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Logos of Experience and Truth Podcast Transcript: Season One Summary

Transcript: Season One Podcast Summary

00:00:10,690 --> 00:00:36,140 Hello and welcome. This will be a 10-episode summary of Season 1 of the Logos of Experience and Truth Podcast. I will provide each episode's key points with a timestamp so you can navigate these lengthy recordings. For further navigation and timestamps, click the link in the episode description to go to the podcast page where I provide a detailed 00:00:36,150 --> 00:01:02,730 timestamped outline in the show notes. If you haven't listened to the Season 1 trailer for why these show notes and this summary episode may be important, please do so. Let us begin. Episode one. First part is an intro to religious, spiritual, visionary experiences with a quick example and reading from a poem by Saint John of the Cross. Second part goes into the reason, purpose and 00:01:02,730 --> 00:01:37,090 question I sought to ask, answer and prove. With stories, myths and scriptures of God found across the face of the Earth, there must be a way to show this in some way, and if so, what is that way? The major goal I have is to prove God. The minor and more realistic one is to prove the experience that has led to belief in God. The mystical experience of the Beatific Vision. Third part is retelling the mystical visionary spiritual experience of ascending to the Temple of the Father 00:01:37,340 --> 00:02:01,960 and the key knowledge learned that led to this. I talk about the Ascension experience at 28 minutes 11 seconds, but it includes the entire day and everything that led to the religious spiritual vision later at night. If you just want the knowledge learned and the vision witnessed, jump to 41 minutes 41 seconds. Episode 2. This episode continues after the first chronologically and deals with astronomical and/or 00:02:01,970 --> 00:02:35,890 astrological phenomenon seen in the sky at 3:00 AM after the Ascension visionary experience. I discuss my stance on such things in the process of retelling what I saw in the sky. This is followed with dreams and dream Interpretation and how they relate to the previous day. Episode 3. First part of this episode contains lots of third-party material that I read. I read what the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say on the Beatific Vision since they're the ones that coined the term. 00:02:35,900 --> 00:03:07,230 The second part contains a brief summary of the phases of a mystic as I paraphrase the various experiences I'll talk about and reference throughout this podcast. If you just want to jump to my overview of the personal experiences I've witnessed, jump to 19 minutes and 24 seconds. Episode 4. I'll be honest and when you listen, you'll agree. I was nervous talking in the first three episodes even though I was basically reading a script. 00:03:07,940 --> 00:03:45,260 This episode is when I found my happy place in talking about the mysteries. I explain how the mystic sees the world, how it compares with what neurology has and is showing and work through differentiating the known and unknown, especially the True Self versus the false self. Episode 5. First part is describing a synchronistic event that occurred between the recording of episode four and five. Carl Jung described synchronicity as meaningful events that occur in life that don't appear random but ordered or meant to occur or fated, etc. That is probably a terrible 00:03:45,270 --> 00:04:16,050 summary, but I go deep into the details of what I observed. The second part talks a bit about my history with science, the experience of vibration, where this term comes from in the occult work, "The Kybalion," a bit about the mystical and historical Hermes and a bit about my questioning the traditions of the Old Testament Bible versus scholarly work on it and a bit of Akhenaten, the Heretic Pharaoh of Egypt. The third part has me ramble topic to topic and I wind up reading some Bible stuff and interpreting them from the lens of a mystic. 00:04:16,740 --> 00:04:45,070 Part four is very serious mystical stuff in describing the Logos, the Word, the Christ, and how Christ is Christ in the grand scheme of the Trinity and Christian theology. I've never been satisfied with the explanations of the Trinity I've heard. I'm honest about still being somewhat baffled by the Holy Spirit, but I hit a home run in describing the relationship between Father and Son and how this very clearly reveals the precision of the words in the Nicene Creed. If you want to jump straight to that, advance token to GO at 30 minutes and 46 seconds. 00:04:50,600 --> 00:05:28,360 Leave a comment and discuss whether this description of the Logos within the Trinity was awesome or if it sucked royally. Episode 6. I start where the previous episode ended speaking about gender. Not physical gender, but the gender of the mind. Very mystical stuff I explain deeply in my work: "The Vision Explained Deeper" that you can purchase at logosofexperienceandtruth.com. The specific sections are the ones on the labyrinth and on nature. Part two has me wander into the Catholicism versus Protestant argument. Part three gets into what meditating 00:05:29,290 --> 00:05:58,810 gets you, followed by interesting words you can jump to at 7 minutes that begins discussing the True self and the will of God. Part four wanders through different topics in the previous episodes, like speaking more on eternity and such. Part five. This is when I get on topic with discussing the Image of God as described in Genesis. It does have to do with the first part of the episode when speaking about the gender of the mind, so you may want to listen to the entire episode to fully understand the Image of God. 