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#468: The POWER of INTENTION with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister, Author

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "#468: The POWER of INTENTION with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister, Author", an episode of Heather Monahan published October 9, 2024 (58 min, about 9,421 words). It mentions 29 people, works and ideas, including Michael Beckwith, agapelive.com, Take Back Your Mind, Gautama Buddha, Agape International Spiritual Center.

What this episode is about

Michael Beckwith discusses the transformative power of intention as a foundational element of spiritual growth and personal evolution. Sharing his journey from a psychobiology student at USC to a renowned spiritual teacher, he highlights how his early experiences of inner visions and out-of-body encounters shaped his understanding of consciousness and the impact of intention on manifesting one's reality.

Key takeaways

  • Who knew a serrated dagger to the dream-heart triggers spiritual awakenings? Talk about cutting-edge enlightenment!
  • From cannabis to cosmic: Sometimes the 'pathological' journey turns out to be your spiritual GPS.
  • Emotional near-death dream experiences—life's ultimate wake-up call, replete with cosmic whispers.
  • From psychobiology student to spiritual trailblazer: visions led to multidimensional transformations.
  • Agape's founding: a reluctant shepherd guided by transcendent cosmic nudges and universal love.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Emanuel Swedenborg, Gautama Buddha, Take Back Your Mind, Walter Russell
  2. – 10:00: Agape International Spiritual Center
  3. – 15:00: NetSuite
  4. – 20:00: New Thought
  5. – 25:00: Marie Diamond
  6. – 30:00: Marie Diamond, Sean Stevenson
  7. – 35:00: Shopify, Facebook, Instagram
  8. – 40:00: Heart coherence, Take Back Your Mind
  9. – 45:00: Victor Hugo
  10. – 50:00: agapelive.com, Agape International Spiritual Center, Awake and Activate, Gautama Buddha
  11. – 57:43: agapelive.com, Agape University, Facebook, Take Back Your Mind

Notable quotes from "#468: The POWER of INTENTION with Michael Beckwith, Spiritual Teacher, Ordained Minister, Author"

  • For Millions I mean he's literally impacting millions of people he's got the most unbelievable podcast take back your mind he's got new courses and classes coming out the man…
    about Take Back Your Mind · at
  • What had happened to me and that's when I bumped into all of the mystical teachings of gutama the Buddha Jesus the Christ zoraster Walter Russell Emanuel swedenborg there was a…
    about Gautama Buddha · at
  • And my education that number of years later I eventually started Agape International spiritual center and in November of 1986 so we're in our 38th year right now and that came with a lot of resistance I didn't want to do that I I at the.
    about Agape International Spiritual Center · at
  • You consistently performance absolutely free at nets.com Monahan that's netsuite.com Monahan to get your kpi checklist now netsuite.com monan absolutely meditation is key it's…
    about NetSuite · at
  • Is written in the Bible right that's why we call it new that's why we call it new thought ageless wisdom it's nothing new the only thing that makes it new is when people begin to practice it and then it becomes new to them and if it's.
    about New Thought · at
  • Interviewed ironically another friend of yours from the secret and from my Valley Marie Diamond earlier today she was talking to me about spiritual relationship mental mindset…
    about Marie Diamond · at
  • Of life so where are people getting hung up that's the sound of another sale on Shopify and the moment another business dream becomes a reality your reality Shopify is a…
    about Shopify · at
  • Just academic learning about something but actually being transformed so that's at Agape agapelive.com wake can activate just go on the website and register for it'll be zoomed…
    about agapelive.com · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Michael Beckwith — Person · 8 mentions
  • Gautama Buddha — Person · 2 mentions · first at
  • Marie Diamond — Person · 2 mentions · first at
  • Dr. Sue Morter — Person · 2 mentions
  • Walter Russell — Person · 1 mention · first at
    I bumped into all of the mystical teachings of gutama the Buddha Jesus the Christ zoraster Walter Russell Emanuel swedenborg there was a lot of beings that had similar…
  • Emanuel Swedenborg — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Teachings of gutama the Buddha Jesus the Christ zoraster Walter Russell Emanuel swedenborg there was a lot of beings that had similar experiences that gave me an awareness that I wasn't crazy that I actually was having some kind of an.
  • Sean Stevenson — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Of ways to breathe to do that I was just with yesterday was just with the sumor last night Sue morar and Sean Stevenson we had a master class and Sue was reminded ing us about…
  • Victor Hugo — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Highest and best within us all we will create the V vibrational condition for it to emerge and as Victor Hugo once said you cannot stop an idea as time has come so when this…
  • Anita Moorjani — Person · 1 mention
  • Lynne McTaggart — Person · 1 mention
  • Maharandas K. Gandhi — Person · 1 mention
  • Zoroaster — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

