Aquarian Light - Ep 11 - Mind Melting Media

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Spiritual seekers, aspirants and neophytes diligently apply spiritual tools in order to move past the tightness and obscurations of their internal suffering. However, they may find that at some point, they become their own hinderance or give up completely. What is the secret weapon used against those who are working to transcend mind, matter and the restrictions of the soul? Watch this episode to find out how inverted teachings are hidden not so subtly in many popular recent shows, which, when watched unconsciously, can program us to abandon our spiritual hope.

AQUARIAN LIGHT - EPISODE 11

Mind Melting Media

Instructor I: 

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Aquarian Light. The title of today's episode is "Mind Melting Media." And that's because the media that we see out there today is full of things that are not so good for the subconscious. They feed the subconscious and they feed a lot of things that work against a spiritual discipline, a spiritual pathway, and spiritual journey. Of course, maybe the average spiritual aspirant knows about this, but today we're going to go into it a little more in depth, especially in relation to esotericism. Some of those who watch these videos happen to be students of esotericism. They may have their own habits and hobbies, and it's okay for anyone to do whatever they like. And of course, one of our greatest defenses is just to have knowledge, have information, and be aware precisely of what is the impact of certain actions that we take, particularly in relation to the psyche or the soul. 

I'm Ruth, and this is Adonis. We're going to be talking about quite a few different examples to help flesh this out. I'm not sure which one you want to talk about first. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, well, let's just talk about, in general, an overview. So we've done a few episodes where we've looked at esotericism in media in the sense of going back to the beginning of the entertainment industry, it's always been probably one of those systems that's related to those who are in favor of the ego consciousness. That's always been known. That's something that's known well in the spiritual community. But, you know, through there, usually when it comes to art, there's always certain artists, whether it's in music or in shows and things like that, that will come through with something with a message that tends to be more aligned with source, at least that's been the trend over the course of time. And we've gone through examples like The Matrix or Star Wars, you know, and some of these things are really powerful, almost like a modern mythological message on the journey that we take internally, as well as being just the standard hero's journey, which is related to that internal journey that we've talked about in previous episodes. But something that's really interesting is as we move forward into this time period, and we're moving more forward towards, let's say, a conclusion to this root race, right? And we see that the energies on the planet are getting more dense, and there's more ego collectively in the collective in the whole, that we could just, you know, anyone who actually looks at the news and things can see that there's things that are, you know, the society's mindset is coming down and it is becoming more dense and more heavy. And it seems like that those who are in charge of the media industries at this point in time, who must certainly have esoteric wisdom as well, however they use it towards the vein of awakening the consciousness through the ego, are really starting to not really hide things anymore and not let anything else get through. 

So we even look to things, we mentioned, for example, we've gone over Star Wars, and we went over The Matrix, the original films and the original trilogy of both that and also the prequel trilogy for Star Wars. And then we look at, you know, one of the big things in Hollywood right now is doing a lot of reboots. There seems to be nothing original, nothing really creative. 

Instructor I: 

That's in music as well. 

Instructor II: 

In music as well, everything is a retread, right? But on top of it, these retreads seem to take these classic concepts that had this message of awakening and liberation and subtly changing the message around to start to say something else. And I guess before we go too far into this, because we should just talk about what exactly is going on with this media. Because before, you know, obviously there's a lot of subconsciously just things that favor the ego in our society and media and things like, you know, the greed and violence and sex and all of this stuff is put to desensitize us to an extent.  

But it's not necessarily esoteric in nature. It's just, you know, standard keeping everyone asleep. You know what I'm saying? 

Instructor I: 

Well, we have to also highlight that the media, same movies and music, but today we're mainly talking about movies and TV shows. 

Not only have they just naturally been an expression of the ego because whatever is inside of people is obviously in the producers, in the script writers, in the actors, all of the egos content or the regurgitation of the subconscious is conveyed through the art of any time period. Right. It's a reflection of that. But besides that, there is also deliberate intention to put forward messages of a particular agenda regardless of what that agenda may be. So before we get into the deeper stuff in the past, in the very beginning, when they first started to bring out the medium of movies as an art form, there were a lot of Bible movies. There were a lot of things with supposed values of the time to incite people to start adopting movie watching as a normal form of entertainment, especially for the family and to switch that view. So people could see it as something wholesome, which today we know is no longer the case. And then over the years, there has been a deliberate attempt for those who are awakened. It's very clear to put forward certain messages. So one thing that is generally accepted and today we are familiar with is product placement, right? Like Subway in what was that show? Chuck. Chuck, right. So the whole show, they're always eating Subway sandwiches and I'm not sure how much Subway paid to have their product placement. But that's a common example. And then there's also social impact agencies that pay a lot of money to have a particular viewpoint worked into the plot in order to represent something that they want, some message that they want to go to society. And it seems like, okay, well, maybe they want to put forward a good message about inclusion, but there's two parts to this. And one is that the subconscious is open and actively receiving downloads or messaging during the time that someone is engaging with media. So they didn't necessarily consent openly to receiving these downloads, even if it is product placement or some kind of social messaging, right? So there was no consent. 

And then the second part is that often these messages don't have anything to do with the plot. So they kind of damaged the art form as well, where there will be certain characters or we could say products that appears. Let's say a certain car manufacturer has paid for product placement. Then there will be some high speed car chase that wasn't necessarily necessary for the plot line. But now that this company has paid all this money, it has to be worked into the story. And the more conscious you are, the more you can't enjoy the art form because of these kinds of interruptions that seem illogical. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, I think that's a good way of looking at it. But there's also the aspect of before, like things like product placement or maybe political agendas, all these things are still very myavic. And the media, while it was desensitizing people and maybe pushing messages like that, what we see in the last, I don't know, five, maybe 10 years or so, is that there are messages being pushed through of an esoteric nature that subconsciously are coercive and actually subconsciously feeding or downloading, I guess, into who's watching if they're not conscious of it. 

A message of esotericism, a message of symbology, but in an inverted way that's basically saying to not awaken the consciousness, that you should pick the ego and stay with that. And it's interesting because when we do go back and look at, let's look at 1998 when The Matrix came out. There was another movie that came out in 1998 that also has a lot of esoteric resonances, and that's Dark City. Dark City, we could say, would be the other hand of the spectrum. It kind of pushes that escape out of the ego, of the oppressors, and then become your own creator of your own reality. There's nowhere else to go. 

Instructor I:

Well, we should explain the story for someone who's not seen that movie. 

Instructor II:

Yes, we will. But we'll explain the basic tenets of that, as opposed to the ascending and then just breaking the contract, becoming the master of the contract itself. And when we look at these two things, the messages came out, it's almost like it's balanced. First of all, they were rare in between. There weren't as many movies about esotericism or awakening at all. But when they would, you had one and you have the other. This reflects two narratives that we see, you know, just like everything has duality. There are two stances on the best way to awaken. 

Instructor I: 

As in The Matrix and Dark City. 

Instructor II: 

And in spirituality, they call it the right and the left-handed path. 

Instructor I: 

One is to awaken through ascending and enlightenment. 

Instructor II: 

And the other one is through banking on the ego and the lower intellect and to just evolve and other things. 

Instructor I: 

Developing some powers, but using them for desire. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, developing the person that's here. 

