Have you ever wondered why that negative voice in

your head is so hard to silence? The one that

tells you you're not good enough, you're not as

far along as you should be, and that you're never

going to get it right? Here's the thing. That

same voice isn't just in your mind. It's the same

force shaping the confusion and chaos that we're

watching play out in the world right now. And

from the very beginning, that force has been

pictured as the snake. It is cunning. It is

deceptive. It is operating in the shadows.

Scripture calls it the serpent. And whether it

shows up as the critic in your head or the

corruption that we're seeing in global systems,

its tactics are always the same. So what I want

to do in this episode is tie it all together.

What's happening in your mind, why it's so hard

to shake, and how it manifests in the world

around us. And most importantly, the ancient

biblical promise that tells us not only how this

story ends, but how you and I can win right now.

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guys, I get a lot of questions. Questions around,

hey, how can I change my money mindset? How can I

transform my limiting beliefs? How can I operate

from a powerful state? But more and more, I'm

getting questions around, how can I maintain a

powerful mindset? And in the midst of the chaos

I'm seeing in the world today, everything from

the political divide to the forever wars to the

financial and medical cartels or to censorship,

how do I stay strong and stay the course with all

the craziness that is happening in the world? And

so I sat in this question and I got an answer. It

was this little quiet whisper of, go back and

look what happened in the Garden of Eden. And I'm

like, go back and look at what happened in the

Garden of Eden. Like, I'm not a biblical scholar.

I was not even raised in a Christian family. Go

back and look. So I did. I used my friend

chatgpt. I'm like, hey, what happened in the

Garden of Eden related to this question in this

conversation? And oh my God, the answer blew me

away. I don't have tattoos. I told my wife, babe,

I'm getting a Tattoo of Genesis 3:15. So let me

explain to you what happens in Genesis 3:15,

right? So this is the moment that God responds to

the snake. The snake has betrayed Adam and Eve.

It is separated through encouraging them to eat

of the forbidden fruit God from Adam and Eve.

It's introduced evil into the garden. And God

makes a declaration. Now, this is the first

gospel in the Bible. You know, what do I know? I

thought the gospel was just the gospel of Jesus.

