This is a Spiritual War - Gregory Mannarino

In one of the most unexpectedly profound conversations in the Spiritually Inspired Show's history, Gregory Mannarino — the Robin Hood of Wall Street, financial analyst, and physician assistant turned YouTube truth-teller — strips away the markets and the charts to reveal the deeply spiritual architecture beneath everything he does. From a near-death experience at age six that opened his ability to see auras, through decades of searching across every religious and spiritual tradition including "very dark places," to his recent and publicly announced journey into the Rasta tradition — rooted not in dogma but in the radical simplicity of a personal relationship with God, oneness with creation, and rejection of the Babylon system — Greg delivers a conversation that is simultaneously a spiritual autobiography, a warning about a coming credit collapse that will stop all transactions globally, and an urgent call for communities to root in love, faith, and each other rather than guns, gold, or any political saviour.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Hello everyone, welcome back to a new episode of the Spirit Resquire Show. I am your host, Claudio Morgan. For previous episodes, please uh visit or network, uh spiritualin'squire.ca, and our uh YouTube channel. My uh guest uh today comes from a different community from the financial one, and he's uh no other than uh Gregory Manarino. Gregory, thank you for uh for uh joining me today.

SPEAKER_01 0:33

Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

You are a well-known uh name, as I mentioned, in the financial world. You are very vocal about everything that's going on in the world, but today I want to touch on your soft side, if I can say so. And you are the second person from that community, the financial community. My previous guest was um Lynette Zhang, and with her, I was able to have a similar conversation about her spiritual um side of her life, and this is what we will go through today, if possible, and we'll touch on the financial as well because this is your passion. So I would like to start uh with a question about um your uh near-death experience when you were six year old, six years old. Um, how transformative was that experience for you?

SPEAKER_01 1:29

I think a lot greater than I imagined, honestly. I didn't realize it obviously in the context when I was that young, but it changed me in in ways. I think I started to notice when I was I guess after that time, obviously, but I would say probably mostly when I was in my early teens, maybe just pre-teen era as well. I started to it started with uh honestly it uh this may sound kind of silly in a way, but with with taking a notice to nature and being able to feel it in a way I think that other people couldn't. I started to see uh well realized I was able to see auras on people of different colors. I didn't know what they meant. I still don't clearly know what they mean. And when I discussed this with my parents at that time, uh my dad thought I was, you know, just a kid going through some kind of a phase. Um but with my mom, I think at the time as she was more in touch with that kind of reality, she kind of like embraced it and said, Well, you know, some people can see that and some people can't. It doesn't make you any different, any more special than anybody else, just different, maybe in a certain respect. So, I mean, I would say this though, the the the experience itself was amazing. Um, would I want to go through it again, maybe in the same way, I guess. Uh I don't know if it would be the same, but I think the well, I know that the you know, the it just opened up a door to say, well, there is something else here. There's something else there. And I realized it, I mean, I could see it like I said, it was yesterday. And a lot of people might not believe that, you know, and here I am now going to be 61 years old, and I can remember that event as if it were yesterday, the way it felt, the way it was, my initial fear, the uh the effect of feeling completely at ease and release uh at that moment. But yeah, it was definitely a profound moment, life-changing, uh, no doubt about it. And I think that maybe it put, well, no doubt, it put me on a pathway, uh, I think that some people don't get that opportunity to experience.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

And you grew up in a Catholic um family and surroundings, and did that somehow oppress your way of looking deeper into that type of experience?

