Casual Temple

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00:00:04 Merrily

This is the casual temple podcast, and you're listening to episode #3 and I am your host, Merrily Duffy. My mission with the Casual Temple podcast is to introduce the world to a variety of ways. You can develop a relationship with spirit. We will hear from everyday people about their magical practices, psychic phenomena, energy healing as well as hear

00:00:22 Merrily

About their amazing

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mystical and paranormal experiences. This week my guest is José Alicia, who joins the podcast to talk about his spiritual journey as well as his experiences with the non physical world.

00:00:36 José

Hello everyone. Thank you.

00:00:38 Merrily

So I guess José Willows kind of start from the beginning wherever you feel like you want to share about your either your earliest memory of your spiritual experience or something that was kind of pivotal that you remember and would like to share.

00:00:54 José

Awesome. Oh, I'm.

00:00:55 José

So excited I have. I have a lot.

00:00:57 José

Of stories to tell about my experiential experiences and and and all the non physical, but the earliest which is to this day I think still the most.

00:01:10 José

The most magical, but also the most sorrow, and the more heartwarming one was back when I was.

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About 5:00 to.

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Six years old and I was in my bed.

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After my mom put on my the blankets on me.

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She did a prayer. She leave the room.

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And I guess about 30 minutes.

00:01:32 José

I I was scared about about the dark, by the way. So I it would take me always about 30 to 60 minutes while I would fall asleep after that. So while I was falling asleep.

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I see this.

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Or just floating somewhere close to the door of my room and it was a beautiful, gentle.

00:01:56 José

Indigo blueish color and it was just floating just above closer to the door.

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Of my room.

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And I was always scared of the dark. And what makes this so spiritual is that when I see this orb.

00:02:13 José

I just sense so much peacefulness in my heart and all that came to my brain. I was just a kid was ohh. That's my guardian.

00:02:24 José

You know, and I remember smiling, just like a like a very sorrow. Smile. I just a kid and I just went back to my bed and and and and then I fall asleep and I remember waking up the next day and I go over to my mom and the very first thing.

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That I tell.

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Her is. Hey, mom. I asked her for the blessings.

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In in Puerto Rican and we do always greet, you know your family, asking them for their blessings. So you will.

00:02:51 José

Say like hi Bendicion and that's asking them for the blessings. So I asked her for the blessings 1st and then I'm like ohh, this is what happened last night. And I tell her about the blue or floating above close to my door and I have no tell her what that meant for me and what I thought it was. I just told her.

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What happened? And she quickly went and said.

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Ohh, your Guardian Angel visited you last night.

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And that for me was just.

00:03:21 José

Double confirmation about my guardian Angel because what it was happening I was in. Uh, in all I thought was, oh, that was my guardian Angel. And then when I tell my mom.

00:03:32 José

She also shares the same bag. She's like, oh, that was your guardian Angel.

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So so so.

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To me, that's been the the one that.

00:03:42 José

That's the earliest I would say because you know when you're a kid or you do not have, I get so much vocabulary to kind of label things. So you just feel and sense and see things and hear them. And I remember being so afraid of the dark, but.

00:03:58 José

This specific night, even though there was a very, you know.

00:04:02 José

Like event happening in the room like an or floating like you know like what the heck and I just did not.

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Get scared. So I took.

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It that was my guardian Angel. So that's been the earliest memory.

00:04:18 Merrily

Oh, that's cool. That's such a it's so interesting that you, your mom was like immediately aligned with, like, what you had seen and felt that it was. So that's pretty cool.

00:04:28 José

Yeah, absolutely. And I think is, you know, I would say so in in. So my mom would do to prayer for maybe for going to bed and we we we are not a family of super being like super religious or super Catholic. That's a religion that I grew up.

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In, but we will.

00:04:50 José

Always believe you know about there's a greater power. There's God, and that prayer is a.

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Powerful tool. So she will she.

00:04:58 José

Will pray do like a general prayer for me to fall asleep and wake up the next day? Because I will always go to bed thinking that I wouldn't wake up the next day for some reason.

00:05:08 José

And then she would do the second prayer, which was specifically for the Guardian Angel. So I I guess there the the guardian Angel, you know, vocabulary and concept was there already because of all these prayers.

00:05:21 José

But that was that has been the only time where this specific event happened, and that's what came to to, to our minds. Yeah, but I.

00:05:31 José

Was shocked that she.

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She thought into a like real quick.

00:05:36 Merrily

Well, so, uh, so your guardian Angel, did you ever sense or feel them nearby again, or did you, or are you always kind of feeling them nearby in your life?

00:05:47 José

So growing up.

00:05:49 José

That that's a that's a really good question because.

00:05:51 José

So you know, I wouldn't say exactly that I would feel this guardian Angel around, but I did have the knowing that he was around. I I I didn't know that he was around protecting me and back then because again, because of the religious practices.

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I would also call him the Holy Spirit and to.

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Me. That that's just what it was, just spirit.

00:06:19 José

And and and and all that I had was on knowing that they were around and and and I was intuitive. But other than that.

00:06:27 José

No, in a way that I'm aware now and right now.

00:06:31 José

I could say.

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Oh, my guardian Angel is around, or I can say my guides are around because of how you know how developed. I feel that my my skills are in regards to this, that I can sense.

00:06:46 José

I have certain signs and certain.

00:06:48 José

Symbols to when they show up, but back then no. It was just annoying.

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OK, cool.

00:06:56 Merrily

UM, so kind of on that. Seems like your mom. At least you had your mom to kind of go to. It sounds like as somebody who could either support what you were experiencing or at least give you some, I guess words. Since if you're a child, you maybe didn't know what was going on, but would you?

00:07:16 Merrily

Say she was one of your role models in that respect of, like, somebody who could kind of help you with the spiritual experience.

00:07:26 José

Yeah, you know, absolutely. I I I think that that's the perfect segue to be honest. My mom always not only because of her praying for me, but she will allow me just to say all of these things and she will never correct me or tell me. Oh, are you crazy?

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Or you're making.

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It up or she was very much aware of of.

00:07:53 José

I believe probably not only my intuition, but about her own intuition, because it wasn't on on until I grew up, more probably around.

00:08:05 José

Close to finishing elementary school, I think that's when she started to open up to me about her own experiences and how intuitive she is, which I somehow knew. But but. But I would say that she was one of those role models as to.

00:08:25 José

I wouldn't say that I have been following her path, but that she allowed me to follow my own path. So. So indeed she was. She was one of those role models and and aside from her, I would say.

00:08:40 José

I used to volunteer to go to church like I will ask.

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My grandma or my aunt or are.

00:08:46 José

You going to church today?

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Just because I wanted to go to church, it's kind of weird because most kids you will hear about their family first in them to go to church, go back then my inner compass. Help me just.

00:09:02 José

Filling this pool to church. So. So. So I always pray and I always saw Jesus as one of.

00:09:10 José

The energy masters same as with Buddha and and and same as all these other ascended Masters and the same for Mother Teresa. Like I would read her book. I would know about them and I was such a curious kid that I would just ask questions to people in church about.

00:09:29 José

Their own experiences and and what's very interesting is that people that are listening, they might be Oh my God, like Christian, like Catholic and like going to church and then. But also you have a chance to develop or your your psychic side and and and.

