The Occult Truth About Body Image & Beauty Standards | Pagan Perspectives

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Resumo

TLDRIn this episode of the Pagan Perspectives podcast, Georgina Rose delves into the intricate issues surrounding beauty standards and body image, particularly their effects on women. She critiques the cultural shift from body positivity to the current trend of 'skinny talk,' which promotes extreme thinness and unhealthy behaviors. Georgina emphasizes the importance of understanding beauty from a metaphysical perspective, advocating for a balanced view that prioritizes health and self-acceptance over societal pressures. She discusses the significance of the sun and divine archetypes in defining true beauty, while also addressing the negative impacts of envy and vanity. Ultimately, she encourages listeners to reject fleeting beauty standards and focus on their spiritual growth and well-being.

Conclusões

  • 🌟 Beauty is a divine concept, not just a cultural standard.
  • 💔 Body positivity can sometimes promote unhealthy lifestyles.
  • ⚖️ Balance is key: health should come before societal beauty ideals.
  • 🌞 The sun symbolizes vitality and is essential for true beauty.
  • 🌀 Reject envy and vanity to foster spiritual growth.
  • 🔍 Explore archetypes to understand personal beauty.
  • 💡 Body neutrality can be a helpful starting point for self-acceptance.
  • 🚫 Avoid harmful beauty trends like 'skinny talk.'
  • 🌱 Focus on health and well-being over appearance.
  • ✨ True beauty is linked to virtue and health.

Linha do tempo

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Georgina Rose introduces herself and the Pagan Perspectives podcast, explaining her approach to discussing everyday issues through a pagan, esoteric, and metaphysical lens. In this episode, she addresses the topic of beauty, beauty standards, and body image, acknowledging its relevance to all listeners, particularly women. She warns that the discussion may touch on sensitive subjects like body dysmorphia and eating disorders, encouraging listeners to prioritize their well-being while engaging with the content.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The podcast explores the cultural shift from body positivity to a renewed emphasis on thinness, exemplified by the trend of 'skinny talk.' Georgina references an article about Liv Schmidt, a figure promoting extreme weight loss methods, and discusses the implications of this cultural whiplash on societal beauty standards. She emphasizes the need for a spiritual understanding of beauty that transcends these fluctuating cultural norms.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Georgina critiques the body positivity movement for promoting an unrealistic standard of self-acceptance that can lead to complacency regarding health. She argues that while self-love is essential, it should not prevent individuals from making necessary changes for their well-being. The conversation highlights the importance of balancing self-acceptance with the recognition that some changes may be beneficial for health, rather than rooted in self-hatred.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The discussion continues with an analysis of the extremes of body positivity and body negativity, emphasizing the need for a middle ground. Georgina introduces the concept of body neutrality, suggesting that individuals should view their bodies as functional rather than focusing solely on aesthetics. This perspective can help foster a healthier relationship with one's body and promote self-care without the pressure of conforming to beauty standards.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Georgina reflects on her experiences working in a spray tanning salon, noting how societal pressures can lead individuals to feel inadequate about their natural appearance. She discusses body dysmorphia and the false perceptions that can arise from cultural influences, stressing the importance of self-awareness and the need to dismantle these harmful beliefs to achieve spiritual growth and true self-acceptance.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    The podcast delves into the spiritual aspects of beauty, arguing that true beauty is objective and rooted in divine concepts rather than cultural trends. Georgina encourages listeners to reject fleeting beauty standards and instead focus on the timeless qualities of beauty that align with spiritual truths. She emphasizes the importance of understanding beauty as a reflection of health and virtue, linking it to a deeper connection with the divine.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Georgina discusses the significance of archetypes in understanding beauty, encouraging listeners to explore various representations of beauty across cultures and mythologies. She highlights the importance of finding personal ideals that resonate with one's true self, rather than conforming to societal pressures. The conversation underscores the need for a balanced approach to beauty that prioritizes health and well-being over superficial standards.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    The podcast addresses the dangers of envy and vanity in the pursuit of beauty, framing them as spiritual obstacles that can hinder personal growth. Georgina advocates for purification practices to overcome these negative emotions and emphasizes the importance of focusing on one's true will and spiritual path. She encourages listeners to seek guidance from divine figures and to cultivate a healthy relationship with beauty that aligns with their spiritual journey.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:46:28

    In conclusion, Georgina reiterates the importance of self-care and developing a positive relationship with one's body and beauty. She encourages listeners to prioritize their spiritual growth over societal beauty standards, reminding them that true beauty is about health, virtue, and authenticity. The episode ends with a call to action for listeners to engage with her work on various platforms and to take care of themselves.

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Vídeo de perguntas e respostas

  • What is the main topic of this podcast episode?

    The episode discusses beauty standards, body image, and their impact on individuals.

  • What does Georgina Rose suggest about body positivity?

    She believes body positivity can be beneficial but also points out its potential to promote unhealthy lifestyles.

  • What is 'skinny talk'?

    'Skinny talk' refers to a trend focused on extreme thinness and weight loss, often promoting unhealthy behaviors.

  • How does Georgina define true beauty?

    True beauty is seen as a divine concept that is objective and linked to health and virtue.

  • What does Georgina recommend for those struggling with body image?

    She suggests moving towards body neutrality and focusing on health rather than societal beauty standards.

  • What is the significance of the sun in relation to beauty?

    The sun is associated with vitality and health, which are important aspects of true beauty.

  • What does Georgina say about envy and vanity?

    She describes envy as a corrosive emotion that hinders spiritual growth and vanity as prioritizing beauty over health.

  • What is the role of archetypes in understanding beauty?

    Archetypes help individuals understand different expressions of beauty and find their own ideal.

  • What is Georgina's stance on using Ozempic for weight loss?

    She supports its use for health reasons but warns against using it for cosmetic purposes.

  • How can one develop a healthy relationship with beauty?

    By rejecting harmful beauty standards, embracing health, and connecting with divine archetypes.

