Our free catalog of online courses: ⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/catalog⁠For more personalized support, guidance, and community join us inside The 2BSilent Membership: ⁠⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/⁠⁠Some of the practices mentioned in our podcasts and videos are available as guided meditations: ⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/guided-meditations⁠- - -Maybe it's not about you the receiver. Maybe it's about you the giver.This episode will feel familiar to anyone who has ever wanted a complete map before taking the first step. Dustin wrestles openly with the desire to see the whole path laid out — to understand exactly what he's aiming at before fully committing. Brian's response is direct and hard-won: you don't need a perfect map. You need just enough confidence to bet on yourself and move.The group explores what it really means to trust yourself in the absence of certainty — touching on the difference between being flexible and being fluid, why no plan survives first contact, and what "adapt, improvise, overcome" looks like as a spiritual principle, not just a military one.The conversation then opens into bigger questions: the role of physical embodiment as a bridge between the profound and the practical, why even the most dissolved and enlightened being still needs a human form to actually be of service, and what happens when messianic figures try to operate on a mass scale — and why it tends to muck things up.Brian shares a quietly powerful framework: we're not here to build utopia. We're here to carve out small bubbles of better in the middle of chaos — and leave something a little cleaner in our wake. That's it. That's enough.The episode closes with one of the most practical pieces of guidance in the whole conversation: if you want a target to aim at, stop projecting outward and start invoking inward. You are the bow, the arrow, the archer, and the target. You can't miss.2BSilent is a podcast exploring consciousness, inner traditions, and the practical work of waking up.Chapter Titles with Timestamps0:00 – It's Not About You the Receiver. Maybe It's About You the Giver.0:42 – The Desire to See the Whole Path Before Taking the First Step2:06 – Fear of Suffering and the Need to Aim Correctly7:56 – "You're a Control Freak" — Join the Club9:21 – Bet on Yourself: The Only Confidence You Actually Need10:26 – You Have What You Need When You Need It12:01 – Dissolution Still Needs a Body to Be of Service13:08 – Why Physical Form Is the Bridge That Makes Transmission Possible15:30 – People Are Drawn to Your Personal Experience, Not Your Philosophy16:03 – Trust Yourself: You've Got a Good Heart and a Good Head16:30 – We Want Two Things: The New and the Certain18:02 – No Plan Survives First Contact: Be Fluid, Not Flexible19:46 – Adapt, Improvise, Overcome20:01 – Carving Bubbles of Heaven Out of the Hellscape22:27 – Not Here to Build Utopia — Just Leave Something Better in Your Wake23:25 – Messianic Figures and Why Mass-Scale Missions Tend to Backfire24:47 – Fundamentalism on Both Sides: Does Nobody See the Irony?25:07 – Humans Love Struggle — Peace Is the Bonus Cookie26:17 – Invoking Inward: The Antenna Is Inside You28:22 – Zen Archery: You Are the Bow, the Arrow, and the Target29:50 – Forget the Sigils — Just Start Invoking32:22 – Back to the Hellscape — See You at the Diner at the Edge of the Universe

