0:00:00 - 0:00:30 When considering the possible need of new paradigms. One pitfall we can fall into is evaluating those paradigms in a lens that's, that's solidly rooted in our current one. So if you use the scriptural analog of patching old garments with a new patch, the old garments are not going to like that new patch 0:00:30 - 0:00:56 very much. It's better than they are. It's newer than they are, you know, garments don't, they're not sentient, they don't have feelings. But I think you get what I'm trying to say, um the, the old bottles want to come along with the new wine, they want to be part of this party and uh nothing wants to 0:00:55 - 0:01:24 come back in at the ground floor. Hm. The problem is that everything is hierarchical and that each hierarchy is in a way. It's, it's, well, it's scope differently. And so in a way it's, it's independent. There are things that can go with you and things that can't, but the whole thing needs to be changed 0:01:23 - 0:01:49 out. And so um this is one meaning of one facet of the meaning of what Jesus was talking about when he was trying to explain how hard it is for rich people to get into the Kingdom of Heaven. They've accumulated wealth in one paradigm. But to enter into the next one, even just in the gate to get into 0:01:49 - 0:02:14 it, changes have to occur that are very unlikely to maintain that wealth. And so he said, rich man hardly gets into the kingdom of Heaven. It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Camels are really big. and people say like, oh, the eye of a needle was a gate in the city and its camels 0:02:13 - 0:02:35 could go through. But you had to take everything off the camel. Who cares? Yeah, maybe that's true. Whatever. You don't have to overcomplicate things. Folks, big stuff can't go into little stuff. That's big. Things can't go into little holes. It's, it's really simple. Right? And um, there, there needs 0:02:35 - 0:02:57 to be a change trying to, uh, trying to parse out exactly how big the change has to be is really stupid because it came from the same guy who said, what's the cost? Everything, the cost of everything the father has is everything you have. He couldn't have said it more plainly and he said it again and 0:02:57 - 0:03:20 again. So, uh you know what king goes out to battle without basically wholly dedicating himself to winning. If you don't have the resources and resolve for that, then you shouldn't go because you're gonna lose what person sets out to build a tower unless they have the materials to finish, find your life 0:03:20 - 0:03:49 , lose your life on and on and on. Anyway, there's no partiality in any of that. So if you think that you're gonna go through the eye of the needle just by a partial um shedding of some small thing, good luck. It's not gonna work, right? So, um in these paradigm changes, if a paradigm shift is necessitated 0:03:49 - 0:04:14 for your continued progress, um you need to pay attention to what can come with you and what has to stay behind. Now until now, I'm talking about generalities, but let's apply this specifically to the Kingdom of God. Um Progress is upward, right? You're going up the mountain. The fact is that there are 0:04:14 - 0:04:35 some things that can't come with you. There are people that can't come with you. There are ideas that can't come with you. There are practices that can't come with you. There are feelings that can't come with you. And so you have to learn what it is that must stay behind and then you have to make the 0:04:35 - 0:05:03 separation every single time. There's growth in God's kingdom, there is a cutting, there is a division of what was previously considered whole. There's a distinction in what was previously considered the same. And there has to be why because we are not empty beings, we are beings that always stay full 0:05:03 - 0:05:32 . And so if you want to ascend, you have to have something cut out of you to make space for something better. And incidentally, those changes have to occur before you move up. So there are different ways I could teach that and uh they are more substantial and we there are many applications but we'll 0:05:32 - 0:05:58 leave it like that for now. So now what happens when those that are still in the prior paradigm? Look at these changes from the outside, although they won't recognize it that way because truth is scoped. All truth is independent in the sphere in which it's created. It's a scriptural phrase, but it's 0:05:58 - 0:06:23 scoped. So what is true for you is not necessarily going to be true for someone else. And I'm not saying that therefore there's such a thing as my truth. I'm just saying that um your perception of what is true, which is objective and independent. It's just an estimate and it's going to differ from someone 0:06:23 - 0:00:00 else's. So what we believe it colors our perception, it determines our perception. Actually, it's even stronger than just influencing it. So there are reasons for that. You can't see what you're not looking for and your beliefs define what you're looking for. They can expand what you're looking for, 0:00:00 - 0:07:13 but they also are limited and therefore they will always limit what you see. This is one reason why it takes someone else to bring you higher because you have to have your beliefs expanded by something I should say someone or something. So if you get hit by a car and your long term health situation is 0:07:13 - 0:07:42 forever changed. It's going to change the way you see life. And so that car crash is what brought you higher if you respond to that stimulus correctly. Um So when other people see you, if you happen to be in a higher paradigm, they can only interpret what they see from their lower perspective. And there 0:07:42 - 0:08:13 are many things that just can't, well, nothing above can be seen correctly from below. However, it can be seen usefully, meaning there are aspects that can be seen, things that can be communicated that are true enough to be useful. But it's never the complete picture. There are so many things you just 0:08:13 - 0:08:39 can't understand until you're there yourself. So, not fully anyway, that's a big challenge. If, if it's not, it's not a stretch to say that this is the challenge of the gospel that that's you could defend that position to communicate value to someone who's in a place where they absolutely cannot comprehend 0:08:38 - 0:09:06 it. Why uh so value is sufficient to make the changes, right? That's the challenge of the gospel. It's helping people to change in ways they can't possibly see or as worthwhile as they are because the cost of things is usually much more apparent than the effect, the positive effect of something, the 0:09:06 - 0:09:35 benefit, the cost of something is almost always more obvious than its benefit. So, um the things for which that's not true tend to be where we sin in that case, it's, it's the cost that's like that's harder to see in case you didn't connect those dots. Most sins are where the cost is harder to see than 0:09:35 - 0:10:06 the benefit. Um Anyway, so when people look at a higher paradigm from the lens of a lower paradigm, they must judge, right? And so uh when Jesus came down