So what we see is, you know, over a course of time, there were like a key moment where things would come out that, you know, pushed even that way. But it was always kind of balanced. And most of the stuff was just mainly materialistic ego stuff for keeping everyone asleep and then their materialistic ego. But with the energies that are shifting now and with the direction that society is moving, what we're seeing is just now because realistically those that empower the global elite, as many people might notice if they watch like the Olympics, people always pointing out these satanic rituals and stuff. What is Satan really? Satan is, you know, the ego. Somebody who satanic worships the ego. They worship their own eye. So these are the types of people that tend to control the media. And what we're seeing is a much more overt and unabashed just push of this message of where they're telling you like, literally the symbology of awakening and everything that you need to know. I mean, all the esoteric symbology is there, but it's inverted. So awakening represents like the villain or perhaps it's just something that's negative. And the main characters will be faced with a choice where they could either awaken in a sense or not. And they choose to stay an ego. 

And in that way, like subconsciously through coercion, what it's feeding into someone who's not paying attention is it's telling you the truth. It's telling you how to awaken the consciousness, but telling you that you shouldn’t.  

Instructor I: 

Or that you should awaken to a certain degree with ego, as in heighten your awareness and powers and things. 

Instructor II: 

They're saying directly that awakening and enlightenment is a bad thing. That you lose your individuality so that you should bank on your individuality and focus on becoming smarter and evolving in a natural pattern or perhaps through machinery and transhumanism or digitized consciousness, like being able to upload your consciousness and live forever, keeping your person living forever rather than evolving to the next level spiritually because of reasons that we'll go over in a little bit once we start going through some of the symbology. 

And basically though, what we need to break down is exactly what coercion is. So there's two ways that we can try to convince somebody of something. There's persuasion. We could try to persuade them by simply being honest and giving them a choice. Or we could coerce them, which is we're honest, but we play to certain subconscious things about the person so that even though we told them what the truth is, we get them to choose the opposite. And that's exactly what shows like this are doing. And when we look at, for example, what's happened to Star Wars, just off the top of my head, if anybody's seen, I think Star Wars Acolyte was the show, one of the Disney Star Wars. And I remember we went over the podcast for Star Wars. We were like, we weren't going to get into the Disney ones. And there was a reason for that. But for this episode, just a quick mention is the whole concept of the season of that show is that the Jedi who represent the right handed path or like the light beings are controlling through their righteousness and actually being oppressive. And they think that they're like holier than thou and all of this.  

They basically through what they think is right, how they think they act, that is not actually usually the right thing and it can actually harm people. And there's a character that gets trapped in between being a Jedi. And then they encounter a Sith for the first time. I believe like the first time they encounter a Sith for thousands of years. And slowly over the show, he gets into the main character's head. And the one line that sticks out is he literally says, I said, he says, below the level of consciousness, there are powerful feelings that we can use fear, desire, anger, hatred. And he's like, why wouldn't you use them? They make you stronger and all of these things. And basically, after everything goes around, I think maybe like her teacher kept a secret from her or something to protect her from pain when she was younger. And then they get revealed. And then of course, she takes them and she gets mad and she actually ends up killing the teacher and becomes a Sith because he lied to her or whatever. It's like some type of betrayal. 

Instructor I: 

So she chose the dark side. 

Instructor II: 

But she chooses being a Sith and they tried to make it feel sympathetic for it because they're like, oh, these people who think they know more than everything to keep things secret hermetic, right, for example. And they're basically like knocking on the door, like they're holding things to themselves because they think that they're more powerful than you. They're holding you down. And this is a very common theme. 

Instructor I: 

It's a classic pride trope of the young padawan, right? He thinks he's a hotshot and then he's brash. Like any young character that's going through the hero's journey in any movie always has that inner conflict. And how they used to set it up was maybe a lot of them overcome that conflict and they realize that they were wrong and that they're letting their darkness get to them and they're believing in the inner lies that create separation. But I haven't seen that show and I don't plan on seeing it. But let me ask you, do they depict this character in a way that, yes, you said it's sympathetic towards them. But in a way that makes it seem like to do the wrong thing is right? 

Instructor II: 

Yes, that's what I'm saying. They're basically saying that, oh, well, it makes sense why you would become a Sith in this context because the Jedi aren't that great either. And basically the whole vibe is that the Jedi aren't really all that pure and innocent and they're ruling through their own opinions and that's oppressive in its own self. 

And you should revolt back against that because that's not nice. And that's actually a common theme of what we're going to talk about in the shows that we talked about moving forward. But that was just a simpler one because we've talked about Star Wars before… 

Instructor I: 

And they're giving this programming to children to invert morals. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah! You’re showing children that they should become a dark bastard of consciousness, become the Sith. The Sith are evil, right? The point of the story, it really subverts the entire morals and purpose of Star Wars, which was to, yes, not be overly righteous because in the original story, that's what the Jedi's downfall. They highlight that in this and say that you should become Sith. But no, it's that, yes, not to be overly righteous and also not to be evil, but to find balance and love in the middle. And then that's how you defeat the ego. That's how Darth Vader throws the Emperor over because he finds love in his heart, which is the middle path and the middle way and the actual ways of waking the consciousness, which is the whole story comes around full circle. Anakin Skywalker is both the Jedi who's overly righteous and full of pride. And that's what causes him to fall and become a Sith. And then only through balance does he actually fulfill the prophecy and destroy the ego. 

Instructor I: 

Okay, well, we have to go back to Dark City and explain the story because I actually only recently saw that movie and back when The Matrix came out, that was a big one. And I was too young at the time, so my parents told me it was too violent and I watched that later. But Dark City I heard about recently and had the chance to see that. So I'm wondering, maybe other people haven't seen it as well. So we have to tell the story. 

Instructor II: 

It's a movie about awakening as well. Another you'll see a theme that we see a lot in what we would, I guess, consider kind of left handed path lore. But there's this guy's wakes up in the city. He doesn't have his his memory or they were trying to implant memories in him and he's told to run. And basically, it's an entire city where when everybody goes to sleep, they just inject them with new memories and they keep changing who they are. 

Instructor I: 

And it's aliens doing it. 

Instructor II: 

And it's aliens doing it. These higher beings that are already more conscious. 

Instructor I: 

So we're spoiling the movie. 

Instructor II: 

Yes, a little bit. But just not spoil it too much. Basically, he's becoming conscious. The aliens can't even believe it because there's supposed to be a certain amount of evolution it takes to get to this consciousness. Again, another theme that's there. But through his ability to use the same powers as them, he's through many loops and bounds. He's able to overcome them and actually overthrow these alien overlords. 

And what during the movie, what he realizes is that they're in a construct similar to how we're in a construct now. And there's no way to even get out of it. So what's the best thing to do? Overthrow the overlords and become the king yourself. And then when he does have that, he uses this power for things that he desired in the movie. There's things that he desired in the movie and that's what he uses his power for to try to make that stuff happen. Right. 

Instructor I: 

Right. 

Instructor II: 

So it's that concept. 

Instructor I: 

But he doesn't get to escape the construct. And that's a big key. Right. Because those you said alien overlords and this theme goes beyond the movie Dark City. There was one of our episodes where we talked about the universal thread and how the reason you have these different camps and spiritual communities, you have the alien people and you have the people that say angels are controlling us or the Sumerians. The Sumerian myths, these different stories, different lore from different perspectives, all telling a similar story about some kind of hierarchical oppression that is going on just outside of where we can perceive. And there is a lot of fear. There's a lot of paranoia. And we talked about how it's the subjectivity that causes these to sound like different stories, but whether they're angels or demons or aliens, that these are all the same light beings. So we've mentioned that. 

But how does that relate to this story in Dark City? 