00:09:49 José

I believe it's because I never label.

00:09:53 José

Church, God or religious with anything negative or anything that will create a limitation to my belief or to my experiences like in my brain there there would never like it never made sense or I never felt as if that was a.

00:10:13 José

Constrictor or a constraint to my own journey. So, so. So some of the my role models definitely fall into the Catholic Church.

00:10:24 José

And and then my mom.

00:10:30 Merrily

Cool would. Yeah. That's interesting about like the church aspect of it. Like we I'll just say for me, I grew up, I was baptized Catholic, but it was one of those. Like, what do they call it? Like sun or not even, like, more like Christmas Catholic. Like, we were kind of not go.

00:10:46 Merrily

All the time.

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But but I think that.

00:10:50 Merrily

Exposure was kind of at least helpful, right, because it's sort of believing in something you can't really touch with your hands, you know. So I think that was something that was very crucial and.

00:11:02 Merrily

And at least in my development as well.

00:11:06 Merrily

Would you say beyond sort of the church and then sort of the people around you, which are really wonderful role models to have? Was there like a particular, I know you said you were reading like books with about some of the Saints or anything like that. Is there maybe like a even now, is there somebody that you look at?

00:11:25 Merrily

That is like a modern.

00:11:29 Merrily

I guess modern role model or I don't even know if role models the right were like a spiritual leader that you kind of gravitate toward or respect.

00:11:38 José

That is, that is a really good question because I I I think now.

00:11:45 José

Which which is good by the way. Don't get me wrong but, but I feel that now this this movement and I'm calling it a movement because there are so many different disciplines, so many different practices and so many people that consider themselves spiritual. But but at the same time.

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It's hard, I feel.

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To just pin down that one person that I would say just look up to this person and you have it all clear and you have it like you'll be you know you will understand everything and you you know.

00:12:24 José

You you will.

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Be sure that you won't be biased.

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Hours, anything.

00:12:29 José

Whoever, if I were to name a few, I would say one of them is Esther Hicks and Abraham Hicks. I do listen a lot to all.

00:12:41 José

To a lot of.

00:12:42 José

Her interviews a lot of her, her events that you can pretty much find them all on YouTube.

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When she speaks about putting yourself in receiving mode and manifestation and creating your own, you know the life of your dream and and and guiding yourself based on that inner compass and your feelings. And she does that through channeling these spirits that she calls Abraham.

00:13:10 José

And then another one will be Louise Haye. She's also very much similar to Abraham Hicks and I do I I like to hear to, to listen to her every other day only because of.

00:13:28 José

It's it's kind of a reminder of our own power and and how much control we have with our life.

00:13:36 José

Both spiritual leader it's it's it's that's a really. Yeah, that's a that's a big question to be honest. I've never been a fan of favorites. I've never been a fan of of being like, oh, this is my favorite drink or this is my favorite song, my favorite artist.

00:13:56 José

Well, I would say the same thing goes for spiritual leaders and and it's because of the human component, I think.

00:14:02 José

The ego.

00:14:04 José

It it it's it's it's something that we have to deal with in this dimension and a lot of these people are just that are just humans. So there are a lot of their spiritual path that I like. But then there's the ego component of of their humanness, which they have all the right to have.

00:14:25 José

But I might not align to that so so that's why I might not.

00:14:29 José

Be able to to.

00:14:30 José

To name other spiritual leaders, Alan Watts, I do here to some of their recordings that are available of him.

00:14:41 José

And I love them, you know? But but at the same time, I feel as if.

00:14:46 José

We all have the free wheel to create our own North Star so that I don't limit myself in just ohh I would just, you know follow or be aligned to these leaders. But that's a really good question because modern like good modern leaders I would say are not that many.

00:15:07 José

I know that you go online and.

00:15:08 José

You can see all of.

00:15:11 José

Like thousands of people probably speaking about spirituality, healing in the metaphysical. But I will say my inner compass tells me that only a few, you know, are are are the ones that I am mostly interested in and that will actually help me.

00:15:32 Merrily

Yeah. And I think that's from what I can tell as well as sort of how everybody's going is kind of maybe more listening to what.

00:15:40 Merrily

Their own inner voice is telling them the you know, taking some advice from all these other sources and saying, oh, this, this resonate does not resonate, you know, and try to sort that out for yourself. So yeah, I definitely think that's.

00:15:54 Merrily

Where everybody's headed, and I think that's.

00:15:55 Merrily

Very cool.

00:15:58 Merrily

So let's see. So when would you say you understood that you were a psychic big I? It feels like a big question for some weird.

00:16:07 Merrily

Reason. But when when did you?

00:16:10 Merrily

Or did you even put that?

00:16:10 Merrily

Label on yourself. Ever.

00:16:12 José

Yeah. You know, for so much then.

00:16:17 José

Saying it or hearing it sounds as.

00:16:21 José

Coming out, you know, I'm coming out as a psychic, but I I I I would say I understood what being a psychic was for myself not too long ago, to be honest, probably only about five years ago, before I decided to move from Puerto Rico to Seattle.

00:16:41 José

Although that's not to say that I really.

00:16:43 José

I always knew that I was highly into the since I was a kid because I would share. Like I said, my experiences with my mom and she will acknowledge them and also tell me her experiences as an also into this person. But I was never as familiar with the term.

00:17:03 José

Or attached to the term.

00:17:05 José

Until very recent, which is when I decided to study it in a.

00:17:10 José

More formal way.

00:17:11 José

Because I I.

00:17:13 José

Have been studying the non physical since I was a kid and I remember telling one of my moms cousin.

00:17:21 José

I think she asked me one day. What do you want to be when you grow up? And I told her, oh, I want to be a parapsychologist.

00:17:30 José

And I said it with such freedom that now that I think I'm like.

00:17:37 José

That's a very interesting thing for our kid. Want to know what it is and to to say that wants to be.

00:17:45 José

When the kid grow up, you know, it's kind of weird, you will say or unique but but the term psychic I I yeah. I wasn't considering myself psychic until just very recent most of my life I did tell my close friends like ohh I'm such a weird person.

00:18:05 José

Or ohh I just know things or I would tell them about my experiences. Whether they will believe me or not, or whether they agree or not. And I will use the word.

00:18:16 José

Into the that that.

00:18:17 José

Or intuition, but psychic seems to be a big word and and I was.

00:18:24 José

I would love for it to stay always like.

00:18:26 José

A big word.

00:18:27 José

Because I think there should be some respect behind these practices, I think. I think you know, probably you can tell from your own experiences. But when you when you ask the universe for more, the universe will send you more and.

00:18:45 José

There's no limit other than our humanness, and to some extent that the word psychic is something that I will. Yeah.

00:18:54 José

That I will always have have respect for.

00:18:56 José

I would say the same way as I.

00:18:58 José

Use the word spiritual.

00:19:03 José

Yeah, yeah. Now you got me thinking. Now you. You're giving me homework? I'm meditating around just the word. Yeah.

00:19:07 Merrily

Oh good.

00:19:11 Merrily

Yeah, I think there's a lot of, it's a big word. And I also think at least from my own experience, there's some baggage around it in a way like, I think that's why folks tend to not, I'm like I'm.

