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Alana Arguello: Yoga & The Destructive ‘Way Of The Goddess’ · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Welcome to Worldview Matters.
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  And now, here's your host, David Fiorazzo.
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  Welcome to another episode.
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  Thank you so much for tuning in.
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  And I really appreciate all of you who share these podcasts.
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  Another return guest on the same topic because we've got to get the body of Christ informed on yoga and the background of it.
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  So I've got Dr. Alana.
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  Arguello back with us and the book Unearthing Yoga's Ancient Roots.
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  We've done several episodes on this.
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  You can go watch those if you haven't heard her talk about her book.
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  Go to worldviewmatters.tv and then type in the search A-L-A-N-A and her name will come up and the episodes will come up.
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  Go back to the first one if you can.
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  But Alana, welcome.
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  Good to see you again.
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  Thanks for your time.
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  This is so important.
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  Thank you, David.
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  I really appreciate you.
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  Thank you.
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  Before we get into the book more, because there's so much, how many pages is it?
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  Like 400 and 360.
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  Anyway, I want to direct people to your 10 myths on your website.
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  introducing the yoga you don't know.
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  So go to thereturningraven.com.
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  That's her website, thereturningraven.com, and you'll see the 10 myths introducing the yoga you don't know.
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  You've got to look that up and watch some of the videos, and you'll get more informed.
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  So, Alana, last time...
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  We did a podcast on the marketing of yoga to America, and my goodness, there's definite spirituality behind this.
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  It is demonic, this agenda, but a lot of people don't see it as that.
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  They just see it as exercise, but we've blown that myth completely out of the water in every episode so far, but I want you to just review a little bit and start talking about
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  the way yoga was sold to America as exercise.
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  So I'm quoting you, so women could wear less clothes to work out, and then this would kind of like display a goddess worship.
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  And you mentioned a snake and the black pants.
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  How does this all play into the marketing of yoga and what the agenda is behind it?
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  Sure.
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  So first, I will say that this is not the first time cultures have seen yoga come in and be offered as yoga science.
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  So we there's actually historically a historian that found text in the Arabic from Persia.
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  from ancient Persia that had moved into India and that were infecting cultures with what are called yoginis.
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  These were master female yoga practitioners and they were
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  called predatory witches that could shapeshift.
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  And the historian describes it, and I talk about this in the book, that they were complete, it's just witchcraft, and actually mentioned as quote, strange worship.
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  That they were, it was all divination, which I've said on your show before, yoga is sorcery.
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  It always has been sorcery.
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  It's still sorcery.
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  Today it's mind, body, word, magic.
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  And that these predatory witches were starting to become worshiped as gods themselves, but they were essentially just practicing witchcraft.
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  But it was being offered in the books, these divination books that included the postures and breathing exercises, as well as other things like voodoo-like rituals and other things.
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  But it was all to bring heaven down and occult powers.
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  which is within the history of yoga anyway.
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  But these practices were practiced actually well into the 1800s, but they were ancient forms of yoga, some of the most ancient forms of yoga.
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  And the historian describes them as being, they were entering into the culture as, quote, yoga science exercise.
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  And so this is what got repeated within America later.
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  And so when it entered into the culture, swamis and gurus were coming mostly on the West Coast, but also we had a lot of influence in New York.
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  coming in and it was coming into the culture.
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  And there's actually a big revolt at first that this was that a lot of their practices were over sexualized and that what it was doing to women and corruption.
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  And there was a lot of pushback about yoga itself, which is very interesting.
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  And there were actual certain people that really even tried to stop it in California, this massive movement that was coming in.
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  Well, what happened was, and it happened through particular people, there's multiple reasons that all culminated for how it actually fully entered.
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  But there were certain people that came in that had heavier injuries.
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  influence and they got in with elite social circles and country clubs and and through the money, through all of this non believing world where it started to again being sold as exercise.
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  So at first it was like it was alerted that, wait, this is a religious, really a barbaric religious, highly sexual, problematic for a Judeo Christian worldview nation.
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  And then it got switched and it was then getting sold even well before people sometimes think of the sixties for this.
