Aligned to the Divine Design

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0:00 Thanks for having me. Uh thank you Warren for putting this all together and uh and the team that you've assembled for Mayweather. I um I basically just wrote a book for this. So uh I'll be reading from the book that I just wrote and kind of coming up and down and sharing uh on this slideshow. Um so this is kind of an experiment for me too. I have a couple of talks that I've given over the years and some of you may may have seen them. I've taken some pieces of those and then I've crafted a completely new presentation. um align to the divine design. Basically the idea um is starting with a big idea. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord preserves the city, he who preserves it watches over the ruins. Psalm 127. So I want you to think about this throughout this talk. Who or what is the Lord? What has the Lord built? And how can we let the Lord build new things through our hands so that we're not laboring in vain? There's a road map here to finding

1:08 a divine purpose. Um, this is a a journey that I'm on that I've been on for many years. And I just want to give you guys a disclaimer right at the beginning that I'm exploring this with you. I don't pretend to have mastered all of this information, but these are some of the questions I'm asking myself. Um, I believe there's a pattern that that can be discovered that comes from a higher place, a higher power, a higher source. And I believe we can align to this pattern. And I believe that we can feel his presence in our lives. Um, I'm not going to tell you what to call it. I'm not going to tell you that it has to be a particular religion or lack of religion. I think of it as an ineffable highest intelligence that is in everything. Um, so I want to really skip the middleman in this regard. Um, I want to go straight to the source, straight to the boss, but I'm also I want to be clear that I'm not trying to teach you theology, but I will be making some references to things that sound kind of theological. Uh, but you can take what you will from it, and you're free to disagree with any of this. I'm going to be posing some spiritual questions. So,

2:12 here's a list of the questions, and I'm also going to distribute a bunch of questions at the end of this. I'll email them to you. So, you may want to write some of these down. Um, but these may be questions you've grappled with in your life as well. And if they're if they're not questions you've asked, then I think they're worth asking. What is the evidence of divine intent in the world? What is God's will for me? And how can I discover it? What can I read in the book of nature? How can I stop fighting against God's will for me and find alignment and harmony? How can I cut through the that I create as well as the in the world? How do I cut through it? How can I purify myself in order to directly receive divine knowledge? Why would I even do this? What's the objective? What's the reason? What's the purpose? What is it for? What is the architecture of a divinely aligned civilization? How can it be built? How can it be destroyed? How can I help repair the damage that I see all around me? And how can I clear the

3:12 rubble out of my own temple to allow the presence of God to speak to me from within my own heart? When I say temple, I mean body, mind and heart. So if I'm preparing myself to receive knowledge, wisdom or enlightenment, that lightning bolt of inspiration to receive a feeling of oneness with a God that resides within me and without me, what should I do with it? Why would I do that? What am I building? Is it just for me or is there some bigger pattern I'm a part of? So are these questions that you're interested in exploring? Okay. I feel like I I think I'm in the right room, but I'm I want to know. So, I want to know what interests you the most. Um, feel free to to kind of give me some feedback throughout this. Um, my story, this is my dad. I lost my dad when I was 13. That's us on the left at the beach and that's us on the right. As he was dying of cancer, he took me to Six Flags. Um, I can't imagine the pain that he was in looking back at that. And he didn't let that stop him. He took me on a crazy vacation when he was dying.

4:17 Watching him die taught me how to live and uh his death put me on a quest. This never really stopped. I didn't really have very many male role models that I could trust as a teenager uh that could set me on the right path. The idea of bringing together a room full of strong men who could help each other out in out in the in the middle of nowhere in Dixon on a lake. Um it's really close to my heart. So I'm really grateful that you're all here. Um, a lot of people in my situ situation would point to God as the father. Um, I've done that. I also went inside and I asked, "How do I find that patriarch in myself? How do I become the best version of me that he would have built if he could have stuck around?" Um, so a good friend of mine said recently, uh, you know, Brian, I was on the phone with Brian recently, um, who I wish could be here. He's he's out of town. He said, "Chaos reveals the man." That's a phrase that you may want to write down because I'm sure all of you have survived some chaos. You all look like a

5:17 bunch of badasses, so I'm sure you've all been through some Um, chaos reveals the man. And chaos is what takes us out of the ordinary world. Tomorrow you're going to talk about the hero's journey. In this talk, I've I've kind of peppered in pieces of information that are going to relate to things you're going to be studying for the whole weekend. And the hero's journey is one of those things. I'm not going to do a whole section on it, but I'm just gonna say chaos, pain, discomfort, that's what kind of pushes us on this hero's journey. Um, and there's two phrases that I'll also invite you to write down that you may just want to reflect on that I found to be true. One of them is failure creates your future. Um, to the entrepreneurs in the room, fail fast, fail often. You know, it gets kind of cliched, but on a personal level, failure actually creates the blueprint for your future. And the second one is that pain creates your power. Um, and again, it sounds kind of trit. It sounds kind of cliche, but this is very real for me. Um, and I'll I'll show you, you know, chaos reveals the man, failure creates your future, and

6:23 pain creates your power. I'm going to tell a little story uh about how I I learned about alignment. So, I take martial arts, I take swordsmanship, uh, take some some really really interesting lessons. Um, if you're out of alignment with your target, if you're out of alignment with yourself, things are just jumbled and things are chaotic, then your own power will actually destroy you. Um, another thing, another I'm going to give you a bunch of little oneliners that you should just consider and think about and absorb. Um, this one is alignment before power. So, when you're learning any kind of uh physical technical skill like a martial art, swordsmanship, if you're all out of alignment and then you put power into a misaligned system, you're just going to break yourself. In fact, the objective is to misalign the other person and then apply power to their weakest points, not your own weakest points. Um, so yeah, raise your hand if you've ever thrown a punch the wrong way and hurt your wrist. Okay? Right? Or a kick or whatever. If you've ever rolled

7:24 on the mat with somebody and gone a little bit too hard, pulled a muscle, sprained something. Have you ever broken a bone training? Has anyone ever have you? Have you broke Yeah. Okay, cool. Um, so yeah, that's It hurts, right? You'll never win arm wrestling against the rock, but if you can take his center and sweep him and the back of his head hits the edge of a table, you're never going to have to worry about his arm. Just don't do it to yourself. Again, alignment creates power. Um, so alignment before power. So, here's me in the hospital. I learned this the hard way practicing a really simple technique. I went down to do a forward roll and I screwed my alignment up 30 minutes earlier because I was wearing a haka. And when you're wearing a haka, it's not supposed to go so low that it scrapes across the ground. It's supposed to obscure your footwork, but it's not supposed to actually tangle up in your toes. Uh, and my dumbass tied it too low. So, it was my fault. I went down to do the roll out of a technique and I and I it just slipped and I rotated in the air and I went straight down. It was the worst pain I've ever been and I got a Z

8:24 break on my collar bone. If you any know what a Z break is, it's actually where the bone breaks and there's another fragment that rotates and it's just floating. It's horrible. Um I still have the titanium in my body. And so I I just wanted you to see like a really physical example. Um, one thing that I've done in my previous talks is I've been really esoteric and philosophical. This one's a lot more personal. I'm starting off by telling you stories about myself. We're going to relate that back to the world and then back to you as well. Um, but yeah, so raise your hand if you've ever lost someone that you really loved that was close to you. Have you ever lost a Yeah, exactly. We all have. And this raises some some pretty big questions. One of the most important questions that his loss raises for me or raised for me was who do I want to be? Anyone who saw the some of the content that we made for this beforehand, I was throwing this question out like who do you want to be? What kind of a person do I want to be? And what is that vision? Am I living up to who I want to be? So, I'm going to give you a framework that comes from a Japanese philosophy called eeky. Some of

9:29 you have probably seen this before. This is pretty popular among entrepreneurs. There's four categories in Inkyu. When they all overlap, you have more than just a job or just a career, more than just a hobby. It's truly why you're here. You have a purpose. So, to find your current purpose, you're going to write down very short answers to the these four questions. And I'm actually going to give you a second to write down like a little short oneliner. So, I recommend copying a similar kind of a chart. And if you've already done this exercise before, that's cool. Just do it again real quick. What are you passionate about? Ask yourself, what do I love? I'm gonna I'm going to pose all four questions and then I'm just going to give you a minute to write down answers. What do I love? What's the first thing that comes to mind? Write it down. I don't care what it is. What do you love? What's your passion? And then what are your skills? What are you good at? That's the second one. The third one is what do you do that other people actually need? And then what can you get paid for is the fourth one. So just take a

