Sin and Repentance: Beyond Religious Shame

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Hello and welcome to Practically Magic. It's
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me, just me, just little old me. I am back, Courtney
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Pearl. We had some guest scheduling conflicts
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over the last couple of weeks. And so we might
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have skipped a week there in the middle, but
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we're back. And I am here to discuss some interesting
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things with you today. We are going to talk a
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little bit about sin and repentance when it comes
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to the difference between maybe a more traditional
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religious background and, you know, moving into
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more of the less structure spirituality and more
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into open -minded spirituality and paganism.
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I can't wait to talk to you a little bit about
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my journey with sin and repentance. A lot of
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people have a history, especially if you were
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raised in sort of a religious background. So
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I'm eager to get into it. But before we do that,
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we have, of course, our card pull for today's
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episode. And today's card pull is brought to
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you by the Mind's Eye Tarot. It's a little dark.
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It's a little mystical, a little whimsical, very
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artistic, a little bit of color, but very subtle
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with the color and a beautiful gold foil sheen
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to the edge of it. So that's our guest today
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is this Mind's Eye Tarot. All right, let's pull
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a card for you for this episode today, for your
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week, for your day. We're going to trust that
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whatever. Whenever you're listening to this episode,
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that this is the card that was meant for you,
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that it was pulled with a message for you today.
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Let's get a good shuffle in. As you know, I pull
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the card live on the air. We're not live, but
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the card pull is live. It's in the works. Sometimes
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the shuffling is just... It's intuitively led
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by the reader, so you can shuffle as many times
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as you need to, and then you just feel it. For
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those who are watching on video, I did my makeup
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a little movie star today. I was inspired by
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just a little bit more of the old Hollywood look
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today. Ah, I'm going to show the card that I've
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pulled on the screen. So for those of you who
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are following on YouTube, you can see it. I'm
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not sure you can see it very well. Kind of, oh,
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let me turn on my light. Maybe we'll see better.
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We have some light on. That's a little better,
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huh? King of Pentacles is the card that I have
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pulled for today. And how are we feeling about
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money? Because I feel like there's been a lot
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of central focus around the economy right now.
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money and how people are feeling about that.
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I know that it's kind of a struggle to feel like
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in this world we've created and in the way that
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late stage capitalism has kind of brought us
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to this place we're in now, it feels like, first
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of all, we know the middle class is kind of disappearing.
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But it feels like we're coming to an age where
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we are less inclined to look for the hero that's
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going to come and save us. Someone that's going
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to come in and change policies or do what needs
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to be done for the greater good. And that so
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much is out of our control that perhaps we've
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been kind of waiting around for that. that knight
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in shining armor, I guess, to pick up the pieces
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and help us out. You know, women especially were
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raised in a world where we were torn between
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go get an education, go find a career, be independent,
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make sure that you don't rely on anyone else,
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that you can support yourself, that you can earn
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a living and find the career that's your path
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and passion. And then torn between that and kind
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of old world views where it's like someone needs
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to be raising the kids and someone needs to be
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taking care of the home and your husband is going
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to make enough money potentially. Or that was
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sort of the promise was, you know, get yourself
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a husband that makes enough money and provider
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of the family so that you can. so that you can
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take care of your home and kids. And to be quite
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honest, whether I was raised more liberally or
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conservatively, I liked the idea of being a kept
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wife or taken care of so that I could pursue
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passions I wanted to do. I would actually get
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to spend the time with my kids, raising them,
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taking care of them as babies. I didn't like
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the idea of daycare. And a lot of sacrifices
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had to happen for us to live like that. When
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children did come along, where we could have
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been a dual income family, we had to We had to
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make it work. But the king of pentacles to me,
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it doesn't always have to do with money. This
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is just the interpretation of my intuition is
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going today, which is how much are you waiting
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for that promotion or the government to get its
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head out of its special places and figure out
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how to take care of its people better? How much
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are you waiting for something to step in to fix
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the problem that you have rather than make changes
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or be proactive about how to pursue that security,
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maybe financial abundance and wealth in ways
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that you can do it? There are a lot of things
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that are out of our control right now. I'm not
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going to pretend like I have the answers in that
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department. This is just a card to welcome the
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idea of like, what are our beliefs around money?
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What are our beliefs around how we believe that
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we can take care of ourselves with abundance
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and money? The King of Pentacles often... when
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I read it is associated with an actual person.
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So thinking about like, who is that guy in my
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life? Who is that guy who is the money guy? Maybe
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it's the boss. Maybe it's the husband. Maybe
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it's the person who seems to be the person that
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you go to for financial stability. Guys, I do
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have another guest today on the podcast. I know
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it's just me here that you can see and listen
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to, but I have Titian, my black cat, for those
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who can see on the screen. She's my special guest
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today. She will not leave my lap. She has been
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extremely, we call her the aggressive cuddler
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because when she cuddles, she jams her whole
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face into your... elbow or armpit or wherever
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she can. She's already trying to do it right
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now. She's like, how can I get my whole face
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in your skin? I want to wear your skin. That's
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how she is. Okay. So Titian is our guest today.
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Let's get to our topic. We are going to discuss.
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We are here. She's had enough. She's on her way
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out. She's like, bye. She might be back. We'll
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see. Our discussion today on sin and repentance,
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because when I first started my spiritual journey
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of looking at what other theologies, what other
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sort of ways to look at life are out there, I
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started looking into the Gnostic Christian ideas.
