Purifying Your Path Forward to Thrive- Spiritual Perspectives: Discerning News

Breaking generational patterns, trusting the process of life and maintaining a positive outlook despite challenges are the themes in this week’s episode of Spiritual Perspectives: Discerning News. 

"Purify is a theme of November." We dive into purification from a spiritual perspective, discussing various topics including the SNAP benefits program, the importance of self-awareness, and the need for personal growth. The conversation encourages listeners to embrace change and honor the journeys of others while focusing on their own spiritual development.

"Everything wants to grow, wants to thrive." The conversation encourages listeners to embrace change and honor the journeys of others while focusing on their own spiritual development.  Embracing current spiritual energy themes opens up new opportunities for growth.  

• Purification is about identifying and meeting our true needs.
• Growth and thriving are natural desires for all beings.
• The current pause in SNAP benefits program helps highlight the importance  of self respect and personal freedom.
• Breaking generational thought patterns is essential for personal growth.
• Self-improvement is key to spiritual evolution.
• Trusting your self and Spirit is crucial for spiritual growth.
• Positivity can transform adverse situations.
• Honoring others' journeys is important for community support.

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Transcript

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Well, here we are in a new month, new season. That's the seasons changing here in Iowa and we're ready for some news today. Right guys. Spiritual perspectives on the news. Okay. I got a keyword for y'all. All right. this month, the keyword is purify. That's the keyword of November, which is for our energy calendar, which we'll obviously have a link down below if y'all want to check it out, which we use every single month and have it for years, but

Purify is a theme of November and I think that we found some really good Subject matter to go on this week. But yes Well, we have a number of stories, but I just want to say that What's cool about this episode is that we're gonna talk from a spiritual perspective rather than a religious or dogmatic perspective of purify because right away I you know in my intellect I get these ideas of

Oh, purification. Trial by fire and purification and different, you know, things. So, yeah. Anyway, I'm looking forward to this because I haven't planned too much about what I'm going to say. I just had a few impressions about things I want to share about and let's see how it ties in with the theme of the month. So the first thing is this. Snap. Let's go there. That's been the biggest headline. That's a word you use a lot. Snap. Snap.

That's been the biggest headline this this week. So let's talk about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Yes, in the US there's this SNAP benefits or an intelligent program where it helps people with food and you know part of helping people out is making sure they get some extra components to make sure they eat if you have in trouble and that started to get

⁓ popular in the news, partly because, you know, when the finances are stretched thin from the government, every little thing is going to start getting looked at. And then you're on top of it, the Americans have a shutdown of the government going on. So then these things start coming up and getting highlighted. So that's the latest thing. And it

from a purify perspective for me, what this is starting to show is rechecking where the needs are. Are my needs being met and are they being met in the spirit that it's set up for? Right. That's the key thing for me that that I'll start out with. Are my needs being met and is the spirit of those being fulfilled?

Yeah, when I think of the word purify and are my needs being met, to me purification is like whittling down to the bottom. you know, what is, what do I really, what's the main things I really need? And the purify is to let go of things and to figure out maybe new possible ways to do things and to show up in the world and especially around this subject, because food is an important component.

Like we all need food to survive, even though I've been doing some fasting lately. And you can go some long time without really eating too much. also if you fast more and do intermittent fasting, you don't have to eat as much. So that might be a good way to purify, just on my little perspective there of how to move forward with maybe not so much food. Yeah, well, purify. So what comes to me is purifying

myself of extraneous thoughts and old thought habits or patterns of thought in certain situations, know, impatiences that come up within me or, you know, emotional reactions or, and just noticing the pattern in certain situations, you know, wanting to escape something or ⁓ I've been really trying to tune into my true feelings and replace

those habits with what do I feel? And really what's been working for me in working on this purifying is when I come back to my feelings and ask myself, well, what do I feel is needed here rather than what I think is needed? Like let's say I'm working with someone and I feel like, okay, I need to wrap this up. The time, it's more of an intellectual thing because I can feel the impatience and, oh, I haven't wrapped this up soon enough, kind of a thing.

