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Newton, Alchemy & Your Body · Why Didn't I Know?

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to the Why Didn't I Know podcast?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jenny Martin.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this episode, we're talking about Newton alchemy and your body.
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  SPEAKER_00: First of all, when I'm talking about ancient alchemy, I want to talk about one person in particular in this episode, and that is Sir Isaac Newton.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he was the famous scientist, and everything that we have today in terms of what science is can be traced back to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Age of Enlightenment, when people started actually looking at things more logically and not just relying on superstition, that can be traced back to his influence.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, it's not exactly what he intended.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, many people have said who've really studied this guy that he would be mortified to see how the world just turned out.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did not believe in elevating machines and technology above humans.
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  SPEAKER_00: He saw the divine in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you study Isaac Newton, what you discover is that he was not someone who saw everything in a compartmentalized way, that this is just a mechanistic universe, that we're just physical beings.
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  SPEAKER_00: He saw things very differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, granted, at the time of his death, this wasn't known.
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  SPEAKER_00: He couldn't publish his papers on alchemy, which he's very famous for now.
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  SPEAKER_00: He couldn't publish his papers on that because he could have been killed, actually, by the Church of Rome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Galileo was in prison for suggesting lesser things, and he was basically all of his books were burned and so forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Newton was wiser and knew that he couldn't publish what he thought about alchemy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wrote a lot about church history as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: We only found out about this side of Newton and science when his documents, millions, like over 10 million words actually, of unpublished manuscripts were auctioned off at Sotheby's in 1936.
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  SPEAKER_00: His estate wanted to put them up for auction, and they did.
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  SPEAKER_00: The vast majority of them are in private ownership, but the 20%, which is still a considerable number of pages, because we're talking about 10 million in total, so 20% of that is quite a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that has been put online so we can actually search his text.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what we find out is that this man was not this mechanistic guy that he gets labeled as being.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the Age of Enlightenment happened, when the scientific age happened after Newton passed away, people interpreted, put their own spin on what Newton was really standing for.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did not believe that there was this clockwork universe, that there was no divine activity in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he was a Christian, he was religious, but he wasn't trying to follow the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, he was incredibly critical of the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: He felt like the church hampered progress.
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  SPEAKER_00: He felt like the church was totally corrupt.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he, that's why he didn't publish his papers, but he believed that nothing would happen in this universe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing would happen in our bodies if there wasn't some kind of divine force making it all happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yes, there's biochemistry in our bodies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we're made up of all of those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're physical beings, but at a deeper level, there's something coordinating all of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he believed that all of the different forces in physics, the electromagnetic force, the nuclear force, and so forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: None of that would happen on its own if there wasn't some divine force harmonizing it, bringing it all together, and actually engaging this.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did not believe that atoms just interacted of their own volition, that there was an interaction with a higher force.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about accessing the quantum dimension through the science of torsion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Newton didn't say that word, but he did believe in a vital force, and he believed it was attributed to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Newton completely came up with things out of the box that weren't part of the general understanding at the time when he lived.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I mean by that is when he came up with his work on optics, for instance, and he's the person that came up with the idea that white light is composed of various colors.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see those colors in a rainbow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those colors actually translate to the different colors of the chakras in esoteric wisdom in the body.
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  SPEAKER_00: So white light is these different colors, and each of those colors, red, violet, and so forth, are a different wavelength.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's relates to their color.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're a different length of uh wavelength.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when he came up with that, and he also came up with the law of gravity and calculus and so forth, he was on a break from university.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he was a student at Cambridge University, and a pandemic happened, much like our pandemic, and people were sent home.
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  SPEAKER_00: They couldn't continue to study at school.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, he's not using Zoom back then in the 17th century.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he wanted to study, he was very eager to study.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he studied on his own.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the time he was on his own studying, that's when it has been documented that they were his most productive years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because he wasn't being a part of the indoctrination system that universities pretty much are, that this is what we know and this is what's possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was thinking completely out of the box.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is when he found alchemy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's reading these ancient texts.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's been more written on alchemy than many other subjects.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's ancient texts on this topic, and he was decoding them because it's not straightforward.
