Radio Show Archive – October 2023

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October 2, 2023, opened with Jeanie welcoming listeners and sharing updates about new resources on the WhyAgain.org website. She explained that the Spanish page now includes forgiveness worksheets, meditations by Nene, and translated materials such as Six Aramaic Keys for Living and the Aramaic Forgiveness Process. She also highlighted that recordings from the book club, where a live worksheet was done, were available online. Jeanie then spoke about their garden harvest, including basil, squash, and tomatoes, and shared personal updates about time spent with their granddaughter Arya, who recently had fun selling lemonade at a festival.

Michael Ryce joined the show and shared news about Dan, who had increased his stack of completed worksheets to 800, demonstrating the transformational power of persistent practice. Ryce emphasized that putting “pen to paper” in the forgiveness process creates change. He reflected on his own early experiences with A Course in Miracles, noting how reading certain passages repeatedly would shift him into altered states, moving massive amounts of energy. He connected this to Montessori education, explaining how Maria Montessori recognized “sensitive periods” where children can learn rapidly if supported in the right environment. He encouraged listeners to honor their own sensitive periods by revisiting shows, worksheets, or readings that resonate strongly, as these moments allow rapid transformation that otherwise could take years.

Jeanie updated listeners on the MindShifters app, explaining that Google requires updates to meet newer Android platforms, which will involve costs for redevelopment. She and Michael reminded listeners that the app and the radio show are offered free of charge but encouraged donations to help cover the expenses of keeping resources available. Michael expressed gratitude for BlogTalk Radio’s platform, which has hosted over 4,500 archived hours of shows.

A caller, Susan, joined to ask about the possibility of charging for the app and then raised a question about Nikola Tesla’s teachings around the numbers 3, 6, and 9. She explained that Tesla suggested rituals using these numbers to set intentions, and she shared affirmations she had written for her grandsons. Ryce affirmed Tesla’s genius but cautioned against focusing on problems in affirmations. He guided her to reframe language in positive, constructive terms, emphasizing regulatory speech—that the words we use directly shape energy and outcomes. He suggested replacing “freedom from OCD” or “freedom from anxiety” with affirmations of health, competence, confidence, and serenity. He also explained the Aramaic root of “peace” as “serenity,” noting that serenity is the more powerful state.

The discussion then turned to hydration and health. Michael reminded listeners that true hydration comes only from pure water, not coffee, tea, or other beverages, and shared his own practice of drinking 50 ounces of water first thing each day. Jeanie reflected on her own healing crisis, possibly triggered by closure in her father’s passing and family matters, and Michael encouraged her and others to keep flushing energy with clean water.

Terry later joined to reflect on Michael’s teaching that the mind is an evidentiary device, offering only what is already in its storehouse of data. Ryce explained that the conscious mind processes only nine bits of information out of 10,000 units of electrical activity in the brain, meaning perception is always partial and filtered through belief systems. He described how being “right” provides a dopamine hit that becomes addictive, but forgiveness dissolves this addiction and allows the presence of love to replace false constructs. They discussed how confusion is a natural and even necessary step in healing, as truth and lies mix in the mind before clarity emerges. Ryce emphasized that confusion should be embraced as part of the healing process, not resisted.

The show closed with laughter and community connection, as Terry recalled the humorous “Rakhma” moment from a Laws of Living intensive and both he and Ryce reflected on the value of such signposts in healing. Michael encouraged listeners to keep engaging with the work, acknowledging that persistent practice of forgiveness worksheets and community support open the way for deeper transformation.

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Continued with michael, he asked what is the fear? She said that she would be unworthy, unacceptable.  MindShifter “My Power Person, _____, always embraced me fully as one of the sweetest, most wisdom filled people in her life.” Thought of ‘get out of here.’

October 3, 2023, focused on the difference between boundaries and manipulation in relationships, as well as the deeper fears and thought disorders that prevent people from setting healthy boundaries. Jeanie opened the program by welcoming listeners and bringing Doug and Susan into the conversation, both of whom shared personal struggles around fear, self-worth, and the difficulty of letting go of expectations in close relationships. Susan reflected on how her fear of being seen as worthless tied directly to her earliest power person messages, which continue to influence her behavior despite all of her healing work. Michael Ryce immediately offered her a mind shifter, encouraging her to face these thought patterns through journaling and breathwork, noting that once unconscious fears are released, the ability to set boundaries becomes natural.