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:48,530 Part six I do a guided meditation on the uniqueness of you, the listener, having been made in the Image of God. Jump to minute 20 for this one. Episode 7. Many things spoken of here. If you're catching my drift, I was concerned with recording and saying as much as possible as if these were the only ten episodes I was ever going to record. I discuss the self, more in depth after having identified what the self would most likely be In Episode 6. I speak on the Buddhist concept of Anatma, compare that to the Gnostic ideas and then get much more into the process of self-purgation or the Dark Night of the Soul, or what I like calling the Desert of the Soul as the process of analyzing the self against what is not self. This episode also begins a deeper process of reflecting on the 00:06:55,770 --> 00:07:29,970 image that denotes the mystical experience and vision and why I try to focus more on this common ground versus the differences between religious faiths and ideas. This is important since at least you as a listener will understand the reasons for my stance on this especially if you find yourself on the other side of the table. Especially for my Christian brothers and sisters that say Christ or nothing. If you listen to the overall trailer for the Logos of Experience and Truth Podcast, you will have heard me say I always return everything back to Christ. 00:07:29,970 --> 00:08:08,480 There is reason for this. It has to do with understanding the eternal Christ, Word, Logos, not just Jesus. Again, you can purchase "The Vision Explained Deeper" on the logosofexperienceandtruth.com for my in-depth analysis of this common image and decide for yourself and at least be at peace with my having given my reasons for this stance, even if we remain at opposite ends. I finish with an expose on understanding self through meditating on what one would die for and relate that to the apostles and the belief in Christ being raised. 00:08:10,750 --> 00:08:48,130 Episode 8. Part one is a rant on real versus not real and the power of belief and the stigmatic experiences that the Saints have had. Part 2 speaks about my search for the Mysteries through being a married person versus some type of religious person and further inquiries into the nature of gender in the mind. Part three speaks on paradox and the mystery of the micro and macrocosm and starts at 10 minutes and 18 seconds. Part four speaks on maya, or the illusion of reality the senses create and I compare this with the scientific experiments of why light is a wave or a particle. 00:08:48,140 --> 00:09:15,990 I wrote a post addressing this since I was still contemplating it after the recording. Part five is a humorous story about Jesus's face found on toast. Part six is a rare political rant since this episode was recorded on November 6th, 2020. It doesn't get into politics as you might be expecting, but instead the nature of subliminal messaging, mind control, media manipulation, et cetera. The Golden Shower ticket starts at 23 minutes 55 seconds. 00:09:18,470 --> 00:09:51,610 Part seven gets to the topic of fact or fiction in the gospel narratives, using the mystical understandings of seeing what we see. Jump to minute 36 and 22 seconds to get into the meat and potatoes of this episode that gives a secret on how to read the gospel texts and how to ask yourself the questions Christ continuously asks the Apostles in the text and what asking these questions does and reveals to us, the listener or reader of the text if we ask them of ourselves. 00:09:52,420 --> 00:10:33,100 Episode 9. First part is me rambling about many of the various topics already discussed but in new ways and with new examples. I also get into creative thought or manifestation or law of attraction and how it relates to synchronicity with a few more examples that occurred in the process of recording the episode. Second part is where I start reimagining Pascal's Wager by exchanging belief in God and Punishment or reward at death with belief in the Self. This is obviously using the summaries of Episodes 4 through 8 to reach this point, so listen to those episodes before 00:10:33,110 --> 00:11:08,780 listening to this one. The talk on Pascal's Wager starts at 17 minutes and 31 seconds. Episode 10, Terrible title is all I'll say, though I do eventually speak about the seed falling on good soil and interpret that parable mystically. First part, I ramble about some stuff and then start talking about a conversation with the wife about the True Self and the great difficulty of finding it in today's world. Second part compares this exact difficulty with the gospel story that contrasts Mary and Martha. I then go in depth with understanding myself when the comparison 00:11:08,850 --> 00:11:41,810 of whether I'm more like Mary or Martha is made. Third part I return to rambling about Many different things too numerous to enumerate, like how randomness has to be purposefully inserted into reality, if not all would be random, including the sentence, words and sounds I am making right now, et cetera. I hope this summary and the timestamps given for key sections within several of the episodes helps you to navigate through my recorded mind. For even more details and timestamps if those mentioned 00:11:41,820 --> 00:12:06,360 in this episode are not enough, please click the link in the episode description and listen with the timestamped show notes available to skip around when I start ranting. Hit SUBSCRIBE so you can get notified when the 50 new Episodes I've recorded are released. And yes, I am working towards releasing these on a scheduled basis. And I will leave you with this. Until next time. Read the full article