00:19:22 Merrily

More intuitive or?

00:19:24 Merrily

Instead of kind of, you know, maybe shying away from psychic, but I think that's changing because.

00:19:31 Merrily

People are being a little more open about what they're experiencing, so I feel like it's changing a little bit so.

00:19:38 José

That. That's good, that's.

00:19:39 José

Good, because in my in my case it is, it is somehow it is disconnected to.

00:19:45 José

The people's opinion or view, but for some reason the water on itself feels powerful. But I but I. But I can see. Yeah, yeah, no. But that, that. That's good. And and and for everyone that's listening.

00:20:00 José

I would say.

00:20:03 José

Embrace the word you know. Embrace the word. If you really consider yourself a psychic and and and and and and just show.

00:20:12 José

Up for who? You.

00:20:13 José

Are, you know, sometimes I I see people being very loud about how psychic they are and and and and and I and I'm like.

00:20:24 José

You know are a true psyche.

00:20:27 José

Usually it doesn't make as much noise. You know, it's like when you get all.

00:20:31 José

These into the.

00:20:31 José

Pits, they just come in a way that it's so subtle that if you're not into it.

00:20:36 José

If you will miss them.

00:20:38 José

And and and and and that that's why that's why the terms I would say it's so big. Yeah, yeah.

00:20:45 Merrily

So kind of along with sort of.

00:20:47 Merrily

Saying those intuitive hits and I know some people may be familiar with, like Claires, like the different Claires that somebody may have, which are the different ways of seeing or feeling like psychic information or hits.

00:21:04 Merrily

How would you articulate it to somebody? Well, to a lot of people who think they aren't experiencing it, how would you say it happens or happens for you specifically?

00:21:15 José

Yeah, so so you know I what I always tell other people because people has asked, the people have asked me they they see the confidence that I have whenever I speak about these topics and and I always tell them do you remember that time when you met.

00:21:37 José

And you were.

00:21:39 José

Oh, I don't like this person or you went.

00:21:43 José

I love this person already.

00:21:45 José

Like just I I.

00:21:47 José

Think it's in those moments where you can start understanding what the clairs or what receiving psychic information is, because then it would only require some stillness in that moment and think.

00:22:04 José

Why don't I like this person? Like, where is it in my body that I'm feeling it?

00:22:09 José

Is it more appealing? Is it more a sense? Is it more something that I am seeing?

00:22:15 José

Because some, sometimes people are.

00:22:17 José

Like, oh, but that's just because of.

00:22:20 José

Stereotypes how that person is walking or how that person is talking. And I would say look beyond that because sometimes.

00:22:28 José

What seems common sense to you might end up not being so common, and I I did find this. I I found this out.

00:22:39 José

Very reason too, because I was taking for granted so many of my spiritual experiences.

00:22:46 José

Only because I thought that most people were experiencing them because of the common sense. But it isn't until you start articulating what's going on with you or how you know, or the information that you're getting from spirit. When when you go like.

00:23:06 José

Ohh, this doesn't happen to you, and that's when you know that you are a.

00:23:10 José

Little bit different.

00:23:12 José

But I would say everyone is psychic or intuitive.

00:23:16 José

So I say and it's thin.

00:23:18 José

Our body, I will consider that it's our biggest antenna that receives all this information and everyone has a body. So I would say it's just a matter of understanding how much noise people experience on a day-to-day and then look for.

00:23:38 José

Like like I would say look for less noise and and and I would say just just think in those feelings when you feel that something feels wrong or something feels right. Just keep asking those questions to yourself because I I believe people spend.

00:23:56 José

A lot of time in their head, which is usually what we psychic and intuitive do, but I think it's probably asking the wrong question so. So I would say just just for the people that are listening, just sit with those moments and those feelings and then ask yourself what is it exactly that you're feeling?

00:24:16 José

And where where are you feeling it and how does it feel and and and how true to your heart it feels. Because sometimes and this happens a lot where you can go like.

00:24:28 José

Oh, there's something about this that I don't like.

00:24:32 José

But then give it 10 more minutes and suddenly you are best friend with that person. You know? So. So so I would say it it there, there's a blurry line between how much you can trust or how much certainty you can have because it's just in the social science where actually you can discover.

00:24:53 José

Whether you are having on a spiritual experience or not, and the world itself, you know it's a spiritual experience on itself. So I think if you're having a crappy life.

00:25:05 José

That would still be that spiritual experience. I think it it it, it's what you do with.

00:25:09 José

That and and and.

00:25:12 José

Where's the where the potential lies, you know?

00:25:16 Merrily

Yeah, I agree. It's kind of how you handle the information and what you.

00:25:20 Merrily

Do with it.

00:25:22 Merrily

I guess something you said that made me think about. So one of the things that made me aware was.

00:25:30 Merrily

And this is when in my corporate jobs, and I know you're familiar with that. But like in my corporate jobs and then like there would be a meeting or there would be like a big meeting or you know somebody important would say something.

00:25:42 Merrily

And then I would turn to her like my friend and I would say, didn't, did you not hear that? Like they said, Da da da da, da, da, da. And then they were like, no.

00:25:49 Merrily

They didn't, and I was like.

00:25:51 Merrily

Yes, they did, they said. And so I was like, you just need to, I said, you just need to listen between the words. Like you can hear what they're saying. And it's totally opposite of what is coming out of their mouth. And then they were like.

00:26:03 Merrily

What are you talking about?

00:26:06 José

It's it's, it's hilarious. That's hilarious because.

00:26:10

I I I.

00:26:12 José

For the most part, I I keep some of the information to myself when I receive it, especially.

00:26:19 José

In the corporate.

00:26:20 José

World, however, that's not to say that we just me being present and doing my work. People can actually tell because sometimes.

00:26:33 José

I just know something and I happen to.

00:26:36 José

Right it somewhere or say it or even do a task that's aligned to what I know.

00:26:44 José

And I have had peers that are close to me and they go.

00:26:47 José

Like, wait, how do you know that?

00:26:51 José

And I'm like.

00:26:52 José

Wait, was I not supposed to know?

00:26:54 José

That didn't you?

00:26:56 José

Reddit or didn't, were you not there? You know, it's it's kind of like. And suddenly I go in down this rabbit hole. Where is.

00:27:05 José

Am I making it up?

00:27:07 José

Like it, it didn't happen at.

00:27:08 José

All is it just.

00:27:10 José

Me. Who knows? But it ended up being aligned to what the true story is, you know, because of the in the corporate world there, there's so much information that my new might.

00:27:22 José

Not be available.

00:27:23 José

To everyone but, but somehow you just happen.

00:27:28 José

You know more.

00:27:30 José

But but but yeah, I am not. I am. I am. No, I try not to.

00:27:35 José

Yes, I try not to say a lot about what I'm receiving at the moment, but I I do use it. I guess that that's one of the. That's one of the good things about being a psychic corporate, maybe that you just know things and you can use it or your or your.

00:27:55 José

Vanish in a good way. Of course you know it's because it's it's it's a matter of how aligned you are to the work that you are supposed to do and and and how productive you are. So. So I I guess it helps, but it does feels weird. Yeah. It's like other people are not aware. And you think that it's just common sense.

