Greg "Magick" Bernstein
Join me as I speak with Greg "Magick" Bernstein today.
For nearly twenty-five years Magick has been "creating a Shamanic Container" which catalyzes healing and awakening. While still
an attorney turned successful and lauded entrepreneur, he began his decades of study with master teachers, Elders, Kahuna, Shaman
and Mystics. Stepping fully into his role as spiritual teacher, shamanic life coach, mystic retreat leader, and master storyteller, at 37
he sold his last advertising company and moved to the Sacred Site of Hawaii.
On Maui, he established Sacred Voyages, through which he facilitates Sacred Site retreats and personal shamanic guidance.
His unique approach is to create & transmit a
powerful field of love and truth in which awakening, healing, the mystical, and connection to higher self is exponentially amplified. He does
this in part through his shamanic storytelling style in which he transmits teachings and their deep wisdom on an energetic level which penetrates
deep into listeners, helping them dissolve illusion and awaken to the truth of who they are so they can live their full authentic selves. This happens in
coaching sessions, group teachings, podcasts and broadcasts of any kind. He calls this essence of his work a Shamanic Transmission.
Connect with Magick ere:
https://www.instagram.com/sacredvoyagesmagick/
https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicHunaRetreat/
Brandon Handley 0:02
321 Hey there This is Brandon Handley and I am on today with Greg magic Bernstein of sacred voyages. Greg, is he you know, it goes by magic actually. So as you have been doing 25 years of creating a semantic container which catalyzes healing and awakening, while still an attorney, he turns, who's very successful attorney, he turned entrepreneur he began decades of study with master teachers, elders, Kahuna shaman and mystics stepping fully into his role as a spiritual teachers demonic life coach, mystic, retreat leader and master storyteller at 37. He sold his last advertising company and moved to the sacred site of Hawaii. on Maui he established sacred voyages through which he facilitates sacred site retreats and personal semantic guidance has you unique approach is to create and transmit a powerful field of love and truth in which awakening, healing, the mystical and connection to a higher self is exponentially amplified. He does this in part through his semantic storytelling style in which he transmits teaching and their deep wisdom on an energetic level which penetrates deep into listeners, helping them dissolve illusion and awaken to the truth of who they are, so they can live their full authentic selves. This happens in coaching sessions, group teachings, podcasts and broadcasts of any kinds. He calls this essence of his work, a semantic, semantic, semantic transmission. How would I say that but
Magick 1:44
different people say it differently, you know, I say demonic.
Brandon Handley 1:47
Got it. Got it. I still remember my mom busting my balls over or saying like Celtic before I learned that was Celtic, you know, way back in the day, right? I'm like, come on, um, but welcome and thanks for being In here very excited to have you on on with me. What is what is something we? You know, I'm actually that's just my typical question that I like to think of let's just like you said that this is kind of like a transmission of energy sermonic wise. And that can only come through and be facilitated I think a lot of times through a conversation and organic diatribe as it were. And to that end, what is something you think that somebody you know, who's gonna needs to hear today?
Magick 2:35
What's coming through? Yeah, so before I answer that, I just want to clarify one thing in your intro, thank you for that wonderful intro. And just, I just like to be really, really clear about things. So I did go to law school and become an attorney. But I did not never practice law. So I would never characterize myself as a successful attorney because I actually never practice law. Maybe that is successful. Like I didn't want to do it. So I succeeded. By getting out of it for sure, but yeah, so just to clarify that so now for your question like so what what what would I want people to hear right now,
Brandon Handley 3:10
somebody needs to hear this right like so, this podcast is going out somebody needs to hear this
Magick 3:18
yeah so, that question can only come through in the moment for who I tune into and what I tuned into who might be listening in this moment and what started to come through when you said that is to tell the listener that you are love and that you you know, I lead retreats in sacred sites that's that's something that I do I take people out to to vortexes or places on the earth, where there are certain sites where the earth energy is is more active and alive and it amplifies catalyzes and accelerates change, evolution awakening of consciousness. These sites are are sprinkled all over the world and I prefer the ones in Hawaii and Mount Shasta and so don't because they have to ticular qualities they have very specific qualities. And even though that's one of the things that I do for work, my ultimate message is that you are actually the sacred site. You are the mystical experience you've been looking for. You are the love that you've been looking for. And looking outside of yourself for that just keeps you stuck in a circle or on a hamster wheel that actually has you continuously working something that you can towards something that you can actually never achieve. You may have noticed that anything that we get in life in the material third dimensional reality is temporary. It's impermanence. By law, by nature, nothing lasts forever. Everything ends every relationship that you're ever in dies, everything that you ever touch, every new iPhone that you get is going to break it's going to eventually disintegrate. And so we look for the material world to bring As the deep lasting inner peace that we desire to bring us the love that brings that. And by definition, because it's all impermanent, it can't do that, you know, you can never get enough of what you don't really need. So to turn your attention to the love that you already are, but you have lost sight of you become unconscious of and you've forgotten about, that can actually begin to cultivate a more lasting deep inner peace to really turn your attention to where it belongs. Instead of giving that up and going for basically what I would call the compensation package or the second prize. Well, I can have the shiny new car, I can have this great relationship or I can have sex or a drug or whatever, all of that like second prize, because usually we've given up and we don't even realize that we could have the truth of who we really are.
Brandon Handley 5:54
At I mean, at the cost of opportunity, right? I love it by the way. So that's that's just awesome. You You will Love, right? So somebody needs to hear this today. Right? So somebody if you're listening,
Unknown Speaker 6:06
you're welcome.