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    [Music]
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    Hello, I am Georgina Rose. I'm a
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    perennialist and polytheist and welcome
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    back to the Pagan Perspectives podcast.
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    In this podcast, I lend a pagan,
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    esoteric, and metaphysical perspective
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    to the mundane issues that go throughout
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    our lives. Essentially, I take topics
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    that relate to our sort of normal lives
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    and then turn to mythology, esoterica,
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    metaphysics, magic to understand it and
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    deal with it and offer spiritual
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    solutions to the things we deal with on
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    the regular. And in this episode, I'm
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    going to be talking about a topic that
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    affects pretty much everyone, especially
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    my female listeners, though also my male
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    ones. I think this does sort of reach
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    everyone and that's beauty, beauty
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    standards, body image, that whole sort
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    of can of worms, which is kind of a huge
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    huge huge can of worms.
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    Um, because it's something that is
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    basically pushed to us all the time.
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    It's brought up all the time, especially
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    online, and it really gets to people. So
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    I I would like to give a perhaps
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    warning, perhaps encouragement. Um this
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    episode is going to you know it's going
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    to talk about what beauty is from a
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    metaphysical perspective. There is a lot
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    of metaphysics discussion um and sort of
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    myth discussion and archetype discussion
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    but you know I am going to talk a bit
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    about body image issues um how objective
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    or how subjective beauty actually is um
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    our culture around beauty and and some
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    sensitive topics around that. do in the
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    outline briefly mention like eating
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    disorders um and body dysmorphia and I'm
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    going to get into things like ompic and
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    skinny talk and some of these subjects
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    that are really sort of buzzy in our
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    culture that definitely might bother
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    some people or or cause some people to
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    have a sort of negative reaction. So if
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    if if you are one of those people sort
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    of struggle with these topics, I know uh
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    most women, you know, struggle struggle
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    with body image. This might be kind of
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    sensitive in that regard. I I offer you
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    two options. one, you might want to
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    listen to another episode of this
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    podcast, you know, if you think this
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    podcast would not be productive to your
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    journey, but two, if you want to kind
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    of, you know, challenge some of those
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    negative thoughts, um, and sort of see
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    the truth about what beauty actually is,
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    you know, this podcast could actually be
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    quite healing for you, right? Because
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    for me, I have dealt with body image
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    issues in my life. I've mentioned that
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    before. Um, and for me, some of these
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    thoughts I'm going to discuss in this
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    episode and some of these divine truths
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    actually did help me with my body image
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    issues. So, I really think that's kind
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    of like a personal discernment thing,
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    you know, and you can always, you know,
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    click out at any point and come back to
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    it, right? You don't need to listen to
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    it all the way through in one go if that
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    would really not be productive to your
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    growth, right? Because look, at the end
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    of the day, my goal is to help people
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    become stronger oultists, stronger
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    mystics, and to reunite with divinity,
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    right? The whole goal of all this is the
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    great work. And the great work is
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    reuniting with the godhead. And you
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    always want to do what is best for you
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    to achieve the great work, right? we
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    constantly want to think about the great
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    work and how to use our true will to
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    achieve the great work. So just check in
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    with yourself before you listen. Um
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    think about, you know, what what's going
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    on with you in in this moment. So our
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    culture right now is really going
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    through a shift with our view on this
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    subject. Um and that's really why I
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    wanted to make this topic because right
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    now um essentially the vibe has has
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    shifted honestly. I mean I I almost want
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    to say it's shifted because throughout
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    the 2010s and the early 2020s um the big
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    thing was body positivity, right? That
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    was a real buzz. people who were like
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    body positivity influencers got a ton a
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    ton of views, right? And that that's
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    pretty much dead, right? People are done
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    with body positivity um for some good
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    and some bad reasons. Um I have kind of
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    like a multifaceted sort of opinion on
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    that. And now, you know, we're back to
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    uh thin is in, right? Um there's a big
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    trend when I'm recording this called
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    skinny talk. And what prompted me to
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    make this podcast was an article that
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    came out in the cut. Um, which is
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    basically a publication that New Yorker
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    puts out sort of exploring this woman,
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    Liv Schmidt, who basically is sort of
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    the the ring leader of Skinny Talk. And
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    what they did is they went into
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    basically this woman makes a lot of
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    videos about how to lose weight and how
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    to be the your your skinniest. And she
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    really says like being as thin as
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    possible, as beautiful as possible. and
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    she had this pay-to-play group chat and
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    the cut basically one of their reporters
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    went into her group chat undercover and
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    um took a lot of like screenshots and
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    stuff and what it showed is that there
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    were teenagers in the group chat and
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    there was a lot of open discussion of
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    anorexic behavior, right? Um and this
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    woman does promote this under the guise
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    of health. Now, this is not a drama
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    podcast. The the drama around Liv
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    Schmidt does not really matter to this
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    conversation. If you're curious about
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    that, feel free to read the cut article.
