SPEAKER_00 0:00

Like uh Nicola Tesla did for his laboratory experiments. He would go into a lucid dream state, and then he would apply the same physics of his experiments without spending the time or the resources in his laboratory. And in the first experiment or two, he would succeed instead of hundreds or thousands. I'm not like look at me, I'm some shining example of a spiritual prowess. I'm like, this is our potential, and just representing that divine potential and trying to foster community over our collective use of those skills. Maybe it was like a cascade of lights from the sky or a certain feeling that moved through my body, but I could give people that were not really believers in anything, like agnostics and atheists all sorts of experiences without really referencing divinity or consciousness or anything like that, just as a natural transmission.

SPEAKER_03 0:47

Welcome to another Internet Podcast episode. My name is Soleimon Ballur. I'm here with Samson Love, who's an interdisciplinary mystic. So curious to know what he does, who he is, and how he got there. So let's dive in as always. Welcome. And who are you and what do you do, Samson?

SPEAKER_00 1:09

Well, it's a pleasure to be here and thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_05 1:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Look forward to more fully exploring the Inner Edge podcast. Thanks, Vud. So I had a really different experience coming to Earth and growing up. I had just wisdom and understanding in the experience of many lifetimes beyond one. And so calling it future or past or parallel, I'm not really too interested in mapping what the experience is, just the fact that some of the knowledge from those extended experiences applied to my skills and understandings of this life. So it wasn't some sort of fantasy, which, because of my upbringing, you know, I grew up in a Jewish family and it was just kind of pragmatic and like have your savings and your education and your stability and your reputation in the community and stuff like that. And yeah. So my grandfathers were both dentists, and then my dad was an engineer. Is that a real job? Can you make money at that? And what am I gonna be for a living? I'm gonna be a mystic. I don't know. Can you have a 401k? Can you I do all right? Yeah. Um, so you know when a guidance counselor in school asks you, you know, what you want to be, and then a little kid might say, I want to be a truck and go back and forth, and then an older kid might say, I want to be, you know, like an engineer or paramedic or something like that.

SPEAKER_05 2:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

I referenced the gross national happiness quotient in Tibet. And I was like, it's kind of like the gross tomato stick product, but instead of finances, what's measured is the fulfillment and enjoyment of people. I want my career or my contribution to be that for the world. And the guidance counselor was like, so so, but what do you want to do? Totally. So that brought me through like the eight broccades and yoga and fasting and basically the left and right-handed paths in all different mystical traditions. I had a speech from my bar mitzvah that I very much appreciated, you know, Judaism, but I was gonna go on to explore other faiths, and my mom was like, That's beautiful, you should say that. And my dad's like, What is this garbage? You have to throw that away. I wrote a new one. Yeah. So I listened to him and I wrote a new one, but I did end up exploring many different faiths, but it wasn't so much about the religious institutions and how people were structured to relate to divinity. It was more about sharing gnosis and that living relationship because maybe it was like a cascade of lights from the sky or a certain feeling that moved through my body, but I could give people that were not really believers in anything, like agnostics and atheists, all sorts of experiences without really referencing divinity or consciousness or anything like that, just as a natural transmission. And so, on one hand, I just wanted to relate to people and not be demonized or deified for my weirdness. And on the other hand, I wanted to meet people with elevated consciousness so I could learn more about what I can do and why I can do it and how I'm supposed to apply it. And uh, I have this mediumship school called the Happy Medium. Nice. And now I have a lot more fulfillment in friendship, in relationship, and in the things that I can teach people to do and do with them. So, you know, you might want to do a massage trade with a friend, and I might want to do energy healing and speak in tongues and transform the energetic field, the trajectory of our lives, clean the ancestry, things like that. So while I have many physical exercises and superfoods and diet things, the thing that's most true to my heart is the connection to the divine and how we can experience that and how we can relate from that place, from that higher dimensional expression and connection.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

Ah, yes. So tapped in, my heart's like, ah, connecting to one self, the deeper self in connection with another. Yeah. And so if we were to sort of share to the viewers, like, what is it that you do? Like, what's a what's an interdisciplinary mystic?

SPEAKER_00 5:21

What do you do? So it's kind of like integrative medicine in terms of mystical traditions. In alternative medicine, you'll have synergy between different programs in Eastern and Western, but then in integrative medicine, you might have biofeedback devices mixed in with some of the Eastern practices and you know medications that synergize with those sorts of things. So say I'll take yoga and then have people doing Reiki on themselves during a yoga practice, or I'll teach people how to do yoga nidra and travel through their subconscious when they're not having an emotional trigger and decondition reactivity to traumas. Or I'll have somebody go through like a fantasy of a way that they want to connect, like say I have this kind of fitness that I haven't yet developed, or I have this sort of confidence and partnership and intimacy that I haven't yet developed, and I'm gonna put myself through this expression energetically, and then when it comes into play, their training is a lot more effective, like uh like what Nikola Tesla did for his laboratory experiments. What did he do? So he would go into a lucid dream state, and then he would apply the same physics of his experiments without spending the time or the resources in his laboratory, and then he would get into the laboratory in the real world, and you know, in the first experiment or two, he would succeed instead of hundreds or thousands, like most scientists have to do and spend the time and money to accomplish.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

Wow. So you're you're speaking about like um previsioning what you're doing, like when because I heard I hear a lot of uh sports people do this where uh they have their you know their players imagine shooting a three throw over and over again in their mind's eye. And then when they actually start shooting a three throw, they're much they're much better at it. It has powerful results, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

It's that, but in like a hypnagogic state. Okay. All right. I thought of that from Tibetan dream yoga. So in Tibetan dream yoga, they'll take people and teach them to be lucid in the dream state, and then like teach them a language in a single night of sleep, or maybe a week or two, depending on their their skill level, the master and the student's skill level, or they'll astroproject and do like what I do while I'm awake isn't in a distance healing, but they'll do that in dreams, and then it's a lot more powerful because the critical factor is disengaged, so their their tension is out of the way, so their ability to channel and their lucidity is a lot more on point. But to stabilize those abilities, there's a lot of foundational work that goes into it. So I'm not like, look at me, I'm some shining example of spiritual prowess. I'm like, this is our potential, and I'm just representing that divine potential and trying to foster community over our collective use of those skills. And I have a trick or two up my sleeve, but it's it's not about that for me.

SPEAKER_03 8:02

Yeah, that's beautiful. I mean, it seems like you've done your practice to get to where you are. So, what was your journey to get to here in terms of the challenges that you had to go through to get to where you are to then now offer this to others?

