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Woke Doesn't Mean Aware | Episode 28 · The Spiritual Realest

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_03: This is the Spiritual Realist.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'm Scarlett Drown.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is a space for honest conversation about spirituality, individuality, and growth.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to opening your mind without pressure, performance, or pretending.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_03: From views to heavenly minded but earthly good.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: From church fans to creed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cross hanging over the doorway.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the church still know the truth.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's begin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scarlet draw speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let the spirit speak.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we're going to ring our single, getting rid of any negative energy or any distractions while we spend this time together.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: So we're going to talk about wormwood.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_03: What is wormwood?
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  SPEAKER_03: A lot of you probably have never heard of it, don't even understand what it is, don't even know how to get it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, wormwood is an herb.
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  SPEAKER_03: It literally has a citrus kind of smell to it.
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  SPEAKER_03: What is deeply associated with is piercing awareness, boundary enforcement, visionary states.
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  SPEAKER_03: It also is extreme, has a bitter taste to it when you drink it.
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  SPEAKER_03: So if you ain't trying to be aware, you might not want to do this.
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  SPEAKER_03: What it does is it has clarity without comfort.
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  SPEAKER_03: It actually opens up the third eye and labiminal states, and it has boundaries and protection elements in it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And what we're going to use this for is being clear and having real reality and real check marks around the difference between being awoke and being aware.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_03: Because we in the spiritual industry put that as one.
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  SPEAKER_03: And in this spiritual community, we want to say that they are one.
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  SPEAKER_03: But you can be awoke and not be aware at all.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean the simplest things.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's give small examples before we get to the big ones.
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  SPEAKER_03: I know, because y'all know I be coming and I don't be meaning it, but I be meaning it that part.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_03: Because I am woke and I am also aware.
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  SPEAKER_03: And there's some things in this community that we don't address and we just don't talk about because we think that people have it all connected, when in reality, they don't.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_03: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_03: So when you decide to deconstruct from different religions, whether it's traditional church religion, whether it's Catholicism, whether it's Islam, whether it's whatever, whatever you decided to deconstruct from.
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  SPEAKER_03: But yet when you get into the spiritual realm or you get into the element of having a different spiritual regimen, you still use those same ideologies and methods to judge other people.
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  SPEAKER_03: You woke because you realize that they lied to you in this religious confound.
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  SPEAKER_03: But you're not woke or you're not aware in the spiritual aspect because you're still passing judgment based on ideology that you've been taught.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's what I mean, the difference between aware and awoke.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'm gonna just take the A off, because from this point on, y'all know I mean woke, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: We got it, we understand.
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  SPEAKER_03: Great, because y'all know I gotta be real.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is what it is.
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  SPEAKER_03: With that being said, let me give you some other examples.
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  SPEAKER_03: When you decide that there are things in your life that you no longer want to do, and you become woke from those things, yet you repeat the same pattern even in your wokeness.
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  SPEAKER_03: You are not aware of the situation.
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  SPEAKER_03: You just woke up from it.
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  SPEAKER_03: That is what I mean by being woke and aware.
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  SPEAKER_03: There are two different things.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can operate in wokeness and operate in awareness, or you can operate in wokeness and be blinded without having awareness.
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  SPEAKER_03: For instance, me personally, I am like the only one in my circle who practices spirituality outside of church.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm woke.
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  SPEAKER_03: I am well aware of what religion has done for my community, my personal black and brown community, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: I am aware of what that has, what has happened within that community.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm aware of the suppression.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm aware of how it keeps us oppressed.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm aware of how they use the confined of the base religion of Christianity to hold us back.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm aware of that.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm also woke from that.
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  SPEAKER_03: I have a lot of friends, a plethora, not a plethora because my circle's small, but I have a lot of associates and people that I dearly love to include my own family that still operate in that Christianity circle.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't judge them.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because I am aware that because I am woke and I am aware and decided to do something different, that may not be their journey and path to walk.
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  SPEAKER_03: But we seem to be so judgmental in the spiritual community when someone doesn't agree or doesn't come on our side, even when they can see the issue.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's a lot of people in church that's woke, but they don't know how to become aware.
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  SPEAKER_03: They don't know how to change those things because it's ingrained in them.
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  SPEAKER_03: And sometimes it's just not their path to walk.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, for real, people are out here acting as if only people in religion are NPCs.
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  SPEAKER_03: But in reality, spiritualists can be NPCs as well.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're out here following trends, you're out here doing the next best thing for the next best popular spiritualists.
