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Against All Odds Podcast, The Less than 1% Chance with Maria Aponte
Maria highlights stories of people that have been the "less than 1% chance" and have come out of their situations thriving and seeing life as happening FOR them and not TO them! Inspiring and empowering stories that will show you that against all odds you can make it through anything!
Against All Odds Podcast, The Less than 1% Chance with Maria Aponte
Spiritual Insights and Intuition: Ra Natjer's Transformative Quest
What if the most challenging moments in your life were actually blessings in disguise? Join me, Maria Aponte, as I sit down with the extraordinary Ra Netjer, an ordained Buddhist monk who once thrived in the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley technology. Ra's journey from a tech professional to a spiritual mentor is nothing short of inspiring. Together, we uncover how his early spiritual insights and experiences with darkness transformed his life, leading him to embrace simplicity and prioritize his true purpose. This episode will resonate deeply if you've ever felt the push to look beyond career success and find true fulfillment through spiritual enlightenment.
Ra's journey isn't the only story we explore; I share a personal tale of healing and transformation, influenced profoundly by my twin's sacrifice. We delve into the concept of life's hidden blessings, emphasizing the importance of nurturing spiritual gifts in ourselves and others. Listen as we discuss the potential to develop clairvoyant abilities and the transformative power of understanding one's spiritual nature. Insightful stories from guests remind us of the value of a supportive, spiritually-inclined community that can guide us through awakening, much like a GPS offers directions to a traveler.
Throughout our conversation, we stress the necessity of clarity, guidance, and community in navigating the spiritual journey. By sharing teachings from ancient texts and reflecting on the profound connections between intuition and divine guidance, we offer a roadmap for those seeking to live intentionally and harmoniously. With heartfelt gratitude, this episode promises to leave you inspired to embrace your intuition, surrender to higher guidance, and affirm the limitless potential within you. Embrace the beauty of spiritual awakening alongside us, and discover the profound peace that comes with listening more than speaking.
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Welcome back to the Against All Odds the Less Than 1% Chance podcast with your host, Maria Aponte, where we will hear stories of incredible people thriving against all odds, and my hope is that we can all see how life is always happening for us, even when we are the Less Than 1% Chance.
Speaker 2:Hey, hey, welcome back to, against All Odds, the Less Than 1% Chance podcast with your host, maria Aponte. Welcome back. I am so excited to have you guys listen in to this conversation. I'm just going to go ahead and introduce, because this is gonna be such an amazing conversation. I could already feel it in my heart. So I would love to introduce you to Ra Netsher. He is an ordained Buddhist monk who quit his six-figure Silicon Valley tech job to be a spiritual awakening mentor and fulfill his mission of uplifting the consciousness of the world by helping millions of awakened souls discover their enlightenment Seriously like goosebumps, so welcome. I'm so honored to have you on here. Give us a little bit of background on how did this all come about? What's your story here?
Speaker 3:Thank you so much, Maria, for that introduction and for having me here. First of all, I love the title of your podcast, in the intro, how you say even when there is less than one percent chance of it happening, life is always happening for you. I love that. And so I'm so happy to be here, because this is so aligned with my message and this is what I've felt since my childhood. My life has been about spiritual awakening right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Even at five years old, when I had my first awakening, I had glimpses that I was here for that light, to discover it within myself and to spread it. My mother even invited me to this earth with that purpose. And I am here only because I've gone through these ups and downs, these difficulties, these dark nights of the soul which transformed me, which were actually great gifts in my awakening, even when it was deep depression, even even when I did not want to exist anymore. Those were the times that were like the coal becomes the diamond in that pressure right.
Speaker 3:Yeah those were the times.
Speaker 2:I've been under that pressure, so I understand that all too well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I love that. This is super, is super aligned. But yeah, I'm only here because I was open to receive the right help. In that time I was able to surrender and listen to my heart and follow what life presented to me through these gifts of awakening and I realized, actually, all the difficulties I was going through were a blessing, because without that, I wouldn't have been able to relate to people who are in it right now, because it's my life's mission to help spiritually awakening people.