SPEAKER_00 8:20

On one hand, um, a difficult childhood. Like uh my parents were divorced when I was two, and then they got remarried, and I got a lot of not necessarily supportive attention, but pressure from emotional difficulties and my both sides of my family and the people that they remarried to. And it was interesting because on one hand, I was looked to for my gifts and my understanding, but then on the other hand, I was treated like a child. So while that could be considered difficult, it was also an initiation. And then I was practicing a thousand-day kriya. Normally, when you get initiated as a kundalini yoga instructor, you're asked to do a 40-day sadhana. Usually it's something like uh Navi Kriya where you're working out your solar plexus and strengthening your willpower and self-esteem. Um, so later in my practice, not just to gain a habit in the 40 days that's known as an alchemical month, but to gain mastery, I committed to the self-purification kriya, which is a isometric hold, among other things, with uh finger posture. And then you fatigue the muscles, kind of like some of the gymnastics exercises, and you just kind of go through the things that are blocking your ability to receive and express divine love in the back of the heart chakra. But there's like a lot of shaking and pain and sweating, and then it becomes ecstatic and effortless as you get more experienced at just staying in the posture, not wiggling and avoiding it and embracing the transmission. So during that thousand-day Korea, I got in a car accident and I broke my spine and I'm laying there in a ditch. It was because of a smart car accident. And if I had had my seatbelt on, I would have perished because the smart car flipped and crushed itself. But I didn't have my seatbelt on, and that saved my life. So that's kind of a strange opposite of what you usually hear. Yeah, absolutely. But I flew 20 meters, 60 feet out of the window, and then my head got really clear in the middle of flying through the air. Like I felt some sort of higher consciousness, angelic interference, whatever. And then I had all this lucidity and everything kind of slowed down, and I felt like I got flung forward more than straight down from my natural trajectory, so I wouldn't like sever the spinal nerve, and I still injured the heck out of my spine. But some lady drove by and saw me laying in the ditch, and then called the paramedics, and they came up to me, and I had the wherewithal from a spiritual message to say, You don't have the right to touch me. I'm in shock. I appreciate what you're trying to do, but please leave. And they listened to me. Wow. So I army crawled to my phone and I asked my friend if she could pick me up and bring me to her vineyard and just leave me in a dark room and bring me food once a day. And I continued to create for some of the most painful yoga of my entire life. Wow. And um, it fixed my spine. Three days to get rid of the pain, and then about a month or two to get most of the flexibility back in my back pens.

SPEAKER_03 11:13

Wow. I mean, um speechless, I was that's amazing. Like what a what a way to trust yourself and trust life. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:23

It was a scary moment. I'm proud of my choice, and it didn't feel reckless because of the spiritual message that I was receiving, but you know, it's just kind of a test of faith, and then it happened to work. And I study stories of the great saints, not just like yogic saints or Catholic saints or what have you. That's where the interdisciplinary mystic piece comes in because I believe in the potential credibility of all different faiths, and it's not a blind belief, it's just uh a willingness to observe, like an unpretentious science, you could say, but it includes things that most people wouldn't consider silent science that seem to be way out there in the realms of consciousness. But it's uh again just unpretentious and not really pragmatic or dogmatic. And in that, in studying these stories, people are like, you know, some guy knows about someone's situation across the world, or some woman knows about some family situation across the world and heals them physically, or heals the way that they argue with each other, or prevents the children from having a genetic disease that the family has always had. And I'm like, okay, what with my grain of salt that I take is real in this expression, and what is exaggeration or hearsay just to kind of get attention or money or what have you. And um so I've been on this path of evaluating these things and hearing the stories of other people that I deem trustworthy and credible, and just kind of taking all the literatures with reverence, but also a grain of salt and observing. And I never really had the opportunity to be agnostic because I'm uh plugged into divinity since I was a kid. But I can be just having equanimity as I view different people's interpretation of divinity, like what in this is putting a pressure on how we're supposed to do things, and what in this is helping people to open to their natural relationship with that divinity. So it's uh a different type of scientific sorting to support the most beneficial type of expression and experience for the human collective and in my personal life and friendships and in my spiritual progress towards these gifts. So when that happened and that accident happened and my healing was successful, I reflected on a lot of the things that I was like, that's probably not realistic because it's so extreme. Yeah. And I'm like, you know, if I can do this small thing, then that large thing might be a lot more probable and maybe even approachable, or maybe some some small portion of it if they were way more of a prodigy than me and they were being born into like a lineage of mystics that was directly teaching them instead of me being just kind of born into like a skeptical community. They barely had a health food store and no yoga or acupuncture or anything. I'm like, okay, you know, I can work towards these things and I can find people that have relatable mastery and are connected to these lineages, and I can see how far I can take this in my life and maybe even relate to people that have the resources to take it a lot further than me and forward the efficiency of my study, and therefore my efficiency in not only helping and healing people and being an educator about consciousness, but something more global and collective about the way that we plug into each other in our higher potential, which is my underlying motivation personal fulfillment and collective well-being.

SPEAKER_03 14:45

So because this is almost specifically for men's, uh, I want men to sort of like gain information and practices from this podcast. What are some of the things that you've done in your way of being to sort of like I know you said that this has just been your your makeup and you've had to practice some of these a lot of these things? Like the Korea, for example. Exactly. So, what are some things if you were to sort of like tune into men's work and men, like what are some of the ways that what you've done for yourself could support that?

SPEAKER_00 15:24

We can discuss the ones that are most resonant with you and the aims of this podcast in the community. Um, there's a few different examples. One is fasting, intermittent fasting, water fasting, dry fasting, and um the use of different superfoods that have just been incredible for my health and well-being, not only to reverse people's pathologies and my clients, but to strengthen peak performance and clear brain fog and help you operate on less sleep and help you have deeper sleep and like faster workout recovery, things like that. So alchemical elixirs that are even more out there, and superfoods that are less out there, and moderate to extreme fasting regimens, those are some practices. Then we have yoga, including um Hatha and Yoga Nidra. Um yin yoga has been fantastic. It's not my favorite, but it gets into like deeper connective tissues and you hold the postures for a longer time. Um then there's uh communication styles. It's not exactly nonviolent communication and reflective listening, but similar concepts to connect to yourself and then to connect to professionals, bosses, coworkers, partners, like romantic partners and family members, all the triggers that come up and how to have coherence and integrity. So the the way of speaking and communicating to oneself and others, there's a few practices there. Um I really like it's hard to say like sexual yoga or sexual kung fu, but how to go like in rich dad, poor dad, for example, like how to go from impulse and desire to refined inspiration and like let that sexual energy be a motivating factor that helps you connect emotionally to yourself and to the divine and to your passion projects, and not only have deeper fulfillment from pleasure with the partner, but have deeper fulfillment from like your own sense of self-respect and adventure instead of just kind of being owned by your impulses. So there's uh kind of like Montak Chia's body of work in the microcosmic orbit and things like that, and then there's anking, like the symbol of immortality in Egyptian culture that you see. And some deities have one to three onks that represent their levels of attainment. Uh, what are anks? Um it's hard to draw it on here, but there's like a circle on the top, a line down the middle, and it looks like it has two legs and two arms out to the side, and it's like an Egyptian sort of cross.

