Contradictions in Spiritual Teachings
1:30:04
How Gary's Spiritual Journey Started
2:19:56
How We Get Manipulated
29:24
3 ай бұрын
A Principle Of Great Leadership
14:12
Viewing The Ego Mind As A Parasite
42:15
How Healing Happens Part 2
30:46
4 ай бұрын
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@mubarak.b
@mubarak.b 5 күн бұрын
Loved the way you broke it down mate.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 күн бұрын
Thank you.
@mauricelemons3641
@mauricelemons3641 5 күн бұрын
Thank you for the videos! Also purchased your book it has been a great help!
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 күн бұрын
Glad to hear it! Awesome !!!
@shumisananimashau1873
@shumisananimashau1873 9 күн бұрын
Feels disgusting spitting in cup
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 6 күн бұрын
Of course it does. The question is why? There is nothing intrinsically "disgusting" about it. We do it at the dentist no problem. So what makes it disgusting? IT is how our beliefs were programmed. Which leads to the next question... how else were we programmed to feel when we don't have to really feel that way.
@walterk1963
@walterk1963 12 күн бұрын
These words spoken reflect my entire childhood to the letter. After listening to this I need to replay it and make sure I am understanding every aspect of it. For once I don’t feel like I need to blame or apologize. This has comforted me so much. I do believe I may finally, after 61 years of life, have a path forward.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 6 күн бұрын
Glad to be of help. Peace be with you.
@DJSTOEK
@DJSTOEK 12 күн бұрын
@victoriaalai5041
@victoriaalai5041 16 күн бұрын
Thank you for this powerful interview. Love the dismantling of the fear matrix, not using fear as an advisor, but seeing it as an obstacle, and healthy fear being converted into awareness to act on.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 14 күн бұрын
You are welcome.
@graceandgratitude9256
@graceandgratitude9256 17 күн бұрын
:22-:45😂#Itsabsurd and explains much
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 6 күн бұрын
Glad to be of help.
@BitterTast3
@BitterTast3 25 күн бұрын
Thanks, this helped some things click for me. I'm assuming the identities you are referring to here are the "characters" you talk about in your course, correct?
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 24 күн бұрын
Yes.
@ragukrishnasagar5131
@ragukrishnasagar5131 Ай бұрын
Fantastic video ❤👌👌👌
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 Ай бұрын
Thanks 🤗
@terefefeyssa877
@terefefeyssa877 Ай бұрын
Gary: If you are serious, why not you preach this kind of teaching to the power holders? Why everybody brings fancy udea and dumps to ordinary people who struggle to survive?
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 Ай бұрын
I'd be happy to sit with anyone and have a conversation with them. Although, those with the power of money and use it for their own selfishness would unlikely listen. However, if ordinary people listen, and free themselves from their ego, then they would have more power. So, in some ways, I'd rather share these practices and insights with ordinary people. and I apologize if this comes across as dumping fancy ideas on you.
@terefefeyssa877
@terefefeyssa877 Ай бұрын
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 : Thank you for your response.You know better than I do how the system works. They are feeding society negative news for conditioning. They breed stress and crisis, but They tell you to think positively. Even though we are responsible for how we respond to situations. We are not the only ones responsible for collective crises. Thank you
@user-oq3ku1kq7g
@user-oq3ku1kq7g Ай бұрын
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 Ай бұрын
Thanks
@heatherwall9571
@heatherwall9571 Ай бұрын
How would you suggest coming out of a cult mindset that I got sucked into, years back, and lost all my relationships? I constantly feel suicidal 😢
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 Ай бұрын
Get some one-on-one help in person. I didn't figure this stuff out on my own, and I haven't met a person who has. Get a therapist, coach, or spiritual guide and start building a new mindset, new relationship patterns, and a new belief system. It may take some trial and error to find the right guide, and you may go through a few of them, but it will be worth it.
@kippy1500
@kippy1500 Ай бұрын
Thank you for helping my husband gain some sort of clarity before he passed. The late Ken Shapiro. He shared your books witb everyone he thought needed it. U were his last therapist after spending 1mil on theraphy in his life. He said he wished he had you while spending all that money. Thanks again Sir! ❤❤❤
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 Ай бұрын
Glad I could be of service. Peace be with you.
