In the inaugural episode of the Intentional Evolution Podcast, hosts Vision Battlesword and Gladius Sovereign explore the concept of intentional evolution—actively directing the process of personal and collective change. They introduce themselves, share the stories behind their chosen names, and reflect on the paradox of self-identity, with Gladius emphasizing his current disidentification from labels and describing himself as “awareness experiencing.”

Gladius breaks down “intentional evolution,” drawing from Toltec ideas: intent as universal life force energy, and evolution as purposeful change, usually an incremental process but one that conscious beings can accelerate and direct for the highest benefit of all. The discussion branches into the quickening of human growth via psycho-technologies, referencing both ancient wisdom and modern tools, including their own creations like the Sovereign Mind Method and iEvolve Life.

The hosts discuss evolution’s neutrality, pointing out that change can take any direction and isn’t inherently progressive. They delve into individual and societal evolution—highlighting not only self-work and psycho-technologies, but also societal waves of change, referencing Spiral Dynamics, Integral Theory, and the potential for a “human singularity,” an accelerated leap in collective consciousness. They caution that intentional evolution has both light and shadow sides, depending on collective intent.

The episode also covers the role of belief systems as the architecture of reality. Gladius explains how beliefs are patterns of energy that shape experience, often formed for survival but sometimes outliving their usefulness. The conversation weaves in elements of magic, spirituality, and cultural transformation, emphasizing agency, integrity, and the shared mission to propel humanity toward a more conscious, collectively beneficial future.

Show Notes

Chapters

• 00:00— Opener & Intentional Evolution Primer
• 02:30— Meet Gladius: Name, Identity, and Disidentifying from Past Selves
• 06:20— What Is Intentional Evolution? (Toltec intent, universal life force, evolution defined)
• 10:30— Quickening, The Human Singularity, and Pop Culture Metaphors
• 15:40— Neutral Evolution: Trajectories, Self-Ownership, and Serving the Highest Good
• 23:00— Technology vs Psychotechnology: Societal Patterns & the Rise of ASI
• 30:10— Spiral Dynamics, Consciousness Waves, and Cultural Upgrades
• 37:55— Two Species in One Room: Energy, Awareness, and Burdens of Consciousness
• 50:00— Belief Systems as Software: Beliefs, Definitions, and Intentional Rewiring
• 1:04:50— The “I’m Not Enough” Program: Survival Value, Childhood Origins, and Transformation
• 1:14:20— Evolution in Parenting, Relationships, and Society
• 1:26:00— Humor, the Ego Voice, and Making Change Fun
• 1:28:44— Episode Wrap: Value-for-Value, Collaborations, and What’s Next

[00:00:00] Vision Battlesword: Hello, welcome to the Intentional Evolution Podcast. I am your host, Vision Battlesword, integral consultant and founder of iEvolve Life, a personal and professional development practice based on the philosophy of intentional evolution. This podcast is an ongoing conversation to explore that philosophy as well as to serve as a resource, a showcase, and a catalyst for ongoing growth toward the human singularity.

That is to say, mass awakening of new consciousness, super intelligence and radical creative flourishing. Each episode, I'll feature a world class transformational facilitator, co-creator or friend, to reveal cutting edge psychospiritual technology, unpack our deepest wisdom and evolve our awareness. This series is based on value for value.

So whatever value you receive from these transmissions, please return some value back in the form of a donation, directly supporting our contributors or offering your own time and talent as a producer. Thanks for joining me in this journey. And now here's our episode.

Higher Mind: present the Optimal Frequency for Intentional Evolution. Gladius sovereign, my friend and co-creator, how are you feeling today?

[00:01:22] Gladius Sovereign: I feel blessed to be here, bro.

[00:01:24] Vision Battlesword: Nice.

[00:01:24] Gladius Sovereign: Mm-hmm.

[00:01:25] Vision Battlesword: I feel very grateful to have your presence and to have the opportunity for this conversation, which I, as you know, have been waiting for a very long time.

This is it. This is our kickoff, our launch of an entire new conversation, ongoing, indefinite, potentially never ending conversation that I am like probably the most excited that I've ever been in my life to be embarking on this particular journey. This feels so aligned and important and meaningful to me, and I'm really, really, I'm just blessed, like you said, you're blessed to be here and I'm, I'm blessed for you to be here to start this journey with me.

And the starting question of the journey is. Who are you? Gladius sovereign.

[00:02:17] Gladius Sovereign: Wow. Okay. Wasn't expecting that, but here we go.

[00:02:21] Vision Battlesword: I subverted your expectations.

[00:02:22] Gladius Sovereign: You did. Now it's time to exceed them. Um, well, I am increasingly disidentifying from every single concept and definition that I previously used to define myself by.

So I don't really know how to concretely answer that question. But what seems to be true to me is that I am awareness and I am having an experience. And I've legally never changed by name to reflect the change that I decided back in November of 2022 to change my name from Nicholas to Gladius. But people now know me as gladius, and that's just how I introduce myself everywhere.

And I, I create stuff that I like to create. It's pretty much that simple. I'm known for creating different things like music and art and the sovereign mind method and, and stuff like that. But I'm fascinated by this topic of intentional evolution and I've created tools and systems that aid human beings in intentionally evolving who they are, at least at the level of their belief system and their identity.

And I'm excited to discover all of the different, uh, crossovers applications and, and expansions that come through this conversation of the many different dimensions in which a human being can choose to consciously and intentionally evolve who and what they are. Who are you? Why are you asking

[00:03:59] Speaker 3: me this question?

Who are you?

[00:04:02] Vision Battlesword: So what was that phrase? I just wanna make sure I didn't miss that. What was that phrase that you said initially? I am awareness. Was it perceiving or experiencing? Yeah, I am awareness Experiencing. I'm

[00:04:14] Gladius Sovereign: awareness. And I am, I'm experiencing.

[00:04:17] Vision Battlesword: Nice. I love that. Yeah. That is, that is so on point for intentional evolution, at least as I understand it.

So that's a super good start. Thank you for asking about me. And by the way, badass name, bro, I mean like, uh, it takes one of nowhere Yeah. As yeah, exactly as, as, as one would say to the other badass name, my name is Vision Battlesword, and I was also not, well, I was not given that name on my birth certificate or by my parents, but it is also a name that I chose for myself over a long process of query inquiry, if you will, and X query.

And I am an intentional evolver. I am, I'm a creator of ideas and thoughts and patterns, theories, and frameworks that I apply to improve my own experience of this reality, of this life, and share those with as many people as I can. So you are, if I may say so, the creator of the Sovereign Mind method, which is, well, I won't, I won't say what it is, I'll let you say, but I am the creator of iEvolve Life, which is a suite of, let's just say offerings that have been extremely meaningful to me and that I hope will be very helpful to others as well.

And so now I will reset your expectations by saying that the beginning question of this conversation, this ongoing conversation, is what is intentional evolution?

[00:06:00] Gladius Sovereign: Thank you. Well, I wanna break down each word and start with intentional. I deeply appreciate the ancient toll tech perspective on intent and think that that perspective of what intent is is highly relevant.

So I'll describe it as I understand it. Intent is universal life force energy that is being consciously wielded and directed towards a specific purpose or goal. And so intent is what actually gives rise to all observable phenomenon, including all sentient and non sentient life, including all organization and order in the universe that we can perceive and understand as the laws of physics intent when we add.

Chanel to that, it's, we are the one that is wielding the intent. We are the one that is guiding and directing the universal life force energy. We're being intentional about our evolution. And so what is evolution? Evolution is something like taking the form that you embody and changing it to serve some, some purpose or function.

That in some sense is what evolution is. And this is usually done over the, uh, span of multiple lifetimes, multiple generations, incremental, minor changes to the overall architecture or psych architecture. That as an organism we embody. And I, I view intentional evolution as the quickening in the acceleration of this process whereby a creative being learns to wield.

The universal life force energy, the universal substance of intent in order to make structural changes to their physical body, to their mental body, to their emotional body, or whatever patterns of energy that they have control over and quickening that process. That's, that's my first stab at intentional evolution.

