Kyle Kingsbury Podcast - #285 New Year Solocast 2022

Episode Date: January 4, 2023

BIG big episode yall! Let’s wrap 2022’s topics up, keep our sights on things left undone so they don’t lay fallow. Then let’s go full steam ahead into 2023, Bison medicine time. I’ll drop some great divination tools, habit change “hacks”, and some current events. Consider this your hippie high school social studies class.   ORGANIFI GIVEAWAY Keep those reviews coming in! Please drop a dope review and include your IG/Twitter handle and we’ll get together for some Organifi even faster moving forward.   Full Temple Reset  and Fit For Service 2023 Core Program  are live! Head to the links above and explore the pages, consider your options and hopefully ultimately sign up. I hope to see yall on the path next year!   Show Notes:   Collet Baron-Reid Store on Amazon Chek Online Tarot Workshop  KKP #283 Archetype Wheel w/ Greg Schmaus Apple Spotify "Atomic Habits" -James Clear "Sacred Contracts" -Caroline Myss Carline Myss' Archetype Deck Tarot: A Universal Language -Beatrix Quntanna Charles Eisenstein Substack - 2023: The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible Armstrong Economics: The Coming Crisis in Central Banking Sacred Hunting with Mansal Denton    Sponsors:   Our Sponsor - Aura offers all-in-one digital safety for your entire household. Identity theft, fraud, and malware are just some of their offerings. Go to https://aura.com/kyle for 14 days free and 40% off your plan.  Bioptimizers - Nootopia To get ahead of a day when you’re a little behind on sleep, check out the geniuses at Bioptimizers newest nootropic baby. Nootopia. Head over to nootopia.com/kingsbugenius  and enter “KINGSBU10” at checkout for 10% off your entire order. Lucy Go to lucy.co and use codeword “KKP” at Checkout to get 20% off the best nicotine gum in the game, or check out their lozenge. Organifi Go to organifi.com/kkp to get my favorite way to easily get the most potent blend of high vibration fruits, veggies and other goodies into your diet! Click that link and use code “KKP” at checkout for 20% off your order!   To Work With Kyle Kingsbury Podcast   Connect with Kyle:   Fit For Service Academy App: Fit For Service Academy  Instagram: @livingwiththekingsburys   Odysee: odysee.com/@KyleKingsburypod  Youtube: Kyle Kingbury Podcast  Kyles website: www.kingsbu.com  Zion Node: https://getzion.com/ > Enter PubKey  >PubKey: YXykqSCaSTZNMy2pZI2o6RNIN0YDtHgvarhy18dFOU25_asVcBSiu691v4zM6bkLDHtzQB2PJC4AJA7BF19HVWUi7fmQ   Like and subscribe to the podcast anywhere you can find podcasts. Leave a 5-star review and let me know what resonates or doesn’t.

Welcome back for the New Year's episode. The New Year episode. I never... You know the phone like auto-corrects not all caps, but capitals for Happy New Year's Eve, Happy New Year's Day,

Happy New Year's... But there's no... I don't know. It doesn't always do that. Anyways, I'm just wondering about that every time it's around this part of the year. I'm like, I don't get what, what, what makes it capital? The hot, if I'm to be out at the holiday, I'm still going to the fucking same thing each

time. Like, does it always get caps? What's the deal here? Anywho, happy new year. We're 2023. Uh, I like to do one of these at the end of each year, a little solo cast where I kind of refresh my thoughts around the year. Not necessarily, this is what I gleaned from each podcast that I did or any of that shit. Just, this is what I was learning. This is what I was paying attention to in the media. This is what I was reading. And some of the practices that I have for each year that I really do at the beginning of each year. So instead of, um, I did do one. Finally, I did do a resolution and I'll dive into that. It's a good one. Um,

and I'm going to announce it. So I have to fucking do the damn thing, but, uh, I do a word of the year, which is really important. And I'll talk a bit about what I did in 2022 and what I'm leaning towards in 2023. And it's pretty, pretty remarkable to see that we just, we do a little painting, a tiny little five by seven card painting, the Tosh bear and wolf, and just throw it on the, on the wall next to our artwork. And as we walk by it at any point in time, we're like, oh yeah, that's the word of the year. Cool. That's what I'm working on all year. We do a tarot draw. For people who aren't familiar with the tarot draw, Oracle decks work too.

We have a spirit animal Oracle deck the kids love. It's awesome from Colette Baron-Reed. I'll link to that in the show notes. It's one of my favorites. It's absolutely beautiful. It's a great way to connect with animals and understand one person's interpretation of the power behind

their meaning. Remember, you cannot capture in language what a symbol actually means, as we're working on Jung's stuff. And spirit animals are the symbol of something and not the codification of something, right? So we can describe it all we fucking want. What are the qualities of the jaguar? What are the qualities of the jaguar? What are the qualities of the hawk? And there are certain things that are kind of universal wherever we go, whether we're talking indigenous people from the Americas or, you know, Northern Europe,

we will find some similarities between the big bird medicine and things like that. Typically that's because that's what that symbology is represented to people. So again, you don't have to take it literally, but it's a great way to connect. And in my personal opinion, and in the opinion of many awesome people like Paul Cech, one of my mentors who actually did a two-day workshop on tarot, I'll link to that in the show notes. They're making it available online. If they haven't already, it will be up fucking within weeks or days. It's a divination tool. It's like divination class for Harry Potter, except you have a legit teacher, not some quack who can't do anything. She's pretending to use her divination tools for. The way I come to understand it is

your soul, your high self, your higher level of consciousness, whatever that thing is, your daemon, that that is directing which card you pull. And I've never pulled an incorrect card. Now you could just say, oh yeah, whatever, you know, you pulled this one and now you're going to make meaning out of that. Of course, we're going to make meaning out of that. We make fucking meaning out of everything. We are meaning making people. We are here as divine beings to make my understanding of it. And then I read the totality for me because I look at them as extra hands of what is pulling cards for me. So they may have a card, but I'm going to have four cards, including my wives that I'm looking at and analyzing for myself for the year. So that's a pretty cool thing that I like to do that may be egotistical,

but it's just fucking what I do. And I love it. I love seeing which cards they draw for themselves and for me. And not surprisingly, my little daughter, who's a very fucking pure girl, pure little soul, she pulled cards that I've been pulling all fucking year. And it was just the healthy reminder of, yeah, dude, that isn't done yet. That's still something I'm working on. We're going to talk full temple reset briefly, and we'll talk fit for service a little more briefly. We're going to talk about, and these are really just the last chance. You've got days left to sign up for either. So we'll dive in a little bit of that. Our first farm education is coming up. So really what I have laid out for this year,

I have a hunt coming up as well. Jot that down. Talk about the hunt. Slash sweat. We have a fucking amazing guide, Ken Conte, who I'm going to have on this podcast. He's going to lead and pour sweat for us. And met him in Fit for Service.