00:28:16 José

Or hey, do you know that there will be some like structural change in the organization?

00:28:24 José

And then they asked how do you know that and when I?

00:28:26 José

Try to elaborate how.

00:28:30 José

They end up clueless. They end up being they they end up, you know.

00:28:33 José

They still clueless.

00:28:35 José

Because I I happen to not being able to to be as and I'm worried about how I know that information.

00:28:44 Merrily

Yeah, I'll just say that it took, it has taken me a long time because to learn one to learn that other people aren't getting the same type of information because I just thought, oh, I just, I just, I just know it happens. I don't know. The other thing too is like, I would blurt it out, kind of like just and then I would just be known as kind of blunt.

00:29:05 Merrily

You know, and blunt and direct. So I I got a lot of that kind of feedback, but.

00:29:12 Merrily

Yeah. Yeah. A lot of learning.

00:29:14 José

Feedback feedback incorporate it's wonderful.

00:29:16 Merrily

Yeah, it is wonderful. Yeah.

00:29:20 Merrily

Well, cool. Thanks for going down that road with me. Talk a little bit about corporate jobs.

00:29:28 Merrily

Now this question is kind of similar to.

00:29:34 Merrily

The first question about your earliest spiritual experience, I guess. But what's the more recent spiritual experience or one that stands out?

00:29:37

You know.

00:29:45 Merrily

For you beyond when you're a child.

00:29:49 Merrily

That you can recall.

00:29:52 José

So I I have two I have.

00:29:53 José

Two spirits, two and.

00:29:55 José

You know I.

00:29:58 José

As a psychic, I think.

00:30:00 José

I know where you want to go with this question.

00:30:02 José

So I will change a little bit and I will say.

00:30:06 José

I wouldn't call this experience spiritual only because of the nature of it. It's a little bit delicate and I wouldn't and I and I wouldn't consider it spiritual. However, it was indeed.

00:30:22 José

Us psychic experience or an experience that was out of this world and this was?

00:30:29 José

Actually, the experience that made me seek professional training in being a psychic and give giving to a structure and understanding it more then it only happened probably.

00:30:46 José

No more than four years.

00:30:48 José

Ago I would say.

00:30:50 José

And I was around apartment complex here in Seattle and I am with a friend of mine and we are walking a hallway of where where this friend used to live and one of his neighbors comes out of his apartment.

00:31:07 José

And I just look because I am a person that I just like to say hi and greet everyone, so I just I was, I just turned and I was already by us to say hi. But when I look at the person, everything surrounding the person.

00:31:24 José

Became black and then my vision became like tunnel vision and all. I heard all that I felt close to my heart because it was around my chest area was fear. And The thing is that the person was not outside his apartment for a long time. The person literally.

00:31:44 José

Came out of his apartment.

00:31:47 José

Stare at me and then went inside. Literally. That's all that the person did, and it felt like a long time because of what I experienced, what how my body felt and everything. And I looked to my friend and the very first few words that came from my mouth were, hey.

00:32:07 José

Is that your neighbor? Be careful because.

00:32:11 José

This is not good.

00:32:14 José

I am afraid I feel a lot of fear when.

00:32:17 José

I look at this.

00:32:19 José

And my friend goes to like oh wow, I just don't know that person because that person almost never comes out of the apartment and we left.

00:32:29 José

So 2 weeks later I see a missed call from this friend late at night and I returned the call the next day. So. So I'm like, hey, what's going on? And and this friend asked me, hey, remember the guy that you told?

00:32:45 José

Me to be careful.

00:32:46 José

About and I I go a little bit scared because I was like.

00:32:49 José

Ohh wait, did this person did something to you or or or or something around those lines?

00:32:55 José

And my friend tells me no, I'm OK. Is that that person actually?

00:33:03 José

Try to own a life themselves. They jump from the apartment complex building.

00:33:10 José

And this friend? Yeah, this friend was calling me.

00:33:15 José

Out of fear because it all had.

00:33:17 José

Friend in front of his eyes because his patio was next to the patio of this neighbor and it happened that when the person jumped from the building, the person survived and there was just blood everywhere and there there was the police and there there was.

00:33:34 José

A lot of other things happening and.

00:33:38 José

That that for some reason that's been the one that I would say is the most recent that stood out the most for me and that made me sick, more understanding about what is.

00:33:50 José

It that I feel why?

00:33:52 José

Is it that I'm feeling?

00:33:53 José

It and is there something there for me?

00:33:57 José

To do or is it only for me to know? Like I became very confused. I became very conflicted because I was to some extent WOW to I was labeling this person as dangerous.

00:34:11 José

Whereas in that case it's not that the person was dangerous, it was that the person was in a very low vibrational place and I don't know the person, but let's just guess, you know, probably depression or probably.

00:34:27 José

The life events or situations and not many people are talking about suicide out there, you know.

00:34:35 José

So so so.

00:34:36 José

It it it it really it really hit.

00:34:39 José

Like hit me really strong because.

00:34:42 José

I would have hate to label the person as dangerous when they are just having a a mental health issue but but. But I would say that was a really strong psychic head that.

00:34:55 José

I just had.

00:34:56 José

There probably not even 5 seconds that I look at the person and I knew that something was wrong and I knew that something was happening. I just couldn't understand it, and that's what made me seek professional training and understanding, but and and since then, to be honest.

00:35:14 José

It's really like I am I.

00:35:15 José

Am pretty well tuned.

00:35:16 José

Off meaning like I do understand now what is?

00:35:20 José

It that I feel.

00:35:21 José

How does it feels when it's something not so positive? Is it regarding the person? Is it regarding the environment? Is it regarding?

00:35:28 José

So, but that's one that really stood out the most for me, and that was very recent.

00:35:37 José

And just for the audience, not all spiritual experiences look and feel like that. That happened to be the one that, that, that, that was like life changing for me that made me think, you know, more understanding on this. But I do have other spiritual experiences like.

00:35:56 José

The awakening that I had.

00:35:58 José

Back in 2002.

00:36:00 José

During and others during a church event. Actually it was during a youth retreat and back then I was such an introverted person. I wouldn't talk to anyone. That wouldn't be my best friends or my family, and I would walk like.

00:36:17 José

Close to the walls at school.

00:36:20 José

I will be a full nerd. I will be studying and that was it. I will have no social life and I remember being at this youth.

00:36:28 José

Three and one of the sessions, I think we were praying or or doing some sort of prayer in a in a room that to me by the way, any room that has.

00:36:41 José

Spiritual leaders in it like like you know.

00:36:43 José

Like figures of Jesus, Buddha.

00:36:48 José

All, all. All these are God and goddesses. They for some reason they just feel so peaceful to me. So, so this place, this room felt peaceful where I was and I was on.

00:37:00 José

The floor praying.

00:37:02 José

And I and I and I just had, like, an awakening moment.

00:37:05 José

Where I just it was kind of like turning on a switch, almost as if.

00:37:12 José

It turned on and then God or spirit open my brain and my level of awareness to hate. You should start talking. You should start speaking up for yourself because.

00:37:26 José

All of your thoughts.

00:37:28 José

They are real and you must listen to them because you have a bigger purpose than the one that.

00:37:34 José

You think you have.