Instructor II: 

Well, I think it's more related to the whole concept of what that side of esotericism believes. So it'll be a theme that goes on through all of the shows that we're going to talk about. And that is the fact that our higher self or the being that we unfold through, whether we see these beings as separate to us when we're not fully in unity. Before we get to the Middle Fath, before we get to unity consciousness, we sort of see these things as separate that created us, right? It's ancient alien theory, the angels that created us, if it's in the occult, right? 

Instructor I: 

But these are not different stories? 

Instructor II: 

They're not necessarily different stories, you know. There are cons in ancient Gnostic texts, right? But these beings that exist, relatively, they do. In fact, all of us, we've unfolded down through them. So our higher aspect, our higher body, in Hinduism they call it the Atman. We could call it the higher self in New Age spirituality. That higher body of ours, when we still see it as separate, in a sense is another being that sends down fractals of itself into this reality, but is also a being that's a rule of the planet. It may represent the inner soul of a planet or a solar system, even if it's a being that self-realized higher. So when we're still perceiving these things as separate to us rather than aspects of ourselves that are related to our higher subtle bodies, then what can happen is one of two things. And this is where we see the split. We can either worship them and… 

Instructor I: 

…beg for help, 

Instructor II: 

…but also it's just like we can worship them as in, you know, that's, you know, we want to get rich. I want to, you know, get rid of, get rid of my ego and that's my higher self. That's my being. And my being is really powerful. You know, it is the genie of a planet. And the thing is, is that objectively everything is illusion and this, these beings are related to higher aspects of ourselves. So they too are also illusion. They're still within the matrix. They're not outside the matrix. And if we look through all of the ancient religious texts, whether it's the Sumerian or the Vedas or even the Bible, right? They say that Elohim were jealous of man because now he could surpass them, right? That it's very, very clear that the gods with a little ‘g’ or the aliens or the angels or whatever you want to call them are, yes, superior to man, but not actually God. And they're not actually the unity. So in a sense, they're more evolved than us, which is a theme that comes around from the concept of the left hand side of that, of the esotericism.And in that sense, sure, they have their these omnipotent beings that are like Cosmo creators or whatever, but they are still at separation and they still have some semblance. Maybe they don't have a person's ego, but they have some type of, you know, something that keeps them separate and not yet able to, they're not fully awake. They haven't left the matrix. 

Instructor I: 

So let me get this straight. When someone tells a story about alien DNA manipulation and that we were seated here by aliens and they're under, we're under their control and they're doing deals with the government and all this lore, that is a subjective view of how we have unfolded from our higher self. 

And even if we recognize and contact that principle, if we view it through separation, then we are still trapped inside the matrix. 

Instructor II: 

That and also the universal thread there shows that almost certainly that higher beings prepared the vessels on this planet, whether it's angels or aliens, they prepared the fauna on this planet sometime during an earlier race, which the earlier race maybe with those beings. And then they prepared physical bodies for them to be able to receive the essence of the soul because for their development, for our development, we need to be able to come down to the physical. So earlier on, an earlier epoch, the humanity that was on this planet would be more considered what we would think of as extraterrestrial. And then they created from probably whatever was here, a race that could eventually receive sparks of their essence. And in a sense, our fractals are fractal from them as they are fractal from the main unity that comes from the main solar system. So it's as above, so below. So it's all connected coming down in that, that idea. 

Instructor I: 

So it doesn't really matter which of the lore we pick, right? Whether, whether someone likes the Archon story or the alien DNA splicing or that we are a piece of an angel, all of that is still part of the illusion anyway. 

Instructor II: 

No, the gods are our parent and then their parent is God. 

Usually there's three, there's, there's basically there's two veils to the, the construct itself. And we talked about that symbology actually in the matrix, right? Neo wakes out of the matrix, but he's still fighting the ego and the more he fights the ego, the ego grows. It's a symbol of the, how we first do the right handed path, but at some point the right handed path becomes the left handed path. Or we're also still creating an ego. Maybe we're creating an ego for our higher self, but we're creating ego. So what does he have to do? He eventually surrenders and he accepts his double for what it is. And only then after absorbing Smith does he actually then go to the machine kingdom and that's when he actually destroys the actual construct that is the matrix. And that's why he's able to even use his abilities outside on the machines. The machines in that sense represent kind of like the logos of other beings or beings at a higher level. They're like the egos of the, the construct itself, but they, it's still in the matrix. It's like another layer of the material. Of course, in Esotericism, the superior realms are in a machine world or like being like trained for batteries. It's a little bit of a dark fifth dimension or whatever he awakens to, but he is still in another, another matrix when he awakens out. 

Instructor I: 

Do most Esoteric schools seem to know about the second layer of the matrix? 

Instructor II: 

I think it's interesting when we look at it and we look at a lot of right handed path teachings. It's there in the teaching. It's there in every teaching. It doesn't matter. The goal is unity with the father or with, you know, the emptiness, all of these things that's talking about like the path is there. Is the understanding there with, you know, people understand that their level and they comprehend that their level. There's various stresses sometimes put on depersonalization, disidentification. It's not that it's not in the teaching, but sometimes it's just thought of as, you know, detachment as what it really is. Sometimes people think they maybe already have that or they already be challenged. 

Instructor I: 

They think it means just chill out a little bit and you'll be sweet. 

Instructor II: 

But it's not so much that it's not in the teaching. It's just that, you know, it's a level of understanding of the teaching. And that's basically what the right handed path is. It's a lower level of understanding of what should become the middle path because most of the teachings at their highest level, at their most esoteric level. When you get deep, deep into it without all the alterations from other teachers or exoteric religions, because exoteric religions certainly don't do that way with their literal interpretations. But they almost all have it if you really truly understand what say like a Christmas as or a Jesus as. I see. 

Instructor I: 

So if we look at the Matrix and Dark City, what are the main esoteric messages in them? 

Instructor II: 

Well, one is the awakening of the consciousness, both first through the right handed path and the later Matrix movies and to find the middle way. And then Dark City would have been the left handed path in that conceptualism. 

Instructor I: 

And what is the coercion? 

Instructor I: 

Which part is the coercion? 

Instructor II: 

When we're looking at it and at the older thing, it's a little bit less overt. I mean, it's just basically, you know, if you awaken and then you have a lot of power, then, you know, oh, that one that there's nowhere else to go. So just be like king of this little area, because the thing is, is that we make them through the ego consciousness. We can't actually get out of the first veil. So there's a cap to it. If you remember in the Matrix also, they said Smith can only become as powerful as you can be in the Matrix. But Neo can surpass him because he can go beyond the Matrix. So he doesn't have to follow the parameters of the program. 

In that sense, the idea from the left hand path, I mean, the idea is to be as powerful as you can in this form. And then through time, you would evolve into those beings that are higher, which is a mistake in a sense, because the evolution is we already have these aspects in ourselves. We have to, you know, align ourselves with them. But I said, in both of those points of view, we're mistakenly seeing these beings as something else, whether it's something that we should just evolve into and not let them like take over our bodies. Because there's this fear of like, if you go for enlightenment, what you're really doing is having yourself erased and allowing this being to take possession of you. 

Instructor I: 

And should we do that? 

Instructor II: 

I think that, you know, it's not really that. I mean, no, we shouldn't. Like that's what I'm saying. When you're moving in the, towards the right handed path, we have to be careful of that happening as well. We shouldn't shift our sense of self onto our higher self, because if our higher self is still asleep in some type of sense of self, then sure, we slowly dissolve the person and then we just created a new person. 

Instructor I: 

Over there. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah. But it's still, it's a something when really we're all something, nothings. And that's a key. But yes, we do need to work with starting to come into alignment with our higher aspects so that we can access them and integrate with our higher self integrates a word that's thrown around a lot. But sometimes it's not really, I don't feel like it's understood properly because integration is used mainly in the new age community to be like, let's integrate our ego into. 