Doug then shared his own core fear of being alone, which Ryce explained was not the state of aloneness itself but the mental construct of loneliness, rooted in generational trauma and thought disorders. Michael pointed out how these patterns often stem from parental or ancestral fears and invited Doug to do a worksheet on behalf of his mother, who also struggled with being alone. Both Susan and Doug explored how feelings of incompetence and rejection tied back to family patterns and power person messages of being “broken.” Ryce emphasized that these are not truths about who we are but distortions stored in carbon-based memory, which forgiveness tools can dissolve.

The discussion broadened to the larger dynamics of being versus non-being. Ryce explained that when people operate from their being selves, they experience enthusiasm, purpose, and presence as love. In contrast, the non-being self—rooted in power person messages and generational trauma—generates self-consciousness, manipulation, and false realities. He used examples from Susan’s life as a teacher to show how her authentic being surfaced when she was “on purpose,” connected to her students with love, not disappearing as she thought, but actually showing up more fully. Ryce underscored that true vitality often triggers healing crises, shaking loose everything unlike love, and that many avoid this by numbing through distractions or addictions.

The program also explored the meaning of “evil” in Aramaic, not as a force outside ourselves but as simply being “off the mark,” like missing the target in archery. Ryce explained that generational thought disorders and the gravitational pull of hostility and fear are what perpetuate suffering. Forgiveness, however, dismantles these false constructs and opens the way to conscious co-creation aligned with the presence of love. He encouraged listeners to step back from identifying with their thoughts and feelings, to become the thinker apart from the thought, and to consistently apply forgiveness until generational causes dissolve. The show closed with Ryce reminding everyone that the goal of this work is to bring even the most difficult unconscious material forward into awareness, so it can be released in love.

MindShifter: “One of my favorite things in the world is to be isolated and alone where I know that I will probably not even see another human being for the next half-century, except for the procession of people who will show up to testify about my incompetence.”  First impression is it teaches me about the loneliness fear and pain has to do with feeling that being alone is a testimony to my incompetence. That is a thought disorder not a feeling.  Power Person message that something is wrong with you, you are broken. Coughing indicates an issue, michael said it is your body saying get this out of here. Originating in bronchial area.

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michael is doing another interview today on PBN Podcast with Jill Nicolini and both will be on our YouTube and posted links here https://whyagain.org/free-radio-tv-interviews/

October 4, 2023, opened with Jeanie sharing updates about new interviews with Michael Ryce that had been added to the WhyAgain.org website, including one featuring a PowerPoint walkthrough of the forgiveness worksheet. She also mentioned ongoing work to update the MindShifters app to meet new Android requirements and invited listeners to help with the costs. Jeanie reminded listeners that the app and all their resources remain free, but donations help sustain the ministry and make tax-deductible contributions possible.

When Michael joined the conversation, he addressed the theme of denial and resonance in relationships. He shared an example of a woman in a divorce situation who initially denied past abuse, only to suddenly recall her brother’s sexual abuse. He explained how unresolved trauma patterns remain within us and continue to resonate similar experiences later in life, drawing people with matching frequencies. Using the metaphor of tuning forks and pianos, he illustrated how resonance works: just as one vibrating note causes the same note to vibrate in another instrument, unresolved energies within us attract others who carry the same energetic patterns. These are not coincidences, he said, but part of life’s design to bring hidden dis-ease energies to the surface for healing.

Michael explained that in the Aramaic language, “sin” means “off the mark,” not as punishment but as energy that does not serve the purpose of human physiology. He emphasized that we are not punished for our errors but by them, as disintegrative energies weaken and destroy cells. Forgiveness, in the original Aramaic sense, is the tool for collapsing false perceptions built out of corrupt data—those thought patterns rooted in hostility and fear. He compared this collapse to the way the World Trade Center towers fell into their own footprint, explaining that when we cancel goals that drive painful perceptions, those constructs dissolve and expose the underlying energy for release. Forgiveness, he stressed, is a 100% internal process, not pardoning another person but removing what is toxic within us.

