On this episode of the Nod, we have three of my good friends, John Lenhart, Ed Mabry, and Jason Smith, on the show to talk about their spiritual warfare work and what it means to be a spiritual warrior.
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00:12:06.260And by the way, my background's in psychology.
00:12:08.340So I'm like, I'm listening to this guy explain the unconscious mind on your show.
00:12:13.080And I'm thinking, this guy understands it better than anyone I've ever heard.
00:12:17.520And he's talking about flow, which is exactly what I was seeking.
00:12:20.780So I'm just like, I can't wait to meet this guy.
00:12:23.280So I go home and find him on LinkedIn, send him a message.
00:12:28.420And then the next day we're on a two hour call.
00:12:30.420And that was almost exactly a year ago.
00:12:32.360And we've been talking nonstop since then, just exchanging ideas.
00:12:36.360It's been so good to just have someone who I can have these deep conversations with.
00:12:42.840It's weird how just on that topic, you do a thing and you never know.
00:12:48.100I was talking to somebody just yesterday about it where you never know who's listening and what sorts of connections are developing because you decided to turn a camera on and have a conversation.
00:13:00.080At the heart of it is having conversations.
00:13:04.120And because you don't see the audience in real life, you don't really have that connectivity.
00:13:09.820You don't know what they're going through, who they've reached out to, what conclusion they've drawn and what direction they suddenly went in in their own life.
00:13:26.560And then like whatever happens from there, who knows, except we got on and we said a slur and then it turns into some beautiful relationship on the other side of it.
00:13:35.340Because, well, you guys are out here in Florida, but I mean, Ed is on the other side of the country.
00:13:41.060And then, you know, here we all are having this conversation.
00:16:01.960And there were people who thought, we're Brahmins.
00:16:05.920So, you know, you guys are untouchable.
00:16:08.180So Buddha would confront them and say, like, if you're, you know, if you're if you call yourself a musician, but you don't play music, how could you call yourself a musician?
00:16:17.920So he was dealing with the identity politics, people calling themselves something, but not actually doing the practice.
00:17:02.600And Alice Bailey, like her her student started the Luciferian Trust and they traveled all over Asia, India, Egypt, and they brought these teachings back and mush them all together.
00:17:19.700But they didn't really understand the true meaning.
00:17:21.760They had their own agenda and they would use it.
00:17:25.340You know, same thing, like Ed said, with Christianity and like Hitler, Aleister Crowley.
00:17:31.020And so many people were very influenced by the theosophists.
00:17:35.060And and then, you know, Crowley, he he thought they weren't Luciferian enough.
00:17:41.080So he started Thalema, which is even more Luciferian, you know, and and then and then you get like so that so that was what started a lot of this Eastern understanding in the West.
00:19:28.620Where it's like we're shaking off kind of our Christian conservative roots, God, I guess, in so many ways.
00:19:36.500And and and I think when you remove the spirituality from a people, they are clamoring for something else.
00:19:42.580It sounds like they then receive, at least here in America, this what would you call it, modge podge of different Eastern religions all kind of glommed together and then packaged and delivered to us.
00:19:55.500And and this is also accompanied by the psychedelics movement, which is like, you know, in a lot of in a lot of ways, I think kind of a psychological operation by the intelligence agencies to to start introducing psychedelics to the West in a big way.
00:20:09.580So so so so you have this sounds like what you're describing is is a bastardized version of Buddhism, something that's a little bit watered down, maybe leans a little bit more towards do what thou will.
00:23:44.700But 95% of the time, 95% of why we're looking at the woman or why we're eating the food we know is bad for us.
00:23:54.68095% of that is coming from the unconscious and for most people, right?
00:23:59.760So that just means that we create all these habits that run on autopilot.
00:24:05.860Whereas what Buddha taught is to learn to master that conscious mind so you become more and more aware of what you're doing.
00:24:15.540So it literally will make you a better, like at your work, better with all your relationships and even better with your relationship with God.