And if I go, oh, there's my little flag, relax, relax. What's my feeling? Okay, yeah, we're good, but mention this other thing and let's check that and then recheck again with my feelings. And okay, yeah, it feels like we're wrapped up. That's one way I've been experiencing it. So what are your feelings around snap is what we're talking about, Yeah, I'd like to share a bit about that. Did you want to go next or? Well, just to say, I mean,

So the big picture for me is that I need to be on a road. I need to be on the path of being able to take care of my own state of consciousness, to be able to take care of myself materially and physically, to take care of myself so well that I can actually be of service to other people. And that is a part of the need

spiritually, like to be live in subsistence or in survival, that is, ⁓ comes with a syrup, certain price and costs spiritually, because I can't really, really grow because I'm always dealing with a small area, right? I'm having to survive. And so there is growth and learning there, but it is, it is a certain layer, right?

So it is a natural component to thrive. Everything on the planet and in the universe wants to grow, wants to thrive. The trees grow up and want to reach the tops, you know, and the tides move in and out and they want to go as far as they can. They want to pull back as far as they can. There's no limitation is what I'm trying to say. We live in parameters, but everything wants to grow. So...

When I get stuck in a certain way of thinking, in a certain way of being, I'm starting to go against nature. I'm going against the universe because the universe wants to expand. I want to expand spiritually. So going back to this point about the shutdown and the snap in particular is I always need to be aware of where I'm at and where I need to go.

So there's nothing wrong with needing help because I've needed it. But I also need to know how am going to get to where I want to need to be. That is a critical component. And the moment I tune into that, even if it takes me extra steps, even if it takes me a little while, I'm now on a road where there's extra spiritual backing. If, however, and you were bringing this up earlier,

If I start having a syndrome of wanting to stay in that world, even if it's unconscious, right? don't, but it passes down from generation to generation. And then my, my, you know, my parents did it and then, you know, we're in survival and then now I'm in survival and now my children see that we're in survival. And it's that energy of perpetuation somewhere, somehow someone is going to have to break that cycle. And.

inside if I'm not having the strength to do it, the soul will cry out, the soul will push somehow and cause like a ⁓ law of attraction to something to move in to me and kick me out of my nest, to kick me out of my comfort zone to do something because I need to grow. So,

with this snap thing that's coming up in the U S and the government shut down on top of it. It's starting to show all this again and causing the people who are working with that system. Where do I need to be? Right now there's a threat there. There's a threat. So we want to hold onto a tight, if I'm being, if I'm in survival and you're going to threaten my survival, I'm going to hold on even tighter.

But the bottom line is I need to know where I'm at and I need to know where I'm gonna go so what I hear is saying tiger this is a moment for people to Really own and embrace more of the purify you bet and so I know too that in our in our energy counters We also have keywords that go along with this major keyword and the keywords I'm gonna share with you are distinct single concentrated generosity and trailblazer so

In that sense, it really makes real sense to me that people have opportunity now to go, okay, I need to break out of this, you know, SNAP program. What do I do now for myself? How do I, you know, implement the new that's being presented to me where, like you're saying, the generations, it sometimes is hard to get out of those cycles, but that this is also a beautiful season of change and opportunity for people to break out of that.

⁓ It sounds like a positive spiritual perspective as to what's going on around me. And, you know, when things sometimes don't go my way, there can be a tendency to think, you know, ⁓ in the past, particularly, ⁓ that wasn't fair, you know, they got extra help there or something like that. When really, it's an opportunity for me to say, what do I need to do differently?

you know, where have I been holding myself back? And what I hear you saying too, is that if when I'm focused on survival, it's hard to stay relaxed. So it's really important for me, you know, when I have those opportunities to work with my guidance and see how I can work more from my true feelings and then organize myself and act. keep talking about that, but I keep learning about that on a, on another level.

it's only through my own self-improvement that the flow begins to come back to me so that I don't, you know, here's the bottom line, you know, 40 something million people, think 41, 42 million people in the United States are in a sense controlled by the federal government because they provide them with ⁓ additional stipend for their food. they're, you know,

they're going to put them, you know, and they set themselves up to go through this. Now we all want to help everybody that really needs help. And, ⁓ everybody's needed some temporary help at one time or another in their life. It's you know, through friends or relatives or, you know, through the government, what's available and what's organized, but the, know, it can become a trap where I just stay in that old habit pattern to want to be safe.

and then look at how the leaders that we have in our current environment use it to control us, use it to scare the hell out of us, use it to maintain their power over us. So I even noticed it in my family. My final comment on this would be in a family where dad pays for everything, dad has a lot of control over everybody in the family.