from heaven, people misjudged him. And one of the main reasons was because they were judging putative improvement based on their current paradigm 0:10:05 - 0:10:32 . And you, this is a big no, no, you should not judge putative truth based on what you already believe. And this throws organized religion and science. Unfortunately, modern science into a whirlwind because it's the opposite of what they teach and practice science today is gate kept, whether it be peer 0:10:31 - 0:11:04 reviewed publications or the academic Industrial Complex um grants. So all three of those which is sort of the trifecta, the, the magisterium of the academic and scientific world grants degrees and publications, all of those are gate kept under the the the idea that what is valuable can be measured by 0:11:03 - 0:11:29 what I'm sorry, what will be valuable can be accurately measured by what is valuable. In other words, anything that is better can accurately be measured by what we value right now. And so when you send in a grant, it's reviewed by a panel of people considered experts in the field and their metric for 0:11:29 - 0:11:56 judging is not, could this be better than what I did? It's, does this agree with what I did? It's the same for peer reviewed publications. It's absolutely the same for, um, degree examination. So when you get a master's or phd, you have to defend a thesis or a dissertation and a panel of professors are 0:11:55 - 0:12:31 judging what you did based on what they believe is valuable from what they've learned and done. They, they do not evaluate that based on uh innovation as much as alignment with what already came before they're extremely resistant to change. So, um religion is no better. Um Most religions will tell you 0:12:30 - 0:12:59 the way, you know, if something is true is by how much it agrees with and then you've got some options. It will be what we've told you, the scriptures say or what we say or what we do in this religion. So none of those things are metrics of truth. Truth is a question of value. How much utility is there 0:12:58 - 0:13:29 ? What is it capable of doing? What can it withstand? How much can it improve? Jesus didn't say you'll know truth because it will match up with everything you believed before. He said in John 717, if you do it, you'll see why it matters. Paraphrasing. Obviously, he said those who do what I'm teaching 0:13:29 - 0:13:55 will know that it's the father's doctrine. Why? Because they'll become more like him if you do it right. That's, you know, we talk about experiments as rep uh repetitive processes where if you do the same things, you'll get the same result. Jesus did what he taught. And he says, if you do the same thing 0:13:55 - 0:14:17 , same thing is gonna happen to you. So, um in fact, he said, I'm the way that the truth and the life, the way in Greek, it means the journey, the process. He said I am the process I have come here to show you the process. I'm living it myself. It's like that old commercial for the hair club for men 0:14:17 - 0:14:49 where he's like, I'm not only the president, I'm also a member. So um he's a bald guy and he used the magic go to grow his hair back. Um So that's what Jesus was saying as well. Um Anyway, so one point I wanted to get to with this is that we can be standing in extraordinarily different places from the 0:14:48 - 0:15:15 people we judge and that's very bad. Um It's not like this, sorry. This is really hard to do level at a distance. I should look at where the camera is. It's not like this. It's like this. OK? And I'm going to say a lot more about this, but it's, it's very bad to judge someone who's better than you, not 0:15:15 - 0:15:42 because they're without fault, but because you don't have the capacity to see it. Jesus said that until you're born again, you cannot see the kingdom of God and how silly would you feel criticizing Jesus? I hope you feel pretty silly. I'd feel silly. I've said in another video at least once that when 0:15:41 - 0:16:06 you feel like you found a contradiction with Jesus is a wonderful gift because all the scriptures, um If you go to him and you say, hey, what's up with this? These things don't seem to line up. You had the attitude of therefore clearly, I'm missing something. He'll tell you, it'll tell you exactly what's 0:16:06 - 0:16:41 up and it's wonderful. But you got to be flexible. You can't be so rigid in what you presume to be uns shaking. True. He's the only unshakably true. Anything. God, everything else can bend and will bent and many things will break, but he will not. He is the, the true one. So when we find something that 0:16:41 - 0:17:07 doesn't look like it lines up, that's an invitation to go and learn something from God that you didn't know and sometimes it can't line up in your paradigm. You have to go to a different paradigm. I always laugh when I think about that II, I laugh and I commiserate. But it's also funny. Um, when I read 0:17:07 - 0:17:33 about, was it Hosea that God commanded to bake these cakes out of human poop, not out of the bake them on human poop. As one of these prophetic demonstrations that those, those zany ancient prophets were always doing zany things like walking around naked for years or cutting off a long beard and, you 0:17:33 - 0:17:56 know, making little things out of it. But anyway, this one prophet was commanded to make these cakes and bake them on him and d as a, as a message and God told him what he was demonstrating and then he could tell that to the people. But it's so funny to me that the guy's natural response, which is, it 0:17:56 - 0:18:21 is very good to respond in stream of consciousness with God. Just be super sincere. I made another video about that because you're not gonna hide anything. But um he responds and it's so funny. He's like I can't do this. I've never eaten any unclean thing because that that's a violation of the law of 0:18:20 - 0:19:03 Moses to bake food with human feces. Um So you can just see God going fine, use animal dung whatever. And I try really hard not to have those experiences with God where I'm He, he, he helps me greatly with this. I think I've shared this point before one of the last things I was afraid of. Uh huh I move 0:19:03 - 0:19:47 past fear of my own um death and my own pain worse than death. But one of the last things was fear of my family suffering. Um Long before I had kids, um I had rooted my own purposes deeply in alleviating the potential suffering of a future wife and kids when I was young. This is one of the things that 0:19:47 - 0:20:20 this is a purpose that got me through some hard things, some very hard things. And I said, you know, as bad as this is, this is setting a bar for how hard I'm going to try to make sure that my wife and kids never have to go through this. And a so as can be the case. And this is so on point on topic with 0:20:20 - 0:20:47 paradigm shifts, the very thing that can get us through what we need to get through right now can be completely insufficient for what comes later. No matter how good it is right now, it can be the completely wrong thing. It can be a stumbling block that will prevent us from going any farther later. And 0:20:46 - 0:21:10 , um, you