David Strickel | The Stream

In this powerful and deeply honest episode of The Tya Podcast, David sits down with Ajit, a recent graduate of High Stakes Change, for a real-time exploration of transformation, awareness, and personal power.

Ajit shares what it actually looks like to live the Tya teachings in the real world—not from theory, but in the middle of a current health challenge, emotional triggers, and old patterns resurfacing. What unfolds is one of the most relatable conversations on the gap between knowing and applying spiritual truth.

They dive into:
  •  Why simple truths feel so hard to live in real life 
  •  The concept of DTS (Down the Spiral) and how to move out of it faster 
  •  The “seductive pull” of negativity—and why we choose it even when we know better 
  •  A breakthrough idea: there is a real cost to being upset—and most people don’t see it
  •  The untapped healing power available to all of us (that almost no one uses) 
  •  How fear, judgment, and even mainstream narratives condition us to give away our power
  •  Why appreciation isn’t just a mindset—but a mechanism for transformation
Ajit also shares how his perception of joy, success, and even everyday life has shifted—from chasing outcomes to finding deep fulfillment in the smallest moments.

This episode isn’t about being perfect.
 It’s about becoming aware. 

And once you see it—you can’t unsee it.

Creators and Guests

Host
David Strickel
Producer
Stephanie Pitman

What is David Strickel | The Stream?

David Strickel examines consciousness, fear, judgment, and how humans orient themselves in a rapidly changing world.

His perspective is shaped by his ongoing relationship with Source consciousness known as the Stream.

These episodes provide context, inquiry, and reflection through conversation and lived experience.

The podcast exists to support clear thinking and sovereignty of mind during periods of uncertainty.

Tya Podcast 322 with Ajit
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[00:00:00] We are here with Ajit, Ajit, did some sessions with the stream. over a year period. Then you ended up in high stakes change and you finished that. You were one of our last graduates of that. You have great questions. So I know you're coming on the transmission on Saturday and you'll have questions for the stream.

But you also have a lot of questions about channeling and things like that, so we can really talk about anything that you wanna talk about. we'll just kinda let , your curiosities shape this episode, what do you wanna dive into first? I think I'd maybe take a second to pause and just talk about the value of

the learnings from this program, and I'm not really trying to sell the program to be very honest. I'm just this the same, like the truth is written in your book that , , the simple truths, the truth is, are actually quite simple. But, , I've reflected a lot after the program in daily life and I've realized that it is, [00:01:00] these truths are so simple, yet they are so distant for.

I would most people, and they are so alien when you are in a difficult situation that it was so important to change my vocabulary. , At this point, right now I'm going through a DTS phase on a certain topic, health related topic, and I've encountered a new challenge. And I am now finally having this, , schizophrenia type of moment where I know what the right answer is.

I know what I'm doing. Like I know I'm judging and I know how the solution will come, but there is this old part of me that's like, no, I just want to be pissed off and upset for a while. Right. I just, you know , you want to judge it. You wanna apply judgment to it. I, I just want, you know, feel like somebody has done me wrong, but I know that I, I am reaping what I.

And I need to be, you know, come back to on, I, I know all of that, right? And so. It is so like this thing that I have lived [00:02:00] all of my life and this, this vibe that why, why is this happening to me now? Why, me? You know, all of those things. It is so seductive. It is so seductive to just fall down the rabbit hole again.

But I'm glad, at least I know where the, when I'm ready, right? When I'm done grieving of this new challenge that why is there a new challenge? Then I can at least find my way up. But. As I realized having going back into the world, going into conferences, talking to people, I think it is just such an alien concept.

It is such an alien concept to not judge a situation, , and not be unhappy about circumstances. That, to even start the discussion with somebody saying, , making peace with a situation, not judging it allows for a solution. And that could be like, there is a war going on at the moment, right? And. At any given time, there are people in the media like saying the X people are evil, Y people are whatever.

I know I have done it, , most [00:03:00] of my life and now realizing the answer, and also realizing how alien this answer will be to most people is what I'm just. A little bit in awe, like I know the answer. I cannot tell you the answer because you don't want to hear the answer. And I, myself am just learning to live this way.

So that's all., I think the program, the teachings, the, all of the recordings that you've done on YouTube, which are a lot, , can finally get you to a place where you at least know how to climb out of a situation and at least know. Up from down , and you have the vocabulary to, to do something about it.

I think that is, the vocabulary is important because that, , it helps you with the reframe, right? Having the words to repeat back to yourself. And for those of you listening, there's a couple of things , we use a lot of jargon on here and we've created a lot of jargon because there's a lot of things that we do,, in our teachings that don't really have a English word that.

Suits it. So DTS is just down the [00:04:00] spiral. It just means you're going through a lower vibrational period. And the matrix is what we refer to as far as the collective human consciousness, , our collective belief system. . And what the stream , the energy that I channel has said from day one is that by design, we are here operating in this matrix that really runs an opposition of universal law and that.

Opposition creates friction that actually creates expansion of consciousness. So we come here to have challenges and when we move through our challenges, even just experiencing the challenge makes you a wiser version of yourself and actually make sure you more evolved being eternally , all of your lifetimes stacked up, evolve in every lifetime as you experience it differently.

We have created a mindset, , it's not really a, it is more of an operating system is what I like to call it, because it's not really a belief system. It's not like a religion. There's no rules, but it's called tia, TYA for trust. Your [00:05:00] abundance has four pillars, appreciation source, polar intention, and Ajit, , started out with stream sessions.

You, wanted to come and you know you, you can purchase sessions on our website. Meet with me. I channel source for you. You get clarity from source and. The reason that we create Tya is because I certainly don't have a monopoly on channeling source consciousness. There's, other people that do that, and there's people that have always done that, but I needed a way to systematically apply what they were teaching in my life because we all live in this matrix and the matrix is there to limit us.