  • Bible — Book · 2 mentions

Companies & orgs

  • agapelive.com — Company · 4 mentions · first at
  • Agape International Spiritual Center — Company · 2 mentions · first at
  • Facebook — Company · 2 mentions · first at
    Platform it even lets you sell across social media marketplaces like Tik Tok Facebook and Instagram packed with industry-leading tools ready to ignite your growth Shopify gives…
  • NetSuite — Company · 1 mention · first at
  • Instagram — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Platform it even lets you sell across social media marketplaces like Tik Tok Facebook and Instagram packed with industry-leading tools ready to ignite your growth Shopify gives…
  • Agape University — Company · 1 mention · first at
    V.com that's the Agape website and then connected with within the Agape website is the Agape University and that's where the class is being given from so you just sign up for…

Concepts & topics

  • Take Back Your Mind — Concept · 3 mentions · first at
  • Blisscipline — Concept · 2 mentions
  • New Thought — Concept · 1 mention · first at
  • Heart coherence — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Weird to today it's proven epigenetics quantum physics biof feedback brain feedback heart coherence now all the science is showing these very same things but we need a little…
  • Awake and Activate — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Little bit about what the course involves and what people will get from that it's called awake and activate it's going to be shining right here from Agape International…
  • world peace — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Have a moment of silence and conviction and a dynamic sense of world peace for the world but we bring that many people to really focus on what's possible for the planet it…
  • Biofeedback — Concept · 1 mention
  • God — Concept · 1 mention

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Full transcript with timestamps

hi and welcome back I'm so glad you're back here with me this week I cannot wait for you to meet our guest this week it is so exciting okay we've got Michael Becki he's a member of Oprah's Super Soul 100 group this man has been on Oprah come on people and the founder of the gape Center he's a trailblazing figure in the realm of spirituality something that I'm so big into later in life and I hope you are too as a number one best-selling author an influential spiritual voice his original teacher and ideologies have not only guided and influenced many but have also catalyzed for Millions I mean he's literally impacting millions of people he's got the most unbelievable podcast take back your mind he's got new courses and classes coming out the man has super Foods I mean Michael what have you not done thank you so much for being here and enlighting us this week Heather thank you so much for the invitation I'm

I'm I'm just sitting here in Joy just being with you life is good oh my gosh you're the best okay can you give us I love your backstory and for anyone who lives under a rock and doesn't know who you are I was hoping you could kind of walk us through how did you become enlightened how did you become the Rev how did all of this well you know a good part of my backstory is I'm Gonna Keep it really brief I could extend this but I won't you know while while I was attending USC I was a psychobiology major there on a track to go to med school actually and I was having a series of inner experiences that I labeled at the time pathological because I was seeing visions I was hearing voices I was leaving my body and traveling now at the time I didn't have any spiritual practice so I didn't know about astral travel and soul traveling and all of that but it was happening to me spontaneously and to the point where I

sometimes would leave and go go see my mom and I would get come back to my body and call her and say listen do you have on a blue dress she would say yes are you cooking some chicken right now yes so I knew knew what was going on was was real but I had no context for it so the experience so the first thing I did at that time I stopped smoking weed I stopped smoking cannabis Adis because I thought that was contributing to this whatever was going on within me but the experience is intensified to the point where I had a lucid dream every single night and in this dream these three men were chasing me and every night they got a little bit closer and to the point where one night I could see the outline of their face and I said to myself I I looked to my right and there was a small tent with thousands of people trying to fit into this small tent I knew every single being in line so I said to myself

they can't hurt me I have all of my friends with me and then one by one everyone standing in line turned their back on me two of the men held me down and the other plunged a knife into my heart a serrated knife the pain was excruciating physically and emotionally and I died and when I woke up I could see differently I could the experience I mean even now if I start talking about it it becomes very spiritually emotional for me the I could see 360 Degrees um the presence of God love was the beauty was everywhere the love that poured into my being was so profound and I was just a part of everything I would Breathe In and Out and and the universe would just kind of move like that I was I was one and so when I came out of that um everything around me was glowing with Luminosity the lint on the rug was alive everything was alive and I could never get back in that box again that that everything changed for me and I

began to uh go on a research to find out what had happened to me and that's when I bumped into all of the mystical teachings of gutama the Buddha Jesus the Christ zoraster Walter Russell uh Emanuel swedenborg there was a lot of beings that had similar experiences that uh gave me an awareness that I wasn't crazy that I actually was having some kind of an Awakening and that that's that was the beginning of of me going deep into meditation now this is years ago I had no conscious desire to be like a public person to to teach or anything like that I was just so in love with this presence I at the time I didn't call it God because I had come from a church and the word god me a man in the sky that was dictating rules and sending people to hell and heaven and all that stuff so I knew that wasn't real um so the word that I Ed was love beauty because the love that I was immersed in was beyond anything I'd ever experienced humanly

and the beauty was beyond anything I could describe so my definition of the presence of God was love beauty and later on it became love beauty intelligence and then later on well after that I started using the word God again but it has a different meaning I call it the presence that's never in absence always here life capital L life and God are synonymous so anyway that began my Trek uh to discover what had happened uh and then there's been a constant over the years an emergence of the real Michael um from the Revelation that I had over 40 years ago and it's it continues it's not like one and done it's a continued unfolding and so I've been immersed in light I've been taught by beings on the other side teachers from the other side all of this was a part of my schooling and my education that that number of years later I um eventually started Agape International spiritual center and in uh November of

