Mind the Shift

In the midst of a spiritual ceremony in the fall of 1996, Sten Linnander had a deeply transforming experience: The Earth made contact with him. As Sten heard a voice, he could see the planet in all her beauty, as if from space.He was instructed to go up on a mountain in Phoenix, Arizona, to continue the communication.“I hesitated. I am no Moses. But the voice came back. I was asked to come back to the mountain three times a week for three months. Then the transmission would end. And I did. And it was”, Sten tells.At first, he didn’t know what to do within the information, or teachings, from Mother Earth. But almost fifteen years later he went back to his notes, dug deeper, made renewed contact and wrote two books about what he had learned. It is hard for a modern human, detached from nature, to imagine how a planet could communicate.“Well, if you see the Earth from space, like I was made to do, it is obviously a living entity. As I see it, I am speaking to the sum of all the Earth consists of. In a sense, I am speaking to an Earth that includes me. The Earth also told me she experiences everything that we experience. She is so close to us”, Sten says.What was her core message?“The main statement was that she is alive and conscious.”The Earth also told Sten that humans have been like her children, but that we have now grown up. She said: 'I ask you to enter a living relationship with me, and the rest will follow.'She asked us to embrace beauty and sexuality. Beauty means 'mirroring the inside to the outside'.Sten’s communication with our living planet has led to two concrete projects.One is to build a device, preferably simple, that will enable intelligible communication between the Earth and humanity as a whole. Sten has made trials in collaboration with tech savvy people, but so far it hasn’t been successful.The Earth has said that later on, when communication can become more sophisticated, she wants to show us what the history of the Earth really has been like. We are unaware of many things that have transpired, she claims.Another project is to produce small, affordable ‘living globes’ that display what the Earth looks like in real time – daylight, weather patterns etc – and that everybody can have in their living room. The idea is inspired by the so-called ‘overview effect’, the awe astronauts feel when they see our common cosmic home in all its beauty and vulnerability.Many environmentalists hate humanity and blame every adverse event on humans.“If we hate humanity, it’s like a part of the Earth hating itself, because we are the Earth”, Sten says.“I have no time for negativity. There are plenty of negative aspects, but if you want to change things, you have to bet on the positive aspects of both humanity and the Earth.”“Some people are afraid of the Earth being conscious, because they think she’s going to hate us and kill us all.”But we really fear ourselves?“Yes.”The final thing the Earth told Sten was a beautiful prospect: If we were in intimate, conscious connection with our planet, the possibilities would be limitless. We would be able to improve energy systems, housing, transportation, water and food supply, disease prevention, love relations and relations with animals.“When I heard that, I thought, if this is true, I just can’t say ‘this is not for me’. I am on to something that is so incredibly big it’s high time I do something.”Sten’s personal website“I Am With You” website: Living globes project🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

As far as research of the non-physical world is concerned, Simon Duan should have quite a bit of credibility. He began his career in a robustly materialist environment. He has a PhD in materials science from Cambridge university and worked for many years with technology commercialisation. Then he had a paranormal experience at a dentist and began exploring what lies behind the material world.Simon has developed a theory known as “Platonic computation”, which unifies consciousness, mind and matter. The theory provides an explanation for how matter is derived from consciousness.According to the theory, this physical world is a finite and malleable simulation, created by consciousness, of which we are aspects, and whose highest form in Simon’s terms is metaconsciousness. Various traditions have given it other names: Brahma, Dao, God.Metaconsciousness is the ultimate reality. It is contentless but contains infinite potential. Simon has adopted Plato’s term for it: the realm of forms. In the realm of forms, everything is perfect. When a concept is manifested on the physical plane, it becomes a poor copy of the original ideal concept. Thus, in Simon Duan’s model, this 3D universe is assumed to be a simulation, rendered by the “Platonic computer” of metaconsciousness outside of time and space. Multiple other realities are also rendered on different levels.Thoughts, feelings and memories are in a database – a modern word for the Akashic records. The brain is a display of thoughts, feelings and memories. It’s not the generator.Psychics can “hack” the codes of the simulation. They can activate their higher selves more easily. For instance, if you can switch off the codes for gravity, you levitate.Why has this simulation been created?