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[00:00:00] Welcome back to The One Thing Podcast where we all get to usher in the new age of humanity
[00:00:22] beyond homo sapiens, which we call homospiratus.
[00:00:27] And we do that by practicing with the One Thing that individuals, communities and countries
[00:00:31] have yet to try on mass.
[00:00:33] And we can't wait until they do.
[00:00:36] And that One Thing is the connection to the higher self part of our true self anatomy
[00:00:41] that people call by various names, different names.
[00:00:44] And our prime directive above all else is to make and constantly return to this one thing
[00:00:50] or taught connection day in and day out, breath in and breath out as our first step in dealing
[00:00:56] with everything in our daily life rather than viewing problems as things we can solve
[00:01:01] separately from taught.
[00:01:03] So in this episode, we're calling it the self governance before government governance.
[00:01:10] And we are wanting to talk about how for a government to be in service to its people,
[00:01:16] we the people must be whole enough, sovereign enough and connected enough with taught or
[00:01:22] the One Thing so that we can ensure our government serves self sovereignty and societal wellbeing.
[00:01:31] So in this episode, we'll impact what self governance before governmental governments
[00:01:34] means and ways we can use taught to uplevel our self governance and our citizen, our citizen
[00:01:41] effectiveness.
[00:01:43] Yes, indeed.
[00:01:45] And so what we're going to start off with is an expanded definition of governance.
[00:01:53] So this is drawn from a basic definition, but we've built on it for the sake of this episode.
[00:02:01] So we're defining governance as the process of making and enforcing decisions within an organization,
[00:02:07] society or an individual.
[00:02:10] It encompasses decision making, rule setting and enforcement mechanisms to guide the functioning
[00:02:17] of an organization, a society or an individual system.
[00:02:21] Effective governance is essential for maintaining order, achieving objectives and addressing
[00:02:27] the needs of the community, including the community of self, not just members of an organization
[00:02:34] but within us as individuals.
[00:02:36] Furthermore, effective governance promotes wholeness, trust and transparency.
[00:02:43] Now underlying the word effective, we know that there's a lot that's dysfunctional about
[00:02:48] governance, but effective governance promotes wholeness, trust and transparency, bosters
[00:02:54] collaboration among stakeholders or parts of ourselves and adapts to changing circumstances
[00:03:02] ensuring that the organization, society or individual remains responsive and resilient
[00:03:09] in achieving its goals.
[00:03:12] Amen.
[00:03:13] Can I hear a Hallelujah system?
[00:03:16] Yeah, exactly.
[00:03:17] So let's talk about why putting self governance before government governance is absolutely
[00:03:24] vital.
[00:03:25] And there's two reasons as I see it.
[00:03:27] I'm sure David will chime in too.
[00:03:29] And one is that because governance is an outpicturing of the collective, the more individuals
[00:03:36] we have in our citizenry that are self-sovereign, self-governed, the more we will choose higher
[00:03:42] level government, you know, we will vote those kinds of people in, higher levels of government.
[00:03:49] So the kinds of governments that we've been noticing in our, you know, in the last several
[00:03:54] elections.
[00:03:57] It reflects our pool of consciousness.
[00:04:01] And so that should be a wake up call right there that are our number one job is to bring
[00:04:06] ourselves into self governance if we want there to be better leaders.
[00:04:11] And the second part is that at least in the United States, the very first three words
[00:04:16] of our constitution is we the people.
[00:04:19] So we often forget that it is a government for the people and by the people.
[00:04:25] So it is those people, you and I, being self-governed at the highest level possible connected
[00:04:32] to the one thing that will actually cause and create the kind of government that David
[00:04:37] spoke about in before, you know, just a minute ago where I said amen.
[00:04:42] So that's those two pieces are absolutely vital, honestly.
[00:04:47] And I think you've covered them well.
[00:04:50] The punctuation mark I want to put on part of what you said is that the candidates, not
[00:04:56] just the ones who are elected reflect our consciousness.
[00:05:00] Right.
[00:05:01] So if you're aligned with a particular political party and this is not a political episode,
[00:05:08] we're not talking about individuals in politics or any one political party.
[00:05:13] So this applies across political parties or nonaffiliations.