1986 so we're in our 38th year right now and that came with a lot of resistance I didn't want to do that I I I I at the time I was a spiritual counselor I saw six to eight people every single day I did my own private seminars I was a director of training of a Prayer Ministry I liked my life but there was an inner compulsion to start a community and I was told that that the work I was doing at that time I was only doing my work halfway and that I made a promise before I came here to do this and that if I didn't do it they would have no more reason for me to be on the planet these are the ancestors talking to me and so my life shrunk forced me into some deep introspection and I finally I had a vision about agape and I started a Vision Group and and began our Vision Group in late 1985 beginning of 1986 we met every Thursday for months to become the vibrational frequency of the vision of Agape that's the story in

brief there's a lot of stuff in between there but uh so so what happened to me was uh so so most of what I do is basically direct from Source you know and then I I could pick up a book and I can say oh that's true you know it validates or I can say that's not really true it's almost true you know um so so that's that's that's Michael you know um that I like the guy you know he was he's always he's always has great intentions and I've watched him grow and unfold to become more of himself over the years you know oh that's so beautiful and that's so well said that's all anyone could hope for themsel is to become more of themsel along the way and and enjoy that but what you're describing is like nothing I've ever heard is there anyone else on the planet that's had an experience like this like you have yes yes there are a number of us uh uh one of my great friends Dr Sue mortar who you may want to meet one day uh had a

similar Cosmic Awakening like that in meditation and changed her life and we met each other it was like we met each other we knew that we we knew we just you know we VI we oh you know you know you know because she's been she's been there you know she's had that very expanded Cosmic awareness and uh then I met other people who have had near-death experience and come back and when we meet like my friend Anita morani and and and uh I'm trying to think his name and um you know people like that you can tell that they've seen something else not just something they've read about that they actually had an experience of you know so yeah so so yeah there more people and I think you know people don't have to have that kind of experience basically if you have a a little bit of a spiritual practice and good intention you know an intention to wake up and then you practice meditation on a regular basis you will

incrementally um dissolve the blockages from seeing reality most people don't see reality they only see their thoughts about reality and they experience their thoughts about reality but reality with the capital r is beautiful infinite potential infinite possibilities everywhere just is there so much Bey everywhere that's real but what most people experience is just a tiny a a sliver of reality you know and they think that's the reality but it's not it's just that the perception is small but when you meditate When you affirmatively pray you're expanding your perception expanding your awareness into this infinite field of Consciousness and you start to see life differently life really is good I so when I say that I'm not talking about people's experience of life because people are only experiencing their perceptions but life capital L life is beautiful it's magnificent you see I I'm supercharged

with it all the time I love that I love that for you okay and and I love that you're going to be teaching us so I want to start with this because what you explain is so beautiful and the way you do it and your energy is incredible but for everybody who isn't living the experience that you currently are and is living in this tiny little sliver that most of us are you say spiritual spirituality you say positive prayer or positive affirmation affirmative affirmative prayer affirmative prayer and then meditation can you teach us a little bit about what each of those means and how we can do that your business gets to a certain size and the cracks start to emerge things you used to do in a day are taking a week you have too many manual processes you don't have one source of truth if this is you you should know these three numbers 37,000 25 1 37,000 that's the number of businesses which have upgraded to netw Suite by

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free at nets.com Monahan that's netsuite.com Monahan to get your kpi checklist now netsuite.com monan absolutely meditation is is key it's foundational meditation I call it paying undistracted attention to reality basically training yourself you know first of all the way I teach it everybody there's millions of ways to meditate because there are millions of people and every every technique technique is is probably good it's probably good for something you know every technique is is good so I teach you have an intention you establish an intention when you sit down and I so let's say your intention is my intention is to wake up to my glorious nature because most people are sleepwalking they don't know it but they're I wrote a song one time and one of the lyric is uh we're we're we're we're we're We're Dreaming we're awake we're walking asleep dreaming we're awake that's the average person they're walking asleep

dreaming that they are awake so you establish an intention to wake up so it's an intention then you take your attention and you place your attention on your intention my intention is I'm I'm I'm sitting to wake up to my glorious nature after a while that intention begins to have a feeling within you you can actually put your attention on your intention then you when you sit you uh realize you you you go into a deep listening I don't mean with ears you're listening with your entire being because there's a broadcast of let there be light Let There Be Beauty this broadcast is happening everywhere through all creation so you're sitting with a deep sense of listening you're placing your attention on your intention you're saying to yourself this is the first time I've ever meditated whether you are a veteran or whether you are a newbie this is my very first time I'm in beginner's mind I'm like a

