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The Journey to Freedom Podcast
Gods in Training: Reginald Martin's Journey to Joy
What if the spiritual framework you've been taught is actually limiting your potential? Reginald Martin's journey from devout Christian to spiritual teacher reveals how ancient African wisdom might hold the key to unlocking your true power.
Growing up in the church, Reginald faced a pivotal moment at 15 when he questioned his mother about salvation: How could good people of other faiths go to hell while deathbed converts receive salvation? Her simple "yep" launched him on a decades-long exploration that eventually led to the development of what he calls "Kometa Physics" – a spiritual framework based on ancient Egyptian principles.
The conversation delves into the profound difference between religion and spirituality. Religion, Reginald explains, positions God as external – something to worship and seek validation from. Spirituality, particularly from the Kemetic perspective, recognizes that we are divine sparks experiencing human life. "If God is an ocean," he illustrates, "then we are drops in that ocean – and the ocean is in every drop."
This perspective shift transforms everything. Rather than seeing ourselves as broken sinners, we recognize our inherent divinity and creative power. The biblical stories, viewed through this lens, become frameworks for understanding universal human experiences rather than literal historical accounts. Jesus walking on water, for example, symbolizes rising above emotional turmoil to find clarity – a moment when we embody the Christ consciousness.
Reginald shares how these principles carried him through losing everything three times as an entrepreneur. Instead of viewing failures as punishment, he saw them as feedback reflecting his inner state. By finding slivers of joy during his darkest moments, he discovered how to realign with his soul's purpose and create a life of freedom – one where he hasn't used an alarm clock in five years and lives entirely on his own terms.
Whether you're questioning your faith, struggling to find purpose, or simply curious about alternative spiritual perspectives, this conversation offers a refreshing framework that honors our divine nature without the constraints of dogma. Visit Reginald's Substack to learn more about how ancient wisdom can help you create the life you truly desire.
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All right, welcome. Welcome to the Journey to Freedom podcast. This is Dr B. I am your host today. I am more than excited today to have a conversation with Mr Reginald Martin. We get to talk before the show and sometimes we call it the green room. In the green room, you make sure that everybody's on the same page and you're going to talk about the same things, and sometimes in the, you know, the green room, I'll be there for you know a minute. We got it down, boom, ready to go.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I lose myself because the guest is so interesting that I want to just start asking them questions right away and forget to hit the record button. And so we're going to repeat some of it, because in this case, it was one of those times. We started talking about where he lives, we started talking about people we know, we started talking about stuff that he's doing, how he's changing the world, all these wonderful things, and then I'm like, oh, this should probably all been recorded. So you have a treat. I can promise you that today, because we're going to have some fun. Have a treat, I can promise you that today, because we're going to have some fun just talking about life we're going to talk about. He talks about somewhere and his life is based on what he calls calm metaphysics. I'm not saying he calls it that, I'm just saying he told me that's what it's called and I had to get a little clarification because I guess when the Ka part is about the Egyptian and he's talking about, well, I'll let him tell you all about it, because when I think about metaphysics and I think about, you know, spirituality and where we're at and where I believe I'm at in my, I guess, my walk and my vision, and we begin to start talking about, you know, what does it mean to be spiritual versus being religious? You know, and when I look back at world religions, there has been a lot of if I just want to say the word evil that has been done in the name of religion, and that's from probably the biggest religious organizations, uh, that exist today, uh, and so we're gonna, we're gonna really talk about, we're gonna dive deep into, uh, you know, some of these subjects that you know some people sometimes are just afraid to uh even talk about, and so, well, you know what if my mom hears this, or what if my dad hears this? Or I was, I was brought up this way and, uh, you, and now I'm thinking a little bit different. But I still want people to love me, and if I start talking like this, they might not love me no more, and so I hope we don't go there today. I hope we get to spend a whole bunch of really good quality time which I know we will on just that aspect of our life which is spirituality. But I also want to just, you know, I want to talk about identity. I want to talk about what does it mean? He's from Dallas, texas, and he grew up in Dallas, texas. So here's what I can promise you I have a cousin and friends and all kinds of people that are part of the heart of Dallas.
Speaker 1:The Dallas of 2025 is not the Dallas of 1983, when I first got to go on K-104 with my cousin and talk about the weather and that kind of stuff. And so you know, because I was, I was graduating high school in 1983 and you know I got to come out for the summer I don't know if I just graduated before and so I stayed with my cousin for a couple of years a couple of weeks, not a couple of years, a couple of weeks, as we were trying to. Maybe it was right before, because I was trying to make sure what college I was going to. He wanted me to go to SMU, and so I didn't end up going there. I went to school in California, but we just got to hang out, and so I was just in Dallas about four weeks ago and it's not the same Dallas, I think since I've been there in 1983 and I go often they built like 5,000 bridges, like you're on the freeway, and everywhere you go is a bridge on top of a bridge on top of a bridge.