[00:05:17] The candidates, not just the ones who are elected reflect our consciousness.
[00:05:22] So if you're connected with a particular party, the candidates, your party puts up for
[00:05:26] election represent the consciousness of that party as well.
[00:05:31] Yes, excellent.
[00:05:33] So the only way it's possible to be a successfully self-governed person is in harmony with and
[00:05:42] guided by the one thing.
[00:05:45] So the point that we want to make right now is that our consciousness in selecting candidates
[00:05:54] and then those who are ultimately elected is directly dependent on the kind of self-governance
[00:06:02] or lack of self-governance we're doing inside ourselves.
[00:06:07] And the less connected that the population of a community or a state or province or
[00:06:16] a country or whatever the group is, the less connected that group is to the one thing.
[00:06:24] The lower the consciousness of their candidates and their elected officials is going to be.
[00:06:32] Exactly.
[00:06:34] How do we know this?
[00:06:36] Because we've been watching it for centuries.
[00:06:39] You know, we've said it before in other episodes where we tend to be complacent and okay with
[00:06:48] recycling the same energy and calling it different.
[00:06:52] It doesn't end up being that.
[00:06:53] And this is why it is really vital to have this connection with the one thing because
[00:07:00] that's the energy, the consciousness, the higher wisdom and intelligence that will lead us
[00:07:08] out of the maze that the mind creates which then causes to, you know, as we cause ourselves
[00:07:15] to elect candidates that reflect exactly what that consciousness is.
[00:07:19] So just to repeat, the design of the government is to be in service of the people specifically
[00:07:25] here in the US, that is set up very specifically and in a lot of other democratic societies as
[00:07:31] well.
[00:07:32] But there's no wiggle room in our constitution here in the US that that is truly the case.
[00:07:37] So we the people must be whole enough and sovereign enough to, you know, stand up and
[00:07:43] steward our piece of citizenry as part of as one of the we the people and to participate
[00:07:51] in ways that are both serving to our ourselves, you know, in that wholeness and to the whole
[00:07:58] to the collective.
[00:08:00] And so how, so how let's talk about how self governed people, you know, tend to themselves
[00:08:08] and what's involved in self governance?
[00:08:12] And you know, we already gave, did we give the definition already?
[00:08:16] Yes, we did.
[00:08:17] Yeah, that's what you did.
[00:08:18] Okay.
[00:08:19] I didn't hear the word definition, but it doesn't matter.
[00:08:23] So if you just think of our, if we each just think of ourselves, we're a community of self,
[00:08:28] right?
[00:08:29] We have trillions of cells that have to get along, you know, for there to be a general
[00:08:34] overall wellness and wholeness.
[00:08:37] Now that, you know, sometimes goes off, but it doesn't, you know, it doesn't go all the
[00:08:42] way bad until we die.
[00:08:44] But we have a heart and we have a gut and we have a head and all of those things, it
[00:08:49] worked best when there's an alignment between all of them.
[00:08:54] There's actually brain cells in our heart, there's brain cells in our gut and then of course
[00:08:58] our brain or our head.
[00:08:59] When those line up and especially not, not just by themselves, but when they especially
[00:09:04] line up with the one thing which is our higher presence, which is constantly flowing into
[00:09:08] us through our head, through our brain, you know, through our heart and through our, all
[00:09:13] of our energy centers, right?
[00:09:14] So when there's alignment in all of that, then we tend to make better decisions more
[00:09:21] serving decisions as individual and you know, for self and community.
[00:09:25] I've heard for, you know, my entire adult life that when a human beings makes decisions
[00:09:31] connected to the one thing, they don't make bad decisions.
[00:09:36] The one thing would not guide us or drop wisdom or intelligence into us.
[00:09:42] That wasn't, you know, good for ourselves and good for the whole.
[00:09:46] So that's one thing to keep in mind.
[00:09:50] One thing about the one thing?
[00:09:51] Yeah, the one thing about the one thing.
[00:09:53] Yeah.
[00:09:54] We could say that all night.
[00:09:58] You want to go on for the next one or you want me to do it?
[00:10:00] No, keep going.
[00:10:01] It's okay.
[00:10:02] Yeah.