@jailajulien3662
@jailajulien3662 Ай бұрын
this video is amazing
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 Ай бұрын
Thank you.
@DJSTOEK
@DJSTOEK Ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 Ай бұрын
Thank you.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon Ай бұрын
I am grateful for your willingness to talk about that turning point for you, Gary . It's curious that the voice that told you to leave and just to keep on driving seemed to also be coming from your mind but perhaps from a less traumatised part of the mind. Although you talk about being gaslit by your ex partner, I am almost positive that we can't be gaslight if we didn't learn those beliefs of I must be wrong and if I leave no one else will want me as children. Your ex partner was as you say providing you with an opportunity to start to interact differently with those beliefs rather than as if you were still a child with internalised voices of parents or teachers where you had no other choice but to stay. You don't refer to anything historic and seem to be saying you just learned it from your ex which doesn't feel entirely an ownership of any past trauma that you brought to the relationship . There is a lot on the internet about narcisstic relationships where there's kind of a belief that the narcisst is some irredeemable baddie and the victim "created" this bad experience and so can choose not to create bad experiences in the future by avoiding narcissists . Which is true but it fundamentally leaves out the part the Alanon woman was talking about. How were the traumatised ways that I learned as a child impacting this ex partner ? I'm generalising but men generally have been socialised to shut down emotionally, to kind of withdraw and observe or take a kind of superior or dominant position rather than emotionally expose themselves and that tends to evoke that kind of enraged response from their partners, who also are acting from traumatised responses of abandonment and rejection. Often boys who grow up in very violent physically and emotionally aggressive environments can desperately want to avoid feeling anger and unconsciously create situations where the other person expresses what they feel is not possible for them to do maybe because of their physical size. And I think we all desperately do not want to be like the parent/adults who traumatised us. Patriarchy has not done men any favours in shutting down the self expression that is necessary for true intimacy and women tend to be conditioned to feel that shut door as rejection. I also coped by choosing partners who I felt safer from rejection with but instead at times felt contemptuous and resentful. I am kind of indicating that all of us as adults we are working out our trauma with each other, everyone has some kind of ancestral or cultural imprint. So this idea of I will just go somewhere else to find peace is illusionary especially as our society is more and more traumatised. As is this idea that I will just train my mind - because it can simply another way to avoid feeling vulnerable in equal relationships, Maybe we can get away with it in unequal relationships such as teacher, therapist or parent where we have the power to divert but it will always cause problems in intimacy. I certainly have spent a lot of my life trying desperately to feel emotionally close with men who really were terrified of it. I turned into a therapist/mother sort of role and took on the kind of gaslighting that I subtly hear you doing about your ex. With that awareness going into relationships it is possible to clarify much earlier on, is this person really up for vulnerability and am I ? ....and if so, to work together as a team to assist each other in a less destructive manner. Some ideas anyway. Thank you for the provocation to get clearer about what I feel about barriers to intimacy.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 Ай бұрын
I do agree that the majority of humans are working out, and acting out, many forms of trauma. While I didn't have abusive parents that traumatized me, I didn't develop a great emotional intelligence. But one of the big factors in my development was that I trusted people, and believed them. My partner had been traumatized, and I didn't know that, or how to deal with that. I took her at face value. If she told me something, I trusted and believed her. While she was very bright and aware, and had many helpful insights, she also viewed our dynamics through a trauma lens, and I didn't discern out those comments from the helpful ones. Over time they built up, and I went spiraling down.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon Ай бұрын
Thank you for explaining that - it's very helpful. Namaste
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon Ай бұрын
Unfortunately the way boys are socialised in Western cultures is extremely traumatic and counterproductive to successful relationships - that they are taught to subvert any emotion that results in vulnerability into something else, we don't recognise it as traumatic and therefore we also don't recognise how this plays out in intimate relationships. We don't recognise how much this is connected to violence, infidelity, addiction and the rise in the numbers of people remaining single. Contrary to how women are trained to take the responsibility for maintaining relationships from a very early age, men simply are not conditioned to value relationships . They are conditioned to value strength and performance which is the opposite of the vulnerability necessary for successful intimacy. And that strength often is seen as a sort of moral superiority of being unemotional. When in real terms that unwillingness to engage vulnerably is the death throes to relationships. I don't know your situation Gary but everything about how reluctant you have been to talk about your story in the interview and your willingness to lay the blame for that relationship 100% at your partner's door of her trauma mindset suggests to me that vulnerability might be a huge challenge for you and a much more appealing solution to any troubles will then be to focus on discipline of the mind. Indeed that is the story of Western patriarchy and look how well that is going .