“Pure creativity wants to experience itself, so it diversifies”, says Simon.Since the pure creativity of metaconsciousness is the highest aspect of ourselves, it is ultimately we who do it. How do we diversify? We create content.But some of us are less aware of what is actually going on in this divine game.“We can choose to be NPCs, non-playable characters, or to be co-creators”, says Simon.In the latter case, we become conscious that we can shape this world as we wish, or update the simulation.The game we (our highest aspect) have created is so elaborate that we even forget our true nature when we arrive here.In order to keep the game interesting, evolution has to happen. The rules sometimes change.“Then we get a change of perception. In science we call it a paradigm shift.”Simon Duan thinks physical reality will shift in ways that will force people to awaken, sometimes through disasters and suffering.“I think this world will become much better, but it will be worse before it gets better”, he says.He emphasizes that he refers to enlightenment in this particular physical world.“On other levels we are already enlightened. There is no work to be done there.”Metacomputics LabsSimon’s essay “Stop Asking If the Universe is a Computer Simulation”Simon on XAnders’ essay that is mentioned🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Marjorie Woollacott was a scientist with a materialist worldview when she, in her 30s, had a spiritually transformative experience. Her heart opened. There was a feeling of total peace and equanimity. She felt at home.After the experience, Woollacott gradually reoriented her research and teaching in physiology and neuroscience towards the nonphysical human experience. Many of her 200 peer reviewed scientific articles are about the effects of meditation.“When we meditate, we begin to let go of our feeling of smallness and separateness to a feeling of interconnectedness with everything else in the world”, Marjorie says.Later, she began looking more fully into the nature of consciousness.In that context, she wants to highlight two scientists-philosophers in particular, Bernardo Kastrup and Federico Faggin (the inventor of the microprocessor).“They show us scientifically why seeing consciousness as fundamental is essential to our understanding of the universe.”Woollacott is co-editor of an anthology that is fresh on the shelves as we record this episode, The Playful Universe. It is about meaningful coincidences, something psychology giant Carl Jung called synchronicities.Cultural historian and archetypal cosmologist Richard Tarnas, who has written the introduction to the book, defines synchronicities like this: observed coincidences, in which two or more independent events, having no apparent causal connection, nevertheless seem to form a meaningful pattern in our lives.Synchronicities are often seemingly trivial. It could be something quotidian you haven’t thought about in 20 years, but when you do, that same thing suddenly appears all around you; in newspapers, signs, things you hear.Another contributor to the anthology, Jungian psychologist and mythologist Roderick Main, describes the evolution of our human understanding of the universe as having gone from enchantment to disenchantment (the scientific revolution) to reenchantment, which is happening now.“Life is still mysterious.” How can synchronicities happen? In Marjorie Woollacott’s view, we are points of consciousness within the universal consciousness, and we are all entangled and co-creating this universe.“Within that playful entanglement, we draw the situations to ourselves that are most important for the unfolding of our paths in this universe.”She also points out that our beliefs create our reality, which means that what we pay attention to in our lives is what we allow to unfold.So, how should we act on synchronicities?“Value them highly and explore them.”Marjorie Woollacott believes we have some kind of guidance from the nonphysical reality. She refers to research she has done on mediumship, where mediums say they are in contact with people from “the other side”.“I saw the incredibly strong evidence about these people communicating with us, telling us things we didn’t know that turned out to be true, and that could help us.”This is documented in peer reviewed papers,Many feel – and claim – that this world is unfair, and not only to themselves but to millions.“I believe it’s a fundamental misunderstanding”, Marjorie says.“But we all have these thoughts. We are both a soul with infinite awareness and a tiny point of awareness. And the tiny point, where our ego resides, is always making judgments about what’s pleasurable, what’s painful, what causes suffering, and what causes expansion. And from that point of view, yeah, things can be really difficult.”“But if we can take the view of the whole, which is our essence, there is probably something we can learn from that moment of pain that will move us forward in our expansion of knowing who we are.”Marjorie’s websiteThe Playful UniverseBio at AAPSBio at Galileo Commission🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

