protestants who were running away from Catholics in Europe who were who were persecuting them. So it it became this it became this religion that was nothing what he taught which was love one another. Yeah. I think I think killing killing is not anything I've heard him do or endorse ever to kill anybody. It's wild what's done in that name. Yeah. It's crazy. And you also have to remember on a historical context, the Bible wasn't compiled until the the fifth century. Mhm. 500 years later. It was compiled from texts that were that the scholars believe were written somewhere between 70 and 200 years after the crucifixion by by Greco Roman Jews who were who were of Messianic belief. Right? So the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, all them were not written by apostles, right? And then when you look at the New Testament, 27% of the New Testament is written by Luke, 23 23% is written by Paul, 20% is written by John, 13% by Matthew, and then the rest are all like single digits. And that poor little Jude guy got 33%. Right. But but who's Luke? It wasn't one of the 12. Mhm. He was Paul's disciple. So 50% of the New Testament is Paul. Right. Right. Then you have John, the most esoteric book in the Bible, and it's the best darn book in the Bible. Thank you very much. I'm just joking. But and then then you know Matthew, Mark and Luke scholars are agreed all come from a single source text. They call it the the the the gospel of Q is what they call it. The Q go Gospel. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so but they don't think it was written by anybody who that ever knew Jesus in lifetime. Right. So all of these texts and then of course the new age people grab a hold of things in in the 20s when when Kuman was being found and the Essenes were being found out suddenly there was all this oh my god the Essenes were were the the people of Jesus the only Essen writings we have is um the Dead Sea Scrolls and they never mentioned Jesus they they're old testament scrolls so they're Torah scrolls so they never mentioned Jesus it wasn't until Mad Adam Blovszky in the late 1800s and the Theosophical Society started creating this mythology the gospel of peace right go and what's interesting about the the gospel of peace is it's an it's the person who supposedly found it in the Vatican library never produced images never produced the gospel the Vatican says it never existed and the gospel of peace promotes the theosophical's views on vegetarianism right Right. How amazing. Right. Right. Then there was the Gospel of the Holy 12 that came out claiming to be in the scene gospel. Right. But then when you go back and you do the history, you find out that it was written by a philosophical society member who was a newspaper man and it was a series of articles where they took the New Testament and added vegetarianism to it and that's what created the the So, you know, the new age is is just as um prevalent at creating um texts to fi fill their need to fit the narrative. Yeah. Yeah. And and people do that all the time. every everybody who's talking about the Bible right now, including me. Yeah. We're we're negotiating with the text of what it means, right? And the reason I the reason I am where I am, is because I I going back to the train analogy. I've lifted above the trains and I've looked at all the trains and I put my love goggles on and I started reading the loving parts of all the texts and I found all the commonalities in the loving parts. And when I looked at the fear-based stuff, they don't have commonality. that it's that's the stuff of man wrapping around love. So that's right. Have you been excommunicated from the church yet? Oh no. I I I wouldn't surprise me if they if they wanted to, but um you got a letter in the mail. I I'm too I'm too little. We're taking your secret Dakota ring back. I mean, right. I I I'll tell you the ost who I get ostracized by uh is like people who are so devoutly Catholic that they that they can't say anything else. One of them being my brother. My my own brother the only thing he'll say to me every year is Merry Christmas. Oh, that's so hurtful. Oh, but you know what? I it I respect it. I completely respect it because mom told my mom told me spirituality is a personal journey. Yeah. Right. He if he's allowed to go down his personal journey but I always go back to the book of Matthew where they talk about false prophets and they say you will know them by their fruit right for me I've had loving conversations with Buddhists and Hindus and Bahigh and so on and so forth the ones who are giving me sour fruit of the are the Christians and so and I don't think that what they're teaching has anything to do with what Joshua would call it. So to me they they are the false prophets delivering sour fruit. Yeah. Have you heard of marone maroneianism? Are you aware of maroneianism? Uh forget his name. Marone Maronei. Yeah. But he he essentially was it about 300 400 AD. And he sort of put for he was eventually declared a heretic but he had the idea around I'm I'm a proud heretic by the way. Sure. Yeah. uh he he had the idea that basically the God of the Old Testament was not the God of the New Testament and that Yahweh because in the Old Testament it's hey go kill everybody and I'm a jealous God and and all these things and it seems like Jesus yeah Jesus's message almost or didn't contain any of that in any capacity and so he sort of put that idea forth and was eventually declared a heretic. Uh what what are your thoughts on on the Judeaic? Yeah. You want to hear a weird little history thing? Sure. The only reason he's called Yahweh is because it looked like a Roman acronym. His actual name is Adoni. Interesting. The the why Yahweh. The Old Testament God. Yeah. The Old Testament God was Adonai. Yeah. If you watch there's a the channel that I love to watch is a guy named