*  How do we use ancient feminine wisdom to transform our world?

*  How do ancient goddess traditions support us to reclaim our power and sovereignty?

*  How do we access this ancient wisdom and apply it to the modern-day world?

This week’s episode of the Soul Sovereignty & Sexuality Podcast dives into Why Ancient Feminine Wisdom is Key to Reclaiming your Sovereignty.

Tune into the full episode on iTunes, Spotify, or YouTube.

I’m joined in this episode by Dr. Carla Ionescu, who is a historian, author, and leading expert on the Greek Goddess Artemis and ancient religions.

We dive into the practicalities of what incorporating ancient feminine wisdom into our lives really means: on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level.

The Sacred Feminine Power Retreat in Greece coming up this fall – from September 27 – October 8, 2025 – is a powerful opportunity to draw this feminine wisdom up into your body so that you become a living temple of the goddess wherever you are.

As a channel and conduit, I will intuitively guide you into an energetic activation at each of the ancient temples we visit.  You can learn more and join us here.  A special discount is available until May 1.

You can learn more about and explore Carla’s offerings here.  With a PhD in Classical and Religious Studies, she explores mythology, sacred landscapes, and goddess traditions through research, fieldwork, and digital mapping. Founder of The Artemis Centre and author of She Who Hunts, she delivers engaging lectures, teaches courses, and collaborates on historical media projects. Her expertise bridges academia and storytelling, making history accessible and compelling. Through archaeological site visits, online education, and public speaking, Dr. Ionescu brings the ancient world to life.

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About your Host Jessica Falcon:

A former lawyer turned mystic, Jessica is an International Soul Embodiment Guide & Relationship Expert. She guides you to embody your power, reclaim your sovereignty, and experience true freedom through retreats, workshops, and online portals of transformation.  Learn more and access your free Ritual to Reclaim your Sovereignty here.

 

Episode 45: Why Ancient Feminine Power is Key to Reclaiming your Sovereignty Transcript:

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Welcome to another episode of the Soul Sovereignty and Sexuality podcast with myself,

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Jessica Falcon,

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and I have a special guest today,

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Carla Ionescu,

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and we’re going to talk about how ancient wisdom,

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particularly the ancient goddess traditions,

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support us in the modern day world,

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support us to transform,

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support what we’re going through and what we’re experiencing internationally,

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how we can

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Use this ancient wisdom to benefit us,

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to remember our power,

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to reclaim our sovereignty,

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to be in our truth,

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and also to tap into what the goddess offers and why it’s relevant.

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Because we…

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We have been so deeply disconnected from the power of the goddess,

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from the power of the feminine.

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And so we’ll dive into what the goddess really means, right, to each of us.

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We’ll dive into that level of feminine power.

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And I want us to start with a conversation,

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Carla,

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about why this matters and how we can access this ancient wisdom from your

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perspective as a historian,

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as a researcher,

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as an expert on Artemis.

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How would you describe that?

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So thank you for having me, first of all.

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I’m really glad to be here and actually have this conversation.

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I think your inspiration is so timely.

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It’s something that I’ve been thinking about for a while.

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People often ask me,

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you know,

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like,

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how do you,

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why is this useful and how is it applicable and all that kind of stuff?

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But I’m finding that lately, especially with the most recent research, as there are sort of

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digging up or analyzing ancient graves, ancient bones.

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They just found this knife up in somewhere in Northern Europe.

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I can’t remember right now.

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Oh, it’s one of the Slavic countries.

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Anyways, and other materials coming to light that is showing the…

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I want to say the sort of egalitarian relationship between men and women,

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but also the authority of women in religious perspective,

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in hunting experience,

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in ritual performance.

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So what I’m saying is that we are seeing more and more revelations of women really

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ruling the world.

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So there’s a part of me that is starting to suspect that

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that we have been sold this bill of lies for a long time about hunter-gatherers,

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about long patriarchy,

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about the evolution of power and authority and all this kind of stuff.

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One of the things that’s coming up for me a lot is that

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actually women were in charge and i say this in quotation marks of the world again

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in quotation marks much longer than we had thought they had much more authority

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than we have been taught they had much more presence than we have been thought and

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we’re seeing that come to light and i think a lot of people’s reactions is always

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like ah you know here we are replacing patriarchy with matriarchy but it’s not the

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same thing right so

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When women are in authority, it’s a very different society.

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It’s a very different context.

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It’s a very different way of sharing resources, of thinking about power, et cetera.

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So I think we are starting to tune in towards that more and more.

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And I think once that starts to become a reality,

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we will have to ask ourselves,

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what was it like in a world that

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where women had,

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let’s say,

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social and political authority and men were not sort of oppressed or submissive or

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there wasn’t any of that in the community.

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So that’s exciting.

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And I think this goddess work that we’re all doing and that some people have been doing,

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you know,

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for decades and decades,

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may be coming to sort of a crescendo

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with the archaeological,

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scientific and other discoveries that are confirming all of these things that many

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women have said for many,

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you know,

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many decades.

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So I would say it’s the utmost importance.

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Goddess work, history work on the goddess, women’s history.

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I would say that we are at the at the peak of change.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And for me,

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it really is,

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as you said,

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we’re told,

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right,

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that men have always been in power or the patriarchy has always been here.

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I don’t really like to use the word patriarchy because it’s so misunderstood.

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It is.