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  SPEAKER_00: These texts were written in coded language, symbolic language, because alchemy was outlawed by the church, by authorities, and it made you basically be able to do things that interacted with the supernatural world.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they didn't want this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But alchemy dates back to the time of Atlantis, and this is when our world was far more technologically advanced than even it is today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when Newton was studying these books on alchemy, that's when he came up with his inventions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he never claimed that even though the different inventions, gravity and optics and so forth, are attributed to him in our history books.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you really dig into Newton himself and what he talked about in his unpublished manuscripts that became available in the late 1930s when they went up for auction, you realize he attributed his discoveries to the people that came before us, to these people that were alchemists.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was a science, and this was also a religious philosophy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So alchemy has also morphed into more uh dark occult stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's definitely a lot of that out there today, which is he spoke out against, which is not helpful, and he actually believed that it is the corruption of alchemy that will bring down society, and he wrote about end times as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you have something that's very powerful, that uses human consciousness and that deals with realms that are not just physical, supernatural realms, there's the potential that this stuff can get into the wrong hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's books that have been written that show that Adolf Hitler was very much into researching this power of alchemy so he could do maximum destruction on the planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when alchemy is separated from a belief in a higher power, a belief in a benevolent higher power, God or whatever you want to call God, then it can become very destructive.
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  SPEAKER_00: When it's just about, as Alastair Crowley said, whatever I want, then it can be screw you, I want this, and I don't care if whatever the end justifies the means, basically.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's not where Newton was coming from.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was coming from how can we bring the highest and the best good to all concerned?
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he pursued that throughout his entire life, writing these millions of words that I guess he knew intuitively that they weren't for his own time in the 17th century, the 18th century.
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  SPEAKER_00: He knew that at some point these documents would be discovered and they would help enlighten future people before we self-destructed our world, which he saw could happen if we don't reclaim this ancient knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, all of that to say that there is a part of us that is linked to these higher realms.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the things that Newton is unfortunately in our college textbooks, he is, if you look up the idea of Newtonianism, you will see this clockwork universe, it's very mechanistic, we're material physical beings, and that's basically what the universe is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our brain, our consciousness is in our brain.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's many, many implications of that very limited view.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of them is if you ever do psychedelics, and you know that you know that you know that you have reached another realm, like another dimension, according to this view of science that Newton is falsely labeled with Newtonianism, you will be told, and by the way, we're another word for it is materialism, scientific materialism, not anything to do with economics, but scientific materialism.
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  SPEAKER_00: This whole idea that the only thing that is real is what you can tangibly touch, what you can measure, what is physically around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That means that all of the interior experience of your consciousness, smelling a flower, falling in love, all of the different sensory experiences, the experience that you have on a psychedelic, where you're entering another dimension, the experience that you can have during orgasm, of feeling connected to the all, according to the scientific materialism, that is an illusion.
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  SPEAKER_00: You never accessed another dimension, all of your interior experiences, the stuff that actually gives life meaning, if you didn't have those experiences of sensory connection with other people, with the world, smelling a flower, touching a tree, feeling the hug of another person, all of those things, of course, the joy and ecstasy of sexual intimacy, what would life be like?
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  SPEAKER_00: You would be like a robot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Life would not have much meaning and joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what the materialistic view is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's actually promoted if you check with ChatGPT or any of those AI models and you ask, is consciousness in the brain?
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  SPEAKER_00: It'll say it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we're not just physical.