child and so now I sit and I can play place my attention on my breath why because you can't breathe in the future and you can't breathe in the past this breath is happening presently and so now my attention I'm present with my intention my deep listening and my beginning consciousness and now I'm available to what Insight Revelation from my intention because that's what I'm interested in that will wake me up from my limited Paradigm in that it's it's a combination of the posa meditation and how I've designed it as Beck with and so then if something comes up You observe it but but you don't try to get rid of it or enhance it like if an emot comes up a sensation in the body crazy thoughts you learn how to watch it because you're not those thoughts you're the awareness watching the thoughts and then after a while what you're watching changes on a subatomic level based on your observation the scientists call that the

observer effect anything You observe changes on a subatomic level simply because you observe it now you if You observe yourself Within intention to wake up you're putting the observer effect on steroids so you're literally giving yourself spiritual therapy and and waking up and then sometimes there's a dramatic opening sometimes it um it just little by little by little you're eliminating uh the false beliefs perceptions from your perceptual window and then you notice after a period of time that you've changed but you may not know when you change because it may not come with lights and cameras it's just you just notice hm that used to bother me doesn't bother me anymore I still don't like it but I'm not bothered by it what happened but what happened is you've become more yourself you become unbothered and unbothered so this so This meditation is key and then what we call affirmative prayer is a prayer that you're not

begging a god out there because as Ralph wo Emerson taught the innermost God and the uppermost God is the same God you know that which is within you is the same the same presence that's around you and so you're not reaching out there because you're losing your power if you reach out there to God now you're sending your power away so when you pray you're basically recognizing there's a presence everywhere you're very you you you you start start off with a deep sense of gratitude that you're alive you're awake and then you recognize as a presence everywhere you feel yourself one with his presence and then you speak your word from that sense of Oneness you can say something like even as I'm speaking this very word something magnificent is happening in my life all of my needs are met my body Temple can heal anything you begin to speak the word from the sense of unity then you give thanks that it's

all already done then you releasee it and go on about your business so that's just a modum of what affirmative prayer is because a lot of people are begging and beseeching a reluctant deity and so they're actually putting out into the universe that they don't have what they're praying for please give me this please give me this so they're saying to the universe I don't have this I don't have this so they're misusing the law they're not praying all right so you have to pray believing this is what the teacher said pray believing that ye have that you may receive so all prayers to move you into the state of believing and feeling that you already have it and then you walk and then the universal law responds to that frequency Serendipity happens coincidences take place you start to see things and opportunities that you didn't see before because your perceptual windows are getting clearer and cleaner

yeah what was the other thing I said it sounds too easy like it sounds too good to be true however when you were speaking what you were just saying to me is is written in the Bible right that's why we call it new that's why we call it new thought ageless wisdom it's nothing new the only thing that makes it new is when people begin to practice it and then and then it becomes new to them and if it's complicated it's probably not truth because the truth is simple it's very simple but if it's if a person is bringing a whole lot of complications to it it probably means they don't know it at the depth because when you know it at the depth it's very very simple what's difficult is practice and the consistency of practicing until I coined the word a number of years ago back in the 90s and the word is blissl what happens is your discipline then becomes a discipline you actually love to practice you love to

become still you love to pray affirmatively you love it it's like it's not like oh I've got to do it I should do it and then give make yourself guilty because you didn't do it no no no you have a little bit of discipline every day doesn't have to be a lot just a little bit and then something happens and it's like you can't live without it you know and and it's joyful it's like oh I get to connect with reality before I go out into this fitful world with all these different kinds of experiences out here I get to connect with the real presence and then walk in the world but of this higher frequency and then when that occurs you want to you want to practice every day and that's be and that that's when it becomes a bliss Pline you see yeah you teach someone this and and you work with people um obviously millions of people every day how long does it take someone to actually see results from approaching

life in this regard well two things one as you begin to practice immediately and have an intention the moment you do that there there's an immediate result in terms of your body chemistry changes your immune system becomes more enhanced you slow down the aging process the condition for disease begins to dis disintegrate that happens immediately the moment you establish a new intention and sit with in a in a level of joy and gratitude right there the body chemistry changes the ton the tonic chemicals begin to flow and the toxic chemicals from worry doubt fear hate resentment unforgiveness they begin to stop being produced by the body Temple so there's an immediate effect if if somebody were to take your blood you know and analyze it pre and post meditation and prayer they'd be different you see or if someone put you and and and measured your brain waves your brain ways would show a difference based on your

meditation so there's an immediate in terms of your physicality in terms of your chemistry and then your life experience is a your life experience and the world that we see is a condensation of thoughts beliefs perceptions points of view positionalities that cond thems into the world that we see and the experiences that we're having so that begins to unravel so that takes a little bit more time you know you may change right now and you'll have immediate effects on the the physical body and then the experience will begin to change as well sometimes it's dramatic for people I mean i' I've met with people and they had dramatic change and others they call it like a slow burn it just slowly the life slowly starts to change and then they start to realize wow my life is different there I I'm noticing more opportunities I'm more I have a deeper sense of peace I have a deeper sense of inner resiliency and