SPEAKER_05 18:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:02

But that little circuit over the head is how the energy that circulates, oftentimes sexual, but sometimes just kind of like qi, like in a in an Eastern practice. It'll pause at the back of the heart chakra when you retain the breath, come over the head, enter back into the heart, and then stabilize in the belly, and that allows things to happen with one's energy and arousal that contains the energy and balances the desire to allow for not just a deepening of the heart, but like calming your vitality so it doesn't want to escape your body, and it can be sustainably expressed in a multitude of ways.

SPEAKER_03 18:37

Um instead of like and for lack of a better word, ejaculated.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

Yeah, there's the petite mort, as the friends say. Yeah. And then there's also the kind of release you start doing with your crown when you get all excited about circulating the energy and you build it up.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:53

And if you build up too much energy, then the release can actually be more detrimental than just like the regular kind of Western sexual paradigms. And uh, I believe it's called the valley orgasm when you don't release out of the top, which is why the ankh in the Egyptian mythology is so relevant because the energy circulates over and around the crown and back into the heart instead of releasing out of there. And even though that one's highly more beneficial and pleasurable, it still has its limitations and the energy still disperses just out of a higher center. But when the energy is calmed, it's not like uh blue balls or blue ovaries for lack of a better word. Yeah, it's like the fulfillment of release and the energetic strength and well-being of retention at the same time. It's kind of like an alchemical best of both worlds. So that's uh a beautiful thing to be able to work towards. Um, men usually learn to retain, while women usually learn to open and express, and as they achieve their proficiency, then the pendulum swings the opposite way for mastery and refinement. Like once a man is able to retain that energy, then he still wants to be able to open into the full depth and breadth of his feeling. And once a woman is able to open and release that expression, she still wants to bring it in for sustainable vitality and well-being in higher states. And um, I really love not just intimacy coaching for pleasure and sensationalism and things like that, but intimacy coaching for like the depth of relationship with the divine through the reflection of the partner. And in terms of men's work, there's a lot that you can do on your own, and there's a lot that you can do through meditation, and there's a lot that you can do through your workouts and circulating this energy in a completely non-sexual context that is beautiful, and that's uh it kind of starts to flirt with the edge of mediumship, but I'm not talking about you know, ancestors and unborn children and deities and things like that. I'm talking more about like your higher self or your sense of the spirit of nature and God. So it's more of a feeling energy than a theoretical thing that moves through your body and informs the quality of depth that you can relax to, and the quality of not only strength and vigor that you can express, say in your your workouts or the confidence in your speeches that you might give, but the uh I call it the lucid window to God. Oh in the Bhagavad Gita, sukha means sweetness, like sukha nut, and then stira is like el toro fuerte, like ah, yeah, like strength of the bull. Yeah, and so the balance between suka and stira, like sweetness and strength, is lucidity. And if you're too relaxed, say too feminine, you might float away and become wispy. And if you're too focused and you have too many blinders, then you might get really just dogmatic and tense, and and right in between that is grace, like you hear any divine deity speak or like the simulations of one, and it's got like this this feminine and this powerful masculine, and they seem to both echo with that androgynous type of vibe at the same time. Yeah. And people can cultivate that. So Physical workouts from ancient traditions and custom ways, like you go to dim sum and then you learn what dishes you like, the dietary stuff with alchemical elixirs and um superfood herbs, the intimacy exercises that are about communication and energetic dynamics. And there's things that you can do again on your own and with a partner when you have one to practice to help you more efficiently move that energy and learn your skills, and it's also just a lot of fun. And then um power sites, there's there's nature sites and not just like temples and spiritual pilgrimage things, but places that help you to relax and gather strength and well-being on the earth with and without human construction on top of it, and uh pockets of light tours that I like to occasionally organize.

SPEAKER_03 22:49

Pockets of light?

SPEAKER_00 22:50

Pockets of light, yeah. So those pockets could be so in your body there's meridians, and then your energy centers are where those veins of energy or meridians intersect, like a vortex of energy or a chakra. And in the earth, they have ley lines and then power sites where the basically the meridians of the earth, these larger channels of energy and the planet, intersect, and then we're able to work with that energy. So some of the pockets are that, and some of the pockets are spiritual communities and teachers. And when you link those things together, then you can up the potential of your life because of all the beauty that comes from anyone. And I just have so much. So that's why it's wonderful that you're here with the specific focus on men's work in general, and we can sort of tease out, as you explained in our pre-interview call, that which you think would be most beneficial for my body of work because it's extensive. And you know, I know how to navigate the world of the intellectual, but I'm not really that scholarly or intellectual per se. I'm more of like like Rumi or Hafiz. I just have a passion for the joy of the artistry, of the expression of the energy, like the gnosis more than the discussion of it. So as we start to zero in on the practices themselves, we can start diving into the feelings and teaching some of the men that are listening and their partners how to access that energy and work with it. That's what I'm most excited about.

SPEAKER_03 24:12

What you're speaking to, I so, so love because it's I think the most I think it's one of the most important things or body of work that men, a lot of men in today's society uh ought to practice. Uh and it's what you're referring to, what I call embodiment, right? Somatic, right? Like tune into the body, because our intellect can only go so far, right? Like science and all this, all the other things that come along with it can only go so far, especially if we're not allowing ourselves to tune into our uh relaxation, our nervous system, our, yeah, just our nervous system. If uh if we're constantly like overriding it by saying, no, this has to get done. I gotta do it now, I gotta do it now, kind of thing, right? It's like, well, what are we doing? Like, what's the point? Right. So this goes, it's part of my message too, is like really having men go on the that's why it's called the inner edge. It's like having men go on the inner journey of like, who am I, what am I, what's my body about, instead of it always being like, what am I doing in the external world? So thank you for being of service in that. I think it's so important. We need more, more of that teaching, more of that sort of coaches out there or mystics. My bad, you're a mystic, you're not a coach. Yeah. So I'm I'm curious about your practice because I think uh when I speak to a lot of guys, when I talk to them or coach them, they don't realize the practice that it takes to do this work. Um, it's there's no pill, right? There's no pill. Like you really truly have to dedicate or give yourself a discipline, even if it's one, one of the things that Samson has mentioned, like the yoga, right? Like commit to yourself to yoga or kriya yoga, whatever it is. So, what is your practice that you've gotten to this point in your life?