Dan Mlelen on YouTube. Okay. And he's a Bible scholar who debunks uh Bible rhetoric basically. Sure. And what's so interesting about him and I I can't figure out how he can be a scholar and be a Mormon at the same time because you know the the Mormons think that the the that the Garden of Eden is in Missouri. How do you how's that work? That's some questions. Yeah. So, but he he never lets his Mormonism affect his uh scholarly work. And it's gotten him in trouble with the Mormon church because he he's very specific because he studied ancient Greek, ancient Hebrew, ancient Aramaic, ancient Latin. And he actually breaks it down to the ethmology of words and he this is not what they're saying. It's this is not what was happening in the time. And he he he's it's an amazing channel. I I highly recommend his channel if you're really interested in breaking down that history. Okay. Um cool. But what's what's so interesting is is when you look at the the Old Testament and the New Testament and they're so different because in the Old Testament they reference many gods. They actually you know that's Abra Abraham over many gods and so there isn't just one God. Okay. Now during the time of Abraham at the same time period was um over in Egypt they were creating this new movement the the Amun movement which is the one god movement where Rah was the one god over all gods. At the same time in Greece Zeus was becoming the one god over all gods and so it was becoming this one god being more powerful than the other gods. Right. uh King Tut, his name was Tutank Ammoon. Ammoon meaning one God, right? So it there was this whole one God movement during the time of Abraham that was going on. And so it kind of gets filtered into by the time it gets to Christianity, they're just like God is God at all. Right. And then what I find fascinating is is the contradictions you find like you said if God is love like the B like the Gospel of John says there's a story in the Old Testament where he says God sent two bears to kill 42 children because they made fun of a bald man. Now let me say as a bald man I'm [Laughter] okay but I approve I approve this message. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not just a member, I'm the president. Um I said that's not a that's not a bald head. That's a solar panel for a love machine. Thank you very much. That's right. That's all right. Moving on. I tell people all the time, God doesn't cover perfect heads. Um that's right. So u but the point is so the the the the inconsistencies in the text are because the texts are multiple texts. You know Dan Mlelen says Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. We know they're come from two different source texts and they're in the wrong order. They're in the wrong order in the Bible which is interesting. M and you look at the the New Testament. H how did Judas die still? Uh yeah. And did he get hung? Yeah. He betrayed him and then got hung. Most people say but yeah, most people say he threw his 30 pieces of silver down and he went and he hung himself. Yeah. Yeah. That's one of the two stories in the Bible about how he died. Okay. In the other Bible, in the other story, he took the 30 pieces of silver, he bought a farm, and months later, while plowing his field, his gut spewed all over the field, and he died. So, is the Bible infallible? Hard to say. It's infallible at that point, right? Walking on water story. There are three versions of the walking on water story in the Bible. The first one is the most famous one. You know, all Peter, you know, oh, ye of little faith, all that. The second one is the John version, which I don't like at all. Basically, they invite him invite Joshua into the boat and the whole boat boat transports to shore. My favorite is the Luke version where they're in a storm. They think they're going to drown. They're freaking out. They're scared. They're they're reacting to the experience and the stimulus around them. And Jesu walks on by the boat casually, right? Basically showing all of the threats are in your mind. It's the fear that's affecting you. Right? But the Bible has three versions. So which is the correct one? Right? So and they'll tell you it's the univocal message of God, but it can't be univocal if it's written by many authors over many thousands of years. So and and on top of it, you know, the Septuagent, which everyone talks about, that's actually the Hebrew Bible, which is the Old Testament in the Torah. That's the oldest version of that we have. The oldest version of the complete Bible is called the Codex Citicus. And the Kodak siniticus is fascinating because they found it in St. Katherine's monastery in Egypt. And when they found it, they're like this amazing. They took all these images of it. They got all every page of the of the CECUS has edit marks on it. Oh wow. And they edit they've edited for grammar and for context. No way. Yeah. Every page. By the time you get up to the King James version, which everyone's into, right? Well, King James was a patron of Shakespeare. That's why you get all the these and the thousand of those, right? Thou shalt not and all that stuff. Yeah. Right. So, so it became Elizabeth in English or or you know, King James's version. It was it came from the the Bishop's Bible. It was translated from the Bishop Bible. But when they translated, King James himself said, "Take anything out of there that could be used against the monarchy." So every version of the Bible has been altered, translated, manipulated to fit the narrative of the person who's putting the Bible out and and so you can't take any of the Bibles as unical. So when somebody says the Bible is the inherent word of God, I said, "Really? Which one? Which one?" Yeah. Thousand there's thousands of verses. Then the other thing is is Paul who is the New Testament guy, he was an apocalyptic preacher. He really thought the second coming was happening in his lifetime. Right. Right. Which is why he told Christians that they should all be celibate because there was no reason to have children. Right. So he why he said that. Interesting. Yeah. We'd all not be here if we all listened. Right. Because he didn't think we would ever be here anyway. He thought there's no point. He literally says that he was coming in my lifetime. Right. And so, um, what's so interesting about that is the apocalyptic stuff that kept coming out and kept coming out and kept coming out. Do you know that documented there's been over 2,000 times the world was supposed to end? Yeah. The only thing The only thing they have in common is they've all been wrong. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Every generation has thought the world is ending in their generation. Every generation. Every generation. And And that including this one. Yeah. Yeah. And and now we're in this this quick change of information, right? Like right now we're what is it? It's November, right? Go on YouTube right now. You're going to see all the psychics saying 2025 is going to be the year of catastrophe or the year of change, right? Yeah. But if you go back a year, they're saying 2024, the year of catastrophe, the year of change. It's all marketing. I don't know. I've done that before where I always see these predictions and I got into a habit for a few years of every time I had one, I just copy the link and put it in a note and just put the date on it and then every like year you just remember and I just go back and start clicking those links and they're all deleted. All deleted. All deleted. And so I just was like let's have some accountability here at least in my own brain of whether these predictions you know it's easy to I can yeah there's a there's a finance trick that I know that has been pulled off where if you want to be a fund manager actually this is a stu this is a student there's a story of a student in a finance class where you have to make a little portfolio and you have to beat the market and essentially what one of the students does is he makes three portfolios and he makes one that's super aggressive, one that's super negative and then one that's right in the middle and then at the end of the semester, whichever one had the highest return, he said that was the one I used and he turned to none and he got a retrade because he just played all the sides. And so, you know, you got to watch out. You know, I can predict a million things and then delete the all of them that were wrong and keep all the ones that were right. And I look great in hindsight. There was there was a um a solar eclipse that happened in the US this past year. And and yeah, I was I was l I was lucky because I was in the path of totality. I drove to the path of totality. Yeah, I was like my backyard with camera. I got all these cool amazing fan. But everyone was talking about Yes, but this is the sacred triune and the this is happening and this is happening. They're conjuncting and I put out a video four days earlier. I said I said uh this is what's this is what's happening. And in fact, this is this is my prophetic revelation. The day afterwards, we're not going to anything hear about hear anything about the lion's cross or whatever they call us all. I actually put out the prophecy that my prophecy was they're all gonna cancel it. It's all gonna be fine. Right. And I love what somebody somebody else said. It's interesting how the prophetic uh eclipses are the ones that touch America. How con how nice. Yeah. And there's an eclipse on our on our planet every 18 months. So it's like well the one that comes across America is the the apocalyptic one, right? Uh years years ago we had the um the Mayan calendar scare 2014, right? And I used to say in speeches I'd say, "You guys want to know what's going to happen in 2012?" They're like, "Yeah, tell us." And they all lean forward. I go, "The Mayan calendar's going to end." I said, "But wait, wait, wait, wait. You know what? I got something else to tell you. Last December my other calendar ended. We're still here. Yeah. So to me it's, you know, we are creating our world and you can create it beautifully. You can create it negatively. You can create it fearfully. But all of those things are fear-based. All of those are things are fear-based. And not only Jesus, but and I'm using Jesus for you, my friend. Jesus. and and um yoga they both say think mad upon tomorrow be here today tomorrow will take care of itself so somebody who's telling you the prophecy of the future I that's the first person I would unsubscribe from because no one knows the day of the hour right that's biblical too right the future's not set it's just it's just a a substance of potential waiting for us to believe and that it's going to come into our experience and be shown to us as we believe. Can I find that in the Bible? And guess what? First lines, book of John, first lines. In the beginning is the word and the word was with God and the word was God. Now, a Christian will tell you that means Jesus. Word means Jesus. I'm going to tell you it's your words, your thoughts, your beliefs go out to God. God shows you those words, thoughts, and beliefs in the image around you. And we are created in God's image. And it's a matter of now stepping into your divinity and declaring what you believe and believing in as opposed to living into the stimulus of fear. Do you think that there are uh angels and demons that are working on the fear the plane of fear on this earth? So I'm I'm going to tell you I do not believe that. But I'm also going to tell you that that is a uniquely Christian construct. Okay? that is a deeply or other entities of any kind that kind of call them anything you know is is it just yeah yeah I believe kind of in line with what the Hindus believe you