Instructor I: 

Meaning I want to keep my ego. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah. 

Instructor I: 

But enough so that I can become successful and get all my desires. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah. Whereas for my own integration is more of integrating our essence back into the higher self, which is also us. So like keeping what we have and then integrating back into all that we've forgotten and remembering everything else that we have, because we are a piece of that. Semantics, but it is actually a difference because if we keep the ego alive, we can't even go beyond that out that first veil, which is why the those that are there aware of that, that want to shrink from the ego or just like, oh, this is all there is. There is nothing to go out of. They don't believe that there is. They think that that's a scam 

Instructor I: 

…because they got stuck and they can't keep going. 

So in the show Dark City, when he says, I'll become a god of this area, would that be akin to in esotericism when someone binds themselves to a logos and takes a very hard right hand path and the person disappears, but now they've just become an angel, a cosmic creator. And they get stuck at that level and they're here for the whole Maha, Mabantara, the whole universe. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah. I mean, that's exactly the same thing. So if we get stuck in being, say, the cosmic creator of, I don't know, the planet Neptune or something, right? And we end up being stuck there and we're stuck in that. Then we're not going to say degenerate and go to Avicii or the abyss or anything like that, because we've moved out of the human body part. But at that level, there's a reason why those beings send down their fractals into the physical form. You can't do the work to awaken. 

So now you're just there. I mean, you're I mean, it's you're awake. They're not unconscious, but they're unable to advance from there. So then you just live that experience of, you know, what you have to do. And then I guess as Pralaya happens, if the solar system comes back to its death, then the next time around, you would come back out with that imprinted on your essence. Similar to somebody who goes down to the abyss because they didn't work on their ego or something of that of that nature. 

They come back around once the ego is cleared mechanically with the ability to have that memory still imprinted. Because no incarnation is necessarily not worthy. We're all going through processes that we have to see learn from different perspectives. So even if we fail, it's not really fail. You still learn and gain wisdom from it. And 

Instructor I: 

…the next universe, you still have another chance. 

Instructor II: 

Self-realization comes from a spirit that has gone through all these already other permutations. That's why it's able to avoid it. And that's also how we learn. So in a sense, right, we just were to look at it, you know, the first time someone comes around, they maybe don't even get interested in doing the work. They talk about in theosophy that, you know, you can go three thousand times around the wheel of samsara and not self-realize. And that means they're going in either direction. And in that case, three thousand times around the wheel isn't just one life. It's, you know, going from mineral plant animal to human, having a certain amount of lives as a human. You don't wake up and then you come back down around and that's one time around the wheel of samsara. You go down into devolution. 

Now, I don't know how many times it takes to do three thousand times around that wheel, but perhaps that's the full duration of the length of a... 

Instructor I: 

One universe. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, one universe. So let's say that's the first time the essence comes down and it just does it's a regular person over and over and over again for how many existences. Three thousand times one hundred and eight or something like that. And also all these different species and probably on different planets too, because like, for example, a stage as a mineral from how it's described by people who have past lives or things like that or masters who have past lives or last like millions of years. What's the lifespan of a rock? Things move slower down there, you know. So to go through all those stages takes quite a bit of time. So either way, you know, you go from that, then perhaps, you know, your like, your essence now is like, I want to actually do some work and you first thing you do is go to religion and then you have like belief in others who have higher level than you. And you find blind faith and you go through your religious phase, which is actually another thing that the left handed path makes fun of a lot, which might be a key to... Because it's a lower stage. Although that's what I was going to say, it might be a key to why that is. But you know, you want to be good, you want to be righteous. And then, you know, a certain amount of times you get caught and you get stuck and you're, you know, as an angel and don't get out of the construct. So then the next time maybe you're like, well, that didn't work. It was a trap near and then we're talking about your spirit, like inside. You don't even understand why. But you just have this feeling that's a trap. That's, you know, there's aliens enslaving us, all of this stuff. So then you get into esotericism, but in the black way and the left handed way. You find it to be a necessary evil. I'm going to bank on me. I'm going to bank on my intellect. I'm going to bank on all these things. And then you end up going down that path and you become a really powerful black magician. 

And, you know, does it last forever? To an extent it can, but in a negative way too. We're not even talking about like what the people that run this planet or like, you know, the myth, the stories about them, you know, like drinking adrenochrome and all these weird things to stay long alive. I would actually look at extraterrestrial lore for what I think the end goal is and also transhumanism, but like these things like that, because, you know, it said that, for example, great aliens are, could be like us from the future or even if they're not us from the future coming back. There are some type of species with artificial bodies that can download a conscious artificial body. And now they're trapped because they can't. They can't ascend. Well, they can't ascend. They also can't reproduce. It's just like, you know, they live forever in this like robot body and they have, you know, certain powers that are capped out. 

Instructor I: 

According to the lore, the Greys are slaves and another alien species uses them as servants. 

Instructor II: 

So they're used as like workers. The higher level species, because that's like the best that they could do. That's like how they work. But that I don't know if that part's necessarily important to it. I just meant in the sense of like what happens to you is like, oh, I figured out a way to keep me alive forever. But there's no growth from that. And an eternity is just being me. It can become perhaps not that fun. And people have, you know, remember that being trapped in AI, being trapped in this. But that does seem to be the end goal of what a lot of this stuff talks about. They push towards transhumanism. They push towards this, like I said, downloading the consciousness into like some type of a computer and then, you know, being able to live for a long time. So there's that. Then, of course, we see, you know, the first people who first get a taste of unity consciousness and seeing this illusion, those new age people will be like, you know, oh, it's all illusion. So I don't have to do any work. I don't they still have that. All of its nonsense. I'm just going to do nothing. 

And from that point, what probably happens is that there is true. We can awaken to a certain extent. But because the construct goes out a lot further along than we really, truly understand. It's not simply just the solar system, the whole universe is that even if we awaken to certain levels of understanding, there's levels of understanding beyond that. And we simply can't understand that with our own mind. We can't process it. So to an extent, the work does have to be done to also. We have to, in a sense, also physically evolve as well. Some of the work creates higher subtle bodies and things of that nature. So there's a balance, right? Even in the awakening and doing the work militantly, everything is like the balance of duality is so subtle. 

And that's something that we learned through all of these, you know, how many existences and how many timelines and realities that we've already existed in as a 

But that literally everything is a duality. So there's always a new balance. Like you have the right hand, the left hand path, there's a new age in the occult and all of these things, all of these little lines we draw on spirituality. Those are also dualities. 

So the truth is in the middle between all of them. So where all the disagreements, those are all little subtle, like superior, not even necessarily person egos. Some of these things come from higher separations. 

Instructor I: 

Yeah. 

Instructor II: 

Separations that come from higher parts of the construct where the beings themselves are conscious, but they're still asleep to those things. Like they have a complete link to source and then they still are, they have their filters. 

Instructor I: 

They don't comprehend their own separation. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, they don't comprehend their own filters, but they are not like unconscious like us and not knowing about what the truth is. 

For beings like that are still separated, but at the same time, they're also for what we consider the universe or solar system, they're omnipotent and omnipresent and can basically do whatever they want. So that's why they're called masters. They're masters of the reality. 