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And often used,

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right,

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as kind of a weapon or gross labeling of something rather than a real understanding

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that men are not necessarily the patriarchy and the patriarchy is more of a system

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that’s been put in place and all of that,

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right?

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Yes.

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I also think that as we uncover these ancient goddess temples,

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as we go and receive their wisdom,

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as we research and understand what ancient civilizations lived like when women were

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in power,

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when the goddess was revered,

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for me,

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the biggest takeaway has been it wasn’t always this way.

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It’s not what we’ve been told.

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We have been very intentionally kept from this ancient wisdom because it serves us

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to remember our power and our truth and our sovereignty.

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And as I started to research the goddess and religious history and ancient

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civilizations and mythology,

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I came into my own remembrance of God.

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okay,

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so if it hasn’t always been this way and the goddess was the most revered deity in

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some of these ancient civilizations and which we were in communion with the earth

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and the elements and which the body was considered sacred and which sex was not a sin,

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right?

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All of these huge concepts where there wasn’t a submissive,

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it was a equal partnership between men and women in different ways and different cultures.

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I’m not saying everyone, right?

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But that

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Oh, okay.

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So that means everything we’ve been kind of blindly abiding by for the past few

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thousand years are just beliefs.

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They’re just beliefs, right?

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And they’re beliefs that we have been beholden to because we haven’t known otherwise.

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And we think this is the way it is.

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And that’s what we’ve been told because if we think it’s always been this way,

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we think there is no other way.

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And that’s how today in modern society, we can go,

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Oh, if it hasn’t been this way and they’re just beliefs, there is another way.

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And maybe that way is the way I just haven’t discovered yet.

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Right.

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And maybe that way is accessible to me.

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And maybe we get this ancient wisdom from these cultures that lived in more harmony

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with the natural world and each other.

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And we use that today to create a better world rather than being enslaved to this

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idea of power over dynamics.

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Right.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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I think that’s the key to ancient wisdom.

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And,

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you know,

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interestingly,

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I’m not sure that the ancients had any intention of us sort of,

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you know,

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what I mean is that I don’t think that they intended to provide us with

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instructions in the way that we need today.

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So,

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for example,

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what I’m saying is,

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for example,

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sometimes some of my students will say to me,

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well,

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how come women didn’t write anything while they were inside these temples or

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priestesses or whatever?

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And I ask myself that question as well, because

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There have been lots of temples uncovered.

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And as far as we know,

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so without falling into conspiracy theories,

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because those are obviously uncrovable,

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there aren’t any documents within the temples or within certain sites of women

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writing the rituals or the performances or things like that.

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And in my conversation with some of my students at the center, at the Artemis Center, we…

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we’ve sort of had this,

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maybe a kind of revelation or a kind of inspiration of what if women,

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and we’re talking about women now,

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but it could have been everyone.

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What if people who perform these rituals took it for granted that this is something

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that everyone would know forever because they had a system of passing down information.

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They had a system of initiations.

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They had a system of performance that was very…

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commonly known okay for women’s rituals for example that were closed within the

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temple doors still all of the women within that community knew the rituals knew the

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songs knew this knew the symbolism knew all of that so i remember one of my

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students saying what if they just thought that by leaving us these symbols or by

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just passing down these small things of course we would understand what that means

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In the sense that perhaps no one saw this,

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this chasmic break between the ancient world and then the monotheistic world that

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came next.

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And then the, you know, the dark ages and then the technological world and where we are now.

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And so ancient wisdom really is us looking back,

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trying to decode from what we found,

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what their,

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what their practices were that they took for granted and,

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And then understanding how commonplace that was for them.

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Where for us, we have to wrap our minds around it.

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Does that make sense?

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When I think about how many goddess temples there were, how many…

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celebrations and festivals that women and men but women went to on their own where

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they celebrate their bodies where they celebrated the rhythms and nature like they

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had the psychology of that that they took for granted

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For us, it’s something we have to try to wrap our minds around, right?

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What’s it like to be a little girl and just go to initiation rituals all the time?

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Because that’s what you do.

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And then you go to these festivals where women are in charge of,

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you know,

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I don’t know,

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the fertility of agriculture,

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like the Ellicinian Mysteries or the afterlife or whatever.

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Even if we call this,

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let’s say,

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if we’re talking about the Greeks here as a patriarchal state,

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okay,

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I say that again in quotations.

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The women had much more celebrations in space under that so-called patriarchal

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state than we do today.

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So the psychology of that, I try to think, I try to put myself in that frame of mind.

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What’s it like to grow up like that?

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What’s it like to hang out with women like that from a young age across the experiences of life?

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So I think the ancient wisdom…

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is really just,

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it’s really us getting back to what is the norm,

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you know,

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is us getting back to this idea that it is very normal to have these activities in

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our lives,

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to worship the feminine divine,

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to practice that worship,

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to gather,

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right?

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I mean, that was very, you know, quote unquote, normal for the ancients and for us.

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It’s a real…

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in order to go to a women’s event or things like that,

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first of all,

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we have to overcome a lot of prejudice and bias and et cetera to start making

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circles and having circles.

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And then still, it takes a lot to create a gathering.

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It takes a lot, right?

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So what used to be taken for granted as standard now is exceptional or maybe not

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exceptional anymore,

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I hope,

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but special,

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right?

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So we’re getting there, but it’s a lot of like,

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Yeah, it’s almost like we have an old box of wisdom that we haven’t looked into.