know, if it's the dead of winter and you're going hiking, you want a really warm sleeping bag and that's going to be heavier than a light sleeping bag. Um, well, out, right, a heavy sleep, but, I mean, a light, uh, light duty, a light purpose, a warm weather sleeping bag, it's gonna be heavier 0:21:09 - 0:21:31 than a warm weather sleeping bag. But if the, if the seasons transition into spring and you are going to get to where you're going in the summer and you have to get there by the summer, then you need to just dump that sleeping bag. Right. So, the very thing that got you through is now going to prevent 0:21:30 - 0:21:56 you from getting any further. There's so many things in life like that. And so this belief, this purpose of I'm going to prevent suffering in the ones I love. I had to let that go. But anyway, so as the Lord was patiently but brutally uh lovingly, when brutality comes from the Lord, it's always a measure 0:21:55 - 0:22:19 of his love. Everything he does or hurts us, hurts him more every time. But he was going through some brutal things with me to help me learn this lesson and amidst it all. So it's kind of like being, being hit with a baseball bat over and over and over again and in between the beatings like, ok, now 0:22:19 - 0:22:47 I'm gonna explain this to you again, which sounds like some mafioso thing. But what I'm saying is he was exposing me to the horrors of reality and then explaining them again until I let go of my false beliefs about things and um and finally yielded to him in these, in these regards. But anyway, his purpose 0:22:46 - 0:23:19 with this one thing was and this is how it culminated one day after I'd been through some really horrific things. He said um I said something like, well, what would happen to my family if and instead of this, the Lord's got multiple levels of comfort on one level, he says it's gonna be ok and that can 0:23:19 - 0:23:51 be enough for most things that most people experience. That's enough. I call this like a maternal comforting. But what I really love about the Lord is that he's a father and paternal comfort. Doesn't say there, there it's gonna be better. Paternal comfort says it's actually, it's worse than you think 0:23:50 - 0:24:32 . It's worse than you think, but it's worth it and I know you can do it and here's why you need to. So, in this case, what happened was after he put me through this, this iteration of pain. He said, I said, what, what about my family, about my wife and kids? I, I don't care about myself anymore. But 0:24:32 - 0:25:24 what about these guys? And instead of saying they're there, you know, trust me, they'll be OK. He said, do you really think that anything you're capable of doing for their benefit can measure up in any way to what I can do? And I immediately said, no, no, I know that that's not the case. And I said question 0:25:23 - 0:25:54 withdrawn. I'm good anyway, I'm not 100% sure how we got here, but I know what I wanted to talk about. So I'm gonna get back to that when we try to see, we try to judge someone else in their paradigm and where we stand and make a great mistake. And this is why it's so important to learn to discern these 0:25:54 - 0:26:24 things. Moving on to the next topic. I'm gonna say a heck of a lot more about that at later dates. Um Let me just give you the punch line. If you can learn to detect a higher paradigm, you've now got the fast track to adopt it. If you're approaching it from the perspective of judging it from what you 0:26:24 - 0:26:50 currently value or believe is true or do or are any of those things you are on the slow track? You have an immensely long path that's gonna going to include lots of unnecessary suffering and you're probably going to be permanently blocked from so much of the good there until you make serious changes 0:26:49 - 0:27:21 to your own paradigm, including up to and including leaving it completely behind if need be OK. Uh I'm gonna go ahead and share a story that I don't know that you've heard. Maybe you have forgive me the very first time the Lord came to me. Uh I had this vision, it was, it was a vision. Visions can be 0:27:20 - 0:27:40 different, you know, different quality of vision, different, feel different things you can do, can't do whether you realize it's a vision or you really feel like you're in real life and you don't know the difference. That is one of those. And so I was in this room and there were people from all these 0:27:40 - 0:28:06 different religions that I knew because some of the religions have distinctive clothing that they wear. And um I stood up and I said, I don't know what was, I don't remember what was going on. I have to reread my account of it. But um there's some kind of jostling about beliefs or something, but we're 0:28:05 - 0:28:36 all searching and it was, it was almost like a, an auction. Some kind of weird religious option. Does it feel because people were looking for something more than what they had? And they had a price they were willing to pay? And I stood up and I said, uh, something like to find the religion of Abraham 0:28:35 - 0:29:17 and Isaac and all the patriarchs, the real one, you know, the fullness. I'll give everything. I have everything, not just money my whole life. And that's when a transition occurred, which led to me meeting the savior face to face for real. And a that's not incidental, those things are connected. So you 0:29:17 - 0:30:03 have to be able or be willing to leave behind anything and to take on anything. All right. Culminating point. Um I guess 22 more points to make one, you can't actually see someone's paradigm. You have to, you have to learn to discover it as kind of a, a critical thinking exercise based on the tiny fraction 0:30:03 - 0:30:34 of what you can see and what that fraction is. It's just gonna be where the rubber hits the road. It's, it's a, it's the things that they do and don't do and say, and don't say that's all you have to go off of. Here's why that's really, really, really hard and I'm gonna do a detailed presentation of 0:30:34 - 0:30:59 , of this specific idea at least. Um because it's like icebergs and all you see is the little part sticking out. But unlike icebergs, so I looked this up because I was curious, icebergs have a 1 to 9 ratio of what's above water versus below. It has to do with the buoyancy of ice. You'll only ever see 0:30:59 - 0:31:25 one 10th of hopefully, I got that ratio right. You only see one part out of 10 above water. So as the iceberg, the visible part of the iceberg grows a little, everything else grows a lot, but it's still linear that relationship. And this is where the analogy breaks down. And another limitation of this 0:31:25 - 0:31:43 is that when you're looking at someone else's iceberg, you pretty much always see the same part. And so it's not actually getting bigger, that'd be kind of obvious. The changes aren't so obvious. Now, when someone tells you what they, what to look for, I'm telling you, it's gonna be like turning on a 0:31:43 - 0:32:12 light in a dark room and you are going to be floored. But, um until you know that it's really hard to see these differences and this is why people could see even the magnificent things