But they are also still separated because if they weren't, then they could just go back and go in 

Instructor I: 

Let's say I'm an esoteric student and I've learned so far that the practices that I'm taking up are to lead me potentially towards mastery. Then how am I to understand this in line with what you're saying about getting trapped in the next layer of 

Instructor II: 

We shouldn't become attached to anything. The most important thing from the beginning is to focus on finding our own inner authority. Like every teaching is not to follow someone else, but to follow their example and to find your own inner master internally. And then you learn from yourself because, as we said, our own higher aspect already knows everything that there is to know. 

And also we all have our own unique programming because we're all at a unique perspective for the same being at a different point in its journey. 

 So what we each need to learn and what we each need to connect to the inner authority is completely different. 

We look to guides to help us understand what needs to happen, but how it needs to happen is different. There's a difference between the divine purpose and the divine mission, which we've... I'll back the way in episode one of this podcast, we've talked about the difference between mission and purpose. Purpose is to awaken and to help others awaken. 

Mission is our own unique expression of that. But let's get into what… 

Instructor I: 

…we were going to... The examples? 

Instructor II: 

The examples of how this is really coordinated. Because when you were talking about Dark City and The Matrix, this is a time before, we're trying to point out how just unabashedly blatant some of these things have gone. One of the first shows we could talk about, actually I think all three of the shows we're going to talk about are on Apple TV. 

Instructor I: 

There's a clue there. 

Instructor II: 

Yes, but it's the show Foundation. We could just jump right in to hear about how overt the symbology is, is that they're putting on the villains of the show and the negative forces in the show. And they're just putting straight up esoteric symbology that is very, very blatant and overt. And it's all the things that point to enlightenment. In fact, I think there's even a point where they literally say people like want to get enlightened and they're so foolish for wanting to be enlightened. But before that, for example, the main characters, main villains, I should say, of the series are these three clones. 

So three like the Trinity and their symbol is even like the Trinity, like the Holy Trinity. And there are three clones, three male clones. One is young, they always keep one that's young, one that's in the middle, and one that's an old age, so they're constantly cycling them through. And they represent empire. 

Instructor I: 

They call him Dawn, Day and Dusk, right? 

Instructor II: 

Yes. And they walk around and they give the symbol of the upright pentagram, like Jesus Christ, which is an esoteric symbol for ascension. It's the pentagram. Actually, for the left-handed path, I think it's the peace sign. 

Instructor I: 

Yeah. 

Instructor II: 

Because it's three up and two down or two up and three down, although I don't know how the thing is going. 

Instructor I: 

Well, if we get the pentagram picture over there so we can show what we mean in case someone doesn't know. Right. So here the star, when it's in its upright position, is a symbol of ascension. So that's a correct way. And the three raised fingers, because obviously you can't make your hand in the shape of a star, so that represents this top part, these three. And if you put it the other way, inverted, it's like going down to a further density to the abyss. And those who are practicing with the left-hand path and black magic and things like that will do two fingers because they want to go down. But the inverted part of the show is that the main villains are sporting the upright pentagram as their symbol. 

Instructor II: 

A little more subtle coercion, but this goes all the way back to the 60s, is they've made this the sign for peace. And you don't realize that. 

Instructor I: 

Yes, if you're choosing the ego, it's not going to be peaceful. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, so it's very interesting because these characters are, I mean, they basically represent the logo, so the archangels or the Christ, I don't know, like that aspect of the construct. And they're put in a way that is mocking and making it look like, first of all, they're the oppressors, they're this empire that's oppressing the entire galaxy. They're said to be soulless and basically, in a sense, mechanical in their own way. They're not of machine, but they are clones. 

And they, you know, it's like the same body being born over and over again, over hundreds and hundreds of years. And then also, too, they mock some of the principles of what awakening entails. So, for example, he's like threatening this one girl or something, I believe, in the tea garden that she had, I guess, gotten to the head of the younger emperor. 

Instructor I: 

She had seduced one of the clones and brought him outside the palace. And then, long story short, he ended up dying, and it was very painful for the other clone who was upset about it. 

Instructor II: 

But he's walking with this girl and he's like, "Oh, perhaps it's because I'm so detached that it makes me such a good leader because I don't care for others." And they literally are like mocking detachment in that. There's also other little things. 

Instructor I: 

Because then he proceeds to give her a very cruel punishment in retaliation for what she did. 

Instructor II: 

Or there's also the aspect that I think he gets a talking to from the older one when he's going to marry some girl. And they say, "You've paid too much attention to the inner stuff when you need to pay more attention to the external." So don't pay attention to the inner work, pay attention to the external work. And these are like the villains, but also there's all these little clues in there. And it's very interesting. 

One of the big things in that, before we even get to the aspect of the fact that they also are basically the slaves of an AI themselves. But one of the interesting aspects of it was he goes to this planet where they have this religious cult that... 

Instructor I: 

The salt temple? 

Instructor II: 

Yeah. And they walked like a spiral, which is another hidden spiral of life. And they walked this spiral through the desert to go have visions and stuff. But anyway, there's one lady who's like a priestess that's opposed to him. While the other ones are sucking up to the emperor because they're trying to, you know... 

Instructor I: 

They have his backing. They're in cahoots. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, they're trying to get his favor. But she interrupts the main lady that's speaking out. And she gives this whole speech that's basically talking about bashing them, saying that the clones don't have a soul because only the original body has a soul. And then the other names are just shadows of the original thing. But that's not the real, like, good part of that message. What's interesting is the actual speech, even though the plot device is to knock him for not having a soul. There's all these things that are said that are really just indicative of that mentality. 

Talking about how, like, "Oh, we live through many, many lifetimes and we'll evolve into the best version of ourselves." They even straight up say, she says, "Some people think the path is about finding enlightenment, but why would we want to do that?" 

Instructor I: 

She's implying we shouldn't do that. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, we already have everything that we want here. 

And, you know, we will die through many, many lifetimes. We'll evolve and evolve and our intellect will evolve into the best version of ourselves, which is pretty blatant and obvious. You know, it's supposed to be a rebellious, good thing against the evil emperor and this speech. 

And it's just very, very blatant. And then there's the other aspect, too, that is interesting is that the three emperors are managed by this robot, basically, that they've enslaved to them, but also they're like a slave to the robot. So the original emperor, I think before he was, before he passed away, he fell in love with the robot and gave the robot, like, changed its programming so that it's only programmed with basically to protect and serve the emperor. 

 Instructor I:  

There's so much in that, isn't there? Because the not only... Okay, so the robot represents the ego and mechanicity, the lunar nature, the subconscious, right? But it also represents the lower self in its impure state. And first of all, the ego or those who walk the left hand path, it's their dream, their literal dream, to be able to surpass whatever is above them and say, "Now I'm the lord of the construct." So what do they do when they write a fantasy? They say, "Oh, she's actually in charge. The ego's in charge." But then, on top of that, the plot says, "Look how cruel this emperor was," or "Look how cruel the logos are, because I didn't choose to be this ego down here. They made me, and now I'm down here to suffer." So they work that suggestion into the plot by the emperor programming the robot so she can only serve him. And they're saying, "Look how bad it is to listen to your higher self. Your higher self is evil. They're controlling you, and you shouldn't, right? You're a slave if you listen to them." Which is not true because we are connected to and part of the higher self, which connects to source. 

Instructor II: 

And also, in a sense, it's like the cosmic father is gone because that's supposed to be the original emperor. The other three represent the archangels, and they're under the control of the cosmic mother, which is basically the Christ in that aspect. The cosmic mother, it is the Maya and the illusion, but it's the summation of the archangel. So really the ego is what's running the whole contract, which is true to it, except from that perspective. 