00:37:36 José

And suddenly?

00:37:38 José

For some reason that was enough for me.

00:37:41 José

To gain the confidence in speaking up for myself, whether that came to speaking up for my ideas for my views or for you to just say what I wanted, that I was not doing before so I was missing probably 50% of of the human experience.

00:38:02 José

By not being so aware of my potential, but it came up as an awakening during a Catholic Church retreat and and and and it was really powerful. But sorrow at the same time. And I tell this to people because I whenever people tell me that they like some argument.

00:38:22 José

Against psychics and or or intuitive or about how powerful we we can be with all that we can tap into. I just laugh and I look at them and I say, you know what?

00:38:35 José

Jesus and church.

00:38:37 José

They were the ones who actually woke me up on this. They were the ones who actually guided me.

00:38:44 José

To this awareness that you know.

00:38:49 José

Knowing and and and intuition and and and spirit goes beyond just the church and.

00:38:56 José

And indeed I I even stopped going to church probably a year later. And just naturally, I just kept myself out of church only because I wanted to experience now new perspective, new environments. But but I had some sort of an awakening during a church event.

00:39:16 José

And and and that's the one that.

00:39:19 José

Really helped me.

00:39:21 José

Lower my guards and becoming more comfortable with who I was, and I became more.

00:39:28 José

Extroverted, I would say, because then I.

00:39:30 José

Was in so many projects back in college because of that.

00:39:35 Merrily

Nice. So it's not.

00:39:40 Merrily

Let's say I'm trying to formulate my question here.

00:39:44 Merrily

So it sounded like I think you were saying there that some of the people maybe at your church, we're maybe talking about.

00:39:53 Merrily

Like negatively about psychic experiences. And then you were talking about how Jesus was basically mystical. Yeah.

00:40:01 José

So, so, so, so. So that's the thing. So it it temporally it did not happen during.

00:40:08 José

Any of the church events that I went?

00:40:11 José

Or or or.

00:40:12 José

It it just happens during casual conversations with people just or just on the yeah, just on the normal basis it's it's like I could be talking to friends or just to someone new that I that I've just met and I just happened to say hey like.

00:40:28 José

FYI, I'm a.

00:40:29 José

Very spiritual person. I'm not religious because people either ask for your job or people ask if you go to church or people ask if, where are you from? That kind of questions you know? So I always blurt out with the oh, I'm on a spiritual.

00:40:46 José

And they become very curious, but they some people don't like what they hear and they become very hesitant to accept what I'm saying. And I just, I just look at them and and and whenever they are people that go to church I.

00:40:59 José

Just I just.

00:41:00 José

Love, you know, you know and know us. Making fun.

00:41:04 José

But but like.

00:41:05 José

Of just for them to realize how ironic.

00:41:08 José

Because for them, God is limiting somehow. God for me, God is who actually.

00:41:18 José

Walk me on on like you know on on understanding the.

00:41:23 José

We are all connected and that goal is more than just church or Jesus or just a particular religious practice. So it was a pretty interesting situation, yeah.

00:41:36 Merrily

OK. Yeah, that's interesting. So it's more like in just all all conversations when that happens and you're like.

00:41:42 Merrily

That's interesting.

00:41:44 Merrily

OK. Yeah. Because literally all the like, you know, all the if you're Catholic, all the Saints, Jesus, Buddha, whoever, they're all having, like weirdo experiences too. And like basically showing their mega psychic powers so.

00:42:02 Merrily

And it is.

00:42:02 Merrily

Really fun.

00:42:02 José

Yeah, right on. Yeah, you nailed it. Yeah, that's that's. But somehow people, you know, somehow, and I and I don't like to play. I I do not like.

00:42:12 José

To blame people, I just.

00:42:13 José

And that there is just not the right time. Probably for them, you know. And and if it ends up not being in this lifetime, well, see you in the next one. There are lessons that that takes a long way to a long time to understand, you know.

00:42:16 Merrily

Yeah, yeah.

00:42:31 Merrily

Yeah, for sure.

00:42:34 Merrily

Let's see, I guess.

00:42:38 Merrily

I kind of have like a double question, but it's sort of there's sort of questions within questions, but.

00:42:45 José

Go for it. Let's.

00:42:45 Merrily

Yeah. See, like.

00:42:46 José

If my.

00:42:46 José

If my neural divergent grabs both questions.

00:42:50 Merrily

OK, I think you kind of already said it, but like what does your current spiritual practice look like and if there's a path like and I know these labels are hard, but if there is a label to put on that path, what do you what would you call it?

00:42:51 José

Able to answer them.

00:43:11 José

You know.

00:43:13 José

It it might sound not so magical, but to me it's magical. But but what I would call or define my spiritual my spiritual path, the current one.

00:43:28 José

I would define.

00:43:28 José

It as the rediscovery of the cell.

00:43:33 José

And the recovery.

00:43:35 José

Of my sense.

00:43:36

Of purpose.

00:43:38 José

That's how.

00:43:38 José

I would put.

00:43:39 José

It, I would say that's the current spiritual path where I consider.

00:43:43 José

That I'm at.

00:43:45 José

And it does feels magical, because as a person that I I do have experience.

00:43:55 José

I've been severely.

00:43:56 José

Stress and I I've been diagnosed with generalized anxiety the the you know.

00:44:04 José

You, you, you, you.

00:44:05 José

Go through life with experience in life to some extent in a way that feels more like someone else is having the control.

00:44:17 José

And it isn't until you understand that you actually fully have the control of your life. That's when you see the light kind of at the end of the tunnel. But as a person that have been depressed for, on and off for for a while.

00:44:33 José

I feel that now is where I could say.

00:44:37 José

I am rediscovering who I truly AM and I am recovering that sense of purpose that I lost while I was severely depressed and anxious and and and and. And I just feel wonderful about that, you know, because it it's, there was a moment where I would have all these.

00:44:58 José

Highs and lows in ways that I wouldn't understand.

00:45:04 José

How to feel more certain?

00:45:07 José

When experiencing uncertainty and now I'm in that place where I could experience uncertainty and I could experience a lot of things that might not be considered positive, but I still have the confidence that I am in full control.

00:45:23 José

Of how I feel.

00:45:25 José

How I am doing and what I decide?

00:45:28 José

To do with my life.

00:45:30 José

And no, I don't fall into.

00:45:33 José

You know, in into our toxic.

00:45:36 José

Positive mindset because I think that would be the other extreme. But but. But I do try to keep my.

00:45:46 José

Inner being in my external environment as positive as possible, and I and and and I would. I don't run away from problems. I do not run away from issues, so again it's it's just it's just.

00:46:05 José

It's a very interesting moment. I I I guess that in my life, because I I look at it and I have so many problems, I have so many issues meaning.

00:46:18 José

Probably at work, family issues like just normal human stuff, but they are not bringing me down as much as they were in the past. So, so and I and I feel that they are getting me closer to my sense of purpose, getting me closer to the discovery.

00:46:38 José

Who I.

00:46:38 José

Am because I've changed so much.

00:46:41 José

And also they are helping me to tap into.

00:46:45 José

Trauma from my childhood that I was not aware and now they are coming to the surface and they are just.

00:46:52 José

This type of information that they are so helpful to understand.

