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Hey, I‘m Adam Nox and welcome to another episode of The Cult of You. Now this week, the person I‘m interviewing is myself, of course, so there‘s no interview today. But I want to share with you an insight or an idea. In fact, I recently made a Facebook post and I shared a concept inside of it. I‘m going to quickly read this post to you and it‘s the thing that I want to discuss today.I want to discuss the idea of Kali and I want to discuss these ideas of time and space and consciousness as well as the death deities and the valuable lessons that we can take from it, especially as we overcome tragedy and loss and any setbacks that we may have had. How we literally have to sometimes give up the life we knew for the life we are meant to.So, let me quickly read that quote directly so that I‘m not paraphrasing. In every ancient tradition, we have lost, it has been the gods and goddesses of death that have acted as guides to unlock the lost tradition, the keepers of its once forgotten gnosis. These same forces carry with them such powerful reminders, from a Reshef to Santa Muerte.

We must make friends of Death, and even allies, as Kali herself stands over the Shiva‘s dead body. We find the most essential lesson: death is timeless and essential in all creation and, in every second, its grip upon us becomes greater. But we can be victims of Lady Death, or we can be her priesthood. We can choose to offer nothing and slowly become dust with no real value more than what we were born with, or we can articulate time, using it as a language by which we cast our very spells.We can master it, pulling the essence out of every second and thus making minutes feel like delicious hours, as we savor instead of escape the powerful present moment, acting in each second from a place of pure purpose, manifesting the mystery inside of us instead of replicating the reality sold unto us. We can choose to be the instruments of death and kill off our limitations, our fears, our excuses, our procrastination, and insecurities masquerading as status and the judgment of others. Kill everything that is no longer relative to the gospel of your heart. We are indeed the witches, the troublemakers, the wild men and women in a world of rules.

We are the free folk, but look into your heart and don‘t just agree; admit to where you are not free yet, and invite death in until she rots those chains and you die to your false masters. Like Osiris, you are reborn a master of the dead instead of one haunted by the ghosts of their past, still chained to the mortal world. Give to Death what belongs to Death, and use the time She has granted you wisely in return. So, let‘s talk about Death. If you look back over here, you‘ll see the old classic statue of Kali over the body of Shiva. This was a very powerful insight and realization for me that I think is so deeply overlooked. There is a classic quote from Oppenheimer after the bomb, where he quoted the Bhagavad Gita and said, “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” I love that quote so much that I have the original Sanskrit written on my body, but the translation there is a bit tricky.You see, it doesn‘t necessarily say ‘death‘; the more accurate translation would probably be ‘time‘. Now, I become time, the destroyer of all things.

But, time and death do share a very active relationship, one that we see very well depicted here in Kali. In fact, I think the symbolism of this is probably one of the most beautiful and important instructions upon the occult path. You see a lot of people get caught up with this idea that, you know, time doesn‘t exist, time isn‘t real, and that we shouldn‘t be slaves to it. That is an escapist‘s mentality that very rarely achieves beauty. Kali is an essential component; there is an essential need for us to cut and kill Shiva. What do I mean by this? Shiva represents the destroyer; the destroyer of what? The destroyer of all things in terms of time, rules, space limitation, and every form of limitation is destroyed through the eye of Shiva.You see a lot of people get caught up with this idea that, you know, time doesn‘t exist, time isn‘t real, and that we shouldn‘t be slaves to it. That is an escapist‘s mentality that very rarely achieves beauty. Kali is an essential component; there is an essential need for us to cut and kill Shiva. What do I mean by this? Shiva represents the destroyer; the destroyer of what? The destroyer of all things in terms of time, rules, space limitation, and every form of limitation is destroyed through the eye of Shiva. it is the eternal eye of the undoing if you will the obliteration of time and space this is why we can correlate the third eye to the eye of shiva because when we’re seeing through the third eye we have shut off those regions of the brain related or corresponding to time and space however those time and space components have a very important role to play at a certain period of time if you’re functioning purely in that state you’re going to struggle to relate to society in a way that truly brings value because value needs to be quantized inside of our culture inside of our society for us to be able to apply a measurement to it and that measurement then becomes a form of value but there’s more to this there’s a powerful lesson inside of this idea and it’s the concept that insight and wisdom is gained in meditation and that it is it is practiced though inside of time and space there is a beautiful piece where joe dispenza talks about um how we’re struggling when we’re placing goals and we’re constantly forcing and practicing to do it because we’re going to try and do it in time and space and the problem here is that we’re kind of forcing ourselves it’s going to take a very long time to do this impossible thing because we’re bottom up doing this thing and his advice is that we go into the quantum field which means we go outside at a time outside of space we escape kali we go like shiva into the realm of pure consciousness and there we give birth to this vision we dream this vision into being so that you know out of the longing of a concert she may give birth to ganesha which is then the destroyer or the remover of obstacles the but still like even inside of that when pure consciousness returns there is another ensuing death