He's a fucking incredible person. One of the many incredible people that I've met in Fit for Service. He's a fucking incredible person. One of the many incredible people that I've met in Fit for Service who has sat with the Lakota at Sundance many times and has been grandfathered in and now is considered an elder who was allowed to pour sweat. And I have not sat with him in a sweat lodge yet,

but where he's going to be guiding us on our elk hunt. And so I'll dive into on our elk hunt. And so I'll dive into a bit of that. And then I'll talk avatar too. I'll talk about fucking current topics. We're going to talk about shit that we just seen, what I drew from that as well, and how that all ties in with these tools of divination and really the crafting around what I want to accomplish in a year. And that's it. It's going to be short. It's going to be sweet. It's going to be awesome. Hopefully you can take these tools. I will write this down. I'm going to put this in the show notes for you guys. The podcast with Schmaus, Greg Schmaus, number three that we just

did on Caroline Mace's archetype wheel is absolutely incredible. I just did my wife's. And if you listen to that podcast with me, that's very personal. It's like taking a look at my naked psyche, the inner workings of me for this go around for my time on earth and in the Kyle Kingsbury meat suit. And that is, it's, it's awesome. And it's revealing and it's not just revealing for you guys. Cause we did my analysis on the podcast, but, um, revealing for me in a way that adds layers of meaning and understanding, you know? And, and it's funny because, uh, Aubrey and I kind of go back and forth on this where he's like, listen, dude, the shore, the, the star alignment and all that matters. The astrology, we know this is true.

But you're not beholden to it, right? You're not like your human design or your gene keys is not. It's like, yeah, but that's not just it, right? And so he looks at it that way. And while that's true, I think of it as easier ways to navigate, right? If I know there are certain qualities that I have when I'm in my shadow that could show up, I can watch out for those. If I know that in certain tendencies, right?

Everyone has them. This is what Gene Key shows. If I know there are certain qualities when I'm in my light side, when I'm beaming and I'm taking care of myself and I'm rocking and rolling, I have a balanced approach to life that those higher levels of my consciousness are going to show up. And that's going to mean I'm magnetic or it's going to mean I have other things going on that are really awesome qualities about myself that have to do with the gene keys, the human design, the whatever, the fill in the blank that I get to show up with.

And more, not just limited to those, but really getting to know that stuff, I think are fantastic navigational tools that can really help us to explore the self a little deeper getting to know that stuff, I think are fantastic navigational tools that can really help us to explore the self a little deeper, to know more about yourself. And then from there, have a better understanding of where you're at right now, right? Am I in a positive place? Am I in a shit place? Is my tone of voice repeatedly getting to a place with my kids that I don't want it to be in, right? If I'm going to push past my limit, can I dig myself out of that rut or am I holding on to bitterness towards my kids? This is an important one.

This was, again, revealing. My wife and I do an end of the year ceremony and nothing much, but enough to break the ice. And we talk about these things, kind of have an airing of grievances, right? And a renewal of contract, a renewal of agreement. Dr. Will Tagle talked about, I think the Muscogee Creek tribe

in the south, southern part of the United States, southeastern United States, at the beginning of each year would renew or replace their agreements. And he talked about that on the podcast that, you know, and with me off air, you know, that I had had four different marriages with my wife. I had the marriage when we first were together and without kids. We were married with kids, with Bear. We were in an open marriage with other partners. And then we were married with a closed

marriage with two kids, right? Each of these is a different marriage. Each of these is a different time in our life. And it requires new agreements. It requires new understanding. So January is a phenomenal time of year to get clear on that. And if you're not in a relationship with a partner, sexually or otherwise, you're always in a relationship with yourself. So what are the agreements you've laid out for yourself?

That's a better lens to look through, in my opinion, than what is, you know, what am I going to do differently this year? You know, how am I going to get on track and not get off the wagon this year? Really just understanding what your agreements are with yourself and knowing that that's the path forward that helps you best operate. And it's got to feel good too. It's the other thing, like it sounds cheesy, but if you don't like it, you will not be consistent with it. If you can't make good, healthy food tastes good, good fucking luck eating it, right?

Like bodybuilders sometimes when they're cutting will eat asparagus and chicken breast or tilapia for six weeks leading up to a competition. That's discipline. I can't stand. It's not healthy, by the way, but it'll help you get shredded. I can't do that. That's not something that's sustainable for me, and it's not sustainable for most people. So you have to understand when you're creating something, a New Year's resolution or something that you're going to change, and you're saying, I'm going to do more of this thing. And I'm going to do less of this other thing. When it comes to habit change, doing less of the thing you don't want to do, you got to replace that with something that's just as convenient. I talk about this in atomic habits with James

clear. And, uh, I know we're 11 minutes in, I'm going to get into my usual podcast routine of ads and all that stuff. And then I'll shift gears back into this. But James Clear and Atomic Habits said, if a mom who's overly busy doing all the mom stuff picks her kids up from school and realized she didn't start dinner and starts freaking out because the kids are starving, takes them to McDonald's one night, that once a week might become three nights a week. It might become five nights a week if she's not careful. And in order to remove that, she can't just say, oh, I'm going to go fucking whip up this nice hour-long meal, or I'm going to start a crockpot first thing in the morning, and that's going to replace it. No, that's not as convenient. It doesn't fit with the schedule. How can she replace

fast shitty food with something that's fast and better could she do? Uh pre-made meals from a company like trifecta. They're not a sponsor, but they're good. Um Could she do uh something else like a local? Uh local chef in town where she gets pre-made meals or maybe she does that Uh with her partner on the weekends they the kids help What do you guys want to eat this week? Cool. All right. We're going to create all of our dinners in advance and then we're just going to warm them up. Boom. 30 seconds. We're able to eat maybe five minutes. So you're not using

a fucking microwave, but she's got to make it convenient in order to replace that thing. Because it doesn't just fall away, right? The things that put us into the bad uh commitment or the bad habit oftentimes happen because of convenience they happen because it's easy to do that thing right so we have to have something equally as easy to replace it and then from there we can start chipping away and making it better and uh perhaps getting better on our scheduling and our ability to create space in our own lives which is very hard for moms this is a big conversation that I had with Tosh about the priority for moms. Whether you're a stay-at-home mom, which is a full-time fucking job, or whether you've got kids and you're hiring somebody to raise them and you also have a job that's also

fucking full-on, you have to have time for yourself. Dad's too. All this dad bod bullshit is fucking comical. I will lose my mind if I don't work out at least twice a week. Full body, hard workouts. I've been splitting that between one full body workout on it and one session boxing each week with myself and the farm team. I also like shooting guns a lot, and that is a very big stress reliever for me. You could dive into the psychology of that all you want, but it feels fucking really good to shoot guns. And it feels really good to hone something,

you know, like zen. What is that? Zen in the art of archery. There's zen in shooting a handgun. There's zen in shooting a 500 yard shot with my hunting rifle. You know, we'll talk about that too, gearing up for the hunt. A really cool class I did with Tim Kennedy's guys at Sheepdog. All that stuff matters when it comes to habit change.

And all that stuff matters if we're going to do any type of integration from what we learn. You read the cool book. What is integration? What is integration from your ayahuasca journey at Sultara in Costa Rica? Integration is habit change. It is actually getting the thing to stick that makes your life better. It's every little move you make each day. That's integration. And so the big piece on integration is habit change. And we're going to dive into that a bit more on the ways that I call this stuff in and the guidance for that too. Sometimes you don't know

what you want to do next, or you don't know what you should be paying attention to. And that's where the tools of divination really come in. You can look at this from the outside and be like, oh shit, at first it meant nothing to me. And now six months into the year, I'm like, holy shit. Yeah. That's why that word was calling to me. That's why this card from the major arcana was an important lesson for me. And you get to understand the unfolding of that on your own life's journey. All right. Support this podcast by sharing it with a friend. Typically, when you finish the podcast and you're like, okay, I know this person would like it. Or this person is telling me that they're going to do a whole bunch of shit this year that's different. Let me send this to them and get their feedback. Word of mouth is awesome. Also, five-star rating, one five-star rating on Spotify

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and Organifi, as I just mentioned. Awesome, awesome people. And we've also got, this is your last three days, I believe when this releases on Wednesday, you've got about three days to sign up, two or three days left to sign up for your Full Temple Reset. Full Temple Reset is at the end of January each year, January 25th through the 29th is when it will take place. It's gonna take place at the farm that I've been building out in Lockhart, Texas with Aubrey.