Nice.

[00:08:18] Vision Battlesword: Yeah, that was great. Like as a first pass encapsulation of an almost epically big and complex concept, which we will continue to unpack and explore forever. I love that you used the word quickening because that has several different meanings to it, right? Like there's a sense in which we're talking about increasing the speed quickening, but then quickening is also a word that I have heard in reference to the act of giving life to.

Have you heard of it that way? No, but

[00:08:54] Gladius Sovereign: I'm

[00:08:54] Vision Battlesword: curious to expand on

[00:08:55] Gladius Sovereign: that.

[00:08:56] Vision Battlesword: Yeah, as I understand it. Well, so like the first time I ever heard that word quickening was actually in the Highlander movie series universe. Did. Do you remember that? No. Okay, so there was these movies, I think it's that started in the eighties that was, it turned into a series, so it was one, one classic movie called The Highlander, and it had Sean Connery and I'm trying to remember who the other lead.

At any rate, there was this, this sort of mysterious storyline of these immortal beings who walk the earth and for some reason, reasons which are explored and expanded through the lore of the series more, more in later movies than in the original. They're sword fighting with each other in these duals to the death where.

There can be only one. It's like a, it's like an ongoing centuries or millennia long tournament where these immortals, they, they can't die. They can't be killed except through sword combat with each other, but they have to find each other, track each other down, and then have these dues in secret until there's only one of them left.

For some reason, in the lore of the original movie, it's not really expanded why this is happening, but the process of when one of them defeats the other and takes his head, he also. I guess he or she, I think they're, I'm, I feel certain that they're all sexes of immortals, but when one of them takes the other one's head, they also take their power.

In the movie universe, it's depicted as this energy, this like lightning bolts of force and power and electricity that transfer from one immortal to the other, and all of that immortals power is absorbed and the winner of that particular combat then becomes stronger permanently with, with all of the other's abilities and that process of absorbing that energy they refer to in the movie universe as the quickening.

That was the first time I ever heard the word, but I've also heard it used to mean like the moment when the spark of life enters into a like, like inanimate vessel. So I think in magical terms, if we were to make a gollum out of clay or earth or something, the moment of of animating that, wow, dead material and bringing it to life is called quickening the object.

Wow. So the fact that you use that word in this context of intentional evolution really hit home to me as being Yes. That is what we're doing. Yeah, that's exactly it. That's amazing. Right? We are quickening our evolution. We're imbuing it or instilling it with our life force, as you say, which is that word intent, which it literally just means life in toltech spirituality.

How does that all land for you?

[00:12:03] Gladius Sovereign: It, it's amazing. Yeah. I, I had no idea that there was the dual meaning there, but maybe subconsciously I did. It's funny. I appreciate the introduction of that definition. And I think that I agree that that's precisely what we're doing with, with almost like a full spectrum of different approaches.

There's technological acceleration and advancement in ai, and there's the hybridization of like man and machine, and then there's the psychospiritual advancement of our own psycho technologies. And earlier you described your, um, you know, suite of offerings within I evolve and I was immediately thinking like, these are all psycho technologies that have like permanently upleveled my life and my relationships and my productivity and my effectiveness as a human being.

And you, you have quickened me mm-hmm. Through, through your work,

[00:12:58] Vision Battlesword: you know? Yeah. Thank you for that. Yeah. And so I like just kind of coming back around to the words again. I think. There's just so many different angles of exploration here. But real quickly, just kind of focusing on the word evolution and, you know, you kind of gave that, that overview or that description of what we kind of think of as evolution or what that is.

But like, if I could put words to it, it's a process of incremental improvement. Like just to remove all of the charge or moralism or anything like that from the word and just say like in a, in a totally neutral sense, what is evolution? What does that even mean? And to me it's just, it's a process of incremental change.

Even I, we could even remove, instead of even saying improvement, it's really just a process of incremental change. That's what, that's what evolution really is, don't you think? Yes. So like. I think the whole where we originally, and if this, of course, as you, you and I both know, but most other people don't know that this phrase goes back for us more than five years.

You know? And when we started like conceiving of this whole concept, just through observation of the world and what's going on, but also like having this kind of motivation in our hearts, I think you and me, to want to help direct that change in ways that are beneficial to us, not just ourselves individually, but then by extension of that all humans.

And then even by extension of that, I think all conscious beings for sentient beings like to have that like real, pure motivation in our hearts of like, if evolution is a given, which I think it is, that's, I mean, his heart, I, I wouldn't know how to argue against that position. If evolution is a given, change is a given.

Change will occur. It will likely occur incrementally. And if we are subject to that, which I think most people believe that we are, even if that's only through the course of one's own life, the evolution of our belief system, the evolution of our skillset, the evolution of our capabilities, our bodies, even in this life in one, in one single human's life.

If that's a fact, if that's a given and that's going to happen, wouldn't it be interesting if we could take some ownership of the trajectory of that transformation or that change or that process of evolution? And I think that's where we get the word intentional rather than, let's say accidental or unconscious.

Or automatic.

[00:15:40] Speaker 4: Yeah.

[00:15:40] Vision Battlesword: Yeah.

[00:15:40] Gladius Sovereign: What do you think? I think so, man, taking hold of the, uh, of the reigns and steering the ship in the direction that we actually prefer, and then doing so explicitly with an intention of, for the highest benefit of all that makes it actually like sustainable. And there's something in different magical traditions around this concept of like highest good of all, highest benefit of all.

Apparently when God set up the, the rule book for how all of manifestation and creation comes into form, adding that little suffix intention to whatever it is that we're. Intending adds almost like a, a lubricant for it to come into form because it's not contradictory to the motivations, desires, or intentions of like the universal source creator, as long as it's for the highest benefit.

And bringing this back to intentional evolution, there's a lot of people out there who I think want to evolve human consciousness in directions that ain't for the highest benefit of all. Hmm. That are self-serving, charitably and even detrimental, harmful seeking to play pretend as God without doing the necessary inner shadow work to evolve to a place where that would, uh, not be immediately horribly self-destructive for them.

So I think that as we're exploring this concept of intentional evolution, it it, it feels important to me that the, uh, the backdrop intention that's just taken as another given. Is that this, this process of, of taking ownership of how we evolve is always explicitly for the highest benefit of all sent in life.

[00:17:29] Vision Battlesword: Yeah. Yeah. That's such a good add. And I, I think that brings it full circle right back around to kind of what I was saying in the exploration of just the word evolution itself is I think what we sometimes don't think about, or rather I think in the like sort of popcorn pop culture, superficial. ILI just lo I just wanna take a moment and acknowledge this like rainstorm Yeah.

That started yeah. Immediately when we started talking about this's. So Nice. I think the first time I said the phrase intentional evolution is wind blew through. Yeah, that's right. And then it started raining and then now when I just said those words a moment ago, there was thunder. It's just super cool, um, synchronicity to our, to our talk.

But anyway. The superficial idea I think that we get of evolution maybe like as kids in school growing up or from wherever we get these ideas from, is that it's this sort of inexorable march of progress that it's inherently good. I think like I think that we get, we maybe absorb that idea through the concept.

I would agree that it's like, oh yeah, evolution is good, or elu, it's always going in one direction, which is from, let's say, simpler to more complex or worse to better or more chaotic, to more orderly, less abundant to more abundant. You get the idea that it's always this march of progress and improvement, and I would propose that evolution as a process is probably inherently neutral, and it can probably go in all different ways, in all different directions, and it seems obvious that that's the case.

Even just look at the trajectory of civilizations or societies many times. There's a process of growth and increasing of abundance and complexity and density and structure and so forth. And then the process may reverse itself and go in the other direction and things may slowly deconstruct or devolve or fall apart.

So I think that's a big part of, and and the point that you brought in about like the value there isn't, there is, at least in our philosophy of fundamental value behind our intention, which is the highest good of all beings, is super important. Because to your point, there can be intent and there can even be evolution, which may be taking things in a direction, whether intentionally or unintentionally, that does not feel like it is to our benefit, our improvement or betterment.