The discussion then turned to teachings from physicist David Bohm, who worked with Einstein and Oppenheimer. Bohm described humanity’s greatest challenge as “sustained incoherence”—repeating destructive thought patterns while refusing responsibility. Michael expanded on this, noting how most people mistake automatic responses for true thinking. Real thinking, he said, is the ability to hold love conscious and active in the mind so that hostility and fear dissolve in its presence. In contrast, sustained incoherence perpetuates blame and survival-based illusions. He tied this into the distinction between “actuality” and “reality,” explaining that actuality is the vast fullness of what is happening, while reality is the tiny, distorted slice created by the mind’s reducing valve. Hostility and fear are simply signals that the mind is operating on corrupt data, producing “gobbledygook” rather than truth.

Michael encouraged listeners to embrace confusion as part of the healing process, since truth and falsehood often mix before clarity emerges. He emphasized that applying forgiveness tools, breathwork, and the Heartland Aramaic Forgiveness app provides access to generational patterns and dissolves them in love. He reminded listeners that denial keeps people locked in blame, but forgiveness opens the door to experiencing actuality rather than recycled realities. The show closed with reflections on using films, conversations, and life experiences as opportunities to notice resonances, breathe, and forgive, thereby turning even moments of pain or indignation into healing.

Obfuscation – to confuse the issue

YShua said “Get behind me Peter (satan). For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”

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October 5, 2023, opened with Jeanie sharing inspirational quotes she receives daily and reflecting on the importance of gratitude, breath, and beginning each morning with conscious presence. She described a powerful breakthrough session with a man who had spent much of his life trying to fix his mother and repeated that pattern in relationships with women. By doing a worksheet as if he were his mother, he realized she had actually seen him as perfect, dissolving decades of shame and unworthiness. Michael Ryce explained how this moment represented the healing of a passive power person message—beliefs we create about ourselves based on interactions with authority figures. He emphasized that such breakthroughs bring monumental healing not only for the individual but for the collective, creating energy that makes it easier for others to access healing as well.

Michael expanded on the principle that every piece of forgiveness work contributes to building “critical mass.” He connected this to Yeshua’s teaching that “a little leaven leavens the whole loaf,” explaining that each person’s healing strengthens the collective energy field, allowing others to follow more easily. He reminded listeners that when we take tools like the worksheet and apply them deeply, we are not just doing personal work but also creating openings for the entire human family. This is why healing is cause for monumental celebration. Jeanie and Michael underscored that there is nothing “otherworldly” about this process—it is about living fully as love here and now.

The show then turned to Susan, who shared her ongoing struggle with dismantling goals and trying to stay neutral in her living situation. She admitted to fears that showing up fully as love would be dangerous, that she would disappear or be used up. Ryce challenged this belief, pointing out that withholding the experience of love from herself was the real disappearance. He explained that functioning from hostility or fear is not authentic presence, but functioning as love—even in difficult circumstances—is the truth of who we are. He encouraged Susan to collapse the generational messages that it is unsafe to show up fully, noting that when vitality rises, others may go into their own healing crises, which is often why children are taught early to tamp down their aliveness.

Michael offered Susan a deeper perspective on mind shifters and journaling. He explained that the purpose of mind shifters is not to affirm something “true” but to bring unconscious material to the surface. By writing freely, filling pages with all the pain, rage, fear, or grief tied to a thought, one can expose what is hidden and then consciously clean it up. He stressed that denial and dissociation create the unconscious mind, and that we are not designed to have unconscious material at all. Forgiveness, targeted journaling, and mind shifters are all tools to dissolve these dissociations so that nothing remains hidden.

The show closed with heartfelt exchanges about walking each other home. Michael reflected on the grief he still feels for humanity not living as love and described the pulses of energy he felt opening in his body during the conversation. He expressed gratitude for Susan’s vulnerability, Jeanie’s facilitation, and the collective work of the community. He reminded everyone that each breakthrough adds to the global healing process and affirmed that it is safe to show up fully as beings of love, even when generational messages say otherwise.

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Caller Roma, forgiveness process, holding the newborn is like pulling the plug in the bathtub.  In other techniques do they have the newborn experience? Dr Tim said in Diederik Wolsak’s work, which is based in the ACIM, has the same explanation of being whole and complete and being Love. Different wording but same information.

Caller Celinda, when Diederik spoke of being Responsible. There is nobody who is not ‘causal’ if they are out of the state of Love. Touched by his conversation with Susan yesterday. Tears come for different reasons. Gratitude, excitement, joy as well as sorrow, guilt, grief, regret and shame. Healing process though.