Speaker 1:I'm like, oh my gosh, but but how fun it is. And so, uh, rachel, I want you to go ahead. Do you like to be?
Speaker 2:or rather me call you Reggie, or you go by Reginald, or how does that Reginald is good.
Speaker 1:So I'm good with Reginald. I want Reginald to tell his story, because one of the things that I love about this podcast and I love about the time that we spend together in it, is we get to know who the person is, way more so than we get to know what they do. And if you know the person and you kind of relate, you know he tells a story. Oh yeah, that was how it was for me back in the day or whatever it was Then it's a lot easier when he says this is what I do to go. Oh, I get it. You know, I understand. You know I talked to the guy who's an attorney, you know, I understand.
Speaker 1:You know I talked to the guy who's who's an attorney, you know, and he started out, you know, you know, just in the suit and ready to go, and you know he's a criminal attorney and he's getting all these people out like I can never do that. And then he talks about like running barefoot in the you know, out in the desert. And they're not in the desert, on the farm. And you know somebody had to come off the streets and get them. And you know somebody had to come off the streets and get him, and you know, because he was messing up and tearing up like, oh yeah, you was normal, just like us, you all, you all refine now, but you was normal. So go ahead and tell your story and then we'll just chop it up after that. Thank you for being on. Thank you for taking the time and being the willingness to be on the show today. I sure appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Hey, you bet, dr B, I'm so excited to be here and it's so cool to find out about those connections that we have. You know, you and your cousin, and I grew up listening to your cousin on the radio. So when you talk about being out here in the 80s and I was listening to him in the 70s, you know so. So we have that in common. But so what I'll do is I'll just'll just talk about my story in the context of what I do, so how I discovered the things that I discovered, because what I do is actually what I've lived and I share those experiences and I share those ideas with others. So that's kind of the way that I look at it and basically it started with me. When we talk about spirituality and stuff like that and let me tell you, dr B, I'm not one of those that are afraid to talk. So whatever we want to go into, I talk about it. I've lived so many years. If a person don't like me because they don't agree with me, that's just the way it is. But you know I love everybody. So you know you don't have to agree with me for you to like me, because it's just normal for us to have different perspectives and different experiences of life, you know. So for me it really started in just talking about spirituality, because, for one, I live by three principles, and we talked about this a little bit earlier. But one is that we are the creators of our reality. Two, we are gods and goddesses in training that's. That's what we're here on the earth plane to do is to learn that we are creators. And three, life is feedback, not a curse. So that right there takes us away.
Speaker 2:And I grew up Christian, so I understand that was the foundation of what I live, of what I live. But I started asking questions very early, so 15 years old. I just remember talking to my mother and I asked her a question that I had on my mind. I said, mom, if somebody who's Jewish, that doesn't believe in Jesus as their savior, they do good all their lives. What I've been taught is that they're going to go to hell, but somebody that is, say, a mass murderer on their deathbed, they can accept Jesus as their savior and then they'll go to heaven. And I said something just doesn't seem right about that. Is that true? Is that what will happen, dr B? She looked at me and said yep, and that was pretty much the end of the conversation. So at that point I'm essentially traumatized. At that point I'm like you know, that just doesn't sound right. Something's not right about that.
Speaker 2:And so it started me really on a search and what ended up happening was that, you know, I was a pretty good basketball player in college and I ended up getting a scholarship. But the summer before I went to college, I read the autobiography of Malcolm X probably one of my favorite books on the planet, okay, and and he talked about all the books that he read and he talked about all the studies. So it really ended up turning me into a lifelong learner. But I wanted to read everything he read, you know that's. That's just how, how I admired it, so admired him. So, uh, it started me on a search to, you know, about history, about spirituality he talked about it from a Muslim perspective, you know and just just the things that he found out you know about Christianity. So he found, you know, and it led me on the path to study the same stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, I ended up going to a Southern Baptist Bible college that's where I got my basketball scholarship to and just things transpired there. I would not change the experience for anything. I enjoyed it. I met a lot of good people there, but I ended up deciding that I was atheist the time I was there, and now I'm spiritual but not religious. If you wanted to put me into a category, now I'm spiritual but not religious if you wanted to put me into a category, but at that point I still kept studying, I still kept trying to find out about it, but at that point and I was atheist in a way of just being rebellious okay, I'm not going to accept this idea. It can't be that way. You know.