Actually, the first gospel is right at the very

beginning in Genesis. It's called the Proto

Evangelium. This is the good news. God declares

the good news. And what he says is, to the snake,

I will put enmity between you and the woman,

meaning I will separate you from the woman, evil

from good, from your seed and her seed, I will

divide you. And then he predicts he will crush

your head, meaning man will be victorious over

you. You will strike his heel, meaning there's

going to be some damage done. But ultimately what

God just said is, in the end, my children will

win. Good will be victorious over evil. And now

the rest of the Bible plays out. Not only that,

the rest of humanity plays out. So I want you to

get this. This is not just a biblical theme. It

is the core storyline of humanity and every

single one of our own individual lives. And so

we're going to be talking about the micro here,

meaning what happens in your own life, how you

deal with the serpent in your mind, the. The ego,

cunning, baffling and powerful, and how it's

actually manifesting into these hidden power

structures in the world and what we can do to

reign victorious. So let's talk for a moment

about the nature of the serpent. It's got four

primary qualities. Number one, it's hidden. It

operates in the shadows right inside of

ourselves. It operates in the shadows in the

sense that it is our own mind. It is almost

invisible. We've been living with it so long that

we hardly notice that it's become a type of white

noise. And that inner criticism, our limiting

beliefs, that voice in the head. But it's also

hidden in the external world. It's functioning

and operating within existing systems and

Structures within media systems and structures

within intelligence systems and structures. And

it's been around so long that we don't even

realize that we're being propagandized into

believing certain things. There's a beautiful

thing happening right now as a result of the

chaos of the serpent in the world, and that is

that more and more people are waking up to

actually see the structure of the snake. Number

one, it's hidden. Number two, it's cunning. It is

highly intelligent. If you think about the

relationship you have with that voice in your

head, your limiting beliefs, it's really a one

trick pony. I like to say the devil only has one

play, but it's the best play in the playbook. I

had a conversation with a client of mine the

other day where I was talking about where I

struggle in my own limiting beliefs and my own

internal dialogue. It used to be with money, but

more recently and for many, many years, it's been

my health that every time I have some weird thing

going on with my body, it's the same tape that

runs. Maybe there's something wrong, Maybe I need

to see a doctor. What if I don't get it fixed? Is

this something that's life threatening? But it

doesn't matter what it is, it's the same damn

tape. And if, for example, you struggle with

money like I did for many, many years until I

transformed my money beliefs, everywhere you go,

you're thinking about money, you're noticing

other people who have money and you don't have

money, and you're worried about not having enough

money at the end of the month and you're sitting

down to order at a restaurant, you finally take

yourself out and reward yourself, or you're with

a loved one and you're looking at the menu,

evaluating everything against money. It's like,

holy shit. It's the same conversation. It's

highly intelligent. It's just the same

conversation. But it comes at you from so many

different angles. But look at what's going on in

the world today, right? The same conversation is

happening over and over and over and over again.

I mean, how many times have we tried to hold our

governments accountable? How many times have we

identified government corruption? You look at

what's happening now at the highest levels with

the coming out of things, at least in the United

States, like the P. Diddy blackmail ring and the

Jeffrey Epstein blackmail ring. And it's like, oh

my God. And somehow we're convinced through this

highly intelligent propagandized structure that

like, oh, there's nothing to see over Here, don't

worry that you're starting to see a part of the

snake that's not really what it is. Just go along

with your own business. And it's highly effective

at what it does. It's hidden and. And it's

cunning. Number three is. It's confusing. It's

very confusing because a lot of the things, for

example, that we're seeing at a global level, we

kind of knew, but we were convinced otherwise.

You know, it's confusing. How was it that the

pandemic was started in a lab and many people

were saying, hey, this was started in a lab. But

then we were confused into believing that we were

conspiracy theorists for actually simply

identifying with what was so obvious in front of

us. It's confusing. It's confusing in our own

minds as well, right? It's confusing how to

manage money. It's confusing that we create our

own realities. It's confusing that I constantly

feel like I'm not good enough. And when I stop

and even look at it, I'm like, I don't even

really know what I mean by saying I'm not good

enough. There's a confusion. I mean, don't you

feel confused not only in how you function in the

external world right now, but a lot of times

you're just confused with yourself. You lack

clarity. I want to be purpose driven. I want to

make a difference in the world, but I'm confused

around how to do that because there's this

constant inner dialogue taking place that's

convincing me that I can't do it. And then the

last piece is deception. And that's one of the

greatest qualities of the snake. It's deceiving.

And so it's deceiving inside because we're such

powerful creators, and we are children of an

infinite intelligence born to actually take ideas

and turn them into reality. Yet we think we're

not good enough. Yet we compare ourselves to

other people. And it's deceptive in the external

sense because it pits people against each other,

using propaganda and media to convince people of

things that they're not even actually innately

believing so that they can be in conflict with

another group of people while behind the scenes,

the snake functions. So there are these four

qualities. Cunning, hidden, confusing, deceptive.