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Some of them call it the Apocrypha or the Gnostic
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Gospels. that were excluded from the King James
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Version we most of us know about of the Bible,
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the Old Testament, the New Testament. And so
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the ideas and some of the ideas around what Jesus
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may have taught in that what sin and repentance
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really mean or how to connect ourselves with
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that. When I started studying the Gnostic Gospels,
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it really opened up a whole other idea for me.
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And for those of you who don't already know,
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have listened to the podcast previous episodes,
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I was raised in more of an LDS Mormonism tradition.
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My parents being very nuanced, but still that's
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the tradition they came from. So that's what
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they raised us in. That's where we went to church.
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So we didn't just have the... Bible and the Book
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of Mormon to contend with, we had the Pearl of
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Great Price, the Doctrine and Covenants, and
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the good old Book of Mormon too. And those ideas
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of morality, spirituality, connection to God,
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or what does God want of us? And who is God?
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Because I... I get really fascinated in learning
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about how the reflection of God and who is God
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has a lot to do with the evolution of humans
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as a society. So like early times when humans
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were sort of focused on the basic bare necessities
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of survival, of getting along as communities,
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the God that they wrote about in the Old Testament
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was a very wrathful kind of God, right? It's
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interesting just to think about, and there are
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many books written on the subject, but interesting
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to think about how God's personality, if you
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were to call it that, changes quite a bit over
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time. And from the Old Testament where he's turning
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people into pillars of salt and he's very much
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a jealous God and he's got a lot of rules. He's
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causing floods and people are being eaten by
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whales. And I mean, you can go on and on and
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on. But that's the kind of image of this authority
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figure that is supposedly God. Whereas in the
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New Testament, it's a gentler God. It is we're
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being taught about do unto others as you would
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have done unto you. It feels a little bit more
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like the emperor vibe in the cards in the tarot,
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which is a fatherly figure that is, I'm going
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to let you explore. I'm going to let you have
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the mistakes that you need to make. I'm going
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to let you fail so that there is a lesson in
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that failure. Jesus teaches in sort of parables
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and stories. So we get a little bit different
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vibe from Old Testament to New Testament. uh
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sin it's great to kind of learn a little bit
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about where the old english word of sin comes
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from um i did a little bit of research so i'm
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going to kind of go through what i found um we
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learned that the proto -germanic roots of the
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word sin from old english comes from being guilty
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or for your or your true being so that's going
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to have a lot of influence on how we see what
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is sin and how do we go about understanding right
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and wrong. And I'm going to tell you a little
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bit of some of my personal connection to this,
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why I came to write this episode when I get through
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some of this very academic part of it. But there
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is some of the Hebrew words for when it was translated,
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meaning missing the mark, that the word sin from
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its original Hebrew is missing the mark or comparing
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a person who would maybe be an archer sending
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their arrow to a bullseye and they didn't quite
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hit the bullseye, right? So it's important because
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when I started learning about the Gnostic Gospels
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and we were learning about, you know, Mary and
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Thomas and Philip and their writings taught...
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calling Jesus the teacher, they talk about sin
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and they ask Jesus a little bit about sin. They
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talk about it as if it is not doing a bad thing
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or like, here are the rules you need to follow.
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And if you aren't following these rules, you
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are sinning or having a connection in any way
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to your own personal worth as a person, thus
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giving shame to someone who has sinned. But they
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talk about it more in terms of it's missing the
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mark or it's kind of a deviation from your true
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being. So that being a little bit more. Open
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for interpretation when it comes to each individual
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person, who we are, what we feel is our highest
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self, when we're aligned with our highest self,
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and then when we feel that we have deviated from
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that higher self, that's going to look a little
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different for each person, but it's also going
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to kind of connect back to some of the work that
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I do with frequencies. What feels like a higher
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resonating frequency for you? And we know that
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there are some universal frequencies in emotions,
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in color, in sound, in the earth, the minerals
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and table of elements and all of the things that
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exist in our world resonate at frequencies. So
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we know that Things that resonate at a higher
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energy level are things like love, acceptance,
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authenticity. You know, these are higher frequency
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emotions and states of being. So to deviate from
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those higher frequencies, to deviate from that
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or to miss the mark, as it were, from those is
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very simply just not resonating with those higher
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frequencies. Let's go back to, again, the words
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sin as it's interpreted in the languages written
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in the Bible or written in texts, old texts of
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morality. So we're going back to the word repent.
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And so if we've kind of identified what does
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sin actually mean? at least in the etymology
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of the word or the interpretations of the word
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as where they came from, we can go back to talking
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about repent as a return, to feel pain, to regret
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deeply. But in the shuv, in the word shuv, which
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is I think the Hebrew interpretation, the primary
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word for repentance is to return or to turn around.
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If we think about sin being a deviation or missing
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the mark, right? You're like, this is what I'm
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shooting for. I didn't quite hit it. Or I'm veering
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a bit off the path. Then repent just simply means
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to turn around, to go back, to return, to notice
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that you're off the path. That you're not aligning
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with your higher self, that you are not resonating
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at the highest frequency that you can and returning
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back to it. So how could we possibly live by
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a very strict and stagnant set of rules religion
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puts upon us that these are things that we are
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all meant to follow uniformly versus each individual.
