John Koenig on Past Lives and Evolving Consciousness

John Koenig, author of 'My Autobiographies,' a book detailing John's various past lives talks about the significance of past life regressions and the lessons one can learn from them, including the experiences of regret and personal growth. 

The conversation delves into the concept of karma and how one's soul choices before birth affect life events. 

John also introduces his innovative 'Universal Mind Map Oracle Meditation System'—an Oracle deck that combines principles from various religions, philosophies, and self-help movements to guide personal evolution. They touch on the idea of humanity evolving into a new species, 'Homo Spiritus,' and how tools like John's Oracle deck can aid in this process.

Transcript

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 2:04

There are a couple things that I know for sure, and one is that I'm Jim Lapan and I know that you're John Konick

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 2:11

seem to be

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 2:11

and continue to be John Konick. Welcome back, John for another episode here.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 2:18

back.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 2:18

John and I have been talking about, john's book, my autobiographies. And if you could show us the,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 2:25

The current.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 2:26

cover of that, that's

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 2:27

This, by the way,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 2:28

you can

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 2:28

that's me in this life and this over here is me as my shaman, and that is me as my current wife's wife, Lena.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 2:36

Okay. Okay. It's, it's funny that you had, touched on that because I wanted to say that and we're talking about past lives. Past life, regressions John's, book Autobiographies is about several of his past lives. I had a past life regression where. I was a Native American woman, and in this one I did not have a untimely or violent death. But what happened was that I had a younger sister and we were just going through life and, and there was, this, indian guy that, that was there and he was interested in me, but I just, you know, I didn't want to commit and just kinda let that go. And down the road my sister ended up becoming married to him and having a family. so as I got older, I looked at my life and I saw that. That really could have been my life, it wasn't, and not because of my sister, but because of me that I had passed by and not taken advantage of a situation, and, That was my, my problem that I had and, where that came from coming into my mind, I have no idea except for the fact that I had that as a past life. I mean, I don't know Native American people. I don't. No people that had that particular story. So it's not like I had a dream about, I was watching the show on cowboys and I had a dream about cowboys it. It's, it's not like that at all. And certainly. do you think, John, about when you have a past life regression? Does it surprise you or amaze you sometimes as to what topics or what things come into it?

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 4:14

You can't go into this with expectations. If, if you do, you're not gonna get a, a good value or even an experience at all. But in, in that life of yours, the lesson of the road less traveled, that we make choices in life.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 4:30

Yeah.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 4:30

I remember when I was a kid in this life, I was in a, a band. I played the clarinet and the drummer bass drummer didn't show up. And the. And I was not great at clarinet. And the teacher asked me if I would play the drums and I was too shy and so I declined. And he said to me, you're missing an opportunity. You're gonna regret for the rest of your life.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 4:58

Wow.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 4:58

now at my advanced age, but that is the thing, you know? And that happened to you when, when you had this guy, this brave you were interested in. You didn't go for it, and you ended that life with regret.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 5:12

With that regret, with that regret that it could have, that could have been my

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 5:15

Answering your question, you never know what you're gonna bump into if you're doing it properly.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 5:20

Right,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 5:21

that do what I do for a living, sometimes you get people and they, they believe they were Cleopatra and so they will go into a regression and they will, they will twist it, so they will make it be Cleopatra and that's a whole different thing, that's, I hate when that happens. You want somebody to go in and, and say, even if you have an intention, you forget the intention and let whatever is there be there.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 5:43

Yes, yes, some people say that it's really our soul that decides what life we're going to look at. That,, we as humans in this life, we're not the ones in charge of that, of what happens when we're having the regression. That it's, that it's being chosen for

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 6:01

I, I.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 6:02

learn something about. And I, I, I think that's a wonderful thought, you

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 6:06

I would say this, that language that most everybody does, my soul, I believe who we are is soul.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 6:13

Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 6:13

That who we are literally is soul. And, and this stuff is like a costume that we wear and ab