00:24:26.360Buddha did not say, when they asked Buddha, is there a God?
00:25:10.660A couple of OnlyFans chicks are emptying their minds.
00:25:12.900So, but it says here to contemplate, reflect deeply or ponder a subject.
00:25:16.840And that, to me, makes a lot of sense when you consider sports as a meditative process because what it does is it eliminates sort of like past and future contemplations.
00:25:27.340And you're heavily focused on this one thing, which is the now, it's the present, it's the activity that you're in.
00:25:33.740So in that way, a lot of people consider sports a meditative process.
00:25:42.260Well, the thing is, this is really flow.
00:25:44.580So the thing is, is Buddhism, to me, is ancient psychology.
00:25:51.080And everything in psychology is the conscious brain.
00:25:53.960Like Jason said, Buddhism is 2,600 years of trying to figure out how the conscious brain works.
00:26:01.440When you say people say empty their mind, when you flow, you're toggling between your conscious and unconscious.
00:26:08.060So you focus on one thing, and then you let go and let your unconscious take over, and it'll come back, and then you focus.
00:26:16.140So flow is this back and forth type of thing.
00:26:19.760So when people enjoy sports, they enjoy this moment where they're focused, then they're unfocused, focused, and unfocused.
00:26:27.260And if you think about it, I like to say, how would you stand on hot stand barefooted?
00:26:35.540You'd rock back and forth on one foot and the other foot.
00:26:39.200When you flow, you're rocking back and forth in your brain, and you don't ever get tired.
00:26:44.800Versus if you lock down on one foot, it gets tired.
00:26:49.640So that's really, so that's the confusion, is there is an aspect of flow where you're not thinking because you're letting everything go, but it comes back to you.
00:26:59.500The thing that happened is I was teaching Jason about flow with this program, We Have Instant Impact.
00:27:09.100Everything that he was learning, because we have these videotapes and we meet, he was telling me he already knew this, and he was explaining it.
00:27:17.860And I kept going, you're so, like you 99% get this before I say anything.
00:27:27.000And so the same thing happened to me that happened to Ed is I get like four lessons, there's eight lessons, I get four lessons into it.
00:27:33.220And I'm telling Jason what Buddhism is because I've known Buddhists, and they are all people who are wimpy, they don't like confrontation, they don't ever take a stand, they don't have any definitions.
00:27:45.420Jason's a Lama, but that hasn't been stated yet.
00:27:48.320Jason is a Lama, ordained, he can teach Buddhism.
00:27:53.140So he said to me, John, have you read the Buddhist literature?
00:28:44.580I say he's the most interesting man in the world to me, because you listen to the story.
00:28:49.620I asked him to do the story, because honestly, I didn't believe it was real.
00:28:54.640And then as he explained it, I'm like, okay, this makes sense.
00:28:57.360The second season is him talking about eight of these doctrines of Buddhism, and he explains it all from effects.
00:29:07.180And then I explain it in the brain, cause and effect.
00:29:10.000And then Jason brings it all together in a way that goes beyond Buddhism.
00:29:14.720So the thing about Jason is he's a, he's a Buddhist Lama and he understands Buddhism, you know, and he kicked my ass because I thought I understood it, but it's, I, I thought I knew it.
00:29:24.680Cause I talked to people who said they're Buddhist.
00:29:26.360They don't even know what they're talking about.
00:29:28.220But when he took my information and put it with what he's got, he's now got something that goes beyond Buddhism.
00:29:34.820So it's funny when people, when people talk about Jason being a Buddhist, it's like, that's, that's like half of what he is.
00:29:44.160Well, you said something there for, for a second, John, this idea of like, when you've met Buddhists in the past, they are pacifists.
00:29:51.540Um, you know, I think you might've even used the word, you know, sissies or something to that extent.
00:29:57.580And Christianity certainly has been accused of being a pacifist, um, you know, religion, but on the topic of sports and meditation, I find it interesting that there is a sort of sport.