00:46:58 José

Your own potential and who you can become. So I am right there in that path where I thought that I knew who I was.

00:47:06 José

It happened that I didn't know exactly who I was. I still don't know who I am completely or fully, but I do feel more of myself and I can now have more control of.

00:47:20 José

How my past goes and how my journey goes. However, how does that looks 123 years from now? I don't know, and I think that's the that's the that's the beauty of.

00:47:34 José

Being respectful, I would say.

00:47:38 José

Or or being.

00:47:39 José

So interested in your own journey or in your own spiritual path that you are somehow open to.

00:47:47 José

What spirit calls you to or what your inner compass is pulling you to do?

00:47:55 Merrily

Yeah, cool. Yeah.

00:47:55 José

Not sure if I answered both of your questions, but.

00:47:58 Merrily

I think I I believe that you have. Yeah. Yeah. I like the way your path goes because I I kind of like that it it's ever changing. Right is when you get more information you're like oh, I gotta read.

00:48:13 Merrily

Like recalculate or whatever to an extent.

00:48:17 José

Yeah, and and and you know it is I think something that I haven't mentioned is.

00:48:23 José

Being present, you know being present sometimes there is a fear that when you are being fully present and mindful, there is this FOMO. Fear of missing out or you feel that you are somehow being irresponsible because you are not.

00:48:43 José

Thinking about the past or the future, but it is the present moment, the one that allows you.

00:48:51 José

To continue moving forward and the ones that bring change into your life.

00:48:57 José

And it sounds very interesting because when you think about.

00:49:00 José

It it's like.

00:49:01 José

You think about the present as something that's linear.

00:49:05 José

But then how is it that being present every single second?

00:49:11 José

Takes you somewhere where that can be 100 and.

00:49:14 José

80 degrees different to where you were.

00:49:17 José

A month, 12 months, three years ago. So, so, so, so. So there's there's key there there. There's a key to that and I think it's I'm living more present and I'm living more in my body rather than just thinking about the what if or why or all the calls.

00:49:37 José

For for word.

00:49:39 José

I don't know.

00:49:40 José

Just it's just depressing time and moment that the most spiritual one.

00:49:49 Merrily

How would you say that you?

00:49:53 Merrily

Experience the present moment or get into the state of like I'm in the present moment. Like, what do you?

00:49:59 Merrily

Like, how do you get there, I guess or what do you do?

00:50:04 José

Ah, that is a work in progress.

00:50:07 José

As I I mean.

00:50:08 José

It it is part of my current spiritual path, but it is also one of my daily practices and.

00:50:15 José

I-1 of.

00:50:16 José

The things that I try to do is ground myself. I try to ground myself.

00:50:22 José

Feel down fully inside my body that I am not up here in my head overthinking or that I am not.

00:50:31 José

Moving so much or speaking so fast, or moving so little or speaking so little so it is only when it feels.

00:50:40 José

Comfortable and I can hear what's going on around me. I can see what what is happening just right in front of me, and I can smell what's going on. It's only in those moments where I say, oh, I'm fully present, and in order to keep the.

00:51:01 José

That that present state, let's just call it in order to keep that present state because it's very easy to lose that moment.

00:51:12 José

That's where, where.

00:51:13 José

The daily practice of grounding in a meditation comes to place because then it becomes a habit and it becomes something that your subconscious already know about, so you are always, you know, doing it as you are aware of other things and not necessarily thinking I got to be present.

00:51:33 José

I got to be.

00:51:33 José

Present I do indeed have to say that when I'm experiencing situations that are.

00:51:40 José

Either life changing or that shakes my world. In that moment, I would say then that in that moment I do have to remind myself, José, get back to your body. José, you have to be present, José feel there floor like fill the you know like like fill with your toes.

00:52:00 José

And and and feel how.

00:52:02 José

Your heart is pumping blood because you need to be back into the present moment because.

00:52:08 José

It's very easy.

00:52:09 José

Especially with with the all the chaos chaos out there to to, to live outside your body.

00:52:18 José

It can be painful because I think being present means that you have to hold yourself accountable for the present moment. You have to hold yourself accountable for situations that you cannot escape from, and also you have to become responsible for how you feel and all the emotions that are coming.

00:52:38 José

Through when you.

00:52:38 José

Are fully present and I think that that that's. That's how I've only found Grace when I'm able to stay present and work through that discomfort. If it's discomfort, what I'm experiencing in.

00:52:53 José

The present moment.

00:52:56 José

That there's the blessings, you know, right after that it it it it's it's again. It's just very interesting. It's very interesting because the, the, the, the present time it's so.

00:53:13 José

It's it's, it's so it's an.

00:53:15 José

Illusion, you know.

00:53:17 José

Like right now, we've been like, I'm fully present. But right now the, the the time, you know it it's passing right now the season is changing right now the sun is setting here right now. So. So it's kind of like it it it's very interesting. It's just it's just a matter of trying to not.

00:53:38 José

Miss from perspective, who you are, I guess.

00:53:42 Merrily

Yeah, that's.

00:53:42 José

And by the way, this by the way, I have to say just for the listeners, they might be thinking, oh, this guy.

00:53:49 José

He's going down the rabbit hole or he's jumping from one topic to the other. But speaking about all these topics, they actually get me in such a.

00:53:59 José

Trends type of thing that I can just keep going on and on and and and and it'll and sometimes it's new information that's coming through, but I guess those those are the perks of being psychic that sometimes you get downloads when you are not expecting them.

00:54:16 Merrily

Yeah. And a lot of times when you're late.

00:54:18 Merrily

Talking to somebody or engaged in a conversation you're there's like the other thing going on, like giving you you're like, OK.

00:54:26 Merrily

That's fascinating. So the thing that you said it was like making me think about the present moment and the way I've at least experienced when I really know, I'm like in it is when I'm actually really connected to the body or my body. And so you're talking about that too, is like getting grounded and being in the body.

00:54:45 Merrily

And I think that's.

00:54:46 Merrily

UM.

00:54:48 Merrily

That's, that's where it comes. I think that's where it comes from because.

00:54:51 Merrily

I think a.

00:54:51 Merrily

Lot of people are and me included, get inside the head of like oh, the head needs.

00:54:56 Merrily

To experience.

00:54:57 Merrily

The present moment, but maybe it's not the head.

00:55:01 José

No, no, no, no. But but it it it and you know and it's again it's just our human experience the, the the one that somehow.

00:55:11 José

Dictates something different and and and it's interesting because and then you think ohh so you're telling me that being human is opposite.

00:55:21 José

To being psychic.

00:55:23 José

And no, it's not that. It's also that being human, because we have a brain. We've been taught so many things, we've been programmed.

00:55:32 José

With so many beliefs that they are so ingrained in our brains that.

00:55:37 José

They they if you don't live in the present moment, they are the ones controlling you. You know they are the one moving the the body and they are the ones doing things. But but yeah, that's a that yeah. It's coming back into your body. Yeah. I think you said it.

00:55:56 José

Yeah, that that's what I was trying to say.

00:55:59 Merrily

No, you said it. I was just like ohh yeah, I.

00:56:01 Merrily

Was just confirming that, yeah, that's my experience.

00:56:02 José

No, but being no.

