Ep. 89 - Positivity + Resonance with Brandon Beachum

Sweet is never quite as sweet without the sour, you're infinite being, you're an eternal being, you're just a badass, brave enough soul that you have chosen to put yourself into this separation dualistic environment and you wanted to experience the contrast, right? This is synchronicity, this is synchronicity, this is synchronicity, this is synchronicity, welcome to episode 89 of synchronicity. My guest this week is Brandon Beecham and Brandon runs a wonderful podcast called Positive Head which is now on MindPod Network, that's how wonderful it is, that's how much I enjoyed it. Positive Head is a daily podcast, he's doing one of these every day, who does that? Brandon does that and you'll hear one of the most upbeat and positive guys but also lots of like with any truly optimistic person, you know, he's been through some shit too, you know, this isn't like some glossy persona that he just whips out like if you're really going to be talking about this stuff, you got to go through some some shitty times too. Speaking of shitty times, I want to truthfully and sincerely thank everyone who reached out last week and was like hey, you know, I know what you're going through, keep it up, you're doing great, I'm leaving you, the new patron patrons, yeah, why am I saying that word so weird? The new patrons on Patreon, Donators, people who emailed me, social media people, truthfully, really awesome, I really appreciate it, I mentioned last week, you know, as kind of my financial and professional situation transforms, or hopefully turns into something else soon, you know, one of the things that's been happening is, you know, the downloads for synchronicity have been going up and up and up exponentially, same thing with MindPod Network, and it's cool to see, and I know we're close and I know this stuff is going to work out in ways that I can't possibly imagine, but it's also nice to hear that from other people who it's resonating with, that's, that's fucking cool, that's truthfully, that's, you know, I don't think I could stop if I wanted to with this podcast thing at this point, but really when I hear the feedback from you guys, that's fucking awesome. So thank you for everyone doing that. So update, I'm definitely doing better as you can probably hear in my voice, not totally out of whatever funk I was in, but there's a lot of positive things happening, and you know, I think this is the, you heard kind of Brandon say at the beginning here in the little teaser, you know, you need the sour in a, in order to experience the sweet, at least in a dualistic universe, right? We're not going to go into unity consciousness right now, but that is kind of a key principle. And you know, if you were baseline level anything for all the time, that would get pretty boring. Maybe one of the reasons we choose to incarnate, who knows?

But my point is, is that if you're going through anything like this, have gone through it, will go through it as I mentioned, just know that you have people around you always, always, always, always, whether you know it or not, even if you think you don't, because one of the weird things when you're getting down, you're depressed, is you feel very lonely, and you feel like no one cares, and no one is there, and no one's going to help you. And that's just very rarely true. Even if you don't have family or friends at this point, if you're listening to this podcast, hit me up. I'm always happy to talk. So I just want you to know that you're never really as alone as you possibly think you are, especially when you're upset. So yeah, things are getting better.

And really, the most important thing is, I want you guys to know how much I appreciate the support that I was overwhelmed. I was, I will say like, I could be like, I was so surprised, I wasn't. I know the types of people who listen to this show. I know kind of where you guys are coming from, and I didn't fully expect the amount and the sincerity of what was going on from everyone, but man, it was awesome to see. So with that said, thank you for indulging me in the beginning. Got another comment today. I think this one on the mind pod site was like the guy in the beginning talks way too long. This is my podcast. You don't like it. Skip to the guest. No one is forcing you to listen to the intro, and you have to make some smarmy comment. Who does that? Brandon. Let's get to Brandon. I met Brandon about a month and a half ago on the internet. Someone introduced us, and really just immediately hit it off. There's a bunch of synchronicities in terms of when people in our lives were born this whole range from like July 20th, which is my birthday till the 28th.

There's the whole range of birthdays in our families where it's like, whoa, that's weird. More importantly, I love how Brandon is authentically talking about life stuff, right? Big things every day. The stuff he talks about is always important, and he's doing it not because he's getting rich from this, and not because he's getting a claim. Even though he is getting a claim, like he definitely is, he's doing it because this is what he believes in. He's been doing this shit well before it. I was talking about this with Michael Phillip. We're going to be releasing Michael Phillip from Third Eye Drops. Go listen to it. Mind pod network. We're releasing a double cast soon, so one's going to be on his. The second part's going to be on mine. We're talking about the qualifying difference. We're not podcasting because this is a path to making money. We're not podcasting because this is a path to fame and fortune and glory. We're dealing it because these are the types of conversations that we've been having off the air long before podcasting became available as a medium, right? Before it was just terrestrial radio, we're not going to have the opportunity to have these conversations and broadcast them and have people care. That quality to me, that intention is a hugely important thing, and that shines through with Brandon. You'll see it.

You'll hear it really clearly. You'll hear from his voice in this episode. Go check out his podcast, just the hell of a dude. I'm thrilled to have him be a part of Mind pod network. I'm thrilled for him to be a guest on this show. I was recently a guest on his show. Lots of people from his show have hit me up since being like, "Hey, I love synchronicity." That speaks volumes to where we're both coming from this and what we have to offer together. Super excited to continue to get to know Brandon and just see what happens before we get to the episode. Again, a reminder, if you want to get the music that you hear on this show, right? Patreon. Patreon.com/synchronicity. There is a level where you get every song that you hear on this show. If that's what you want to do, if you're into it with it. I am going to be releasing an EP in the fall, four tracks. Not sure what it's called yet. I'll keep you posted. I'm trying to reduce the amount of stuff that I do. We'll see if that works.