know the Hindus believe that the consciousness of God is the sit and we are the sit which is the individual sparks of consciousness within one god uh so do I believe that there are aliens do I believe in that I think that it would be kind of naive to think we're the only game villain in all of this Right. So I think that I think personally that we are the we are the sit. We are the individual sparks of consciousness of the only god. If I tied this into Christianity uh I would go to the trinity right now the tr now no first of all trinitarian belief didn't happen till the 4th century. So it nothing that Jesus taught. But um if you think about the trinity this way, you have the father, the god consciousness, the son, the physical world consciousness that's not aware of its divinity and the holy spirit which is your higher self which is understands it divinity and understands there's the physical world consciousness. I think that's where our intuition comes from. I think that's where our our feelings come from. But you have to go back to that idea of feeling because the Old Testament u story of Adam and Eve. Everyone misses the simplicity of that story. They ate from the tree of knowledge. They got kicked out of paradise. They got in their heads and out of their hearts, right? They stopped feeling because paradise for me is a beach. For somebody else, it's a mountain in North Carolina. Sure. Right. Right. Yeah. Appins. There you go. Right. And so it's not the place, it's it's the the feeling it engenders. So paradise is is nirvana. It's a feeling, right? And so when we get in our heads with the doctrines, the dogmas, the principles, the fear-based stuff, we're we're we're losing the feelings. We're giving away our power to others. We're living their life and not our own. Right? And it's a matter of coming back to saying, "No, I am living a joyful, loving life and making that waitress flirt with me so I can get her phone number. That's awesome. It sounds so ridiculously simple, but it's, you know, it's so true. You I I go to the right at the corner of my my road down here, there's a convenience store and every so often I'll go in there and, you know, somebody will pull up and they'll get out of the car and they'll look like a gangster and they'll have the whole, you know, threatening demeanor going on, right? And I always smile at them like, "How you doing good?" And I open the door, say, "Hey," they go, "Thank you, sir." They walk, you know, what you give, you get. You know, that's what the meaning of karma is. It's not what the what the new age version of karma means. It's not over lifetimes. It's what you give, you get. What you put out, you're getting back. And when I traveled through Egypt, everywhere I went, I was treated like a prince. I was welcomed into homes. I was there for months. I was invited and had families. I met amazing people. I climbed Mount Si. A guy brought me I was halfway up the the climbing of Mount Si. I was an hour and a half up the mountain. guy ran up from the bottom of the mountain to hand me his coat because he thought I'd be called to the top. That's how I was treated. Next day I ran into Next day I ran into another American. He goes, "Hey, you been having a problem since you've been here?" I said, "Not at all. I've been treated like a prince everywhere I go." Everywhere I go, people want to fight me. Yeah. Five minutes later, I wanted to kick his butt. Not really, but Yeah. Yeah. that he was getting what he what he was putting out and I was getting what I was putting out. We are responsible for the world around us and it it comes with responsibility. We have the ability to respond in love rather than than react in fear. I call it being an action hero rather than a reaction zero. You know, you just have you just stay in that space of saying I am choosing in this moment to see their fear. And the way the easiest way to identify it is this way. You've got love, you got fear. Right here in the middle is neutral. Right? Right here's annoyed. Right here's amused. All the positive sensations are on the loving side. All the negative sensations are on the fearful side. When they're coming at you fearfully, you can feel that feeling, right? The job the job is to negate their their fear, to negate their their issue. And um when I directed the Tennessee Renaissance Festival, I had a guy run up to me one time, suck his finger about an inch from my nose and he says, "You mother effer." But he didn't say effort. He said the whole thing, right? And the second he did, I exhaled. And I'll explain why in a second fully let the air out of my body, which takes you to complete neutral. Because when we have a fear response in this world, we have the fight orflight response which makes us draw air into our lungs and hold it. It's a reserve. So we have the reserve to run fast. When you exhale, you tell your body you're safe, right? So he runs up to me. Oh, you get other went completely neutral. Now because I went completely neutral, I was not in reaction mode. I was in cognitive reasoning mode. I still think because when you get into fear, you can't think, right? So, I'm sitting here. I'm just listening to him. And he's saying terrible things about me and my [Laughter] mother. And because I'm because I'm in that neutral state, I can say, "What's he afraid of? What's his fear?" And I just start listening to what he's saying because our subconscious mind falls out of our mouth all day long. Right? And I just start listening. I start realizing his only fear is he's not going to make enough money. That's the only fear he had. Right? And he keeps lurching at me like a gorilla trying to get me to react because that's the primal thing, dominance. Right? I just turned the other cheek and I stayed in my neutral space, right? Stayed right there. And then he ran out of things to say because I didn't