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And here we are now opening and going,

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oh,

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my goodness,

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look at all these great things that are in here that we can then apply to our daily lives.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And they were so much more connected to life.

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And part of that is because they weren’t living behind computer screens all the

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time and working nine to five jobs and living in a community because they had to

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live in community and.

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I mean,

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a lot of ancient civilizations,

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my understanding is particularly in Sumer and ancient Egypt were very advanced and

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they had very advanced education system,

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math systems,

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time systems,

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water,

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you know,

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aqueducts,

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even in ancient Rome and Pompeii,

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like the water systems are still like astounding for us today,

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right?

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We don’t even know how to build the temples they build or the pyramids they build.

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And so they were

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way more advanced than we’re led to believe.

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I think we have kind of fallen in consciousness.

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And for me, that fall in consciousness came when

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We stopped revering the earth.

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We stopped revering the goddess.

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And that fall of consciousness, I traced back to that exact same time in history.

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And the fall of consciousness is really this idea that there’s only a male god, right?

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And they took away the feminine counterpart,

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which denied the divinity of the feminine,

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which included women.

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But what it was also denying was

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life as sacred the body as sacred the self as sacred it was only out and above that

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we could find that quote connection with the divine now my understanding is that

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took a few thousand years to really stamp out through a lot of violence and warfare

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um

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But there was always this resistance, right?

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And that resistance still lives in many of us.

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You know,

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I know it lives in us,

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the two of us and many other people who say,

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yeah,

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and I know something different and I’m here to help people see something different

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and tap into that power that is there,

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even though we’ve been told,

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right?

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We can’t or we shouldn’t or we’re not allowed, right?

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Even many other myths tell us that.

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And at the same time,

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Just that simple reverence for life can make a drastic,

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drastic,

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drastic difference in how we show up.

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Like that reverence for life.

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Like,

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yes,

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both of us probably guide people into very deep and profound practices and beliefs

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and systems and reflection.

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And also just listening to a bird and watching the water and

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These taking in the breath and knowing you can’t be separate from the air around you.

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You can’t be separate from the waters.

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You breathe them in.

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You take them in.

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You can’t be separate from the earth.

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And just that, right?

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That way our lives would change.

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I know that for certain,

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you know,

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before as a soul embodiment guide and doing what I do now,

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I was a prosecutor.

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I was an attorney.

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I had a very different life in which I was living from the head up.

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And it’s this ancient wisdom of the feminine, which is of life, of the body, of the sacred.

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Yes.

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It

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drastically changed my experience of how I live life right I mean how could it not

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yes yes and you know that’s a tough that’s a challenge because you know in in the

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ancient world everyone was living in in in connection to nature there was no other

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option and for us today it’s almost like

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we wait for people to arrive or we wait for people to show up, right?

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It’s the same for me.

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I spent so much time in my mind.

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I continue to do that because that’s the programming, right?

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As a researcher, as an academic, that’s the programming.

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And I have to say that I enjoy that to some degree.

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but remembering to not always be cerebral and blah, blah, blah.

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But that is still a blessing and a privilege for me, right?

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Because many others don’t have the, I don’t know what it is.

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It’s not always want or need, but it’s that sort of, or call.

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You know, they have other things that they’re bombarded with in their lives.

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And so what I’m saying is that

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The job now is a little bit harder for connection,

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significantly harder for connection,

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actually,

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versus coming from a totally,

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let’s say,

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agricultural or even hunter-gatherer society,

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where you are constantly,

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though,

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in nature.

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So even if you are straying here or you’re moving towards,

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I don’t know,

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living in a city back then,

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you still were always in…

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So it is easier…

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to tap into the magic of that time, to tap into that magic at that time, into nature.

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It was easier to have a conversation about,

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like you said,

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water,

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air,

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earth,

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trees,

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because that was a given.

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People around you would have been like, yes, of course.

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So I think our challenge is even just exposing nature.

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population to the reality of that knowledge people know that they know that when

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you go for a walk in nature and i was talking to my mother today you know say maybe

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go go for a walk well they know that going for a walk outside is good for them but

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number one not everyone feels like it because everyone’s overwhelmed with all kinds

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of stuff number two not everyone has time blah blah so it’s like how do we

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How can we recreate a world as clearly connected as the ancient world in a world

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today where we are so deeply disconnected?

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And some people are coming back to that wisdom, but it’s taking some time, right?

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So we won’t be able to have or replicate what was before.

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We’re going to have to come up with something that works for the realities of this time.

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In the now.

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In the now.

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And that has never been done before.

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So, right?

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So here we are a little bit like walking in the dark because we’re trial and error,

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lots of trial and error.

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Yes,

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we have a lot of that ancient knowledge and we’re gaining more of it,

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but then figuring out what works when you apply it,

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that becomes also a bit of a trial and error.

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So, I mean, it’s kind of exciting times.

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Like people say, we’re living in historical times.

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But there are some challenges that the ancients didn’t have.

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Right.

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So they weren’t fighting against something or they weren’t fighting to push up against,

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you know,

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in the same way that we are.

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They were living their lives, you know.

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I mean, they had their own problems.

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They had lots of wars.

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They had some disease.

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They had, I don’t know, famines.

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They had their own problems.

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We’re not saying it was a utopia or it was a time of non-suffering.

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Of course, people died.

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People were lost to all kinds of accidents, things like that.

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So they had their own issues.

