Are You Barefoot Up a Mountain? (w/Brendan Fitzgibbons)

Happy Holidays! 'Tis the season to be triggered. The incredible news is that Brendan is back in this epic solo episode to help you navigate this holiday season with a smile on your face, peace in your heart, and ideally, little to no Taco Bell in your stomach. 

He dives right into: 

• Why some people think it's totally normally to hike barefoot up a mountain. 
• Dissects Bobbi from House of Highbrations extremely important question, "Can you be wrong about your own reality?" 
• Why you are truly in control of the soundboard of your life. 
• Tips for getting through the holidays with family. 
• And Allegiant's terrifying new flight path, "SURPRISE ME!"

RESOURCES
Brendan Fitzgibbons
House of Highbrations "How to Break the Illusion of the 3D"
Joe Dispenza on What Happens When You Check Your Cellphone
What it's REALLY Like Flying Allegiant

Transcript

Okay, Budget Airlines, I get okay? We all get it. We know your game. We know what you're doing to us, okay? We know that if we pay 7 for your flight, it's gonna be 120 to sit down. It's gonna be 75 to stand, 30 to pee. But, Allegiant Airlines, you're taking this whole budget idea to a new place. Because I was recently looking at flights from Chicago, from Los Angeles to Chicago, And I went on the Allegiant Airlines website.

And you know how, when you go on a website, there's a drop down menu that when you pick a city, it will show you what cities they go to from that city. [00:01:00] Right? I go to Allegiant Airlines website. I type in Los Angeles. Drop down menu. There are three locations that it can go to.

Number one, Las Vegas, Nevada. Okay. Number two, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Great. Okay. Number three, surprise me!

Surprise me! Uh, well folks, welcome to our, uh, 164 flying from LAX to, hey, you tell me, wherever you guys want to go, it's a dollar a call, folks. Surprise me? I don't know about you guys, that's the last thing I want to be surprised about. When you get on a plane, you're like, Well folks, uh, I know that you thought we were going to, to Turks and Caicos, but surprise me! Newark, New Jersey, see you there! Hey surprise me, happy holidays. Welcome everybody to a brand new episode of Spiritual Asshole. am your host, Brendan Fitzgibbons. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you as always for joining this podcast and this community of spiritual people, [00:02:00] of regular people, of probably not White Sox fans looking to grow in their own lives.

Hit me up on Instagram. It is at the underscore Brendan Fitzgibbons. I'm also on YouTube. My page is doing really well. Look me up at the underscore Brendan Fitzgibbons on YouTube. And if you're in Chicago, I will be co headlining the ComedyPlex with the great Nick Cobb. On Saturday, December 21st at 8 o'clock.

I hope that you'll be there. My sister just told me that I need to know my audience, and I will be performing in front of a bunch of suburban parents with kids, so from now until then I'm gonna need to birth a child! Speaking of which, I don't know if you guys follow football.

Tyree Kill, arguably the fastest man in the NFL. Here's a stat for you guys. Are you ready? Tyree Kill. Here's Tyree Kill's stats for this year. Four touchdowns, five children with different parents. Five children with different moms. That is 1.

2 babies for every touchdown. So it seems to be, it's part of the ongoing NFL's war against condoms. It's [00:03:00] interesting that NFL players could wear so much padding and so little protection guys, guys. Thank you so much for being here. I'm really excited you're here. I am on a personal journey of growth. Let's do a recap Let's talk about our years. How did you feel?

Wrong answer. You're not supposed to think about your past. I was just testing you. Just kidding I am marking this year as a pretty good year But I am saying this last month, last two months were a huge breakthrough for me. So every day for the last two weeks straight almost I have been hiking.

I'm not a hiker guys. I do not go on hikes I actually detested hiking if I went to go visit someone and they would ask me if I wanted to go On a hike. My first thought is why do you hate me? My second thought would be why don't you like fun? But now I hike every morning with Willoughby.

I'm discovering Los Angeles in a whole new way. I love it so much I feel so empowered. It's one of the first things I'm doing. I'm not going to the gym hardly at all anymore I'm losing weight, I'm feeling alive, still occasionally eating donuts. But it's cool because it was a self [00:04:00] discovery thing and it proved that, hey, maybe I'm wrong about me.

And this segues really nicely into one of the things I wanted to talk to you guys about today, which is that I really like following the, social media channel house of vibrations by the lovely Bobby. I don't know her last name, but she recently posted a video and I saw her, she was wearing a lanyard and I was like, is she a dispensa?