And it is an incredible place. It is a healing place, but most importantly, it's a place where we go to learn through experience, right? All of the things that I've gathered over the years from health and wellness, from a physical standpoint, a mental, emotional standpoint, and a spiritual standpoint, the big guns are going to be employed while we're there together. And we get to do some challenging shit that's going to squeeze us and wring us out and stretch us and open us and shift our physical body and our consciousness at the same time into a higher state of being. I've taken many deep dives on this podcast into what Full Temple Reset is. There are videos. You can check it out, fitperservice.com. We will have

that linked in the show notes as well. But if you're on the fence, we've approved a few people that are still on the fence, like fucking do it. This will change your life. There are no two ways about it. And really the only acceptable, I can't make this is if you opted out of full temple reset and opted in for fit for service core. Fuck yeah. You'll have me all year long. That is an incredible, incredible, that is incredible excuse. Sorry, I can't make it to Full Temple Reset. I'm going to core. Just so you know, you can do both, but I'm just saying Full Temple Reset is a powerhouse of information and learning through experience, all held within five days. You get me and my brother, Eric Godsey. We meditate each day. You get full blood work and analysis through waystowell.com. We're going to sauna and ice bath and mobilize our body. We'll work around injuries and treat them.

We're going to focus on the psyche with mindset, journaling practices, and understanding union symbology. This is a big one that we're going to get into with tarot and some of these other things. But on a much deeper level, this is Eric Godseysey's wheelhouse and you have him for five days every day working and unpacking on these things layer by layer. And I have learned a shit ton bringing him in for this event and sitting and participating in what he's teaching. It's incredible.

And then of course we finish with an incredible sound bath at the end, sound healing. So a couple of days left, y'all. This is in the show notes. Same thing. We have reopened FFS Core for, I believe, 10 days. I don't want to get that wrong. I believe 10 days this thing's going to be open. And we're already a few days into the week here in January. It's January 4th when this releases. So time is very short for you to make it in.

It is a year-long thing that we're doing this year. We haven't done this in a while, I think since year one. And what we've learned through it being year five and having completed four years of Fit for Service coaching is that the year-long is really one of the most powerful ways we can work with you. Similar to drinking ayahuasca for a night on a weekend or actually going to the Amazon and drinking for four or five nights in a week. They're just completely different. You get completely different outcomes because of the amount of layers of work that one can accomplish. This will be our best year yet. I talked about this in the podcast with Aubrey and Caitlin and Godsey. I am 100% confident in that because our track record proves it.

Every year, it has gotten better. And each event has gotten better. There was a time, a point in time where years two, year three, every event we did, I was like, man, I really hope, I really hope that it can hold up and that it's as good as the last one or that it's really good or that it's transformative. And each fucking event was better than the one previous. And it continues to be that way. It continues to be that way because as we grow as people, as we continue to learn and cultivate more for ourselves, we have that much more to share and give to you guys. In addition to that, this thing's building momentum and we have incredible teachers coming and they just keep getting better and better and better. We've had Charles Eisenstein, Dr. Zach Bush. We'd have Jamie Wheal. Mark Gaffney's coming out this year. John Churchill's coming out this year. When we podcast, Aubrey and I, with some of the most amazing people

on the planet, we rope them in. I'm going to talk about Mark Gober. We're going to get Mark Gober out at one of our events, author of The End of Upside-Down Thinking. I had him on the podcast. We talked about one of his latest books, The End of Upside-Down Liberty. Hands down, one of the best books ever written on politics and spirituality. Maybe the only book that I know of that's written on the two of them and is able to alchemize a non-dualistic reality, which is the nature of our consciousness, with what that should actually look like in government. Incredible author. And I'm diving into his latest work, which I'm going to bring up here, an end to the upside down reset. Guess what that's about? A great reset. So we'll chat about that. Check it all out, fitforservice.com. This is the last you're

going to hear of it from me because we're going to be clearly closed, no mas, for the year. So you'll get to hear about it next December as I start hyping up 2024. Don't miss out. Don't miss this year. If you're on the fence, you're like, well, I got questions. We got answers. You guys get a call with people beforehand. I had a call with somebody who was on the fence who was nervous that it wouldn't be manly enough. So they're like, Kyle, you're the manliest guy in the group. Get on the phone with this guy. Tell him how it is. Truly, it is something for everyone. There is something for everybody. We've got young people, old people, and I don't mean old,

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might know that there's some online that's not in the card deck but point is the vast majority of the the major ones are there and you each of us has four uh surviving archetypes that are a part of everyone's existence the the victim, the prostitute, the saboteur, and the child. And it's a variety, right? There's, I think, seven different child versions of the child within that deck. And there's a number of them more as Greg Schmaus put together. Then you've got eight other archetypes that you're going to take and draw from. Once you have your 12, you're going to shuffle that deck. You cut out some card paper that's in the shape of those. You draw the number one, two through 12, all the

way on each individual one. You shuffle that deck too. Okay. Side-by-side, then you reveal. All right. This is the hero and that is in house one. Oh, wow. That was the first card. Okay, cool. This is the addict. There's one of mine, as we talked about on. Okay, cool. This is The Addict, which is one of mine, as we talked about on the podcast. And that's in house seven, whatever that house was. You break that down, then you're able to go through and through the book or through working with Greg Schmaus, who's fucking phenomenal.

I just signed up my wife to do a private with him. Highly recommend that. And if you want to know what that looks like, just listen to the podcast I did with him. We'll have that linked in the show notes. Very recently, you get to know what that looks like, just listen to the podcast I did with them. We'll have that linked in the show notes. Very recently, you get to really deep dive what's going on inside, what your soul signed up for, the sacred contracts, as Caroline Mace puts it, for this particular incarnation. And with that, that's a pretty awesome thing.

It's a pretty awesome way to come to understand the self. And it's a further way to deep dive what your operating system looks like and where you can be in alignment or out of alignment. A lot of people like myself, like fuck the addict or the victim, right? Those don't sound like great archetypes. All of them have a light side and a shadow side. Even the hero, right? The hero has a fucking deep shadow side. And the warrior has a shadow side. King, warrior, magician, lover really breaks that down perfectly, what that shadow warrior looks like, shadow king looks like, and the shadow lover. You can see what that looks like. All of these things, which the addict actually is, one form of the shadow lover. So you can see not only where they are and how it pertains to your interaction

with self in relation to other people or in relation to your own self, but how they correspond and balance each other on the wheel. That was one of the most fascinating things that I hadn't discovered until working with Greg was that a lot of these are balanced. On the opposite side of that wheel is going to be the thing that helps nullify or create some equanimity and balance with that. Balance may be my word of the year. I'm not certain yet. I'm looking for a better word than balance, but it certainly appears to be the one that's going to be the case for me. And I'll talk about that in a minute, but the archetype wheel is incredibly awesome. And you can just work on that. If you haven't read the book and you're like, well, fuck, it's beginning of January. And by the time I get this ordered, Amazon Prime is going to have it to me next Monday.

