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Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 11:06 a.m.

I couldn't have more fun on a podcast if I tried.

Take a listen while Christian Bradley West & I talk about spirituality, purpose, relationships and more and how you can implement some of the practical wisdom he shares on the podcast!

Connect with Christian @ https://www.thecountryclairvoyant.com/

On Insta @ thecountryclairvoyant and let him know you found him as a guest on Spiritual Dope.

Brandon Handley 0:00
321 Hey, there's spiritual dope, and thanks for joining me today I have with me, Christian Bradley West, the country clairvoyant. Um, first of all, I just loved the name. Right. And I think that that's one of the reasons why we connected um, you know, obviously he's a clairvoyant in the spirituality space artists, textile artists,

Unknown Speaker 0:28
author

Brandon Handley 0:30
podcaster and Instagram influencer. So, you know, a couple of things that you write in here, right is a, you know, dedicated to facilitate and clear vision with within others, so that they are no longer wandering in the wilderness asking the question is, how did I get here? What am I doing? What is my purpose? Who am I? And you know, you're like, Hey, I'll spare you all the brain science focuses on patterns and behaviors. And I'll let you know, until you I know exactly how you got to where you are patterns and behaviors, right? And then, you know, you kind of say, Hey, I'm more like a spirit guide and a meat suit. Right. So this is a spirit guide me suit. What more do you need to know? Right? You know what, and so thanks for being here today. Appreciate it.

Christian Bradley West 1:19
Thank you. Thank you. And I have to say, I'm one of many. You are here, as well. We're all booty. Buddhists. They were all Buddhists. Right? We're all we're all gods. So we're all bad in some fashion. Some of us just, I've picked up the the staff, I suppose the staff are found in the wilderness and decided to go forward with Sure. Sure. No, I love that. Right.

Brandon Handley 1:41
I think that i think that that's another part where the word awareness kind of gets tossed in and out, right, like, everybody is

Unknown Speaker 1:49
Buddha.

Brandon Handley 1:50
Right? Yeah. But it's like whether or not you decide to be aware of it or not acknowledgement even. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, so what I like to start these off with is, you know, source speaks through us, right. And certain conditions and what this microphone is, right, is an amplifier. Right? Yeah. So, sources speaking through you today to specific people that listen to this podcast. What's it saying? What's the message that you're here to deliver today?

Christian Bradley West 2:23
Ah, wow, he put me on the spot. Let's see what's coming through. Okay. So one thing that's been coming through just recently is there's there's a lot Okay, let's go here. There's a lot of conspiracy theories out there. There's a lot of there's a lot of information, right. We live in the information age, there's a lot of it, right. And there's any number of different facets. There's the truth, there's the lies, there's all those different things. And of course, people could say, oh, truth is relative, so forth, all that we get into all that talk, but we won't right now. But we could say all of that. So. But what I will point to is that none of that matters. And you're like, well, Krishna, of course, it matters. This information, we need this information to live to survive, what is it? What are you What is it? Why does it matter? And I say that because what only matters is the individual, you taking care of you. So there's could be all that shit swirling around in the world. And it is not directly impacting you on a day to day basis. If it is not speaking to your own practice of awareness, then then really the focus I want now I feel like in my message period is I want people to focus on their own individual awareness, their own individual growth, and their own choices, because that is what drives the collective right. That's what drives all of the other things. Because each of us is a piece of the whole and whole as a piece. Right. So, so, so that's been showing up a lot in talks with friends, family, other people. And and I always want to point back to the consciousness of the individual. And yes, there are many things going on. But if we don't have the facts and figures, then we probably want to just redirect our focus to what is true within us, and how we can participate with that. And instead of worrying about what's going on in the rest of the world, although to be conscious of it is completely okay. And and to some degree necessary. Not not ignoring any of it, but also realizing what we can do in our daily life in order to contribute without getting caught up in all theories and conspiracies and all of those things.

Brandon Handley 4:49
Yeah, I love it. Yeah, there's a there's a lot of conspiracy theory shit out there right now. It's just like yeah, it's it's like 2020 is a perfect storm for Yeah,

Christian Bradley West 5:01
movements around into cue non movement, there's, there are literally, it feels like we're living in a, in a, in a an apocalyptic novel, you know like science fiction it really feels that way to me sometimes it's a little scary and entertaining at the same

Brandon Handley 5:19
time. I know that when it hit right I know I heard you said like you were all packed up and ready to go, right? You're like, Hey, I did I did my supply shopping. But

Unknown Speaker 5:27
yeah,

Brandon Handley 5:28
when when we started seeing reports, my wife and I started seeing reports of like, you know, shipping rationed at the grocery store. I was like, Alright, we got to go online, we got to order, like we're hitting up like restaurants, stores in order and stuff. And mind you, like we would have only lived like maybe six or seven days longer than anybody else. Right, but but we have the toilet

Unknown Speaker 5:51
paper.

Brandon Handley 5:53
But it seems like, you know, very apocalyptic. And at the same time, it's, I think that I think it's kind of great, because this is like that, that break that the world kind of needed, right? The disruption, like, you know, hey, everybody's been asking for disruption. Like, we need to disrupt this that the other thing and yeah, you just got disrupted like massively. So you got what you asked for?

Christian Bradley West 6:19
Yeah, right. We were building to it. I mean, technology has been remarkably, art and science has been disruptive, throughout all of human history. And in the 20th century, of course, it essentially came to a certain head and in and it's still doing, especially technology. Now, it is the primary disrupter. So and now we have, as you just mentioned, the these other impinging. Yeah, and what do we what do we do with it? How do we how do we essentially take the wildfire and use it to benefit? Well, I mean, I

Brandon Handley 6:59
love how you hit on that, you know, let's, uh, you know, that talks a little bit. So like, I think your outcome is optimizing. Right? Yeah. And let's talk about that a little bit. But um, let's give people a little bit of backstory, right. concha clairvoyant. How did he come into existence?