Son of a bitch, she's at the Spenza agency. And she's like, Hi, I'm at Joe Dispenza in Cancun. I was like, God damn it. 10 day retreat in Cancun. Do you know how much meditating that is? She was getting up at 4am to meditate. Bobby's video was so great because she started by asking this question. The probability that you are perceiving the truth of your reality is zero. Really just let that sink in for a second. Because if you can't even see the truth of your reality, your environment, the people around you, do you really think that you are seeing the truth about yourself, your [00:05:00] capabilities, your beliefs, what other people believe about you? Could you be wrong about how you see yourself?

Could you also be wrong about the possibilities that are actually in your life? So one of the reasons why I've been harping Dispensers work so hard at everyone I talk to is because it's so simple and it's so clear to me now how much We all do the things he talks about and how I'm working on breaking this.

Okay. So think about this. One of the things he says many of our lives aren't changing because we are either in the familiar past or the predictable future, right? So we're using our past to predict our now. But, if we're never going outside of our past or thinking beyond the boundaries of our past, not a lot of shit is gonna change.

And especially as you get older and your brain wiring gets deeper and deeper and the grooves get bigger and bigger, right? Okay, so, to go back to what Bobby said is, can you be wrong about what's possible in your life? David Jagandi in Happy Pocketful of Money, which to this day is one of the best self help books ever written.

Highly recommend. Let's do a quick [00:06:00] refresher. Happy Pocketful of Money. Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer. The Power by Rhonda Byrne. I Really Like You Are a Badass or You Are a Badass With Money by Jen Shincharo. The Subconscious Mind Book by Joseph Murphy. That's just a nice little starting place. Don't forget those ones.

Oh, Marianne Williamson's Return to Love. Absolutely. And The Client by John Grisham. But, okay. In Happy Pocket Full of Money, David Jagandi says, Basically, the possibilities of your life, use this analogy, are a piece of paper.

Okay, that's how much possibility is there and your perspective and your view about what's possible Is a pencil, the tip of a pencil. Okay. So what Bobby says is she opens her video by being like, could you be wrong about the possibilities and your own perspective in your life? Okay. using the dispensive model, what we often do is familiar past predictable future, right?

We use the box of our current reality, the limitations in which we think the [00:07:00] world exists to then predict what's possible right now and every moment from now on. But, what Bobby's saying, and what David J. Gandhi is saying is, what you think that is, is a pencil tip, that sounds really sexual, is a pencil tip of possibility compared to the, to the ocean of possibilities that the universe is trying to give you.

When I was talking to Sean Clayton, he said that, Psychedelics help you open the aperture. What that means is the aperture is on a camera and it like opens the lens. So we need to work on opening up the lens of possibility to let more possibilities into your life. How do you do that?

You start letting go of the limitations that you think are not possible for you. I'll give you guys a quick aside. I was on this hike today, right? So this is an analogy for all of us. This is going to sound weird, but it hit me. I'm on this hike. I'm on the top of the mountain. It's very hot. Will it be sweat?

And so am I. I look over, I see a woman. She [00:08:00] has gloves on. It's hot. It's like 85. I'm in LA. Okay. She's wearing gloves, a hat, sunglasses, face protector, and a mask. And I think her legs were entirely covered. Okay. And then I looked down, No shoes, no socks, bare feet. So let's reiterate. Completely covered, to the point where it looked like she was wearing an outbreak suit.

Mask, gloves, long shirt, long sleeves, long shorts, long pants, no socks or no shoes, bare feet. Up a mountain, riddled in rocks. Okay, how is this tie into what I'm saying? In that woman's mind, in her reality, this makes sense. Sure, I should just go barefoot up a jagged mountain in bare feet and cut the fuck out of my feet.

as long as my pinky fingers are protected, it's fine. I'm not ridiculing her. I'm just simply saying that this is what we are all doing about everything in all of our subjects of our lives. And then we're just being like, no, but this is the right way to do it. What I am [00:09:00] offering you now, is the opportunity to let yourself go a little bit.

Let your beliefs go a little bit. In the You Are the Placebo meditation, Joe Dispenza says, to believe in yourself and possibility, let yourself go. Okay, if this is confusing, If this sounds like an Avril Lavigne lyric, let me explain it.

To believe in yourself and possibilities, let yourself go. Yourself, right now, you, wherever you are in this great world, has a thousand trillion beliefs about how you think the world exists, right? Or what's possible for you. You know, I know people who work, minimum wage jobs and put in 40 hours a week. I just worked with a comic who made 70, 000 in four hours.