and rebirthing process that does still occur it’s this endless cycle of birth death or birth unity and rebirth of birth death and unity this constant repeat of that initiation of a dream or a desire the unification of the dream and the desire and then the death of the dream and the desire and the reshaping of the re-manifesting the giving of new forms new shapes new bodies this constant cycle is always happening and suffering the definition i believe from nicole point of view of suffering is suffering is any time we could attach to a form that is meant to have passed you know as long as we are holding on and saying our manifestation of our true will is the result of what we had a partnership that we had a relationship um a business an object a body ourselves or another a shape or form a way of thinking as long as we are maintaining an attachment to that we are haunted by the ghosts of our past we are suffering due to the ghosts of the past now there is there’s beauty in this there’s knowledge in this and this this is a bit of a tangent so i want you to know that i am going to come back to that point but it serves to illustrate these elements in that knowledge we recognize all the different death deities that’s also been represented to us throughout the different cultures you know santa morita being probably one of the most famous of these that we also have irreschihal we have many many others you know even papa bones uh papa legba you know in the huda tradition that asks acts as the gatekeeper so to speak to the other families the other doors osiris that you know acts as the warden of the underworld in many ways and as such inside of these they each represent access to the knowledge of these ancient traditions of these previous traditions the entire necromancer’s philosophy being one in which we resurrect the dead to extract what information they have even in spiritualism the entire practice of spiritualism having one where we’re connecting with somebody who has passed over but the thing that is very important here to recognize is the why behind all of these things the why behind each of them is the extraction of the last nitsuzu the last forsaken light the last forgotten bit of meaning or beauty beauty oh that is the key beauty is the key it’s such an important key i remember going through the most tragic breakup of my life a woman i gave my heart and soul to betrayed me in the most judas scariest kind of way and i suffered for an extensive period of time for this and the moment of realization was because all the memories were so incredibly beautiful and it was the tragedy of not having that until there was this moment that it dawned on me actually through working with the goethic spirit vapoola the duchess of knowledge and wisdom and teachings in these ways she also has great mastery of her psychiatry so you know she was my psychiatrist working through that challenge you know at the last part of my healing stages and she reminded me that the beauty that i missed was not the beauty of this person but it was my beauty that other person that other individual could not even perceive that beauty they could not experience it at that level that i was experiencing that they were they’d still be there you know it was maybe i didn’t communicate it properly to them but the point is it’s not me it’s they didn’t have that expanse and they had their own journey to go through i suffered because i lost my soul i lost my beauty my tiferet was being projected inside of this other individual or attached to that person thinking they were my beauty thinking that past unless we do we do this we think that pasting was my beauty that thing was my beauty my grace my identity my core identity was placed inside of that and we learned from the death cards to go in and liberate the beauty liberate it recognizing that it wasn’t the institution it wasn’t the individual it wasn’t that people those people those places those times things and the events remember these are the things that construct the ego it constructs the false self the one we experience ourselves as and oftentimes become in reaction or you know momentarily in response to however response is oftentimes more a segment of the of the true self the fundamental self now it was when i recognized this that i could liberate my beauty it’s that when we recognized and say that you know it wasn’t it wasn’t the work it wasn’t the environment it wasn’t this thing it was me it was myself and i am able to extract that then only can i complete the death and allow the rebirth to begin the writing if you will of the new narrative that’s when i can extract myself and understand the lessons of death that after the winter has passed spring comes again and from spring summer comes again and it’s the reminder that no matter what you have lost no matter what tragedy you have been through whether it’s been the loss of a financial stability or a loved one maybe it is through betrayal maybe it’s through death there’s so many ways these are the inevitables of life but we suffer as long as our sense of self our saints of our true beauty is embedded or dependent or attached to that and this to me fundamentally is why the buddha preached the philosophy of non-attachment didn’t preach never loving but preached the philosophy of not becoming attached not having your beauty defined by people places times things and events but re re-establishing a narrative inside of your heart that is the narrative of a shape-shifter one that can transmute the inevitable death that will come consistently and is constantly coming and as i point out from that quote you know since the moment you are born death’s grip comes upon you whether we overcome death you know of all the new technologies and new insights that we have whether we you know master it from a biological point of view or we achieve the singularity within you know our lifetime these are probabilities but these are not things to be distracted by because it’s the same way as somebody that takes on the philosophy of reincarnation oh i have you know if i don’t get in this life i’ll get it into the next life and it’s a very nonchalant very hippy fairy way to go about it and sure it may provide you with momentary peace but at what cost you see these philosophies of distraction because that’s what they really are