SPEAKER_01 4:04

It's interesting that you would put it that way. Let me say this. I felt like um, well, you know, we're all on a journey here, okay, to uh find I I don't think that people are going to let me say this maybe in a way that um well I would put it find God in a box. In other words, find God through a specific set of rules or a specific dogma. I think that well, I know that God holds the key, and it's up to you to open to walk through that door. I went through a very extreme, I would say, um search for truth and what was right for me. Um, and you know, it's a never-ending thing, I think, for everybody. You know, we all get pulled off or pulled away from a particular pathway that we're supposed to be on. I think it's an individual thing, I'll be honest. And um so you know, that growing up that way, um that the Catholic Christian way, uh, I think it opened my eyes to a lot of things here, but it was just a doorway that I walked through at that point here. And then I, like I said, I I branched out everywhere, looking. Well, is this it? Is this the place I meant to be? And uh, I mean, I I was fascinated from a very young age about spirituality, religion, and belief systems. So I dealt, I well, I immersed myself is probably more better word, and read everything I could, try to overstand different perspectives. Um, you know, not just the ones that are very commonly known, but I looked everywhere, uh, even in very dark places. I'm not afraid to admit that because I think you have to, you know, uh walk through hell before you get to heaven in some kind of a way. So yeah, I did take that pathway too, and uh learned a lot over there, too. So um all it did was lead to me, at least, to a greater uh uh awakening uh on the importance of establishing a personal relationship uh with God. Um that I mean, it's not a cookie-cutter thing. It's not like you do this, that, and the other thing. You follow these rules, you see these particular words, you perform a particular ritual, and all of a sudden you're closer to God. I think that if anything, it's it's the polar opposite. You know, that's not gonna put bring you closer to God in any way, shape, or form. You get closer to God by a personal relationship. And I think that's really what I'm more focused on now. And well, I've always been. I think we all are on, you know, no matter what dogma, whatever ritualistic kind of dogmatic uh uh religion like that, I guess you know, you follow. Uh and I think people today maybe more diverting from the classic kind of uh again, dogmatic, ritualistic uh, you know uh form of spirituality or whatever it might be, and and more focusing on their individual relationship with God. And I think it's a beautiful thing. In some ways, I think it's a it's an awakening, and I believe we are going through a serious transition right now. Uh we're seeing what's unfolding, how people are suffering, and then it's being thrust upon them. And I just think that again solidifies the relationship that we have, not just with the source, but with each other, you know, oneness and unity. And I think that's really the the most important message that I think most of us can take away from maybe something like this. At least for me, that that's that's my perspective.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Yes, and I agree with you. And uh I always go back to one comparison that one religion is not better than than the other, is the way how you approach it and you approach your relationship with God. And I recently came back from Peru, and at one point I was at 17,000 uh feet above the sea level, and I realized that all of us who were there arrived by different means. Some of us used the horse up to a certain uh uh point on the path, others we started from the beginning very slowly, you know, pacing ourselves due to lack of oxygen. Others, by their own reasons, ran a little bit, you know, they suffered before the peak, uh, but they they ran, they tried that option as well. So, again, we all go by different roads, by different means, but if the desire to reach that same point is there, then it doesn't matter how we reach it and how long it takes.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

Beautiful way to put it. And that's uh exactly perfect. And that was exactly my own journey that I've been on and continue to be on. Uh, I'm not saying that I have, you know, I've reached the pinnacle and now all of a sudden I'm uh, you know, what I know everything. I don't know anything. That's what I do know. I know that I don't rely on my own misunderstanding anymore, and I haven't for a very long time. As soon as we start to do that, we we start to almost think of ourselves as being uh divine, and that is obviously not the truth. And if we just follow the pathway uh and we follow basic rules, I would say, you know, love God and and and and uh that we'll all be okay. And once we start, you know, having to deal with the situation that we're we're put into, yeah, a lot of people grow from that, and some people become very downpressed from it, and they they enter periods of depression and anxiety, and this compounds itself because once you get, and I think we've all been there. I can't imagine a single person that hasn't been in that kind of a spot. But you know, it's a choice at that point. What do you do? Uh, you know, uh I think for for people who have at least that overstanding that there is a light there that is reaching to you and you're reaching for it. Uh, you know, whatever name you may call the source here, you know, there's names that have been lost to history that we'll never have recovered. You know, people have the different names and they think, well, if you don't use this name, well, then you know, then you're not a believer, you're wrong. And I mean, this is mentality, I think I call the devilism, but that's not the way it is. We're all it's one source, one God, one people. Um, and no matter how you get there, no matter how long that that maybe for some reason, for some, you know, for some, it has to take a convoluted pathway. And along that road, because we all learn differently. Um, you know, it's not every you can't, you know, put a book in front of you know a hundred different people going to learn, learn learn the concepts in different ways. And and and and some people may read that book slower, some people may read that book faster and able to absorb it in whatever the connection that they make. But absolutely, that is a beautiful way to put it. I think we're all on that same pathway, and sometimes it leads us one way and leads us another way. Um, and uh, and it's really the truth. I don't know a single person really that hasn't been through, let's say I was a great kind of uh uh a self-searching kind of you know, first here, I guess, kind of a thing. Who am I? What what does it mean to be me or to be alive? What is my mission here on this earth? Uh is it to serve myself or is it to serve others? And uh, you know, and then once people realize it's it's not anything about serving yourself. Once you realize that we're putting you to serve each other and to serve God, then everything just opens up to you. Until that point, people are gonna remain lost, at least in my opinion. You know, this is just my take on it.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

