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	Well, welcome everybody to Brighteon Broadcast News for Monday, November 17th, 2025.
	And thank you for joining me.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	And I have been vibe coding all weekend, working on some really cool stuff for you.
	Of course, the book generator is rocking and rolling.
	And I have just been generating books like crazy.
	In fact, I generated a book for this episode.
	I'm going to show you a little bit of this book just to kind of demonstrate this before we open it up to our customers who have tokens.
	That's going to be the first users.
	And you'll be able to go to BrighteonBooks.com and enter your token if you got a token.
	If you don't have a token, then it'll open up to you later after we do the token testing.
	But if you have a token, then you'll be able to go there soon within, I don't know, maybe a week or less, and you'll be able to enter a token and generate whatever book you want.
	And I'd like to show you what I generated.
	So I was reading the news over the weekend and I learned about China's advancements in photonic computing.
	That is microchips that use light instead of electricity.
	And of course, light processors, that is absolutely going to be the future of microprocessors because they are, well, even this chip is a thousand times faster than typical GPUs and it uses a lot less power and generates a lot less heat.
	And we'll talk about that coming up.
	But I was thinking about the fact that this came out of China and not the United States.
	As much as we in America, you know, we're very proud of all the innovation and technology that we are able to produce, you know, the truth is China is extremely innovative in areas of technology and China is leading the West in many areas of technology, including photonic microprocessors.
	And I thought, you know, it's a very common thing for many of us in the United States to think that we are leading on everything when we're not, actually.
	And I thought about a really great topic, or I think a really important topic, that I refer to here today as the Mirage of Power.
	And I thought that one of the best ways to demonstrate our new book engine would be to just generate a book called The Mirage of Power and then to show you that.
	So I want to show you this image right now to my editor.
	Go ahead and show the first page of that PDF.
	It's called The Mirage of Power, 20 Delusions Shaping U.S. Geopolitics.
	Now, so first thing to understand about this image is that this was auto-generated and you could actually see an AI error.
	Do you see the double the?
	It says the the mirage of power.
	So I actually left that in there to show you that there there are AI artifacts in images very often for this.
	But anyway, this is an auto-generated image.
	And when you are generating books with our new tool, free of charge, you'll be able to just regenerate the cover until you get the cover that you like.
	A cover without typos, you know, because a lot of them will have typos.
	And then if we go on to the second page, you'll see it says the Mirage of Power, 20 Delusions Shaping U.S. Geopolitics from Brighteon Books.
	Now, it's interesting to me because it came up with that title.
	I mean, I suggested some things on the title, but it actually came up with the full title based on my list of 20 things where the U.S. is not as strong as it thinks it is.
	So this is a pretty interesting demonstration.
	And then if we scroll down, show the table of contents, page one.
	And do you see this table of contents?
	It says chapter one, the introduction, the necessity of challenging Western delusions, the power of informed decision-making and empowerment, navigating the information landscape, trustworthy sources, alternative platforms, etc.
	And you can see chapter two, three, four, five.
	And then on the second page of the table of contents, which we can show, it goes on chapter six, seven, eight, and nine.
	Now, I want you to know that all of this entire book outline was generated with one click.
	Literally one click.
	I didn't alter it at all.
	This is the auto-generated outline, which is, of course, using our Brighteon AI engine as the core engine underneath this.
	And that's why chapter 9 is all about empowerment, liberty, and abundance, you know, critical thinking and empowerment, the path to liberty and freedom, etc.
	So you're going to find that all the books that are generated through this engine, which you'll be able to generate soon, will reflect our shared worldview about health and freedom and transparency and natural abundance and things like that.
	And if we go, let's just jump to the first page of chapter one, the introduction.
	I'm just going to show you a little bit here.
	I haven't even read this.
	But I'm just showing you that these are the paragraphs that our engine wrote.
	And it even has citations.
	So in the second paragraph, it says, as Robert Bryce argues in Gusher of Lies, the dangerous delusions of energy independence, the West pursuit of energy dominance has been driven by a misguided belief in technological superiority and a disregard for the environmental and geopolitical consequences of such ambitions.
	So remember what I said, that we have solved the AI hallucination problem.
	And so you might wonder, well, is that citation there?
	Is that made up?
	Is there somebody named Robert Bryce that's got a book called Gusher of Lies?
	Well, let's find out.
	So I'm going to go to amazon.com and I'm searching for Gusher of Lies.
	Okay, here it comes.
	Gusher of Lies, The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence by who?
	Robert Bryce.
	Okay, so see, this is what I'm talking about.
	So our engine actually does the research for you on all like 10,000 other books, plus currently in our index is hundreds of thousands of other articles and spoken word transcripts and things like that.
	But it will be building to millions of additional pages of content.
	This is in our index.
	And that will all be used to influence or as research in the books that you can generate.
	And then at the end of each chapter, it actually gives the references.
	And what's so cool about this is that you can choose the tone of the book.
	You can say, I want it to be academic.
	I want it to be easy reading or I want it to be satirical or whimsical.
	Or we also have a style called doomsday.
	So you can do like full-blown doomsday narrative if that's what you want for your book.
	Yeah.
	And you can also choose whether you want it to research other books or not, or articles or not, or spoken word, which currently consists of all of my podcasts and interviews, or also science papers.
	And we'll be adding a lot more science papers over the next couple of months.
	So the bottom line is within a few clicks, you can describe and generate an extremely detailed and well-researched book that is researched and written, edited, and fact-checked, and then packaged into a PDF and delivered to you free of charge.
	And that's what's coming shortly.
	And anyway, I'm using it right now, and I'm having a blast.
	Well, I'm fixing bugs, so that's also fun.
	But I'm having a blast generating the books, and I'm fixing bugs and putting in guardrails so that, you know, public dweebs don't use it to try to generate bomb-making do-it-yourself guides and garbage like that.
	So we're putting in some common sense type of guardrails because we want this engine to be used for knowledge.
	Not for anything destructive, but for things that can empower humanity.
	That's what this is all about.
	Now, speaking of the 20, what, wait, what was the subheading it?
	The 20 delusions shaping U.S. geopolitics.
	Right.
	I'm actually going to go through that list for you here.
	20 areas.
	See, Trump got me thinking about this because Trump's out there saying, oh, it's a golden age, you know, and everybody wants to be like America.
	And America is the best at everything.
	And, you know, it's funny.
	It's kind of like Trump saying, you know, my golf course is the best golf course.
	My steak is the best steak.
	You know, my hotel is the best hotel, whatever.
	It's kind of just Trump boasting.
	But he boasts about America in a way that isn't actually real.
	It's, you know, it's marketing.
	It's boastful.
	It's like everybody wants to be like America.
	Not really.
	There are some serious contradictions and shortcomings and things like that.
	Don't get me wrong.
	I love America and I want to help America be more successful and more abundant.
	And that's why I'm doing all the things I'm doing, giving out the tools and so on.
	But we also need to be realistic about where we are in the world because I think that these delusions put us on a path that is, it's going to cause a lot of problems when you're not living in reality.
	In other words, if you're living in reality, you're going to be able to navigate things better.
	If you're living in a delusional fantasy land, you're going to be really shocked by the things that happen that you don't expect because you thought the dollar was going to last forever and then it collapses and then you're really, really surprised.
	Like, what happened to the dollar?
	Well, you know, you weaponize it and everybody said, we'll do something else.
	Thank you very much.
	So I'm going to go through that list here shortly in a special report about the 20 delusions that currently characterize Western, well, the USA in particular.
	But before we get there, I wanted to cover some other interesting news.
	Oh, and I want to mention that today's interview is going to be with Aaron Abke and James Benefitco of the Jesus Way podcast who have the Jesus diet.
	And this is a really fascinating interview.
	I think you'll absolutely love it.
	So definitely stay tuned for that interview.
	So let's cover some other important news that I noticed over the weekend as well.
	And oh, hey, don't forget, we have our Cyber Monday event.
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	And there's some bonus gifts that I'll talk about later.
	But let me mention some interesting news.
	You know how I've been really interested in sodium ion batteries for energy storage.
	They're safe.
	They cycle more than lithium batteries.
	They cycle a lot more.
	Some of these batteries are so good that they'll cycle up to 10,000 times while maintaining something like 80 or 85% of their capacity.
	Well, remember how I said that there was a company in the USA called Natron Energy that went bankrupt earlier this year.
	And I was very disappointed about that because I wanted sodium ion batteries to be made in America.
	I wanted to help promote the company and buy their products and show them on video and demonstrate them and things like that.
	Well, sadly, they are history, but there is a Spanish startup company called Bihar Batteries.
	Bihar, like B-I-H-A-R.
	Bihar Batteries.
	I know, interesting name.
	They were founded in 2023, and they're going to, they say they're going to launch sodium ion batteries by sometime in 2026.
	And they say they've already produced prototypes, etc.
	And they're going to be using raw materials available in Europe to reduce dependency on imported materials.
	And they hope to be providing sodium ion batteries across Europe and maybe even to the United States as well.
	So that's great.
	But my question is, how are they going to compete with China, with Catal, C-A-T-L, which is a big, a huge company in China, you know, a car company, a battery company.
	They make batteries for all kinds of things.
	And they're going to crank out sodium ion batteries starting in December.
	So just coming right up.
	Nevertheless, this is good news out of Spain.
	So thank you, Spain, for doing that.
	And as I've said online, I've said to Elon Musk, I said, you know, as soon as Tesla uses sodium ion batteries, I might be interested in getting a Tesla, maybe.
	But definitely not when they run on lithium, only sodium ion.
	Okay, next story, this is kind of interesting, that, you know, how the SNAP program was paused for, you know, quite some time during the government shutdown, and 42 million Americans didn't know where they were going to get enough food to eat.
	That's a lot of people on the food stamps, which is what the SNAP program is.
	Well, according to, let's see, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
	Now, everybody that receives money from the SNAP program is going to have to reapply because Brooke calls it the, quote, most corrupt, dysfunctional program in U.S. history.
	That's saying something.
	I mean, of all the corrupt, dysfunctional government programs, this is the most corrupt.
	Like, wow, that's amazing.
	That's a real high bar, you know, or low bar, I guess.
	They found massive fraud, says Brooke, all across her department there.
	Let's see.
	For example, SNAP benefits were being sent to 29 states in order to cover food stamp benefits for 200,000 people that are dead.
	Yeah, and presumably dead people don't eat, although in blue states they do continue to vote, as we know.
	But dead people don't eat, right?
	You know, allegedly.
	And so somebody else is getting those stamps, right?
	Somebody else.
	Somebody's double dipping.
	You double dip the chip, you know, that's what's going on here.