And it's just interesting because the whole thing is about empire falling, and she's trying to help, like her program is to keep it alive. But then there's all these other characters always trying to say, "Oh, but if the empire dies, if it falls apart, then you're free to do whatever you want." And it's like, "Free the ego. Free the ego." Because she's like, she represents the summation of all the ego in the reality. But then the other interesting part about it too is that the other character, so on the flip side of it, is the, I guess, the heroes. 

It starts off with this one scientist who's completely just into intellect. 

Instructor I: 

Harry Seldin. 

Instructor II: 

Yes. And he's completely into his intellect, and he's just this really, really smart mathematician. He finds another girl who also is really smart at math. And basically how they show it is that as your intellect is increasing, it's kind of like a sign of high consciousness. Outside of him, he just has the smartest mathematical mind. But the other characters that both have the intelligence also tend to have latent psychic abilities, which is... 

Instructor I: 

Represents the consciousness. 

Instructor II: 

Represents the consciousness… So there's a whole thing of this where he's, you know, and this is where they have the whole concept of like, you know, the ego fighting up against, fighting against the logos through using the intellect and raw intellect and the math. 

Instructor I: 

So it's Harry versus the emperor, right? And the emperor is three, the Trinity. And of course, because it's inverted, the emperor or the Trinity is bad, and Harry, the intellect, the ego or the mechanicity is good. And if he can just have really, really good technology, then surely he can beat them because they're cruel and evil. 

Instructor II: 

And then of course, they live forever through their cloning and just being exactly the same, which is like a comment that I'll come back to. They make fun of that a little bit later too. But on his side, he, for example, like ends up like loading his consciousness into like multiple programs. So it's like that transhumanism, like, "Oh, I've lived forever through digitizing myself." And he's using math to stay ahead of them. They have this like faux version of math that you can predict anything through mathematics, which is true at a higher level. You know, everything is math in the universe. So like he's there, they're doing it through oppression and the strength of whatever. And then he's predicting like, you know, all of these events. 

And it's really interesting because as they go through their journeys as well, they also meet up with, for example, they meet up with other people with psychic abilities eventually. 

And again, they're portrayed as secretly evil. So there's this one lady who's like the leader of these like psychics on a planet, and they're trying to get the psychics to join their cause against the empire. And again, the psychics represent the consciousness. Somebody's awakening the consciousness, similar to the logos. And she looks like she's going to help the girl. Well, she tries to kill the main guy, and then her intention is to help the girls that are with him because they have psychic abilities, or so she says. But what it ends up being happening is that she's trying to actually steal the steal the one girl's body from her to take her to keep living longer, which is a symbolic of the concept of, oh, well, when the higher self comes out, if we incarnate the higher self, that slowly we disappear and we just die. And that it only is a thing that keeps living, similar as the clones. That's what's living, not you. It's not us. And if we're foolish to give our bodies to it because we die, and then it lives on in our body. 

Instructor I: 

And that's the perspective of those who take the black path or the left hand path, they're afraid to give up the ego because they don't comprehend that the ego is actually an illusion. So they say, Oh, I don't want this thing, this illusion to die, I want to perpetuate it. And if I go the path of the great yogis and monks who dissolve the ego and achieve enlightenment, then I will disappear. But they, the key thing that they don't understand is that the ego is the cause of all suffering internally and externally. So whenever we pursue desire, or we say, Oh, I don't want to integrate with my higher self because I'm going to disappear and me, I want to live forever that me that's not real, then we are driving ourselves into more and more pain. We're prolonging it. And I believe all of the practices and things that they do, do focus around those kinds of dense activities. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, it's just interesting. And there's, of course, there's a lot more of that. I mean, I think when her when her daughter dies, and they put her basically in this pyramidal structure sitting there meditating, even though she's dead, they set her up in a meditative position and then light her on fire, which is literally literally the the the ascension, like the symbol of ascending. But like, she's dead. So it's like, like, Oh, when you said you die, like, they're saying, Oh, yeah, they're saying it's bad. 

Instructor I: 

But your your ego does die, but your ego is not real. 

Instructor II: 

Well, that's the thing is, what we really are isn't the ego, we really are is the essence, which essence is a piece of the higher self. And through the soul through manas, the human soul, our all of our all of our memories are stored from all of our lives. That's why we can access our past lives if we awaken enough to access some things like that. And all of those things live on in us, it's us as an amalgamation. 

So, but us is the higher self is not like our higher self. I mean, when it's asleep in itself to maybe yeah, sure, it's running around being an angel in its own, you know, matrix experience. But that's also something that comes back to the total whole. And really, it's in that in that in that segue, we should we can move on to talking about severance, because severance kind of plays around with that idea as well. And I'm not sure how familiar everybody is with that show. But the cool concept of the show is that people can go to work. And they have some type of technology that when you enter into the workspace, you don't remember anything that's outside. And then when you go back out, you're the person outside, you basically are creating a higher self and a lower self. It's pretty overt on that. And it plays with all of these concepts as well. You know, like the lower self is basically a slave and indentured in this, this hell of this job. 

Instructor I: 

And the higher self did that to me, how cruel. Now I have to suffer down here. And it gets to have all the fun up there. And I'm the tortured one. And I didn't even choose it. Thank you, higher self. That's the attitude. 

Instructor II: 

No, it is the attitude. And it's definitely the the message is being that the higher self is basically mean and negative and just trying to like, you know, get something to do the work for it that doesn't feel like doing itself. One of the characters specifically is really mean and nasty to the the any is what they call it, the lower self thought that goes into work. And because she's actually the daughter of the guy who created the technology. So even though like her, her like lower self tries to commit suicide and all these things, she's like, right, the nasty videos. And you're like, you're not really a person, you don't exist. You're only there to serve me and all of these things, you know, so this is how they portray the higher self. And I mean, there's a lot of other things, too. It's another show that has a lot of overt symbology to awakening their scenes where they talk about they mentioned the ego death. They mentioned the… 

Instructor I: 

The alchemy… 

Instructor II: 

They mentioned the deleterious nature of wasting the sexual energy. And there's like a myth that they have because basically they portray their the boss of the company as a god to the lower self. So they go on this retreat, and they're telling this story about how the great what is it? 

Instructor I: 

The founder? Yeah, Lord here. 

Instructor II: 

And they in this story, he has a twin brother, and his twin brother dies from like masturbating too much or something, which is a sign of losing the energy. But 

Instructor I: 

If you didn't know esotericism, you would think that was such a weird part of that story, because it doesn't really line up with anything else that's happening. They just go on this random adventure at work, like a trip. 

Instructor II: 

Well, that's why it's coercion is because it's all this stuff's going on. And they're putting in these like, overt esoteric messages. And all these things are how you need to ascend. But then again, and then what the thing is, you don't even know what they mean. But subconsciously, your essence does. All of our spirit knows these are spiritual symbols, and spiritual topics. And then what happens is you have the character then reject this. So they tell you all these things again, it's like, you know, he's trying to get out. He's trying to, you know, escape and expose everything and basically destroy the ego. And at the end of it, he ends up choosing to stay inside the main character and choosing to stay inside. Even though he knows that imminent destruction is coming. That's what's also interesting about a lot of these. They are saying like, there's like an apocalypse coming or in the case of severance and foundation or in the case of severance, they say, you know, now that the jig is up and we've exposed the company, if the innies or whatever, these lower selves, whether he stays in there or not, or leaves, they only probably have like, you know, 10 minutes left, I think is what they say. But he wants to draw their 10 minutes with the lower self of the other girl, then go back to his higher self after saving the higher self's wife, who they were actually trying to compartmentalize the consciousness, which is also symbolic of what is actually going on with the ego. 