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 6:20

Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 6:21

And, and we do make the decision before birth. And, and that's a fascinating way to look at life. If you, if you chose, I mean, I, I'm sure you know a lot of people, I certainly do that. See themselves as victims, you know, poor me, this happened to me, whatever it is. And I'm not saying life isn't hard, life is hard. But when you look at things from point of view of I chose this, I chose these challenges, I chose these parents, I chose this race, this level of health, whatever it gives you a whole different access to how to live. I think.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 6:53

absolutely. I I, I have interviewed a fellow that, I haven't published the interview yet, but his name is David Sewage and, and he interviewed over a period of years at the time he wrote the book God took my clothes. He had. had interviewed 700 people. Now it's 1200 people. And climbing. And he talks about these people that have had near death experiences. They tell him. They tell him what they themselves experienced. This is not, coming from somewhere way out. This is from a person that's sitting there saying, I had this near death experience and this is what happened. And they talk about just what you were saying. They talk about going in the life in between lives. They talk about having a, an opportunity to decide what lessons they wanna learn in the next life and selecting. What family they want to go into and what issues they want to solve. And, I, look at some people that have nothing but luck and then I look at people that have nothing but

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 8:04

Yeah.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 8:05

They just have one problem after another can't, it doesn't stop. And, and I think to myself, I feel a lot better anyway as a human saying. They, they asked for that, but there's gotta be a lesson being learned

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 8:17

I believe so, and I, I think that the problem every religion has is how do you explain why bad things happen to otherwise good people?

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 8:26

Right,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 8:27

opinion, no religion. As an adequate answer. If you believe in a loving good God, well, why would a child be born who dies? You know, 18 days later? Why would the parents be put through that? And I have not known any religious. Who's able to explain that in any way except God's mysterious. Well, what if you chose, I'm gonna incarnate as a, as a, a baby who dies in 18 days to fulfill something in me, but also to give my parents their karmic lesson of having a child that they're devastated by, by the child's death. You know? And, and to me, it clears up a lot of questions, theological questions that all religions try to address.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 9:11

Yeah. It, it makes a lot of sense. And let's talk a little bit more about, about some of the lives that you had that you showed in your book. My autobiographies. There is one guy who's a really awful guy and he's a son of a wealthy

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 9:28

My rapist

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 9:29

Yeah, a

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 9:30

murder.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 9:31

Can you imagine murder? I've heard people say we're, we're not always great people in these past lives, but I've, I haven't so far had one of those people been a victim of, of people, bad people, but haven't been a bad person. And so tell us what was the life and how did you feel about it?

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 9:51

God, what, what an experience that was. Thank you for picking that one. I, I, I was hoping you would bring that one up. He, he was privileged and he thought he could do whatever he wanted and he had molested or, and raped a couple of. Like lower class women. He was a wealthy, wealthy rancher son. So one day he's, he's walking around or in a horse and he finds this woman and he rapes her and she is a landowner's daughter. And she says she's gonna get her brothers and they're gonna kill me. And what he did is he fought with her, he threw her down, she hit her head, and she died. And Zeke was his name. When you do this work, you, you, the facilitator will say, do you get a name? And I got Zeke and Zeel, I guess that was, and, he's not very bright, and he hides, he goes, and he doesn't hide, like, I'm gonna go to Mexico. He, he goes to the next county and spends his life as a relu. He's afraid of, facing the consequences. And he makes survives by doing odd jobs for people. And what I got out of that, I mean, he is. Unrecognizable this huge beard. He stinks and he lives alone. His whole life is alone. And what I got out of that was the tendency I have to isolate. The issue of karma, I look at karma and, and not in the sense of you're being punished. For being a murderer, but in the sense that you have a lesson to learn.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 11:30

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 11:30

the lesson I got is about being known about speaking my truth. And for years and years, I hid a lot of who I am.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 11:39

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 11:40

'cause, you know, for whatever reason, and that was Zeke's legacy. You can't let people know who you are. That was the theme of his life. Like your theme of one of earths was you have to take care of other people as well.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 11:55

Right. Right.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 11:56

With Zeke's is, is handed his life with you know, you can't let anybody know who you are, and I brought that into his life. But the top brother Thomas' was, I suppose people will betray you or you, or you can't trust. Maybe it was, you can't trust. What you're told, you know, your I the ideals of your community that is, is fraudulent. And that had me into his life as a questioner maybe,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 12:21

Okay. a questioner, did you

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 12:23

As a questioner, because brother Thomas believed it all. He believed everything about his faith, and he believed that everybody, that he like his Abbott was good and honorable and, and they weren't. But he left that thing with everything I believed was false. And, I would say that maybe Zeke's was, you can't trust anybody to know you. His was, you can't trust what you're told. It's fraudulent. It's a lie.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 12:50