	And there are also apparently 500,000 people that are registered twice.
	Did you know you could just register twice?
	It's like you register once, they start sending you free, you know, a card, a credit card with free money, and then you just go back and sign up again in the name of your cat or something, you know, which is also how Democrats vote.
	They register their dogs and cats for voting and they just get mail-in ballots mailed to them in the names of all their animals.
	They just fill them all out and stuff them in the ballot box.
	That's how Joe Biden got elected.
	Never forget.
	So, of course, of course they cheat.
	And I'm not saying that it's just Democrats that cheat on the food stamps.
	I mean, frankly, every government handout has massive cheating and fraud.
	Even doctor's offices billing Medicare, massive, massive fraud, criminal fraud.
	Doctors are arrested every year for that.
	So any kind of government program that hands out something for free, it's going to get exploited by dishonest people.
	And that's why there are 42 million people on the food stamp program.
	We don't even know if all those people are alive.
	Or we don't even know if it's a lot less, but they're just getting double or triple benefits, right?
	So apparently they're going to somehow require everybody to sign back up from scratch.
	And when they do that, they're going to have to recertify their eligibility every six months.
	And they're going to have to state their income, their work history, you know, a lot of other things.
	And this is supposed to get rid of waste and fraud and abuse.
	And, you know, that's probably a good idea.
	Because even though you and I, you know, we have compassion for fellow human beings.
	We don't want anybody to starve.
	We also don't want people to cheat on the program because taxpayers are paying this.
	You know, you and I are paying for this.
	And yet, how many illegals are collecting food stamps?
	You know, that's another issue.
	Probably millions, probably millions.
	And again, I don't want anybody to go hungry, but these benefits should go to fellow Americans, not illegals who crossed the border illegally and now are collecting all these benefits.
	And you know, the SNAP program increased, at least the number of recipients increased 40% during the Biden administration.
	And I'm pretty sure the word went out when Biden was president to all the blue cities to just say, look, everybody just sign up.
	We're not even going to check.
	Because this is administered by the states, by the way.
	So the states like California, Oregon, whatever, you know, Illinois, come on.
	All these blue states were just saying, hey, everybody just sign up.
	We're not going to check.
	We don't care.
	Sign up, your cats, your dogs, everything.
	Just get massive payouts, whatever free money you can get.
	And that's what people did.
	Just massive waste, fraud, and abuse.
	And of course, nobody's going to be prosecuted for this, are they?
	Nobody's going to be prosecuted.
	Even though it's illegal to commit fraud in these programs, nobody's ever going to be prosecuted.
	As usual.
	Now, Brooke Rollins also said that if the handouts stop, all the illegals who are collecting these benefits will go back home and the Democrats will lose 20 plus seats after the next census.
	She's referring to seats in the House.
	And she's probably right.
	But then again, Trump is doing things that are so incredibly unpopular that those 20 seats might come right back for the Democrats because of everybody voting against Republicans in the midterms.
	I guess we'll see.
	It's going to be a battle for sure.
	A battle between how much fraud the GOP can stop versus how many independents are angry at Trump and are going to vote Democrat.
	You know, that's going to be the fight, really, at least from what we see so far.
	Okay, in other news, speaking of the dumpster fire economy, corporate bankruptcies are on pace for a 15-year high, according to Zero Hedge reporting on the bankruptcies of first brands, some auto loan companies.
	Let's see.
	We have a 15-year high is expected in corporate bankruptcies by the end of this year.
	So fast forward, you know, another month and a half, and we're going to be at a 15-year high.
	No wonder the Trump administration says that the dog ate our homework, and we will never release the October jobs numbers or economics reports because we don't want to, because they're horrific.
	So there you go.
	Corporate bankruptcies are skyrocketing.
	You are seeing many more people lose their jobs, but the government is not releasing the data on that in order to pretend that everything's awesome.
	And then on top of that, another story, we find that according to the UK Daily Mail, weight loss injection drugs like Ozempic are being linked now to 170 deaths, including adults in their 20s.
	This is just in the UK.
	It says, amid the booming popularity of Ozempic and Monjaro and Wegovi, how do you even pronounce that?
	Munjaro.
	Drug watchdogs have received 52 fatal reports for GLP-1 injections since the beginning of 2024.
	And experts sounded an alarm over the death toll with millions more in line to get the jabs to curb the nation's bulging waistline.
	So that's interesting because, of course, Trump has promised to make these GLP-1 drugs incredibly affordable in the United States.
	It's going to bring the prices down from, let's say, $1,000 a month to something in the $250 range.
	And these drugs can make you go blind, too, by the way, from the story.
	Reports of side effects have risen in line with soaring prescriptions.
	Estimates suggest that 1.5 million people in the UK are taking these weight loss jabs.
	Wow, 1.5 million plus another 200,000 through the NHS.
	So that's 1.7 million.
	That the GLP-1 drugs can cause gallstones, kidney stones, inflammation of the pancreas with life-threatening complications.
	Two of the reported deaths were adults in their 20s, but the bulk are among people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s.
	Okay, so not good.
	There are better ways to lose weight.
	One way is to eat healthy foods and stay away from seed oils, stay away from garbage, stay away from fried foods, wherever you can.
	Or if you do eat those foods, make sure you take high-quality non-GMO vitamin C with the foods.
	Make sure one of my rules of thumb is if you eat anything fried, you got to take vitamin E with it to protect your cell membranes with fat-soluble vitamins.
	You need B vitamins in order to protect your brain, your neurology, your whole nervous system, and for many other things.
	And you need vitamin C to protect against the pro-oxidation elements that are found in fried foods that can damage your DNA and basically rapidly age your organs and things like that.
	So if you do eat toxic foods, make sure that you take the right supplements in advance.
	That can really help you.
	Okay, with that said, we're going to jump into the special report here about photonic quantum chips.
	That is photons as computational systems and also then the 20 ways in which the United States is kind of delusional about its strength and power in the world.
	So we're going to jump to that next.
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	All right, with that said, enjoy the special report.
	Okay, welcome to this special report.
	I'm Mike Adams, and you may have heard that China just announced a new photonic quantum chip that promises a thousand times better performance compared to regular microprocessors for certain tasks, not every general purpose task, but for many different tasks.
	And I'm reading here from the Quantum Insider.
	This is a breakthrough in next generation computing.
	These optical chips, which again, photonics is the area of optical processing.
	Photonics uses, let's see, optical integration and a production line that can produce 12,000 six-inch wafers annually, which means that China is going to be able to scale photonic hardware for data centers and AI workloads and quantum research.
	That's pretty interesting.
	The chip uses light instead of electricity to carry out computations.
	So light uses a lot less energy.
	And what else is really interesting about light is that you can pack a lot of light computations into the same space because light will not interfere with itself in the same way as the little nanoscale conductive lines on a microprocessor and all of its layers with all the transistors and so on.
	So light produces a lot less heat.
	It uses a lot less electricity.
	And it can be packed into a much smaller space.
	So let's see, a thousand optical components are packed onto a six-inch silicon wafer.
	I don't know, a thousand doesn't sound like a lot to me.
	But I don't know what kind of components they're talking about.
	But one huge thing is about quantum computing, because with this design from China, it's going to be able to support reportedly 1 million qubits.
	Qubits are quantum bits that can exist in states of superposition and can solve extremely complex problems like encryption problems by essentially, well, how to say, pulling the answers out of the multiverse is really the most accurate way to describe that.
	So a million qubits, like nobody has demonstrated anything close to that yet.
	I think Google may be up to a couple hundred qubits.
	I'm not sure exactly, but nobody's even talking about a million except for China at this point.
	It says that development time on quantum computing can be reduced from six months to two weeks through the rapid iteration and deployment of these photonic microchips.
	They outperform GPUs for AI training and AI inference.
	So they have extremely high bandwidth, very low latency because of the speed of light, obviously, and energy efficiency.
	And of course, this will secure China's continued lead in areas like quantum computing and telecommunications.
	But it also has another very interesting implication, which is that the data center race that's going on right now is a race for power, right?
	Everybody's looking for more power.
	And what if you actually, in the long run, you don't need all of that power?
	Then the whole model of building out large power grid infrastructure for large data centers to have millions of GPUs, that model may become obsolete very rapidly.
	So there's a really great post on Substack by Shanaka Anslem Pereira.
	It's called The Photonic Singularity, How Light Will Devour Silicon and Reshape Civilization by 2040.
	And this is a really good analysis.
	Let me read just parts of it for you.
	On November 14th of this year, researchers at Aalto University published findings in Nature Photonics, that's a science journal, that should have stopped financial markets.
	They demonstrated a photonic tensor processing chip capable of performing mathematical operations at the speed of light with zero electronic conversion, zero latency overhead, and passive operation requiring no active power for computation itself.
	You might say, what?
	What?
	It performs computations without any active power for computation.
	Yeah.
	I'll explain this in a little bit.
	Within 48 hours, two other bombshells detonated in scientific literature.
	A Chinese research consortium announced a quantum photonic chip, that's the one I just mentioned previously, achieving 1,000 times computational speed up on complex optimization problems.
	Reported in the South China Morning Post.
	Meanwhile, the University of Florida released details of neuromorphic photonic processors demonstrating 100x energy efficiency over conventional GPUs for neural network inference tasks.
	That would be AI inference, as AI is all neural networks in silicon.
	And the author says, these aren't just incremental improvements.
	They represent a phase transition in computational physics, the kind that separates eras.
	Yeah, in other words, we have just departed into a whole new timeline of the future.
	And he says the semiconductor industry's $600 billion annual revenue sits on a fault line that just cracked open.
	And to understand why photonic computing represents an existential threat to electronics, we have to examine the fundamental constraints that strangle conventional processors.
	And I'm not going to go into all the details here, but I'm just going to mention a few highlights.
	So about 30% of the total energy is lost in IO, like chip I.O.
	So, and that's because of the way electrons work in microprocessors.
	But here's the biggest factor.
	Get this, that electronic systems can only scale in terms of computational complexity with like the neuron count has to be squared.
	In other words, it is an exponential scaling of neuron count in order to achieve a linear improvement in output of electronic microprocessors.
	So in other words, if you want an electronic microprocessor to be twice as powerful, you have to have four times as many electronic neurons.
	Why?
	Because of signal propagation delays and density limitations, because you can't pack all this stuff on top of itself.
	But photonic systems scale in a linear fashion.
	If you want to double the output, you just double the number of photonic components.
	Why?
	Well, as this author says, and this is really key, because, quote, photons can occupy the same space and perform operations through superposition without physical interference.
	And what does that mean?
	It means that, well, let me simplify it.