But I really, again, not to dwell on it, but thank you so much to everyone who reached out and had words or support, whatever it was. That was, really. It means a lot. It was an emotional moment for me. Try not to get too emo here. How about we get to the episode? How does that sound? Without further ado, here is Brandon Beacham. Thank you, by the way, for coming on, man. Yeah, it's my pleasure, man. Thanks for having me. Yeah, I'm returning the favor, and you pointed out yesterday that I was hitting the top podcast in the charts, and I totally credit that to being on your podcast because you were right there, and you pushed me there. Thank you for doing that. Who knows exactly what the Apple gods are doing, but I'm just glad that it happened. We were talking about this right before we started recording for people listening now. You are a very interesting and awesome person. I've only known you now personally for about, I don't know, a few weeks a month if that, but I've been incredibly impressed with everything that you've been putting out through your positive head podcast, and not only the interviews you're doing, but I love these kind of musings in between whether relative to a situation in life or taking a quote from a mystic or someone who really knows what they're talking about and dissecting it. I'm curious, how did you get like, I don't want to do too much of the origin story, but I do because I'm very curious to find out like, how did you get to the point where A, you were interested in all of this stuff, but B, decided to make a podcast out of it a couple years ago, and now you're doing a daily, which is a, we'll talk about that later, so yeah, a little bit insane. Yeah, so you know, I'm a little bit crazy right out of the gate, right?

So we got that covered. Yeah, so how did I get here? Well, first off, one of the things that I always say on my show is we teach best what we most need to learn. And, excuse me, so, you know, as I started down, let's see, origin story in a nutshell, raised very conservative Christian, like super, super conservative and, oh wow, you know, I got into, I got around 20 years old or so, and it was always always being fiercely independent. It wasn't really adding up them. It was not adding up. What type of Christianity? Church of Christ is the name of it. It's a non-denominational church. It's more predominant in the South. I grew up in Virginia. So, so yeah, I mean, it was, I ended up going to a church of Christ school called Freed Harderman University, a little school in Tennessee, then all, and then David Lipscomb, another church of Christ school, and getting kicked out. Why did you get kicked out? You got it. You got it. Why did you get kicked out? I got kicked out because I was, I was, I was one of the bad kids. I was like smoking pot and, oh yeah, regular reasons. I ultimately got, I ultimately got busted sneaking my girlfriend out of my dorm room, as I just am taking her out the side door, the dorm mother's coming in the side door because someone parked in her spot. So, she came in a totally different, I mean, perfect timing, meant to be talking about, you know, which altered my course, which led me to going from getting kicked out of Freed Harderman, going to David Lipscomb. And then, of course, from there, starting to experiment with psychedelics, which really opened me up to the idea that, you know, holy smokes, I actually met someone who had some psychic ability, and that was the first thing. And I started reading some books and opening myself up to, like, out-of-body experiences. I remember it was one of the first books, a book called Psychic Explorer, and it was this guy's journeys, you know, in the Asheville realm, essentially. And I'm telling my brother about this book and how this guy is having these miraculous experiences. And my brother's still kind of, you know, brainwashed into what we were raised to believe. He's like, dude, what are you smoking?

Like, and I tell him, well, here's how the guy claims you can do it. Through meditation, you can induce out-of-body experiences, or you can have a lucid dream. In the dream state, become aware and tell yourself you want to leave your body. And so he said, well, you sound crazy, but the lucid dreaming thing you're talking about, I totally know what you're talking about because as a kid, that would happen. I would become aware in my dream. And then so by talking about it, it triggered this starting to happen to him again. And he went from one day, literally making fun of me for believing any of this, you know, woo nonsense, to the next day, looking like he'd seen a ghost saying, oh my God, you know, last night, after we talked about that, I became aware in my dream. I remembered what you said. I said, I want to leave my body. Next thing I know, I'm standing outside of my body, looking at myself there, moving my hand in front of my face, seeing trailers, like, then I shoot through the ceiling. And, you know, he was never the first guy in line for the roller coaster. So here I am trying to make it happen. I can't. He's now, it's triggered, he even to this day, he still has experience. I'll get a call every now and then, you know, three in the morning. Oh my God, I was just in some other, like, you know, civilization where they're all creative beings and, you know, like, describing these other places, you know. And so that was sort of the start. That and also meeting someone with a psychic ability sort of led me to, you know, I was like, wow, how is she doing what she's doing? I started doing like a telepathy, feet of a parent telepathy. And it was just like, you know, and then from there, I started exploring and as I started digesting a lot of the ideas, what I refer to as the ultimate nature of reality, think books like conversations with God. Sure. You know, it was just like, oh my gosh, how does everyone not see this? Oh, yeah, this is so logical. And I would talk to anyone who would, you know, listen about it and they're like, okay, you're either crazy or that's interesting and go about their life. So for many years, you know, for a very, very long time, it was just me talking about it to anyone who would listen. And I always knew and I started having some downloads, some, you know, sort of, my intuition got stronger. I started getting shown some things about my future and role that I would play and helping to awaken, you know, others. And ultimately, it just sort of finally parlayed into, okay, there's this thing called podcasting. Oh, you know, and it just very, it just kind of unfolded, you know, not I didn't have a, aha moment. It was just like, you know, kind of just naturally unfolded over time. And I started and I haven't looked back since. It's two years this month, like really, like right now, it was like, I think my first review was May 19th.

And as we record, it's like May 20 something. Yeah, right. And, and the first review was like, an awful review like, yeah. So I love that though. I love that the first one was like that. And that now you're like 400 deep and like you're obviously not a hack. I've listened to a ton in the past couple of weeks and do like just how you are here, you're authentic, you're real, you're transparent, you're not, there's nothing being hidden about where you are and what you're doing. And that to me, those are the types of people who have the qualifications to kind of talk about this stuff. Because, you know, there's this very interesting space we're in right now, where there are people talking about the things we like to talk about, whether it's lucid dreaming or astral travel or source energy or the meaning of life in these things. I wouldn't refer to myself in any capacity as a spiritual teacher per se, but yet we can have these conversations in a way that allow people to engage with them and resonate if it works for them. And that to me is like the real service that is being provided at this point, which is qualitatively different than like going to a guru or going to this. And I'm curious. So like, how has this kind of integrated or run parallel to what you do outside of the podcast and talking about this, you know, we have lives, we have businesses, we have relationships, like, has it seamlessly fused? Because when you were mentioning, you know, you wanted to talk about this with everyone, I remember acutely getting some very big downloads in my early 20s. And I would talk about it to everyone, literally everyone, without any clear recognition of whether they wanted to hear it or not. I'm sure you're familiar.