(Note correction at the end)Isaac Rodriguez discovered, to his big surprise, that mainstream astrologers never really look up at the sky.As John Lash explained in an earlier episode, tropical (mainstream) astrology isn’t really about the stars. The signs are merely named after star constellations that approximately corresponded with the sectors of the signs a few thousand years ago.Isaac Rodriguez learned about sidereal astrology, the kind that goes by the actual star constellations and takes their apparent movement in the sky into account. With the precession of the equinoxes, the positions of the constellations constantly move – or seem to move, from earth’s viewpoint.If sidereal astrology were to replace tropical astrology as it is used today, the painful problem for people who are into this would be that their birth chart would be completely wrong.“I made up a term for this, ‘astrology collapse disorder’”, says Isaac.But the two models seem to work on different levels. A higher and a lower octave, if you will. Or, Isaac claims, in the divine reality (sidereal) and in a false matrix (tropical).“I see it like this: Tropical keeps you human, sidereal makes you celestial.”The tropical model keeps us in what the Hindus call samsara, the karmic cycle.“And if we stick to that, we will probably stay in the loop longer than if we study sidereal, which is the way to break the cycle.”The Church condemned real astrology but then allowed an astrology that is like a broken clock, according to Isaac.“So we’re living in a false matrix. Tropical astrology is about the very human issues, my love life, my job, my relations, whereas sidereal astrology is about ‘show me my deepest, darkest shadows, show me all, I need to get out of here’.”Tropical astrology has twelve signs. The thirteenth sign is crucial in understanding how to get the “broken clock” to work again. It is a constellation called Ophiuchus, which means the serpent-bearer. In ancient cultures it was associated with a serpent of some kind, like the plumed serpent in Mesoamerican traditions.And it is located right at the Galactic center, where there is a supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A .The Maya called it Xibalba, the crossing.This point was pivotal also to the Gnostics. This is where they located Pleroma, from where Sophia and Christos came.“Could it be that we have a connection to another world through that point? We have to pay attention to that part of the sky”, says Isaac.He tells about the many pieces of evidence for the importance of this point in the universe that you can find in Egyptian temples.Some groups have carried the truth about our immortality and our divine origin through history, and been persecuted for that. But why don’t we all know this? Because we have amnesia. There is probably a purpose for that. We are supposed to learn certain things through the illusion of separation and time.But some people who possess the truth hide it for nefarious purposes, Isaac believes.“The symbolism of the age of Pisces is separation from source. The separated parts are supposed to merge through matter, through the physical. But it has also created the opportunity for manipulation and brainwash.”Correction: Between the 13 and 13:30 minute mark, incorrect information about the name of a Vatican telescope is mentioned.Isaac's websiteThe documentary Code 12Isaac's Youtube channelIsaac's Instagram🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

When French filmmaker Anthony Chene first came across a story about a near death experience it clicked. It immediately made sense to him, even though he didn’t grow up in a spiritual home. He wasn’t even sure what a psychic was. But NDEs seemed right.“Yes, it was this world that didn’t make sense. I was in finance, but I barely made any money. I didn’t fit anywhere”, Anthony says.