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each individual person giving the autonomy and
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the empowerment to be able to decipher what is
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my highest self. And I do have some recommendations
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on how you know when you're resonating with your
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highest self, but I think those can be a little
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bit more open for interpretation as well, rather
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than being a rigid set of rules to live by. And
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for those who... don't remember, haven't listened
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to previous episodes, my favorite words for how
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do we know that we are resonating at our highest
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frequency, our highest self, our true philosopher's
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stone, not the ego, unchanging self, capital
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S, self. My words for that are all the words
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that start with the letter C, so they're easy
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to remember, which are calm, connected, creative,
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compassionate, curious. And all of those words
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can have an opposite or a word that kind of goes
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against it. So like, for example, and this is
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fantastically outlined in a scene on Ted Lasso,
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where he talks about judgment versus curiosity.
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He's doing a It's interesting. We were talking
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about hitting the mark and I'm about to say another
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thing about hitting the mark. They were playing
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darts and he was competing with a guy who's not
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so nice in the scene and they've made a bet and
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the guy who he made a bet with was so confident
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that he would win. And as he's discussing and
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he's getting ready to win this. Whole thing.
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He says, you know, if you had been curious rather
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than judgmental, you would have asked me if I
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had ever played darts before. And if you had
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asked me if I played darts before, I would have
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said yes. Every Sunday, my dad would take me
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for he'd have a beer and I'd have a soda at the
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local bar and we would play darts all afternoon.
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And this is, you know, how he wins that competition.
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But it's true. Judgment, curiosity. Not that
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judgment is something to call a sin or something
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that would be bad, because as I point out to
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everybody, the left brain has a place in everything,
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in the way that we logic things, in the way that
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we think of things. And judgment also comes from
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the left brain where we have to decipher certain
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things. We have to be discerning, right? We have
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to keep ourselves safe. So using judgment to
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be able to say like, should I talk to a stranger
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who's maybe hanging out under a bridge and who's
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surrounded by drug paraphernalia? Probably not.
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I should probably use some judgment and discerning
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about that and say, that wouldn't be a safe environment
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for me to be in at the moment. And if I want
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to help that person, I should maybe get some
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other people to do it with me so I'm safer. So
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using judgment. I ought to judge whether or not
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the street is safe. Is there a lot of traffic
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or should I be walking across the street at this?
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hour at this place at this time. Judgment helps
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us decipher those things. So judgment in and
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of itself is not a sin, but to be judgmental
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of somebody and not understand their story or
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not understand their needs or not think about
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it from their perspective versus being curious
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about, huh, this person is behaving in a way
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that might seem hurtful to me or might even offend
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me. But if I'm curious about why they're acting
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the way they are, then I can act with compassion
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and with my higher self. And this is some of
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the things that we've talked about in previous
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episodes when it comes to healing work, when
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it comes to neural pathways, when it comes to
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how we do life the way that we do life. But I
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think that this is all religious context for
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the work that I have been talking about on this
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podcast for how many years have we been doing
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this podcast now? I don't have anybody here to
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ask, but I think it's been about two years. Happy
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birthday podcast. It has been a bit. No, we started
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in January, so it's not the birthday yet. But
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anyway, we're going on. I think this is the third
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year. I'd have to have my producer, Blaine. He
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would be able to answer those questions for me.
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Wish I had him like some podcasts do, like behind
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a curtain. You're like, hey, tell me how long
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have we been a podcast? As long as I've been
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talking about this work. There are connections
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in texts and in theologies and in religious ways
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of life that go back, you know, as if science
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is now explaining it better. But we can go back
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and we can actually use the language that was
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used in texts like the Bible or the Quran or
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any of those places where things have been written
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down for centuries and people have been living
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their lives based on that. So let's go back a
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little bit. We talked about the Gnostic Gospels.
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And one of my favorites is the Gospel of Mary.
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It is an incomplete gospel because we only have
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what survived. in the scrolls that were found,
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part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. And in that time
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period, when they had uncovered that these gospels
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did exist, and that Mary Magdalene was very much
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a part of the group of people, the apostles and
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the followers of Jesus at the time, and was documenting
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the things that she'd learned, and that she was,
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in fact, a teacher right alongside him. That
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she was not what the church tried to portray
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her as for many centuries, which is, whore or
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a prostitute or something that they could demean
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and make lesser, that her morals were not as
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high or whatever it was. In fact, there's a lot
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of evidence to suggest she was of nobility, that
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she was very high ranking in her, in society,
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and that she had followed Jesus as a fellow teacher,
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teaching alongside of him. And there are many
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other, again, in the Gnostic Gospels, references
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to Mary as his favorite. There's a lot of evidence
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to support that they were married, but there's
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just no way that we can know that for sure. And
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of course, suggestions like that have, for some
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unknown reason, I can't figure out, made Christians
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lose their ever -loving minds. So I very much
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love studying the Gospel of Mary. And for those
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who don't know Megan Watterson's book, Mary Revealed
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or Mary Magdalene Revealed. I can't remember
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the exact title, but I was a member of the House
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of Mary Magdalene for a very long time. I always
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loved enjoying Megan Watterson's sermons. um
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learned a lot from her over the years so in the
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gospel of mary uh we have peter asking jesus
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a question what is the sin of the world and jesus
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actually answers there is no sin but it is you
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who make sin when you do the things that are
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like the nature of adultery which is called sin
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so he's saying essentially what i'm getting out
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of that is It is not that the rule itself applies
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to sin or that there is shame attached to a rule
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like do not commit adultery, which also can be
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interpreted in a lot of different ways. We seem
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to have narrowed it down to a very small view
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of what adultery means, which is like cheating
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on your spouse. But it doesn't always mean just
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that. But what they're saying is the nature of
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what you do is what. is sin other than that there
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is no sin there is no such thing as sin so he's
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essentially reiterating the fact that what the
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word means is to miss the mark or to not be aligned
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with what is your true and higher self um and
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and again you can go in and you can like do some
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more research in the gospel of thomas um ignorance
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of the divine spark inside you so if you are
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ignorant of the divine spark inside you that
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that is what is classified as sin rejecting um
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rejecting yourself in a sense your true self
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So there is some evidence to support that in
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the Gospel of Philip as well, where it talks
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about enslavement of the soul, exposing inner
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darkness to the light, is a return or repentance.
