Stay Free - Russel Brand - October 07, 2026


Inside the MAHA Summit: RFK Jr., Big Pharma & the Battle for America - SF763

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00:00:24.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders.
00:00:25.000 Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:00:28.000 Over the last few days, in fact, I don't know when it was because this is pre-tape, but at some point I was in Washington, D.C. During that time, I did what's called a fireside chat with Dr. Oz.
00:00:39.000 I don't know what they're trying to conjure when they call it a fireside chat, I suppose intimacy, but it was not beside a fire.
00:00:47.000 It was on a stage, it was in front of journalists, it was at a Maha summit that seems designed to ensure that the grassroots aspect of the movement, that Began around Secretary Kennedy when he ran as an independent candidate remains fully engaged.
00:01:04.000 That includes a lot of women that advocated for investigation after their own experience of their children's autism and their belief that their children's autism is connected to vaccines.
00:01:16.000 So that's a significant part of Maha.
00:01:18.000 Of course, healthy eating and organic food, environmental issues, agricultural issues, big pharma issues, all of this was corralled together around Secretary Kennedy, making him an extraordinary candidate.
00:01:31.000 As an independent presidential, potential president.
00:01:37.000 But now that he's in government, it seems like there's a lot of restriction and obligation to operate within systems.
00:01:44.000 And all of the high profile members of his team, whether that's Dr. Oz, head of the CMS, or whoever you'd care to name, seem to me to be attempting to manage the expectations and ideals of this movement while operating within a system that's.
00:02:02.000 Demonstrably turgid.
00:02:04.000 So, I did this live event where I spoke for about 10 minutes and did some pretty good jokes, actually.
00:02:10.000 It was an event that Gary Brecker spoke at and Secretary Kennedy himself, as well as his partner Cheryl Hines and Dr. Joseph Ladipo, the Surgeon General for Florida.
00:02:21.000 Also, I interviewed Dr. Oz not at a fireside, on a stage in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in front of banks of media.
00:02:29.000 Nevertheless, it was a brilliant conversation.
00:02:32.000 All of this experience with dealing with media kept attempting to host the show himself.
00:02:37.000 That's why I remember about it.
00:02:38.000 And also had a good conversation with Dan Brillman, who's the head of Medicaid.
00:02:42.000 And so I got a good insight into what their plans are.
00:02:46.000 Mostly, though, I guess when you're dealing with people that are inside the political machine, particularly if they're people that you know to be spiritually sound, what's striking is the challenges they obviously face in dealing with systemic.
00:03:03.000 Mechanized politics and how difficult it seems.
00:03:07.000 Also, we were covering everything I was doing.
00:03:09.000 So there are loads of little moments of me backstage there, walking around, and some interesting conversations, in particular, this impromptu Christian symposium that took place, which is probably as close as I can remember to ever doing, Jake, a kind of off the cuff QA preaching session with about an audience of 10.
00:03:29.000 It was biblical.
00:03:30.000 It was biblical, is how it would describe it, with the capital looming in the background, looming and illuminated.
00:03:38.000 We talked about Christ and real power.
00:03:40.000 And I'll tell you what, the main thing I got from the whole experience was I don't want to participate.
00:03:48.000 Like, there's a famous adage that politics is show business for ugly people.
00:03:53.000 And the thing is, show business involves a lot of schmoozing, but because show business is fundamentally bullshit, it doesn't seem so bad that there's, you know, because it's performance.
00:04:04.000 And performance is, in a way, you know, you can, like, when you're, When what you're doing is connected to God, nothing you're doing is bullshit, whether it's making a sandwich or cleaning the toilet, flipping your little omelette for God, or playing a song.
00:04:16.000 But if you're doing it for money and because you want to hang out with chicks, then it's bullshit.
00:04:22.000 So, and like, so, but the problem when you apply that culture to politics, the thing that they're meant to be doing is so ideologically charged that the bullshit really sucks, man.
00:04:34.000 And like, what's fascinating is that these events, there's free bars.
00:04:37.000 So people are just coagulated at the free bars drinking, or people don't really want to be there.
00:04:41.000 They're from the mainstream media reporting.
00:04:44.000 So after sort of being in the sort of hot asphyxiation of that for a minute, even though I really, as I admire, like Tony Lyons, I couldn't admire more.
00:04:51.000 He's a guy that runs the Maha movement and he's a publisher.
00:04:54.000 And Dr. Oz is a fantastic man who I love.
00:04:56.000 And Secretary Kennedy is magnificent and one of the great last hopes for conventional American politics, I'd say.
00:05:02.000 And it's still like the whole thing's very, very choking.
00:05:05.000 I don't think these systems work at all.
00:05:07.000 I don't think, unless you deploy decentralized systems where people can participate in their own governance, I mean, even the word governance or government is wrong because it means control.
00:05:17.000 What it should be is administration and organization, voluntary.
00:05:20.000 There's no reason for a person to have power over another person unless that power is consensual or to the advantage of.
00:05:28.000 Of the other person, and what government has to continually do is trick you into believing they're helping you so that they can continue to tax you.
00:05:34.000 And like my little bit of time in DC really helped me understand that with more clarity.
00:05:39.000 But the conversation I had backstage, it was like, Have you ever been on a date and had to hold in a fart for the entire date?
00:05:46.000 And then the minute you get home, you think, Oh, finally, I can fart now.
00:05:50.000 Like once I got out of that environment, I could start talking about our Lord and start talking about stuff I actually cared about.
00:05:58.000 Not that I'm comparing evangelism.
00:06:00.000 To sort of gastric release, but you know what I'm saying.
00:06:04.000 Anyway, have a look at some of these moments.
00:06:26.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brand.
00:06:28.000 Let's hear it for Cheryl Hines, the person who supports Secretary Kennedy in what must be an unimaginable contest against machinery that's difficult for us to conceive of.
00:06:39.000 Let's have a round of applause now for Gary Brecker, who I consider to be the Pablo Escobar of Maha and wellness.
00:06:50.000 Man, in a DC event like this, to hear people saying, like, my life not that long ago was not about trying to score creatine and Mephelin Blue, let me tell you that.
00:07:01.000 Who has drunk some salt this morning?
00:07:03.000 Have you drunk Celtic salt, a pint of it?
00:07:05.000 That's because of Gary Brecker.
00:07:07.000 Who's looking for red lights in DC and not because of sex workers?
00:07:12.000 That's because of Gary Brecker.
00:07:14.000 Gary Brecker is saving your bodies and saving your souls.
00:07:17.000 But we know ultimately tonight is about one very particular hero.
00:07:21.000 I'm not talking about Tony Lyons, who we might regard as the Gertrude Stein of the cancelled, a man who has corralled together literary might of the cancelled, those that have been censored and shut down.
00:07:35.000 This movement, what's beautiful about this movement of yours, of ours, is it's coagulating and congregating heroes.
00:07:44.000 People that are willing to take risks, people that are willing to say the unsayable.
00:07:49.000 And whilst this might be for some of the hardline, for some of the mothers that supported Secretary Kennedy at the beginning, that dragged him into this fucking nightmare, while some of you may be frustrated that things aren't moving quickly enough, I want you to consider for a moment the way that the conversation has changed.
00:08:09.000 That people now have a different attitude when it comes to obesity in your great country.
00:08:14.000 People understand that 72% of all consumed calories are coming from ultra processed foods.
00:08:20.000 And I would say that time has been called on big pharma and on big food and on the lobbying industry.
00:08:27.000 Maybe not in one administration, but over time, I would say we have in Secretary Kennedy a Daniel to the potential Nebuchadnezzar.
00:08:37.000 I don't want to get too old testament about it, but.
00:08:40.000 Given where we are, if there's a testament that I'm going to get into, it's going to be that one.
00:08:46.000 America spends more money on health than any other nation in the world, and you're still not as healthy as British people.
00:08:53.000 And we live basically on, I don't know, I mean, fish and chips, heroin.