regeneration is taking place so there's immediate and then there's long-term changes that show up in your real world in your experience yeah so I have an interesting question for you I just interviewed ironically another um friend of yours from the secret and from my Valley Marie Diamond um earlier today she was talking to me about spiritual relationship mental mindset how your thoughts how you're managing your thoughts and then what you're doing in your environment what are your thoughts on and the reason why I bring this up is there's so many similarities in many things you're saying but like what is the level of importance on prayer positive prayer versus how you set up your home it can seem confusing sometimes when you talk to different experts yeah well everything affects you I mean everything has energy everything has an energetic field and so if you have a house that's full of clutter then

there's a a hindrance in the flow of the chi of your house you know so fun so so vibrational fun is important you know to have an environment that has a flowing of energy I mean we've I've watched a research where uh even homes built like on a dead end the people that live there have a higher rate of women that live there have a higher rate of breast cancer because the dead end is stagnant energy you know so this Funway in your home this Funway in how houses are built what direction they're built in whether there's a dead end or whether there's a flow of energy obviously there are ways of of of neut neutralizing that with water fountains and and certain crystals and things of that particular nature but definitely the mindset is important and then you want to have an environment that has flowing energy and people like Marie Diamond are are they're Geniuses in that area you know uh one of my

offices that I had we had a phone tray extra come in and found out I needed to have certain metal in one corner of my of the office and then a flowing water fountain and another part because the way the building was structured it was creating a lot of stagnant energy so we had to neutralize that with fun now your Consciousness uh uh is the most important thing it's like you can have all the fun you can have everything it' be helpful but if you're not changing your your mental mindset and expanding your awareness then you're getting limited results of from the other things you're doing so Consciousness is first your Consciousness precedes form so as one begins to expand see this is how I describe it we are awareness pure awareness in a field of infinite Consciousness our real identity is awareness our real identity is not our body it's not what we own it's not experiences that we've had our real

identity is that we are pure Consciousness and we could actually think independent of a condition or a circumstance and make new choices so that's our aw that's that's who we are and so as our aware aess expands and becomes more and more purified then we have a different relationship to the universal presence and the universal law that's matching who we think we are so if I'm walking around saying oh I'm unworthy I'm not good enough no one likes me then I'm identifying myself as someone who is less than so then the the UN I can do all kinds of things in the world to become successful and like and all of that but if inwardly I'm thinking to myself I'm unworthy I'm not good enough then that then the law matches that vibration and keeps feeding that back to you and you can try really really really hard but you can never outrun the the content in your Consciousness that you haven't transcended so so so so Consciousness is

primary you have to shift your awareness expand it into coming to an awareness is that you are a light being you're magnificent you're what the universe has created is so beautiful you you know going back to what you said earlier about this is all found in scripture I mean the teacher said who by taking thought could add one cubit to their stature you can't add anything to this perfect self all you're doing is eliminating the false beliefs so that the perfect self that's already been created can begin to shine with un unencumbered you see and so uh so hope I'm answering your question so your mental attitude is is is important your the thoughts you're thinking are important your perception changes your intention is important and all of this coupled with a little bit of meditation goes a long way yeah so you mentioned vibration and and I know that you talk a lot about this what are some of the

things people can do to elevate their vibration when they are stuck in fear and upset and the hate and all these negative emotions right well one of the key u allies we have is our own breathing you know you can actually when you're nervous when you're scared or whatever the case may be you can actually ask yourself you know where am I feeling this and you can place your attention right there and this begin to breathe into it and you're observing it and breathing so what's happening subatomic level you're changing the energy based on observation you're breathing the energy is keeping it moving and you have an intention to wake up from that that intoxicated dream you can do that immediately and there's different kinds of Prana different kinds of ways to breathe to do that I was just with yesterday was just with the sumor last night Sue morar and Sean Stevenson we had a master class and and and Sue

was reminded ing us about the power of that uh in her particular presentation that's true I mean before I speak anywhere I sit down and I do connected rapid breaths just connected clean out the psychic energy go speak and so the other way of of doing that you can actually ask a question um I this is this is one of the things that I teach that came through me years ago behind every problem there's a question trying to ask itself behind every question there's an answer trying to reveal itself behind every act a qu answer there is an action trying to be taken and behind every action there's a way of life trying to be born so if a person is stuck in a problem that problem is inviting us to ask a different question so say a person is having issues with um money finances that's the problem you universe is a wanting you to ask a question like what is the nature of prosperity what sincerely what is the

nature of prosperity and abundance you ask that question sincerely an answer will start to come the nature of prosperity is that you're surrounded by abundance you have to find a way to give something and share something and to be of service to get things circulating in your life so you don't have bad fun in your mind and in your heart and as you begin to to give you know opportunities open up because the hands of the givers are never empty and then that puts you into that's the answer then it puts you into an action you begin to ask how what can I give today not how can I get what can I give and then maybe you give a smile maybe you're G to help somebody if you don't have any money but you're in the energy flow now of giving and then that becomes a way of life and then opportunities for Prosperity show up I'm just using Prosperity as an example you see behind every problem there's a question behind every question there's

an answer behind every answer there's an action behind every action there's a way of life trying to be born so again These Are Spiritual practices that when done sincerely change your life they literally change how you identify yourself doesn't mean you become all high Fu and you're so spiritual you're not Earthly good it just means you're becoming more yourself you're more comfortable with yourself you're more at ease with yourself because it's the real you it's not the task of trying to fit in or hope people like you or trying to manipulate people to give you what you think they should give you no it's none of that you're not into that you're being yourself and the universal law matches that blessings show up so how many people really live like that like the majority of people I just don't think based on what you're describing are living that magical type of life so where are people getting hung