. It's there to tell us that we're, you know, not going to be successful. We're not gonna return to good health, that we have to work hard and. I've been, we've been teaching this now for almost a decade, and I'm seeing very clearly now that we've been preparing for what's coming now, which is this revolution of ai.

. That's going to dramatically change humanity. . Not all at the same time, not all in the same places, but certainly the [00:06:00] more developed world where we're used to so much comfort. Our livelihoods are by and large going to be erased, and we're going to have to find a different way to live. And you can be terribly fearful about that, or you can be really excited about it.

. I'm excited about it because I think that we are, we're creating AI for a reason. It's going to ultimately un employ probably just about I, there's not many things I can't imagine AI replacing in our world. . . And it probably will un employ everyone. And yes, there's a lot of conspiracies about.

Currencies collapsing and engineered chaos to, to move us to a new system of still being under someone's control. But my belief is based on everything the stream has shared, that we don't have to be under anyone's control ever. And I feel like I live that way now. . And I know a lot of other people that do as well.

. So just to kind of catch everybody up, that's really what , we're digging into here and how we can. Train ourselves to operate in the matrix without being drawn into its power. Its [00:07:00] clutches, right? Yeah. So you've got , this health situation, and , you're sort of in the process of detuning it.

Yeah. I would say I'm in the process of accepting it. There's something that started like three, four days ago. It highlighted things. So I will say the positive, right? Like we did the whole program. I was. I was working on my health, I was working on the whole thing, the meditations, , setting intentions, eating right, and I saw a lot of progress.

Health wise. Health was probably area where I saw the most amount of progress amongst the other areas. I also saw very pleasant days, right? I, I had much more harmonious interactions with my parents, with other people. That has continued to increase. Now there has been other processes happening with me energetically.

. I'm maybe in the early phases of the process that you went through when you had your awakening. So that has also helped me because I think otherwise it would have taken a little bit more work on my part, , , and I lost some weight and I [00:08:00] realized that I was losing weight without even trying to lose weight.

I was just focusing on being happy and the way it was. Gradually with some up and down lowering. So that is a very positive thing. And then I was, I remember when we were talking about a few months ago, I'm like, I'm worried about blood sugar. We had a conversation and you're like, you're not getting the test done.

So I, I was so anxious about getting the test done. I finally got it done. Near perfect blood sugar. , And I was shocked because I, some, at some point something was put in my brain that, you know, there was, it, there was an issue. Anyway, , come to three days ago I was traveling to the Bay Area and I had something happen and I realized, oh man, this is, , this is a serious thing.

And I probably have been ignoring signs and symptoms of it because it is. You just think it is normal that this happens to everybody, and now I'm in the process of, , finding a doctor, finding a specialist, and all of those things, and. [00:09:00] I'll work through the challenge, right?

The, challenge is now I'm 40 this year. , Right at the time I finished high stake change, I turned 40. , The, this voice starts to say, oh, I've never really been. X weight. I've never really had perfect health. This sucks. Another challenge, like, you know, this is shit and there's another, but earlier on there was just this voice, right?

And when only this voice speaks, then you're like, yeah, you're right. Voice, you know, you. I cannot argue with you because we, we together have had like a shitty experience. , So let us be sad and that, but there is still, this was like, yes, you're judging it, you know the solution. Now you know you're not supposed to judge it.

And the moment you stop judging it, you can, you can reverse this. And now you have so much energy on your side that you can actually improve. You know that you can improve this, you know that you can fix this. And even if there was a solution, a doctor recommended that. Would be uncomfortable egoistically, it will still make [00:10:00] improve health and it probably.

Solve some of the things that were holding me back for the last three or four years that I didn't realize were holding me back so it, I can actually make this as another transmutation thing, right? So , now this voice has to sort of, I have to make sure that it ebbs out and this voice I pay more Tyaention to, but the difference was that this voice just did not exist before.

So I, I know what the right answer is. I know. All of the abundance and benefits and life and health and recovery is here. Right. And I know, but this voice is the seductive voice of, but let's be sad. Let's be sad. Have you, did you give , your negative, , voice and identity? I have not. There is a reason I have not done it.

, And I'm happy to share it, but, , the reason I've not done it is because I. My personal, under the way the the voice thing was working, the Claude thing. , And for people who are listening, the program involved, giving your negative critic [00:11:00] like a voice so that you can , call it out. The reason I, I felt it was a little bit separating.

I felt it was, , me separating me from myself and I, instead of that, I would just rather, I know what the voice is. I would just rather. Soothed because I know it is an injured part of me. I know it is a part of me that , has been so injured, but if I separated and I give it a name that is different from me, I feel like it, like I feel separated from myself.

So I, I would rather, and I've, you know, this is coming from other stuff that I've studied around shadow work and things like that, but I would rather just. Give it a hug. I'm like, listen, so I, I wanna share with everybody listening what this technique is. Yeah. , And there's no, we never have a mandate that anybody has to do anything.

This isn't like that at all. But the technique is , to separate it from yourself mentally. , And I am a very visual person, so I, I used to visual visualize it as a thought bubble. I took it out of my [00:12:00] mind and made , the negative voice or the voice of limiting beliefs. This sort of separate thought bubble, and I gave it a unique identity that at the time meant nothing to me.

, I just gave it the name Claude. I didn't know anybody named Claude. There was no Claude AI at that time or anything like that. , This was many, many years ago. And what I found was, is that removing it for myself and giving an identity helped me notice it when it chimed in and helped me shut it down as something that was separate from me.