Yes, and the way I put it, and I the way I see it, uh, when I look in the mirror, is I have to take care of myself. I'm the most important person in the world so I can serve others. If we don't take care of ourselves, we cannot serve others. So that was the point then in just doing it for a short while.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

Yeah, yeah, that's true. I don't I don't see myself at all as the most important person in this world. I don't see myself any more important than a frog, than a bug, than a bird. Um, I just see myself as another part of God's creation, even in a tree or a leaf. Uh, I I don't see myself as any more important than anything. But you know, that's okay. I get your under your understanding of that. But to me, man, I tell you, I you know, I look at I I walk around in uh where I live here in Florida, and there's a lot of lizards and little creatures and stuff. And there are people that are very cruel to them. They step on them, they create, they crush them. Uh what gives them the right to do that? I don't know, they feel like they have that kind of power. I don't feel like I'm any greater than that. I've literally got down on the ground. This was just recently, and looked at a little frog, and I said, I am no greater than you. And once I think for me, I that it was an epiphany as well, realizing that you know what, you know, we're not. Me personally, um, I don't know. I I like to think of myself as as equal. I'm no smarter than anybody else. I've been put in this place for some reason here. I've always felt the kind of a drive to help people. Um, you know, there were times in my life when I felt the opposite too. There were times in my life when I when I was angry, very, very angry at God. Um, why, how did this happen? Why did you let this happen? You know, whatever it might be. You know, I think we all go through that too, but it's all part of that growth pathway. But yeah, absolutely, man. You know, you do have to realize you have to take care of yourself so you can take care of anyone else. That's important, absolutely. Um, but I think it's it to me, it's a collective thing that we have to realize our responsibility that that I think God has bestowed upon us. We we are custodians here. We've been we've been uh given you know uh uh a job here to take care of God's creation here. He puts us here for a reason. What to to burn it, to burn it down? No, to build it up, to um, you know, from from from every aspect here, whether it's uh whether it's the the most smallest form of life uh to the greatest here. The earth itself is a living thing, uh some would believe would believe that. I happen to believe that's true. I think all of creation uh is touched by God, therefore has his fingerprint on it, uh, and therefore has the hallmark of life and something that we should all care about. Um no matter where people stand in this world, and that's the you know, look, man, the state, what does it do? It divides you by every mechanism that they can. It's a great deceiver, uh destroyer of mankind, uh, and and and tries to uh put people in a position where they have to make difficult choices. But again, once if we always just rely on our own understanding, and then we're never gonna get ahead of it. We have to always say, okay, you know, like before this interview, before this talk that we're having here, I was like, God, you know, give me the wisdom to speak rightly. Uh give me the words that you would want me to say. And I, you know, you know how me, I I've done thousands and thousands and thousands of talks and interviews over the year over the years. And um I've always said that in my head first, you know, I want to say something that touches someone in a way that makes sense to them. And it's not going to make sense to everyone how you or I speak, and that's okay. It goes back to that pathway you spoke about, which I think is a very profound thing.

SPEAKER_00 15:18

Thank you. And you know, while I was doing my um research, in-depth research on you, Greg, I um found that you practiced medicine for 20 years, and that intrigued me to have such a big shift from medical field to financial. Why uh you did that? What uh motivated you?