	Light is computation.
	Light is computation.
	And you can make light do math.
	And you can also, you could make like A thousand light beams do math as they're crossing each other and then being detected on the other side.
	Let's say, I mean, I'm simplifying it, but if you could imagine light beams being sent across a gap or something, and then they cross each other, you would think they interfere with each other, but they don't.
	And they can all do math along the way, essentially.
	Again, I'm simplifying it.
	And then the answer comes out on the other side.
	This is a simplified explanation of what photonics actually does, and it scales in a linear fashion.
	So, MIT ran a prototype here that was published in Nature Photonics also that showed deep neural network inference was able to be executed in under half a nanosecond, that's half of one billionth of a second, with 92% accuracy on the inference, which is important for AI.
	And how much energy did it consume?
	One atojoule per operation.
	You may not have even heard of an atojoule like ato what at a boy?
	What are you talking about?
	Atto joule.
	So an atojoule is one millionth of a picojoule.
	And let's see, a picojoule is one one thousandth of a nanojoule, which is one one thousandth of a microjoule, etc.
	So we're talking about you know a million times less energy necessary in this case, which is you know 99.9999% improvement in energy efficiency.
	Now, I know this the math on all this can get onerous very quickly, but the bottom line is that when the industry switches over to photonic technology, these data centers that are currently energy hogs, there may be something completely different at work.
	It may not require the energy that we think it could be significantly more efficient.
	Well, the bottom line in all of this, I'm going to skip ahead to some of the conclusions, is that according to this author, by the year 2040, that 99% of AI processing will be carried out through photonic processors, and thus they will use a whole lot less energy.
	And this is going to give us significant advantages, and it's also going to make things incredibly inexpensive.
	In other words, intelligence, which is demonstrated through AI inference, intelligence is going to become so dirt cheap that it will practically be free because of photonics and because of advances in AI technology and so on.
	Now, the real question in my mind is who is going to lead this photonic computational industry?
	Who's going to lead it?
	You know, China right now is showing incredible innovation.
	But of course, there are many good scientists in the United States and many in Europe as well, and some in Japan and some in Canada and so on.
	But China seems to be leading this at the moment from the way I'm reading it.
	And China is graduating more engineers and mathematicians and scientists than anybody else.
	So in the race to superintelligence, the race to photonic microprocessors seems to be a big part of this.
	Keep in mind that China currently generates more than double the aggregate annual output of electricity than does the United States.
	China is at over 10,000 terawatt hours annually.
	So the U.S. is really hurting in power generation.
	And right now, there are data centers in America that are sitting, they're offline.
	I mean, they're filled with microchips, but there's no power because the power is not available yet.
	They're trying to build the power to reach the building.
	I mean, literally, you have data centers that have no power.
	That's crazy.
	And they need a lot of power.
	Some of them need gigawatts in order to power all the GPUs in the data center, which needs lots of power for cooling because of all the heat that's generated.
	They use a lot of water for the cooling systems and so on.
	What if the United States pioneered photonic processing and slashed its need for power by a factor of even just 100 to 1?
	Then the U.S. could be way more competitive with China without the limitation of power that currently sets the United States behind.
	So, but of course, in order to become the leader in photonic computing, you have to do a lot of research and you have to have really smart people.
	And right now, it's not clear to me that the U.S. is going to be the leader in that space.
	But we'll see.
	It's at a very interesting race.
	And the good news for all of us as consumers of cognition, let's say, is that intelligence is going to be incredibly cheap.
	So the kind of projects that I'm working on right now, like our AI projects at Brighteon.ai and our free book generator at BrighteonBooks.ai, these kinds of projects, a few years from now, will seem like nothing.
	It'll be, you know, it'll be like, oh, that's ancient.
	I mean, of course you can generate your own book, you know, because you're going to have cognition in your pocket.
	I mean, you're going to have so much access to so much intelligence.
	You're going to be able to ask AI to generate anything you want at any time and think through anything and solve anything.
	And here, make a movie, write a poem, write a book, write a song, do this, do that, generate a comedy show, generate a stand-up comic, bring back George Carlin or someone like him.
	Not that anybody is like him, but we do miss George Carlin because he's the one who said, there's a big club and you ain't in it, right?
	Don't forget about that.
	So what I'd like to go through here is 20 delusions that the West currently suffers from.
	One of those being the idea that the United States is always in the lead in all technology.
	That is a delusion.
	In fact, China is leading now in 60 out of 64 key technologies, including robotics, drone technology, rare earth minerals extraction, advanced materials, and many other areas, probably photonic processing at this point.
	We'll see.
	But China is also very competitive in AI.
	So the reason I wanted to do this report is because I think that as Americans, we need to, our president, Trump, does not, in my view, he does not see the world as it is.
	He sees the world as it was in the 1980s, where America was the dominant force.
	America was leading in everything in computer science and telecom and physics and chemistry and everything.
	That's just not the case anymore.
	It's not even close to that.
	And even the dollar is not as strong as it used to be.
	So I think that we need a realistic perception of where we are in the world in order to be able to actually succeed.
	You got to be honest.
	It's like if you're a person, and you want to do something in life, you need to be honest about your skills and the reality of what you are.
	Like, there's not too many short people that are professional basketball players, are there?
	Huh.
	No, there's been a handful over the years, but not many.
	So if you say to yourself, like, hey, I'm seven feet tall, but you're actually five foot six, and you think that you're going to be the best basketball player in the world, because height is a significant advantage in basketball.
	And height is not something that you can alter.
	But if you're delusional about it, you think you're seven feet tall, but you're not, you're going to be very disappointed when you find out that you're not able to dunk the basketball.
	Sorry to use sports analogies.
	I'm not actually a big fan of sports, but that's something that I guess everybody understands.
	But my point is that nations, much like individual people, need to be honest about where their skills are, where they have advantages, and where maybe they're not that competitive, because we're all that way.
	We all have things we're great at, and then we have things that we suck at.
	And we need to be honest about that.
	And then we can make the most of the skills that we've been blessed with.
	We can make the most of whatever advantages we've been born with.
	And then we can overcome the limitations and maybe work on those areas and improve them.
	So let's go through the list of what the United States, where I think the U.S. is delusional.
	So number one is that the U.S. thinks that it leads a unipolar world order, that the whole world has to bow down to the demands of the United States.
	And you hear this kind of talk all the time from the Trump administration, that we set the sanctions, we set the rules, we are the rules, even though the U.S. never follows its own rules.
	You know, the U.S. will lecture China about human rights, while in the United States, they'll imprison political prisoners or harvest organs from aborted babies as an official function of the FDA, for example.
	Organ harvesting takes place in the U.S. every day.
	So we lecture China about that.
	But even just in terms of geopolitics, the U.S. pretends that any other country that doesn't do what we want them to do, well, they're terrorists.
	But then when the U.S. is just bombing people or carrying out assassinations or overthrowing a government like we did in Ukraine in 2014, or probably that's what's happening in Mexico or Venezuela right now.
	I mean, influences like that, the U.S. is all constantly overthrowing countries, you know, confessions of an economic hitman.
	Well, how is that world order?
	You know, how is that the rule of law?
	It's not.
	So the U.S. is delusional, thinking that we follow the rules and nobody else does.
	Not true at all.
	We don't follow any rules.
	The U.S. does whatever it wants and then justifies it after the fact.
	Okay, point number two, exceptionalism.
	You've heard of American exceptionalism, which many American leaders believes gives America a divine right to, quote, spread democracy and freedom around the world because we are special.
	We are better, they say.
	We're better than everybody else.
	So we have this divine right.
	Well, this is kind of the way that Israel thinks of itself, too, and justifies murdering its neighbors and taking over their land because we were chosen by God.
	Well, that kind of idea still exists in the minds of a lot of, especially older politicians and bureaucrats in America that we are America.
	We have the right to conquer and to overthrow because we spread democracy and freedom.
	Even if it means enslaving people and killing people and bombing people and destroying economies and launching wars, etc.
	Well, we're just going to call it democracy.
	But are the American people innately automatically better than everybody else in the world?
	Of course not.
	Of course not, because God sees all humans as his children and all have value in his eyes, I believe.
	And even just arguably, you know, look around.
	Look around on a Sunday afternoon at a golden corral or walk into a Walmart late at night.
	You know, like, these are not the exceptional people, actually.
	You know, I mean, I know it varies and there are exceptional people in America.
	And, you know, you and I are some of them, if you're listening from America.
	Yeah, we're, I would say we're exceptional in our, you know, in our work ethic, in our skills that we've developed and so on, but we're not chosen by God to rule over others.
	No.
	If anything, maybe we have a mission to help others, but not to not to dominate them or to think that we are arrogantly better than everybody else.
	But that's the idea of American exceptionalism, that America is just automatically better than everybody else in the world.
	And that was believed for a long time by most leaders, but it's just not true.
	And we need to start looking at other people around the world as equally valued human lives that have their own dreams and ambitions and skills as well.
	I mean, again, just look at China right now.
	Look at how many amazing innovations are coming out of China.
	Or Russia for that matter.
	I mean, the Russian people are really brilliant engineers.
	Can't argue with that.
	And all over the world, different people have different skills.
	Okay, point number three.
	I got to keep moving here because we have 20 of these.
	Point number three is that the U.S. believes it has military invincibility.
	Well, that one's already been shattered by Russia in Ukraine because Ukraine has served as a proxy nation and basically it's the U.S. and NATO that are fighting Russia and Russia's winning.
	Russia has won.
	So the U.S. has only demonstrated effectively that it can't beat Russia in a war, even though the U.S. is much larger than Russia with a much larger military budget.
	But Russia can beat the United States at like one-tenth the cost, you know?
	Okay, point number four, the currency, the dollar.
	Trump and his administration, they think the dollar is going to be around forever.
	It's the strongest currency in the world.
	It's going to be, you know, we're going to have dollar dominance forever.
	No.
	The dollar is destroying itself because of all the currency printing.
	The purchasing power is collapsing.
	And all over the world, they are ditching the dollar and using other currencies for trade and settlements.
	Point number five, economic strength.
	Trump thinks the U.S. economy is the best economy in the world.
	But it's not.
	Look at the debt.
	We have $38 trillion in national debt.
	We have almost $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
	Massive numbers of impoverished people and homeless people.
	The middle class is vanishing because people are having a more difficult time affording just paying rent and buying groceries and paying health insurance, etc.
	We do not have the strongest economy in the world.
	That's why they hid the October jobs numbers and they will never release them.
	That's why we have record corporate bankruptcies happening right now.
	We've got companies going broke at a pace that we haven't seen since probably since 2008, the great financial crisis.