Right. Ego is the inner serpent. It's cold, it's

calculating, it's survival driven. You know, it's

very much like the external environment that is

created. Cold, calculating, survival driven. And

there's very much a parallel to addiction. You

know, I got face to face with the snake When I

was working through my alcohol addiction, my drug

addiction, my pornography addiction, we describe

it in addiction as actually cunning, baffling and

powerful. Because your addiction will rise up so

that you take a drink or use some drugs or look

at pornography when times are tough, and then

it'll manipulate you so that you use those same

substances and abuses when you're celebrating

something. I always had a reason, for example,

back in the day, to smoke pot. I was getting on

an airplane, so I needed to smoke pot. I was

going for a long car ride, so I needed to smoke

pot. I'm super stressed out, so I needed to smoke

pot. I'm celebrating something, so I needed to

smoke pot. It's the weekend, so I needed to smoke

pot. This is how it functions. Cunning, baffling

and powerful, manipulating our minds in order to

achieve its outcomes. So the serpent strategy is

the same, whether it's internal ego or external

systems of power. Now, what ends up happening

both in our own personal lives and also

externally, when you look at how the systems of

the serpent are manipulating people, is that it

convinces us to sacrifice our values for

validation. You know, one of the attributes of

the external system is that it convinces people

to do things they would never do for money, for

power, for sex. That's the basis actually of

these blackmail rings that we're seeing coming

out that are being used by intelligence agencies,

right? I heard in a recent interview somewhere

that they've cataloged powerful people,

identifying what their vulnerability is. Is it

power? Is it money? Is it sex? Because different

people have different vulnerabilities. But it's

the same way that we sacrifice our own values in

our own lives for those same things. For power,

for money, for sex. Power may be for self esteem

or approval of others, right? We say things and

do things that are not in alignment with who we

are in order to achieve outcomes in our own

individual lives. And the external system or

structure, whether you're looking at it as the

deep state, or you're looking at it as the

Bitcoin barons, or you're looking at it as the

Internet platform entrepreneurs, they are

sacrificing their values for validation, for

power, for money, and for influence. And the way

that that occurs is through the use of fear,

right? Through comparison and through shame to

keep us stuck. We do that to ourselves in our own

lives. We sacrifice our values for validation or

power or money or safety or security as a result

of being afraid or as a result of looking at what

other people have and we don't, or as a result of

trying to get out of the discomfort of shame. But

that's the same tactic that's being used

externally to manipulate people, right? You ever

worry about something, by the way, and this is a

classic example of the ego. You're worrying about

something, right? Or you're afraid of something.

You feel like you have to do something perfectly

and so you're now doing the thing. And then when

it doesn't go as expected, you beat yourself up.

Just notice that on every angle of that is the

ego. It is the serpent. You're worrying. That's

the ego. You have to do it perfectly. That's the

ego. Then it doesn't go as expected and you beat

yourself up. That's the ego. And you can actually

see that as people are starting to break out of

this structure and have their own independent

voices that are self driven and that are aligned

with the God of their own understanding or their

sense of self or spirit, the system tries to

collapse upon them, right? Shaming them, blaming

them, even in the current system, imprisoning

them, censoring them in order to keep them quiet.

As I mentioned, you know, one day I realized I

was worrying about my health over and over and

over again. And it's just the same record that

keeps playing over and over and over again. And

over time, it creates a false identity that is

built upon success or failure. It builds up a

momentum over time. Unless you're willing to

actually see the serpent as the serpent and begin

to separate yourself from it. But this is all

very much related to the way the human being

operating system works. You know, if you look at

it from a neuroscientific standpoint, the

reptilian brain and the amygdala, they hijack the

prefrontal cortex, which is where our own

independent thinking is, in an effort to support

survival over thriving, right? So what I'm

suggesting is that the same internal trauma and

fear that we are experiencing as the ego is being

externalized into societal structures, that the

quality of the snake inside of us, which is the

same quality of the snake in the garden, is the

same nature of the snake in the external world,

using patterns of deception and concealment,

either to ourselves or to manipulate others,

right? That is what we're seeing right now with

everything that's coming out around the Epstein

network and the ties to various national

intelligence agencies, and the way that

manipulation and deception was used in a covert

way in order to manipulate and produce outcomes

that serve the few, but that sacrifice the whole.

And that's what happens with the ego as well. The

ego, if left Alone, to its own devices, will

attempt to kill you or impoverish you, or to

separate you from. From everything else in order

for it to maintain its hold and maintain its

power. So externally we see this collusion across

industries as well. Not something that's just

political or left or right or partisan, but

structural. And so we want to talk for a moment

about why fighting the serpent doesn't work.