SPEAKER_00 26:08

I cycled through many of them. There was a time beyond that thousand days that I wanted to do kundalini yoga sadhana every day. And before that, it was Hatha Yoga or the Eight Brocades. Um, before I ever really got into romantic or sexual energy when I was a kid, I created something that I'm gonna teach today called the beloved meditation. And it was sublime for me. Um, I also work with my own ormis, the an alchemical elixir that I create, and I layer a few different types of gratitude into a feeling and kind of practice qigong with that feeling. So um, yoga qigong fasting. I do a dry fast, meaning no water either, for one day every week, three days every month. So one of those weeks, it's three days instead of one, and then seven days once a year. And in that time with the proper safety procedures and support, I'm able to reset my digestion and burn out cysts and parasites and purify the mind and do a lot of great things that give me freedom and vitality. That's that's one practice.

SPEAKER_03 27:13

Yeah, that's uh so just to preface this for the listeners and the viewers like find, yes, I know you can go and YouTube that, like you can social media that are not. Sorry, you can AI this and you know, chat GPT this. Uh, following a support protocol is really important. Like you can these things, some of these things you can harm yourself, right? If you all of a sudden are like, ooh, cool, three-day fast, I'm gonna go do it. Like, not recommend that exactly. Just just take it easy, find some, you know, reach out to Samson, get some help. Uh, it's important that we do things, you know. If you want to try it for, you know, three hours, four hours of not eating, cool. But like if you want to really go forward and practice, like find a practitioner.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

So yeah, there's safety protocols and procedures that allow one to respect their safety. And if you come at it unpretentiously without too much ego and with a lot of self-observation, then you can break the fast, or you can add moderate nutrients in it, or you can make sure that you're doing kind of like the pre and post care that is necessary to make it treat you well. For example, you clean out the tissues of all these toxins, but then there's this empty, porous space in there. And you can either, I can't, you know, diss any brands on your podcast, but you can either dump chemicals and genetically modified food deep into the cells and make it even worse, or you can put some healthy things in slowly that won't disturb your digestion and give you a strong foundation. So how you close the fast is just as important as the fast. And then what your focus is during the fast is also very important too, because if you're stressed and your metabolism is still moving fast, even though you're not putting nutrients in there, then you can like emaciate yourself and eat your muscle instead of your fat and do a lot of exhausting things. Or you can slow down your metabolism and you can calm your mind and you can get so many deep insights. Like the fasting in many different spiritual traditions around the world, it's not just a way to be reverent to the creator and connect to the silence. It's also we use 60% of the adenamine triphosphate, the cellular energy ATP, on digestion at any given time. And this is a water fast, it's a little faster with a dry fast, I believe. But I think it was 24 to 36 hours, depending on your metabolism and what your digestion shuts down, and that energy, that cellular energy is liberated. And then it goes to things like detoxifying your tissues and healing traumatic memories and restructuring your body, like maybe not exactly like a chiropractor, but more subtle, like the intelligence of your body works, but it reorganizes your vitality. And at first you feel like utter crap because all the deep toxins from your tissues get ejected into your bloodstream, which is why people often have binders, which would be impossible in a water fast where you can only have water or a dry fast where you can't even have water. But when you're ready for it and you know how to do the proper pranayama sun gazing during the lower phases of the sun when it's safer to learn, you can move through so much toxicity and deepen your sense of embodiment just because you move out of your compulsion. So whether that's food or that's sleep or that's relationships or that's overeating or that's different substances, what have you, you don't have to try to quit every single thing that gives you pleasure and solace to pick one thing and have a level of consistency. And then suddenly you realize the emotional content inside of the impulse to block out what you feel, and it becomes welcoming instead of intimidating. And that's your doorway. Man, I want to do this right now.

SPEAKER_03 30:52

Let's go. We're gonna take a break, we're gonna do a three-day fast, and we'll be back. No kidding. See you in a few days. Um, you spoke about you've you've used the word observation several times in in this podcast. I'm curious if you can share a little bit how how can they learn to observe?

SPEAKER_00 31:15

Okay, so if we want to get as basic and foundational as possible, breath. Even if you're not pushing your tongue upward and rolling your eyes and doing a layered meditation process, just even with your eyes open, you sit tune into how you're feeling, meaning listen to the sensations in your body with or without emotional awareness, and watch yourself breathing in. And in that you'll start to notice things, like sensations in the body, intrusive thoughts, or if you're on a very pristine level, maybe you'll just notice where your awareness is being drawn. The Ouroboros is a symbol of the snake eating its own tail. So when you move beyond the discomfort in the body, you move beyond the emotions and thoughts. There is an intrinsic fullness in the silence. You learn to let the sensations and thoughts pass like clouds in the sky, and your observance is the sky. Which for you can swar you and the teacher would call oceanic minds. There's a lot of movement for me that does not define me. Just from a few breaths, from anything. Closing your eyes for just a moment.

SPEAKER_03 33:25

That's not even the practice he's or the exercise he's doing. Yeah, I definitely uh I noticed myself, and this usually happens when I do uh drop in. I take a really deep breath after. So I did a deep breath and definitely feeling more sensation and just just not even like what three minutes, guys? Three minutes, not even like a minute and a half. So yeah, thank you for that. So that's how you observe, just tuning into your body, your breath, and noticing what's present. So great segue. This is perfect. Why don't we jump into what the explaining the exercise? What is it? What are the steps? So they get a sort of framework as to what it is you're offering. Okay, and this won't be included in the standalone. No. This is so what we're so the way that I'm approaching this podcast is I'm doing a podcast, they're gonna explain what the exercise is, and then we're gonna have the exercise, and then I'm gonna pull the exercise out, but the explanation won't be in there. I think it just it's too much for if if a guided I I prefer guided meditation from beginning to end, it just being the meditation. And then I can read the description if I want to, or go listen to cool, what is the exercise about? So perfect.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