Speaker 3:There are millions of people who are awakening right now, but most of them have no clue why it's happening, what is happening to them, where it's going right. So people are stuck, people are isolated, people feel judged, people feel weird, right when their family and their friends, they're like, oh wow, this guy's acting crazy. You know, I was in that place myself. I was an actor, I was a photographer and my movies I was lead actor and in this movie all the posters were coming out and I was getting ready to be famous on the outside, but inside me life felt so meaningless.
Speaker 3:Yeah nobody really got me and this is what led to all this darkness, et cetera, which led to even more light. So I realized I am giving people help that I would have used in that moment. And I was left alone in the dark and I had no clue what to do, so I know there are millions out there right now who are in that place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. That is why I'm here, I love that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I definitely can relate. I feel like if I wouldn't have been in the depression that I had been in and if I wouldn't have learned how to make a decision to change my life, and now, looking back, the power of that decision to change my life, how? It was simple, not easy, but it was very simple. And when I finally did decide, all the tools came from all different places and I wouldn't have gotten healthy I was sick with cancer beforehand I wouldn't have figured out that there was tools that I could physically have in my home so that I could still be the single mom of three kids that I was, have this career that I had and get healthy all at the same time. But it was a simple decision, just simple. Not easy, but simple. And if I wouldn't have gone through that, I've had enough and that darkness of I just can't deal with this anymore.
Speaker 3:Yeah then that decision wouldn't have come, and yeah, I love what you're saying so much Because it about simplicity, in a way that life is inviting us. When we are doing so many things, we are distracted, we are not aligned with our life's purpose and doing all sorts of things and life invites you. What is really essential for you? What is the priority for you? Not priorities, and we do priorities and we have like 10 priorities. Then what is a priority then?
Speaker 3:exactly when life says, all right, now you have a choice to make, and then it's simple. Then you can see okay, this is more important than anything else this is what I'm gonna do so. For me, that was going full-time into being a spiritual awakening mentor, and I was a programmer. I was making good money and, at the same time, even though programming was a meditative practice for me. I felt no, this is again not really what I'm here for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I decided all right, so I'm going to heed the call of life and choose the simple one thing that I'm here to do that's amazing and incredible because everything around us makes life all about the money that you make, the career that you build, like all of these things.
Speaker 2:And we can take a moment and just search internally for what we're meant to do, the legacy that we're supposed to leave, the people that we're supposed to impact. I know that when I was in the previous career that I was in definitely I was very good at what I was doing. However, I felt like it wasn't fulfilling my legacy in any way If I had overcome all of these obstacles in my life, from in utero, being in my mom's belly and all of the things that I had gone through. I had gone through many, many things against all odds. If I had already overcome those things, then my story was not just for me. My story was to help others show them that against all in that a career. But I feel like life was like no redirect and it really did. It served for what I needed in that time period and then I feel like I became a lot more aligned with who I was and it served a different purpose then.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I can relate so much. It's so funny when you mentioned the trouble you went through in your mother's belly, like the same thing happened around my birth, my mother before I was born. She had lost baby and she was told that she wouldn't be able to conceive and for four years she prayed to god and she did every kind of ritual, every kind kind of deal with God, like in India they say oh, if you, if I get this and I will do all these pujas and all these rituals, right?
Speaker 3:So she did that for four years because of what had happened, and she was able to conceive me and even then there was such a danger of losing the baby.
Speaker 3:So she was praying all the time when I was in her womb and she made a deal with God this was the biggest deal that she made saying if the baby is born well and healthy and everything goes well, I'm not going to hold on to that baby for myself, I'm going to dedicate that, I'm going to give it to god and I want a baby who is here to spread the light of spirituality.