Because where I think a lot of these

conversations start to feel hopeless is like,

geez, what do I do? How am I ever going to change

my own mindset? It's been going on so long. I

mean, look, Dave, generation after generation, my

family's been living in poverty. How do I break

that generational financial insecurity? Or man,

I've been living in depression or anxiety so

long, and it just feels so overwhelming. How am I

actually going to shift my state and start living

from a powerful state? And it's the same thing we

say when we look externally. It's like, my God,

this war in the Middle east has been going on for

so long. It's been 60 years. How are things ever

going to change? My God, you know, we've been

living underneath these systems and structures,

from media to military to financial to medical,

and they're so powerful and they're so

interconnected. How are we going to ever

transcend these things? So I want to give you the

key to this, because this is what allows me to

believe in the certainty of the goodness of the

future. If you actually understand metaphysics,

if you understand physics, if you understand

neuroscience, you understand that what's

happening right now is all part of the process of

civilization. And that points points a direction

towards how you can navigate through it. Now

let's go back to the garden, talk about Adam and

Eve for a second. So what was the option for Adam

and Eve? In other words, when the serpent came

and encouraged them to eat from the forbidden

fruit, what could they have done to maintain the

goodness in the garden and to maintain their

relationship with their heavenly Father, who was

God? What should they or could they have done?

And the answer is really, really simple and

clear. And it's so simple and clear that you can

miss it. They should have ignored the snake. They

should have ignored the snake without resisting

it. See, the challenge with resisting something

because so many people want to resist their own

mind or want to resist the systems in the world.

There's a war on drugs, there's a war on this,

there's a war on that. We're trying to destroy

whatever it is that we oppose. Is that when you

stand against something, you actually stand up

something, because it's all energetic. When you

bring your attention and focus to something, it

becomes more powerful. You literally become the

structure that holds it in place. And that's why

fear is used and amplified in the world today

through the media propaganda systems. Fear is one

of the primary mechanisms of the snake, Whether

it's internal in your own fears or external in

the fear that's invoked in the world through

financial collapses and pandemics and forever

wars and whatever we're being convinced of that

we should be afraid of, that strengthens the the

system because it aligns us against that which we

fear, which just stands it up even more. The

opportunity is to pull our attention away from

it. Right? And we understand this from a

neuroscience perspective, that attention

amplifies neural pathways. The more you actually

think about something or worry about something,

the stronger the neural pathways become and the

more likely you are to think about those things

and actually produce those results in your life.

So, for example, if somebody's trying to change

their money situation, we don't pay attention to

the absence of money. We don't pay attention to

the financial insecurity. That's the existing

habit. What we need to do is shift our attention

towards something else, Shift our attention

towards financial abundance or even just shift

our attention to anything else, like taking a

walk in nature or spending time with friends

versus continuing to beat the drum of financial

insecurity over time. As we do that, we prune the

old neural networks because we no longer engage

in that habit of thought, and we start to build

new neural networks in the direction of who we

want to become and what we want to create. So the

strategy here is actually the withdrawal of

attention. It works on an individual level that's

at the foundation of a changed mind, and it works

in an external environment and how we deal with

global systems. You stop paying attention to

them, the challenges. They're so alluring,

because the snake knows that our system is built

to pay attention to fear because it's part of the

survival mechanism. And so if fear can be

created, we pay attention to it, and we just

strengthen that which we are afraid of. You guys

picking up what I'm laying down here? This is

actually the story of Moses and the Hebrews in

the Bible. Moses and the Hebrews were enslaved by

a structure of totalitarian control under Pharaoh

in Egypt. And as we look at what the moral of

that story was, how did they get to the promised

land of where they wanted to go? They walked away

from Pharaoh they didn't rise up and overthrow

Pharaoh. They didn't resist Pharaoh. They would

have been crushed by Pharaoh. But through a

series of miracles, they were allowed to walk

away. And they had the courage to do it. Now many

people were afraid to do it. Many of the people

said, geez, we're in the middle of the desert.

This feels so uncertain, so insecure. What if

this promised land doesn't exist? This is so

scary. Take us back to Pharaoh. Right? That's

what they wanted. But the solution is clear. To

build the future that we want, we must direct

attention towards what we want. New systems, new

structures, new behaviors, and withdraw our

attention from the current system and structure.

