00:02:40.000Now, that said, you are a soul. The soul is immortal. It's connected to God.
00:02:46.000So, when you're born or when you're conceived, perhaps more accurate to say, you come down from God.
00:02:54.000You, the soul, comes down to the physical body and animates it.
00:03:01.000What happens when you die, you might wonder.
00:03:03.000And, of course, again, disclaimer. Many, many words have been spoken about the matter.
00:03:10.000So, again, this is just my understanding of it now.
00:03:15.000So, you go back to God. The soul goes back to God. The One. The Neoplatonic One.
00:03:21.000And then you have realms of the afterlife as well. But we can talk about that in a different video.
00:03:27.000So, the pointer is that we have, you know, 80 to 100 years or less. Hopefully not.
00:03:34.000But hopefully we all have good long lives. And then we go back to where we came from, which is God.
00:03:44.000So, that happens when you're conceived or when you're born, depending on how you view life.
00:03:49.000But, yeah, that's fair to say at least. That you, the soul, you come from God. You animate a body.
00:03:58.000So, me walking around right now, I am a soul. I determine my thoughts. I determine my body.
00:04:06.000Now, this is actually quite hard. As I talked about in a recent video, that it's quite hard to be in charge of your thoughts.
00:04:13.000Of your body. That's why you have glottons, for example. People who have issues with various temptations.
00:04:22.000And also, like I talked about in a recent video about depression. That if you feel something like that coming on.
00:04:28.000Realize that you are not your thoughts. Realize that you can control your thoughts if you have enough power in your mind.
00:04:39.000And, of course, since you are not your mind, you need to have control over your mind.
00:04:44.000So, again, you are not your body. You are not your mind. But, if you're strong enough in your soul, you as an entity, then you can control.
00:04:53.000Then you can be in charge of the matter. So, I usually refer to Plato's idea of his soul chariot.
00:05:02.000So, you, the soul, you are in charge of the chariot. And then you have two horses. So, you need to take care of your horses.
00:05:10.000So, if we name one horse physical desires. So, we're talking about something like sex.
00:05:18.000It's important to not stifle that completely, but also to be in charge of those impulses.
00:05:26.000Because, if you're not in charge of those impulses, then you might become addicted to pornography or something like that.
00:05:33.000Or you can, you know, have a bad relationship with women or whatever it might be.
00:05:38.000So, you need to be in charge of your impulses. But, you also don't need to starve them. So, if a religious doctrine says that something like sex is bad, it's not bad.
00:05:51.000It's just that it needs to be kept under control. So, you don't let that horse run amok and do what it wants.
00:05:59.000Same thing with, you know, food or whichever thing that can go too far.
00:06:08.000So, also speaking of the body, that you are not your body. You have a body which you can optimize if you have the will for it.
00:06:17.000Now, this is important to realize that you are not your body. Because that will make you a bit more humble in a good way.
00:06:25.000A bit more grateful for what you do have. So, I'm sure everyone wishes they would have, you know, some differences to their body.
00:06:36.000Some guys might want to be a bit taller. Some women might want to be a bit more beautiful, etc.
00:06:44.000I wish I were so handsome that people would start crying by just looking at me.
00:06:49.000I wish I were so handsome that people would think, is this Sanguineous from the Horus Heresy from Warhammer 40k?
00:06:57.000Alas, this is not the case. Is it something I lose sleep over? No, it's not. Because I know it is what it is.
00:07:05.000I can do what I can. It's not something I obsess over. I try to get good sleep, good training, good diet. That's what I can do.
00:07:14.000Then, of course, there are those who take it too far. But, in my humble opinion, beauty for a man is about performance.
00:07:24.000It's about health. It's about being, you know, your physical exterior reflects your inner thumos, your vitality.
00:07:34.000So, it's not good to be vain in that sense. It's good to have a natural beauty, if you can, by taking care of the same things that also make you more productive and healthier.
00:07:49.000So, that is a good type of focus on beauty. But, it can get too far. So, in that case, I would say that you have a temple, you have a vehicle for your soul.
00:08:02.000Do take care of it. But, also remember that the purpose of you having a vehicle is not to, you know, obsess about your looks.
00:08:12.000It is what it is. And it's also not a super attractive thing for a man to be overly obsessed with his looks.
00:08:18.000So, even though you might wish for something else. Maybe you wish you were a bit taller. Maybe you wish you had a bit broader shoulders.
00:08:28.000Maybe you wish you were a bit more handsome. It's not good to obsess about it. This is the body you have in this life.
00:08:35.000For however many years. 80, 90, 100 years. 60 years. Who knows? This is what you have to deal with now. This is what you were given in this reincarnation.
00:08:48.000Then, when you die, you go back to God. And then you're reincarnated later on. Perhaps in a different body. Perhaps you have a worse body.
