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So I got this message from Lisa, and Lisa says that she came out of the church about
3 years ago, and she's still trying to unlearn and deprogram from the New Testament teachings.
Immediately when I received this message from Lisa, I thought about something that I read
from Daskalos.
You've heard me mention this guy in another video, and "Daskalos" just means "teacher."
I can't pronounce his Greek name, but he's a cool dude. You should check him out. I will
link to a book that you can get on Amazon-- if you're interested.
Anyway, Daskalos presents this image of a garden, right?
So there is the Buddhist garden; there is the Muslim garden; there is the Zorastrians
garden; there is a multitude of Hindu gardens; and there is the Christian garden that Jesus
left for his followers to tend to, right?
So Daskalos says, you know, in one of the gardens, maybe they grow different kinds of
fruits, but in our garden, we grow vegetables. All of these gardens have a variety of fruits
that are all unique, but they are all good for you--if they are grown properly, with
love and care, right?
So, he says that Jesus left this garden for us to tend to, now if I want, I can go and
tend to another garden, if I so choose, but I made the decision to stick with this garden.
Now see, I don't want this channel to turn into "this is the place of Prince's heretical
teachings." Like, believe it or not, this is actually a fitness channel, but fitness
of a different kind.
There are mindful practices involved, or you should be mindful whether you want to lift
a kettlebell, deadlift, run a marathon, or whatever--and with the nutrition-- there is
mindful eating and there is mindless eating.
Sometimes we get into these spiritual issues, and lately, that's what we've been dealing
with.
So, deprogramming from the church and its teachings. How about we reprogram and introduce
"Christ Consciousness"into it, because that's what i feel like-- you've seen my videos;
you've seen my stuff on meditation-- that's what I've felt like was lacking for me when
I made my decision to leave.
I started questioning things after, you know, years of study, of course looking back, I
think I always had questions, maybe I was just a bad apple from the start.
Reprogramming, not Deprogramming, but reprogramming, how do we get into this "Christ Consciousness?"
I'd like to give a shout out to my mentor, Elliott Hulse, because he did this video last
week on "How to make people worship you." He talks about this Christ Consciousness and
how it's this Christ Spirit that Jesus of Nazareth had and it was coming through him,
and coming out of him.
So he was like a vessel. There was a message and what happened is different political parties
got involved the focus was shifted from the message to the messenger.
"This was the way it was through most of human history, up until the magnificent manifestation
of Jesus Christ. Right?
Jesus behaved in the same way and was an archetype of the Christ Spirit in that particular way,
in that day and age. Until the political structures of the time
realized just how dangerous a dude like Jesus really is.
And they made him special. Now for those of you who worship Jesus, look-- do your research
on the history of the church, particularly the Catholic church, and you know, you may
or may not be Catholic, but know that a significant portion of your ideals that you think are
yours come from the political structure of the Catholic church.
And if you don't think that the Catholic Chuch is a political body, then you just really
haven't been paying attention to history. Do your studies. Read, Study history."
What Daskalos talks about is tending to this garden. We are developing our ability to have
this message come through us and out of us. If you look at Daskalos, he was a Christian
psychic, a Christian mystic, and he had psychic abilities, he was a healer, and he talks about
all kinds of really cool stuff.
He never said,"I have this power." It was always the power is coming out of me from
cultivating this Christ Consciousness...this connection, this deeper connection to-- I'm
trying to think of the terminology that Daskalos uses and it's slipping me, but you get it?
This energy is flowing through him, through his practices.
So we want to talk about reprogramming and not deprogramming from your church teachings.
What I've got here rosary beads. I'm not about to tell you to run out and become Catholic,
but you may want to get these.
There was, I taught a course on meditation 3-4 years ago, back in my first year at Seminary,
and I introduced people to this Jesus Prayer that's actually performed by Greek Orthodox
monks.
they have something like a rosary, but it's a little more simpler-- it's actually like
stitched together or something, I don't know crafts and stuff, but it's got little knots.
So everytime they get to a knot they say "Lord forgive me a sinner. Lord forgive me a sinner."
It becomes a meditation-- it's a mantra meditation.
So you can get your rosary beads, and if you want to, you can do the hail mary mother of
god, blah blah blah, and get to an our father-- I don't remember that.
I used to know the rosary back and forth from attending Catholic school.
I would make it a lot simpler-- just Lord forgive me, a sinner. Lord forgive me, a sinner.
Make it internal, you can say the mantra out loud, but make it internal.
I would go a step further and connect your breathing to it. So say, okay, I'm going to
run my fingers over every 3 is an inhale, every 3 is an exhale.
So tongue at the roof of your mouth, on your soft palate, just behind your teeth to connect
these circuits. As your breathing capacity expands, maybe you can get all the way through--
how many... I don't know how many beads are on here, and I'm not going to count them.
Maybe you get through all of these beads as an inhale and hold here, and get through al
of these on an exhale, and you know--if I would look into-- keep reading your bible
if that's what you're comfortable with, and read it critically and read it with an open
mind so that-- don't read it the way that you were taught in the church.
As you continue with this meditative practice, your awareness is going to expand and the
way you understand things is going to change and expand and you literally will reprogram
your brain.
So try that out, leave a comment below, subscribe, and all that good stuff, really--hit me on
my G+ channel for this page or my personal one, and keep me posted on your progress with
that.
10 minutes a day for 2 weeks will definitely make a difference, so it's not something that
you need to do for years and years, but if you want the good stuff, yes, you're going
to have to do it for you know--some years.
so, that's all I've got.
Prince, GoldenBell Training, let's get in shape together, and hey, y'all Keep on Breathing.
I'm out.