All right, so this is where we get to expand on it. Yeah, the before slice of bread, exactly the after slice of bread, and we're heading into the meat. Yeah. For all you vegans out there, plants are people too. Little plug there for I have actually gone vegan for many months, and yeah, I'm not knocking it, but yeah, I just like uh the broadness of perspective. So I came up with this thing called the beloved meditation, which I didn't name for a long time when I was a kid before I really understood um like sensuality or romantic relationships or anything like that. And some of my multidimensional experiences might suggest that to me, but I hadn't had those experiences in this life. And um I was just kind of thinking about fulfillment, and I was thinking about how my grandparents were both together for more than 50 years in their marriages, so even though my parents got divorced, like I saw a lot of love and a lot of joyful socializing and a lot of like financial and emotional well-being and social freedom, as well as the difficulties, and I had examples in both directions. I'm thinking to myself, how does one cultivate this higher consciousness that I have? How can I invite people to what I want to relate to them about? Because I don't really want to rule people out that don't just already get the wavelength that I'm on, because I know they have the potential to elevate me too, and I want to connect to them. So I'm like, how can I kind of get my essence across simply? Yeah. And the beloved meditation came to me. So um what I'm going to teach first is a couple foundational skills that lead into it. So we'll get to the juicy part soon. But um, standing meditation called Zhuang Hung, when you sort of embrace a tree, but you're not actually hugging a tree, you're just putting your arms up in that shape, and then you're doing kind of like a horse dance, like you'd see in Tai Chi or Kung Fu. And you fatigue the psoas muscles among other things, and you're strengthening the grounding channels that move through like the pelvis and the hips and the legs and the feet into the earth. And the sun gives the earth its electromagnetic regulation, and the earth gives it to our hearts to the Schumann resonance moderates our circadian rhythms. That's known in Western science as well. And um, side note, it's off the charts lately, and that's really fun to think about. What do you mean it's off the charts? The Schuman resonance, like on the national measurement device, is like consistently off the charts, not just spiking once in a while. Okay. It's different than it's been for thousands of years, and therefore, so are our hearts that take their cues from it and our consciousness. Yeah. So, like when you can plug Western science into ancient prophecy, people start to listen to it, even if they don't have the you know, philosophies of divinity and that sort of background. They're like, Okay, well, if my heart is different, then maybe I should reevaluate my consciousness, and maybe the old wisdom is different.

SPEAKER_03 37:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

So um the foundation of presence that's in the standing meditation is powerful because just like my Kriya fatigues the arms and then has the arms shaking until you become calm through the effort and intensity. I think of it as like Draenomax for the nervous system, right? Like holding a difficult posture, and then the energy of your awareness and your muscular effort to hold the form pushes through all of these blocks, physical and emotional. Very uncomfortable. I hope you enjoy it. And then thanks, Samson. Yeah, absolutely. Um, but today we're doing the one with the legs, which to me is a bit easier because it's just larger muscle mass and more grounding. It's like less explosive spiritual feelings and more just like strength and calm and patience. That's why it's such a great foundational skill to teach. Back when the military secrets were martial arts instead of like guns and bombs and things like that. The different dynasties, they would, the different families, not just dynasties, they would have this standing meditation for about an hour every day for a year. And if you miss a single day, you start over, and only then would they teach you their moves of, you know, the martial arts that are the military secrets of the family, because they don't want to disrespect the family name.

SPEAKER_05 38:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

Wow. And um, I'm just talking about, you know, five to fifteen minutes here. You fatigue the psoas a little bit, you get the shaking. Um, if you stick with it for a few days or a couple weeks, then eventually the shaking um goes away before you close the practice, and you don't just feel a little bit stronger and more patient. You feel like how you have the potential to go a lot further and maybe approach some of that not even mystical stuff, but just slightly more disciplined stuff from different cultures. Um, so you get that that shake, that fatigue, that opening of a lot of the emotional and physical tension that we hold in the pelvis and the legs, and then that relaxed muscle tissue that's full of chi, prana, ohas, life force, whatever you want to call it, from the different cultures. And you realize that this battery of energy in your legs and belly, in your sort of breathing relationship into the earth and back out from the earth is very powerful for your endurance and concentration for your sense of calm. And upon that foundation, you can build the use of your energy awareness. So that's the first key. Call it standing meditation and the cleansing of the belly and legs. Okay. Then we have as you breathe in and pull your palms apart, breathe out, and move your palms together, you learn how to sense energy and build energy in your body. So this is an example of how it doesn't have to do anything with a partner and how it doesn't have to do anything with sexual energy. This is just using qi. And it's like a neutral life force that all your organs share. And then you learn to sense and strengthen that energy. And so from the foundation, then the energy is not gonna kind of go hog wild and you get distracted. You're able to concentrate and have a larger capacity to conduct energy. And then you learn to sense it in a in a safe way, having that secondary background, and then you apply the beloved meditation. So these are like the foundations that we need to make the juice funnel through the aquifer in the right direction. So you can't just skip to the juice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:49

Okay, so it's standing and then sit on the floor or sit on the so that what's the next?

SPEAKER_00 40:56

So yeah, we'll sit on the floor instead of the chair just to be a bit more grounded. Okay. Great. Get literal with it with our metaphors. All right.

SPEAKER_03 41:07

You got some you got some great words. What did you say? Draenomax? Draenomax. That's the you're actually literally talking about Draenor, right?

SPEAKER_00 41:14

Don't put that in your body.

SPEAKER_03 41:16

Not in your brain, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 41:17

You're gonna have to sign a waiver before you listen to this.

SPEAKER_03 41:22

Oh man, this is great. All right, so anything else about the exercise before we do it?

SPEAKER_00 41:27

Yeah, this is the best part. Okay. So the beloved meditation itself is in Tantra, you're familiar with the position of Yabyum, where like the female partner sits on the male partner's lap, or in um alternative orientations, just the feminine energy is in the lap and the masculine energy is the base. So because they're doing men's work, it's a little simpler than all the other communities. Um, so you're the base in the qigong bubble that you create, the energy bubble that you'll feel in the standing meditation and work with in the seated meditation actually becomes the energy of the neutralizing opposite gender polarity. So you're creating a woman instead of just an energy bubble. But it's not a woman from your life, and it's not even necessarily a human woman, it's just the perfect counterbalance of the masculine energy that you have, a bubble of feminine energy or yinchi. And you sit down on your lap and you're kind of holding it from a distance, like by the aura or like by the kidneys and the midriff and the waist, and you're focusing on these three different points: the belly, the chest, and the forehead, and they all have different qualities that balance the way the energy flows through your body. After feeling the benefits of the connection of, say, the erogenous, the loving, and the peaceful, then you move into what it is to merge with it. And you may or may not be successful with that, and it feels great just to sit with the feeling of the three points. So whether or not you're able to succeed with the feeling of all the parts of the meditation, it's very beneficial just to practice it. But you absorb into the feminine energy, the feminine energy absorbs into you, and you're part of this greater androgynous being. And I was able to feel this as a kid, and it kind of felt like tapping into the soul because the soul has like no gender and both genders integrated in a strange way, whereas our bodies and the personalities that manifest through our bodies usually have very clear gender polarity for the most part.

