Basecamp for Men E85: Cultivating Curiosity

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E85: Cultivating Curiosity with Special Guest Jim Willis

 

E85 Introduction

We seem to be collectively suffering from cultural amnesia. We tend to get boxed in by one perspective on so many important topics: our origins and true history, a monolithic interpretation of the bible.

The whole pattern comes into view but you need other sources than the ones you get spoon fed in public education and the corrupt MSM. Each of us is responsible for our own emergence. What is out on the frontiers of our own spiritual knowing? How far back does our history REALLY go? Has there been clues left for us to discover and untangle the mysteries of our past?

We seem to be at a point in our collective Hero’s Journey where we are reclaiming some things that have been lost. We are gathering the pieces of ourselves, supporting one another, and readying ourselves for the upcoming chapters.

Each awakening, each bit of wisdom uncovered, each mythic motif that begins to resonate inside us helps bring us closer to our Divine destiny. We are supported and uplifted in ways we are only now beginning to understand.

Jim Willis Bio

Jim Willis was a Christian minister for forty years. The author of thirteen books on religion and spirituality, he has served as an adjunct college professor in the fields of world religions and instrumental music. Upon retirement he was determined to confront the essential spirituality that has inspired humankind since the very beginnings of time. Here is my interview with Jim Willis

E85 Final Thoughts

I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. I took an instant liking to Jim as you could probably tell. He has an easygoing way about him that is really endearing. Not to mention he brings so much wisdom to the coversation. He and I have both found useful patterns in mythic stories and esoteric studies.

And I like what Jim said about how we‘re learning to read things mythically and metaphorically. Even poetically. This jives with my approach, as you all know.

As an example of furthering my understanding, I am very likely to go dig into the Book of Enoch to see what I can find. And maybe a deep dive into the Nag Hammadi scriptures to better understand Christ and Mary Magdalene. I honestly find these investigations natural and fulfilling. This is my own way of putting the pieces back together.

To order any of Jim’s excellent books, go to www.jimwillis.net

 

Basecamp for Men E84: Health as Your Foundation

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E84: Health as Your Foundation with Special Guest

Janell Hartman

 

E84 Introduction

I hope you are all well. I wanted to start off by saying that I loved what Howard Ferguson said at the end of our last episode. He pointed to something that I love to return to and restate over and over. There is no division in WE THE PEOPLE. We are all in this learning together despite our differences of opinion about Covid, about Donald Trump, about whether or not we are getting vaccinated.

A couple of tidbits I found interesting on this front. That Merck, one of the major global pharmaceutical companies pulled their Covid 19 vaccine. They issued a statement saying that, after all their research, it turns out that the human immune system is the best defense against Covid-19. We already knew this.

There is a big controversy in Europe as multiple countries pull the Asta Zeneca Covid 19 vaccine. All sorts of issues with that including deaths and side effects we may not know for quite some time.

And here in the news, dozens of Washingtonians are coming down with Covid 19 even though they have been fully vaccinated. Just food for thought.

And after all the controversy as to whether or not this is a new type of “vaccine” (it is) and whether or not it alters your DNA (it does), the CEO of Moderna comes out and says it absolutely DOES alter your DNA. What do you think of that?

And according to the US Dept of Health and Human Services, Florida’s number of hospitalizations of patients with Covid continues to stagnate and in some age groups it is dropping. This despite opening up the businesses and the economy and throwing away or burning their masks in civic dispays of freedom and sovereignty.  I like your spunk and your spirit Floridians. Keep leading us along!

Lastly, I was at a friends house for dinner the other night and a young man in his late-teens was asking me about vaccines and what my thoughts and feelings were about them. He said he was having issues with his family. That he is expected to get the vaccine because they are. I asked him how he felt about getting it. He confided that he doesn’t want it and doesn‘t feel like he needs to get it.

 

I simply told him that every young person comes to a fork in the road where what they feel is right for him or her conflicts with what everybody else wants for them. I told him that I am not saying to openly defy your family but that honoring yourself and your own inner knowing and wisdom is a resource that you will come to trust and rely on as he gets older. What better time than now to exercise it?

And to be clear, I am fine with whomever is getting a vaccine. I respect your sovereignty and your freedom to choose what is best for you.  My request is that you simply extend that basic respect to those that are choosing a different road than you.

Today we will talk about foundational health and give you  some tips and suggestions on on how to create that. Good health is phase one for the Hero’s Journey. It is extra difficult to  have energy for the challenges we face if you are not feeling your best. Let’s go talk to Janell.

Janell Hartman Bio

Janell Hartman has always been drawn to art, music and mysticism as the means to navigate and integrate her journey. She currently lives and serves in Seattle as a colon hydrotherapist and education director at a naturopathic health clinic called Tummy Temple.

She spent a decade in social services working with homeless women where she turned to yoga for sanity and self-care. This led Janell to a long career of teaching yoga, which includes many years of offering classes to incarcerated men via the organization Yoga Behind Bars.