00:08:57.000 We're holding a nostalgia.
00:09:00.000 We're living on nostalgia.
00:09:02.000 Those 13 colonies, you plucky little motherfuckers, you stuck together, you did guerrilla warfare, you stood up against an empire, and maybe that American spirit ain't yet fully dimmed.
00:09:14.000 Maybe you will recognize that the war for independence isn't yet over as long as you are surrounded by these gargantuan Nephilim corporations that seek to shellac and alacr God's kingdom with false counterfeit medicines.
00:09:30.000 When big pharma can't be relied on to keep you healthy, when big food can't be relied on to keep you nourished, you know the world needs to change.
00:09:39.000 When the media, and I'm thinking in this moment of Dana Bash in particular, Dana Bash, Dana Bash, Dana Bash, CNN, CNN, maybe they're not allowed here no more.
00:09:49.000 Are they allowed to hear no more?
00:09:50.000 Is it just Trump?
00:09:53.000 You know, like when you see the frustration, the irritation, the unwillingness to talk about, let's call it what it is, because we can now, and this is thanks to Secretary Kennedy, a causal link between vaccine schedules and autism, you're allowed to say that now.
00:10:10.000 And the reason you're allowed to say that is because of the bravery, not just of one man, actually, because of all you mothers and all of you longtime Maha supporters.
00:10:19.000 All of you people that have been called insane, all of you people that have repressed your instincts and your impulses as mothers and fathers, but mostly mothers, in order to choke down the bullshit of corporations that live on lies, you have a hero now.
00:10:35.000 You have a hero, but he is operating inside a machine with slow moving cogs.
00:10:42.000 I said cogs.
00:10:43.000 So he will need devotion and dedication and patience, and these are attributes that likely belong to, I don't know, Patrick Henry.
00:10:53.000 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, when you threw off the shackles of that tyrannical European nation that oppressed you and taxed you for so long.
00:11:03.000 I'm talking about France, those unreliable.
00:11:07.000 Hey, do you know some of the countries that you're less healthy than?
00:11:10.000 I think your average age of the year, you're dying younger than Brits, you're dying younger than, I think, people in Qatar, you're dying younger than people in Canada.
00:11:23.000 That must irritate you.
00:11:26.000 I'm English, like Canada is your Scotland.
00:11:28.000 You don't want those guys up there in the north being healthier than you.
00:11:34.000 What I'm saying is that imperative to success is the ability to focus on victory.
00:11:41.000 And in order to have victory, you have to have heroes.
00:11:45.000 And the very definition of hero is a willingness to sacrifice yourself for a higher cause.
00:11:51.000 And I don't think that anyone would question.
00:11:54.000 A man with that last name, having the pedigree, the credentials, the ability, the genetics, and the history to fulfill that brief.
00:12:04.000 Now, the word conspiracy theory is a word that, or a phrase at least, an idiom, an epithet, is a word, is a one that you must be familiar with.
00:12:13.000 I recently learned that it's one of those things that the CIA concocted to dissipate, disseminate, and confuse people.
00:12:21.000 They released it among us to fuck us up and distract.
00:12:25.000 Us a little like crack, remember when they did that?
00:12:28.000 When there's a certain population getting a little too leery, the lyrics getting a bit too potent, the hip hop getting a little too clever.
00:12:34.000 Have some crack that'll speed you up, then eventually slow you down.
00:12:39.000 I'm saying that America is still the greatest country in the world.
00:12:43.000 I'm saying that while, like, while to have a president that is willing even to countenance a connection between autism and vaccines is a great advance.
00:12:58.000 Although Trump does seem somewhat autistic himself, doesn't he?
00:13:01.000 I mean, like with that magnet thing.
00:13:05.000 Magnets, magnets.
00:13:06.000 Like, he fixates.
00:13:08.000 I know autism is a spectrum that has, at one end of it, very, very severe suffering.
00:13:13.000 And at the other end of it, basically the rest of us, actually, frankly.
00:13:20.000 Because part of it is that we must maintain the ability to connect to the deepest and most profound truths.
00:13:27.000 There's no point having Maha if you don't believe.
00:13:30.000 That people have the right to be healthy.
00:13:32.000 There's no point having Maha if you don't believe there is an essential truth.
00:13:37.000 There's no point having this movement if you don't believe it's possible for great men and great women to move institutions that have become corrupted over time.
00:13:48.000 You will hear embedded in words like system and institution unconsciousness.
00:13:53.000 You can't have a system without yielding some awareness.
00:13:57.000 You can't have one.
00:13:58.000 But you have still got the greatest country in the world.
00:14:01.000 And while I believe we are participating in a holy war, that we are on the precipice of extraordinary things, that the battle lines aren't yet drawn, they are not between liberals and traditionalists.
00:14:14.000 They're certainly not between Brits and Americans.
00:14:18.000 We are participating in a battle between good and evil.
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00:15:44.000 We must recapture the compassion of Christ, but the deep traditions and wisdom that he exhibited too.
00:15:53.000 We can't just have loose compassion flung around like confetti, endless individualism, senseless materialism, even though the word materialism has, I mean, if you investigate material for long enough.
00:16:08.000 You'll discover more and more infinite miracles and mysteries.
00:16:11.000 But I feel myself on the very edge of quantum physics.
00:16:15.000 I'll confine myself to simply saying this name Brian Murphy.
00:16:22.000 Brian Murphy is a federal judge from Massachusetts who I, through my own research, have discovered is particularly recalcitrant and obstreperous when it comes to the natural flow of change that comes from an innovative movement like this.
00:16:41.000 Particularly when willing to back the people that are on the other side of the threshold now, the people that are tangled in the tendrils of bureaucracy and the machinery of a system that you know as well as I do exists primarily to serve powerful global elites, bureaucratic institutions, and commercial interests that are immune from democracy.
00:17:02.000 If only their immunity could be replicated by their vaccines, if only they could prevent, if only the transmission of corruption.
00:17:11.000 Could be stopped in the same way that they claim, I don't know, measles could.
00:17:14.000 So while measles might have had a little bit of a nudge or a bump, obesity will be tackled, corruption will be tackled, and your country will continue to thrive if you have the personal courage to continue to support the principles that engaged you in this movement in the first place.
00:17:32.000 Who am I bringing on, Tony?
00:17:34.000 Oh, well, fuck, man.
00:17:36.000 Please welcome the head of the HHS, which I.
00:17:40.000 Oh, that's even.
00:17:41.000 Well, thank God.
00:17:42.000 Now, this, all right, let me tell you something about Dr. Joseph Ladipo.
00:17:46.000 He is a man of fine integrity.
00:17:50.000 He is a great surgeon general, a man of pluck and courage, boldness and bravery.
00:17:56.000 I would like all of you to pay very, very close attention to him.
00:17:59.000 Even those of you scuttling like locusts at the back, supping on alcohol, as if altered states could somehow save you.
00:18:08.000 Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.
00:18:10.000 The age of distraction is over.
00:18:12.000 Tune into the truth and welcome the Surgeon General of Florida, the great Dr. Joe.
00:18:25.000 Stick and move.
00:18:25.000 Body head, body head.
00:18:27.000 More friends, I love her.
00:18:29.000 Oh, how wonderful.
00:18:31.000 Beautiful day.
00:18:32.000 Get him in here.
00:18:33.000 I love you to death.
00:18:36.000 Let's do it.
00:18:37.000 Pharisees, huh?
00:18:38.000 He says to them, don't matter, that's what's coming out.
00:18:45.000 Ronald Reagan said it best.
00:18:49.000 We can't come back to him, we can come back to him.
00:18:57.000 Yeah, it had that thumb.
00:19:01.000 So focused on that thumb.
00:19:04.000 Give it everything a kiss.
00:19:14.000 Don't use his name instead of the word cheese.
00:19:19.000 Terrell.
00:19:20.000 That's what we're going to say after a while.