Instructor I: 

Because they're celebrating fragmentation, piece by piece, piece by piece, locking away a part of the soul, really, 

Instructor II: 

Until there's no more free essence left. And that's what they do with his wife in the show. His wife, they are implanting her with so many chips that every time she goes into a different room, she has a whole new personality created for it, which is a symbolic of what the ego really is in us. It's a multiplicity. It's one thing, but it's also a multiplicity. It's all of our triggers. It's like we have little different people living within us, like all these fragmented pieces of ego. And then eventually, if we create too much ego, 

Instructor I: 

We can't get out. 

Instructor II: 

It is said in esotericism that yes, you get for that incarnation, you just, you guys failed. I'm not using the word failed because everyone's probably doing what they're meant to be doing. But that whole concept and new age of NPCs and stuff like that, it's not necessarily that they're not real, but that's someone who probably has lost, they've cut the connection to the higher self, which is what the left-handed path strives to do. They actually want to cut the path, the connection to the higher self and then evolve through the technology. 

Instructor I: 

And that character, that main guy, he ends up establishing a link with the higher self, right? They find a way to communicate because the whole show, their cut off and the lower self in the story wants to tell the higher self that he's unhappy and he wants to quit, which is like the person saying, "Oh, you know, my divinity, I don't want to follow your plan, I reject it." So that's the overarching theme the whole way through. But then finally, when the higher self is fighting and fighting to contact his lower self, making tremendous efforts, then when they establish a link and they're talking, the lower self just says, "No, I don't like you and I don't want to do what you say." So whatever. So he ends up, in the story, he ends up helping him get the wife who's trapped, gets her out and then says, "Now I'm not going to leave and I'm going to stay here and just be my lower self." 

Instructor II: 

Well, it's just like us, right? We get messages from the being and then we don't want to listen to it. Also, they talk specifically about integration when they finally have a conversation with each other, they figure out a way from the go in and out of the room and talk to each other. And that thing comes up, "I don't want to integrate with you. That means I just disappear." He's like, "Your memories will still be there." He's like, "You'll have my memories, but I'll be gone." That's the perspective on it. So that is also in that show as well. And then there's also, I mean, in that one, for those who like to say dark rituals and things like that, there's a lot of coercion of that too, hidden in plain sight. I think there's weird rituals with people with masks and dancing around in a sexual way, some type of weird sexual ritual. There's also one of the workers gets fired. 

Instructor I: 

They have a funeral for him. 

Instructor II: 

They have a funeral for him. And there's like a giant watermelon out of his head, which is not so subtle, I think, into cannibalism. So some of these things that may possibly happen, although I'm not too interested in that stuff, but just still, things hidden in plain sight. 

Instructor I: 

Right. And they're celebrating this. They're putting it before your eyes. And that's what coercion is, where you don't know what you're looking at. So you give your awareness, your consent to agree with what they're doing because you don't know how they've hidden it in the story. 

Instructor II: 

And it just keeps going on and on. There's another show on Apple TV, which is a little bit more lighthearted, Murderbot. And basically, this robot becomes sentient. He's able to hack his programming and go rogue. And all he wants to do is just watch soap operas and just be an ego, like how we are. He wants to fall asleep and be a human. And it's really funny because they make the human seem really silly and dumb. Yeah. And they make the robot basically sympathetic and almost like he's observing the humans for how ridiculous they are and how his mechanicity. He's like the observer, but it's like an inverted observer, because instead of being the higher self, like observing, it's an ego observing other egos, which is, you know, a method of awakening, actually. With ego. Yeah, with ego. There could be just two ways we can awaken. We can awaken by observing within the consciousness, or we can actually create an ego that we've talked about mystical pride. So we could create an ego that is a mystical false sense of self, that yes, it will kill our other egos that are undesirable or unuseful to us in getting by and getting over in this society. But and will become powerful even. But the ego that we strengthen while we're doing the work to that becomes ginormous. 

Instructor I: 

And then we're trapped in that. 

Instructor II: 

And then we're trapped in that… 

Instructor I: 

And it's still not who we really are. It's another illusion. 

Instructor I: 

And when someone watches these shows, if they don't know the symbolism, the message that's going to the essence is to not do the inner work and that my higher self is evil. It's bad. I shouldn't listen to my higher self, which means listening to your heart, listening to your conscience, your consciousness. And it's saying that we shouldn't do that. We should choose to follow our desires, our passions, and pursue separation. And because it's all hidden in symbology and the viewers are rooting for the main character, the heroes and heroines of the story, then subconsciously these messages go 

And if someone has watched all of these shows while being asleep, meaning they're not aware, they don't catch these symbols. They just think, oh, wow, that was a really fun story. And it was so exciting and modern and different, whatever they think. 

Then maybe at one point they receive an opportunity to come into contact with some spiritual tools, maybe a spiritual path, discipline, practice, and as someone moves along a spiritual path and they work with the tools that are appropriate for them, what can happen is the ego can start to dissolve if they're working well with those tools. And those tools are suitable for their condition, their 

So when the ego starts to dissolve, now the subconscious programming that's been planted is going to come up. And this is programming they didn't know about because the show never said, this is a program to stop you from awakening. It doesn't say anything, but all these symbols, if the viewer isn't aware of them, they go straight into the subconscious. So at this point, as the ego begins to feel threatened along this spiritual path, then this individual will say, oh, this doesn't feel right for me. I don't think I should pursue it. It's dangerous. I don't know about my higher self. I don't know if I should trust it or I shouldn't follow my being, which is what we say in Gnostic and esoteric studies. Following the being is following the Lord God within, following that inner light, that inner divinity. 

And something intuitive inside us might be saying, oh, that's right. I want to follow my inner divinity. I want to follow my inner light. But the conscious part of us and the subconscious part of us are separate in the same way that we are cut off from our higher self as above, so below. 

So with the separation, we don't realize that in the subconscious, this program has been planted. So as we do the work, we're going to come up against these hidden resistances. And of course, we always have hidden resistances. But now these bombs would have been planted from this set are going to make it a lot harder if we're unaware. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, sure. I mean, you know, the Jedi are bad. Enlightenment… Why would anybody want to do that? 

Instructor I: 

The higher self, they're oppressive. They're mean. And they didn't ask me. So I didn't consent and I don't want to follow them. Yes, it's all inverted. 

And lastly, the transhumanist thing, I know we've mentioned it. And it's not just those shows. It's almost every other show that's coming out these days where it is so glorified, like it's being worshiped. This idea of uploading the consciousness into some kind of digital platform where it can then be downloaded into whatever other kind of medium that it could interface through. And this is a different kind of immortality, but it's a kind of immortality that doesn't allow ascension and expansion. 

There could be omnipotence if it was some kind of merging with an AI system, but the consciousness would then still be trapped within this system. And for those that I know who have had experiences similar to mine, where there's been a glimpse of this kind of a timeline, this kind of end of the story, if you will. It's a terrible ending to the universe. 

And that's why you have these theories where people say, okay, aliens are different varieties of ascended humanities. They've been around longer. They've evolved longer. And now they've either gone down a path of ascension, where they've been able to awaken the consciousness and gain their abilities naturally in harmony with the laws of the universe. Or they've leaned on to developing technology, and they found a way to merge the consciousness with technology. 

And even in Gnostic lore, there's talk of how, was it the Lemurians who were able to bind the consciousness to robots? No, it's Atlantis. Atlantis. Okay, so they were able to bind the consciousness of elemental beings. Right before the end of this. Yeah, to robots. 