Wow. Wow. That's, they're pretty harsh, both of

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 12:54

Yeah, well, everybody's life. I, my book is my autobiographies. I think I have 14 of, I've had 31 that I've counted so far, but anybody could write their autobiographies. You know, you could. They, you go through your lives and, and note what they were and what you left the life with and what, what you brought into this life. It, you know what, when we started, I picked one of my cards from my, my deck

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 13:20

Oh, yes,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 13:21

that the unexamined life isn't worth living. But when you do this work, it's multidimensional. It's not this life, it's. This goes back into like the way a river gets streams from the mountains that go into it. Mm-hmm. Are the streams that created who you are.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 13:40

Well, that's a very interesting

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 13:42

yeah.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 13:42

John, I hadn't really thought of that. And that's, yeah, the, the stream continues on. It's not the, that little stream anymore. It's a

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 13:50

And, and, and you, you shared,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 13:51

a different identity

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 13:53

too. You know the guy that, that can't all be about me and the woman who opportunities come and you, you have a chance, a choice. You're taking advantage of them or you let it go and regret

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 14:05

right,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 14:05

fascinating stuff, huh? It's a different way of thinking about life.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 14:09

it is, is fascinating there were a couple of other of your lives that I wanted to talk about, later in the book you talk about that you feel strongly that you can take the energies of these past lives and bring them into this life like the wonder I'm reading from my notes. Wonder and curiosity, of the shaman,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 14:35

All right.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 14:35

The coping mechanisms of Robbie the Slave. these lives of yours. Those humans had to cope with different things and, you mentioned that you bring. of those are those things to your current life. Could you talk about that a little bit

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 14:51

Well, some of them with the image of the, the stream and the river are just who I am. But you also can bring attributes into this life.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 15:02

Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 15:02

And I had a thing recently and the only life that I could, I could touch was I was the sergeant major in, in the British. Military at the time when they were occupied fighting with India, taking over India. And he had a lot of flaws, but he was bold, he was brassy, he was, and I was able to bring that in. The way I first got into this was I was at a training and the facilitator said, you can do this. You can bring, and the facilitator again, that name David Quigley says he learned how to play the piano by accessing Beta Hart's cordes. In a royal court and he brought that ability play. And so he expressed this in a training and I said, okay. He said, I wanna work on leadership and I'm a male in this life and my vision of leadership is over the top boys. And, so I go back and I find myself as a mother of three boys, and they're successful builders in mid East. They build palaces, they build public buildings, and I am their mother and I am their coach. It was a feminine idea of leadership, supportive, nurturing rather than pushing or, or challenging. Again, these things often aren't dramatic, but I think it did help me in my work, which is about empowering people rather than anything that, you know, you might. Pushing. She has the experience and, and these, this past I've had people, many people in my office, in, in absolute tears,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 16:43

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 16:44

drown in my office. I've had people do all kind kinds of things, and her youngest son dies. And for the rest of her life, her life was broken. You know, but that, wasn't the central point in her life. What I pull out of that life was leadership

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 17:01

I had a life where I was, the the oldest of three. I was a male. I had a younger brother and a younger sister. This was in the United States in the, like a frontier town, something like that. And, the middle child died in a, like a wagon accident,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 17:20

Your, your brother or

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 17:21

my

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 17:22

my sister.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 17:22

my, my brother, yes, he, he died in that accident and. The real thing that I took out of it was that my sister and I formed our own little family. The mother couldn't cope with it. The father couldn't cope with it, but. Here was my sister and I, and we just, we just had to live. we had, there was nowhere to go. We were young, we were trying to grow up and we found a way to do it, the two of us. And I think, no, that I think is, is a leadership that's, that's courage right And but very, very interesting

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 18:04

talk about this before, but. I picked one of my Oracle card. I created an Oracle deck,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 18:10

Oh,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 18:10

and I, I picked the card, which was resourcefulness. You know what you, what you did in that life is you were resourceful.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 18:19

Yeah.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 18:20

made it work.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 18:22

Yeah. We ha you know, it's like God of necessity as the mother of invention. You know, we, we just had to, we had to make it, and we did. And that was part of my experience too, was We did. Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 18:34

You survived and you.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 18:35

big. We survived and we, and we. And we went, went on to live lives, you know, good lives. So, yeah. Very, very interesting. And now tell about, let's talk a little bit about your Oracle deck. There are tarot. Card decks, that's what we call a deck, is a, is like a, is like a deck of cards kind of thing. And there are, then there's a different type of, of cards that are inspirational, kind of a cards and tell, and now yours is kind of along those lines, right John? It's kind of a, inspirational,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 19:09

I, I, yeah,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 19:10

group. What'd you say? Or no?

