Seeking Subtle Truths + The Five Daughters

[Music] Welcome to Synchronicity. This is the solo cast for the week. We're going to have a guest. It's already recorded, so I can officially say we have a guest. Later in the week, Jennifer Sodini is the guest. Coming up in a couple of days, I'll release that. It's going to dovetail nicely with all this stuff that's going on. Today is September 3rd, 2019. 9-3, or 3-9, depending on where you live. It's an auspicious day. It's a good day. That's all I can say. I'm permitted to say about it. Welcome. If you are a new listener coming from the Duncan Trussel family hour, you may have heard me there. It doesn't my voice sound better here.

I like the remote calls, but sometimes the recordings of them, you can't hear the full resonant tone of the voice, which is what we're going for with podcasts, right? Welcome. If you're here, we got a lot to cover. If you're new, I recommend going back to "Imaginal Techniques #1". That's where all this imagination stuff kind of kicked off in terms of practical techniques that you can listen to. There are 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 episodes that have different techniques in them. At this point, some of them are clearly labeled. Some of them you have to look for, but they're all relatively in sequence from that first one.

Go check those out if you want the techniques. If you want to hear other stuff, you'll find it. It's there too. If you want the inception point of this, you could probably go to that Mitch Horowitz podcast or a couple of before that when I really got tuned in to Neville Goddard. It's a nice little walk you up to where we are now. Okay. Also, before we get started on this episode, and this is a big episode, we're dealing with hidden truths, subtle realities, things we can't overtly see and experience. Oh, shit. So we got fun stuff going on. Before we get there, the tarot business. Oh my god, guys and girls and everyone on the spectrum. This shit has been incredible. Done. I think like 40-45 readings over the past week, maybe 10 days in person, Zoom, emails, Instagram, and man, if you want to learn something, offer it for free on a podcast because people come in droves and you learn it really quickly.

So I've officially pulled every card in the deck now. So I actually have experience with them all. And more importantly, I'm learning what these cards actually are. They're just a vehicle for revealing you to reveal yourself. Anyone who reads your tarot cards or cards or does astrology or any of this stuff, they're the vessel. And if they're good and they're clear and they know they're shit, they're a really good, amazing vessel. And it's not tainted and you're getting those clear, pure waters from that cup. And that's what I essentially needed to learn with the tarot. So now that I've learned that, now that I know that it's just you telling yourself something and I just got to get out of the way and maybe dish out a few alchemical secrets along the way, it's up. It's a business. It's a service. Go check it out on the website if you're in tune with it.

Now, if you go there and you say, "Hey, it costs money now, I don't have it." Well, I'm going to do a little thing for you if you're one of those people. If you really don't have it, and I mean really, we're going to do something. You can hit me up on Instagram. And we'll work on making sure that the amount of money that you need and that you would be able to spare for one of these readings comes in. We'll just do some basic shift. We'll take two seconds. That's not a hard deal. Not a hard deal. Not a hard thing to do. And this is in line with what I have said from the beginning. I'm not charging people and teach them how to use their imagination. This is your God-given gift. Your God, you give it to yourself.

You don't have to do anything to earn it. You don't have to pay anything to get it. But all these other modalities, which kind of, you know, they give us the little bump. I pull cards from myself all the time. I do astrology stuff because it's nice to get this outside perspective or seemingly outside perspective from these modalities, these decks, these tools that have been charged and are stable, imaginal acts at this point. So that's there. Go check it out. If you're into it, if not, just think I'm a loon who's trying to make a buck off tarot. Who knows? Your choice. So this episode, we are going to be talking about subtle truths. How do we go about looking for them? What are they? Why are they important? And just what the fuck is going on, right?

So we're going to start with something that I think is a touchy subject for a fair number of people. And that's the Bible, right? The Old Testament and the New Testament. And as someone who grew up Jewish, Jewish late, I was a reformed Jewish, didn't know anything about the New Testament. I think I read a young and a Freud book about Jesus and the New Testament. Job, I knew that story. It seemed pretty fucked up because I was taking it literally, which is what a lot of people do when we approach something like the Bible. So I'm not here to change your mind or convince you that the Bible is good or it's bad or it's anything in between. What I'm trying to show you is that the difference between overt and covert or obvious and subtle or in plain sight or hidden.