the interpret it’s not that they are not valuable they’re not ideas they’re not beautiful ideas and they may be true or they may be false the question is does it lead you to results the purpose of magic fundamentally is to actualize the inner you know the inner dream to make known the unknown as ramfa says it is to bring about those deep dreams those deep dreams inside your heart that dream home that perfect business plan that great idea of a social you know environment or relationship that change you want to see in the world that’s so in your core selling your purpose anything that distracts you from that whether you’re like oh i don’t have enough knowledge i got to keep learning keep learning instead of actually just starting to do things sure keep learning but also do things that are leading you to that those are truly the most damaging philosophies in your life because they are putting you to sleep in napoleon hills outwitting the devil the heart of the matter the heart of the book boils down to this people going to sleep people becoming unconscious people going tomorrow you know it’s in god’s hands you know the universe will provide key philosophies but they take responsibility out of the hands of the magician and i think this is probably the main reason why the left hand path um and you know left hand path right hand path arguments out of the way let’s just say that the path that puts you at the center of the universe as the one responsible and capable of creating reality the doctrine that says god is within you and it is you meaning you’re not supposed to wait you’re supposed to do i think is the most essential doctrine of our day and nowhere is this better depicted to me than in the depiction of kali over the body of shiva because again we have these infinite dreams they just say we’re starting to liberate our beauty and we’re starting to see our beauty not in the past but in the future because that’s where we’re stuck right it’s in the past the past relationships that where it was that’s where it’s mean you know i wake up in the morning i think about how good things used to be or i’m daydreaming about how great things might be you know so i’m either fluctuating between past and future where i’m projecting my beauty in other words where i am seeing my true self my responsibility is to bring that home to bring that into the now remember the the big spiritual teachings is to live in the now to become present um to make to become conscious beings now that doesn’t mean that you sit like a monk the entire time of the day and go i’m so present oh no don’t don’t distract me with the future the past i impress it this is not actually presence this is just being mindless and even though it has the benefit from a spiritual point of opening you up if it’s you still need to combine those factors you need to combine energy and consciousness in other words you need to still be purpose-driven you need to be aligned to yourself presence is only of value when it’s in alignment with purpose and that’s the important thing to recognize here because a lot of people confuse presence as a form of escapism instead of dealing with their problems they’re being pray they’re being here no presence means you’re being fully present you’re trying to come into the root of the problem you’re trying to extract the beauty behind the past and the future so you can bring those items together this then helps us to achieve something else when you go into pure shiva when you go into the realm of pure consciousness okay and you’re in your meditation you’re in your creation let’s just say you’re doing something like my shiva shakti balancing technique or the the flute of pan you’ve achieved another state of consciousness and you’re creating reality you’re producing the thing you want to and you’re in pure shiva now you’re stimulating shakti you’re stimulating that emotional energy that then wires this together and then you’re surrendering okay so you’ve done the morning reality creation process if you will you’ve conceived the vision you’ve invoked your emotional energy and you’ve seen your beauty to it it’s become the most delightful thing you’re no longer stuck in the past the most beautiful and the future is the most beautiful you’re now in the present and you’re experiencing this potential reality and now you surrender to it you release it which means your psychological needs are no longer codependent upon this outcome because you’ve experienced this as real to such an extent that your brain’s accepted the program now you’ve released it and it’s gone into the subconscious now what’s going to happen is yes your magnetic field is going to change you’re going to attract new opportunities but we have this very the secret kind of way of looking at that like all of a sudden oh wait opportunities are going to show up i’m just going to sit back and wait for them anytime now right now my opportunity is going to walk through that door you’re going to see you’re going to see and people become these martyrs you know to their to their spirituality and then there’s tons of intellectual philosophies out there that kind of justify that but the problem is they get more and more disconnected from their reality more and more disconnected from their malcov because they don’t want to be materialistic now you know they don’t want to oh you know go put in the dirty work and stuff like that because they’re here’s the things they go like it’s supposed to feel good and then they go and you know i have perfect body dream going to the gym it doesn’t feel good this probably isn’t right because you know the secret said i should do it feels good no no you should generate feel good spirit governs over the four elements which means spirit rules over earth air fire and water which means you out of a place of purpose need to force that energy into fire by forcefully taking action you need to force that spirit into ear by phys physically doing the research and the study on developing a strategy and working on your belief systems till you generate water in other words till you start getting a feel for the is created by motion you don’t generate emotion by laying in bed just doing nothing you generate emotion by doing things once you start doing things you start changing the way you feel you don’t feel like it when you