00:30:11.820You might call it associated with Buddhism, and that is these Tibetan warrior monks, which identify as, as Buddhists.
00:30:19.860And we're talking rigorous martial arts, which is a meditative process in very many ways.
00:30:27.660Um, uh, you know, I know this is going to be a little bit all over the place, but I, I, I think it fits into the conversation here.
00:30:34.200Given the topic of, like I said, sports, Jason, this, this idea of, of Tibetan monks or this form of martial arts,
00:30:40.940is that actually, um, synonymous with Buddhism and, and is, if it is, is the point, the meditative process?
00:30:49.240Before you answer this, I just, I just want to emphasize that Raven is a savant because we just, I don't know how you do it.
00:30:57.360We were talking about how we can bring in the martial arts aspect of it as an example.
00:31:01.840And, and you just unconsciously segued us right into it, Dave.
00:31:07.160That's not, that was, we're good at what we do at.
00:57:14.940So that really is your greatest, because there is justice in the world, you know, and yeah, like Marzinski talks about people taking meth, you know, like you, you, you have, there is a way to trust yourself, you know, like when you, and again, Buddha, Christ gave, gave these warnings of, you know, if you're being lustful, if you're being, you know, the sins, that's going to, you're going to feel that in yourself.
00:57:44.920And uneasiness, whereas, you know, be still and be still and know I am, I am, I am God, right?
00:57:51.080You know, like, so, so there's this concept of, of clear, keeping your conscience clear.
00:57:58.540So there's one thing I want to, I want to touch on real quick.
00:58:01.600So I want to make sure we've, we've completely answered Top's question about, you know, differentiation between these, you know, feeling good and thinking that that's love.
00:58:10.340And it comes down again to definitions.
00:58:12.040This is something that I think the first time I met John, we had a confrontation because he's, I heard him on a radio show and sorry, I heard him on a radio show and he said something I disagree with.
00:58:25.060He definitely gave the definition of love.
00:58:27.160As he said, he said that love is giving without the expectation of getting anything in return.
00:58:36.420And so I, I emailed, I, I think I went on his website and, and, and talked to him there and he, he responded to me and after a while I was like, okay, this guy's right.
00:58:43.900So, but here's the thing about knowing what true love is, because love is actually giving without the expectation of getting anything in return.
00:58:52.020We know that from the Bible, the first time the word love is mentioned is in the story, the narrative of Abraham being asked to sacrifice his son, Isaac, where Jehovah says to him, take your son, Isaac, whom you love.
00:59:02.960First time the word love is used and go sacrifice him.
00:59:05.800So the first time we see love is it's tied to sacrifice.
00:59:09.820And if you're, if you're sacrificing someone, well, you're not getting them back.
00:59:12.400What is the most famous verse in the Bible for God?
00:59:16.260So job three 16 for God, so love the world that he gave his only begotten son.
00:59:19.440So God, so what love the world that he did, what gave so that whosoever believes.
00:59:25.540So the ultimate expression of love is giving your own, your own life, the life of your son of Jehovah himself without the expectation whosoever.
00:59:33.980So he had no expectations that anyone would become a Christian.
00:59:37.440He said, whosoever, if, if anyone wants to do it, believe in me, great, but he had no expectation.
01:00:04.020So if you are in, if you are in walking in love, you have no expectations.
01:00:08.440Therefore you can have no fear because fear is an expectation.
01:00:11.300And I'll give you a quick, um, a quick freebie from, from our upcoming spiritual warfare course, because, because it's something we'll talk about in one of the later months is people have this idea that these demonic entities, the fallen Elohim, they, they feed on us.
01:00:25.860They want us in fear and anxiety because they feed on it.
01:00:28.960Well, yes and no, what they feed off of what they want is worship.
01:00:35.820Worship is an exchange of, of spiritual value.
01:00:38.380And that, that spiritual value can be the active worship of these entities, you know, elevating them to a degree, but there's still spiritual transfer in fear that they can glom onto because fear is almost, is basically a form of worship because you are putting your spiritual energy out there towards something and you are giving it a high position in your life.