And the Bible is a really good example of this because there's usually one of two texts people will take with something like the Bible. And there's gradients in between, of course. But one of them is that this is written. This is the word of God. This is something that should be taken at literal faith value. If he says to stone someone in the Bible, we stone them. If we say that this is bad, don't do that. We don't do that. And we take it as literal truth. That's one interpretation that really doesn't add up just to be clear. If you investigate it, there's too many contradictions to just say, okay, that's what it is. But there's another overt way of looking at the Bible and that's saying, well, since it's obviously not written by God and people wrote it, that it must be a lie.

It must be some manipulative tool that's being used to seduce or coerce people into acting a certain way. And that sticks for a lot of people. That makes sense, right? We know if it's not actually God writing it, then it must be something else. Therefore, this is a pretty plausible explanation. So that's what it must be. But that's again a literal take on what it's going on. We read the stories they don't add up. We say it doesn't add up. Okay, it's not it. But what if there's something else going on with something as big and powerful as the Bible that so many people love or hate or everything in between? What if there's something else going on?

So I pulled this idea from Neville Goddard, which is that the Bible and every character in it is you. These are representations of psychological, emotional, spiritual states we go through until we come to the ultimate culmination, which is revealed in both the Old and New Testament, but in the New Testament, it's called Jesus Christ. It's just this awakening of who you are inside your own skull in Golgotha and being cool with it and recognizing you're still you and you're also God, but you're still you. So that's the function of it, but it's also useful for regular shit in our regular lives. Neville Goddard was a huge proponent of it. I found it to be organically useful.

I don't go seeking out Bible passages, right? But I do read Neville Goddard and they will come up naturally, but I had a very interesting thing happen and I'll relate this later in this episode about the five daughters of Zalefahad. And I'll tell you how I found out about this story and then how I kind of deduced what it was actually talking about because overtly you got your explanation of what it is and then covertly or underneath the surface, you have something else. And I've also just to speak about this idea of something being hidden underneath the surface. I'm a huge fan of Renee Magritte, famous artist. You'll see if on Instagram, my desktop picture where I do the tarot stuff is often a Magritte painting.

And he spoke about he's the guy who does the bowler hats with the apples, but there's so many other amazing things he's done, but he spoke about his paintings and he says what he finds so interesting is what's hidden just beneath. Right, that is where the magic is. That's where our senses maybe don't pick up on it right away, but there's this hidden current of truth underneath everything. And when you start tuning into it, things become more metaphorical. They become more intuitive. They become more, oh, well, maybe there's something else going on here. So we want to develop the skill of looking for things below the surface. So we're going to use another thing that is very prominent in everyone's life who's listening to this, which is money.

You may think you have your money shit all worked out and you and if you do amazing, a lot of people do and they're the coolest, but a lot of us sometimes we're still working out the kinks right. So money for me, when I think about it, and I, this is, this is probably was my last remaining kind of hiccup in this reality, right? It's wonderful to have all these visions and imaginations and all these things coming true. But man, you still got bills. You still got shit. You got to take care of. You want things sometimes. So, and money is the modality we use typically to get that. So what, what is the overt? What is the literal implication of money, right? There's a couple again. It's not always just one thing. So money is a means to an end often.

We want something. We buy it. We get it. We live somewhere. We need to pay for it so we can live there, right? That's the conscious and overt meaning of it typically. So we can look at it like that. And we can also just look at it as an energy transference overtly. I give you something. But this is all above the surface. But underneath money can again also represent different things can represent security, right? Feeling like you don't have to worry about something in the future because you have the means to pay for something and you know it's not going to go away. But it can also represent power, right? It can mean that now I have the ability to navigate this world in a very easy way. Like if money is ruling the world and it's a big form of energy transference, I can do whatever I want.

You can see how people rise to power just because of money backing them, right? They have the confidence that it builds that the world bends to their will because they've got this resource that's in charge of everything. So again, we have this conscious and unconscious aspect of what money is. But when we start to look at it, often we'll teach us something very important about ourselves. And our relationship with money is one of the most powerful teachers because so many of us either have an aversion or attraction that can go too much to one end of the spectrum. And it's great to have a lot of money and it's valid to be running a zero balance and just be totally in tune with the world around you and not use money at all for a little bit.