All right. So how did this, how did this kind of track of awareness or consciousness kind of integrate or run along with what is going on in our day to day lives or your day to day life? Yeah, well, it's been quite a juggling act. I definitely feel like I've bridged multiple, you know, I've always been a serial entrepreneur. So I started, you know, my first business at, you know, 10 years old or something, taking candy to school and selling it. And then, you know, all the other kids started copying me and next thing you know, that that was outlawed. It was like, man, I'm making like five bucks a day. I'm like the richest kid in school.

And so it just continued from there. So I've always been, you know, entrepreneurial. So that's helped in a sense that I have worked for others at times, but a lot of my adult life, you know, I've I've worked for myself. Right. And so that may be free to go and explore it. You know, I got a lot of transformational festivals, for example, and and sort of explore this stuff. But yeah, it's it's a juggling act. And at the end of the day, it's all, you know, it's all merges. It's all one and the same. I mean, your, your, your daily life becomes your, I mean, yeah, your work life flows into your personal life and vice versa. Yes. But yeah, you know, what's great with this work is now my work is taking a tone of more of what I'm the most passionate about, although I do have some entrepreneurial ventures that I am involved with that take a lot of my time and energy. And so that, you know, you ask a question that it's sort of been one that's been tricky for me because I've got a business that has just an insane amount of potential that's still relatively young. And I've had some success, you know, as I part of me playing with understanding that, you know, I am one with the source that created all things and, you know, okay, let's put this to the test. Yes. You know, I started, I started, I started a company in 2010 that started for me living on my friend's couch to growing in 2015 to, I think it was a 569 fastest growing private company in the country in ink magazine, got an offer to be bought out for, you know, tens of millions of dollars within 12 hours of that offer. We lost our number one revenue stream. We did vacation rentals and it was booking calm. They severed ties with us. So I've had this roller coaster ride. Yeah. Okay, I manifest anything. I'm source, you know, I get to this place and then it's like pulled out from under me. And but I understand that it's all, it's all part of the story, you know, so now I have something in that same space that is that is growing and has even more potential than that did. But it's a it's a juggling act. And to be quite honest with you, there are times when I I question have questioned myself a lot, especially in the last year, like positive head is really taking taking off. You know, the podcast is just one piece of what I ultimately want to do. I have a vision for turning it into a video production and all kinds of, I have more ideas than I have time. Yeah, yeah. And so am I putting my energy in the right things, you know, is even though I do five episodes a week, I'm really only putting seven hours, eight hours, maybe into the podcast, I turn the mic on and, you know, just sort of see what rants come out. Somehow people are getting enjoying it, which is great. I know I enjoy it. It's a release. And yeah, and I really, by the way, I wanted to touch on what you said about being a spiritual teacher because, you know, I have, and I'm sure you do too, have a lot of people saying, Oh my gosh, I found this podcast that's changed my life. Like, you know, and I'm very careful with that whole, that's why I always say, Hey, we teach best what we most need to learn. I'm you're figuring this stuff out as much as any of it. I do this, I always say there's no selfless acts. I'm ultimately doing this for me. Thank you. Yeah. And if you benefit, awesome. So I think it's really, really important to check one's ego and realize that we all have the same potential.

And that's really the message that I'm trying to not only talk about, but demonstrate as much as I can with my own life as an example. Dude, fuck yeah, I cannot agree with that anymore because it's just the truth. And the truth is also as much as we check our egos, I at least, and many of my people I know, all of them, you can't check it all the time. So when it does pop back up and you see it, you go, okay, there it is. And if you fuck up and you let your ego make a decision, you say, Okay, I apologize. This is what was going on. And you'd be surprised how that's the real alchemy that can fix some things that maybe get out of whack because of egos. And I love that like, you say we teach the things that we most need to know because that is so fucking true. And that's exactly, I didn't know why I started this podcast when I did it. But what it's taught me are probably some of the most important lessons of my entire life. It taught me the value of being consistent.

It taught me the value of being regularly creative. It taught me the value of community, listening to people interact. I mean, these are things that I am just still astounded with how it has changed my life outside of the podcast. And I love that you're bringing this real raw honesty about being an entrepreneur, trying to succeed in the world of business and doing things in that world, but also trying to follow your passions. And I will specifically say for me, the past year, two years, I've also been dealing with these questions big time, you know, I was not quite as young as to be a theme. It's a very it's a big theme because I think what we're experiencing, and we can definitely talk about this is we're in the midst of a paradigm shift, which I know is an overused term at this point where in a transitional period, things are changing. There's a new world emerging, but we are. That's why these memes and topics and tropes continue to emerge.

So this theme that we're seeing, I'm seeing a lot of people like you and me, people who have an entrepreneurial spirit, people who also recognize that money isn't the thing that's going to make us happy first and foremost. However, and this is this is I have this written down to talk about with you because I thought it'd be a rich vein is this interplay of money and resources and spirituality and how money is often pinned pejoratively is the root of all evil, which I do not believe is the case. I agree. I don't believe I agree. It's not the root of all right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. So I mean, I think what's happening is when I've been connecting with a lot of people like this, we're not destitute. We're not down on our luck completely, but I have certainly hit financial tough times as I've continued to pursue my passion of which this podcast is part of.