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  This was the early 1900s, um, into 1940, 1950 actually when it was making impact and eventually it would get sold where Hollywood would start putting it out.
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  And you can look at pictures of Marilyn Monroe with yoga and, but it eventually became that, but when it moved into the culture, uh,
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  And it got switched to, well, it's an exercise.
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  It's something for country clubs.
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  And it was getting sold in that way.
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  It literally, though, became, well, now the women can be dressed properly.
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  less scantily closed because it's gym workout.
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  It's yoga workout.
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  Right.
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  But of course, when you look at the clothes and you see the clothes, they say, well, it has to be tight fitting.
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  It has to be, you can't wear a lot of clothes and it was just a back way in to all of a sudden.
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  And then you still see it today where it's, um, and the clothes are tight.
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  Um, and on top of mother earth, uh, Gaia, Matt, we've talked about this on your show.
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  but you see these snake-like type clothes.
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  When you just honestly look at yoga, look at the clothes, it looks like you're a snake.
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  Like you're just, that's your skin.
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  And then you can wear less clothes.
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  You need to wear less clothes to do yoga.
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  So that was one of the ways that it bypassed a lot of the upheaval that was happening, that people were very upset with what was coming in.
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  Okay, great answer.
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  I want to talk about Acts 21 in a minute because you mentioned money.
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  But before we do that, you said there was some pushback.
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  In the early 1900s, and we know what happened leading up to and in the 1960s and 70s in America, through Hollywood, through Woodstock, through music, rock and roll and drugs and everything else.
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  But what happened to the pushback?
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  Because when you say this got into the culture in America—
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  Well, now it's into the church.
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  Some churches do these.
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  So what happened?
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  Do you have any research on that, that there was people that were against this at first for different reasons?
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  Can you tell us anything about that?
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  Yes.
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  So first it did come in as the yoga science exercise and the clothes changed.
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  And so now it was OK. And it would literally what became was and we're kind of touching on it, I believe here today, the root of yoga is goddess worship, the divine feminine rising.
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  And so what happens is the goddess is within.
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  So the body and the mind become the temple for the goddess and is activated when you practice yoga.
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  So it literally, from their worldview, became walking shrines of the goddess.
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  So when women put on, even today, you put on your yoga clothes and you go to the gym, it was intended that this is the walking goddess and shrine to be worshipped, to be adored, to be looked at.
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  And that's what happens.
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  People look at people in yoga clothes.
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  They're tight-fitting people.
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  you know, clothes that show skin and body parts and all of this.
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  So you're literally representing and enshrining the goddess for worship from the outside world.
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  So this happened.
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  And then the targets were realized if you're going to really influence culture,
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  it moved to the target for white Protestant Christian suburban women.
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  And I have a text with the pictures of this and the writing of this, and it shows the women, white Caucasian Christian women in their backyards
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  and practice the sun salutations.
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  I think it says 25 times a week in your backyard, because part of it was the influence that that would have if it was Caucasian women that were, you know, practicing yoga when they could afford it.
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  And then but then also that it would spread.
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  And so so the Christian women were targeted for the industry in which, like you mentioned,
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  The industry, the multibillion dollar industry is going to, on a spiritual level, of course, want the church and want America practicing yoga.
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  But also it's that Acts 21, you know, Ephesus, the ones that were selling the Diana statues got very upset at Paul because the Diana statues were no longer being sold.
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  Which on a side note, I also talk about what Diana has to do with the yoga goddess.
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  But this is, you know, so this is, so it's an industry.
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  There's money behind this too.
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  So this is another reason why it's so deceptive.
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  And, but it's another reason why the church should stop buying into it and pay attention to it.
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  to this deception.
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  So this was part of what was going on, that it was going to, if Protestant Christian women said it was okay, then it must be okay.
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  And then it also becomes popular.
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  So they were literally used.
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  And also it's later on in the book, I'm not sure if we actually touched on this in the notes, David, but you even see this forward where, you know,
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  you know, go political here, but that certain Democrats, I quote in the book, that have said that actually it's again, they wanna reach women to influence the vote because of yoga, that yoga is this bridging ground to bring people together and influence the vote for the left.