that Jesus did and still write him off as some sort of scoundrel or blasphemer or just a holy teacher. So I look forward 0:32:11 - 0:32:48 to the day when that's all really obvious and it's coming, but people can do the same thing for very different reasons. And it's important to see that it's important to know that that's the case. It's important to see what those differences are to be able to discover them. So final point, the final point 0:32:48 - 0:33:12 is, is, is kind of a trope from stories, which is this idea of, I'm trying to get out and you all keep pulling me back in. I can think of movies. At least one song where this is a theme. It's a really easy way to spin up a story, I guess. Um, we actually my wife and I were just watching one of the Mission 0:33:11 - 0:33:31 Impossible movies yesterday. It's like every single mission impossible. He's, he's trying to get out and they pull back in or something. But so this happens all the time and, you know, someone moves on with their life basically, but someone from a different, hopefully lower paradigm keeps looking at 0:33:31 - 0:33:50 them in the same lens and assumes that when they say something, it has to be the reasons why they would say it and when they do something, it has to be the reasons they would do it and their understanding of what they're doing and why they're doing it. And the value of that, that was a grid. I'm not 0:33:50 - 0:34:26 like doing some Madonna thing. Um Old school Madonna. Um Sorry, I'm just using all of my mental energy to not think of anything about modern Madonna. Um Right, and eat a lot this morning. Um So I'm gonna give you some, some real examples of this. Um And I'm, I'm going to speak from an L DS perspective 0:34:25 - 0:34:58 because I know a lot of viewers on this channel are there. So it's a, it's a, it's a language that I can employ. So in the L DS world and we could go through this with every religion in the L DS world. There's a, a set of terms that are highly charged when we talk about ordinances or temples or um I'm 0:34:57 - 0:35:18 sorry, when I said ordinances there, I don't, I don't know why. But the way I said it made me think of that movie Cloudy with a chance of meatballs and the voice on the machine. That, that, that movie is a favorite of me and my family is super, super witty. I think it's hilarious but I think uh cartoon 0:35:17 - 0:35:47 wittiness is, is probably right up my maturity level alley for humor anyway, uh Cheeseburger. So ordinances Temples Authority profit tithing these things is, I mean, you're touching an electric rail for sure whenever you say any of those things. But here's the funny thing is that all of those ideas have 0:35:46 - 0:36:10 massive gravity for L DS or former L DS people. And so if you say anything that's anywhere related to that, they'll suck it right in and they'll grab it and they'll pull it down to the mat and try to pin it to their existing framework of this is what it is. So I want to zoom in for second on authority 0:36:09 - 0:36:33 because my man Jared wrote a comment about that on another video. Uh I don't know when I'm gonna post this. So maybe some time ago, but around October 14th, you made this comment might have been on the 13th because it's the 14th today. But I got up early. I don't know when he made the comment. Um So 0:36:33 - 0:36:59 independent of the contents of that. I've been super duper clear. I think about what my um current best understanding of authority is. I've talked a lot about the authority of the scribes versus the authority of Jesus. And in a nutshell, what I've said is God's authority is his character. It's what he's 0:36:59 - 0:37:30 like, it's what he knows, it's what he does. It's what makes him him, it's the set of qualities that make him unique compared to anyone else. And so as we draw near to that in how we are regain his authority. And so nothing about that comes from any of the things in the L DS world that they talk about 0:37:30 - 0:38:01 . That should be some kind of weird theme park, I guess Temple Squares is you renamed Temple Square, L DS world. Um L DS Land. Anyway Saints. It sounds German. Um Yeah. So, so when people see what I'm doing and they're like, hm, this guy is basically teaching a completely different theology. Yes, I am 0:38:01 - 0:38:33 . Um But different from what, not from what the scriptures say, not from what Jesus taught, not from who Jesus is and was. And will be but just what you think about him and just what you think the scriptures say. Um But yes, a totally different theology. Um So then they say therefore, and then they start 0:38:33 - 0:39:06 latching on all of these residual um implications, presumed implications from the L DS mindset. And uh they, they're basically, they're all wrong and I've not said or done anything to connect me to implicate me on those things, to implicate myself on, on any of that garbage. Um But I, I am definitely 0:39:06 - 0:39:32 out of all of that and there are people who continue to try to pull me back in and I don't think for a lot of them, there's nothing malicious about it. I'm just helping you see things that are involuntary so far on your part and these are things that we need to change and improve another one. Uh Yesterday 0:39:31 - 0:40:02 , a person, the comment didn't make it to the youtube channel because I deleted it. Um But this person was going on about taking comments I had made about my intent on making some sort of a website and stratifying um somehow stratifying the experience based on the books and videos that the participant 0:40:01 - 0:40:35 has, has uh processed. And she interpreted that as well. Let's make a subscription model um where you're only going to be able to see uh certain content based on how much you pay. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, maybe this comment did get through, I don't know. Um, I was like, I never said anything 0:40:34 - 0:41:03 about that. I said something very opposite to that, which is all of my things have always been free for everyone and I don't foresee a time where that would ever need to change and I don't want it to ever change. So, um, you know, money has nothing to do with that. That's not how this works. Um, at all 0:41:03 - 0:41:26 . And I felt like Jesus when he went through Samaria the second time and no one was interested in hearing what he had to say. Whereas the first time he was received very well um by the woman at the well, who then got all of her, her uh the people she knew to listen to him and apparently it went really 0:41:26 - 0:41:56 well, they didn't want him to leave. But the second time, one of his apostles said, well, you want us to call down fire on these chumps. And he said you have no idea who I am or why I'm here, do you? It's a paraphrase of course. But because he came to save, not to punish. So it's a funny thing to be 0:41:56 - 0:42:28 pulled into stuff that you would think would be super obvious. That is uh that it's worth uh oh, what's the word I want here? Um Completely the opposite of what you're all about. So, anyway, um I've given you a lot to think about here. I hope, I hope some of this seems relevant and useful to you. But 0:00:00 - 0:00:30 When considering