Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz - Thought Leader Series: Michael Beckwith

Episode Date: March 15, 2021

// R E A D Y • S E T • R E S E T This Thought Leader episode is all about getting out of fear and negativity. Luckily, there are other thought patterns and frequencies that we can tap into. Michael Bernard Beckwith is the Founder and Spiritual Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center. Agape is a trans-denominational community headquartered in Los Angeles comprised of thousands of local members and global live streamers. This November marks Agape's 33rd Anniversary. Highly regarded for his teachings on the science of inner transformation, Dr. Beckwith embraces a practical approach to spirituality utilizing meditation, affirmative prayer, and Life Visioning™, a process he originated. These practices teach us to take the experience of inner peace and awakened awareness into our everyday lives.                             In this podcast, we cover: How to awaken our oneness when we meditate  The ways we can meditate properly  About the human body's ability to self-heal Why we should build a community of love and compassion How to strengthen our immune systems Why avoiding the news will make us healthier // E P I S O D E   S P O N S O R S  Pre-Order a copy of The Menopause Reset book today and get the bonus ebook now, for FREE! Feel the impact of Organifi - use code PELZ for 15% off all products!  // R E S O U R C E S   M E N T I O N E D Agape Facebook Page Sunday Services through Agape Agape University Whoop Band Michael Beckwith's Website Michael Beckwith on Instagram Michael Beckwith on Facebook Michael Beckwith on Twitter   // F O L L O W Instagram | @dr.mindypelz & @theresetterpodcast Facebook | /drmindypelz & /theresetterpodcast Youtube | /drmindypelz   Please note the following medical disclaimer: By listening to this podcast you understand that this video is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to substitute for professional medical advice and should not be relied on as health or personal advice. Always seek the guidance of your doctor with any questions you may have regarding your health or medical condition.  

And I don't allow the stress of the world to become distress within me. I am a woman on a mission that is dedicated to teaching you just how powerful your body was built to be. I like to do that by bringing you the latest science, the greatest thought leaders, and applicable steps that help you tap into your own internal healing power. The purpose of this podcast is to give you the power back and help you believe in yourself again. My name is Dr. Mindy Pels, and I want to thank you for spending part of your day with me. Hello, Resetters. Have I got a treat for you in this episode? So this is the second of our thought leader series, and I am bringing you the incredible mind, the incredible heart of Reverend Michael

Bernard Beckwith. And now, if you're not familiar with Michael Beckwith, Let me tell you a little bit about the impact this man has made on our world. He is the founder and spiritual director of Agape International Spiritual Church. It's a worldwide community. You can actually access his sermons on Saturday morning, his teachings online. This man is on a mission. And not only is he a sought-after meditation teacher, conference speaker, and seminar leader, but he has addressed audiences as large and as prestigious as the UN General Assembly.

He has a TEDx talk. He's been on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday. He's been on Larry King Live, Dr. Oz. He has an incredible PBS special called The Answer Is You. And he is a member of Oprah's esteemed inaugural Super Soul 100. And as you will hear in this episode, he is God. some of the most precise wisdom. And what I mean by that is one of the reasons I wanted to do this thought leader series

is because I wanted to lean into the wisdom of some of these incredible deep thinkers. And what you will hear in Reverend Michael's chat with me is he has some incredible one-liners that will make you think like, whoa, I hadn't approached it from this angle. And when I started off the conversation with Reverend Michael, we talked quite a bit about the moment of we are in right now as a human race. And I really wanted him to give us some wisdom that will elevate us to a place out of fear, move us into a place of love and hope. Give us something to focus on other than the news and the scary statistics of the current world we're living in. And boy, did he far exceed my expectations of what his wisdom could do, not only for my own mindset, but my team, as they listened to this podcast ahead of time,

we're blown away. And I have no doubt you are going to be blown away as well. So if you're feeling blue, if you're needing to move into hope and love, this is the episode for you. And as always, you guys, if this episode moves, you share it with somebody. Right now, we are in a state of fear and negativity. And as you will learn in this episode, there are other frequencies we can tap into. There are other thought patterns we can tap into.

And Reverend Michael is going to show us how. So if you love what you're hearing here, please share it out into the world. You also can take his online classes. you can tap into his agape church online. So if you resonate with what you hear, here, please go and immerse yourself in his teachings because they will make your life feel and look and operate at a whole other level.

So excited to share Reverend Michael Beck with you. This was one of my favorites. Well, let me give you a little bit, other than just wanting to lean into your wisdom at this time. human history. I really want to give you a little bit of a background. In my following, we have about a half a million people all over the world that fast together every month. So how many days? Yeah, we do five days and we do different fasts. So you really lean into all different types.

I've really dove into the science of autophagy and how the body repairs itself while it's fasting. And so as a worldwide community, we really teach the principles to people. And what I love about fasting is that people get the opportunity to really understand how wise their body was designed to be. And I was last summer watching your Sunday service. And I think it was in August that you said you started to talk about spiritual fasting and how we need to start. to fast from more than just, you talked about food, but you also talked about fasting from the news and fasting from the fear. So I really want to bring that discussion back and have some deeper context with that. Give us, you know, right now we're uniting the world, my group, through physical fasting,

but I feel like the world could unite through spiritual fasting. There's a way for us to come together using that principle. And I'd love to hear your wisdom on it. I'd be glad. I'd be glad to. First of all, when I think about fasting, one of my names for meditation is mind fasting, in which we are not trying to get content into the mind. We're becoming still enough so that the debris, the toxicity, the toxic thoughts, the emotions

come to the surface to be released, just as what happens when you fast from food, you know, you release toxins, you release undigested food, you release things that are no longer necessary for the body. Well, meditation is mind fasting. That's another way of looking at it. Of course, it has its aspect of connecting with the divine presence within one. It has its aspects of really stepping out of our present paradigm and seeing reality. from a more expanded point of view.