00:19:21.000 Terrell.
00:19:22.000 Yeah, Terrell.
00:19:23.000 I think this is important, this building.
00:19:25.000 No, I don't know.
00:19:26.000 What do you do there?
00:19:27.000 Is that like your number 10 Downing Street?
00:19:30.000 I think it's a little vulgar.
00:19:33.000 I wanted to talk about when that, like, see one of our teachers, Jamie Winship, he says that of the two prophets, Daniel and Joseph, that Joseph, this is his argument.
00:19:45.000 It's not my argument, but I'm just opening it up so we can have a discussion about it.
00:19:48.000 That Joseph, even though Joseph has a proto crucifixion at the bottom of the cesspit, at the bottom of the empty well there, the cistern, and then is in slavery and is in bondage with the children of Ishmael, the tribe of Ishmael, they're the ones that take him off.
00:20:05.000 And then he goes into deep, deep Egypt.
00:20:08.000 Then, having lost identity one, the coat, and identity two in Potiphar's house, when the fake rape allegation, I'm just going to record that, happens, then everywhere he goes, he's a king.
00:20:21.000 He's a king.
00:20:21.000 If you put him in jail, he's a king in jail.
00:20:24.000 You can't stop Joseph being a king.
00:20:25.000 But Jamie argues that when he gets the robes after doing Pharaoh's dreams and he's given the robes of state, that he, yes, I suppose he brings all of his brothers, don't he?
00:20:37.000 But it's like mind games with the goblets, like, you know, and the silver and all that stuff.
00:20:40.000 I don't understand that fully, to be honest.
00:20:42.000 And I don't fully understand the crossing over of the hands with a blessing of Joseph's sons.
00:20:47.000 I don't understand that either.
00:20:49.000 But Jamie's point is that Daniel is under four different kings.
00:20:53.000 He's under Nebuchadnezzar.
00:20:54.000 Then he's under Belshazzar, then he's under Darius, and then whoever the other one is.
00:20:58.000 And like he never stops worshipping God.
00:21:00.000 He never stops worshipping God.
00:21:01.000 He will never, nothing will make him.
00:21:03.000 Like, do you know in the three chapters in the Catholic Bible, some of you probably may be Catholic, that he goes in the lion's den again, that there's some weird dream thing in those three chapters.
00:21:12.000 Anyway, so I was thinking about Daniel because I was thinking about the writing on the wall.
00:21:15.000 And I was thinking about that when Belshazzar has forgotten Nebuchadnezzar's lesson because Nebuchadnezzar's lesson is this that your faculty, your ability to have a spirit and reason is what separates you from an animal.
00:21:26.000 Once that's stripped from you, you might think you are king.
00:21:29.000 You might think you're the most powerful person in the world.
00:21:30.000 I'm thinking this about, you know, Trump.
00:21:32.000 I'm thinking about, it's an interesting thing to say about Trump, who has a certain magnificence and brilliance and is obviously an adept operator because I consider the forces of power, I don't know if I'm being naive, did not want Trump to be president and he became president.
00:21:46.000 So that, I don't know, somehow he reached through the system, he got to the people.
00:21:50.000 Anyway, the Nebuchadnezzar point is this hubris, no?
00:21:52.000 All of us, hubris, thinking that it's actually about ourselves, thinking that there is something that we can.
00:21:57.000 We can wrest satisfaction out of this world if only we manage properly.
00:22:00.000 So, I like this idea that Nebuchadnezzar, until he was willing to accept the one true God, he was reduced to a beast.
00:22:07.000 And then, in spite of this lesson, his son Belshazzar still goes back, takes the goblets out of the temple, whoring around.
00:22:13.000 Sometimes I read between the lines, probably because of my own past.
00:22:16.000 You know, when I hear about Salome dancing for Herod, I think that dance went pretty far, man.
00:22:21.000 I think that went far for John the Baptist to lose his head.
00:22:23.000 I think she did more than ta ta ta ta.
00:22:25.000 You know, I think stuff went down in that room.
00:22:27.000 And when I say went down, I mean went down.
00:22:29.000 And like, see, with a writing on the wall, When the writing appears on the wall in Belshazzar's Palace and it chills him, I've seen and felt that writing in the wall in my own life when I know that decadence and hedonism and self can't lead you anywhere.
00:22:41.000 I've felt it many, many times.
00:22:42.000 And what I was trying to get to in there about, you know, how can you do that with the cacophony?
00:22:46.000 How can you do it with the.
00:22:47.000 You can only do that if people are interested.
00:22:50.000 What I think is that he, Secretary Kennedy, has the potential to be a kind of a Daniel like advocate for truth, like a person that will stay the line.
00:22:59.000 But I mean, he's in the toxicity of that space.
00:23:01.000 He's in it, and I don't know what that does.
00:23:03.000 People, I know what the equivalent ones that I've been in institutions around entertainment what they do is they bring out something that's in you, which is the very thing that the serpent can draw out of you.
00:23:14.000 The serpent can draw out your tendency to stay in a little circuit of self.
00:23:19.000 Little circuit of self.
00:23:21.000 Once Satan has directed you into self, he can do what he wants with you from there.
00:23:24.000 He can do anything with you.
00:23:26.000 He can reduce you to inertia and inactivity, or he can elevate you to great power.
00:23:31.000 It's up to him, though.
00:23:32.000 The only prophylactic.
00:23:34.000 The only shield, the only.
00:23:36.000 I was thinking of them three, you know, Meshach, Sheldrach, them three kids.
00:23:40.000 I was thinking, I read the other day that it's like he created a vacuum around them, Christ.
00:23:44.000 That there was a vacuum around them in that fire.
00:23:47.000 And tomorrow we can go to that Bible Museum and we'll see one of them bricks baked in furnaces contemporary to this story.
00:23:52.000 That in that fire, he can create a vacuum around you.
00:23:56.000 And this is not our supreme reality.
00:23:57.000 Our supreme reality is not the reality of the senses.
00:24:00.000 The supreme reality is the reality that we feel and intuit beneath and around.
00:24:04.000 That surely we would see them.
00:24:06.000 We would see the fallen souls of the Nephilim.
00:24:08.000 We would see the angels and archangels.
00:24:10.000 We would see them gather and coagulate around sigils like that one satanic sigils, their antennae to conduct and create and draw dark energy.
00:24:19.000 For this is like, this is Babylon.
00:24:20.000 This is the new Rome.
00:24:22.000 We're dealing with power.
00:24:24.000 And what Lucifer is dealing with is power.
00:24:26.000 The human being, as Norman Grubb says in No Independent Self, has the option of there is no independent human nature, there is God nature, and then there is enemy nature.
00:24:36.000 If you don't make the choice towards God nature, you will default to enemy nature.
00:24:41.000 And the culture is a highly organized and mobilized machine orienting us continually towards self nature.
00:24:48.000 And what I think is very difficult is I think there are so many avenues to get there.
00:24:52.000 Even today, the last two hours, once we get off the plane and I'm on my own, the fear, Roberto, when we prayed in the room, I might as well have been about to get shot in the head.
00:25:00.000 I mean, not that I've ever experienced that level of fear, but it's a sort of a death.
00:25:04.000 I just feel like I'm dying.
00:25:07.000 I feel like I'm dying, is what I feel like is happening.
00:25:10.000 It's sort of beautiful sometimes, but don't you think in death is whoever follows me must hate their mother and father?
00:25:16.000 Whoever follows me, like in the end, you're like the only thing you love about even your children is that they are reflections of him.
00:25:23.000 And that, I think it's hard.
00:25:26.000 And that's the end of my thing.
00:25:27.000 And I'm really ready to field any questions.
00:25:30.000 And I mean any two state solution, anything you want.
00:25:38.000 I don't think I have one.
00:25:40.000 I think just I want to be so close to him, there's nothing else.
00:25:43.000 But I love the Catholics.