So that is. The kind of intentional evolution that we seek to create is the idea of self ownership and self-awareness and self direction of our evolution, but explicitly to the good.

[00:20:23] Gladius Sovereign: Yes, totally. I'm actually curious, what do you sense vision are some of the primary ways that humanity right now is already experiencing intentional evolution?

Oh yeah. Well,

[00:20:41] Vision Battlesword: certainly I think that we have been engaging in intentional evolution as a species for a very long time. I think you could even look at other species that are potentially also intentionally evolving in some ways or others. But I mean, a very easy example is just, uh, let's say crop cultivation.

We choose and actually interfere in a way, or we interact with the genetic breeding process of other creatures that we share this ecosystem with in very intentional ways. And so if you just look at our diet as an, as an easy example, over the last several hundred or several thousand years, we've certainly changed ourselves physically a lot just in just in the period of time of recorded history for sure.

So I think that's an example of intentional evolution. But I think more to the point you're getting at, which is the point where we're both going is thinking about, I think, more recent developments of our self-awareness. Psychologically speaking and culturally speaking. And so I think that's where I wanna offer a reflection back to you, kind of like you did for me earlier about my portfolio and the things that, the benefits that you've gained from that.

And say that like, I think your technology, your psycho technology sovereign mind is right over the target or right in the sweet spot of what I think intentional evolution is all about, which is about taking ownership and becoming a self creator of our own inner world. At least to the extent that we take ownership of our physical bodies to take ownership of our psychology, our belief system.

To be able to rewrite our own software in intentional ways again that are toward the highest good. Like that's an example I think of where we are really starting to have a breakthrough as a species. Now I would, I

[00:22:48] Gladius Sovereign: would agree a hundred percent in, I love the term, uh, psych architecture as a means to describe the synthesis between energy, mind and body.

And my sense is that any species that gains free will to make alterations and then intentionally change or intentionally evolve its own psych architecture is poised to potentially quantum leap in some unknown and unknowable number of ways. Because if you have the ability to uninstall legacy programming from the childhood environment, that once upon a time, maybe seemingly.

Kept us safe, a belief system like, I'm not enough, I'm not worthy, and I don't deserve it. From my own personal story, these three beliefs were very primary in my experience for at least 20 years of my life. It's two, two decades, and these beliefs served as fuel for me to motivate myself to achieve and go out and produce and work hard, and always work harder out of fear of not being good enough.

And it, it played a very instrumental role. These, these three key components, these beliefs, these energy structures in like the development of my ego and becoming the, the nick runt who I was going all the way into my early and mid twenties. And then in my own process of intentional evolution, shedding the weight of those programs.

Was a fundamental rewrite of my entire life story and how I showed up and what I, what I felt and what I experienced on a day-to-day basis. No longer feeling an intrinsic, like, like pull, like I'm literally like lurching my body to illustrate, and maybe you can hear it in the timur of my voice, but, um, this, this intrinsic fear-based pull to action just wasn't there for me anymore.

And that sparked an opening in my heart. The space that gets created when the old stories are, are free to dissolve and free to return back to wherever they came from. As light as love is, is beautiful to me. It's a huge, huge component of why I feel motivated to share it, uh, so, so consistently with so many other people, and to me, the advent of these technologies.

Entering into public consciousness. Mm-hmm. Openly, widely distributed. Mm-hmm. Freely even. You can go on YouTube and you can see live demonstrations of the sovereign mind method and the rapid rewire method and mind shifting and identity shifting and new na. There's just dozens and dozens of these psycho technologies that are now just like permeating the veil of the matrix.

And so to me that's like extremely inspiring. Yeah. 'cause we're not alone in this.

[00:25:57] Vision Battlesword: Yeah. Yeah. And so I invoked the word software and you invoke the word uninstall a moment ago. Yeah. And we've kind of, and you're using the word technology. Yeah. Psycho technology. And I just wanna like dial into that and really like embrace that metaphor, you know, not to dehumanize us, but just because I think the.

Analogy is so useful and in some ways just so fitting and real, like practical green as we've created these machines, these thinking machines, it is rather funny how we start to discover that we are not so different from them. You know, it's funny and I just wanna dial into something that we've talked about, which is this technological singularity.

'cause what you're saying about the proliferation of these new technologies and how much access we have to them now in how much potential there is for our new kind of psycho technological practices to quicken us or for us to experience that quickening and become intentional of our evolution.

Resonates for me very strongly with Ray Kurtz Weil's concept of the singularity with artificial intelligence, which I'll just recount very briefly. The idea is that as machines learn how to think and then learn how to program, become self-aware of their own programming and have the ability to change it, that due to presumably faster computational power than us.

Although, I want to insert a question mark there. I wanna insert a push pin with a question mark. It certainly seems like interacting with computers that they can calculate and process certain types of information. A lot faster than we can. I mean, what an LLM or a so-called AI model can do when you ask it a question seemingly scouring the entire body of human knowledge on the internet and providing a very relevant intelligence sounding set of data back to the back to that question is extremely impressive and it doesn't seem like or feel like something we as humans can do.

On the other hand, I suspect that we are highly underestimating our potential of what we can do or what our brains are doing actually, and what our brains are capable of. Not just brains but minds. Right. Our, our entire psychospiritual architecture, is that what you called it? I call that psychospiritual

[00:28:46] Gladius Sovereign: architecture is the correct intent.

[00:28:49] Vision Battlesword: Yeah. Yeah. And psycho architecture is a shorthand for that. Yeah, I like that. Mm-hmm. That's good. Anyway, so push pin inserted with question mark. Are they really faster than us? I'm actually not sure about that. I think we may have wildly different superpowers or different capabilities, but long story short, Kurt Small's idea is that because they can process this kind of information so fast, that at the point that they began to rewrite their own programming code, which, gosh, are we at that point now?

Right now, meta

[00:29:22] Gladius Sovereign: claims that 20% seems of their AI models are self-producing their own code. So we're getting there, apparently.

[00:29:31] Vision Battlesword: Yeah. And there comes a tipping point where it becomes a runaway exponential process, meaning the machines are self reprogramming. In an iterative way, thousands, millions of generations per second or something like that, and then explode into super intelligence, which this moment is referred to as the singularity, maybe as a reference to the collapsing of a black hole when that critical mass is reached.

Also known as a SI, artificial super intelligence, right? So Kurtis has his own reasons for thinking that will happen and even wanting to create that moment and being excited about it. The point that I'm making though, is taking that technology analogy and reflecting it back on ourselves and looking at the fact that we also, like our minds are psycho architectures seem to be pretty information based and information is extremely malleable.

It's not surprising, like to learn that we can start to discover these latent hidden patterns and programs beliefs. Memories of experiences and all these sorts of things that we have, and that they're expressing themselves in our day-to-day experience all the time. And that when we change those underlying beliefs or patterns or thought processes, that our experience changes dramatically or drastically.

But to your point, the technology's available and how much access that we have to them now, wouldn't it be the case or couldn't it at least be possible that we also could experience our own type of singularity whereby self iterating our psychological programs that we could also, as you say, have a breakthrough into something that we probably can't actually even imagine precisely or conceive with our current level of consciousness.

And that is another meaning to me of intentional evolution.

[00:31:33] Gladius Sovereign: Yes, yes. As you've called it, aptly. So the human singularity. How do you think, um, human beings right now are, are doing on that, on that track? Are we close to it? You know, people say that a SI with machines is, it's always plus two years out, plus two years out, and the, the predictions are always wrong, but like how, how far are we potentially from, from something like that in your eyes?

I'd be really curious. Boy, that's a really, that's a really

[00:32:01] Vision Battlesword: difficult question to answer from a predictive standpoint. It also, there's other models and ideas that occur to me in this moment, like spiral dynamics and integral theory that also describe the evolution or the unfolding of waves of human consciousness.