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 19:12

I educational.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 19:13

Educational. Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 19:15

every deck that's created, forgetting the tower, even that though it was created by an individual, reflects that individual's worldview. What I did to grade this deck is I went on ai, I actually used chat, CPT about that earlier. I used and to investigate 64 principles that humanity has to master. The common agreements between all philosophies, all religions, all self-help movements.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 19:43

Now, say that again. The

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 19:44

64 principle

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 19:45

principles.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 19:46

has to master if we're to evolve. One of my principles and in the autobiographies is that humanity we're evolving into a new species, almost, if not new species. So what are the principles that humans have to master as an aggregate and as individuals to gimme these 64 principles? And out came 64 principles and I turned each of them into a card. So when you work with this deck, you're basically training yourself in what the world as thinkers believe humanity has to incorporate the oracle deck as opposed to a book you could read in a book, but the Oracle deck allows the universe to school you that you pick a card and that's your card for the day. In the first interview we did, I picked the mirror.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 20:37

Yep.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 20:39

and there's a quote from Socrates.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 20:41

Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 20:42

The unexamined life isn't worth living. The best thinkers of humanity believe self-knowledge is important. To know yourself if you're going to evolve. And the other one I, I picked for today's I, I picked them before the interviews, was resourcefulness, if you're going to resolve. I don't have the picture over here, but the, the lines, if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And if you want to evolve, you gotta play the ball where it lays,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 21:11

Yes,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 21:12

If it lays in the rough, it's in the rough.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 21:14

That's it.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 21:15

Yeah.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 21:15

Go with that. That's what,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 21:17

But, but by using either a random number generator or shuffling, you let whatever's that creates this pick. Now, why that's different from an Oracle deck that came outta one person's mind is if you do that, you're still in that person's worldview with my deck. You're in the, in the view of humanity, the best minds of humanity, not John,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 21:37

Okay. That's, that's where your deck

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 21:40

completely different, absolutely unique

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 21:42

Completely

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 21:42

it.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 21:43

These are principles, is that

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 21:44

Principles, well,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 21:45

Principles that

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 21:47

it, is, is challenges humanity has to master is individuals in an aggregate to

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 21:52

to

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 21:53

their best and to evolve. And I asked Chachi PD to, to investigate all religion, philosophy, self-help movements,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 22:02

Okay,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 22:03

And a few other things to put,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 22:06

so this isn't the Christian, thing. This isn't the

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 22:10

but that's,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 22:11

or the Hindu. It's all.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 22:13

it's all, and I, I double checked that I did it again, and I came up with these 64 principles. I added two of my own. And I make clear, and you don't have to use the two of my, oh, here's the, here's the today's.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 22:26

Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 22:27

If I gives you lemonade, lemonade, two of my own and one of them I, I said, okay, sometimes you need just a rest. And so my, one of them I added was a day off.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 22:39

Okay,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 22:40

And this is the most productive one. Sometimes I get this and it says, just enjoy. You can't always be working and working, working on yourself. You just,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 22:49

now.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 22:49

the other one is the day you die. And you're invited with this card to live as if today is your last day. And it's a very interesting way to live. You know, what if this is the end of it, what is really important to you to live with it? Now, I added those two, and you can do the deck without those. And frankly, sometimes I do the deck without those. But you know, the 64 principles are really what the deck is. These are just who I add. I call'em bonus cards.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 23:19

Okay. Okay. And, and I think it's, it's very interesting that you, you helped to flesh out the ideas of these'cause there is a little

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 23:30

Yeah, wrote,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 23:30

You have a

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 23:31

I wrote them narrative of each of the,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 23:32

Could you show us the workbook

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 23:34

yeah.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 23:35

if you have

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 23:35

The workbook is gonna appear reversed because it's this video, but

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 23:41

Actually, it reads just

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 23:42

it reaches right.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 23:43

Well, it reads right from my,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 23:45