10:40 sec. Take a second and write that down and when people are done writing I'll come back. If you don't have answers to all of these just tap in for a minute and try to remember your future. What do I love? What are my skills? What do other people actually need? And what can I get paid for? The space at the very center is your current alignment. Is your current icky guy. And you could say it's your purpose. It's the overlap of what you love, what you what you can get paid for, what you're good at, and what the world needs. And it's the perfect career for you. If you can't get paid, you have a hobby. Congratulations. Nothing wrong with hobbies. I have

11:45 hobbies. Um, if you can get paid, but you absolutely hate it and you just want to run away screaming, congratulations. You have a day job. Um, but we really want to get all four. So, here's my first eeky guy. I'm going to go through a little slideshow. Like I said, this is going to be kind of personal. Um, I was a professional musician for many years. So, like I got I got all kinds of backstage crazy Hanging out with Bob Gelof and James Taylor and my mom's band in Ireland. Uh, doing a the gig at the Deepo Chopra Meditation Conference. We did that every twice a year for 10 years. Just played music at his conferences. um on stage with all the the cast of The Secret Tony Robbins in San Diego at a big event. Backstage at the Granny's, the photographers are chasing me around and I I started taking pictures of them because I I was like a teenager and I was like, "What am I doing here?" Um so, you know, my mom is a songwriters hall of fame. We did a gig with her and Olivia Newton John. At one point, I was

12:56 know, um doing a gig with Michael McDonald. So, I've had a really wild life. Like, I've spent a long time doing some really amazing gigs. I also had local band, Team Illuminati. That's my wife, Jesse. At one point, we did a gig where we dressed up like the dead music industry because we felt like the music industry was dying. We did a Halloween in July gig. Um, so we were the dead music industry. I played Lisa Gibbons's 50th birthday party and for her 50th birthday party in LA, she got all the weirdos in LA to do this crazy ceremony. And she had this dude that was like this muscle dude that was like in a toga or like a like a bikini kind of bottom who ran out like with an Olympic torch and lit all these fires and then we came out and like played music. It was absolutely bizarre. Um so you know I've done a lot of cool stuff and that was my first eeky guy, right? Um but one day in 2010 my alignment completely fell apart. Let me

13:58 see. Yeah, there's Al Gore looking at me like, "Who the hell are you? I thought you made the internet." Yeah, that was that was when I found out that he didn't make the internet. And he was like, "Don't you tell anybody." Um, so that this was, you know, mainly I was making my living as a sideman. Okay. I I I was as a hobby. I was doing all my own weirdo art music projects and bands and local bands and making records and playing gigs. Um, but you know, my mom's like a six time, seven time number one hit songwriter, songwriter hall of fame touring musician. I was in her band for like 10, 12 years. So, I made my money doing that and then at the same time I did all this other stuff and it kind of didn't work. At a certain point, I kind of fell out of alignment. So, um, I'm going to talk about sort of how that fell apart basically. Um, in 2010, you know, it took years of progressive failures to get to this point. But it seemed all suddenly cave in. I was making intricate, complex music. Didn't care at all about what any

14:59 audience thought. It was pure art. It was not commercial. And uh, like I said, I made my living as a side man. And I was slowly turning into a music teacher completely by accident and discovering that I had a real gift for teaching. And it was just sort of like, oops, I don't know. How did that happen? I did this gig um and the the day of the Nashville flood. I don't know like I'm sure you all anyone who's who's in Nashville the day of the flood, you know exactly what you were doing that day. Well, what I was doing was recovering from the worst gig of my life. I thought, "Okay, I'm doing weird music. Let's find the weirdos." And we got a gig at the Middle Tennessee anime convention. And when we showed up with a full band after weeks of rehearsal, a new album, crazy amounts of gear, lots of complexity, computers, multiple keyboards, all of this huge stage plot, nobody came to my show. And I was like crushed. And then I didn't really get it at the time. That night, the biggest flood in 500 years hit Nashville. Our basement flooded. That's where my recording studio was. All my gear was there. The rehearsal space was there. It was like God was trying to

16:03 tell me something. Nobody came to my show. My space got flooded. Um, I was not aligned to the divine design. Not aligned to much of anything. I was basically a broke wizard is what I was. I was a broke wizard. And I had to figure out, all right, I'm not going to just be in my mom's band for the rest of my life. Um, I need a I need a career. I need a calling. I realized to my horror that I was out of touch with any reliable way to make money, to make a living. I'd never be able to start a family if I couldn't actually make serious like real money. I'd be broke all the time. I I I didn't want to make commercial music. I was I didn't want to commit to being someone else's bass player. I So, I I didn't really have a purpose beyond my own self-expression. And where was that self-expression pointed? It wasn't even connected to anything. And then I went through Saturn return. And raise your hand if you've gone through Saturn return. You know what that is? It's when you're 27 years old and Saturn comes back in the same place in your astrological chart that it was when you were born. And if you Google Saturn return, you'll discover

17:08 that it is usually when your life falls apart. It's when it's the rockstar death age. Everyone, all the, you know, all the rock stars blow their brains out when they're 27. Then it happens again at 54. Um, it's not always horrible for people, but for me it was a reckoning. So, you know, this was this was like the abyss for me, death and rebirth 2010. And uh and it was really kind of profound because it led me to something better. And it forced me kind of like breaking my collar bone and learning, okay, I actually have to learn how to roll correctly now. I have to get aligned with these movements. It it forced me into something else. I um I got my second eeky guy as a music teacher and I realized, okay, I could make more money teaching music. I love teaching music. I'm changing the lives of my students. I'm doing amazing things here. And I got my second alignment. Um I taught them how to be a musician, how to commit to an upgraded identity. I taught them a wide range of technical and creative skills, how to perform,

18:09 vibe, presentation, professionalism. Uh I created a thing called the magic music method. It was this really cool way of teaching music with card games and dice. I like turned into like Mr. Holland's opus for a minute. It was great. I did that for I don't know at this point probably I was sort of ramping into it but maybe like another five or six years and then it all fell apart again because when my kid my first kid was old enough to start going to kindergarten I suddenly realized I am not going to actually experience his childhood if I don't change careers because when do music teachers teach their lessons? Does anybody know? School. after school. And if you're a dad and you got to pick your kid up from school, guess what you can't do because you're at work? You can't pick up your kid from school. And I also needed to make about 10 times as much money. So that put me back in the abyss. You I was teaching music lessons. I was hang that that was one of my favorite students. His name's Nick. Um you know, I was hanging out with him and I was going, "My kid's going to be his age soon and I'm not going to be hanging out

19:11 with my kid." And that was not okay. I'm like, I cannot be absent for my for my child. So boom, broke Wizard 2.0. Yes. What age was this at? My age. Uh, no. So at that point, uh, we're talking 2015. So I was born in 1981. So Oh, I don't know. Is that 33?4. 34. 33. 34. Yeah, I guess so. You're right. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. So 33 is a good age to be crucified. Um, just if you know, in case you're wondering. Yeah. Just in case you're wondering, I probably need to integrate that in here. This is This is 33 pages long, too, which is kind of funny. Yeah, there it is. Uh, so, you know, I realized I wasn't going to see his childhood. So, I figured I figured, all right, I'm going to take lemons and make lemonade. I'm going to sell the magic music method online. And I'm like, I don't know how to do marketing. So, you could probably see where this is going because we've worked together. Um, I I didn't want to trade dollars for

20:17 hours anymore. Uh, but I actually failed at that because by the time I got really good at marketing, other people were hiring me to do marketing for them. And I learned that the music instruction materials market was pretty small and the way, you know, like selling to music teachers and selling little lesson plans and it was like they were not a very innovative and creative crowd. Uh, sadly. Then one day a crisis happened. My child punched another kid in the face and got kicked out of school. four years old. You're going to meet him tomorrow. He's gonna come hang out. Trey, uh, Trey's gonna come hang with us. He punched another kid in the face. Now, to his to his defense, the other kid asked him to punch him in the face. And then he did it. And then I got a phone call and it was like, that's the last straw. We're kicking him out. He was four years old, kicked out of the children's house. I actually got what I asked God for. So, all of a sudden, I had to pick him up from school every day. um just like I had asked right when I years before when I was worried about my music teaching career preventing me from spending time with my kids. So I had no