I think personally, I believe that we are without a doubt experiencing a wave. I think we at a species level are going through again. Also, what maybe we could use Julian Jane. Terminology to describe as the breakdown of our current level of consciousness as an allusion to the breakdown of the B Camera mind.

I think we're going through a breakdown and a breakthrough, but I think what's unique about this moment is the level to which we now have the capability to become intentional about how that breakdown breakthrough process plays out. But I, I think it's happening over the course of these next five to 10 to 20 years.

We, hopefully you and me and many other people, but whoever those people are, let's say a generation, hence looking back on this time, will probably be looking back on it with a different kind of consciousness. That's my opinion.

[00:33:24] Gladius Sovereign: That makes sense to me. And a thought occurred as you were speaking, which is.

Just describe it through the allegory of Jesus Christ, the, the human who apparently through training and working with different teachers and masters in his, his own practices, whatever those may have looked like, acquired consciousness in his lifetime that was extraordinary and quote unquote far ahead of his time.

And that one individual had such a quality of consciousness that it became hyper relevant and salient within the human story for thousands and thousands of years. And so I wonder if it's possible that the human singularity may not require, it may happen in tandem with, but it may not require a mass evolution of human consciousness into the ascension, into the next wave.

But there could be a possibility of just a handful of individuals. Who through whatever means acquire a different form of consciousness that then enables that, that form of consciousness to sort of broadcast or emanate into the collective psyche or the collective unconscious in, in totally unpredictable ways.

And so maybe it doesn't have to be a mass like pop into the next wave. Maybe it's a, yeah, just, just a handful of individuals. So I just thought that was an interesting thought that

[00:34:51] Vision Battlesword: Yes, I think for sure that will happen. Yeah, that makes sense. I think that's, I think that's kind of how it has happened, probably mostly, you know, throughout history.

Yeah. And I suspect that we are on the boundary of like a phase change. Mm-hmm. But if you just think about your example of Jesus the Christ. Mm-hmm. And how there was a moment. In history, when a new consciousness emerged was born, maybe starting with a single individual or a very small group, it did absolutely represent a mass consciousness unfolding, right?

A, a massive way, a mass wave of a completely different pattern or program, stop sacrificing

[00:35:41] Gladius Sovereign: goats to please the gods. Well, I mean,

[00:35:44] Vision Battlesword: some of us did. Yes, but some of us didn. But, but the point, the point being like we are absolutely living with that consciousness as a huge center of gravity, as a, as a huge center of collect, massive thought, if you will.

Today. It worked is the point. And that has happened many times and we're sort of living almost like with layers of an onion or all of those, all of those phases are still present with us. And also there have been some times in history if you believe the work of, for example, Jillian Janes with the Bicameral Mind hypothesis.

There are also certain moments throughout history when there's a bigger wave, if you will, or you can also take it from spiral dynamics, the or integral theory, both the state change or the phase change that happens between tier one and tier two of consciousness, meaning there's a collection of consciousnesses or patterns, worldviews, value systems, lots of different ways you can call it or think of it, but they're all of a kind.

They're different from each other, but they're similar in a particular way, a kind. And then there can be a wholly new kind that comes out and creates an entire new paradigm. Where several consciousnesses can coalesce. I think that's where we're at. I think we're on the cusp of something even bigger than Christianity or a major religion.

I think we're on the cusp of something more like what some people think may have happened between, let's say five and 12,000 years ago where a completely new kind of human emerged that we would look at almost as an alien

[00:37:43] Gladius Sovereign: in thought. Do you mean that as in the human species of 20,000 years ago, would look at the newly emerged version of 5,000 years ago as an alien or, or something else?

Just

[00:37:56] Vision Battlesword: wanna make sure I track. I mean, they both would look at each other across that gulf as almost unrecognizable. Even though we may look very similar in physical form and even like, let's say we could speak the same language to each other. Nonetheless, our thought processes would be so. Based on a fundamentally different psycho architecture.

Yeah. I already see that happening. Exactly. That's my point. Yeah. Yeah. That it would be far, it's like far beyond even two people trying to communicate across cultures. It's more like two people trying to communicate across species is the point I'm trying to make.

[00:38:29] Gladius Sovereign: Yeah, I see that. I want unpack that a little bit.

Please do. Okay. So a couple of the ways in which I can see that already happening is like people who are aware that everything is energy, but go beyond the mirror awareness of it and are living a day-to-day application of it. So there are people right now who have a, have a level of awareness of like, I'm hungry, I eat food, I play more video games.

I go to work, I come back, I eat food. I think thoughts and it's like non non derogatory sense. It's very mundane and it's, uh, repetitive and. There's, there's no con, there's no, uh, impetus for, for evolution within it. It's very self-contained and it's very like, secure and stable in its own structure. And then I see people who are literally on a daily basis interfacing with their higher mind and doing different energetic practices to like, like summon or download energy directly from source to acquire new knowledge, information abilities to physically heal their bodies and purge their bodies of the, uh, a apparent, endless troves of suppressed and repressed emotions.

And they're, they're literally like operating from a core fundamental difference in paradigm one, one group, the first group believes that their thoughts are real, are true, and actually make a meaningful contribution to who and what they are. Whereas the latter group seemingly apparently views thoughts as sort of like a, like, just, just an impeded, just an impediment, just a distraction from the core essence of awareness that it, that is how they derive their true identity underneath the ego minds thought system.

And if you put these, these two, like two groups of these people in a room, one is like sensing energy and in, in continual awareness of, of their own soma, of their body and of the emotions and sensations and belief structures that are being activated in real time. And the other is just their chilling.

The other, the other's just like, that guy looks cool, let's talk. And, uh, I'm, I'm a little bit envious of that group. I want to know what that's like, because I think the chilling group, the chilling group yeahinteresting, it's so simple. Interesting. It's so simple. A little, little envious in a sense. Um, mainly just because sometimes I grow tired of.

Of processing energy in, in the field of my awareness, but that's my own limitation. I see. Okay.

[00:41:11] Vision Battlesword: I, yeah, I was trying to follow what you were saying there, and I wasn't actually sure which group was which, or which group I'm a part of, but, um, so, so from your perspective, there's almost like a burden of consciousness, which is the requirement to actually like, process all of the incoming sense data through this, you know, sort of like, I'm getting a sense from you, correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm just like trying to, I'm trying to pick up the gestalt, if you will, or like the sense impressions of what you're saying, that it's like there's a heaviness to this. Big filter or big processing engine that consumes all of this energy to try to process what the reality, like let, let's say, that's coming into or through our awareness all the time and quote unquote make sense of it and make meaning of it.

And how do I categorize this in my belief system? Where do I put this information? How does this benefit me in terms of putting food in my mouth? Or you know, that hierarchy of needs or whatever. And then somehow or other, there's a type of person or people who have been liberated from that whole situation altogether and are just taking reality as it comes and aren't actually spending or costing all of that energy to process it.

Instead, they're actually like receiving energy just from life or the universe. That's a great, is that kinda what you're saying?

[00:42:40] Gladius Sovereign: That's a great way to put it. And then I add a layer on top. Based on my current stage of development, which is I, I perceive sometimes that that raw intake of awareness is highly activating of the remnants of programming and, and whatnot that still lingers in my body.

And, uh, I sometimes perceive that as kind of draining as, as even exhausting sometimes. And I, I like, wish it weren't such a consistent feature in my overall experience. Yeah. Because the energy and the sensations itself become involuntarily salient to me. Like they command my attention. Yes. And so, um, I imagine that that too ultimately, and it has fades away and, and diminishes and becomes less and less of like a prevalent feature of the awareness or.

What is also seemingly possible based on certain non-dual teachers who report their experiences there can become such a degree of disidentification and disillusionment with the body that the, the signals are like actually quite quiet and manageable and non-intrusive because there's no sense of self bound up in them.

And so this is another potential way in which I would desire to personally, intentionally evolve. Mm-hmm. Is, uh, to let go of as much of that as possible. How do you make sense of all of that?