@generallee3284
@generallee3284 2 ай бұрын
FALSE TEACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your feedback. I'm curious what brings this to your awareness?
@generallee3284
@generallee3284 2 ай бұрын
GOD IS REAL HE IS ALIVE . RELIGION DIVIDE JESUS CONQUERS
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 Ай бұрын
@@generallee3284 I agree. God is very real. However, I am curious what you believe Jesus conquers? For me, Christ heals.
@klueless-savge3035
@klueless-savge3035 2 ай бұрын
He does 🧐 you just can't see it 🙈 it's in his own way not ours we can't comprehend what he's doing but he's doing it 🤯
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 ай бұрын
Also true.
@OriginalElements5
@OriginalElements5 2 ай бұрын
3:33
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 14 күн бұрын
Peace be with you.
@OriginalElements5
@OriginalElements5 2 ай бұрын
Monday June 3rd 2024 Teach them
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 24 күн бұрын
I'm working on it.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 2 ай бұрын
It was great to hear that you have come to a place of expressing the divine here on Earth Gary rather than a bypass into ecstacy. But what does living the divine actually mean ? Especially in the times that we are living in now although sounds like you find them enjoyable so it's possible that you are not at the pointy end of things. Not like the kids mining cobalt for our technology or working as prostitutes so that emotionally unhealthy adults can get something of their needs for intimacy met whilst still holding power. Yes I feel rage on behalf of people whose circumstances have been created by greed and prejudice and who because they are forced into survival mode, just wouldn't ever have time for this egoic stuff. But its also our animal and plant friends, the oceans going to be mined for more oil and minerals, the earth gradually concreted over and everything just taken. Yes there is beauty in the pain, people with courage and compassion - but seriously there's also a lot of self absorbed people only concerned about their little patch. And who is "God" ? It's hard to tell what you mean from your response but implicit in the question is a belief in some spiritual authority figure who will come to our aid. Well all those kids crying themselves to sleep at night praying for relief from Him, how do you think they feel when the shit keeps happening to them. Perhaps they are too much caught up in their victimhood or not genuine enough ?? The Aboriginals girls put into church schools who ran away only to be raped by their employers, wealthy white farmers and then those babies taken away from them - was that not "genuine" enough for God ? The kids committing suicide, the young people not willing to bring babies into the world. I don't buy all this choice to come and play here business whilst that kind of thing goes on on this Earth. That is a denial that humans are responsible for most of the suffering on this planet and those of us enabling the violence and the abuse, are just as responsible as the perpetrators when we focus just on our own little egoic ascension. Part of the reason we are responsible is that we turn our backs caught up in our own self esteem problems. Anyone who is in any way enlightened has got to be feeling so much pain right now at the state of our world because you feel it as you because it is you.... if you are not feeling that, you are caught up in some sort of separation from the whole of Life.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 ай бұрын
I appreciate your reply. Certainly much to discuss. And perhaps I am completely wrong about all of it, or a lot of it. However, it is my experience. For reference, by God I mean all the matter, energy, light, intelligence, and consciousness of the Universe.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 2 ай бұрын
I agree with your definition of GOD as all matter energy which therefore means you and I as humans are both God as are those traumatised children. Which begs the question of what is the responsibility that goes with that divine power or the resource of enlightenment. Because it says to me from that that we are co creating our lives with each other and the planet not just me have a personal ascension into bliss and magically that changes everything elsewhere. I think that is the kind of bullshit we have been programmed by religions with- that spirituality is some kind of individual experience which in a way it is but it is also the collective. I suppose the question I am wrestling with is if enlightenment personally and living in bliss is said to have a profound effect on the world around us, why aren't/haven't we seen the results for all people. animals and the earth ? Even in past times when awakened and ascended masters have lived - things have not changed. It kind of feels like blind trust in faith... which is what religions have traded on to remain as individuals not an interrelational cosmos where it's not just being - it's acting speaking and seeing from that place in the world with the intention of Love in the world, not just the blissed out version of Love but holding people accountable, setting boundaries, speaking up for those that can't speak for themselves. I'm not sure what you mean by "it is your experience" but that phrase kind of communicates a static sort of thing which may not be what you mean at all. It would be good to understand what you do mean.