SPEAKER_01 15:42

I uh I was in medicine for 20 years, as you know. I practiced as a PA, did uh emergency medicine most of my career, um, interventional radiology for a little bit. I did uh primary care as well. Um and I really got a lot out of it for a long time. I felt like I was making a positive difference. I would leave at the end of the day saying, Well, you know, I did something good. Um, and I think the carryover to whatever it might be, I don't care if people dig ditches for a living, man. It doesn't, it it it's it's what are you doing? What what what is the contribution you're making to the greater collective good? Uh whether it's in the financial world, it touches everyone. And I don't the the draw to it, well, from when I was a kid, I you know, I was my dad got me into this from when I was a kid, into trying to understand, have a a grasp on um how it works. My dad worked on Wall Street when he was a young man, and uh I don't know, I guess seeing the movie Wall Street is really what kind of said, hey, you know, I really want to do that. I thought that would be something that was interesting, but my parents never gave me any direction, I'll be honest with you. They didn't say, great, do this, do that, or the other thing. My parents were kind of like very like live and let live kind of people. Um, and I think that's a problem to a certain degree. To you need some kind of a direction, but at the same time, I think direction will find you if at least you have a good heart. Now, for me, practicing medicine in my capacity was a beautiful thing for a very, very long time. And I think I did make a positive impact on a lot of people's lives. I guess I like to think so. But for me, it became a burnout um at an extreme level. I became pre-diabetic, hypertensive, I was overweight. Um, I was 50 pounds heavier than I am right now, and uh, I was at an inflection point. I said, Well I have to do something else. But the interesting thing was that I was already transitioning to getting into the the back into the financial world. I worked when I was a kid, my first real job was working at Bear Stearns, which is one of the banks that failed the well that uh that you know went down during the financial crisis, but I worked there, I was a kid, was way before that. But at least I got to see an inside perspective on a lot of things and uh how it worked. But you know, then you get pulled in different directions. I think I went through the whole medical thing because that was the choice that was what was given to me at that point by uh by a great a greater power. I really believe that. And now when I left medicine, I said, you know, I saw people hurt. What happened to my best friends during the financial, even myself, I got wiped out. I got wiped out, um, whatever I had at that time, whatever I had built up in the market, you know, uh during the financial crisis. And um, friends of mine, uh one of my best friends inherited a large sum of money from his father when he his dad passed away. He went out, he invested it, lost it all, cost him his marriage, cost him everything. And basically, that's how I mean the backbone of this whole thing. And I was angry. I was angry when I saw what was happening to people getting thrown out into the streets, people suffering like they are now. Um, honestly, and it's about to get a lot worse, unfortunately. We're going definitely through a tribulation of one kind or the other, and people better realize this is not just a financial situation, it's a spiritual war on multiple levels. But going back to that, and I was angry, so I I did I just started talking about it. I went on YouTube and I started talking about this stuff. And um people would say, Well, how do you know this? You know, this is amazing. Can you talk about this? And so it just took off. It really pulled me in. And I said, you know what? I'm making a real positive difference to people in people's lives by just putting these videos out. So that's kind of where I think I need to be. And you know, as it seemed to work out that way. I mean, my my my voice is is known. Um, Greg, nobody, but people uh connect with what I say. And I I believe and I know that I've I've made a positive difference in people's lives by having them understand the financial system, how it works. Most people do not understand at all how the system works, what's behind it, the drivers behind it, and how it's, especially right now, crushing people from the inside, not just here in the United States, where people are in the entire world. We're all feeling the same thing. And this mechanism is is uh, I mean, I'm gonna sum it up in one word, it's diabolic. It really, really is. And people better start turning around. They better start maybe it is a wake-up call for some people, and I think it is, uh, on many on many levels here. But yeah, man, I just got kind of pulled into it. And um, it didn't, I didn't search for it, it kind of reached out to me and said, Okay, this is it, this is what I want you to do. I really feel that way because there would be no other reason why I would be here, no other reason at all. So, and now I'm on your show.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

So yes, and I will contradict you when you said that you are uh Greg Nobody because you are known as Robin Hood of uh Wall Street, you know, someone who takes from the system's knowledge monopoly and gives it to the people. So, you know, we all know Robin Hood is an archetype with deep moral and even mythological roots. So, do you see your work as a calling in the spiritual sense, or did you arrive just through circumstance and somehow you said you're pulled in, but you also see it as a spiritual message and uh a path for you?