00:56:04 José

But but this is this is the, this is what's very interesting and and and now I'm.

00:56:08 José

Going on another.

00:56:11 José

Probably a a a different topic, but still somewhat related. My son sign is a Virgo and we are known for being very analytical and for being very skeptic and for being very structured and organized and so very well connected to nature.

00:56:31 José

But if you think about those concepts when we are, when we are being too analytical, we are being pulled up outside our body because we are in our brain thinking and thinking and thinking. And then you think about our connection to nature, which is the opposite. It's on the opposite end is is that's the grounding. So is that the end?

00:56:50 José

Of what happens in Betweens and how balanced and how?

00:56:54 José

Well calibrated, you have it. Well, we'll allow you to stay present, but it's very easy to lose it. I again, I feel. Yeah, I I do. It does happens to me and.

00:57:04 José

I have to come back into.

00:57:05 José

My body many times during the day, especially when when when it is.

00:57:12 José

When there are days that there is so.

00:57:14 José

Much more movement going on.

00:57:18 Merrily

Yeah, that's a good. You know, that's something I need to rethink about too. Like grounding throughout the day, because I definitely don't do that. So good reminder, you kind of already mentioned sort of like spiritual books that you or maybe even authors that you've read. Is there any?

00:57:37 Merrily

Current ones that you're interested in, or maybe not even spiritual. I know you're reading one about Leonardo da Vinci. I believe that you're really hyped it out.

00:57:45 José

Yeah, I am. I am. I I I think I did finish that book on the plane yesterday.

00:57:54 José

But yeah, that one is called. How to think like Leonardo da Vinci is by Michael J. Gulp. It is a quiet.

00:58:05 José

I would say it's relatively all I know that people think that the new is the actual.

00:58:13 José

Information you know, it's like, oh, no, it's what's new, what's relevant. But I would say this person actually decided to study the life of Leonardo Davinci and how he was able to be a genius and to be a person that will use whole brain and only hit the left.

00:58:32 José

Hemisphere or the right hemisphere. So because he was an artist, but he was also a very well.

00:58:42 José

Scientists, you know, and those are two things that people tend to separate in this world. And he was able to do all.

00:58:49 José

Of them I mean.

00:58:50 José

He excel at all of them and and that.

00:58:52 José

Book, even gift takes you through a journey that is somewhat intuitive. The word intuitive also comes up in the book several times, even though the book is not about intuition and it has helpful exercises that could help you in developing the clarity.

00:59:12 José

And grounding, which is very interesting, again because this book has nothing to do with being into this, but by following the practices in the book you you could get there and I've.

00:59:25 José

Some of the exercises I've used them at work meetings just to open the meetings.

00:59:33 José

And people have had a.

00:59:34 José

Lot of fun with them.

00:59:36 José

Yeah, it's very so. It's still very practical, but somewhat it takes you through.

00:59:42 José

Places that your brain probably have never gone.

00:59:48 José

So that's one. Thank you for bringing that one up because I did not have that one written down here but but but three books that I do keep very close to me. One is the mind control method by José Silva.

01:00:03 José

I surprisingly I was reading that book when I was.

01:00:08 José

Probably in 7th or 8th grade. No one told me about it. Somehow I found it in the Internet. I downloaded the PDF.

01:00:18 José

I grew up at the same time that computers were being a thing and were new, so I was trying. I was keeping up with technology back then and I read the whole book and I did practice all of the exercises in.

01:00:32 José

The book and José Silva is very well known because there's this school today called Mine Valley. So Mine Valley actually bought the latest edition of his teachings and now they are proprietary of the actual.

01:00:52 José

Silver control metal branding. But hero comes from José Silva. He was.

01:00:59 José

I believe he used he, he, he, he.

01:01:02 José

He was from Texas.

01:01:04 José

I think and he taught his children how to be psychics and he taught his children how to manifest. He taught his children how to do remote viewing. And I was doing all of those exercises and studying them back when I was in school and.

01:01:23 José

Back then, I don't know to some people that might have seen as a waste of time, but to me, I.

01:01:29 José

Was just.

01:01:30 José

Calmly in my.

01:01:31 José

Room minding my own business, reading and practicing magic, I guess.

01:01:38 José

Second, book the Wheels of life by Anuria Judith. The wheels of life is about the chakras.

01:01:46 José

If you want to learn about the chakras, does that will be your go to book because.

01:01:52 José

She studied.

01:01:54 José

From the foundation coming from India tradition, Indian tradition.

01:01:59 José

And then the western views and she somehow finds that middle ground where the information is understandable for the Western world.

01:02:10 José

UM, and it has really good exercises, very good insights. It did it those tissues so much about the chakras, the centers of energies of the body and all of what they mean it it it.

01:02:29 José

That one I have not finished reading.

01:02:31 José

It because of.

01:02:32 José

How much information there is? There's so much information in there and then the 4th book.

01:02:40 José

Is psychic, which.

01:02:42 José

I think this one is modern, pretty modern I was I would say by mud, orange and this one.

01:02:50 José

Can be your go to if you don't know that you're a psychic and you would like to explore what being a psychic is.

01:02:58 José

Even though the the book has the word which in it I would say don't listener don't get scared because I don't think there's anything witchy about this book other than just you trying to become more intuitive. But that's a great, great book. It takes you through maths experiences by being a psychic I believe in.

01:03:24 José

Good. I think he live where?

01:03:28 José

In a city that's very well known for the witch.

01:03:30 Merrily

Oh, Salem. Yeah. He lives in Salem.

01:03:32 José

Yeah, he live. Yeah. He lives in Salem. But. But he speaks about his experiences, his practice. But then he also takes you from through all the clerks. It's a pretty cool book, you know.

01:03:46 Merrily

Question on the wheels of life. Is the author going over the The seven major chakras or does she or I think she but her, do they go through the other chakras as well?

01:03:59 José

So she covered, so I would say she covers even.

01:04:03 José

Different types of belief, meaning he covers the seven chakras. She also speaks about the secondary chakras, which includes the hands, the feet. But she also explains how they all are connected and how the energy travels from.

01:04:23 José

The Crown chakra to the root chakra.

01:04:27 José

And in what?

01:04:28 José

Shape and form and what directions and she even places two different beliefs side to side where one belief places the sacral chakra cry at the base of our spine and then the other belief system places the cycle chakra just in the way that you probably know which is right under our.

01:04:51 José

But on in the pelvis area. So she compares several different.

01:04:58 José

Ways of seeing and understanding them, but ultimately I think she navigates more towards the seven ones and because those are the ones that have the major impacts and that relates to what we eat to what we listen to and to how we go about everything and in our life.

01:05:21 Merrily

Definitely going to get that book for sure, and probably the silver book.

01:05:24 José

Yeah, I.

01:05:24 José

Have it on paper. Copy well.

01:05:26 José

I have it on.

01:05:27 José

I have it on paper.

01:05:28 José

Copy. If I ever finish it, I got. I can lend you the.

01:05:34 José

Book you can borrow it from me.

01:05:36 José

OK.

01:05:36 Merrily

OK, I'll keep that in mind. Thank you.

01:05:38 José

Yeah. Send me a note.

01:05:41 Merrily

So we're kind of getting toward the end here, but.

