00:00:40.100I grew up in a religious school, Anglican, but it was kind of like a soft religion.
00:00:46.860We had church, and we had congregational singing twice a week, and also a religious education period, an hour or so a week.
00:00:55.240And we were given this Christian kind of denomination, and we were told to believe it and shut up.
00:01:01.020And at the very core of my essence, my soul, if someone says something like that to me, then I'm just going to reject it.
00:01:07.540It doesn't matter if what you're saying, even if it's the truth, if you can't tell me why or show me why so that I can personally understand it, I'm just going to go against that.
00:01:17.100So I rejected that, you know, I'm not going to believe it, just like, explain it.
00:01:21.560It doesn't make sense to me that this, but it's the literal interpretation of religion, which most people haven't had the appropriate induction or research or learning to actually understand the kind of maybe metaphysical and spiritual things behind, like, what are the words written in the Bible and things like that.
00:01:38.580So that was what I was introduced to through my teenage years, and so the rebellion stage or the rejection stage was, okay, well, then this must be BS if you can't explain it to me.
00:01:48.960And that's one of the ways that I think they get people to go against maybe their potential for spiritual capacity is to kind of usurp that whole experience by giving you something that's so obviously dumb and, like, not explain any of it.
00:02:04.000So I was an atheist in my teenage years.
00:02:09.680Everyone has that stage, the Reddit stage.
00:02:12.260Thank the Lord I didn't wear a fedora or anything.
00:02:17.000But, yeah, so we had several years of that, and it was good, and I would focus on science and biology, and I think they have their places, and you should always look for the logic and the proof, the evidence of things.
00:02:30.920So that formed part of my academic viewpoint, I guess.
00:02:34.000And then as I got to college and started doing more of my own research into philosophy, into the metaphysical and how things actually worked, you stumble upon things which may say, oh, okay, the things in the Bible are interpretation.
00:02:52.140And just for the record, I think there probably were literal events and also metaphysical interpretations, probably both, right?
00:02:59.600With most things, it can be interpreted as both in the Bible.
00:03:02.120So it's really just discovering what many, many thousands of people have discovered over the years, which is, you know, there are these fundamental truths, laws, principles, concepts, which when you download them into your mind, you can interface with this reality way, way better and more successfully.
00:03:21.480And that is really the ultimate point of truth, is if you download that information into you, and your perception of the world gets better and your experience of the world gets better and you're more effective to be able to do what you want to do in a happier way to more positively influence more people, that's really the truth.
00:03:40.100If there is a truth, because truth, even in itself is subjective in a lot of ways.
00:03:43.980And even if you have evidence for things, something can go against that evidence.
00:03:47.920So like, how much evidence do you need to say that's the truth, but this experience of reality also exists?
00:03:52.600The truth is very, you know, perceptive, because the reality is the mind.
00:03:56.300And we all have a different mind with different downloadable programs and beliefs.
00:04:00.800So, you know, that's besides the point.
00:04:02.960So I'm delving into all of these concepts and understanding that, okay, what is God?
00:04:10.500It's not old man in the sky being like, you need to stop doing this.
00:04:15.540And that's really the atheist conception of God.
00:50:17.400Instead of thinking about the latest Marvel movie, you know, that is why they create those things.
00:50:24.240This is to create, to harness people's attention.
00:50:27.420Because if you think, oh, Iron Man, wow, Captain America, ooh, like, then you're not thinking about the potential future of the Aquarian age.