SPEAKER_01 21:06

I'm here for a reason, I don't know what it is. Okay, um, I'm just trying to whatever I am doing, um, I'm trying to make it positive for people, make so they can take away an understanding that maybe they didn't have before. And if that helps people, then it helps everyone. If it helps one person, it spreads out, and that's really what it comes down to. So, you know, many people go through multiple career changes in in their life for whatever reason. It's also a journey as well, a growth. We're all growing. Um, and and if that kind of you know, you have to think about and in the beginning, I didn't really think about it. I'll be honest with you, why I was out here talking about this stuff. Other than my own self, I was angry. I was mad at what it did to me. I was the financial crisis, I was mad at what it did to people I knew. I saw people losing their homes, people couldn't survive. And now I see the same. Kind of environment here, but much worse, evolving and this just just bleeding out like a cancer, like a plague. I say this is a plague that's upon the earth right now. It's it that appears in every age, and now it's here among us again. It's uh it's a terrible thing. So, yeah, man, we got to realize that what the environment we're in, and and you know, I don't know, like all of us, you too, you're here for a reason. There's a reason why you're here, the reason why I'm here too. And people listening to us here, they're here for a reason as well. This isn't random. Um, and I hope that maybe the stuff we talk about will reach someone else, even one person. And say, you know what, maybe I need to be on a different kind of a path. Maybe I'm going through this because there's a bigger, there's another, there's a reason for it. And I really like to believe that there is a reason for it. And I think, look, man, I mean, we could take this to extreme levels. I mean, you know, I don't know how how much time we have here, but um, you know, people bring things upon themselves, and I really believe this, and in many ways, some people are going to take exception to this, and I get it, and that's fine, because they disconnect from the source. And once you disconnect from the source, God the Creator, the Father of all things, here, once you do that, there is a price. There's a price, everything has a price. Alignment has reward, malalignment comes with a price, too. So, you know, and I could say that from experience, because I've been on the extreme ends on both sides. And there are forces out there, you know, wherever you want to define them, that are going to try to pull you out of that alignment, whether it's hatred, whether it's people out there trying to get you to think a particular way, and all of a sudden it sounds good to you. All of a sudden it touches a part of you that maybe was, you know, thinking the same thing. And that's what it does, this thing. It it it preys upon that weakness that we have as human beings. Um, and then maybe, but you got to pull it, pull back from that, you know, because it's too easy for people to fall into that trap that that that that are those traps plural that are set for us all, and just get yourself back and on the on the right pathway. And once you get on that pathway, you feel good. It's it's a feeling, you know it. People know when you're on the right way. You know you are, and people know when they're not too. And once you say, hold on a minute, you know, if people just sat back, and I can say this from experience, probably for myself and probably for everybody else, they know when they're in the wrong place. You know, they know when things aren't exactly right. When people tell a lie, okay, why do you feel that guilt? Because you know that something's out of alignment. So I always say, you know, no matter what it is in your life, a lie may help for the moment, but in the long run, you're gonna pay for it. It's always best to tell the truth, even if it's hard. It's all it's better to just get it out than to just sit back and and and and and because a lie, what is it gonna do? It means you got to cover it up with another lie, and then another lie, and then another one after that. It goes on and on, and then it bleeds out into the people you love. And then that can turn into something. I said, I mean, this is something I believe that happens to all of us. It's happened to me multiple times in my life here as a growing experience. But we all go through this, I think, when we're younger. You know, not that older people can't fall into the same trap, of course they can. Uh and maybe it's easier because people are dealing with, let's say, for example, going back to the financial system, people are dealing with extreme pressure right now. They can't survive. Uh in fact, just today, it was reported that people middle class people here in America, and I'm certain it's the same phenomenon around the world, are dealing with financial stresses greater than what was thrust upon them during the the the COVID era. And uh it's not gonna get any better until people say enough, until people take command of their own lives, which begins, of course, in my view, with connecting with the source and then move forward from there, and then holding their leaders to account. No one's being held to account anymore. We're being run by a system that is so twisted and perverted, so morally absolutely corrupt. And who's paying for it? Well, the world is paying for it, and why? Because it's out of alignment, it's out of alignment with the source. Once you get back there, everything becomes clear.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

Yes, and because you mentioned alignment and misalignment, something just came to my mind. You know, when Trump ran for president the second time, he played the the religion card, he said prayers, he um aligned himself with people in the uh uh church uh community, he uh hold uh he held a Bible in front of a church, and then afterwards he totally switched to a different type of behavior. Do you think he deceived everyone in purpose, or along the way he was forced to leave that path which everyone who voted for him thought is the right one?