Oh, wonderful.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 23:45

So when it shows it

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 23:47

Okay, good. Yeah.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 23:48

the universal

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 23:49

mind map, Oracle meditation system for personal transformation best minds of humanity. And you, you get they school, you, I and, and I give a link to a random number generator. Yes. That's used by, lotteries. It's a true random number gener, and it comes from atmospheric conditions and very interesting technology. And I allow the universe to tell me what to look at on a daily basis. And it, it is always I, I did a Kickstarter. And I, I funded within 36 hours and everybody, and I did interviews with people. I had a paddle. I had 78 or so people that were part of my beta group.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 24:34

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 24:35

It's transformative because you're looking at what humanity has to offer. Now, I did write the text. I'm very clear that that's my perspective.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 24:44

Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 24:44

If somebody else wrote the text of these 64 principles, it would be quite different. So

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 24:49

Right,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 24:50

that's John Best minds of humanity things,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 25:00

Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 25:01

and they're simple things like forgiveness. The best minds of humanity agree that if you wanna evolve, you have to forgive. You know, and you don't see anybody saying you've gotta get revenge and the best

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 25:15

Uhhuh.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 25:15

Religions, philosophies, psychologies, think forgiveness is a great virtue. Another one is empowerment. That if you wanna evolve, you have to empower others. You know, honesty.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 25:28

I guess spike's not in there.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 25:30

No spiders, not the best minds of humanity. Come with different points of view. Lemme see if I can look at a couple here randomly

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 25:39

Yeah, that would be nice. Thanks.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 25:41

the, the phoenix rising that when there's a great, I think it's a Japanese expression, fall down seven times, get up eight. Yet you have to be willing to reinvent yourself. Oh, here's one. Patience, the best minds of humanity. Think if you want to evolve, you have to cultivate your patience. Self-control. If you want to evolve, you've gotta control yourself.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 26:06

Couldn't agree more.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 26:08

here's a lovely one. Self-compassion. You

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 26:12

Boy, that's

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 26:12

have to be nice to yourself if you,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 26:14

That's not so easy. Sometimes

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 26:15

no, not at all. And drop the rock. You know, we carry stuff. I, instead of a bad word, we carry stuff from the past. The best part of humanity think you need to let it go.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 26:28

Wait. Here, let's stop, stop on that phone for a second. So the best minds of humanity think that we gotta stop thinking about past problems. Is that it? Or past issues or

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 26:40

I.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 26:40

past

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 26:41

See

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 26:41

or

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 26:42

what the text is. I think the best wisdom humanities come up with is what they call the Serenity Prayer, where you ask for the serenity to accept the things you can't change. The best minds of that, I believe you have to live in the present and when you're going along living. Regretting the past, trying to change the past, the best ones, your mind. I think that's stupid. You need to drop the rock. You need to let go of it. And that includes old resentments, but that also includes old limitations, ways of thinking about yourself. You know, I know so many people I'm sure you do, who carry the pastor around with, with regret and

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 27:23

and talk about it

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 27:23

and guilt

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 27:24

About things that, things that went

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 27:26

shoulda.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 27:27

years ago. You know, we're talking about today. Whoops. Sorry, things that went wrong four years ago. We're talking about it today. Why? What? go on. Let's move on.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 27:36

You know, self-compassion. Nobody I know does this perfectly,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 27:41

No

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 27:41

at all,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 27:42

a tough one.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 27:42

and it's a constant, you know, battle letting go of the past, regret, shame from the past, guilt all that stuff.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 27:50

If, if I were a person that was listening to this episode of the podcast, John, and I wanted to get my hands on the, this Oracle deck or the workbook or whatever, what's the best way for

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 28:02

Well, it's on Amazon. The, the deck itself is not on Amazon. I, I, I couldn't figure out a way to get this thing on Amazon, but the guidebook is all you need because

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 28:13

Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 28:13

a link to a random number generator, I think.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 28:16

And the, and the card, the pictures that

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 28:18

The cards are beautiful. They're in the book. The cards are nice and people like the cards. And if you go to Amazon and you Universal Mind Map, Oracle Meditation System, the book tells you how to get the cards. I've got a web,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 28:30