[00:10:03] So we have, we have cells in us that are older and are recycling themselves into being newer
[00:10:11] and younger.
[00:10:12] And that's happening all the time.
[00:10:14] And we ask, we have 70 trillion cells and they're always restoring, regenerating and recycling.
[00:10:20] So I don't, I can't remember because there's different people who say different things,
[00:10:24] but I think Deepak Chopra says that every seven years we have a completely new community
[00:10:29] of cells than we had, you know, the prior seven years.
[00:10:32] So we get to up level those cells, you know, and anytime we want and furthermore in every
[00:10:38] single one of those 70 trillion cells, there are 70 trillion atoms and each of those atoms
[00:10:43] has a blueprint for our wholeness.
[00:10:46] So it's not, it's not for us to wonder whether we can behold.
[00:10:49] It's for, it's our job to actually unfold ourselves into that wholeness, right?
[00:10:54] And then when we do that, it affects our sovereignty and our capacity to choose from
[00:10:59] a level of that wholeness that isn't the same as when we're, you know, not whole.
[00:11:05] I'll just put it that way.
[00:11:07] I'll add a couple of things about that.
[00:11:09] Yeah, just to first of all drive home the point that we each of us as individuals are
[00:11:18] a country.
[00:11:21] We are a country with a lot of different regions and territories and all of it.
[00:11:31] If we're not functioning as the sovereign of that country, as the, as the president or
[00:11:38] the prime minister or in the case of R internal country, I prefer to use the word sovereign
[00:11:46] in contrast to a republic that uses democracy as its elective structure, which is never
[00:11:55] supposed to be designed around a sovereign, even if it has a monarch, it's supposed
[00:12:02] to be designed around a constitution that is of the people by the people and for the
[00:12:07] people.
[00:12:08] So there, that's a distinction I want to make sure is clear when we're talking about about
[00:12:15] our self governance, we're really talking about self sovereignty when we're talking about
[00:12:20] the governance of a group.
[00:12:22] We're talking not about sovereigns, we're talking about stewards of the collective well-being.
[00:12:32] The other thing that I want to add to this is about specifically about younger and older
[00:12:37] parts of us.
[00:12:38] In addition to cell age, we all have, I mean, other than those of us who become so unified
[00:12:47] that there's no longer a distinction between, that we experience in us inside ourselves
[00:12:53] between a child part of us and a teenager part of us and a younger adult part of us and
[00:12:59] a sage in us or whatever it is.
[00:13:02] We have younger and older parts of self in addition to younger and older selves.
[00:13:09] And usually the younger parts have, we would, some of those parts anyway feel wounded
[00:13:16] to us.
[00:13:17] And then there's other healthier parts, maybe we've been consciously cultivating those
[00:13:22] healthier parts, maybe they're just more natural to our country, the country that we are.
[00:13:28] But our job is to tend to the wounded parts and bring them into wholeness and health
[00:13:34] health.
[00:13:35] I mean, that's actually the meaning of healing.
[00:13:38] And one of the things you use the word monarch and one of the things I love about Chinese
[00:13:42] medicine is that the heart is considered the monarch of the entire system.
[00:13:48] And not from the perspective of, you know, centuries past with Henry VIII and all of that.
[00:13:54] But I actually think that we still have monarchs and we still have, you know, people are obsessed
[00:14:00] or very interested in past royal experiences because we know this about ourselves, whether
[00:14:08] it's conscious or unconscious, that our heart is our monarch and that when we yield to
[00:14:14] the monarch, then things go well.
[00:14:17] And you know, when we cultivate our own heart to be strong and compassionate and kind and
[00:14:25] connected to the heart of our higher self, you know, then we can trust that monarch
[00:14:30] to serve.
[00:14:32] So yeah.
[00:14:34] And so, yeah.
[00:14:37] Why don't you say about the shadow?
[00:14:39] Oh sure.
[00:14:40] That's kind of your Bailey Wigg.
[00:14:42] Yeah.
[00:14:43] Sure.
[00:14:44] Well, just as I was talking about parts of our self, younger and older, we have parts
[00:14:52] of us that were conscious, unconscious and connect a helpful connection with.
[00:15:00] So parts of us that we know about and we have a conscious, useful relationship with.