Even though it was me, I, I separated it mentally. And the reason we teach that in the programs is because your clawed voice, when you start working on all of the things that we guide you to work on, gets very noisy because it's been with you your whole life. You created it for yourself. And it, it starts really chiming in, oh, don't do this.

You don't wanna change. This isn't working. You're wasting your time, you're wasting your money. . And so we teach them to do that in the beginning as a technique. Then [00:13:00] eventually you make peace, you accept it back as part of you. Once it's detuned because it doesn't have as much power anymore, then it becomes this charming aspect of you.

But if you've got a really active claw, yeah, you're not good enough. You're never going to get this. You're a loser. You're, you know, all these things that we believe about ourselves, it, , it's a helpful technique for a lot of people, right? To separate it, but you end up making peace with it and then reclaiming it as part of you.

And , it's just a, you know, it's a technique. So the interesting thing is that once I detune Claude, I actually met somebody named Claude,, who's a friend to this day, and now. I use Claude AI as my primary AI on a daily basis. So here I am talking to something called Claude, you know, almost every day.

So it's kind of funny. Interesting, interesting. , Yeah. So even the fact that, you know, now I have this, so I will like my Ajit circa maybe 15 years ago, I remember having a health [00:14:00] challenge and going into a fear laden tailspin because I was like. I knew that I had been overweight most of my life, but I didn't really have health issues at that time.

I was mostly fine, like until my thirties, I was completely like I didn't have a health issue, no health issues per se. And then some minor thing happened, and I remember going into a complete tailspin about it. Now, it was minor at the time, but I was going through a breakup and I was becoming incredibly fearful.

My fear led me to manifest a real serious issue and that I could not have predicted, and that led me to most of my thirties dealing with that issue and associated issues. , And to some extent, I'm still dealing with it. I'm still recovering, but most of it now I realize was caused by this voice that, .

I've had it so bad. What's happening? I'm so fearful. How will I cope with it? I'm alone. There's nobody to help me and [00:15:00] fearful about, , what is going to happen. And then everybody telling me in my life at that point, like, Hey, you are just panicking. , You're anxiety. Right? Like most of the people saying that, but.

Me feeling like, you know, they're not listening, and if I don't catch it right now, something bad is gonna happen because that is how you're trained. You're trained in this medical system, especially in the US that unless you catch it immediately, you have to catch it immediately or else it gets away from you.

Right. And so I got, I got trained in that. , I have to, if there's something on, I need to catch it, you need to do , this advanced test. I, I will not believe you if you're telling me that it's, it's okay. So that's what, what my vibe is. , I was not trusting people, , I was not trusting people who meant well across everyone.

And I was , in this vibe and I fell into the vibe for a long time. Only recently I've understood that how things actually work, right? Like why the vibe itself , is the problem, and then why? You cannot have, you know, it is actually a [00:16:00] dangerous luxury to sit and follow in self pity. Right? Uh, it's a good way to put that.

I like that. , So I know that the last few days I've been DTS and, but I have a vocabulary for it now. I've been DTS and I know that I cannot afford to stay there much longer. Yeah, come, coming back. , The more efficiently we, come around to appreciation. Yeah. It, so in fact,, I'm writing another book now.

I don't know if you know that I've started another book since we last spoke, and I'm in the middle of writing this other book. And the book is all about omni appreciation because in all my years of teaching Tia. The programs now that I've retired, I'm reflecting back and this book is a, is a collection of transmissions from the stream and stories from over the years because we've coached so many people.

. I've got every kind of. Every kind of life challenge you can imagine. We've had come through, I, there's very few topics. We've had terminal illness. We've had people whose children were murdered. We've had people whose children were drug addicted and [00:17:00] committed suicide, and people who were, , extremely abused as children all kinds of life.

Scenarios and we have all these amazing stories , and I'm sharing some of them with permission and names and some of them very, , ambiguous about who the person is to protect privacy. But as I'm writing these stories, I realize how wonderful it is that I did coaching for as long as I did, because we have all these great stories that are true and verifiable of people that healed things significantly when they finally not only surrendered.

A lot of spiritual practices will say surrender and accept gratitude, but we want to go all the way into authentic appreciation of, and that's a hard pill for people to swallow in the matrix because we have a long list of things that we're never supposed to appreciate according to Matrix. And the reason I've sort of stepped up .

My preachiness, . Around all of this is because I see time speeding up and I [00:18:00] see a need for humanity, and it's not the stream. The stream is like you're having your experience. It's perfect. There's nothing wrong in your world. Everything's exactly what's supposed to be, but my ego is noticing that, okay, we kinda need to get our act together, humanity, and we need to prepare for what's coming with AI and everything that's shifting energetically in our world.

In my opinion, if I had to boil tya, the four pillars of tya done to the most important aspect, it's appreciation and instead of the clunky appreciation of all things, we're just calling it omni appreciation. . Which makes sense. Everybody knows what that means as soon as you say it. So you know, that's kind of the new theme these days is omni appreciation and reframing in the moment every moment of your life, because that's the only way you're going to retrain your subconscious mind.

To have a natural reaction of appreciation is to retrain yourself in real time and being, as you say, going DTS and judging things and spinning out all that, that's part of the journey. Right. , We don't [00:19:00] cross a threshold into perfection and, and I am so much better at it than I was, and I get better all the time, but every time I have some sort of a spin out.

I realized that I create the spin out, but then I always level up as a result of it. And that's why I love to share my spin outs. This is the only place I do that now, period, is sharing my spin outs here on this podcast because the transmissions are all channeling, right? Right. So it's like you get all David on the podcast and if you Tyaend to transmission, you get all stream, all channeling, and those are two different things.