E84 Final Thoughts

I hope you enjoyed our time with Janell Hartman. I have tinkered with supplements my whole life and thought I would share with you my short list of essential supplements. You may just find something for your health that helps your vitality and well-being.

I am a big believer in getting things in my body that are anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer. And I like things that help my PH stay alkaline. Disease thrives in a acidic PH and since I have a sweet tooth and love my coffee, it‘s important for me that I balance out these acidic substances with more alkaline supplements.

In an earlier conversation, Janell mentioned how much she loves Vitamin D as a supplement and I completely agree. Especially in the winter months in the northern states, this helps offset the lack of sun.

I also really like Vitamin C year round. It is a powerhouse of a vitamin. Helps to fend off viruses and illness and has anti-cancer properties.  I don‘t really like multi-vitamins and after speaking with countless naturapathic doctors, nutritionists, and health experts, I don’t think they are worth the money.

Tumeric is unbelievable! I can’t tell you how much better I feel since starting it. It is revered in India for it‘s anti-inflammatory and almost miraculous properties.

I love Spirulina tablets as an alkalizing agent.  Naturapaths sometimes refer to it a blood cleaner, so you know it’s good.

I take a full-spectrum CBD oil. I was experiencing some strange mouth and tongue pain. Maybe from some botched dental work, who knows. I was battling it for over a year. A week after I started to take CBD oil, it vanished and has never returned. Yeah, I‘m sticking with full-spectrum CBD.

My final recommendation might sound odd but I started to take Apple Cider Vineger. A an ounce or two in a glass of water. I do it about every other day. This has seemed to have a drastic uptick in my vitality and health. It is also a alkalizing substance.

Basecamp for Men E83: Fireside Chat with Howard Ferguson

E83: Fireside Chat with Howard Ferguson

 

E83 Introduction-

As a show that is assisting in the awakening of humanity and attempting to do our part using myth, Gnosis or spiritual knowing, and an unflinching stand for what is true I see roughly three groups right now. There is the group that is having one epiphany after another, this is the group that are the meditators, truthers, , the seers and the Gnostics.  This group is excited. For these are the early adopters in this huge shift in consciousness. They are seeing more and more of the pattern.

There is a middle group where things have begun to stir. They are sensing that things may not be what they thought and perhaps the MSM is not telling them the truth about what is happening.

Maybe they took one or two of the red pills and things are shifting.  Or some of what we are talking about mythically is starting to resonate with them. Things are expanding for this group but cognitive dissonance may still be the order of the day as they try to discern the pattern that is emerging. This group is neither early adopters nor the laggards. This group is starting to right-size the ego and so not be as entrenched in their old ways of seeing and categorizing reality. They are starting to sense that we are at a tipping point and that THEY might have something to do with the outcome.

The final group does not appear to be stirring nor awakening and that is fine as well. They are perhaps too entrenched or invested in the old reality. They seem to believe that anyone  that does not think and talk as they do are crazy.

For this group there does not seem to be enough inner resources to either right-size the ego nor prepare themselves for the massive amount of information that will need to be downloaded and integrated into our tribe in the coming weeks and months.

I know a lot of people in each of these three groups: friends and former friends, collegues, family members, people I know in the community. I am fine with whatever group you find yourself in although my sense of the third group is that nobody is going to put themselves in that final group. The ego won’t allow it. Such is the way of things. My focus is on helping those that are showing the unmistakable spark to find some footing and participate in a growing tribe during these strange shifting sands we find ourselves on.

What follows is another red-pill episode.  Part of a series of episodes we have done and will do sprinkled throughout season three. Think of it as two friends sitting around the fire talking about the pattern they are seeing right now.

And make no mistake, these red-pill episodes are for the middle group, the one that is starting to make sense of things. If we can help fill in the picture a bit more clearly or you take something you heard and investigate it for yourself, then Howard and I will have succeeded.

Whether you confirm our findings as true or not is not really the point. Not ultimately anyways.  Your honest inquiry and ability to throw aside the mainstream media’s disinformation campaign and propaganda and discern for yourself is what will further your awakening. I wish you Godspeed listeners. We are, as they say, at the precipice.

Howard Ferguson Bio-

My guest today is a friend, entrepreneur, restaurateur, and fellow seeker of Truth. Howard Ferguson is a man known as straight shooter, a truth teller, and someone who is able to integrate new information and form it into a collective vision of what is happening and where we might be going.

Here is my interview with Howard Ferguson.

E83 Final Thoughts-

I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Howard Ferguson.  One resource that both Howard and I love is the writing of Martin Geddes. Martin is really good at giving you a birds-eye view on much of this stuff. I highly recommend you check out his latest book Open Your Mind to Change: The Guidebook to The Great Awakening.