But I see what's happening is now the reason we are pursuing business things is if we can change how money is used within the context of this realm, then that can actually start to change everything. So I'd be really curious to hear your intentions and how you relate to this stuff. And I know it's an ongoing juggling act. That's why I ask the question because I don't have it completely figured out either. Yeah. And I'll be very quick to say I certainly don't as well, but I have some some ideas about how to navigate this realm and where we're at in our own collective evolution and our relationship to money. And one of the biggest downloads that I had came in 2006 and it was in regards to, you know, me playing a role, helping to ultimately use money to get rid of money. And that's, you know, it was one of those moments like, okay, this is one of those early moments where am I really losing my mind? Like this message that was delivered to me in this very dramatic fashion. And you know, here's kind of what you do, Brandon. And you know, it ultimately helps to disrupt the monetary system. And I'm like, okay, I've definitely gone off the deep end. But then I get all these affirmations afterwards. And as you start to realize and that, okay, we are, this is a holographic reality, we are the lead director actor of our own private movie. This is your universe. I'm just a reflection of you in it. I am a reflection of your consciousness. You're the star. I'm the reflection. And in my movie, it goes the other way around. We all have our own private universes. So it starts to make a lot of sense. And that goes for everyone listening. So starts to make a lot of sense that, okay, we're all having our own private show in a sense. And there are versions of you that are very, very impactful. There's infinite timelines, right? You know, I, one of the first times I had an experience of kind of grasping this idea was I went to a psychic on randomly when I was like 21 years old, right around the time I started opening up to this stuff. And she said, I see you in a cold place like Chicago in business. And my jaw hit the floor because we were in Atlanta, Georgia during this little random reading. And I was planning to move to Chicago and work in business. So I was like, wow, and she goes, but there's this whole other path for you in California and music. And you know, lo and behold, a year later, with the help of some psilocybin mushrooms, I think I'm God, and I'm going to go make music. And I end up in California. So what was she seen? She was seeing the potential Brandon's in that moment as I sat in front of her. We know time is an illusion.

So it's, it's, you know, debased off of where you are. I say your life plays out at the corner of free will and destiny. It's already happened because there is no time, but yet you have free will to choose which version of you you want to experience from this moment forward, always. And so, that being said, in source plays out everything you can think of and everything you cannot, you know, it's so vast and infinite. So there's versions of there's enough room for us all to do great things and make a big difference. And so just to kind of lay that groundwork as I realized that, and then I was like, okay, I feel like I can make such a difference. And of course, it all starts with that belief. If you, you know, once you kind of drum up that you're worthy and you're capable and all those things, everything starts flowing from there. And so, so yeah, for me, it was certainly working out my relationship with money. I've already given you an example of how, how I'm getting my sea legs like, okay, I can manifest anything. Oh, it's like 12 hours later.

Never mind. You just lost everything. Now, you know, back to nothing. And so I, as I sort of figured this out, what, what I think is really important for people to understand is, yes, there is a better way than the monetary system. I think it's ultimately the evolution of the planet and what we'll unfold. We'll look back and say, wow, can you remember when we still had 40% of the wealth was controlled by like six families or whatever it is that's insane. And we let children starve. Right. We have plenty of resources for everyone to live abundantly. Right. But that being said, it's a part of the journey that Source wanted to take. You can't know that what you are unless you know that what you are not. You need the separation in order to appreciate the unity and and the abundance becomes meaningless. Love becomes meaningless if that's all there is.

So you just nailed, I don't want to tell you what, but you just nailed the function of a dualistic universe. That is the, why is there evil? Why does God let children die? Why does this happen? So I just want to not totally gloss. I mean, you are, dude, you're fucking amazing. You just are dishing out wisdom left and right. Continue. I just want to point out you really nailed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I fully, yeah, I fully agree. It's like, and a lot of people have trouble with that. Like, why this? Why that? Well, you can't, you know, the sweet is never quite as sweet without the sour. You're infinite being. You're an eternal being. You're just a badass, brave enough soul that you have chosen to put yourself into this separation, dualistic environment. And you wanted to experience the contrast, right? So as we experience that contrast, and as we sort of wake up to the collective slumber, we're, you know, we've had enough of this separation from source, where everyone's sleepwalkers, where now some of us are, you know, like the imaginal cells in the caterpillar that start coming alive to help transform it into the butterfly, we are those imaginal cells. Those of you listening are those imaginal cells. We're coming online, we're remembering, like when I started getting exposed to this stuff, you know, I'm like, oh my gosh, like, whoa, how does no one see that? It's so in your face and logical, and I feel it in every fiber of my being. And so, as we sort of come online and understand what the heck is going on, you take, look at this, this money, this monetary system, it's currency, right? It's energy. It's, it's meant to flow.

And if you can align yourself and not view it as judge it as bad and all these things which only disempower you, you can't be poor enough to help poor people. You can't be sad enough to help sad people. What can we do? We can, we can work with what we've got from where we're at, right? We're in this system. For me, the best way I see and feel called to help change it is from within, from the inside out. I intend to, you know, I've got a company now that has so much potential in scope, even compared to the last one, where it could literally be a billion dollar company within a few years. Okay. If I manifest that, if I, if I step into the version of reality where the character avatar Brandon Beecham has that experience, now what can I, what can I do with that? Well, I use it to help, to help change things. I can use it in a way that's healing as opposed to what a lot of the people before me have done where they, it's like, how do I preserve my wealth and control it and put it in a box and make sure no one else gets it.

Meanwhile, you know, I understand, I will use it in a way where I understand what I do with it for others is ultimately doing for myself because there are no others. That's right. That's right. Dude, that's so I approached the money. Well, and that's the dichotomy there. That is how in the materialistic reductionist viewpoint, money essentially boils down to power at this point in history. And for the past few thousands of years, if you control money and resources and all of that, you can then consolidate power and retain it into the future. So when concepts like nonlinearity, time is an illusion, energy wanting to flow, come into play that is at direct odds with that way of looking at the world, right? And that's, that's what we find ourselves in too.

And I like that, like, I know a lot of people who think money is bad and eschew it and smart, brilliant people who could do a generous people. That's the worst part. I know a lot of very generous people, people who need to have it. That's right. And it's very interesting. But this then goes back to the function of a dualistic universe or world, which is if everything was stasis level, great, awesome, or anything, we wouldn't have any knowledge that there was any other way, we wouldn't go through these lessons. So I love that you say too, like we're just, you know, if you're listening to this, you're just a badass who was willing to take the leap into duality from unity. And I agree. And I think we are all badasses. However, we also jumped into a situation that if you let it, we'll glad you keep you in the dark about that. I mean, that's, there's the culture and all of these things that I mean, that is clearly something that can happen.