“The idea that this physical world is a tiny part and there are other dimensions beyond the five senses – of course it’s like that.”He suddenly remembered that he had these insights as a child. He remembered that he used to think that every human being could become God by activating something inside.This was a turning point. Anthony was 28 years old and had just begun a mainstream business career, but now he embarked on a completely new journey, documenting spiritual experiences. “I couldn't go back. It was sad, I really wanted to fit in, it felt like a failure. But I couldn't,It was either this, or I would collapse”, he says.The universe planted another idea in his mind, that he must make these videos in English, in the US.“I asked my guides, why? I’m French, I don't even have a work permit in the US.”“But I did it. I went to the US to interview people, again and again.”Anthony thinks it is easier to talk about these topics in English-speaking countries than in France.“The problem is mainly Paris. I live in the south, and it’s easier there. It’s a little bit more open and spiritual. But in Paris it’s all about the analytical mind.”He has noted that things are changing, however, even in the materialist hub of the French revolution.Anthony’s latest, and biggest, project is the recently released NDE documentary ‘Renaissance’, featuring three near death experiencers and three experts on the subject.There is no doubt in Anthony’s mind that consciousness is independent of the brain.“We are all connected. A higher version of us, not the mind, is projecting this reality. My higher self is projecting you right now, and your higher self is projecting me”, he says.In ancient spiritual texts, this reality is often called a dream. In modern times it has been referred to as a matrix, and nowadays it’s popular among spiritually oriented people to talk about a simulation. In Anthony’s mind, all these analogies describe the same thing.“It’s a simulation, but our higher selves planned it before we came here, I think. It’s a simulation with certain checkpoints.” People often say they have a hard time finding out what their purpose is, what they are supposed to do.“But you do know. Deep down you know. Just show up in faith and do what you have to do. It’s very simple. But I have to tell myself that sometimes, too.”Anthony believes we live in crucial times. Things are going to change a lot In the next few years, and very deeply so, he thinks.“Time is speeding up. We are approaching a zero point. Time is going to reset. And it will happen before 2030, I think. But it won’t be the end of the world. It will be the same world, but at the same time very different.”Powerful structures try to suppress knowledge about the afterlife and the true nature of reality. But they will not succeed, according to Anthony.No, it’s pointless. It's only short term. Who we are is not affected by that.Anthony’s website Anthony’s Youtube channel'Renaissance' on Gaia TV🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Apologies for a technical mishap at the 19:12 mark. I had to switch to a suboptimal camera and mic. But James looks and sounds fine the whole time, which is the most important thing.Writer, artist and thinker James Tunney is in the classical sense erudite. I have had very few guests, if any, who so effortlessly covers every historical, philosophical and spiritual aspect of the evolution of mankind. He seamlessly wanders from one discipline to the next, and it all comes across as perfectly natural. Which it should be to all of us, of course. The division of reality into different disciplines is an unnatural thing.A core theme in my interview with James is the choice we have to make in our time: Rediscover our spiritual consciousness or renege our humanness by falling for the siren song of posthumanism and artificial intelligence.Here are some focal points in our conversation:The diluted definitions of mythology and philosophy.There is no hard problem of consciousness.Psychology is the leftovers from the spiritual world.The collective Judas of today’s world are those who give away the essence of who they are, what makes them human, to governments and other authority figures.Human evolution is cyclical “if you want it to be”.History doesn’t repeat itself, but it mimics itself. Development is a spiral.There is a connection between ancient cultures in the Mediterranean and the Celtic and Nordic areas.The fall of humanity: Our focus on materialism.In an indigenous culture it is easier to connect to the divine. As we have become more technological, it has become more difficult.Our job is to find our way back to who we are. The rainbow manifests between light and darkness.Can advanced technology and spirituality exist side by side?“It’s not impossible, but we’re not on that trajectory.”You can benefit from high technology if you also have spiritual development.“Otherwise your society will collapse.”Most of the AI developers are hostile to perennial wisdom. Many say ‘we are creating God’.The powers now attempt to once and for all take control of the populace. This time via the nervous system “Churchill said already in 1943: The next empire will be the empire of the mind.”