[00:44:23] Vision Battlesword: It brings up a lot of stuff for me on, on my side as you were talking. It's, it's, you like we're all, I love this exploration 'cause we're just like hitting intentional evolution from like all different sides and all different angles and it's all on, all on target different ways.

And for me. Yeah, while you were speaking, I was just thinking about how there's a philosophical concept called the golden mean, the mean between extremes and how like there's this like needle threading exercise that we can do or that we get to do. Finding that balance between letting go of these energy consuming, suffering, creating patterns, programs, fixtures of our belief system or whatever that is, and allowing more peer experience just to enter our awareness nonjudgmentally, and then getting closer and closer to life in the process, getting closer and closer to reality and to each other as sentient beings in that process.

And letting go so much that we become ungrounded, that we become non-functional, that we become, let's just say, lose contact with our physical presence and objective, let's say sense perception that maybe goes in a direction that becomes non-beneficial. Yeah, that was what was coming up for me, is just wanting to give a place of honor to all of those real survival programs.

Patterns like that have come to us through evolution and through our culture and our ancestors and all of the, like when we're in the womb, when we're. From conception to becoming an embryo and a fetus, and then on our way to becoming a baby and a, a born human, we actually go through stages of evolution in that process.

Do you know that like we go through an amphibian phase and uh, an aquatic phase At some point we have gills. You know what? Oh, you didn't know that? No. Yeah. Like at some point in the develop of the, um, development of the fetus in utero, it has a tail. It has gills. Yeah. It's actually like, in a way, like replaying the whole process over geological time of like how we got to here to this particular moment of sophistication, complexity, our current manifestation.

And so like I think of our psycho texture the same way, like we are the beneficiaries of all of these stages, phases, waves of consciousness and much like the tail or the gills or the appendix or, well, it may very well be the appendix serves a very useful function, but whatever, whatever vestigial aspects of our prior evolution that we may still carry with us or have at least gone through at some point in our development to get to where we are now.

I'm grateful for, you know, and there's, I think some of those things that are actually still very relevant and helpful. So that was one, one thought process that I had while you were talking. Another one is coming back to what you said earlier about how much. Material has become available to us, to our benefit, to allow us to really like become intentional revolvers.

I recently did a podcast episode called Arcane with a friend of mine named Edgar Sanchez, which was all about secret and hidden knowledge that's been preserved through mystery schools and secret texts and encoded in systems like tarot and astrology and all of this different stuff. And it got me thinking about why that stuff is kept secret and are we ready for it all now?

Is it all gonna, is it all coming out? Is that actually what we're experiencing right now? At least in part is like a reemergence of a whole lot of knowledge, which for whatever reason went a little underground for a long time. That also made me think about, because you invoked Jesus Christ, the whole idea of the Book of Revelations.

And how most people think of that last chapter, I guess, or story or Book of the Bible as being this kind of like apocalyptic story of like the end of the world, quote unquote. But I've also, I've, I've started to hear things from others in, in, in interpretations of what that's really all about. And it suddenly landed for me that though, even the name Revelations, it's about the time when all will be revealed.

Mm-hmm. It's about the time when all will be known, the secrets will be told, the truth will come out. Right. So there's a sense in which that is a kind of an end of the world as we know it. In the same way that like if I go through a deep transformational experience through facilitation, psychedelics, or religious experience, if I become born again, there's a sense in which the old me had to death.

Or sometimes we call it an ego death. There's a sense in which the world did end, but that doesn't mean that there's a cataclysm or that there's massive destruction or anything like that, except for perhaps psychologically speaking or to our belief system or to, you know, the way we think about our institutions, let's say.

So all of this kind of feeds back into, for me, this idea that there could very well be this process of revelation, which feels very jarring, which feels very disruptive. But that is all for our good. That having access to all of these different psycho textures, psycho technologies, secrets, mysteries, information from both the ancient and the extremely new and modern is what comes together to allow us to really choose our own adventure now.

And I'm excited for that.

[00:51:01] Gladius Sovereign: Yeah. Yeah. It's the ancient wisdom that has like the technological, um, distribution model as opposed to archaic word of mouth transfer of the, of the current, as Damian Eccles calls it. I like this concept. The, the current is, um, the verbal transmission of the exact coding that has been occulted in any given magical tradition.

Well, now I can make a YouTube video and I can distribute the sovereign mind method to a thousand people, and that has never been possible before. That's a huge function of that, the wave in consciousness, just like crashing through the, uh, the old paradigm. I'm curious how you see intentional evolution playing out in your personal life.

Hmm. I didn't realize

[00:51:59] Vision Battlesword: you were gonna be the interviewer. I was gonna be the interviewee. It's a little bit of this conversation. Yeah. I would like, and I would like to ask you some questions too. Great. To give you. I welcome a chance to flush some things out. Yeah. Huh. How do I foresee intentional evolution playing out in my own life?

Very beautifully, very carefully. I've seen intentional evolution playing out in my life already for many years before I even had a name for it. You know, I just had a, I just had an intuition of what was happening, but in general, for me, the. The idea of intentional evolution is tied very closely to integrity.

For me, it has a lot to do with taking my own medicine and you know, all the senses of that word. Living in alignment with all the best psychotics that I know of, and really choosing to lean into them and embody them for my own benefit. You know, as well. As an example, I see myself becoming more peaceful, becoming more joyful, becoming more playful, continuing to become more and more effective and powerful at exercising my will, creating the things in the world that I would most like to see.

What about you? How do you see intentional evolution? Playing out in your

[00:53:30] Gladius Sovereign: life. I, I basically dito all that and I see all that for you too. Um, I think that for me, it's gonna look like operating with a self-defined set of values that help me guide through every seemingly difficult decision I make in business and relationships, and having a, a direct conduit access to my higher mind and forces of consciousness that I desire to relate to in a mentee dynamic.

To learn from like Christ consciousness, using intention to directly connect with the essence of that, and through different journaling and meditation practices, imbuing my consciousness with qualities from. Those seemingly outside sources. I see intentional evolution, bringing simultaneously a lot of peace and a lot of efficacy of doing and building and sharing the things that I want to do and build and share in the world.

And I, I see intentional evolution being something that I share as a new normal, as a baseline paradigm for all of my closest personal friendships. That's how I see it playing out

[00:55:05] Vision Battlesword: for me. I think for both of us, this is kind of how it all started in a way, but for me especially, like I want to help myself.

I want to help my clients. I want to help the people that are close to me. You know, my inner circle, my friends, my family, my loved ones. And it's also really important to me to. At least be part of a solution, part of a part of a process and improvement for society as a whole. How do you see intentional evolution playing out in our culture, our civilization, our society?

[00:55:44] Gladius Sovereign: Yeah. I'm gonna interpret that as like moving forward as opposed to like up until now. Okay. So it's just gonna keep quickening, bro. It's all quickening. I think that more and more people are gonna catch on to this, this notion that like beliefs are just patterns of energy and you have the ability to influence energy that is within the field of your awareness.

So long as you focus your attention on the energy and apply intention to it, I think that it's really simple and that people are gonna start picking up on that and once they pick up on that, they're not gonna wanna put it down. If they're at all awake and aware and not just sleepwalking through life.

Once you realize that, oh my gosh, this heavy energy that I've been carrying for a long time that I know doesn't serve me, that I don't even like, that I don't even want anymore, I'm not bound to it. I don't actually have to carry it indefinitely. I can at least let that go and then it doesn't show up as a negative function in my life anymore.

Holy crap. People are carrying around so many thousands of these patterns of energy and they don't even know it. They don't even realize how burdened they are by the sum total of them until they gain the direct experience of finally releasing at least one of them, and they go, wow, I feel lighter. I feel so much better, and wow, synchronicities are happening at an accelerated rate, and wow, I just, I'm not triggered in the same way as I was by that old, not good enough, or that old unworthy or that old, not deserving, whatever that case may be.

I think that, uh, once people get a taste of it, they're gonna wanna share it with their friends. They're gonna wanna share it with their family, and it'll be a very organic uprising of sovereignty and expanded sentience. And, you know, I, I think that a, a big component of this too is gonna be almost, in a sense the, uh, the modern modernization of magic.