00:25:44.000 I love the gear and I like the mystery of the orthodoxy and I like the directness of the American Protestantism.
00:25:53.000 American Protestantism, the ones I've seen anyway.
00:25:56.000 In my country Protestantism is an explicit abdication of Christ's power and surrender to the state.
00:26:04.000 In the same way that in your country commercialism and entrepreneurialism can, what do I want to say, endome and mask and ultimately control Christ.
00:26:14.000 There are so many ways, there are so many ways to control it and there's only one way out.
00:26:17.000 The only way out is to love him with everything you have and be willing to die for it.
00:26:21.000 So there's only one way out, but there's so many ways back to self.
00:26:25.000 Like, you know, because unless you're willing to take your son up and, like, right to the point of, I'm going to do it then, unless you're willing to go that far, like, you know, Satan has a scheme, schematic for each of those eventualities.
00:26:40.000 What do you think, Dave?
00:26:41.000 What do you think?
00:26:42.000 I agree.
00:26:43.000 What do you think about the.
00:26:44.000 Why did you say that you discovered you're rediscovering your first love?
00:26:46.000 What do you mean?
00:26:49.000 Back to when he first saved me.
00:26:52.000 Back to.
00:26:55.000 So real and vivid at that time.
00:26:58.000 Like when you were 16?
00:26:59.000 Yeah.
00:27:00.000 Dave got saved at 16.
00:27:02.000 I don't know if I've said it before and I'll say it again.
00:27:04.000 He was a heroin addict.
00:27:05.000 Plain and simple.
00:27:07.000 Well, when I got saved, it was so dramatic for me.
00:27:11.000 It's like everything tasted different, everything smelled different, everything looked different.
00:27:18.000 It even affected my senses, even.
00:27:21.000 It's probably the one thing that is the most truest thing.
00:27:26.000 The thing is with addiction, which is addiction has very rapidly become the modality of our culture.
00:27:31.000 Give you food that you're addicted to, give you medication that you're addicted to, give you ideas that you're addicted to.
00:27:35.000 To give you patterns and habits and behaviors, we're so adaptive that you can just turn us into you can switch.
00:27:40.000 Most people are switched off, most people have been switched off, they're not even present.
00:27:45.000 We've been like, and it happens to all of us, it happens to us all every day.
00:27:47.000 You're not able to stay present in it with your fucking son or something, you know.
00:27:51.000 Like, you can be switched off.
00:27:53.000 So, like, um, what I think is that it's all in there though, it's in there in these ones.
00:27:58.000 These are the ones that are on me at the moment, as always from the beginning.
00:28:01.000 You know, do you not know that your body is a temple?
00:28:04.000 Do you not know?
00:28:05.000 Because the first person I heard say it said it so gently that it was not an attack.
00:28:09.000 And conform not to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
00:28:13.000 That's happening continually.
00:28:14.000 I die on the cross with Christ.
00:28:15.000 It's Christ that is reborn in me.
00:28:17.000 It's happening continually.
00:28:19.000 Before Abraham was, I am.
00:28:21.000 Before Abraham was, I am.
00:28:23.000 Tell them, I am that I am sent you.
00:28:24.000 And our friend Christian Astis said, it's more like I am that I aming sent you.
00:28:29.000 You can't even collapse it.
00:28:31.000 The wave particle distinction can't be collapsed even into syntax because it's the living water.
00:28:38.000 It's the living water, as it says in Revelation 22, it's coming down from the Throne, he's coming down from the throne down the central street of Jerusalem.
00:28:46.000 I think the adjustment and adaptation that we might need to make is that we are Israel, that we are Israel, that we are Israel, and that Jerusalem is us.
00:28:55.000 And that's not intended to be, what do I want to say, to denigrate Judaism or the Jewish people, but it is intended to honor that Christ is who he said he was.
00:29:06.000 He is the Messiah.
00:29:08.000 He was the Messiah that Isaiah was talking about, he's the Messiah that Daniel was talking about.
00:29:12.000 Is that he is the Messiah, and you've within it's very difficult to progress the negotiation without that acknowledgement.
00:29:21.000 But, like, not that you know, but what I'm saying too is, if I want to add, is that secularism is a cannot work, you cannot detach power from government unless government is entirely stripped of ideology.
00:29:33.000 Unless government is going to be just entirely, we will collect the trash at this time.
00:29:38.000 Do you want the roads to be asphalted or not?
00:29:41.000 Yes, tick this box, and you can only do that.
00:29:43.000 Through that other great classical invention of the pagans, democracy, then it would work.
00:29:48.000 But democracy means the will of the people, not some set of institutions that have been captured by groups that can fucking prevaricate and switch and vacillate no matter who you vote for.
00:29:58.000 That's not democracy.
00:29:59.000 What democracy is, is you live in communities that are a reflection of your needs so that the church becomes like, well, we've all got to feed one another and we've got to feed our kids.
00:30:06.000 And if me and Sarah are arguing, we better sort that shit out and consult you guys about it.
00:30:10.000 I don't know why I choose Sarah, I don't really have any arguments with Sarah.
00:30:13.000 But like, you know.
00:30:14.000 That's what it's got to be.
00:30:14.000 It's got to be a reflection of him.
00:30:16.000 The government must be on his shoulders.
00:30:17.000 The nations are a drop in the bucket.
00:30:18.000 The nations are a drop in the bucket.
00:30:20.000 We get insight about nations for what a flag and a concept is made up.
00:30:24.000 So, an engraven image, an image made with your own hands, with all respect to that lady that sewed your first flag, Betty, whatever her name was.
00:30:31.000 You know, it's just some made up bullshit.
00:30:33.000 Same as England, same as France, same as all of them.
00:30:35.000 And you can't worship it.
00:30:37.000 It can be an administrative bureaucratic entity if you require such a thing.
00:30:40.000 But indeed, bureaucracy is one of the very things that Satan uses to shellack and capture further control.
00:30:46.000 And that great English genius, C.S. Lewis, sets the demonic realm as being within a bureaucracy because bureaucracy makes human relationship transactional.
00:30:55.000 And human relationship is endless and infinite love, Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
00:31:00.000 Component A, component B, unknowable entity that is infinite and beyond material.
00:31:05.000 Except, as I was trying to say in there, but there's too much racket, material, when you study it enough, is beyond comprehension.
00:31:12.000 Superstates of potentiality, a field, a quantum field that we can go into that we've.
00:31:19.000 From that, we have fallen from as surely as they fell onto Mount Hermon, as surely as they fell, the 200 fallen ones that concocted the uh, the accusers' lies.
00:31:30.000 Anyway, um, the I am and the way I look at all of that is subconscious and conscious mind.
00:31:44.000 Subconscious is my belief system that it's the representation of God, it responds to logic and exactly what gets planted in that.
00:31:52.000 Conscious mind is the guardian at the gate that we develop as we grow older.
00:31:56.000 It says what can come in and cannot come into that.
00:31:59.000 And then whatever's planted in the subconscious is what then gets manifested in life.
00:32:03.000 So you change all of those things.
00:32:06.000 And then you have to become the guardian at the gate again.
00:32:09.000 And that's where I think we give all of these things away there's a trap door.
00:32:14.000 And that's what everybody tries to use fascination and agreement to open your trap door.
00:32:17.000 And if they can open the trap door and sneak through, that's how then you're developing all these things that we believe were out of control of said.
00:32:25.000 Things that then show up in our life because everything comes back to, in my opinion, the representation of the deepest held core concepts, and we have to change the core.
00:32:33.000 See these concepts and deep held and all of these linguistics, they would break apart in the hands of Derrida, they would break apart in the hands of Foucault, they would break apart in the hands of Barthez or Lacan or any of the French post structuralists.
00:32:45.000 All of the experts in post structuralism could tell you that there is no absolute terms.
00:32:51.000 This is why I think we have to relocate to spirituality as the absolute.
00:32:57.000 Absolute prima materia.