SPEAKER_01 26:56

It's uh a deliberate deception. It's it's there's no doubt about it, it's all a deliberate deception. And you see, it was it was a test, people too. The test was this you cannot serve two masters. Trump was pulling these people to serve him and his ideology. You cannot do it. Um, our nation is divided, a family divided. You cannot serve two masters, you serve one, period. Uh, you you deserve, you just you decide to follow an ideology or a man holding up a Bible um for the because he's trying to preach things that try to touch you again. It's the great deceiver, man. The great deceiver, it's ancient, it's an ancient thing, and it knows what to say. It it's just a thing, it lives, it breathes, it's not human. Um, I did a whole piece on this this morning. I I touch on a lot of this, and that's why we're here. Um, and this this this thing that we have here, it's it always does the same thing. It finds people's a way to get into their heart, their spirit, and then push them out of alignment. Um by their fruit, you will know them, not by their words, by or or by what they do. Uh, and and with this particular administration here, um they are legion, in my opinion. They are many, and it's growing bigger. This is the plague that we have that we're dealing with upon our earth right now, so human suffering. Um, this is not just a war in the Middle East right now. This is a war on against the people. They don't, this war against the people, it's it's it's not a financial thing. They don't want just your money or your assets or even your future, your chosen future. They want your spirit. And they're getting it. Once you submit, once anyone submits to serving two masters, they lose. They lose. And everything will collapse around them. They may not be able to see it at first. Uh, and they maybe even will strengthen that alignment and look to defend, of course, their where their identity has been. It's a spiritual identity capture. And that's what Trump prayed on. He prayed on it beautifully, uh masterfully, because it's ancient. Trump is not a human being, he doesn't have a human quality within him, in my opinion. He's always completely self-centered, building statues and idols of himself all over the world so people can bow down and worship. Now he's building an arch to himself here. This is, you know, it's an incredible thing. He wants people to worship him, he wants to leave his mark, as rulers like him or controllers or or servants of the devil, as I call them, uh, have done uh since time began. These these things we have to say, no, we have to pull down these monuments, they don't deserve to be anywhere here. Okay, the second commandment. I think most of us are probably from familiar with the second commandment. These are these images don't belong there, they shouldn't be there, especially a man who basically proclaims himself to be a godlike people, a person, and and people follow him. Some people who follow this man believe he gets his orders from God. And unfortunately, it's a lot of people who follow the book, which I read every day, which is right next to my right next to my uh my computer here. I don't I'm not a Bible thumper or anything like that. I'm a most spiritual person, but uh I know what I know what I see. I'm at least awake enough to recognize the incarnation. And I think people's most people are starting to see this for what it is. It's it's just more lies and deceptions and attacks upon the truth. Uh, we can't get a word of truth out of our president or anyone in his administration. And what does truth where does truth come from? It comes from the source. Where the lies come from, the other side. But it's a very cunning entity. I think we all know that. It's ancient, it's extremely smart, and it knows what words to use, to say, to persuade millions. And this is also in the book. We we were told that we would see these things, and then again, it's a trap, and people have fallen to that trap, and it's an unfortunate thing, or it can be a fortunate thing if people can say, okay, I now recognize the incarnation and I won't support this anymore. Um, that's that's really how I see it. But this is a this is a spiritual war on uh on that on an extreme level. And I think if we the people don't return to the source in greater numbers, we're gonna see more so we're still gonna see greater suffering on an epic scale. Uh, and then what they're really looking to do with weaponizing the financial system is bring us about a completely new system, a system of maximum control, an extortion of freedom and liberties of people, and they're using the backbone of the earthly system to do it. The money, the currency. It's an incredible thing to witness. And it's it's just really getting very hard for people right now to deal with it.

SPEAKER_00 31:33

Yes, and you know, I would love to see more people in your community and at your level being so open about their um you know um spiritual belief and uh being outspoken and uh um wake up their own communities to what's going on because uh not all of them are uh willing to risk what kind of you are risking and putting out there yourself out there for everyone to to hear and uh take uh a stab at, you know.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

You know, look, my goal isn't to change anyone's mind about anything at all. My goal is to have people listen to what I say and then take it from there. This guy says something that makes sense to me or doesn't. I mean, you know, uh we all all of us who put ourselves out here, all of us, you, me, we all have to deal with a lot of pushback. And that is, of course, what is it? It's it's it's it's this plague that doesn't want us to be aligned with each other, doesn't realize that we have to focus on oneness and unity with each other, and of course, the source, and this is because again, that would bring the world together. They can't have that because that would change everything. So, yeah, man. Uh I'm I'm happy to be here with you, and um I'm glad you uh, you know, it's interesting. Um, this is probably the first show I've ever done like this uh in thousands of them. So it was it was it was uh interesting, honestly, and I and I appreciate you having me.

SPEAKER_00 33:05

I I listen to uh many of your interviews, I read daily your post, and uh I look for the nudges of information that I can put aside and build up uh questions for an interview like this. So I did that with, as I mentioned, with uh Lynette as well. And um one question I have for you because you recently came out publicly about joining the Rastafarian um tradition. So, why that and again, what attracted you and how that is giving you the satisfaction um you are looking for?