Aramaic Forgiveness Process – two interviews on PBN Podcasts with Jill Nicolini are now on our YouTube channel: September 26, 2023 is about what we do (forgiveness) https://youtu.be/HP4KprLuSZw and October 5, 2023 https://youtu.be/dbOhCrHIWrM went through a worksheet (with a Power Point presentation) and both are listed on our website at https://whyagain.org/free-radio-tv-interviews/

October 6, 2023, opened with Jeanie welcoming listeners and connecting with callers, including Belinda and Celinda, who shared stories about tears and their role in emotional healing. Celinda described how she had come to see different kinds of tears—those of gratitude, joy, and beauty, as well as grief, guilt, and shame—not as contradictions but as part of a deeper healing process. Michael Ryce affirmed this, explaining that tears act as a form of detoxification and release, helping the body move out ancient energies of grief and shame. He emphasized that both joy and grief can surface through tears, reflecting life’s “this and that” nature rather than an either-or process.

Michael and Jeanie also discussed new interviews added to the WhyAgain.org website, including a concise 30-minute segment where Michael laid out the forgiveness process for a broader audience. These interviews, set to circulate widely on platforms such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts, are designed to introduce the essence of the work to thousands of new listeners. Jeanie explained where these videos could be found on the site, under the “Multimedia” tab in the radio and TV downloads section.

The show then turned toward reflections on healing crises. Michael shared a personal story of a severe healing crisis he once experienced, describing deep grief surfacing in a visceral wail. This moment revealed both his exhaustion with human hostility and his continued commitment to bringing the tools of forgiveness to the world. He noted that community support is vital in these moments, likening it to the biblical woman who needed only to touch the hem of Yeshua’s garment—the vitality of others can help us move through places we cannot reach on our own.

Susan later joined the call, reporting on her work with a mind shifter that initially brought up rage but then shifted into memories of her parents’ genuine support and care. This opened the floodgates of positive memories, transforming her perception of her mother from critical to nurturing. Michael and Jeanie tied this to the principle of Rakhma, the Aramaic term for conscious, active love, which changes perception so that love can be seen where hostility or fear once dominated. Ryce reinforced that this is the heart of healing: canceling goals that drive distorted perceptions and entering the space where truth and love come forward.

Other stories followed, including one about a man who, through StillPoint breathing, had his first positive memory of his father after years of hatred. This shift opened the way for reconciliation and profound healing. The conversation then expanded into the role of animals in healing, with Michael noting how pets often absorb the unresolved energies of their human companions, sometimes even developing the same illnesses. He suggested that animals may serve as energetic support beings, processing what humans resist.

The episode concluded with reflections on projection and conscious creation. Michael explained that events themselves are not creative—they are reflections of past patterns. It is the internal state of mind that generates perception and experience. He closed by sharing Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poem The Set of the Sails, emphasizing that life is determined not by circumstances but by the direction of the soul. He reminded listeners that the essence of this work is to recognize ourselves as conscious creators and to use forgiveness to shift from victimhood into the active presence of love.

“One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through the life:
Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.”

― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Go back to archives and watch the video from September 28th where we walked through a worksheet with Gabriella
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App version 3.0 was updated October 4, 2023 to be compatible with Android OS14

October 9, 2023, opened with Jeanie welcoming listeners and sharing seasonal updates from their garden, along with reminders about the global book club and upcoming StillPoint Breathing event. She encouraged participation in these gatherings and noted that recordings and archives are available through the WhyAgain.org website and YouTube channel. Jeanie also mentioned recent updates to the MindShifters app to meet Google’s Android requirements and invited listeners to support the work through tax-deductible donations.

When Michael Ryce joined the program, he highlighted the powerful shifts witnessed during a recent book club session where a young woman did a worksheet on a power person issue. He explained how perception is a construct of the mind, shaped by goals, and noted the research confirming that the conscious mind only registers nine bits out of 10,000 units of brain activity. Ryce stressed that goals drive perception, and canceling goals is the key to collapsing painful constructs so the unconscious mind can be accessed and healed. He contrasted the Greek misunderstanding of forgiveness as “letting others off the hook” with the Aramaic definition of forgiveness, Shabag, meaning to cancel. This distinction makes forgiveness an internal process of dissolving painful unconscious content in the presence of love.