21:18 choice but to hand off 28 students to other teachers overnight. It was devastating. Um and it liberated me at the same time and you know I hit my abyss again and then I acquired a new set of skills and I became a brand therapist. I mixed together the way that I taught music lessons and I mixed together that with my creative skills, my writing skills, my ability to train and manage and work with other people and also things I learned from my dad who was a therapist who was a disciple of Albert Ellis who's one of the founders of cognitive behavioral therapy. I put all this together and I created this thing called brand therapy. And my failure, all the failures up to that point had led to this future. And all the pain I experienced became the power that that I that I had at that moment. And things got better. Things got a lot better. And uh I really enjoy brand therapy. It's a lot of fun. So, one of the one of the things that that I'm getting at here is a question you can ask yourself is if you're trying to

22:19 figure out is what am I doing for me or am I aligned with something bigger? What problem am I solving? Am I solving the right problem or am I solving a problem that only serves me or am I serving something bigger? Um, try to solve better problems. So, I wanted a family and my first two eeky guys were not sufficient to support a family. So, it didn't didn't solve the how do I solve uh support a family problem. So, I actually got what I asked for and this required tremendous sacrifice and I didn't handle it very well at first. So, uh I had to get some faith. Now, there's there's nothing about my personal alignment that's particularly divine. I think I told you the story pretty well. Um but this is the key to the whole presentation. What I'm about to say, my personal alignments are really just about me figuring out my own identity. We've all had to do that and I'm sure all of us will do it again at some point in the future. Um, defining my purpose and harmony with the world around me so that I could support a family. So, that is the key. And there's there's some really specific reasons why that is the key. Every time my family

23:24 got in the way of my big plans, I had to change my plans. And I've never regretted this. My plans are there to support my family. The conditions will change. This is actually the entire formula in a nutshell. And I'm going to relate it to some other ideas that are pretty big. I'll repeat it later on. So to be clear, perfect divine alignment is not something that I have achieved. Again, this is a set of targets that I'm gunning for that I'm sharing with you and kind of in a vulnerable way just saying, look, this is a journey that I've been on. So we're going to get into some esoteric stuff. Now there's two questions to ask here. Question one is what is the nature of the divine creation that I want to align with? And the second question is how can I align with it? How can I actually align myself with it? So let's open the book of nature and use our intellect to read it. Nature is a pure expression of the divine will. The patterns of nature are the foundation. It's the source code for all religious symbolism. The patterns of

24:27 nature also follow a set of simple mathematical principles on all scales from a shell to a galaxy. As above, so below. Think about the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm. As Carl Sean said, the cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. The relationship between these two things can be seen throughout the universe on every scale. So the patterns of nature look very similar, remarkably similar on different scales. When you look up, when you look down, you're going to see a lot of the same things. On the left, you can see the similarity between lungs and tree branches. Think about how we breathe, what they exhale, and they breathe what we exhale. On the right, you can see two categories of vibration and discharge. Brains look an awful lot like simatics patterns. They look a lot like sand dunes and coral and ripples in a pond. So those are like vibration patterns. Neurons which are inside of brains but contain electricity. They look an awful lot like

25:31 lightning bolts. They look like trees, blood vessels, and river branching patterns. You could say it's just a coincidence, but when I see these patterns, I think of them as evidence that we live in an absolutely beautiful symphony beyond our wildest imagination. And I believe that there is a divine intelligence connecting everything. So we have an operating system built within our minds that can decode the book of nature and it's called the seven liberal arts and sciences. Have you ever heard of the seven liberal arts and sciences? Few people. Yeah. Okay. We'll go through them. So these seven disciplines are grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. some of the oldest way of looking at knowledge. These seven disciplines, the first group is called triv. The the word trivia comes from this. In fact, it's meaningless information. Um, but it's actually meaningful information. It's grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Grammar is a lot more than just subject agreement. It's really more like the computer code of

26:38 thought. It's the code base that our brains, which are quantum computers, are running that gives us consciousness and self-awareness. Logic is the process of removing contradictions. So you're taking in information and you're removing the contradictions as much as you can. And then rhetoric is how you communicate what you found with a larger community. So grammar, logic, rhetoric, so far so good. Just the foundation of education, just some basic stuff, right? But we can use that to discover the natural world, to explore the natural world. the quadriium quad being four four studies um that's number geometry music and astronomy. So number with a capital N, it's more than just algebra. It's the philosophical understanding of quantity and relationship. The numbers have spiritual qualities and properties. They have meanings. They interact with each other like characters in a great drama. Geometry is number in space. So geometry is just, again, don't think of this like we're in a seventh grade math class. Think of this as

27:44 philosophical symbolism. Geometry is taking the ideas of the basic numbers and making them visual, putting them in space. Then music is just number and time. So music is math that you can hear. That's all it is. And astronomy is number in space and time. So this is where it gets kind of weird because if we look a little closer at music, we can get the key to the whole system of harmony and proportion. And I want to tie this back to the idea that there is an intelligence that is so great that is beyond us that's put all this together. I really want to figure out what that is and get in alignment with it. Right? So the the point of studying this is to try to see the patterns that I could never have created and get in alignment with them. So music shapes and alters the brain waves and the heart waves of individuals and collectives very rapidly. It is a direct portal into the collective unconscious. Music can raise your vibrations quite literally because music is vibrations and we are made of music. We are made of water uh that's

28:50 vibrating. So if you look at the physics of sound and you see right there in the harmonic series and it's kind of mapped out u not literally but just related to the the the notes on the staff. A single note contains multiple notes. One single note actually has a major chord in it. It has more than that and I'm not going to get into extreme detail in this presentation because believe it or not this is actually framing for another set of bigger ideas. Um but if you want to go deeper into this I've got another presentation that you some of you may have seen. Without getting into too much technical detail I can just tell you every note has a major chord inside of it. Every note has more than one note inside of it. And these overtones can be represented visually in the geometric patterns that you'll see in the solar system in the way the planets are aligned and move with each other and then in great architecture. So the the the design and aesthetic of sacred architecture is simply a reflection of these patterns which we find throughout

29:51 the sky everywhere. Um some celestial bodies are locked into patterns called orbital resonance. Orbital resonance happens when the orbits of different celestial bodies create a fixed ratio like 2:1 or 3:2. This is explained by the laws of planetary motion, Bod's law and the equations that govern lrangian points. So those are the langrangian points. They they're basically far out in space and they kind of make up for each other. So when you've got like a 99.997% accuracy of a ratio of like one planet's orbit to another, oftentimes this the slight dis discrepancy is made up on the other side. So there's some pretty wild stuff going on in the sky, but it's not obvious until you see it really simplified. Um I didn't really believe this at first. I thought it was kind of ridiculous. I thought, okay, that's just a coincidence. And so I I started looking up all the numbers. And I remember busting out a calculator. I would encourage everyone to do this. Bust out a calculator and challenge some

30:55 of the stuff I'm about to show you because you'll discover that it's actually true. Pluto and Neptune um create a 2:3 ratio in the sky. The orbits create a 2 to3 ratio. And that is the musical interval of a perfect fifth. So that's like a guitar, like a power chord on a guitar. Pluto and Neptune are doing that all the time. They've been doing that for millions of years. That's pretty weird. The moons of Jupiter, they all make octaves. So, one to two, one to four, one, they're creating octaves. There's a list here of the mean motion orbital resonances. And you can see different bodies in the solar system that the distances between them, whether it's the difference between their orbits, their radiuses, they they make the musical ratios of octaves, unison's, octaves, fourths, and fifths. Those are the the lowest of the those are most of those are the lowest frequencies in the overtone series. So

31:57 basically what I'm saying is the solar system is a big standing wave pattern that's just a standing wave of musical ratios that are the same math for our music theory. And that's pretty crazy. That's pretty cool. Seems kind of unlikely. If you look at Venus, Venus against Earth makes a five-pointed star in the sky. So that's one of the most stunning orbital resonances out there. And this approximates the golden mean ratio which is the pattern of the geometry of life. The golden mean ratio exists in your DNA. It exists in your body. It exists in every leaf, every tree, every piece of life has the golden mean in it. And this traces a blazing star in the sky. So it's interesting that Venus traces a blazing star. And the one of the great symbols of the ancient mystery schools is the blazing star. And all this is tied together with the teachings of Pythagoras. The the rose accretian symbol, the rose and the cross

32:58 is really a star on a cross. And the cross folds up to make a cube, which is pretty interesting. You can also fold these shapes up and create all five platonic solids. And the five platonic solids are the foundation of organic uh chemistry because the pattern of DNA is a relationship between a dodcahedron and a nicosahedron inverting and creating each other. It's it's in the the actual angles of the molecules themselves. So again macrocosm microcosm it's all connected. Um this is pretty well designed. The evidence is everywhere. It's written in the book of nature if we have the eyes to see it and if we have the minds to interpret it. And it takes the seven liberal arts and sciences in proper order to decode this information. But we all have this tool. So anyway, you can dive a lot deeper in this. I have like a way long presentation on this. Um, beyond the trivium and the quadriium, the other two areas are philosophy and theology that