So I like to talk about that. I love that, all of you come on and talk about what you're challenged by because we, it's a work in progress for all of us, right. But the work, the work pays off it does. , Recently, so, you know, the, when I came into the program, , I was taking some time because my mom was dealing with some stuff.

I am very proud of , my mom because, , she had certain, she was, she's now supposed to use certain things to live her life. And when I was taking the program, I told her like, you need [00:20:00] to love this thing. You need to love this thing because it is helping you become much more healthier and. You like, I I, I went to the extent of like appreciating that, which I don't think she has done yet, but she's done a lot of work in loving the thing that she has to be on and, , and then there are more doctors we needed to go.

I, I continue to say that no, he looks like a great doctor. You need to put your faith in this guy. He knows what he is doing. I was so happy because yesterday I was talking to her about my problem and she was like, listen, you just need to, you know, this is how you get into the vibe. , You just write these things.

You just appreciate, like she was using her own words for it. And then you said just, you just assume that it's taken care of. I'm like, who, how, who, who's teaching you all this? Right? So she's doing the thing. She's right and she has her own thing figured out, but she's setting intentions, she's doing her affirmations.

She understands, she needs to appreciate [00:21:00] the things for the benefits that it are accruing to her. , And so much wisdom has just started to come out of her after this experience, which I'm pretty happy about. Well, that's really what, if you really think about it from a, if you wanna call it a quantum level or a spiritual level, our whole purpose here is to have a collection of experiences that level us up, vibrationally, that reflect in our lives.

We become wiser versions of ourselves as , our current human lifetime. But really , the whole stack of human or physical experiences, I should say, rather. The whole stack evolves from our evolution of consciousness, just from having the experiences period, whether we solve them or not. And when you start reframing life like that, instead of sitting, because the matrix promotes victim mode and victim mode, keeps us stuck in that energy.

And we notice people that really [00:22:00] see themselves as victims continually re manifest new scenarios to confirm that belief. But we're not here to save them from their experience., I am preaching to the choir. I'm preaching to the people that are choosing to listen. Okay. That want to know what we're doing.

But most people aren't, , most of humanity is not in that space to where they're ready to fully start appreciating everything they experience. Oh, that was a terrible thing. It was awful. , I wouldn't wish that on anybody. I never wanna do that again. That shouldn't have happened. The problem , is that when we label something as shouldn't be, , we are not acknowledging any value in it whatsoever.

And then we don't claim the wisdom of it. And to me, whether you believe in other lifetimes or not, just to become a wiser version, my, my goal is to be a wise old man where I'm just so unbothered by everything. Because I've lived it, I've been challenged by it. I've been to the brink [00:23:00] of financial disaster and health disaster, and been in scenarios that should have literally killed me in the moment and didn't, and I've experienced all that already.

And so I can look back at all of those things and realize, gosh, nothing scares me now because I have heard doomsday stories my whole life. And AI is creating this, another doomsday story. When I say it's time for us to level up, it's not because AI is creating doomsday, but I do think it's gonna create a suffering experience for a lot of people.

A whole lot of people, as long as they're fearing and judging it. That's not a prediction, but that's the path that we're on right now because it's a new thing. It , it's definitely growing faster than anything I've ever seen. Right. It's going faster than Facebook. 'cause faster than social media. You remember when social media, just, you, you're younger than me, but social media just exploded.

Right. And suddenly it was everything and everywhere. Yeah. AI is happening even faster than that. No, I, my, yeah, I agree with that. , the way I think [00:24:00] the way you articulate things, you've been articulating them for a while, but how it really, how I processed the, the teachings and I am more of a person who is about, are the understanding of the teachings and then.

Thinking that the application flows naturally rather than thinking that, , these are the pillars. This is how I need to live because I, I have always been a, let me get my understanding right person. And so whatever you said, of course there, there's nothing to disagree with, but how I. There are two things that I think I want to sort of highlight that sometimes I feel can be highlighted a little bit more, that at least were very revelatory to me.

So yes, non-judgment is helpful, but what is happening when , the thing is that the question is what is happening when we are judging or we are in fear? There is a, just, all I was saying in the health topic is there is a high cost to our bad mood [00:25:00] if there is a high cost to our being pissed off, angry, upset.

This is not even acknowledged in the, let's say, the enlightenment or spiritual communities. The people like enlightenment or spiritual communities on the one hand say, you are suffering. So just get rid of the ego and we'll go through this whole process of getting rid of the ego and then automatically, if you don't have ego, you will not be judging, right?

And , you, you have to work on that process to become who you truly are, which is, and there are things to learn from that. But they're not actually talking about the metaphysics of how the bad shit happened. This is the set of teachings that are explaining how bad shit is happening to you all the time, and, on a very personal level and the cost of you, your upsetness, or the cost of you being in this mode.

And if people, I, for me, that is the main thing. Like there is a. Price I'm paying every time I'm being upset about this and [00:26:00] delving into , the murky waters, that are skirting depression and so on. So , it's not a free lunch. You don't, it's not, you don't get to be unhappy for free.

And when I was young, I thought like, oh, I'm just unhappy. I'm not telling this. I'm not sharing this with anybody. I am just unhappy by myself. Let me be unhappy. I'm going to be brooding over here. Don't talk to me. I did not realize how that was actually ruining my life more. That's number one. , So , I think that is helpful.

Sometimes I find that helpful. Now, I do not still know how to communicate this people because, . Yes, there is this judgment thing, but when I use the word judgment, people don't think, understand. They're like, I'm not judging anything. I'm just upset. Right. How can I, how dare you say that I can't be upset.

So there's this learning that there is a cost to the being upset that you don't realize and nobody else is. This is the only teaching that is explaining that there is a cost for you to be upset. And , the other part is that. What came out of, for me from the teaching was there is an incredible healing [00:27:00] power that is untapped for most people.