feed it. And suddenly out of the blue, he says he says he says and he he he run he runs out of things to say and I said I said, "Jerry, I'm so sorry you're having this experience. nothing was done against you. How would you like to solve it? Which is the laziest thing I could have said? Because basically I said, "You got a problem. I didn't do it. How you want to fix it?" That's basically what I just said, right? I said it nicer than that. He stormed off. 10 minutes later come back. John, I'm so sorry. I never should have spoken to you that way. I was disrespectful and I apologize. I'm so sorry. I said, "Well, Jerry, you know, I like your show. I want to make sure your show is happy here." No. What can I do? He says, "No, it's going to be fine. it's gonna work out great and I never have problem with it again. But yeah, the key is is is that that idea of of turning the other cheek by not by letting it's like spiritual iikido. Somebody come brings energy at you. You let it go by. You let it go. That's that's his fear, not mine. Be water. Yeah. Be be like water, right? Bruce Lee. Right. The other thing is is Bruce Lee also said real emotional content, right? real emotional content which means fervent faith fervent belief. So when I exhaled when I came back to my neutral space I fervently believed I knew that without fear nothing fearful could happen to me right there's a famous story of Swami Naran and if you don't know the story of Swami Naran he was a 13-year-old boy who reached enlightenment in India and he's famous because he did a 13,000 kilometer trek to all the holy sites of India and okay he dressed like Mowgli from Jungle Book. He always wore a little loin cloth and and one day he wandered into a village and and I'm telling you the story it seems like an ancient time. This actually happened in either the 17 or 1800s. So it's not actually that long ago historically wise. He wanders into this village and the villagers are like, "Young boy, come into our home. We have a lion that's attacking people at dusk and come into our home." And I said, "Okay." So um he said they said come into our home so we so you won't be attacked by the lion and I was like um I was like I can think I not me it's not me he was like no I'm not going to come in I'm fine that's what he saidion suddenly um the next morning they all come out of the house and swamion is sitting next to a tree and about 5t away there's a lion asleep and they asked him why the lion didn't eat him His response was, "Because I'm without fear, he gave me nothing to be fearful for." Yes. And I had a friend of mine who was uh an agorophobic. She could never leave her home. And so being the person that I am, I used to go take her out to lunch. Yeah. Sure. Get her out. Get her get her out. Yeah. Exposure therapy. Yeah. Exactly. One day I'm driving to the restaurant. I hear her from the passenger seat. She says, "John, can I ask you a question?" I said, "Yeah." He says, "Why do the cars on the highway merge easily with you?" And I said, "Because I hate driving. Driving gives me love in return." And it really is. It really is. Perspective is too light of a word, but it really is intention. It will change the reality you live in. Right. When she starts to drive, she's terrified of being out of her house. She's terrified of being on the road. So, she sees terrifying things. That's right. I love to drive. So, I have a loving driving experience. Yeah. You know, and I'm not afraid that I'm not going to be somewhere fast enough. I drive sensibly, right? I just drive almost meditative state for me. Nine times out of 10, if I take a long trip, I don't even turn the radio on. I had a I had a good friend, we started doing this in college, uh, where we just said we're trying to love traffic. Like, we just, hey, how about we just because you can't you can't get out of it if you're in it and you just got to be in it. So we said, "Why don't we try and start loving it?" And so every time traffic would hit, we would start cheering in the car and we'd start like getting really excited because we're just like, "Oh my gosh, we're in traffic." Yeah. And like, you know, you just kind of made it fun and it made it better. It made it interesting to be in traffic. Absolutely. And now imagine if you just said, "Man, this traffic is completely clearing up." Right. Oh man. Yeah. Swear. Right. So, I I have a friend who has a pizza shop in Rahob Beach, Delaware. It's a beach community in in summer months. There's millions of people there. My best friend owns a pizza shop that's four stores down from the boardwalk where the ocean is. I mean, it's like he's like on and he's on the main street, prime location, right? And every year I go to Rahobath with my son. And as we drive into town, I turn to my son. I said, "Where are we parking?" He said in front of Louis for 10 years I have parked in a parking spot looking in the door of Louis. Incredible right and you know you hear that in the the law of attraction. It sounds like magic. Yeah. Or the law of attraction or you know manifesting you know it triggers a lot of that kind of connotations in some ways. Absolutely. But if you if you think of the law of attraction and manifestation as just the marketing of creation then you start to realize your thoughts are creating like Buddha said and like Krishna said like Jesus said and like they all said your thoughts are creating your experience there's nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so Shakespeare right he also he also said words without thoughts never to have go you can say something but if you don't believe it the words mean nothing oh interesting empty words yeah okay Yeah. So, it come it comes down to realizing that we do create our experience in all things. And you know, I well, I'll give you a really weird example. I my son is graduating college in a year and a