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But because they were naturally or daily connected to a lot of these wisdoms and energies…

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yeah they lived a significantly different psychology than and we can at this point

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i don’t i mean because we’re not all going to go back to nature uh you know people

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are not going to give up their cars and luxury items and so trying to figure out

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how to reconnect with

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in this day and age is probably our, our modern challenge, I guess.

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And it doesn’t have to be separate though.

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Right.

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At least in my experience, it doesn’t have to be separate.

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I have lost everything I owned several times in my life, be it through a flood or other things.

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And yeah,

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it it’s not that those things are bad it’s not that there’s anything wrong with

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having a house and having a shelter i feel grateful i have shelter in a comfortable

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bed and don’t have to sleep on hard ground or pebbles or rocks or right i’m warm

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when it’s raining and cold outside and sheltered from the wind and right there’s

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i’m so grateful that i don’t have to go hunt for my food every time i want to eat

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and true and and and

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It is our relationship with those things that determines our reality,

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particularly our inner reality,

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our inner state.

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It is that gratitude for the fact that we get to eat.

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We get to eat from the earth and that it is still the earth.

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That provides all of that.

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It doesn’t come from a grocery store.

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Food doesn’t come from a grocery store.

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There are people who think food comes from a grocery store.

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When at some point in my life,

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I remember thinking when I first volunteered on an organic farm in France,

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when I went on a spiritual pilgrimage back in 2013,

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I was already in my thirties.

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I remember still having this moment going, I’ve never pulled food out of the ground.

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Like, is it safe to eat like that?

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Right?

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And that’s so kind of…

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laughable and scary and sad and the reality of many of us who have only ever eaten

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from a grocery store and so there’s this we can still enjoy that benefit of that

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say for example right and have the consciousness and the awareness that it is the

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earth and the rain and the sun and the air that give us the capacity to eat food to

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live life

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And connect with the organic elements of life with appreciation and connection

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rather than the complete separation that we have been,

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I would say,

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brainwashed to not know any different,

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to not have the connection with the consciousness that exists within all things.

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And to me, that’s the separation that is wounding us because how many people do you know

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that are fully activated,

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life force energy,

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joyful,

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grateful,

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appreciative,

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like in connection with all things and the divine within themselves and all of life

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and live that way and vibrate that and radiate that.

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That is to me like the essence of why we’re actually here.

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But when we’re operating according to this

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I sometimes call it like a slave paradigm, right?

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You work hard, you work hard, you work hard.

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Where’s life?

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Where’s life?

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Where’s life?

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Like, oh, but you have to, you have to.

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The survival grid that has been on our planet for a very long time,

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which is what we’re coming up face-to-face with right now.

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We are literally being asked,

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and this might sound a little far-fetched,

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but for me and my experience working with Gaia,

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working with the goddess,

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is that we are being asked

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To move our root system, our nervous system from this survival grid.

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I have to do this for money.

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I have to do this to survive.

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I have to do this to be safe.

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Whether it be a job, whether it be I need love, I need value, right?

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To re-gridding and reconnecting the root to our divine consciousness.

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Mm-hmm.

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which to me is sovereignty, right?

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Soul embodiment is sovereignty.

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When we embody our divinity to regrid our root, our energetic system to this, I am, I am divine.

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And we operate as that everything shifts.

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Now that’s quite a shift, right?

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Yes.

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But it’s possible.

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And I do believe that’s why things seem so

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let’s just say crazy and intense right now and activating in not so pleasant ways.

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And there’s a lot of fear because that fear has been the very thing that has

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controlled us and led to the suppression of the goddess.

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That same exact fear led to the suppression of the goddess.

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So if we have the opportunity to then transmute that now for the past and go,

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I let that fear,

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each one of us at some point agreed on a conscious or unconscious level,

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I let that fear keep me separate from my divinity,

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from the divine within all life,

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from the goddess.

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That’s what she represents, the divine in life, right?

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I let that fear keep me separate.

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And I get to choose differently now,

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despite all of this fear,

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despite all of this,

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you have to in the survival and the blah,

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blah,

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blah,

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blah,

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blah.

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You can’t choose.

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You don’t have rights.

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Yes, you do.

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Yes, we do.

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And shift out of the fear into that sovereignty,

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into that empowerment,

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into that force of the goddess.

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that can shift and create new realities.

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Like I have experienced her working her magic into physicality because the

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spiritual comes first.

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Energy forms matter, not the other way around.

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And so we can use this wisdom to shift our physical reality and it doesn’t have to

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take another couple thousand years,

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but it does take our consciousness and our choice.

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Yeah.

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That has a lot of

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depth what you’re saying i mean obviously but um i’m just thinking sorry now i’m

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just thinking about the way you’re saying it in many ways we have come

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significantly farther than the ancients in the sense that i am not sure and again

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we i mean here we are generalizing for all the ancients okay but we’re just having

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a conversation but i am not sure that ancient people’s

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thought about programming grids like we talk about even sovereignty of body and

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soul the way that we’re thinking about now so what I’m saying is I think we have

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evolved despite the oppression and suppression we have evolved and perhaps the

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ancient wisdom is

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the tool that we kind of reach back for to help push through this.

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So I don’t know if that makes sense.

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Not that we are trying to relive like they did in many ways,

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because like we said,

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we can’t,

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but also maybe we don’t need to.

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We create something new.

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Right, because we’ve lived through that, right?