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Transcript: Season 1) Episode 7

Transcript: The Self and Not Self

Welcome back to these discussions of the Logos of Experience and Truth. If you're listening to this after having completed the episode of the Image of God, I'm sure you either have questions or have seen, felt, or contemplated for yourself the various apparent truths or realities or even possibly contradictory statements you can make regarding seeing yourself in this eternally unique manner. Before we speak about them, I'm obviously aware of that which you've probably seen and understood.  But I simply wanted you to bathe in the concepts and ideas within the meditation itself before we discussed further and more in depth the statements that were made, in order to penetrate deeply not only the knowledge of the self or what Know Thyself today is capable of revealing, but also seeing how it was seen by our ancestors. The most obvious statement that can be made and that which is most interesting about experiencing this knowledge of the self is that, though you are entirely unique in the manner in which I spoke, it also means that every single other human being experiences their existence in exactly the same manner.  So, though we are entirely unique in this life as we are, so too is everybody else, and thus we're both eternally different from one another but also eternally the same and are bonded together through this experience called being human. I know many philosophers across the ages have spoken of the conclusion that this leads to just as all have felt it at least at some point in their lives during a moment of self-reflection: that feeling of disconnectedness, of apartness, of separateness, of aloneness when considering this reality of our entirely unique and simultaneously entirely individual experience of existence that occurs in the confines of our own singular mind. That's why it's quite an interesting statement when you're scolded during the teenage years as not being the center of the universe when well, in your own mind, in each of our own individual mind: you actually are the center of the universe, your own universe in your own individual mind. Again, through this understanding of the self you can hopefully start to see why some of the ideas that existed throughout history, existed throughout history.  The Earth being at the center of the universe comes to mind since well, from the vantage point inside of our own consciousness at the seat of the self, this world, the world in our mind, is the center of the universe and all else circumnavigates around us in the external world from this point of view.  So, it's very interesting that this simple exercise of knowledge of the self, shows how and why our ancestors thought of themselves, their world, and the placement of both, as the focal point of existence between Earth and Heaven itself.  This is most likely one of the reasons why, when emerging from the point of view of one's own self-created mentally constructed world within the seed of the individual self, we are the focal point of Heaven and Earth regardless of what any astronomical science may say regarding the external world or universe.  From within each of our own individual minds we are each at the center of our own mental universe. But of course, this is also why togetherness with others is so important.  The family unit, friends and whatever other social groups that we choose to become part of since it creates that atmosphere where though alone in the mind, we are together in the body, even as we are together in the body, yet we remain alone in our mind.  Even though we may share our bodies with another in the vocation of marriage and the deliciousness of sex, there still remains the individual within that temporary experience of combining togetherness.  Just as though another's point of view may enter into our individual mind and influence it even, yet this sharing of thoughts and ideas still occurs within each individual mind. Again, that strange mystery of mind and soul, merging with, fusing with, existing with and or alongside the body, the physical Temple of the Soul, the Spirit of God.  That strange mystery highlighted, exemplified, immortalized for our understanding through the life of Jesus the Christ, this, the greatest of mysteries of the Spirit of God dwelling among humans as human and God simultaneously, and again, if we are made in the image of God as we have seen one of the ways in which we are, then we are like Jesus in this manner of our existence as well.  For Jesus frequently says in the Gospels that we are like him, or that we will be like him: sons of the Father, through him and in him with the Father. What's interesting is that even though this occurs in our mind, heart and soul, yet this occurs in our mind, heart and soul while we dwell within these physical bodies and the mystery and question of why only deepens with this understanding.  Was physicality needed in order to experience or learn this about ourselves and of God?  Could we not experience God, or the divine, or understand this knowledge of the self without physical bodies? These are interesting metaphysical and cosmological questions that arise when we reach these understandings regarding Know Thyself, while treading upon the Narrow Path. As stated prior, considering the mystery of the Logos, the Word entering into physical form, there's a very interesting correlation to that and the raising of the body to the status that it now enjoys in Christ Himself, through His Ascension. I imagine this is another of the reasons why Gnosticism was frowned upon by the church in the third to fifth centuries.  Many, if not all of the Gnostic texts repeatedly frown upon the body, call it a prison within a false and denigrated world and that one must abandon this tomb of the body in order to escape the realm of the false god and return to the realm of the true God.  It's also why many of the Gnostics were very fond of St. Paul's writings since he has some of the same type of speech in his writings as well, where he's literally wishing for death to enter into the kingdom but that while still here, alive, he must work, etc.  Very similar sentiments, and again, another of the ways we can understand an ancient group of people and the thoughts and ideas they left behind like the Gnostics, as well as the decisions of the Church Fathers in antiquity.  Because even though the Gnostic texts were deemed heresy back then, if we look at why the Gnostics revered St. Paul in comparison to their own texts having been found at Nag Hammadi, we can see that the same language and ideas in the Gnostic texts are still in fact found in St. Paul, and that perhaps, mystically speaking, especially since St. Paul had one of the documented mystical experiences in the New Testament post Jesus Christ, it makes sense that he would speak about dying and death and being in the Kingdom of Heaven since he most certainly understood what it meant having had his powerful vision and conversion experience that literally, not just figuratively, literally caused him to be spiritually reborn in the light of Christ. 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7) The Self and Not Self