start that workout but once you start taking that micro action eventually like wow i feel great you know when i start doing getting started is the most difficult part in the fight only when those are done then does earth kick in then does the biology start playing along then does the body give up its resistance up until that point i’m still fighting through resistance i’m still fighting through the natural inertia the old things and this again comes the teaching of death death is always there deaf is taking a grip the whole time and it’s saying where’s mine give me the stuff that no longer needs to be here and this is when you do that this is when you die this is when you die to your past excuses you know adam and eve chilling out in the bible just committed big sin you know which means they just ate from the forbidden fruit they became aware of duality they became conscious of their own drive for pain and pleasure these these twin forces within themselves and now what happens as a result of it they come up with excuses because there’s mixed meaning i don’t know what’s going to happen if i do this is this going to give me pain is going to give me it’s going to lead me to my beauty or is this going to lead me to my suffering you know where is going to lead me so they don’t take any action and as a result of non-action they get judged and cast out see it becomes more difficult the longer you take to do something the longer you take to act the further out of heaven you are cost the further out of that state but the fact of the matter is then you have to toil you have to put in the work you know liking you have to talk you have to suffer in order to put in the work to get to where you want to go to then again like lucifer who has fallen now rise up again and go take heaven under new management and under new terms you know which is now the dream that you’re going for to put in i remember in the dragon rouge when i was in when i performed one of my initiations and i was there over magic week and at the end of magic week we were doing the necromantic chamber work and as i was laid down in in the coffin um thomas’s wife diana said who was doing the doing the ritual at the time said the most beautiful phrase that always stuck with me and she said that give to death what belongs to death how much attachments how much excuses how much self-pity how much oh it’s unfair how much why do i have to do this how much what about them be honest do you have forget the intellectual rubbish for a moment i don’t care how justified you and i may be if it’s not giving us results if it’s not leading us to what we’re trying to accomplish it no longer needs to be here it’s time is spent give it to death give it to death give the parts of your personality you know your however old you are what aspects or traumas of your childhood are you still holding up carrying with you give them to death because only when we give them to death only when we allow ourselves to consciously kill these parts to cut them off like carly stripping down on that and not just going oh even oh it’s the dream what is the practical applications of the dream what do i need a sivir what do i need a cut you know death goes into all the angle it doesn’t leave one part open you know it looks at everything it takes everything deaf is the ultimate lover because death won’t leave one part of you untouched you know at all at the end of the day except for the one part that’s just your soul just your true beauty that’s why that’s the one part you should be taking and you should be refactoring it into the new narrative of your dreams but then you should learn from dev that time is a limited resource and you must use and apply time as an expert this is not just a philosophical thing martial arts the success in martial arts is the mastery of motion inside of time the person that has the most resource intelligent utilization of motion inside of time is the most effective martial artist this is also true of an animator and a film maker and a musician music itself is only possible due to the mastery of time the application of time we’re understanding now in terms of social media marketing and influence in the modern day even storytellers that the pacing and timing of a story is essential because pacing timing all of this creates emotion it creates it puts things in motion it creates things death is time and time has to cut out every unnecessary thing down to the fundamentals that are essential now you’re not going to be perfect when you start this because a lot of things inside of you still need to die your resistance your excuses i’d rather be doing that but take the lessons of death admire and honor the death gods and the death goddesses because you and i will inevitably meet them and we might as well meet them as friends saying we have spent time we’ve spent you well we have spent time wisely in accomplishing our purpose because here’s the fact every day you wake up every second is taken from you right you don’t wake up today with more opportunities you wake up today with less time so my question to you is what if today was your last day what if death was not coming today for the memories that no longer serve you but what of death is coming for you and it says to you what have you done with your life what have you done with the dreams that i have instilled inside of you every time you have lost something every time you’ve been betrayed or hurt and out of those rage and out of those sadness none of those longings i gave you a dream of a better world and a better life what have you done with them you’re gonna let that die too because if you do what did your life mean what does your life mean what legacy are you gonna leave behind are you gonna be satisfied with just good job pretty partner you know two point whatever fam you know kids i don’t think so if you’re the rare rare individual that has been willing to question and challenge the status quo and the common way of thinking you are a very intelligent individual or you would not even be considering a podcast or a show like this you are somebody that has challenged intellectual thought to an extreme extent to get to a point of such original thinking that leads you down such a such an avenue will you ever actually be satisfied 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