Speaker 2:And for them, this was a college that was predominantly white and you know, there was implied in the conversations was that you could be a good Christian, but only the best Christians are white. Now, that was never said, okay, but there was an implication in the conversations that you had. And for me I was like, no, I'm not going to accept that. You're not going to tell me that I'm inferior to you just because of my skin color and I cannot accept your idea of God if that's what it, what it believes. So there is no God, you know. But I still always had the, the want and the need for a connection to something bigger than me, you know, and so so that that was kind of how I left that hanging there.
Speaker 2:Well, move forward a lot of years, I ended up getting married and, you know, years down the road and I still wanted my children to have, you know, some kind of spiritual grounding. Spiritual grounding. So I ended up going back to church, okay, and so I went back to the church. This was probably in the mid nineties, but I just couldn't stay because it just by that time I just had outgrown the idea that you know of what they were teaching about God and what God was, and probably, I guess the late 90s, probably a few more years later, I just totally left Christianity altogether.
Speaker 2:Move forward, I ended up getting a divorce and went through a lot of difficulties, but I was always studying, you know, studying comparative religion. And then, you know, I started noticing some similarities between religions, a lot of different things that seemed very similar, and so it just kind of stuck in my head that, you know, there's got to be a common ground here that everybody is teaching from that these religions came from. And so I started kind of searching for those ideas Around 2006, the secret came out. And when the secret came out. It was like man. That was a whole new world for me, because all of a sudden I got wind of metaphysics, and what metaphysics did was gave me ideas and a language that was away from the religious dogma, to where I could explore the idea of a soul and spirituality outside the dogma, a soul and spirituality outside the dog.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay.
Speaker 2:So when, when that happened, um it, the secret actually confirmed things that I had already started to to recognize in my life. Okay, so, this is, this is, and. And one of the things that the secret taught was that thoughts become things. And okay, so what, what, what's in your mind can become reality. Well, the way that that became a reality for me was through after my divorce. I was dating, okay, and I started to notice a pattern in my relationships, you know, with women. So I would, you know, date different women, but there was a pattern that was common between them. Okay, so I started to think about, because at first, after being divorced, you know, you're bitter, or at least I was, okay, you're bitter, or at least I was. At first I was bitter about it and I just figured it was something that was wrong with women. But then, after a while, I had to wonder unless these women are getting together and conspiring, these women that do not know each other, never met each other, unless they're getting together and conspiring to treat me a certain way, then the only common denominator is me. If I'm the common denominator, then I am choosing a certain type of woman because of who I am. So at that point that meant to me that there was something inside me that was causing me to choose a certain type of woman that I was having these relationships with. So when the secret said, thoughts become things, another part was that these thoughts are being projected from within you, based on your vibrational essence. That's what those women represented, what it gave me the language to say, okay, that was my vibrational essence is showing up as these women. They're showing me something. So that frame that gave me a whole different frame to operate from, then moving forward a little bit more and I'm studying the secret and I'm studying metaphysics, and the secret kind of intimated that the Greeks had the secret. Well, from books that I had read many years ago one of them was Stolen Legacy by Iosif Gilead the Greeks learned from ancient Egypt.
Speaker 1:So when they?
Speaker 2:said the Greeks had the secret. I was like, hmm, well, I know that they learned from Egypt and they really didn't have a philosophy until they came through Egypt. So it made me start to go back and study ancient Egypt and I went to find things out about the law of attraction. Okay, discovering was not only the ideas about the law of attraction came from Egypt, but I also found the foundation of what most of what my Christian religion was actually teaching but had changed and distorted in some kind of way, but it was also the foundation of what most spiritual systems around the world were teaching. Okay so, but I found out the ideas about the secret, and then I found out the foundation of my religion that I grew up with, that I had so many questions about, but nobody could ever seem to answer.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, about, but nobody could ever seem to answer In Egypt brought together both those systems and then I could actually ferret out what was changed. And then what was spirituality. The conclusion that I came to was and this is where I teach with Kometa physics is that the difference between so there is a difference between spirituality and religion. Religion in religion, the idea is that you, that the God that you know, is something that is external to you. It is the idea of worshiping something external and trying to get a relationship to it and hoping that external God will validate you, love you, whatever it needs to be. Okay, from a spiritual perspective, it is the idea that you are the essence of the creator that is experiencing life in human form. So you are essentially a spark of the creator experiencing itself as a human. Okay, and one of the ways that I'd like to explain that is just through an analogy to understand, and this is the ancient Kemetic and African spiritual system. So one of the questions I had was what did ancient Africans believe before Christianity? So the Kemetic system answered those questions for me. But what their idea of God was is and I'm just putting it in modern day language but their idea was that if God is an ocean, okay. So from a Kemetic perspective, god is not a human being. God is not like a human being of. God is not a human being. God is not like a human being. God is essentially a conscious force that we all can interact with equally. So if God is an ocean, then we are essentially drops in the ocean, okay. Okay Then, if we are drops in the ocean, then that means the ocean is in every drop. So if that is the case, then the idea that christianity taught us is that we were born sinful, wicked and, you know, destined for hell if we didn't accept Jesus as our savior. Okay, so that was a different way of thinking than most of the ancient systems taught. That was, christianity changed something there? Okay, but what I saw in that was that it also created a way of thinking that ended up making us create a pattern of self-loathing, self-doubt and really to hate ourselves. And what I saw was and how I saw that was that in my communities growing up, I grew up in poverty. I knew a lot of communities where people that looked like me lived in poverty. So why was that? Because I knew that there of communities where people that look like me lived in poverty. Okay, so why was that? Because I knew that there was money in our community, I knew that there was educated people in our community. But why didn't people build self-sustaining economically self-sustaining communities?