	So, no, no, the U.S. doesn't have, we're not the strongest economy in the world.
	It's not a golden age.
	Let's see.
	Some other delusions.
	I'm going to skip number six.
	I don't like that one.
	Number seven: oh, sanctions.
	There's a delusion that sanctions are always good and that they benefit the American people, but they don't.
	They actually raise prices for the American people.
	As proof of this, Trump has announced that they're going to start lowering tariffs next year.
	Well, Besent announced this.
	They're going to start lowering tariffs on things like coffee and beef and bananas.
	And he says that lowering tariffs will lower grocery prices for consumers.
	That's an admission that raising tariffs raises prices for consumers, obviously.
	But we're told by the White House that raising tariffs doesn't raise prices, but lowering tariffs does lower prices.
	Well, obviously, you know, both, that's a contradiction.
	So another freaking delusion.
	Okay.
	Point number eight, because I did skip number six.
	Point number eight is the belief that we are promoting democracy around the world.
	But actually, the U.S. supports all kinds of authoritarian regimes as long as it serves the interests of the U.S. You know, from Saudi Arabia to Israel itself to who was the former terrorist that Trump just had in the White House?
	The guy that the State Department had a $10 million bounty on that guy.
	He was named like one of the top terrorists in the world.
	Now he's shaking hands with Trump, you know.
	See, America will support terrorists everywhere as long as they're doing what we want.
	America doesn't support freedom and democracy around the world.
	We don't even support it as a nation in our own country.
	Okay, point number nine: there's a delusional belief in America that we have a free press.
	No, we don't.
	We have a media that's run by the CIA.
	We have a media that's concentrated into the hands of the few, like the Murdochs and I don't know, whoever else is owning all the media giants.
	It's only about five corporations that control freaking everything.
	And then everybody else gets censored.
	So, no, we don't have a free press.
	Number 10, the rule of law.
	There's a delusion that we uphold the rule of law.
	Yeah, while Trump is just bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela because he thinks that they're running drugs, but there's no trial, no jury, no due process, no evidence, no transparency.
	It's just like, kill them.
	We're just going to kill them.
	This is the same president that lectures Putin and says, you know, Vladimir Putin has to stop killing people and then turns around and says, let's kill people in Venezuela.
	It's just, it's insane.
	And supporting, you know, drone strikes.
	What was the murder of, who was it, Soleimani a few years ago at the airport?
	Was that in Dubai?
	Or where I don't remember which airport, but it was a drone strike that killed a top leader of Iran.
	This was lawlessness.
	This is not the rule of law.
	This is lawlessness.
	Okay, number 11, human rights leadership.
	Well, the U.S. uses torture, Abu Ghraib anyone, widespread torture, you know, harvesting organs from aborted babies, organ harvesting in hospitals all across America.
	The judicial system is a torture system.
	Look at the way.
	The Biden administration tortured all the J6 political prisoners for years, put them in isolation, etc.
	So, no, the U.S. doesn't have a human rights pulpit from which to lecture other countries.
	Not at all.
	All right, I'm going to have to skip a few here just in the interest of time, but we're going to skip ahead.
	Intelligence superiority, thinking that we have the most advanced intelligence community like the CIA in the world, but actually we have a lot of intelligence failures domestically, and many other countries have very capable intelligence services.
	Let's see, cybersecurity leadership, a lot of delusion in the U.S. thinking that we're the best there.
	Tech industry dominance, delusions, thinking that we're always the best in all tech, but we're not.
	You know, U.S. robots suck compared to Chinese robots.
	U.S. drones suck compared to Chinese drones.
	And frankly, U.S. AI models, although they have been the leader, China's open source models like Quen and other models from Alibaba or DeepSeek, you know, they're not far behind and they're putting them out for free.
	So there's not much dominance actually there from the U.S., even in the AI industry.
	And China may surpass the U.S. in the next 18 months.
	Let's see, education system.
	Some people in America believe that we have a great education system that might be people who graduated from our education system that turns out, you know, idiots, illiterate idiots.
	Did you know that at many universities across America right now, for the incoming freshman class, they're having to give reading remediation courses at the fifth grade level because many American students that are granted entrance into college cannot freaking read.
	They can't read at a fifth grade level, much less a high school level or a college level.
	I mean, remedial reading.
	It's like, welcome to college.
	This is the alphabet.
	You know, we're going to start with A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Gee, you are stupid.
	How'd you get to college?
	It must have been a woke idiot acceptance criteria.
	You know, whatever the song is going to be there.
	It's like, wow.
	So no, we're not the leader in world's education.
	Healthcare system.
	Do I need to say anything?
	Do I need to say anything at all?
	All I got to do is say healthcare.
	And everybody starts laughing.
	That's hilarious that it's even called that.
	Okay.
	And then the last point here is the public opinion of the rest of the world.
	What do you think the rest of the world thinks about America right now under Trump?
	I'll tell you, and you may not know this if you don't talk to people outside the country or if you don't live outside the U.S.
	The whole world hates Trump.
	The entire world hates Trump.
	And every country in the world hates America, even our own allies, because we punish our allies.
	We punish India with tariffs.
	We punish Taiwan, ordering them to manipulate their currency to our advantage.
	We punish the UK and EU countries with tariffs.
	You know, there there are countries that may do things to try to win favor with Trump, like, wasn't it Qatar that gave Trump a 400 million dollar airplane?
	You know that's?
	That's basically.
	That's paying homage to the king, is what that is.
	It's just sort of trying to buy favor with Trump.
	Here have a 400 million dollar plane, which probably comes with 50 million dollars of maintenance the first year, by the way.
	So it's not.
	It's not the gift you think it is.
	It's probably the wheels were about to fall off, but whatever.
	Nobody in the world that I can think of, nobody likes the United States under Trump.
	I can't think of a single country.
	Everybody hates America right now because of the tariffs and because of the military, the bombings and the assassinations and the propaganda and the threats and the coercion and the sanctions oh my god, the sanctions upon sanctions upon sanctions, and then just the, the incredible arrogance that Trump demonstrates geopolitically.
	You know the world hates what America is right now.
	So no, we don't have a positive public opinion on the global stage.
	We don't, we just don't, and nobody can predict what what Trump's going to do.
	Nobody even knows what.
	What is he thinking today?
	He'll change his mind on the tariffs one week after the next.
	Uh, business owners have a very difficult time trying to predict any of this.
	Importers exporters factories, the relocation of factories from China to Korea or to India, or whatever you know.
	Everybody's trying to adjust to whatever craziness Trump just came up with, and then he'll change it next week and he'll throw hundreds of millions of dollars of investment plans around the world into total chaos.
	So Trump is basically a chaos agent himself and that's why the world hates him, because he does not create stability.
	In fact, the whole model of the United States since I don't know, since the end of World War Ii and the Wolfowitz Doctrine and more, has been to just cause massive chaos all over the world.
	With enough chaos and destabilizing activities that harm all the other countries, then America can be stronger.
	I mean, why do you think the United States blew up the Nordstream pipelines?
	To deprive all of western Europe of cheap Russian energy why?
	Because the United States is a terror state that carries out chaos operations to destabilize Europe why?
	So that Europe will have to buy its energy from us, which enriches certain power players who have ties to Washington Dc?
	You know this is not rocket science.
	You blow up Nordstream, you blame the Russians.
	And then you say hey, you want to buy liquid natural gas?
	Well, you can buy it from us at 10 times the price that you were paying Russia.
	How about that?
	Yeah, you know it's.
	Uh, it's like a guy that runs around town who's in the car windshield replacement business and he hires another guy with a sledgehammer to run around cracking car windows and leaving and leaving a card on the window like, hey, windshield cracked.
	Uh, come visit.
	You know Bob's windshield replacement service, same day service.
	Yeah, Bob hired the guy that cracked your windshield.
	That's what the?
	U.s did, blowing up Nordstream, making Europe buy energy from the?
	U.s.
	I mean, come on, this isn't even complex.
	So that's the bottom line there.
	You know, look again.
	I want the?
	U.s to succeed.
	I want Trump to succeed, and you know Kamala Harris and Joe Biden they were really destroying America.
	So was Obama, But Trump could be doing so much better than what he's doing Now.
	And, you know, the economy is not looking good under Trump and his tariffs.
	But I don't wish any bad outcomes on Trump.
	I want him to succeed.
	But we've got to be realistic about America.
	Where are we strong?
	Where are we weak?
	Where do we need to do better?
	Obviously, we have to do better on nutrition and healthy foods because everybody's sick and diseased and mass medicated and obese.
	That's what America is now known for.
	Everybody's on drugs and overweight.
	Yeah, well, you can't really achieve success as a nation when your people are drugged up and overweight all the time.
	And in the military also, too fat to fight, right?
	Too fat to fight.
	That's a saying in the military.
	They're just not as healthy as they used to be.
	So we got to fix food and we've got to stop censoring people like myself who tell the truth about nutrition.
	And we have to stop drugging everybody.
	But Trump doesn't want to do that.
	He'd rather roll out the carpet for Burla of Pfizer and other drug companies.
	He wants to do deals with all the drug companies and he wants to inject everybody with weight loss drugs.
	That's not going to make America healthy again.
	It's going to poison a lot of people with the venom peptides that are in the GLP-1 drugs.
	You can't inject your way to health.
	Just like you can't print your way to prosperity.
	It doesn't work that way.
	You have to earn it.
	You have to reform the education system.
	You've got to teach people actual skills.
	People should be able to read and write and do arithmetic, as they used to say.
	And when we got away from teaching the basics and started teaching gender studies and all the purple hair nose rings started sprouting all over campus and everybody forgot how to read and write and do math.
	And they became experts in made up stupid garbage like gender studies, you know?
	Well, guess what?
	Yeah, there isn't a career in gender studies that exists in the real world.
	The only way you could get paid in gender studies is if some woke idiot mayor wanted to hire you as like a gender advisor for their make-believe woke idiot mayorship or something.
	It's not like you could take a gender studies degree and then go work on optical electronics or photonic microprocessors.
	No, it doesn't work that way.
	And even in microprocessors, we know it's binary.
	You're only a one or a zero, you know?
	You're only a male or female.
	There's not endless genders in biology.
	And there's not, well, I guess you could say, well, with quantum computing, there is superposition.
	So maybe that's a bad metaphor, but you get my point.
	You can't take gender studies and do anything useful with it.
	So we have to stop wasting the time of our youth with degrees that aren't even rooted in reality.
	It's just like delusional made-up topics.
	That's not going to make you a leader in the world.
	We've got to get back to healthy food.
	We have to reform the entire sick care system.
	We have to reform the education system.