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    Um, but what I want to talk about is
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    basically what that represents, right?
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    What what does it mean for our culture
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    that we have gone from body positivity,
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    right, to the point where it really did
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    start to become actually very toxic, and
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    I'm going to get into that in a bit, to
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    skinny is amazing. And basically, what
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    is the spiritual answer to this? Because
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    the spiritual meaning of beauty is
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    actually very different from the
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    cultural meaning of beauty. And I think
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    as mystics, we should return to the
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    spiritual and the mythic definition of
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    beauty and reject the everchanging
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    cultural standards because we're really
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    seeing a cultural whiplash right now.
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    Right? It went from literally every body
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    is beautiful. You don't need to change
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    anything about yourself even if you are
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    literally, you know, very sick because
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    of certain lifestyle choices, right?
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    There's nothing wrong with that.
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    Societyy's the problem to your body is
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    horrible. It's your fault that you're
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    not perfect. You need to be as thin as
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    you can humanly possibly be, right? you
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    need to to hurt yourself to achieve that
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    goal. Right? That's a whiplash. That is
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    literally like swinging from one extreme
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    to the other extreme. And this has
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    basically been going on back and forth
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    for decades. Right? In the early 2000s,
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    it was very extreme thinness. Then it
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    went to literally, you know, body
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    positivity that got very extreme as
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    well. And and I want to sort of help
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    people figure out what the truth is
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    because the truth is is in the middle.
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    And until we recognize this, there's
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    going to continue to be this pendulum
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    swing effect where we're going from one
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    unhealthy culture to another unhealthy
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    culture back and forth and back and
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    forth. Um, and I want to start with um,
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    discussing body positivity. So, body
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    positivity was a movement in which
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    people sort of learn to accept and love
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    their bodies. On the surface, I actually
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    really like this idea. I think that
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    insecurity is really detrimental to
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    spiritual growth. I think that, you
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    know, we should all strive to accept
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    ourselves. But where body positivity
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    went wrong is that it started to
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    basically say that changing yourself is
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    bad because you're already perfect. And
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    the truth is sometimes we do need to
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    change ourselves, right? Sometimes we
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    are in a position where change is
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    necessary, right? If if someone is you
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    you know like like struggling with
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    obesity, right? Um I think that if you
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    are obese, you should not hate yourself,
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    right? I think that's really messed up.
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    I I don't support messaging like like
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    you know hating yourself is never going
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    to cause positive growth, right? It's
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    going to cause you to self-sabotage. is
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    going to cause you to make your
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    situation worse. So, so I think if
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    you're in that situation, you should
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    accept where you are presently at and
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    then change yourself for health reasons,
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    right? Not for reasons that are based in
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    self-hatred or contempt, right? Reasons
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    that are about like making yourself
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    better, right? And when I've known
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    people who who, you know, struggle with
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    obesity because it is a medical
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    condition, right? Um, when they do it
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    for health, they tend to actually feel
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    better and not, you know, ruminate in
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    self-hatred, right? And then at the end
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    they actually reach a really healthy
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    good goal, right? It ends well. It ends
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    with them no longer being obese and
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    actually healing themselves from the
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    inside out and creating a healthier
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    life, right? I think that's really the
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    approach. Um, and I think telling people
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    like, you know, it's healthy to be in a
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    very, you know, bad physical situation
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    is very counterproductive. I think it's
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    damaging rhetoric. Um, and there was a
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    body posit positivity influencer who
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    actually died. Um, I remember that
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    conversation and that was a real shock
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    moment for people. Um and I think we
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    should understand that you know health
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    is really important but at the same time
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    the message with emin body positivity
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    that you shouldn't hate
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    yourself that's a good message nobody
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    should hate themselves because when we
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    think about self-hatred I think we need
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    to see it as the inverse of narcissism
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    right because when we're looking at at
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    narcissism narcissism is really based
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    around the belief that you are
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    individually completely separate
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    completely completely unique right if
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    you love yourself to such an extent that
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    you're a narcissist right and you are
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    the best person ever lived like you're
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    very grandiose
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    That's not rooted in reality. That's a
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    delusion, right? And we and we recognize
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    that. But if someone goes the other way
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    where they think they are individually
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    the worst person who's ever existed,
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    right? Everyone hates them. There's
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    nothing redeeming about them. They're
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    horrible. Right? Is that not still kind
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    of a narcissism? Because it is saying
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    that you are special. You are unique in
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    a way that no one else is, right? You
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    are independently the worst human who's
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    ever existed. I think we need to see
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    that as a foil to narcissism. In truth,
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    every single person has good things and
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    bad things about them. Nobody is
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    uniquely perfect. Nobody's uniquely
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    terrible and and I think you know moving
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    away from both of these extremes is
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    really important because the thing is if