01:05:45 Merrily

I guess something you know I frame it around spiritual journey. But like, are there any sort of pitfalls or?

01:05:53 Merrily

What do you call it? Pitfalls or?

01:05:56 Merrily

Maybe people to be aware of in your spiritual path, just because I think that you know, it's something to talk about.

01:06:05 Merrily

In in this day and age, yeah.

01:06:07 José

Yeah, I know.

01:06:09 José

Isn't it? Everything's all pink and beautiful in there.

01:06:14 Merrily

Yeah, yeah. There's no bad things. Yeah.

01:06:18 José

No, I would say there, there, there are. There are some things that I would like to advise the listeners about and and and very simple if you do not know it, if you.

01:06:31 José

Feel that you do not want to do it.

01:06:36 José

I would say don't do it. Don't even think about it.

01:06:41 José

And just even try to to not know it and and and and I will explain what that means in just a second. But you know there is a level of uncertainty that we have to be OK with and to say yes, when we are on the spiritual path, however, that doesn't means that.

01:07:01 José

That doesn't mean or that give you the right to play with fire. And what I mean with that is just beware of what of what the wars you decide.

01:07:10 José

To open the spiritual world is.

01:07:16 José

Right here. It's not too far. It's right.

01:07:19 José

Here it only requires.

01:07:21 José

Doing some things or understanding some things to tap into it and you might you could be opening the door to to things that might not bring beautiful things to your life. I could speak about it from experience. I'm trying.

01:07:37 José

To learn more about.

01:07:40 José

More about more about spirits, I would say trying to learn more about spirits, working with guides and all this stuff that if you get to the wrong book or the wrong information, you might be tapping into beings that are not so high vibrational. So I would say again, if you do not know, just.

01:07:59 José

Don't do it. Don't say it and don't even think about it. But it's a fun journey because.

01:08:07 José

I have a lot of fun with my angels and with my guides but but and and that's where I navigate more towards but I but I also do know a thing or two about spirits in in, in a safe way. But I would say just just be aware of that.

01:08:27 Merrily

That is a good a good thing to keep in mind is to again listen to that intuition. That's time of year, yeah.

01:08:37 Merrily

Thank you for that. Is there a, I say mantra or motto or some words that you might say to yourself to kind of keep you?

01:08:47 Merrily

In a in A-frame, in a higher vibration or in a higher place that you.

01:08:53 Merrily

Look to or or maybe even say to yourself.

01:08:58 José

I so there is not a particular one. However, I could tell you that on a daily basis, I do read some affirmations and they all start with the.

01:09:09 José

Words I feel.

01:09:11 José

No, I am. But with the words I feel and that's my daily reminder of.

01:09:16 José

I feel good.

01:09:17 José

I feel positive, I feel.

01:09:20 José

Flexible, strong, beautiful, confident on a daily basis.

01:09:25 José

I I I.

01:09:26 José

Do go over those several times.

01:09:28 José

Because we always need those reminders and and they are a grounding. They are a grounding part of my day too. And then the other one is just.

01:09:39 José

Be myself, I am constantly reminding myself, José, it is OK to take space. It is OK to be yourself. It is OK to be authentic regardless, you know?

01:09:52 José

And and so. So I would say that those are things that I do.

01:09:56 José

To remind myself every single day about so that I could say that might be my mantra or moral, I'll figure it out how to make out a sentence or two out of all that.

01:10:08 Merrily

I like that. It's like you start with I feel and then go from there.

01:10:11 Merrily

Kind of. That's cool.

01:10:13 José

Yeah, that's that's how I start my day. I'm, I I have them in my phone. I have them written down next to my bed and no kidding. As soon as I.

01:10:21 José

Wake up I.

01:10:23 José

Pick the piece of paper and I start reading it. Even though I know them out of.

01:10:28 José

I have them at the top of my head, but there's something about.

01:10:32 José

Having them written down.

01:10:34 José

Having them on paper, you know, it's like giving them more. You are bringing them more into the real world, to the physical reality. Yeah. Yeah.

01:10:45 Merrily

Very cool. So I guess what is your current area of focus that you either in a spiritually LED way or that you want your life to go and be a service to people?

01:11:01 José

List full harmony.

01:11:04 José

And sorry, bliss, harmony and authenticity. I think those 3 words would.

01:11:13 José

Encompass where what I consider my areas of focus. Currently one is that I'm trying to embody.

01:11:22 José

All that myself for myself in my own life. But it is because I have been able to.

01:11:30 José

Probably tap into what? What? I want my life to be or what my what? I want my life purpose to be. And is that I would like to give people their lives back.

01:11:42 José

And all that. I mean with that is that people are operating on, they are all on their you know on autopilot, people are feeling feelings that they shouldn't be feeling. People are having life that they that are not even their life. And I just feel deeply for everyone.

01:12:03 José

And and and I feel that everyone needs their life back because.

01:12:09 José

I when I when I've done my my my spiritual readings and healings for others, for strangers I have discovered that most people are stuck and they are stuck in places that are of low vibration. They are stuck in places that are.

01:12:28 José

Gone that are very far in the past.

01:12:31 José

And they don't even realize it. And and. And I would love for everyone to experience the levels, the level of bliss, harmony and and and authenticity that I am experiencing. And I want that for everyone. And I feel that I I somehow could.

01:12:51 José

You know could could be a change agent for people with my own skills, abilities, and my own life experiences. I believe that that I could help others in.

01:13:04 José

But I do. I do want to still focus on readings and healings, but I think my purpose goes beyond that. I think I want to keep it more practical and I want to give people the tools to be able to live their life free.

01:13:22 Merrily

Wow, that sounds amazing and very helpful for people. So thank you for sharing.

01:13:28 Merrily

UM, how do people reach you? What is your contact information? If they'd like to learn more about what you do or learn more about you as a person?

01:13:38 José

Interesting. I am a very interesting person. I have to say that just for anyone that, that, that will visit my Instagram beware. So you can find me on Instagram. My Instagram is public.

01:13:56 José

And it is improv3_yourself, but I will spell it because it is spelled differently. My Instagram handle is improv3_yourself

01:14:11 José

01:14:21 José

That's my own Instagram. That's the only Instagram I have at the moment. There's there's another Instagram on the works but but, but for sure this is the one where you can reach reach out for me and then I do have also, I'm developing a website still under development.

01:14:42 José

But it is called the High Portal. The website is the thehighportal.square.site. That one only has my readings and heading services.

01:14:56 José

Nothing else, still under development and also my e-mail same as the website thehighportal@gmail.com. I would still prefer for people.

01:15:10 José

To reach out on my Instagram, I'm there all the time. Very easy. Most people have an Instagram. Just say hi.

01:15:20 José

And you'll see.

01:15:20 José

Me. If you don't see my face, it's not me.

01:15:24 Merrily

Well, well, thank you for sharing that and thank you for being on the show and sharing all of your wonderful experiences and advice for people.

01:15:34 José

Thank you. Thank you for creating this safe space.

01:15:43 Merrily

That was an interview with José Alicea where we discussed his spiritual journey in his amazing experiences with the non physical world. You could reach José on his Instagram at improve yourself.

01:15:54 Merrily

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01:16:18 Merrily

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