It's not that any of them are invalid. It's trying to figure out if you have kind of like a karmic kink with it. What can you do to resolve that? What is it pointing to in your life? What are you pointing yourself to that needs to be addressed to let it flow in, to be doing things that you enjoy to do to make money? And then people will say, "Hey, no." But there are people who've got to dig ditches and maintain cemeteries. Let me tell you something, friend. I jog every morning now because I'm a weirdo now. And I jog by a guy who takes care of a cemetery that is not a block away from my house. And this dude did not look stressed and unhappy to be doing it. I don't know if it's his life's dream to be doing it, but he seemed satisfied doing it.

And he seemed pleasantly happy. So you don't know what you should be doing and when you should be doing it. I used to think that I didn't want to garden and take care of the landscaping duties on my house. I do. It's fucking amazing. It's super fun. There's a lot of things that I think in the past wouldn't have wanted to do that are physically taxing or emotionally taxing or psychologically taxing that I thoroughly enjoy now. So don't be too attached to what people might or might not like and be fulfilled by. So money is this very interesting thing that is really trying to show us something. And if we can find the hidden subtle truth for something like money, imagine what we can apply it to for the rest of our life. Okay. This brings me to the story of so left ahead and the five daughters and I'm going to tell you how I came across this story.

Because again, I'm not seeking this stuff out. It's one thing. If I know is going on a Bible kick and like the Bible, man, it's the book and Bible. I'm reading it every day. I gotta find stuff to talk about. No, that is not what I'm doing. I'm leading a very regular life. I got my last fantasy football draft coming up tomorrow and I'm going to slay it. I'm going to kill it. Duke Johnson. Great pick. Try to get him in your leaves. It's going to be good. Anyway, so left ahead. That's a nice pivot right from Duke Johnson for the Houston Texans to Zolefa had in the five daughters. Pretty good pivot. Yeah, so this is how I found out about it. The other day, I was sailing with my wife, our son Eli and our friend Jen Soudini and my friend Brandon.

And this is a very atypical thing. I do not want to make it seem like I've never sailed before. Up until that point, I'd never really been on a boat like that before. I never really thought I would do that. Didn't specifically imagine that I'd be sailing on a boat in the Hudson River. But there we were. We were sailing. We were doing all these things. It was this wonderful experience of, you know, steering a boat on the water and like, it's just cool. It felt like Moana. I felt like Link in the Wind Waker. Oh, it's all this good. And, you know, it just felt amazing. It was a very interesting day. Kind of puts your mind in a different place. Like, wow, if imagination creates reality, this is some proof of it.

So anyway, later that night, I ended up at a bonfire, which is alchemically, you know, it's not water. It's fire. There's a 20 foot high, tall flame that's burning. It's super hot. It's crazy. There's these embers, these sparks lying everywhere. This isn't a vision. This is actually my real life. So this is going on. And I'm actually sitting next to two people, one of whom was a rabbi and one was another Hasidic person. And we were just talking about life. And somehow we got on the discussion of God. And I wonder how. And one of the people next to me, the rabbi said, God is a feminist. And I was like, OK, that's interesting, because the Hasidic culture is not notorious, not famous for how they treat women. It can be somewhat oppressive at times.

But I was very interested in what he was saying. There was no judgment coming from me. And I was like, explain. And he's like, do you know the story of Zalefahad? And I was like, what did you just say? He's like, Zalefahad. I'm like, I have no idea the words you're saying. I didn't figure it out until afterwards. We Googled it. But he said, the five daughters. I said, no, I don't know this parable at all. But it sounds really interesting. And if you're telling me it points to God being a feminist, that's coming from you. This is something I'm very interested in doing and hearing about. So I'm hearing about this story. And here's the story of Zalefahad and the five daughters. So there's this dude, Zalefahad, and that translates to dark shadow. Interestingly enough, I did not know this at the time.

And Zalefahad was, it was the Sabbath. And you're not supposed to do certain things on the Sabbath. You're not supposed to, there's a whole list of activities that you're not allowed to do. And one of these activities was that you can't pick up sticks. You can't pick up sticks while you are on a Sabbath. It's just one of the things you're not allowed to do. And so Zalefahad was like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm going to pick up these sticks. And they're like, dude, if you pick up these sticks, it's going to be bad. It's not going to be good. The punishment is very severe. He's like, now I'm going to pick up these sticks. I want to pick up these sticks. Sounds like a good thing I do. I'm going to do it.