01:01:02.020So yes, these entities do want us in fear and anxiety.
01:01:05.540I know we talk about that a lot on, on Nephilim death squad and about the demoralization that's going on.
01:01:11.260And they do get that same, they get a similar high from fear as, as they would from any kind of other direct worship, but perfect love casts that out.
01:01:20.220So that is how you do spiritual warfare against fear by walking in love.
01:01:24.020Because again, love has no expectations and fear is all about expectations.
01:01:30.200I want to just share that if you want to sum up the goal of Buddhism, it's open your, like, get, get rid of the projections of your mind and open up your heart to truly love all beings.
01:01:42.720You know, just like Jesus said, love, love God and love your neighbor.
01:01:47.880So it's really, it's really like, like I said, if you're in that state, you know, the entities, and if you think about it, like, you know, look at the voodoo culture, right?
01:01:57.000Like, they live in such fear of these entities, and they will literally get, like, get a curse cast on them and die from it.
01:02:05.340Because, whereas I don't, I don't live in that fear of the entities.
01:02:09.700I know I'm, every day I'm working actively to better myself, to be a better person, to, to get rid of my own bullshit every single day.
01:02:19.420And this is the great thing about what Jason said about love, what Jesus said, again, love God, love other people.
01:02:23.640So that means you're still going to get stuff.
01:02:26.000Here's how, because if you love God, you're giving to God without expectation, which means God has, and God is just, so he has to give back to you.
01:02:32.700And if you love your neighbor, that means you're giving to your neighbor without expectation of getting anything in return.
01:02:37.680So God has to pay you back through justice.
01:02:40.120So by being loving, you're not giving up anything.
01:02:42.700You're going to gain because you, because God is just, he has to equal out justice.
01:02:46.720So if you give, if I, you know, if you see a homeless person on the street and you give him $10, you don't expect that back.
01:26:35.140Well, that's kind of it, which did lead to ultimately a bottleneck, which is this narrow...
01:26:41.100Monetarianism or New Age philosophy or like occultism.
01:26:45.940We've talked to so many people who have like, they've came right to the door of like when you're scratching for the truth under whatever philosophy or doctrine you're reading or whatever you're doing.
01:26:57.380And it kind of all points back to Jesus Christ.
01:26:59.660And then, like, for me personally, I'm put in a position where, especially with the show, and Ed saw this firsthand, which is crazy.
01:31:37.960But it's amazing how many people in the church don't have any grid for after salvation.
01:31:45.180Well, what I meant by, like, going through the door and it being, like, I guess I'm just keenly aware of, like, when I go through that door, I understand that whatever we're bringing, we're going to have to carry that.
01:31:57.260And I'm going to probably have to carry that a little bit further than most people because of the things that I've said and done in the past.
01:34:48.920So, yeah, there is there there does seem to be a divide where, you know, many Buddhists don't accept that view exactly as you've said here, Jason.
01:34:59.160And then there are there's this Hindu perspective, which, you know, I guess it's like anything.
01:35:05.340You're going to find groups within a belief system that are kind of doing this tug of war.
01:35:10.540However, so many Buddhists don't accept no Buddhists, no Buddhists do not a single one.
01:35:34.360And his whole thing was almost like a counter to what to what they had become, just lazy, calling themselves a chosen people, following following the laws and everything.
01:36:12.620That's the what we call them, the Sutras.
01:36:14.820The Sutras are the collected teachings of the Buddha.
01:36:18.240Over twenty six hundred years, there's countless commentaries upon commentaries upon commentaries.
01:36:24.640And, you know, that's why what we call the lineage is very important.
01:36:28.580I know Jay Dyer talks about the like why the Orthodox is the best because they have the lineage.
01:36:33.280You know, so so, yeah, you got it always if it contradicts what the scripture says, then if someone says it's the ninth incarnation of issue, Buddha never said that that's not in any of the scripture.