Brandon Handley 6:09
You're welcome. Right, the and so let's talk a little bit about your history. How did you, you know, end up where you are today? I know we talked a little bit about it, you know, you studied law you didn't, as you say, practice, but you did have a successful advertising business. But now you're, you know, you're this retreat guy, right. Did you see that coming? Right?
Magick 6:31
No, I
mean, it was just totally like it was a one thing led to another kind of thing. I mean, I definitely had some experiences when I was very young that were abnormal. You know, I had the experience of karma in first grade and I knew what karma was, and nobody told me about it. I was noticing that I had a telepathic relationship with my brother in sixth seventh grade. So had some experiences like that, but I never had I never really thought much about them, you know, and I just thought, Oh, that's really interesting. And then when I got to college, I started practicing, I started reading spiritual, esoteric books. And I was practicing like, astral projection and leaving the body and things like that, because I had a friend who was also spiritually inclined and interested. But it was just sort of an exploration of life to me and what what life is and what its limits are. I had every intention of being an attorney, or a businessman, and just diving deeply into that world. It wasn't until in 1996 I met my first teacher, because I was I had been on a transformational track of like, how do I improve my life? How do I become a better person? How do I get more of what I want have more peace since I was 14 when my parents asked me if I wanted to go into therapy, and I did. And so uh, In 1996, I went to a transformational center where I was living in Dallas. And that's where I met my first teacher and she was, you know, a shaman, sorcerer, whatever you want to call it in disguise. You know, as her disguise was, Hey, I got this transformational center and I'm teaching these like modern, advanced psychological techniques like hypnosis and Jose Silva's work and NLP and meditation, but when you got in there, you started to get into where she was teaching you psychic skills, psychometry, telepathy, you know, or reading and eventually deep mystical shamanism. And so she became my first teacher I fell in love immediately and started developing my own course like before I even finished her advanced course I was developing my own course and I was teaching in health club and I took private clients on but it was all like just the movement of the truth inside of me. I had a business at A time I wasn't intending to change businesses. I wasn't intending to be a spiritual teacher. I wasn't intending to do anything other than this is just what's alive in me. And this is what's moving. I love teaching. I love working with people. She eventually asked me to start teaching at her center. She took me under her wing and started developing me and and apprenticing me to kind of take over. And she led shamanic retreats in Hawaii, which is where the deep shamanic, you know, cultivation started to occur. But all that was like I was also still I had, you know, I'd started an industry that didn't exist before. GE Capital offered to buy that from me by the time I was just under 30. And, and then I built an international ad agency, and I was doing that all the time. I was spending almost every weekend teaching all weekend and several nights a week teaching in a mystery meditation school and had her center and but it was all as a hobby. It was all just like, I love it. And it's I love that I'm growing. I love that I'm helping other people. It was wasn't until I sold my business in two in 2005. I moved to Hawaii. And my teacher said, Well, why don't you start leading retreats there? And I was like, Huh, okay. And that began sort of as a career more, which I don't really think of it as that. But, you know, the the material world and spiritual world completely merged and became one at that point.
Brandon Handley 10:23
Now, I love that, you know, that kind of opens up the question here where you're doing this, we'll just call it your, I'm sure it was more than nine to five. I'm sure you're working, you know, whatever the hours were, but how you work in the corporate gig. And at the same time, you're doing that the mystery school and the mysticism on the weekends?
Unknown Speaker 10:45
How are you able to integrate the two?
Magick 10:48
Great question that that was my whole journey during that time, because I for a good chunk of that time, I felt like I had two paths, like I was on two parallel paths and they felt Separate. And yet I kept going inside and checking with my higher self and my inner guidance, and I kept getting No, you're on the right path. This is the path like it's one path, even though it's two. So I would say the primary way that they got integrated was inner guidance. So a big part of what I was developing during this time period, was my connection to my higher self. And cultivating that connection so that I could make every decision in my life from something greater than what my mind might decide from something greater than my logical brain. From what I would call my omnipotent self or my god self or something, you know, this this part of me this inner guidance or higher self, the way I see it is, it's like, it is everything that ever has existed or ever will exist in quantum physics. Now they talk about there being an infinite number of parallel universes that are all coexisting at the same time, there's no time space, there's no past or present or future, it's all happening now. And so within that my higher self has already been and and will be everything. And so it has access to way more than the narrow range of my left brain, you know, thinking logical sequential cutting reality into small little bits and pieces mind. So I started cultivating, tuning into that and when I tune into that it gives me information and it tells me what to do. So I can be in divine right action. I can be in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. And when I say right, I don't mean right or wrong. I mean, like the highest choice, the place for the most grace synchronicities manifestations, and that's the best for all concerned. So I implemented that into my business life. For example, I had a potential client that my advertising agency specialized in outdoor advertising like billboards. So me and my sales lady went to see this client and he wanted to buy like two $300,000 worth of billboards from us. And he was a, you know, triple A rated client who spent a million dollars a year on television been around forever, you know, seemed like a great deal. But he said, Go back to your office and write up a contract. Well, on the way back to the office, I got a clear No, do not do business with this man. Now I'm on a need to know basis with my inner guidance. So it doesn't have to give me the reasons it just gives me the yeses and noes and do this or do that. So I said to my sales lady, I said, You know, I, you may not understand or get this and I know that this is going to cost you a big commission, but I'm really getting that we should not do business with that man. She's like, What are you talking about? He's awesome. And he's gonna, he's a great company and blah, blah, blah. And I said, I just have the sense it's just an intuitive deep sense. That it's a no. And we've worked together enough. And she'd seen this enough that she trusted it and didn't put up much of a fight even though she was going to lose a big commission.