But meditation also carries with it the elimination of thoughts and perceptions and interpretation of past experiences that hinder our perception from seeing that which is real. I often say that peace and love and harmony and wholeness, those qualities are everywhere, except where it's being suppressed by limited perception. So in mind fasting, you're cleansing the perceptual windows

so that you can see clearly again. So when you combine that with fasting, you know, physical fasting, the perceptual windows become very, very cholesterol clear. And you notice that you haven't been experiencing reality. You've only been experiencing your thoughts about reality. But with fasting, you actually have direct contact with that which is real.

And that changes your life forever. Yeah. Yeah. Do you fast? I do fast. I used to fast quite severely. I shouldn't use the word severely, but I would do seven-day fast. I would do 21-day fast, 40-day fast.

You know, over the years, I've been faster. And now that I'm speaking to you, I just got re-inspired to do that again. But generally speaking, I'll take a day like a Monday or a day when I don't have a lot of activity. be my fast day. But just being in this conversation with you now is re-igniting. And I was already thinking about it anyway that I needed to do a good fast. So having a conversation with you is re-igniting that awareness. It's time for that.

It's time for a good house cleaning. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and again, and I'm happy to help you through that process. It's amazing when what we're seeing. I mean, hundreds of thousands of people. people that are healing themselves. They're like the wisdom of their body is healing them.

There's nothing going in from the outside. And when I parallel that to what the world is going through right now, the outs, when you talk about the perceptions that we're taking on of reality and how fasting can, and mind fasting can remove that, we are living in this time of so much fear, so much angst, so much angst, so much misinformation. One of the things I wanted to bring you on to help elevate the conversation. How do we, just like we need to rise above the junk food that we put in our body, how do we rise above the junk information that is destroying our minds right now?

You said a couple of things. First, I wanted to comment on what you said about the body healing itself. The body's genius. You know, this body temple is a magnificent expression. of wisdom and intelligence, and it will heal itself if in fact you eliminate the toxins and put in the living energy that is necessary. Oftentimes, as we know, people are going into the doctors and things of that particular nature, but they're not participating in any kind of healing. They're participating in the management of pain or symptoms or disease, but they're not

allowing the body to heal. So when you say, you talk about the brilliance and the magnificence of the magnificent of the body temple, I've seen it. You know, I've seen people come back from debilitating diseases and when the doctor had given up hope and us working with them and watching the body heal itself. So that's absolutely true. And I've seen it. I've seen the evidence of that. And in terms of perception, in terms of mind fasting, you know, people have to realize, for instance, when you look at the news, I call the news. It's not really news. It's really the regurgitation of a certain thought form that's repeated every single day. The lowest common denominator of the human experience, the next thing to be afraid of, and it's repeated two or three times a day.

You'll get a news cycle early in the afternoon. It repeats early evening. It repeats at night. and it almost appears that there's no new news happening between those times because they just repeat it. But people need to understand that what they're looking at, when they're looking at that, they're looking at a narrow band of reality. It's not reality. It's just a narrow band that's fraught with opinion and points of view,

malicious hypnotism, mind control, subliminal information to make people worried. I'm talking about corporate sponsors. media and a lot of the corporations that sponsor that, of course, are pharmaceuticals. So people get nervous and anxious, and then a pharmaceutical commercial comes on. That's not a coincidence in order to mitigate the anxiety or the worry. So people, first of all, understand that that's not news, and that's a limit. It's just a small fraction of that which is real, and a small fraction of that which is happening on the planet.

we look at the news differently. The way I look at the news and the way I teach the folks at Agape is that when you look at that, that's really a prayer request from a sick society. It's not the news. It's just a diagnosis. It's just like if you go to the doctor, if your doctor tells you you have something wrong with you and you tell a good friend, the friend would take that news and perhaps pray for you or perhaps gives you some information that will help you.

So when we look at the news, we're not to take that in as, oh, my God, this is real. We're to take that in as the society is sick. It's run amok with fear and worry. Anxiety about viruses. Anxiety about hate. Anxieties about economics and jobs. So the society is going through a period of sickness, toxicity. We don't leap in there and experience that with the news.

We actually look at it and frame it as, this is what I need to hold in prayer. So every time that comes to us, we have a challenge to stay up, expanded, affirmative, and prayerful. And what's happening on the planet gives us a lot of practice to stay up and expanded and prayerful.

And so I think people have been hypnotized into actually thinking that what they're looking at is real. they have forgotten that those individuals that are reporting 90% of them are actors they haven't done any research they're just receiving the information

that they're to display as a reporter it's not like years ago we actually had a reporters doing the research and then coming back and say this is what I found now most of those people are just actors they just read what they're allowed to say they can't even say their own

opinion to or they're overly opinionated based on whatever station you're watching. And so if people begin to look at it like that, they won't be pulled down in the rabbit hole of the malicious hypnotism that brings about fear. Because fear is the most potent mind virus. Fear is the most debilitating virus we're dealing with. It's more debilitating than coronavirus. It's more debilitating than SARS. It's more debilitating than any virus that comes and mutates. We've been dealing with viruses for thousands of years. This is nothing new, you know. So fear is really the most potent virus. And the news, which I call the oath, foments, that kind of fear. Yeah. Yeah. And yet if we, if you think about the typical person sitting in their home,

they've been told to stay indoors and they're watching the news. I love this reframing it as this is where prayer needs to put our attention on. But this last year, there's been such a huge impact on what people are perceiving as their freedom. Yeah. And yet freedom from what I've learned from you over the years of listening to you and attending revelations and listening to my mom who's learned from you is that freedom starts in your mind.