@victoriaalai5041
@victoriaalai5041 3 ай бұрын
Thank you. So grounding, daring, and stabilizing in the seas of change and every day.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 ай бұрын
You are so welcome
@ragulkuppa1018
@ragulkuppa1018 3 ай бұрын
Anna, you're the gold whisperer! Thanks for getting Gary to share his magic!!!!😃😃
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting this Gary. I see we come at things differently. Probably the biggest difference I have found personally is that the natural wisdom emerges not so much from practices but from a conscious choice from moment to moment situations in life to be guided by my intuition rather than another person, or a doctrine or an idea. And from that intention to honour the individuality of the life force that flows through me, which I have to say has been a painful and lonely experience mostly. True desire emerges which naturally evokes not only enthusiastic willpower to meet those desires but enormous courage and power that I had no idea was within me. (and in all of us) I have found it not so much about creating a new identity but a recognition of more of the identity already there that has been obscured by conditioning. The purity of that identity and the trustworthiness of it as a state of being. The trauma and the life experiences are resources for what this lifeforce creates as in sensitivities to a sense of misalignment or an imbalance in the ecology. I have come to see that my body enjoys the effort from this point of view rather than a sense that this is the "best way to get where I want to go." And the egoic issues seem to melt away without a great deal of effort. The only real effort seems to be just to be prepared to see. And that's probably what I have sensed in your videos as a subtle status when there is a prescripted process to follow with a "spiritual teacher", rather than a trusting in the wisdom that is individual to each of our bodies as your friend Anna was saying. Which is the nature of conditioning... someone outside of you knows the best way for you. That's not to say that we can't be helpful to others in describing some of the territory we had to negotiate to travel to where we are. But the extremes of that manifest in the world show how disempowered people have become from their true natures. I feel very fiery about that.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 3 ай бұрын
@@Darkloid21 Yes it's called logic and personal experience. Something I am finding difficult to follow in your answer = you seem to be criticising spiritual people and yet at the same time disdainful of "the brain or the mind". I think the term for that is gaslighting denying someone's reality. I am puzzled by your comments given you are obviously a supporter of Gary's work. However you make some good points about dating and biases, both of which are impacted by gaslighting. I think they both relate to readiness for a new paradigm and depending on the amount of gaslighting (trauma) you have been conditioned with, it takes time to choose yourself. Other people choosing for you doesn't work as we have seen over and over again with battered women returning to violent relationships. Perhaps you don't experience life force but just because you don't, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist in you or in me. Perhaps we want to hold onto the belief that others know us better than we do, because we still want to depend on other people's opinions and ability to "fix" us. Perhaps we are attached to the belief that we know best for another person. Perhaps it might be that belief that stops us being able to have dialogue with each other because another point of view challenges what we have invested in outside of ourselves.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 3 ай бұрын
No you're right - i have assumed you to be genuine but I see you just want something else. Whateever - have a "good" life doing whatever you seem to think is valuable. Over and out
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 ай бұрын
Understanding each other is difficult. Thanks for taking the time to figure out some of the misunderstandings.
@Sortaman
@Sortaman 3 ай бұрын
Loved the interview. I found it insightful and captivating to listen to. I always feel baffled to see how much emotional pain one needs to experience in order to look at oneself (haven't yet seen someone who investigated his beliefs due to physical pain). Even then it is not guaranteed people will seek to wake up. To me it seems a blessing to be given this opportunity. Also loved this: "It's not because I have good intention doesn't mean I'm making good descisions." This sounds so true to me as well. Without self-awareness my mind so easily convinces me to do things that sound good but are so detrimental. Such a deceiving fella at times! The interactions you had with Miguel and your process to more conscious-awareness really delighted my heart. I can imagine how confusing, yet novel and exciting this all must have seemed. And at one point so liberating. But you mentioning at around the 1:45:00 minute mark, how much doubt and even fear you have felt back then and if this stuff maybe could have been indeed a cult. How you (or the ego) couldn't even trust anybody who was involved. It sounds so overwhelming. I feel glad that you even saw this trap. Otherwise there would not be Pathwaytohappiness or this comprehensive Selfmastery approach. Much thanks. And also thanks to Anna for listening and asking interesting questions and giving you plenty of time to express and share the specifics of your journey. Cheers!