Well, we didn't take the business he did put the words up with one of the local vendors who I talked to six months later. And the guy said that the guy didn't pay his bills and stuck them with a couple hundred thousand dollars. That would have put me out of business, for sure. Another way that it manifested and I was able to practice it is I used to drive around the city with a notepad and I'd write down the names on all the billboards, and then I'd go back to the office and I'd spend a week calling those hundred people and saying, hey, do you need an advertising agency that specializes in billboards? Here's why I'm better than you could do it or anybody else. And you know, I have a normal closing rate, maybe, you know, 10 15% or whatever, that I would make sales. But one day, I was driving around and I noticed that some of the billboards they just said There was just a different feeling I had about them. And it was my guidance. And my guidance was saying, These people are right. And it's a perfect Win Win, call them. And at first I ignored it. Because that's kind of what happens. And we usually ignore this still quiet voice or that soft feeling that we have. That's our inner guidance. And so I often tell people, I learned more about my inner guidance from times when I don't listen to it, then times when I do, because often when I don't listen to it, I mean, when I do listen to it, I don't always see a result. Like if I'm guided to go a different way home one day, and I go that different way home, and I didn't get in a car accident. I don't really know. I didn't get no car accident. But when I didn't listen to these voices about the boat wards, six months later, the guy who had one billboard in town all of a sudden had 20. And I'm like, Whoa, they could have used me. That's the kind of perfect clients when they're growing like that, that Use me. And I remember that voice in my head. Because I know my voice. It's like, I teach people how to find their god voice. You know, mine's three inches, four inches behind my head just below the occiput Ridge, it kind of points upward. It's a male voice of tuck soft and quiet and a certain tone and pitch. So I can spot it and distinguish it from any other thought or feeling inside of myself. That's very valuable. So anyway, fast forward, I started listening to that voice that was telling me which billboards to call on and now I would drive around and I'd write down one or two instead of 100 names. And I would have like an 80% closing rate, I call them up and I'd say, Hey, this is what I do. And this is why I can benefit you and they'd say, Oh, my God, you're a godsend. Thank you so much for calling when you do, and it was just beautiful, how it would unfold. So throughout my business career, which I found that transformational center just after I entered in The business so throughout my business career, I was implementing following my inner guidance my inner guidance and being on a spiritual path the entire time and it was of great benefit in fact it it it almost cost me my business not following it once and I got back on track and got everything I wanted out of that business because I did fall away it was it was intense the lessons for sure, but powerful so that's one of the ways I integrated it.
Brandon Handley 17:31
Now I love it right because I mean you you know like you said you discovered your God voice and that reminded me of you know, I'm sure you've probably covered Course of Miracles yourself at one point. Have you ever done a Course of Miracles or gone through it checked it out?
Magick 17:48
I've never done the Course in Miracles but I'm familiar with it. But there's
Brandon Handley 17:51
there's one section in there. I forget the exact lesson right but real similar what you're saying is and when you when you understand or you hear your God voice and I'm not sure like I've got mine honed down just as well as you have, but when when you realize that that's coming from within you, you're like, Whoa, right? That's, that's a powerful, that's a powerful thing. And and you don't really forget that moment when you recognize that that's, that's what that is. And then, you know, you got so many, you know, lots of awesome pieces in here. One of the things that I think that we don't see caught out too much is the idea of cultivation, cultivation, self cultivation, right? You want to talk to that a little bit for me, because you called it out, right? Like you cultivated yourself. Your connection to your higher self is, what does it mean to cultivate yourself?
Magick 18:47
Yeah, well, I mean for me, as I started the call out. Today, you know, I am the sacred sites. I am God, everything God, God is infinite. So there isn't anything that isn't God. I am inner guidance, I am unconditional love. If you talk to any therapist and you say what's at the heart of people's confusion, their depression, their sadness, their, you know feelings of despair, their anger, their fears, you know, at the heart of all of that is self esteem, self worth, which is about self love. And so, to me cultivating is it's like a garden. You know, if you have a garden outside and you don't ever water it, you don't ever weed it. You don't ever give it love. You don't never tend to it in any way. It's probably not going to grow, you know, it's going to wither away and it's just going to be kind of a barren, empty garden. So to me, it's like going inside and finding the love that I am and then putting my attention on that putting my consciousness in And being with it, that's a cultivation of it, that's actually bringing it to life bringing it to consciousness. Same thing with my inner guidance. If I put my attention on it, if I find it and distinguish it from anything else, I'm building a relationship with my deeper wisdom, and the deepest love and Divinity that I am. It's a relationship, as long as we're in duality, that we are in relationship with everything. And so when you build that relationship and you cultivate an intimacy with yourself and intimacy with your God, self and intimacy with the love that you are, then you become more of that and you become you manifest and actualize more of that until eventually, you become one with it. And you are it which is the true reality that was already there in the first place. You were just in the illusion of separation.
Brandon Handley 20:58
I love it. I love it. You know, absolutely right, you got to cultivate, you have some nurture. You have to allow for it to unfold. And that's word use a little bit earlier too. Because you can't really force that, right, you can't force that to happen. And if you do try to force it to happen, I, I liken it to, you know, like tissue paper or something, right? Like you, you can, you can kind of walk it open gently or something like that. But if you try to force tissue paper, if you're just going to shred it, right, so, I mean, you really can't, you can't force this thing to happen. You can cultivate and nurture You know, this love of self this enter God, the recognition that you are God. And when you say that it's it's not exclusionary to, like you said, the rest of anything. It's because everything is God. Right. Right.