SPEAKER_05 43:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:33

And um you sit with the fulfillment of that, like you know, some of your best moments with partners with great emotional or sexual or conversational chemistry, and you're feeling this like joy, this fulfillment, this peace, but then I can generate that on my own.

SPEAKER_05 43:50

Right.

SPEAKER_00 43:50

And how much less neediness might you have in partnership? How much might you not just need to express will for impulse control, but have a genuine fulfillment? Not just during the meditation, but echoing after that meditation, holding your heart and helping you to live as an inspired expression of your joyful dream instead of living from a place of desire and something where you know as you were saying, What's the next thing I have to do? Because we're going to go as we are human beings and how human doing right and so what are we most focusing on being or doing in our modern world today? Most people what are they doing? And I think that is not a wonderful thing that expresses the potential to be really obliged about. That's most of the beloved meditation, and then we kind of know that energy of your body being back in the year in that moment whether they're silently releasing all the efforts of the many focuses. And then the final piece is when you return to your life and you're doing the next thing on your calendar, you know, whether that's going for a peaceful walk or running to the other taxes, or that's why you're watching something. There's a many different difficulty levels and trying to maintain some degree of that beauty and that's more consciousness that you're going to be in the practicum of your day-to-day life, and that's where it really aligns because by the time you come to the next version of that meditation, like over time to talk about what is an intermediate and not a beginner. Or I predict this increase and this emergency to start avoiding, I'm going to proactively practice again, and then your life becomes an ever more beautiful horizon. What if it was always the best day of your life? Even when there was that and breakups and medical diagnoses and financial losses, what if you had such a new practice that wasn't a philosophy? That was kind of the purpose behind this to help me relate to people on this level and to help people connect more deeply to this world than I was in since I was a child because of that multidimensional awareness.

SPEAKER_03 46:28

And you wanted this as a child.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

Um I didn't layer the standing meditation or the the breathing bubble until later because I already had those skills. I could deepen into them, of course, and I appreciated that. But I didn't realize what people didn't understand because virtualizing people's soul and like their higher self and with not even their potential, but with an expanded dimensional awareness, like people already have their greater gifts that have them in their higher belief systems that include their multidimensional experience. How can I tell how people are tapped out and the nature of their struggling? And the answer was by taking on a bunch of stuff from my my lineage and my parents and the kids that made fun of me in school. I was popular in college before that. So after I took up took on enough um drama and pain from some of the other souls around me, and when um native as an anthropologist and kind of like the last sense of some of my equanimity, then it was a lot easier for me to learn how to serve people and educate people and build this so that people could approach my experience. Because if you're I wasn't impressed by financially or spiritually in some ways, I was I inherited this energy and consciousness or whether that's from like a half-life or parallel self or if that's a gift from God and you know, yoga or whatever. I don't I don't really care necessarily disruptor of the greater reality that's not given to me. I don't care the quality with which we live our lives moment to moment. So even though I have all this information, I'm very unpretentious about what is real and what's not. I don't preach any dogma to anyone. I believe in the sovereignty of the free choice of each of us in the way that the higher consciousness conduct the sympathy between us and the call and sovereign sympathy different. Um something about when you're doing when you're doing the problem.

SPEAKER_03 49:23

You might not feel it for the you might also depend on who you are and how you go to the practice. Meditation is the practice sitting in the chair. Whether you're sitting there, wherever you're doing the meditating, that's what meditation practice is. It's not necessarily the idea that you're going and uh am I meditating? I mean no, I'm sorry. No, the practice is can I sit in the chair day in and day out? Alright, so let's go ahead and let's stand in the chair.

SPEAKER_00 50:21

So part one is the standing meditation. You're gonna take a look at your feet and see if they're a little bit duck-toed or pigeon-toed, meaning outward or inward, and do your best to get them slightly wider than hip width apart and parallel. Doesn't have to be perfect, close as you can. Now you're gonna lean toward your toes in the front and inward part of your foot, your big toes. You're gonna lean towards your pinky toes, toward your heels on the outside, toward your heels on the inside. Spiral your weight, big toes, pinky toes, outer heels, inner heels. Now spiral it the opposite direction. Inner heels, outer heels, little toes, big toes. And just notice the distribution of your weight, move it as you choose, and find your center. Now put a hand on your lower back. Notice how there's a natural curvature to your back. And tuck your pelvis a lot and notice how your vertebrae stick out. And untuck it. Notice that there's an arch. So you're gonna find an alignment that's right for you. Just a straight spine. Once you succeed at that, imagine there's a string at the top of your head, gently pulling upward from the crown, raising out of your shoulders, raising out of your belly, raising out of your pelvis, your legs. And notice that your chin tucks back just a centimeter or two. This is aligning the central channel or Shishunna. Slightly bend your knees. Not enough for your knees to go past your toes, just gentle. Now imagine that there's a cloud under your hands. And let your hands slowly rise. Whatever you're doing, do it about three times slower. Your elbows bend, your elbows are sinking, your shoulders relax. Now, when it gets about up to shoulder height, your palms rotate inward. Notice any level of tension that you have in the arms and the legs and the chest. Take a deep breath. Relax it all into the earth. Minimum effort to hold the pose. Slightly extend your arms forward. You're holding this energy bubble here. It's pointing at your chest. And go just a little deeper into the bend in the knees. Note that there's a moderate challenge. The spine is straight.

SPEAKER_02 52:45

Moderate challenge in the legs. Your attention is in the belly and the legs and between the hands. And now drop into the awareness of your breath. Neither speeding it or slowing it. Just observing it, relaxing your muscles, maintaining your pose. Be here for a few minutes.

SPEAKER_01 56:16

Rotate your palms upward, step your left foot into your right foot. Inhale the palms up overhead, facing each other, exhale down your center line.

unknown 56:29

Take a moment and observe how you feel.

SPEAKER_01 56:38

That is part one. Sitting position.

SPEAKER_02 56:57

This is how one learns to sense energy. Pointing the palms at each other, being aware of the center of the palms and the fingertips.