[00:57:50] Speaker 4: Hmm.

[00:57:51] Gladius Sovereign: There's going to be a commonplace acceptance that intention carries energy and makes meaningful change at multiple levels of reality beyond just your own physical body.

[00:58:12] Vision Battlesword: Yeah. It's like the visceral, deep core epiphany, understanding of what that. I guess what's kind of almost become a cliche, even though it's a super, super powerful mantra, be the change mm-hmm.

That you would like to see in the world. It's like, okay, great, great bumper sticker, great t-shirt, you know, great thing to say, but like, when it really lands and you realize that like, oh, that's magic. That's changing reality, no bs. Mm-hmm. That's a totally different paradigm.

[00:58:47] Gladius Sovereign: Yeah. And the, the paradigm where every single person has that understanding and is on a daily or weekly basis operating with those intentions, it's a totally different world.

[00:59:03] Vision Battlesword: Or at least when there's a, a substantial number of people. A critical mass, if you will. Yeah. Or even a center of gravity. Yeah. That's operating with that. Kind of understanding. Yeah. Yeah. That's a shift in consciousness. That's the kind of thing that I'm talking about. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But there's something else you said previously that I just want to do a little, you know, point counterpoint thing.

There's, there's shadows in the world, right? There's, there's a dark side to things, and that's because there's a light side to things, and that's, there has to be both. But what I'm saying is that when you were talking about how you can go on YouTube and discover, I'm reflecting back to the recent conversation I had with Edgar about arcane, and he was talking about how you went on the internet and found a video that caused him to have like a spiritual embodiment experience.

Like a spirit came into his body and he was able to communicate with it. And he, he described it as a super, super positive experience for him. And then I also reflected back like. That door could swing both ways probably. I would, I would like to be careful with the kind of content I consume. Yeah. If it has those potentials.

Yeah. So the point I'm making is that like, yeah, it's amazing and beautiful for people to be able to find things like your sovereign mind method or my power activation or lots and lots and lots of other super high vibe, intentional, evolution minded stuff. And the internet is a neutral technology.

Communications in general is a neutral technology as a vehicle for any ideas or patterns or programs or energies, encodings of information. So let's just be being realistic about things. My question is looking at the landscape of society as it is now. Not necessarily looking backwards in time, but still looking forwards nonetheless, knowing that.

There's lots of content on YouTube and or everywhere else, and all sorts of different ways that people are interacting with technology and AI and so forth. Where do you see that kind of critical mass of consciousness, like what you were describing, that modern magic idea where we start to become aware of our own patterns, that everything is made of energy and information that we have agency o ownership, sovereignty, to be able to create our reality in a more, in any direction that we want.

How does that play out knowing that there's also, let's just say, patterns that maybe want to go in different directions?

[01:01:40] Gladius Sovereign: Well, it's always gonna boil down to the individual's free will decision based on the guidance and wisdom of their higher self and the degree to which they have access to their intuition.

They'll find the right information at the moment that their consciousness is ready to find it. And they generally won't find it a moment sooner. It's really rare that one purely, purely accidentally stumbles upon something that is, uh, profoundly beneficially life changing that seemingly didn't have a little bit of influence from their higher self.

Like, Hey bud, watch that. Knowing that there's an information landscape out there that's full of landmines, and even if it wasn't full of landmines, of people who are like poisoning the, well, to some extent, just 90% of the information on the internet around limiting beliefs is either counterproductive or like, feel good junk.

[01:02:38] Vision Battlesword: Tell me more about that, because I, I don't, I I haven't explored that space nearly as much as you have.

[01:02:43] Gladius Sovereign: What do you, yeah, yeah. So if a belief is a, is a crystallized pattern of energy that lives both in your mind and in your body, stuck, trapped emotions in the physical tissues, even. A mental reframing process alone isn't going to fully and completely dissolve the full energy structure, but 90% of the information online will tell you, okay?

Write out the belief. Ask yourself a question. What do I believe about myself? That's like not helpful for finding a limiting belief that is causing a specific unwanted circumstance, but it'll at least give you some in interesting intellectual popcorn. I believe I'm a man. I believe that I'm, uh, someone who likes coffee or something.

This is really interesting to me. I wanna dissect this. Yeah. Why does that not work? Well, I'll keep describing briefly that, okay, you found a belief I'm not good enough. How do I process that belief? Number one, challenge it. Ask yourself, is that true? And you answer no. End of process. Do you feel better? Uh, most people, most of the time will say.

Marginally, yes. And then they'll go on and wake up the next day and they'll have that same sense in their experience, and that sense will persist for the next 20 years in their life, even though they know that it's not true. Because beliefs can exist independent of whether or not they map onto the truth.

And in my perspective, no belief is actually the fundamental truth. The best that a belief can do is accurately map onto the truth. You might carry a belief, for example, the sky is blue, but in truth, there's no such thing as a sky. That's just a definition that you paint on top of the raw sense data of look up.

What do I see? I see big, vast blue space. Blue is a definition. It's not

[01:04:49] Vision Battlesword: actually blue. If you look at it, it's really not blue most times. And it's not blue most times. Most times it's, it's changed

[01:04:54] Gladius Sovereign: color. So the the belief, uh, do you believe that the sky is blue? Yeah. Well, you're wrong.

[01:05:00] Speaker 4: That's,

[01:05:00] Gladius Sovereign: that's

[01:05:01] Vision Battlesword: not true.

This is great. No, this is really fun. Yeah. So like, I love, I love this specific investigation that we're doing right now. I want to go, I wanna like take a minute and do a little bit of a deep dive right here because, so here's what I want to do, what we've discovered right now, or, or like at least I wanna make an analogy to what we're looking at right now.

Coming back to that idea of thinking about our belief system or our entire mental landscape, our entire psychology, if you like, as software, like an operating system for a computer. Yes. And these beliefs we might think of as programs or applications that can be installed and run on the computer.

Sometimes applications run in the background. We don't even see them on the

[01:05:48] Gladius Sovereign: desktop. In fact, if you open up the task manager, you will see that you have 10 to 20 to 30 to 50 times as many applications running in the background that you're not even consciously aware of. Whole tons

[01:05:59] Vision Battlesword: of background processes if you open up your task manager on your computer, that you'll see that are not actually visible to you as Windows on the screen or, or anything graphical.

Right. So if we take that analogy back to what you're just saying about the belief system, and then we're talking about a kind of a very, let's say you call it popcorn or you know, we might say like, um, just a very superficial way of thinking about beliefs and how to clear them, which is, let's just say, what do you believe?

Okay, well, I guess this is sort of like querying the computer, like what programs are running, but how does the computer know what information. To return to you, right? If you give the the computer a very vague instruction, it might just show you the blank desktop and say, here you go. Yeah. Oh, you said programs are running.

This is what I got. Then you said, well, belief structure, A, B, C, syntax, language structure, whatever that is. Is this true? No. Okay, great. That might be sort of like saying close program, but that's not delete program. No, that's not uninstall program. Yeah, that's not, will the program restart again the next time I boot the computer, right.

Or is it even on a timer to restart again in 10 minutes? Right. It's just a very superficial way of interacting with

[01:07:26] Gladius Sovereign: the overall situation. That's exactly right, and it's only interfacing with the graphical user interface. It's not. Actually interfacing with the underlying energy, which is what actually binds the program into your operating system.

[01:07:43] Vision Battlesword: Yes. You know, this is where it gets really interesting to me. 'cause this is kind of the new, the newer stuff that we've been exploring and discovering lately. And my question is, what is

[01:07:54] Gladius Sovereign: a belief? Okay. A belief is a crystallized pattern of energy. And this crystallized pattern of energy carries intention and the energy that it is imbued with can have any imaginable combination of emotion, sensations, or other qualities baked into it.

And so there are belief structures that are filled with fear, anger, pain, and sadness. There are belief structures that are filled with laughter and joy and pleasure. Based on your past experiences. So every belief, and here's what a lot of people don't even realize too, every definition of every language that you've ever learned is also another belief.