the possible need of new paradigms. One pitfall we can fall into is evaluating those paradigms in a lens that's, that's solidly rooted in our current one. So if you use the scriptural analog of patching old garments with a new patch, the old garments are not going to like that new patch 0:00:30 - 0:00:56 very much. It's better than they are. It's newer than they are, you know, garments don't, they're not sentient, they don't have feelings. But I think you get what I'm trying to say, um the, the old bottles want to come along with the new wine, they want to be part of this party and uh nothing wants to 0:00:55 - 0:01:24 come back in at the ground floor. Hm. The problem is that everything is hierarchical and that each hierarchy is in a way. It's, it's, well, it's scope differently. And so in a way it's, it's independent. There are things that can go with you and things that can't, but the whole thing needs to be changed 0:01:23 - 0:01:49 out. And so um this is one meaning of one facet of the meaning of what Jesus was talking about when he was trying to explain how hard it is for rich people to get into the Kingdom of Heaven. They've accumulated wealth in one paradigm. But to enter into the next one, even just in the gate to get into 0:01:49 - 0:02:14 it, changes have to occur that are very unlikely to maintain that wealth. And so he said, rich man hardly gets into the kingdom of Heaven. It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Camels are really big. and people say like, oh, the eye of a needle was a gate in the city and its camels 0:02:13 - 0:02:35 could go through. But you had to take everything off the camel. Who cares? Yeah, maybe that's true. Whatever. You don't have to overcomplicate things. Folks, big stuff can't go into little stuff. That's big. Things can't go into little holes. It's, it's really simple. Right? And um, there, there needs 0:02:35 - 0:02:57 to be a change trying to, uh, trying to parse out exactly how big the change has to be is really stupid because it came from the same guy who said, what's the cost? Everything, the cost of everything the father has is everything you have. He couldn't have said it more plainly and he said it again and 0:02:57 - 0:03:20 again. So, uh you know what king goes out to battle without basically wholly dedicating himself to winning. If you don't have the resources and resolve for that, then you shouldn't go because you're gonna lose what person sets out to build a tower unless they have the materials to finish, find your life 0:03:20 - 0:03:49 , lose your life on and on and on. Anyway, there's no partiality in any of that. So if you think that you're gonna go through the eye of the needle just by a partial um shedding of some small thing, good luck. It's not gonna work, right? So, um in these paradigm changes, if a paradigm shift is necessitated 0:03:49 - 0:04:14 for your continued progress, um you need to pay attention to what can come with you and what has to stay behind. Now until now, I'm talking about generalities, but let's apply this specifically to the Kingdom of God. Um Progress is upward, right? You're going up the mountain. The fact is that there are 0:04:14 - 0:04:35 some things that can't come with you. There are people that can't come with you. There are ideas that can't come with you. There are practices that can't come with you. There are feelings that can't come with you. And so you have to learn what it is that must stay behind and then you have to make the 0:04:35 - 0:05:03 separation every single time. There's growth in God's kingdom, there is a cutting, there is a division of what was previously considered whole. There's a distinction in what was previously considered the same. And there has to be why because we are not empty beings, we are beings that always stay full 0:05:03 - 0:05:32 . And so if you want to ascend, you have to have something cut out of you to make space for something better. And incidentally, those changes have to occur before you move up. So there are different ways I could teach that and uh they are more substantial and we there are many applications but we'll 0:05:32 - 0:05:58 leave it like that for now. So now what happens when those that are still in the prior paradigm? Look at these changes from the outside, although they won't recognize it that way because truth is scoped. All truth is independent in the sphere in which it's created. It's a scriptural phrase, but it's 0:05:58 - 0:06:23 scoped. So what is true for you is not necessarily going to be true for someone else. And I'm not saying that therefore there's such a thing as my truth. I'm just saying that um your perception of what is true, which is objective and independent. It's just an estimate and it's going to differ from someone 0:06:23 - 0:00:00 else's. So what we believe it colors our perception, it determines our perception. Actually, it's even stronger than just influencing it. So there are reasons for that. You can't see what you're not looking for and your beliefs define what you're looking for. They can expand what you're looking for, 0:00:00 - 0:07:13 but they also are limited and therefore they will always limit what you see. This is one reason why it takes someone else to bring you higher because you have to have your beliefs expanded by something I should say someone or something. So if you get hit by a car and your long term health situation is 0:07:13 - 0:07:42 forever changed. It's going to change the way you see life. And so that car crash is what brought you higher if you respond to that stimulus correctly. Um So when other people see you, if you happen to be in a higher paradigm, they can only interpret what they see from their lower perspective. And there 0:07:42 - 0:08:13 are many things that just can't, well, nothing above can be seen correctly from below. However, it can be seen usefully, meaning there are aspects that can be seen, things that can be communicated that are true enough to be useful. But it's never the complete picture. There are so many things you just 0:08:13 - 0:08:39 can't understand until you're there yourself. So, not fully anyway, that's a big challenge. If, if it's not, it's not a stretch to say that this is the challenge of the gospel that that's you could defend that position to communicate value to someone who's in a place where they absolutely cannot comprehend 0:08:38 - 0:09:06 it. Why uh so value is sufficient to make the changes, right? That's the challenge of the gospel. It's helping people to change in ways they can't possibly see or as worthwhile as they are because the cost of things is usually much more apparent than the effect, the positive effect of something, the 0:09:06 - 0:09:35 benefit, the cost of something is almost always more obvious than its benefit. So, um the things for which that's not true tend to be where we sin in that case, it's, it's the cost that's like that's harder to see in case you didn't connect those dots. Most sins are where the cost is harder to see than 0:09:35 - 0:10:06 the benefit. Um Anyway, so when people look at a higher paradigm from the lens of a lower paradigm, they must judge, right? And so uh when Jesus came down from heaven, people misjudged