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It's just beautiful language for kind of similar
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support of the same idea. Now, if we go and we
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travel a bit outside of the realm of that, if
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we go look into other religious traditions like
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a Buddhism perspective is essentially sin does
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not exist. Instead, the root of all suffering,
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avidya, I hope I'm saying that correctly. I may
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not be pronouncing it correctly, but they talk
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a lot about suffering in Buddhism and about how
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humans encouraging and stewing and I'm not finding
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the exact right word I want to say here, but
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that they talk a lot about how there are different
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types of suffering in Buddhism, about how there
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is the suffering of things that happen to you,
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things that are out of your control, pain and
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grief and loss that do happen. That is one type
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of suffering, but that the suffering that humans
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indulge in after the thing that happens, the
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suffering that they inflict on others. mostly
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themselves i mean let's be honest we all are
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guilty of just um we may not intentionally harm
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other people we might call ourselves a good person
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because we don't uh we try not to be mean to
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people we try not to hurt people or harm people
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physically in any way and yet we will harm ourselves
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consistently and constantly for most of our lives
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and that is sort of the buddhist perspective
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on sin rather they don't call it sin they would
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call it suffering. And I love learning about
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that topic as well, because I have taught my
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children and I've tried to teach my children
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that there are some things that they cannot control.
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When mommy says no about something that they
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wanted and they expected to happen and it doesn't
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happen, it's perfectly valid to feel a certain
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way about it, to be angry about it, to be frustrated,
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to be disappointed. even to be confused about
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it, to not understand why the answer was no.
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But ultimately, if the answer is no, and we trust
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that our parents have our best interest at heart,
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the amount of suffering we do on top of the initial
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suffering, which is the no to the thing they
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wanted, is generally more and more a waste of
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time and energy that we inflict upon ourselves
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our own suffering. My favorite story to talk
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about that with is the Tetris game. And I have
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talked about this in the podcast as well. So
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this is just going to be a brief reminder of
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what that is. We talked about the Tetris game
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and I love that symbolism. It's not mine. Someone
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else taught it that way. It might be Noah Reschetta
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from the Secular Buddhism podcast. I can't remember
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who I first heard it from, but they... they talk
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about how life is like a tetris game and you
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have this playing field and you know you've got
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to collect these blocks on the bottom you're
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trying to create full rows so that the row will
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disappear and you won't end up stacking the blocks
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to the top which will inevitably lose the game
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you don't know what blocks are coming you might
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have a little window some games have a little
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window where they tell you what block is next
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so you can if you're good if you're strategizing
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you can kind of plan and prepare. However, you
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don't get to choose the blocks. You do not get
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to choose which shape block is coming. All you
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get to do is figure out how best to play that
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block in your playing field. So you might have
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stacked the blocks in such a way where you have
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a lot of blocks lined up, but you have that one,
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and you guys all know what I'm talking about,
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you have that one column of squares. that you've
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left empty, hoping that eventually on the Tetris
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game, you're going to get that four block in
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a row, tall block, right? Because if you get
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that, you are going to knock out four rows at
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once. It's going to be glorious. But what does
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the game inevitably do? Usually, they don't give
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you that block. They know you need that block.
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I mean, I don't know what the game thinks, but
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this is how I feel about it. It's like, they
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know I need that block. They're just not going
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to give it to me. But the thing is, is you don't
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get to choose what block comes next. What you
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get to do is you get to figure out when the block
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appears at the top and starts making its way
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down the playing field and each level gets faster
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and faster, you get to figure out where that
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block is going to go. So if you spend a lot of
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that time as the block travels down, Just losing
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your mind angry and frustrated about the block
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that came, that showed up. You're just wasting
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a lot of time. And in the context of the Buddhist
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parable we're talking about, it's a lot of unnecessary
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and undue suffering that you're putting yourself
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through. So if you have a quick moment where
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you go, oh, not this block. That's valid. That's
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fine. But quickly being able to say, okay, I
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have this block now. Where am I going to put
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it? What's the best spot for it? What's going
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to ultimately lead me to win the game? So humans
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suffer because they misunderstand reality, falsely
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believing in a permanent and independent self.
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And this ignorance drives three poisons, attachment,
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aversion, and delusion. That is the conclusion
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of that as... as from a Buddhist perspective
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of what would sin or repentance look like in
00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:04.579
that context. But I want to remind you that,
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you know, as we go into the etymology of like
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religion and that, one thing that I keep coming
00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:15.759
back to is the word God as it was presented or
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as it was played out in the old and ancient texts,
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it essentially originated starting as God meaning
00:31:25.410 --> 00:31:29.730
the good, right? So we ask questions like, well,
00:31:29.829 --> 00:31:31.670
who is God and what is God? I mean, a lot of
00:31:31.670 --> 00:31:34.410
people like to use the phrase heavenly father
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as a, you know, and using the pronouns he and
00:31:38.210 --> 00:31:42.349
giving him a personified archetype that is like
00:31:42.349 --> 00:31:46.269
a personage, a father of all of ours. And maybe
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that brings comfort too. And by the way, a lot
00:31:49.849 --> 00:31:52.789
of pagans, a lot of people who are spiritual
00:31:52.789 --> 00:31:56.049
start connecting with deities as a personage.