So the definitions are like building blocks upon which you construct the larger bel The, the vast majority of beliefs in your belief system are gonna be comprised of other definitions. And so if you have a, a belief that life is hard or work is serious, each of those words is in and of itself a belief.

So you have a string of beliefs bound together to make a combined sense that confuses together, conceptually fuses together your definition of life, which is all encompassing, and your definition of hard, which is probably not pleasant. When someone carries that belief, structure of life is hard, they're literally binding their sense of hard energetically into their sense of life.

I call this a confused definition, but

[01:09:47] Vision Battlesword: work is hard. Is a definitional statement true, isn't it? Yes. Yes. So they're self-referencing and they Yep. Is it possible

[01:09:57] Gladius Sovereign: that beliefs are definitions inherently in some sense? You could frame it that way, but it all with his, what's funny, it would then depend on your definition of definition.

Um, do we need to define the word is also

[01:10:11] Vision Battlesword: depends on different, if the word is is okay, but, but back to what you originally said, it sounds like what you're telling me is that in your model or in your understanding, a belief. Is like an informational or energetic, if you will. I think the two things could be interchangeable.

Maybe energy and information, maybe two forms of the same thing. Sure. Yes. Anyway, it's an energetic or informational container for a collection of experiences.

[01:10:40] Gladius Sovereign: That's another great way to look at it. Okay. Yeah. And it, it contains information from those experiences. And that container evolves through time, the more experiences that you have.

Yeah. And you can continuously grow the energetic charge of a belief by reinforcing it with a similar pattern of experiences again and again over the course of decades.

[01:11:06] Vision Battlesword: To me, I've never thought of it in these terms until just now, but it sounds like you're describing a very elegant and sophisticated database.

Hmm. Yeah. When I had a conversation with, uh, our good friend Vic, which the topic of the conversation was belief in and of itself. We got to a point after exploring it for over an hour, we got to a point where we were starting to realize that belief is what gives structure to reality. Like why we keep using this phrase, belief structure, belief structure is because if we were to imagine completely deleting the entire database, or completely dissolving, removing the entire belief system itself, what we would experience is the best we, we can imagine, it is just like an unfiltered data stream of reality.

Like reality, just like flowing through our awareness, which. One might call a non-dual state or connection with source or returning to, you know, universal oneness or whatever. That may actually be very pleasant and, and, and enjoyable. But also it might be difficult to function as a 3D object in a 3D world, if that is the experience of reality.

So yeah, we were starting to realize that it's like, oh, thank goodness for the belief system. Because the belief system is actually like we were using an analogy of a house. It's the wall, it's the actual structure, it's the framing of the building. It's where we choose to put the walls, how we choose to divide the rooms, what furniture would we like to put in it.

But the difference between having an intentionally evolved belief system and having an accidental or a chaotic or a confusing belief system is imagine that. You let someone else design the architecture of your house and you just happen to live here because this is where you showed up and anyone that happens to come down the street gets to put furniture in it or move the furniture around or put in unnecessary walls and dividers that constrain your movement and make it more difficult and frustrating just to live here.

That's the, that's the difference. It's not so much about the belief structure. The belief system itself is bad, or inherently it does inherently represent limitation. But some, there's a certain amount of there limitation that we actually prefer that we enjoy, but then there's a certain amount that becomes counterproductive and intentional.

Evolution is just about taking ownership for like, oh, this is the house that I live in. I have a sledgehammer, and I can move these walls around if I want. Yeah. Yeah,

[01:14:03] Gladius Sovereign: you get to architect that house for yourself. Mm-hmm. And make choices intentionally about what you believe and what you no longer wish to believe.

What no longer is true for you in your experience. If you carry a belief, I am not enough, that will feel, look and seem and sound true and real to you every single day, right up until the moment when you finally choose to let it go. And then you realize that, oh, what I perceived as a wall blocking me off from the beautiful balcony that I've secretly had inside of my consciousness the entire time.

Mm-hmm. What I perceived as a wall was never actually there. It was just waiting for me to walk through it. Mm. And then when you do, you get to reap the rewards of actual sunlight reaching. Your eyes reaching your awareness without the veil of that illusory perception in the way. Sometimes the walls aren't even solid.

They're just holograms. They're just holograms. Yeah. And you, you like believe in them so strongly that you think that you can knock on them and you think you can feel them and you think you can touch them. You can't, they're they're not really there. They're not there In a concrete sense, what

[01:15:15] Vision Battlesword: happens, like, okay, so like really going deep into the theory, because this is the whole point.

Like, we wanna geek out on this stuff. Yeah. What happens when someone has, as a part of their belief, structure, their house, if you will, a wall or whatever it is that it looks like, such as, I'm not enough, I am not enough. Which is again, a definitional statement. Yes. The definition of I am. Mm-hmm. How does that manifest in a person's experience or in a person's behavior?

What does that, what does

[01:15:48] Gladius Sovereign: that like result in? The first thing I'll touch on is self-perception. Yeah. There'll be a consistent self-perception of inadequacy insufficiency in virtually all domains of their experience, which they, depending on their other programming and their belief system will either capitulate to and then fully allow that self-perceived inadequacy to express through different mental health problems and different physiological symptoms.

For example, like, oh, I'm not enough. I'm just gonna let myself go eat pizza and become overweight. Or, oh, I'm not enough. I'm just gonna coast in my entry level accounting job and not really seek to like build anything of meaning or import in my life. They'll make different decisions that reflect and confirm and concretize that identity.

'cause this is another aspect of this to me, any, anytime that you have a belief that starts with I am. It's your self definition and it's your identity. That's the, that's I am, it's your identity. And so this is who and what you are. And so in addition to all of that, it'll show up in all of their relationships.

It'll show up depending on your programming. You might also counter that belief by trying your hardest, your entire life to prove that you are enough Uhhuh, building a facade that is not authentic to who you truly are, and going forth and conquering women and conquering business and conquering the gym, and almost a polar opposite response to that.

But it, it's fueled by fear and it's compulsory, and you have no control over it. And so even if you create beneficial results in your outside world, all coming and stemming from that core belief that I'm not enough, it'll never be satisfying. Oh.

[01:17:46] Vision Battlesword: From an evolutionary perspective, why would a belief structure such as I am not enough, I'm not good enough, or something like that, why would something like that develop?

What is the survival value? I, I, I, because I mean that's, that's at least my, my, I'm sure that it could sometimes be the case that we pick up beliefs that are just purely not to our good, but I think more, much, more often, the vast majority of time, whatever it is we have in our belief system, served a purpose somehow at some point.

How, how does something like I am not enough at some point in someone's experience make sense and have value for them?

[01:18:36] Gladius Sovereign: Totally. Okay, so I'll give an example in a story. There's a, a little girl who's six years old. And she just s spillt milk on the floor, and her dad is looking in her eyes and about to scold her.

He feels anger in his body, and the child is very sensitive and she can feel and sense his disappointment, his anger, and she didn't mean to, she didn't intentionally spill the milk. She was just excited about her coloring book and flapped it against the glass, and it spilled all over her dad's watch or whatever.

And so he's, he's all frustrated and pissed off, and she is experiencing this anger and she's, she's afraid and she's experiencing his anger, her own fear. And seeing the, the sense image of, of father's disappointed, look and eyes. And this is all coalescing together. And in that moment, the child asks a question, why is this happening to me?

What does this mean? Why is this happening? What did I do wrong? It must mean I am not enough. And this is a survival brilliant judo move to take the environmental stressor of parental disapproval and turn it into a motivational mechanism for self-improvement. So all of the fear and anger and all of the negative emotion of that experience then gets bound up into this program which says, I am not enough.

Therefore I must get better. I must be better. I must do better moving forward. Mm. And it serves as that motivational fuel for that child to continuously. Assess the environment. Self-assess, am I meeting the requirements of this household? Am I satisfying the needs and desires of my father? And it will forever blind them to perceiving reality clearly, because the answer will always be, no, I'm not enough.