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  And so, and I quote those things directly from them in the book.
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  And this is, yeah, so.
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  Okay, I mentioned politics all you want on this show because people have to understand there's a worldview and an agenda behind everything that we see in the culture.
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  There's spiritual dynamic behind everything.
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  And you mentioned I read something in your book about the name Kamala.
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  Now, just go back to India.
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  And can you briefly touch on that?
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  Because, again, we're talking about this female, you know, the goddess worship, the divine feminine.
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  And so tell us a little bit about that.
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  Yeah.
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  So the, so I think I wrote that down to you.
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  They can tell you the exact, or I gave it to you.
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  I want to quote exactly where I have it in the book.
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  So comma, but comma K A M A, that's the root word for goddess.
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  And the goddess is the, the, um, always the lotus flowers.
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  This is where you see the lotus flowers, uh, in yoga, uh,
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  This is also why you see, I mentioned to you, the prayer beads.
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  Islamic prayer beads and Catholic prayer beads came from yoga philosophy.
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  Yoga had it first.
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  This is why you see the Lord of Yoga, Shiva, with the prayer beads around him.
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  Those are the beads, the lotus flower beads, the lotus seed beads that you are praying with to pray to the goddess.
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  The Sanskrit for Kama is lovemaking, and her ancient worship was in temples and sacred groves.
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  which we should know this if you're reading the Bible.
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  So she was in the groves and the trees.
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  If you read your KJB, it talks about this is the same.
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  The goddess of yoga is the same goddess of all of the ancient world.
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  It's the goddess of a thousand names.
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  They're described the same.
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  But the Kamala, Kamala, so is rooted in the goddess and the lotus flower of the heart.
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  Thank you.
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  That was very interesting to me.
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  I wrote something briefly on that when Kamala Harris was running for president and she ended up being vice president.
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  But anyway, and her background is very interesting.
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  But let's get back to some of the names.
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  The destroyer of yoga.
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  Now, you mentioned Shiva.
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  I know we talked about that a little bit before, but some of the things you're describing here, the creative force of the universe...
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  and the goddess that has many manifested God forms, and you go through some of these names.
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  Some of them are new to me, some of them I have heard, but I think the majority of our audience might not be up to speed on some of these.
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  So can you go through some of them, please?
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  Yes.
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  So with the Shiva names and two, if your audience wants to, if they go on my YouTube show at the returning Raven, there's actually a full video that says the Shiva you don't know.
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  And Shiva has many, many names, including the Lord of Thief and Robbers.
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  He was the originator of rhythm and music, the destroyer, many other, the wolf, the wolf.
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  the one who roars, we could go on, but there's many with Shiva.
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  But what people don't sometimes understand is the goddess and the divine principle of yoga, that that is truly, truly at the root.
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  So the goddess...
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  I would say even the one in charge of this.
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  But the goddess in yoga is the python, is the kundalini.
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  And she has many manifested goddesses that are consorts to Shiva.
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  And we can liken Shiva to Baal.
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  And again, liken directly in the book, if we have time today, I can inform your audience how she's directly
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  likened to Hathar of Egypt, who is the golden calf that ancient Israel worshipped.
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  But the so the goddess is sits coiled as a snake.
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  So she's in the form of the snake at the bottom of the spine.
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  And so and Shiva is at the top at the crown chakra.
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  So it's the male female.
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  So the goddess names are Kali, Durga.
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  There's many manifestations of the goddess, but the force behind that goddess, the easiest way to remember her is Shakti.
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  So the audience may have heard this within other religions that came out later, even in music, you hear Shakti.
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  Shakti is the divine feminine, the first principle creator of the universe, the female, again, python within the body.
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  So she's coiled at the bottom.
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  When you practice yoga, whether you do breathing exercise, meditation or the postures in the gym yoga, you awaken her.
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  And she sits in a place where there's a lot of heat.
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  And so when she rises up, the heat rises with her and expands through your body.
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  And as she rises, she meets with Sheba at the top of the crown.
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  And this is where they have union.