“AI is not merely a tool. It's an entire system. It comes from the military-industrial complex.”The nation state has been toppled over because that is part of the agenda of the new world order.(James and I have different views on the virtues of keeping the nation state.)Migration: Which part is natural and organic, and which part is forced migration for nefarious purposes?“Dislocation and disorientation makes it easier to impose a top-down agenda.”Are more or fewer people thinking for themselves?(James and I are not entirely in agreement about that.)Now is the time to choose ways.“Absent an inclusion of genuine spiritual consciousness in our framework, it’s a disaster.”“We will have to leave some things behind.”So, dear viewer and listener, buckle up, hit the play button and go with the flow…James website🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Like most people, writer and filmmaker Jack Kelley thought Plato’s account of Atlantis was just an allegory when he, during a vacation on the Greek island of Santorini, was drawn into a world of research that takes the Platonic story seriously.Even in that world, however, there are diverging opinions about the location of the lost civilization.Jack came across the work of Greek engineer and linguist George Sarantitis and thought: “This guy might actually have cracked it.” He made contact, and the collaboration that followed resulted in the newly released documentary The Atlantis Puzzle, based on Sarantits’ groundbreaking findings (watch and give a review here or here).Taking Plato’s account seriously is controversial.“The very idea of Atlantis is frightening to mainstream academic researchers. They could easily end up looking like fools. The risk-reward is not there. That keeps a lot of first-class minds from seriously addressing what this subject is really about. And Sarantitis is a first-class mind”, Jack says.George Sarantitis refused to believe the two Plato dialogues Timaeus and Critias, where Atlantis is discussed, were just nonsense fables. He retranslated the texts and realized that important concepts had been misinterpreted for centuries.For example, an ‘Atlantic pelagos’ does not mean ‘The Atlantic ocean’. ‘Pelagos’ is a lesser sea. Earlier translators had only made an assumption, because nobody had ever heard of an ‘Atlantic pelagos’.Sarantitis found a few other things that hadn't been well delineated. For instance, three words for ‘island’ are being thrown around.This retranslation led him to the conclusion that ‘the pillars of Herakles’, a crucial reference, probably doesn’t mean the strait of Gibraltar, which completely changes the idea of where Atlantis may have been located.Sarantitis’ surprising hypothesis is that the ‘pelagos’ was a series of navigable inland megalakes in northwest Africa where one could sail to the empire known as Atlantis. It is a fact that there are a series of huge salt lakes in the area that indicate that there was once a large body of water, and we now know that the Sahara was a lot wetter at the time Plato points to.Then there is the much-talked-about Richat structure, the ‘Eye of the Sahara’, which well matches Plato’s description of the Atlantean capital.So, if there was a civilization in this area, why did it disappear?If the extreme climatological changes during the latter part of the Younger Dryas (matches Plato’s time frame) were accompanied by earthquakes, tsunamis and other geophysical disasters, a civilizational collapse is plausible.Jack engaged preeminent earthquake expert Dr Scott Ashford for the documentary.“According to Ashford, Plato is accurately describing what the effects of the combination of these natural disasters would have been”, Jack says.Was Atlantis advanced? In Jack’s mind, it was sort of advanced for its time but probably more of a hunter-gatherer than a bronze age kind of society. He does not subscribe to the more grand theories out there.But he does give other independent researchers credit for pushing the idea that mainstream academia is ignoring many signs of lost human worlds in lands that are now below water, not just the one Plato is talking about. There are hundreds of ancient flood myths, for example.“Clearly there were kingdoms, tribes, even empires that we don’t have any names for today”, Jack says.🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Everybody who has looked into parapsychology knows that it is a long-standing scientific discipline and that new fascinating findings are published in scientific journals regularly. Yet there are tenacious materialists out there who still believe that this whole field is woo-woo and pseudoscience. And they are influential.Craig Weiler is a journalist specializing in parapsychology and psi phenomena. He discovered the stubborn and angry skeptics when he was blogging about psi sixteen years ago. And he was taken aback by their arrogant stance.