00:32:58.000 God's kingdom is the absolute prima materia.
00:33:00.000 Because vocabulary ultimately ain't what matters.
00:33:02.000 Because in the end, if you.
00:33:03.000 I'm saying that would be your subconscious.
00:33:04.000 What you just described, and then you leave that gate.
00:33:07.000 Oh, I'm sorry.
00:33:08.000 Sorry.
00:33:09.000 I'm saying that that is the representation.
00:33:10.000 That's what God gave us, was the power and that free will of the subconscious.
00:33:15.000 And because the subconscious answers yes and amen to everything, you plant in that whatever that gets planted, right?
00:33:23.000 So everything can be traced back to the deepest, and I call them concepts, or whatever you would say.
00:33:27.000 But they break apart when you go back to the I am because that's the representation.
00:33:31.000 What I didn't like in your question was the nihilism in the word concept and the lack of a creator and the lack of reverence and the proper relationship.
00:33:39.000 Relationship is important, principal agent.
00:33:43.000 As long as we revere our holy creator, then the syntax is less important.
00:33:46.000 The way I look at it, I agree 100% and I look that the subconscious is the revering of that creator because it is answering.
00:33:54.000 Well, I don't see how in the word it is because sub just means under and conscious means intelligence and awareness and the mystery.
00:34:01.000 Correct.
00:34:01.000 And so the way I look at that is the autopilot that we generate from has to come from something.
00:34:08.000 Yes, God.
00:34:09.000 God.
00:34:10.000 Yes.
00:34:11.000 And so I'm saying that that starts fertile and answers yes and amen to everything and gives back with abundance anything planted in that soil or that system.
00:34:22.000 So that's, I think, where we're all created equal is that system.
00:34:26.000 But then, well, in a sense, though, you're sort of denying the concept, and it's a significant one in Christianity and in many faiths.
00:34:31.000 Separation.
00:34:32.000 That this source, we can separate ourselves from it, we can dislocate it.
00:34:36.000 That doesn't stop his absolute power.
00:34:37.000 But consider it in circuitry terms, in electricity.
00:34:41.000 If you're no longer, or as your great Joseph Campbell would say, if you're not a recipient of the source, think of electricity and light bulbs, if you're not receiving that, if you go to an alternative source, that's what I'm saying.
00:34:53.000 I think it's a distinction that we are, and this is Norman Grubb, this is not me, and it's a theosis, a Greek Orthodox idea, that God is absolute and expressing God's self through all of us.
00:35:05.000 But we can, if we choose, through disobedience and surrendering to the smallest self, Become sort of like weird little independent agents, sort of foraging, like all, what do I want to say, furtive in a world of treats and sugar and blowjobs.
00:35:20.000 And I agree 100% with that.
00:35:22.000 And what I'm, I guess the point I'm trying to get across is that that God within, I call it, Emmanuel, Emmanuel, that that's there and it doesn't pass judgment and gives back logically.
00:35:33.000 That's the free will that allows you to do and choose.
00:35:36.000 His name in Greek is Logos.
00:35:38.000 He is logic.
00:35:39.000 He's the absolute logic.
00:35:40.000 And that is why I believe, again, I just say subconscious or.
00:35:45.000 God.
00:35:46.000 I suppose the reason I resist it is because I know what the.
00:35:48.000 It seems to me that the aims of psychiatry are sort of post enlightenment aims that are intended to make humankind and human reason supreme.
00:35:59.000 That's why I'm trying to go beyond that and bring that.
00:36:03.000 I'm trying to take that the psychiatry portion has just proved God because that is the soil that creates.
00:36:10.000 I'm interested to hear that idea.
00:36:12.000 What?
00:36:12.000 I'm interested to hear that.
00:36:13.000 Yeah.
00:36:14.000 But that's not what it sounded like.
00:36:15.000 It sounded like you were positing a sort of a kind of a separate.
00:36:20.000 A separate and sort of ambivalent reality that wasn't distinguishing between good and evil.
00:36:25.000 No, no, no.
00:36:26.000 I meant that that's God is that system that is supreme logic that gets imprinted upon by the conscious mind.
00:36:36.000 And the conscious mind is your guardian at the gate to be able to say, I don't want to go do whatever.
00:36:42.000 I'm going to choose to do this or study this or go down this way and make the correct decisions.
00:36:48.000 And as those decisions pile, 51%, no matter what you do, you imprint.
00:36:52.000 That's what the image is.
00:36:53.000 The image is imprinting onto God to be able to make this.
00:36:59.000 On the plane, we were talking about how different people will have different ways of describing God and that some people will receive it in different ways.
00:37:05.000 We were discussing that very point.
00:37:06.000 We were talking about that.
00:37:07.000 And I know that what you're saying will be more appealing to some people.
00:37:10.000 Like, some people will hear it better how you're saying it.
00:37:13.000 But for me, I have to hear it a different way.
00:37:15.000 But, like, I do, I see that we're circling the same concept of absolute power.
00:37:20.000 And some people I think need it.
00:37:21.000 I've never thought about it out loud before when I worked through it.
00:37:24.000 You pick your moment.
00:37:25.000 It's good, it's good.
00:37:27.000 Well done.
00:37:28.000 Well done for bringing it here before your great capital there.
00:37:32.000 You know, I was just thinking about seeing them images of watching it getting built, you know, them famous photographs of watching it get built.
00:37:39.000 Like Scottish masonry, a little bit of slave labor, everyone's a winner.
00:37:44.000 Is that why you brought up Nebuchadnezzar?
00:37:46.000 Look at this Babylon.
00:37:47.000 Whoa, maybe.
00:37:50.000 I was just thinking a lot about Nebuchadnezzar because of that.
00:37:52.000 Like how he becomes an animal, like how you could just be so easily reduced to an animal.
00:37:56.000 He was humiliated before.
00:37:59.000 Yeah.
00:38:01.000 Maybe it'd be a relief to go live in a meadow.
00:38:02.000 He was warned twice.
00:38:05.000 Daniel warned him to be a righteous man.
00:38:08.000 He says, But look what I've done.
00:38:10.000 You know.
00:38:10.000 And then his son, though, eh?
00:38:12.000 He ignores that writer.
00:38:13.000 That tree.
00:38:14.000 Oh, yeah, that tree dream.
00:38:15.000 I like that both of them prophets interpret dreams.
00:38:17.000 I think this is going to be very important.
00:38:19.000 Like, you know, when you see dear Trump trying to work out magnets and everything, you think that guy needs a mystic in his field.
00:38:28.000 How has the feeling that you feel that kind of death of those nerves that you have now?
00:38:35.000 Oh, yeah, you're interested in that.
00:38:36.000 How has that changed from when you were kind of the height of your celebrity and kind of in the full throes of everything?
00:38:41.000 Did you still undergo that?
00:38:43.000 I think I didn't have to scrutinize it in the same way because there are, in fact, one of the things I was saying is that what's difficult is sometimes these systems feel like shadow systems or at least silhouette, like, you know, comparable.
00:38:57.000 And when you are in that position, a lot of people are, and indeed that remains the case, are in some way or another dependent on you for their livelihood.
00:39:05.000 Now, thank And in ways that are sort of amazingly obvious and demonstrative, that has altered.
00:39:10.000 Like some of the people that are just hanging with me now aren't being paid.
00:39:12.000 Some people are being paid, but we've been paid.
00:39:14.000 Hopefully, it's all very candid and clear and above board.
00:39:17.000 When you're in Hollywood or you know, entertainment industry more broadly, it's like people will tolerate your bullshit.
00:39:24.000 Like because it, and in fact, it's helpful because you want them infantilized, you want the person that's making the money not to be switched on, you want them to be a kind of a dick.
00:39:33.000 That's why there's not that many of them that are.
00:39:36.000 You know, say the two that are from the south, like McConaughey and Woody Harrison, I bet they're like, I bet I know Woody Harrison a little bit and I've spoken to Matthew McConaughey a couple of times.