Yes. It doesn't start in your physical place. So help us, let's put ourselves in the shoes of that person who feels stuck. Yeah. How do we give them freedom back? Well, freedom, as you're indicating, is intrinsic to us. It's been given to us as we were, as we emerged from the eternal. And it's a state of awareness that one gets through being.

interested in it. First, there must be interest, and then there must be the belief that freedom is there. Belief then creates a level of practice, affirmative prayer, meditation, study, conversations with high-minded people, podcasts such as this. And freedom then begins to be activated. And then you begin to discover that no one can steal this expanded space. The world can't take it. The world can't, since the world didn't give it to you, the world can't take it away from you. And you start to live in an expanded state of freedom. Now, what are the ramifications of that? The wisdom, the guidance, and the direction that's always flowing,

you begin to hear it in a language in a way that you can understand, and then you are guided to do and to be what is necessary for your safety, your protection, your peace, and your well-being. they use the word quarantine. Quarantine is not really the right word because you quarantine people who are sick. You don't quarantine to people who are healthy. What we're really facing is more like a house arrest, you know. It's not like a quarantine.

And it's not really safer at home because ever since they put the nation under house arrest, there's been more suicide, there's been more alcoholism, there's been more pharmaceutical usage, there's been more depression, there's been more sickness because people's immune system is not activated because they're staying a house all day. So the language of safer at home is actually a lie, you know, no one's safer at home. However, you can be safe in your home if you have your intrinsic freedom activated, you know. And again, the virus of fear must be dissolved and you must have an in, an intention to be free, a belief that freedom is within you.

And you must have some kind of practice, some kind of self-talk, some kind of practice where your self-talk is bigger than the talk you're getting from the world. In other words, you're not trying to convince the world of anything. You're convincing yourself that you are safe, that your life has meaning, that you're free. And then, you know, for me, the past year, I haven't experienced any kind of quarantine or any, I haven't experienced any of that. You know, I've stayed at home obviously more, you know, but there's more time to meditate, it's more time to study. There's been more time for me to hang with my family. My son is overjoyed.

My daughter is overjoyed because they get to see their dad more often, you know. I still go where I want to go. I do what I want to do. And I'm not, since I'm not. I am not interested in disease. Disease isn't interested in me, you see. I love it. And you experience what you're interested in.

If you can remember Shakespeare's powerful statement, that a coward dies a thousand deaths, meaning whatever you're afraid of, you create all kinds of scenarios within your mind, and you experience those scenarios, even if those scenarios don't even come true. You live them. The coward is dying a thousand,

times, you know, so I'm not interested in all that. I'm interested in peace. I'm interested in love. I'm interested in safety. I'm interested in wellness. I'm interested in well-being. And that's what my experience has been. I just got my labs back from my medical doctor. I needed to do a full makeup because of an up level of insurance for agape. And he went down, he says, you know, your prostate is like a 20-year-old. You know, you have no cancer marker. in any of these sections here. He just went down this list. He said, you know, your body temple is the body temple of a very young man, you know.

Love it. And my testosterone was off the chart, you know. And I live a certain way. I think a certain way. I eat a certain way. I exercise a certain way. And I don't allow the stress of the world to become distress within me. And I'm not a special person.

I don't think there are special people. I think there are people who specialize. You know, if you specialize in playing the piano, you'll learn how to play the piano. It's not a special person that's playing the piano or the saxophone. You know, you learn, you have a very powerful skill as a chiropractor. You had to study. You had to practice. You specialized so that you can assist people back to a level of wholeness.

Somebody else can't do that because they haven't specialized in that. You see. So I'm not a special person, but I have a level of practice that keeps me interested in wholeness. I'm not interested in disease. I have no interested in whatsoever. Doesn't mean I'm ill-informed. I'm definitely informed, but I'm not informed to the degree that I'm going to succumb to fear about it. I'm going to succumb to proper hydration, proper supplement supplement titation with vitamin D and C and zinc, and systemic insight. I know what to do. Right. And I'm going to live that. And, you know, I've had two tests over the last week, both negative. I had to fly out of the country.

Negative going in, negative coming out, negative coming into L.A. You know, I have no interest in it. And so my body reveals what I'm interested in. And so that's what I implore people to do. Get interested in your health. Get interested in the genius of your body. get interested in your mind get interested in what you say to yourself yeah all of that's do you ever do you ever get doubt i had this this moment because the one thing i've been so grateful

for over the last year is my belief in the human body because i i'm really resonating with what you're saying like i have days where i go oh we're in a pandemic i forgot like because i'm the same way i move around the world without fear yeah and then i have moments where something gets me wrong and all of a sudden I start thinking and I was saying you know my parents and I was saying something to my 84 year old dad one day about like okay should we be testing what shall we doing and he stopped me and he looked at me and he said I'm not fearful about it so why would you be fearful about it and he said the same thing you just said he goes I'm this is not my my infection to die from right so that so then we actually went and ran his vitamin D so check this out at 84 years old

the man has a vitamin D level of 48, which is high. Yeah. He doesn't even take a supplement. He kind of goes out in the sun, but he has such a clear healing attitude that I swear his vitamin D levels are that high. Yes, absolutely. As you know, your body is, it's his own pharmacy. So the tonic chemicals flow from your attitude.