Michael elaborated that the “heart” in scripture refers to the unconscious mind, which holds hidden dynamics that create the issues of life. He emphasized that forgiveness provides access to these hidden parts, allowing them to be dissolved when brought into conscious presence. By canceling goals that drive perceptions of pain, we collapse the construct, similar to the way the World Trade Center towers collapsed into their own footprint, thereby exposing unconscious data for healing. He explained that accessing unconscious pain in the presence of love automatically dissolves it, without the need for analysis.

The conversation continued with a caller, Patrick, who reflected on the interplay of goals, constructs of the mind, and intentions. Ryce clarified that while intentions provide raw material, it is goals—especially when filtered through Rakhma, the Aramaic gateway for love—that determine perception and behavior. He emphasized that when hostility or fear replace Rakhma, the mind loses access to love and intelligence, creating incoherent and destructive outcomes. By keeping Rakhma active, only intentions keyed to love become available to shape goals and actions.

Patrick shared personal experiences of processing trauma, including military service and PTSD, describing how laughter, flower essences, and healing devices like the Beemer and AVACEN helped him release blocked anger and neuropathic pain. Ryce affirmed his progress and encouraged him to continue applying forgiveness worksheets to collapse survival-based goals tied to respect and authority. He reminded Patrick that canceling even seemingly reasonable goals is essential for accessing and dissolving the trauma behind them, and that these goals can be reestablished later once the unconscious is cleared.

The show closed with gratitude for the healing journey shared, emphasizing that forgiveness tools, community support, and conscious use of love open the way for deep generational and personal transformation.

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Einstein quote: “This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.“Hear My Voice Book Club” today at 3:30 eastern time
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Meeting ID: 898 9401 2819   Passcode: 54321michael shared his experience this morning when he was having a massage and a release in his lungs happened. This structure holds memories. Toxic mind energy in the structure is referred to as aging. https://whyagain.org/time-is-not-toxic/  It is the belief in the effects of time that acts as a poison.
‘the veil of the temple must be torn in two’ your body is the temple and the veil is the block between the conscious and unconscious mind. Access and remove what creates the degeneration.

It takes effort to clean it up but if you don’t make the effort life will kick you in the limitations – that is hard.

“As the light increases, we see ourselves to be worse than we thought. We are amazed at our former blindness as we see issuing forth from the depths of our heart a whole swarm of shameful feelings, like filthy reptiles crawling from a hidden cave. We never could have believed that we had harbored such things, and we stand aghast as we watch them gradually appear. But while our faults diminish, the light by which we see them waxes brighter, and we are filled with horror. Bear in mind, for your comfort, that we only perceive our malady when the cure begins.” Francois Fenelon (1651 – 1715)

Carl Jung said “…that the demise of society wouldn’t be a physical threat, but instead mass delusion — a collective psychosis of sorts.” Carl Jung noted that ‘the wolf inside’ man was far more a threat to human existence than external forces”

October 12, 2023, opened with Jeanie welcoming listeners and encouraging them to engage with the show through questions and comments. She highlighted the long history of the program and reminded people of the resources available on WhyAgain.org. When Michael Ryce joined, he shared a personal story about bodywork that triggered a dramatic release in his lungs. He described how stored toxicity from early trauma, possibly even from pitocin exposure in utero, surfaced like “spray paint inside the lungs.” Though physically overwhelming, he welcomed the release as an opportunity for deep healing, illustrating how unresolved energies are embedded in cellular memory and gradually destroy tissue if left unprocessed.

Ryce emphasized that all healing begins in the mind, referencing the Aramaic translation of John’s gospel: “In the beginning was the mind energy, and the mind energy became flesh.” He explained how thoughts create neuropeptides that circulate and impact cellular chemistry, supporting Bruce Lipton’s research on the mind-body connection. He underscored that what many call aging is actually the accumulation of toxic mind energies that erode tissues, not time itself. Citing research from the DeCourcy Clinic, he reminded listeners that “time has no effect on human tissue” and that beliefs about aging act as the real poison. Forgiveness, he said, is the tool to transmute these stored energies, removing what never belonged and restoring vitality.