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  When they have union is what eventually helps people to understand that they are, quote, all God.
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  But...
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  what she is doing she first is going to conquer so there's a massive all of the crush the patriarchy thinking is from yoga philosophy so she's but she's not really trying to fully conquer it shiva does have to submit to her so again when you also see a lot of the femininity and men coming in
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  to the culture.
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  I believe these are influenced by yoga philosophy.
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  So Shiva submits to her.
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  She has to, though, not just conquer.
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  It's not really conquer.
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  It's it's it's a like she's going to cancel it.
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  So it cancels out because the ultimate goal is no gender.
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  gender neutral.
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  And so and she will create what is called a spiritual drunkenness, a spiritual intoxication over the whole world using sorcery,
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  yoga and that drunkenness though has a lot of different descriptions.
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  The drunkenness will include that there's a cancel culture, that morality, everything that you consider correct with morality is canceled, that all sex is okay, transgender is okay.
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  You see all of these things, right?
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  There's other evidences of her that we could talk about that's in the culture.
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  that when this is happening, but it actually means she's already influenced the culture and her and Shiva have already united within a culture and is now impacting the minds.
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  But when she raises, it's interesting, David, that when she raises and the heat raises, so you understand that the golden calf, this was the golden calf of the ancient world
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  as seen within the gods and their consorts, the goddesses.
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  But the golden calf, which you understand with Hathor and the ancient world and Baal, the calf was golden.
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  Well, here's the thing.
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  If you look and you can look at pictures of Shiva, Shiva, this got carried through, it migrated through and continued on in history.
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  Shiva has a bull next to him.
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  Well, what people might not realize is when yoga is at its high worship time, the bull, the calf, and the calf become golden.
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  They become in a gold color.
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  Well, yoga was the system that in the ancient world, they would have statues like the golden calf you worshiped externally.
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  It said they rose to drink, play, dance,
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  And together, if you look at the Hebrew, they're doing something together in sync around this golden calf.
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  Well, yoga took that exact concept and turned it internal.
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  So instead of an external golden calf, when you practice yoga, David, you actually become
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  the golden calf.
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  You are the gateway for the goddess, the container for the goddess.
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  And so it becomes, they talk about, she's helping you reach immortality.
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  You will be like God.
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  She's helping you as she moves and that heat becomes quote liquid gold.
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  So when you're practicing yoga in the spiritual world, you, and of the calf, because she is, excuse me, the
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  Shiva's calf and bull that becomes golden high worship.
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  That bull represents two things, the physical, the seated meditation and the physical postures you see at the gym.
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  So when people say, oh, it's OK, I'm just stretching.
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  You're actually doing the representative of the golden bull practices.
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  And the golden bull also represents the gateway to the goddess.
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  So when she is opened and can awake for the gateway, she rises up and the heat becomes liquid gold in your body.
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  So you literally, so when women are practicing this or men, but usually you see it's women getting attacked with this and they are practicing and choosing to practice yoga, they are literally making themselves in to the golden calf of the ancient world.
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  And so this is another reason why,
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  It's very dangerous, these practices of yoga and what it actually means and what they've actually deceived you into doing.
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  So my heart is that women will ditch their mats, repent and get the pagan worship out of their life.
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  Yeah.
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  Amen.
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  Oh, my goodness.
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  There's so much here.
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  I'm looking at some of this terminology, too, that, you know, we didn't understand came from yoga philosophy and the spirituality behind it.
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  I don't think we had any clue because it was marketed very deceptively, but very well as just exercise.
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  And as you've been explaining...
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  There's a deeper and darker agenda behind this.
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  What about, I want to ask you about this, Mother Nature.
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  You hear that a lot, divine, cosmic, Mother Nature.
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  This came from Gaia.
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  Can you briefly explain that?
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  Yeah, so Gaia would come out of, you would see this coming out of the Roman Greek world.
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  Later, Mother Nature, we would hear it first in Latin.
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  And so we think it's more of this newer terminology, but actually before then,
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  because the Greeks were heavily influenced by yoga philosophy.
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  The yoga goddess, we talked about her names, right?