Magick 21:54
Yeah. Like when most people would hear you know, whenever I say that, I'm very aware of the misinterpretation that can occur. When I when I especially when I say I am God, because you know, there is a very egoic way that somebody could say that I'm special. I'm different. I'm better, you know, and that's not what I'm talking about. When I'm talking about is I'm actually the same as you, right? Like we're both god, there's there's nothing better or different about me or you were the same thing. Actually everything that we see that distinguishes us as different is actually illusion. Anything that I could say that is better or worse about you or me is all the illusion of this material reality. When you awaken to your true nature, you one realizes that I am you. You are me, there is no difference.
Brandon Handley 22:50
There's no separation,
Magick 22:51
right? There's no separation and we're both God.
Brandon Handley 22:55
Right. I mean, that was like you're saying it's when you awaken to the The true sense of who you are your God self, it's to recognize that you are as well as everybody else right to recognize the Divinity in everything.
Magick 23:12
Is that fair? Yeah, for sure. Okay. And what find? What I like to help people get back to cultivation and nurturing right, is that people are typically looking for that outside themselves. How do I realize this by going to this religion or chanting this boss, john or going to Kyrgyzstan or, you know, whatever practice it is, which some of those things can definitely be helpful. I'm not saying they're not. Two of the things that I find to be the most potent are going to sacred sites, sacred sites catalyze and amplify and accelerate. If you have the keys to unlock the mystical aspects of those sites and the power of those sites, you know how to do that, and those sites can actually touch us into what we what's beyond our perceived limitations and take us into a greater experience of reality, a more mystical experience, kind of like Iosco without the Iosco. And the second thing is meditation. You know, it's everything is inside of you, the entire universe is inside of you, all the love that's ever exists is inside of you. God is inside of you, the infant is inside of you, divinity is inside of you. So if you want to actually cultivate and nurture a relationship with those things and realize those things, then you've got to go not outside where you can have some externalized version of it or some intellectual version of it or conceptual version, but inside where you can experience it. Everything that truly transforms us is experiential, and that happens on the inside. Most of us are very disassociated from our bodies, which is our vehicle for the spiritual Being having a human experience. And so we're in our heads we're thinking, and that keeps us from being in the body. And that's where the experience of the as above and so below meets divinity in humanity meet in the body, that's where it's happening. But most of us are walking around just outside our body just outside our body this way or this way, or that way. We're in the future. We're in the past. We're not actually here.
Brandon Handley 25:25
I mean, so one of the things that you're talking about there, too, that I'm hearing is it's you know, while you know, our bodies are kind of the container you know, would you would you also make sure that you know, the vessel the vehicle, but we're so much more than like me, because I see, you know, you're, you know, in the video, you're pointing to yourself in this body here and around, but like, we're everywhere at all times. And I think that you also talk a little bit earlier about, like, you know, these kind of parallel universes being available at all time. There's not, you know, this kind of Time space continuum is there like an ability to shift knowingly in between these?
Magick 26:05
there absolutely is and what I want to like further distinguish when I'm talking about going in and you're talking about, hey, but we're outside to like wherever you were like I'm this computer that I'm looking into right? Um, my experience and all I can do is speak from my experience is that if I want to discover the mystical if I want to discover the love that I am, if I want to discover the the infinite, instead of going out because I am out there, right but instead of going out which is less palpable, you know, it's it's harder for me to discover it that way. It's to go in and then in here is everything out there. It's the doorway in and when I go in here, and I drop out of thought which has us in sequential time. Right. It has a stuck in 30 dimensional reality. So I dropped out of the mind, which is a narrow realm of existence that holds us in all those laws and science and, you know, the laws of science and all of that are from the rational mind. Like they don't occur when you're dreaming, right? Because you're not in that rational mind state, you're in office state. You know, you're in, you're in a slower brainwave frequency when you're dreaming. And that's why you can walk through walls and you can fly. So to actually drop us into that lower brainwave frequency during waking reality, through a meditative practice or going into a site that alters us into our more normal actually natural selves, which is lower frequency, then in that slower frequency. Now the permeability between all these parallel universes is much thinner. Our ability to step from one timeline to the other. Well, of course, I can just step from one to the other, which is why when people come on retreats with me, I mean, sometimes people come with terminal disease and they leave and it's gone. Like a lot. I mean, physical healing is one of the number one things that are, I would say, easy to shift when people come on a retreat, you know, they come with a cancer, one lady came last Shasta retreat with a cancer on her chest and she left and it was gone. It just boom, you just step from one reality to another. But the key is you have to get out of the mind and into the body.
Brandon Handley 28:28
Of that, hello, that I mean, you know, I don't I don't understand exactly what you mean by you know, out of the mind and the body but, you know, I feel I feel it right. Like it's kind of, yeah. which is which is, which is an interesting thing too. And you know that that's a big part of this whole kind of journey. You know, and when you talk about recognizing your God, so when we talk about being divine, it's not to the exclusion of anybody else. This is the name experience and you've feel it and this is where to me You know I love I love the the sights gets you beyond like you know what some of these other religions get you beyond but it's been so far my experience and I'm I'm on a newer journey right that I'm able to at least refer to some texts like religious texts or something else to know that this isn't new. This isn't new. This isn't the first time this has happened. It's not because because to me, especially when I went through it I went through a kind of alone right? I went through you know, kind of this you know, piercing the veil or whatever breaking through that that doorway right? And you know, literally you can almost look back at your life and see like there was this doorway that was always there that you always had the option to kind of walk through and see, right. But there's, that's what is in these religious texts and, you know, this goes back to you know, I'm not a kulak look, never a churchgoer. But like, you don't cast your pearls before swine, and it that that line has meaning now, right? Like you can't, you know, have these conversations with just anybody unless they're open to them, right and have had that experience to recognize, because you and I have this conversation and on the back of my head, I'm like this kind of stuff. Right. Um, and, but that only comes because I've had some experience in it. Right.