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    you if you see yourself as perfect
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    that's typically rooted in some sort of
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    lack right and if you see yourself as
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    horrible it's rooted in some sort of
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    belief of specialness right the thing is
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    we are all special in that we all have a
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    spark of divinity in us but there is no
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    person who has less or more of a spark
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    of divinity in them right we all are
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    divine in our own right but at the same
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    time we're not gods and I
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    think understanding that we're special
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    and partisan and cosmic while also not
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    you know seeing ourselves as holy
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    unique is very important because we
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    understand metaphysically there is no
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    separation, right? So, so at the end of
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    the day, none of us are horrible. None
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    of us are amazing. We're all kind of
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    mixed, right? There's good and bad
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    within all things, right? Dualism is
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    false, right? There's there's there's
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    good and bad and all. The yin and the
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    yang exist in all of us. So, no, you're
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    not worse than everyone else. You're not
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    uglier than everyone else, but you're
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    also not like entirely perfect. And body
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    positivity, if you think about it, is
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    really a message that everyone is
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    perfect. And that doesn't really make
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    sense. Um, everyone has flaws, right?
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    And and I think we need to accept our
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    flaws and understand that they're there
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    without losing our minds about it. Um,
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    so body positivity, it also I think kind
  • 00:10:07
    of sets people up for failure, right?
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    Because if you sort of set the standard
  • 00:10:11
    at loving everything about yourself, I
  • 00:10:13
    think in a sense that's actually kind of
  • 00:10:15
    unrealistic because we all have things
  • 00:10:16
    we don't love about ourselves, right? We
  • 00:10:18
    all have a shadow, right? We all have,
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    you know, I look I look I'm an
  • 00:10:21
    astrologer, right? I look at people's
  • 00:10:23
    charts all day. I give people readings
  • 00:10:24
    and there are good things and bad things
  • 00:10:26
    in every person's chart I've ever looked
  • 00:10:27
    at. I've never seen anyone who had a
  • 00:10:29
    perfectly good chart or perfectly bad
  • 00:10:31
    chart. Everyone has something they need
  • 00:10:33
    to remediate, right? Um and so if you
  • 00:10:35
    define yourself as perfect and you're
  • 00:10:36
    like, I'm perfect as I am, you are
  • 00:10:38
    setting yourself for failure because the
  • 00:10:40
    moment you see something within yourself
  • 00:10:41
    or you do something that is not perfect,
  • 00:10:43
    basically you're going to have an ego
  • 00:10:44
    fracture, right? You're going to have a
  • 00:10:47
    ego collapse. And when we're talking
  • 00:10:49
    about the ego, we're talking about our
  • 00:10:50
    our self. Um so in a sense yes the ego
  • 00:10:53
    always exists. You cannot kill the ego
  • 00:10:54
    without death. But we get these sort of
  • 00:10:56
    like false egos within our mind where
  • 00:10:58
    it's like how we perceive ourselves. I
  • 00:11:00
    want to call it the false ego. When
  • 00:11:01
    people talk about ego death they're
  • 00:11:03
    often talking about false ego fractures.
  • 00:11:05
    And when you you know see yourself as
  • 00:11:06
    like I am the most I am perfect. I am
  • 00:11:08
    perfect as I am. You're pro you're
  • 00:11:09
    basically setting yourself up for a
  • 00:11:11
    involuntary ego fracture right? You're
  • 00:11:13
    setting yourself up for failure. You're
  • 00:11:15
    not setting yourself up with a good sort
  • 00:11:17
    of starting ground. There was a concept
  • 00:11:19
    that went around. that never got a lot
  • 00:11:21
    of attention um because it's not you
  • 00:11:22
    know that exciting called body
  • 00:11:24
    neutrality and basically it's where you
  • 00:11:27
    kind of see your body as a thing that is
  • 00:11:29
    a sort of machine where you're like okay
  • 00:11:32
    my legs are there to help me run my skin
  • 00:11:34
    is there to feel the sunshine right it's
  • 00:11:37
    basically like seeing yourself kind of
  • 00:11:39
    in a utilitarian way and I I I I like
  • 00:11:42
    this more actually I think for people
  • 00:11:44
    who struggle with body image this is
  • 00:11:45
    probably the stance that you might want
  • 00:11:47
    to take early on your healing journey
  • 00:11:49
    because of course beauty is good and I'm
  • 00:11:50
    going to get into that. But if you are
  • 00:11:52
    in a place where you are really
  • 00:11:53
    struggling, I think the first thing you
  • 00:11:55
    need to do is actually move towards body
  • 00:11:56
    neutrality and seeing your body as more
  • 00:11:58
    utilitarian because your perception of
  • 00:12:00
    beauty is really already kind of skewed.
  • 00:12:03
    And I'm going to get into how our
  • 00:12:04
    perception of beauty is skewed. Um, so I
  • 00:12:06
    think for your sort of factory reset
  • 00:12:07
    towards, you know, developing a good
  • 00:12:09
    relationship with beauty and the self,
  • 00:12:10
    you need to just see your body as a
  • 00:12:12
    thing that works. Um, because if you do
  • 00:12:13
    that, you're inherently going to take
  • 00:12:14
    care of yourself because you have to
  • 00:12:16
    sort of take care of the car you are
  • 00:12:17
    living in, right? you wouldn't, you
  • 00:12:19
    know, starve it. You wouldn't overfeed
  • 00:12:20
    it, right? You would give it the right
  • 00:12:21
    amount of gas. If you put too much gas
  • 00:12:22
    in a car, your car might catch on fire
  • 00:12:24
    at the gas pump. If you put too little,
  • 00:12:25
    your car is going to break down on the
  • 00:12:27
    highway. So, I think that type of stance
  • 00:12:29
    is really good when people are early on
  • 00:12:30
    in this type of journey. Um, I like
  • 00:12:32
    this. This never went viral because it's
  • 00:12:33
    not that exciting. It's not that cool,
  • 00:12:35
    right? And it doesn't feel as good as
  • 00:12:37
    like immediately validating everything
  • 00:12:38
    about yourself, but I don't think it
  • 00:12:40
    sets you up for failure because your
  • 00:12:41
    body will always have a utilitarian
  • 00:12:43
    function of getting you throughout the
  • 00:12:44
    world. Now, the new trend is the other
  • 00:12:47
    extreme, right? Um, people saw that body
  • 00:12:50
    positivity was hurting people and
  • 00:12:52
    they're like, "Okay, well, this is
  • 00:12:53
    delusion. This is horrible." And so,
  • 00:12:55
    they went the other extreme, which which
  • 00:12:57
    I I see how this started to happen, but
  • 00:12:59
    because nobody on the internet can be
  • 00:13:00
    normal and nuanced and reasonable. It
  • 00:13:02
    went immediately back to like early
  • 00:13:04
    2000s diet culture, body negativity.
  • 00:13:07
    It's it's body negativity, right? Um,
  • 00:13:09
    and there's this whole community called
  • 00:13:10
    Skinny Talk where people are like giving
  • 00:13:13
    tips on you like how to be as perfect as
  • 00:13:15
    possible. And you're also seeing in the
  • 00:13:17
    skincare world. Um, a big boom like
  • 00:13:19
    there's a real anti-aging obsession
  • 00:13:21
    going on right now. Um, there was a big
  • 00:13:24
    news story a couple months back,
  • 00:13:25
    probably like a year ago back now. I'm
  • 00:13:27
    not really good at being topical and on
  • 00:13:29
    time. Um, where basically Sephoras were
  • 00:13:31
    getting inundated with children as young
  • 00:13:33
    as seven trying to get anti-aging
  • 00:13:36
    skincare because they're so scared of
  • 00:13:37
    aging. Um, and there were actually
  • 00:13:39
    reports of young girls getting chemical
  • 00:13:41
    burns from using retinols and extreme ex
  • 00:13:44
    um, exfoliants at ages that their skin
  • 00:13:46
    was simply not ready to handle that. Um,
  • 00:13:48
    so right now it's like people have put
  • 00:13:52
    our current version of beauty up like an
  • 00:13:54
    idol, right? Like it's not it's not
  • 00:13:57
    reasonable because the thing is when you
  • 00:13:59
    take beauty to this extreme that it
  • 00:14:02
    starts becoming I mean I'm just going to
  • 00:14:03
    call it vanity, right? um you actually
  • 00:14:06
    end up harming yourself and actually
  • 00:14:08
    getting further away from the divine
  • 00:14:10
    conception of beauty, right? Like if if
  • 00:14:11
    you, you know, get really into skinny
  • 00:14:13
    talk and you watch these videos about
  • 00:14:14
    how you're only supposed to have like
  • 00:14:15
    three bites of every dish you like and
  • 00:14:18
    that's it, like you're going to hurt
  • 00:14:20
    yourself, right? People who are, you
  • 00:14:22
    know, severely underweight are also not
  • 00:14:25
    actually, you know, in a divine state of
  • 00:14:27
    beauty, right? They they are unhealthy,
  • 00:14:29
    right? That is unhealthy. If you are so
  • 00:14:32
    fixated on skincare that you have to use
  • 00:14:35
    90 serums before you go to sleep, there
  • 00:14:37
    are these videos called morning shed
  • 00:14:38
    where people put mouth tape over their
  • 00:14:40
    mouth which by the way can cause you to
  • 00:14:42
    exfixiate in your sleep. So bad idea. Um
  • 00:14:44
    and then they use like anti-rinkle
  • 00:14:46
    straws and they they do all sorts of
  • 00:14:48
    crazy things. There's also a whole um
  • 00:14:50
    trend of sun avoidance where basically
  • 00:14:52
    you don't go outside before between
  • 00:14:54
    10:00 a.m. and 400 pm, right? And you go
  • 00:14:56
    to bed with all the stuff on your face.
  • 00:14:58
    you um it's it's really extreme right
  • 00:15:01
    you avoid the sun entirely because of
  • 00:15:03
    course the sun can cause aging right the
  • 00:15:04
    sun can also give us cancer um the sun
  • 00:15:07
    too much sun is bad for you um but at
  • 00:15:09
    the same time we need sun to be happy
  • 00:15:11
    right vitamin D inhibits our joy and
  • 00:15:14
    metaphysically the sun is the center of
  • 00:15:16
    all life and vitality right we need
  • 00:15:18
    solar energy in our lives and
  • 00:15:19
    interestingly when people do
  • 00:15:20
    purification from miasma and miasma does
  • 00:15:23
    relate to a lot of things like
  • 00:15:24
    depression and whatnot um they actually
  • 00:15:26
    invoke the sun right the sun is a healer
  • 00:15:29
    and and that's a real moment where
  • 00:15:30
    metaphysics gets proven by science when