You know, you go into fear, you produce cortisol, you know, you deplete your immune system. You go into joy and happy. serving others, praying for others, loving others, then the tonic chemicals flow. So your father is an example of the body temple, the chemicals in the body temple and the hormones actually matching his attitude. You know, consciousness precedes form. So consciousness is first, the attitude, our perceptions, our beliefs, then it manifests. So it manifests in your body, dad's body as proper supplement, proper hormone.

own a vitamin D. You know? This is exactly what we're talking about. See, I think that actually it's not really a pandemic. What we're experiencing is endemic. And that is the American population is very sick. Ever since the rise of fast foods, you know, there was a spike in sugar and fast food intake. There was a spike in cancer, spike in diabetes, spike in heart attack, spike in obesity. so the coronavirus has just revealed what was endemic

already in the American population and I think people are we have to have a context for that I mean the news gives you again

a narrow band and they'll talk about every single day COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID but they're not letting you know the context that 6 to 800,000 people

die every year of a heart attack cancer 600,000 Doctors mistakes, four or five hundred thousand. Diabetes, obesity-related issues. COVID's down at six or seven for just one year, maybe 400,000 people in America, that is. These other sectors, people are dying every single year. And very few people die from COVID.

They die with COVID. Agreed. It's endemic. Something else is happening. But if you would look at the news, you would actually become very frightened. at this virus and we're not even grieving the people who are dying of a heart attack right now or suicide or cancer that hasn't stopped that has not stopped and so it's in we're living in a in a cesspool of toxicity people's diets are crazy they're not walking around the block

they're not breathing they're glued to the news they're producing cortisol they're nervous the doctors should be saying you brought up vitamin D. Instead of telling people to wait for a vaccine, and I'm not anti-VAC or anything like that, I'm not pro or anti. I just use my own wisdom. They should be mandating vitamin D. Agreed.

They should be mandating vitamin C. They should be mandating some level of exercise. They should be mandating some level of zinc. Your zinc quotient should be up there as well and other things. But they never mentioned that. That's a disservice to our society when people of that authority aren't telling people to check your vitamin D levels, you know. Agreed. I actually came up with the idea that when you put the mask on, make it a reminder to keep the junk out.

Like use it as a symbolism for yourself every time you put it on that, you know, don't think of it like you're, keeping the virus out, keep it as a reminder that you're keeping the soda out and you're keeping the fast food out. It's blocking that. And I also want to add to that list just to inspire you to fast even more. There are two systems in which our body operates from, and I'm sure you know this. One is the sugar burner system and one is a fat burner system. And viruses don't have an energy of their own. So they have to live off your cellular energy. So if they come into your energy and you're a sugar burner, they go into your cells, they gain momentum and they replicate.

But if they go into a fat burner energy source, they literally die. They can't gain any energy. Right. So one of my feelings is not only if we fast, intermittent fast, a couple of days fast, if we get people teach them how to fast, we're not only going to help them on a health level, but we're also going to help them on a spiritual level, as to your point. Absolutely. You're basically saying that the virus is opportunistic. It's looking for a host. Because as you say, it can't create the condition. It has to find the right condition to survive. And if you have toxicity and pH is off and you have a sugar, it's going to find a host. If you don't, it's going to go. It's going to die. So we have to take responsibility for that. We can't wait for the government to do that. We have to take responsibility for our own body. Mind fasting and physical fasting. Absolutely. Yes. I'm with you.

So on this fear, on this fear piece, what I also feel like is we got real sideways in 2020 as a humanity that we became not only so fearful of the virus, but then we started to point fingers at everybody who was thinking different from us. And I loved, I was listening this Sunday to your sermon, which I want to encourage all of my community to go listen to you. You have three services on Sunday, and I swear each one's different. I could listen to each one. But you said something about we have to go to this place where we love our way out of this moment. But how do we do that when our neighbor is not getting vaccinated? the other neighbors not masking, and the other neighbor voted for the person I disagree with. How do we elevate ourselves?

Yeah, I was saying that we have to love our nation back to sanity, you know. That was it. That was it. It was so good. Love our nation. Love and mother our nation back to sanity. There used to be a moment where there was much more civil discourse, which meant we didn't have to agree, but we could still love each other and still, you know, even, you know, you

look at 60s, 70s, you saw the Democrats, the Republicans, they didn't, they just one stood for business, one stood for the social concerns, but it was a, but they always met in the middle to pass laws. They didn't agree. They were just representing their constituency. Nobody was wrong. You know, there was just different aspects of society people were concerned with. But something has happened that is called a great polarization, you know, so that now, if in fact, I don't agree with you. I don't like you. Yeah, right. Or you're a bad person. Because we disagree or we see things differently. That's a sign of emotional immaturity. It's like junior high school. It's like there's been a reversion back to a junior high school mentality. And you can see it in the streets. You can see the people overthrowing the capital. And you can see that junior high school cussing each other out and I'm right and you're wrong and you guys are idiots. You know, you can see it. all of that. And what I say is, one, when we see that behavior, we have to understand that those are our younger brothers and sisters. You know, you have to, if you have a brother or a sister,

and they're much younger than you, and they're doing things that are very immature, you don't hate them. You just realize that they're going through a particular stage of maturation. They haven't caught up to where you are right now in terms of your wisdom, your patience, your honesty, whatever the case may be. So we have to begin to look at, individuals who are haters, you know, who are deep into polarization as our younger brothers and sisters. And we have to draw the circle big enough within our awareness. We don't have to, that doesn't mean agreeing with somebody. It means drawing the circle big enough that you don't keep them out of your heart. So, and it's, it's really, I think, significant that at this

particular moment, we're in the beginning of what is called the season for non-violence. in which we're honoring Ahimsa and harmlessness and nonviolence under the egyptians of Mahondas K. Gandhi and Martin King Jr. And this is a time for honest and harmless and nonviolent conversations with each other. You have to have the strength to be able to maintain dialogue with someone that disagrees with you. It takes a strength because it's easy to say, oh, they're an idiot. I'm not going to talk to them.