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  SPEAKER_03: You are out here following the TikToks, following the Instagrams, on all these platforms, getting things and doing things that you have no awareness of, and you are just following pop culture when in actuality you won't get yourself out there and vote because humanity matters.
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  SPEAKER_03: The laws that happen for us and the laws that are being made on this planet, it matters to the next person, not just you.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we want to just categorize NPCs as religious people.
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  SPEAKER_03: But in actuality, if you are not aware and you are just a follower of trends and a follower of what is new and coming right now, you are also an NPC, regardless of your affiliation, whether it's in a religion or outside of religion, it's still the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: That is what I'm talking about.
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  SPEAKER_03: The difference between being woke and being aware.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're woke in the spiritual realm saying, hey, this religion box isn't for me.
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  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't make sense, it doesn't da-da-da, it has lies, etc., etc.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so I'm gonna be a spiritualist.
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  SPEAKER_03: But yet you take that same concept and apply it to the spiritual realm, to the spiritualist that you're following.
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  SPEAKER_03: You have the same order, you have the same thing, you're doing the exact same trend.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're just taking the religion off of it.
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  SPEAKER_03: What say you, what makes you different from any NPC out there?
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_02: Nothing.
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  SPEAKER_02: You just woke.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like the walking dead.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I mean that in the literal sense.
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  SPEAKER_03: What's the point of being woke and not being aware?
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  SPEAKER_03: Not being aware of what's around you, not being aware of how it benefits someone or how it suppresses someone or how it oppresses others?
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  SPEAKER_03: What's the point of being spiritual and not kind?
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  SPEAKER_03: What's the point of being spiritual and not having integrity?
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  SPEAKER_03: What's the point of being spiritual and your morals are all over the place?
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  SPEAKER_03: What's the point of being spiritual and not having a discipline to follow your own intuition?
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  SPEAKER_03: Because you're too busy clickbaiting, looking at things.
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  SPEAKER_03: You too busy scrolling on Instagram and TikTok and these other platforms, and you ain't out here doing the work for yourself.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_03: Y'all going to the bank to get dirt from a bank when in actuality that bank done changed hands seven times.
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  SPEAKER_03: Why the hell do I want that bank dirt?
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_03: If it done went from PNC to Wells Fargo to Bank of America to Truest Bank, why I want that bank dirt?
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  SPEAKER_03: Y'all don't even have the wherewithal to say, you know what, let me go to this little country sound and go to the one-century bank of King Street and go get that bank, because that bank been there for a hundred years.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's the security I want, but that's the awareness I have.
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  SPEAKER_03: But y'all following trends.
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  SPEAKER_03: Y'all going to the graveyard getting dirt are for people that y'all don't even know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Y'all have no earthly idea who these people are.
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  SPEAKER_03: You don't know if they have mental illnesses in their family.
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  SPEAKER_03: You don't know if they were a murderer.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_03: You don't know if they were a rapist.
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  SPEAKER_03: You don't know the trauma that's holding in that body that you got that dirt from.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_02: But y'all out here digging up dirt.
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  SPEAKER_02: Cause y'all woke.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_03: But y'all ain't aware.
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  SPEAKER_03: You ain't aware of the consequences that come with this.
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  SPEAKER_03: You ain't aware of the repercussions that come when you put your hand in the cookie jar and it's a mousetra instead of cookies.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I know, I know, I know, I know, y'all ain't gonna hit it.
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  SPEAKER_03: I get it, I understand.
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  SPEAKER_03: But my job again ain't here to pacify you.
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  SPEAKER_03: I came to help set the captives free.
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  SPEAKER_03: And captivity is being woke and doing nothing about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Being woke and still blind as a bat.
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  SPEAKER_03: Being woke and actually can't see the forest from the trees.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because awareness understands the difference between the forest and the trees.
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  SPEAKER_03: Awareness understands the difference between a lake and a river.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because y'all out here putting deity offerings at a lake that is steel versus a river that runs.
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  SPEAKER_02: But y'all don't know that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I get it.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's why I come here on this social media.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's why I put myself out here.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because there are things in this spiritual community that we are doing that is actually hindering, not me, it's hindering me, it's hinder you, it's stopping your destiny, it's prolonging the things in your life, it's prolonging you from being all you're meant to be, because you're following somebody else's regimen on what it is they're doing for their destiny.