Our free catalog of online courses: ⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/catalog⁠For more personalized support, guidance, and community join us inside The 2BSilent Membership: ⁠⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/⁠⁠Some of the practices mentioned in our podcasts and videos are available as guided meditations: ⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/guided-meditations⁠- - - What does it really mean to cultivate yourself? In this episode, Brian opens with a concept drawn from Chinese and Taoist traditions — the idea that all energy work, whether healing Qigong, building the light body, or inner practice of any kind, is essentially gardening. You are the landscape. You are what's being designed, pruned, and grown.From there the conversation expands into the surprising places that idea leads: the hidden initiatic truth inside anime and manga, why the tools and materials you use matter far less than the focused mind behind them, and what it actually looked like to train in a Daoist temple with a Sharpie on a piece of scrap paper.The group also gets into one of the most overlooked aspects of any practice — the open focus, the silence after the work — and why skipping it is like cooking a meal and throwing it in the trash before you eat. Brian draws a striking parallel: if what we all truly want is conversation with the one, then we have to stop talking long enough to let it respond.The episode takes a more personal turn as Brian reflects on a ritual experience from 14 to 15 years ago, a message he received that he only now, a full zodiacal cycle later, truly understands from the inside. What follows is a candid discussion about owning who you are, the energy of the current astrological cycle (the Fire Horse year and Neptune in Aries), and the very real danger of burning out when the flow feels effortless.They close with Sadhguru's insight that water — and everything — responds to how you approach it, and what it might look like to treat every element, every relationship, every moment as alive and in conversation with you.2BSilent is a podcast exploring consciousness, inner traditions, and the practical work of waking up.0:00 – Cultivation: You Are the Garden2:14 – Taoist Landscape Painting and Seeing Your Place in the World3:06 – Anime, Manga, and the Hidden Truth Inside the Fable5:02 – The Three Stages: Literal, Moral, and Initiatic5:38 – It Takes the Barest Minimum: Tools Don't Make the Practice6:45 – Sharpies, Sweatpants, and Training with Nothing13:00 – You Americanized It: Letting Go of Spiritual Materialism18:30 – The Open Focus: Sitting in What You've Just Produced22:10 – Convergent and Divergent: The Infinity Symbol of Practice26:45 – What We All Really Want: Conversation with the One30:12 – Silence Is the Thing That Lets It Happen34:20 – A Ritual 15 Years Ago: A Message That Finally Makes Sense38:00 – Owning Who You Are: Neptune in Aries and the Fire Horse Year41:30 – Don't Burn Out: Pacing Yourself When the Flow Feels Easy44:08 – Water Responds to You — And So Does Everything Else46:08 – Everything Is Relationship: Starting with the Elements47:05 – Paradigm Shifts Change Everything, All at Once47:24 – Three Amigos, Fire Horses, and Closing Laughs

Discover Liesbet Leroy's Music: https://linktr.ee/liesbetleroyToday we are joined by the incredibly talented musician Liesbet Leroy. Liesbet has been playing the Native American style flute since 2014 and recording her music since 2019. The spirit of her music touches something deep within and facilitates a healing and supportive sacred space. - - - Our free catalog of online courses: ⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/catalog⁠For more personalized support, guidance, and community join us inside The 2BSilent Membership: ⁠⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/⁠⁠Some of the practices mentioned in our podcasts and videos are available as guided meditations: ⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/guided-meditations⁠

View our full catalog of free online courses: https://www.2bsilent.com/catalogFor more personalized support and guidance implementing these techniques into your energetic/spiritual practice you can join us inside The 2BSilent Membership. - Live Q&A calls every other week- Live call recordings and detailed notes- Full access to all of our courses and guided meditations- Community supportLearn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/Many of the practices mentioned in our podcasts and videos are available as guided meditations. Learn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/guided-meditations

View our full catalog of free online courses: https://www.2bsilent.com/catalogFor more personalized support and guidance implementing these techniques into your energetic/spiritual practice you can join us inside The 2BSilent Membership. - Live Q&A calls every other week- Live call recordings and detailed notes- Full access to all of our courses and guided meditations- Community supportLearn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/Many of the practices mentioned in our podcasts and videos are available as guided meditations. Learn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/guided-meditations

View our full catalog of free online courses: https://www.2bsilent.com/catalogFor more personalized support and guidance implementing these techniques into your energetic/spiritual practice you can join us inside The 2BSilent Membership. - Live Q&A calls every other week- Live call recordings and detailed notes- Full access to all of our courses and guided meditations- Community supportLearn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/Many of the practices mentioned in our podcasts and videos are available as guided meditations. Learn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/guided-meditations