And I've noticed in other families where the parents don't pay for so much, the children have to be more independent sooner. So there's less control over what they think, what their preferences are, and those kinds of things. Well, it's interesting too that with the shutdown, it's almost to the, I guess in 2018, 2019, there was the longest one, which was 35 days.

And right now we're at like 31, 32 days. And by the time this airs, be almost probably 35 days. So that's also an opportunity for people to rise to a new level with, okay, so I'm not being given this or I've lost my job or I've done this and lost the snap. What do I do now? Yeah. I mean, and I'm going to reiterate because like I, Tom, you're saying it's like I've needed help before and not with this.

particular program, you know, I have people, friends helping, family helping, you know, and, and that's, I'm very grateful for that. The, the, perspective is that I'm coming from, or we're coming from, is that the soul, the spiritual growth, the need here, because I can't take all this stuff with me. You know, I can't take the phones. I can't take the gold. I can't take the car. I can't take the government with me.

If I try to hold on to those things, I'm going to be stuck. So in the end, what I pull together for myself is the key. And so from that perspective, how am I going to advance? How am I going to grow? How am I going to thrive and pass on what I have? How am I going to keep going so much that I overflow? Right. And that brings me to the

point that you brought up earlier is purify to me when it comes to this area is knowing where I want to and need to be. That is a very first thing. If I know where I need and want to be, I can then start relaxing instead of getting tense about my situation. Right. And this is what you're talking about in survival. There's a tendency to tighten up, right? Which is how I restrict

that energy from the source, from the big picture or the universe or God, whatever you want to call that. Like as I get tense and afraid, I start tightening things down. That communication tightens down. But the more I say, okay, I know what I want. I may not know how to get there, but this is what I want to accomplish. I want to be free. want to, I don't want to have people controlling me. Right. I want to be free. Okay. Now.

How do I go about doing that? And I have to be as a child again. I have to be open again. I can't let myself get hard inside. Otherwise I'm gonna be broke. I'm gonna break myself and be physically broke, right? But I'm gonna break myself rather than, as a child, we, none of us think about survival. We're just having fun in the sandbox, you know, even if we got.

on ourselves. We're like, let's go do this thing and like, we're hungry. Let's go find food. You know, so there's that energy. So I have to be like a child again, with but still with maturity. And so the point I was you were sharing earlier in the green room is that purify energy. I have to start letting the water in again. I don't have to go is like you were making the jokes like it purifies. I beat myself into purify. You know, I don't need to do that.

I just have to let the water flow again. You if I have a dirty sink, if I have a dirty sink, imagine that, you know, for all, those of you listening, imagine a dirty sink. You can get in there and you can scrub the heck out of it, right? That's one way to get the dirt out of there. Another way is you turn the water on and you just let it run. And that water in there, at first it all gets muddy, right? Cause the,

It becomes like a dirty pond. But if you keep the water running, pretty soon it starts getting cleaner and cleaner and cleaner. Before you know it, you didn't even know that there might be some dots in there, but the water runs clear in the sink. It runs clear through that lake, right? And that's what's needed. That's the purify. If I just am like a child again, I just let myself flow.

and it will naturally purify things. And then I'll be able to see the areas that I need to actually clean rather than get caught up in all the mess. Yeah. Well, I mean, the thoughts that I had while you were sharing were around, you know, when I put myself in a position to be stimulated, you know, where my emotions can be stimulated and my fears, that's where people...