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So we’ve lived through that.

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We’re here now.

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Our understanding, so for example, the technology, the information, all of these things,

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are still tools that we can use in order to free ourselves.

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And the ancient wisdom,

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I think,

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is part of that memory of what was the norm for us,

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what we experienced,

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and how do we tap into that and process it and use it today.

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So I think what you’re saying is quite fascinating in the sense that we are a whole new,

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I don’t know if it’s new,

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but a whole different world

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energy today that is made up of both the freedom and connections and mysteries of

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the ancient world and then the trauma of the last two thousand years or five

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thousand years and then here we are awaking like people say you know which is sort

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of like we’ve been dormant for a while do you know what i mean but now you awaken

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you

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in a different reality.

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And therefore you must, you know, figure out your way through.

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So that it’s quite fascinating.

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Cause I think, I think you’re right.

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I think that we can’t go back.

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Obviously we can’t live like they used to.

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We know too much, right?

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It’s like, you can’t unknow what, you know, we know too much.

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We’ve seen too much.

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We experienced too much.

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And yet we don’t know enough about some of these ancient, right?

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So we are in this new world.

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place of evolution, right?

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With both good and bad.

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And trying to figure that out, I think, is where the ancient wisdom plays a key role.

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as a tool to what could have,

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like the expansion of consciousness,

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the expansion of worship,

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right?

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Because they were so much more expanded back then in those fields of wisdom,

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which were then closed to us for 2000 years.

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So now we’re kind of,

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again,

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opening up,

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even though it looks like chaos,

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but we’re opening up again to a kind of expansion,

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right?

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So it’s quite fascinating because I guess in many ways, it’s unknowable.

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We don’t know what the future will look like.

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You know,

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we’re living in a time that obviously has never been before,

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but also,

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you know,

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in history,

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there’s patterns of behavior,

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there’s patterns of empires,

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there’s patterns of power,

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blah,

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blah,

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blah.

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And now we’re living in a time where there’s a potential that we break some of those patterns.

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And that is new in many ways.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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I love the way you’re,

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you’re kind of putting that into that deeper perspective of highlighting we can’t

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go back.

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And we are creating something new and a very new way and something I’ve been

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playing with and I would love to know.

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Maybe you found research I have and I maybe have a different perspective about this,

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because something I’ve been playing with is that now the ancients,

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they had access to a lot of spiritual technologies that we don’t write sound and

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they directed their temples to many of the stars and they use the solstice and these.

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these other powerful times on the planet to,

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we don’t know what exactly,

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but we know that that’s what the temples were orchestrated for or attuned to.

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And we know that they built things we still don’t know how to build.

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And like the megalithic stone structures in Malta,

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for example,

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I know that you went there as well.

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And like they have these 15,000 tons stones just stacked on top, stacked on top, stacked on top.

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It’s just incredible.

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From five, 7,000, 9,000 years ago,

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how in the world how in the world right and that somehow survived for five seven

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nine thousand years and which most of our things just fall away in like one big

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storm right so it’s it’s fascinating and at the same time it also seems like they

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were still in many ways seeing the divine outside themselves they were still in

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many ways like

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Oh,

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these star beings,

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which maybe are what they call the gods and goddesses,

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other star beings,

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who knows,

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right?

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That makes a lot of sense to me.

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And using that and accessing these technologies.

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And now…

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And then we went to that one monotheistic God.

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This is the one God.

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And he’s a man and looks like us.

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We basically made God in man’s image, right?

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Not the other way around.

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And so we had to obey and we had to submit or else we die and we’re punished and

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we’re eternally in hell.

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And this is crazy.

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It’s so seemingly archaic concepts, right?

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into but somehow very effective for thousands of years into okay so we can still

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access this ancient spiritual technology and the stars and work with the land and

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life and the element and recognize maybe there is one source just not one man in

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the sky and

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Bring that and recognize that in ourselves to embody our divinity.

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And for me, I know that that’s the impulse within me, right?

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In the work I do or just in myself, right?

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Like we walk the path of ourselves and to embody my divinity,

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to operate as the divine I am,

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to…

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Not let it be just a concept.

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Not let it just be an idea.

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Not let it be something I just think about,

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but bring into how I live,

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how I talk,

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how I show up,

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how I relate to my body,

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my sexuality,

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my everything,

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the food,

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everything.

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And then align everything to that, which is new on this planet, my understanding.

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What do you think about?

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Have you seen other civilizations really felt like they were embodying the divine?

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Um, that’s a good question.

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Um, I love this idea of spiritual technology.

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So I do, I agree with you.

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Uh,

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and I think this is just,

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it’s very well evidenced that they used the vibrations,

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the energies,

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um,

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in a,

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as a technology,

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which is quite fascinating.

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Uh, I remember hearing about a cave in Turkey to Kaibeli where, um,

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depending on where you stood in the cave and where you,

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and what kind of drum you were drumming,

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the vibrations of that sound could elicit anything from joy to crying to

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devastation to awe.

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So,

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and I remember reading the report from the archaeologists and thinking,

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I mean,

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I mean,

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I can’t even wrap my mind around that.

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Like, how did they figure that out?

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And then how did they test it?

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You know, and my brain is asking all these questions.

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So,

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So they very much had those tools to experience,

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let’s say,

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the natural energy and vibrations of the earth.

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I agree with you also that they did tend to look up or down for the divine.