Image of the True Self, Image of the False Self When is the Self not the Self? How are the Gnostic and Buddhist paths of self-negation capable of leading one to truth of no Self just as the Christian and Hindu paths of self-affirmation lead to truth of a Self? It is a paradoxical mystery that I aim to answer in this episode. - Reflections on the discussion and meditation on Self found in episode 6 along with deeper elucidations from the first-person point of view - Deep dive discourse on Gnostic, Buddhist and Christian ideas surrounding self and no self. - How the Apostles were confronted with the paths of self-negation and self-affirmation through Jesus Christ Read the full article

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Transcript: Season 1) Episode 6

Transcript: The Image of God

Welcome back to these the discussions of the Logos of experience in truth. When I ended last time, I'd gotten into the mystery of the male and the female, or of gender as is also stated in the esoteric work I spoke of called the Kybalion, and in particular, how this applies to the mind itself.  That the mind itself has both a male and female quality to it: one part that receives, one part that gives or implants.  You can say the conscious mind is the male mind that gives, and the subconscious mind is the female mind that receives as well. We will get deeper into this once we get further into the mysteries themselves for it is important to understand mythologically, as well as spiritually or mystically, what is the male and the female in the external, so that it is more easily understood in the internal.  Especially during these times of the questioning of the sexual aspects of gender itself. I'll toss this out as well as I have in several episodes: neurology has actually uncorked this ancient wisdom of the male and the female in the mind.  As I stated, they simply think it's some type of new scientific finding, when this in particular is extremely ancient knowledge of the interior workings of the mind. The historian in me had also spoken a bit.  It's a well-known fact in Catholicism from converts to Catholicism, that opening the study of history is a pathway towards conversion, since it trumps any false histories or narratives that Pro-testants of the Church speak, at least as it is in regard to history. I don't think this is what led to my journeying back, and or into the Catholic Church, since I can't really say I was part of it as a child, even though I was baptized Catholic around age five.  In case you're wondering, since I couldn't get past the idea of Protestantism’s, Sola Scriptura, since that idea doesn't exist in the Bible to begin with and because it would mean each of the disciples are damned to hell since they had no New Testament Bible to read, if they could read, since peasants of the countryside, which the disciples most certainly were, typically couldn't read back then and it's probably the reason why the majority of the New Testament is St. Paul's writing since he obviously could read and write. That Protestant tenant makes no sense to me if I look back further than 15th century Europe (Graham, 1997).  It makes sense in a world revolutionized by Gutenberg’s printing press, that invention that gave rise to Protestantism’s Sola Scriptura stance along with the distaste of the corrupt bureaucracy of the Church at the time of course.  It does make sense to say that all should have access to and be able to read the Bible for themselves and that the Bible should be followed exclusively.  But when the attempt is to place the current worldview into the worldview of the past, well that's when the things that have happened to Christendom have happened to Christendom, just as this attempt seems to happen every generation when the new generation tries to do away with the old generation by covering it up or altering it, instead of embracing the past as it was and learning from it if need be.  As the historian’s maxim states: those that do not learn or study history are doomed to repeat it. Now, if you want any further discussions regarding why or why not Catholic or Protestant from my point of view, off the top of my head, I honestly can't give more than what surrounds Sola Scriptura or the compilation of the Bible and its history.  