Christian Bradley West 7:17
Well, and this is one incarnation, I'll say, I don't know if I will stay here, but it's one of the titles I always joke. I'm like, Khaleesi, Mother of Dragons, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like I have 1000 titles in this life already. And, and I'm at the end of it, it's just I am just Christian by the West. But how that came to be, was I oddly enough, without meaning to I had had this dream about being Native American. And then a week later, I found out that I actually had that in my bloodline through my father. And but what also happened is I did a soul retrieval because I grew up on power, the power 10 Nation property in Virginia, which is course related to Pocahontas. I literally live just miles down from Pocahontas State Park. So I grew up on that land. And, um, and had a lot of weird circumstances I always was had, I guess you could say psychic, aware, medium. And so what I did is I came back actually that week, without knowing having the dream I was coming back to Virginia from Georgia, with a dear dear friend who's also an astrologer psychic, medium person. And he tuned in and he's like, Oh, yeah, you died on that property. And we went through the whole thing. And so I went back there. And then on the drive back to Atlanta, I had the country live with me, which actually was an idea six months before, but I thought it was a distraction. I was like, oh, whatever, it's much bullshit. And then like, but the voice was in my head, like, you have to do this. And here's the interesting thing is that if I would not have started it about two and a half years ago, I would not know what I would be doing to make a living now, I don't know what I would be doing. Because my books that I had then had been rejected, like, nothing was coming through like, this was the thing. And I'd started account previous, that took me six months to maybe get 1000 followers, and in the first month with this account with the Instagram account, for those that are listening, I had almost 4000 followers. So Beginner's luck, essentially. And I was like, Okay, I guess this is what I'm doing now. And then it was like, okay, just start doing readings, which I had always done for friends and family, but then it was like, Okay, do this now. And I was like, Oh, shit. So,

Brandon Handley 9:29
so intuition. Intuition was saying,

Christian Bradley West 9:32
Yeah, there's no Yeah, yeah. Just I, I jokingly say, people could easily probably call me schizophrenia. I'm not, but that they're like, Oh, you hear voices? And I'm like, absolutely.

Brandon Handley 9:44
We kind of hit on that though, too. Right. Like, I mean, could I listen, my grandmother was schizophrenia, you know, but I went there for the diagnosis. But you know, could it have been? You know, intuition, could it have bad mediumship Couldn't have been one or any of all these other things. Absolute just improperly received.

Christian Bradley West 10:06
Yeah. And I absolutely think that I sometimes I think there's a direct line of mental illness with this work. Um, I've struggled with it periodically. Because I think when you're, when you're walking the margins of society in any way, shape or form, in your thought process, you definitely feel like an outsider. And if you're getting information, and it's coming in a quote, unquote, weird way, or odd way, it can definitely be that way. But we not only hear the positive, we hear potentially the negative as well. And sometimes you can get very consumed in those negative voices. And as we know, the collective is full of those voices going back to conspiracy theories and so forth. For so it's hard to discern. So I think sometimes the mental illness gets augmented as bad or negative, because no one is there to cultivate the listening and how to discern between what's coming through.

Brandon Handley 11:01
Right, right. And being able to, you know, tune in or tune out, right.

Christian Bradley West 11:08
Exactly. Filter weather, what radio station, yeah, what radio station and my tuning into, sometimes that dial is just all over the place, especially for people who are empathic, and I'm like, okay, the point is to learn what station you want to turn into and where they're different stations. And that takes a tremendous amount of practice, and self awareness.

Brandon Handley 11:28
Yeah. So so you know, you're headed back to Georgia, you decide the country clairvoyant, you spin up the Instagram account. You've got 4000 followers in a month, and people are probably like, how did you do that? But you basically just spun it up, and you were being your authentic self?

Christian Bradley West 11:46
Yeah, I decided that with his account, I was just gonna throw everything at the wall and see what stuck. Like, I just was like, This is who I am. I feel like I've had to learn and modify things within this space, not modify it in a negative sense, but but essentially almost like carving out a sculpture. There's like, Okay, this, this works, this doesn't work. And how and really what it is, is same with my writing is how do I refine how I use my voice? What am I saying? What do I want to say? Where do I want to direct this and become more strategic in my awareness of my own message? And it's, it's slowly evolving, I decided this will be just a meme account right now. Because I like that a lot of people go in, they change it like, Hey, this is a meme account. And now it's gonna be a personal account. I don't know. I kind of like it being little.

Brandon Handley 12:36
Right, right. Right. Yeah. No. So I mean, it is a meme. And it's entertaining. Right. Lots of entertainment on there. And, you know, I think that, you know, from, from my perspective, and where I'm coming from, I was looking for kind of spiritual accounts that weren't your everyday spiritual accounts. Yeah. I mean, look, there's a lot of them out there.

Unknown Speaker 12:57
Yeah. And, and they're great.

Brandon Handley 12:59
They're great. But like, there's, you know, spirituality isn't all, you know, like, the beads. It's not all like that, that that stupid dress that every hippie has. Yeah. And yeah, and all that. Right. Yeah. And that's why I started following some of what you're putting out there. Right. Yeah. Because I enjoyed it. It's authentic. It's real. And it Yeah, it is spiritual. The stuff that you're saying is like, it's legit, right? I know, because I got a book of what's legit and what's not behind me.

Christian Bradley West 13:33
Call your intuition. Right. Like, it's

Brandon Handley 13:39
like, yeah, look, it's you know, I try not to be like an elitist. But sometimes, like, You got it, you got to know where to cut the shit, right? Like, you know, this is like, you can tell some, some things apart from others. And that's just it.

Christian Bradley West 13:52
It's about the editing and the curating. And to me, I like to be very practical, to me, spirituality is simply rewiring the brain for more awareness, more openness to to the, to the perceived unknown anyway. And, and, and not getting so stuck in the mire of what have been right and thinking we know already. And we call it spirituality and the you know, if you look back at Hinduism, the Vedas, if you look all the way back to some of the very early spiritual texts, they all talk about, essentially changing your perspective and which which rewires the brain and the more you practice the different perspectives or the different thoughts, or it could be taken even further to live and no thought and allow things to arise from that. Then your life changes, your brain chemistry changes, your body chemistry changes, everything changes, and of course, the way that they taught me Kriya Yoga, the way you accelerate that practice is through your breath work, which is a Kriya Yoga, very separate from hatha because hot is great but Kriya Really is my favorite, because it really displaces it's a disrupter, that breathwork is a disrupter. And literally, the thoughts, it forces the thoughts to stop. And then you just see them floating up there. And you're like, Okay, and kind of like a tree you can pluck when you want, you know,

Brandon Handley 15:18
I love that. I love that. So I mean, I love the idea of no thought, Would you say that's similar to surrender?