That doesn't take any strength. There's no strength or courage in resignation and giving up. Strength and courage comes through being able to stay in that tension and still have the conversation without calling the other person an idiot. Or whatever name people have a tendency to call each other these days. So here's the litmus test. if whatever it is that you believe, if it is devoid of love, love of humankind, love of the planet, love of each other, then you're probably going down the wrong track.

There is no path without love that is sustainable for the planet, sustainable for the nation, sustainable for your family. If love is not the ethic, then you're basically running on opinion, and you're running on the depollutional fumes of separation. And so we have to stop. We have to get a real sense of what love is. And we want to build our nation with love. We want to love ourselves and our nation and our world back to sanity.

And it's interesting that the word sanity and the word enlightenment mean the same thing in certain spiritual teachings. When Winn talks about enlightenment, they're absolutely talking about being sane and not being caught up in the thought forms of separation that move through the human consciousness. You become sane and you're like, oh my God, I suddenly see where I was blind. I've come back home. I'm sane again. You see, I was way out there with hate and belligerence and I was rights, you know, self-righteousness, you know. seriousness. Yeah.

But wow, I was insane. I've come back to sanity. And I want to build my world. I want to build my world with love, you see. Do you think, when you say strengthened, do you think love is like a muscle that you've got to keep working on? Because, like, I hear your words, and then I watch how the world is behaving.

And I don't see that. And I think, okay, I want to, if I go to Gandhi and I'm, I think be the change, you know, that you want to see in the world. So I need to show up as love. And then if I show up as love, will I lift the people around me? These are deep questions I've been asking myself this year. What part can I personally play in creating more love? There's love is everywhere.

And the muscle that we're creating is the willingness to allow it to flow through us, even when we don't feel like it. It's easy if you're hanging around your family, you know, people that you like. it's easy to love people that you like, you know. But we have to become strong enough to let the love flow when we consider the people that we disagree with. That's where the work is. That's the advanced class.

You know, the easy class is to love people that you like. The advanced class is, and I don't mean emotional love. I'm not talking about sentimental love. I mean, I'm not even talking about friendship, you know. We're talking about, you know, Dr. King's friends. phrase is it's the love of God operating in the human heart. You're not cutting anybody outside of your heart, which we both noticed people doing this past year. People actually cutting large swaths of the population out of their heart as, you know, we've even heard Congress

people talking about assassinating people and killing people. It's gotten to that level of hate and unconsciousness that these individuals' emotions are running away with them. They have no sovereignty over their awareness. You see, they just have gotten into the cycle of self-righteousness and to be able to, even they didn't mean it, but to be able to say something publicly like, they should be hung or, you know, we've got to go kill them, you know, that is, that soul has been devastated and shrunk. So the individual has to come back just to basic fundamental teachings of love your neighbor with the awareness that your neighbor is not the person living next door to you.

The neighbor is anyone on the planet, you see. And again, that's a practice. It seems almost foolish, but we will destroy ourselves unless there's enough people that rise up and love at that level and then seek to build their communities and their nation from the awareness of love, not from the awareness of self-righteousness or partisan politics. I mean, and again, even the political system is a narrow frequency. I mean, that's, you can even fast from that for a while. Definitely, definitely.

Because even though they represent the people, most of the time, great changes. in society does not come from politics. It comes from which trending with people. And then the politicians later on get in front of it or embrace it as the next way. But you never get anything revolutionary or creative out of Washington, D.C., or out of any particular Congress people. I mean, there are exceptions. But generally, you're not going to get anything creative out of a person.

You know, they're in a system. Everything creative or new comes from people, comes from innovators, artists, social entrepreneurs, individuals who are on the edge of living a higher vision, and then they pull society with them, but it's not going to come out of politics, but you definitely do not allow that to be any kind of authority over you. You have to have authority and sovereignty over your own being.

Those people, they work for you, and people have forgotten that and they think they're working for the government and the government has some kind of power over you. The government does. They work for you. You pay their salaries. You tell them what the name. You write them a letter. You tell them how you want to be represented. But you have to know yourself in order to do that. You have to feel some level of

power and love in order to sit down and email or write a letter and say, I like this, I don't like this, I want you to speak more about this. They work for you. and people have forgotten and they've given up their sovereignty and their power. Do you think social media is causing part of the problem? I think social media is neutral, but just like anything, it can be used by nefarious means or can be used for inspiration. So people now can just dump their hate in there, remain anonymous, and get people all caught up in arguing.

other people are using social media for inspiration, you know, for prayer, for transformation. And what people need to, going back to fasting, people have to realize that they might be addicted to drama. And they're looking for the next dramatic thing to get all riled up about because they're addicted to the toxic chemicals that are flowing through the body. You know, there's a statement, you know, that says, you know, I think, therefore I am, but it has morphed into, I have drama, therefore I am. You know what I mean? And so social media is concerned, it's a mixed bag. Everything is in social media. And people have to take responsibility to not go down the rabbit holes of hate and the rabbit holes of drama and separation.