Speaker 2:From an African-American perspective and a lot of times in the African diaspora around the world, well, one of the things that the book, the autobiography of Malcolm X, one of the lines that stuck out with me, that stayed with me for a long time, was he said the two men can go to Harvard and get a degree. One can be a white man and one can be a black man. The white man will go and start a business, then the black man will go and get a job from him. Dr B, that just that stuck with me because it's like okay, well, what's the difference? Why? Why is that? Why didn't that black man think that he could start a business too?
Speaker 2:And what it came down to me was is that I felt like on Sundays that many of us ingested the idea that we were broken, that we were born sinners and that we were wicked, and that undermines any level of confidence that you have in yourself and your ability to build anything. People who believe they are broken cannot build. But from a comedic perspective from the ancient African perspective. We are not broken, we're not born sinners, we are born divine, and because we are a divine spark, we have the ability to create just like the creator does. And even biblically it says we are made in the image of God, but the image is not physical. Okay, we will.
Speaker 2:A lot of us take that literal as, as as the image of God is something that we, that we look like. God that's. That's not what it's about, because the idea of god is in everything, whether it's a rock or a person. The idea of god is, is, is, uh, everything is imbued with this, this, this essence, okay, so, so that's the foundation that I built Kemeticism from, and the way that I looked at it, too, was that I wanted to reach people.
Speaker 2:You know so. So it is African spirituality, but it is for humanity. That's one of the ways I look at it. But I knew that that, as far as reaching my people in my community, there was no way that I was going to be able to do that without going through the Bible first, because people are going to have to feel safe about what you know, because, I mean, you're talking about an existential crisis if you don't believe a certain way, know that you, you, your eternal life is in peril, you know yeah, yeah but but what I did was I ended up, uh, finding that that common foundation of spiritual spirituality, and realized that a lot of the ways that we were taught the bible uh, we were taught an exoteric perspective of the Bible, but it is actually written in esoteric language, so there's an esoteric or hidden knowledge written underneath the stories.
Speaker 2:We get locked in on the stories, but there is another layer that's beneath the stories is actually what the real message is. So that's the foundation that comedicism is built on, and I can stop there, but I can keep going, but that's essentially. It is that we are gods and goddesses in training and that life is feedback. So that's a foundational principle that I've built and that stuff and those principles are basically ancient African spirituality and that's where these ideas came from. I'm updating them with an updated language and processes and tools that we use to build from within processes and tools that we use to build from within.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, Dr B, I can barely.
Speaker 1:Dr B.
Speaker 2:Hello, hear you saying something, but you're fading in and out. I'm sorry. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:I think we're back. Can you hear me? I can hear you Okay cool, We'll just edit that part out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no problem.
Speaker 1:We're still on and we're going and I can hear you perfectly well and I'm not sure what's going on with our internet here, that I don't know if we have a storm or something. That's just kind of not liking us.
Speaker 2:But if you can hear me now yeah, I don't know if it's on my end. Are you okay hearing me?
Speaker 1:now though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can hear you now.
Speaker 1:Okay. So what are the questions that that? Because it's so embedded into our culture, it's so embedded into the belief system of who we are. I watched something like the Secret back in 2006. I said these are some really cool things, but how do I fit that in to my own belief system? So it all makes sense and I know that's kind of what you were doing as well. So how did you, without throwing out what you'd learned and been part of you, still begin to accept maybe a new way of thinking, because I can't imagine it was like you just turn one off and turn the other on. There had to be some overlap. Maybe kind of talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely Absolutely yeah, because growing up Christian we're taught a certain way, we're taught a certain frame and way of thinking. And that's the way I look at it and I separate it from really the idea of being a born sinner to an idea of being born divine. So those are two different frames and two different perspectives. So it's a different, two different paradigms of thinking. So it took, so I would say I was in.