34:03 provide the how and the why and then architecture and the performing arts. If you can see all of these things as integrated studies and the rituals that happen in spaces that we build that provides the who and the when and the where, there's a much bigger pattern happening here and you can see it's all connected through harmony and proportion. So that brings us to architecture. Architecture is how we design our lives around these principles. The architecture of a building, the architecture of yourself. The word architecture can be applied to more than just physically building a structure. Um the architecture of the family, physical spaces, sacred buildings, your home, your village, your community, your nation, civilization itself. It's way bigger than just building construction. Now, I'm going to go into the five orders of classical architecture for a sec. Tuscin, Doric, ionic, Corinthian, and composite. There's increasing levels of complexity to these. And when you when you look at them, you know, it's kind of like, okay, wow, that's a lot to take in. Like, what's going on here? There's

35:09 so many different I I remember looking through all this and going, C, can we simplify this? Like, why is it why is there so much going on? There's actually only really three that matter. Um, we'll get to that in a sec. But first, you know, you see all the variations. You see these volumes, I think they're called volumes, right? Uh, you've got the fluting, you've got all these little components, all these pieces. But at the fundamental level, it's it's really just a pillar, which is like a pillar in, you know, in the basement of this house, a pillar with little twirlies on it, and then a pillar with leaves on it, and then combinations of those. So, why would for thousands of years, why would people do this over and over and over again? Why would they keep doing the same patterns? I think it's an interesting question. I also think it's interesting that this is way older than ancient Greece. The Greeks and the Romans didn't make any of this up. This came from Egypt. And when you when you look at the orders of architecture of Egypt, it's the same idea with just different species of plants. instead of a cananthus leaves, it's lotus uh and uh

36:12 and palm and and there's all these different things, but they're really kind of just all doing the same thing. They're displaying symbolism on their buildings. So, every time you walk in the building, you see the symbolism, and it's supposed to be telling you a story about your place. Um, so with with these variations, you know, we could just go down the rabbit hole forever on this and look at how beautiful that is and how they're still standing after who knows how long that's been there. But there's only three that really matter. So there's Doric and that's kind of the plain one. Doric, huh? Strength. Yeah. Yeah. So Doric represents strength. It's solid. It's dependable. There's no frills. So when you see Dor columns, if someone's using their symbolism correctly, it's going to be on the first floor of a building. Shouldn't be on the second or the third floor. That should be the other two. Should be on the first floor. And it's it's a little chunkier. Tuscin is like even further to that extreme.

37:16 But Doric is strength. Then you get to ionic. Ionic represents wisdom. A scroll-like volu suggesting an unfurling of knowledge and contemplation. You drive past Belmont and you look at their all their new buildings that look old and they and they all have ionic columns. Um except I think the administration building has Corinthian or composite because they're I guess more important or something. Um and then you get to Corinthian and it's got this elaborate aanthus leaves representing beauty and abundance. That's also a symbol of u immortality, a symbol of eternal life. That's that's similar to like leaves growing up on a gravestone. There's a story about how this was discovered. This was basically imitating a grave that that I forget the name of the person that is credited with coming up with this. But of course, if it was a Greek guy, he was actually just ripping off the Egyptians, which is why I showed you that the Egyptians were having plants climbing up columns for thousands of years before the Greeks came along and ripped them all off. Then you got Tuscan all the way to the strength side. It's like strength to the point of

38:19 brute. Put that one in the basement. And then you got composite which is like spiritually elevated in a whole other level that these things are bigger. So these are bigger and that's it's like really there's just three strength, wisdom and beauty. And those are the three core concepts um in our in our civilization that we're going to come come back to in part of this talk. Three principles strength, wisdom, and beauty are are not just the foundation of architecture. They're also the foundation of a life well-lived. They're the qualities of what makes a good man, a good father. So remember, what makes something beautiful is its adherence to natural form and proportion. And this is all objectively defined. Doesn't matter what the postmodernists say, sorry, but there is an objective standard of beauty that can be defined and it can be defended. What makes human creations beautiful is how they reflect nature. And we are part of nature. The geometry that reflects nature has the golden mean

39:21 in it. It's generative. The golden mean generates itself. It's self-replicating. So I was talking earlier about family and now I'm talking about self-replicating geometry. And I was talking earlier about the imitation of the the the divine pattern in my personal life and how I was out of alignment with it. And now I'm pointing to generative self-replicating concepts, living, you know, stone imitations of living forms and and saying this is kind of peculiar. The geometry and the standing wave pattern of our solar system, the music of the spheres is in our bodies. It's in our DNA which is self-replicating. It's in the five platonic solids. It's in great architecture and it's built into everything that we do on every level. And it's under attack. So, this is the part where uh I think you'll you'll really enjoy some of the controversy here. And I'm I'm looking forward to hearing some feedback on this section because I haven't really talked much about this. Um I've been collecting

40:24 my thoughts on this for many years. So, I'm going to put some stuff out here that I would welcome some debate on over dinner. I think it'll be a lot of fun. Um so, I'll admit that a lot of the current decay and beauty has happened by accident, but it's having a profound effect on our civilization. Once you understand that beauty motivates men to greatness, modern architecture makes a lot more sense. It's really more of a symptom of a deeper problem. But we're in a feedback loop now. And this mind virus of low standards as a side effect of industrialization and cheaper building processes that optimize for scale instead of wisdom, strength, and beauty. So we're winning the race to the bottom. If you wanted to separate people from themselves, if you wanted to separate people from a meaningful sense of harmony with their families and their communities and the world around them, if you wanted people to be programmed to feel disconnected, to feel kind of angry and not really know why, you would definitely want to surround them with ugliness. But it wouldn't just be any kind of ugliness. It would be very well

41:26 constructed ugliness. It would be a demoralizing ugliness. ugliness that detaches you from the evidence of how we're all connected. That evidence that I was just talking about, um, how we're all made of star stuff and the star stuff has the fingerprint of the divine creator in it at every level. It would be ugliness that inspires emotional distress and mental and social chaos. That would be the best way to uh to get through, you know, some here's some shitty architecture. We are so advanced 2,000 years ago. You know, we have art then art now the banana. Um, look at that. Look at that. Okay. Why don't we still do that? Well, it costs money. I know. Okay, fine. But that costs money, too. You know, it could have been halfway decent. What are we doing to ourselves with this? You know, what are you more inspired for? Would you rather walk into that church or that church? Raise your hand if you like the one on the right or

42:27 the left. Right. I mean, so here's a is it St. Michelle, Mount St. Michelle in France. Absolutely gorgeous. And I don't know how much money that cost. Probably cost a lot of money and a lot of time to build. I'm sure someone could say what the number was, but all these buildings also cost a lot of money. And they all kind of look the same and they all kind of look like crap. So, what inspires you more, you know? Um, here's a Anamosa State Prison in 1899. Now, here's the Animosa Middle School in 2012. Wh which one looks like a prison? I know, right? Christmas. Can you go back on that? Yeah. So, there's the Animosa State Prison, 1899. Have y'all seen that prison off of Charlotte Pike? That's beautiful. It's decaying old building. Yeah. I got a friend that did a bunch of drone photography that place. And then that's a high school from the same town a hundred years later. So, like I'd rather go to high school in that prison personally. You had to ask me. Uh, without a single degree, they created monuments that inspired

43:35 generations and then architects with degrees arrived. Um, so, okay, the the fall of Rome, the historical patterns of civilizational decay. Chaos happens to people individually. It happens to families, to communities, cities, to entire nations. If you look back through the history of the world, it's the rise and fall of empires. And if you look at the fall of the Roman Empire, you could argue at some point they were in pretty good alignment. You could say they were even part of a divine alignment for a little while. But of course, like all things, it fell apart eventually. And what historically precedes each empire falling apart? War, natural disaster, famine, plague, yes, but also social decay. Anybody know who that guy is? Caligula. Unless Google gave me the wrong guy. I think it's Kua. Uh same guy. Basically, distraction and debauchery always seem to scale at to scale up at the end of empires. It's the loss of the moral fabric and the loss of the foundation. You can index off the question, is this good for children in a stable family?