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@megaplay
@megaplay 3 ай бұрын
👁 now how are we going to build a utopia when humans love toys more than humans? don't fear i plan to rebuild but look how everyone is working together now so beautiful. #Itsalwayseasiertolove #Jointhecollective
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 14 күн бұрын
We have to try.
@ragulkuppa1018
@ragulkuppa1018 3 ай бұрын
I can't shake this feeling the deep yearning to be whole again... this separation kills me... one way to see we are born as victim. Separated from the wholeness. I other words One way to see desiring for something is being in "victim" state... I want this longing to burn 🔥 even it consumes me whole... 🥲 I love being in this bitter sweet state...
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 ай бұрын
and then there is the perspective to embrace the longing for wholeness and not fall into a victim perspective as if there is something wrong about feeling it. In truth, the longing is a natural hunger of the soul. We are supposed to be hungry for unconditional love. The question is, how do we feel about our longing? Do we accept it, or do we hate it, do we adopt a story of it being something that is a punishment? This is the victim narrative
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 3 ай бұрын
. There are some assumptions that you seem to be making namely that natural elements and animals, birds do not have enlightened consciousness and therefore will become conscious after humans. That the Bible stories of Adam and Eve are truth and not some manmade interpretation from a particular point of view in a particular era of humanity. That there is a single creating God developing this "game" because they are "bored with being all knowing and all powerful. That victim consciousness is a thing to be got rid of and is pointless. That the point of enlightenment is to then set yourself up on a pedestal and smirk at suffering. The writing below your video offers the opportunity to see the divine in everything already there and living us. But your talk expressing your perception of enlightenment reflects a kind of patriarchal attitude of humans above nature and a single authority/source. It's interesting to me because I have come to understand enlightenment as a doing word in relationship with others. It's harder to see the truth of someone's entitlement in their writing, it can be curated more carefully; in a video it can be edited (although you have to be able to see the distortions to edit them out) and in the tone of how you respond with other people and the environment under stress or when they disagree, the level of freedom in a human being is most clearly shown. To be saying I refuse to engage with certain things because I don't want to encourage victim consciousness seems a convenient exit route from an involvement or an examination of the aspects of life that I don't want to look at. It's an avoidance of acknowledging the tremendous suffering that little children haven't caused themselves. People born with black skin in Africa in poverty because they believe wrongly they are victims. They ARE victims and we who have and continue to buy the technology continue to maintain their victimhood. I suppose I see the biggest difference between what you are saying and what I experience is that I don't see enlightenment as a point of view ( a cognitive understanding) but as a lived experience of respect for everything, knowing that the brocoli has been slaughtered so that we can eat, the tiny creatures in the earth are killed when we lay down concrete for roads and buildings, that the computer I am using has been built with cobalt mined by children in the Congo. We are in relationship with these things and animals just as surely as we are with other human beings and we can live in a way that acknowledges that.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
There is much to your comments and I can't possibly address them all in a single video. This video is an excerpt from a class I did, and unfortunately doesn't give all the context of what was done previously. Nor, would all of it answer your questions. I would agree that there are real injustices and harming of people who are victimized by others. This is a very real occurance of people being harmed. AND it is very important to draw a line between that victimization of people (including ourselves) and our mindset or story of victimhood.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 3 ай бұрын
@@garyvanwarmerdam1206 Of course there is a need for discernment. But I am pointing out that we have been conditioned in narcisstic cultures where we value the cognitive approaches including to ignore our body's wisdom. say about fear or shame and our use of status as an adaptive way of coping. I suppose I see enlightenment as for the purpose of relating with other humans and the environment without the need for status. Enlightenment not as an end goal but as a perspective of living IN community with all sorts of people of different points of view without the status of victim/perpetrator or up/down. And in the world right now that is not how we are mostly living. Perhaps as you say I have got what you have said out of context because it was part of a larger class and I have therefore missed that you are saying the same thing. Perhaps also we have different ideas about how to respond to that not just for our own peace of mind but to enhance the whole.