So who's correct to believe in yourself and possibility. Let yourself go, let it go. So every morning when I go [00:10:00] hiking, all I'm thinking about guys is possibility. All I'm thinking about doing is feeling. And all I'm thinking about doing is starting to put positive exciting emotions attached to the feelings of possibility in my future.

And just as much as we've trained ourselves to limit ourselves, we can train ourselves to be infinite. We can train ourselves to open up the floodgates, rearrange, rewire our nervous systems. are the neuroplasticity in our brains to create more possibility. So let's talk quickly about how to cultivate more possibility in your life without having to jump out of an airplane. 

Think of everything that you've done in a typical day that you do as tracks in your brain that you've gone over multiple times. Most things. Start paying attention how often you do a lot of the same things every day. How you order the same things, you go to the same places, you check your phone right away, you go on WhatsApp, you scroll, you scroll.

You are reaffirming your known [00:11:00] reality, your familiar past when you do that. That's okay. We all do it to some extent. Now, to lean into possibility, You don't gotta go nuts, dawgs. You don't gotta go be Mr. Beast and bury yourself alive for seven days. Literally, I have found charges and feelings of confidence and more possibility by doing things like Calling someone that I'm afraid to call.

Having a tough conversation with somebody. Texting someone that I really care about them. I'll give you guys an example. I was spinning out, like, a week and a half ago. And I've been checking in with Andrea Owen every Monday. We have coaching calls. Which, by the way, guys, I just got a book agent, which is so exciting.

So, get ready for that. Thank you to Andrea Owen for that. Okay, so I'm having a meeting with Andrea Owen, I'm spinning, I'm spinning out, spinning, spinning, spinning, and I literally say to her, Hey, okay, I'm gonna do something right now that's gonna get me out of my head. And I just go, you're such a good person, I'm so glad you're in my life.

Which is how I feel, I did [00:12:00] not make that up. But I don't normally talk like that to her. I don't normally say things like that to her. So that was what? Unknown. That made me feel really good. And also, I told my cousin this, love, love, Love is possibility. Always. When you're in love, you're in possibility because love melts the limitations of your brain. When you're in love, that self that you created starts to dissipate and disappear a little bit, and it starts to equalize into the place where you came from in the first place. Okay? So, being in love, being in gratitude, that's great, y'all. Do that. Other things that are possibility.

Taking a new route in your car. Trying a sport for the first time. Joining a club. Calling someone. Writing an email to someone. Writing a letter to somebody. Possibility. Creating. Staying in a creative state versus a 3D reactive state. A 3D reactive state says, I will be dictated by 3D. By the results of my three [00:13:00] dimensional reality, and then I'll react to it, and I'll create my life that way.

Which is what I have been doing a lot,. Versus, I choose to live in a creative state, that leans in on possibility, that I don't know exactly what's gonna happen. I'm not gonna wrangle reality, choke it out, and be like, it has to be this way. I'm going to set a powerful intention.

I'm going to believe in possibility. And I'm going to trust that I don't exactly know where this is going to go. And I used to think like this, guys. I used to always think like this. I would just trust in possibility. I had problems when I was 20. I was in a lot of student debt. I thought I'm on my debt zero.

Because I was young, dumb, and young and dumb. I'm not going to say what you thought I was going to say. Merry Christmas. Cause I was young and dumb, and I didn't have set out stories about how my life is supposed to be, and I did not think about my familiar past cause I didn't really have a past. So you might be saying, well how are we supposed to not think about the past?

A lot of people don't, and I certainly do, which is why I've been working on this. One [00:14:00] of the things that I think is really good is to work on releasing techniques like the Sedona method. And also a really cool visual is every time you think about the past, imagine that when you look behind you, there's a mirror and it's just going to reflect it right back to you.

And if you're thinking about the past, simply just go, okay, I'm thinking about the past. That's not what now has to be. You will know what the feeling of possibility is because you will feel a certain level of good Uncertainty and excitement and anticipation like oh shit. I'm doing something new and why does this work?

I don't know guys. It could be your brain wiring It could be because like all God wants to do is express itself through you So when you choose to live in possibility and creation, you're expanding God. You're not just expanding you, right? here's another really important part of all of this that I'm realizing you You know, for like the last two years, I've almost non stop listening to people say like, your inner world is reflected back to you.

Right? We've been talking about this ad nauseum for fucking forever. But now, I am so profoundly convinced that that's what's happening, that [00:15:00] it's not even a convincing. I know what's happening. Okay? And I was telling my cousin Andrea, this is what it basically is to be a human being. You are You've all seen a soundboard in the studio, right?