Speaker 2:Now they call it deconstruction, where you start to deconstruct your old beliefs. You know, through Christianity that wasn't anywhere around. You know, when I was going through what I was going through, but I stayed in deconstruction mode for probably 20 years. Okay, and what that means is is that I had knowledge that I couldn't go back to the old beliefs and the old beliefs that I had as a Christian, but I didn't have enough knowledge or anything else that I could move forward with. So I couldn't reconstruct. Okay, until I found the Kemetic stuff. So what that helped me do was where I was basically in a mental limbo in a sense.
Speaker 2:The Kemetic teachings helped me to understand the idea of the KRST, what the Christ is. Okay, so the KRST, or Christ, existed 10,000 years before Christianity was ever even thought about. Ok, and, and so I was able to recognize really the the foundational ideas, because the idea of the Christ is something that is in most spiritual systems around the world. Ok, so, and in that sense, christianity became the outlier.
Speaker 2:And what I, what I figured out was is that and I just put it in a simple way to grasp this idea is that what Christianity claimed was new was not true, and what was true was not new. Okay, so that's how I had to. That transition for me was really finding out what the ancient, these ancient spiritual ideas were, devoid of the dogma. So that's why I had to move from dogma to just more of a position of I'm developing my, it's my internal divinity or my internal, really just self-development is really what it was. I would say the ancient teachings were more about self-development and our inner journey than trying to placate something outside of ourselves. I hope I answered your question.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, absolutely, you did as I'm thinking through, or I've had conversations with people and trying to understand the creator or God. How do you? Because some people have said, no, there is no God, we are the gods and other people say, well, we do have a creator, but we are kind of that relationship between the creator and us.
Speaker 2:Maybe help me understand that a little bit better yeah, and from a comedic perspective, we so growing up, we were taught that god is this human-like individual. So so the the idea that that, uh, and this is through the greeks and the romans, they actually humanized the idea of god. Okay, but the ancient, ancient Africans' idea of God was they didn't humanize it, it was anthropomorphized. The difference is that the ancient Africans didn't see God as like a human. What they did was they wanted us to understand how the metaphysical world became physical. So when they anthropomorphized, they took a natural aspect of us and said that this is what this function of the universe is like. Okay, so when they did that, they weren't looking at saying that that God was a human. They were trying to tell us what this particular function of the universe was.
Speaker 2:And I guess one of the better ways that I can explain it is really to take the story of Jesus and how. Just take one of the miracles of Jesus and put it into context of of the comedic idea of it, how it relates to life, and then the symbolic idea, okay, okay, so, um, and let's just start with life. Okay, and you tell me, if this has ever happened to you, dr B, that you have ever went through something where you know you were like in emotional turmoil, that you had some difficulties. I mean, you're an entrepreneur, so I'm asking you this, but I know it's just rhetorical.
Speaker 1:Yes, absolutely rhetorical.
Speaker 2:Yes, absolutely so. As entrepreneurs, we're going to go through some difficult times where we question everything, we're in fear, we're feeling all of this stuff, so our emotions are all over the place. But then, at some point, you get through whatever the emotional turmoil was, things settle down and you go on about living life and doing what you're supposed to do. So you reconcile whatever you were dealing with emotionally. Okay. So that is a natural function. So you have been through that. I'm 100% positive, because I don't think we can get out of life without that happening. So well. That human experience is something that everybody has gone through since we had humans on the planet. Okay, the ancients knew that as well. So what they did is they created frameworks, and this is what a lot of the ancient teachings is doing is they're really giving us these simple frameworks to tell us, to help initiates understand. This is what's going to happen, you know. But when you went through your difficult time, did you ever have a moment where you went, oh, I get it. Now I understand. Okay, now this is what I need to do. I'll proceed, okay, yeah, okay. So that's something that a lot of us go through. Well, so what I just explained was the symbolic representation of the miracle of Jesus walking on water. So Jesus as an anthropomorphized symbol and I don't mean to offend people, I'm just taking it back to the ancient teachings, the ancient African teachings, where it came from okay, but Jesus is basically the moment of enlightenment, that aha moment Ah, I get it and then it brings enlightenment or awakening to the person. So the idea that first the waters were turbulent and symbolically, the turbulent water can stand for emotions, that aha moment is when you rise above your emotions and you're no longer operating in fear anymore, you're operating in okay, well, this is what I need to do to get things done and this is what I need to do to complete the task or whatever it is. At that moment you're walking on the water, you're walking above, you're operating above the level of the turbulent emotions. They're not there anymore. In that moment you become peaceful, you become at peace, you become balanced, in that moment you become the Christ, the K-R-S-T. Okay, rst, okay.