And then I'll be a week behind. No, no, no, no, no. This is something you can work on for the rest of your life. And it's not something you do every single day. But month by month, you go through each house and you see how the archetype pertains to you. And for some of them, you're going to be like, oh, of course. For me personally, the warrior was my highest potential. What does that mean? Well, that means if I have the light side of the warrior activated, that is going to create the best possible version of myself. Does that mean that I need to take up guns and ammo and start killing people? No.

That is a very elementary idea of what a warrior is, right? If you look at, why am I drawing a blank on his name? The author of Warriors of Light. He did, I believe he did The Alchemist as well. Paulo Coelho. I think he did Warriors of Light. Anywho, phenomenal book. And it really dives into what that looks like. When you read King Warrior Magician Lover, you find out the warrior has fucking layers and layers to it. Each one of these archetypes does. And really uncovering that and how it pertains to this house within your 12 zodiac signs is going to be really cool. And you

get to go through that month by month. So I'm really excited I get to do that with Tosh. So that was first practice is creating this archetype wheel. And I really hope, that's why I did this podcast with Greg. I really hope you guys do that. If you do it, let me know what you find. Just shoot me a message on Instagram. Don't DM me. I don't have time to look at that. Shoot me a message on Twitter at Kingsboo.

Just say, yo, I did the archetype wheel. It's fucking awesome. Or there's some shit I don't understand. And I'll say, read Caroline Mesa's Sacred Contracts. If you need more, go to Greg Schmaus. He's the expert there. But let me know what you think about that because I think it's a great tool. Another great tool that's so fucking fast and quick,

there's no reason that people shouldn't be doing this. When you meditate or contemplate, and we talked about the difference between these with my brother, Richard Rudd, author of Gene Keys. In his book, Gene Keys, he forms a triangle. On the left-hand side of it, you have meditation or being, stillness. On the right-hand side of it, you have concentration, doing, action. In between at the top where these triangles connect is contemplation. It is an active mode from a still space of which we think or ponder something.

And it's not a thinking process. It's not, I'm going to iron this out and figure out every single way to go about this potential issue or what does this word mean to me? It's none of that shit. It is simply sitting with it and meditating on it and seeing what comes up for you. And as Richard mentioned on the podcast, what's cool, whether you're using it for Gene Keys or whether you're using it for this word of the year, life has the ability to display what's going on. And so if you, because life is the ceremony itself, when we have a word of the

year, there may be months that go by where you're like, I don't get it. Or man, I'm really feeling like I'm not getting much of this word. And then all of a sudden fucking kitchen sink comes and holy shit. That's why I wrote that word down. And it's very powerful. My wife's word for 2022 was harmony. That was my word for 2021. I really feel like, and she does as well, that she was able to create harmony in her life and in our home this last year. It took a long fucking haul through the first six months of the year, but we got there. Mine was alchemy. And alchemy, as it really pertains to my dark night of the soul,

and to be a bit more specific on that, having experienced unconditional love in my experience, my deep journeys with the divine, to then having experienced what I would call hell, some of the realms of hell, and fracturing my belief in the world that I was living in from the way I thought it was before 2020 and the way that I see it now after 2020, I had to reconcile that. And a part of that alchemy took reconciling it in the astral. It took reconciling it with Hamilton Souther. We talked about that on the podcast, just how important that was for me. And one of the things that he said was, hell is only mental. There is no heart in hell. There is no love in hell. And I was like, all right, this guy's been to hell. He fucking knows that's the case. So he said, we're going to go to the center of source. We're going to center of source consciousness and reconnect your head to your heart. And that may sound just basic as fuck. But when he told

me it, I knew there was not a single doubt in his mind that this was going to solve the issue. And so with full trust, we went into a journey together and that's what he did. He sang in the Icaros and called that into being. And I sat up for the entire journey in a meditation pose in half lotus so I could feel my body and anchor to the 3D while at the same time diving deep into the center, far enough to where it scared the shit out of me again. And remember that love has been there throughout, that love has guided me throughout my life, that love has been such an important piece of my journey here. And that ultimately this is

some weird way of knowing ourselves and knowing love. And it's weird because people get killed every year, either through violence or through medicine or through all sorts of wacky shit that we have a hard time agreeing with or fathoming. but that is the world we live in. And it requires us, some of us, to be sheepdogs. It requires some of us to take the mantle upon ourselves of protecting those that can't protect themselves. And that's a whole different conversation. I'm going to have Tim on again, Tim Kennedy, to really dive into that. Word of the year was alchemy. And I felt true alchemy in that experience with Hamilton Southern. That happened in October. So I had 10 months of sitting with things that I didn't quite grasp until that

happened. And I knew that would be the case, that the journey would be a big part of the alchemy. And it was. And a lot of what we've done on the land has continued to be that alchemy. I had a journey on the land where I was wrapped up in my head. I was just fucking wrapped in my head and it was kind of this mental boxing match that would not cease. And one of the things that came through was that the mind is an impossible opponent. It's an impossible opponent because it cannot be exhausted. It never gives up. it's always a one-upper. The mind always has another thing to say. And if you treat the mind as an opponent,

it is an impossible thing to defeat. You'll never defeat it. When the mind is a servant and not your master, as the Buddha put it, that changes your relationship to it, right? It allows us to see the things that we're searching for. But ultimately, the thing we're searching for is felt. It's a felt experience. It's a known experience and that comes from the heart. And it's outside of mind where that takes place. It can happen in nature, in the external

world, or it can happen within, in the internal world. It can happen in tandem, I'd call that synchronicity, where the external world lines up with the internal world in that exact moment. As I've mentioned before, through many journeys or many, many, many experiences rather, not on medicine, animals have called out or made themselves known to me right in the act of having a deep spiritual knowing where I'm like, you can't time this any better. And that's my opinion, what I call the God nod. And that to me too, and as I retrace my steps through the last few years, really anchoring into the things that I love, anchoring into the things that I've had a hand in helping to co-create with spirit throughout my life. And it really does help

to build gratitude if we look at those things. All of us have been through some shit, but when we write down, these are the things that I love most about life. These are the things that I love most about myself. These are the gifts that I've received, either as a pure gift or as something I co-created. And we lean on that. That can get us through really hard times. I'm going to have some people on this podcast this year that are likely going to propose that more hard times are on the way. And we're going to give tips and tools on how to navigate that space. So yeah, that's a tough spill to pill to swallow as well. But I think anchoring into the things that we love makes it worth it. It makes it worth it to know,

yeah, it can get hard and I have the strength for it because it's worth it because I get to love my children. I get to love my wife. I get to love my friends. I get to love learning. I get to love all the things that I love in this experience. And it's a full bag. It's going to come with trickster energy. It's going to come with all sorts of other shit that spins me around and discombobulates me and makes me think, where's up? Where's down? I don't know what the fuck's going on right now. And that's okay too. I can still trust in that because if I look at the track record behind me, it was fucking awesome. It was really awesome. And even the hard times that added a great degree of stress, that meant a great degree of growth.