Christian Bradley West 15:28
Gosh, yes, I can definitely be an aspect of that. Because the mind very much so wants to assume and judge and categorize and label and detail and, and do all those things, which is a great tool. Again, though, it's a tool. So either we're using a hammer and the hammer is using us. So yeah, at some point in time, to essentially surrender the need to be thinking all the time, they need to be figuring out like, last night, I had this emotional state come over me where I was very angry. And I was like, let's figure this out. And then I thought for a second, I was like, No, Christian, you can't think your way through this. Let's breathe our way through this. Let's accept it to your point. Let's surrender. Not to the circumstance, but let's surrender to the awareness of the circumstance.

Brandon Handley 16:18
Right, right now, hundred percent hundred percent. Yeah. You know, in a situation where you're angry, you know, you're restricting the possibilities, right? Because you've got like this pinpoint, you know, thing or like, Scott, I have in this way, God dammit.

Christian Bradley West 16:35
Right. Or it didn't happen that way. So God damn right.

Brandon Handley 16:38
Right. Right. Right. So like, like I had, I had, like, you know, the whole universe, and it's got a it's got land on this time. And if it doesn't, I'm pissed as hell. And you're not open or open to what are all these other possibilities? Right. And yeah, just literally kind of letting that flow through you.

Christian Bradley West 16:56
Yeah, absolutely. It's good way to put it. Absolutely.

Brandon Handley 17:00
Well, you know, look, I mean, we're, we are energy, energy currents, right, like, and just this body, the meatsuit. Right. Yeah. And the mind acts as a dam for that stuff, right? We're like, well, like, I guess I'm just gonna have to stop it. It's all gonna stay right here. And this is like, yeah, honey type flow. And you they again, you're just restricted to this, like tiny space. Otherwise, you know, we've got the rest of the we've got the rest of the universe to work with. And we're not even trying.

Christian Bradley West 17:27
No, well, and there's something so there's two things, the shamans, shamans are often called the hollow bones, right. So they're the vessel that folds the spirit, whatever you want to say. And then, and then you also have, the way you're talking about to me and an astrology thing is very Saturn nine way of looking at things from two different sides, which is, there's a great book that I loved when I was young artists called the power of limits, and it talks about pie and proportion. And and how this this number definitely had a structure to it. But the structure was potentially infinite in its incarnations. And I always love that because to me, it's like, yes, we're in the meatsuit. But what how do we maximize the potential of this meatsuit? And and through adversity through potentially, which could be potentially very much so be suffering and certain challenges in life, we begin to recognize what we're capable of beyond our conditioning beyond the domestication beyond the agreements, we were handed as children. And go Wait, But wait, there's more. Right? But But how do we do that while maintaining an open space? I jokingly say we're all walking vaginas for spirit.

Brandon Handley 18:45
Because the receive,

Christian Bradley West 18:46
right, right, because sometimes, we're definitely there's a structure to us. But there's definitely something else and what people don't realize the spirit isn't outside. We are spirit, hopefully. Yeah. Yeah. So so it's like when we surrender, we're not surrendering to something as much as we are, which is the way it looks to people. What we're ultimately doing is we're just allowing for our authentic nature without all the voices without allies without their old, old, old the past to get in the way of how we want to be now.

Brandon Handley 19:19
So how did you stumble on that for yourself? Ask me that again. How did I what I'll just stumble on that for yourself. You know,

Christian Bradley West 19:26
was it was it something I yeah, so when I started very young, I always was I was always drawn to this stuff, which again, astrological look at my chart, it's like, oh, yeah, you are spiritual as fuck and, and it's true. I always was. I was always interested in all these weird things like the angels fairies and fantasy dragons, so forth, whatever. And then when I was when I was when I was 14, I started to realize I was gay. And that was very difficult because I was this devote Christian set. Baptist and had chosen that through actually my grandparents who were my archetype of unconditional love in my life. So I was like, of course, like, they're showing me the way, so I'm going to do the church thing. Sure. And then the other aspect to it was that created so much stress, we all actually moved to Atlanta, at 16. So middle of high school, so I had to leave all my friends. And I developed Crohn's disease as a child. So those two things kind of coming together. Like a

Brandon Handley 20:32
hydron Collider, right? Yes,

Christian Bradley West 20:33
it was. So those they end also dealing with parental abuse, as well as, as a child and as a teenager, mental, emotional, and physical, became all of those things created such intense suffering for me that I just essentially, that was my initial collapse. And at that point, time, if you want to call them angels, or whatever, showed up, I didn't know who they were. But I was having these dreams with these beings and these feelings that I was having. And, and so a door open then and then I met started meeting through doing herbs and essential oils and my healing and things like that, because I got off the steroids. I was just done with the anti inflammatories they had me on went completely to herbs. So in those shops, I started to meet people that was like, Oh, I want to I want to get to know these people. What's going on here? So yeah, so that was the beginning of it all.

Brandon Handley 21:31
So it's a whole nother space. And so, you know, it's funny, because you mentioned you're gay. And and also, you know, you're doing this clairvoyance. And you're in the south.

Unknown Speaker 21:45
Yeah.

Christian Bradley West 21:47
Hence the country clairvoyant.