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I can only speak for the Greek and Romans, maybe a little bit of the Egyptians.

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So we’re kind of at Anatolia.

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We’re kind of caught in this little geographical space.

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I can’t speak for Asia or the continent of Africa, per se.

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But for those that I can speak for,

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yes,

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this idea that,

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I was thinking,

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the idea that I am divine

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it was probably not as popular as the idea of worshiping a divine,

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creating a relationship with the divine.

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Though I will say that their relationships with the divine were much more

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egalitarian than the later monotheistic relationships.

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And by that, I mean, there seemed to be a negotiation with the divine.

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You could offer something and expect something in return.

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You could decide to partner up with this God,

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Or this God might like you better than another God.

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So it was not an equal relationship.

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I’ll use the word egalitarian relationship.

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I don’t think they saw themselves as equals,

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but they certainly saw that they had room to collaborate.

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And then we get into monotheism and suddenly you’re an oppressed slave to the

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system and all this kind of stuff.

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so today it’s true that we are shedding we have to shed a lot of that shame and

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guilt especially if you grow up like i grew up catholic so the first time that i

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realized that artemis is sort of it’s my collaborator is my bestie is my mentor um

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it took me a really long time to say it out loud or to admit it to myself because

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it felt disrespectful,

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dishonorable in some way,

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like this divine being,

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what if she gets mad and like curses you?

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Because how dare you think that you are on this?

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Even though I grew up thinking the spark of the divine is in me,

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it was always submissive,

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right?

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It was always less than the creator, the God, the male representative.

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So I think that, um,

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Coming to sovereignty in that way where I see myself,

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it’s even hard to say,

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where I see myself as equal to a God entity because I am also God entity.

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Well, that’s so hard, right?

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The programming for that, the heaviness of

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to imagine that,

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like to try and break free from that and imagine that takes a kind of discipline

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and repetition and training,

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right?

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To forget that.

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And I think that is new in many ways.

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I can’t say that that in that way that we’re talking about it right now was part of

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ancient thought.

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I don’t know, because again, we only have a limited amount of writings.

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And the writings that we have are a bunch of dudes that were quite wealthy and

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quite privileged and,

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you know,

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blah,

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blah.

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So if we looked at them today,

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like if they were part of our population today,

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we would call them sort of these elite,

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you know,

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bro bro guys right kind of thing so we only have their writings and they were

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pleasing the politicians they were pleasing the emperor etc so i don’t want to

(00:37:59):
totally say that the ancients didn’t experience that because if they did we they

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didn’t either they didn’t write it or we don’t have those writings so we’re going

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to leave them some room that maybe some of them were able to have that realization

(00:38:12):
and work with that energy but i think for today for us

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I think that’s the reality.

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That’s why I think we’re more evolved because we are now stepping into our divinity

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as divine beings as much as we can,

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breaking old patterns.

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And I do think, I think you’re right.

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I think that is the purpose of this life.

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Well, I think that’s the, I think that’s almost like if this life was a course on earth,

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then sort of the final exam or the passing grade would be that you realize that

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that’s the realization that you embody that divinity.

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and so then you ascend kind of thing it’s like that last step before you you’re

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like okay great i finished earth got my degree in earth you know that kind of thing

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yeah it definitely is or seemingly a path of ascension for sure that that

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realization of the god state in form but not as a concept right because there are

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there’s a lot of spirituality where it’s been a concept for a long time

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be God realized,

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like recognize the divine within you,

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but to actually then bring that into the body is the feminine,

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is the feminine.

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And for me, it was the ancient Egyptian goddess, Auset, Isis known as Isis, Auset, who, who,

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You know,

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when she first came to me and embodied vision,

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I really didn’t know much about who she was.

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And she’s kind of my bestie in that sense, like Artemis is yours, right?

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And she’s been guiding me ever since like 2012, basically.

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I mean, probably way before that, but consciously.

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And I really wanted to, in the same way that we’re, you know,

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conditioned even unconsciously to put god above us i really wanted to put her above

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me i really wanted to see her as more than me as better than me as more worthy than

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me as and and it just kept being this no no no do not put me above you right i i am

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one with you you are just as powerful you are just as divine and it took me a long

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time to

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it’s why i do what i do because like everything that i went through right to to

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release the beliefs and the shame and the guilt and all of those feelings of

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unworthiness to to really begin to source from within to be sovereign and and her

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emblem in her hieroglyph was the throne and she was known as the goddess of

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sovereignty right because the

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To be sovereign was to sit on one’s throne, the throne, I say, of your own divinity, right?

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That is how we reclaim our sovereignty.

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And it’s fascinating to me because she was,

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in some ways,

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maybe the one who ushered in the,

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quote,

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golden age that we sometimes hear about or I’ve heard about,

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like that there was this golden age in Egypt in which…

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They had bridged more of heaven and earth.

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I don’t think we’ve seen real evidence quotes of that,

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you know,

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typical archeological evidence,

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right?

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But some people have channeled that through or had memories of that.

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But I do think that she,

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as one representative of the goddess,

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that the earth herself is ushering that in,

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is asking us to bring up this ancient wisdom,

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not to repeat the past,

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not to go back,

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but to say,

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okay,

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that part of us that we had to deny for however many thousands of years,

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you said,

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you know,

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2,500,

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5,000,

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right?

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It’s within that range that this really took place that, okay, so

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What if we bring that up,

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but in a new way,

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with the consciousness of the divine and the consciousness of the earth and meld

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them into something new.