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Well, I would say this. Um I think most Rasta people will say, okay, uh Rastafarian then denotes a dogma or a set of rules. Rasta or Rastas are people who follow the Rasta tradition. There is no dogma, there is no rules. Uh, no one Rasta can dictate what Rasta is to another Rasta. You can gather uh 10, 15, 20 Rastas in a room, and they're all gonna tell you a different perspective as what Rasta is to them. Uh to me, Rasta is all about oneness and these colors, these Rasta colors, people they connect with it somehow. To me, it it and it could mean something to the next Rasta over there. It denotes a oneness and unity between the source and the people. Um Rasta is a focus on a personal relationship, as we've been outlaying this entire the entire time here with God. Um not there's there's no rules, there's no you must do this, you must believe that. You there's no I have to believe uh uh Haile uh Selassie is is is God. There's none of it, no, none of it uh at all. It's God is and and that's all. Uh, and that's the draw to me was here is a spirituality that it focuses solely on a personal relationship with God without having to be told this is wrong and that is this, and you must do this, and you must carry this out, and this particular thing is gonna bring you closer. In no way, shape, or form is that the truth to me. Okay, so it doesn't mean it's the truth for everybody, but to me, that's my appeal is and and interacting with them, with Rasta people, and and talking about and seeing the love and their the way they live and their connection to nature and the world, and you know, it's a respect for all of God's creation, all of it, and there's no hate. There are many Rastas who have a core religion, and this is a very not known people, but there are many Rastas that are Christians, that are Catholics, that are Jewish, that are Muslim, that are other faiths than they have, that are that is their core religion, but they adopt a Rasta spirituality. It's a crossover for many, many people. I've met many Rasta people who say, you know, who are wearing, let's say, a crucifix or wearing a star of uh of David or whatever, you know, uh many Rastas will wear this star as a seal of Solomon as as well. But yeah, I mean the the whole oneness, unity, establishing a personal relationship with God was so profound to me. And again, I think it was more of my reaching out to Rasta people and trying, and they're so willing to talk to you. Like, can you explain this to me? And I've had different, many different experiences, and especially recently I went to Jamaica and I made it my business to try to find Rasta people to interact with. And I just love their perspective on nature and living and natural kind of existence away from the Babylon system that we're in that is as oppressive and downpressive and is uh is just determined to crush you, your spirit. Um, and I was like, well, wow, man, this is a beautiful thing. But to me, you know, I don't know, it was just a pathway that I've been in. And I went through the the Nazarite vow as well. I had I had dreadlocks for a while. Not all, not all Rasta people have dreadlocks. I I the Nazarite vow, you probably are familiar with this. You know, one of it is not cutting your hair, abstaining from uh being around dead people, uh not not drinking uh fruit of the vine and stuff like that. Now, some to some Rastas, this is a lifetime commitment. Uh, it doesn't have to be uh for me. I I did it for a while here and I committed to it. Um, and then I said, okay, well, you know what, just because I'm not committed to the Nazarite vow, I I doesn't mean I am not Rasta. So um, you know, but some people still will wear the dreadlocks, but not again, they feel like that's a symbol to some Rasta people. And and people look down upon it as well. I mean, um, people see you wear your hair a certain way, or you wear a particular dress or whatever, whatever spirituality or religion you're in, and then that they all of a sudden, you know, they are they kind of categorize you as this, that, or the other thing, which is of course what we should not be doing. And that's the other beautiful thing, I think, about Rasta people is their acceptance of everyone. Everyone. It doesn't matter what you are, who you are, what color you are, what religion you follow, what whatever it is, it does they're the most welcoming, most beautiful people that I've ever come in contact with overall. There's no wall. There's no like, you know, well, if you don't believe this, well, I don't want to, I then then you're wrong. Nothing. And uh, and and there's no like conversion, you know, there's no like, well, you know, I'm not gonna talk to you unless you come in. No, I just love that the welcoming nature of Rasta people, the uh again, the oneness, the unity, the connection to God and to nature, all of creation, and how we're responsible for it. It's basically been my my my my theme since since forever, since before I even knew what a Rasta was. So, yeah, that's my connection to Rasta.

SPEAKER_00 39:20

And uh I don't want to be disrespectful, but for those who cannot grow long hair like myself, what's the option?