you know, can control me because it's hard to, once I'm in that mode, I mean, we've all been there. If I, if I get like stimulated in that survival mode, it, it's a challenge. It's actually easy, but I just have to relax, cleanse, get a keyword from my guidance, take a step at a time and then, ⁓ move myself towards those opportunities, ⁓ where I can be more free. Yeah. I think what.

comes to me about all that also is that to trust. Like trusting where I'm at in my journey, where others are at in their journey. And I think that's a big one in when there's things like this that come up for people that don't have a lot. And so, and people looking at that situation, because I hear people complaining and bitching a lot about the government or Trump or whatever's going on.

and yet not recognizing that this is an opportunity for other people to maybe perhaps gain new insights on how to move in their world and to trust that everything is actually set up perfectly for what they've come to learn and grow from and the level of consciousness that they're at. That's well said because I have to remind myself the key word for the month that we check with spirit

some time back purify. So I have a positive outlook that everything that's happening, you know, in my environment and in the bigger picture is set up for me to, if I can work with that energy, that's my solution to move forward through it and, ⁓ you know, evolve really. Yeah. And I know there's also, there's a lot of people out in the world sharing on different

levels of what's going on and some people have the opportunity to share with masses of people and so sometimes you know when those people are able to share some of these stories and also some positive and not so positive stories it can also stimulate the fear in others and it can also excite the ability of the collective to come together as as you know as a body of energy moving forward and how to work with that energy.

The tiger's like, Pandora box just opened. No, it just kind of, I mean, I know we're going to go into the next story, but this is indicative of that. It's like, there's an old story. It's a joke really about this guy that he, you know, a drought comes and then, you know, the crops start drying up and then the cattle and the farm animals start dying.

And then, you know, the money is all starting to go and then his family leaves him. Right. And then he's walking at me and he falls and he breaks his leg. And so he's sitting out there and all by himself in this dusty place. And he looks up at the sky and he says, God, why have you forsaken me? And then the voice comes down from the heaven says, Bob.

There's something about you that just pisses me off. And, and you know, the, if I'm not grasping, getting the signs, right? If I'm not adapting, if I'm not, I'm not in the purify energy of not letting that happen, I'm going to go from one tragedy to the next tragedy to the next tragedy. I'm not.

I'm not moving with it. There's always one ready to come next. That's always going to be there, right? Because it's always just always going to be there. So but when I adapt, when I move, when I purify my energy from that or with that, then I move up and I move outside of it. I move beyond it. But as long as I'm caught in the way I think it's the way I think that is the biggest problem, right?

in this idea that something has to be done this way rather than going back up to the big, well the big picture is, well I need some my self-respect and so to maintain my self-respect what do I need to do for myself and okay well that idea doesn't work for me anymore what do I need to do about that? You know it's like that childlike part again, right? So anyway. Yeah that means tearing up the I'm a victim card, I'm suffering card.

And then allowing it's everything's hard, the hard car. Yeah. These people are grant against me. All that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's, ⁓ I could sum it up as saying having a positive outlook on life. And of course, ⁓ you know, the mystical part is, well, how do you have a positive outlook? How do I do that? You know, with these situations and the environment I'm in and the states of consciousness that I'm working through and that are around me and

It takes a little, you know, ⁓ self-awareness to say, okay, the keyword is purify. That's not my preference that they're shut down or that this is being withheld or whatever. Bottom line is in my feelings, this will not last forever. The people will be paid. The troops are going to get paid. All the government employees that have been furloughed will, you know, they're all going to get their back pay.

I mean, I've been around for over six decades and that's always happened. So it's unlikely, super unlikely that that would be the case. even if I just relax, I'm hearing from my guidance and tune into, is it okay for me to trust right now that everything will be okay? Yeah, in fact, probably sooner than you realize. So that's what I'm gonna go with.

despite the voices around me or in my head or trying to tell me. Well, I get it though. get it that, you know, someone in that situation who is of that need where they literally don't have money to buy food. I get as a dog eat dog situation. Like, do I get that? How do I? So in, our conversation and recognizing that this is, know, obviously a spiritual

perspective and a way of recognizing how to make this stuff practical, right? Like the fact that we have guidance, the fact that we are in the right place in the right moment of time for what we've come to learn and grow from. And also honoring our brothers and sisters out there who are not in that space, who are not in that space of, know, I can grasp this and I can just purify and I can, no, it's not fucking about that. It's about being real.

and recognizing that, you know, they're where they're at and honoring and just go, hey, how, you know, maybe it's a neighbor. How can I, how can I help you? Can I, can I bring you a meal? mean, like there's ways, you know, that we can also support people without, you know, getting into their learning and growing. But being, I guess just honoring, really honoring people are at, that's what I really want to say. And just to wrap that part up for me, ask, ask.