@user-yu5ge2ps5g
@user-yu5ge2ps5g 3 ай бұрын
Explained so easy
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 ай бұрын
Thanks
@user-yu5ge2ps5g
@user-yu5ge2ps5g 3 ай бұрын
Crystal clear
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 ай бұрын
Thanks
@lindamarvik7747
@lindamarvik7747 3 ай бұрын
Interesting and insightful. Thank you Anna and Gary.🙏
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@wilfredscott6198
@wilfredscott6198 3 ай бұрын
Great interview. I love you Gary..
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
Thank you sir.
@user-oq3ku1kq7g
@user-oq3ku1kq7g 3 ай бұрын
I remember asteroids!!! Haaa!
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 2 күн бұрын
Excellent game.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 3 ай бұрын
Fear sometimes is warranted. Discernment is the issue not complete denial of all fear.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
When? I find that when you are in real danger, it will arise as needed. You do not need your mind add any with it's thoughts and beliefs during the day. This only reduces happiness with no benefit.
@Acquisition1913
@Acquisition1913 3 ай бұрын
Keep the Shabbat holy.
@woofmeow247
@woofmeow247 3 ай бұрын
See past the propaganda matrix of the mainstream media & NGO apparatus and presto: No more climate crisis.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
I'm making a statement about how to handle the emotions we create to the situation.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 3 ай бұрын
Well it is interesting Gary that your video about COVID doesn;t seem to have quite the same tone to what you are saying in this video about responding to climate crisis. For many of us the climate crisis is an easier topic to let go of spiritually than our behaviour interpersonally and any more personal beliefs about doctors and officials knowing better than us what is right for our health. Is it possible that spiritual ideas of humility and letting go of things are subtle ways that we avoid the very real painful emotions that exist when we see what we are doing to each other. Maybe its just a different point of view that I hold that we are Masters, hidden by all the generations of conditioning. A big part of that conditioning is spiritual bypassing and minimising our power by concepts of humility and letting go so that the need to act and become passionate about our opportunity to contribute creatively to lessening suffering is diminished. Maybe from your point of view I am addicted to the idea of suffering and you are helping people to be liberated from their minds. But liberating people from their minds is not a mind strategy, it's an embodied strategy of feeling. When people all around the globe are genuinely suffering and they are advised they just need to be prepared to face more of their fears and be humble about what they don't know.... it feels like advice to shut down righteous outrage and fear... for how they have been treated. And I don't know... but my more liberated mind sees that as contributing to the power imbalance and therefore the abuse. But there you go ...some ideas that conflict with yours. How will you respond ? I am not going to do one of your courses.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
Both are needed. We need to deal with our minds so we do not suffer, AND, we need to address problems. I believe we will be far more effective at addressing complex problems like climate change if we can keep our minds clear of the emotional reactions that our distorted beliefs generate. We will have to work together, and that is much easier if we can listen, and build consensus peacefully. We have to clean up ourselves on the inside, as well as the world on the outside. I'm not clear on the solutions needed, on the outside, but I feel I've got some good tools for what each of us need to do internally.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
It is also my experience that we can work more effectively if we aren't in a state of hopelessness, despair, or anger. So we need to deal with the situation as there are many components.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 3 ай бұрын
Yes I agree. Maybe I haven;t communicated very effectively what I mean about emotions. From a trauma perspective unexpressed emotions remain in the body until we feel safe enough to feel them. Many spiritual practices have the focus of blasting anything deemed "negative" with positivity to get to a state of peacefulness and in doing so maybe unwittingly keep people in a state of agitation. Our true state is peace but we are also emotional beings when we interact with aspects of life and from a state of having experienced the trapped emotions fully, it is possible to navigate with others eg when you feel anger without acting out with aggression. Same with despair, hurt, envy, joy - they are the components of vulnerability that makes relationships satisfying - not things to be got rid of unless you want to live isolated in a spiritual tower. But unexpressed emotions are barriers - the negative thoughts are simply the manifestation of those unexpressed traumas wanting to be witnessed, felt and released.
