How To Be An Animal

(upbeat music) (groaning) (groaning) Terrible way to start a show, not making those sounds, that's not what you're supposed to do, but I did it, and I loved it. Okay, today we're getting right into it. So also I wanna say on the chance that I just go right into this, I'm gonna be doing reality 102, that is the next class up from reality 101, and we're gonna be covering a lot of things. Primarily, how do we understand what this world is? That's gonna be coming up. If I just go into it on this episode, that's what this episode will be about as well. But we're gonna be just figuring it out on my head as I talk.

In case you haven't caught on, that's literally what this show is at this point. Me figuring out what's in my head as I speak. Okay, that's it. All right, we're gonna be talking about, we did, okay. Hold on, let me take a beat. We did the episode, where we talked about, and when I say we, I mean me, spoke about jumping into God energy, and deity energy, and we spoke about Athena, and a bunch of other ones, and it's great, and I'm gonna tell them my friends, I'm gonna tell them my cool peeps, and it's awesome, and it works, but I wanna be clear, there are many realms that we can jump into. Listen, I just figured out the episode after this one, but one of those realms outside of the gods are animals, and who doesn't love animals?

They're so amazing, they're so cute, and they're us, how fucking cool is that? So when we see animals, or we choose to live with animals, they are aspects of us that have manifested, and that can be like, oh my God, you're saying my, my animal isn't, my pet isn't real, it's just me? Yeah, but it's also the animal, it's not freaking out, it's cool, I'm not trying to deprive you of the joy of having pets, I mean, there's like a whole house of astrology that's associated with small pets. What is it, the domestic house? Does anyone know what that is? Six, I don't know, think it's the sixth house. Is it, who knows, someone tell me.

But anyway, animals are all around us, and they also have qualities associated with them, and can reveal quite a bit about the nature of our own minds and reality as to the degree we're able to tune into it. So I like animals 'cause they're cool. (laughs) This is my overall interpretation of life. I like it because it's cool. But for real, when you tune into certain animals, and when you see them around you, you can very much gain insight into what the fuck is going on. So this is something I recognized, I was doing, well, I was doing it before I recognized what I was doing, and then I remembered, yesterday, if you bothered to listen to bother, if you listened to the end of the last podcast, which was very long, you'll hear that I figured out this episode right at the end in the outro.

It was like, oh shit, there's a woodpecker. What the fuck do woodpeckers mean? So then I looked up what woodpeckers meant, and then I'm like, oh, woodpeckers mean stuff? I wonder if other animals mean stuff. I'm like, oh, Native Americans are really into this stuff. Oh, everyone around the world is super into animal symbology. So like, what, that is, you know, fucking unfolded, and I'm like, oh, totems, oh shit, we can jump into animals energy. That's why I've been telling people on the Fox, and I've fucking been saying that on the seven of swords. And anyway, the whole thing started unraveling, and then I was like, okay, now that I just got the download, I have to unpack it.

So let me use this amazing tool called the internet and see if I can find something that helps explain this. So I found this animal totem energy generator. It's cool, I'll put a link to it on this episode page site. What the fuck is it even called? I don't know, it's everywhere. Just the link is there, totem generator. And it's an oracle. It's just like the Sabian symbols, it's just like anything. Everything is an oracle. Have you realized everything is an oracle yet? Literally everything is an oracle because it's all you and you're trying to communicate with yourself that you're in charge and you're doing this and you're running this program.

You're the simulator and the simulation. You're God, you're Jesus Christ, the son. You're also the father. You're also the Holy Ghost, you're all this shit. It's fucking great. Anyway, the animal totem energy is really fucking powerful because again, if you're in nature, you'll see stuff like I saw the woodpecker and then you can be like, oh, what would peckers mean? Oh, I know what would peckers mean. So in this case, woodpeckers, and that was a very powerful synchronicity for me because when I was recording that original episode with Robert, there was a woodpecker outside and I said, oh, there's a woodpecker outside.

And I said, huh, I wonder what that means? And then right when I was recording that outro or the intro to that episode, there was a woodpecker. I'm like, oh, huh. So woodpeckers mean traditionally, energetically, that there's opportunity. They march to their own rhythm, right? They're beating on that tree of their own rhythm and they also shake up our awareness. So that's sometimes what needs to happen, you know? And these are us. These are messengers of the gods, which are us, for real. And they come down, they say, hey, I'm a woodpecker. (humming) Pay attention to me. And I was like, okay, woodpecker, I will.