Like a recording studio. Okay. So you are the sound recording booth engineer in a studio. And in front of you are thousands of different volume controls for the different subjects and things in your life. And depending about how much you want to think about something or how much energy you want to put into something, you turn the volume up or down.

And the more you turn it up, the more that thing you think about, the more that. Issue or person you put into, the more that's going to show up in your life. If you turn down certain knobs, whether it's on a person, whether it's on a subject, it will slowly dissipate out of your life. I've been practicing this.

It's fucking crazy how powerful you are. [00:16:00] You know, the Neville Goddard people always say, you're the operant power, meaning you're the only one. And guys, you are the only one. And the only reason why you think you're not the only one, It's because we've been a slave to the programming of our own mind. And we think that our mind is the truth.

You're You have control over those thoughts. If it feels really hard right now, that's okay. It's a practice. And this is what I keep telling myself about. While I've been seeing some amazing changes that I will talk about more soon, and my life is definitely going way better, I know it's still been a bit of a process.

It has. And the time delay is fine. I'm learning to accept it all and love it all anyway. We will get into existential kink, which is an idea of not only loving your struggles, but basically having an orgasm with your struggles. Which, listen guys, I did not think we'd be here in 2024, okay? I thought by now I'd have a DeLorean and a hoverboard, but this is what we're talking about.

But I'm going to have that author on my podcast. It's going to be amazing. Okay, so we'll get into that in a future episode. But for now, for now, if you want to manifest from a whole place, the best thing you [00:17:00] can do is do the best you can to release the things that you think are holding you back.

And also to realize how insanely powerful you are. So, If you're like, why does this thing keep showing up? Stand in front of your soundboard, turn down the knob just a little bit in your mind, meaning walk away from it. Meaning absolutely stop talking about it so much. What happens is the crazy making mechanism of our mind says, if I have a problem, not only should I use my mind to solve it, I should basically put all my energy into it.

Talk to everyone about it. They should tell me about it. Yeah. I should go research about it, but the further you dig into it, what ends up happening is you just slide that slider up even higher. Think about all the people for the last eight years who have pushed up against Donald Trump and complained about him.

How'd that work out? And this is very Law of Attraction, and Esther Hicks, like, you know, war on drugs, there's a war on terror, like, it only just grows, right? really start realizing, and just see what happens, especially over the holidays, when you get triggered.

That instead [00:18:00] of being super reactive to your family, what happens if you Process it, sit with it, let it go through your system, and then do nothing. I have let almost all the shit that I have with my mom go, and we have zero fights. Ever. And then there was a period of two years where I was constantly upset at her, telling everyone about it, complaining about it, being uncertain about it, and it just kept showing up.

Kept showing up. Kept showing up. Got worse. It got worse. It got worse. You know what fixed it? Doing nothing. Turning the volume down. And, if you can't turn the volume down, or if you can't get to love with your family over the holidays, that's okay. But you can turn it down a little bit. If it's too hard, you can leave.

I suggest leaving. If they start criticizing your career, tell everybody that you're pregnant. If you're a guy, tell everyone you just got everybody else pregnant. In your town. Have a little fun with it. I just want to say though, for sure, that I think sometimes the quickest way That's Around [00:19:00] is through, right?

So if there's a party that's like, I'm not going to talk to them because I'm mad, the truth is you're going to probably hurting yourself more. And Lord knows I've done this by sitting around and stewing about it for four days versus just confronting it head on. Even if that means exploding on the person, some ways I feel like that's actually healthier because you get to let it pass through you.

Keep in mind, like we can feel your thoughts. Your thoughts are always manifesting to a certain degree. Obviously, like. Not every thought manifests instantly, but like what I'm saying is to sit around in a room and be secretly pissed at somebody for four days That takes a huge toll on you. That's like, gonna hurt you more than just confronting that person.

But I get it. I'm not saying it's easy. My friend was just like, I'm gonna be alone with my sister in a room for the first time in six years. I don't know what to do. That's a tough one. Just tell her that you're pregnant. It's easy. But I do think that it's important to realize how much power you have in this.

And start playing around with your soundboard in your [00:20:00] life. Start just taking your attention off of things. Watching what how the universe responds to it and then start putting your attention on to things Watch how the universe starts responding to it. Whatever you think multiplies whatever you put energy in grows So just don't ever forget that.

Okay. Well, I hope you have the greatest holidays ever. I think you're truly fantastic I believe all your dreams can come true. I believe there's so much love here for you I believe that this was a great year, and the possibilities of right now are endless for you.

Start leaning a bit more into the uncertainty and excitement of possibility, and watch your life change. You are the best. [00:21:00]