him. And one of the main reasons was because they were judging putative improvement based on their current paradigm 0:10:05 - 0:10:32 . And you, this is a big no, no, you should not judge putative truth based on what you already believe. And this throws organized religion and science. Unfortunately, modern science into a whirlwind because it's the opposite of what they teach and practice science today is gate kept, whether it be peer 0:10:31 - 0:11:04 reviewed publications or the academic Industrial Complex um grants. So all three of those which is sort of the trifecta, the, the magisterium of the academic and scientific world grants degrees and publications, all of those are gate kept under the the the idea that what is valuable can be measured by 0:11:03 - 0:11:29 what I'm sorry, what will be valuable can be accurately measured by what is valuable. In other words, anything that is better can accurately be measured by what we value right now. And so when you send in a grant, it's reviewed by a panel of people considered experts in the field and their metric for 0:11:29 - 0:11:56 judging is not, could this be better than what I did? It's, does this agree with what I did? It's the same for peer reviewed publications. It's absolutely the same for, um, degree examination. So when you get a master's or phd, you have to defend a thesis or a dissertation and a panel of professors are 0:11:55 - 0:12:31 judging what you did based on what they believe is valuable from what they've learned and done. They, they do not evaluate that based on uh innovation as much as alignment with what already came before they're extremely resistant to change. So, um religion is no better. Um Most religions will tell you 0:12:30 - 0:12:59 the way, you know, if something is true is by how much it agrees with and then you've got some options. It will be what we've told you, the scriptures say or what we say or what we do in this religion. So none of those things are metrics of truth. Truth is a question of value. How much utility is there 0:12:58 - 0:13:29 ? What is it capable of doing? What can it withstand? How much can it improve? Jesus didn't say you'll know truth because it will match up with everything you believed before. He said in John 717, if you do it, you'll see why it matters. Paraphrasing. Obviously, he said those who do what I'm teaching 0:13:29 - 0:13:55 will know that it's the father's doctrine. Why? Because they'll become more like him if you do it right. That's, you know, we talk about experiments as rep uh repetitive processes where if you do the same things, you'll get the same result. Jesus did what he taught. And he says, if you do the same thing 0:13:55 - 0:14:17 , same thing is gonna happen to you. So, um in fact, he said, I'm the way that the truth and the life, the way in Greek, it means the journey, the process. He said I am the process I have come here to show you the process. I'm living it myself. It's like that old commercial for the hair club for men 0:14:17 - 0:14:49 where he's like, I'm not only the president, I'm also a member. So um he's a bald guy and he used the magic go to grow his hair back. Um So that's what Jesus was saying as well. Um Anyway, so one point I wanted to get to with this is that we can be standing in extraordinarily different places from the 0:14:48 - 0:15:15 people we judge and that's very bad. Um It's not like this, sorry. This is really hard to do level at a distance. I should look at where the camera is. It's not like this. It's like this. OK? And I'm going to say a lot more about this, but it's, it's very bad to judge someone who's better than you, not 0:15:15 - 0:15:42 because they're without fault, but because you don't have the capacity to see it. Jesus said that until you're born again, you cannot see the kingdom of God and how silly would you feel criticizing Jesus? I hope you feel pretty silly. I'd feel silly. I've said in another video at least once that when 0:15:41 - 0:16:06 you feel like you found a contradiction with Jesus is a wonderful gift because all the scriptures, um If you go to him and you say, hey, what's up with this? These things don't seem to line up. You had the attitude of therefore clearly, I'm missing something. He'll tell you, it'll tell you exactly what's 0:16:06 - 0:16:41 up and it's wonderful. But you got to be flexible. You can't be so rigid in what you presume to be uns shaking. True. He's the only unshakably true. Anything. God, everything else can bend and will bent and many things will break, but he will not. He is the, the true one. So when we find something that 0:16:41 - 0:17:07 doesn't look like it lines up, that's an invitation to go and learn something from God that you didn't know and sometimes it can't line up in your paradigm. You have to go to a different paradigm. I always laugh when I think about that II, I laugh and I commiserate. But it's also funny. Um, when I read 0:17:07 - 0:17:33 about, was it Hosea that God commanded to bake these cakes out of human poop, not out of the bake them on human poop. As one of these prophetic demonstrations that those, those zany ancient prophets were always doing zany things like walking around naked for years or cutting off a long beard and, you 0:17:33 - 0:17:56 know, making little things out of it. But anyway, this one prophet was commanded to make these cakes and bake them on him and d as a, as a message and God told him what he was demonstrating and then he could tell that to the people. But it's so funny to me that the guy's natural response, which is, it 0:17:56 - 0:18:21 is very good to respond in stream of consciousness with God. Just be super sincere. I made another video about that because you're not gonna hide anything. But um he responds and it's so funny. He's like I can't do this. I've never eaten any unclean thing because that that's a violation of the law of 0:18:20 - 0:19:03 Moses to bake food with human feces. Um So you can just see God going fine, use animal dung whatever. And I try really hard not to have those experiences with God where I'm He, he, he helps me greatly with this. I think I've shared this point before one of the last things I was afraid of. Uh huh I move 0:19:03 - 0:19:47 past fear of my own um death and my own pain worse than death. But one of the last things was fear of my family suffering. Um Long before I had kids, um I had rooted my own purposes deeply in alleviating the potential suffering of a future wife and kids when I was young. This is one of the things that 0:19:47 - 0:20:20 this is a purpose that got me through some hard things, some very hard things. And I said, you know, as bad as this is, this is setting a bar for how hard I'm going to try to make sure that my wife and kids never have to go through this. And a so as can be the case. And this is so on point on topic with 0:20:20 - 0:20:47 paradigm shifts, the very thing that can get us through what we need to get through right now can be completely insufficient for what comes later. No matter how good it is right now, it can be the completely wrong thing. It can be a stumbling block that will prevent us from going any farther later. And 0:20:46 - 0:21:10 , um, you know, if it's the dead of