Magick 30:28
Totally. And, and, you know, I'm not the first person to say anything that I say, you know, that, like you said, there's been people throughout time that have said, what I'm saying in different ways, you know, and so that's, that's comforting to look back and go, Oh, yeah. Because on the way like you said, you you can't really, like you heard what I said, but you don't fully grok it. You can feel it in the body. And that's why I share with people like it's exciting. Initial, you can get it conceptually, maybe. But when you're talking about some of the things we're talking about here, you can't really deeply get it until you just experience it and you can't force yourself into that experience. All you can do is put yourself in situations where you're more likely to have the experience and learn so that you know where you're headed and what you're, you know what may happen, which opens up the doorway to it. So, meditation, going to sacred sites, maybe doing some chanting, whatever, putting you in a place where the most of us are thinking all the time, and we've been thinking all the time our entire lives. So we think that that's who and what we are, and that's what we need to navigate reality. Now, when you awaken out of that to some degree, and you're just in the body, I have the experience of no thoughts or thoughts happening, but I'm not a identified with them. So I'm not one with them. So I know they're not real. They're just thoughts. And they're just like clouds passing, and I'm centered in the silence. I'm centered in the emptiness and the nothingness. That is everything that is me. That is all it is. And there isn't any need for a commentator, someone to tell me a story about what's going on or about somebody else, or to judge something or to compare and contrast or any of the stuff that the egoic mind does. I'm disidentify with that, and that's who and what I really am. That's what's permanent, versus what's temporary is the thoughts they come and they go so they can't be really what you really are. They come and go. So when we get in the body and we have an experience like that, that can wake us up. But then there's usually a journey of trusting like can you trust Can you turn the reins over to your to your life to God, meaning you're not going to think your decisions any More you're just gonna let God live you let life live me that's a big trust that's the big let go and
Brandon Handley 33:07
let God right let go and let God and Zack Listen man, you know, it's it's yeah you want to write you want to in such a such a such a terribly hard way but you know it's just the programming right it's hard to it's really hard to jilt that and especially you know, I'm just gonna come at it from my own perspective being you know being a family man right like this is this you know for me to for me to walk downstairs and be like hey listen we're just going to go ahead and let go and let God now from here on out you know you remember that T shirt you got that was funny that said you know Jesus take the wheel and I'm gonna say Jesus take the wheel and it's not funny anymore is it? But, but I you know, um, you know, I kind of came across that and I really felt that when I was I was reading a lot of Florence scovel Shinn, right? The idea of just really casting all your worries to God and men. I have not ever felt so light my shoulders like I mean, I was just relaxed at that moment and understood for just a moment what that felt like. And I was like, this is the thing. No wonder why it's in a book. That's pretty old. It's been passed out for a while.
Magick 34:20
Right? Right. Throw out a practical way into this. Yeah, absolutely. Please do intuitive for most. Yeah. So you want to, you know, let go and like God, and so whenever we set an intention, I want to let go and let God or I want a new Mercedes. It doesn't matter what it is. When we set a new intention, the way humans are built and constructed where we're like manifesting machines. So we we create things we materialize things into reality if our vessel is clear, and there isn't any conditioning woundedness baggage, for sure. versus the case with anybody. But if it's totally clear like that, then we just think something. And if it's in soul alignment, it just materializes. So, if you decide I want to let go and let God and you state that intention, then all you have to do next is be what will happen if there's something in the way of that is it will immediately show up. So if I'm like, Oh, you know, I'm thinking about whether I should quit this job. I just want to let go and like God, Mm hmm. You set that intention. And if you sit and meditate, or you just walk around, go for a walk in nature, what's going to happen immediately is everything in the way of it your fears, your doubts, your worries, the consequences of what could happen, all of that is going to arise. Most people confuse that with a problem. Oh, no, you know, all my worry is here. Now, that didn't work. You know, I thought I was you know, I was letting go and letting God and what I got instead was fear and doubt That's actually part of the actualization of your intention is that if there's something in the way, the unconscious sends it up to the conscious so that you can actually metabolize it, process it, empty it out of your system. And then when you're empty, you are letting go and letting God so the key is to be processing our emotions and our wounds and our trauma. And what most of us do is we avoid our wounds and our emotions and our trauma. The emotional body does not work. If you don't feel it. It's like you will get it's like your digestive track does not work. If you don't have saliva and digestive fluids. You will get constipated, you will get stopped up. It will stop your entire body from running it will eventually break down all your other systems. Same with your emotional body. If you're not feeling your emotions, they don't get to resolve. They're all temporary as long as they get to resolve and they get to do that. Their full completion cycle, when you don't feel them, they don't get to do that. And then they get stuck inside of you. And then they're they're, they're running you from your unconscious. You ever wonder why you have behaviors and thoughts and feelings that are not in alignment with your intentions? You know, you're trying to be really loving and kind to your partner or your daughter or whoever. And something passive aggressive comes out, or you know, a way that's like, something that your father would do that you definitely don't want to do. And you're like, why would I do that I don't want to do that is because there's unprocessed wounds and emotions in your in you and they want resolution. And so they will attract and magnetize situations into your life so that you can touch in with those old wounds and heal and resolve them. So if I want to let go, I'm like God, all I have to do. And I say that, you know,
Brandon Handley 37:53
like, I just face my shit.