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  SPEAKER_03: When somebody gives you an herb online, you don't take the time to research it, you don't take the time to see if it even fits in your lifestyle, you don't even take the time to see if you should be handling said herb.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just because you woke don't mean everything is for you.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just because I'm black and brown don't mean I need to be practicing hoodoo.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just because I'm black and brown don't mean that I need to be in Epha.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just because you deconstructed from Christianity don't mean you judge those that stayed.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because guess what?
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  SPEAKER_03: Everybody's destiny is different.
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  SPEAKER_03: Everybody's life path is different.
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  SPEAKER_03: Everybody's trajectory and purpose that they came on this earth to do is different.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know why this is happening for me in this point in my life right now?
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  SPEAKER_03: It's because it's my purpose.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's my destiny.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's what I was put on this earth to do.
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  SPEAKER_02: And make no mistake about it.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm not running.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_03: You want to know why?
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_03: Because can't nobody do what I do like I do what I do because it's meant for me.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_03: And can't nobody do what you do like you do what you do because it's meant for you.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_03: Listen, I know that when we become woke and we wake up and we realize that, hey, wait a minute, something is amiss, something is different, something is off.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I no longer align with this thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: I no longer am standing in a space where this thing is beneficial for me.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then we become spiritualists or we do whatever you want to call yourself, a new age, a spiritualist, a witch, or hoodoo practical, whatever it is that you do, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: But yet we're being bullies.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are being prejudiced.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are literally using spirituality as a weapon.
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  SPEAKER_03: You have people that are afraid to even have a comment with you because they're afraid of what you will do in the spiritual realm to them when you don't even have the awareness to have a discussion.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_03: You have people in this spiritual realm who are homophobic.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_03: How are you judging someone's own sexual preference?
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  SPEAKER_03: What they got to do with your spirit man, what they got to do with their spirit man, because you're still using the ideology of a religion as judgment, even in your wokeness.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_03: This is what I'm trying to say.
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  SPEAKER_03: We have people that are literally hating other spiritualists because of their opinion on how they practice.
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  SPEAKER_03: When in actuality, if you just go back to the continent of Africa and the different villages and communities, multiple villages practice the same thing in different ways.
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  SPEAKER_03: Some people used herbs for this, this community used the same herb for that.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_03: Some people use curry sales, some people use coconut, some people use bay leaves, some people use I don't know, chamomile.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm just giving y'all examples on how drastically different.
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  SPEAKER_02: The point isn't to be the same.
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  SPEAKER_02: We are not fraternal twins because even fraternal twins have different DNAs.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_02: You are looking for the structure of a religion and something that's unstructured.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_03: Your walk with spirit and God and ancestors, or whatever you want to put in their box is different from my walk with spirit, God, and my ancestors.
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  SPEAKER_02: But you compare us side by side.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_02: I'm no fruit that you ever seen before, and neither are you.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_03: But we don't want to talk about that.
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  SPEAKER_03: We want to literally use spirituality as a tool to bully when that's not God like.
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  SPEAKER_03: And if you don't recognize that, then you'll always fall for the trend.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_03: You'll always repeat a cycle over and over and over again because you don't even recognize your own purpose and that you are not meant to be them, and they are not meant to be you.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_03: On that note, I'm scarlet, y'all.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: Heavenly minded, always earthly good.
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  SPEAKER_03: I would like you this week to try something different.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_03: Try opening up your awareness, not just being woke, but open up your awareness.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_03: Remember that we are heavenly minded, but we're earthly good.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_03: So make sure that you're using your tools and your spirituality and your knowledge of wokeness for the benefit of humanity, not just for selfish reasons.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because we will put on this earth together.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: And in that, that is what the power lies.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_03: That is where growth happens, that is where true change matters, is when we stop becoming single eyes.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: And I created it, and if it's not a word, I made it up.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_03: Y'all know I like to do that, I like to make up words.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_03: Judge yourself, okay?
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_03: But we have become so single-minded in spirituality, looking for clicks and lights and whatever.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_02: Until we forget the sole purpose is to help the oppressed, to help those that are suffering out of nowhere, because they shared your purpose.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_03: Each one reach one, right?
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: Each one teach one.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_03: As always, may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: Ashay, I say, I say.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_03: From church fans decree.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_03: If something about this episode stayed with you, then you're exactly who this space is for.
• 18:36
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• 18:41
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• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: I'm Scarlett Drought, heavenly minded, but earthly good.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_03: Until next time.
• 18:58
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• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: From O to touch and dirt, I let the spirit guide me to the heart of the earth card and drone.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: I remember every story that they spoke in the words.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm empowered by the spirit strength and all of these.