00:08:56.000Perhaps you have a better body. Perhaps you have a better mind. Who knows? Who knows?
00:09:01.000Now, this also brings us into the topic of transgenderism. I'm not sure how relevant it is anymore in almost 2026.
00:09:09.000But I thought comment on it, at least. Because it's quite related. You know, how you perceive yourself. How you perceive your being.
00:09:18.000Your body. Your identity. Everything like that. And I would say that many of these individuals, they identify too much with their body.
00:09:27.000So they think they are the body. Instead of viewing the body as a vehicle for this reincarnation. For this life.
00:09:36.000Instead of focusing on the fact that you're a soul. So my recommendation for anyone who might not be comfortable in his or her body.
00:09:46.000Is to view it as a temple. As a holy house. That you try to be as comfortable as possible in.
00:09:55.000So you do try to optimize your health. Your hormonal health. And you will feel better. Your soul will feel more at ease in your body.
00:10:04.000You will feel more aligned. You will feel more aligned. You will feel in charge of the platonic soul chariot, so to speak.
00:10:11.000When you are in charge, everything aligns in a better way. When you, the soul, when you are not in charge, you will not feel good.
00:10:19.000You will not feel good. If you let the horses of desire, of insecurity, when you let bad thoughts come to you.
00:10:28.000You can call them demons maybe. Bad emotions, bad thoughts. We can call them demons.
00:10:33.000When they come to you and they start dictating what to do. They start dictating that you aren't good enough.
00:10:40.000That you need to make certain changes to yourself. Now don't get me wrong. It's good to change yourself for the better.
00:10:48.000But it can also go too far. I see some of these Luxmaxers. They are, you know, artificially increasing their height.
00:10:57.000Because they feel insecure with themselves. They aren't, they don't want to accept the chariot they've been given, the vehicle they've been given at birth.
00:11:07.000Now, again, there's a fine line between trying to optimize your temple and taking it too far.
00:11:16.000So I would say that don't obsess over it. Do try to approach beauty and health, your body, in a holistic fashion.
00:11:24.000That when you think of your looks, you're also thinking about your health.
00:11:30.000Because after all, again, for a man, your looks, it's supposed to be a reflection on your vitality and health.
00:11:37.000So, yeah, and also, again, it's not super manly to be super vain either.
00:11:44.000So, to use another example, you can have a guy who's balding. Which, you know, I can imagine it's not super fun.
00:11:51.000But just own it. Own the situation. Think to yourself, yeah, this is not me. This is my body. It's constructed in this way.
00:12:01.000This was the body. These were the cards I was dealt upon birth. Then you don't think overly much about it.
00:12:10.000So, think instead of your performance. Especially for a man. You will be judged by your performance.
00:12:16.000You will, of course, be judged to a certain extent upon how you look.
00:12:20.000But ultimately, we can talk about something like height as well.
00:12:23.000Of course, all guys want to be a certain height. Many shorter guys, perhaps, they want to be taller.
00:12:30.000But keep in mind that, ultimately, you will be judged on your performance.
00:12:35.000You will be judged upon the value you can give others.
00:12:38.000If you are in a leadership position, you will be judged upon your ability to lead others into success.
00:12:44.000So, don't think all too much about the way you look. Think more about what sort of value can you bring to others.
00:12:52.000Same thing if we're talking about attracting women. It was a fun joke on X.
00:12:56.000Saying that the average Eastern European couple is a very beautiful woman and a man who's not so beautiful.
00:13:03.000Then I posted and said that, of course, it's good to try to be handsome as a man.
00:13:09.000But ultimately, when it comes to attracting women, it's about your inner strength, your inner core, your stability.
00:13:16.000That you can be a rock that you can lean on.
00:13:18.000And then it's much more important for you to actually be capable of stuff than how you look.
00:13:24.000So, when you see these Luxmaxers, take it with a pinch of salt when they talk about attraction from women.
00:13:31.000It's also about a woman staying attracted to you, trusting you over a long period of time.
00:13:36.000Now, I can talk a bit about the mind as well and thoughts.
00:13:40.000Since I mentioned it in the depression video I made, that thoughts can come to you.
00:13:47.000You are connected. Since you are a soul, you're connected to other souls.
00:13:50.000In a sense, you're connected to all other humans, all other living things.
00:13:56.000Everyone is connected to God. God is in everyone.
00:13:59.000One could say, one could formulate it in that way.
00:14:03.000So, thoughts can come to you from wherever.
00:14:06.000You are not the only... Your mind is not the only place where thoughts are generated.
00:14:11.000You can get a thought from someone else.
00:14:13.000It can be transmitted in ways that are beyond my understanding.
00:14:18.000But why is it important? Why is this important, what I am telling you now?
00:14:24.000Yes, it's because you need to, especially if bad thoughts are coming to you, you need to realize that they are not you.