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This question cuts straight to the heart of Life… and this series of messages goes, perhaps, as DEEP and Intelligently as possible into the Experience of Life and offers PROFOUND insight gained from a journey that has been EPIC in worldly terms, but is also littered with catastrophic losses almost unimaginable. Set in an array of settings ranging from intimate talks in the Awakened Forest to national conferences, concerts, broadcasts and various public events over the years, Andrew shares a challenges people to learn to truly live, and even embrace the struggles and heartaches along the way…and somehow reconcile and integrate the Day and Night, Pleasure and Suffering…
Andrew Reed is a True Outlier…
Andrew has gone about as DEEP as possible, through personal will, as well as through “events” into the PROFOUND of the Experience of Life. He has accomplished much in worldly terms and in a number of fields, including music, the arts, healthcare, business, wilderness adventurer, scientific research, Alaskan commercial fishermen, consultant/teacher to over 10,000 CEOs and executives, etc. But his life is also littered with almost every catastrophic loss imaginable from the loss of 2 children in accidents, loss of health, loss of a few fortunes, loss of wives & loves, and loss through natural disasters of hurricanes and forest fires. Add in - bear attacks, gunshot fragments in his head, being swept overboard a few times nearly drowning, escaping from fires nearly killing him, having multiple breakdowns and such add to the color to the philosophical topics and practical, pragmatic advice shared…
He has been described as a creative rarely seen, with accomplishments in music and the arts as well as being an expert on creating and operating World-Class organizations. He is also a songwriter and super guitarist under Universal/Virgin Music Groups and WorldSound with an international fanbase accounting for 90% outside of the US. He is the principal of Multi-View Incorporated family of companies which benchmarks and consults with over 1,300 companies, primarily in the United States.
What are you willing to throw your life away on? With Andrew Reed and The Liberation. It's a serious question, one worth pondering. Am I living the life I want, an intelligent life, or something else? How can I have a better experience of life?
Speaker 1:These are some of the questions explored in this series of messages without the brag and the advertisement. Getting beyond even human institutions and society into the wilderness, nature, the reality of how life actually operates on this planet. These messages range from intimate recordings from the awakened forest to concerts, national conferences, and broadcasts on a wide array of philosophical topics.
Speaker 2:There is a time in your life when you have to silence all voices, turn down the radio, turn off the Internet, lie back in the grass at night or in a rainstorm naked, and reveal yourself to the universe. Crazy thoughts. Yet, for the brave, for the courageous, for the liberated, this is what must be done. Sitting yourself next to a small pond of water, noticing the frogs croaking the crickets making their orchestra of sound communicating to each other messages beyond our species. But there's this point where we just have to silence all other voices and pay attention to ourselves.
Speaker 2:This is probably being human one zero one. And that recognizing that in the aloneness, And it's interesting that loneliness is such a plague on humanity that so many people suffer from loneliness. And this is, of course, natural because we're a social species. Of course, this is what we do. But that isolation, and I talk about it so much.
Speaker 2:I know some people probably want to puke when I talk about isolation because I've done it so much. But I found it so beneficial because I found myself that in the silence, in the space, we find ourselves, we find God, we find the sovereign of this universe, and thus we must silence the radio. We must silence the Internet. The opinions of others must be silenced. Where you honestly get real with yourself you ask the important question, what is the truth?
Speaker 2:What is the reality of the matter? What is the purpose of life? What is the purpose of my life? Am I just a cog in the machine? Am I an essential component of the overall operation of this universe?
Speaker 2:And, of course, probably to the dismay of some, the answer to both is yes. And yes seems to be the vibration of the world. It's not so much no. Yes, I talk about the yin and yang, the positive, the negative, but the overall momentum or direction of the world of life is that of upward, of delight, of excitement. And thus, the encouragement of having the positive attitude because attitude has so much to do with the success of our lives.
Speaker 2:People want to work around people with a positive attitude. They don't want to work around people with a crappy attitude. Is that not right? That's a put off. So the overall directional correctness towards the positive is a good direction always.
Speaker 2:So you can look at it as this positive negative fiftyfifty in a ball, in a spiral, in an earth, but the overall direction moving upward or towards the positive. Even though there might be great chasms where the light all but goes out. That is to be expected. Yet, there's always the rebound, and in that, we can get some comfort. So I sit here looking at the church in the Awakened Forest next to a small, small pond.
Speaker 2:And to these frogs, these fish, these bass, these blue gills that reside in this pond. That's their world. So what's the best they can do? Well, just to make it as happy and pleasant as they can. That when the sun comes out and the water is clear, hey, get out and get a little sun.