And no one says yes to it in the moment, but in hindsight, you can look back and say, if you navigated that well enough, thank you for that experience that was so challenging because it brought me to where I am right now. Alchemy was the word of the year in 2022. I have pulled the tarot card justice. Now on the surface, on the surface, you say, oh, cool, justice, right? That makes a lot of sense if you're

looking at crimes against humanity and things of that nature, as I've been really deep diving in the last two and a half years. But it's more than that. It's more than that because lady justice in the tarot card, again, we break down symbology and there's excellent book called Tarot, a Universal Language by Beatrix Quintana that I will link to in the show notes for you guys. It's one of Paul Cech's favorite books because it breaks down the symbology of each card, right? Which is what the tarot was in the beginning. There was no language around it. It was just, what is drawing up for you from the symbology here? And it breaks down each individual thing that you see within there of meaning and tells you how this card is shaping. Lady Justice is holding the balancing of the scales, right? And I think from a political standpoint, most people

in the center have been begging for a balancing of the scales. Most people, because it's getting further and further divisive, right? We want to find the center again. We want to find a balance point of equanimity politically, right? We're thinking about that way. We're thinking about the turmoil of existential risk that is within the world. Can we find a balance point and a happy medium, a way to navigate where everyone feels safe and everyone's looking at the same horizon in agreement, not saying, you know, this is causing global warming versus that is causing global warming and what's the best way to go about that, but actually looking at the same horizon, seeing it in the objective

truth and agreeing this is the way we go forward. We're looking for that equanimity. And I know that in my heart when I see that balancing scales, that that's exactly what it's about. But it's deeper than that. It is about the balance of my own life. I tore my left knee again, jumping back into jiu-jitsu, not from some weird heel hook, just from a regular half guard pass. And my left quad was too tight. It was too tight because of lifting weights and not mobilizing the way that I used to. When I was fighting professionally, I made mobility a priority. I had to do it every single day so that I could get back on the mat every single day. And understanding, even though I'm not going to do jujitsu every day or box every day, if I want to participate in those things, there's a prerequisite to do so. I can't come in stiff.

I can't come in worn out. I have to come in springy, supple, like a leopard, like Kelly Strett talks about. And that requires flossing and taking care of my body the way that I used to as a fighter. So balance, something around balance is going to be my word of the year. And how that balance looks to me is balancing the light with the dark. If I'm reading a bunch of shit about the World Economic Forum or any of these other people that seem to have an alternate view of what reality should look like in their mind, I need to balance that with somebody who's got their head screwed on straight, like Mark Gober, who is the author of An End to Upside Down Reset. He lays it all out, and he's a beautiful author. He graduated with honors from

Princeton. And for his backstory, he was the top of the top in the Ivy League. He moved to San Francisco. He was the top in the tech game, top in the investor's game, and then realized none of this shit was bringing him happiness as some great people do. And instead he started going down the rabbit hole of meditation. He trained under Adyashanti, the author of The End of... God damn it. What is it? The End... It's not The End of Upside Down. This is a book. The End of Your World. There we go. The End of Your World by Adyashanti is one of my favorite books. It was the only book that could encapsulate my dark night of the soul and how it felt. And in that, it was horrifying to see that somebody had written out this exact thing that I was experiencing and brilliant at

the same time. That's Mark Gober's main teacher and mentor or one of his main teachers and mentors. And it really comes through Mark's understanding of spirit consciousness. So I got Mark coming on here middle of the month. I'm super excited for that. That's why I'm hyping this podcast with him. Grabbed these books before. He even wrote another book in between on the end of Upside Down Contact on ETs and extraterrestrials and spirits. So I've got that book. I want to deep dive it as fast as possible before this podcast so we can cover a lot of ground in it. So balance, off on that tangent there. I must balance the light with the dark. If I'm reading a bunch of horror shit that looks like it's going to be on the horizon, I had better refresh my system with things that make me feel good, things that are positive. And it's not airy-fairy affirmations and doggone it, I'm good enough.

It's none of that shit. What it is, is actually seeing the greatness of this world. It's seeing the beauty in it. It's seeing the things, it's holding the things that I love and cherish to balance the scale of what possibly could be coming that doesn't look good, or a frame of thinking that's out of alignment with what I know to be true in a free and liberated society. And we're not there yet, right? Lady Liberty is not happy with the way that things are. So how do we create that? We create that first by holding on to the light of what that actually looks like. And as Charles Eisenstein focuses on in the more beautiful world we know is possible, he's going to lay a, he had a recent, I read one of his things right before this podcast, one of his blogs on Substack. I'll link to that in the show notes. It's just donation-based. It's

phenomenal. And I'm happy to keep donating to him on an annual basis. He writes incredible stuff that is very uplifting. And one of the things that he's proposing is that, uh, we, he's going to pay attention less to the current events and what's happening in the world as it breaks down and destroys itself. Cause that's with this, we see and agree that this is happening right now.

And that's, that's that he doesn't need to keep paying attention to that. What he needs to do is recreate the story. Mark Gaffney believes in this as well. The story of an interbeing, the story of an interconnectedbeing, the story of an interconnected humanity, which is what we are. That's what Gobern understands. Anybody who's experienced deep medicine journeys understands the non-dual nature of reality. And that is the

balance point. What is the new story that we tell? I'm going to mix. I'm going to have a mixed bag of current events. Famine could be coming, different things like that, different countries. That shit I want people to know about ahead of time so you can prep and do whatever you need to navigate those waters. The collapse of the dollar potentially in the early 2030s is possible. Armstrong Economics points to that. Their AI super engine that looks at patterns of all patterns, financial patterns, solar patterns, war patterns, and cycles, and factors that in, and actually has dates that they've been correct to the date of when a stock market would crash, to the date of when gold would boom, to the date of when a war would start.

And it's pretty remarkable stuff. It's called Socrates. I'll link to Armstrong Economics in the show notes. There's tons of free information there that you guys can read on. They've been spot on. And if the dollar does collapse in 20, 31 and a half, as Socrates, who has not been wrong, the AI purports, there are things we can do ahead of time that will shape our ability and help our ability to navigate those waters. I want to know about that and I want you to know about that. So I still am going to stay

current on this podcast. And at the same time, we're going to tell the new story. We're going to have Eisenstein back on. We're going to have Gaffney back on. We're going to talk about what Eros actually is, each of the 12 faces of Eros. We're going to have a series of podcasts with Mark Gaffney that breaks that down. So we understand what he calls first principles. What are the first principles of the operating system of consciousness that fundamentally drive the whole thing. If we want a shared horizon at what we're looking at in the world, we first have to start with,

how does the actual game work? What is the game board that we're standing upon together in our interbeing? And if we understand that, then how can we navigate best going forward with the known rules, the known agreements ahead of time. And I think that makes a lot of sense. That's big picture stuff. And it's a part of the new story. And really with that, it is super important. I'll link to this last thing that Charles did in the show notes so you get a better understanding. It came from his son, understanding that holidays don't mean shit to him anymore. And really a holy day is something we must create that has meaning. And it's not a caricature or cartoon image of Santa Claus.