Speaker 3:And that's why, somehow, I got invited into her womb and I, in my first awakening, I had this realization I was here for this. Yeah, and without this trouble, even though it looks like darkness, even though it looks like suffering, even though it looks like a very difficult situation that you wouldn't want anybody to have, but at the same time, that situation itself was the gift through which there was a hidden blessing. And most of us only look at the surface and we are very quick to judge. And, yeah, the way I say it is like life is always giving us gifts, the most amazing, beautiful gifts. The only problem is that life is a really shitty gift wrapper.
Speaker 2:Yes, I totally agree gift wrapper.
Speaker 3:Yes, I totally agree, and it's. The gifts look so horribly ugly that we don't even accept it. But once we accept and unwrap it, even if it's difficult to unwrap it then we discover there are diamonds and gems and blessings of all kinds yeah.
Speaker 2:That's what I say. That life is happening for us. It's looking for the blessings in all of the things that we've gone through. So my mom had a miscarriage.
Speaker 2:She lost a baby, but it was my twin. I stayed in the womb. So I feel like looking back and a few episodes ago, the beginning of season two, I spoke with the person that I did this quantum healing journey with and I went back to the womb and it was very interesting and very healing because I and in that I realized that my twin sacrificed so that I could be as strong as I am and it felt very, very powerful because for many years I just felt like something was missing and so it just gave it. It gave my life even more purpose. After that I felt like, okay, I have a big purpose for not just me, but for also my twin, and so, yeah, I can totally relate to so much of what you're saying. So I see that you were clairvoyant since childhood. Can you give us a little bit of information about that or background on that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So my parents were both deeply spiritual. My father was a healer who healed about a million people in India through energy healing and he helped a lot of people in all different ways. And for me this was about like. When I realized I was clarifying was when I was about eight or nine years old and I naturally could see energies, auras, chakras, spirit beings, spirit beings and I was telling my mom saying, look, there's this beautiful light being here, or I, I called them, you know, gurus because they were teachers who were ascended masters that were present coming to help when my father was healing.
Speaker 3:These ascended masters would come to help and so I saw them and I told my mother do you see? My mother is like no, do you see them? And then I spoke to dad about it and, because my father has been able to do that for a while, I wasn't seen as somebody going crazy or something right.
Speaker 3:I've heard so many stories from my students and mentees that they had some experience like that and they were outcast because of that, especially when they're, like, really strictly religious in some ways and this is out of the norm, right, but I was celebrated and my dad trained me to do it better and better.
Speaker 3:So every morning, people would come to him, new people who are coming to get healed from him. So he would scan their aura and tell them okay, this energy, this chakra, is weak and this is happening. And I would stand by him and he would ask me okay, look here, and I got so good at it. I could look at somebody and I could tell them like really specific things, like how much was their blood sugar level, all these things. And it was just, I had the best spiritual education of my parents and also my extended family, like my grandma, etc. And when I was raised in a little village in southern India which revolved around the temple, it was all about God the whole time, and so, yeah, it was just the best I could have hoped for have been through.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying that I don't believe the religion I still consider myself a Catholic. However, I am so spiritually open to energies and it's blown my mind and I feel that my oldest daughter has a gift. She doesn't know how to handle it yet, but I really truly feel that she has a gift and and to be open to embracing it and trying to guide her through it, rather than condemning her for it, what I think was big and it ha, and I had to open myself spiritually at that point. And so, yeah, I really love all of, I love learning about it, I love being around it, just it. I feel like it opens my eyes every single time even more.
Speaker 3:Yeah, your daughter is fortunate to have you as her mother because, especially in the west, there is so much of a judgmental view on this, things like I've had. I've heard so many crazy stories like people admitted to the mental asylum for saying something as simple as, like I had this beautiful vision of God or whatever, right, and I was so fortunate. And when I came to the West I was doing healing also. Right, I have been a healer most of my life and here it's actually possible to develop your clairvoyance. Right, it is a gift that sometimes life just gives to you, but you can also develop it because you are capable of it right now. You just haven't learned how to use that. It's like we are so attached to our five senses that we haven't used our sixth and beyond senses yeah, I was.