[00:15:07] And there are parts of us that are in shadow, meaning that we're not as aware of them
[00:15:14] or we've pushed them away or we're denying them or even unjustifiably justifying parts
[00:15:21] of us that aren't helpful.
[00:15:24] And those shadow parts of us, the, the, um, lead and shadow parts of us are running
[00:15:31] us despite our higher intentions.
[00:15:34] And let me just because I said lead and shadow, let me just say what that means for those
[00:15:39] who aren't familiar.
[00:15:41] So if you think of the metaphor of alchemy transforming lead into gold transmuting lead
[00:15:47] into gold lead is not the enemy.
[00:15:53] It's, it's a raw substance that's meant to be transformed into something fully, fully
[00:15:59] helpful.
[00:16:00] So we have lead and shadow.
[00:16:02] We have parts of us that need to be grown up or need to be healed.
[00:16:07] And then we have parts of us that are referred to as golden shadow and golden shadow is
[00:16:13] the parts of our light, the parts of our brilliance, the parts of our higher consciousness
[00:16:20] and heart and love that we learned a long time ago.
[00:16:25] We're too much for the people around us.
[00:16:28] So we learn to hide our light, not just the parts of us that we decided rightly or wrongly
[00:16:36] were negative.
[00:16:38] So shadow is, is really important because if we're going to be,
[00:16:42] in self governance, part of that is bringing out into the light the underrepresented sections
[00:16:52] of our internal society.
[00:16:53] Mm-hmm.
[00:16:54] That are that have good qualities to them and amplifying them.
[00:17:00] And I'd like to just add one thing about the shadow which is if, and this, you're not
[00:17:06] going to want to hear like to hear this so just just brace.
[00:17:10] Okay.
[00:17:11] I'm bracing.
[00:17:12] Not you, the listener.
[00:17:14] If anyone is pointing to a politician and, and, you know, and raging about how that person
[00:17:21] is, and it's easy to do in today's times, then, then that is an indicator that there
[00:17:28] is some shadow parts in yourself that are looking to be integrated and aligned and, you know,
[00:17:35] brought to center or healed or, you know, brought out into the light because we don't have
[00:17:42] the need when we have our own, when we have our own sovereignty in a good way and, you
[00:17:49] know, tended in a good way.
[00:17:51] We don't need to really lose it over various actions of various politicians.
[00:17:58] We can understand and see things, you know, from that broader scope that we've already been
[00:18:02] talking about also considering that, you know, the stage of any government is a reflection
[00:18:08] of its citizens.
[00:18:10] So what we should take that as when we really want to rage at a politician is, oh, there's
[00:18:16] something here for me.
[00:18:17] I need to, I needed, you know, point the finger back into me and deal with that shadow
[00:18:22] piece in me.
[00:18:23] Yeah.
[00:18:24] And I really want to underscore that because what you're talking about is, is projection
[00:18:30] and triggeredness.
[00:18:31] So when I'm projecting onto someone else, when I'm seeing stuff in someone else, including
[00:18:39] elected officials or anyone else for that matter, yes, that really bugs me about them.
[00:18:46] The part about it really bugging me about them, meaning I'm triggered.
[00:18:51] I've got an emotional charge about what I'm seeing in them.
[00:18:56] That's the clue that I have some version of that that looks different enough from how
[00:19:03] I'm seeing that in the other person that I'm trying to pull the wall over my eyes by saying,
[00:19:10] well, I'm not that way.
[00:19:12] Well yes, I am.
[00:19:13] Yeah.
[00:19:14] It's not necessarily in that exact form.
[00:19:18] So there's a huge difference between recognizing something that's wrong in society or
[00:19:25] in government that needs to be changed.
[00:19:29] And having such an intention, an intense emotional charge that I'm furious and I'm wearing
[00:19:36] a face of innocence, it's all about them and none about me.
[00:19:41] That emotional charge is all about me even when the thing that I've got the issue with may
[00:19:49] very well be also about the government or about a specific individual in government.
[00:19:56] And it's that's beautiful.
[00:19:57] And if you can make an observation about a political person or anyone for that matter, without
[00:20:03] a charge, that's not the same thing.
[00:20:08] It's not only not the same thing.