half, right? And I'm living in Ohio only because when my wife and I divorced, she brought my son to Ohio. Okay. Okay. So, now I'm here in Ohio. I he they came here when he was two. Now he's 21. Right. I said,"I am moving back to Rahose, moving back to the beach because I want to be back near the shore." So, I've started declaring that that's happening, but I also declared it's going to happen in two years when he's not out of college. Sure. I started putting my thoughts, words, and deeds into moving to the to the beach. I started packing things and getting rid of things and purging my house and all this stuff. Last week, I had someone contact me, offer me a house in Ro Beach, Delaware. man. Offer offer you a house? Yeah. She said, "I don't want to rent it. I don't want to rent it, but you can live in it if you want for free." Yeah. And and I said, "What's I" I said, "Really? Where is it located?" She said, "Well, it looks right out on Silver Lake." Now, that So, what she said was, "I look at the backside of James Brady's house, the guy who got shot with Reagan." Yeah. Right. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's mill that's multi-million dollar homes there, right? Sure. Good location, you could say. I never said where. I just said Beach. And now, now here's the here's the weirdest part about that is I was offered that and I was offered a small two-bedroom trailer in the town just north of Ro Beach. Oh, okay. So, I got I got two options there. Right. Right. So yeah, do you do you think that uh I would you know one bucket this kind of classifies as maybe synchronicities maybe right in sort of a way. Has that has this been following you your whole life or do has this sort of picked up once you kind of got into belief is the present moment or or you know like you're being raised as Catholic and like have these synchronicities kind of been a part of I don't and and maybe because here's what one of my thoughts is ah John's just a lucky guy like we just meet people who are lucky guys and they just everything seems to work out regardless of what you believe or think or do man everything's just working out for John and like what do you you know what Do you know? Yeah. Do you know why everything works out for me? Cuz I believe it does. Even but were you believing it does in your your early days? I did not believe it at all and it wasn't working out for me. Okay. So, you would say there was a difference. My father was an alcoholic abuser and I was kid I was the one kid he didn't like. Oh, yeah. Okay. Fat I was the fat kid in school who got picked on by everybody. Okay. Yeah. I was in school I was a complete introvert because every time I open my mouth I got knocked down. Right. Right. So I had a really rough childhood. But here's the weird part. You asked me earlier about the did I have stuff like happened spiritually through my whole life. When I was a kid I had imaginary friends I used to talk to and I used to have out-of- body experiences and my brother which is one who told me about that because I didn't even know I had he explained me say I'm taller than all of you. I'm on the ceiling. I can and I and like literally I was having out of body experiences. My mom walked out the back door one time when when I was a kid and my G.I. Joe was up on a crucifix, right? So these are things that were happening to me as a child, but I wasn't aware of them. I was having a horrible life with an abusive father. Right. Okay. Um so synchronicities happen like that all the time for every for every one of us. Yep. The key comes is when you start to become aware and start consciously creating which is what Jesua did and what Buddha did and did when you then you start to see see synchronicities as like for instance if my tooth hadn't broken off would I have ever said to her my tooth broke off right she have ever told me that you know all those things are in place right now all of us know someone who grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth But they've been given the belief that they grow up with a silver spoon in their mouth, right? And the people who who grew up as a victim and believe in a victimhood, they're going to live a life of a victim until they choose to put that behind them. The Bible says this in two ways. You must become as a child to enter the kingdom of heaven, and you must be born again. Both of them mean go back to a time before belief. before you've had life experiences that have given you the beliefs or that have altered your pathway. And so you go back to the blank page and when you're looking at the blank page, you make a decision. Am I writing a comedy or a tragedy? Yeah. And I wrote a action comedy adventure. Thank you very much. We were talking Austin and I were talking yesterday about that about how I just I find it interesting. I have a couple of siblings and I know people with siblings and older siblings and how sometimes and now I have three three kids and I'm looking at them developing and just how siblings turn out so different and a lot of times you're like well you guys all ate the same food you had the same parents you ate you lived in the same house you went to the same schools you know and I know there's years apart and so maybe something's a little different but by and large it's a good test exper it's a good like you're all kind of getting the same apples and just how different everybody turns out even with all the as close as you can get it the same variables and who that is. My brothers and sisters say all the time that we all had different parents, right? They treated each one of us differently. My brother was a golden boy. My sister was a golden girl. My other sister was just kind of like hippie- dippy on her own. She left early. My other sister was my father called her the and she ended up running off and going to Florida and and basically abandoning