Unknown Speaker 37:54
Exactly.
Brandon Handley 37:58
So, so here, here I think is a Crux on this one. Right. And, you know, just just see what your your thoughts are on this is that, you know, I think that as Western Western civilization, we grow up and we're told, you know, to not let our emotions run us and and what we do is is, you know, or analyze like, you, you can't you got to be in control of your emotions, right. And we don't we don't know what that means, right? As especially in our youth, right, in our youth, we process this as, Oh, I better shut that down, because I'm starting to feel something right. Yeah. And and I think that also what you're talking about two, would you know, would this be what is kind of characterized as the Shadow Work? Right, you know, is that, is that fair?
Magick 38:42
Yeah, I mean, that Shadow Work is an aspect of it. I mean, ultimately, what I teach people is how to love everything equally, without distinction without a version to one thing repulsion with not trying to pull one thing or in or push anything out. I'm going to unconditionally And that's an important distinction. We're not talking about conditional love here, we're talking about unconditional love and we can, I can tell you what that means in a minute. But to unconditionally love everything equally that's happening inside of me. Whatever emotion is going on, to unconditionally welcome it, accept it, feel it and be with it. When we do that one, we stop suffering, because my definition of suffering is the resistance to what is so when we're resisting fear or doubt or pain, we suffer because we now have decided something's wrong with it. We've given it a label, it's bad or it's good. And now we don't want it and so it hurts when we don't have the mind involved separating things. It just is. Fear just is in you know, my definition of joy is being in reality exactly the way reality is. So I'm just fully I am my fear. It doesn't matter anymore. It's not something I'm separate from, and that's running me it just is and then it actually can heal and release. And so yes, when you're doing this work, it will both take you into your divinity, because you're loving what is so when what is is empty and peaceful, you're going to be in like this incredibly infinite space of all that is, and that will take you into your shadow, which is your unresolved trauma and wounds of your humanity, of what it means to be a separate individuated being on this earth. That's a painful wound. And whatever form it's been showing up in you, wherever you were, you did not receive unconditional love. That's a wound and it needs your love. Like we're here to learn to love ourselves in the ways that we weren't loved by the external. One of my friends studied near death experience where he was with someone studying near death experiences. And, you know, lots of those people said, you know, they, they saw light at the end of the tunnel and they saw whatever their God was and all of that, but he actually found that the number one thing people said, was that what before they came back, they were told the purpose of life is to love
Brandon Handley 41:08
that Well, I mean, and then a big part of that too. And what you're saying is, you know, love all of who you are unconditionally. Right. I mean, that's like the, the gist of it. So, you know, before we before we dial it down too far, you know, the, one of the big parts about this podcast is, you know, to really, you know, share a little bit more about what it's like to follow your path with each you did. You're going to say, you know, kind of, you know, Joseph Campbell line, follow your bliss, right and into a career into a life kind of worth living with intention and, and all these other things. I mean, tell us a little bit about what that looks like to run a business like that.
Unknown Speaker 41:48
Like to hear about that.
Magick 41:50
Well, there's two aspects of that for me. One, there's like when I had my advertising agency, I wasn't Exactly following my bliss so that Joseph Campbell quote, like I get, and also, it's, it could be a trap, because following your bliss, if you're following pleasure, then that means that you might not be following the truth.
Brandon Handley 42:17
Mm hmm. That's right. I mean, you gotta you got to make that distinction of, you know, you're not just, you're not just following pleasure or following I guess what makes your heart sing right? When you said earlier being true to yourself, right. And, and, and I think that's the definition I would use for bliss, right.
Magick 42:34
Yeah, I'm even that definition. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, right. I'm just saying, There's there there's, there's, it's hard to put these things into like one single phrase. I mean, I think that's a really good one. However, sometimes my my higher self or my inner guidance might take me into something that isn't so blissful. That doesn't feel so good temporarily, but it is the best choice for me and everyone else. Sure. Now that in itself is blissful. So it's tricky. We're using language here. Right? Right.
Brandon Handley 43:05
Right, right. So
Magick 43:06
for me that bliss if you want to use Joseph Campbell's phrase includes my inner guidance, it includes my my higher self. And when I do that, it doesn't really matter what's happening, I am blessed. You know, I am experiencing joy as long as I'm, as I mentioned earlier, you know, really being with what is no matter what is. So I feel like that that other quote, that I don't know who said it, but they said, you know, if you do what you love, you never work a day in your life. Right, right. Yeah. And that's where I feel like I'm at now. Okay. is in the work that I do. It's what I love. It's, it's, it's it wouldn't matter if I was getting paid not getting paid. I mean, for many years, I wasn't getting paid.
Brandon Handley 43:50
Let me talk about that. What was that part like, right? I mean, so because here's, here's, here's what I think a lot of people you know, it's just like that iceberg thing, right? A lot of people see the tip of the iceberg but they don't see you know, Everything else that went into getting to where you are today. Right?