Brandon Handley 21:49
Right. Right. So so for, you know, for for people tuning in, you know, if you're not from the south, and if you haven't ventured to the south, I hate to say it, you know, there's a lot of parts in the south that really haven't changed in the past 30 to 40 years. So for you to be in the position that you're in doing what you're doing, I'd say that's brave, right, you know, in one sense of the word. But in the other side of that, there must have been, you know, this kind of fear stacked on fear. And I think I talked about it before, like, you know, what happens we like, not only are you gay, you've already you're in the south, but now you're like, I'm gonna be doing tarot readings. And, boy, and I'm psychic, who wants to hang out? Right? All right. So let's talk about stepping into that space and what that was like for you.

Christian Bradley West 22:40
So to your point, very much so that I, for anyone that doesn't know and the ones that listen in probably don't, um, I come from a fear space and everywhere, so that you may say, like, you walk the path of love or fear, whatever the conscious or unconscious, I always come from the fear. And what I also realize I do is I do everything anyway. So if I feel very compelled and inspired to seek something out or to participate in some way, then I will do it, and nothing will stop me. Nothing. I will, I will go, Okay, this is what I'm doing now. And it's interesting, because I haven't dealt even being gay, I haven't dealt with outside of high school, there hasn't been any prejudice in my life. There's never I've never stumbled. I also have dated very country, alpha boys a lot, they have tend to find me. And I have I was country boy, myself. So um, you know, inside, there's, there's one of those inside of me. So, um, so you know, it's true. And so I've kind of, it's odd how it's all worked out. It's, it's, it's strange, I really, I always say, I'm 50% country, 50% city. And so I just I go wherever I'm called. And I find those people, whether they're in the country, or in the cut, you know, one way to say it, or, or if or if they're actually, you know, in more urban areas, it's funny, I feel very binary in that way that I kind of flow between the two. And the fear. Of course, in the beginning, it's always the, you know, the strongest in the beginning, but I've just, I keep pushing past that. And when I started to do this, the fear was, oh my god, I'm gonna be in front of people talking and talking about my my philosophies, my, my own perspectives, and that felt very vulnerable, so that I've had to work through that a lot, as well. So have you found it to be empowering,

Brandon Handley 24:45
kind of facing those fears and and stepping into them?

Christian Bradley West 24:48
Absolutely. My perception is it's always empowering for us because if we don't turn around and look at what scares us, then we will Stay, what we resist persists. As they say, I find that to be very true. And it's of great value, that we, that we dive deep, I still dive deep, I still, one thing I'm struggling with recently is wanting to be accepted by the group. I still feel that way sometimes. And if I'm still wanting that, then there's still ego and be attached to some form of outcome. And so and so and afraid that I won't get the love and approval that apparently some part of me desperately still wants

Brandon Handley 25:32
a madman No, I get it, I get it. And, you know, this is this is something I actually just did a transformational kind of session last week or the week before with the very same thing, like, you know, yeah, like, what's your, you know, what's your hang up? I'm like, it's belonging, right. Like, it's just, and that was in the session I did was it was great, right. But you know, just saying, I get the whole belonging part, right. And and so, you know, what do you do with that, right? And it sounds to me, like, Look, you just kind of keep stepping towards it, right? Like, that's it,

Christian Bradley West 26:05
that's it, you, you acknowledge the fear, and you go, and this, and I go, fuck you, you do not get to drive the car, right? And sometimes you don't even get to sit in the backseat, sometimes you have to get in the trunk. And I just say, no, we're not doing this, I really, I really have to have that conversation with myself. That's not what I'm doing now.

Brandon Handley 26:27
That's great. Now that we're at now, where do you find that kind of impacting what it is that you do, and like, how you getting you know,

Christian Bradley West 26:35
so I show up, I participate. Because otherwise, if we feel ashamed, and we feel like what we don't have to offer is a value to people. And shame being not I feel bad, but that I am bad, right? There is something wrong with me isn't how I define shame. Um, and so if we feel any of that, and we're essentially judging what we have to offer, then we're doing a disservice to ourselves, but also to other people that might be seeking it. And right now, there's this explosion of amazing people, like you and so many other people out there who are wanting to provide information to people that can help them on their journey. And if we're not doing that, then we're we're essentially we're allowing our, the junk to get in the way, and potentially being very selfish because of that, because we want to protect ourselves, right? So stepping into that space of vulnerability to me very consciously, I call becoming available. So I value being available. So I choose the availability and what it's teaching me is to show up every day, because my inclination has been to go run in my room and hide sure the ad and become very introverted. Sure. And go, No, I don't want to do that. And what if I get judged for it? And what if people don't like it? And what? What if I fuck up? You know?

Brandon Handley 28:01
Yeah, no, look, I agree, right? I love that too. What if you fuck up? So what is your life? Right? Like, anyways? Like, you know,

Christian Bradley West 28:09
I cannot is that even true? Because as I as as one of my dearest friends on the planet says, you have to be every bend to be where you are.

Brandon Handley 28:16
Right? Well, I mean, it was funny. We're getting ready for this podcast. And, you know, we're working on the lighting and, and getting the video all set up. Right. And, and I didn't say it, but like, you know, the deal is like it you worked a whole life to get to this point, you know, this is the best you've ever loved today,

Unknown Speaker 28:33
right now.

Brandon Handley 28:34
Right? So so I'm not gonna look any better today than you look right now. So, I love that, um, what if I called up so if I call you up for a session, you know, what, what type of sessions am I calling up for like,

Christian Bradley West 28:52
so there there is. There's really two I I did put on my website, multiple options, but I find it doesn't matter what you choose, because we will always get to the nitty gritty, we'll always get to the source of whatever, whatever information is needed. Right now, the tools are different. Some people are more comfortable with astrology, so I can do that. Some people are more comfortable with Tarot. So I do that some people want Oracle cards, or some people don't care. They just go you have information for me. You can help me clarify something. Let's do it. Let's go have a party together. So we do for like an hour and we we talk we throw cards. I always start off with numbers numerology, I don't know why I'm terrible at math. And the universe is like, Oh, hey, we're gonna have to do numerology in order to tune into this person. And it is it's kind of like you giving me your passcode to the Wi Fi or your computer that we get in there. And it's like, Okay, I see this happen. Like, it's really,

Brandon Handley 29:54
yeah, it's an it's interesting process. That's cool and use, I think I heard you say like, most of the people, a lot of people are calling about relationships and whatnot,

Christian Bradley West 30:04
relationships tends to be one of the primary, um, one of the primary discussions, one of the primary readings that people want. And it is a primary way that we learn, we, we learn relationally everything in this world is in relationship you're in, we're in relationship with our microphones right now with our, with our recording devices, with whatever. So, um, but human relationship tends to cause the most amount of drama, because it is so nuanced, and so and instigate the triggers, sure, that require our attention in any given moment, for our healing, which, from my perspective, the root of the word healing is just hope. So it's whatever is going to lead us into more homes. Sure. Sure. Yeah.