It's something that we all want to celebrate. And it's a story we all agree upon. And that story fundamentally must start with interbeing and not separation. So thank you, Charles, for that awesome lifting piece there. And you will shape, as you continue to shape, my view of what I want to cover going forward. Tarot. We do a tarot draw and we do the spirit animal oracle draw. There's a number of

ways you can draw cards. You can do a three card pull, a seven card pull. You do many different, there's an infinite number of ways to work with this stuff. Typically, I will draw one card, my wife will draw a card, my kids will draw cards. And I like to see how that pertains to them as well as myself, every single one of those cards. And so Lady Justice was a card that my daughter drew that made a hell of a lot of sense. I drew the three of swords, which is three swords stabbed through the heart. And immediately as I started diving into that, I was like, yeah, there is more there in the hurt and the pain that I went through in the dark night of the soul from medicines. I understood, as I mentioned, Terrence McKenna saying the mushrooms turn on me. I understood when you get the call from God,

hang up the phone. Any of the great people, the psychonauts that I've looked up to over the years that have said, eh, I'm out. I've had enough. I understood why they said no. And at the same time, I've had so much guidance. These are the greatest tools of divination, in my opinion, when done correctly. And that guidance has led me to both of my kids. It's led me to them communicating with me their gender and their name before they arrived and why those are the qualities that they held. And spirit animals obviously do mean a great deal to me because of the way nature speaks to me and because of the names that my children have chosen for themselves, bear and wolf. So that makes a lot of sense. If I have time here, dive into the tattoo. I'm going

to jot that down here. I'm getting my tattoo. This will be a full podcast with my tattoo artist, Heidi Schneck, at some point. But it's all animal work and the elements and a little bit of plant material and fungi. That's really, it's a full sleeve. That's been a powerful thing, waiting until I'm 40 to do a full sleeve. And really, it's from some of the most important animals and insects that have shown up in my life and what that's meant to me. So we'll probably save that for a podcast in and of itself. Farming. We learned a lot of shit. We have our first education that we're hosting with Chad Johnson. We'll have them back on the podcast here shortly to really talk about that education. Gardeners of Eden is the name of our farm and it will have its own website up and

running within a couple of weeks. So stay tuned for that. I'll link to it in the show notes after the fact, and I'll talk about it on an upcoming podcast. Our first education will be in meeting. We're going to meet up in Lockhart at the farm for five days, and we're going to deep dive permaculture, a lot of sub holters work and how to do it, whether you're on a 10th of an acre in a suburb or you want to grow your own food and you just are looking to acquire land, or you and a group of friends has land, you want to do some type of food forest or animal rotation, what are the best ways? How much can my land head? All these things are great things to learn. And it's exciting because we're all doing this right now at the farm with Chad Johnson as an expert and one of our teachers. And we'll get to learn firsthand with you guys as he

teaches everybody. So very excited for that. That's coming up in March after our first core event, early March. Stay tuned for more information on that. One of the things that I learned, I've had a lot of people ask me when I give them a tour of the farm, they're like, what's the thing that stuck out to you the most, that you've learned the most? Because a lot of this is new to me. And I will say that one of the answers that I've given again and again is the stakes are high, that it's real, it's tangible, right? It's not like I'm playing with ideas in the astral and seeing if they work here in the 3D, that too. But when I make a mistake, things can die.

And we lost, uh, I think 14 sheep to coyotes. And I felt all the fucking feelings around that. We stayed up at night. I got fucking night vision goggles, thermals, the kitchen sink to kill these coyotes. And I kept thinking about that. Like, is this the right way? I don't know, but we got to stop the bleeding. We won't have a fucking flock of anything. If they keep killing six, seven sheep at a time, we're not going to have anything. The idiocracy of that mistake is we were the only people in probably the state of Texas that brought in a large group of food and didn't protect them. We didn't have guardian dogs.

We're thinking about it. We're like, oh, we got this game fence. Fucking that's nothing to a coyote to shoot right underneath that thing for a pack of them to shoot underneath that thing and have their way with our flock. So camped out every night, protected them. The death toll stopped after the first six. And we had a couple of puppies that we got Great Pyrenees. And we thought maybe this is enough. They smell the urine smell.

They can't tell that it's a puppy. They got a deep bark. Great Pyrenees do even at three months old. We might be set. So, we pulled back one night from having us spend each night out there with them and losing sleep, losing our ability to parent and focus on our other jobs. And we lose seven that night. And that was fucking really hard. So we went all in. There's a lot of decisions to be made around that. One of the things that

we found out was if you kill coyotes, they can go into estrus immediately. So if I killed seven of those coyotes, the ones that are around could immediately go into estrus and start reproducing automatically, and they'll reproduce more than was lost. So that helps the pack grow in a weird way. That's why coyotes are kind of impossible to kill. It's a pretty fascinating piece around them. The very best way to deal with coyotes is to have a group of big ass dogs that can fuck coyotes up

on site because the coyotes know there's no chance at taking out the sheep if there's a group of dogs there. So we now have seven dogs. So we've got four great Pyrenees mixes and three great Pyrenees purebreds that are just incredible. We have not lost a single sheep since. And as I said, it's a hard lesson to learn, but drawing these animal cards, we draw the animal cards. And what's typical for me of big bird medicine, as I talked about at the beginning of this podcast, I drew the giraffe. And her analysis is see the big picture. That's the little short tag on there. And there's more inside the book. See the big picture. That to me is bird medicine. That's the condor medicine, the eagle, the hawk. And I laughed because it was a giraffe, but yeah, giraffes got long ass necks.

They can see from up high down low. And that is something that I've really been holding and wanting to see both in the world and with my path going forward. See the big picture. And perhaps that might be my one word of the year, see the big picture, which would coincide with balance. I'm not going to see if I'm not balanced. I don't know how that's going to work, but that was the card that I drew. My daughter drew the coyote.

And it's a little tagline there. It says, trust the divine detour. Wow. That's it. That's trickster medicine. Trust the divine detour. Now, every indigenous culture has talked about this trickster energy. Some say it's in a spider. The spider holds it.

Some say it's the coyote. But they're in all ancient understandings of consciousness itself. There is the trickster energy. You might call that Satan, the devil, whatever, and that's pure evil. Other people understood it as trickster energy, as an illusion, as a way to throw us off. But it's the divine detour that happens. And in the moment, you can't understand it. I don't know why they fucking killed 13 of them.

They only ate two of them. They were just going on a spree. A raccoon will intelligently eat only, it'll kill only what it can eat. It'll kill one chicken out of the flock and come back each night, taking out one chicken. If it needs a day off because it's full, it'll wait and then come back. A weasel will kill the whole thing and only eat one, right? So there's varieties of how different animals operate. But trusting the divine detour, that's such a spectacular one-liner for me and for a lot of us as we look out into the world and we see what the fuck is happening right now while big finance crumbles, the push for centralization and central digital banking, the push to really the last grabs of old industries dying hard, trying to remain in power.

That's what this all is. And we're going to see more crumbling. So just trusting the divine detour, I think is such an important fucking card for me right now and a potent card for many people. The trickster energy is there and it's not all bad. Initially, it's something where you can't understand why it's happening or what fucking good could potentially come from it, but it is good in the end. And it's necessary in the end for these systems to die, for us to give birth to something new. Michael Mead talked about that on a podcast we did as this story of the old woman. And I'm not going to reiterate that. The basic paraphrasing of it is she's always weaving this quilt and there's a big cauldron on a fire that she's got to stir.