Since Sola Scriptura fell apart for me once I put it to the test, I never bothered to learn to any deeper degree other than a lecture here and there, the differentiation of theological things between the two.  Yes, of course I'm lying about that, I did learn more, but I can't really think of what else putting myself on the spot right now. But there are plenty of apologists out there that can help answer these types of things.  I used to listen to lots of Catholic Answers back during the mini-revival I had in 2009, and they always had good stuff on there for those seeking knowledge of such things.  I will mention such topics as I come across them. But I am not an apologist.  Just as I've said in the context of things I've spoken of, I'm also not a theologian.  So, if I get things wrong from either point of view it’s because neither is my focus, the same with historian or mythological classical student of the ancient world and its myths. The mystic unfortunately and or fortunately, however it is you want to look at it, has to be skilled at each and every one of these.  But from what I've experienced, doesn't ever really become master of any one for the mastery that occurs, the mastery that the mystic truly seeks, the mastery that God pushes the mystic towards: is the mastery of the self.  Where the gift of the Holy Spirit may endow an apologist with discernment, a theologian with knowledge or wisdom, it gives the mystic mastery over the self.  I won't be so bold to say I’ve achieved this fully yet since the gifts of the Spirit unfold, like the symbol of the lotus in the East alongside the symbol of the rose in the West.  So, the gift is given, but it takes time to manifest.  It's actually one of the theories I've got regarding the visions that are seen themselves. They are visions of the mystic’s future, at least in my case is what I saw.  But one must still walk the path in order to reach the fulfillment of that vision even though God has already shown it, the possibility of that future, at least in the gift of the vision itself. Read the full article

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6) The Image of God

What exactly is made in the Image and Self of God? With what is most likely our Self and the Self of God in the Logos or Christ analyzed and identified, the next logical question is asked: How is our self like the Self of God if we are made in the image of God? - Dense material that spans across the gender of mind, against Sola Scriptura, what a mystic seeks and answering a very important question to any listener of these types of subjects: Why should I care to pray or meditate? What do I get out of it? - I make pains to explain how and why I’m not a heretic even if I speak on very esoteric ideas and concepts that make me sound like a heretic. - Second attempt at a guided meditation with the goal of showing a listener how they are like God in a particular way. Read the full article

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Logos of Experience and Truth Podcast: Episode 5) The Logos of God

What exactly is the Logos and Word of God? Ever had a dream come true in some way when you woke up? That’s called synchronicity. Was String Theory a modern interpretation of the occult principle of vibration? Maybe that’s why science got rid of the theory? How is Christ the Logos, the Word of God, yet also the Son of God, separate from God, yet begotten not made by God and somehow the same as God, yet still separate and subject to the Will of God? Yeah. I answer this. - An example of a synchronous event having just occurred and many of the questions that surround such events - Explorations into the occult principles of vibration, gender and polarity alongside discussions of Hermes Trismegistus, The Hermetica, The Kybalion, Ancient Mysteries, Moses and Pharaoh Akhenaten and the legendary Bible versus the historical and scholarly Bible - The Logos, the Word, the Second Person of the Trinity, the Mind of God spoken of in detail with the finer points within the Nicene Creed illuminated Read the full article