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Remember those sacred technologies that we have access to.

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but also like live life and not ignore this, right?

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Like it doesn’t have to be one or the other,

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but so no more polarity,

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this or that,

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like,

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you know,

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matriarchy or patriarchy,

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but rather this,

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ah,

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so if we are all divine,

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then we’re all divine.

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Like no one is left out of that equation, right?

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No one.

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And then how that shifts our life and our experience and how we show up.

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I mean, it’s a pretty drastic,

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change yeah yeah i think perhaps that’s part of the key of change um because i

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think that that kind of learning is sort of the threshold for moving forward the

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issue of course the issue is how people how everyone reacts and handles that like

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so how do we approach

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this type of evolution let’s say spiritual evolution or physical evolution too um

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without too much ego i mean you know people sometimes say okay let’s put aside ego

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i’m i’m ego or not whatever freud comes up with whatever but what i mean is that

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there are what i mean is like i don’t know that i’m against ego as far as identity

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and personality in the way that you know some uh traditions are but i am thinking

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that

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There is lots of room for if people start to call themselves divine without the

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true deep belief in and the practice that we could see the dangers in some of that.

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And I did want to address what you said about the ego,

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because most of the work of coming into the divinity is,

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of course,

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right,

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looking at the ego,

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which.

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you know,

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for me and to find the ego in a very simple way of the ego being the part of us

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that solely identifies with being purely physical and nothing more.

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Like I am only physical.

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I’m separate from the divine.

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And so that part of ourselves does not need to be cast out.

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That part of ourselves does not need to be ignored because that part of ourselves

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is going to rule the subconscious and how we show up in the world.

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If we don’t then infuse that with love,

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with the consciousness of the divine,

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and then align the ego,

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which is basically our subconscious,

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which is basically our mind and our thoughts and our beliefs we’ve inherited,

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align that with our divinity.

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And how do we avoid it being…

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You know,

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just like basically like a bunch of ego rulers thinking like I’m the only one and

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I’m divine,

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right?

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Like, because clearly there’s some evidence of that right now happening in the world.

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Like I’m the only one and I can assign to everybody else and nobody else has a

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choice because I have this.

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And that’s been around for 5,000 years of like, there are some that are good.

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There are some that are bad.

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There’s some that are worthy.

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There’s some that are unworthy.

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Now the original ancient cultures, we don’t have evidence I’ve seen of that, but that came in.

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Right.

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And why that’s a whole other question.

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Like why did that happen on this planet?

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Right.

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That was the fallen consciousness in my opinion.

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Right.

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And, and,

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the only way for me that I can see that we resolve that is through love.

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Because if you are aligned to the consciousness of love,

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which is different than a mental consciousness of spirituality,

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love doesn’t,

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can’t think that,

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like that’s,

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you’re in the vibration,

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the frequency of love,

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which is the goddess.

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I mean, the goddess has always been associated with love in many, many of the ancient cultures.

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Our understanding of love is also

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very misunderstood and that’s again there’s so many different pieces and facets of

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this right but but then i always have been left the question right of like yeah but

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there are still people who maybe that’s just not their path in this lifetime maybe

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that’s not what they’re choosing and they don’t want that and they don’t want to

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elevate their consciousness and that’s that has been i think one of the greatest

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difficulties for me and

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Even recently,

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I was reading the poems of Edahawanna,

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which was the first author,

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known author,

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who was a temple priestess of Inanna,

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an ancient Sumer.

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And they have discovered her writings,

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the original author,

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the most ancient writings of a woman,

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of a temple priestess.

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And she basically, you know, says those things of like, am I being punished?

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Like, you know, like, where are you?

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Because they were punishing her because she was a temple priestess and they were

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taking her out of the temple.

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And this is documented.

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That’s what they did to those who worshiped the goddess and those who were powerful,

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strong women is they forced us.

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I’ve had past life memories of this,

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but they forced us and they killed us and they turned us into slaves and prostitutes.

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And I’ve had

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many years of healing that wound and i still have this but what do we do about that

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what do we do about those in the world that still want to do that there’s still a

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lot of rape there’s still a lot of sexual assault all you have to do is turn on the

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news to see lust and objectification of the body and and and it does grieve me and

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i don’t know that there’s any way around that grief

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And I will not let their blindness become mine.

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And it is ultimately, this is where I’ve come with it.

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I’m not saying this is my final forever.

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I will not let their blindness,

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their lack of consciousness,

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their lack of love,

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their lack of recognition of my divinity.

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I will not let that

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take me away from it anymore because this consciousness is what i take with me

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forever and i will maintain that recognition ideally no matter what because really

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isn’t that the illusion

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Isn’t that kind of the polarity,

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the illusion,

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the fall of consciousness,

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the belief that I could be separate from that?

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So the belief that this other person could do something that could make me separate

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from that is actually the illusion itself.

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So the more I can maintain the awareness of the union,

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I am already that,

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and nothing takes that away,

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then for me,

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that’s the kind of golden ticket,

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at least of my consciousness.

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It doesn’t take away my humanity, and that can create pain.

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But it does take away the suffering.

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And that’s what the goddess Aoset taught is that suffering is the denial of our divinity.

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Right.

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But we can still feel pain because pain in a way is a facet of life that when we

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feel pain,

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we’re actually fully alive.

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Right.

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Right.

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No, that makes sense.