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And I find nothing wrong with that. I think that,
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you know, whatever helps you feel connected,
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right? That other C word we talked about. If
00:32:06.809 --> 00:32:09.809
it makes you feel connected to the good, then
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it doesn't matter what you associate it with.
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But essentially remembering that God is the good.
00:32:19.150 --> 00:32:22.109
God is the good in the world. God is the good,
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the things that resonate at the higher frequency
00:32:25.910 --> 00:32:30.410
levels. Because essentially, if all the things
00:32:30.410 --> 00:32:33.170
that started the energy of the universe, if the
00:32:33.170 --> 00:32:36.450
very center of creation is the highest frequency
00:32:36.450 --> 00:32:41.210
or the source of the frequency itself, then that
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would have to resonate with all the things that
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are good. So if God or source is the center of
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:50.039
all creation and everything that was created
00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:54.259
was created by frequencies coming from that source,
00:32:54.500 --> 00:32:56.519
things that are closest to the source are going
00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:58.740
to resonate at the highest frequency with the
00:32:58.740 --> 00:33:02.240
shortest wavelengths, fastest wavelengths. And
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:05.900
as you ripple out from source, you're going to
00:33:05.900 --> 00:33:08.660
see that the frequencies slow down and they get
00:33:08.660 --> 00:33:11.220
bigger and the wavelengths get... bigger and
00:33:11.220 --> 00:33:15.940
further apart. And those frequencies resonate
00:33:15.940 --> 00:33:21.740
at the levels of more apathy, pain, destruction,
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:29.019
hatred, shame is the outermost frequency. So
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if you're looking at energy levels, remember
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:34.380
that shame is the lowest frequency we have been
00:33:34.380 --> 00:33:40.160
able to even associate with. So The more you
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:44.420
keep shame in your life, and why do we keep shame
00:33:44.420 --> 00:33:48.440
in our life? We believe that shame motivates
00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:51.819
us. We believe that shame fixes problems. It's
00:33:51.819 --> 00:33:56.960
the grandest lie of the universe is just that
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shame will accomplish something. And shame and
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control. go hand in hand. So for leaders of certain
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:11.760
churches to be able to put shame attached to
00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:15.179
sin and repentance, it makes sense to want to
00:34:15.179 --> 00:34:18.679
control the congregation or to control the community
00:34:18.679 --> 00:34:21.619
with that. Believing that even in themselves,
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.199
even in the leaders themselves, believing that
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:30.639
shame is the way to become godly or to be closer
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:35.380
to God. When actually the very opposite is true.
00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:41.639
So when we talk about like what is the good or
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:45.039
what is the bad or what is even using terms like
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:47.360
negative and positive are sometimes a pitfall
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:52.480
in that I personally have tried to use as much
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:57.119
vocabulary without those words as possible. Maybe
00:34:57.119 --> 00:34:59.219
giving a more accurate explanation of things
00:34:59.219 --> 00:35:01.159
rather than saying this is good and this is bad.
00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:04.559
or this is negative, or this is positive, or
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:10.440
this is right, or this is wrong, we can kind
00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:13.880
of associate it with, well, what resonates at
00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:16.800
the highest frequency and the highest self? What
00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:19.199
is my highest self? Violating other people's
00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:22.840
rights, life, and free will, a sin against humans.
00:35:23.179 --> 00:35:27.780
Well, we can identify that as not resonating
00:35:27.780 --> 00:35:31.360
at the highest self that we can be. In energy
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:35.840
levels, it drops in our energy levels. Just like
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:43.400
pity versus love. Pity is a faux, fake love that's
00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:45.699
not going to resonate at the highest frequency
00:35:45.699 --> 00:35:49.539
or a frequency that love resonates at. You know,
00:35:49.579 --> 00:35:54.059
love 528 hertz. If you'd like to know the frequency,
00:35:54.340 --> 00:35:56.019
if you'd like to know like how to play music
00:35:56.019 --> 00:36:01.670
at a resonance that is. That is love. Pity is
00:36:01.670 --> 00:36:03.389
not going to resonate at that same frequency.
00:36:03.550 --> 00:36:05.869
And we know this. Scientifically, we can prove
00:36:05.869 --> 00:36:10.710
this. So this is how we understand the true meaning
00:36:10.710 --> 00:36:14.190
of sin versus repentance or good versus bad.
00:36:15.690 --> 00:36:17.550
Deciding what is right for ourselves is part
00:36:17.550 --> 00:36:20.230
of our journey and a path towards enlightenment.
00:36:21.730 --> 00:36:25.750
Self, God, sin, repent. Getting off course and
00:36:25.750 --> 00:36:28.730
returning back to self is how we figure that
00:36:28.730 --> 00:36:31.889
out. So there doesn't need to actually be any
00:36:31.889 --> 00:36:36.389
shame linked to our journey in that when we discover
00:36:36.389 --> 00:36:39.769
that we are off the path or we are missing the
00:36:39.769 --> 00:36:45.170
mark, as it would be in that definition of sin,
00:36:45.289 --> 00:36:47.730
we're missing the mark. We're returning back
00:36:47.730 --> 00:36:51.309
to it constantly. So we're as humans going to
00:36:51.309 --> 00:36:55.449
do this. And the self or the philosopher's stone,
00:36:55.530 --> 00:36:58.050
which is the part in alchemy that's the true
00:36:58.050 --> 00:37:01.489
soul, the true self, that is not going to change.