So he picks up the sticks. And they go, dude, the punishment is we have to kill you. You have to be killed now. And he's like, okay, all right, I guess that's the punishment. So they kill him. Now Zalefahad has five daughters and no sons. So this is just before the tribe of Israel is about to enter the promised land. Like right before. So all of a sudden this land that was promised to Zalefahad and his family is no longer there. And it's not available. And so the daughters are like, what the fuck? Like, dude, first of all, our dad is tripping. Like, I mean, they don't know if they said that. But like, he's, you know, he did something that wasn't supposed to. Why are we being punished? Just because we're women.

So they go and they go to a priest. They go to all these people. But eventually they get to Moses. And Moses is like, hey, let me go to God. I'll ask him. This is a complicated thing. I get it. So he goes to God and God says, all right, I hear it. Yeah, no, they get the land. Give them the land. And so that was, that's the story of Zalefahad and the five daughters. So I'm listening to this story around this fire. And I'm like, wow, that's really interesting. I didn't really get what it meant kind of the alchemical meaning, but it was just like, I'm going to research this when I get home because I bet there's something here.

So the following day Brandon came back here. We were on land this time. This is the guy who had the boat and Alexis was here. And I was like, oh my God, I think I figured out what this story means alchemically and how it relates to imagination, how it relates to God, how it relates to awareness. So I wonder if you picked up on the meeting and I bet some of you did. So here's what it means alchemically. And I, you know, you can say, like, how did you figure this out? What, I didn't read it anywhere. I've never heard of this story before, but it just makes sense when you think about it. So here's how it relates to imagination and just kind of the subtle realities of what's going on.

So Zalefahad is the dark shadow, right? Remember, every character in the Bible is you. So that means Zalefahad is you, the people telling him not to pick up the sticks. Are you, the daughters are you, Moses is you, God is you, all of these people, right? So Zalefahad is this dark shadow, right? And this dark shadow is supposed to be doing something he's not supposed to be doing or told by others he's not supposed to be doing. And what is he supposed to do? What is he not supposed to do? Pick up sticks. Such a silly thing, right? Alchemically, we don't even have to look at it academically. Let's just say it's just this thing, but what it represents is going after that, which is unseen, feeling after the truth of reality, who you really are.

And they say, don't do it, man. Don't do it. If you do it, it's going to be bad, but he does it anyway. We do it anyway, right? And what happens? Well, when behold, he does it and they say, you're dead. You have to be killed now. Execution is the price you pay. So this dark shadow aspect, this part of you that doesn't believe that you are God, that you are in control of this narrative, that everything that denies this and proves to you that it's not true, every scenario, intellectually, logically, rationally, that comes up and denies this fact is literally all of these people saying, don't do this, don't do this, but when you do it, and you see what's really going on, the part of you that didn't believe that this is the way it works is killed.

Okay, well, that's great. That makes sense. Okay, we're on board now. We're still good. Seeking after the truth, you found it. Now you die when you found it because the limited version of yourself no longer exists. But what about the daughters? Well, the daughters, there's five of them. This was the key. There's five senses. The five daughters represent this world, this world of senses, this effect of the cause's imagination are seeking after this. And this is the effect. These are the daughters. This is how I figured it out. So thank you, daughters. I love you very much. So the way this works is that this is all well and good. If we conceptually and intellectually discover kind of how all of this works, but if we don't see it reflected back in this world, it's not that convincing, is it?

Our direct experience kind of invalidates it. So what is the alchemical secret here? What is actually going on? So the daughters, the five senses of this world say, hey, we want to go to the promised land too. It'd be great. You know, our dad did this thing, this previous version of us did this thing, but like we want to get there too. So eventually they go to Moses, right? They get to Moses. They're trying to get to the promised land. And Moses represents the feeling, right? The aspect of yourself that binds your imaginal reality to the physical world that creates it, allows it to happen. Moses is that feeling aspect, right?