the family. It was it was just like every one of us had a different experience. My my youngest brother, 14 years younger than me, he was a little surprised, right? He he uh he uh he was a little Catholic surprise. What he was There we go. That's right. Um but he uh you know he had a completely different relationship with his parents too. They were almost like grandparents by the time he was coming out and he had a a very different relation a very different upbringing and I think in some ways his was harder because he got in with wrong crowds and he just did crazy things and now he's coming out of that into a beautiful loving life and creating amazing things. when he was younger, you know, he tells me all the time, he says, "All of my friends are dead. They all were overdosed or they all did, you know, all kinds everybody he knows, right?" So, we all had these different experiences in life. And I and it comes back to that that meal that I had, right? Your experience of life will give you a view and those views will give you the outcome. You know my um am I think it should also be I'm sure you have them as well stories at a company where you know sometimes you think you're having a great steak and it does come out frozen but you're kind of like you know it this still how you look at it. You can still say, "Well, this is a terrible steak." Or they can be like, "Well, this is an opportunity to speak to the waitress again and get her to refresh it and and and it's not that bad, actually, right? Like like it's not just objective. what's out there should determine how you think about it. And uh because those do happen where you get the rent or you get the good steak and the and the salad. But also if that's your if that's your posture towards life then regardless of what happens you know objectively in one way the steak could be well done or raw and you should have that attitude anyways. You should you should be Buddha would call that lack of attachment. Yeah. Right. But I'll but I'll tell you the idea of man I really want this steak to be good right well you're going to get a bad steak because you want it I am looking forward to I am something ahead of me I'm going to get bad steak I haven't had a bad steak in 20 years my friend I really I really haven't that's amazing yeah sure and when I've declared when I've declared things into my life I I've been doing this for 25 years. So, I usually start to see results of what I declare into my life in about two hours. In about two hours. I start to see results of it. But how do you know what to ask for? I mean, well, is there a Thank you for the billion dollars I am receiving. You know, but going back that that statement, thank you for the billion dollars I'm receiving. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Sure. You're not going to believe a billion dollars. I had a woman come on, her biggest thing in in life was money. She couldn't I want to win the lottery. I want to do this. I'm I was like, "Okay, well, stop wanting." Um, but then I'd say, "Okay, so what I need you to do is I need you to um I need you to think of something that has absolutely no monetary value whatsoever. That's weird enough that if you got it, you'd know that you created it." She said, she said, "Okay." I said, "Well, what is it?" She said, "Well, I collect feathers and the only feather I haven't found is a blue jay feather and I've been looking for looking for a blue jay feather." Now, I find them in my yard all the time because I have blue jays all around my house. So, I was like, "So, declare that." She said, "I am receiving a blue jay feather." Great. Let it go. Email me when you get it. Two days later, email. Oh my god, John. I found 14 blue jay feathers today. I didn't want I didn't want to tell her that's because a cat got a blue jay because I thought it would ruin the bone. So it becomes a problem with that. Yeah. So I said to her, I said I said I said, "Do you believe you did that?" She said, "How could I not? I've been looking for this feather for two years and tell you if I'm 14." I I said, "Okay, so here's why don't you do now. Thank you for the penny that I'm receiving." And she transitioned into pennies. Then she transitioned into nickels, dimes, quarters, dollars. And the last time I talked to her, which was many, many months ago, almost a year ago now, she was actually finding $20 bills. But it wasn't about she had to overcome her lack of belief that that she was worthy of the money or that money had some power over her that she couldn't get it. Right? So I took her from something with no monetary value to a single penny to transition her into monetary value creation. And then she bumped it up and then and she was she actually bypassed tens. She went from dollars to fives. She bypassed tens going on that 20 and she's getting them right. That's an amazing story. I haven't talked to her for a long time. But it's a matter of understanding that what you think you become, you create your world. But you know, I can be a 1500 pound man and I can't say I'm a thin man and believe it because I got shoes on. I just don't know what color they are. Right. They're down there. Right. I'm sure. I'm sure. At least I hope I'm sure there are. Right. Right. But I can be a 1500 lb man and say I am I am receiving a healthier body and start to feel a little better and walk five sets that day and eat one less sandwich that day and start to feel even better. My faith grows in the fact that I'm receiving a healthier body and over the course of time I'll lose you know 1,200 pounds because I've created this belief that I am receiving a healthier body. I think of the universe as as energy in motion, which is what Einstein says it is. Every atom is just an energy event in motion, right? And if in that room that you guys are in, look at the wall. The wall is made of atoms. The air between