Speaker 2:I did an energy. I did a, not energy healing, I've done that too, but I had my aura read and she was a, an artist and painted what she was reading from my aura and it was my hands and it showed. I have it right here. It shows like the energy and she's like you're a healer, I that I see it. I feel like I'm activating it as much as I can right now and it's beautiful because it's my hands and it's all, and it's like all this energy that's like coming up out of my hands and it's purple and green and gold and it's just, oh my gosh, it's literally one of my favorite paintings because I felt so connected to it and I love that yeah, yeah, and that's just the beginning, really yeah.
Speaker 3:Being able to see, being a clairvoyant or being able to have these powers is just the beginning, because there is so much more. Even enlightenment people think it's the ultimate goal even that is a new beginning to something much deeper and it goes on and on and on, and it's an endless unfoldment of grace and beauty yeah, I love that so much so, very much so.
Speaker 2:What so, since you've been helping hundreds of people spiritual seekers, if you will for many years now, what are some of the patterns you have noticed in people?
Speaker 3:yeah, this I first noticed in myself. Yeah, for years being stuck in the dark, alone, in deep depression, utter hopelessness, meaninglessness so much to the core that there was once I did not get out of bed, not even my bedroom, but did not get out of bed, didn't eat, didn't drink for four days because I felt it was completely meaningless to do anything why would I?
Speaker 3:even. Why would I even survive here? Because it I felt my life was completely different than what I thought. And going through that multiple cycles, through years of that ups and downs, and ups and downs every few months, this would happen, right, and I noticed that it's the same thing that is happening in all my students and mentees. The stories are different.
Speaker 3:They may have a completely different situation, completely different way manifested in their life, but the pattern and the pitfalls they fall into are the exact same thing, because what happens essentially, the dark night of the soul is when there is so much light, like in mid noon, is when you will see the brightest light but at the same time, the darkest shadow behind you. Right, the shadows are really sharp mid noon because the light is bright. What happens is our ego, which is basically our idea of who we are, which is like I'm this little human being who has to take care of these things and survive through this world. Right, we have this little voice with which tells us these little things I have to take care of myself and this and that. Right, so that, out of its very good intentions, right, lovingly, but at the same time out of fear yeah what it does is it tries to protect itself too much and it tries to stay in the status quo.
Speaker 3:It tries to hold on to what it knows to be the truth. But it's knowing.
Speaker 3:It's so limited yeah what it's actually doing with its limited perspective is self-sabotage right, and that self-sabotage is so strong that even when help is right at hand, right in front of you, if you are in that self-sabotage, you reject that, and this is what I see again and again and again. I'm in so many forums and Facebook groups and everything where people are stuck in the dark night of the soul and it's really hard to help them because they are just so resistant to the health.
Speaker 3:And even when people work with me. People start working with me in a mentorship program, whether it's one-on-one, whether it's in a group. The biggest thing I have to deal with, I have to help them through, is their self-sabotage yeah, I yep, I'm guilty of that.
Speaker 2:I think we all are to a degree. But yeah, I've noticed it in myself sometimes and I'm like what is happening? And you ask yourself these questions sometimes and I think it's worse when you don't ask yourself any questions because you're really being oblivious to it. But yeah, I found myself asking myself over and over again like why am I in this, like circle of like yeah, yeah, it's really sad when you see it like you have.
Speaker 3:Like in my own case, I had such a yearning for God, for enlightenment, for so long and at the same time I realized I was the only one stopping that from happening. Right, god was right there with open arms waiting to embrace me, but I was just like, maybe not, maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after.
Speaker 3:I'm not ready yet it doesn't fit into my schedule right now yeah, and this is what happens to everybody, and and this is looking at the bigger picture in the grand scheme of things, this is what creates this journey of self-discovery right, yeah so the ego has a role there to play as well.
