Well I absolutely adore you.
I think you're brilliant and inspiring.
And for those of you who are not familiar with him,
you should be.
But explain to people who and what you do.
I'm the founder and spiritual director of the Agape
International Spiritual Center.
We're in our 35th year of service.
We're probably the most diverse and inclusive
spiritual communities that seek to bring people
to a greater understanding of who they
are spiritually so that that cascades
through their entire life.
So it's a whole way of living with spiritual practice.
It's spirituality, not religiosity.
So everyone's invited, everyone comes.
When you walk into Agape-- well, during the days when
we could walk into Agape it's like walking
into a spiritual United Nations.
Yes.
Because everybody's there.
And so how do you--
what's a simple way--
there's a lot to say, but what would
you say to people who want to better their lives?
They're not happy with where they are right now.
Well, basically every being has a destiny loaded and coded
within them.
We've heard the statement people want their dreams to come true.
Well, you have to come true to yourself
to have your dream come true.
Now what I see people suffer from what I call an attention
deficit disorder.
Not attention.
They don't have an intention.
So they move through life simply reacting to circumstances
and situations.
But if one establishes an intention then
through universal law that intention is matched.
Opportunities open, possibilities
happen, you see life differently,
you're able to catch not only vision
but you're able to catch wisdom from your soul
because so many people are listening to so
many voices in their head.
They're listening to so many external authorities.
But within each being there's a destiny
trying to emerge, every being.
And you talk about a vibration because we all
have this electricity in us.
We're all really just a vibration.
So explain the power of intention and manifestation.
You want true manifestation?
Yes, yes.
Well, first of all, we're vibrational beings.
We're not just flesh and blood.
I mean, now science has caught up with spirituality
so you can actually measure people's fields.
You can measure people's brain coherence.
You can measure the frequency of the auric field.
So we're vibrational beings.
So the spiritual work that we do in affirmative prayer,
meditation, light visioning, chanting, dancing,
all the things you do, lift our vibration.
And true manifestation-- you've seen me in The Secret.
We were talking about visualization
and manifestation.
A true manifestation is when you're actually
becoming the next great vision and version of yourself.
And there's not a person here that can't practice that
or can't come more into their own.
I think that because where we are
in the world right now with so much going on,
COVID kind of started and there's just a lot going on,
and I think more people are struggling
with depression, anxiety that we need to break through that.
So how do we ignore all the negativity, all the things
that we're seeing?
How can people cope with what's going on in the world?
It's not a matter of ignoring it.
It's a matter of having dominion over your attention.
So what we want is a sense of peace.
We want a sense of well-being.
We want a sense of safety.
We want a sense of security.
So what I ask people to do is you
think about a moment in your life where you felt secure,
you felt that all of your needs were met, you felt safe,
and you had a degree of peace.
You just think about that moment.
And you breathe into it.
Close your eyes and just feel into that.
And then take your next step from that feeling.
And then you check in every hour on the hour,
take a breath, come back to that state.
And what happens is the tonic chemicals
start to flow through your body temple rather
than toxic chemicals.
So if in fact you take your life into your own hands
and begin to stop on a regular basis
immune system is enhanced, body comes
into a level of homeostasis, and you start to hear guidance.
But it's not coming from the news.
It's coming from your soul.
And then that sense of peace you carry it
with you throughout the course of your day.
Now most people--
I shouldn't say most people.
But many people are getting their viewpoint of reality
from news feeds.
No, that's the old.
That's not the news.
That's the same thing happening every day to people.
There's something trying to emerge through us,
but we have to give it an availability
through spiritual practice.
It's on us.
It's really hard unless you have evidence of it, because I do.
I've set intentions and things have happened in my life,
and I know it's because I set intentions.
And so I see it happening.
But for people out there going, that's easy for you to say,
or I don't have any money and I'm in a bad situation or--
how do you convince people that you really
can have these power through your thoughts?
Absolutely.
I've been teaching for over 40 years,
and I've seen individuals totally debilitated physically,
financially, relationship wise, and literally
allow themselves to grow into a new version of themselves.
Now what happens is people get comfortable living
at what I call a set point.
That's their comfort zone.
They're afraid to go beyond it.
But when you begin to establish intention,
you back that intention up with speaking about yourself
in a very affirmative way, falling in love with yourself
exactly where you are right now, not comparing yourself
to anyone else, you become available to insight that is--
an insight is an event that takes place in your awareness
where you suddenly are incrementally
become aware of something that you may have formerly believed
but now you know it.
But it doesn't just happen.
It happens just.
It happens when you practice.
But what I want people to understand
is regardless of how bad it is, that spot right there
beginning.
It's not the end, it's a beginning.
And they begin to just first see a best case scenario, what
if this best thing happened?
Name it, whatever it is.
Now the moment that happens your cells
in your body and your subject of mind
does not know the difference between something
that's actually happened or if it's
in your mind and your emotional body.
So when you begin to take that on you
start to act differently.
You start to speak differently.
You start to walk differently.
And then what happens?
The universal presence through its law
matches that vibration and things
begin to change in your life.
But you can't just sit around and do nothing.
You can't ask what I call futile questions, what's wrong,
who's to blame, and why me.
Those are futile questions.
You have to ask what is it within me that's
trying to emerge right now, what gift do
I have to give to the world, who do I want
to be when this crisis is over.
Now if you ask those questions the universe
will answer them in a language and in a way
you can understand.
And then you'll walk in that direction.
Yeah.
Yep, it's so true.
It's so true.
Go to our website to learn more about Dr. Michael Beckwith.
And you can register.
He's doing a course called The Activated Life, which I highly
recommend.
I mean, this guy is-- you can hear just talking,
just listening to him he's just--
you're a beautiful man.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
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