Speaker 2:So that's how you would, how I would take a person from understanding that, from a dogmatic perspective, we were supposed to believe in the idea of the miracle and we're supposed to, you know, worship the miracle, but in reality. It was a framework to tell us just things that we go through. That's the way that I would characterize the idea of us being a God. Is that we have the ability to create in our reality. But the deal is that we are all in training in a sense, because Earth is a school school and we're learning of our ability to create, and part of that is learning and going through the difficulties of life to where you can calm the storms when they come. But if you believe that your power is somehow outside of you, a lot of times you don't calm the storm, and I can tell you that anybody that has ever calmed that storm recognized the power within themselves. Now they can attribute it to whoever and whatever, but at some point.
Speaker 2:they have to recognize it as them having the ability to take care of whatever they need to take care of to solve the problem Gotcha.
Speaker 1:So, and I'm tracking with you, I think we're. I guess I'm struggling a little bit because when I think of the symbol in this and I believe in what you're saying in this a little bit, because when I think of the symbol and I believe in what you're saying, symbolically we can get there and I believe God created us to create. So are we saying that the story of Jesus didn't happen or that, like, creation is more like what evolution subscribes to, or did the creator actually create it? And we're I think you said something about like we're training what evolution subscribes to, or did the creator actually create it? And we're, like I think you said something about like we're, we're, we're training to be able to be better creators, and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:How did all this stuff happen? You know that the Bible I to me you just have to have faith and believe. If you're going to believe that it happened that way because it does, it doesn't make you know, it hardly makes sense in some aspects of it. If you don't, you know, believe that God just did it and seven days later it was there, or Jesus was here and he performed those miracles, you know, because we weren't there to watch it or see it or there, but we believe in miracles.
Speaker 1:So did all these things happen and then? Or is it just symbolic of stuff?
Speaker 2:these things happen and then, or they're just symbolic of stuff. So, from so, now we're getting into theology and and and I want to be careful here because I don't want to disrespect your beliefs and your theology Okay, I, I I'm going to respect where you are of it. I can say that the knowledge that I have and that I've researched is that the Bible has, and the stories are about ancient frameworks. It's not a historical document, but, again, that is my, that's my understanding. That's where you know, I've studied a lot of stuff and understand that I once believed the theology as well, you know. So it's just different as well, you know, so, it's just different.
Speaker 2:But what I noticed that's happening, dr B, is that in the last few years, a lot of people are starting to walk away from the dogmatic beliefs. Okay, people are starting to. The pews are dwindling in a lot of instances, okay, but people are not wanting to leave the idea that there is something bigger than them, that there is a God, okay, that that there is something that they are connected to, this bigger than them. They, they want to get away from the dogmatic systems, the dogmatic beliefs. What cometa physics allows people to do is to examine these ideas beyond the dogma. That's where I want to go, because we can get bogged down in. You believe this or you have faith in this, but you have the right and you don't have to explain your faith to me or you don't have to justify your faith to me. Ok, then that's the way I look at that.
Speaker 1:If that's where you, where you are with that, then I respect that gotcha, okay, and that makes sense and and I'm and I'm tracking with you there. Uh, you know it, just there's. So there's so many questions that are in that. Let me talk about your. So you've done a really good job of explaining where you were at and then where you have come to. How do you now, as Reginald Martin and Dallas Hacks, interact in life with other folks and still be able to be an entrepreneur and have a career and phase these ideas in? And how have they helped you to move forward in your life in ways that you probably couldn't even imagine before?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, great question. Great question Because for me, again, these beliefs is one that I'm a creator of my reality. So that foundational belief has pulled me through so much because, dr B, I've had my, you know, my ups and downs. I've lost everything I had three times, you know, on the journey of an entrepreneur. So for me, you know, I could have easily, you know, given up or, you know, said, hey, this just wasn't in the cards for me. But I also said that life is feedback. So the way that I look at that is, it comes from the ancient idea of va'at and that life is reciprocal. I don't know if you've heard the concept of as within, so without, as above, so below. So that ancient concept is actually connected to the idea of ma'at, that our life is a projection from within us. So if we want to make a change, if there's something in life that we don't like, then we can change our beliefs. Life that we don't like, then we can change our beliefs, okay, so. So our beliefs are being projected as life. That's what's being reflected back to us. So life is a mirror, okay, of our, of our inner essence.