There is an Inc, incredible power of solutions. There is an incredible power of peace. There is an incredible power of all of the good things, and it is completely untapped by most of humanity because we have given our power away to our upsetness, to our fears, too. Everything, but we do not even have, there is no words to even quantify the magnitude of the healing power available to us.

And, again, that is not necessarily discussed in , the enlightenment. , That is all they, they're all focused on letting go of the. Letting go of the suffering from the judgment, but the healing power available to fix regular people life situations. I, I just feel it's just not recognized.

There, there is this infinite ocean of healing available and even in this, like my, the situation I am in, I, I google the condition and I'm reading YouTube videos and there is. A fair [00:28:00] amount of negativity, a fair amount of, oh, this is so bad. Oh, this, if you don't take care of this, it could kill you. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And I've been through other health conditions in the past that I'm, there were people were completely so negative and bought on with the, what the doctors are saying. And the doctors are so. Powerful in the way they say, no, now you're done for now you have this thing. And you know, it's the ultimate act of judgment and the ultimate act of you giving them power over your health scenario.

Like they now they have proclaimed this thing for you. And I think that is, , that is for me a big realization that nobody can, one gets to have that judgment. And second that. I now know what healing power I have access to that actually 99.999999999% of people in the world do not even understand that that is available to them.

And that has, , now that is changing the way that I'm approaching this challenge because I know the healing is right, right on the [00:29:00] other side of a, you know, me appreciating this whole thing. And then that healing will accelerate more because I have belief in it. So anyway, so those are things that we talk about, but they get missed.

Like we talk about judgment, but the, the incredible opportunity that is in front of people is just completely being missed. Right. And if people had an inkling of the power that they had access to, uh, like I quote this guy Ka Gupta a lot. Like he literally says if people knew what they are capable of, there would be blood on the streets.

Yeah. The matrix is well developed, and again, this is a, a David statement, not a stream statement. The stream would say the matrix being overdeveloped is exactly what humanity need to experience. If you think about it, it's overdeveloped to the point to where it's what we would call a spin out.

When you get, so, when you stay in low vibration for so long. We call that prolonged down the spiral [00:30:00] time of spin out. And the spinout always, in my experience, gives way to a leveling up even higher because you get so much clarity in the spin out. So I will never say I'm totally enlightened and I'll never have into the spin out again.

I'm not afraid of the next spin out. I know one will come, I just went through one, this past year and it, it, it's the thing that brought me back around to just channeling and, and deciding to retire from coaching. I had to create that for myself and then it leveled me up so much. So don't fear the low vibration time.

Don't fear the spin outs. They're there for a reason. I do believe that humanity is creating this sort of spin out. I think we started spinning out with COVID, the energy sped up around fear with that, and we started getting a little taste and then we solve that. We sort of move through that experience and solve that, and then we come out and then suddenly now we're creating something that's going to create.

Probably a global recession. Mm-hmm. Probably a lot of chaos. Mm-hmm. Probably the collapse of [00:31:00] currencies and reorganization of how we. Support ourselves. I don't think humanity is going to be done away with, I think we're a valuable commodity to the powers that be because we're emotional beings and we're consumers.

Every single multi-billionaire trillionaire that is investing in and really pulling all the le levers on AI understands that their wealth comes from the masses purchasing on emotion. Mm-hmm. That made all of them rich. And if they wanna stay that way, you know, they're, if, if currencies really collapse, then their money's not worth anything, then they're in the same boat as everybody else.

So. I think a lot of things are coming into focus now that are going to create more fear, more chaos, facilitate collapsing of currencies and things like that, and it'll be very easy for any of us to get drawn into that narrative and we will be tested. But the reason that I'm getting a little preachy with all this is because we don't have to be, we don't [00:32:00] have to have that experience.

I've experienced so many things in my life. I had no business experiencing with where I came from and who I am and what I am. That just happened magically.

So why would I not believe that my life would just continue to be magical, even if currencies collapse around me? If nations collapse, if chaos ensues? There's been so many things that I just decided, like recessions. Uh, political movements that weren't necessarily my preference. I'm just not participating in this and I believe that we can all do the same thing with ai.

We can reap the benefits of it. There's so many things I love about it, and if it creates a recession or mass unemployment recession, then so be it. That's the experience we're having. Mm-hmm. But somehow humanity, it's, it's not going to be doomsday. We will figure it out. We will move through the experience.

And how you have that experience though, is completely up to how you're responding to it, right? Just like everything else. [00:33:00] Right? , When COVID started, I went down a rabbit hole of fear. I went down a rabbit hole of this doesn't seem like it seems artificial, this whole thing. I went down this conspiracy rabbit hole and the truth seeker in me was like, I will find out the truth about this and some somehow that is going to help.

I will make the right move. But the more I went down the rabbit hole, even if it was true, uh. I did not realize that I was giving power to somebody else's agenda, right? Like there is people who have an agenda and they create the agenda in such a way that people are going to. Say that like literally they want people to say that they're evil so that their agenda is succeeding.

Literally, they want the conspiracy theorists. They want the conspiracy theorists. . They know it empowers them. Yeah. Yeah. So they, they know. They know the real secrets of the universe, and they're leveraging [00:34:00] that because anybody that's doing something and they understand that it's making more people hate them.

Yeah. And they do it anyway. Right. They understand the power in that hatred. Right. It's fueling and, and that's what most of humanity doesn't get, that when we demonize something. But the funny thing is, Ajit, is that there's just so much evidence that we demonize things and they just expand, right? I mean, just think of any topic that is a mass unwanted thing.

Mass shootings, war genocide, racism, inequality, poverty, all of these things that we demonize just keep expanding and getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And they are solvable. Right. They are solvable. Right. So, that is a very tough a very personal journey to come up to this point.