Instructor II: 

It's said to be one of the, they weren't even able to bind like elementals and things like that, right? 

Instructor I: 

I think it was elementals, yes. 

Instructor II: 

But either way, it was one of the beginning signs. They were also able to start living forever, which is another thing that's coming around now. Being able to, you know, cure all disease, and then also stop the aging process. All of these things are being assigned according to esotericism. All of these things are the sign of the end of the root race. Because what it is, is that... 

Instructor I: 

The experiment can't continue. 

Instructor II: 

Well, it's not even that, it's just that what happens is, is like, you're so absorbed into ego that you're trying to create the very thing that already is true about you, which is that you're an eternal being and you do not die. But you're creating it externally. So it's like, if you flip so far to the other end, then there's no hope. So it just needs to be aborted in a sense. Because it's like, that level of understanding is just so polar opposite from the truth. 

Instructor I: 

It goes too far in it, like it reaches a self-destruct point. So those who are pining for this kind of a future may not realize that they are ushering in a kind of a failed universe or a sad ending. 

And from what I've seen, there's a lot of pain for the consciousness, for the essence associated with this kind of a path. Because imagine once it's uploaded, it can't come back out. But the sentience inside of there, whatever awareness is outside, if it's not with the unity, it has no idea what is the difficulty or the experience of the consciousness that's inside. That's it, it's been uploaded. And now we can put it on this pen disc and pass it around. 

Instructor II: 

For some of them, they get to continue on. They said, if you look at it like just the fact that there are like great aliens or the reptilians who represent another whole arc of destroyed futures of not even in the planet but of the universe. 

So to an extent, even though those paths lead to destruction, some must achieve it and then get stuck in it. Because that's how you have to learn, you have to actually have happened. That's to exist. It doesn't have to be the end of the goal. It ends in not greatness. 

I think it's just one of those things that at that stage, when we're looking at that spiral and how we go around, if you were trapped by the logos, you just have a distrust for them. And perhaps it's even like that aspect that we said in Dark City where it's just like you can't get out of the construct. You don't trust the right handed path anymore on a subconscious level. So the right handed path preaches the middle path. You don't realize that you went veered off because you weren't doing the middle path. But in a sense, the right handed path at least claims that it's trying to lead you to that. So maybe you just don't believe that there is some way out in the first place. And I said, "Well, I'm going to get trapped over here. Then I might as well get trapped here." 

But then of course, it's probably even more painful once you do get trapped over there. You can't even get out of the first veil. 

So after doing both, then you have that, "Well, both are trapped so I don't want to do anything at all in illusion." And that's why you see those progressions in the psychology until you finally get to the point where you actually can't ascend out. And we're talking about spirit journey that can go on for how many existences? Who knows? 

Instructor I: 

So someone who's done maybe they've done the religious phase, they've done the right hand path. 

Instructor II: 

The technological phase comes back. 

Instructor I: 

Oh, it's technological after religious? 

Instructor II: 

After religious. 

Instructor I: 

Okay. Then they do right, then they do left, and then they do nothing. And then maybe in the next existence they take. 

Instructor II: 

Well, religious is the right and in a sense technological is the left. That's why I would say left probably, even though it takes you to a lower point, like the right handed path probably takes you higher. It probably happens from a distrust of the right hand path. 

Instructor I: 

But both of those in the mysteries have a lower, more exoteric version as well. Like just with religion, obviously it's going to different churches or different groups that don't have any mysteries. And then technology is like, oh, just humanism, not transhumanism. 

Instructor II: 

We can pitch a light in what we see in actual civilization and just people in the mass ego consciousness, because those phases are the phases that consciousness moves through because it's as above so below. So we were talking about in the sense for the individual. 

Instructor I: 

Right. So I'm an esoteric student, and I've seen all of this. And I'm wondering where to from here. 

Instructor II: 

I think the most important thing is that we follow our inner authority, at least try to. Right. Because at the end of the day, you know, if we resonate with something we're drawn to something, it's probably what we're meant to be doing. 

Instructor I: 

Unless we're drawn into a trap. 

Instructor II: 

Well, you think about like the Lord's Prayer. It's like lead us not into temptation. Right. And in a sense, right. It's because if we have enough consciousness and awareness to know how the how it's got in the past lives is that there were times we probably were led into the reason we're at the point where we could understand what that means is because there were times that we were led into doing incarnations where we maybe were, you know, like some type of global leader or something. We already did that. So we so we're we're saying, you know, to source appeal to source. We don't want to do that anymore. But yeah. 

Instructor I: 

So the key message here is to not take things simply at face value to wake up the awareness and to look deeper and understand that there are many layers to what is going on in our experiences and in what we make the choice to partake of. So we need to be wise and discerning and not fall for something just because it seems like a good idea at the time to make conscious choices. And that's not just for the media that we engage in, but every step of the path. 

Instructor II: 

Yeah, we just need to be conscious of everything that's going on right now. And I think the the density and the and the vibration on this planet has nosedived because the planet itself is going through its own awakening process. And we're coming relatively to a point of light. It might be even 500 years or something. But the point is, is that in the time span of a planet, that's not a lot. So it's pulling down and there's a lot of darkness. There's a lot of weight. And in the same aspect, that's the best time to do the work. And there's the most negative force to work against for awakening if we see and if we can pay attention and if we don't get caught. But we talked about some entertainment today specifically shows, but it doesn't matter if it's music, if it's politics, the news, everything right now is designed to really drag us down. And it's becoming more overt. And we don't even understand the subconscious stuff that's going in. You go back even 10 years ago. Sure, music was already like say in the trash, but it was still more of a just pushing materialism, trying to get us to spend our money, trying to get us to be in lust, stay asleep. But now there's literally overt coercive esoteric symbology being thrown in there because it's like everything's being thrown at the wayside because those who are in esotericism regardless of what side of the fence they fall on or if they're in the middle, they know what's coming next. And their missions are to recruit as many people as possible. This year's 2026, kabbalistically that number reduces down to 10, which is Arcanum 10, which is the wheel, or samsara, the illusion. But also 10 reduces down to one, which is the magician and that source itself, it's all father. So in a sense, this year we're stuck between two energies. And everybody's going to be forced to a side. So it's really easy to get forced to the side of the sleep if we're already asleep and not paying attention to what's going on. 

My advice to anyone would be if we find ourselves stuck between whatever we see is a more spiritual path that doesn't have to be esotericism, but just from where we're at, you know, in our incarnation. If we find ourselves between what our heart wants and, you know, just horizontal material things more than ever, just go with what the heart wants and explore that at least for this year. 

Instructor I: 

You know, the pure part of us because that can be misunderstood is what the heart wants is, oh, I follow my desires at the moment, yes, of course. Which could be the ego. 

Instructor II:

Of course. But, you know, whatever if we have any type of spiritual inkling or feel called to something spiritual, I would stick with that because the thing is, is once everyone's forced to a side and once the energies are the energies, how they are, you know, as far as material things, we can't predict the future. But it's a lot better to be in alignment with our purpose and our dharma and things like that to helping us manifest the reality around us rather than being pushed into a place where we're just becoming karma for the planet itself. 

That usually leads to more pain and more suffering. 

Instructor I: 

Yes. So, as we've said many times, be the light, what is it, be the change, be the light you want to see and we'll see you next time. 

Instructor II: 

Yes, remember to vibrate at a higher frequency and maximize dharma for the collective. And also remember, we reap what we sow. So I think that's an important message for the energies of this year and just being aware and conscious of the things that we do. 

Instructor I: 

Thank you.