Brandon Handley 30:58
Yeah. No, and I love that right. When your relationship with someone over time they get to know all your triggers, right. Yeah. And, you know, they keep pushing them and to balance with you, you know, that's where we learn how, where our points are that need to be fixed, right? That's what yeah, it's not them. It's like these are these are your triggers. They're not

Christian Bradley West 31:18
their triggers? No. Well, and and if you are conscious enough, then you'll choose someone who's not going to do it on purpose, or, or maliciously, because some people do that some people will weaponize the triggers, and general use them in order to manipulate or do whatever. And I've experienced that in my life. And I'll and I'll be like, Okay, this is, you know, you're operating in this fashion. Can we discuss about this? And, and how can I change it out also in this, like, what's going on here. And for me, what I realized is a lot of those relationships I had to step away from, because if someone was unaware of their own triggers as well. And, and, and also triggering other people to say, if you, if you don't heal your wounds, you'll bleed on others. So it's important. It's really important to understand who we are, and then also look at our partners and understand them so that we can be of service to their own process. Yeah, so hopefully, that happens. I don't see that a lot. But I do see it changing. There are a lot of people out there who are ready to come together. We talk about unconscious coupling, our conscious uncoupling, but most of it is unconscious coupled instead. Right? Right, right.

Brandon Handley 32:37
Absolutely. I mean, look, I can't I can't say that. I can't save the relationship that I'm in now that it was like a, it was a conscious decision.

Christian Bradley West 32:46
No, but it can become that it becomes that like over

Brandon Handley 32:50
Yeah, right. Like, absolutely. And as you kind of, I don't want to say evolve, like, I don't like the words evolve. I don't like the, you know, leveling up or any of that shit. Like, it's, again, I struggle

Christian Bradley West 33:00
with it to

Brandon Handley 33:02
remembering who you are getting back to your true sense of self, right? Like, because

Christian Bradley West 33:09
we'll frame it in the way of the physical realm, it appears that we're expanding or leveling up, it appears that way. But if we're coming from a space of wholeness, and spirit, and in that spirit of wholeness already, then you already recognize the entirety exists. So you're not trying to grab something in order to expand or level up, you're just going, Okay, it already exists. And I'm going through the motions here, of this experience and this physical reality. So it appears that things expand and contract here, but of course, when you're looking at it from a different perspective, everything already exists. And already is and its wholeness.

Brandon Handley 33:47
Right, so everything already exists. You just got Yeah, I'm aware of it. Right. Like that's the that's Yes, the line. That's the line. What, um, all right, look, I love it. Right. Um, let's see what else I have for you today. We talked about alkalizing your stuff, right? I pulled that out of one of the podcasts that you kind of mentioned. If someone's not familiar with a, you know, alchemy beyond transmuting gold, you know, lead into gold added to gold. Yeah, from back in the day. You know, let's talk a little bit about what does it mean to optimize?

Christian Bradley West 34:18
Yeah, so it's I also in my very country way, other way I do it is using manure to grow wild flowers. So it's taking your life's shit, right? And then consciously applying it going, Okay, what's the lesson throwing it on the garden? You know, and of course, everyone knows if anyone's ever had a garden it requires tremendous tending, right because the deer come and eat things or other critters and you have any insects and all that stuff. So you have to tend to it that way. And you have to fertilize it. You have to decide some soils need extra things in order to PR certain plants to grow and you know, so It really it's about becoming aware of what happened. What was the trauma? What was the junk mean going, how can I use this, for instance, speaking about my relationships, one relationship in particular, the person had been molested and was an alcoholic. And it I started to research more about shame, I started to research more about what healthy relationships look like, as well. I started to research all these things. And it gave me a whole nother set of tools that I wasn't using. And so yes, that relationship was very painful and heart wrenching, and very difficult to go through. Sure. And I left it with all this information. And now I work with a lot of people who have struggled with those same things either within themselves or within relationships with their partners. And now I say, Okay, here are some tools that I have to try that. So that's one way outcome is it it's like, okay, don't focus on the negative aspects of it. Although acknowledge it, don't bypass it. Okay, that was painful. That hurt like crap. But but then attend to it and go, Okay, well, well, how can I? What did I learn? what's the takeaway? What's that? So in alchemy, of course, you have the fire, right? And the fire burns away everything that isn't the gold, and you're left with the gold. And so the alchemy to me is really a process of recognizing the value in every circumstance, and taking that gold and turning into something else. And I also say, from grid into gold, so it's like, we take it and and we make it our own. But alchemy is the process that we're responsible for. We also another aspect of alchemy is applying meaning to your own life, and not allowing another person place or thing, some authority outside of you to apply the meaning. You get to decide what that relationship meant, what that circumstance meant, what that event meant to you. And no one else can decide that for you. And in that way, you're optimizing it.

Brandon Handley 36:59
Yeah, no, I mean, and I think in that situation, too, you become the true creator of your own life. Right? Like, yeah, and you've got all the pieces, the bits and pieces and the parts, but at some point, you realize that you are designing your own life, and you've got your own meaning your own purpose, your own. Yeah, you know, set of logic that makes it all happen, right? Yeah. And I saw, I love that there was another piece he said to talk about, like linearity, right? None of this is like not linear, right? None of this is linear. So anybody who says like, Listen, all you got to do is go or point A, at the left over here at point B, and you should arrive here at C, as you know, that's the direction you go linear. What did you mean? Yeah, what do you mean by that, like?