It took four or five years from COVID. It took a whole lifetime of, you know, uh, shit, shit to happen. To realize what, how things were actually working. And I think now I sometimes. Observe this [00:35:00] judgment about politicians that people don't like or situations. And, , I sometimes I say like, listen, don't do, you know, you're saying you continue to give this person power, and people are like, not understanding this vocabulary that I'm using.

And then I sometimes stop. I'm like, okay, I, I don't need to fix this person's life. They will create a set of situations by which they may or may not come to this realization, but it is, uh. It is like a COVID like instance where this conversations and you know, they are the bad people or X are the bad people, Y are the bad people.

We are the good people. Uh, this righteousness, all of this is increasing and I sometimes do find myself. At least not buying into what they're saying, but at least listening to what is happening. And then I ask the question, is this a good use of my time right now? Like, does understanding whether America is going to have boots on the ground in Iran, is it helping me run my business or not?

So, so I'm revisiting some of my [00:36:00] behaviors from the past now. , And the que but it is very consciously revisiting. Like I know that I watched like more than 30 minutes of this content in my day. I'm like, I don't think I need more information. I think I have all the information. I know what's, what's happening.

I don't, I don't think I need more. I, I sort of know where this is going and then I can shut it off. But it was so hard. It was five years ago. It was so hard because it was a shock to me that, uh, oh, there are people. Who are controlling the world. There are, you know, the elect, the people who are elected are not really behaving like they're elected.

And, you know, the democracies are a sham, which I, yeah, that's, well, I think it's pretty easy to just look at, um, it's easy to become cynical and I always, I just playfully say, bullshit makes the world go round. And I,, and I say that it sounds very cynical, but what that is, that, that's, that's my reframe to remind myself that everything is an illusion of consciousness.

Everything is really bullshit if you really wanna [00:37:00] claim it that way. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Everyone operates in their own bubble of reality. Mm-hmm. I can talk to somebody that is very politically on the right mm-hmm. And really just appreciate their perspective and dial in to that vibe and completely understand where they're coming from.

Mm-hmm. And then I can turn, and the interesting thing is, is that my friendship circle is probably more left-leaning. My neighbors are definitely more right-leaning. Mm-hmm. And we're friendly with all of them. And I'm just completely indifferent about all of it at this point. So I can dial in an appreciation of what they're thinking and experiencing with no need for them to change, no need for, to convince them to, to think the way that I do.

Mm-hmm. And have a really lovely experience with anybody. No mTyaer what. And if you say that to somebody you know that isn't in this sort of mindset, oh, but you've gotta correct them and you've got, when in the hell has that ever worked? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know, when have you, when has anybody ever really convinced somebody to change their political ideology in a conversation?[00:38:00]

Yeah. And that's just your ego needing to be right anyway. Right? Right. You know, that's just settling your own nervous system by confirming your own belief. Right? And they're having a different experience, they're believing something different. And you can jump over to that timeline and then you can look back at the way you were believing and think, gosh, what was I thinking?

Right. I I was, I was misguided. I misunderstood. No, you were just tuned into that vibration and you were that in that time, and we all do this, right? And another way to really, to prove this to yourself is just think about when you lose your temper. You're down your spiral, how you act, how you behave, how you might interact with somebody, and then you.

Go into a higher vibrational state, and then you feel maybe remorseful and you'll say, oh, I didn't mean that, you know, I was upset. So I didn't mean that. Well, you did mean it. You meant it when you were in that timeline, that vibration, you were that person. Right? And now you're a different person because you've tuned to something different.

And we all do this all the time. Mm-hmm. [00:39:00] Yeah. Yeah. , One of the benefits. Understanding vibrational flow and understanding, uh, what is within me, what is source and what is ego. And it has taken some time to get feel into it because for the most part, if it has also taken me other modalities to learn that what is really the ego and what is really.

What I truly am because even as I'm having this conversation with you, I'm having it through the ego. , So it's, it's very hard to have that distinction, but it has led to this sort of wonderful appreciation of really very tiny moments during the day that, I that are so, so joyful much more now than they have ever been before because I allow them to happen, for example, like, you [00:40:00] know, a bird chi, like one bird chirping in a certain way.

I'm like, is she talking to me? Is this bird talking to me? And uh, and I keep, and the more I notice it, I'm like, is sounds like a stop. And I'm just like so happy that this bird is there, right? Uh, either a bird is there or a wind is blowing in a certain way., The grass, it smells like grass. When I landed in the Bay Area, it smelt of salt water and I'm like, wow, this is.

How, what money can I pay for this experience? This is free. All of this experience is just free. Um, and the part of me that was in the barrier before, which was like, you know, I'll have this fancy coffee, or I'll have this fancy thing now I'm, now I'm just chasing. Looking for like where is, where is the people who are just naturally sourced, like right, the people who are just living their life without wanting to be.

So like I'll find appreciation for a hole in the wall shop that I never had appreciation for before, and I'll find an incredible sense of peace in these places. So these things have [00:41:00] started to change for me and I. And I now realize that they have always been there. This has always been available. , The peace, , the joy, the simplicity of human beings.

And most human beings I find are very lovable. , Regardless of their political affiliation. Mostly I find people, even if they're. So-called evil people. If you actually talk to them, you realize that they're just going through some stuff. So that has been the benefit. Another benefit of this thing is to reorient towards joy and realize what joy really was for me that I have missed out on at least in the last 20 years.

And, getting a better handle on this has been very helpful. Right. I finally joined a guitar class yesterday. Then I've been like, I should have been doing it. I've always wanted to do it, but I was always thought like, no, I need to make this money first before I allow myself to enjoy life. Right. That has been me over the last 20 of them.