00:39:48.000 But when I watch them on the internet or whatever, I think they're probably pretty cool.
00:39:51.000 And you do see people that are like genuine geniuses, like David Lynch was like a proper genius, say.
00:39:56.000 But like a lot of people, even someone who's evidently brilliant, like Tom Cruise, is so kind of engorged with the fruit of that system that it can't.
00:40:09.000 He can't be.
00:40:10.000 I don't know how you would find God in there.
00:40:12.000 I don't know how you would find God in.
00:40:13.000 I don't know.
00:40:14.000 Maybe they do.
00:40:15.000 Or I wonder what, say with someone like Chris Pratt, who seems fucking lovely and loves the Lord and everything.
00:40:19.000 But in the end, what he needs from you, it's clear what he needs from us.
00:40:22.000 He needs everything.
00:40:24.000 He needs everything.
00:40:25.000 Like Preston said the other day, like if you have, he goes, if you put whatever you put at the center of your life, it will destroy you.
00:40:32.000 Then you put Christ at the center of your life and he destroys you.
00:40:35.000 You're getting destroyed.
00:40:36.000 You're getting destroyed.
00:40:38.000 And our mate.
00:40:40.000 Preston, he's double smart.
00:40:41.000 This guy, he's like runs a marina in the south.
00:40:44.000 Like, um, I'm like, but like, uh, yeah, it's good, isn't it?
00:40:48.000 The two things that, like, when Christ came to me was that melted my head and still is one that there was no, it was not intellectual, it was visceral, just like something happened in my stomach, like, oh, and then it's like Jesus is real, just like, oh no, like, and then I've read the Bible, and then what I discovered then, so this is phase two after a thing that I was non elective, non elective open heart surgery.
00:41:11.000 The next thing was, this is the thing I've always wanted.
00:41:14.000 Intimacy.
00:41:14.000 So the first one was the intimacy, but I'm really interested in how Christ corrects you and the pruning.
00:41:18.000 But the pruning comes from the Father, I guess.
00:41:21.000 And then the second thing was that it tells you outright the government, well, not the government, the state is evil.
00:41:28.000 The state is totally evil.
00:41:30.000 It's not like, oh, they're trying their best and all that and the sort of things that you try to hedge in there.
00:41:34.000 It's like, what you've done is you've entered into a system that is flat out evil and is designed to stop you connecting to the source.
00:41:44.000 Don't be surprised that people are eating shit food or taking shit drugs or whatever, because that's the point.
00:41:49.000 It's not a bug, it's a feature, as they say.
00:41:54.000 As you know, me and my wife Laura do a podcast, Sunday service.
00:41:57.000 Please, if you haven't watched it yet, watch it now.
00:42:00.000 It's, in a way, the most authentic thing I do, because we do it in my house.
00:42:04.000 It's just me and Laura.
00:42:05.000 Laura does all the camera work.
00:42:06.000 It gets cut by Massey, who produces and cuts all of the stuff that we do, all of our post content and all of the prep here.
00:42:13.000 He cuts it.
00:42:13.000 So it's a very sort of authentic thing.
00:42:16.000 This is authentic.
00:42:16.000 I mean, it's only Jake and.
00:42:18.000 Timmy, Merch, Roberto, Sophie.
00:42:22.000 Is your name Sophie?
00:42:24.000 Sorry, excuse me, Sharon.
00:42:25.000 And Sharon here, but you know, I still got to concentrate.
00:42:29.000 There's lights on, there's a picture of a chimp.
00:42:31.000 These things can distract a man.
00:42:33.000 So it's the most, sort of, in a way, it's the most sincere things I do.
00:42:38.000 Have a little look at this clip from Sunday service now.
00:42:49.000 Now, I've been in DC, so that's what's been on my mind having been in Washington, DC, at the heart of power, doing things with the Maha movement, near and around that great man, my beloved friend, and beyond a friend, really, Secretary Kennedy, our dearly loved, beloved Dr. Oz, great teachers and leaders, really great, wonderful men, and met a lot of good people there.
00:43:17.000 But when you're around DC, when you're around political power, you see what it does to people, you see what worldly power does.
00:43:22.000 I was thinking again of the example of Daniel, who, under four different empires, Nebuchadnezzar, his son, Belshazzar, were two empires, but four different kings, Darius, and whoever the last one was, managed he just focused the same way and worshipped the same God the whole time.
00:43:40.000 The whole time.
00:43:41.000 That's a challenge, isn't it?
00:43:42.000 Going into those different environments and being kind of almost unmoved by it.
00:43:48.000 Yeah, it is.
00:43:49.000 Yeah, doing what you're there to do, respecting, honouring the occasion, but not being in any way.
00:43:57.000 Impressed by the stuff that's not for you.
00:44:03.000 One of the great things that's happened, Laura, since our son was born with the challenges that have brought us closer together and since these sort of harmful, hurtful, untrue media generated allegations is that I've been crushed.
00:44:19.000 Yeah.
00:44:20.000 But Paul says, you know, we're, what does he say, pressured but not crushed, pressurized but not crushed.
00:44:25.000 But what I mean by that is, I don't.
00:44:28.000 No one's got anything I want now.
00:44:31.000 But no one, there's no, I'm not like, oh, maybe we'll get, you know.
00:44:34.000 I remember the first time I met someone like that.
00:44:36.000 And, you know, funnily enough, instinctively, that's how I described it.
00:44:39.000 I met Radhanath Swami at Bhakti Devanta Manor when I was just, just clean, maybe not even clean.
00:44:46.000 So I'm in my 20s.
00:44:48.000 And Radhanath Swami, holy man of the Hare Krishna's, and I respect those guys a lot.
00:44:52.000 Me too.
00:44:52.000 They're good people, especially our friends Sandy and Anu.
00:44:55.000 They're lovely people.
00:44:57.000 Great people of Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of love.
00:45:01.000 And when I met Radhanath Swami, don't get on her vibe.
00:45:04.000 She's a dog.
00:45:05.000 Don't like look at what the dog's looking at and get into it.
00:45:08.000 I saw you do that.
00:45:09.000 But you're getting that, that's codependent here.
00:45:11.000 She's looking at your reflection in the mirror.
00:45:12.000 I know.
00:45:13.000 And you're looking at her looking at your reflection in the mirror.
00:45:15.000 That's literally Narcissus's fault.
00:45:17.000 When I met her to become enchanted by the reflection instead of to know the truth, it's all an illusion.
00:45:23.000 Everything out here is an illusion.
00:45:25.000 I just thought it was sweet.
00:45:27.000 Well, I'm telling the story about like an important story.
00:45:31.000 Okay.
00:45:31.000 Sweet is down here somewhere.
00:45:33.000 I know, but you said before the show.
00:45:35.000 Today, you went just let whatever's going to happen with Coco happen.
00:45:39.000 So now I am reacting naturally like I would if I wasn't.
00:45:42.000 All right, I should have said this ignore Coco.
00:45:46.000 Ignore Coco.
00:45:47.000 That's a clearer direction.
00:45:48.000 All right.
00:45:49.000 Because otherwise, I'll tell you why.
00:45:51.000 Yeah.
00:45:51.000 You're reacting to something that's off camera.
00:45:53.000 That's not content.
00:45:55.000 Oh, okay.
00:45:56.000 All right.
00:45:57.000 Oh, that's very cutting.
00:45:59.000 I'm a pro.
00:46:00.000 Okay, got it.
00:46:02.000 It takes a lot of effort, a lot of time to make things look effortless.
00:46:06.000 So, What happened is, I see that Radnath Swami, and he was a holy man.
00:46:11.000 Swami means he that is with himself.
00:46:13.000 And the way I described it to my mate Carl later was, I could tell with him, there's nothing you could say to him that would knock him off his game.
00:46:19.000 There's nothing you could say, like, oh my God, some skinheads are smashing your car up, mate.