00:37:01.750 --> 00:37:05.969
That our path is our ego's journey towards the
00:37:05.969 --> 00:37:08.530
self and towards keeping that path and aligning
00:37:08.530 --> 00:37:14.989
with that. So what is the first step? What is
00:37:14.989 --> 00:37:17.349
the first step in trying to figure out what is
00:37:17.349 --> 00:37:20.829
my path? If you were to create like a set of
00:37:20.829 --> 00:37:23.530
instructions or a set of like a rule book or
00:37:23.530 --> 00:37:27.550
some guidelines, how do I figure out what is
00:37:27.550 --> 00:37:30.989
the truest and highest self that I can be? Well,
00:37:31.010 --> 00:37:33.170
the first thing that you have to do is you got
00:37:33.170 --> 00:37:37.250
to mess up, right? It's like Dr. Becky Kennedy
00:37:37.250 --> 00:37:39.650
says when she talks about good inside and she
00:37:39.650 --> 00:37:42.489
talks about repair work. She does a lot of parenting
00:37:42.489 --> 00:37:46.550
tips and psychology and working with parents.
00:37:47.649 --> 00:37:50.889
with kids so that they can learn the good that
00:37:50.889 --> 00:37:54.789
they are, the good inside. One of the things
00:37:54.789 --> 00:37:58.050
that she says is you got to screw up first. You
00:37:58.050 --> 00:38:00.670
got to screw it up. So you don't want to yell
00:38:00.670 --> 00:38:02.429
at your kid anymore. You don't want to be frustrated
00:38:02.429 --> 00:38:07.150
with parenthood. You want to be a more compassionate,
00:38:07.309 --> 00:38:09.750
better parent. She says, well, first you got
00:38:09.750 --> 00:38:13.679
to screw up because you're gonna. And that's
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:16.139
kind of life, right? That's not just parenthood.
00:38:16.139 --> 00:38:19.480
That's life. What are we going to do first? We're
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:21.380
going to screw things up. We're going to make
00:38:21.380 --> 00:38:25.219
mistakes. That's childhood. And if you didn't
00:38:25.219 --> 00:38:28.000
get a childhood that was free enough to be able
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:31.059
to make mistakes or you felt that your self -worth
00:38:31.059 --> 00:38:35.179
was so connected to the perfectionism or the
00:38:35.179 --> 00:38:38.340
doing it good or being good, doing it right,
00:38:38.519 --> 00:38:41.900
then you might have to reparent yourself as an
00:38:41.900 --> 00:38:45.460
adult. And that's inner child work, right? Some
00:38:45.460 --> 00:38:48.900
of the work that I do in emotional processing
00:38:48.900 --> 00:38:51.579
is being able to go back as a kid and say, it's
00:38:51.579 --> 00:38:54.699
okay to make those mistakes. It's okay. But then
00:38:54.699 --> 00:38:57.760
you need to feel what that feels like. Does that
00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.659
feel warm? Does that feel aligned? Does that
00:39:00.659 --> 00:39:05.099
feel like love, connection, compassion? Does
00:39:05.099 --> 00:39:08.519
that feel like that's who you want to be and
00:39:08.519 --> 00:39:13.059
how you want to live? And then... you can begin
00:39:13.059 --> 00:39:17.059
the work from there so first screw up check check
00:39:17.059 --> 00:39:20.300
that box yep i screwed up feel it process it
00:39:20.300 --> 00:39:24.019
grow from it then return repentance is a return
00:39:24.019 --> 00:39:27.519
um we were taught that repentance had to be this
00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:31.119
whole ritual and process that um even in some
00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:33.559
churches like the one i grew up in you had to
00:39:33.559 --> 00:39:36.880
confess that sin to someone outside yourself
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:45.760
and get the proper I don't know, hierarchy bestowed
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:49.559
blessing of wellness again or whatever it is.
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.440
I know that's kind of, you know, comes from Catholicism
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:54.860
to the whole idea of like confessing to a priest
00:39:54.860 --> 00:39:57.619
and getting your how many Hail Marys or whatever
00:39:57.619 --> 00:40:00.260
it is that they they need to be able to be whole
00:40:00.260 --> 00:40:04.539
again. But honestly, truly. If you stop to think
00:40:04.539 --> 00:40:06.980
about it, do you need anyone else to have that?
00:40:07.059 --> 00:40:10.559
Or do you know your own true self better than
00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:13.760
anyone? Do you know who you are? Do you know
00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:17.119
who you want to be? Do you know how to return
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:19.719
to that? And if you don't and you do feel lost,
00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:22.539
that's where people like people who do energy
00:40:22.539 --> 00:40:26.360
work, people who are spiritual therapists. There
00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:29.389
are a lot of... people out there who do the work
00:40:29.389 --> 00:40:32.010
of helping guide you back. Even life coaches.