“They were stubborn and irrational. They weren’t looking into science. They weren’t even close. Which was weird, because they said they were defending science”, Craig says.He started studying the skeptics and their behavior and discovered that they always approach things in the same manner. He concluded that they basically represent one personality type.“Key elements are stubbornness, a lack of ambiguity, and great difficulty saying ‘I don’t know’. They have this materialistic background, and everything has to be shoved into that”, Craig says.“It becomes obvious that we are dealing with people with an authoritarian personality type. Lack of ambiguity, hostile tone, arrogance. If you look at what authoritarian personality types are, these people tick an awful lot of those boxes.”How have you been able to assess this?“I ve been arguing with them on social media since 2008. Over time I have had hundreds of conversations with skeptics. I was getting kinda hooked into it. I’ve freed myself of that now, but it allowed me to eventually see them more clearly, not just lock horns with them. It was a bit of a personal journey.”It wouldn’t be so much of a problem if these materialist skeptics weren’t so active and didn’t have so much influence in the public debate. They are organized in outfits like Center for Inquiry and its program Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and they run the Skeptical Inquirer magazine.They control the narrative on psi and other topics at the intersection of science and spirituality in various ways. One of the most salient ways is their iron grip over Wikipedia.An activist group advocating for materialist atheism called Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia has virtually gained full control of a couple of thousand articles about psi phenomena and persons studying themThe group, run by former photographer Susan Gerbic, is intent on ridding Wikipedia of anything that in their worldview resembles pseudoscience. They kick out others from the platform.“They make sure there’s nobody there to disagree with them.”Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales himself encouraged GSoW from the beginning to “protect science”.Wikipedia has become the go-to source of information for millions, if not billions of people. Craig Weiler and I agree that idea as such is wonderful. It is only sad that it in some areas has been turned into a propaganda tool.“I want to educate the public: you have to be very careful when you look at these topics on Wikipedia, because you’re literally getting somebody’s quasi religion.”So, what can be done? Craig is part of a group that aims to expose the physicalist “police” on Wikipedia. They are now documenting GSoW’s biased editing, their omissions and their blocking of other editors.There are many other contentious topics that certain skeptics are “policing“ on Wikipedia, such as alternative medicine, the UAP phenomenon and alternative archaeology (lost civilizations), but Craig focuses on his area of expertise.Paranormal Daily News (featuring Craig's work)Craig on XCraig on Linkedin🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

At the end of our previous conversation (released April 2023), mythologist, modern shaman and author John Lamb Lash and I had a brief exchange about astrology. It revealed an apparent difference in how we view some aspects of it. Some time later, we decided to have another conversation to sort those differences out.So, in this episode John takes a deep dive into some basic misunderstandings about astrology, in particular the fact that zodiacal astrology and astrological ages are two completely different models.Main point: ordinary astrology does not have anything to do with star constellations.“How does astrology work?” John asks me, teasingly.I try to present my view, which of course doesn’t offer a comprehensive explanation.“It’s a trick question”, John says.“I have used astrology for decades, and I can definitely say that it does work. But how? I can assure you, Anders, that no one understands why astrology works. No one.”But the topic of this conversation is not zodiacal astrology, it’s the astrological ages. And John makes clear that the two are not the same kind of phenomenon and cannot be interpreted in the same way, which is a common misunderstanding.It’s not helpful to conflate the astrological ages with the zodiacal signs and their association with certain characteristics, John explains. Doing so creates a lot of confusion.Here is one a-ha insight: Ordinary, zodiacal astrology, in the Western world primarily tropical astrology, is a misnomer, because there are no stars in it, except for the sun. The constellations the signs are named after are not neatly placed within each sign, and not only that, they are moving, one degree every 72 years.