	We have to reform the monetary system.
	We've got to stop printing fiat currency, et cetera.
	And by the way, none of those things are going to happen until this entire system collapses.
	Yeah, because I'm not naive.
	I mean, I can sit here and say all day, oh, we've got to reform this, we've got to reform that.
	Yeah, but I know, and you know, none of those things are ever going to be reformed.
	Trump is not going to reform the system.
	RFK Jr. is not going to reform the FDA.
	That's obvious by now.
	Nothing is going to be reformed.
	This system will never change from the inside.
	It will only be changed when it collapses.
	So where this is really going, and the ultimate reality is when your delusions collapse.
	And that's going to happen to the current United States of America.
	The U.S. Empire is built on like sand of delusions.
	Nothing but delusions, fake money, fake food, fake healthcare, fake education, fake philosophy, all of it.
	None of it's real.
	And so it's going to collapse.
	And then after it collapses, maybe people can get back to reality.
	And then there will be a, you know, a new rebirth of a new nation, which will get back to basics and people will learn how to read and write and do math again because you'll have to in order to be, you know, in order to stay alive and be competitive in the world.
	So that's where all this is going.
	So anyway, thank you for listening and thank you for your thoughts on all of this.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	And just in conclusion, yes, I want America to succeed, but we're not on a good path right now.
	And if we don't change course, it's going to get worse.
	So I'm praying that we change course.
	You can follow my work at brighteon.com and you can use all of our free AI tools at brightion.ai.
	I encourage you to do that.
	Read our articles at naturalnews.com.
	And of course, you can also follow me on Brighteon.social for social media posts.
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	So thank you for listening and God bless America.
	I do want America to do well, but I know it's not doing well.
	So just being honest.
	Thanks for listening.
	Take care.
	The long story short is that Christianity became a religion about confessing and believing rather than following and obeying the commandments of Jesus.
	And so we think a true Christian religion should be predicated solely and singularly on the teachings of the master.
	The purpose of life is to develop our characters and to live more like Jesus.
	And that is what Jesus taught us.
	Judge and you will be judged.
	Forgive and you will be forgiven.
	Repent and God forgives you.
	Love your neighbor as yourself.
	Love God with all your heart.
	And this fulfills the entire law.
	And to carry that out through your actions, not just your words.
	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	We've got a special, very special setup here today.
	We've reworked our studio for our special guests.
	And it's just extraordinary.
	They're able to join us here in person.
	So we have Aaron Abke, who is, well, he's one of the two partners of the Jesus Way podcast, a very popular YouTube channel.
	He does a ton of other work.
	Welcome, Aaron.
	It's great to have you here.
	Great to be here, man.
	And we've also got James Benefico, who I've interviewed previously, who's with organicmuscle.com and also on the Jesus Way podcast.
	And let me just say up front that these two men are extraordinary individuals who have just an incredible desire to seek and share truth, no matter what anybody else thinks.
	They are driven, mission-driven to find the truth and share it with as many people who are ready to hear it.
	And not everybody's ready to hear it.
	And that's okay.
	Everybody's on a different timeline.
	But welcome to the show today, guys.
	It's great.
	Great to have the truth.
	Great to be here, man.
	Thanks so much for having us back again.
	It's awesome to have you back.
	And hey, can we show like, yeah, do it a wide shot?
	So you see Awaken the Christ Within and everything.
	We have been here filming for your docuseries that you're releasing.
	And that's why the studio is all decked out with all your graphics and everything.
	It looks great.
	Can you tell us about what you have coming up?
	Yeah, so we're putting together a seven-day virtual summit called Awaken the Christ Within, Walking the Jesus Way.
	And of course, it's largely based on our podcast theme, which I think we talked about this, if anyone watching saw our interview from months and months back, that the basic premise is like, you know, I grew up born-again Christian, third-generation pastor son.
	I was a former pastor, got my bachelor's degree in theology.
	was all in for Christianity until I was about 23, 24.
	And what happened for me was a big wake-up call when I got my first church job because my dad's church was very spirit-filled and free and all that stuff.
	So we didn't talk about really any dogmatic stuff, the hellfire brimstone stuff.
	And so I didn't have to wrestle with a lot of the dogmas of the Christian religion until I got my first full-time pastoral role.
	And all of a sudden, you know, I'm just like a devout lover of Jesus.
	I don't have a single memory of any point in my life where Jesus wasn't the fixture for me and my highest inspiration.
	And so I'm used to my dad preaching sermons on Jesus, right?
	And every single Sunday, I get off the stage after leading worship and it's open to Ephesians, open to Corinthians, open to Philemon, open to Philippians.
	It's Paul, Paul.
	And I have to confront a lot of these teachings from Paul that I'm like, this doesn't line up with what I know of Jesus.
	And it started to drive me with deeper curiosity to start looking at the differences and studying the history of the Christian religion.
	And so I did that.
	And long story short, came to a very strong conclusion that the religion I was following was not actually the religion of Jesus, but a religion about Jesus by people who never met Jesus.
	And so it's really, to me, it was more of Paulianity than Christianity.
	This person who I think Paul was well-meaning and like, I don't demonize Paul as some kind of bad guy, but I think, you know, he was a Hellenistic Greco-Roman Jew from the diaspora who never met Jesus, who came from a very different culture.
	And he weaved in a lot of Middle Platonism and Hellenism into his understanding of Jesus and thus twisted and distorted the gospel message of Jesus.
	And so the long story short is that Christianity became a religion about confessing and believing rather than following and obeying the commandments of Jesus.
	And so we think a true Christian religion should be predicated solely and singularly on the teachings of the master, the gospel teachings of Jesus.
	Judge and you will be judged.
	Forgive and you will be forgiven.
	Repent and God forgives you.
	Love your neighbor as yourself.
	Love God with all your heart.
	And this fulfills the entire law.
	And to carry that out through your actions, not just your words.
	Exactly.
	Critically.
	You can't just say you believe it.
	You've got to live it because Christianity will say, right, oh, you can't be saved by works.
	You're saved by faith alone, apart from works.
	That's what Paul said.
	But Jesus said five times in the New Testament, I will judge every man according to their works.
	And of course, faith is baked into works, right?
	If you truly believe in Jesus, like truly, you will absolutely do the works of Jesus, right?
	You will love your neighbor as yourself.
	So we don't need to look at what do you say you believe.
	It's like, that's not the most important thing.
	How do you live and how do you obey and follow Jesus is what shows what you really believe.
	And so we say, let's make that our emphasis.
	And that's the premise of the Jesus Way podcast is almost like a Christian reform podcast of let's get back to the words of Jesus alone.
	That issue is what brought us, the three of us together, because that's how I found your channel and began listening and learning because our audience may or may not know, but you are such an academic scholar, researcher of the scripture and also the parts that you're not supposed to know about.
	The, you know, the Apocrypha and all the hidden parts.
	And of course, the early version of my AI model, I named it Enoch for a reason.
	Nice.
	But you have tremendous knowledge about scripture.
	And that's how I connected with you was realizing that, wait a second, I'm being told by Christians who do not follow the way of Christ that they're going to be saved.
	They're sure of it because they profess their belief that Christ died for our sins.
	So they can go off and commit lots of sins.
	Those sins have already been forgiven.
	And there's something in my mind.
	I was like, wait a second, this does not compute.
	So, James, give us your take on all of this and what you do with the podcast and the channel.
	Sure.
	Thank you.
	And first of all, thank you so much for having us here.
	Thank you for all of the content we just filmed for the summit.
	Everyone, Mike is just the coolest, most generous guy out there.
	We're so blessed to call him a friend.
	And all of you are blessed to watch Brighty on.
	Yeah, indeed.
	But for us, the Jesus way, our goal is to help people heal their relationship with Christ and God because through everything we've discovered, everything we've researched, Judaism and Christianity have really distorted people's perceptions of the character of God.
	That God is this wrathful deity that demands blood sacrifices to forgive his beloved children and sends people to hell for eternity.
	And if you confess some statement, you're, you know, you go to heaven for eternity.
	That's the entire purpose of the universe.
	The Nicene Creed is what saves you.
	Yes.
	I mean, imagine what that does to people.
	If you go to school and then, hey, if you say this thing, you get A, no matter what.
	Imagine what those students are.
	Imagine what those students are going to act like.
	So we do not believe that's the purpose of life.
	The purpose of life is to develop our characters and to live more like Jesus.
	And that is what Jesus taught us.
	So for context, we teach a lot about the history of Judaism and Christianity and how there were these different philosophies within Judaism.
	We take a real historical look at it all and show that there was this evolution of consciousness through these groups known as the Pythagoreans, the Essenes, which later became the Nazarenes, which were the first Christians.
	And then this early Hebrew Christian group was basically wiped off the face of the earth, unfortunately, by the Roman Empire.
	So we're trying to get back to the roots of the original Christian movement, what they believed, and how they lived.
	I love the fact that both of you are also historians about this.
	And you have brought to my consciousness so much powerful information, like the Gospel of Thomas, for example, which is just mind-blowing.
	Incredible.
	And just the parts of the Bible that are left out of the Western Christian Bible.
	But the thing that got me into lots of trouble with other fellow Christians was when I started to ask about how were all these books of the New Testament actually written?
	Who wrote them?
	Who altered them?
	What was the motivation to altering them?
	And so on.
	Because what I found out is that the minute you begin to question any word in the current, you know, New King James Version or whatever people are reading, you question one word, then people get angry.
	Right.
	So how is it that you work with that?
	Because again, a lot of people say, this is the word of God.
	This is the word of God, period.
	But actually, it's the word of men and kings in some cases and emperors and so on.
	And now, I mean, God is infused through much of it, but it's not strictly the word of God, is it?
	What is it exactly?
	How would you describe it, Aaron?
	Yeah, it's the word of man across many eons of time about God.
	And I think that's what makes the Bible so inspiring to study.
	Like, we are absolutely in love with the Bible.
	We've devoted much of our life to studying the Bible.
	I've been reading the Bible since I was born, basically.
	So I love the Bible, but let's be honest about what's really true because what is true really matters.
	God is truth.
	And so if something's not true, it is not of God to believe it.
	And so I am more loyal to God than I am to my need for certainty or something like that, that I'm going to just accept all of these claims I can't possibly prove like God wrote the Bible.
	So maybe there's some truth to that in that there's divine inspiration in the Bible without question.
	I derive divine inspiration from the Bible every single day.
	There are verses that I read every day that can move me to tears.
	There is definitely divine inspiration in the Bible.
	But does that automatically mean God has infringed on the free will of every human who's been involved with the Bible, scribe and author alike, to make sure they can never contaminate it or corrupt it with human error?