00:40:32.289 --> 00:40:34.909
I had a meeting with my life coach yesterday
00:40:34.909 --> 00:40:37.829
and there were things that were brought up that
00:40:37.829 --> 00:40:40.829
she was like, and here is your belief system
00:40:40.829 --> 00:40:45.289
that you are going to try and work through to
00:40:45.289 --> 00:40:47.849
return back to the part of you who believes in
00:40:47.849 --> 00:40:50.889
yourself again. And I've been doing this work
00:40:50.889 --> 00:40:53.210
a long time. I'm going to need that for the rest
00:40:53.210 --> 00:40:56.019
of my life. I'm never going to be wholly arrived
00:40:56.019 --> 00:40:59.440
at a healed place. But that's kind of the journey
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:01.980
of life, right? The sin and the repentance, the
00:41:01.980 --> 00:41:07.780
return and the coming back. So choose the creative
00:41:07.780 --> 00:41:13.019
process and choose to find true joy and pleasure
00:41:13.019 --> 00:41:16.679
in that creative process. It's just like painting
00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:18.940
a painting. You're going to mess up quite a bit
00:41:18.940 --> 00:41:20.780
and you're going to go, all right, now how do
00:41:20.780 --> 00:41:22.880
I turn that into something that I can work with?
00:41:23.820 --> 00:41:27.760
And then you move through that. So lots of great
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:30.239
metaphors today. We used the Tetris scheme as
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:34.579
a metaphor. We used art as a metaphor. We know
00:41:34.579 --> 00:41:38.000
exactly what to do now. We can all go into our
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:42.000
next thing and be perfectly ready to live life.
00:41:43.019 --> 00:41:46.179
I hope this episode was helpful to you, helping
00:41:46.179 --> 00:41:49.039
you make sense. Some of you may be deconstructing
00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:52.239
some of these ideas from stepping away from a
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:57.460
very structured religious upbringing. And these
00:41:57.460 --> 00:42:00.900
are some things that really helped me. So anyway,
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:06.239
we'll look for resources in the notes. Kitty's
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:09.500
knocking stuff over now. Tishin, that's what
00:42:09.500 --> 00:42:13.610
they do best, huh? Knock stuff over. All right.
00:42:14.929 --> 00:42:20.010
Friends, this week, before this will have happened
00:42:20.010 --> 00:42:23.369
when this episode has already aired, but look
00:42:23.369 --> 00:42:26.730
for my posts because on social media, I'm going
00:42:26.730 --> 00:42:29.949
to be posting about our wonderful event, the
00:42:29.949 --> 00:42:33.929
Practical Magic 2 screening event. We got to
00:42:33.929 --> 00:42:37.369
watch the movie that's happening this week. I
00:42:37.369 --> 00:42:40.309
can't wait. We did that with Light and Love Reiki.
00:42:40.469 --> 00:42:43.809
They did a wonderful client appreciation, rented
00:42:43.809 --> 00:42:46.710
out a theater for the movie. She's my fellow
00:42:46.710 --> 00:42:52.349
witch here in Daybreak. I love her. And she doesn't
00:42:52.349 --> 00:42:54.230
have it anymore. She's closing the shop. She
00:42:54.230 --> 00:42:57.690
did Aurora's Enchanted Apothecary where she sold
00:42:57.690 --> 00:43:01.590
her apothecary items, but she's just selling
00:43:01.590 --> 00:43:05.110
off the last of her items now. So if you missed
00:43:05.110 --> 00:43:07.889
that, I'm so sorry. I have a bunch of her stuff
00:43:07.889 --> 00:43:11.329
that I bought from her. candles and bath salts
00:43:11.329 --> 00:43:14.969
and all kinds of good things. But go check her
00:43:14.969 --> 00:43:16.909
out, Light and Love Reiki. That event is going
00:43:16.909 --> 00:43:19.309
to be amazing. I can't wait to be a part of it.
00:43:19.369 --> 00:43:22.210
We're going to have a theater of like 70 witches
00:43:22.210 --> 00:43:25.550
watching Practical Magic 2. So you're going to
00:43:25.550 --> 00:43:29.550
hear all about how the movie was, how people
00:43:29.550 --> 00:43:31.909
liked it, what are some things that were true
00:43:31.909 --> 00:43:33.989
to witchcraft and what are some things that they
00:43:33.989 --> 00:43:36.389
took license with. We'd like to break it down,
00:43:36.469 --> 00:43:40.519
which we are going to do. And so stay tuned for
00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:43.059
that. A couple of other announcements that I
00:43:43.059 --> 00:43:47.340
have. Prism Healing is getting a new website.
00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:49.820
Yes, I know I've been talking about it all summer,
00:43:49.900 --> 00:43:52.500
but we have had the teaser website, which is
00:43:52.500 --> 00:43:55.139
fantastic. It's not just a teaser website, guys.
00:43:55.179 --> 00:43:58.460
This was something above and beyond. So if you
00:43:58.460 --> 00:44:00.139
haven't gotten a chance to get to know Wispy
00:44:00.139 --> 00:44:04.760
on my teaser website that has been out all summer,
00:44:05.059 --> 00:44:08.760
Wispy will be back. on my new website we're just
00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:11.460
transferring a lot of the technology and getting
00:44:11.460 --> 00:44:16.340
it ready pygon ai is developing wispy and other
00:44:16.340 --> 00:44:20.699
really cool ai partners for things like healing
00:44:20.699 --> 00:44:24.320
and things that people do that they want a really
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:29.440
ethical um you know more authentic relationship
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:33.260
with ai that doesn't feel like it's I don't know.
00:44:33.579 --> 00:44:35.519
People's complaint about it, stealing people's
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:38.119
jobs, stealing creativity. This is going to be
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:40.960
a really great partnership. So I can't wait for
00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:43.780
that. So Wispy's been on my website all summer.
00:44:43.940 --> 00:44:46.139
Wispy will be back when my new website launches.