But people are getting plucked out with the aid of tools that you've spoken about, psychedelics, meditation, all of these other things that are out there. And I always, someone gave me shit because I always go psychedelics meditation. And then I stop. But there's far more than that. There are many other ways to reach this breath work. There's nature, there's physical exercise. There's so many other things. I just always go psychedelic meditation. But, you know, I would like to go now that we have this jumping off point here though. So you started exploring and investigating psychedelics in your 20s is early 20s. So what are some of the psychedelics you have done? And what do you think their impact on your kind of life trajectory, Brandon Beecham's life trajectory narrative have been? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, let's see what what psychedelics have I not done? Probably an easy one to answer. Yeah, I've done the majority of the major ones, you know, mushrooms, LSD, ketamine is probably my favorite. Really? I'm gonna cut we'll get to the others.

Yeah. Let's let's start with ketamine is I've inadvertently ingested ketamine at a club. Yeah, I was at a club. I've been certainly ingested. Yeah. Well, and I've heard some crazy stories. I mean, I know about people who do intravenous ketamine and stuff like that, which I have not done. And that's a whole other ballgame from what I hear. But I know that it functions quite differently than the other classic psychedelics and the fact that it's dissociative and that I have also seen people I know loved ones under the influence of ketamine. And for an outside observer, it's very weird to look at someone. But from the experiences that are relayed after the experience, fascinating, especially in relation to time and space. So I'd love to hear some about some about your ketamine experience. Yeah, you know, I think it was I think it was Terrence McKenna that classified ketamine as the most spiritually opening alongside DMT. Wow. So here's what my experience has been. I was introduced to it maybe five, four years ago or so. And like I said, I go to a lot of transformational festivals, Bernie Mansept times. And what I found that I loved about it, sort of like the psychedelic cocaine, in a sense, like, you know, I'm not into which I've tried that. Sure. And I'm not, you know, it's not something I'm all about psychedelics. But but also as Terrence in nothing really else.

But as Terrence McKenna also said, once you get the message, hang up the phone. Hang up the phone. And, you know, I can't say that I've hung up the phone after I got the message always. It started out as this like very profound experience for me, very multi-dimensional, very time space. Like, I mean, I can think of being in instances where the whole scene changes. I feel like I'm seeing different timelines. Like, hold on, wasn't this guy just wearing a totally different outfit and a different, you know, some really powerful and some very powerful downloads. Same with MDMA even. A lot of experiences with that one. But it's, you know, what I found is diminishing returns over time. I certainly feel like I've gotten what most of the benefits that I can from those substances. And now I have been talking to a friend, I've done DMT just a little bit where it's not where it's a full blast off. Oh, okay. I have a good friend who's been doing five MEODMT ceremonies. And that is something that I'm considering exploring where it's that's a whole nother ball game, you know, and ayahuasca as well. A whole nother, but five MEODMT, it's like, you know, they call it the breath of God. Like, you are going to merge with all that is. And it's, yeah, you have like a death experience, but it's super, super profound. And, you know, they say it's like, you can't really put it into words. So I haven't fully went there. Although, that is something that I feel like there's a message for me that I can still get in experience that I can have that. So I, you know, I would just say with these substances, me being sort of a very playful, youthful kind of kid in the cookie jar person, it's like I've played with them quite a bit. And I found diminishing returns from them. So I think it's important to be aware of that.

And anything can be, you know, water can be it's the best thing for you possible can also kill you, right? So it's like all things. It can be so beneficial and helpful. But then if you fixate on it and it becomes luckily for me, I don't, I've never been someone who has addictive personality people think. So that's really helped. But yeah, I think, I think exploring with them. I mean, hey, I have a son, a teenage son, I encourage him to explore. Now he's not, what's interesting by that is he's a lot less interested than I am. And he has a very little some that always funny. Yeah, force it. I don't force it. But it's a great example of, hey, when you don't try and suppress things, how they end up not wanting to do it that much. It's like my son going against that is like he's like the adult and I'm like the kid. It's funny. But so I encourage people, especially those who are sort of just new to a lot of this information and are just sort of figuring it out, you can, you know, you can take so many people with mushrooms has been a profound life changing. You do it one time. And there's a shift that happens LSD as well. I mean, where just a shift happens and you no longer see things the same way because you've actually felt them from a different perspective. You blasted open your third eye and you've experienced the multidimensional nature of reality and you perceive things from a, it's kind of like once you've seen behind the curtain that you don't go back. Yeah, I mean, and that has been the function of many psychedelics. I actually don't use a tremendous amount of psychedelics at this point in my life. I have been micro dosing with LSD. Some I've, that's something I've considered.

Okay, let me tell you my experiences with micro dosing. So I've microdosed psilocybin and I've microdosed LSD. Mushrooms, there is a come up and it's much like mushrooms where you are ingesting a substance that has its own consciousness and will sometimes exert that influence. So you can't really like I remember doing it and I was working and I was on a meeting and I realized very quickly into the meeting that this was not the right decision to have made like to take a work call and do it. That said, LSD, I do 10 micrograms every fourth day on a regimen has been one of the most transformative. I've measured out a great question about wonderful questions. So I have liquid or I had liquid and and for any police or narcotics officers listening, this is all just speculation and informational, not, not based in reality at all. Of course, of course, of course. But what I did is is I had a thousand micrograms of LSD and you'll mix that with a hundred grams of water. So one milliliter equals one gram. I didn't know that. I found this out science, everyone. So when you mix a thousand micrograms with a hundred grams of water, what happens is is one milliliter becomes 10 micrograms. So I have a calibrated dropper and one milliliter of water now, you just shake it up and you don't even have to shake it up. It's just the way LSD works is it just goes into the water.

So I do it every fourth day. It's been one of the most profound experiences of my entire life. I mean, it's truthfully, I use an example and I'm thinking about writing about it once I'm done with the full regimen, the three month thing. But I liken it to with meditation and I'm not the best meditator and I've actually dropped off me doing it for the past month and a half. But I have done it regularly. And I noticed it got me to the space where one of my biggest issues, everyone who listens to this knows this, I have anger issues, I have impatience issues, is meditation got me to the space where before I was about to get angry, I would notice I was about to get angry, but I would still get angry. And I couldn't widen that gap enough to stop myself. The first day of microdosing LSD, I not only recognized the space, but backed off.