00:46:23.000 Or do you want to be in our band?
00:46:24.000 Like, nothing would titillate him or stimulate him out of the presence of God.
00:46:29.000 He, whilst not a Christian, is exhibiting what I consider a B, and let us know in the comments and chat if you agree with this, the primary attribute.
00:46:38.000 Of holiness, the presence of God, the absence of self, to be with God always.
00:46:43.000 And then, how much distraction and disruption can you tolerate before you let go of God's hand and come back to the world?
00:46:50.000 What does it take for you?
00:46:51.000 A cleavage, an intimidating look, an offer of money, someone calling you a nasty name, fret, financial fear.
00:46:57.000 Like, you know, here we are.
00:46:59.000 Here we are.
00:47:00.000 What does he tell us?
00:47:00.000 Lay down, love God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul.
00:47:03.000 Lay down your life for your friends, and everyone's your friend.
00:47:06.000 There's no one you exclude from that.
00:47:07.000 I think Bear once jumped up on him, and I don't think he even reacted.
00:47:13.000 He said this.
00:47:14.000 Oh, yeah, go on.
00:47:15.000 Now I see why you wear black.
00:47:17.000 Oh, yeah.
00:47:18.000 I watched that happen out the window.
00:47:21.000 Oh, dear.
00:47:22.000 Bare jumping.
00:47:23.000 Big paws.
00:47:24.000 Great, big, dirty, great German Shepherd paws.
00:47:27.000 Yeah.
00:47:28.000 So in DC, what was in, like, what sort of struck me, my beloved Laura, is you feeling okay?
00:47:34.000 Actually, I don't feel very well.
00:47:35.000 You can see something's come over you there.
00:47:36.000 You start to sort of sniff and feel a bit more.
00:47:38.000 Yeah, and I feel very, it was starting already.
00:47:40.000 And then when I closed my eyes to pray, I felt it really edgy up and my eyes were watering.
00:47:45.000 Could you pass me a tissue, please?
00:47:47.000 Absolutely.
00:47:47.000 Thank you.
00:47:48.000 I've got a little bit of a cold, that's all.
00:47:50.000 I am listening though.
00:47:52.000 I'm just struggling with this water.
00:47:53.000 Yeah.
00:47:55.000 Thank you.
00:47:57.000 In BC, we went to the Bible Museum and we saw the Megiddo Mosaic, which is the earliest known Christian church dating from around 200 AD prior to the Nicene Creed, meaning before Christianity was the state religion of Rome, a Roman centurion, the mosaic.
00:48:23.000 Indicates was already Christian, like the centurion that came to our Lord in, I'm not sure which gospel, but it says, like, help out my kid, will you, or help out my servant.
00:48:33.000 And there are four women honored in this mosaic as well.
00:48:38.000 Perhaps they were martyrs.
00:48:40.000 And it was discovered the Megiddo mural, which is on display in the Bible Museum in Washington, D.C., a wonderful museum, actually.
00:48:48.000 It was discovered when a prison in Israel was being expanded and the inmates are used for the labor.
00:48:56.000 And the incarcerated men have to do preliminary digs because Israel, like Rome, is so full of archaeological sites and interesting matters.
00:49:06.000 You know, that every time you put a spade in the ground, you might discover some precious and priceless antiquity.
00:49:13.000 So the prisoners, men condemned, uncovered this early church.
00:49:17.000 And here are the things that struck me most of all from the brilliant tour I received from the young man David.
00:49:23.000 I also learned the word docen, which is somebody who shows you around a museum.
00:49:27.000 Did you know that word?
00:49:28.000 I've never heard that before.
00:49:29.000 My friend taught me that word.
00:49:30.000 That's nice.
00:49:31.000 It's a nice word.
00:49:31.000 It's a lovely word.
00:49:32.000 He explained the following that in the Greek, there it says, Christ is Messiah.
00:49:43.000 I can't remember the Greek, obviously, but it says Christ is Messiah.
00:49:46.000 So it's the earliest artifact, archaeological artifact, I think.
00:49:53.000 It's a significant early artifact for the divinity of Christ rather than, oh, he's just a really smart man, a nice teacher, and an all round good egg.
00:50:00.000 Like, no.
00:50:01.000 What's happened is that inconceivably and ridiculously, God has come to earth.
00:50:05.000 The creator of the simulation has stepped into the simulation.
00:50:08.000 That's how I describe it in the book.
00:50:09.000 Is there a copy of the book there, Law?
00:50:11.000 How to Become Christian in Seven Days.
00:50:15.000 Oh.
00:50:16.000 Oh, there she is.
00:50:18.000 You're all right, darling.
00:50:19.000 Yeah.
00:50:19.000 You're all right.
00:50:20.000 Anyway, so like the reason that Megiddo floor is so beautiful is one, because of the divinity of Christ, two, because of the four female martyrs showing that even the early Christian church is meant to be a family inclusive of everybody, no one except.
00:50:33.000 Race, nation, as it says in Isaiah, the nations are a drop in the bucket.
00:50:37.000 Government must rest on his shoulders, whether that's the government of your own life or the government of your country.
00:50:42.000 If it's not being guided by divine principle, then it's going to be guided by what?
00:50:47.000 Human rationalism, reason.
00:50:49.000 What's it going to come from?
00:50:50.000 What's it going to come from?
00:50:51.000 In the end, what we have seen is that human beings will reason anything.
00:50:55.000 Hannah Arendt's beautiful phrase, the banality of evil, somehow encompasses all that we learned in that dreadful and dark period, that human beings will do anything if they can reason it.
00:51:09.000 I can almost imagine a detractor right now watching this say people are never happier committing violence than when they're committing it in the name of the Lord or Allah or whatever they consider to be God.
00:51:21.000 Yeah.
00:51:22.000 But that's not true.
00:51:24.000 What is true is people are very interested in power and finding ways to capture and justify power.
00:51:32.000 But we have no power.
00:51:34.000 There is no power.
00:51:35.000 Sometimes I reflect on some of the greatest people in history.
00:51:37.000 I know Mother Teresa, but I suppose in terms of the.
00:51:42.000 The type of power that interests me most, Churchill or Gandhi.
00:51:48.000 What does it matter now?
00:51:49.000 What does it matter now?
00:51:50.000 What's Churchill now?
00:51:52.000 Sort of a logo for a cigar.
00:51:54.000 And what's Gandhi now?
00:51:56.000 Well, if you look at him and study him, then he's an example of what can happen if you have a singular vision.
00:52:04.000 But what I'm saying is there ain't no treasure here.
00:52:08.000 Like it says in Matthew, why worry about storing up treasure down here that's going to get eaten by moths and worms?
00:52:15.000 Treasure in heaven.
00:52:16.000 People think that's that kind of trade off that Christianity is tricking you into shutting your mouth slave mentality so that real powerful people can get on with controlling the material world.
00:52:25.000 But it is not so.
00:52:26.000 I have something on that Bible Museum.
00:52:29.000 I was trying to get that sore throat.
00:52:31.000 Your only contribution so far has been to look at a dog and sneeze.
00:52:36.000 What I want to talk about is the Noah's Ark.
00:52:39.000 I want to talk about the Noah's Ark findings and I want to know if they brought it up at the Bible Museum.
00:52:43.000 Like, guys, because it's the Bible Museum, are they like, Can you believe they think that they found the Noah's Ark?
00:52:50.000 Or did they not mention it at all?
00:52:51.000 It didn't come up.
00:52:52.000 Well, the tour is going to show you around the exhibits of the museum.
00:52:57.000 Are you suggesting that David should come off screen?
00:52:59.000 I just feel like somebody should have mentioned whether or not this is something that we can hold to.
00:53:05.000 Go on, then you mention it.
00:53:07.000 Okay.
00:53:09.000 I mean, they're sampling the Noah's Ark hunters, as they're called here.
00:53:14.000 They're testing samples from the famous boat shaped formation in Turkey to see if they show the biblical vessel buried there.