  • 00:15:32
    we understand you know solar work can
  • 00:15:34
    cure me asma on a physical on a
  • 00:15:35
    spiritual level but on a physical level
  • 00:15:37
    vitamin D can actually diminish
  • 00:15:39
    depression symptoms in people right
  • 00:15:40
    that's one of those where science later
  • 00:15:42
    in the future proved an ancient
  • 00:15:43
    metaphysical idea right um obviously
  • 00:15:46
    like like I'm not saying don't wear
  • 00:15:47
    sunscreen to be clear um I think
  • 00:15:49
    sunscreen is important because it
  • 00:15:50
    prevents cancer and I think there's
  • 00:15:52
    something messed up that we're more
  • 00:15:53
    focused on sunscreen to prevent
  • 00:15:55
    wrinkling than to prevent cancer when
  • 00:15:56
    cancer is definitely like a lot worse
  • 00:15:58
    than having a few wrinkles on your
  • 00:15:59
    forehead. But yeah, we need the sun. You
  • 00:16:01
    need to live your life with with the
  • 00:16:03
    skincare stuff. I see it as people like
  • 00:16:04
    rejecting life in a sense, right?
  • 00:16:06
    Because if you're and there was a really
  • 00:16:08
    interesting article I read called, "Is
  • 00:16:10
    anyone having sex after their 10step
  • 00:16:12
    skincare routine?" And I know that
  • 00:16:14
    sounds kind of like like in your face,
  • 00:16:16
    but think about it. If you're going to
  • 00:16:17
    sleep with mouth tape and eye mask and,
  • 00:16:20
    you know, a V strap to make your jawline
  • 00:16:22
    sharper when you're sleeping, like are
  • 00:16:24
    you having sex? Are you are you making
  • 00:16:27
    love with the jawline strap on? Like
  • 00:16:29
    does that stay on during sex? Cuz like
  • 00:16:32
    people, you know, they have sex before
  • 00:16:33
    they go to bed and they wake up. And
  • 00:16:34
    like if you're, you know, in a long-term
  • 00:16:35
    committed relationship, like that's kind
  • 00:16:37
    of part of your life. Um I've discussed
  • 00:16:38
    extensively how sex is the unification
  • 00:16:41
    of opposites as transcendent. Um arrows
  • 00:16:43
    can get us to agape, right? The the
  • 00:16:45
    these things are important. And like,
  • 00:16:47
    you know, if we don't have sex at any
  • 00:16:48
    point, you know, the species will die
  • 00:16:50
    off, which would be a little bit
  • 00:16:51
    unpleasant. We maybe don't want to all
  • 00:16:52
    die off, but yeah. I mean, how can you
  • 00:16:54
    even like have relationships if you're
  • 00:16:55
    sleeping like that? Um, also, I don't
  • 00:16:57
    know how a person can fall asleep with
  • 00:16:58
    all that stuff on their face. I think I
  • 00:17:00
    would rip it off after 10 minutes. But,
  • 00:17:02
    I mean, it's a good point. And with with
  • 00:17:03
    sun avoidance, right? Like going out in
  • 00:17:05
    the sun is so fun, right? Going on
  • 00:17:07
    hikes, honoring nature. As pagans, we
  • 00:17:10
    understand we honor nature. We honor the
  • 00:17:12
    seasons, right? The seasonal calendar of
  • 00:17:14
    the year is life, death, rebirth
  • 00:17:16
    epitomized, right? It is the divine
  • 00:17:17
    cycle. That's the reason why we have
  • 00:17:19
    Sabbaths on, you know, midsummer and the
  • 00:17:22
    winter solstice and all these dates
  • 00:17:24
    because we know the sun moving and
  • 00:17:25
    turning represents the divine move and
  • 00:17:28
    turn throughout our lives. And if we're
  • 00:17:29
    avoiding that between 10:00 a.m. and 400
  • 00:17:31
    p.m. every single day, we're sort of
  • 00:17:33
    avoiding the divine, right? It becomes a
  • 00:17:35
    rejection of life. It
  • 00:17:37
    becomes really kind of freaky. And when
  • 00:17:39
    we think about, you know, skinny talk
  • 00:17:40
    and um pe, you know, extreme caloric
  • 00:17:43
    restriction, right? Um I think people
  • 00:17:45
    should eat healthy. Okay, I have a
  • 00:17:47
    radical opinion on the internet of you
  • 00:17:49
    should eat a healthy balanced diet in a
  • 00:17:51
    way that keeps you at a healthy body
  • 00:17:53
    weight, right? Between, you know, a
  • 00:17:55
    regular BMI, right? Not underweight, not
  • 00:17:58
    overweight. I think that's pretty much
  • 00:17:59
    the ideal. I have this crazy position
  • 00:18:01
    that being healthy is the ideal way to
  • 00:18:03
    live. I know Blasphemy burned me at the
  • 00:18:06
    stake, honestly, for that one. Um, it's
  • 00:18:08
    not like, you know, living as long as
  • 00:18:10
    you can and having, you know, good
  • 00:18:11
    experiences is is important. No, no, you
  • 00:18:13
    got to be perfect for TikTok, right?
  • 00:18:15
    That's so so I'm wrong. Of course,
  • 00:18:17
    cancel me in the comments below if if
  • 00:18:19
    you think I'm delusional. Um but yeah, I
  • 00:18:21
    think people should be healthy and um
  • 00:18:22
    you know, if if you severely undereat
  • 00:18:24
    for a long um period of time, I mean,
  • 00:18:27
    you risk death, infertility,
  • 00:18:29
    osteoporosis, like it's really bad
  • 00:18:31
    stuff. It actually destroys you. And um
  • 00:18:34
    when you are kind of having these these
  • 00:18:36
    things where it is starting to become
  • 00:18:37
    overkill, you are in a sense destroying
  • 00:18:40
    your beauty, right? You're destroying
  • 00:18:42
    yourself. You're destroying your body.
  • 00:18:44
    And we understand on a metaphysical
  • 00:18:45
    level, mind, body, spirit, it's a
  • 00:18:48
    triangle, right? They're completely
  • 00:18:50
    related. When your body is suffering, so
  • 00:18:52
    is your mind, your intellectual
  • 00:18:54
    capacities. And actually, we know people
  • 00:18:55
    with highly restrictive eating habits
  • 00:18:57
    actually do have cognitive decline. They
  • 00:18:59
    literally like like their brain cells
  • 00:19:01
    die. Their IQ lowers. And we understand
  • 00:19:04
    that it affects our spiritual health. If
  • 00:19:06
    you are destroying your physical body,
  • 00:19:08
    you are destroying your spiritual body.
  • 00:19:10
    That goes in both directions, right?
  • 00:19:12
    That goes in all directions. you are
  • 00:19:13
    doing anything that hurts yourself
  • 00:19:14
    physically, you are hurting yourself
  • 00:19:16
    spiritually, right? And we need to
  • 00:19:18
    consider all these three three things as
  • 00:19:19
    being linked. And what happens is when
  • 00:19:20
    people get into these crazy regimens is
  • 00:19:22
    they become hyperfixated on and it
  • 00:19:25
    destroys their mental health. I mean, I
  • 00:19:26
    um actually this this is a strange story
  • 00:19:29
    from my life I didn't know I would ever
  • 00:19:30
    share, but I briefly worked at a spray
  • 00:19:33
    tanning salon. Okay, look guys, did it
  • 00:19:36
    for the check. I was young and I I
  • 00:19:39
    needed some work experience. So, I
  • 00:19:41
    actually I did I was a spray tan
  • 00:19:43
    technician, which is really funny since
  • 00:19:45
    I'm actually quite pale and I I actually
  • 00:19:47
    I don't like the look of spray tans. I
  • 00:19:49
    think they look really artificial. Um,
  • 00:19:51
    but I did I worked at a tanning salon
  • 00:19:53
    for like a month. Um, and it I I it was
  • 00:19:55
    not good. Not Not my best experience,
  • 00:19:56
    but it was really interesting because
  • 00:19:58
    when I had girls come into my booth, so
  • 00:20:00
    when you're a spray tanner, right, like
  • 00:20:02
    the the people are naked. So, I held
  • 00:20:04
    like a spray tanning gun and the girls
  • 00:20:05
    got naked and I did I spray tanned their
  • 00:20:07
    naked bodies and I saw a lot of naked
  • 00:20:10
    people. Like all day I saw naked people
  • 00:20:12
    and um it was actually kind of
  • 00:20:14
    interesting because I saw what people
  • 00:20:15
    actually looked like in real life cuz
  • 00:20:17
    you know when someone's like in front of
  • 00:20:18
    you in like the horrible lighting
  • 00:20:19
    that's, you know, really bright so I can
  • 00:20:21
    see all that I'm doing. I mean, you get
  • 00:20:22
    you get an interesting perspective on
  • 00:20:23
    how the average person looks because I
  • 00:20:25
    do think social media skews how people
  • 00:20:27
    look because most images on social media
  • 00:20:29
    are filtered, edited, right? you don't
  • 00:20:31
    really see how real humans look if
  • 00:20:32
    you're terminally online. So, I saw a
  • 00:20:34
    lot of people in real life. But what
  • 00:20:35
    what I also found the most sad, I guess,
  • 00:20:38
    was women would come into my booth all
  • 00:20:40
    the time and I would always like small
  • 00:20:42
    chat with them because like when you're
  • 00:20:43
    looking at a naked person, you know,
  • 00:20:44
    it's kind of awkward if you don't like
  • 00:20:46
    talk to them. Like it's just kind of
  • 00:20:47
    weird. So, I would ask them like, "Okay,
  • 00:20:49
    what are you getting this spray tan
  • 00:20:50
    for?" It felt like an easy small talk
  • 00:20:52
    question. And so often girls would come
  • 00:20:54
    into my booth and they would say, "I
  • 00:20:57
    hate my pale skin. I feel ugly. No guy
  • 00:21:00
    is ever going to want me, right? Like
  • 00:21:01
    I'm going on a date with my boyfriend. I
  • 00:21:03
    don't want him to like, you know, take
  • 00:21:04
    my clothes off and see me looking
  • 00:21:06
    disgusting and pale. And I I always
  • 00:21:09
    struggled to respond to these girls
  • 00:21:10
    because I was be looking at them, you
  • 00:21:12
    know, naked and pale in front of me. And
  • 00:21:14
    I would be like, there's nothing really
  • 00:21:15
    wrong with you, right? Like you look you
  • 00:21:18
    look good. Um, and they would they
  • 00:21:20
    would, you know, basically get a
  • 00:21:20
    dysmorphia with it where they would
  • 00:21:22
    never think they were tan enough, right?
  • 00:21:24
    These girls would keep getting darker
  • 00:21:25
    and darker spray tans to the point where
  • 00:21:27
    they looked like really bad um because
  • 00:21:30
    they were that insecure about something
  • 00:21:32
    that you really can't do anything about
  • 00:21:33
    your skin tone. Like you if you're pale,
  • 00:21:34
    like you're pale. I mean, there's
  • 00:21:36
    there's not much that can be done there.
  • 00:21:38
    I mean, I'm guess I'm glad they were
  • 00:21:39
    getting like spray tans instead of going
  • 00:21:41
    in tan tanning booths and like, you
  • 00:21:42
    know, maximizing their cancer potential,
  • 00:21:45
    but yeah, it was it made me kind of sad.
  • 00:21:47
    And then that's one of the many many
  • 00:21:48
    reasons why I'm not I did that so
  • 00:21:51
    briefly. It was just not a good fit for
  • 00:21:53
    me. Um, but yeah, it was it was very
  • 00:21:55
    sad. And I think this is where I get
  • 00:21:57
    into dysmorphia and and one where I want
  • 00:21:59
    to talk about body dysmorphia because we
  • 00:22:02
    get this thing with with ourselves
  • 00:22:03
    called ego attachments, right? Where we
  • 00:22:05
    have these like false egos that we
  • 00:22:07
    believe are true false perceptions of
  • 00:22:09
    ourselves. And on a spiritual level,
  • 00:22:10
    these things are toxic and disruptive.
  • 00:22:13
    They need to be destroyed. These false
  • 00:22:15
    egos block us from our true self. Right?
  • 00:22:18
    I talk a lot about the true will and how
  • 00:22:19
    discovering your true will is vital in
  • 00:22:22
    order to achieve the great work in order
  • 00:22:23
    to have you know your your fullest
  • 00:22:25
    potential be reached. Right? Your true
  • 00:22:26
    will is something that is intrinsic to
  • 00:22:28
    you. Right? You have had your true will
  • 00:22:31
    within you since before you were born.
  • 00:22:33
    Right? Your true will is your connection
  • 00:22:35
    to the divine. Right? Your true will.
  • 00:22:36
    You can call it so many different
  • 00:22:37
    things. Your higher purpose, your pure
  • 00:22:39
    will, whatever you want to call it. You
  • 00:22:41
    can even use the new age term soul
  • 00:22:42
    contract if you would like. Right? This
  • 00:22:44
    is your fate and you need to choose to