And that to me was the most profound thing. On top of that, being able to slip into what I refer to as gratitude feedback loops, which are these just like ecstatic experiences of gratitude that will last for like minutes or even hours at a time. If you're really lucky, that's very possible. Going out in nature, experiencing like the awe of nature and unity of everything, that was easy creatively, both writing, making music, business ideas. What I would refer to is slipping into a flow state about as easily as one can slip into a flow state. Truthfully, I was skeptical because I spoke to Dennis McKenna about this years ago, I'm sure he's changed his mind, but he was basically of the opinion that it was such a small amount, that it wouldn't do anything, but the new studies that are coming out about how LSD actually interacts with your brain, basically says that serotonin binds around it and essentially forms a lid over it.

And what happens is the lid will not prevent the LSD to leave. This is why such small amounts continue to have such long lasting effects. What eventually happens is over like a 24-hour period that lid gets jostled and then it pops out and then it's gone, which is why it's not in your system very long. I would basically say for anyone who has done LSD, it's like taking the epiphany and flow state and amazing moments at the peak experience, but drawing them out over a much longer period of time, not necessarily lessening their impact, but lengthening the time that you have to kind of mentally and psychologically approach some of those things, which to me was always the most frustrating part of LSD is when you'd have the cascade of epiphanies and you're like that one, that one, oh my God, that one, that one, and you just couldn't really, and you're just blowing out, you're like, oh my God, I can't catch all these things. It seems that you have a lot more time to process them. I highly recommend it. I mean, if you're saying the diminishing returns, I think that this is probably a very good antidote for that because there is a method where you take it, you do a results day, the next day to see residual effects, then you do an off day, and then you take it again. So there's a period where it's really not in your system, but yet the effects can remain because it's actually functioning in with your neurochemistry and your psychology. It's quite amazing, but I also hear about what you're saying about, when you get the message, hang up the phone. I think there's messages for all of these things. That's a different approach, though, what you're talking about. It's very different. It's almost like a different thing, yeah.

It is a completely qualitatively, a different thing. It also, as I can see the trajectory of microdosing as it gets starting to go into clinical studies of it, this is not people taking drugs to get fucked up. I don't think psychedelics is either. Just to be clear, I've never done a psychedelic. I know people do recreationally. I have an intention to learn or experience something that I think is going to help me or other people. But from an outsider looking in, Mr. Jeff Sessions looking in, that's people getting whacked out of their fucking mind. Give anyone ketamine, even if that changes, let's say there's a terminal person who is going to die, and you give them ketamine, or mushrooms, or LSD, and they come out of that experience not being afraid of dying.

All of Jeff Sessions or someone like that sees is this person being fucked up for a few hours. That's a bad thing. I think microdosing really is the foot in the door to change the narrative of why we would be using these things. I could not recommend it more. It's truthfully. I've been given it some consideration. I find that very, very interesting. By the way, that's the only sort of feedback I've ever heard from anyone. It's nuts. And to speak on what you were just saying, just a little bit more. I'll take a friend, for example, who long time, one of my best friends since childhood, and certainly had the ups and downs in life, a lot of manic depressive behavior. I gave him his first ketamine experience a couple months ago. I just talked to him the other day, guys, right now, I still can't stress to you what I experienced and how much it changed my life for the better. He's like, I'm not the same person anymore, what I saw and what I experienced. Now, with me, I shared the experience with him that time. I found not only diminishing returns, and I don't have those sorts of experiences it seems anymore like I once did. So it's almost like I have a much higher tolerance with that particular substance, where they're having this most life-changing experience. I'm like, I can do it, and you maybe wouldn't even know where someone else, you're going to know he was on it. It was pretty funny. He's a very dramatic person anyway, so it was entertaining from where I was.

Yeah. And I mean, what you're getting at also is this idea that I told the story on your podcast, but when Rambas famously gave his guru 900 micrograms of the most powerful LSD ever made, he didn't have any effects. And it wasn't because it was bunk LSD. It was because he's already, that's not going to change his neurochemistry. That's not going to change his psychological mystical outlook. He's already there. So that is also potentially another, maybe not physiologically based diminishing returns, but you're there, man. I hear people, because I haven't done ayahuasca and I haven't done DMT, but I'll talk to a lot of people who have done ayahuasca, like done it a lot of times, like hundreds of times, and they'll be like, yeah, you know, A, you'll know when you want to do it. If you're called to do it and B, they're like, you don't seem like you really have to do it right now. Like you seem like you have some perspectives that a lot of people need to go get there. And it's the same kind of guru relationship with a lot of people say like to physically meet a being who is doing magical, miraculous things in front of your face. Not everyone needs that to cultivate the faith that that exists. Some people need that because that there's no other thing that is going to convince them of anything else other than seeing some crazy shit with their own eyes. So that's why we have the spectrum of places where people can engage with this stuff. And I think that's a function of it rather than kind of like a defect, if you will, you know, right, right? Let me ask you this.

I have I have like a I have all these things that I realize I'm not going to be able to get all to them. We'll have to do this again too. Maybe after you do your five MEO DMT experience and you die, we can come back and have one about that. Because that sounds fucking fascinating. We'll add one thing to that real quick before your question. So my friend who's been talking to me about he's he's done maybe 25 MEO ceremonies. And he's saying what he feels like sort of like the Ramgah story, he's like, I feel like my life is becoming more integrated as always a DMT. Yes. And for that matter, there's some that theorize that, hey, this is just one great DMT trip. It's in everything. It's like, we're finding that it's, you know, it's the one thing that passes the the brain barrier. And, you know, so, well, it's an interesting perspective.

Well, let's actually talk on that talk a little bit about that. I mean, this is also in the concept that time is an illusion. World is Maya or some Sarah or that we're in a dream like a illusory experience, which I have not done five MEO DMT have not done DMT. I can confirm that it feels like in the past 10 to 15 years, the world is much more dreamlike in terms of how it functions. I was talking about this. I don't remember exactly with you, but the distance between thought and manifestation now seems as small as it's ever been, not just for me personally or the people I know, but everything. So I think we are kind of whether it's a hologram, whether this is an experiment.