44:40 The loss of core family structure in whatever form was previously stable as a canary in the coal mine. When that falls apart, social order falls apart. Um, oh yeah, and baby oil, that's not for babies. That's uh that's for Caligula. So, you know, the temple of Israel, okay, why was the first temple destroyed? Why did God send their enemies to come destroy them according to the scriptures? Does anybody know the reason? Anybody want to guess? Okay. Well, Solomon took 700 wives from other countries and started worshiping other gods, engaging in idolatry, filling the temple with uh all kinds of shenanigans. And as he wrote at the end, he wrote in Ecclesiastes, all is vanity. The true meaning and fulfillment of life are found in a relationship with God, not in worldly pursuits or material possessions. He got completely distracted by and the took over. However you want to interpret that story, there's a very clear symbolic message. When your energy is split off in different directions,

45:45 you will fall out of alignment and your temple will be destroyed. The best way to take down an empire, especially if you can't beat him in a war, is to inspire generations of social decay and disorder, through cultural warfare, through idolatry, through debauchery, low vibration turning bread and circus into a weapon that goes beyond control of a population into the destruction of the moral fabric of the civilization itself. The key is destroying families and destroying the things that support families. If you get that right, you can really take everything else down faster. This guy laid it all out. Does anybody know who this is? Nope. Nope. The Russian gentleman that talked about Steve Jobs. I'm just kidding. Talk about ideological subversion. Yuri Bzmanov. He was a KGB agent that defected and came over here and spilled the beans on their plants. and did a really amazing interview with G. Edward Griffin like in 1984, I think. Um, so yeah, so when people don't have a coherent way of

46:48 knowing whether or not they're living in accordance with a set of objective standards that are shared across the whole of their civilization, everything becomes relative to nothing in particular. And without any organizing principles, things kind of fall apart. Um, you can just kind of walk in and take over. You know, this is consistently repeated in the messages of the prophets in ancient times. So, there's really nothing new under the sun here. Engineering this kind of crisis is the core of the old Soviet playbook. So, if you think the news is fake, imagine how bad history is. It's one of my favorite memes. Um, ideological subversion was used by the Soviets during the Cold War to collapse target states from within. And they also tried it on us. Now, you could argue that they were not successful. Um, even though the Berlin Wall fell, though, we're still dealing with a legacy of this, just because you can't clearly see or identify the enemy anymore does not mean that you're safe. What you don't know can hurt you. There's So, I got some relevant examples here for each stage. There's four stages of ideological

47:49 subversion. Demoralization takes 15 to 20 years. So for just like a handful of random examples, convincing people that they should really trade all their liberty for security, kind of getting in their heads, building huge bureaucracies that destroy individual freedom just have marginal collective gains, punishing people for immutable biological traits, optimizing for collectivism over individual freedom, the idea that truth cannot be known, you create your own reality. basing politics and policy decisions on identity rather than transcendent and immutable first principles. All these things kind of work their way in and slowly take over and then all of a sudden you have fake news, fake education, fake food, fake healthcare, fake wars, fake politicians, fake history, fake philosophy. No way of knowing what is real and what is fake without doing exhausting amounts of personal research with primary sources

48:49 you don't even have access to. That's the point. It's not about right or left. It's about not knowing what reality is in the first place. That takes 15 to 20 years to do and they you run cycles. Destabilization takes two to five years. So you could say some examples of destabilization taking over the humanities with authoritarian socialist and Marxist progressive approaches. Uh here's a great example of destabilization act. the Smith Munt Act, which allowed psychological warfare to be legally legally deployed into um our news media on US soil. These were tools that used to only be used that would be like that would be like deploying our military in the streets, but doing it psychologically like allowing that to happen. That's dstabilization right there. institutionalizing identity politics into government and corporations, privatizing censorship, privatizing violations of natural rights, like the Twitter files revealed. Out of control regulatory agencies, blooming regulations that just limit individual freedom and choke the economy. Enough of that and you get a crisis. After 911, I remember being in

49:56 some kind of activist meeting in Amherst. bunch of like really progressive liberal activists, all of whom would be RFK people by now. Um, somebody stood up and said we were in a national crisis, but the Chinese word for crisis is the same as opportunity. And this was an opportunity for all kinds of horrible shenanigans on the part of the federal government overreaching. They were worried about it. And you know what? We got the Patriot Act. We got forever wars. Every time our civil liberties were eroded over the years with terrorism as the justification, I would think back to this meeting, and it's funny because these were like the kind of people that now would be pro- free speech, pro- civil liberties, anti-war. They would all be labeled right-wing, which is really weird because that used to be left-wing. And that is more evidence of the demoralization. We can't even tell who's on what side anymore. It's confusing. Everyone's confused. The more confused we are, the better it is for chaos to erode the foundations of our society. So we've got crisis, you know, things like 911, market crash in 2008,

50:59 COVID, and then normalization, which is ongoing. After every crisis, new previously desired patterns that were really supposed to be there, that's the whole reason we have a crisis. Everybody pretends like it's cool. It's not cool, but it's too late and the cycle starts again. Um, so you know, endless money printing after 2008, quantitative easing. Um, COVID actually pissed so many people off and woke so many people up, the normalization process started to backfire. Um, so instead of getting too deep into the political debate here, I I've thrown enough bait out. We can talk about this over dinner. How do you apply this? I just what I want you to take away is the framework of ideological subversion because there's a way to reverse this. And you can reverse it no matter what side of the culture where you're on. You can actually people can come together over what I'm about to share. And I I call it ideological renewal. How do we achieve civilizational alignment? I think we need ideological renewal. Um the launch

52:03 sequence for ideological renewal is the reverse of ideological subversion. Now, this at this point in the in the workshop or in the in the talk, I want to ask everybody if you guys need like five minutes to take a break, go to the bathroom, have a drink because because we're about twothirds of the way in here and so I'm going to I'm going to kind of bring it home. So, take five, smoke them if you got them, and then we're going to come back and and we're going to come back and look at some solutions and we're going to put everything together. So yeah, I I went through a lot of problems just now and I I tend to do these when I do these kind of talks, I I don't usually get as personal and I also don't usually get as political. So it's kind of a new thing and it's fun. It's interesting. But as I was writing this, I was like, I really need to provide some solutions here. I can't just talk about what's wrong. Um, and I've been thinking about this a lot because when I got hip to the whole Yuri Bezmanov thing and I recognized all the kind of patterns that

53:04 I've studied for 20 years, 25 years when I was in high school, I read the People's History of the United States. I don't know if any of y'all have read that book, but you know, it kind of pulls the wool from your eyes on Christopher Columbus. Like, he did some pretty horrible stuff. And you start questioning and you start feeling bad about things that are going on. That kind of sucks, you know? It's like I don't want to be stuck in that rabbit hole. So, I've been asking myself this question like,"Well, what what could we do? I don't want to be hopeless. I don't want to feel like, you know, all the things that suck in the world are just there and that's it and we're done and just give up and forget about it. Is there something we can do?" And I came up with this framework that I I think is playing out right now. And it's called ideological renewal. So, the the sequence is first in, last out. And this is how I think we can break the cycle of ideological subversion. It's going to take longer than our lives to really do it. The four stages go in reverse order. So you think of it like people getting in an elevator and the last person in is

54:04 the first person out or like stock investment. The la first in last out. Um the mistake I think is easy to make is if you try to reverse ideological subversion and you do it starting with moralization, you're up against something that took 20 years to get there. It's happened a few times, whereas you've got a normalized crisis that's going to prevent you from actually flipping back into where you want to go. So, what I came up with is confrontation, correction. You can come in if you want to. You're welcome. Oh, you're you're totally fine. Thanks. No worries. Uh, so I think we've got confrontation immediately. You've got to confront what's been normalized and challenge whether or not it should be normal. And then you've got correction. That's going to take six to 18 months per cycle, but should be ongoing. And that's, you know, correcting like fixing that which has been broken is no small task. Stabilization two to five years. Think about electoral cycles. Think about when

55:06 when there's there's electoral victories or wars. Apply this to all of history and you'll see whenever a new crowd comes in and they're going to fix everything, they actually kind of go through this. It's sort of a standard thing people do. And then moralization 15 to 20 years plus. Um so you can't moralize first during a time of normalized crisis because it takes decades to do the moralization process. Um so yeah, let's go through it now a little more detail. I remember seeing the particle size thing that the CDC put out during the recent wildfires in LA and I was like, "Wait a second. They're telling them not to use masks because the particle size for the wildfire can get through the masks and that's how big a corona virus is." So, that's a confrontation. Okay. Um, you know, there's a million different things that you could confront that are like, "This doesn't make any