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  So we mentioned about your audience can go look at Shiva's names.
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  Maybe later I'll do one for the goddess.
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  But she is the divine harlot.
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  She is Mother Nature.
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  So Mother Nature, this idea first came from yoga.
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  Most things you can actually look at it and trace that it came from yoga first.
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  So Mother Nature came from from yoga.
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  She is the she is Mother Nature.
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  She's the divine harlot.
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  She is the woman on many waters.
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  She is, if you read Isaiah, when it's describing Ishar, any descriptions of Ishar, the daughter of Babylon, is also in the sacred text of yoga philosophy, is the same goddess.
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  She has none beside me.
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  She says she is not a widow.
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  If you read Isaiah, you read Revelation.
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  These are specific descriptions of the yoga goddess.
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  Even in pagan studies, it's understood the goddess of a thousand names, Ishtar.
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  The goddess of Samaria, Hathor, Diana, Venus, Aphrodite, they're all described the same.
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  You have you have lotus flowers you have, including if you study the Queen of Heaven and Jeremiah, it says they were making cakes to her.
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  Guess what you do for the yoga goddess?
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  One of her offerings is baking cakes for her.
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  So cakes, divine harlot drinks, the blood of the innocent, once human sacrifice, including women, actually, preferably women and children sacrifice.
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  So, yes, those are just those are just some of the names.
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  She's also she produces in people to start roaring like lions.
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  So she is quoted as, quote, she prowls like a roaring lion.
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  There's multiple things that should biblically and that spiritual drunkenness, intoxication through the practices.
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  But again, it also impacts worldview.
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  It impacts culture and all these things like you see of cancel culture.
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  Yeah, Satan prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour.
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  I want to go back to a couple things.
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  We only have two minutes left.
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  Oh, it's valor.
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  How does this connect to the church?
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  You talk about breathing exercises, visualization, meditation.
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  What does that sound like?
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  That sounds like word faith, prosperity gospel.
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  And what about...
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  The Pentecostal or charismatic movements, some of them act like they have seizures and they think they're under the Holy Spirit's influence, but I'm not sure it's the Holy Spirit.
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  Can you briefly touch on that, Elena?
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  Yes, so briefly, so also you talk about roaring lion devout and devours.
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  That's the other thing, the goddess of yoga, she actually devours you, says she consumes your sins for your salvation for you by eating you.
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  So she literally also, she is the lion that devours you.
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  And also, yes, we don't have time to go into it here, but one of the forms of yoga in the prosperity gospel, word of faith,
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  is absolutely they are specific forms of yoga.
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  Evidence of yoga or sorcery practice is drunkenness, spirit and spirit slaying.
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  And yes, the goddess of yoga does all of those things.
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  She does the slaying, she does the drunkenness, the ecstatic behaviors, the suddenly talking in tongues, roaring like lions, fits and convulsions.
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  She is the moon goddess.
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  And that's where you read in Matthew when it talks
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  There's sometimes there where people are having seizures in the Bible.
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  And if you look at the Greek, it's actually like epilepsy.
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  There's other places where it's actually a spiritual and it's connected to the word Luna for lunatics.
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  They're acting like lunatics.
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  It's a demon possession because they were worshiping the goddess Diana.
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  Well, the goddess Diana is specifically also the goddess of yoga.
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  They are exactly the same.
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  She is the god.
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  That's why she also has the crescent moon.
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  And we could talk about this is how she also influenced Islam and how even historically Islam has partnered with yogi and actually still has yogis today in some sects.
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  So people think that this is a separate thing and is no, it's all coming together and will come together at the end.
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  Wow, I didn't think we'd be doing a series on this, on Worldview Matters, but this is so important because of the depth and the influence and the background and the history of this.
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  Alana, thank you so much.
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  I want to send people to your YouTube channel as well, The Returning Raven, and, of course, your website, TheReturningRaven.com.
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  To be continued, sister, thanks for your time today.
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  Thank you, David.
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  God bless you.
• 27:17
  Friends, watch this one again and share it, please.
• 27:20
  God bless you.
• 27:20
  And as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.
• 27:24
  We'll see you next time.