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Monahan you can thank me later basically people are um I you know I have a podcast called take back your mind because I'm reminding people that their mind has been hijacked it's been hijacked by the news media and and and that whole spinning out of negative negative narratives about the world so indivi individuals are living in this world that is not really real but it's experienced what do I mean by that just because you experience something doesn't mean it's real okay and I'm going to break this down when I was attending morous college before I went to SC we used to do a practical joke I don't know why we called it a practical joke but it was a joke we would take a book of matches strike a match be hot blow it out and then we would touch a person with a cold match they're thinking we're touching with a hot match and they would create a heat blister on their hand and they' get mad and we said no no we touch you with

the cold match follow me then we go to the next person light the match blow it out quickly change it with a cold match touch the person and they burned themselves so they were experiencing something that wasn't real what were they experiencing their thoughts so the world has taken a nightmare piit lack limitation fear doubt worry scarcity Wars rumors of wars hate bigotry homophobia racism you know anti-Semitism you know the world is is experiencing something that's not real and so so the average person is living in fear anxiety anxiousness worry doubt and the average person has normalized those perceptions and because if they've normalized it they experience it on some level and then they have to figure out a way to have a re a re a recess from it so there pharmaceutical drugs there's there's regular there's other drugs there's uh you know overindulging in whatever name whatever it is just to

have a moment of not feeling these emotions but when in fact your mind has been hijacked so we're inviting people to take their mind back through very simple spiritual practices intentions so they begin to witness the world but they're not participating in it the same way that you can witness crazy thoughts in your mind but you're just looking at them that's an interesting thought I don't believe that thought that's interesting thought that's not me where did that thought come from and so little by little you're changing your inner world and you're changing be and you become a part of the energy energetic field that's changing the outer world we are vibrational beings we're more than Flesh and Blood everything is energy everything is energy condensed or speeded up if it's speeded up really fast you can't see it if it's condensed it looks like matter but it's all energy and so when enough people are vibrating

at a higher level it actually changes the world just just as there's been many experiences about people like the the Transcendental Meditation people have gone into places and meditated the crime rate has gone down other people have done aposta meditation same thing people coming together in large groups and establishing like um Lyn MCT tager good friend of mine you know does intention experiments where she gives large groups of people to establish an intention for a certain part of the world violence goes down so these things today are now cooperated by science whereas 40 years ago was woooo you know what I mean the stuff I was teaching 40 years ago it was like oo that's that's weird to today it's proven epigenetics quantum physics biof feedback brain feedback heart coherence now all the science is showing these very same things but we need a little bit of intention and a little bit of practice

so you don't have to go into the mountains and sit there for 40 days and 40 nights you can just wake up in the morning establish an intention or just be grateful for your life establish an intention to have a beautiful day and just sit for five minutes in the silence obviously that will grow because you start to love it more and you'll be six minutes and eight minutes and 10 minutes but you just have a little bit of practice it'll change the trajectory of your life instead of going down the path that fear anxiety and worry will take you now you're going down a path where peace and love and these aren't you know these are the most powerful forces on the planet even though when you say those words people think oh that's not it that's just love that's just peace no peace is the dynamic of harmonizing good it's a power love is a total givingness without any sense of withhold that's a power so when you desire to be

peaceful or loving you're having a desire to be so confite not in your little self but in the power that's around us you become powerful you know mahand K Gandhi wasn't a weak guy you know what I mean uh he was powerful in his peacemaking and so we all don't have to be that but in our own individual lives we can make a big difference Yeah you mentioned the power of the collective and you gave some great examples of some of these meditation groups and when they fixate and have an intention on a certain area they can have actual scientific results if that is the case and and it is is why then you would think our world is so much more enlightened today as a result of teachers like yourself and the internet and access to information why isn't the world such a better place today than it was a 100 years ago well it is getting better we just it just not reported you know basically uh when a c when a person

is on the news they are they are reporting from an old Paradigm you in your program and people who have podcast like this we are reporting from the emerging Paradigm so the things we see on television that's an old Paradigm so things are getting better but you're not going to see that on television what are you going to see the latest assassination the latest bombing the the drought the hurricane the the tsunamis the uh political backstabbing uh people being arrested for all kinds of Nefarious crimes you're basically going to be inundated by the most negative lowest common denominator of The Human Experience and every now and then you get a little Joy thinging oh here's a puppy you know what I mean oh so and so the rescu their cat and isn't that sweet you know I mean but 99% of it's going to be inundation of negativity we're not seeing the we're not seeing the remissions of cancer we're not seeing uh the trues that are