Speaker 3:So in the grand scheme of things, it's all completely okay. So this is the biggest pattern I've seen. The other patterns are also complete lack of clarity of what's really happening. People learn from Facebook posts and some YouTube videos, some random advice here and there, and they think spiritual awakening is about all these better off things. But it's so much more better off things, but it's so much more when they really understand what is spiritual awakening and align their life with the gift that life is giving them through spiritual awakening. That is when things can truly just start manifesting in the most beautiful way. So that lack of clarity is really what holds most people back.
Speaker 2:And do you think it's the lack of clarity of where they are currently or the lack of clarity of where they want to be?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it's both. Where they are currently is when they look at it from a limited perspective, from the ego perspective, which is completely okay, and I'm not saying this in a judgmental way, but because I was exactly doing that. As I said, these patterns are what I observed in myself, first right, and then in others. So when the ego is in that perspective, it cannot see right, we cannot see outside, we cannot see the bigger picture because we are so pulled into that story of. This is why it's happening, this is why it's happening, and that kind of covers up the real story of what is actually happening. And then most people don't know where it's going. They hope it's going in this way and that way. They hope they're going to become some master of some amazing superpowers, and then this will happen. That will happen whatever They'll be sitting on silk pillows and people will be like fanning them, whatever that idea is, because I had those grandiose ideas too in my different phases of awakening.
Speaker 3:But it's important to stay humble, stay rooted, stay grounded and then really see what's happening and have having the right guidance is the biggest blessing. I worked with amazing enlightened mentors, enlightened teachers. I spent, actually, before I found my first enlightened teacher. I spent seven to 10 years looking for an enlightened teacher, right and because I knew in my heart that was the only way to get to where I wanted to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. Wow. So what can someone okay? So someone is looking to integrate spiritual awakening in their life and they're like okay, I'm ready. What can someone do if that's what they wanted to guide themselves through to that journey?
Speaker 3:yeah, so these three biggest pitfalls I talked about first being right, the lack of clarity, and the third one I didn't talk about is isolation. Right, so what somebody could do is address that in the right way possible self-sabotage, lack of clarity and isolation. These are the three biggest pitfalls. So, depending on where they are at, if they want to integrate their spiritual awakening, what they need to do is address that in the most powerful way. But there is something that has been time tested for thousands of years. This is not something I invented, but this is something that I have a particular take on, which is more relevant for this age. This way of working together right, but this is what I call a balanced and sustainable system. Right, I cannot give people take this one technique, take this one mantra, take this one thing and you will go all the way, because it doesn't work that way. There are different tools needed, like if you want to construct a house and you ask what is the one tool I can use to construct this entire house?
Speaker 2:There's a whole lot of them.
Speaker 3:Yes, so that's the thing. So in my mentorship program, what I do is I give a complete tool belt right of various different tools because they are applicable at various different places. But this system, what I call integrated awakening process, is based on in buddhism, in hinduism and in many different cultures and also, like if you look at how in any major religion, how this has worked, even in case of jesus right, how this has worked. First, you need an enlightened mentor who is accessible to you, right?
Speaker 3:not somebody that is in a book or in a youtube video, not somebody that you have one way communication with yeah but somebody who can actually talk with you and guide you, because, depending on where you are, then you will get the right guidance for that step. Because it's just like Google Maps. Right, if Google Maps were to tell you, instead of what is the turn I should take right now, which is right, instead of that, what should be the entire turn in list at one go, and you are supposed to take all that into account and do it by yourself, how difficult would that be? Yeah, right, how easy it is when it just says, hey, take a right turn in 200 meters or whatever, correct. So having an enlightened mentor. Enlightened means somebody who has done it, who is there right now.
Speaker 3:That is the first element, and out of that comes what is the teachings, the approach, the structure, the body of work that brings clarity, that brings it's what I call. It is a sunlit path right, where it's not like, oh, you have to wonder whether to go left or right. It's all clearly laid out and what's coming and you don't have to be afraid. So that's the second element. And the third element, which is the biggest one, is the community.