Yeah, it is. So it's a very interesting time we're in where we're starting to see some of these liminal boundaries between like the real and the magical dissolve more and more. And this gets back to how, you know, how do we function in this reality? Where does our intention line up to this? But my question to you was going to be this is, as you were beginning to explore the psychic, the lucid dreams, the astral, the mystic, were there any books or people or thinkers or philosophies that really played a big influence in what you were learning? Like I'm always curious to hear like kind of who were people reading or looking up to or listening to. Right, right, right. You know, some of the biggest ones are the ones that had the most effect on on me. Conversations with God, I always recommend that trilogy to people or actually I think it's even more than a trilogy.

Now, but those books were very profound. And I feel like they're explained in such a eloquent way where it just breaks down all of the questions, all the big questions about who we are, why we're here, what we're doing, you know, power of now, that's another that's a big one for dissolving ego, but yeah, EGO, you know, everybody everybody's greatest obstacle or edging God out. You know, that's something that I think all of us have to deal with as we sort of come online and remember our divinity that, you know, we have to sort of deal with that spiritual narcissism piece. Yeah. And it's like, okay, how do I, how do I deal with that and get my, you know, humility, you know, is a key word. And in a lot of people, I think early on become, you can turn into this sort of, oh, well, you don't know yet. I like it. I like it. Exactly. I liken it to when I was vegan for two years. I was the worst fucking vegan ever. I was like, just loarding it over people video that's going around right now. The guys just go up to random people and they're, okay, I'm wondering, you know, can you tell me directions to this place? By the way, I'm vegan.

I just want to go up to like, you just got to random people and it's just to announce that they're vegan. That's basically, I was basically doing that. But I mean, that is the same kind of principle. You think you've gained some ethical high ground or moral or spiritual high ground, and then you're, you know, you're up there and you're like, if only these poor plebes knew what I know about the world, you know, and I get that's what I know, I get it. And when you realize there, it's all a reflection of you. That's right. So anything that you see that you're looking down on is looking down on some part of self.

Yes. Like you are a vast being and you have plenty. If self growth is something that you've decided you want to, a path you want to go down, which is not a requirement, by the way. But if you decide that you want to go down, you've got plenty of it to do. So you might as well not get too full of yourself. Probably not the worst advice. Let's just say that because it's, yeah. Amazing. So that's why the whole spiritual teacher thing and guru thing, it's like, as I already know that my reach will continue to expand and I feel very called to help sort of be a bridge, especially for those who are new to this sort of thinking and putting in terms that makes them feel comfortable. And I know, I already know it's happening. It's happening for you. It's happening for me on a small scale. I know that's going to expand. And how, you know, I feel like the more I grow, the more you know, the more you realize you don't know. And humility needs to be just like more and more a key piece to really even have those next level experiences, like it's everything. It really is. And I mean, if you don't have it, the pitfalls and traps that, whether they're internal or culturally, they're just grow and grow and grow. Because, like you said, there's there's a way to be aware that you're doing what you're supposed to and seeing results that confirm and affirm that. But if you're not every step of the way being like, well, what am I doing with this information? I have this happen all the time. Like, when I get a really good podcast downloads number, I'm like, Oh man, this is so great. It's really happy. And I had the G check myself. I'd be like, listen, what if these weren't high? Would it be any less of a good pot? You know what I mean? Like, there's this whole thing you have to play. And we all are plugged into the social media world where people see their likes grow. I luckily have been somewhat buffered from the vanity metrics and all this stuff, because like I've been a digital marketer for long enough to know what actually matters. But I mean, there are a lot of trappings with this stuff. And I love that you brought it back to the spiritual teacher stuff. So running at a time, I have three questions I ask at the end and then one larger question. But before I get to those, man, this has been so effortless and awesome and easy. I would love to do more of these. I we've known each other for such a short period of time, but just from that first conversation, it became very clear the resonance that was there, man. It's just I'm super grateful and happy to have met and know you now, man. I just wanted to say that. Oh, thank you. You know, it's so amazing. That's one of the things that happens. It has happened for me. And I'm sure you will agree, as I sort of continue to do the self work and and focus on being the next greatest and greatest version of myself, more and more clear reflections. It's a reflection show up.

And it's awesome. And it's beautiful. And you see, like, I mean, your show's called synchronicity. Well, since day one, the one question that I ask is a story of synchronicity or serendipity or a positive paranormal story. I mean, everyone who listens to my show knows all he's going to ask is guess about synchronicity. So it's, you know, there's just synchronicity in the fact that your show is called synchronicity. So yes, I would say I describe it as source, you know, a good way to think of it is it's like a tree, right? And we're all one. It's all, it's all the same stuff. Ultimately, everywhere you go, you're there waiting for yourself. It's all reflections.

But that being said, where we, you know, there's also branches on that tree and there's leaves on a particular branch that are right next to each other, that sort of split off from source at the same spot, right? It's kind of the idea of even you here with in romantic terms, you know, twin flames or soulmates, you know, this idea of they split off and it's the same soul in different bodies. And it's really just degrees of separation. Because at the end, it's all one. But, you know, there's those beings that are, you know, I believe, you know, I had Evan Alexander on the show, one of my favorite interviews. And he, you know, for those of you who don't know, he was Harvard neurosurgeon who went into a coma, his brain was destroyed. He, you know, they said pull the plug, he's done, his brain's fried, he miraculously comes out and has this whole wild story of his experience on the other side. And one of the things he talked about is we, we, when we sign up for the game that is physicality, we reincarnate in soul groups and soul families go through it together. And we show up in each other's lives time and time again as different characters and different roles to, to spur one another on, to give, and to give the experiences that we seek.

And so I would definitely say that you are soul family and reconnecting with you is, is like reconnecting with an old friend for a reason. It really is. And it's fucking awesome. And I love the way you put that man. That's, that's exactly how I feel and intuitively know to be the case. So let me get to these last questions. We'll do this again. Also, just for people listening, I'll have an announcement. Brandon is taking his positive head mind pod. I just Freudian slipped it. Positive head is joining mind pod network. So you can catch him there and I'll have links to everything he does in the episode pages for this. But yeah, definitely a cool dude. So, and thank you so much for including me and your wonderful, wonderful little family there.