SPEAKER_01 39:29

You don't have to say you don't need hair. Okay, that's the thing. Rasta people, they some of them just you know grow their hair out and they put them in dreadlocks, and it's a symbol, but this has nothing to do with Rasta at all. It's uh you know, but there's a few songs written about you don't need dreads to be Rasta. I don't have dreads, but I still consider myself a Rasta. You know, some people say Rastafarian, but again, I take a lot of Rastas will take exception to Rastafarian or Rastafarian ism because there's no dogma, because there's no rituals behind it. Yeah, I mean, so you don't have to, you could have no hair anywhere in your body. You could have all the hair you want on your body. It doesn't matter, that doesn't change you. But I mean, if you will, let's say a person who can't grow their hair wants to take a Nazirite vow in the Holy Bible, okay. Uh part of it is not cutting whatever hair you may have on your body and also abstaining from the fruit of the vine, also from not being, there's a whole list of things, not um being around uh corpses for until the time where the vow is complete, or and it could be lifetime, you know. Uh I mean this as an example of this, uh, when Bob Marley passed away, uh Peter Tosh, who was is a was he passed away, of course, is uh was a Rasta at the time. People went crazy because he didn't show up for his wake. And he said, I couldn't do it because that was part of my vow. Um, had he done that, then he would have been sidestepping his vow, which some Rasta, well, any Rasta who has taken that vow, including me at that time, um, was very serious about. I did I refused to break that vow. It was a consecration. It was uh to me, it was a way to bring myself almost like a cleansing experience for me. And I don't know, it doesn't have to mean the same for everyone, but yeah, man, you don't need hair. Uh you don't need anything. You just have to have a willingness to be one with the source, one with the people, uh, realize that that your relationship is God is is personal. Uh, and and that's another thing, and you know, bothers me about people with certain particular could be a spirituality religion, is how they condemn everyone else. And um, I how can that be? That that how can their God justify the condemnation of whatever God has created? It makes no sense to me at all. Any exclusionary type of, and this is just to me, okay. I'm just saying, any type of exclusionary type of group, uh that you know, it isn't what the God I worship uh is is about. It's about oneness and unity.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

Yes, beautiful. Thank you. And one uh last question because I want to be considerate of your time. You know, Linette Zhang has a beautiful uh house in Phoenix and uh self-sustain with food and everything else, and she has a plan B, another house in the mountains, you know, supply it again with food and water, knowing what's coming, and again, you report on this daily. Do you have a plan B yourself? Of course, if you can share.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

100% I can do that. First of all, people think, you know, look, I talk about financial, what people can do to protect themselves from on from a financial standpoint to maybe make the system work for them instead of against them. And that's the easy part. The hard part is, and it's not even about that, man. This is what it's gonna come down to, and the worst part of it is, and I I don't know what you discussed with with Lynn Edward, she's a great person, is is the is the collapse of the system, the credit event, the lockup of the system that they're gonna be that they're thrusting upon us, and the whole system depends on the flow of credit or debt. When the system, when the system again reaches a point where it can no longer do that, uh all transactions stop, um, and there will be pandemonium industries. This is where we're being driven to. That's the final breaking point where people will say, you know, uh, we'll be willing to accept anything. Uh but I say this, man, realize, you know, you all it's good to have, I suppose, a bug out kind of a situation like Lynnette has. Not everyone can bug out here. Okay. I say this root in where you are, work on relationships with the people in your community. You're not going to be able to get through to everyone. Okay, there's just no way to do it from any perspective. But if you could find a couple of people in your own neighborhood. That you can rely on in a situation where, let's say, a credit freeze or a lockup kind of situation, like that's the real end game here. Everyone's focused on the stock market, the Dow, the SP, the stinking NASDAQ. None of it all matters. In the grand scheme of things, it's a debt market that dictates the price action for every asset. Okay. The debt market is a time bomb. The debt market is going to go off. When the debt market goes off, it's going to create what I call a credit freeze or locking up of the system. The flow of credit through the systems will stop. Zeros across the board. No access to cash at all. So we need access to each other. We need access to each other's generosity, each other's love. And that's really the backbone of what we have to build here. You know, your community, uh, and my community, we should we should really link up, we should connect our communities here because I think we're all on the same page. And there's gonna be those outliers, of course. They're gonna call you and me and people like us fools, and who's really the fool, you know, honestly. But uh that that's a whole other ball game. But look, man, uh that's really what it comes down to for me, is uh establishing relationships, realizing that we are are uh all all we all have the same father, and and and that makes us all brothers and sisters and sisters. And once we adopt that kind of a mentality, how can we lose? We lose by being divided, by being filled with rage, being filled with hatred, and that's what they're trying to extort out of us right now. So, yeah, root in, you know, make some make some uh commitments to be with people, uh like-minded people in your community. I think that's the greatest thing here. Uh load up on food, water, have access to these things here, of course, be willing to share as well. You know, well, people loading up on guns and bullets, we should be loading up on love uh and faith and hope and charity. And I think that's a much greater weapon.

SPEAKER_00 45:52

Thank you very much. Beautiful um conversation. Thank you for everything um you are doing uh for your community and for the world. I know you're gonna keep continuing doing it until your last breath and until the internet will be up and running to uh send out your message. Thank you very much. Thank you. And uh to my viewers, thank you for watching. Share it, leave a comment, and until next time, love and gratitude.