Speaker 3:So when I was an actor and I was the life of the party, I was so outgoing and I really enjoyed being with people, and people really enjoyed being with me, but at the same time, whenever I started awakening and spoke about spiritual things, nobody got me, nobody understood me. I had one friend I could talk to, but he wouldn't fully get some of the things that I was going through. So isolation is a huge thing, right so, but when you have a community of people who are doing this together, walking this path together and understanding each other, supporting each other, nurturing each other along the path, that can just keep you going. Walk alone and you probably get there fast, but walk together, get much further.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I totally agree, Get yourself a mentor coach. That's where you want to go Absolutely, and I think that the power of the community is definitely the when you feel alone and when you feel like giving up. They're the ones that are there to catch you and to say no, no, no, let's keep going.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because I do it in my own business with health and wellness. So I have the tools. So I was a few steps ahead of any of my new customers. So I was doing the work that I needed to do to get healthy. And then I was there to provide them the tools and tell them this is where maybe you should focus on, or maybe it's like use this nutrition program or this workout program Right. So we're doing the guiding.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:And then the community is what holds everything together.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I 100% definitely understand where you're talking about, because I feel like that in my own life. That's how it's worked Then finding the mentor, finding the tools and and I guess, the route, the journey.
Speaker 3:And this is the surefire way. Right Like you may be able to succeed with just taking a book and reading it and following it, maybe, but if it's important enough for you in this life, would you give that maybe as an answer, or do you want to give yourself the best chance?
Speaker 2:yeah, absolutely that, absolutely love that. So very much. So this is what you guide your customers or clients or students with is, so you do one-on-one coaching and or one-on-one mentorship and group as well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So I started with one-on-one mentorship, even though I have been doing this informally since about 2015, when I felt the calling so strongly to become a full-time spiritual teacher mentor. It was really that I meet somebody where they're at and give them the next step right. And as I did that again and again, you know, I saw the same patterns again seeing coming up. So, and at the same time, I wanted to help a lot more people, because there are millions of people out there who are looking for help and I cannot possibly work one-on-one with them, and at one point I got so overbooked I had to stop enrollments and have waitlists, et cetera. So now, what I did was later. After that, I started doing it as a group and as a community, and there are a few people that I still work one-on-one with and it's a limited capacity, but when we do it as a group, it's so joyful.
Speaker 3:And also because I've been doing group healing since I was basically a child. I'm able to hold that energy of the group very powerfully and use the energy of the people to support each other. And it's so powerful when I do guided meditations in a group. It's just like unbelievable and it works so well. With that dynamic and what started happening was it just became obvious that I have to do more of that. So every week we have two meditations like that, one with me, one with another guest teacher who is teaching Sufism in the group, and I want to help more and more people who are awakening also give back and teach. And we also sometimes just hang out all together and practice. Sacred silliness is what I call it, because it's really important to have humor, it's really important to not take yourself seriously, it's really important to see the non-importance of our stories.
Speaker 3:Yes, I agree, yeah, so it's just a lot of fun and this is really something that drives me and I'm really happy to do what I'm doing.
Speaker 2:I love that so much. What are your next steps, like, how do people find you going forward If that's something that they want to do?
Speaker 3:thing that they want to do, yeah, so I am now trying to put myself out there much more because I know there are so many people who are in need of this guidance, so I'm getting on a lot of podcasts and starting my own podcast soon.
Speaker 2:That was going to be my next question. I was like I need to hear this.