Sometimes I get into these big things in my head of what I should be doing or what I could be doing Until I asked somebody what they need. I have no blank an idea. I have none They may just want or need this. Oh, okay. Sure. I can help you with that You know, it's like I get into these big intellectual things that it's supposed to be this way or you know, I Actually, I just need my driveway cleared out so I can get my car out

Okay, I can help you with that. Or you know what? I can't do that. I got a little limp here and my leg can't do that, but I know someone who can help you. You know, is that just by asking, empowering people, what do you need rather than imposing my will of what I think should be? Yeah, I always think of, know, what keeps coming to me is, ⁓ know, spirits reminding me of teamwork. There's always solutions and teamwork and helping each other out.

coming together as a family. And if it's not your relatives, know, other folks that you have an affinity with, and ⁓ there's always plenty of solutions. I get a lot of chills on that. And a lot of what we work with people in our experiential programs and camps is looking at solutions and finding, I mean, it's a miracle, the stuff you can do and the fulfillment you feel, I felt rather, when I've done that and worked with other people.

And it's really been helpful to shift my thinking about things or shift my consciousness as a way of saying it, you know, but how I think and how I experience life. What's the next story? Well, I don't know. Do want to go in the next story or just go into the happy story? What's the uplifting version of the next story? The uplifting version next story is did you want to mention? I guess it's about being more childlike, you know, and really celebrating, you know.

Moments that come upon like and so when I was going through all the stories this week, and of course, there were some intense ones you know about genocide in Nigeria and about the FBI fight, know finding a group of ISIS people of the Michigan who were going to you know, do some some horrible things over Halloween weekend. I mean there was a lot of intense stuff and then there the last story was Heidi Klum's Halloween 2025 costume. I'm like

Oh, hell yeah, we're going into that one. Halloween. Halloween. And then every year for many years, what do you want to say something about Well, just that all those stories you were just kind of rattling through there, it's all going to come up and there's going to be more that'll come up because we are in the month of purify and the things that need cleaning, that need to get refined or shifted or taken a look at.

They're gonna come to light in a big way. And so to me, what that means is I need to set myself up now, right now to say, okay, I'm gonna commit that this month I'm willing to look at stuff that coming up. Old stuff that maybe has been bothering me, the thorn in my shoe, maybe new stuff that I'm ready to see now. But the point is,

willing to look at it and willing to allow the water to flow through it to start the purify energy to let that purification begin instead of trying to fight. So everything this month for me is not about making a big deal out of it. It's just the willingness to let the water run through me, the willingness to let go of things that don't work and my willingness to accept.

new things that will help me move up. Oh, I love that so much because that really gives me it gives me space. Yeah, to also breathe and to go okay, so all the things that are pretty horrific going on in our country around the world, which have always gone on. It's not like you know, oh boy, this is just today. And even though I do have a few thousand years, only a thousand years that we've all been here. But you know, I do hear from people regularly boys today has been

Today's never it's never been as bad as today. This is the worst it's ever been. I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? Yeah, no, it's not It's always going on but to be able to take that breath and recognize that yeah in the month of November the purification the purify energy that's present Really is going to be bringing up a lot of stuff for us to process through for us to look at for us to

I want to say also, you know, take a bite out of. So I was wondering whether to tell this story. And most of you maybe worked with me before I've heard this story. So bear with me. So the story is this. There's a there's a person of faith, right? A teacher, right? A minister type, you know, and he has two sons and one son.