winter and you're going hiking, you want a really warm sleeping bag and that's going to be heavier than a light sleeping bag. Um, well, out, right, a heavy sleep, but, I mean, a light, uh, light duty, a light purpose, a warm weather sleeping bag, it's gonna be heavier 0:21:09 - 0:21:31 than a warm weather sleeping bag. But if the, if the seasons transition into spring and you are going to get to where you're going in the summer and you have to get there by the summer, then you need to just dump that sleeping bag. Right. So, the very thing that got you through is now going to prevent 0:21:30 - 0:21:56 you from getting any further. There's so many things in life like that. And so this belief, this purpose of I'm going to prevent suffering in the ones I love. I had to let that go. But anyway, so as the Lord was patiently but brutally uh lovingly, when brutality comes from the Lord, it's always a measure 0:21:55 - 0:22:19 of his love. Everything he does or hurts us, hurts him more every time. But he was going through some brutal things with me to help me learn this lesson and amidst it all. So it's kind of like being, being hit with a baseball bat over and over and over again and in between the beatings like, ok, now 0:22:19 - 0:22:47 I'm gonna explain this to you again, which sounds like some mafioso thing. But what I'm saying is he was exposing me to the horrors of reality and then explaining them again until I let go of my false beliefs about things and um and finally yielded to him in these, in these regards. But anyway, his purpose 0:22:46 - 0:23:19 with this one thing was and this is how it culminated one day after I'd been through some really horrific things. He said um I said something like, well, what would happen to my family if and instead of this, the Lord's got multiple levels of comfort on one level, he says it's gonna be ok and that can 0:23:19 - 0:23:51 be enough for most things that most people experience. That's enough. I call this like a maternal comforting. But what I really love about the Lord is that he's a father and paternal comfort. Doesn't say there, there it's gonna be better. Paternal comfort says it's actually, it's worse than you think 0:23:50 - 0:24:32 . It's worse than you think, but it's worth it and I know you can do it and here's why you need to. So, in this case, what happened was after he put me through this, this iteration of pain. He said, I said, what, what about my family, about my wife and kids? I, I don't care about myself anymore. But 0:24:32 - 0:25:24 what about these guys? And instead of saying they're there, you know, trust me, they'll be OK. He said, do you really think that anything you're capable of doing for their benefit can measure up in any way to what I can do? And I immediately said, no, no, I know that that's not the case. And I said question 0:25:23 - 0:25:54 withdrawn. I'm good anyway, I'm not 100% sure how we got here, but I know what I wanted to talk about. So I'm gonna get back to that when we try to see, we try to judge someone else in their paradigm and where we stand and make a great mistake. And this is why it's so important to learn to discern these 0:25:54 - 0:26:24 things. Moving on to the next topic. I'm gonna say a heck of a lot more about that at later dates. Um Let me just give you the punch line. If you can learn to detect a higher paradigm, you've now got the fast track to adopt it. If you're approaching it from the perspective of judging it from what you 0:26:24 - 0:26:50 currently value or believe is true or do or are any of those things you are on the slow track? You have an immensely long path that's gonna going to include lots of unnecessary suffering and you're probably going to be permanently blocked from so much of the good there until you make serious changes 0:26:49 - 0:27:21 to your own paradigm, including up to and including leaving it completely behind if need be OK. Uh I'm gonna go ahead and share a story that I don't know that you've heard. Maybe you have forgive me the very first time the Lord came to me. Uh I had this vision, it was, it was a vision. Visions can be 0:27:20 - 0:27:40 different, you know, different quality of vision, different, feel different things you can do, can't do whether you realize it's a vision or you really feel like you're in real life and you don't know the difference. That is one of those. And so I was in this room and there were people from all these 0:27:40 - 0:28:06 different religions that I knew because some of the religions have distinctive clothing that they wear. And um I stood up and I said, I don't know what was, I don't remember what was going on. I have to reread my account of it. But um there's some kind of jostling about beliefs or something, but we're 0:28:05 - 0:28:36 all searching and it was, it was almost like a, an auction. Some kind of weird religious option. Does it feel because people were looking for something more than what they had? And they had a price they were willing to pay? And I stood up and I said, uh, something like to find the religion of Abraham 0:28:35 - 0:29:17 and Isaac and all the patriarchs, the real one, you know, the fullness. I'll give everything. I have everything, not just money my whole life. And that's when a transition occurred, which led to me meeting the savior face to face for real. And a that's not incidental, those things are connected. So you 0:29:17 - 0:30:03 have to be able or be willing to leave behind anything and to take on anything. All right. Culminating point. Um I guess 22 more points to make one, you can't actually see someone's paradigm. You have to, you have to learn to discover it as kind of a, a critical thinking exercise based on the tiny fraction 0:30:03 - 0:30:34 of what you can see and what that fraction is. It's just gonna be where the rubber hits the road. It's, it's a, it's the things that they do and don't do and say, and don't say that's all you have to go off of. Here's why that's really, really, really hard and I'm gonna do a detailed presentation of 0:30:34 - 0:30:59 , of this specific idea at least. Um because it's like icebergs and all you see is the little part sticking out. But unlike icebergs, so I looked this up because I was curious, icebergs have a 1 to 9 ratio of what's above water versus below. It has to do with the buoyancy of ice. You'll only ever see 0:30:59 - 0:31:25 one 10th of hopefully, I got that ratio right. You only see one part out of 10 above water. So as the iceberg, the visible part of the iceberg grows a little, everything else grows a lot, but it's still linear that relationship. And this is where the analogy breaks down. And another limitation of this 0:31:25 - 0:31:43 is that when you're looking at someone else's iceberg, you pretty much always see the same part. And so it's not actually getting bigger, that'd be kind of obvious. The changes aren't so obvious. Now, when someone tells you what they, what to look for, I'm telling you, it's gonna be like turning on a 0:31:43 - 0:32:12 light in a dark room and you are going to be floored. But, um until you know that it's really hard to see these differences and this is why people could see even the magnificent things that Jesus did and still