Christian Bradley West 37:45
So I, one way that I, that I described it that I love is if anyone seen the seed of life, in anyone, google it if you if you're listening, and you don't know it, so it's a set of seven circles, right? But they can expand into multiple more circles. And then if you really, if you look at it from a different perspective, it becomes a spiral. So you go around one circle, but then you hit on another circle and sons go around that circle, then you go around that circle, then you are on that circle, and then you go around that circle, then you go around that circle, and then you kind of sometimes hit on some of the things from that you've already learned, but then you go around it again. And so it's, it's not this straight. It's not this, what I call vector consciousness, it doesn't run on a straight line, no consciousness runs on a straight line. That's essentially also what I would call in computer terms in AI as well, like a current AI is running on one terms, but of course, in AI talk, there's also something called panoramic AI, which can see the whole picture, it's not running on a vector anymore. And our consciousness is kind of like that. We start off with this linearity with this vector, okay, it's one line. And then once we awaken, we start to realize we become panoramic, our vision becomes panoramic, when you start to see all these different circles, all these different things and to your point, um, you stop going, there's just a dime, you go. There's so many times there's so many options. There's so many ways of going about this. And, and sometimes, like in my healing of my body, I've had to target it from multiple ways through exercise, through herbs, through Central oils, sometimes through baths through eating certain foods through things like that. I haven't healed my gut from just choosing Okay, I'm going to take this one medicine, and it's going to fix everything, because there is no silver bullet usually. So in the linearity comes the exploration of the experience that

Brandon Handley 39:38
I love that dude, um, you know, just just while you're talking about you know, healing the gut, right. Did you go through like I Vedic, uh, you know, how did you

Christian Bradley West 39:47
I try that early on. And what what I what has worked. Actually I've recently changed it up what has worked recently because I had another bout because I took a lot of animals For a tooth and jaw infection earlier this year, and was disrupted again. And what work this time is I have flooded myself with multiple strains of probiotics or different non dairy because I can't do dairy. I'm non dairy yogurts, also taking certain probiotics, and also just really monitoring what is going into my body, I don't eat really greasy food, I tend to do my best to stay away from refined sugars, and just allow anything that could potentially promote inflammation I stay away from, and then anything like herbs like marshmallow and slippery elm that kind of helped the mucosal lining, and we're gonna sciency in that in that zone to help rebuild it, because the antibiotics kill is good bacteria that kind of helped keep that. So what I want to do is create an environment it was like, Okay, if I killed them all off, right? How do I support their regeneration? Right. Um, and before though, in the past, it's been just like, bombarding myself with herbs. But, um, but this go round, I was like, I want to be more dynamic. So even in my practice of my life, I'm choosing to operate in that dynamic space, which again, the non linearity has benefited me greatly. And I'm, I say, I'm in the trenches with everyone. I'm over here do.

Brandon Handley 41:34
Right, right. I mean, I mean, none, I don't think anybody's like, perfect with all this stuff. Right. And they caught That's why they call it that's why I call it practice, right? Like, this is this is your practice, right? This is what you do. And these are the things that you're doing. These are the habits that you created yourself. Um, yeah. And, you know, they serve you today, like, in a week, they could all fall apart. None of it's working anymore. Right? Exactly.

Christian Bradley West 41:57
Oh, which has happened, which is happened.

Brandon Handley 42:01
Tanya, so I, you know, one of the things, you know, we see out there, at least, that's what I see, you know, in this motivational, entrepreneurial, all this other stuff, right, like, stay the course, just keep with it, keep sticking with it, and you'll make it or whatever. And you know, or don't deviate, there's discipline, you got to stick with it, the rigor, yada, yada, yada. And so that can make it difficult to let go of some of the habits that you've created, or some of the things that you've done. So talk about, like breaking the habits that aren't serving you anymore, and recognizing that they're not serving you anymore.

Christian Bradley West 42:33
This is a couple of things here, I say keep going does not mean doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. So keep going and staying consistent does not mean that you don't adapt, you consistently adapt. So that's what you bring into the fold there. At least that's been my lesson. And then the other part of it is research shows because I've done a lot of research, I've researched this a lot myself, research shows that we don't break habits. So we have these grooves in our brains, right, we create this neural pathway. And what ends up happening is we choose differently. So that old neural pathway essentially grows over and starts to disintegrate as we start using a new one. And I struggle with the term habit, because any habit to me feels unconscious. So the only habit I think anyone needs is to be present and do everything on purpose. Because if you are it breaks the pattern of I have to do it the right way. Because the linearity comes through with the right way I have to do this, I have to learn as you said, You know, I have to follow this structure, I have to do it this way. Well, if that structure is not working anymore, then you become curious about it. And you go, Okay, is there a different structure, and then you start to research and then you start to find that there's other options. There's other ways of doing it. And so, And to me, that's living on purpose. It's and then connecting it to what we talked about earlier with conspiracy theories is is I say, be a researcher ask questions, because that is going to forward our momentum, with our consciousness and with anything we do. So if for whatever reason you quote unquote, as they say, gets stuck, then the next thing to do is go Okay, am I operating out of out of a habitual mode? And can I change that so again, the and they may be the only habit. The other habit is when you're operating on purpose in the present is that you're also adapting. So each moment has its own set of circumstances that are very individual and as unique as the individual approaching them. So it's of great value for us to recognize what's useful there because what it's like another example I use for being very linear is going okay, I've been using the screwdriver, you know, to to drew screws, but now it's time to use a nail. Well, if you try and hammer The nail with the screwdriver, that's going to be really difficult. So get the damn hammer and stop trying to use the screwdriver and go kind of stuff this isn't working, it's like, No, just fine, adapt and locate the tool become aware of the tool that's going to support you through the process.

Brandon Handley 45:19
Yeah, I mean, I like that a lot. Because, you know, be aware that you don't have the tool that you need for the process right then and there. Right? Like being being aware that this, this tool doesn't serve this process. What is the tool that you need? Right?