“Unfortunately, there is a muddled zone, where the ages, the language and the discourse are confused.”Zodiac astrology and astrological ages are two different operating systems.“The operating system of the signs is about psychology, but when you talk about the operating system of the constellations, you’re talking a combined language of history and myth.”To differ between the two, John has decided to name the ages not by the Zodiac signs, but by the “storybook names” of the constellations: the fishes, the ram, the crab, the lion, etc.“We’ve lost a lot of ancient skywatching knowledge.”Here’s a crucial difference, according to John Lash: The astrological ages are not exactly the same size (length in time). As opposed to the zodiacal signs, the ages are in alignment with the expansion of the constellations, which come in different sizes and have differently sized gaps between them. In some cases there is also an overlap.Are the actual stars influencing us?“It’s not a causal relationship, it’s a mirroring relationship. The constellations are signals. The cosmos is a mirror of the psyche.”Do they have certain properties?“They’re all about lessons. Lessons for humanity.”So. Everybody wants to know about the age of aquarius. There has been a hype for at least 50 years.It turns out the constellation of aquarius (which John calls manitu) is overlapping the age of pisces (the fishes). So when does it actually begin?You’ll get John Lash’s answer in this episode. You’ll also get his interpretation of the lessons we are supposed to learn.Plus, as the cherry on the cake, John reveals something fascinating he found in the Egyptian Dendera Zodiac.John's website NemetaJohn's book Not In His Image🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Agneta Sjödin is a media celebrity in Sweden. She started out her career as a tv entertainer and to some extent she also worked with journalism. But she was always a seeker, and lately, she has focused on her inner journey, which she has also shared with her fans in several books and in a podcast. She has evolved into something of a Swedish Oprah, if you will. I got to know Agneta earlier this year, and it was obvious that we have similar worldviews and share many thoughts, ideas and musings. It shows in this conversation (I sometimes talk as if I were the guest …) Spirituality was always there, from early childhood, she says. Her father took her to Sunday school. She never became a “proper” Christian, but she kept the spiritual side of it. “I knew I wanted to serve in some way.” Agneta rose to fame early on in her career. Her authenticity and presence made her greatly popular. She mainly hosted entertainment shows but also a morning news show. Do you follow the news today? “No. The news is rehashed, and they don't give you any hope or energy.” One trend Agneta has noticed with certain unease is the demand from activists that you take a stand in every new conflict. As a celebrity, she is particularly vulnerable to it. “The wars today are not only taking place on the ground, they are in people’s heads all over the world”, she says. “As a public figure, you are harassed if you don’t take a stand. Why don’t they demand we take a stand against war in general?” Agneta has become ever more interested in ETs and the UFO/UAP phenomenon. We talk quite a bit about that, and we delve into information about wars in outer space that would be considered controversial to most people. Her latest book, Våga välja nya vägar (Dare to Choose New Paths), focuses a lot on the inner journey. It’s important to find your higher purpose, Agneta points out. But that doesn’t mean to divorce yourself from everyday life. “There is a Zen saying that before enlightenment you chop wood and carry water, and after enlightenment you chop wood and carry water.” Agneta and I agree that pain is inevitable but suffering optional. We suffer when we linger on pain. “But it’s difficult to tell people that they don’t have to suffer. ‘How can I not suffer when the world looks like this?’, they say” Love is the creative force of the universe, but most of us don’t fully realize that. “We live more in fear than in love on this planet. Even if you fall in love, you instantly start worrying: ‘what if he/she leaves me?’.” “I have struggled with relationships”, she says. “But I have had things to learn in that area. I am good at loving myself now.” Is consciousness God? “I don't use that word a lot. But for me it’s more like divine love”, Agneta says. “It's the intelligence of everything. We’re all a part of that intelligence. Nothing ever dies.” In our conversation we also touch on – all too briefly – another topic that both Agneta and I are passionate about, the origins of civilization. She recently visited the enigmatic megalithic site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. Agneta's website Agneta's books Agneta on Instagram Agneta on Facebook