Speaker 2:See if there's a little fish action to be ate. Because after all, someone has to be the food in this world as all protoplasm needs some external source of nourishment, right, because we don't have it internally. So we have to live on plants, right? So even the vegetarians don't get out of this deal. We have to live on meat or other protoplasm.
Speaker 2:And so what's the best you can do to get on with your day if you're a bass or you're a bluegill or you're a frog or whatever, enjoy the day. A lot of times, yes, I know they love the sun, but boy, they like the rainy days too, at least the frogs do. And in some mysterious way that is beyond our intellect, life works. Life works, in fact, on all levels. There's conflict on all levels from the microscopic, biological, cellular level, as well as the galactic level, the war of universes that our universe is better than your universe or on the planetary level, our planet is better than your planet as sci fi depicts, but which will become reality someday.
Speaker 2:We just aren't there yet. That's the thing is you take a look at visionaries, true visionaries of the future. Just like when they were making Star Trek, nobody thought that we would have communication devices that we could carry around, flip open, or even beyond flip open now. Who would have thought that would be possible? But yet it is and someone envisioned it.
Speaker 2:Someone imagined it. It came out of the unseen, which again I suspect is where God resides. However we want to fashion that idea. Again, I'm very accepting to all forms. Again, I carry a very Christian badge, and I just have a real openness.
Speaker 2:I suspect that is the nature of this loving, loving universe, this loving, loving God, this loving, loving intelligence behind everything. So silence the radio. Silence the Internet. Land your ear to your own voice, your own perspective, being shaped, of course, by the external world that's around you. I mean, the external world, even though so many people resist it and fight and war against it, is there for your benefit.
Speaker 2:It is to push against you, to push you sometimes into directions that you don't want to go, just like death or going broke or all of my catastrophic losses. They forced me in some supernatural way or maybe completely natural way to go in a certain direction that I wouldn't have without that motivation or inspiration or terror from some external force. There's some wisdom in this that the external world somehow summons our courage, summons our fears that we have to face. And in that, there is progress. There's progress of consciousness of our species.
Speaker 2:We move forward. We're certainly not like those that came before us. We're not like Neanderthals or Cro Magnon man. Our bellies have shrunk, whatever. We can even go back to the fifties.
Speaker 2:We can look at NBA basketball. These guys had kind of pot bellies. They dribbled in a very elementary way, at least compared to our modern athletes. I am amazed at just how far out NBA stars can make three pointers. I mean and these are huge fast men.
Speaker 2:To say that we do not evolve is ridiculous in fairly short spans of time. So we're moving forward. Always. I didn't mean to offend a bunch of sports fans there, but let's face it. Our species has developed and we're developing all the time and consciousness is part of that.
Speaker 2:Our goodness, all the perceived negatives, the setbacks, all those things that we confront in a resistance or our game manship with the external world, advances us in some mysterious way that's beyond, again, our mechanisms, our machinery to understand. So there's always this game between self and the external world, and it's a good game. If, and it's an important if, if you have the right attitude about it. An attitude has so much to say about where we end up in life. Again, if we think the world is out to get us, that is going to eat us, it's going to consume us, it's going to destroy us, and thus we have a hostile attitude.
Speaker 2:Or if we say, the world is cooperating with me, it is benign, it is working for my benefit, which is the disposition that I choose through my will to have, of course, I'm going to have a better experience of life. I'm going to have vastly more success than those with the negative view. And thus, that supports to some degree my overall opinion, and it is an opinion, that the overall momentum of life of the universe is that of upward. That there's an overall upward momentum, and we're getting better and better and better. Or as I like to say, more perfect.
Speaker 2:We're moving from basically perfection to perfection to perfection. As again, I just have a difficult time demonizing any aspect of life, perhaps a state of bliss, but yet not foolish about life because I can be just as vicious as the next guy. I can rip a guy's lungs out if need be, of course, in the nicest way possible, but I'm going to recognize that I have the same attributes as the dinosaur or the tiger or the rattlesnake. There's a part of each of those species or beings within me, and there's a time and place where that is right. It's just like the great band, the birds sang about the time of the season.
Speaker 2:There's great wisdom in that sixties song. There's a lot of good in Santana songs too. There's a lot of good in my music as well. So with this said, turn off the radio. Turn off the opinions of others.
Speaker 2:Turn off the Internet. Get out of the blog. Listen to your own intuitions. Listen to the voice of God speaking to you directly in this telepathic way that it seems to happen. Because I found this: It can be trusted.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening. If you need anything further, just go to mbi.life.