01:38:51.120And I think that one of the segues to this is that spiritual warfare follows some a one of the tenets of Buddhism or vice versa.
01:39:01.500And that is, you know, it's the backward step it is you are because we start the class talking about we're going to talk about defense and things like that.
01:39:13.920You can see on the on faith by reason on the on the on the page I put up for the registration.
01:39:19.840And so the reason this all came about was after I started teaching the Bible from the supernatural point of view, you know, with John doing doing Bible studies, we've been doing for a few years and spiritual warfare just became a part of it because people were asking.
01:39:35.800We could talk about the spiritual realm, the Elohim realm and the battles that are going on there behind the scenes.
01:39:39.680You see, like, in Daniel chapter 10, where, you know, the prince of Persia is fighting against the the Elohim that was sent to Daniel.
01:39:45.320And then he has to fight the prince, the power of Greece, which we who are fallen Elohim, who were, you know, given who were given that role during the after Babel.
01:39:56.340And they all fell because they accepted worship.
01:39:59.340But then they would say, well, how do we how do we get rid of oppression in our life?
01:40:03.940You know, how do we deal with generational curses?
01:40:06.280How do we deal with people in our family who are spiritually oppressed?
01:40:13.880And I said, John, we need to do we need to do a course on this.
01:40:16.600We need people need to be taught because I can give some advice here and there, you know, prayer, the armor of God and all that kind of stuff.
01:41:17.920So Ed and I actually taught this course during COVID and I kind of let it and Ed was supporting it.
01:41:26.540And we had these people going through COVID and having these amazing experiences.
01:41:31.080So when Ed said, you know, we need to do that, what he's saying is, is we kind of need to do it formalized and not big picture willy nilly like I did it.
01:41:40.260So Ed's like really come in and stepped it up.
01:41:42.880And the whole thing is this, I have the greatest force in the universe inside of me, the Holy Spirit.
01:41:51.880And my goal is to allow God to work through me to affect this world.
01:41:59.620And I don't want to spend eternity telling people, you know, I had the greatest force in the universe.
01:42:06.620And rather act in that, I got distracted by this government and circumstances and that's how I spent my time on earth.
01:43:05.480Well, because they don't want us to operate in the spiritual warfare.
01:43:09.300So like I said, we've taught this class, but Ed is now putting the Ed Mabry stamp on it and is making it very formal, very logical, very organized.
01:43:19.860And that's what we're doing right now.
01:43:21.140We're taking all the notes we had from the previous course and making them organized.
01:43:26.960Along with a lot of new stuff and along with a lot of the work that John has done on mental health and, again, on knowing who you are, having resiliency.
01:43:36.480And as I talked about, dealing with covenants that you may have entered into unknowingly with entities that are allowing them to oppress you.
01:44:25.340And there's going to be live sessions with John and I where we're going to do live teaching where you can bring up your questions and your issues.
01:45:23.580But what if you didn't know you had that power and you just curl up into a ball and say, oh, have mercy on me.
01:45:28.760Well, eventually that 10 year old kid is going to beat the crap out of you.
01:45:31.020Not because he's stronger than you, but because you have taken a passive position and you don't understand your own power and you don't know how to use it.
01:45:38.700We are going to show you that these demonic entities are the 10 year old kid.
01:45:43.180And you have through Jesus, the authority to take him and toss him and get rid of him.
01:45:49.780There are demons are not as powerful as fallen angels, but you have power over all of them, including Satan himself.
01:45:55.920The Nakash from the garden of Eden, you have power over him because Jesus did as well.
01:46:00.160Now it's going to require different sorts of things that depend, different sorts of warfare tactics based on what you're dealing with.
01:46:07.380And Jesus himself said when disciples couldn't cast a certain demon out, Jesus said, well, this kind only comes out through prayer and fasting, meaning you have to be even more pure.
01:46:41.340Then you have to make disciples of these people and you will be in once you're done with this course, you will be able to teach it to others.
01:46:48.160And that is how you make a generative community.