  • 00:22:47
    follow that path, right? You need to do
  • 00:22:50
    that. And to discover your true will,
  • 00:22:52
    you need to get rid of these false
  • 00:22:54
    perceptions, right? We go down these
  • 00:22:55
    false paths all the time because we as
  • 00:22:57
    humans are easily capable of delusion,
  • 00:23:00
    right? We delude ourselves. The worst
  • 00:23:02
    person you can lie to is yourself. And
  • 00:23:04
    most people do lie to themselves. And
  • 00:23:06
    the lies we tell ourselves are
  • 00:23:08
    completely influenced by culture. If our
  • 00:23:10
    culture did not say pale skin was ugly,
  • 00:23:12
    I don't think I would have had to see
  • 00:23:14
    for hours at a day women in front of me
  • 00:23:16
    on the brink of crying talking about how
  • 00:23:19
    much they hated their skin tone. Right?
  • 00:23:21
    And that was a really eye-opening
  • 00:23:23
    experience. Um, and so we need to
  • 00:23:26
    destroy these false perceptions. And our
  • 00:23:28
    world wants to make us sick. I think
  • 00:23:31
    that's a that's a hard thing to admit,
  • 00:23:33
    but I think it's true. Our culture wants
  • 00:23:35
    us sick. Our norms within our society
  • 00:23:39
    are unhealthy. Okay, if you think about
  • 00:23:42
    the average person, right, the the
  • 00:23:44
    average person, right, they live an
  • 00:23:46
    unhealthy lifestyle. They have poor
  • 00:23:47
    mental health and they do a lot of
  • 00:23:50
    things to make their health worse on the
  • 00:23:51
    regular, right? Um I think alcohol use
  • 00:23:53
    is normalized to a really dangerous
  • 00:23:55
    extent, right? I don't think, you know,
  • 00:23:56
    having a drink or two is bad, but I
  • 00:23:58
    think, you know, there's so many people
  • 00:23:59
    who are just casual alcoholics, right?
  • 00:24:01
    Um once again, high obesity rates are a
  • 00:24:04
    problem. Um, and obesity should be seen
  • 00:24:06
    as, you know, a medical problem, not
  • 00:24:07
    shamed or ridiculed, but it shouldn't be
  • 00:24:09
    normalized, if you get what I'm saying.
  • 00:24:11
    Um, you know, we we live in an unhealthy
  • 00:24:14
    world in so many ways. And there's so
  • 00:24:15
    many unhealthy things we're taught. And
  • 00:24:17
    what we are lied to about beauty is one
  • 00:24:19
    of those unhealthy things, right? We're
  • 00:24:21
    told to hurt ourselves to be perfect,
  • 00:24:24
    right? We're given this false idea of
  • 00:24:26
    perfection that's not based in mythic
  • 00:24:28
    truth. And I'm going to get into like
  • 00:24:30
    traditional esoteric ideas of beauty in
  • 00:24:32
    a bit. Um, and we need to break out of
  • 00:24:34
    these things. We need to recognize the
  • 00:24:36
    norm is not my true will. The norm is
  • 00:24:39
    not healthy. The norm of our society is
  • 00:24:41
    not anyone's true will. You are not
  • 00:24:44
    meant to live a life that makes you feel
  • 00:24:46
    miserable and be miserable all the time.
  • 00:24:47
    You simply are not. And you have the
  • 00:24:49
    power within you vested in that will in
  • 00:24:52
    order to make change. Magic itself is
  • 00:24:54
    using the will to enact change. By
  • 00:24:56
    discovering your true will and by
  • 00:24:58
    rejecting these ego attachments, you can
  • 00:25:02
    change things, right? You have that
  • 00:25:04
    power. We're also told we have much less
  • 00:25:06
    power over ourselves and our lives than
  • 00:25:07
    we actually do. We are way more
  • 00:25:08
    autonomous and higher agency than people
  • 00:25:10
    understand that we are. So throw it
  • 00:25:13
    away. Throw it in the trash can. Do not
  • 00:25:16
    invest your entire self-worth in
  • 00:25:18
    everchanging beauty standards. Because
  • 00:25:20
    the thing is, beauty does not change.
  • 00:25:22
    Beauty is unchanging. It is perennial,
  • 00:25:25
    right? These beauty standards, like
  • 00:25:27
    whether you're supposed to look like
  • 00:25:28
    Kate Moss or Sydney Sweeney or whatever,
  • 00:25:30
    of course, those are two objectively
  • 00:25:31
    beautiful women, but they look
  • 00:25:33
    completely different, right? There's no
  • 00:25:34
    way that beauty itself has changed that
  • 00:25:36
    much in like 20 years, right? That
  • 00:25:38
    doesn't make any sense. So, we need to
  • 00:25:39
    consider what beauty really is. So,
  • 00:25:41
    throw internet beauty standards away,
  • 00:25:44
    right? You are not supposed to look like
  • 00:25:46
    you you look under 15 social media
  • 00:25:48
    filters, right? Everything you look at
  • 00:25:50
    is filtered. Everything you look at is
  • 00:25:51
    photoshopped. Assume that. Okay? Don't
  • 00:25:53
    look at any image on the internet and
  • 00:25:54
    think anything else of it. Assume it is
  • 00:25:56
    photoshopped fake, right? Base what
  • 00:25:58
    normal people look like based on the
  • 00:26:00
    normal people you see in your town.
  • 00:26:01
    Right? That's the real like normies.
  • 00:26:04
    Okay? Like you see people getting so
  • 00:26:05
    delusional with it. Like I saw someone
  • 00:26:07
    saying Sydney Sweeney is mid. Like what?
  • 00:26:09
    Sydney Sweeney is is incredibly
  • 00:26:11
    gorgeous. She's she's like incredible.
  • 00:26:13
    So throw it all away. Okay. Don't care
  • 00:26:16
    about changing beauty standards, right?
  • 00:26:18
    Don't go, "Well, okay, Slim Thick was
  • 00:26:20
    cool five years ago, but now I'm
  • 00:26:22
    supposed to be a rail, so I guess I have
  • 00:26:24
    to change my body all the time, right?"
  • 00:26:25
    Like the Kardashians, who are so
  • 00:26:27
    obnoxious. Um, they went from like BBLs
  • 00:26:30
    to like being like borderline
  • 00:26:32
    underweight in like a year, like there's
  • 00:26:35
    no point in keeping up with that, right?
  • 00:26:37
    That's just going to drive you crazy,
  • 00:26:39
    right? It's just going to make you feel
  • 00:26:40
    nuts. And when you are distracted by
  • 00:26:43
    keeping up with the Joneses, you're not
  • 00:26:45
    focused on your spiritual growth. you're
  • 00:26:47
    not focused on what really matters
  • 00:26:49
    because this is not the most important
  • 00:26:51
    thing. Okay? Looking hot on TikTok is
  • 00:26:53
    not the most important thing. It is not
  • 00:26:55
    what you should define your life by. You
  • 00:26:57
    should define your life by higher
  • 00:26:58
    things. Virtue, true will, the gods.
  • 00:27:01
    Those are the things that matter, right?
  • 00:27:03
    This does not matter. Rip it out of
  • 00:27:06
    your head. And it's typically, you know,
  • 00:27:07
    rooted deep in our psyche because we've
  • 00:27:09
    been brainwashed from a young age to
  • 00:27:10
    believe this stuff. Throw it away.
  • 00:27:12
    Beauty is real. So, let's talk about
  • 00:27:15
    what beauty actually is. So, beauty is
  • 00:27:18
    not any of the things our culture says
  • 00:27:20
    beauty is. Ignore it. But beauty is
  • 00:27:22
    real, right? Beauty is objective, which
  • 00:27:25
    sounds crazy me saying that after saying
  • 00:27:27
    what I just said, but hear me out. Hear
  • 00:27:29
    me out. Hear me out. Okay? So, in our
  • 00:27:32
    culture, beauty is seen as subjective or
  • 00:27:36
    changing, right? And that's actually
  • 00:27:38
    where bad beauty standards come from,
  • 00:27:39
    right? Because it comes on this idea
  • 00:27:41
    that beauty shifts, right? What was
  • 00:27:43
    beautiful 100 years ago is not beautiful
  • 00:27:45
    now and so on and so on, right? That
  • 00:27:48
    implies subjectivity, right? And of
  • 00:27:50
    course, beauty is somewhat subjective,
  • 00:27:53
    right? People like different things.
  • 00:27:54
    People have different aesthetics.
  • 00:27:55
    There's a range of what is beautiful,
  • 00:27:57
    right? There's not one single beautiful
  • 00:27:59
    thing, right? We all look different,
  • 00:28:01
    right? And we should embrace our
  • 00:28:02
    differences. I do not think we should
  • 00:28:04
    all congeal onto one singular mold. Like
  • 00:28:07
    there's this discussion of this thing
  • 00:28:08
    called Instagram face. Instagram face is
  • 00:28:11
    basically how like so many women have
  • 00:28:13
    gotten a lot of the same cosmetic
  • 00:28:14
    procedures done that they all look the
  • 00:28:15
    same. Like if you watch a period drama,
  • 00:28:17
    you'll see nobody looks like they were
  • 00:28:18
    actually from that period. That's
  • 00:28:20
    Instagram face, right? I'm not
  • 00:28:22
    advocating for metaphysical Instagram
  • 00:28:24
    face. Okay? We need to understand what
  • 00:28:26
    we look like and embrace our differences
  • 00:28:28
    while understanding beauty is real. So
  • 00:28:31
    where does beauty come from? So beauty
  • 00:28:33
    is a divine concept. So within plonism
  • 00:28:36
    which is like a philosophy related to
  • 00:28:38
    polytheism this idea of forms or things
  • 00:28:40
    that objectively exist and these forms
  • 00:28:43
    come from the divine source the divine
  • 00:28:45
    itself. So you know these forms are
  • 00:28:47
    things like virtue truth and one of them
  • 00:28:49
    is beauty and we need to see these forms
  • 00:28:52
    as interrelated. So beauty and truth
  • 00:28:54
    link and truth and the gods link. So by
  • 00:28:58
    doing things that bring us closer to the
  • 00:28:59
    gods we become more beautiful and beauty
  • 00:29:02
    is downstream of the gods. So we need to
  • 00:29:06
    first understand that that inherently
  • 00:29:08
    implies beauty and health are linked. So
  • 00:29:12
    what brings us closer to the gods as a
  • 00:29:14
    question. So when we're looking at
  • 00:29:16
    getting closer to the gods as a as a
  • 00:29:18
    process, as a question, as a
  • 00:29:19
    conversation, how do you do that? So
  • 00:29:21
    first you find your true will. Then you
  • 00:29:23
    purify yourself and be miasma. And then
  • 00:29:25
    you do mystic devotional work. Okay?
  • 00:29:26
    Those are kind of the things that bring
  • 00:29:27
    us closer to the go the gods. And one of
  • 00:29:30
    those things is virtue or like you know
  • 00:29:33
    doing good things. you know doing
  • 00:29:35
    mysticism and you know divorcing
  • 00:29:37
    ourselves from the ego but what on earth
  • 00:29:39
    does that mean for how do we become
  • 00:29:40
    beautiful these seem themes seem so
  • 00:29:43
    unrelated and I think we need to
  • 00:29:44
    understand what is what is beauty in in
  • 00:29:47
    the eyes of the gods so where you can
  • 00:29:49
    get that is actually look at artwork
  • 00:29:53
    depicting the gods the gods and the
  • 00:29:55
    goddesses right because this is for men
  • 00:29:57
    and women men have just as many crazy
  • 00:29:59
    ideas about beauty right men think they
  • 00:30:02
    need to like have 23 three like almost
  • 00:30:05
    no body fat, right? And they need to be
  • 00:30:07
    like bodybuilders, which you can't do
  • 00:30:08
    without taking steroids, which are bad
  • 00:30:09
    for you. So for men, this applies too,
  • 00:30:11
    right? Men, you are included in this
  • 00:30:13
    conversation. Look at art of gods. Look
  • 00:30:16
    at them like actually spend some time
  • 00:30:18
    and look at them across cultures, right?
  • 00:30:20
    See the differences because you will see
  • 00:30:22
    some differences, but you'll see a lot
  • 00:30:23
    of core similarities, right? You'll see
  • 00:30:26
    a lot of things that sort of pop up
  • 00:30:27
    again and again. For me, what I notice
  • 00:30:29
    is you see a natural kind of face,
  • 00:30:32
    right? one that has not had like plastic
  • 00:30:34
    surgery on it and you see a healthy body
  • 00:30:37
    weight, right? You don't see extreme
  • 00:30:39
    overweightness. You don't see
  • 00:30:41
    underweightness, right? You see like
  • 00:30:43
    actually a very healthy sustainable body
  • 00:30:45
    type, right? A body type that allows you
  • 00:30:47
    to do rituals, do yoga, have fertility,
  • 00:30:51
    right? Reach your goals, reach physical
  • 00:30:53
    peaks, right? Healthy body weight,
  • 00:30:56