I must, you know, now become a straight A student in order to appease my father. Uh, okay, now I've done that. Am I good now? No, I'm not enough. I must now start a business. Am I good now? Nope. I'm not enough. I must, you know, learn, learn and master the, the piano so that my mother can be happy too. And so it, it will serve for a stage in a period of time as evolutionary fuel to improve, but it'll also be completely and fundamentally draining and exhausting.

And most of the results that come from that will deliver temporary fleeting satisfaction and never soul level fulfillment. Because it is fundamentally a survival program. It guides and directs the ego to pursue adaptive behaviors that win brownie points to an outdated environment. Once you're 20, 30, 40 years old, you've left the child at home, you no longer need to appease mom and dad.

You no longer need to carry the story, that you're not enough. It doesn't actually keep you safe like it once appeared to, and yet it'll persist indefinitely until you make the free will choice to let it go.

[01:21:49] Vision Battlesword: No, but I get it, and this is actually really super helpful for me and maybe for other people to just like have a connection to reality.

Like, like to have a connection to like, what is this for? How did this get here? What is the practical value of this? So that it's not just like such a disembodied boogeyman. Yeah. Of like, I'm not worthy and I like I'm burdened with this thing. I'm like, you know, it's like this cross that I have to bear. Is this here?

Yeah, yeah. But like the way you're explaining it now, it actually makes a lot of sense because it is a very powerful, yet simple program that a child can understand. Like taking all of that, that sophisticated thought process that, oh, like what, what's my contribution to the household? And like, how could I be more careful with my book in the milk and like blah, blah, blah.

It's like, but, but something that a child's mind can immediately grasp, understanding and encapsulate. And that by running that program, it being so vague, so ambiguous, it generally leads to different results or different outcomes because it's applied situationally and that internal motivator, which you might call shame, that internal motivator will lead to at least effort, extra effort in all of these different ways.

So it's like at a certain point in time, at a certain age, yeah. It actually is working to improve a child's experience, you know, in certain ways. But at what cost? And to your point, it's like running a computer with. Very, very far outdated software. I can relate to this problem right now. Yeah. You know, the computer's not running well and this program is actually not helping anymore.

It's actually subtracting from my experience or the enjoyment of my life. So, but that actually really is helpful to at least appreciate the power and the potency of how simple a program can be and how it can have these dramatic impacts on our life. And so I think the new question or the new invitation is to consider what does intentional evolution look like of a belief system that includes empowering beliefs that can somehow provide that similar type of motivating energy toward improvement of our experience overall without the corresponding suffering or.

Inherent limitations of those old programs.

[01:24:31] Gladius Sovereign: Yeah, exactly. And, and whether that's achieved through creating and installing a different belief, or what I prefer to believe is the case is that when we let go of the old fear-based energy structure, the natural essence of who and what we are can shine more clearly and we can receive easier, unfiltered guidance from our higher mind, from our true self, from God, or source, whatever you prefer to believe in, and the natural rhythm and order and purpose of our soul can then spontaneously unfold.

It doesn't have to be a, a matter of like belief replacement. At least that's my perspective. That's where I differ from one of my, my mentors teachings who used to say, you always must replace the fear-based belief for the love-based belief kind of thing. But yeah, that's, that's how I make sense of it today.

[01:25:28] Vision Battlesword: Yeah. And that makes sense too. Like, just to bring it back to the analogy of the house, sometimes you may just want a more open floor planned. Yeah. Like we can knock some walls out. They don't, we don't need to put new walls up. Yeah. Necessarily. Right. But on the other hand, we may just wanna reconfigure the rooms and sometimes new walls create different spaces.

That might be what we want to enjoy. They might right now. But yeah, I, I see where you're going with that. And I was just noticing in your story, like in your, in your example of how the little girl forms, at some point I'm not enough. I was just noticing how, and you, you actually offered a couple of reframes in the moment of like what a different program could look like that would serve the same purpose for the child, but not have to carry that.

Internally painful, energetic imprint. So I just think that's an idea for us to contemplate there about. Yeah, I hear what you're saying about not wanting to give people the impression that belief work or play, as I would call it, must always be a one, one for one substitution. That you've got a much more open-minded and flexible approach than that.

But then also dialing back in time to the 6-year-old child or whatever age we are when some of these things, these police occur. It could be that at that age the house is gonna get a wall and we can help ourselves and help our children to put up good walls as much as possible. Yeah. That will be, that will serve them well.

Yeah, for as long as possible in their life.

[01:27:15] Gladius Sovereign: Does that make sense? Yeah, it sure does. Yeah. When I look at the life trajectory of two children, one has a set of parents who has all of this awareness that we're discussing today, and that intention of like, my kid's probably gonna form some beliefs, might as well empower them with ones that are beneficial,

[01:27:31] Vision Battlesword: right?

Or here we are in the spilled milk moment. Yeah. Intentional evolution. Awareness would say, this is a big deal. This is an important moment. How I handle this can change the direct, the trajectory of my child's life for the next 20, 30, 40 years. Right? So it's like, what do I want to do right now? Do you know?

Do I want to try to make sure that this doesn't turn into an I'm not enough

[01:27:58] Gladius Sovereign: wall?

[01:27:59] Vision Battlesword: You know what I

[01:28:00] Gladius Sovereign: mean? Yeah, yeah. And there's a, there's a hilarious joke, running joke that I have with, uh, my partner Eliza, where we make fun of the ego. And the ego always knows what to do based on what it believes, but it has this childlike voice of like,

[01:28:14] The Little Ego: I know what to do! I'm gonna yell and scream at her and make sure that she feels shame for the rest of her life!!! It's like... That's good!!!

[01:28:24] Gladius Sovereign: Oh man. But no,

[01:28:27] Vision Battlesword: That's funny. That's a, we should make a cartoon character of that.

[01:28:30] Gladius Sovereign: Yes. I want to.

[01:28:31] Vision Battlesword: That would be hilarious.

[01:28:32] Gladius Sovereign: Yes.

[01:28:33] Vision Battlesword: That would be such a great way to explain some of these things that we talk about.

[01:28:37] Gladius Sovereign: The ego knows what to do, man, and it's always that voice.

[01:28:39] The Little Ego: I know what to do!!!

[01:28:41] Vision Battlesword: It's like a little, a little smart ass.

[01:28:43] Gladius Sovereign: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:28:45] Vision Battlesword: That's funny. Oh man, this was fun as heck. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Is there anything else on your mind right now that. It just feels really juicy to include as our first conversation ever on intentional evolution.

[01:29:00] Gladius Sovereign: I just wanna remind people that, um, you can go to the Intentional Evolution website and you can see past collaborations and productions of intentional evolution the organization, and gain a, a ton of value from watching these presentations. And, um, everything that we do here is offered on the, the value for value model, which you can learn more about on the website.

But the idea is super simple. It's like, you know, if you, if you check out some of the deeper explorations and workshops on these ideas and you derive value from it, and you wanna make a contribution that feels good in your heart, you're free to do so. Um, we really appreciate you. I appreciate you big time for, for listening to this production and I trust that you gained some value from it and some perspective and hopefully a laugher too along the way.

And I'm just really grateful vision that we, uh, we kicked this off together.

[01:29:53] Vision Battlesword: Man, you too. And thanks for bringing that in. You know, the idea here, I, I mean, correct me if you think I'm wrong, but, or if I'm speaking outta of turn, but like the idea here is like one plus one equals three and or 30 depending on Yeah.

Or 30 or three. 300 or 3 million. Like the, the idea is we want to bring together as many of these groundbreaking. Impactful evolutionary ideas and technologies, psycho textures as we called it, or psychospiritual architectures. Like we wanna bring all of this together and we want to create the human singularity.

That's what we're here to do. And we, you know, deeply believe that we can collaborate together in joyful, playful, reciprocal value, exchanging ways where we're all just getting better together and improving. In the directions that we would really like to take our own evolution. So that's what we're here to do and we'll just keep talking about anything that is on topic or relevant to that whole project of intentional evolution.

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