Speaker 2:So for me, as an entrepreneur, when you know, I lost everything. Believe me, I was down, you know. You know there was days I questioned whether I wanted to even be here anymore. You know that's how deep it got, you know, because I had. I consider myself a successful person, and most of us that are successful, we do. We, our success is based on our will and our hard work. Well, the the second time I lost everything. I was working hard, I was doing everything I thought I was supposed to be doing and things still didn't work out. I was like I don't have anything else left now. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so. So at that point, uh, you know my old beliefs would have said is, am I cursed? You know, uh, does God not want me to have this? You know, I I would have went down that road. But I but my beliefs, from a comedic perspective is is that I am the creator and what I have to do is recognize what life is showing me and then figure out what I need to fix within me, OK, what I need to, what I need to recognize and that that is being mirrored back. There's something, some belief, that is making me go through what I'm going through.
Speaker 2:The other part of that is connecting our emotional states and using emotions as our guidance system, and what I mean by that is that, you know, we I believe that we are souls having a human experience, and that's where I come from the comedic perspective that our souls are ground zero and what our souls? We still experience our souls while we're in the physical. So connecting emotions to that means that when you're in joy, then you are aligned vibrationally with your soul, and when you are not in joy or feeling depressed, you're misaligned. Ok, so how does that work? You know, in real life, when I got depressed and down.
Speaker 2:I was there for a little while, you know, maybe a day or two, but then I recognized that I just need to find something that brought me joy, that would bring me out of that OK, and it wasn't even trying to bring me out of that Okay, and it wasn't even trying to bring me out of out of that. It was just more just finding it was using my emotions as a tool that would sort of, uh, bring some light into my life rather than the darkness that I was in. I hope I'm making sense. I hope I'm I'm asking you, answering your questions. If not, I hope I'm making sense.
Speaker 1:I hope I'm answering your questions. If not, stop me.
Speaker 2:Oh no, you absolutely are. I mean, this is perfect for how you interact with life today. So this is you know. Again, this is just part of the tools that I teach with Kometa Physics. It's not trying to think positive, because that's only temporary, okay. It's a matter of being positive. And when I say being positive, that means that you find the silver lining in the cloud when you want to make a change and you are in control of your emotions so you can find something to give you that little sliver of joy that can start to bring you out. And what it did was is it started to.
Speaker 2:Once I found that little sliver of joy, then I forgot I was depressed. I was just enjoying myself, you know, doing what I was doing. Ok, so you know, I might have been depressed for two days but all of a sudden, for an hour, doing what I was doing, I found some joy. Then an hour turned into two hours, ok, and then, once I found that little sliver of joy, I said you know what? And then, once I found that little sliver of joy, I said you know what Some other people might want to know this and I started doing something else that I could teach somebody that brought me a little bit more joy.
Speaker 2:So it ended up just doing something, being who I was, being who I am as a teacher, as an entrepreneur. It ended up lighting me from within and I could bring myself out of that depressive state. Okay, what nobody else coming was there was. I knew that that's what I had to do for myself, you know. So that's how these ideas end up interacting with life, and I've taught people, I've trained people, coached people, and they have found that it has worked as well. So these are not just theoretical kumbaya ideas that I've come up with. This is how life works. This is a tool a lot of times tools and processes that I know works.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's so cool. So so how today? I mean, we had about 10 minutes left in our conversation. So how are you helping others? You know when I think about living in purpose and living the way that I was put on this earth to do, or, or you know how do I do that, and you were evidently. You're helping a lot of people understand themselves and what they do. How do you go about that through a daily basis, like, are people coming to you and saying, hey, I'm just lost, and or are you just finding people? Naturally, I mean, you say that we create our own. You know our own future and our own existence and who we are. But how do you, how do you, interact with other folks and help them find the same joy that you've been able to find?
Speaker 2:Yeah, one of the ways they can do that is just they can come through my Substack, my newsletter, where I'm writing and teaching all the time doing videos doing different things. Letter, where I'm writing and teaching all the time doing videos doing different things. But at reginaldmartinsubstackcom but I'm constantly teaching, you know, so people can sign up there and I'm constantly doing articles. I also have courses in teaching these ideas, so I can get a lot more detail and spend a lot more time with the courses. But I've also developed a business system around the comedic spirituality. So the people who want to teach this, I can actually certify them and then they can get the system and get the ideas. They can even get my content that I produce my courses, courses and classes and they can use it inside their coaching and use it as a framework for them.
Speaker 2:So practitioners even there, I know that there are preachers that are also that are deconstructing and they want to preach but they feel like they have to give up one or the other, and they really don't, you know. So I literally put together what I call comedic sermons in a box where I can teach them the ancient principles, to where they don't have to give up what they have been doing. You know they can still, you know, talk in front of the congregation and teach ideas that I feel like are liberating and that will be uplifting, but still understand the ideas of Jesus and the Christ and talk to people using that language but having a more spiritual, non-dogmatic perspective from it. But my Substack account that that's where people can come through and and then they can just go off in different directions there.