	I don't think God does that.
	I think we have proof that we live in a universe predicated on free will.
	So even if God did write a book at some point, God would never stop humankind from tampering with it if they wanted to and force them to be righteous and keep his word intact.
	This is such a petty and human-like projection of God.
	God is way bigger than human language, way bigger than a book.
	As we talked about in our previous session together, God is in nature.
	God is encoded in everything around us.
	So let's be willing to ask some tough questions.
	Is there some human influence in the Bible?
	Without question.
	And so Christians will say, well, then how do you interpret the Bible?
	How do you know what's from man or from God, right?
	What's your litmus test?
	What's your epistemic grounding, how you interpret the Bible?
	And they assume it's just, well, we just make it up.
	Whatever feels good is what we, you know, that's what they go to.
	And we say, no, Jesus said when he was asked, teacher, what is the greatest commandment of all?
	He said, oh, simple.
	You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.
	For this commandment fulfills the entire Torah or law, which is the Bible, right?
	So we do what Jesus said.
	We use the golden rule axiom as our litmus test and standard of interpretation, such that we read the Bible.
	And if any verse violates the golden rule, we reject it as a man-made verse, not a divinely inspired verse.
	And when I say reject, I mean we don't say God wrote this.
	We say, no, man wrote this.
	And so there's a lot we can still learn from it.
	This is the way ancient humans thought about God.
	Go slay the Amalekites, the women and the children, kill everyone, leave nobody alive.
	Do I think that was really God?
	Of course not.
	That's a wicked and demonic idea that is unworthy of the nature of God.
	But I can still glean a lot from what ancient humans believed about God when they wrote that.
	And all of it, this evolving narrative of humankind's understanding culminates in the Christ, the perfect demonstration, right, of what God is really like.
	And so Jesus is the standard, not church fathers, not an ancient text, not what people wrote thousands of years ago.
	Jesus is the blueprint for us.
	And so we say, if you want to be a follower of Jesus, use his greatest commandment as the highest standard, and everything else needs to fall beneath that.
	Absolutely.
	Wow.
	I love your knowledge of this subject.
	And aren't there very clear historical examples confirmed where I think 2 Peter might be one of them where it was not written by Peter?
	Clearly.
	Of course not.
	So the church wrote this in the void, pretending to be Peter.
	This is something when you read the Gospel of Thomas or any text outside of the canonical Bible, Christians say, oh, well, that's a Gnostic forgery.
	That's a fake text.
	You know, that's not a real text.
	And it's like, well, I hate to burst your bubble, but the New Testament is absolutely bursting at the seams with known forgeries.
	There are no texts in the New Testament that any secular scholar thinks was written by one of the apostles.
	The only actual texts written by the author they're purported to be written under are the Pauline epistles, the seven Pauline epistles.
	There are seven what they call genuine letters of Paul and six that are later forgeries of people trying to use Paul to make new church doctrines and stuff.
	And it's one of my favorite areas to study.
	I'm studying it right now for my master's degree.
	It's so much fun to unpack the truth behind the New Testament.
	But like Christians will appeal to 2 Peter all the time because there's one passage where it speaks highly, it speaks well of Paul calling him a brother or something.
	Say, look, look, one of the disciples did approve of Paul.
	And so I have to explain to them, 2 Peter is a known forgery from the middle second century.
	Again, there are no scholars who think Peter wrote this.
	In fact, Acts 4.13 says Peter and John were agramatos, illiterate.
	They could not read or write.
	And this is a highly sophisticated Greek document.
	Like whoever wrote 1 and 2 Peter was not illiterate.
	It wasn't a peasant from Galilee.
	Yeah.
	It was a highly trained Greek scribe who was educated in this.
	And so when you unpack these things, the whole idea that we have this infallible text written by the apostles about Jesus, this whole fantasy that Christianity is built upon unravels quickly.
	And then it's like, what are you left with?
	You have to be left with your actual connection to God.
	Yes, that's the thing.
	What I see both of you doing, you're not here to try to discredit the Bible.
	You're here to transcend the human words and to really resonate with the teachings of God and Christ.
	Right.
	And you can't get stuck on some counterfeit translation here or there, whatever.
	You teach and advocate and demonstrate the teachings that Christ taught and that God inspired us with.
	And that's the critical part of this.
	James, talk to us about how in your life, how do you work and strive to live what Christ taught?
	Because that's where the rubber meets the road is living it.
	Well, you know, Christ just inspired me so much and totally changed the paradigm that I viewed life through.
	You know, I had a series of really difficult experiences in my life that just totally shattered my soul.
	And I was trying to pick up the pieces and figure out where to go from there.
	And I've just found in the words of Jesus, I found the most beautiful spiritual philosophy I've ever seen in my life.
	And that is why I accept Yeshua the Nazarene as the Messiah.
	Not because someone told me to, not because there's a book and I believe everything that's in the book.
	It's because reading the words of Yeshua, it became, I just became absolutely sure that this was written by a spiritual genius unlike the world had ever seen because I was able to weigh his words with a logic, reason, with ontology, which we'll talk about and come to the conclusion that this is mastery of consciousness.
	Yeah.
	That's right.
	You know, and that's why I can navigate this New Testament where there's forgeries.
	And by the way, a forgery just means it was written by someone else than it claims to be written by.
	It doesn't mean that everything in the book is fake or false or untrue.
	It simply means attributed.
	It's misattributed.
	So I just want everyone to be clear on that.
	But yeah, that's why I accept Yeshua and I follow him because his teachings, if enacted by humanity, will create the kingdom of heaven on earth.
	I have no doubt about it.
	Loving your enemies, treating people with kindness, compassion, self-auditing, repentance, all of these masterful parables, when meditated on, make you a better person.
	And that's why I accept him.
	And tell us about your upcoming event.
	Tell us about this event.
	What day does it begin in December?
	Just give us a brief overview, and then I'll tell people how they can connect with it.
	Yeah, the summit is December 3rd through the 8th.
	It's a seven-day virtual summit.
	We have like 30 some-odd guest speakers, you being one of them, of course.
	And the purpose behind the summit, again, is there's been no question a real awakening to Christ, I think.
	We kind of are like more in the new age scene, if you want to call it that.
	Like here in Austin, like a lot of our friends are like spiritual enthusiasts, not Christian or religious.
	And we've seen a whole vast swath of them just like get magnetized to Jesus in the last year or so.
	And they're like, I found Christ.
	That's interesting.
	But it's not necessarily a religious thing, but they're just getting drawn to the Christ, which I think is the divine essence in all of us, right?
	The universal principles.
	Yes, yes.
	And then in religion, there's been a huge, especially since 2020 and all the pandemic stuff, there's been this massive awakening of people realizing the corruption of the world, getting very scared of it and saying, I need truth.
	I need to feel connected to my Creator.
	And they only know how to go to religion for that.
	And I think there's a lot of good people get from religion.
	But what we want to do is to show people, we don't want everyone to just necessarily get sucked into more man-made institutions, but say, look, no problem if you want to go to church and all that or be Catholic or Eastern Orthodox, but make sure you are living the teachings of Jesus.
	Make sure you are awakening the Christ within you, not just outsourcing to a priest or a bishop or a pastor to keep telling you what to believe.
	Christ is an inner relationship with God, with the divine.
	And how do you access that relationship?
	By living it out through the teachings of Jesus, as James just explained to us.
	And so a big part of our podcast is teaching people like the 10 axioms of the Jesus way.
	We're going to be talking about that in the summit.
	And we just have a bunch of guests, speakers, who we think all have really cool, unique gifts and angles and perspectives on Christ consciousness, how to awaken it and activate it through different texts, like A Course in Miracles and all kinds of stuff and biodynamic farming and health and nutrition.
	So it's a big kind of smattering of different topics that all allow people to see this is the way that we can access more Christ in our life in all these different ways.
	Love it.
	I can't wait to hear the other guests of this program.
	And folks, if you want to register for this, it's free.
	It's free to register and watch it for free, correct?
	RangerDeals.com, we'll put that on the screen.
	You can go there.
	We're going to put this right on top.
	You can just click through because we have an affiliate partnership with Aaron and James here to help promote their course because we believe in these teachings.
	I think they're really critical for humanity.
	And what's really, I think, so important right now is that this, you know, what Jesus taught, at least my understanding, part of what he taught, was that God is within you and all around you and that God is decentralized.
	In other words, God is everywhere.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Right.
	And what a lot of religious institutions have attempted to do throughout time is to re-centralize their authority and control over you in the name of God.
	And I, as a freedom advocate and a philosophical free thinker myself, I, of course, I'm completely opposed to handing over your power to another institution that may or may not have your best interests at heart.
	And there's nothing wrong with going to church.
	Again, you can build community.
	You can have an important support structure for you and your friends and your family, for your children, homeschooling.
	I'm a big advocate of that as well.
	Same.
	But I don't want you to surrender to another institution.
	We already have too many institutions in society that want your power, that want you to bow down to them and worship them, like government or corporations or whatever, or the science.
	So, James, what do you say about that, about Jesus' teachings on decentralization or really the universality of your connection to the divine?
	Yeah, I don't think we should pass this off to any institution or any other person.
	This is a very holy internal experience that is also enacted through our actions and relationships with others.
	If we look at the church during COVID and in the face of many different tragedies and deep state plans, it's become very apparent that these institutions serve the beast a lot of the time.
	A lot of the time.
	Not always, but they often do.
	The larger ones be the worst.
	Yeah, for sure.
	We've seen it over and over again with all these different psyops that have been pulled on humanity.
	Now, on the flip side, I have so many Christian friends who go to church, and I've had beautiful experiences in church.
	And there's a lot of good in mainstream Christianity, too.
	We never want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
	All we're saying is that there's so much more here.
	There's such a deeper.
	And what we've uncovered is just so profound about the history of the Nazarenes.
	And it really illuminates the way forward for all of humanity, explains why all this weird stuff is going on with certain religions in the world, the power structure.
	We're able to understand it and how a lot of it comes back to this concept of blood sacrifice.
	That this is the engine for the demonic to ask you about this.
	And Aaron, I'm going to defer to you on this question too.
	And we'll come back, James.
	But the Nazarenes did not teach animal sacrifice.
	They believed in baptism, but not killing animals as an appeasement to God.
	Can you please explain, because you have said this so eloquently in your podcast, the Jesus Way.
	Can you explain why animal sacrifice is a violation of the core teachings of God and Christ?
	Yeah, in every conceivable way it is.
	And we had a podcast guest the other day talking about this, how blood sacrifice, animal sacrifice, is practiced in every single form of Satanism or occultism on earth.