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Yeah, that’s really beautiful.

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Well, I just realized it’s already been one hour.

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Can you believe we’ve already talked for an hour?

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So I feel like we should start to wrap up and I want to talk about a retreat that

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I’m offering where people can access this wisdom.

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But first, I want you to talk about.

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A little bit more of what you do,

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if you want to direct people to your website,

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how they can find you,

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anything you feel like sharing.

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Yes, thank you.

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So if they want to find me anywhere online, I’m under Artemis Expert.

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That’s pretty much across all social media.

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And then the Artemis Research Center is

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artemiscenter.com both work um is the website and on there there’ll be there’s like

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the courses that i have and uh that i teach and then the books that i wrote on

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artemis and the map for the temples so everything will be there but so those are

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the two ways because then on those places there’s all kinds of other links that

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they can just click around and um and get to know sort of what i do

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And courses on Artemis and this history.

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And the goddess, yeah.

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We just finished a course that was really wonderful called Frozen Realms.

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So I have a teaching partner that I teach with and we were looking at winter goddesses.

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And sometimes different times of the year we teach different things.

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But sometimes I feel a bit inspired to talk about something.

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um and uh and we put something together based on that inspiration and then teach

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mostly actually i think it’s something exactly like what we’ve been talking about a

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part of it is a learning of the ancient data and the other part is the

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applicability of that knowledge so i like to set up the courses in that way where

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we meet live on zoom or whatever but then we have a part of it is a lecture but

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then the other part is really

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applying some of that knowledge because i think people are fascinated by mythology

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and ancient history and artifacts and that’s great to talk about and i love to talk

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about that stuff but then it’s like okay so what do we do with all of this and so

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that’s the applicability part of it then we run through exercises of you know how

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do you apply some of that knowledge and um so i really love to i mean i teach at

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the university here in toronto uh although those courses are more philosophy and

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um you know sort of standard rigid uh academia but but the other stuff that i teach

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under the artemis center is really just uh it’s just for the love of learning kind

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of thing you know and teaching the material yeah yeah yeah that’s beautiful and

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i’ll put all the links below so if you’re listening to this you can just go and

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scroll and look for the links and check out the artemis center and and all the

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courses and offerings that carla has and

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And yeah,

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I’ll just mention about a retreat that I’m leading to Greece where people can

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actually have the opportunity to access this wisdom in a really embodied way.

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Because for me,

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it’s like,

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yeah,

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we can go to the sites and we can just like have this intellectual understanding of

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it of like,

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oh,

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maybe there’s some energy,

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right?

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But what I really want to guide people to is to really understand like,

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what is the wisdom here,

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both on an intellectual level and guided tours and

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but also on this real embodied level.

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And for me,

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I have the pleasure and privilege and gift of being able to channel that energy up

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and help others channel the energy up into our bones,

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into our bodies so that it really works with our own energy system.

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And we can access the gifts of each site more consciously that the goddess has for

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us so that we bring the ancient wisdom of the temples into

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into ourselves and then take them with us so like what i like to say is this is a

(00:53:01):
sacred women in power retreat we’re going to greece i think it’s september 27th or

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october 8th of this year 2025 but what i like to say about it is that you become a

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living temple of the goddess because then you are vibrating that that energy of the

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goddess out into wherever you go right and when i was in delphi last fall

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I spent a couple of weeks there just like tuning into the land and the energies and connecting.

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And it was so clear.

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She said, bring the women now, bring the women.

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And the first time, like next year, she’ll like, wait, bring the women 2025, bring the women.

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So basically the same time I was there last year, we’ll be in Delphi.

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But we’re going to Athens, Naphtali.

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I know you’re going on to do this mapping of the Artemis temples and you’ll be in Naphtali.

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Yeah.

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depending on which the English or the Greece version in May.

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And that’s a region where there’s these ancient Mycenaean civilizations from 1700 BC.

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I mean, well over, you know, four or 5,000 years ago.

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And some of these,

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ancient stone temples and it’s just so rich and full of history and then the

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acropolis in athens is just stunning and oh my god so magical lit up at night just

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being in that energy right it’s just amazing so yeah i’m really excited to take

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other women there to really experience that sounds wonderful just that sounds

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amazing and taking the time to channel those energies yeah that sounds wonderful

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absolutely

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yeah it’s time because they you know talking about why this this ancient wisdom

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matters and how we bring it into the current day collective it’s when we even

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though we don’t necessarily understand intellectually all of this when we bring

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that ancient wisdom up into the body and we put it in the collective field because

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our consciousness can’t be disconnected from the consciousness around us it’s

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impossible right

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It’s easy to be like, oh, that over there and that person and this thing happening.

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The reality is our consciousness cannot be separate from the consciousness of the world.

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It is all interconnected.

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But as we choose individually to elevate our consciousness,

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we then elevate the consciousness of the collective.

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And so when we go and we consciously lift this consciousness to these ancient temples,

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even as you’re doing in May on your studies and mapping,

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we’re lifting the consciousness into our feet,

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we’re bringing it into the awareness into the grid.

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And we’re saying,

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yes,

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we get to remember this,

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this gets to be part of our,

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our consciousness on this planet right now,

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and utilize it and embody it and

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It can shift our world in ways that I don’t even think that we could understand.

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Right.

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You know, bringing that feminine wisdom and that feminine power back.

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It’s really amazing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I’m so grateful for the work that you’re doing.