Speaker 1:So so what's next? What's next for Reginald as he's? You know you're, you're doing some blogging and you're teaching people and you're coaching and you're helping folks and you're creating. And the reason I'm asking that? Because I know you know some of our roles we've got to set and you're helping folks and you're creating it. And the reason I'm asking that, because I know you know some of our worlds. We've got to set these goals and we have to have these timelines on these goals and we try to, you know. And but if you don't have the right mindset going into it, basically mindset going into it, basically for you, and then I guess, how do you?
Speaker 2:I'm sorry you were cutting in and out of there.
Speaker 1:I heard how do you that comes next.
Speaker 2:So I heard you cutting in and out there again, but I think I heard what do I do Basically? What am I doing next? Okay, and this is what I'll say to that Dr B, is that I'm doing everything that I want to do in my life right now. So for me, it is about learning to enjoy this moment, learning and live in that moment and finding the joy in every moment that I can. Okay, so it's living. It's living how do I say?
Speaker 2:I'm living life by putting together moment after moment after moment of joyousness. That's the way I like to try to look at it. So every day, when I'm teaching and coaching and writing, my goal is to live life joyfully and being who I am. That's it All day, every day, and living life on my terms. That brings me the most joy, because I go to bed when I get tired. I wake up when I'm rested. I haven't used an alarm clock in five years. That's my joy. You're talking about a journey to freedom. That's freedom to me is just being able to live life on your terms and live it the way you want to live it.
Speaker 1:Oh man, that is so neat For somebody who's just searching, somebody who feels like they're confused, like you did, where you're back and forth. What advice would you give them? Or maybe like, what is the first thing that they should start reading or connecting with to really begin to understand, I guess, the confusion that they're having and being able to get some clarity?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's a great question and I would definitely say, you know, definitely come through to my sub stack for one. There is right now. I don't see a lot of people that are in the deconstruction space. There are.
Speaker 2:The danger that I've seen is that sometimes people are trying to deconstruct others but they're staying in that same frame. You know, I believe if you stay in that frame that I'm a born sinner and I'm broken, then you're automatically stuck. You're going to meet something that's going to be stuck. So when you're doing your business or trying to get something started, but I do my best to help people to transition through that with the stuff that I do, what I do is very unique, you know, in this space. So nobody has created what I've created and you know there's. I'm trying to think of books that might help people, but I'm and I was trying to think of ones that I've read that were doing something that I'm doing and there's just not much out there that I can think about. But they definitely need to understand that they're not broken. Those kind of ideas. Start to examine that stuff.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you, this has been such a great conversation. I hope we get to talk some more at some point because I've so thoroughly enjoyed it and learned and grown and, oh my gosh, you know, as we all try to, I guess, do better in life and to make sure that we're having that joy you have, you know, when I think about, like the movie, the Pursuit of Happiness, and you know, are we all pursuing this happiness, and you know, we turn over one stone and go, oh, that wasn't it. Then we turn over another stone and go, oh, that wasn't it. And it's so refreshing to see somebody said, yeah, I turned over some stones, but that's it, I've got it. It didn't make sense, and now there's nothing I wouldn't change about my life and that's so precious. And I hope, if you've listened to this this is your first podcast that you go back and you'll listen to it and you'll examine it and you will see what I'm seeing and you will feel what I'm feeling Just the joy in whether it's in his heart or whatever, if it's in his mind. But there is joy in Reginald Martin and I'm so enjoying having this conversation with him. And so I would just say, if this is your first time and you've enjoyed this, go ahead and hit the notifications.
Speaker 1:We have so many of these incredible cod podcasts with successful men who are doing exactly what they love to do in life and making it work. And if you're not finding somebody, uh, through all of these that is helping you, uh, that's because you're not looking, you're not searching, you've already decided that it won't work. And but here's what I know if you're listening to this, you're searching and you're looking. So please go to his website. Please look at our Substack, not the website. Go to Substack, make sure you look in and study some of the things he's telling you, because if we are pursuing joy, it's one way to find it. So again, Reginald, thank you for being on. I appreciate it. Like I said, I can't wait to spend more time with you as we continue to grow and find some connections. I know when I come to Dallas, I'm going to look you up and we're going to go to dinner or something. We're going to have some fun.
Speaker 2:Sounds good.
Speaker 1:And eat some stuff, and that'll be great.
Speaker 2:So I'd love it Dr B. Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1:Cool, we love it. Well, you guys have a wonderful rest of your day. This is going to be the first day of the rest of your life I love to say that to people because it always is because you know you have the ability to create your own destiny, and Reginald just told you exactly where to start to be able to do it All right. So we'll talk to you guys later. Have an amazing day. Outro Music.