The MAP – Today’s Topic: Consciousness

Posted on by Aubrey Forest "The Modern Alchemist"

Greetings Alchemists and welcome to The MAP (The Modern Alchemist Podcast) here at The Last Exit*!

I’ve received a few requests over the last several weeks to begin a serious discussion on the topic of Consciousness. Today I received another amazing email with a request to begin a dialogue on Consciousness. Seems the Universe would enjoy a brief chat on its most favorite subject, and mine (The ALL being Mind, the Universe being Mental); so here we go!

Ready? Let’s begin! ^_^

*To learn more about “The Last Exit” click here! ^_^

P.S. This episode of The MAP is a direct product of your curiosity! THANK YOU! By all means, if you want to have a topic you find interesting discussed here on The MAP, feel free to say so in the comments section below, or you can message me or email me. I read all my messages and emails (love them!) and would be delighted to focus an episode of The MAP on a topic that you want to hear discussed! Thank you again for your comments, your questions, and your emails!

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I began my Esoteric Journey as a youth of thirteen when my mother decided I needed to attend Catechism to aid me in cleansing myself of "Impure Thoughts." To me, Catechism was amazing because it opened my young mind to an entire new world and I was blessed to have several competent nuns and priests on hand to aid me in my more difficult existential questions. I had a lot of time on my hands as an unsupervised only child, and so I used that time to explore religion, it's very roots and history. Now, I know what you're probably thinking, "But you were only 13," and you're right; I was a very unusual child. By fourteen I had decided that I wanted to go to Divinity School, and by fifteen I had learned enough about early and medieval Christian history to decide that Catholicism was not for me. And so my existential and esoteric journey began! Since a "Christian-like" religion was the most familiar, I started there and quickly made friends among the Mormons. And so most of high school was spent either with my Mormon friends or in academic pursuits, as that life at home was often uncertain; my mother being quite a volatile woman. By 17 I left home, joined the Navy as a Reservist, and used that money to attend the University of Washington and pursue a degree in Speech Communications. While in Boot Camp ("Great Mistakes, IL"), I had time to give Mormonism a critical look and by the time I was finished with training I was pretty comfortable with the idea of joining "The Church;" having been among their community for three years as a teen. A year later I met the woman who would become my wife, and we were Sealed in the Seattle Temple together as part of our marriage. We're still married, and have three amazing children and one grandchild together. Later I attended Utah Valley State College, now Utah Valley University, completing a degree in Business and receiving two certifications from "The Church" attesting to my prowess and knowledge, relative to Church Doctrine and World Religions. Because of who I am, I found myself regularly being "Called" to teaching positions within "The Church." I love to teach and I love to share things of beauty with others, regardless of age, and as such I've taught the full range - children to adults - and loved every minute of it. It is my sincerest hope that my love for teaching and expressing beauty is evident in each of my videos here on The Modern Alchemist Channel; they are a reflection of who I am, what I know, and what I believe. Over a period of years (this was during "The Salamander Letters Scandal"), I learned of the esoteric roots of "The Church" and its ties to Freemasonry. In very real terms one might consider the Mormon Temple Endowment as "Freemasonry Lite." In addition to this, I discovered that the Prophet, Joseph Smith, had quite the esoteric background himself, he being a man of his times, as it were. This knowledge lead me on a journey toward understanding what all this esoteric stuff was about until at last I discovered the 20th century esoteric tradition as found in The Golden Dawn, the O.T.O. and other fraternal esoteric orders and communities. Eventually I simply left "The Church" having outgrown such notions and in 2010 I began my Journey in earnest. On June of 2013 I started "Zen Master Hubba Bubba" in an effort to share what I had come to discover. Over time, my focus narrowed even further until in January of 2015 I created "The Modern Alchemist Channel" on YouTube, in an effort to fill what I perceived to be a vacuum and add some light through clear and simple instruction. Later, at the prodding of many friends and students, opened up The Modern Alchemist Channel - Patreon, so that I could explore even deeper ideas and concepts, and teach on a global level with LIVE content. Your support of The Modern Alchemist Channel is what makes all of this possible, because it supports the real world effort and time required to bring it all together. So thank you for joining me, and THANK YOU for your continued support of The Modern Alchemist Channel! ^_^ You can find A LOT more videos, articles, and LIVE classes and content on Patreon. Please take a moment and check it out! Here's the link: https://www.patreon.com/TheModernAlchemistChannel ^_^