[00:20:11] My experience over and over again is that when people try to create change from that
[00:20:17] emotionally overcharged emotional, I said emotional already, the emotionally overcharged
[00:20:24] place in themselves where they're doing pure projection and no self responsibility, no
[00:20:32] looking at what is this charge about for me.
[00:20:37] They may sound powerful but they're just doing a blustery form of self victimization.
[00:20:45] Human solving capacity is diminished when we're doing that kind of projection onto a government
[00:20:53] official or onto an entire government.
[00:20:57] Whereas when people are clear about what needs to be fixed, what's wrong, what needs
[00:21:03] to be repaired and are intervening from a centered connected with the one thing place,
[00:21:11] their potency is greatly enhanced.
[00:21:15] Very good, yes, excellent.
[00:21:19] So it's a good segue over to how self governed people deal with their government.
[00:21:26] So self governed people elect officials who support self sovereignty and societal well-being,
[00:21:34] not one over the other.
[00:21:36] Self governed people that were the kind of self governance we're talking about in this
[00:21:41] episode.
[00:21:42] People who are in that state of top connected self governance elect officials and who support
[00:21:49] both our own individual self sovereignty, each individual self sovereignty and societal
[00:21:57] well-being, not one over the other because that's what true governance is in any society
[00:22:04] that aspires to be a free society.
[00:22:07] We seem to have forgotten that even though in the United States, this is baked into our
[00:22:14] mission statement as a country which isn't called a mission statement.
[00:22:18] It's called the preamble to the United States Constitution.
[00:22:22] Baked into it is the both end of personal freedom and the common good self sovereignty
[00:22:30] and societal well-being.
[00:22:33] So that's the first point on that.
[00:22:35] Do you want to add to that before?
[00:22:37] I think that's perfect.
[00:22:38] That's beautiful.
[00:22:39] Okay.
[00:22:40] So based on that, when voting for anyone at any level in an elected official from local
[00:22:47] to national, it is massively unwise to choose someone who doesn't care about societal well-being
[00:22:56] or someone who doesn't care about supporting self sovereignty.
[00:23:03] Anyone who is insisting on one of those two things being more important than the other
[00:23:11] or one being all important and the other being not important, that is a dangerous candidate.
[00:23:17] No matter which thing they're advocating over the other, the other of those two dimensions.
[00:23:23] Yeah.
[00:23:24] And I would just add to that that often, more often than not, and I've heard it for my
[00:23:28] whole entire adult life as people say, oh well, I'm just voting for the least of the
[00:23:32] evils.
[00:23:34] And that we don't do that when we're connected to the one thing.
[00:23:38] So just please keep that in mind before any vote that you ever make from now forward,
[00:23:45] you know, go in your connected heart and ask for the best guidance that you have access
[00:23:50] to.
[00:23:52] And to the extent that you can see beyond the image that a politician's handlers are trying
[00:24:01] to get that politician to represent, to the extent that you can see behind that, to the
[00:24:07] human being themselves look at whether that candidate lives themselves at the intersection
[00:24:15] of self sovereignty and social responsibility.
[00:24:19] And usually the eyes to see that with is in your connection to the one thing.
[00:24:24] Mm-hmm.
[00:24:25] Yes.
[00:24:26] Keep that in mind.
[00:24:27] And we know that the folks that we're, that Laurie and I are talking about right now are
[00:24:33] hard to find in governance, in politics.
[00:24:38] And that's starting to change with the younger generations, at least the more, the more spiritually
[00:24:45] developed and psychologically developed in the younger generations who go into politics.
[00:24:50] So we want to make sure you understand we know that these folks are hard to find, but that's
[00:24:56] mainly because we haven't been insisting on them.
[00:25:00] And also, because we haven't known the things we're talking about in this episode well enough
[00:25:08] in ourselves to look for these things in those who represent us.
[00:25:14] We go.
[00:25:15] Well said.
[00:25:16] So we have some months before our next election.
[00:25:21] We didn't actually do this episode with any of that in mind.
[00:25:25] We just, you know, these episodes drop in for us.
[00:25:28] Well, we probably date stamp that then because this is March of 2024.
[00:25:34] Go ahead.
[00:25:35] Right.