And if you go on social media, you know, find those outlets. that are actually giving you real information, giving you real science, giving you real inspiration, what prayer can do, what meditation is, what art is, you know. And so. Yeah, agreed. Yeah. So people have to look at what I'm saying. People have to actually look at it and see what they're addicted to, you see.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, agreed. And do you think that the health of our world, like when we look at the junk food, we put in our body, it creates junk thoughts. And then on top of that, you put the fear of a virus and then you put social media and you put politics and we're easily spun up because of the way

that we take care of our health. And a big piece of this starts there. Yeah, if you're throwing junk food in your body, it's turning to sugar. You drink alcohol, it turns to sugar. You lose coherence in your thinking. The hemispheres don't talk to each other anymore. You think you're thinking.

But there's no real coherence there. And so the deep wisdom and the intuition is hindered. And you're actually living as a reactor. You're a reactionary. You're not a responder from a higher principle or a higher presence. You're actually reacting to circumstances, which is like a waste of your infinite potential. You know, we have infinite potential, all of us. And people are only using a little bit of their potential.

because most of their life is reacting to something outside of themselves and being triggered by something they don't like. And some people, you know, I'll say that, you know, a pet peeve is something that someone loves to hate. Meaning when they find that thing that they hate, they get excited about it. You know, so they'll go and look for something that they hate. Oh, you hear what so-and-so said. Oh, do you hear what she did. You hear what she did. You know, they love to find something that they hate.

They're churning out toxic chemicals. They're addicted to them. But the ego is satisfied because they have found their pet peeve. If we know staying at home and watching the news is be creating more harm, then we need to step out of that place. But freedom exists in our mind. So on my end, I'm teaching people the power of their own body. And when I look at people like you, you're teaching this idea of the freedom of your own mind through prayer and through practice.

And I love the application of that. How do we give people tools other than you're everywhere? And I just am so grateful. You're on Instagram. You've got an app. You've got teachings. I feel like we need to, if we're going to love the world back to sanity, we need to immerse them. in cultures and thinking where they have no choice

but to elevate their frequency. You're speaking my language. One of the things that I've taught over the years is spiritual community grants you immunity from the lower frequencies of life. So you have to become conscious as to who you're talking to every single day. What kind of conversations are you having?

Are you in a good spiritual community? Do you have a group of people that you can talk to that want to stay elevated and stay out of fear. Or when you go into fear, you do have a group of people you can call and say, hey, I fell down the rabbit hole today and they can help pull you out. So community, real good, uplifting spiritual community grants you immunity from the lower frequencies of life. Because we're talking frequency. We're talking vibration.

So your self-talk and how you talk with each other has to be of a much higher frequency. So, you know, I tell people, you know, tune in to something that's going to inspire you. Go outside, put your feet on the ground, not cement, on the actual Mother Earth, so that it will disperse energy from the bottom of your feet to Earth. You know, you'll actually, you know, you'll ground yourself to Mother Earth whose frequency is very high, it's very healthy. walk around the block. It would forget that if you walk around the block, you create more killer cells, your immune system. I was reading an article where,

no, I was talking to Sean Stevenson. Do you know Sean? Yeah, I heard your Instagram live. It was really good. He was a good friend of mine, and we were having a conversation, and he was mentioning that there's a new pharmaceutical, a new, what do you call it,

a new drug that's going to be coming out that increases your killer cells. But it doesn't increase the killer cells more than you walk around the block one time. You know, so why would you take something a chemical that has an effect, a side effect, when you just walk around your block. Agreed. So, you know, so, so one, you know, mind fast. Two, intermittent fasting. Three, this is not in any particular order.

you know, just this is the order I'm telling you. You know, make sure you put your feet on the soil every single day. You know, four, walk around your block. If people are nervous, wear your mask, you know, and then pull it down a little bit so you can get some air and then put it back up. Pull it down, get some air and put it back up, you know. If you're not, if nobody's on the block, pull it down, take some nice deep breaths. Put your hand in the soil so you can get some new microbes so that your immune system stay strong because your immune system will get weak if you don't use it.

So if you're staying inside all the time and you're not getting any new microbes in your nostrils or in your hands, then your immune system goes to sleep. So this is why I told little kids to eat dirt, you know what I mean? And so, you know, we don't want to be so over sanitized that we put our immune system to sleep. Yeah. You know, that's what I told my mom that when we first, when the pandemic, first hit, I said, she loves to garden. I said, you're going to go outside and you're going to rub, get in the garden and rub that dirt all over you. I don't want you to have your shoes on. I don't

want gloves. Like, I want you to get in the dirt. And if you have to do it naked, do it naked. Like, you just got to get out there in the sun and your whole immune system will benefit from that experience. Exactly. And people are trying to do the opposite. They're oversanitizing everything. and to the point where the immune system is not being used. It's not, just like you have to exercise of muscle or atrophy, immune system does the same thing. And so, you know, this is stuff that people will forget or can't hear if they're in fear. It's going to be so nervous and wash everything and, you know, it's not funny, but it's like, like, you know, I just call it, to me it's kind of ironic that we are these great cosmic beings.