56:08 sense." Do you remember when it was safe to take off your mask if you were sitting down? Yeah, I I remember I'm old enough to remember that it was not safe to take it off when you were standing up. None of this made any sense. So, totally insane ideas have been normalized. And you you got to ask why. And, you know, anyone who's bold enough to confront it is going to get punched in the face at first. and um eventually people are apologizing to them. The first step is confrontation. We have to confront the status quo to break the ice and allow for larger cycles of correction, stabilization, and moralization to occur without being immediately shot down by what's been normalized. Um so we're seeing this play out right now with a lot of different things. Then you've got correction. So you know the wolf in Pulp Fiction, I don't know if any of youall have seen Pulp Fiction, but the cleanup guy, right? Somebody's got to come in and clean up the mess. You can't just confront what's been normalized that's wrong and then just that's it. You got to actually clean it up or you're toast. And uh it's messy and it's dangerous and

57:11 it has to be done. Um real correction takes time too. It doesn't just happen as fast as a crisis that you're correcting. Then you got stabilization. This is a really important moment in American history. Does anybody know what this moment is? Stabilization. George Washington George Washington turns in his command. He turns in his command and he says, "I'm not going to be a king." He could have been a king. He could have made that happen. I mean, there you go. But he didn't. He turned in his command and he said, "We need to build institutions, give the power to the people, have a structure, you know." So you know as new organizations can begin the longer term work of moralization at the same time but these other things have to be happening simultaneously. So then you get moralization. If you look back in history there's a ton of amazing teachers. These are long-term projects.

58:13 They've written great works. They've lived great lives. They've inspired countless generations. These larger than-l life personalities are the great moralizing forces of humanity. Organizations built around these great ideas of saved us, saved humanity over and over again survive to this day. The common denominator is they're bringing people together around what makes us a better version of ourselves and what aligns us with God or aligns us with the divine design. So we need to do all these at the same time. When I think about what Mayweather Academy is meant to do, it's really moralizing organization. But uh look at the bigger picture. The objective is civilizational. So um you know again ideological renewals, confrontation, correction, stabilization, moralization, reaching for the stars. So all wisdom reflects the same divine patterns. I don't want to waste my time with a demi urge with a middle manager with a vice president. I want the founder, CEO, chairman of the board. And

59:13 I want to ask some questions. How can I connect with God? What does God want for me? And what is my place in this design? And where do I fit in? And why was I created? And why am I here? What am I here to do? How do I discover this? These are questions. Do you guys ever have these questions? Have you ever asked these questions? Yeah, these I think this is a good room to ask these questions. I have three frameworks to approach this that uh I don't have. These are just things I've noticed. And the three frameworks are nature, scripture, and nosis. And if we think about what this what this weekend is all about, we're in nature and tomorrow you're going to do hero's journey. You're going to study ancient scriptures, the Mahabara, Iliad. And then Nosis is and the transcendental movement. Um that's there there's a form of nosis there. It's inner knowing, inner experience of divinity, right? So how do we approach this? Right? In nature, we have evidence. evidence which is encoded, programmed

1:00:17 into nature, and it is objective. It's either true or it's not true. All that stuff I showed you earlier is either true or false. And you can challenge all of it, and you can get a calculator out and look at the physics and you can go, okay, yeah, you know, the the the orbital distance of Pluto and Neptune make a a musical perfect fifth ratio in the sky to 99.19% accuracy. And then you can argue about whether or not that level of accuracy is philosophically relevant or oh because I can't land a a probe on Neptune with that because I'll miss the planet and crash into something that it's therefore not valid. What level of of conversation are we having here? Are we talking about philosophical relevance and patterns or are we landing a probe on Neptune? And then you find out Lrangian points make up that other percentage on the other side of the solar system and it adds up to 100%. like that is objective. It's programmed that's encoded into nature. Scripture on the other hand is a a little bit more trust me bro. It's it's been revealed

1:01:20 right to some genius that wrote it down. It's been composed. It's been interpreted. And we can all argue about it. And I can tell you that my translation of the Bible is better than your translation of the Bible. And somebody else can be like, "No, I'm going to read the vadas." And we can all argue about that. So it's it's not as objective. Um but but you can approach and connect with God through scripture just as much as you can through nature. Nosis is a direct personal spontaneous experience and it's something that I cannot dictate to you and you cannot dictate to me. We can each have this directly and all the great enlightened teachers have based their revelations on their own internal nosis. But there are actually dangers here to be aware of. The danger in nature is that you'll approach nature without reason. That's the reason why I told you when we're studying the book of nature, we have to use the seven liberal arts. And the first three are the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. And logic is is very important. So if something that you're studying in the book of nature doesn't make sense, then you should be

1:02:26 able to figure that out. If you have nature without reason and you're literally worshiping nature as God, that that can be a problem. That can lead down to some pretty weird, you know, like think Indiana Jones in the Temple of Dune and the guy's reaching and grabbing and ripping his heart out. I know. You see, you know his name. I'm keeping you around, man. I like this. Um, now scripture without logic is dangerous. You know, you're in a hall of mirrors. You're like, what translation am I reading? Uh, have I do I understand what these words even mean? Thus spaketh he upon the waters. I'm like, what is what? If I can't actually really analyze it with logic, I'm I run the risk of taking the wrong things literally in the wrong ways. Literal reading of bad translations, introducing cultural trash that shouldn't be there. It's like the source code is is manipulated. It gets hacked. Scripture can be hacked. You know, there's there's hackers that get in and hack our culture through scripture and then we're all drinking the Kool-Aid. that redefine definition of terms. Yeah, it's language scripture doesn't term because you know static.

1:03:30 Yeah. But if you can change the guys and the culture and say that word means this. Yeah. And that's hard track through multiple translations through thousands of years. Um Nosis without theosis is also a dangerous thing. Who are you connecting with? What are you talking to? boss or are you talking to something else or are you just talking to yourself? How do you know? Um and so what I'm proposing here is that there's a triad and the triad is these things have to be checks and balances with each other. Okay? So, you know, we have strength, wisdom, and beauty that we talked about earlier. And scripture, stable institutions, and the power of God through strength, scripture, stable institutions is one part of a three-part three-legged stool here. Wisdom, nosis, inner knowing, inspiration of God within

1:04:30 works together with a study of scripture and the study of nature and the beauty, the external evidence of the glory of God. All these things go together to create like a three-part structure. Now, we also have legislative, judicial, and executive branches. You're going to be talking about history on Sunday. Think about that in relationship to scripture, nosis, and nature, father, son, and holy spirit. There's a bunch of different places where this three-part structure, this trinity, this triadic structure is all kind of saying the same thing. So, I think it's worth looking at that because that allows us to have some checks and balances. If I receive some kind of knowing and nosis, I can check it against nature and I can check it against scripture. Um, and if I read something crazy in in the scriptures and it's like, don't eat shrimp, I'm like, well, I I think I can eat shrimp. I don't know. You You may disagree, though. Yeah. No, you gave me a look. Are you Levitical? Is it bacon wrapped shrimp? That's the problem.

1:05:31 Yeah. If you wrap it in bacon, that's a double negative. And so that's a positive. Cancels it out. There you go. Um, so you know, you look at the the classic trinities, the father, the law, strength, foundation, Brahma, the creator, the son, God made flesh, nosis with theosis, the highest potential realized, Vishnu, the preserver, holy spirit, beauty, shikenna, the nonlinear mystery, the presence in everything, also capable of fire and destruction. Shiva the destroyer, Pentecost, not to be with. Um, it all goes together in a beautiful way. So, okay, let's let's think about the civilization now that is aligned versus the one that gets destroyed. We actually have a chance here to build the new Atlantis. But we have to define what we're building. And we have to build the builders. So, do you want to explore what that might look like if we get it right? Yeah. What would it look like? We have a foundation already. We just have to start using it. It's called America. We live in this really cool thing called America. That's a picture of a friian

1:06:34 cap which is uh has got some American symbolism on it which is significant. We're not subjects of a king or a pope. Others are. We're not subjects of a dictator or an emperor. Others are. We're not compelled to have any particular religion or politics by design. Others are. We're not constitutionally required to ask the permission of unelected bureaucrats or commisseriats or any other bogus, speirious or invalid pretenders to conduct our lives in the pursuit of happiness, provided we're not encroaching on the rights of others. When these rights are violated, we have recourse written into our constitution and our laws. It's not perfect. It doesn't always work correctly, but it's better than the alternative. There's feedback loops built in to catch bad actors who try and pervert the system. That happens all the time. Confrontation and correction can happen without war. But what we have is unbelievably fragile. It's the result of thousands of years of dreamers and visionaries staring into an abyss, believing there could be more than just what was handed to them. They confronted

1:07:38 tyranny. They corrected their alignments. They stabilized institutions. They moralized future generations. And we live inside of what they built. But it needs renewal right now or it could die. What we have is incredibly rare in the history of the world. Maybe it's all a happy accident. Maybe it's by design. Either way, our heritage is based on sovereignty. Sovereignty was the real crime of the Knights Templar. And moralization leads to sovereignty. That's worth writing down. Moralization leads to sovereignty. Moralization helps you clean out and purify your inner receiver so you can receive divine instructions nosis directly. When we all have sovereignty, we don't need a middleman. This was the true crime of the Knights Templar. They were attacked because they got the formula right. You might need help. You might need structure. We can help each other. We can build curriculums. We can study. We can make institutions. But the institutions don't dictate our lives.