Magick 44:04
Right. Yeah, I mean, it was a long, difficult, arduous journey for me, I came from there. I mean, the reason why my parents wanted me to go get into therapy when I was 14 is because I was a hellion, you know, rebellious, angry hellion that had been in a dysfunctional family and was was incredibly hurting. And so, years and years and years and years, I like Actually, my whole life. From that point. I've had some kind of mentor, some kind of therapist and I'm constantly working with shamans and Guna, sorcerers and just always being mentored and I have dedicated my life to my path. So you know, the one thing I noticed I used to teach classes and I'd have 3040 people in class and I would say now if you'll just do it This exercise I just taught you, between now and next week just to at once, if you're really into doing every day, and I guarantee you, you're going to change your life. And then if I come back next week, and I'd say how many people did it and nobody, you know, one person, two people, nobody consistently would raise their hands. I always was the guy that did it every day. You know, I'd be like doing the exercises every day, meditating every day. If you my, my experience is that if people really want to realize their divinity, or have peace, or have you know, even at the lowest level of the hierarchy, like just get what you want in life. That requires a lot of work. And for me, I always had two things going one, there was just something inside of me. There's just something inside of me that just is evolving, and there's nothing I can do about it. I'm on a train.
Brandon Handley 46:01
Yeah, I mean that unfolding is gonna happen whether or not life is going to happen, right and unfold. Whether or not you're, you're asking it to, right there's
Magick 46:12
my pursuit of doing transformational work that was just happening like, like some people don't do it, I couldn't help it. I'm just doing it. Right. And then there was a second piece where I had pointed in dedicated my life that I want to evolve and I want to do this work and I want to change and grow. And, and that part of me saw it as an investment. Like every moment that I meditate, the quality of my life is going to improve in the next moment, every moment that I do some exercise that I've learned that some transformational class, the quality of my life is going to improve. Every retreat that I go on, the quality of my life is going to improve and and I chose retreats and teachers and exercises and meditations that if I didn't see like you results like, I tell people when I work with them in private sessions with me on the phone, if you don't change in one session dramatically, I'm probably not the right teacher for you or, or helper. Like, let's do a maximum of three sessions and we evaluate, right? I mean, I've sat with schizophrenia before for two hours and then they're not schizo. phrenic, I've sat with someone that had a debilitating brain tumor that was causing them complete malfunctions and one of their, the language centers of their brain so they couldn't speak or understand language. 30 minutes later, they're speaking and understanding perfect English, like you're not working with someone that's facilitating those kinds of results. You may want to find somebody else and that's what I that's what I that's what I dedicate my life to. That's how I have five six different sorcerer shamans that have taken me under their wing and that I had this like, lifetime Carlos customer data book kind of experience with six of them.
Brandon Handley 47:56
Wow. I love that. I love that. I mean, I love the fact that you know It's like hey, maybe there's there's plenty of people out there that I think take advantage of people's willingness to to find him better themselves. But yours isn't just defined and better yourself. It's to radically alters somebody's life. Is that right? I mean, is that fair? I mean, I can't listen. Yeah, that's a that's an awesome, you know, kind of kind of way to go about it. And you know, that That, to me sounds like that's, you know, that's your intention when you wake up every day and your intention is to radically alter somebody else's life in a way that such that you know, if they come back to you and say, I don't feel radically altered, like Well, I guess this wasn't meant to be right. It's not you It's me. I don't know right. But
Magick 48:47
yeah, matter why, you know, it's the right fit for each other. Sure. Yeah. Pass but yeah, that's that's my measuring stick. You know, whether I'm on doing a retreat or I'm working with people in person or whatever. If they're not, like, after they do a retreat with me, if I don't check if I check back with them a year or two or 10 years, 10 years later, and they don't tell me it was a defining moment of their life, and they are like, you know, I'm totally different now. And here's why. And here's what happened differently, then I feel like, you know, I didn't do my job. Wow. And I love that. I love that too.
Brandon Handley 49:23
So, so much, so much good stuff. So, you know, look, I mean, here's this, you're just another awesome story. And I'll say just another awesome story. But there's, for people who are tuning into this podcast, what I want them to know is that, you know, they can, you know, follow their intuition. They can listen to that God voice and, and, and trust it, you know, how do you how would you go about telling somebody to begin to trust that right, like to trust their intuition? Mm hmm.
Magick 49:54
Well, I think that the it's a difficult question to answer because I work with people individually rather than generalizing. And that's how I get the results I get. So whenever I try to generalize it, it's challenging. However, having said that, the I think the first step is to find the time that you were intuitively guided about something new for me the first time that I tried to answer the question that you just asked, I asked myself, Well, when is the time in my life when I was guided? So I can go back and study it and figure out how is that guided? Like most people are, like, if I say, Well, how do you know when you're guided? They go, I don't know. I just know. Well, that's a lazy answer. And often an ignorant answer. And I don't mean that derogatorily I just mean, like, they don't know what they don't know.
Brandon Handley 50:52
Does that is that that's the lack of cultivation.