When we're doing our imaginal act and we feel the wish fulfilled or we hear it, right? Imaginally, that's the thing that actually activates this into this world. And so Moses, this feeling aspect goes to God, this unconscious, unconditioned awareness, this I amness that is very deep essence of who we are. And the deep essence says, yeah, go for it. You got it feeling. You're with it. So then what happens? He goes back. Moses goes back. You go back. You tell your senses. You got it. It's good. And they go, yeah. And they go, yeah. So then they chill out and they enter the promised land. And that's exactly what happens when we use our imaginations every single time.

You do something. You have this feeling that you want to go somewhere. You're Zolef ahead. You need to, what this desire needs to be explored in some real way. So you're Zolef ahead. People are like, man, man, that's not you. And that's internally you. It could also be external. People are like, nah, that's crazy talk. That's nonsense. So you do it. And then your whole world changes. You just killed yourself. You're a different version. But then you're doubting it because you didn't hear imagination. You feel differently, but you don't see the stuff, right? But that feeling aspect activates it, it allows it to happen. You know this as true. This is your faith. This is how you pray.

Imagination plus faith is prayer. You do that and you relax and you chill. You go, did I really get it? Does that really happening? And the second you go back to yourself, yeah, you got it. Then watch what happens. So that's the story of the five daughters. It's amazing. And God absolutely looks like a feminist in this situation on an overt level. But let's be clear that I am that deep unconscious subconscious, whatever you want to call it is a feminine principle. So it's definitely right about that. It's impersonal. Doesn't matter what the situation is. If you use the technique, it will unfold. So it's important to fold this into an ethical framework. Use it lovingly. Use the golden rule.

Use it responsibly because the amount of responsibility that falls on you when you really get this is everything. All of the responsibility, right? You are Spider-Man times a trillion. Great power comes great responsibility. This is great power. I as a kid used to want to be an X-Man. I love the X-Man. And I wanted to be a Magneto. And he wasn't an X-Man. He was a villain. But I just put the backwards side of tape on me like the stuff that sticks to you that's not sticking. I'm like, I'm Magneto. Let me tell you what this is like when you fully get this. You're the most powerful X-Men. You're like Jean Grey, Professor X, all of them rolled up into one because you are now the creator of your world when you fully get this.

And let's bring some amazing things into our world, right? Let's make this a much more beautiful, peaceful, just wonderful place. It's our choice. We can do whatever we want. But let's do that, right? It's pretty fun. So anyway, these are the stories. I strongly encourage you to look for the hidden in all situations. Look at things like metaphors, right? When you clean something up around you, you're cleaning some aspect of yourself. When you're kind to the person, even though you maybe want to feel it naturally, but maybe you just take a beat and are just a little kinder than you need to be, that's you doing it to yourself.

And the more this adds up and the more you really kind of ride this wave of grace, right? And that's just love in action. That's all grace is. It's just love in action. And it's a gift. It's a gift that we don't have. We don't do anything for it. We don't have to be a certain way to access this. It's, I mean, it's just given and it's yours to claim whenever you want. So that's the cool thing. That's really cool. So welcome for new people. Welcome to old people to all people who are here now. We're going to have a lot of fun. It's getting pretty fucking cool. Success story episodes are coming up soon. There's been some big ones from houses to relationships to money to jobs to all this cool stuff is coming in and I get to bear witness to it.

And it's fucking great. So stay tuned for that. Music that you hear on these episodes is mine. I have an album coming out in 2020. I'm cranking these demos out. You're hearing early incarnations of them. Some people say don't do that. Don't put it out. I like to put it out because it's fun. So this one today is called Jamaica. You're hearing a little bit of clip of it. About an hour's worth of work. It's feeling pretty good. I think we got about seven or eight real, real good ones coming up. If you're into that, hit me up. We can talk music. I am looking for people to collaborate with who are very serious about making hits.

I mean that for real. You want to make some hits? You want to do some shit in the world? Hit me up. Noah@syncpodcast.com. That's it. Rate and review this podcast. That's it. Terro stuff. For people who have listened to this point, I'm telling you this, Terro shit's legit. I know it because I'll look back at the emails I wrote. I'm like, "Oh my God. I wish someone would tell me this stuff." And then I reread it. I'm like, "Oh, you are. You are telling yourself it too." So go check those out if you're into it. Stay tuned for some amazing guests. I'm going into the city later this week. There's going to be some fun stuff going on.

So stay tuned for that. And until then, happy imagining. [MUSIC]