And every time she stirs it, it spreads fresh seeds on the land and makes the potency and vibrancy and fertility of the land come back. So every now and then she's got to get up and stir that pot in the spring. And every time she does that, this black dog gets up and unravels the quilt that she's weaving. And the first, you know, your freshman level look at that is fucking kick this dog out. It keeps fucking up the quilt. Every time she gets up, it goes and destroys this thing. That is the nature of our reality. We live in a reality that builds a society. It builds a thing

and then Babylon fucking crumbles, right? This quilt gets destroyed, but the threads are still there. And the beautiful thing is right when she sits back down, she doesn't freak out about it. She just starts weaving something new, something just as beautiful, but something different and unique. That's novelty. And that's a built-in component. It's one of the first principles of what consciousness is, of what we get to experience here on the wheel of life. Right now, this is the unraveling. This is the crisis period in the fourth turning, and it'll end in 2028 to 2031, somewhere in there. That's when it's going to end, give or take 20 years, plus or minus three. Could end in 2025. I don't doubt

that it's going to keep going until 2030, especially with a lot of the economic forum folks are saying Rockefellers and shit like that. And I know it's thrown around a name like Rockefeller can get hokey and old, but they did write Operation Lockstep in 2010, and they spoke about things in past tense that came to fruition in 2020. It's pretty hard to deny that they didn't have a hand in creating some of that. All right, either that or they're Nostradamus level at predicting shit 10 years in advance. What else we got here? So yeah, get this card deck. It's awesome. It will matter to you what you pull. And if it doesn't right away, just allow life to serve that medicine to you where you're

like, man, I don't want to pull that card. Oh, okay. That's why. That's why. And it may take 10 months, but it's going to matter at some point this year. You ask yourself a simple question. For us, it's what do I need to know now in preparation for 2023? Or what do I need to know now to gain alchemy or to gain balance? You can word it around your one word. This is the thing that I'm trying to do. This is my goal. What animal will help me attain that? Or what tarot card will help me attain that? Fairly easy ways to work with it. Fit for service. We got the last chance. We got the farm education coming up. My hunt. So last year, I was pretty bummed that I didn't get to hunt last year.

It is something that I've fallen deeply in love with for a number of reasons. Number one, the connection to nature is there the entire time. It's meditative, uh, Zen and the art of archery, whether it's a bow hunt or a rifle hunt, like you're highly tuned into your surroundings, paying attention to every step you take, every sound you make, any of the sounds that you hear outside of yourself. Like it's, it's a hyper aware state of being that is often lost in day-to-day living. And meditation is one piece of that. It's not the whole thing, right?

The whole thing is the hunt. And doing a sacred hunt is incredibly powerful too. We talked about that with Mansell Denton. We're going to do one later this year. We've had a number of people from Fit for Service reach out to me wanting to do that. So I want to put one together. I also want to get a hunt in exclusively with some of my homies that are big into it now.

And I've got this hunt coming up here. It was kind of funny because it was like when I first started as a kid, never killed anything. And then years went by playing football and fighting where I didn't get to hunt, but I knew I wanted to do it. And then getting back into it in 2017, I went on an elk hunt. Didn't know him. I was borrowing a rifle. He had no idea. It was like, we got to get it within a hundred yards to take this shot. Then we can hit him with the crosshairs. And because of my experience in hunting with bow and rifle, I've really improved my game. Every time you go out there, you get to learn something. And I'm

really going to talk about the improving of that and what it means with Ken coming up on this podcast in a couple of weeks here. But really, it's been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun and learning. I took my first precision long range course through Sheepdog where we got to shoot at 100. We got zeroed at 100. We shot at 200, 270, 380, 482. And we're working on holdovers and shit like that. So I don't have to change my windage or my elevation and just figuring out the math on where these targets are and really where the landmarks are. If I know I'm doing spot and stock, I'm going to arrange things and see where that's going. But so much of that, which seems complex

at first, once it becomes second nature and working with it, it becomes awesome because then I can take a shot and know where it's going to land. And with that, it can be a humane kill. It can stop the animal immediately. And it's not something where I got to track three miles to find a bleeding animal and hope that I can finish it off. I know it's dead every time I shoot it. And so the importance of expertise is it's there for a number of reasons, but it's there for the animal just as much as it is for your own sanity, right? You have the bad kill. That's something that's not easily erased from your head. I talked about that before. Shooting at a moving target, Big Island, and hitting a mama pig in the belly and listening to her scream as I ran 43 yards up to her to finish her. That sound will never leave me. So yeah, wanting that to be humane,

very important. And I've been doing that training and it feels really good to do that training. Like I said, I enjoy shooting guns. I enjoy shooting long rifle. I'm going to have more training coming up here with Clay Martin, who was on the podcast. He was a Marine recon sniper, just a fucking amazing human. He's been doing some work with Tucker Max and the guys out in Dripping Springs. And I'm super excited to get to train with him this year. But this hunt, this hunt's a good one. It's my first time sitting with somebody other than Montsel for as far as like real guidance since I've started hunting. And Ken is a guy that I trust. And he is a guy who, as I mentioned, as a Lakota elder, somebody who I really value as a person who has a lot of world experience. And the fact that we get to sit in a sweat lodge

before we enter, the sweat lodge has been such an important piece. It was really my first medicine tool in the tool bag that led me to plant medicines was being able to do the sweat lodge with my coach, Arturo Mata, who passed away a few years back, was my boxing coach and Aztec, Mayan elder, and just a phenomenal guy who really brought me to a whole different understanding of consciousness and a whole different understanding of divination. And that all started with the sweat. It started with the Temezcal, which is the Central American. We'll be doing it in Nipi, the Northern American sweat, Ken.

But that is really a place to pray while you're utilizing the elements, the earth and the rocks, the air and the air that you breathe and the steam that rises when the water hits the rocks, the fire that's underneath the rocks and the water, of course, that turns into the steam and connecting all of those pieces

with prayer and with tobacco has been such a massive ceremony in and of itself. And this will be my first time combining that in a hunt. So I'm really excited to be able to talk about that and share that with you guys. And I could come up short, but I truly feel like we had lottery tags for me and Christian Pitti. And we both went for them. We both got them. And they're a little easier to get than the public tags, but still, it's a lottery. And the fact that we both got them to go on this hunt and we're the only two trying, I mean, that really, for me, it's a little head nod in the right direction that we're where

we're supposed to be going. We're going to learn a lot from this thing and have a lot to share about it. So I'm really pumped for that. And I'm pumped to be able to do more hunts next year. This year, I took off because of all of the building and everything that we had going on at the farm. And it's still in its infancy. There's still a lot to do there, and we're going to continue to add to it in multiple phases. But I do feel like a lot of what we've done, we have systems in place now. We have an animal and land management expert.