Like, no, like, yeah. [00:42:00] Very, very limiting and very stip. You know, some of my best memories was, was when I was in my twenties. Not making a whole lot of money and just allowing myself to appreciate that stage of my life and not having the expectations of luxury at that stage. You just don't have the expectations as luxury so much.

And then some of the most miserable times that I have encountered. Having high expectations of something like going on a vacation and spending a lot of money on something and then having these high expectations, and then when they're not met, you make yourself miserable, even though you're in a beautiful place, right?

Yeah. Everything is wonderful, but you're so fixated on how much you're spending and the expectations that the one thing that goes wrong ends up ruining your day, and now you've wasted, quote unquote, right, A day of your vacation. That you wouldn't have cared about in the past, but now you've put these expectations out there and instead of just having an expectation that I'm just going to enjoy every twist and [00:43:00] turn of the journey and whatever comes along, I'm just going to appreciate it.

That's a whole different way to live life than, than we're taught to do in the Matrix. And there's a lot of people out there that make a lot of money that the extra money becomes , the thing. But it's not actually facilitating true happiness, which is, and, and they think that, okay, this amount of money is not making me happy, so I've gotta just make more.

Right. Right. And I believe there's people making hundreds of millions of dollars that are still stuck in that paradigm of, I need more, I need more, I need more. And at some point I'm finally gonna be made whole. Right. But I have those toys and there's just never an end to it. Yep. Yeah. So. It's for me, this, this whole like reset thing when I learned about it because it's not really, you know, the stream talks about it, but it's, I think people are experiencing it, but they don't really maybe have that 30,000 foot view of it.

For me, what it's doing is it is helping me realize what do I want, what do I really want? [00:44:00] Do I want a hundred million dollars or do I want a happy family? Do I want to be with friends I like and just. Be happy. Right. And I know how, and I know that is so much more achievable today. It is achievable. Like I, I have all of those resources with me.

I just, just was just sitting on that decision for a long time chasing this hamster wheel. So in one sense, it's going to be really great for a lot of people who didn't really want to do this whole rat race thing in the first place. They just, at some level, they wanted the simplicity. And, uh, they're just gonna be like, fine, there's a recession.

Now I finally can drop this whole sharad of making tons of money because I can finally pick up the guitar and, and learn it. Right. As long. Yeah. You know,, we say that our ego is creating and, and, and my ego wants to say, Hey, you don't have to do all this. It's, it's still my ego, but our ego is creating the reset.

Really, I think our souls are driving the [00:45:00] reset that, okay, you've learned enough in the matrix. Now you can break that and create another matrix. There'll still be a collective belief system of some sort. And we all have an ego, I, I do not believe in, in authentic complete enlightenment and sticking around in physical in that state.

And we've heard enough stories about people that have claimed to be enlightened, that we later find out are not such nice people. I won't name names, but we know what we're talking about. And. I, I would never claim that. That's why I love coming on here and talking about all of my imperfect crap, because I think there's a lot of growth that we all have available to us, but we're never done with it.

And that's what the whole purpose of physical is, that mm-hmm. We, we are here to spin out and we're here to mess up and we're here to step in shit , and figure it out. And. Expand our consciousness in the process. I do think we sort of get to , a point of wisdom maybe at the end where we're saying, okay, this lifetime is, is delivered as much as it's probably going [00:46:00] to, and I'm ready to return to that completed state and, you know, shift to something else.

But I see humanity collectively, covertly. Creating this reset for itself because we're just tired of the bullshit and tired of the, you know, the Instagram feed of, oh, who's on the private jet and who's got the next house, and, oh, you need this car collection. Yeah. And all those things are great, but , the next thing isn't really where it's at.

Right. You know, being at peace with any scenario, maybe I'll lose it all. I have to start over again from ground zero. Maybe I'm living under a bridge at some point and get to experience that. Sure. Maybe I'm gonna go through a health crisis and know what it's like. I, I now know what it's like to not be able to walk on my own.

I've had that experience and it wasn't until I authentically appreciated it that I literally had a healing path from it, and it transformed after over 20 years, it transformed and it was magical. It was surgical. It wasn't miraculously healing myself with my mind. I tried that for a long time, [00:47:00] but I finally just let go and said, well, whatever path, if there is a path, and then the next evolution of that is this is what we're doing now.

I have to have a cane to walk. I have to hold onto furniture to make it to the bathroom in the morning, right? I'm in pain all the time and I'm not taking anything forward anymore. I'm just being with the pain. And when I got to that point, all of a sudden. The surgeon showed up the surgery, showed up the $350,000 to pay for it showed up.

, The rehab was amazing. My everything was just completely, just fell right into place. Right, right. A hundred percent. , I liken this whole reset thing to, on an individual level, to something I used to do before. And I knew I was doing it, but I would still do it like I would in interview with companies and I would sabotage the interview by saying something really obnoxious.

And I knew that they would not hire me if I said it. Subconsciously I was doing it because I didn't want want to do that [00:48:00] job. It was like, mm-hmm. It was the same chase and subconsciously I'm like, you know. The ego was like, Hey, I'll make more money. It can look such a, it'll be such a nice, tighter, all of those things subconsciously, I'm like, I don't like those people.

I just don't like it. Uh, well, and you know, go be obnoxious because if that's the real you, that's what they're gonna get. And if they like that, well, hey, maybe this is the place to work, but if not. You are presenting your real self. I always, because I've hired a lot of people in my corporate career, probably thousands of people, and I always said, you know, they're showing you their best self right now, and it's probably nowhere near what their authentic self is.