	In history, it is one of the primary ways to increase on the negative polarity, is to take away life and use the blood as some kind of ritual to enhance oneself.
	And so right away, if we're saying that the supreme, omnibenevolent Lord of the universe needs exactly what Satan needs, I think we're off track a little bit.
	Yeah.
	But then when you unpack the Hebrew Bible, you get these conflicting narratives.
	And really, when you study the history of Judaism, one of the cool topics that you often bump into is this whole idea of the priests versus the prophets, that the Old Testament is really like a Jedi versus Sith story.
	And you have to read through the lines because if you're enforcing this framework of the Bible's in Aaron imperfect, it's all written by God, you will absolutely not see it.
	But when you're willing to question the narrative and say, wait, are there conflicting, competing narratives here?
	And you're like, oh, of course there are.
	All through the whole Old Testament, you've got the priestly source texts like Leviticus and so forth commanding 613 purity laws and tons of animal sacrifice.
	And then you have later the prophets just like angrily condemning animal sacrifice.
	Even Jeremiah, who's one of the prophets Jesus is compared to by people when he asks, some say you're the prophet Jeremiah reincarnated, right?
	Jeremiah was the most anti-sacrifice prophet.
	And this kid was like 19, by the way, when he wrote his prophecies we have in the book of Jeremiah.
	Absolute spiritual badass.
	But he said, Jeremiah 7, 21, he's speaking for God, God says, I did not command you animal sacrifices when I brought you out from Egypt through Moses, but this is what I commanded you.
	Obey my word, be my people, and I will be your God.
	You know, love justice, walk humbly, love mercy.
	This is the desire of God.
	I desire mercy, not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings, Hosea 6, 6.
	And all through the Old Testament, you do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.
	It's like over and over again, you get this unequivocal no to sacrifice, yes to righteousness.
	And so, Chris, here's where Christians get hung up is that they've been given this, they've been sort of given this narrative that they believe that, well, but nobody can be righteous perfectly.
	And if you commit one sin, you're worthy of hellfire forever.
	And this is kind of the question they beg to hold up their soteriology, right?
	That God expects all of us to live perfect human lives without one mistake.
	And if we make a mistake, we need a blood sacrifice to forgive us.
	There is no such verse or even context of this anywhere in the Old Testament.
	There is nowhere that Yahweh or God is quoted as saying you have to live perfectly, blah, blah, blah.
	It's always repent and God forgives you.
	Repent with a humble heart.
	That's what pleases the heart of God.
	And God even says in the Old Testament, if you repent to me, I will wipe your sins out as if they never occurred.
	I will cast them to the bottom of the ocean floor.
	And as far as the east is from the west, so far have you removed our sins from us, Lord, through repentance and forgiveness.
	And then this is the message of Jesus in the New Testament.
	He shows up on the scene saying, repent and believe the good news, that God is here in our midst.
	The kingdom of heaven is within you.
	But you have to repent and humble yourself, right?
	Turn from your wicked ways.
	And so we see Jesus echoing the same message of the prophets in the Old Testament, but it was the priests who were corrupting God's law by introducing this pagan demonic practice of animal sacrifice.
	And this is why Jesus gave his life for this cause by going into the temple in all four gospels to cleanse the temple, pronounce condemnation on all of it, release the animals from the cages, kick over the money changers' tables, and say, you've turned my father's house into a den of murder, which he's quoting Jeremiah 7, 11 in that verse.
	Not many people know this, Mike.
	The verse in Jeremiah, you've turned my father's house into a den of thieves is what the Greek says.
	But in Hebrew, the Hebrew word is paditz, which means violent ones or murderers.
	And so you would only ever speak Hebrew in the temple.
	And so Jesus was speaking to Hebrew to fellow Hebrews, and he was quoting Jeremiah 7, 11.
	He would have said paditz, the actual word there.
	You've turned my father's house into a den of murder.
	So he's saying, this is not what God wants.
	And he knew, I will give my life for this.
	If I go into the temple and oppose this temple cult, they will crucify me.
	And yet he said, yet I lay down my life freely for this cause.
	That's extraordinary.
	And I think it speaks to, you know, how would Jesus, if he were living today, how would he look at our economic system today that preys upon the lives and suffering of so many?
	Because think about even in the temple, the priests were selling a proxy for salvation through the suffering and destruction of another conscious animal.
	I've called that a racket publicly, and some people are unhappy with that word.
	Whatever.
	It's a racket.
	So to say, hey, I'm the priest in the temple.
	You've committed horrible sins.
	I'm going to have to kill a larger animal to trick God into thinking that you're innocent.
	Like, what?
	How does one negative offset another negative?
	Yeah.
	And if God knows everything, he already knows you're not, I mean, you're killing an animal that did not commit the sin.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That doesn't never made any sense to me.
	Jesus said, you don't overcome evil with evil.
	If I murder someone and have to go get my sins forgiven, I can't get my murderous sin forgiven by murdering an animal.
	That's right.
	You overcome evil with good.
	Correct.
	Forgiveness, righteousness, mercy.
	This is the message of Jesus.
	That's what I love about what you teach.
	Go ahead.
	Go ahead, James.
	I was just going to say, you know, the second temple, this was like our friend Cam Waters, the director of Christ Spiracy, calls it the Death Star.
	Think of an amalgamation of big pharma, the Vatican, the military-industrial complex, the IRS, everything.
	They were in bed with Rome, and they were giving Rome a cut.
	So you have the military-industrial complex, the war machine.
	You have like the back to money laundering, just like today.
	Huge selling salvation, which is like the most immoral thing I've ever heard of.
	The Catholic Church also did later.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	And Yeshua went in there and freed the animals and kicked over the tables of the money changers.
	But why the money changers?
	What were they exchanging money for?
	They were selling the animals for salvation.
	And Josephus talks about the scale.
	I just want everyone to understand the scale of this death and bloodshed.
	And the Talmud also says it was like they are exaggerating, but they said it was millions of animals.
	But Josephus said it would be 250,000 animals in a week and that the blood would come up to the priest's shins.
	So this is turning the holy temple of God into a saw movement.
	Rivers of blood and suffering.
	What an abomination.
	No wonder.
	Do you really think Yeshua would be in there?
	And oh, you know, it's because they're exchanging money in the temple, or is it because innocent animals are being brutally killed under the context of forgiveness of sins?
	It's an abomination.
	And Yeshua gave his life opposing the system that has descended now into the controllers of the world.
	The people who control Israel, the people who control the United States, the Vatican at the highest levels are the descendants of the people who ran the second temple, the temple cult.
	And they're still steeped in a demonic high prophet death cult.
	Even worse today, actually.
	With the scale, it means there are more people to harm.
	Yeah.
	And Jesus said, it is written, my father's house was supposed to be called a house of worship and prayer for all nations.
	So he's saying, look, guys, this is the temple of God, and it's supposed to be for the greatest, most positive possible things, like prayer and worship.
	And look what you've done to it.
	You have turned my father's house into a den of murder and violence.
	What greater grievance could you do, right?
	And this is why the Essene type of Judaism broke off from orthodoxy in the temple cult hundreds of years before Jesus.
	And Jesus clearly emerged from this Essene type of Judaism and the whole Jesus movement did, because the Essenes also rejected the temple for all the same reasons and because they believed that the Torah was corrupted by these priests over hundreds of years.
	I mean, the book of Leviticus, I don't know if people know this, but the book of Leviticus was written about at least five centuries after Moses.
	And yet it's purported to be Moses saying all these things.
	It's like, this is a lie.
	Moses did not say any of this stuff.
	This is a Ponzi scheme, a prophet scheme being weaved into the Bible in ancient times.
	And because we don't question the human traditions, we say, oh, it's all perfect and it's all God, then we miss these obvious corruptions of what was once a holy book.
	And so Moses brought down, as we know, 10 commandments from Mount Sinai, just 10, not 613 on 50 stone tablets, just two tablets with 10 commandments.
	There's been some effort.
	Yeah, it would have taken a couple Moses' for that.
	And so where do we get all these 600 laws from?
	And so when Jesus is asked, what must I do, good teacher, to inherit eternal life?
	He literally says, keep the commandments.
	And he doesn't list off 613.
	He lists off actually the five love your neighbor commandments, which is the second half of the 10.
	It's don't kill, don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat, et cetera.
	And then he says, and chief of all, or what they're all summarized in is love your neighbor as yourself.
	So Jesus clearly believed there was a core of Mosaic law that was original, that was given by God, that is good for humanity.
	And he rejected the people who followed the other 600 BS laws that were man-made.
	And so it's like we're kind of doing the same thing now, saying, look, there's a core of truth and goodness in this book, in this New Testament, but man has corrupted it and weaponized it for centralizing power, religious power, for the last 2,000 years.
	And we've got to start unraveling this behemoth that's been created.
	Okay, extraordinary.
	I want to remind our viewers that this docuseries called Awaken the Christ Within begins December 3rd, did you say?
	Yes.
	Okay, December 3rd.
	And you can find a link to it at rangerdeals.com.
	It'll be right there on top.
	Just click in.
	I think people have to register to watch it.
	And one, is it an episode each day or a couple of episodes each day?
	No, I think there'll be like 30 a day.
	Yeah.
	So it's a loaded schedule.
	Tune in, man.
	Yeah.
	I can't wait.
	I can't wait to hear from all these experts.
	But last question for you for this interview.
	And I mean, this might be controversial, but what else?
	Good.
	They're never controversial.
	I see in especially conservative politics in America right now, I see a very deliberate push for anti-Islam hatred.
	And my red flags go up.
	Like, who wants us to hate followers of Islam right now for whatever reason?
	Because I don't buy into that at all.
	I don't hate Buddhists, Sikhs, atheists.
	I don't hate Islam.
	I don't hate Christians.
	I love all human beings as brothers and sisters.
	We are all of God's children.
	Amen.
	Right.
	What is going on with, you know, what forces are behind this that want us to hate people because of their faith?
	Because their faith is different from your faith.
	That's not a Jesus way to hate Islam.
	Right.
	Right.
	Yeah, it's very interesting.
	It all goes back to divide and conquer, which this tactic is used repeatedly and over and over.
	And I mean, the Persian people, for instance, have been so demonized, right, in America.
	Yeah.
	And from all of my personal experiences and from people I know, they are the most remarkable, kind, beautiful people.
	Of course, there's extremists there.
	We all understand that.
	In every society, there is extremists.
	Every society.
	But they just want to divide us.
	And honestly, Islam has many parallels with the early Christian movements.
	If you want to get into some of that.
	Yeah.