We have this beautiful genius of the body that can heal anything. And we act like little scaredy cats. The body temple is genius. I was working with a young lady. I'm still working with her. But a good friend of my daughters, my daughter came to me and said that her friend, she's like a niece. You know, she was dying. She had stage four cancer through her body.

and brass colon. And she said, Dad, will you go help her? You know? And so I said, okay, you know, we go over to her house. And the first thing I said to her is, do you want to live? I have an agreement. Are you ready to go over? Doctor said she had a couple months to live.

Do you want to stay? She said, no, I want to stay. She said, no, I want to stay. She said, yes, okay. So I gave her some passages out of a book to read. I said, you need to read this every single day to have your mind prepared for healing. I shifted her diet and gave her certain things to take every single day. You know, a little bit of time.

I didn't pour every kitchen sink on her. Just a little bit until now she has a nice regimen that I have her on. And so I get these pictures last week. She's in Joshua Tree. She just won a cane a couple of months ago. And the doctors have given out this that you can do. Please go in the hospice. She's in Joshua Tree running around, you know, at their dog and having a great time.

And her body's healing in so many ways. you know, the body will heal anything. She'd take out the bad stuff, put in the good stuff, and have a right frame of mind. And so her cancer is just disappearing. Love it. And people, you know, they were calling her all sad. She's like, hey, how you doing?

You know, because the therapist that they assigned to her was saying, you're not really facing reality. You know, you're going to be gone in a month and you need to get your affairs in order. She said, I'm not going anywhere. And she said, that was like six, eight months ago, you know. So she's already proved the therapist wrong. Well, I just, there's stories like that everywhere. And if you immerse yourself and you'll see them.

That's what I say. I said, what if on the news every single day, instead of getting the figures of unemployment and the figures of, you know, morbidity, we actually heard, look at all these remissions that happened today. Look at all these healings. Look at all these healings in relationships. Look at all these forgivenesses that have taken place in doing this patac. You know, the mind would start to be available to that reality.

We'd start to live in it. We start to look forward and then we would help manifest it faster. Instead of the opposite, you get the lowest common denominator of the human experience. So your mind becomes addicted to that frequency and then you assist in the manifestation of that reality. Even if it doesn't happen, you still experience it with your fear. So it's the wrong, just like you asked about social media, that's the wrong use of technology to flood people's living rooms with fear every night. That is mismanagement, nefarious, malicious hypnotism, and it should stop.

Yeah. Ah, amen. Amen. So, okay, I have five final questions for you, what I call my rapid fire, but sometimes they don't always turn out rapid fire. And so just so that we can dive a little deeper into who you are, which I will do an intro for my group if people aren't familiar with your teachings. My first question for you is what's the longest you fasted? 40, 40 days.

40 days. What was your aha from that? What did you gain from that? That I was not my body and that I wasn't even my mind. I got into a greater awareness that I was and that I am awareness itself. I also became keenly aware that whatever you need to know if you ask, it will come to you in a language in a way that you can understand. I also discovered that I could have boundless energy without food.

It was like all this energy and all of this clear thinking and productivity was happening. And without food. It was great. That was many years. I haven't done a 40-day fasting years. And I don't know if I can do one now with my output of energy that I have now, but I can do modified fasting. I can easily do seven.

I can do a three, you know, I can do once a week. I can do those. But I don't, I'd have to, I think, go away now. Yeah, agreed. Yeah. I did a five-day, I've done several five-day water fasts. And I was teaching the principles of fasting to my community, and I knew they might have some challenges grabbing the information. So I decided I'm going to fast for five days. And on the fifth

day, I'm going to present the science behind fasting. And I'm going to reveal to them that I haven't eaten in five days. And it was really powerful paradigm shifting because I didn't look exhausted. I was actually flying high and was really, you know, at my best. And it really gave people a visual of what can happen when you fast. So I absolutely agree with you. Okay, the sex, say that again. You know, and you go like you don't want to ever eat again, you know. No. And you get insight like you could not believe. So I can't even imagine the insight you again. I'm eat with today. Today is Thursday. Okay. I'm going to eat today because my meal's already been ordered. But I'm not going to eat tomorrow.

beautiful. I love it. I love it. Okay, my second question, and this was inspired by my dad. My dad said, you have to ask him what health gadget is he into, because he's always into some kind of health gadget. Oh, health gadget. I use, I meditate with these very strong magnets that you stand on.

And I do this chigong movement and breath. And I stand on these magnets for a minimum of eight minutes. And so there's a magnetic field that's going up through my meridians. And, you know, like a cancer cell cannot thrive in a strong magnetic field, you know. And certain diseases cannot thrive in a strong magnetic field. And so I have that. I've had that for a while, but I've got some new ones. Okay.

Right now, I don't know if I have any new gadgets because I'm in between houses. My house is being constructed that I'm about. to move into. So I'm in a nice apartment where I don't have all my stuff. Those magnets are good. I'll give you one. Do you know about the whoop band? Whoop? Yeah. It's a band that goes on your wrist and it measures your sleep. It measures your heart rate variability. It tells you your activity level throughout the day. Respiration rate. So it gives you, it's like a fit bit on steroids. I've heard about them. I don't have one. Yeah. Well, there you go. You'd love it. You'd love it. So, okay, my next question, you definitely, one thing that I've been impressed with you over the years is that what you teach, you live. And obviously from a spiritual level, but also a physical level. So you have a lot of health habits. What do you think other than what you just described to us, what do you think is like the most important health habit you do every day to give you the blood work that you just got and the

vitality that you have. Well, the three modes of exercise that I do when I can't swim is yoga, lightweight lifting and running, not sprinting necessarily, sometimes intermittent. But I do that. And I do, I go to the gym every single, six days a week. I have a trainer and we do, you know, obviously a different part of the body every day. and then I have a yoga practice. And so I have my flexibility and I have my strength.