View our full catalog of free online courses: https://www.2bsilent.com/catalogFor more personalized support and guidance implementing these techniques into your energetic/spiritual practice you can join us inside The 2BSilent Membership. - Live Q&A calls every other week- Live call recordings and detailed notes- Full access to all of our courses and guided meditations- Community supportLearn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/Many of the practices mentioned in our podcasts and videos are available as guided meditations. Learn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/guided-meditations

View our full catalog of free online courses: https://www.2bsilent.com/catalogFor more personalized support and guidance implementing these techniques into your energetic/spiritual practice you can join us inside The 2BSilent Membership. - Live Q&A calls every other week- Live call recordings and detailed notes- Full access to all of our courses and guided meditations- Community supportLearn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/Many of the practices mentioned in our podcasts and videos are available as guided meditations. Learn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/guided-meditations

View our full catalog of free online courses: https://www.2bsilent.com/catalogFor more personalized support and guidance implementing these techniques into your energetic/spiritual practice you can join us inside The 2BSilent Membership. - Live Q&A calls every other week- Live call recordings and detailed notes- Full access to all of our courses and guided meditations- Community supportLearn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/Many of the practices mentioned in our podcasts and videos are available as guided meditations. Learn more: https://www.2bsilent.com/guided-meditations

Our free catalog of online courses: https://www.2bsilent.com/catalog⁠For more personalized support, guidance, and community join us inside The 2BSilent Membership: ⁠⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/⁠⁠Some of the practices mentioned in our podcasts and videos are available as guided meditations: ⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/guided-meditations⁠EP 29 | Devotion as a Pathway to Power with Mark StavishThis week we welcome Mark Stavish on The 2BSilent Podcast to discuss power, self-trust, and devotional practice. I reached out to Mark last year to share with him an article I wrote on power and manifestation. His reply fascinated me. I thought the problems people faced with manifestation practice had to do with clarity of outcome, and consistency of results. He showed me that there is more to the problem than meets the eye. We need to address how we define power, our capacity for trust in self, and look at how we can use devotional practice to establish relationships with the invisible that extend beyond our limited ideas of self.I hope you enjoy today’s conversation as much as I did. I thought it was so important and so valuable, especially the part where he offers a simple but powerful devotional practice that can be incorporated into your daily life.*See 1 hour, 7 mins into the conversation where we discuss "Letting The Warrior Within Takeover."Resources Mentioned in Today's EpisodeThe Inner Way - The Power of Prayer and Belief in Spiritual Practice by Mark StavishThe One Year Manual: 12 Steps to Spiritual Enlightenment by Israel RegardieThe Magical World of Dr. Joseph Lisiewski  by Mark StavishThe Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. HansenThe Way of Hermes: The Way of Hermes: New Translations of The Corpus HermeticumThe Forgiveness Meditation OverviewThe Forgiveness Meditation Step by StepThe Burning MeditationTimestamps and Highlights2:00 - Wealthy Man’s Shamanism 13:00 - Discerning True Intuition18:00 - Metaphysical Perspective Value21:00 - Power in Relationships33:00 - Habits Drive Transformation34:00 - Occult Power Pitfalls38:00 - Self-Trust for Influence41:00 - Avoiding Power Leaks43:00 - Clear Goal Setting44:00 - Karma and Free Action45:30 - Spiritual Practice Challenges50:00 - Resistance to Change55:00 - Indigenous Offering Wisdom58:30 - Defining Needs Clearly1:01:00 - Starting Devotional Work1:07:00 - Daily Devotional Practice1:10:00 - Forgiveness Meditation1:14:00 - Power of Small Steps1:17:30 - Tree of Life Virtues1:27:00 - Core Spiritual Path1:32:30 - Evolving Through Power1:36:00 - Risks Without Tradition1:41:00 - Manageable Desires1:43:00 - Aligning with Nature1:47:00 - Focus and Openness1:55:00 - Redefining Power2:08:00 - Choosing a Deity2:17:00 - Overcoming Path Fears2:18:00 - Brian’s Cathedral Story2:21:00 - Burning Meditation Benefits