you and the wall is made of atoms. Your eyes are made of atoms. All you are is your consciousness. All this these atoms are is the illusion of your belief. It's a matter of do you believe it's good? Do you believe it's bad and do you believe it's this? believe it's that and when I look at this from the perspective of creating abundance I never think about the limitations anymore because I literally have declared for so long I have created so much my faith is so big now I I don't think there's size in the unlimited in the infinite right you have enough yeah you've walked it you it's building it's built over over years and years but then you know if you can believe it I'll tell you a healing story which will blow your mind. I'm I'm gonna have to go presume it. Yeah. No, fair enough. Um, thanks for the time so far. Yeah. So, here. So, I was speaking at a Unity Church in London, Ontario. And, um, all I spoke the one day and the next day they booked me into a building nearby which was a former convent. And when I say former, I mean the nuns moved out like two days earlier, right? You could still si smell the incense in the building. Wow. All day, all day long, people are coming in the front door and coming back having private meetings with me, private sessions with me. Halfway through the day, lady walks in the side door. She's got swelling the size of a grapefruit on the side of her face. Her teeth are pushing between her lips because of the infection all through her jaw. You can see the pain on her face. And my friend Holly says, "Let's go talk to John." And they come back to the room. And she comes in the room. I say, "What's your faith? What do you believe?" She said, "I'm a Christian." Now, I know I could talk a good Christian game. I went to 12 years of CCD. My mom had her master's degree in liturgy. I got that down, right? I said, "You know, the Bible says whatever you ask in God's name, it is granted. Do you believe that?" She said, "Yeah, I believe that." I said, "So, why don't we just ask?" She said, "We can ask." I said, "Is that what it said?" She said, "Yeah, what if we ask?" She said, "How do we do that?" I said, "How about something like, thank you, God, for the perfect teeth I am receiving? Amen. She said, "Okay, let's do that." So, we grabbed pants. Thank you, God, for the perfect teeth. And I watched her get more and more animated. We've said it like four times because she just really needed to have that happen. After the fourth time, I said something to her that I said to you guys earlier. I said, you know, when you when you thank for something, it's because you're know you're getting it. That glass of water, right? I told her that whole thing about that statement of being present moment, but I said it in a Christian way. I said, 'You, because the Bible says ask in God's name. Do you know what God's name is? She says, 'N no. I said it's I am according to Moses. I said, 'You just asked in God's name to receive perfect teeth and then you said amen. Amen means so be it. Means right here, right now it's done. What does that mean? She goes, I'm healed. Her swelling was gone. Whoa. Gone. Blink. Now had she walked in that room and she said she was Buddhist, I would have said Buddhist is what you think you become. Do you believe that? And I'd have gone down the whole Buddhist route. Had she said she was Hindu, I'd have said thought by thought you forge your destiny. You believe that? Had she said she was an atheist, I would have said Einstein said uh your imagination is the preview of life's coming attractions. Do you believe that? I'd have gone down whatever route she could put belief in and I had the same result because it's an amazing story. It's her faith that heals her, right? I love that, too, because it's not you. It's a It's clearly not you, right? And if you There's a there's a a video on my Recovering Catholic channel um called Jesua's Healing Method. It it says exactly this. He was very good at bringing people to their faith and healing. And then people started to associated him with the healing. So, they started to be healed around him because it was him. It was just their belief in him, not him. It was that they believed if I can just touch his coat, if I can just get breathe the same air he breathes, then I will be healed. And it's enabling their own internal belief. And that lady touched the hem of his garment and he turned around and said, "It is your faith that heals you." Right? So it really comes down to this concept of we are the creator of our experience in everything. perfect health, perfect wealth, perfect romance, perfect love, perfect families, you know, perfect home, you can you can create anything and as the Bible says, you can ask a mountain to move and it'll move. Nothing has impossible for you, but if you believe it's impossible for you, that was really good. Yeah. Then words without thoughts will not make it come to pass. Yeah, me too, man. I think that's a good place to wrap up. This is you said a bunch of great things and we're getting close to two hours. Oh. Uh yeah, this is this is this is amazing. John, yeah, I what a great story, man. I I have I have a million follow-up questions. I can't believe we have Would you want to tell tell everybody where to find you? Yes, I am easy to find. Johnwe.com is my website. I am most found on uh John of New YouTube channel. And if you just do the symbol with John behind it, it'll take you right to it. I also have a second channel, the recovering Catholic channel and so it's the same thing at the recovering Catholic and you'll find me online. Man, that's great. Thank you so much for the time. I can't wait to do this again. I All right. Oh, so many. My head's going to be buzzing. So, thank thanks John. Appreciate it, man. Thank you guys. Thank you so much. You guys have a great day. Thanks, Sam. Take care. Bye. Bye. Bye.