Let's say that a little slower if

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 28:31

yeah,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 28:32

Universal mind map,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 28:34

Oracle Meditation system

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 28:36

Oracle

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 28:36

on amazon.com.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 28:38

Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 28:38

it includes instructions to go to a webpage where you can order, order the deck if you want the deck as well. And most people like the deck. You shuffle. That's the way people typically use these cards.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 28:50

I love the idea that this is the best we as humanity have got to offer.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 28:55

Yeah.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 28:56

This is the

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 28:57

And you can't argue with it.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 28:58

I love that all gathered together with the, with,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 29:01

And you let the universe fool you.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 29:03

is good

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 29:04

You let the universe school you through random selection, you know? And in a world where I believe there are no coincidences, that everything is part of divine plan. And I'm not saying that you're gonna love it all. There's one card I hate getting, which is environmental consciousness. The best minds of humanity think we should be environmentally conscious, we should take care of the planet. And I hate when I get that because what, what am I gonna do? Recycle more properly, but nonetheless, to be conscious of it. To be aware of it.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 29:34

right.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 29:35

so, and I take action sometimes so I get one of these things like having compassion for other people, and it'll ask in my narrative. Who do you know who, who needs help? And I'll reach out to somebody only because I picked the card that morning.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 29:52

Right. It helps remind

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 29:54

Yeah.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 29:54

those very, very important concepts

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 29:56

That nobody would, nobody would debate. Nobody would argue. Just picking one randomly here. Ah, divine Union Humanity believes that we need to connect with something bigger than us.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 30:10

Yes.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 30:10

divine Union, you can't, I don't think it's possible to argue that these aren't worthy things'cause humanity has figured it out, that our best minds have come into

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 30:20

Y

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 30:21

you. Don't find spite, you don't find greed. You don't find trying to be the biggest guy in, in the, the totem pole,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 30:28

right. Bullying.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 30:29

bullying,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 30:29

all. It's not Not in there.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 30:31

none of that stuff.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 30:33

And now. Real quick then, but we're just running outta time here. But I wanted to touch base on one thing that you talked about. You, you touched on it earlier, and that is the homo homo, is that how you

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 30:46

Yeah, homo,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 30:47

And what's that? What's that all about, John?

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 30:49

that's the new species

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 30:51

The new species. Okay.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 30:53

Carol Louie James and I know Jim and I know did this thing, and I found myself who did a regression. I found myself in a very primitive tribe, prehuman, and along came as I'm, I know, I'm Prehuman and I don't think clearly, I don't think in words, and certainly I'm aware of aliens. Now this is as, this is as weird as I'm going to get, and again, I'm not gonna swear to this, but there are these aliens and they talk about me. Then they touch me and I become different. I become one of the verse homo sapiens. And my family at the point are still the other species. I'm different. And

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 31:39

right.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 31:40

got the sense there were 10,000 of us on the planet who were chosen to be the evolves. And I think something like that will happen. Jesus Christ. People look at Jesus Christ and I look at him as being one of the first perhaps of the new species. It includes things like ability to heal clairvoyance, telepathy, even psychosis

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 32:02

Right.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 32:03

that I think humanity is becoming and co-creators with deity. And I think it's, that's what our, what our path is. And this deck is designed to help you get.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 32:14

I think that we are co-creators and gotta live every day creating some goodness here.'cause we're part of the, consciousness here and, and it's our job to, keep, working

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 32:27

your podcast, which is part of that work. You know, they talk about people like that as lightworkers, people who are working for advance humanity.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 32:36

I like that. I like

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 32:38

Hmm.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 32:38

And John I, I really appreciate you, you coming and talking with me and doing two episodes. It's a big commitment and I thank you and I'm so glad we got a chance to talk about not only your book, but Oracle cards and I, think your abilities as communicator is being really. Really demonstrated in a, big way. And I think you should feel very good about it. And I

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 33:02

Okay,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 33:03

you.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 33:03

and I'm looking forward to seeing you in Carol Louise Reincarnation Symposium. Talk about a lightworker not to Carol. The work she's done at bringing people together to me is amazing.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 33:14

yes, yes. She has developed quite a wonderful group of people that are just Advanced.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 33:20

it's not about money. It's not about money. Carol is not doing this without money.

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 33:25

Not for money.

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 33:26

No,

james_3_08-21-2025_182941 33:27

No, Well, thank you very much,

squadcaster-4dbd_3_08-21-2025_182939 33:29

thank you. Thanks, Jim.