And then that's one way we can use animals, but we can also jump into their spirits and be like, oh my God, I'm gonna be a woodpecker. I don't choose to be a woodpecker because, you know, well, I guess I also sometimes do. But I like to jump into things like foxes, cats, dolphins. And so I remembered when I was a kid that I would do this, like young. I was like, man, I wanna be a squirrel. And then I would probably, I think at night, I would dream that I was a squirrel and I was probably some squirrel somewhere. But now I realize as an adult, I mean this both, as a physical adult and metaphorically, you can jump into these energies of any animals you want.

So I first recommend finding the animals that means something to you and you resonate with already. So I've been asking on the show all the guests what their favorite animal is forever. And now I gotta know why I've been doing that. No, it's just like a fun thing to ask for me, but I know I get it. So start with those because that's what's resonating with you. That's what's coming out from the collective unconscious, which is you, and that's a really good place to start. But we can also hear about other ones and see like, oh, maybe that's something I'd like to embody. Maybe I assume myself to be a cat.

Maybe I assume myself to be a wolf. Maybe I assume I'm a dolphin. So let's go over some of the qualities associated with the ones that I have done. So I've told this story a variety of times about when I was trying to, it's okay. Sometimes you're trying to imagine stuff, right? You have your scene, you know what you're gonna be, your feeling, and then like others. And when I say sometimes, I get a certain point this happens a lot, you'll be trying to imagine something and some other thing will intrude and rather than pushing it away and being like, no, I wanna imagine what I wanna imagine. You start going with it and some other scene starts to emerge, you know, like, whoa, this is powerful, I better go with it.

So the one that clicked this in for me for real was, I was trying to imagine something I found myself in a forest and there was a fire, like a fire, you know, someone had set up in the middle of this forest, it's night, and around the perimeter of this like cleared forest area, but the forest is all around me, is a wolf, like a scary fucking snarling wolf and it's circling me and I'm like, oh shit, but in real life, I'll be like, you know, oh my God. I'm shitting my pants, whoops. But in the dream, or this on the dream, it was a vision. This is like this constant twilight sleep, I'm still aware.

I see this wolf going around and around it, it's getting closer and closer and I'm like, okay, this is happening, but then when it gets like close enough where I can kind of communicate with it, I tell it to come closer to me and I tell it to sit down and it does, then I start petting its head and then I start like kind of hugging it and then I start loving it and then I was like, oh shit, this is my ego. So that was what that vision meant for me. So I started looking into what the wolf can mean when I started, when I say I started to do this, I did this yesterday and this morning 'cause I was like, oh yeah, wolf, I should look into that.

So wolves typically mean freedom, wisdom and the journey to the self, right, to your real self. And that makes a lot of fucking sense and I didn't know that. So that's when I really liked the validity of these energies and oracles and that's what proves to me it's real because it's not like I read the wolf was symbolic of this and then I was like, oh, I'm gonna dream about it and you can do that. That's totally cool too. I don't wanna be pejorative to that, but I find it to be very compelling and effective when after the fact, retrospectively, retroactively, you're looking at it and you're like, oh shit, that lines up.

That's, hey man, that's what hooked me into the Neem Corolli Baba stuff, you know, like there's too many weird threads in synchronicity is like, all right, this is undeniable. This is pretty fucking obvious. All right, so that's the wolf. Let's talk about cats. Ooh, are you a cat person or a dog person? Trick question, you should be both. The fuck is the matter with you. Be both, they're both fucking great. I have had, although I guess, no, they're both great, but I guess I am more of a cat person. I have a dog now and I love my dog, Macio, but I don't know, cats, man, fucking cats. I love dogs too, there's nothing wrong with that.

I love dogs, I don't know, we'll see, it evolves. You shouldn't be one or the other, it is a trick question. You should love both, but I guess you can leave one way. I just fucking blew my own shit up in my face right there. (laughs) But cats, what are cats? They're mysterious, they're magical, and they're sensual. They're fucking just badass, cool creatures. And the little ones, the big ones, like panthers and tigers and lions, they're all fucking cool. So if you identify with the cat, you might be a nighttime creature, you might be someone who likes to, you know, slink into places and figure shit out and go into the mysteries and kind of be a little bit like, what's going on here?