@Get658
@Get658 3 ай бұрын
Thank you KZfaq for recommending me
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
Yes, thank you KZfaq.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 3 ай бұрын
I agree with your observations about fear being the basis of manipulations - however the thing I feel is missing in the talk about that is that that fear exists in us ready to be activated from not trusting our intuitive body responses . The beliefs that we should trust others who hold positions of expertise or power that they are true for us more than we trust ourselves. I don't believe anyone else knows what is best for another adult but we sure have been manipulated to believe that they do. And yes whilst everyone may have started life as a divine being, generations of abuse and narcissim that all of us have been exposed to on some level even if it is only through the political system, means that people are acting out of their own fear all over the show heedless of the abuse to others. In an insane and sick human species trusting others does not seem the best strategy to deal with fear. Sure on a cognitive level to understand our beliefs is a wonderful thing but if we really want to soothe our nervous systems, we have to listen to our bodies, not to what other people tell us. We have to come home to our own authority and nowhere is that more frightening to people than around their health. We are scared of dying even though we are ALL dying. We are somehow kidding ourselves that it won't happen to me. And because we can't face that we swallow whatever the pharmaceutical companies and their dealers in the medical profession tell us despite increasing evidence that it is simple things such as not asserting yourself for what you truely want and need that will wreck your immune system and make you sick. Not the virus or the bacteria.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
Yes we have a lot of fears, and this is good topic addressed in other videos and in my courses.
@BitterTast3
@BitterTast3 3 ай бұрын
I still have trouble believing that it’s just an archetype character doing the talking and not me.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
there are some practices in my book, MindWorks, and in my Self Mastery course that will shift your perspective so you can see it as a separate character.
@victoriaalai5041
@victoriaalai5041 3 ай бұрын
Super powerful, freeing video. Will share with others. Thank you.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
Awesome, thank you!
@DJSTOEK
@DJSTOEK 4 ай бұрын
❤❤
@dougmicheals6037
@dougmicheals6037 4 ай бұрын
I am one of the people you kicked out of society. Read Joost A.M. Meerloo 1956
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
I kicked someone out of society? Hmmmm. This whole line of thinking is lost on me. First, I didn't know I had the power. Second, you are still here? How is that?
@dougmicheals6037
@dougmicheals6037 3 ай бұрын
@@garyvanwarmerdam1206 I suppose you'd have to read the book? Sadly, i dont think you can find copies in crayon. 😮‍💨
@KundaliniKing42
@KundaliniKing42 3 ай бұрын
@@dougmicheals6037 👆👆👆👆 Now that's a Dead End Conversation.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
@@dougmicheals6037 okay. I've downloaded his book. Looking at the description I don't think it will tell me anything I'm not familiar with. Is there something specific you want to tell me? I wonder if you have read Active Side of Infinity?
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
@@dougmicheals6037 Mudshadows and flyers. It is the topic of topics.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 4 ай бұрын
It's an interesting question - what actually is our underlying purpose in these conversations ? If we understand life as constantly changing and evolving, I'm not sure even referring to one point of view as a "conspiracy theory" is a neutral stance - there is judgement in there without actually considering that a whole lot of information, medical and other has never been questioned and we orientate towards the status quo, the unexamined conditioning as the "Truth". Surely if we are considering all kinds of things beyond the ego mind, then curiosity about the new and the seemingly out there conspiracy theories is maybe worthy of more weight of curiosity. We have all grown up conditioned heavily in the other narrative. Similar in couples therapy, if one partner is dominating the other, do you give equal priority and weighting to both points of view - in my view if you want things to move from polarised or stuck positions, you would give priority and weight to that side of the story that isn't bellowed out all the time.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
Your example makes sense. If one party has been imposing their narrative, the the other party needs to be given respect. And yet, it is necessary to be discerning that what is truthful, and not exaggerated or distorted by fear and lies. Communication, language, and understanding are complex processes.