The website is at www.openmindschange.com. I promise you that you will pull a bunch of things out of there that you weren’t aware of. I also promise you that you will feel more optimistic and more empowered about what is unfolding than you did before you picked up the book.

Basecamp E82: The Myth of the Grail with Tony Rezac

E82: The Myth of the Grail with Tony Rezac

 

E82 Introduction-

Why does the myth of the Grail still enchant us? What is it about it? Its instruction, its hidden meanings, its mystery? As you begin to engage with this myth, something starts to stir in you. If myths carry information and transformative images over time and generations, then this one packs a punch.  You can tell as soon as you start to step into it.

I found this episode to be a daunting task. This myth is mighty and commands my respect. I sense all the powerful beings that are connected to this story. My best option, and the one I took, is to approach it like Parzival, the innocent fool who becomes the hero of the story. Step into the myth in an unsophisticated way and allow it to shape this communication with you.

We must remember that a myth is a living entity and exists within every person. You will get the true, living form of the myth if you can see it as it spins away inside yourself. When working with a myth, it is good to keep in mind that the characters are representatives of all the various levels of consciousness or parts of ourselves as we seek to put ourselves back together. The boundaries between literal and psychological, inner and outer, symbolic and actual, part and whole, microcosm and macrocosm- become very fluid and porous…..

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Tony

Basecamp for Men E81: The Quest for the Soul

E81: The Quest for the Soul with Special Guest

Dr. Anne Baring

 

E81 Introduction-

So many of our wisdom traditions and myths speak of the recovery of the Soul. In the central myth of the Gnostics, The Goddess Sophia has fallen. The Feminine Soul has descended.  Out of the Pleroma or Heavenly Abode all the way to the material dimension that we find ourselves in. Sophia: confused, lost, bewildered, and homesick, the Feminine Soul begins its slow, steady journey back to its Heavenly Abode.

Myths and fairy tales often contain the clues and maps of the Soul’s Journey. It’s descent and eventual ascension. Myths awaken and nourish the Divine imagination. They nourish the Soul.

To use my guests’ words, when we are not in touch with the Soul, it is as if a vital part of us is asleep. It cannot communicate with us, nor we with it. Civilizations such as ours may die because we have forgotten how to nourish the soul and imagination. We have forgotten how to honor and love nature and the Divine Feminine.

All of our most vibrant myths seem to be pointing in this direction. To the marriage of the Divine Masculine Spirit  with the Divine Feminine Soul. We are, as a tribe, being asked to reclaim what has been dormant but not forgotten.

We will not restore the Wasteland we find ourselves in without this awakening. Technology will not rescue us. Not with its dry, digital landscape. It’s algorithms. Technology represents a kingdom without the Goddess, without nature and the Divine Feminine.

In mythic terms, the most beautiful maiden of the forest is in a deep sleep and awaits for the right Prince, for the right moment in the story. It seems we have arrived at this part of the story. We are there.

The destiny of the entire kingdom is dependent on this outcome. Can the Prince, the symbol of Solar Consciousness, turn inward and find the Lunar Soul, his inner Divine Feminine?

Each one of us holds part of this Soul. The myth of the Holy Grail includes all of us. Each one of us IS the Sleeping Beauty AND the Prince that restores her and the kingdom.

It is important to remember that the Soul does not communicate primarily through words. It does through myth and poetry but the Soul seems to prefer feelings, intuitions, emotions, and dreams. It is in this inner direction that holds the key to the Grail and has the potential to awaken the sleeping Princess.

My guest today has written an incredible book. One that ought to sit high up in anyone’s library.

Anne Baring Bio-

Doctor Anne Baring is a Jungian Analyst and the author of 7 booksincluding her most recent book The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soulwhich was awarded the Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize for 2013. The ground of all her work is a deep interest in the spiritual, mythological, shamanic and artistic traditions of different cultures. Her website www.annebaring.com is devoted to the affirmation of a new vision of reality and the issues facing us at this crucial time of choice. Here is my interview with Anne Baring.

E81 Final Thoughts-

I hope you enjoyed my discussion with Anne Baring as much as I did. I felt like I could talk to her all night and not run out of things to ask her.

If you have not read the fairy tale The Sleeping Beauty or you have kids and you want to introduce them to a powerful tale of the lost feminine principle and the Soul’s Journey, go pick up a copy.

Fairy tales carry an amazing transformative power in them. I was speaking with a friend the other day and I was saying that sometimes I think you could take out all the literature of the world and leave only the fairy tales and the Soul would still be able to figure out where it is and where it is going.

Anne’s book The Dream of the Cosmos is as good as everyone says it is.  It is full of myth, magic, the Soul’s Journey,  and how we go about restoring the Goddess and the feminine principle to its rightful place.

To buy The Dream of the Cosmos or other books by Anne, go to Amazon. And to listen to Anne’s excellent talks and find her video archive, go to www.annebaring.com