SPEAKER_01 57:06

As you exhale, as slowly as you can, move your hands towards each other. As you inhale, as slowly as you can, move the palms apart. Letting your breath breathe itself and decide the pace of the movements. Open with every inhale, right with every exhale. Heart into your hands. Slowly, especially if the elbows touch.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:35

And then the palms of the fingertips touch on the face. Exhale.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:43

And a little bow comes through the heart. Put your palms down on your legs, face down. Just notice for a moment how you're feeling. This was just our preparation to clean and charge. Now the heart of the beloved meditation begins. Just like you're in your standing posture as you're sitting and feeling the strength of your spine, the connection between the earth and sky. The grace that is above your head and the stability that is below your hips. Moving through you. As you're creating this energy bubble, you can do it with the micro movements or in stillness as you prefer.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:47

Imagine feminine energy.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:57

And the energy bubble is going to take the shape of a woman's body sitting in your lap. So her legs are wrapped around your hips, your bellies are touching each other, your chests are touching each other, your foreheads are touching each other.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:12

And you continue generating this energy, focusing on your hands and your breath.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:20

And you feel her belly on your belly. And if you can tap into a mild, erogenous charge is the sensuality of skin on skin, belly on belly.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:30

You feel that for a moment. Wild in its nature, or at least visualize it. And then moving into the heart, or chest on chest. And that's not just violence, that's loving. Like someone you trust in this case is made of your own energy. And that brings a sense of calm and emotional nourishment. The energy extends from the belly into the heart.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:06

And finally, your forehead to forehead. You notice how your forehead relaxes. Can't help but reciprocate, so you're kind of like third eye gazing with her, even though your eyes are closed, sharing this smile.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:27

Notice how, even though the erogenous energy of the belly and the love in the chest are there, there's a peace to it all. The silent approval and gratitude. Surrender that you share. See if you can feel the quality of her skin with your hands and fingertips. The energy of her heart. The energy is real. The feminine presence is made real while you're focused. Imagine that you could absorb into each other. Slowly, your left hand moves to your heart, your right hand moves to your belly, and you're absorbing this energy into yourself. The volume of the The calm, the lightning of the erogenous energy, the sweetness of the heart, the sweetness of the voice, the mix into one singular, larger being. Your body is in this expanded state. Soft small. As you move into what's next. This is the Inner Edge Podcast, and this has been a presentation of the beloved meditation, one of my favorite creations. Thank you so much for listening and practicing.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:43

Thank you. It's my honor. I definitely noticed my tenseness while holding the poses. There's moments where I was like, I want to move my knee and I want to move my leg. And when we got down and sat down and I felt the beloved the feminine energy. But after when you said now you're one, merge into one, oh man, that was so, so potent. I was just like I was just dropped in, connected. Yeah, that was really, really sweet. Yeah. Yeah, I I I think this is really powerful in a sense of feeling connected. There's a it's it's basically a merging or integration of my masculine and feminine, simply put. And I could definitely feel that I'm that I'm there, that I'm connected. So thank you for that. Thank you for leading that. Beautiful. Yeah. Any words that you like to share as to how you feel? Like what's this, yeah, what what has this practice done for you?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:02

It's awesome. Um not to get too personal, but usually like in this culture, when a guy loses their virginity, they're either like too uncomfortable to either have stamina or to have a release one or the other, depending on their predominant imbalance. And I feel like it gave me I was kind of worried just because like my parents divorced when I was so young. I was like, man, how am I gonna do when I start connecting if this is what's around me, you know? Yeah. And then looking at like kid relationships in school, that was obviously terrible because they're supposed to be like most kids don't know what they're doing. And um it just kind of prepared me, not for like all the emotions and communication and stuff, but for the ability to to deal with my own energy in that context. It like really improved my learning curve without getting too personal. Um and then way more importantly than that that social stuff, it was kind of feeling like a like a star being, I guess. If I'm gonna identify with any of those extra-dimensional experiences, Sirius B would be my star origins more than any of the others that I have lesser experiences and affinity with. And uh I ground into the cosmos, or most people in spirituality, they ground, like they ground into their body, they ground into the earth, like a tree, the sensation of the dirt, the eyes of a person staring at yourself in the mirror. I ground into kind of the divine presence and then that star place that I come from, and how it felt to like not be um neurospicy and just be like typical and normal and fit in, even though we were all by earth standards, weirdos up there, we're normal there. So I feel that sense of like fitting in and being connected to the source energy that I come from, and then I also ground into the earth. And uh then it doesn't feel like out of phase or out of sync, and I'm able to ground that way. For a long time, I tried to listen to a bunch of spiritual teachers and ground, and I'm like, I don't know what the problem is, but it's like um you know, two different energies are clashing and conflicting with each other, and then I fully embraced the cosmic energy and was able to plug into the earth energy. And it's like it's a grounding into the heart that includes the earth and the stars and the masculine and the feminine and the young and the old and all these different parts of myself that could be conflicted, especially echoing like the lineage and my parents and all the kids making fun of me in school and stuff like that. And it just it neutralized the cognitive dissonance like a counter sine wave and just brought me into harmony. So even though I didn't feel the erogenous energy in my belly per se, because I was too young for for that part, I felt the energy of connection, and I it was still Yab Yum, but I hadn't learned a thing about Tantra at that point in my life. So that was like I did a whirling dervish like Sufi in the bathroom of my Sunday school, too, and I never heard of Sufism either. Uh-huh. So these practices were just like slowly emerging, and then I'm like, oh, those are real things, like later in life. I'm like, that's pretty cool. Yeah. You were tapped in already. Yeah. So it brought me a lot of peace. It stopped me from fighting with myself. It helped me to know where to have boundaries with things that were unhealthy for me and be like, oh, this isn't mine. So when I got to college and like the eczema and the IBS, and like a bunch of my anxiety and my allergies, I could breathe through my nose. It's kind of like when Spider-Man got bit by the spider and he says, you know, oh, I'm tired. And he gets home and he walks past his Aunt May and Uncle Ben and goes to bed. And then Aunt May in the morning, she goes, Any change? Like, you feeling better? And he's like looking in the mirror at his abs without his glasses on, and he's like, Big change. I got to college and like suddenly, you know, people like me and I can breathe through my nose and I don't have rashes and I'm not itchy and I can stand up straight and my stomach works. And eventually I came to the conclusion. I'm like, oh wow, this was like things I was taking on from the culture and people around me, like my the kids making fun of me and my parents and whatnot and the environment and you know, literally being allergic to the pollen on the East Coast, I guess. And it wasn't something intrinsic to my being that I have to deal with for my whole life. Yeah. So um, it was just kind of like a a precursor of the well-being that I would experience in the future of my life, even during my on one hand, it was really blissful and connected, and people would like give anything to feel some of the stuff I felt in my childhood, and on the other hand, it was torturous. So it's like a really beautiful, paradoxical dichotomy. Yeah. But it was the perfect initiation for me to come to earth and be of service and you know, not be too, I guess, like arrogant and spoon-fed in the way that I have this. If I had a whole bunch of respect and support, how much would I have taught it to other people and valued the suffering of being without it? And then um if I was in too harsh of an environment, would I have had the courage and the strength and the wherewithal to bring it to people, or would have I just been overwhelmed? So I feel like as difficult as it was and as beautiful as it was, was perfect. And it's pretty intense to say that when you break your heart and break your bones and lose your mind and travel through the cosmos and feel disoriented and made fun of and singled out and abused and hurt, and then somehow that was a gift. But that is how I eventually came to feel. And some greater part of me felt that way even during the chaos before I was able to process it and ground that. So the beloved meditation among other practices. Just imagine me biking to Barnes and Noble, you know? And they don't have GPSs on the phones, like a clamshell if anything. And so you're like writing it down on tiny little pieces of paper and like napkins and stuff. You can't even buy the book. You bike to a park or a beach and practice something on your own. My first classes were homeless people. You want to get high for free? I didn't do drugs. They had parents against drugs and alcohol, you know. I didn't learn about shamanism and the healthy use of substances until way later in life. So a lot of them wanted to get high for free. And a few of them got mad at me when we got to my practice location and I had no drugs. But the ones that stuck around did get high for free. And they also learned how to do that anytime for free and sometimes improved their well-being in their circumstances. Not that some homeless people aren't well adjusted and just enjoying a different lifestyle, but many of them are greatly suffering. And then uh a guy with a master came along and he was like, Can I co-teach your class? I'm like, Are you serious? Uh-huh. You want to talk to these people? And he did, and then he introduced me to his master that was just some humble window washer, and I learned some traditional 18 movements gen style short-form Tai Chi. And I'm like, Oh, this is a lot better than my Barnes and Noble Bros. We ended up touring the country after he wrote a book after college, and the story goes on. But um yeah, I just kind of used what I had, and I never really was that big of a fan of being book learned. I like to practice things, I like to play sports but not watch them. You know, sorry, all the fans of everything. Right, same. I'm same. I hear you. I'm supposed to like the Bruins and the Patriots because I grew up near Boston, but I got homogenized by freaking California. Now I talk California normal, like um yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:22