write him off as some sort of scoundrel or blasphemer or just a holy teacher. So I look forward 0:32:11 - 0:32:48 to the day when that's all really obvious and it's coming, but people can do the same thing for very different reasons. And it's important to see that it's important to know that that's the case. It's important to see what those differences are to be able to discover them. So final point, the final point 0:32:48 - 0:33:12 is, is, is kind of a trope from stories, which is this idea of, I'm trying to get out and you all keep pulling me back in. I can think of movies. At least one song where this is a theme. It's a really easy way to spin up a story, I guess. Um, we actually my wife and I were just watching one of the Mission 0:33:11 - 0:33:31 Impossible movies yesterday. It's like every single mission impossible. He's, he's trying to get out and they pull back in or something. But so this happens all the time and, you know, someone moves on with their life basically, but someone from a different, hopefully lower paradigm keeps looking at 0:33:31 - 0:33:50 them in the same lens and assumes that when they say something, it has to be the reasons why they would say it and when they do something, it has to be the reasons they would do it and their understanding of what they're doing and why they're doing it. And the value of that, that was a grid. I'm not 0:33:50 - 0:34:26 like doing some Madonna thing. Um Old school Madonna. Um Sorry, I'm just using all of my mental energy to not think of anything about modern Madonna. Um Right, and eat a lot this morning. Um So I'm gonna give you some, some real examples of this. Um And I'm, I'm going to speak from an L DS perspective 0:34:25 - 0:34:58 because I know a lot of viewers on this channel are there. So it's a, it's a, it's a language that I can employ. So in the L DS world and we could go through this with every religion in the L DS world. There's a, a set of terms that are highly charged when we talk about ordinances or temples or um I'm 0:34:57 - 0:35:18 sorry, when I said ordinances there, I don't, I don't know why. But the way I said it made me think of that movie Cloudy with a chance of meatballs and the voice on the machine. That, that, that movie is a favorite of me and my family is super, super witty. I think it's hilarious but I think uh cartoon 0:35:17 - 0:35:47 wittiness is, is probably right up my maturity level alley for humor anyway, uh Cheeseburger. So ordinances Temples Authority profit tithing these things is, I mean, you're touching an electric rail for sure whenever you say any of those things. But here's the funny thing is that all of those ideas have 0:35:46 - 0:36:10 massive gravity for L DS or former L DS people. And so if you say anything that's anywhere related to that, they'll suck it right in and they'll grab it and they'll pull it down to the mat and try to pin it to their existing framework of this is what it is. So I want to zoom in for second on authority 0:36:09 - 0:36:33 because my man Jared wrote a comment about that on another video. Uh I don't know when I'm gonna post this. So maybe some time ago, but around October 14th, you made this comment might have been on the 13th because it's the 14th today. But I got up early. I don't know when he made the comment. Um So 0:36:33 - 0:36:59 independent of the contents of that. I've been super duper clear. I think about what my um current best understanding of authority is. I've talked a lot about the authority of the scribes versus the authority of Jesus. And in a nutshell, what I've said is God's authority is his character. It's what he's 0:36:59 - 0:37:30 like, it's what he knows, it's what he does. It's what makes him him, it's the set of qualities that make him unique compared to anyone else. And so as we draw near to that in how we are regain his authority. And so nothing about that comes from any of the things in the L DS world that they talk about 0:37:30 - 0:38:01 . That should be some kind of weird theme park, I guess Temple Squares is you renamed Temple Square, L DS world. Um L DS Land. Anyway Saints. It sounds German. Um Yeah. So, so when people see what I'm doing and they're like, hm, this guy is basically teaching a completely different theology. Yes, I am 0:38:01 - 0:38:33 . Um But different from what, not from what the scriptures say, not from what Jesus taught, not from who Jesus is and was. And will be but just what you think about him and just what you think the scriptures say. Um But yes, a totally different theology. Um So then they say therefore, and then they start 0:38:33 - 0:39:06 latching on all of these residual um implications, presumed implications from the L DS mindset. And uh they, they're basically, they're all wrong and I've not said or done anything to connect me to implicate me on those things, to implicate myself on, on any of that garbage. Um But I, I am definitely 0:39:06 - 0:39:32 out of all of that and there are people who continue to try to pull me back in and I don't think for a lot of them, there's nothing malicious about it. I'm just helping you see things that are involuntary so far on your part and these are things that we need to change and improve another one. Uh Yesterday 0:39:31 - 0:40:02 , a person, the comment didn't make it to the youtube channel because I deleted it. Um But this person was going on about taking comments I had made about my intent on making some sort of a website and stratifying um somehow stratifying the experience based on the books and videos that the participant 0:40:01 - 0:40:35 has, has uh processed. And she interpreted that as well. Let's make a subscription model um where you're only going to be able to see uh certain content based on how much you pay. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, maybe this comment did get through, I don't know. Um, I was like, I never said anything 0:40:34 - 0:41:03 about that. I said something very opposite to that, which is all of my things have always been free for everyone and I don't foresee a time where that would ever need to change and I don't want it to ever change. So, um, you know, money has nothing to do with that. That's not how this works. Um, at all 0:41:03 - 0:41:26 . And I felt like Jesus when he went through Samaria the second time and no one was interested in hearing what he had to say. Whereas the first time he was received very well um by the woman at the well, who then got all of her, her uh the people she knew to listen to him and apparently it went really 0:41:26 - 0:41:56 well, they didn't want him to leave. But the second time, one of his apostles said, well, you want us to call down fire on these chumps. And he said you have no idea who I am or why I'm here, do you? It's a paraphrase of course. But because he came to save, not to punish. So it's a funny thing to be 0:41:56 - 0:42:28 pulled into stuff that you would think would be super obvious. That is uh that it's worth uh oh, what's the word I want here? Um Completely the opposite of what you're all about. So, anyway, um I've given you a lot to think about here. I hope, I hope some of this seems relevant and useful to you. But 0:42:28 - 0:42:32 , uh, we'll talk, we'll talk again later.