Christian Bradley West 45:34
Well, and so like I say, on my website, if you can't see the forest for the trees, then maybe you need to listen to the forest. Maybe you need to feel the forest, maybe there's a different way of moving through the circumstance that you're not aware of. Because maybe you're not supposed to see the forest through the trees. Maybe that's not the point. Then you then you stop doing that you go, Okay, I need to close my eyes and just feel out what to do.

Brandon Handley 45:58
Yeah, yeah. I love that. There's another there's another piece that I've seen a lot too is like cleaning your energies by leaning up on a tree, right? type? Yeah. But I mean, there's so many, you know, so many different places to go with that. You know, you also mentioned, you know, just asking the different questions, right. I've recently read a book called, asking a more beautiful question. Right, and just talking about it, but and it gotten to the one point and really what I loved is, you know, talking about when you decided to become like the clairvoyant and really lean into the space, you could have done this, that or you could have chosen another path, right. And one of the questions that he had in the book, and I love it is, you know, which one of these makes a better story, you know, at the end of the day, right? Which, which one of these, which one of these motions do I take in life is going to make a better story? And he's, like, always choose the one that's going to have the better story,

Christian Bradley West 46:55
right? Oh, God, I think I have done that my whole life. I think I chose to do that when I was very young and have been devastated by it, but in the best possible.

Brandon Handley 47:05
I mean, you know, I'll throw it out there. Like, uh, you know, sometimes I'll pick like, some hotels or motels that I probably shouldn't, right. But I'm more interested in the outcome, right, like, what happened what's gonna happen with it when I went to one where there was like, a Stanley Steamer, you know, vacuum van in there, and it looks like there's probably a murder getting cleaned up. Right. And, and, and when I got up into my hotel room, like the the frame of the hotel door, solid steel, and there was like, dense in there. I was like, this is just a bad idea. And I stayed there anyways. But um, you know, I was showing and sharing pictures with other people are like, Yeah, no,

Christian Bradley West 47:43
you know, I actually, I stayed in a hotel in New York, I stayed in a room that had a murder. I and I, and I had nowhere to go. I had to stay there that night. And I went downstairs and said, I need extra sheets, because somehow the bed sheet had come apart. And there was no bed cover. And the and I knew exactly what it was because I'd seen it enough. The entire mattress was soaked with blood. Kidding me it No, it was it was and it was before I had a camera phone. So it was a while ago. And But yeah, I pulled it back. And somehow and I was like, This is soaked. I say this is soaked through it. But somebody died here. somebody died on this mattress, and they did not get rid of it. Yeah, so anyway, interesting story that I really tell but you

Unknown Speaker 48:36
know, tell stories. Just say

Christian Bradley West 48:39
I was downstairs and I was like, I need to change rooms. Or we need it. I need more linens. I need something to not be so close to this mat dead mattress. And there was no other place to go. And I didn't want to change hotels and it was too late. So yeah, cuz I'd gotten in like way early in the morning. So yeah, so anyway, so it was an interesting experience. I was like, Oh, crap, someone died on in this bed.

Brandon Handley 49:06
So so you chose the better story like I did with the good out? No, it could have gone somewhere else anything else could happen? And you'll be like, I was bloody I left but no, you bloody

Unknown Speaker 49:19
does that you do. Um, and that's,

Brandon Handley 49:21
that's that's I mean, that's to me. I think that's kind of like that. That's what makes life kind of fun, though. You know, making this choice. Yeah, like, you know, I could totally go stay at the nice place and that's okay. Yeah, this is something else like there's life yeah, there's life in this place right in this space.

Christian Bradley West 49:37
Try with follow your intuition people. Something says don't go there. Don't

Brandon Handley 49:43
know. Are you are you a follow your bliss kind of guy or you know, where do you stand with that?

Christian Bradley West 49:48
Um, I think that gets really tricky because bliss can come from judgment, sometimes what I think is better or best or superior. Sometimes people go Oh, This is better than that. And so yes and no, what I am is follow your intuition. Follow, get very grounded in your own being, and your own authenticity and your values, what works for you, I like to make it very practical, because otherwise follow your bliss can be running from one thing of happiness to the other. And I don't subscribe. I don't like the word happiness, happiness, to me, points to the ephemeral pleasures that we experience in this life. And that's not to say you can't enjoy them was to say, though, is is to constantly be chasing it is like, is like trying to constantly chase the butterfly, you will never ever get it once you do get it What then? You know. So to me, it's about creating your bliss, not following it. So you want to create it. And there are tools, which was to do that.

Unknown Speaker 50:51
What's your favorite one?

Christian Bradley West 50:53
Um, well, we talked about the Four Agreements earlier from what I do. Every time I got your precise moment. I think whatever works, that works for me very early on, I'm actually rereading it. What I like the most about it is I think we only need one agreement with ourselves, which is to be honest with ourselves to be and to frame it in his way to be impeccable with your word. So be aware of the stories that we tell ourselves. So to your point, I'll say, I've made the agreement to be honest with myself no matter what. So if there's if I feel a certain way, or I'm thinking a certain way, oftentimes, I'll stop like last night when I felt angry. And so there's a narrative here, there's a story, I'm not being honest with myself, there's a lie living in me, and I want to confront it, and move through it. And record. And usually the lie for me is, you are not a value, your voice is not a value. You weren't valued and recognized by people and as a child, or you were bullied or whatever. And I still feel very viscerally that way, even though the circumstances sometimes are not there. And sometimes you can be triggered by this lawless thing. And, and some days, I don't feel it at all. And other days I do. So I just recognize the story. And then I decide to drop it and I go, you know what, I'm the author or authority of my life, right, which has the word author in it. I'm writing this, and I want to write a more peaceful story here. And this doesn't, this doesn't. This doesn't add up. This doesn't compute anymore. And I say Thank you Next.

Brandon Handley 52:24
Nice. Yeah. So so you kind of you confront it, right? You acknowledge it, and you determine whether or not it's serving you or not. Yeah. And if not, you're like, you know, what is my desired outcome? Right? Peace. What

Christian Bradley West 52:38
do I want to do now? Yeah, what do I want to do now? And I wouldn't even call it a desired outcome. Because desiring peace, to me is the antithesis of having peace, but I just choose it, right? I just say, Okay, this is I'm gonna choose this now, and not even let another story get in the way.