[00:25:36] So we have, you know, a handful of months, seven or eight months before we actually have
[00:25:39] to vote in the US.
[00:25:43] And so there's plenty of time to cultivate.
[00:25:46] So I would like to, we both would like to invite you to regularly in the, and maybe this
[00:25:52] will be sped up a little bit regularly could be monthly.
[00:25:55] It could be quarterly, but maybe it is monthly between now and the end of this year 2024
[00:26:00] and go through a process of making decisions about, you know, how aligned is your mind
[00:26:06] and your thinking with with the higher, with your higher consciousness with here with
[00:26:10] the one thing.
[00:26:11] How in line is your body?
[00:26:13] How in line is your spirit?
[00:26:14] And how in line is your life?
[00:26:15] And make, you know, just a sense without judgment and, um, and just figure out if you're
[00:26:21] cultivating your wholeness.
[00:26:23] However imperfect I love saying that because I don't think anybody is perfect in a human
[00:26:28] experience, but we do have access to wholeness no matter what, no matter how imperfect.
[00:26:34] And so making these adjustments accordingly if this is new to you start small, if it's
[00:26:38] not new to you then, you know, pedal to the metal.
[00:26:42] If that feels like a good pace for you, um, but you want your system to be optimally
[00:26:47] operating, you know, in that alignment mind, body spirit, higher self.
[00:26:52] This is your state of the union.
[00:26:55] This is the state of the union of your of your mind, body and spirit, you know, the state
[00:27:00] of yourself address that you'll regularly visit whether it's monthly or quarterly.
[00:27:06] So it's important to put some focus and awareness into that so that you know, you know,
[00:27:12] that you make adjustments as needed.
[00:27:15] I totally agree.
[00:27:17] And in that same vein, as you're doing what Laurie just said to the extent that you can dig
[00:27:25] into candidates, you have some interest in and to the extent that you're able to evaluate
[00:27:32] them as a human being because we know we love our lives at the level of our wounds, not
[00:27:39] our wishes and so do our elected officials.
[00:27:41] So to the extent that you can evaluate them as a human being through all of the perspectives
[00:27:48] or lenses that we've described in this episode.
[00:27:51] So you may need to listen to this episode in number of times, so you can really take
[00:27:56] on board what we've unpacked.
[00:27:59] Yeah, perfect.
[00:28:01] And if you've been listening to any of these episodes for a while then you're evolving
[00:28:05] yourself from homo sapien to homo spirit too.
[00:28:08] So when you're evaluating these elected possible, you know, those two elect, just see if
[00:28:16] you can find some of their spirit.
[00:28:18] You know, do they represent themselves at that level in addition to their talking points?
[00:28:25] You know, that's kind of important.
[00:28:26] And I would also say that it's probably impossible to really get a clear picture of any possible
[00:28:34] candidate when you're not in communion with the one thing.
[00:28:38] So that's the number one consideration is get connected, practice being connected, practice
[00:28:44] watching news and listening to candidates while staying connected.
[00:28:49] Step away if you lose connection and come back when you're reconnected.
[00:28:52] Don't let the fact that you've been disconnected, you know, lure you into keeping to listen
[00:28:58] and getting, you know, maybe twisted up in your emotions about it because we can all
[00:29:05] do that.
[00:29:06] Just know that your connection to the source of life, you know, to the one thing, whatever
[00:29:11] you call that is your highest advisor.
[00:29:14] Mm hmm.
[00:29:16] Well said.
[00:29:17] So those are our takeaways that we're recommending that you consider bringing away from this
[00:29:23] episode.
[00:29:24] And as we've often said before I go into closing comments, was there anything else you wanted
[00:29:30] to add?
[00:29:31] No, I'm good.
[00:29:32] We're good.
[00:29:33] Okay.
[00:29:35] As as often the case, we're currently awaiting taught guidance about what our next episode
[00:29:43] should be.
[00:29:44] And in the meantime, we enthusiastically invite you to visit totpodcast.net.
[00:29:51] That's T O T for the one thing podcast dot N E T to let us know your comments, questions,
[00:29:59] requests for future episode topics and any other feedback you might have.
[00:30:06] And until next time, remember to dance with your better half the one thing so you can keep
[00:30:14] living more and more fully as almost spiritual.