@yinchimoon
@yinchimoon 3 ай бұрын
Why do I get the feeling that rather than responding to what I have said, that you are giving me "enlightened advice" ? Sure;y the absence of the ego makes it possible for you to relate to the other person as the God self that they are fully even if you believe something different and feel the need to teach them. Maybe leadership in the navy sees it as insubordination rather than human being to human being.
@KundaliniKing42
@KundaliniKing42 4 ай бұрын
I have an axiom I use. "Belief is just another unmarked milestone on the road toward conviction." What am I convinced of? Time will tell.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
is this helpful, and if so, how?
@KundaliniKing42
@KundaliniKing42 3 ай бұрын
It wasnt that long ago I considered my ability to be Mindful, Fully Present, A Centered Man the greatest of my abilities and personal achievements. The Mediator, in service to others without complaint or pride. Forming solutions, not more oroblems. The ability through the gifts of Compassion to learn, share, grow and connect to my fellow human beings wherever that may be. In isolation you are in service to self. The conversations end. In a limited point of view prior belief systems become the ghosts that will haunt you and make you suffer what you were told the last time you asked to just consider if you believe. Tools, they are just tools. "Everyone is doing the best they can, they really are, it's just that some of them need knew tools." Very few say or can be heard without good conversation. Maintaining an open mind was the easiest thing I could do, Listening, taking everything in as it came and keeping it that way was no belief. It was the result. It was a conviction. I put more time into listening, until for the first time I was heard. It's been years Gary. That I've been in conversation. It help me a great deal to have anyone remind me of I fear may forever be lost. But there you are Gary. Mindfull Present Aware Ready to challenge beliefs. Before you forget in reality, there are no systems. Man engineers systems as a tool. *Normally, when I'm Journaling consistently, comments and replys like this one spare me the embarrassment the inability to connect to others my current belief system has put me in. A dead end conversation.
@victoriaalai5041
@victoriaalai5041 4 ай бұрын
So true! Thank God for making it to adult hood and the Self Mastery courses.
@garyvanwarmerdam1206
@garyvanwarmerdam1206 3 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@colinjohnston3912
@colinjohnston3912 4 ай бұрын
Dont do drugs, kids.
@VriEvolutionTarot888
@VriEvolutionTarot888 4 ай бұрын
2:40
@JesusIsTheOnlyHopeForUs
@JesusIsTheOnlyHopeForUs 4 ай бұрын
The only hope we have is in Jesus. “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for he alone saves us, forgives us of all of our sins, and promises to give us a new eternal life in him. “If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” Romans 10:9-10 God offers us the free gift of salvation, we only have to accept it. You can start by praying this prayer as a profession of your faith to God: (Dear God creator of the Heavens and the Earth, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for your forgiveness. I believe that your son, the Messiah, Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins and in 3 days he rose from the dead. I ask that his blood covers me and pays my penalty for my sins. I turn from my sins and invite the Holy Spirit to come into my heart and my life. I want to trust and follow You Lord Jesus as my Lord and Savior.) This prayer was not magic words that save you, but an open profession of your faith, a confession of your sins, and hopefully the belief in your heart. You are now set free from the burden of your past sins and you have been made clean in God’s eyes. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 Now go and get BAPTIZED in the name of your Lord and savior Jesus Christ, God the Father and the Holy Spirit (this can be down by any other believing Christian). “And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Acts 2:38 Stand strong and believe in your salvation through your faith in Jesus Christ’s shedding of blood for you. “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.” Ephesians 1:7 Your salvation is not through religion it is through your relationship with God through Jesus. Develop that personal relationship, by praying and reading the Bible. Trust in the words of Bible (in the original text), not solely in words of a pastor. So read the Bible for yourself, then pray and God will use the Holy Spirit to help you understand. Become a disciple of Jesus Christ following all that he has commanded in your life and he promises to be with you always. (Matthew 28:18-20) Lastly, turn from your wicked ways and openly rely on God's grace. This doesn’t mean you are expected to be perfect (only Jesus was perfect) we are just expected to follow him. “For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,” Hebrews 10:26 Remember we are not saved by our works (earning our way into heaven), but only by our faith in God’s grace. “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9 God Bless You and my God give you wisdom to see the truth. 2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 1 John 3:6“No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him."