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  SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately, if you go to, I don't know, a doctor, psychologist, even a lot of people that are psychedelic coaches today, and you say you had this unitive experience of feeling awe and reverence and feeling a sense of unconditional love, they will affirm it as being, you know, valid, but that it was your brain constructing this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not that you actually tapped into anything real that's out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is so destructive to our psyche because we exist in this world needing at a deep level to know that we are connected to something that's greater than us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to know that our existence is not just a random accident.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you really understand this scientific materialism and what it actually, the implications of it, what it means is that we're all random accidents, we're all random accidents.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no divine force that is behind creation, and it's just an accident that we're even here on the planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: So your life has no meaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you die, that's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no ongoing existence.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you have ever listened to some of the very moving, you know, some of the very moving stories of people that have pronounced clinically dead and have been resuscitated and they've had a near-death experience, that will convince you that there is more to this existence than just physical life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what Newton knew, and that's what Newton knew real science was about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Science wasn't about trying to disprove God or it wasn't in opposition to any belief in the divinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, we're not talking about religion because Newton, yeah, he identified as Christian, but he absolutely disagreed with the idea of idealizing uh Jesus or anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alchemy is not about putting any spiritual person on a pedestal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alchemy is about the idea that you have this divinity within you, but you are not God with a capital G.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a higher force that is more intelligent than us, that is beyond us to even beyond our ability to even conceive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it's everywhere present, the idea of pantheism, but it's not unknowable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I mean by that is, of course, we're never going to understand or know God in the complete sense of that word.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you look at alchemy, and right now I'm talking about not Newton per se, because again, 80% of his works on alchemy are in private hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we don't have all of his understanding available to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what we do have is the first historical alchemist, which is a woman named Mary.
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  SPEAKER_00: She lived in the first century, and from her, there is the sense that alchemy had to do with sex, alchemy had to do with communing with the divine, not just in each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Christian alchemy, I'm talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't just, I see the goddess in you, you see the God in me, or vice versa.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was yes, the divinity is in within each of us, but we are connecting through the sex act, through an intentional conscious sex act, not just a random hookup where it's unconscious, but through the intentional sacred sex act, you are connecting into divinity that is beyond ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's the higher power.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this way, alchemy is about, yes, the pantheistic divinity, but also the very intimate divinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's hard for our left brain, for an analytical mind to wrap itself around.
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  SPEAKER_00: How could God be everywhere present and then know me intimately?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's really the difference that makes the difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because in a lot of different new age ideas, there's this idea that God is everywhere present.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, how can you ever feel known and understood and rely on or reach out to a God that is just everywhere present?
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't feel very relationship-oriented.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you might think, okay, that's not very empowering thought.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shouldn't you just rely on the divinity within you?
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  SPEAKER_00: But to that I say, let's be realistic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every single one of us have had times where we didn't feel very divine, where we didn't feel very empowered, and it was too much for us to muster up the idea that we're this divine being.
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  SPEAKER_00: We could say it in theory, but not in actual practicality.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there is really a place for being able to say, look, I feel like crap.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I'm about to lose it, and calling on something higher than ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not that we have to be religious, not that we have not that it's about something controlling us externally.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, this is the whole idea that there is unconditional love.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what the divine is, and that's why it wants to meet us in this sacred sex act.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what alchemy, according to Mary, the first historical alchemist, was all about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is a different view of alchemy and science.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what it tells us is that there is a part of us that is attuned to a deeper level of reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: No matter what's going on in the world today, and no matter how we're told to trust this or trust that, what we really need to do is tune into this deeper level of reality and know that there is order beneath the chaos.
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  SPEAKER_00: The world is not spinning out of control, and there isn't a lack of divinity in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's there, but we just have to attune ourselves to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the whole teaching of alchemy, which actually makes up original Christianity, I'm not talking about Gnosticism.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've ever studied Gnosticism, the worldview of in Gnosticism is that there was a dark God that created this world, and this world has fallen because there's a dark God that created us.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the one I'm talking about here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I and I'm also, of course, not talking about traditional conservative Christianity that is we're sinners and these lowly creatures, and God is separate than us.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm talking about alchemical Christianity where we are actually the co-creators with God, and we need to learn to use our powers and steward them wisely, and to be able to know that we are the divine authority here on this planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can make this planet heaven on earth, and that sounds really pie in the sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this isn't a dark world.
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  SPEAKER_00: It only appears that, and yes, there's lots of reasons to believe that, because human will has created that kind of suffering and chaos.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that is not the will of the divine, and the shift that can happen in this world, the up-leveling, the getting to a new level of consciousness on this planet, not for us individually, because that does no good.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not about, hey, I want to get to a better place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's fine and great, but the entire planet is about to change.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we are here for.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love the early teachings of alchemy in Christianity because it provides a pathway for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not about suffering, it's not about you have to pay a price to advance.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a distortion.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a distortion of alchemy, and it's a distortion of Christianity.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'll leave that with you for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for joining me, and I look forward to talking with you on the next episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take good care.