That's a cool fucking energy to jump in. But again, just like the gods, we don't wanna get trapped in our animal energies because if we do, we can become subservient to them. They control us and, depending on the animal, you know, comes with its own set of outward expressions. So we jump into these as they serve us, as they make sense. You know, like in Game of Thrones, like you can warg into stuff that like you can embody the spirit of an animal. And just to be clear, like you can do that here too. I'm not just implying like you jump into the spirit of an animal and you just feel like that. And then that magical stuff happens around you, which is amazing.

You can actually jump into animals' bodies. Like you can do that. Other animals like outside of you and see their perspective. That's a real thing too. I don't do that by no, it's real. So just gonna keep saying, I know shit is real. Is there anything more frustrating to a skeptic than someone saying, I haven't experienced it, but I fucking know it's real. Well, I'll explain how that works in a future episode. But sometimes you just see shit and you reckon, listen, whatever you can imagine is real. That's how I know it. And if you've seen it, even if you haven't seen it in external reality, what does that mean?

I don't know. I pulled the magician card when I was talking. Why did that happen? I don't know. Okay, back to the animals, dolphin. I've mentioned that, I mean, I love the dolphins. I love the Miami dolphins. I love actual dolphins. But I was at a sound bath in woodstock. Excuse me. I was in sound bath in woodstock at a sound bath and I was trying to again do the imagining. I'm like, let me imagine something. I have no idea what it was. Couldn't have been that important, right? Or it was probably real important. But anyway, if I can, well, I could be, it was a dolphin. I was a dolphin underwater.

And sometimes I dream that I'm under the sea with dolphins and I am a dolphin and I am a whale. But this was like, what? Like, I'm a dolphin. Why? And it was like an hour, 45 minutes to an hour sound bath with just gongs, like crazy vibrations. Packed room. And I was a dolphin the whole fucking time. Like that was weird. I had no idea what it meant. No idea. It was like, that was weird. Huh. I wonder why I couldn't imagine consciously what I was trying to imagine. I was a dolphin. So I still, up until this morning, hadn't looked up. Like really what dolphins mean symbolically. I kind of intuitively knew it, had to do with the unconscious.

And, you know, the deep is part of ourselves. But what they're typically associated with is balance, harmony, resurrection, protection, and playfulness. And that makes a lot of sense. The resurrection, especially because they come from under the water and are mammals and can go above and like live comfortably above. They jump up over the water. They're in the water. They're out of the water. They're cool. I'm not suggesting they're land animals. But they're mammals. They need air to breathe. And that resurrection is such a symbol of, I remember one time I had a friend make a Hanuman on dolphin.

And that's a really good symbol. That's like the Jesus Christ, Osiris, Solar symbolism, riding on this like playful dolphin. It's fucking awesome. So, you know, they're cool, man. They're just, they're fucking cool. And those are the ones that I have experienced recently. Oh, and the Fox, the Fox. I fucking, when winter rolls around in the Northeast, I'm a Fox man. I just go right into that change. Swift action with sourcefulness being flexible. I just feel like a Fox. And like, it's just, I don't even know how to explain it. I just know that I am. I know that I do that. And that's the thing that kind of like really got me thinking about this animal stuff.

Cause like the seven of swords in the chemical tarot, I believe is a Fox. And then if you look at the seven of swords in the actual tarot, it's like a guy skulking away with them. These swords from a military camp, it's just like a sly trickster type of thing. And I'm with it. I'm totally fucking with it. So yeah, those are the ones that I use, but you can actually use anything around you and just find what naturally you're interested in and what pops up around you in the animal world. And you may be surprised at the qualities associated with that. And then to the degree that you can, I know this is like an intermediate to advanced technique.

And I know that because I know that because I'm not getting specific questions about it, which means that people probably aren't even trying to jump into God energy too much. Like the God stuff for like, I know I've gotten something and people are like, yo, I've been doing that, especially with Athena. But the animal stuff I don't know. 'Cause like, there can be kind of a tendency. I'm not saying that we're the people who do that, but some people can look at animals as lesser than. And I know that's like a consciousness that's waning, but it's a dance some people have to do regardless. And so when we think of being like, "Oh, be more than your animal nature."