Um so all this sort of journey has led you to offer sessions, facilitate. So, what are some of the things that you're offering today?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:34

Today I have studied many modalities, including different forms of plant medicine like sananga and happe. I don't serve combo, but I do have practitioners that I recommend. Um it's kind of like traditional Chinese medicine or Taoist herbalism traditions or Ayurveda from the Indian practices. People are trying to heat and cool and dry and moisten their body, like terraforming a planet. But the planet is your body, you're bringing it into homeostasis. So the herbs and the foods, the different yogas that you practice, the way that you design your life brings you into harmony. So I'm kind of a consultant of health and well-being. And these are I enjoy them very much, but like the boring parts, because to me the best part is like the contemplation of divinity and higher consciousness and you know, producing your passion projects and deepening the joy of your relationships and the connection to nature and all the transpersonal stuff is the juice for me. But basic health and well-being and like a well-organized life means a lot to me too. So I'll teach people I'm a Kundalini yoga instructor certified and a massage therapist, I'm a Reiki practitioner. So I do distance healings anywhere that you might be in the world, I can reach to it. And the first one's free because it's weird. Um, maybe a little shorter. And then once it works, then we can create something. But my email is alchemistmc333 at gmail.com. So feel free to reach out and ask me about my distance healing services. Um hape ceremonies. I very much come to enjoy hape ceremonies. Um I can actually serve it without hape. So if people are allergic to the tobacco and don't want a powder that's blown into the sinus cavity, it has many different health benefits. But um I found a way to transmit the prayer without having to blow the medicine. So even just setting the intention and doing the meditation as I serve and cleanse myself and then blow air in your general direction through the self-serving karipe, where traditionally people have served through the tepe, that's something I offer to individuals and groups. Um I do yoga nidra, sort of a guided hypnosis that I construct together with my clients to help them serve their goals. And those are relatively custom, and then I can do bigger ones for groups and parties and spiritual retreats that are just more about the depth of presence and less custom. Okay. Um so let's see, we have yoga and we have meditations and yoga nidra that also helps to heal insomnia. Um, I really like to talk to people about their ability to work with their their motivation. I call it dream shops. So instead of it being like a workshop where it's work, yeah, or a play shop where you're just kind of having fun and being playful, got no problem with that. But I do like to get stuff done. Yeah. So it's like joyfully bringing your dreams into reality. It has the vibrational quality of play and the efficiency and focus of work into one thing, and it's grounding your dreams into reality, clarifying what they are and paving out some action steps to get them done.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:40

Um, so those are just more like consultations. You can talk about um relationship energy, you can talk about career energy, you can talk about spiritual energy, um, and how that's applied just by yourself and your own routine, how that's applied in your workplace or with your family or with your partner. So I just I have quite a wide array of stuff. And then I think one of my favorite things is the God topic, where it's kind of a a formless sangha where people get together and talk about what they believed when they were kids and you know, the beauty, the dogma, the problems, whatever, what they believe now, and then what some of the potentialities they have to reconstruct those belief systems, um, the ability to connect to the divine is now. So sometimes, like I'll I've done it with a friend in OHI who studied with a couple of enlightened masters, and you know, I was probably the the least of her teachers, and she later became my teacher as well. And um so sometimes I'll have more teachers than just myself in the Sangha. It's not just a bunch of students gathered gathered around me.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:41

And um, sometimes it's you know, me and one or two clients, but we have a formless sangha or spiritual discussion about the nature of the divine and how we relate to it, and that's probably uh one of my favorites. Um yeah, and then again, there's my happy medium school.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:57

Yeah. Man, got a lot to work with, beautiful, amazing. Thank you so much. So reach out, reach out to Samson, give him some, you know, give him a shout out, uh, reach out to see if any of those like excite you to work with him. Uh you're also gonna see him in the internet uh community, the men's community, uh offering something a little deeper, uh longer, and QA if you guys have any questions of of him. So before we end, as always, any final final remarks you would like to leave with?

SPEAKER_00 1:23:35

Oh, it's so goofy. I always just kind of go with it. Do it. Yeah. Um is it Rumi or Hafez? I want to say Hafiz, but you can correct me. I'm humble like that. It's awesome. So uh God and I have become like two fat people in a canoe. We keep bumping into each other and laughing. I like that one a lot. And now um, if you want to close your eyes there on the other kind of side of the podcast across time and space and just feel this little energy transmission, the two of us are gonna send you guys some love. Thank you so much for spending this time.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:03

Thanks for joining the internet podcast.