In the same way that we change our own minds, we

must withdraw our attention for how long we've

been single and start directing our attention

towards the desire of a soulmate. We must

withdraw our attention from how long we've been

sick and move our attention towards thoughts of

good health. This is how we transform our own

individual lives. And it's also how we transform

the world at large. Instead of raging against Big

Pharma, we channel attention to preventative and

integrative health care systems. Instead of

battling corruption in the financial world, we

invest our money into transparent, decentralized

models. This is how we create a new system and

how we rise victorious. And you must believe that

this is the way to do it. You must believe that

there is good and that good is on your side. You

must believe that the snake has no power. And

this is why in other episodes, I've talked for me

about the importance of a personal relationship

with the God of my own understanding. Because it

is scary. And the snake is so cunning, baffling

and powerful, operating in deception and hidden

in the shadows, permeating the existing

structures in so many different ways. It can feel

overwhelming. But I'm sure it felt overwhelming

when that shepherd boy, David, who rose to become

king, was facing the warrior Goliath. And he

stood in front of him with the full faith in good

and God that he had and said, today all of Israel

will know that there is a God here. Because I

will defeat the warrior Goliath. Because I stand

with God, I stand with good. And so we must have

courage. We must stand and we must fight the real

battle which is control of our own attention. I

want you to understand this Right now. The battle

is for your attention. And the way your attention

is being won by evil is very cunning, powerful

and deceptive. You have to reclaim control over

your own attention in order for you to rise

victorious in this war, and to have faith that

doorways will open even though we cannot see them

yet. We must withdraw our attention from the

current system and direct it towards the idea of

a promised land. Even though we don't have all of

the clarity yet. You know, remember Moses was

helping to shepherd the Hebrews out of slavery

under Pharaoh and got to a point where they

didn't know how. They were standing at the Red

Sea, Pharaoh's armies in pursuit. But then the

way was shown. Moses were told to raise up his

hand, and the miracles occurred. The oceans

parted, that is, in anticipation of what will

occur as more and more and more of us liberate

our own minds, learn how to withdraw our

attention from those things that we do not desire

to use them as a. Hey, thank you. You've made it

very clear to me what I do not want, that's

giving me an idea of what I do want to create.

And then we just go 110% in that direction with

the faith of that small shepherd boy. That's

what's required. Certainty of the goodness of the

future. And as we do it individually, we

transform our own lives. As we do it

collectively, we create a new humanity. So it's

important to understand there is a snake. It is

in our minds. It is in the worlds. It was there

in the very beginning. It was the thing that

separated us from our relationship with good and

our relationship with God. But the declaration

has been made. We will stand victorious. And in

order to do that, we have to stop feeding the

serpent. We have to learn how to withdraw our

attention. As we remove our attention from the

system, it disintegrates. And it disintegrates.

It disintegrates as we pull our attention away

and we direct it towards something that we want

to create, the promise of a new possibility. And

that begins to integrate into our material

reality through thoughts, through ideas, through

collaborations, through collectivity. And you're

seeing it happen right now. You're seeing it

happen. It's in the messy middle. Something like

blockchain gives the promise of democratization,

and then the sick infiltrates it very, very

quickly. That's what the snake does. The promise

of a new democracy of the United states back in

1776, the snake infiltrates it very quickly. But

as more and more people are waking up and more

and more people are holding the vibration of

faith and the vibration of confidence and

learning how to direct their attention, the snake

will not be able to penetrate the new systems.

This is why God said, he will crush your head.

It's the first of the good news. And this is not

New Age mysticism. It's the way human behavior,

human psychology and neuroscience function and

how civilizations evolve. So the serpent is

cunning, yes, but its power depends on our

attention. In scripture and psychology and

neuroscience, it's consistent. What we tend to

expands, what we withdraw from dissolves. And so

I want you to walk away from this episode, guys,

knowing that the victory is certain. I believe in

the certainty of the goodness of the future, both

eternally and practically. And when we withdraw

our attention from deception and place it on

truth, the serpent disintegrates. And when we

integrate around love, courage and vision, we

build the promised future, the one foretold in

Genesis, the one I'm getting a tattoo of on my

back and the one waiting for us now. So hey, if

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