	Well, this is the funny thing, man, is when we started studying early Christianity, we found out about the Nazarene history and we're like, whoa, mind blown, right?
	And Jesus came from this sect.
	And then the Roman Catholic Church basically borrowed this, you know, Jewish reform movement, which was what the Jesus movement was.
	They weren't trying to start a new religion, right?
	Jesus was trying to reform his own religion and weave out the corruption in it.
	And it got turned through Paul's teachings primarily and the development of Gnosticism and things into this new Greco-Roman kind of mystery religion about confessing and believing and a second coming that's soon to be and all these things.
	Jesus didn't teach any of this stuff, right?
	He was talking about a right now kingdom of heaven among us and bringing it right now, not waiting someday for it to come from the skies.
	And so in studying this, we found a thread that's pretty amazing, which is that Islam, scholars who study this show with pretty convincing evidence that Islam literally is Jewish Christianity just kind of morphed a few centuries later because of the way they were so heavily persecuted by the Roman Catholic Empire and church.
	They literally made Nazarene Christianity illegal in Rome in the fourth century under Pope Damasus.
	And if you were found with Nazarene texts, they called it Judaizing, right?
	You can't Judaize Christianity.
	It's like, but it was a Jewish movement from the beginning.
	And so Nazarenism was a form of Jewish Christianity.
	So you would have all your property seized from you and they would even execute you in some cases, right?
	So the Nazarenes had to flee all of the Roman jurisdiction territories and they went into Arabia and Syria and east of the Transjordan.
	And centuries and centuries later, a guy named Prophet Muhammad comes along and he was pretty much an Ebionite for all intents of purposes.
	Ebionites was one of the Jewish Christian sects that lasted for many centuries.
	And he has this revelation and then this new kind of religion forms off of it.
	But when you look at the core tenets of Islam, it's like early Jewish Christianity would have looked very similar to what we now know today as Islam, truly monotheistic, unlike the Catholic Church with its polytheistic Trinitarian doctrines, right?
	No, no, no, there's one God, one being, one nature, and it's all about following God's commandments, living righteously, pleasing God with your life is how you show you have faith in God.
	And that's what the Jewish Christians believed.
	And so scholars show these links, which are pretty remarkable, that Islam is the result of Catholic persecution against the early Jewish Christians.
	Fascinating.
	They absorbed these Ebionite ideas up.
	And then they there, so you still have some of these core Nazarene ideas in Islam.
	However, Islam has diverted in some significant ways.
	For instance, the Nazarenes were strict pacifists.
	Strict.
	They had a refused to bear arms.
	Refused to bear arms, refused to participate in militaries.
	Obviously, Islam, at least mainstream Islam, has diverted from that.
	But again, mostly because of the persecution from the Catholic Church and the Roman Empire, like fighting these people for so long kind of made them militaristic.
	Maybe.
	And I think in the beginning, they were much more pacifistic.
	I don't know.
	There was a lot of people.
	I'm a pacifist, but I carry a gun because of the threats.
	I mean, but I'm not going out to instigate violence.
	If someone brings it to me, I'm going to stop it.
	Self-defense.
	Totally.
	I mean, but I'm not a gun nut kind of.
	I mean, I wouldn't describe myself in that way.
	Although I'd probably own a lot of people.
	You're not going out looking for gunfights.
	I'm not looking for a gunfight.
	That's the point.
	Yeah.
	But I'm wearing one right now.
	Yeah.
	You know, we're happy you are.
	While we're talking about Jesus.
	Strapped up.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, I didn't mean to cut you off.
	Was there anything else to finish up that?
	Yeah, I was just going to say it's interesting.
	Like many of these things, we're trying to get back to the core because all of these religions, Judaism, Judaism's been stolen.
	It's been diverted into a blood sacrifice cult.
	Whereas the core of the original Essene type of Judaism was a strictly a beautiful, holy thing about it was the same thing as Nazarene Christianity, essentially, the same core components.
	So we're trying to reform Judaism and Christianity.
	It's a bold statement, but it's what's on our heart to do because so many of the wars, the power struggles, all the manipulation and corruption in the world stems back to this conflict that's been going on for thousands of years from the time of ancient Judea and Palestine and this civil war in Judaism.
	Well, last thing I'll say on that is we have a number of scholars in the summit, one of which is a good friend of ours, Dr. James Tabor, who I think is the greatest New Testament scholar alive.
	I've heard his interviews with you.
	Yeah.
	Amazing.
	He's remarkable.
	And he wrote a book called Restoring Abrahamic Faith, which we did a podcast with him about.
	And it's an amazing book.
	If you want to get to the core of what we're talking about and say, what was the original form of Judaism as given through Moses, right?
	Before it was corrupted.
	And he pulls this out, showing that in the Hebrew Bible, there is this theme that repeats all throughout, which is called the way of Yehovah or the way of Yahweh, the way of the Lord, in other words.
	And it is always succinctly defined in the same way.
	It's to do zadaka and mishpat, justice and righteousness.
	And this was the only like soteriological requirement of the religion is what he's showing, right?
	Do justice and righteousness, live righteously, be a good person, follow God.
	And that's the perfect type of religion.
	You can't improve on that.
	And so all we can do is delete all the things that have come after that and corrupted it and contaminated it and get back to the original way.
	But we're not inventing something new.
	We're not starting something that hasn't been started before.
	Like we're trying to get back to the original teachings of Moses, which Jesus was a prophet like Moses, they say, right?
	It's there's only one religion, which is to love your neighbor as yourself, to do justice and righteousness.
	And I think all world religions essentially teach that same golden thread.
	Absolutely.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	What a fascinating discussion.
	I've got one more thing to show you before we wrap this up.
	But let me remind people again, your event starts December 3rd.
	And folks, you can sign up for it.
	You can find the link at rangerdeals.com.
	And it's free to watch.
	You're going to learn a tremendous amount of information.
	But I was just thinking as you're speaking there, I need to grab something off the wall right there.
	I want to show you this and what this has to do with everything we're talking about here.
	So hold on a second.
	Sure.
	All right.
	So go ahead and show that.
	Yeah.
	So this symbol, sometimes maybe some Christians might have a problem with this symbol because it seems to resemble like a mandala of Buddhism.
	But what this symbol actually represents to me is, have you ever used the human voice through a semoscope in order to visualize the human voice?
	And that science is called cymatics, right?
	You've seen like the sand on a vibration plate.
	This is one of the patterns, or it's inspired by the pattern, of human voice creating physical manifestation through the word.
	So to me, this image is the spoken word that through the power of God's creation that is infused in each and every one of us allows our words and thoughts to change the world around us.
	So profound.
	It looks like creation, you know?
	Looks like creation.
	It does.
	Yeah.
	So each and every one of us has this incredible power to co-create in the world through our voices.
	And you can go ahead and set it down.
	I mean, thanks for holding.
	I gave you a whole new task.
	I didn't sign up for that task, but there it is.
	But each and every one of us has the power to create because God has given us a little sliver of his ultra power.
	We have a little bit of that in each and every one of us, the power to create through our words, through our thoughts, and through our actions.
	And that's what I love about what you guys do is it's all high integrity.
	You're living, speaking, acting, and teaching in full alignment.
	It's not like an institution that tells you one thing, but then the pastor is doing crack and banging hookers out behind the Methodist church, right?
	With your donation money.
	Yeah, with your tithe and offerings.
	Yeah, right.
	So I love the fact that you're fully congruent in what you're teaching and doing.
	And just want to thank you for your time today.
	Do you have any final thoughts?
	Yeah, I do, actually.
	I'm glad you asked because I want to double click on that again.
	This is another one of the kind of Christian misunderstandings that are given in church and espoused from the pulpit a lot.
	Whenever you talk about righteousness through good works, basically whenever Jesus' gospel gets brought up and instead of Paul's, it's like, well, but remember, yeah, good works are good, but you can't be righteous of your own accord because you're inherently evil and totally depraved.
	And you know what?
	I actually agree with that in a certain sense.
	You, the ego, right?
	The false persona, the human self who thinks you're separate from God.
	Yeah, that's totally depraved.
	There's no truth or life in it.
	So as an ego that believes it's separate from God and needs to fight to get to the top and judge other people and all this stuff, yeah, yeah, that can't be righteous.
	But that's not what we're claiming we are.
	We are the Christ.
	We are the divine essence, the indwelling Ruach, the breath, the spirit of God that animates every living being, even in Acts 17, 24.
	In him we live, we move, and have our being.
	Our ontology is defined under God.
	And so if God is in me, then all righteousness is within me.
	And I can call upon it.
	And it's not my righteousness.
	I'm not being righteous under my own personal Aaron's strength.
	It's the righteousness of Christ in me that I call upon when I love God with all my heart and love my neighbor as myself.
	The Holy Spirit infuses me to be a manifestation of God's righteousness through me.
	That's what Jesus was.
	And Jesus said, follow me, be imitators of me.
	So that's what real righteousness is.
	And why I think teaching people that you can't be righteous, so all you can do is confess and believe in a savior is doing them a great disservice and injustice.
	And it's neutering God.
	It's neutering the power of God.
	God is not.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	God is all-powerful.
	Yeah.
	And we're exalting this soteriology, this philosophy exalts God to the highest level.
	God is here with us right now.
	God is animating every single cell of our being.
	Literally, nothing is possible without the power of God.
	We're just recognizing that.
	With God in every thought that comes to our mind, every sentence that we are constructing, that we are sharing with each other is inspired by God.
	I can't even tell you how many times I've been recording a podcast and my own conscious awareness fades away and it just becomes like God speaking.
	We've all experienced a flow state.
	Science can't explain that.
	How is that happening?
	Yeah.
	So anyway, it's incredible.
	We're going to wrap this up.
	I just want to thank you for your time today.
	Thank you for putting together this incredible event that people can really benefit from.
	And I just want to say thank you because I think one of the reasons that so much of, say, Gen Z is embracing Christ is because of the efforts of people like you who are helping to sort of reform the understanding of what is Christ.
	It's not the old, you know, the church institution that wants you to bow down and believe everything the priest tells you, and you can't talk to God yourself.
	You have to go through them.
	This is a whole new revelation that you are sharing with the world.
	And I think you're doing a great job.
	So thank you for your time.
	Thanks very much.
	We appreciate you so much.
	Thank you.
	And thank all of you for watching today.
	Mike Adams here of Brighteon.com.
	And of course, go to rangerdeals.com to find the link for this upcoming event that I will be watching.
	And I think you will also very much appreciate this event.
	So thank you all for being here with us today.
	And hope you enjoy the new set.
	You know, all decked out the Jesus way.
	It's all awesome.
	It's a vibe.
	So thanks for joining us.
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