And either I like them or I don't, but gosh, this is as good as it's gonna get. So if it's, it's going to get worse than this in some way, don't hire them. Don't hire them. And I always love the more authentic people that would just get real with you about stuff. But a lot of times people that are hiring don't like that.

Right. They want the corporate bot, , they want you to show up , and, you know, know the corporate jargon and, and know what the [00:49:00] slogan of the day is and, and just sort of fall in line and, and, you know, organizations tend to be built that way. But this, I do, I do this stuff even while dating. Right.

I will, like, there will be a person and I'm like, yes. Logically, this person should be a person I want to date, but the way I will communicate with them is a way to stop the conversation at some point soon. Because a part of me inside is like, this is not for me, but , the rational part of me that is like this checks off all of the boxes.

Like, yes, yes, you know, we will have this conversation this way, but I will find a way to derail the conversation because at some level it wasn't really solving it. More and more after doing this sort of practice, you realize that is the real you and , this you, that had all of this criteria was just a defense mechanism for something, or coping with something, or making, you know, looking good in the, in society for something.

Mm-hmm. And that, so, so it becomes more and more and more clear that I'm making, I'm doing an action that I really do not. [00:50:00] Think that I will enjoy, and I see this with ai, like everybody's talking about AI all the time. If you are in my domain, if you are in Silicon Valley, if you've been working in tech, this is the only thing people talk about.

I have been in a conversation where we see that in a barbecue. And everybody was there to learn from the vc. This is next to like East Palo Alto next to Stanford. And I sometimes go to these things just to listen to what these people have to say. And the VC was like, it's like God has come down to Earth and God has come down to earth, and now we have ai.

And now the age from abundance start. Like I've heard so many things, but for the most part when I talk to people, they're like, I'm so, I'm just tired of this thing. San Francisco was in, because I, I was in retail in San Francisco, and I remember looking at property and people would introduce you and right away you would know about their startup.

You would know about how much money they've raised, you know? Right. Exactly. All these things. I didn't, I, you know, I just didn't care. I wasn't in the industry at all, and [00:51:00] it's just so ingrained in everybody there that's just , this, you know, tech rat race. Right. And it's, it's, it's pressurized. I felt more pressure.

Not on myself, but just pressure in the atmosphere in San Francisco than in Manhattan. Right. You know, Manhattan's all about banking and investment and all of that, but gosh, you get to, you know, the, the, it's so, it's so tech concentrated, I guess. Right. And you know, in talking about the angel investors, the venture capitalists and how much money, what round we're in and all that stuff.

And that's just exhausting. It's absolutely right. And I think that's what's happening. I think people are exhausted and then, and I do not think on the surface. People are going to admit it. There are some people having real outsize gains. There are companies that are the fastest growing companies that have ever existed now.

Mm-hmm. So people look at that and they're like, you know, it's like the sexy Angelina Jolie or something like that. Oh wow. Like this is possible. Like I, I need to, or Brad Pitt, I can have that. I should have that body. Not that I want to, or I can, that I should have that body. It's [00:52:00] the same thing, tech, like I want to be that startup.

Most people I talk to, they're actually, they don't care. They're, they're like, Hey, we are talking about ai because it seems like everybody wants to, wants us to talk about ai, but I don't want to talk about AI all the time and what do I do? Yeah, well, we, you know, we have an ego-driven rat race on, you know, banking, investment tech, fitness, uh, gosh, I, I look at the, and, and we keep amping it up.

You know, if you, if you're an Instagram person and you're looking at, , I see weddings now. That are this massive productions that I'm like, . Good lord. People do that for a wedding. That's just crazy that people do that. That's that's the entire country of India. Yeah. That's their thing. Everything has to be so amped up.

And I, on one hand, I appreciate that things are so much more advanced. You know, things are expanding, always the universe is expanding. So of course, all of these things, business is gonna expand, wealth is gonna expand. Everything is ultimately just going to expand naturally. But there becomes this breaking point or this tipping point where.

You're right. It's [00:53:00] just like, okay, I'm exhausted of the constant need for expansion. When can we press the release valve and just resettle and just be for a bit before we have to start the process all over again? . And maybe we're creating that for ourselves., I don't know. I, I firmly believe, and the stream is confirmed, there have been technologically advanced beings on this earth.

That did themselves in, and then the world reset and then we spring forth from that energy , and we're sort of experiencing it all over again. . And the stream has even said, the entire planet is just basically a bunch of decomposed matter. That was once life, the whole thing. Right. So we're not even aware of what these inner layers of earth contain.

We'll eventually become more and more aware that, okay, now we know how the pyramids were built. Now we know that there was technology and there was a massive collapse and humanity sort of had to reset and go back to living caveman days again. And then we just keep living this over and over and over again.

I find that very fascinating, [00:54:00] energetically free journal. So who cares if if humanity ends, we just become something else? So it's, it's okay. Right. And I would say, and the alternative is we don't become something else, and then we're not even aware that we're nothing. So it's okay too. Right, right. Well, I wanna take this opportunity to thank you for coming.

, You always have great insights and great shares, and I look forward to you, uh, hosting this Saturday. , This podcast will be out after your hosting. , But the,, we're doing these transmissions every other Saturday. I'm committed to doing these. For the rest of the year, and it's just two hours I show up.

Sometimes they have a message at the beginning. Sometimes they just roll right into taking questions. We always have a guest on like, uh, you're our guest next week that's on camera asking questions, and the rest of the audience is not on camera. But you can type in questions and ask, and that's what the transmission setup is.

And you can, , buy a ticket and come to one, or you can get a subscription , and intend, or you know, as much as you want. So that's what the transmissions are all about and I'm excited to just do that now. Now [00:55:00] that I'm not coaching anymore, just channeling. Love it. Awesome. Thanks so much for being on Ajit, and thank you all for listening.

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