We have a plant management expert. We've got my buddy, Eric Vaughn. I'll probably hit all these guys on the podcast at some point. Former Navy EOD who's running the whole show as the lead manager and just a phenomenal crew out there. President Kerry Brumfield, just excellent, excellent, awesome people that I'm surrounded with. And that whole team really allows me to be able to focus on that and create there, but to be able to focus on that and create there, but also not have to do all the ins and outs so I can continue to podcast, continue to go on hunts, continue to dad, continue to coach and fit for service and continue to learn really an ongoing mission of what's going to be PhD level biodynamics, PhD level regenerative agriculture, PhD level, many things that's going to take

decades to get to. And I get to get to that because of the space that I create. And I thank them for really helping me create that space around what we're doing at the farm. And I'm pumped to be able to go out hunting again this year. We'll have a lot of talks around that. I will offer, I may offer to the public if we don't sell out immediately on this podcast, if you're interested in something like that. If not, look up Sacred Hunting with Mansell Denton and you can, I'll link to that link in the show notes. Jose, grab it, please. And just go on his website and find a time to go with him. He's one of my favorite guides. He's one of my favorite people. He's a dear friend. And I know that he holds the act of hunting in a manner of which it needs to return to and is just an

excellent guide. And you learn so much more about yourself in that experience than what you expect from hunting. The ceremony is powerful and really connects you to what you're doing there and why you're doing it. The tattoo. All right. I'll briefly talk about one thing with the tattoo and then we'll wrap here. I know I'm jumping all over the place, but that's how we do it on solo casts. Tattoo has a bee. It's got the wolf, the bear. That's pretty obvious. It's got this cotton mouth snake. I talked about that story before. There are some fungi up here. We've got some different symbols for the elements, earth, air, water, and fire. The snow leopard, which is really, it's my wife's spirit animal.

And for many reasons, that's her own thing, but that's definitely her. So I have her right near my heart. And I love that. I think it's the tattoo curse is getting your wife's name or wife's portrait. So if shit goes wrong, I have this dope snow leopard there. And that's honestly something that I've connected to in the past because the hermit, believe it or not, is one of my major archetypes from the tarot that really corresponds with how I learn best. I learn best from gathering information and resources and retreating, letting that alchemize

at the top of the mountain or in the darkness of a cave. And then when the light of that lantern grown so heavy, then I returned back to sea level to share what I've learned and then gather more resources and head back up the mountain. And that Hermit archetype, this continual cycle of retreating and understanding is such a big one. And the snow leopard really is indicative of that, not loner mentality, but something that is highly protective, highly aware of their surroundings, but also one that is okay with being in solitude for long periods of time and the necessity for that, for the snow leopard.

Yeah, we dove into snow leopard here, but really the thing I wanted to bring up was the bee. This bee medicine has been huge for me. As Paul Cech says, you know, the bees are, along with the other pollinators, the sex organs of Mother Nature. And critically important, if you've been paying attention to Paul Stamets and a lot of the things going on in the world, of all the issues we have, many existential risks, if we lose our pollinators,

we lose food. Without food, we're creating shit in a lab and hoping that that works, and it's not going to work. It's not going to be the same. So they've been an important piece for me in calling me towards regenerative agriculture. We were at a fit for service event in Sedona in 2020 at the end of the year. As I mentioned many times on this podcast, the first time many people had hugged another human the entire year in October. So factor that into the equation. It was a big moment. And it was the first time Porongi had played for a live audience, 150 people in the backyard in Aubrey's Ranch. And he played for 150 people, ecstatic dance. And it was incredible. And this bee landed on my friend's soda. And I was like, oh man, it looked like he was going to go in there or she

was going to go in there and get swallowed. So I just put my finger down there and I started talking to her and I had a little heart medicine going, if you know what I mean. And I said, hey, little buddy, come up here. I don't want you to get, I don't want you to get swallowed. And it crawled up my index finger onto my hand, which is where I have this bee tattooed and stayed there for a while. And I just sat with it and meditated with it and seeing like, you know seeing how, for most people that are wondering, is this guy batshit crazy? Read Walking with Bears by Dr. Will Tegel. It's one of my favorite books. Also, The Mother Tongue, another incredible book that really breaks down what he proposes is the universal language of all beings, of all consciousness, has this ability to communicate

with one another when we know how to listen. And that's certainly been the case for me. But with this bee, it was really showing its appreciation for me and my love for nature. And I was reciprocating that. I love nature and I love this bee and I want nature to flourish. And really in that, I felt more drawn than ever to start farming. I didn't know when I was going to, but 2020 was a hell of an impetus to start getting into where does my food come from and what control do I have in that supply chain? Super important. Maybe more important than ever. We'll talk about that coming up with Michael Yong, who's a Green Beret and was on Jordan Peterson's podcast. Phenomenal stuff and scary stuff, but important stuff. So the bee stays on after about 10 minutes. I'm like,

all right, dude, I want to dance. So I get back up and I start dancing and it fucking stays on my hand for another 20 minutes. This thing was on my hand. I took a photo of it. I'm like, I don't want to be a douche in that video, but they did snap a photo. And I danced with this thing for 20 minutes. It stayed on my hand and people were looking at me like, what the fuck is that? And they're like, it's a bead. It's fucking hanging with me. We're going. And it was such a unique experience, a bonding experience, like bonding like the snake's head on my knee, that cotton mouth that put its head on my knee for at least a minute and stared eye to eye with me in the pond. Like that level of bonding from nature is possible when we shift our energy and we're in the right frame and the bee can trust, I can be with you right now. Let's have an experience. And so, so much of that medicine from bees. We had a lot of bees coming into our

house when we were first moving here. We had a lot of bees coming to the new house when we were getting pregnant with Wolfie. It was just very cool. And I watched Avatar 2 and it was fucking gut-wrenching. Sorry, spoiler alert. If you're a parent, it's gut-wrenching. And one of the things, I won't give it away, so don't worry if you haven't seen it. Personal opinion, fucking awesome. Didn't feel like an ad for three, four, and five. It just was awesome. It had enough completion to it. I was very pleased with it. And one of the key components, I was talking with my wife about it, who I saw, I was just talking with her about it after the film.

And I was like, I want to be like the daughter. The daughter has this just innate connection to AWOL where everything she does, she can connect to any single piece of the whole and have an intimate relationship with it. That's what I fucking want. I want that better than any other superpower, right? If you do, you got a son, you're talking about like, we'd rather have Wolverine's ability to regenerate tissue or Superman's ability to fly. All right, Superman's ability

to fly. Would you rather have Superman's ability to fly or a night crawler's ability to teleport? Okay, teleport wins, right? You do shit like this all the time with my son and I love it. But really when I think about it, like a superpower that's possible is one in which you can communicate with all beings. And that's what she does throughout the movie. And it's fucking awesome. And I just was thinking about that, like this connection piece. And I've felt it so many times in my life. And right when we got home, Tosh went in, she left the door cracked. And I had started thinking a little bit darkly about some potentials for the world ahead of us. And I was thinking of how much I just really wish I had that connection to AWOL. And right there, there's a fucking bee right in front of my face, right at the entry

point of the door. And I'm sitting there telling it like a total jackass. I'm like, oh, hey, buddy, don't go inside. Don't go inside. You don't want to go inside. It's like, oh, you're not going inside. You're here talking to me. And I was like, fuck, man, that is the connection to AWOL. It is right there. And it's always been there. It'll always be there for us when we need it most. We are guided that internal GPS in the heart, in the heart of Gaia is switched on, in the heart of the solar system is switched on, in the heart, the whole universe is switched on. And we can tune into that when we need it most. All right, check out Avatar 2. I love you guys. I hope we have the fucking best year ever in 2023. It's going to continue to get rocky.

That's totally fine. We've got what it takes. We have enough. Lean on each other. Community is the most important thing that we have going forward. Lean on each other. Communicate with an open heart. And don't be afraid to do the thing you know you need to do. Whatever that is.

It might be eating better. It might be going to bed on time. Whatever the fucking thing you need to do, don't be afraid to do that. It'll pay off. Love.