1:08:41 They serve us, not the other way around. I started with this Psalm 127. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord preserves the city, he who preserves it watches over the ruins. There's five domains of alignment here. There's God at the foundation. Okay, so this this five-part structure, I'll repeat it in a minute, but I'm just going to go through it. This is clearly God, this AI God. But so we're talking about how we connect, right? So God is the foundation, but a level up from that is family. And that's my family. Um, of course you can have your own family, but that's my wife Jesse and my kid Trey and Sebastian. And then above that is work, right? And above work is your community. And above community is your civilization. And if you think of the five layers, God, family, work, community, and civilization, we we really want to align with those things. The five domains have

1:09:43 to be in alignment for us to be aligned to the divine design because nature is is showing us this. Um, starts by getting right with God. You do that by studying nature, studying scripture, and through nosis that comes from purification, taking out your mental and emotional trash, committing time to meditation and prayer. So, um, then you got a domain. You got to wait, hold on. Okay, I'll just go there. As I said, this is a science project for me, and I'm I'm uh I basically wrote a book that I'm giving you guys the first the first read on, so bear with me. You're absolutely crushing. Doing this right allows us to self assemble into a living system into a temple made of stones not built by human hands. An organizing force that creates the civilization that we want to live in. And this starts by studying what God has already made. So now let's look at alignment eeky guy in this con in this context. But instead of

1:10:45 my passion, instead of all about me, I I said earlier I told you my life story basically and then I said my life's not particularly divine. It's just an example that you can kind of anchor off of. Think about your own failures and your own your own pain that's turned into your power. Um, but let's apply this to civilization because it's a lot bigger than than you or me. Okay. So, here's the here's the alignment for a divinely aligned civilization. We're going to replace my passion for me with a vision of the world that is to come. Um, I like thinking of it as the new Atlantis, but you guys could have whatever you call it whatever you want. The vision of the world that we want to live in and that we want to create. I'm going to replace my skills with culture of behavior. What is the behavior? What are the shared behaviors? What is the culture that creates that vision? Um, building strong families, restoring moral fabric and freedom. core principles, problem solving, visionary, creative and operational excellence, ideological renewal. That all fits in culture. Those are skill sets that are shared that that are behaviors that we

1:11:51 engage in together. What we're doing right here today and over this weekend is culture. Um, but then I'm going to replace like I go back to, you know, what does the world need for like little old me and my alignment, the market? I'm going to replace that with the community, the larger community. um like-minded individuals coming together around a vision. Awake, enlightened, advanced seekers, mystics, seers, and builders. I mean, look around the room. Every one of you is a badass in some respective field. And I personally know many of you. You guys are like nailing this. Um and we're going to replace can I get paid with systems that support the whole thing. What are the systems that support everyone's needs? sovereign, successful businesses, economies built around embodied wisdom, stable institutions, free markets, and good feedback loops. So the vision of the world to come, which already exists, which we're just moving into through remembering the future, which already happened, that

1:12:55 vision can become your vision. If you get in alignment with something like this, it's way bigger than you. That is one way of bringing in what I would say is the kingdom of God within and around you. So you could ask yourself if I have a vision like this, if it's this big, who's joining this vision with me? Like who's who's on the team? Who's on my kickball team? Who's on my dodgeball team? What kind of people? What kind of occupations? What kind of skills? What needs to happen for this to actually happen? And then I get to the core thesis of this talk, which I know you probably think, are you going to get to the point? Uh, who builds the builders? That's the biggest question I've asked myself throughout all of this. Who builds the builders? If I want to build something bigger than little old me that's a real civilizational movement that actually heals and advances a big vision, I can't do it by myself. I got to build builders. So, let's talk about families for a minute. The truth is, you can't build things

1:13:56 without builders. Thinking back to nature, what were we looking at? We were looking at God's creation revealed to us as the balancing of generative forces creating life which creates more life. And this principle manifests directly as families. That's Anna Reef. She's my great great great grandmother. She gave birth to uh her kids in Hungary in a wheat field and went right back to work. Like, holy Um, the most obvious way to participate in nature is to either start a family, strengthen your existing family, or support strong families, support systems that support strong families. Yeah, I know. It looks They're a little like pissed off. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they popped out in wheat field, you know, in this time period. Probably was a 10. They probably sit there for a couple minutes. That's what I Yeah, that's not

1:14:56 really your head because it's like moved around a lot. That's why it's so long because long exposure. So to quote Albert Pike, um what we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others in the world remains and is immortal. We look at the patterns of nature again. Now alignment is harmony. Harmonic systems that regenerate and repeat themselves are the definition of life. Misalignment is conflict. Conflict leads to death. The resolution of conflict in music is dissonance, consonants, dissonance, consonants. It's one of the things I love about Bach. Does anyone listen to Bach too much? I listen I love Bach. And Bach has this way of having like really long dissonances that are like, is he got what? How is he going to fix that? You know, and then it boom, it lands and it resolves. It's incredible. The standing wave patterns of consonances in our solar system are creating music that define the general distances between the planets. Everything's music and death is when the song ends. Death is when it dissolves.

1:16:00 Death is when dissonance wins. Dissonance leads to silence to empathy. Uh sorry, to entropy, not to empathy. Um you have a choice, right? So the way you manifest the divine design into your life when you read the book of nature you see these repeating patterns of life creating more life which dies and is reborn. Resurrection is the foundation of all life and it's based on a very simple pattern. It all comes down to regenerative life. So here's here's uh my wedding right and again I'm telling you like I don't normally get this personal but like here it is. I think my hair was longer than my wife's hair. um still is. You know, you don't have to go make babies to to align to the divine design, but you should be thinking about the next generation and you should be thinking about how to support people who did make babies. Uh or if you made babies and they're all grown up and they've moved on, maybe they're making babies. We need to build builders. We need to build more builders. We need more people that get this. Um, so yeah,

1:17:06 it doesn't mean that you have to do it. It may sound silly and oversimplified, but it's the truth. If you're gonna have kids, great. If you're not going to have kids, do something that supports stable families because our civilization is based on this. Um, this is the foundation of a civilization. And so I'm I feel really lucky, really grateful to have these kids that kicked my ass when I was out of alignment, that prevented me from from making it all about me, that prevented me from living a selfish life of really idolatry to myself. Um because I don't have time for that now. Um yeah, so this is this is kind of the foundation. And when your energy gets pulled away from the kind of focus that you can have with your family, um it can lead to the destruction of your temple because it can feel pointless. Like King Solomon with his 700 lives, uh wives, like the fall of Rome with all the debauchery of Caligula and Nero. And the antidote to this, there's Trey praying to a four-leaf clover. The antidote to this is strong

1:18:10 fathers, right? So there's there's my father and my mother and me when I was 12. Um and kind of returning to to to where we started. The father is the rock of the family. So let's look at a few of the skills and activities that a man has to have to be a successful father. These are all things I learned from my dad. Earning, defending. You okay over there? Challenging. Punch the bully in the face. Kiss the girl on the first date. Nurturing. Forgive your enemies. Healing. Building. Fixing things that are broken. Practicing unconditional love. All the things you need to do to attract a good woman. How to tie a tie. How to fight. How to survive. How to make a deal. A good handshake. How to start a business. How to be a good boss. How to be a good employee. The art of persuasion. The art of

1:19:24 up, how to lead and how to command, and about 500 other things that everyone in this room is going to think of that I didn't think of. This is the curriculum that we should be teaching young men. Um, if we don't teach young men this kind of stuff, and it doesn't have to be exactly what I'm doing here, but you know what we're doing this weekend, if we don't teach this to our young men, they're going to teach themselves a bunch of random It's going to get half of them killed and make everyone else miserable. Um so the progression again through the five levels connecting to God, building a stable family, families uh that are supported by good work, building a stable community, and really all of that aligning with a stable civilization that's worth living in. This is going to sound kind of extreme, but I kind of think everything else at this point, at least in my life, is just cultural masturbation. Uh, which is not even a bad thing. So, let me say I'm not judging it. If you need to go jerk off,