Brandon Handley 52:52
Right, right. What is it? The whole the lady that goes up to Buddha was like, you know, I want happiness or something like that. He's, like, removed the I removed the want and, you know, just be, you know, happiness or whatever.

Christian Bradley West 53:05
Yeah, exactly. So

Unknown Speaker 53:07
and

Brandon Handley 53:08
then you've got, you've got some books in process, right, let's talk a minute or two about the

Christian Bradley West 53:14
lineup, right? Well, my mentor says they're all the same book. Um, so the one that's almost finished is is called Zora and the songs of singularity, and it's about a dog that becomes conscious through nanotechnology, or humans disappear. And she realizes that it's happened because, and militant AI has destroyed the planet or created an apocalypse. And she has to confront the AI in order to save her humans. So she was like, but just a dog for him. Yeah, kind of exactly. which I love. He said that because today, I was like, Oh, I kind of want to watch the matrix again. So I love you said that. So kind of, yeah, it's kind of a cry. It's kind of a doggy matrix. You know, Neuromancer, if anyone has read William Gibson's Neuromancer, which, by the way, inspired the matrix, and then we'll crosskeys won't deny it. And then the other than to the graphic

Brandon Handley 54:07
was that the

Christian Bradley West 54:08
graphic novel or that it was turned into a graphic novel, but it was originally I think, published in 1986. by William Gibson, it's a wonderful book for anyone's to read it, it really it was, it was where cyberspace was coined, he really did. And it's about confronting an AI. But really confronting the people that want to stop it, but it's an interesting read for those sci fi people out there. But, um, so that that book is forthcoming. Um, I'm finishing this other draft, it started in 2011. Just keep sitting it down and sending it out, and it just keeps getting rejected. So we'll see if it's different this time because I reframed it as a young adult, because my other two books are for adults. And I said, Well, why not have it? And as always, it has a spiritual bands. It's about becoming conscious. And then once you become conscious, how do you use that consciousness? And then the other book, which I'm starting out as a podcast, is called here on purpose. And the podcast name is called, you're here on purpose. And that's the spirituality book. It's just point blank, what my philosophy is, and I, my philosophy being that everything is on purpose. And we get to, but we get to decide that purpose ultimately, within the framework of, of all the other purpose. And so what what is a value at any given moment? And how do we embrace our own value and the significance of the now? Yeah, no, no? Yeah. Yeah. So those are the two and then I have a memoir that's solely about my own story, because for some reason, I have to get that out of me. I don't know. I don't know if anything will come of that. But I've already I'm already a fourth of the way done. So I love it. And I think that, you know, you talked about before, like, it's ultimately it's about self expression. Right. expressing yourself. Always. That is I love it. Yes. That's my word. Yes. It's always about. You know, Rumi said, it's, it's not about finding the love, but I think it was me that said it but removing the blocks to it. And I feel like ultimately, what we call love is also just just expression, pure, utter, authentic expression, and we am moving toward that in her life and dropping everything that blocks that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Brandon Handley 56:22
Let me get rid of the stuff that's not serving you. Right. Yeah. So the podcast is coming out when

Christian Bradley West 56:30
the plan is October. And like I said, it's it's a devotional kind of daily or weekly. It's not very long. I it's just it's just me. And some meanderings that I see people might might enjoy just thought provoking, just getting people to ask questions that you can easily listen to and 10 to 15 minutes and go about your day. Yeah. Yeah. Does that Thunder?

Brandon Handley 56:59
One of my children? Ah ha ha. like thunder, but different. Um,

Unknown Speaker 57:09
and then, uh, you know, where can people connect with you?

Christian Bradley West 57:12
So you can find me on the country clairvoyant.com my website or Christian be West? And hold on a second apparently. There's I if I disappeared. phone call was coming through. I'm back. Yeah, so sorry, guys. So yeah, Christian be West, or the country, February's calm Hussein website, or on Instagram, the country clairvoyant.com or if you Google or look up Christian Bradley West, you can find me very easily on every platform. Um, I'm also on Twitter. I don't do a lot there yet. I'm kind of in love with Instagram. Mostly. Sometimes it annoys me, but I think our social medias go Yeah, I feel like

Brandon Handley 57:56
that's a more of a authentic kind of nature to it. Right? I don't know.

Christian Bradley West 58:00
Yeah, well, people face it, Facebook will stop messing with it. But yeah. Fair enough.

Unknown Speaker 58:08
Fair enough. Um,

Brandon Handley 58:09
any, any parting words, anything that, uh, that we didn't cover that you feel like should have came out on this podcast,

Christian Bradley West 58:19
the source of all abundance, and is going to be gratitude. If people we didn't talk about abundance, or the law of attraction, or any of those things there's a lot of people get into or want to know about, and I just say, grateful, I am completely grateful we've had this talk is just delightful. I love doing this. And, and, and from my perspective, maintaining a state of gratitude is serves us

Brandon Handley 58:46
could talk about the word I mean, talk about that, though, is that a feeling? Is it a thought?

Christian Bradley West 58:51
It can be it can be instigated as by thought. My practice is for people. And this is a great place to end on is put your hand on your heart. And then you can think of something that you're grateful for. But then drop that in, simply feel into the gratitude. And don't make it contingent on something that you think you need for your happiness. simply move into it, there was a great story of a Japanese a Japanese wise woman and and and a man went to her and said I need to know how to be enlightened. And she gave him this one word that said, Thank you, I have no complaints. And he went throughout the whole way. He went throughout the whole year on this journey and it comes back to a year later and he goes I still am still not enlightened. And I've been saying what you've been saying every day. I've been practicing it. And she said thank you. I had no complaints and he got it. Hmm gratitude disrupts the complainer within us and and opens the way for any number of experiences to present it. Are life.

Brandon Handley 1:00:01
Awesome. Thank you so much for being on today.

Christian Bradley West 1:00:04
Thank you my friend. Oh, it was so great. Thank you. Thank you.

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