Speaker 3:I've had one just for my students. I've had a private podcast for a while, but it's time to give it to a bigger audience and if you just go to my website, you will have all the details and also I have a two hour free spiritual awakening masterclass. Now I talked a little bit about the pitfalls, little bit about what you can do, so that's where I can go in depth and talk about all the different things that happen, these patterns, what to do to get out of it, and really very practical things, things that I've seen working again and again in myself, in my students. So it's something that is really valuable. If you are awakening spiritually and you want to make the best out of this opportunity that life is giving you to unwrap that gift and receive it, this is the best thing you can do. So, yeah, if you just go to my website, awakenwithracom, you will be able to access my spiritual awakening workshop, and I'm also releasing an app soon.
Speaker 3:Oh, that is amazing yeah yeah, on the app, I want to put more and more of some of the teachings that I give in my community. I want to put out there so that people can also receive from that, because I just want to give more and more to the public and each week I dive into a really in-depth topic and go from like even ancient perspectives. I can speak Sanskrit and understand Sanskrit, this ancient language from india. I go into sometimes the deep texts of that. Sometimes, depending on the occasion, like when it was easter, we went into the teachings of christ and how to apply that when it was the solar eclipse, the symbology behind that, because everything in life is a teaching, right, if you're open, you can learn from it. So for me, that's how I have been able to receive that and I want to translate it right. Translate it and make it accessible and simple and easy for everyone to receive. And I'm also planning to do a lot of content, podcasts and youtube as well, but that's I'm still figuring out the content creation yeah, there's always so much to learn there is so much, but it
Speaker 2:will all be on on my website if you just go to awakenwithracom I will definitely put in the show notes, so I'll know that you'll be able to find it in any of the show notes for this episode. This is, I swear. I feel like I could ask like a million questions and I feel like I've had more and more guests that have been more spiritually inclined, and the fact that that I don't think that it's a coincidence this is very powerful. I feel like people are very, are very ready for a lot of what just being more open spiritually and more connected.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So when Jesus said the kingdom of God is at hand, right yeah.
Speaker 3:And I was watching this series called the chosen, where yes, it's all about jesus and his disciples and it's so beautifully portrayed, right, it's in a very grounded way, and he, jesus, is talking to his relative, john the baptist baptizer, and they have this inside joke called soon, I'll come soon, which may mean years. So in this, when jesus said the kingdom of god is within you and it's coming, it's, it's finally happening. I feel everybody is talking about ascension and 5d reality and the new earth and all these different names, but it's all referring to really us awakening spiritually to our own true nature and realizing our divinity.
Speaker 3:When jesus said I and my father are one, he was talking about everybody, according to me at least yeah, and I definitely agree.
Speaker 2:I feel like it is such a. I had this conversation with another guest the other day and we see so much chaos happening all around us and there's just very simple rules to life. Do unto others as you would want to have done unto you. Right, Be kind and be kind humans, and it's okay that you and I have different views. We can respect and love the human, no matter what.
Speaker 2:How beautiful would life be, it's like with the conversation that I had the other day. He was saying how he never saw himself when he was younger. He never saw himself portrayed in in Jesus, or it's always. You see this vision and I was like and I had a moment of like in Jesus, or it's always. You see this vision and I was like and I had a moment of like. But Jesus or God or whatever you believe, is within you. You are made of that higher power, right.
Speaker 2:Or spirit, whatever you decide. That's what you call it, but you're made in the image of yes. So that's within. And we may look visibly different on the outside, but on the inside it's just the. It just yeah, it has. It's been a recurring conversation, I feel like, which also makes me think this is not a coincidence. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3:So one more thing I've been wanting to talk so much when you said 1% chance, is you said there is chaos all around? Is you said there is chaos all around right? Which means that if you let yourself be taken by chance, if you let yourself just fall into, the statistics are always at least 80% are all over the place. Percent, yeah, are all over the place, yep, but there are always outliers who don't follow the statistics right.
Speaker 3:even though 99 of the statistics fall within those bounds, there is always one percent outside of the bounds which is beyond the scale of that statistics and you can only do that by being intentional and looking inward and going through this journey with that deep trust that this is truly happening for you and letting life support you taking and receiving all the support in the right way and moving forward like very simple way, right, very simple.