being made we're not seeing people who are making amends we're not seeing people who are growing and developing and unfolding and changing their lives you if we were to spot like that every single day how many remissions did we have to day of cancer how many people spontaneously healed their diabetes how many people actually you know uh fell in love with or did deep forgiveness and and with their family members or friends or so-called enemies if that was focused on if the news was actually the news and not the olds because it's actually the olds same thing every day just happening to different people the world would change rapidly L because where our where our attention goes is where our energy flows so if we were all focused on all these great things that are happening like right now on this planet right this second not in the future we have everything necessary to handle every issue right now all it all exists now

technologically we just don't have the will and the Consciousness to bring it into expression those things are repressed so that the power that be cons continue to profit offer an old way of being on the planet we have technology to clean up the water there's no water shortage we have technology to have free energy there's no energy shortage we have all these things already exist but the the powers that be don't let that emerge so if we if we pay attention to a world that works for the highest and best within us all we will create the V vibrational condition for it to emerge and as Victor Hugo once said you cannot stop an idea as time has come so when this becomes you know saturated in our awareness the new ways of being in the world which are ageless by the way will emerge and I see that you see I've I've been carrying a vision and be carried by vision for years so I stay joyfully optimistic now optimism an optimistic is

not a person that doesn't believe in problems or challenges an optimist is simply a person that knows that the Sol there is a solution to every issue and so I know that so that's where I live so how do you advise someone who um is bombarded with the messages from media from negative people around them from haters in their own life on the internet how do they shift their focus from that to look to the more optimistic messages when it seems overwhelming and consuming being pulled down by the negative ones right you do a simple uh practice of finding one thing to be grateful for you just wake up like when I when I wake up in the morning I put my feet on the ground I become I I just say something along these lines I'm so grateful for my life I great I'm grateful for that that that I exist you see and what happens is if you come into a feeling of gratitude your perception and your perceptual

Windows become clearer and now you're able to see opportunities if you don't believe in possibilities then you won't the mind can't see opportunities so when you open yourself up to gratitude you start to see opportunities you start to see you start to see things differently and then that develops momentum and you become a grateful person a grateful being which then you begin to see things you've never seen before you know I I I I remember years ago um I was moved to become a vegetarian and so I'm driving down crell Boulevard and uh this's a store at the I think it was Lindberg store health food store back in the day and I passed by I said oh wow a health food store I I wonder how long it's been there because I've never seen it before so I go in it's been there over 20 years but I didn't even I never noticed it because my attention that wasn't important to me eating good food I never noticed it it's

been there in my neighborhood all these years I never seen it so once our perceptual Windows get clear based on gratitude and high intention we start to see things we've never seen before we start to see people we've never noticed before there's an old statement that when the pickpocket sees the Buddha all he sees is his pockets he can't even notice that he's the Buddha that he's carrying Enlightenment because he's only interested in the pockets so when we start to become grateful and look for something to be grateful for we start to notice a different world that's hidden in plain sight you see and yes the news will be still be going on but after a while we're able to look at it and what I teach people what to do with that is if a friend of yours calls you and says oh my God I I have a bad a I have this bad diagnosis would you would you pray for me you would say yes of course I'll pray for you and you're going to go

inside and you're G to see the best about them and hold so the news is a collective prayer from our society it's it's a society saying we can't see clearly right now we're in war we're in hate we're in scarcity we're in lack that's the diagnosis so whenever I I teach practitioners here in Agape that when you're watching the news you're actually watching a a societal prayer request and just like you would pray for your friend if they had a diagnosis of some kind negative it's to call you into a deeper sense of gratitude and prayer that's so you're you're not caught up in it you're doing something about it vibrationally does that make sense there yes I love that I absolutely love that so I know that you're launching um a new course tomorrow actually can you talk to us a little bit about what the course involves and what people will will get from that it's called awake and activate it's going to be shining right here from

Agape International spiritual center they can go to agapelive.com to register it's I'm doing a five-week class and a reason it's called awake and activate because I'm going to teach these Universal spiritual principles but it's also going to carry some inner experiences to activate the knowledge that's within us because it's one thing to like read a book and to have an intellectual understanding of what you're reading it's another thing for that information to become activated within you to have some level of embodiment so we're not just walking filing cabinets of information but we're actually have the the feeling tone of the information so in the in the five weeks I'm going to teach but I'm also going to activate so that individuals at the end of those five weeks they'll be able to see a notable a noticeable difference in their own life their own emotional life their own mental life they'll so it's about transformation not

just academic learning about something but actually being transformed so that's at Agape agapelive.com wake can activate just uh go on the website and register for it it'll be uh zoomed will be I because people all over the world like we had a a master class last uh not last not last night but the week before um to prepare people for the class doesn't matter whether you got the master class or not you can still take the class um but we had about 3,700 people on there uh holding this strong field for awakening and for Activation and many of them have already registered for the class so it's going to be on Zoom it's going to be powerful you're going to be with people from all over the world uh that that are tuning in and uh you know there are many people that keep taking it I take I teach it a little bit different every time because I'm different every time but there are people who take it a lot who just keep