    right? That that's the first thing. And
  • 00:30:58
    you see generally health, clear skin.
  • 00:31:01
    Where does clear skin come from? Not
  • 00:31:03
    putting 9 million products on your face.
  • 00:31:05
    It comes from health, right? Skin care.
  • 00:31:09
    You know, these products are never going
  • 00:31:10
    to do as much as simply being healthy,
  • 00:31:12
    right? I advocate for health, not
  • 00:31:15
    extremes, right? Live your life. Enjoy
  • 00:31:17
    the fullness of life. That's why I went
  • 00:31:19
    so hard against these extreme ideals.
  • 00:31:22
    That's crazy. You don't need to cut out
  • 00:31:23
    every food group. None of that. Throw
  • 00:31:25
    that in the trash, too. Right? Just
  • 00:31:27
    simply live the life we are meant to
  • 00:31:29
    live. live the life that our ancestors
  • 00:31:30
    lived in terms of food and exercise,
  • 00:31:33
    right? Have fun. Live a life of fun,
  • 00:31:35
    right? Don't be ruled by these things.
  • 00:31:37
    You don't want to be in like
  • 00:31:38
    overthinking jail where you're thinking
  • 00:31:40
    constantly about this stuff. You want to
  • 00:31:42
    simply live, right? The gods lived. We
  • 00:31:44
    remember them by their myths, right? And
  • 00:31:46
    even gods that represent beauty, right?
  • 00:31:48
    Apollo and Venus. Apollo is very much
  • 00:31:50
    like male beauty, Venus, female beauty,
  • 00:31:52
    right? They lived, right? Well, not
  • 00:31:55
    lived in the same way, but you get what
  • 00:31:56
    I'm saying, right? Their acolytes lived.
  • 00:31:58
    they didn't go insane. Um, so so strive
  • 00:32:01
    strive for health, okay? Um, and you you
  • 00:32:05
    really should spend some time studying
  • 00:32:06
    these images because they are not the
  • 00:32:07
    images you see on social media. They're
  • 00:32:09
    really
  • 00:32:10
    not. It doesn't look like they shot 900
  • 00:32:13
    milligrams of steroids up their
  • 00:32:16
    and it doesn't look like they haven't
  • 00:32:17
    had a meal in 10 days, right? Neither of
  • 00:32:20
    those are beautiful. And they also
  • 00:32:21
    aren't denying self-care because, you
  • 00:32:24
    know, if you don't take care of
  • 00:32:25
    yourself, right? If if you don't, you
  • 00:32:26
    know, live a somewhat healthy lifestyle,
  • 00:32:28
    you're going to suffer, right? And it
  • 00:32:30
    doesn't promote that either. It's
  • 00:32:31
    balanced. It's reasonable. It's
  • 00:32:33
    practical, right? That is really what
  • 00:32:35
    beauty is. Beauty is what brings you up,
  • 00:32:38
    right? Anything that hurts you in any
  • 00:32:40
    way is not bringing you up. What brings
  • 00:32:42
    you up is the beautiful, right? The
  • 00:32:45
    beautiful is the good. And so really,
  • 00:32:48
    your beauty should be something that
  • 00:32:49
    lifts you upwards and makes your life
  • 00:32:52
    better. and and I want to explore how
  • 00:32:54
    you know there's kind of different
  • 00:32:55
    archetypes um and archetypes are really
  • 00:32:57
    valuable because you know there's not
  • 00:32:58
    one singular like I mentioned Venus but
  • 00:33:00
    there are other
  • 00:33:03
    basically gods and spirits that are
  • 00:33:05
    considered beautiful too and so by
  • 00:33:06
    taking time to look at different
  • 00:33:08
    archetypes you can learn a lot about
  • 00:33:09
    different ways beauty can appear because
  • 00:33:11
    once again there's not one beautiful
  • 00:33:12
    thing you don't need to look exactly
  • 00:33:13
    like a painting of Venus to be beautiful
  • 00:33:15
    that's crazy look at Artemis right
  • 00:33:17
    Artemis is a bit more kind of boyish
  • 00:33:19
    visually but still beautiful look at
  • 00:33:21
    Hara right Hera's you know a bit more
  • 00:33:23
    like kind of softer and and visual,
  • 00:33:25
    right? But you see those both represent
  • 00:33:26
    beauty, right? Hera, Venus, Artemis,
  • 00:33:29
    Freya, right? You see variance coming
  • 00:33:32
    up. If you look at goddesses from other
  • 00:33:34
    cultures like Khali, right? You see even
  • 00:33:36
    more variance. Once again, another way
  • 00:33:38
    beauty can sort of appear. And once
  • 00:33:40
    again, exploring divine feminine and
  • 00:33:41
    divine masculine archetypes and
  • 00:33:43
    understanding what archetype you connect
  • 00:33:44
    to most can really help you discover
  • 00:33:46
    what your sort of ideal should be.
  • 00:33:48
    Because your ideal should always be
  • 00:33:50
    something you can reach, right? Your
  • 00:33:51
    ideal shouldn't be something insane. It
  • 00:33:53
    shouldn't be something that hurts you,
  • 00:33:54
    right? Never do anything that hurts you.
  • 00:33:56
    Only do things that make you better and
  • 00:33:57
    make you stronger and make you happier.
  • 00:33:59
    Because if what you're doing to make
  • 00:34:01
    yourself beautiful doesn't make you
  • 00:34:02
    happy and makes you sad, you're doing
  • 00:34:04
    something wrong. Right? The path of
  • 00:34:06
    following the gods is actually the path
  • 00:34:08
    of least resistance. Right? When you're
  • 00:34:10
    following your true will, when you're
  • 00:34:11
    living like a virtuous lifestyle, right?
  • 00:34:13
    You're not suffering as much. Right?
  • 00:34:15
    that that suffering is way diminished
  • 00:34:17
    because you're doing your higher purpose
  • 00:34:19
    and you understand that higher purpose,
  • 00:34:20
    right? A lot of what makes people suffer
  • 00:34:22
    is not understanding that higher
  • 00:34:23
    purpose. And if you're simply following
  • 00:34:25
    beauty to keep up the Joneses, you might
  • 00:34:27
    accidentally turn yourself kind of
  • 00:34:29
    uglier, right? Because we we can see
  • 00:34:32
    that like you can see when someone is
  • 00:34:33
    striving for beauty so hard that they
  • 00:34:35
    actually destroy how they look. Um and
  • 00:34:37
    and that's always such a tragic thing to
  • 00:34:39
    see. And I also I don't think it's worth
  • 00:34:40
    shaming people, right? I think I think
  • 00:34:42
    people really want to like shame and
  • 00:34:44
    crap on people. they don't find
  • 00:34:45
    beautiful. And I think that's wrong. Um
  • 00:34:47
    because where that comes from is is
  • 00:34:49
    resentment in some way. Either you see
  • 00:34:51
    something in common with that person,
  • 00:34:52
    something that you hate about yourself,
  • 00:34:53
    so you hate on them. Or you like have
  • 00:34:55
    some weird I just it it comes from
  • 00:34:57
    complexes, right? When when you're in a
  • 00:34:58
    good spiritual place, you're not cruel.
  • 00:35:00
    You're not harming others. You're not
  • 00:35:02
    necessarily all love and light and
  • 00:35:03
    kumbaya. You're not gonna like everyone,
  • 00:35:05
    but you're not like going on Twitter and
  • 00:35:06
    posting nine million page rants about
  • 00:35:09
    how how horrible someone looks. Um and I
  • 00:35:11
    also I want to talk about one other
  • 00:35:12
    thing that holds people back from divine
  • 00:35:13
    beauty and that's envy. So envy is a
  • 00:35:16
    spiritual disease of the heart. Right?
  • 00:35:17
    It is envy is something that corrods you
  • 00:35:19
    from the inside out. Right? Envy was
  • 00:35:21
    actually feared so much in the ancient
  • 00:35:23
    world that they made these ambulance
  • 00:35:24
    called the evil eye or the nazar and
  • 00:35:26
    they're those blue little evil eyes to
  • 00:35:28
    hang up to avoid envy. Right? Envy is
  • 00:35:30
    basically when someone basically wants
  • 00:35:32
    to be you to the point where they
  • 00:35:33
    destroy you. And actually in the Islamic
  • 00:35:35
    world when you compliment someone you're
  • 00:35:36
    supposed to say mashah afterwards to
  • 00:35:38
    basically prevent you from accidentally
  • 00:35:40
    cursing them with envy. Right? We
  • 00:35:43
    struggle with envy a lot. And you will
  • 00:35:45
    not achieve divine beauty when you are
  • 00:35:46
    in a state of envy. Right? And in our
  • 00:35:48
    beauty culture wants you to envy people.
  • 00:35:50
    In fact that's how it makes money
  • 00:35:51
    because remember the beauty industry is
  • 00:35:53
    like a multi-billion dollar industry.
  • 00:35:56
    They want you to be envying people so
  • 00:35:59
    that you give them money. Right? And I
  • 00:36:01
    also want to clarify, you do not want to
  • 00:36:02
    envy the gods. You don't want to envy
  • 00:36:04
    paintings of Venus. You want to see that
  • 00:36:06
    as like something you can work towards
  • 00:36:07
    because it's not, you know, unrealistic,
  • 00:36:09
    right? Um, but not envy, right? Pull
  • 00:36:11
    that out. Do not, you know, look at 9
  • 00:36:13
    million Tik Tok edits of Snagana Anopka
  • 00:36:16
    and think about how much more beautiful
  • 00:36:17
    you'd be if you had her collar bones,
  • 00:36:19
    right? That's envy. That's not going to
  • 00:36:21
    help you and that's not going to help
  • 00:36:22
    her. Because when you envy someone, you
  • 00:36:24
    are in a sense sending maleific energy
  • 00:36:26
    their way. And why are you sending
  • 00:36:27
    maleific energy their way? Because envy
  • 00:36:29
    is corrosive. Envy rips at your heart
  • 00:36:31
    and fills you with miasma and rot and
  • 00:36:34
    darkness that then gets sent in other
  • 00:36:36
    directions. So if you struggle with
  • 00:36:37
    envy, you need to pull that out and you
  • 00:36:39
    need to do purification work. Okay? You
  • 00:36:41
    need to identify that envy, understand
  • 00:36:43
    you are struggling with envy and then
  • 00:36:46
    seek out catharsis. That's
  • 00:36:48
    purification and then release that so
  • 00:36:50
    that you will be happier and so that
  • 00:36:52
    you're not sending negative energy out
  • 00:36:54
    into the world that causes harm. Okay?
  • 00:36:57
    Erase envy from your soul. And I think
  • 00:36:59
    we've all envied, okay, I think it's
  • 00:37:01
    it's normal at some point in our lives
  • 00:37:02
    to envy. It's a natural human
  • 00:37:03
    experience. So that's why we need to be
  • 00:37:05
    consciously aware of it. And that's why
  • 00:37:06
    contemplation is so important to get
  • 00:37:08
    spiritual growth, right? There's a
  • 00:37:10
    reason why we say know thyself. Right?
  • 00:37:12
    One of the most important things you can
  • 00:37:14
    do in the spiritual world is know
  • 00:37:15
    thyself. Why?
  • 00:37:18
    Because it is really important to
  • 00:37:21
    understand yourself so you can
  • 00:37:22
    understand your true will. And by
  • 00:37:24
    understanding who you are, you then get
  • 00:37:27
    closer and closer to your goals. So pull
  • 00:37:30
    that envy out of your heart, right?
  • 00:37:32
    Purify it away. And I also want to get
  • 00:37:33
    into vanity. Vanity is really something
  • 00:37:35
    that goes handin-hand with this whole
  • 00:37:36
    conversation. Vanity is really what
  • 00:37:38
    people are doing when they prioritize
  • 00:37:40
    their beauty over their health. Um
  • 00:37:41
    because a lot of people, you know, they
  • 00:37:43
    actively put their beauty above their
  • 00:37:44
    health, right? Like they they are like,
  • 00:37:46
    "Yeah, I'm destroying your health, but I
  • 00:37:48
    don't care. At least I'm going to be
  • 00:37:49
    hot." Right? That's vanity. And that is
  • 00:37:52
    going to spiritually corrode you too.
  • 00:37:53
    And that's actually going to block you
  • 00:37:56
    from reaching your spiritual goals. It's
  • 00:37:58
    going to hold you back from your
  • 00:38:00
    spiritual goals. So you need to pull
  • 00:38:01
    that out of your heart too. Once again,
  • 00:38:03
    you need to do purification work. And
  • 00:38:05
    after you've done purification work for
  • 00:38:06
    these two spiritual disease of the
  • 00:38:08
    heart, you need to get closer to the
  • 00:38:09
    gods. Specifically, I would recommend
  • 00:38:11
    working with a sun god because the sun
  • 00:38:12
    relates to virtue and that can kind of
  • 00:38:14
    like put you back on the right path um
  • 00:38:16
    and moving in the right direction. If