Speaker 2:It may be difficult, but it's very simple yeah, I was having a conversation this weekend with my family and, again, it's difficult sometimes when a family has views that may not be as open as yours. But I was brave and had these conversations and it was very surprised to hear the corresponding conversation that we ended up having Clairvoyance and intuition and all that was in this conversation particularly, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is like speaking to my soul, right? Now.
Speaker 2:But it was beautiful because and I said this because I don't remember where I heard this from Buddhist or something, I'm not sure. However, I heard that when we pray, we pray to God or your higher power, but when we listen to our intuition, it's God speaking through us, and I just felt that to the core when I've heard it for years, or I've heard it years ago, and so this is something that I've really I've been always so good about listening to my gut to my intuition and I always like grab my solar plexus area, my gut, and I feel like so little of us listen.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We ask a lot and then we don't listen to the responses, and I feel like that's when we connect. I do a walk every morning and my dad passed away in October of 2022. October of 2022. And I still feel very connected to him. When I see the bird, the cardinal, the red cardinal, I feel like it's him coming and visiting me, and so every morning, I prepare my pre-workout and I put ice in it, and right above my ice maker on my refrigerator, I have a picture of me and my dad, and so every morning, as I'm putting the ice in the cup, I'm like I asked him for his blessing. So in Spanish, we say bendición, which is, um, I'm accepting your blessings, basically, or give me your blessings, and so I could almost hear him say Dios te bendiga God bless you. And when every time I'm, I like I wink at him and I'm like what do you have for us today?
Speaker 2:like and then I go for my walk after I finish that drink and I see Cardinals all over as I'm walking and I just feel so connected. And then they know that when those, I just feel I'm very much aligned with whatever I'm supposed to do that day. My podcast recordings are always great. I talk to amazing people, I have conversations with clients or prospective clients, and it just feels so aligned. And so, yeah, I just I felt very compelled to say that, to talk about how we pray and we pray to God, but so many times forget to listen, and when the way that we can listen is listening to our intuition, because that's going to guide us the way that we need to go yeah, that's so wise, and that's the reason why we have one mouth and two years, right we?
Speaker 3:that's the symbol of like you should listen more yes, we are just so opinionated and saying like god, give me this, give me that, give me this, give me that. But what if you just want to see what god wants? What if you're open to follow that direction that your higher self gives you right and and? Yeah if you're really able to surrender your little fantasies and this and that little desires and little worries and accept the bigger blessing. It's just so beautiful beyond belief, what is possible absolutely.
Speaker 2:I love it. I love it. Oh my gosh, this has been amazing, roth. Thank you so very much again. I do you have anything else for listeners, or is this a good spot?
Speaker 3:I just want to say one thing First of all. I have really enjoyed this conversation so much.
Speaker 2:Me too.
Speaker 3:And how there's so many things in parallel between us. My father left his body around the same time. It was in August 2022. And there's so many things that it's not a coincidence, right? But I wanted to say one thing to the viewers here, to the listeners, if they could take away one thing from this podcast now, like this question I had for myself, because I saw somewhere what is the one thing that you want to convey, if everybody in the world was listening. So, if that is the case, I want to say that you are truly limitless beings of light. You who is listening, you are divine Right now, right here. Your true nature is enlightenment, and you can realize that experientially. Enlightenment is not a fancy, fancy thing that's only reserved for those who meditate in a cave for a hundred years. It is who you are right now. Cave for 100 years. It is who you are right now, and that simple realization is possible if you only are able to open up, receive and step out of your own.
Speaker 2:I love it so much. Oh my gosh, this is amazing. Listeners, viewers, I hope you have gotten so much out of today's conversation. I will put all of his information in the show notes. Once again, thank you so much. I'm so incredibly appreciative and I again, I felt very aligned and I felt that connection. So, thank you, you guys have an amazing rest of your day. Peace out, love your life. Bye.