00:53:21.000 But two researchers tried to answer this question in 96.
00:53:24.000 So, obviously, yeah, it's not the first time they found it, but they've gone back to the site.
00:53:28.000 An international team of archaeologists, this is in Turkey, archaeologists, geologists, and soil scientists started drilling into the Dura Pinar formation last week.
00:53:39.000 They're hoping the samples they collected from the structure are wood to disprove those that believe it is just completely a natural rock formation.
00:53:48.000 This was the conclusion that the geologist Lawrence Jean Collins and arc researcher David Franklin Fasshold.
00:53:54.000 Came to three decades ago.
00:53:56.000 Evidence from microscopic studies and photoanalysis demonstrates that the supposed ark, and this is quite a long word, near Dogubayazit is a completely natural rock formation, they have said in their study.
00:54:09.000 It cannot have been Noah's Ark, nor even a man made model.
00:54:13.000 But this new batch of research is they're absolutely convinced it is.
00:54:18.000 Why does it interest you?
00:54:19.000 It interests me because for me, Noah's Ark seems like a fairy story.
00:54:26.000 A little bit.
00:54:27.000 And like when I think about when you think now, what are you seeing?
00:54:30.000 You know, we have no photos of the Noah's Ark.
00:54:33.000 We have no.
00:54:34.000 Is there any illustrative documents of the Noah's Ark, or is it just the measurements?
00:54:41.000 Okay, so we do have measurements.
00:54:43.000 And they do provide you with kind of an image of it.
00:54:46.000 Yeah, and that's what do they say?
00:54:47.000 It's like a football stadium.
00:54:49.000 How many qubits?
00:54:50.000 I don't understand qubits.
00:54:51.000 I actually read that whole bit.
00:54:52.000 My worst bits of the Bible.
00:54:54.000 I hate qubits, genealogies, stories like qubits.
00:54:57.000 I'm like, I'm out.
00:54:58.000 I actually read that whole section to the children.
00:55:01.000 I know.
00:55:02.000 It was like I couldn't stop.
00:55:04.000 I was like, you know, because it goes on and on.
00:55:06.000 Anyway, I think I must have used chat or something to look at what those measurements would be in relation to now.
00:55:12.000 And I can't remember exactly what the study was, but it came back saying something about several football stadiums or something.
00:55:18.000 Anyway, I'm just interested in it because if, for example, that is the Noah's Ark, it's going to really blow the minds of many a scientist.
00:55:30.000 What could ever verify that it was, oh my word, that's Noah's Ark?
00:55:34.000 What could they discover that make you go?
00:55:37.000 That make it, you go, I know, it's like that.
00:55:39.000 Well, what they're going to do is they're presumably going to use the measurements and they're going to draw and they're going to find the wood and they'll be able to track the age of the wood.
00:55:48.000 Just from this time.
00:55:49.000 Exactly.
00:55:50.000 I just think that would be just wonderful.
00:55:52.000 Wow.
00:55:52.000 Well, because then it really, really, really makes it real, like a huge thing Noah's Ark.
00:56:00.000 I know it's real, but it's almost like it brings it.
00:56:07.000 It brings it to the people that would otherwise think it is just a children's story.
00:56:12.000 Let us know in the comments what you think about that.
00:56:15.000 My position is I sort of don't care because, well, I mean, I'm interested.
00:56:20.000 If someone went, that's actually Noah's Ark.
00:56:22.000 Or if we were to go to Jerusalem and people went, this is where, like, when one time Jeff Cavins, hello, I'm Jeff Cavins.
00:56:30.000 He's a brilliant Catholic teacher.
00:56:35.000 He could go, Russell, I'm in the upper room now in Jerusalem.
00:56:38.000 It's a replica.
00:56:40.000 But then I'm on the Mount of Olives and I'm praying.
00:56:42.000 For you.
00:56:42.000 Like, I really enjoyed.
00:56:43.000 Wow, these are real places, or like the River Jordan, or whatever.
00:56:46.000 But what I think is that the cistern that Joseph was in, if someone went, that's the cistern that Joseph was in, or this is where we think Christ's cross was, I mean, it's sort of awesome.
00:56:59.000 But he's more here now than he was there then.
00:57:03.000 Of course.
00:57:03.000 Because he is the living God of the present moment.
00:57:05.000 So, what I am interested in is that the ark is a box, is a tomb, is a tabernacle.
00:57:12.000 The Cave is a box, is a tomb, is a tabernacle.
00:57:15.000 The basket that Moses was in is a box, is a tomb, is a tabernacle.
00:57:19.000 The system is a.
00:57:21.000 I know what it is.
00:57:22.000 Go on.
00:57:22.000 Okay.
00:57:24.000 I do always reference this book, and I might need to read it again because I only read it in part when I was doing art at college, but at university actually.
00:57:33.000 The Poetics of Space.
00:57:34.000 I did.
00:57:35.000 I went to the University for the Creative Arts.
00:57:39.000 I only did a year.
00:57:40.000 Sounds made up.
00:57:41.000 Where was it?
00:57:42.000 I did a year.
00:57:42.000 Epsom.
00:57:43.000 I did a year art foundation and then it is a real place.
00:57:48.000 I did a year art foundation and I got into Westminster to do art, fine art, but I opted not to go.
00:57:55.000 I found the whole thing too nerve wracking.
00:57:57.000 Oh, darling.
00:57:58.000 Yeah.
00:57:58.000 Anyway, Poetics of Space.
00:58:02.000 So by Gaston Bachelard.
00:58:04.000 It's what it is, it's the idea that that has the history of that, that has the memory of it, the history of it, the idea that when you.
00:58:14.000 You know, we haven't been to Jerusalem, but I bet if we go to Jerusalem, we're going to be in awe constantly at the idea that it holds the space itself, holds the essence of the memory of the real thing.
00:58:29.000 In the same way that your body might hold on to a trauma.
00:58:31.000 Exactly, exactly.
00:58:33.000 In the words of William Blake, did those feet in ancient times walk upon England's mountains green?
00:58:39.000 Like the idea that Christ might have come to England, that Joseph and Aaron Maffeia took trips to get silver to the Glastonbury or Cornish mines, and Jesus Christ may have come there.
00:58:50.000 It's all part of Arthurian legend.
00:58:51.000 Oh, yes, yes.
00:58:53.000 The stories of Arthur.
00:58:54.000 That's what that's all about.
00:58:55.000 Right.
00:58:56.000 But so don't you think the same thing of the.
00:58:58.000 Imagine, I immediately thought, wow, all those animals.
00:59:00.000 That's what I thought.
00:59:01.000 I thought of like the idea of the.
00:59:04.000 The feet of all the animals treading the wood, and so I went into it quite a lot.
00:59:09.000 I was into the idea of it, that's interesting.
00:59:11.000 I understand, and of course, it would be fascinating were things like that to happen.
00:59:15.000 And sometimes I read things where we've looked, analyzed the material on the Turin shroud, like our beloved friend, uh, Jeremiah Johnson.
00:59:23.000 He's all about it, like you know, like he's all showed, like this is what the crown of Fawns would look like, and this is what, like, but the thing is, is I'm interested in the um mystery, the present mystery, and like.
00:59:36.000 I don't know how we would conceptualize Noah's ark.
00:59:39.000 I don't know that these weren't gene samples that were being gathered in petroglyph dishes.
00:59:44.000 Yes, yes.
00:59:44.000 Because we're dealing with the supernatural being described by a contemporary Judean language or Mesopotamian language or proto Sinai and proto Canaanite and Mesopotamian mythology converted into Hebrew mythology.
01:00:01.000 But the whole thing is the code of the Lord, is the presence of the Lord, is the myth.
01:00:05.000 And he's here now, he's here with us.
01:00:16.000 Hey, we'll be back next time, not with more of the same, but with more of the different.
01:00:20.000 Until then, if you can, stay free.