  • 00:38:18
    you really feel you're struggling with,
  • 00:38:20
    you know, a confusion about your ego,
  • 00:38:22
    um, or dysmorphia, right? Let's say you,
  • 00:38:24
    let's say you have body dysmorphia, um,
  • 00:38:26
    doing things like tarot to help you
  • 00:38:27
    understand what's real and what's not
  • 00:38:29
    can be a really good place to start. But
  • 00:38:31
    after that, I would really recommend
  • 00:38:32
    contacting your holy guardian angel.
  • 00:38:34
    Your holy guardian angel is a sort of
  • 00:38:35
    guiding spirit that's linked to you. Um,
  • 00:38:38
    and through doing purification work and
  • 00:38:40
    then praying to that holy guardian
  • 00:38:41
    angel, you can establish knowledge and
  • 00:38:42
    conversation with them and then they can
  • 00:38:44
    guide you on what to do next, right?
  • 00:38:46
    really seek out guiding spirits that you
  • 00:38:48
    can sort of, you know, ground yourself
  • 00:38:49
    and touch base because a lot of body
  • 00:38:51
    dysmorphia is based in delusion and a
  • 00:38:53
    belief that your flaws are basically not
  • 00:38:55
    what they actually are. And so by
  • 00:38:56
    developing that perspective through
  • 00:38:58
    conversation with a holy guardian angel,
  • 00:39:00
    you can really heal that. Now the next
  • 00:39:01
    thing you could do is Venus
  • 00:39:03
    remediation. So if you actually do want
  • 00:39:06
    to become more beautiful and you want to
  • 00:39:07
    move towards an objective standard of
  • 00:39:09
    beauty, the divine standard of beauty,
  • 00:39:11
    you really should contact Venus. You can
  • 00:39:13
    do this in a number of ways. I would
  • 00:39:14
    recommend the orphic hymn to Venus. And
  • 00:39:16
    by developing a devotion, a relationship
  • 00:39:18
    with Venus, you will become more
  • 00:39:19
    beautiful because every spirit you sort
  • 00:39:21
    of interact with gets closer to you and
  • 00:39:23
    sort of brings you up towards them.
  • 00:39:25
    Their energy sort of seeps into their
  • 00:39:26
    life and then filters into your soul. So
  • 00:39:28
    check out Venus. And if you are, you
  • 00:39:30
    know, say a Nordic pagan, you might
  • 00:39:31
    really appreciate a devotion
  • 00:39:33
    relationship with Freya. Um, and for
  • 00:39:35
    men, a spirit like Apollo or a solar
  • 00:39:37
    spirit could really help you through
  • 00:39:39
    this this conversation. I've been
  • 00:39:40
    talking a lot about the sun, but the sun
  • 00:39:42
    relates a lot to this conversation,
  • 00:39:43
    right? The sun and Venus are kind of the
  • 00:39:45
    two planetary energies that relate to
  • 00:39:47
    beauty. So really pay attention to the
  • 00:39:48
    sun and to Venus. And also one thing
  • 00:39:50
    that could be valuable is looking at
  • 00:39:52
    your natal chart or your birth chart.
  • 00:39:54
    Within your birth chart, there are a lot
  • 00:39:55
    of keys to your divine balance. And by
  • 00:39:58
    looking at your Venus sign and then
  • 00:39:59
    looking at the archetype associated with
  • 00:40:01
    your Venus sign, you can see the
  • 00:40:02
    metaphysical archetype of beauty that
  • 00:40:04
    will sort of benefit you the most.
  • 00:40:05
    Because once again, I mentioned beauty
  • 00:40:07
    is archetypal. There's not one singular
  • 00:40:09
    image of beauty. And so by
  • 00:40:10
    understanding, you know, okay, well,
  • 00:40:12
    what sign is Venus in my chart? You can
  • 00:40:14
    see what archetype of beauty would suit
  • 00:40:16
    you best. There's a reason why there's a
  • 00:40:17
    big trend on Tik Tok where people dress
  • 00:40:19
    like their Venus sign. That's very
  • 00:40:20
    helpful and can help you understand
  • 00:40:22
    basically what would, you know, suit you
  • 00:40:24
    the best because there is still some
  • 00:40:25
    variance, right? There's natural
  • 00:40:26
    variance, right? There's a reason why
  • 00:40:28
    health is seen as kind of a range. So
  • 00:40:30
    look into that and you can sort of
  • 00:40:32
    understand how you can be the most
  • 00:40:33
    beautiful. There's a type of spellwork
  • 00:40:35
    that I really would actually recommend
  • 00:40:36
    avoiding. They're called glamour spells.
  • 00:40:38
    So, glamour spells are very popular in
  • 00:40:40
    witchcraft communities and basically
  • 00:40:42
    there's they're illusion spells that
  • 00:40:44
    allow people to see you better. So,
  • 00:40:48
    basically what happens is you do a
  • 00:40:50
    glamour and then people falsely perceive
  • 00:40:51
    you as more beautiful. I recommend
  • 00:40:53
    avoiding these spells because they are
  • 00:40:54
    things that create illusions and
  • 00:40:56
    delusions. They are things that block
  • 00:40:57
    you from truth and thus they can
  • 00:40:59
    actually hurt you on your long-term
  • 00:41:00
    spiritual journey. Yes, a glamour will
  • 00:41:02
    make you more beautiful, but it is kind
  • 00:41:04
    of the type of working that could
  • 00:41:06
    actually have a negative effect on you
  • 00:41:07
    long term. So, I would I would avoid
  • 00:41:10
    these personally. I would stay away from
  • 00:41:12
    them. Um, Alistister Crowley actually
  • 00:41:14
    wrote a criticism of witchcraft and his
  • 00:41:16
    criticism really only applied to this
  • 00:41:18
    type of magic. That's why like despite
  • 00:41:19
    being aomide, I don't have a problem
  • 00:41:21
    with witchcraft because Alistister
  • 00:41:22
    Crowley's criticism of witchcraft was
  • 00:41:23
    written in the blue book library ABA
  • 00:41:25
    specifically within um magic and theory
  • 00:41:28
    and practice. and his criticism is that
  • 00:41:29
    witchcraft is bad because witchcraft is
  • 00:41:31
    simply creating illusions within the
  • 00:41:33
    material realm that doesn't actually
  • 00:41:34
    make a deeper spiritual change. That's
  • 00:41:37
    true for about 2% of witchcraft, not all
  • 00:41:40
    of witchcraft. And the 2% of witchcraft
  • 00:41:42
    that it is true for is literally like
  • 00:41:44
    this type of magic. Right? When you're
  • 00:41:46
    doing a glamour spell, you're not
  • 00:41:47
    actually becoming more beautiful. You're
  • 00:41:49
    just seeming more beautiful to people
  • 00:41:51
    who like don't know otherwise. It's
  • 00:41:53
    literally like a fake type of magic.
  • 00:41:55
    It's not one that makes a deeper change.
  • 00:41:57
    And I think the magic that is the most
  • 00:41:59
    beneficial to people is the type of
  • 00:42:00
    magic that makes a deep internal change
  • 00:42:02
    and a more profound change on the psyche
  • 00:42:04
    that actually changes the core of who
  • 00:42:05
    you are so that you can do better. So I
  • 00:42:07
    really recommend avoiding these type of
  • 00:42:08
    spells. I think that they can really
  • 00:42:10
    hold people back. So once again, they do
  • 00:42:12
    work, but it's maybe not the right path
  • 00:42:14
    because what I want people to do is heal
  • 00:42:15
    their relationship with beauty and find
  • 00:42:17
    the real beauty of the gods instead of
  • 00:42:19
    idolizing and holding up fake beauty
  • 00:42:20
    that holds them back from their actual
  • 00:42:22
    goals within their true spiritual
  • 00:42:23
    journey.
  • 00:42:24
    Um, that's kind of all I want to say.
  • 00:42:27
    Oh, there was one last thing I want to
  • 00:42:28
    discuss. Um, is
  • 00:42:31
    uh what what I would call um Ompic.
  • 00:42:35
    Ozmp. Yes, this was the last point. I
  • 00:42:37
    completely forgot to bring this up the
  • 00:42:38
    entire podcast. So, Ompic is really
  • 00:42:40
    popular in our culture right now. Um,
  • 00:42:42
    there's a big craze of people going on
  • 00:42:43
    Ozmpic. Um, my thoughts on Ompic are if
  • 00:42:46
    you need it for health reasons, go for
  • 00:42:47
    it. Um, if you do not need it for health
  • 00:42:49
    reasons, don't go for it. Um, I have a
  • 00:42:51
    friend who is a nurse in the emergency
  • 00:42:53
    room in the town I'm in and she has had
  • 00:42:55
    people come into the emergency room who
  • 00:42:56
    have had ozepic complications and were
  • 00:42:58
    in a lot of pain. Um, so you know that's
  • 00:43:00
    one of those where you really need to do
  • 00:43:02
    a pro and con with yourself and
  • 00:43:03
    understand like is this something that's
  • 00:43:05
    going to net benefit me or net hurt me.
  • 00:43:07
    Um, and if you are you know someone who
  • 00:43:08
    like say has PCOS or insulin resistance
  • 00:43:11
    and you need to lose weight for your
  • 00:43:12
    health, I think there's no shame in
  • 00:43:13
    using Ompic to get there. But if you're
  • 00:43:15
    like 10 pounds overweight, like maybe
  • 00:43:17
    don't use Ompic. Um, I think it's really
  • 00:43:19
    alarming that celebrities who are at a
  • 00:43:21
    normal healthy weight are using Ozepic
  • 00:43:23
    to get to an unhealthy weight. Like
  • 00:43:25
    Ariana Grande, people claim she used
  • 00:43:27
    Osmpic. Um, I don't know if that's true,
  • 00:43:29
    but if she did, she would be a good
  • 00:43:30
    example of like where that can get toxic
  • 00:43:32
    because once again, like these things
  • 00:43:34
    can become addictive. And when they
  • 00:43:35
    become addictions, they're not actually
  • 00:43:37
    inspiring you to grow spiritually. And
  • 00:43:39
    at the end of the day, you want what
  • 00:43:40
    will inspire you to grow spiritually.
  • 00:43:42
    Um, so yeah, be be wary about that. But
  • 00:43:45
    if it's right for you, that's okay. I I
  • 00:43:47
    know a lot of people kind of like get on
  • 00:43:48
    their moral high ground and like shame
  • 00:43:50
    people for using Ompic or or like you're
  • 00:43:52
    lesser because you didn't have
  • 00:43:53
    discipline or something. Look, if
  • 00:43:56
    they're doing something good for them, I
  • 00:43:57
    don't really care the method that they
  • 00:43:59
    do it. Um I think ompic shaming is just
  • 00:44:02
    kind of cruel. I don't know if if
  • 00:44:03
    someone really needs a drug to heal
  • 00:44:05
    their health, especially if they're
  • 00:44:06
    diabetics. I know Ompic was originally a
  • 00:44:08
    diabetes drug, just let them use it like
  • 00:44:11
    if it's benefiting that person. But the
  • 00:44:12
    thing is once again, you want to do a a
  • 00:44:14
    risk evaluation before you do something
  • 00:44:16
    like that so that you don't, you know,
  • 00:44:17
    hurt yourself further. So that's all I
  • 00:44:20
    have to say on beauty. Um, it just
  • 00:44:22
    started thunderstorming. Oh my god. I
  • 00:44:23
    wonder if you guys can hear that on the
  • 00:44:25
    recording. Um, I like that. It's like a
  • 00:44:26
    dramatic ending to my my ramblings. Um,
  • 00:44:29
    heal yourself, right? Take care of
  • 00:44:31
    yourself and develop a healthy
  • 00:44:33
    relationship with yourself and you'll
  • 00:44:35
    grow spiritually. Don't idolize beauty
  • 00:44:37
    in a way that hurts you, but at the same
  • 00:44:39
    time, don't hurt yourself to become
  • 00:44:41
    perfect. Perfection is often the enemy
  • 00:44:44
    of the good. I don't remember who said
  • 00:44:45
    that, but I've heard that before, and I
  • 00:44:47
    kind of like that. I like I I should
  • 00:44:49
    probably look up who said that. Um,
  • 00:44:51
    perfection is the enemy. Oh, it's
  • 00:44:55
    perfection is the enemy of progress is
  • 00:44:57
    the quote. It's Winston Churchill.
  • 00:44:59
    Whatever. I've heard perfection is the
  • 00:45:01
    enemy of the good. I think that's a
  • 00:45:02
    better version of that quote. Um, I like
  • 00:45:06
    it. So, yeah, think about the good, not
  • 00:45:09
    the perfect, and don't destroy yourself
  • 00:45:11
    at any point in time. Love yourself in a
  • 00:45:14
    positive, productive way, not in a
  • 00:45:15
    narcissistic way. And follow the right
  • 00:45:18
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Etiquetas
  • beauty standards
  • body image
  • body positivity
  • skinny talk
  • metaphysics
  • self-acceptance
  • health
  • spiritual growth
  • archetypes
  • Ozempic