I love it. I like to stand on my head. I like to put my legs up the wall, particularly if I travel, put my legs up for like 30 minutes. Love it. Yeah. I've done that for years. Psychologically, if I don't do something physical every day,

I'll be a little off because it's such a part of It's not like a lifestyle. It's a way of living. Yeah. Love it. If you could go back to the January 2020 version of you, last year at this time, while we're in February now, and really knowing what we know from last year and you were giving a sermon to your community, what would you say to them in preparation for what

the year was going to hold? I would probably give them the same talk that I did in March. which was the greatest virus is the virus of fear. And I really went into how the previous viruses, the SARS, N1, H1, all those viruses are still here. They didn't go anywhere. We're no longer interested in them. But now we're interested in this virus and its mutation.

So we're experiencing it on a communal level, even if we don't catch it. And so I did a whole talk around that before it even knew how it was going to exacerbate and become a really big thing. I mean, intuitively, I knew it was. Intuitively, I knew where it was going. But before I really had the physical evidence of that, you know, I actually reminded people about the greatest virus is the virus of fear and how to mitigate that. And some of the conversation we're having today, I would probably just repeat that to the best of my ability because it fit. I, you know, I was in India. And when I came back to America in March, when I left India, I was on the last or the second to the last plane that could leave

the country. So I landed in America when all of that stuff started. And I just watched people take what I call the nightmare pill, just go down this tickest peel and go into a nightmare of fear. Well said. And I did my best as a spiritual teacher to keep them out of that, you know. And in my community, you know, much of them are not in that nightmare pill. You know, they're not being, you know, they're being cautious. They're being safe. They're doing, you know, proper protocols. But they're not letting it fear, you know.

Love it. Yeah, we all need to take that pill. Okay, last question. If you had one message for the world that you could get into everybody's brain and help them rise above the moment, what would that message be? Something along the lines of what their real identity is that many people think that they are their constellation of shifting personalities. Personalities were born as a reaction to circumstances. Underneath the personality is a presence of luminosity, of brilliance and light and love.

It's eternal. It carries so much power and so much wisdom. I want people to know that they really are what is underneath the personality. And with prayer and even fasting, you get those insights. With prayer, fasting, with meditation, you actually see the difference between the content of the personality flowing through your awareness and who you are as awareness. Let me just give you a quick analogy. Ocean. We have the grand ocean. Whatever, one part of the world

is called the Atlantic, one part is called the Pacific. It has this great ocean. And then you have the content of the ocean. You have plastic, you have pollution from human beings, you have boats, fish, plankton, seaweed. That's content. But all that content is not the ocean. The ocean is the ocean, and then there's content.

So we are awareness and we have content. Those contents are beliefs, fears, doubts, worries. the moment we realize that that's content and not who we are, that's the beginning of freedom. Love it. You would say, there's fear. You won't say, I'm sad.

You won't say, I'm fear. You'll say, there it is. And you start to create a little gap. And then you come into a sense of freedom. You're not denying that there's sadness there, but it passes through faster because you're not identifying. I love that. I love that. Well, thank you so much. I actually started a series on my podcast called Thought Leaders. And one of the things that I have been thinking deeply about is that at times of stress, we've turned to the thought leaders to elevate our thinking. And you're one of the greatest thought leaders of our time. And you're definitely in my thought leader series. I interviewed Mary Ann Williamson last week. And I've got Bruce Lipton. I'm talking to in a couple weeks. Yeah, I know. They're like all your buddies.

So I just so grateful for you. And my family has been so blessed to have not only learned from your teachings, but to be around you. And I just thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. How can people find you? I really want my community to immerse themselves in your teachings so that we can blend this idea that the body can heal and the spirit can heal. and we can all rise up. And how do people find you? They can go to AgapeLive.com, A-G-A-P-E-L-I-V-E dot com.

That's the website for the community. And you can watch the services every Sunday on that website. Or you can go to my Facebook page, Michael Bernard Beckwith, or Agape's Facebook page and watch the services. They're also on YouTube as well. And if you go to my website, Michael Beckwith.com, that's where you can sign up for my app in which I have spiritual practice. and interviews and things of that particular nature. Put something on there every week. And when you go to the website, you'll see a whole lot of activities that people can participate in.

You know, there's freedom from addiction programs. It's prayer and meditation every single day on Facebook. There's our university. And people can take classes. So it's plenty there for people to dive in at whatever level they want to dive in at. Yeah. And it's all online. All online.

Yeah. It's amazing. Zoom room. Yeah, that's the benefit of this incredible time is now we get interaction from teachers like you, and we don't have to be in the same location. So, yeah. Yeah, incredible. And I have your app, by the way, and I listen to you when I run.

I let your teachings just come into me whenever I'm in movement or in the car. So again, Reverend Michael, thank you so much. Just so grateful for you. and let me know how your fast goes. Will, and give your parents my love? I will. Did you say you're getting ready to interview Bruce Lipton? Yeah, I did Marianne last week, and Bruce will be in April.

Give him my love. He's a dear friend, and he's such a lover. He's such a beautiful man. Yes, yes. Give him my love and love to your community, love to your mother and father, and love to you. Thank you for the invitation. Oh, thank you, Michael.

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