Magick 50:54
All right. Yeah, exactly. They don't realize that they could go back, slow down there. memory of a time when they had an inner guided experience and study it and notice, did I see something? Did I hear something? Did I feel something? Was it inside me? Was it outside me? How did this piece of wisdom drop into my consciousness or arrive here? Because there is a way that each person uniquely receives and perceives inner guidance. That's the most important first step is to start trying to find how do I receive and receive guidance? Because if you don't know that, how are you supposed to improve upon it and start you know, being more guided by it? You don't even know what it is. It's just like a random thing if you don't know that. So that's the first step is to just start studying it. And, you know, also, I think, a practice and intention and a practice. It's like, Okay, I'm going to intend today on Tuesday. David, I'm going to follow my inner guidance today. And I'm going to do it see most people start trying with big decisions and have big consequences. Like how am I going to get a divorce? Am I going to move? You know, like big things? It's like, no bad idea. There's because not only do I teach like how to get in touch with you and your guns, but there's a whole laundry list. I spent a whole day in my inner guidance weekend class, teaching people what can get in the way of it. And when it's a big decision, there's a lot more that comes up that's in the way. So start out with little perfunctory, ordinary mundane decisions. What are you going to eat for lunch today? What are you going to wear, you know, who am I going to call today? foods a really great one. And I have a great experience with it. You know, I was at a 10 day workshop. And they were feeding us at the workshop and they were feeding us a lot of, you know, raw food solids and I was a carnivore at the time. And you know, I was by the time that workshop ended, I was like ready for some meat. So my buddy and I were like, let's find the best cheeseburger in town. So we found this place that had a great cheeseburger. We went there. He didn't even he opened the menu, sell cheeseburger, closed it, I opened the menu, and I was like, Well, I'm gonna use my inner guidance today. Even though I desperately wanted a cheeseburger, so I cruised the menu, and I got a hard note on the cheeseburger, which was very disappointing. But I had cultivated a pretty strong relationship with my guidance at that point. And that's what it takes. It takes doing things like this and building trust from experiences like the one I'm telling you, because I didn't order a cheeseburger. I ordered like some sauteed fish and vegetables, which wasn't what I really wanted. Your wants is one of the things that can get in the way of your guidance. Now what I wanted, but what do I want more to follow my inner guidance which is taking all of my wants, and all of my souls purpose and everything into consideration, or some tiny little egoic wants in the moment, right? That's a distinction most people don't have. So I wanted the big wants, I want guidance. So I ordered the fish. My friend had the burger arrive, he took three bites, he felt sick, didn't finish it got food poisoning. My fish was fantastic. Right now that experience is one of those moments that like, crystallized and and deepened my experience with my guidance so that my faith in it was even stronger after that. So, practice, practice, practice in non threatening inconsequential contexts, and then pay attention. How did I get that? How did I know that? Get a journal, where you can keep notes about this stuff and reflect on it. And this is the cultivation of it. It's paying close attention to it your attention is the most valuable asset that you have that you can direct that and where you direct that is where things will grow and things will begin to build where attention goes energy flows.
Brandon Handley 55:15
I love it. I love it, you know absolutely right you know stick to the small stuff right? And and and don't try to manifest or expect miracles on your on your first go round. Right? And you know just and and accept it and and i think that we're talking about is is there certain qualities these are qualitative, you know experiences that you feel right? They have textures they have moments that you know, that you can you can go back at and you can recreate those within yourself right to feel whether or not you you say oh, this is intuition again, right this right and and you can go back and begin to see that I love it. I mean, you've definitely given us lots of like, you know, The things that we can, you know, look at and try to implement in our daily lives. And, you know, it's plain to see again that this is a huge benefit in the services that you provide. So super glad that we had the opportunity to connect and share this with a larger community. Where, where would I send somebody who who's looking for a little magic today?
Magick 56:25
Well, you can find me at my website sacred voyages.com. And you can find me on social media at Sacred voyages magic. And if somebody wanted to email, they could email the addresses awaken at Sacred voyages calm. And I'm just realizing I don't have my 800 number memorized. So I'm gonna tell you that in one moment here, it's eight, seven Seven sacred eight. It's funny, I didn't have that memorized 877 sacred aids it's pretty easy. And you know, I offer virtual retreats where somebody can be in their home anywhere in the world. And we can have a retreat in which I teach them how to create a sacred sites out of any nature where you're at, and how to have the kinds of experiences that we have in vortexes, like in Sedona, or Mount Shasta or Hawaii, in Chicago or in Florida or wherever you are, and there's interactions with people and their demonic transmission and teachings. You know, on this podcast I'm, I tried to convey and transmit as much of this information as possible. But it is less conducive with the interactivity than when I'm just on my own and I just drop in like later today, and I do this once a month and you can find out more at circle forge comm I do my own podcasts, which is on Facebook Live and it's also recorded. And I think it's sacred forges comm forward slash magic with a K on the N dash talks. And and that's a powerful way to connect more with me it's free. I pick a topic each month and I just transmit that topic. And people get affected and transformed by it. And so there's virtual retreats, there's retreats that are in sacred sites, which right now we're in times of COVID. So that's happening less or not at all at the moment, you know, I do custom retreats and I do group retreats and then I do a limited number of private one on one sessions on the phone because I only have so much time. So those are the primary ways that somebody could reach me and find out more and, and many of the topics that we talked about today, you know, I could teach you about for a weekend, you know, how to love yourself, how to cultivate guidance, you know, discovering the Divinity inside embodiments, you're being with your emotions, which is really, I think the Number one secret to our humanity. The number one secret, we don't get a manual. When we come down onto the earth. Nobody says, Hey, here's the manual, here's how you run this thing. We're all trying to figure it out. And if I if there was one thing that I could teach a human being, to help them actually have this vessel run properly, it would be how to actually be with your emotions, how to and I have a whole method I teach called the Oneness method of how to actually embody and be with them that you know, one session changes people's lives. So lots of different ways to connect. Love to hear from anybody and everybody.
Brandon Handley 59:38
Awesome, guys. Well reach on out to magic. Let him know you heard him here. And thanks again for being here.
Magick 59:44
Yeah, thanks, Brandon. I appreciate it. It was great being here with you great, insightful questions and I appreciate your consciousness and good to connect and to be with your audience. Thank you.
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