no matter what he did, was always depressed, always bad attitude. And his other son, always positive, good attitude, you really enjoying himself. So he thought, God, you know, this is like, this is extremes, you know, I need to figure out how to balance this out. And my children, you know, he's thinking, you know, he's a man of faith. So I need to have some balance here. So

What he does is he goes to a stalls where all the horses are and he gets one stall and he has it all cleaned out and he puts nothing but toys, all kinds of toys and all this great awesome things that a kid could want, you know? And he puts the kid in that stall and closes the door. And then he goes to this other stall where all the manure is from the horses, right? And he takes the one that's always positive and he puts his

some there and he closes it. So he goes over after a little bit and he goes and he opens up, know, the stalls, had those little doors. can see the door and looks in and they're the one who's always depressed is sitting on the mound of toys and he's just looking around depressed, kind of kicks some of them away, picks one up, looks at it, throws it against the wall. it goes over and he looks over at the other stall and he opens up the little stall to look.

And there's a young man, he's in the manure, he's jumping in it, he's throwing it around the room, going, yeah! And he jumps on the, falls back on the manure and he's doing poop angels in the manure, you know, the whole thing. And finally the guy, my gosh, so he opens the door, says, what is up with you? You know, I put your brother who's always depressed in a room full of toys and he's just still depressed. He doesn't like anything in there. And I put you.

in this room full of manure and you're having a good time. What's up with you?" He says, well dad, he says, with all this shit, there's gotta be a pony in here someplace. So anyway, old joke, but it just, going back to your point, you know, it's like, I can have everything and if I don't have the attitude, if I don't have the positive energy in me,

I could have the world at my feet, which most people do, and I'd be like, no, no, no, nothing, nothing. It's all crap. I'll find an excuse to complain and lower myself. And for the one who just is in love with life, who feels that spirit, there's nothing that can go wrong that isn't right.

You know, it's like, I know where I need to be. I know what I need. I'm going to keep going after it. You know, that's that, that's that energy. Let's play. So the final word on purified Thomas. Well, as I look around and, ⁓ you know, what's being stimulated for me or the ideas that are coming to me is that recognize there's many levels of consciousness here on planet earth. And some of those seminars that are happening here, like you've mentioned Nigeria.

that's not necessarily what I've come to do or I need to be involved with anymore this lifetime. And that recognition just helps me stay in the present so that I can be moving with my own experience and improving my own experience. And then the second part is, and the benefit of that to myself is not just to myself, it's as that flow of energy, that peaceful feeling, that feeling happiness, freedom and

that all those inspirational things we like to feel that emanates out into the environment. And that's part of the solution. Yeah. For me, I would say that Purify in this month ahead and some of the stories that we kind of touched on a little bit today, well as talked about more in the green room, said, well, you know, we'll just kind of see what flows through is it's all for me. It's all for me to look at and recognize that

this new season, this new month, and this new energy that's flowing in this time of the year, it's an opportunity for me to purify myself and my thoughts and feel more into what's for me and what's not for me. Yeah, for me, ⁓ I need to accept that the shifts are here and the shifts are coming.

And it is the or the shifts. Yeah. The shifts, shifts, my accent, shifting things, ⁓ and that they're here for me, right? They are here for me. I chose to be here. Right. And even when I get in under pressure, I need to remember that. And, ⁓ one of the distinctions between me and my helpers or my guidance is they're considered pure.

soul, right? No separation from anything. And so everything I'm going through, my ups and downs, it is a process that's allowing me to purify and become closer to pure soul. And I know that sounds kind of ethereal, but just in my daily life, in my daily life, is my today one step forward from yesterday?

You know, am I doing that? And so bottom line is, ⁓ it's, it's going to be a great time to let myself rise this month and see everything as it is rather on what I think it should be, or rather than what somebody else thinks it's supposed to be, or what some fear is going around and work with what I need to work with in order to move forward.

And to me that process, not the thing, the process of going through that will allow me to purify. Well said. And so another successful episode. What do you think? Yeah. Excellent. So thank you for listening to another episode of spiritual perspective, discerning news. We hope that you might have gained some insights on the keyword of purify for this upcoming month. And again, if you want to check out our

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