It's like, no, like, you know what? Getting in touch with primal and animal energies is actually amazing. That's like incredible. So you wanna do that to the degree that it helps you and is productive for you. That's the rule with anything. With weed, with jumping into God energy, animal energy, imagination, alchemy, it doesn't matter. Meditation, diet, exercise, sports, it doesn't matter. Listening to your dog bark, it doesn't matter though. You wanna do only these things to the degree that they help you, if they're not helping you and they're not serving you. And that's the difference between not helping you and being afraid of something.

Like, we can do that dance. We're like, "Oh, this isn't helping me." Are you sure? Or maybe you're just uncomfortable. Maybe it's just something that's like pushing you forward and you don't like that. So be clear about that. But if something is genuinely not helping you, fuck out of here with that noise. Like stop doing it. Fuck out of here with that noise, Macio. I'm making it on the podcast again. Anyway, is this a short one? Is this a short animal episode? I guess you could email me and let me know what animals you like to jump into and use that animal generator link. I think that can be helpful.

Use everything as an oracle, right? Everything around you is communicating with you all of the time because it is you and you're really trying to get yourself to realize something. And I've spoken about what that something is. I'm not gonna jump all over you constantly. You will realize it. I want you to know that. If you're listening to this podcast at this point, and when I say this point, it could be any point, but especially in like 2019, before 2020, and yes, I will be doing a 2020 episode soon, you're gonna wake the fuck up. This is the final destination. This is the place where when you die here, you keep coming back here as you until you wake up.

This is pretty fucking far along in the timeline because I believe in the future in the farther timelines, like 2300s and stuff like that. And it's all just a game. It's all relatively real. People will be born with the knowledge of this going on. And they won't need to black out their memories and past lives because they won't need to be these lessons that they need to learn in the same way because they'll be this awareness of people are like, oh my God, we can be born into a world of harmony and balance and peace, and that's fucking acceptable. So that's happening, but I'm saying in this timeline, you don't come back as a bug or a bee or a piece of dirt or whatever.

If you consciously wanna do that, by all means, you come back as you as a younger version of you until you get this shit. How do I know that? I can't tell you. (laughs) I can tell you, I'll tell you later. I pulled a couple other cards here. We got the Queen of Wands, got the Nine of Pentacles and we got the Magician. Look those up, I'm not doing a reading for you. I will be picking the winner of the reading for next week, we're doing it. So I'm gonna pick this, someone's gonna be on the podcast for a free reading, probably the last one I do for free on the podcast. You'll have to just pay like a normal person.

You'll just have the added benefit of being on a podcast. This is gonna be fun, but I'm picking the winner this weekend. So join the email, let's find the link, do what you gotta do if you wanna get on it. We've already had like over a hundred people, I think in a few days since announcing this, not making that up. So get on the list, I'll pick someone, we'll do that next week and it'll probably be an episode out, if not next week, the week after, maybe after Halloween. Oh shit, I almost forgot. Two things, one, if you're in the Hudson Valley, I will be at Blythewood Mansion Manor doing tarot readings, raising money for the bar theater department.

Is my dog ever gonna be quiet? Can you hear him? Not I just sound like a person, but Jesus Christ Macio. It's 'cause I said I was a cat person. He's like, fuck it, dog, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark. So I'll be at Blythewood this Saturday from four to seven p.m. At Bard doing tarot readings, all the money that is collected will be given to the Bard Theater Program. It's for a scholarship, I support that, I will be there. I will also be on Halloween for anyone in New York City. I will be doing tarot readings, short ones, like 15, 20 minutes tops, not, so it's not gonna be my normal rate, but if you're there, you can come get a live reading at ABC Beer in the East Village.

My friends own that place, but there's gonna be a beer launch. I should probably get the name of that, I will. I'll mention that a few more times before Halloween, which is Thursday of next week, the 31st. That's when we do Halloween. Yeah, so that's going on, just connect. There's links and shit, just fine, this stuff. The email list is good, that's active now. Reality 102 will most likely be the next episode. So buckle up for that one, 'cause I know Reality 101, people really like that. We'll be doing all the realities up to 999. Pretty sure we'll get there, probably by next Tuesday. Okay, that's it, I will see you soon.

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