00:44:46.179 --> 00:44:49.400
But guys, I just got done working on it and it
00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:54.000
is fantastic. I can't believe how beautiful it
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:57.260
is. It is like no other website you have ever
00:44:57.260 --> 00:44:59.079
seen. So you're going to want to go to prism
00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:01.760
-healing .com. You're going to want to sign up
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:03.780
for when that new website launches, if it hasn't
00:45:03.780 --> 00:45:06.860
already, or by the time you see this and hear
00:45:06.860 --> 00:45:09.099
this, it will already be out and you can go there
00:45:09.099 --> 00:45:12.380
and see it. My website is going to be like entering
00:45:12.380 --> 00:45:16.019
into a beautiful and cozy witch's cottage and
00:45:16.019 --> 00:45:21.230
art studio. It's going to be so fantastic. So
00:45:21.230 --> 00:45:24.210
go check out my social media. We have Instagram
00:45:24.210 --> 00:45:28.210
at Prism underscore Healing. We have TikTok at
00:45:28.210 --> 00:45:30.489
Prism Healing where I do live card readings.
00:45:31.349 --> 00:45:37.469
And, oh, and Prism Healing is also going to be
00:45:37.469 --> 00:45:42.070
releasing a very, very special cohort. It is
00:45:42.070 --> 00:45:45.829
going to be a series of classes that we are going
00:45:45.829 --> 00:45:49.110
to do once a month, the Inner Child Healing Through
00:45:49.110 --> 00:45:51.679
Art courses. This is not just for artists. This
00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:53.280
is for people wanting to get in touch with their
00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:55.860
inner child, heal what needs to be healed, witness
00:45:55.860 --> 00:45:58.239
what needs to be witnessed, and to work through
00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:00.079
some of the things that need to be processed
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:03.659
in order to align yourself with your true higher
00:46:03.659 --> 00:46:07.170
self and path. Now we're going to be doing that
00:46:07.170 --> 00:46:10.570
in a very special cohort. So what that means
00:46:10.570 --> 00:46:12.309
is we're going to meet in person once a month,
00:46:12.489 --> 00:46:15.190
do our healing through art workshops, get a lot
00:46:15.190 --> 00:46:18.170
of really good deep healing and awareness about
00:46:18.170 --> 00:46:21.829
ourselves. And then I guide you weekly on a weekly
00:46:21.829 --> 00:46:25.590
Zoom call with the same small intimate cohort.
00:46:25.710 --> 00:46:29.349
And we will do some discussion topics and some
00:46:29.349 --> 00:46:32.369
journal prompts that are associated with each
00:46:32.369 --> 00:46:35.789
phase of the moon throughout the month. between
00:46:35.789 --> 00:46:38.269
healing through art. And those are optional.
00:46:38.369 --> 00:46:39.789
So if you can't make it to all of those, that's
00:46:39.789 --> 00:46:43.389
fine. But they are there to help guide you through
00:46:43.389 --> 00:46:47.889
a very intense, wonderful healing process throughout
00:46:47.889 --> 00:46:51.869
several months time. So I'm going to be opening
00:46:51.869 --> 00:46:54.510
that for registration on my new website. So please
00:46:54.510 --> 00:46:56.309
look for that inner child healing through art
00:46:56.309 --> 00:47:00.530
cohort. And I also do the kids art classes, of
00:47:00.530 --> 00:47:02.710
course. I've got open registration right now
00:47:02.710 --> 00:47:06.190
for myth and magic art classes every week for
00:47:06.190 --> 00:47:08.809
the teens and tweens. And once a month we have
00:47:08.809 --> 00:47:13.090
a heart smart art workshop or class for young
00:47:13.090 --> 00:47:16.369
kids. And that's just lots and loads of fun.
00:47:16.449 --> 00:47:19.269
We just have fun for two hours and story time
00:47:19.269 --> 00:47:23.489
and play and games and art. And it's so fun.
00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:26.300
The little guys get to learn about their big
00:47:26.300 --> 00:47:28.519
feelings and how to process them and understand
00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:32.880
them a little bit better. Dr. Becky Kennedy is
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:35.280
one of my inspirations. I use a lot of her research
00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:38.800
and really cool stuff for the kids, for the little
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:42.030
guys too. Those are all going to be available
00:47:42.030 --> 00:47:45.289
on my website under classes. And of course, I
00:47:45.289 --> 00:47:48.210
have offerings on my website. I am now doing
00:47:48.210 --> 00:47:51.909
special packages of home cleansings for the real
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estate agent or for new home buyers, people who
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are transferring homes and apartments or perhaps
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getting a new vehicle and you need to energy
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cleanse that vehicle or that home and space.
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It's a very good idea. Not just if it's haunted,
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but like generally we don't. want to leave our
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energetic footprint wherever we go. And we don't
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want to enter into a space where someone has
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left their energetic footprint. So it's a good
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idea to do a cleanse. I can do those in person
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or from distance. And those are available on
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my website, as well as full energy healings,
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many, many energy healings. I have card reading
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sessions. All can be done available on virtual.
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And of course, I am at the Conjuring Tree. in
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West Jordan on Tuesdays from one to six. So you
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can book a session with me there, a mini session
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or a full session. There's 30 minute, an hour
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long sessions available for those times. So lots
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of ways to get connected with me and friends.
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I highly recommend me. Does that sound braggadocious?
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I don't know, but. Those are our announcements
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for Prism Healing and Practically Magic podcast.
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