Hey man, that's our little soul pod. Very, very excited. Our mind pod. Exactly. So, yeah, there's our other synchronicity positive head, mind pod, potato, potato, you know, we got it all there, man. So what is a three questions? What's your favorite color? Whew, I would always say red is a kid, but I feel like it's, it changes now all the time. Totally. Sometimes it's blue. Sometimes it's green. You know, you're seeing like this color behind you on the wall. It's because we're looking at each other in video, right. Sort of like a aquamarine blue green thing. That's my favorite color. So, is it? Okay. So, I feel like that is sort of today my favorite color, but it's changed. I changed it time. So I totally get it, man. And that will apply for these next two. If it's, that's totally okay. What's your favorite number?

My favorite number is 37. And yeah, I, for some reason would talk about 37 all the time as a kid, me and my, my friend that I referenced earlier, Paul with the ketamine experience. We used to, we were the most obnoxious teenagers and we would always, the answer to things just for some reason became someone would ask and we'd be like, answer it in the most annoying way. 30 cabin. And that was just like our thing. And we would just say 30 cabin to like everything. Well, now I meet in forthcoming on one of my episodes. I actually did my first live stream with an interview a few days ago with Christopher David Jackson, who's an amazing individual. He, he's a promoter, philosopher, and has a company called Grateful Generation is about to throw his first transformational festival called One Love. And talking to him and he started talking about all the 37 synchronicity in his life. Oh boy. Christ consciousness and oh boy. Stuff to do with Christ consciousness. And, and so I'm like, oh wow, how in him and I, same thing with like you, it's like, oh my gosh, like this is someone I know it's such a deep level.

Yeah. No, we'll continue to work with in this life. And I've just met him literally like three weeks ago. And, but we talk about number 37 in that, that episode and his, his experience with it and how it's somehow been a randomly meaningful to me. With him, it has a lot more. I can't wait to hear that man. Well, three and seven very mystical numbers. All right. Well, what's your one? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You know, we're doing it in our heads, of course. So what is your favorite animal? Oh, my favorite animal. Well, I'm a Leo. So I feel very drawn to lions. I had someone on my show who was, I've had several psychic mediums on the last year. And I forget which one of them was like, Oh my gosh, your spirit guides are here Brandon. And one of them jumping up and down, saying lion lion lion. Like maybe Richard Lionheart, who I didn't know who that was at the time. And you you're very close to the soul. And then I end up finding later that I have a, I'm reading about Charles the Conqueror, William the Conqueror, and find out that my relative was like his right hand man. And in the article, they reference, they link him to Richard Lionheart. So I'm like, hold on. Now I heard from this person about, you know, Richard Lionheart. Now I'm seeing a physical, like, family lineage. Holy shit. So yeah, yeah. So I would say the line.

Iron like a lion and Zion, my friend. That's awesome. All right. Last question. What's a practical tip that you could share with people listening that's helped you in your life? A practical tip. That's a great, that's such a great question. Okay, the practical tip is, this is all a story. And if you can, if you can approach your life from that, you know, lest you become like a child, you can't enter the kingdom of heaven, right? Jesus quoted as saying, what did he mean by that? Become childlike, bring that childlike. Your child self exists. It actually exists on your fifth birthday party is happening on another channel right now.

You're just not tuned into that. It's you exist in that child self. And for many of us, it's been squashed by the letdowns, the culture, cultural conditioning. And you know, I feel like I've been lucky in the sense that I've kept my childlike state. And as a result, my life is magical. And I have all kinds of adventures and all the things that a child would. So if you can bring that energy, make that a focus today, I'm going to make it play. I'm going to make it fun. And, and by the way, life is rendering. It's not happening to me. It's happening through me. And it's also not happening to you. It's happening for you. So if it's happening through me, if I bring, if I wake up every morning and say, today, I'm going to play and be as childlike as I can, even if I have drudgery ahead of me, all kinds of work and bills and whatever, I'm going to bring a playful nature and energy to it. If you can do that, you're in in tell stories.

When something happens to you, that's quote unquote negative, we what what's really happening is there's always a diamond in disguise, right? What it is that you seek is hiding behind the trial or the tribulation. So if you can become childlike, I'm really giving two tips of like energy to everything that you do. And you can also understand that stories, whatever happening has no meaning, except for the meaning you give it, you are the lead director, creator, writer, actor, actress in your own movie. So take that trial, that tribulation and write it in a way, tell a different story. This is happening through me and for me, because and make up grandiose stories of what it will parlay into that will be even better because of that. And we can look at that oftentimes where, man, when this bad thing happened to me, I had no idea it would lead to this thing, but bring that to the moment. And you actually create that energy to come in, you co create the experience of it being a story that with a good outcome like you want to see. Okay, well, I didn't know the lump of coal. Yeah, I didn't know you're going to bring you brought the chemical blueprint for having a life of fulfillment, dude, amazing, fucking amazing. You're so awesome. We're going to do this again. I'm super happy to have gotten to know you. Like I said, I can sense that many cool crossovers and things will be happening in our collective future. Dude, thank you so much. Already happened. Already happened. Exactly.

Love you. Dude. Thank you so much. Much love my friend. No, I thank you so much. I look forward to exploring, adventuring, and making magic with you. I hope you liked that episode. I sure did. Brandon, a reminder, you can go check him out on minepodnetwork.com on his website, positivehead.com. He runs a daily podcast, so there will be no shortage of Brandon if you're into what he's doing. If you're looking for a place to start and you have an art show, how about you check out the episode I was on? I don't know. I actually really had a great time on his show. Really, a hell of a dude. So happy, came on. Brandon, you rule.

If you listen past the music, you're the coolest reminder. You can get the music. You hear on the show. It's all mine. patreon.com/synchronicity. You can also donate without patreon, whatever you want to do. It's totally, totally cool. Awesome that you do. Thank you to the ratings and reviews. We just hit 100. Didn't want to brag in the intro there, but we had 100 reviews, 100 ratings. That's super cool. What else I got going on? Not too much. That's it. You rule. I will see you next week.