01:46:52.200That's what was going on in the, in the first century church, which is why they were able to do miracles because they were focused singularly on discipleship.
01:47:29.020Because one thing John says that I just floors me every time I hear it, you know, people, we talk about the rapture back and forth and we know the rapture has to happen before the antichrist is revealed because the antichrist can't be revealed.
01:47:42.500As long as there is one person in the body of Christ on the, in the world, that's how, that's how much power you have.
01:47:49.680Paul himself says that you got to be, the Holy Spirit has to be taken out of the way.
01:47:54.620Then will the man of sin been revealed.
01:47:56.580That means if there was one Christian who was indwelled by the Holy Spirit, antichrist can't, can't manifest.
01:48:04.140That's how much power we have, but we just don't use it.
01:48:06.960And that's what we're going to teach you in this course.
01:48:21.580You're just putting, giving us your contact information so that we, when we're ready, we can let you know, and you can, we'll tell you where to go to sign up for it.
01:49:07.660Especially when you're dealing with subjects like that.
01:49:09.880And just to be clear, just to be clear, the sign-up is free, but there is a charge for the course because it's a lot of work that we're doing, and there's a lot of benefit to it.
01:49:19.920So, you know, John and I are both, we both do consulting and coaching, and, you know, there's, that's, you know, part of what we do for a living.
01:49:26.800So just, I just want to make that clear up front.
01:49:29.260So what you're signing up for now is just to be notified, and then it's going to be, it's going to be a full course that you enroll in.
01:49:34.240And just like any other education, there's, you know, you get what you pay for it.
01:49:38.800I think, I think you're going to get far more value for your money than, than, yeah.
01:49:46.080Actually, John had to convince me to charge more because he was like, no, no, no, they need, this is kind of.
01:49:49.960Well, if you're doing a 12-part series, I mean, that's no small undertaking.
01:49:54.140So, I mean, it's got, it's going to be a lot of time.
01:52:19.220And if you look at Romans 12, that's the spiritual gifts.
01:52:22.220And I want to say one quick thing, because I meant to say this before, because I want to give people an example of flow that we're all familiar with.
01:52:26.500You know, when you're driving home to your house, you're familiar with it, and you're in a conversation with someone or there's a good song on the radio, and you realize you're pulling in your driveway, and you're like, how did I get here without running into people and running stop signs?
01:52:42.880I've been text messaging this whole time.
01:54:22.500So I just want to – I love Christians.
01:54:24.560And I don't want to – I'm not trying to bring anybody to Buddhism, just offer them something else.
01:54:30.520And something I realized, like I said, the Buddhist people, like 95% of the Buddhists, maybe even more that I meet, are on the wrong side of every single issue.
01:54:40.500Like they were the first ones to get vaxxed.
01:54:42.820Like they literally are wrong on everything.
01:55:16.400Like we're going to have a split society.
01:55:18.320And what I'm seeing is 80% of people are going to go – are going to be in these like 15-minute cities, smart cities.
01:55:24.700And the other 20% of us, we're going to be growing food.
01:55:28.780We're going to be doing our uniqueness.
01:55:31.040And I think all the little things that we have arguments about, we're all going to know God's presence.
01:55:36.240And we're going to be able – with those people out of the way, you know, like we're going to be able to really have like these amazing communities.
01:55:55.840Like if you think of it as the future, the world, everybody, you're going to be like how could this work out?
01:56:01.800And if you realize that God is working to bring 80% of the people to these smart cities so then we have the rest of the world to actually do what's common sense, which we all know is common sense.
01:56:14.600Why would we spray Roundup, the stuff that we know kills us, and they just keep losing lawsuits and – take care, Ed.
01:56:34.720I mean I know I've gone so deep, but I really do feel that this is actually – God's working this, so we're going to have an amazing, amazing time ahead after about a year.
01:56:46.340We need to – this next year is going to be crazy as fuck.
01:56:49.980Yeah, we're going to go through it before it gets better.