taking and there are other classes in our University as well uh that people can can can sign up for one of the things that you just mentioned and explained was this feeling the sense of feeling and and and when I heard you say that it reminded me so much of going down this path of accessing information as you said like being a walking file cabinet having all this information in my head but not really feeling the way that is resonating with the messages I'm grateful I'm joyful but then feeling you know H like life is hard is that some of what you're activating in people so that they can actually vibrate and feel that way absolutely the feeling provides the healing and the feeling provides the revealing of the truth that's within us I used to have a teacher that used to say It Don't Mean a Thing If I don't have that feeling and so uh so that's it's a feeling universe and so you can have all

kinds of words that that's important but the it's the feeling and the energy behind the word that's really really matters so yeah I'm going to have exercises that actually coax people into the feeling tone I'm going to have them being coaxed into the feeling tone of what does abundance feel like what does prosperity feel like you see what does Joy feel like and then we'll learn to stabilize that so you're living in that and then you start to see demonstrations of that in your life by law it's not accidental you know it's it's repeatable results based on your inner feeling so it's good to have the knowledge but you have to have the knowledge with the feeling that produces more viable results oh my gosh that was a huge missing part for me for a long time don't you think or or and and defer to you on this but don't you think there's something about a collective of people too 3700 people setting that intention

together that will help people Elevate themselves to a level they haven't reached before absolutely and that's why I was prompted to start a community Agape International uh because what I teach is an authentic spiritual Community grants you immunity from the lower frequencies of life so when you're with a group of people celebrating and praying and chanting and and listening to a message and and using having good music that creates a field all to itself that uh neutralizes negative energy for thousands and thousands of people that aren't even in the Assembly of people you know because a field can't be contained by a wall you know it's everywhere and so absolutely when you're in a community or taking a class with a group of people what happens is you start to vibrate at the highest level of whatever Insight anyone has had so that if someone's having an insight and there's s an aha about something and

they're starting to feel it it affects the whole class the whole class starts to vibrate at that level the highest vibration wins you see and so taking a class with a group of people being an authentic spiritual Community that's Dogma free you know it's not about Dogma you know it's not about capitulating to some man-made rules you know but it's about actually having a direct encounter with the presence of God of love and beauty within you you're in that kind of a community of celebration celebrating what's already being given yeah it goes a long way I mean Solitude and silence and being alone is important and community and being with people like the the 37 plus 3700 plus people that were in this master class that's important it's important you know can you imagine if we were to take these Super Bowls and all these great concerts that people have with thousands of people 18,000 people 60,000 people showing up to see a person

kick a field goal you know it's sweet it's wonderful I don't put any of that down but it's you know they're pulling for their team and you know wa yeah you know but you know we get all these people you know like next year we're going to have a big a moment of pulling all the spiritual teachers together to have a moment of of silence and and conviction and uh a dynamic sense of world peace for the world but we bring that many people to really focus on what's possible for the planet it makes a big difference oh it's so beautiful thank you so much for the work that you're doing you're so incredible and I can feel I'd love that you just explained you you vibrate at the highest level there highest level wins well thank you for bringing my vibe up today thank you for bringing everyone's Vibe up where can everyone sign up for the class where can everyone get your podcast and get a hold of you they can

go to agapelive.com a gap p i v.com that's the Agape website and then connected with within the Agape website is the Agape University and that's where the class is being uh given from so you just sign up for the class there you can also see me speaking every single Sunday if you're not in the LA area you can just watch it on our YouTube channel my personal YouTube channel or agape's YouTube channel or agape's Facebook page or my Facebook page or straight from the agapelive.com website you can watch me speak every Sunday I do a way of meditation service at 6:45 a.m. I do uh another service at 9 a.m. and then another service at 11:30 a.m. so people all over the world are waking up at different time zones and tuning in to different Services based on um when they're waking up but it's also archived so if you miss it you can just go to agapy live.com and just watch the service because it's right there take

back your mind is the name of my podcast and that's on all the platforms you know wherever there's podcasts showing uh take back your mind is there so there's you know we I think we've just it's new so we but we just hit like three million uh downloads on uh people people coming in and because I have a guest every week and then sometimes I do solo shows just teaching so that's that's a wonderful thing I love I love being of service that way well we are so grateful for you thank you for empowering us thank you for teaching us and thank you for leading the way it is my joy I can so see that all right guys check out the podcast sign up for the class I will provide all the links and the show notes below and until next week keep creating your confidence you know I will be

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Michael Beckwith discusses the transformative power of intention as a foundational element of spiritual growth and personal evolution. Sharing his journey from a psychobiology student at USC to a renowned spiritual teacher, he highlights how his early experiences of inner visions and out-of-body encounters shaped his understanding of consciousness and the impact of intention on manifesting one's…

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