1:20:29 go jerk off. You're practicing for something, though. What are you practicing for? Need a minute? You good? Okay. What are you practicing for? At some point, you got to stop practicing and get in the game. And the game is actually building a civilization worth living in. So, this this is where I bring it all down to a personal level. where I started was talking about my alignments and misalignments and realignments. Some of you guys are older than me and done more than I've done, probably already lived through this and others are younger and you know everything in between. So, wherever you are on this spectrum, just think of this as something that can either reinforce or challenge some of your notions and that maybe could be passed on. I told my story, how I shifted alignments. We've read pages from the book of nature. We've explored the evidence of divine harmony in creation. We talked about ideological subversion and I proposed a framework for reversing it. Ideological renewal. We talked about the three main ways to reconnect to God through nature, scripture, and nosis. That foundational thing at the very the very basis here,

1:21:33 but with an actual framework to approach it that's not just go to church and figure it out. We looked at how eeky for civilization itself and the five alignments of God, family, work, community, and civilization all work together. talked about how the family is the unit economic of divine emanation expressed through nature. The foundation of everything ties it all together. We talked about how you as a man have a duty to either be the rock of a family or to build something to build systems that support institutions that support families. Um now let's bring it all home with a short exercise. Okay? Uh and then after that we're gonna eat some eat some pork chops and uh have a big debate over all this stuff. So I have a challenge for everyone today. a couple of questions and some soulsearching and a commitment that I will invite you to make which of course is up to you. Um so the question that I invite you to ask yourself that I cannot dictate to you is what has God put me here to do? What is my objective? I don't know how that's going

1:22:35 to come to you. You may have already had that. You may have had that happen a few times. It may have changed. Ask yourself again. It's a question worth asking all the time. What has God put me here to do? What is my objective? And then the second question, which is really important, who do I need to become in order to accomplish this objective, accomplishing a big objective is not about doing a bunch of stuff. It's about who you have to become. When I was talking about my my time as a music teacher, I I talked about I built the identity of the musician in the student in their in their consciousness when they became a musician. Then, oh yeah, of course they do what musicians do. What do musicians do? They practice, they play, they learn their scales, they read music, they improvise, they do a gig, they make a record, they write a song. If they didn't think they were a musician and I told them to do all that they'd be like, "Well, I'm not a musician. I'm not going to do that. And that dissonance is what causes people to

1:23:40 reject instruction. So if you feel like God's giving you an instruction and saying, I have an objective for you or if you want to ask for that, if you want to find that, you should also be asking the question, who do I have to become? What's the next upgraded version of me? Um, let's define that version of you. Okay? So, I want you to actually sit for a minute and imagine if you have an objective. Imagine who you have to be to actually accomplish that objective. It's probably if it's not bigger and better and more badass than who's sitting here right now, then your objective is probably too small. So, give yourself a couple of minutes and just sit with your thoughts. Write an objective and write an identity. And just take three minutes in silence. If at any point you run into a lack of faith or belief or

1:25:16 something that's like, "Yeah, but that's too much or that's silly," write it down. Any resistance? If you find resistance, write down what you're resisting. Write it down. I want to build a rocket ship to the moon, so I have to become this amazing person that can I can't do that. Like, write down why. Write down the problem if something's if something's pushing back. Another triad here. What kind of thinking do you need to commit to in order to become this upgraded version of yourself? And what trash do you need to take out of your mind? Write down anything that comes up. See this line right here? When when these air when these three things are full of trash, you can't

1:26:23 connect to that as easily. That's the nosis part. So, if you got trash in here like I do, I'm sure we all do. Always trying to take it out. Identify the trash. What kind of feelings do you need to encourage more of in order to become this upgraded version of yourself? What trash do you need to take out of your heart? What kind of actions do you need to engage in in order to upgrade your body to contain this version of myself? What kind of trash do you need to take out of your body? I used to drink too much and at one point I was like smoking a lot of cigars. I like a good cigar every once in a while, but I was kind of getting too into it. And I remember driving down the street one day and I looked to the right just past Baskin Robbins and was in West Nashville. saw this sign for Hop Keto Martial Arts and I was like I still smelled like a cigar and I had a little bit of I was like full of trash and I pulled over and I got out of the car and I went in and I was like whoa I'm in another country this is like another world and the guy was like who are

1:27:28 you? He's like what do you want? And before I realized what I was saying I was like I want training and he was like okay come back tomorrow at 7 o'clock. See you later. Get out of here. Bye. And I came back in the next day at 7 o'clock and I did whatever the hell he told me to do. I had to take the trash out. And and there was there was times where the the the training was so painful that I mean I had a friend that actually threw up in there once. It's pretty funny. But I needed that, right? There's we got to purify ourselves. So when we do that, we can actually open up the channels to receive higher consciousness. It's really simple. But you have to have the courage to delete a bunch of And a lot of people struggle with that. And that's okay. I struggle with it too. So you can purify your heart from passions and temptations and vices. So you can begin to separate vice, passion, and impulse from virtue, inspiration, and intuition. Separate those things out. You can only separate them when you take out the

1:28:30 trash. You purify your body from toxins and pollutants and parasites, heavy metals and impurities by working out and by eating good food and by getting just getting rid of crap so that you can operate without the distraction and buy yourself the time to do the work. It's not going to happen if you're dead. You purify your mind from illogical, incorrect thinking and wrong information so you can receive innerosis through your intuition without distraction, without confusion. Can you commit to taking out the trash and purifying your mind, your heart, and your body? Say yes. Yes, absolutely. That's what you're here to do, right? Say no if you can, but make a commitment right now. And it's not for me. So, I don't care if you say it out loud, but now is now is a moment in time where you have your attention. I didn't say I have your attention. You have your attention. Sit for a minute and think about this. Life is a series of moments that could be turning points if you let them. This weekend could be a turning point and

1:29:35 even if it's just like one person. Making this presentation was a pain in the ass. I spent a couple weeks on it and it's doing stuff to me right now. Like I said at the beginning, I haven't figured all this out. I'm just sharing my process with you openly with some vulnerability that I want you to have what what I'm working through and you can do whatever you want with it. So, I'm speaking to myself as well. When you get clear in the three areas, it becomes easier to tell if you're receiving something from a divine source or some crap from your ego or a toxic external influence. Um, it's more refined. You have a receiver inside of yourself. So, this is what moralization is for. It strengthens your ability to take out the trash through adopting behaviors that are guided by the wisdom of the ages. In 2015, I was in a house that had a bunch of crap in it. Um, and I read this book called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Have y'all anyone read that book? It's so good. It's It's just about how like the stuff you surround

1:30:38 yourself with, if you start throwing it away, it creates room for better stuff to come in. Um, so we cleaned our house out. We threw away 10 or 15 trash bags full of crap, old clothes, 30 or 40 boxes of books, papers, and a lot of trash. And by the time we cleaned out our house and took out the trash, we realized that there was mold in our house. It was actually black mold was in our house. Yeah. Um and we had a 2-year-old and two-year-olds and black mold is not not a good combination. So, um that led us to actually move into a different house. We got the hell out and it changed our lives when we moved into this other house. So the life-changing magic of tidying up actually literally really happened. It was only possible because we faced this this thing I I did not want to face. I did not want to spend my time. I wanted to play music and teach music lessons. I did not want to deal with all this crap I was carrying around. Um so yeah. So my challenge to you today is to commit to a new identity. That identity that you're writing down that you're thinking of. Commit to the answer. Commit to a better version of yourself to decide to become

1:31:41 the next greatest version of yourself. and understand that this will also demand a sacrifice. There's probably something that you're holding on to right now that's got to be released in order to accept the gift of God's voice inside of your heart talking to you more directly than ever before. There's probably something in you that you're going to have to let go of in order to make room for that. So, I would invite you to figure out what the hell it is and really let it go. Um, you can do it. There's trash in your heart, trash in your body, and trash in your mind. Again, I'm not I'm not accusing you guys of anything that I am not guilty of myself. Um, so your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take out the trash. Commit to an upgrade identity. Commit to becoming your future self, but tell yourself now that you already are your future self. Tell yourself now who you are becoming, and share it with everyone over dinner. You have an opportunity this weekend to ask yourself these questions and come up with your own answers and most importantly put it into a much bigger frame than you've previously allowed

1:32:45 yourself to live in. Take your time, sleep on it, make a commitment, and together we can build something great that's worth passing on to the next generation. Thank you.