He expanded the teaching with metaphors from scripture, describing the body as the “book of books” where all generational history is recorded. Each person carries unresolved energies from ancestors, and forgiveness is the process of removing these distortions so that only the original design—active love—remains. He explained that denial and dissociation create the unconscious mind, historically called “the veil of the temple,” and that forgiveness “rents the veil” by giving conscious access to hidden energies. Drawing on quantum physics, he affirmed Einstein’s teaching that matter is energy slowed down, and explained why Heartland intensives emphasize fresh, raw food: to strengthen the body’s energetic capacity to process buried traumas.

The discussion then turned to cultural and collective patterns. Ryce described how generational toxicity is mislabeled as genetic disorders but is actually epigenetic overlays of destructive frequencies. He contrasted this with the original design of the human system as eternal, noting that what people call “natural aging” is not natural at all but the accumulation of unresolved mind energy. He invited listeners to imagine a world where seven and a half billion people woke up free of hostility, fear, guilt, and grief, living fully as conscious creators. Such a world, he said, would be one in which everyone would want to live eternally.

Terry later joined the conversation, reflecting on his own struggles with codependence, enabling behaviors, and the cycle of victim, rescuer, and persecutor. He admitted feelings of being a “sucker” in situations where he tried to help others but ended up hurt. Ryce guided him to see these patterns as projections of power person dynamics and encouraged him to use both the forgiveness worksheet and the new 14-page power person worksheet to collapse these messages at their root. He reminded Terry that both active and passive power person messages shape unconscious conclusions like “I can’t trust anyone,” and that forgiveness is the path to removing them. The show ended with affirmations of persistence, support, and the reminder that each person’s work contributes to collective healing.

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Caller Gail, asked if the same Julie is from the previous story

ACIM dangers in special relationships. Resistance from some people because they misunderstand the meaning. Enter into wholeness relationships, and release your opportunities to heal. Intense connections are futile ground for transformation, unconscious is resonated more deeply. All relationships are a blessing.

Difference between the picture and the frame. Van Gogh example not feeling he was valued. Your value is not dependent on your money or body or wardrobe. BE ‘in love’ with the being not the body. Don’t chase after the frame and ignore the picture.

Caller Celinda offered gratitude for these readings. People hold beliefs from family of origin that they are not supposed to be joyful. Hidden negative beliefs create my emotions. Fitting in with the culture based on anger, fear, judgement and comparison doesn’t make you healthy. Don Mclean song ‘Vincent’ lyrics…

Now I understand What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they’ll listen now
For they could not love you But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night
You took your life, as lovers often do But I could’ve told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for One as beautiful as you
Starry, starry night Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls With eyes that watch this world and can’t forget
Like the strangers that you’ve met The ragged men in ragged clothes
A silver thorn of bloody rose Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they’re not listening still Perhaps they never will

Dr Tim said integrating this forgiveness work in these other authors has been enlightening

October 13, 2023 opened with Jeanie welcoming listeners and sharing updates about the global book club and recent changes on the WhyAgain.org website and the mobile apps. She also mentioned family moments with Arya, including concerns about children’s books that reinforce negative behavior and the importance of choosing positive, life-affirming messages. When Michael Ryce joined, he emphasized the significance of how language shapes our culture and our inner lives. He explained that in Aramaic, “discipline” means “properly taught” rather than punishment. He warned how cultures often reverse meanings, creating confusion and destructive outcomes. He stressed that words carry energy and frequency, and when people continually speak about what they don’t want, they unconsciously attract it.

Ryce illustrated this with the Reality Management Worksheet, pointing out that step three invites us to identify the constructive result we want rather than dwelling on avoidance. He noted how challenging it can be for many to articulate a positive goal because cultural speech is so focused on negation. This connects to Yeshua’s teaching that the power of life and death lies in our words. By learning to express only what we do want—such as love, respect, and gentleness—our speech aligns with life instead of reinforcing death. He and Jeanie shared examples of guiding Arya with constructive language, showing how children thrive when discipline is about teaching clarity, love, and responsibility rather than criticism.

Callers joined the discussion, one offering books for Arya and another reflecting on the Aramaic sense of “knowing” as experiential rather than intellectual. These conversations reinforced the show’s theme that transformation comes from applying tools—especially forgiveness and conscious speech—rather than merely discussing them. Michael also extended love toward global conflict and suffering, inviting listeners to participate in holding the presence of love for healing. Toward the close, he shared Spinoza’s words about God, which highlight joy, love, freedom, and the importance of experiencing life fully rather than being bound by fear or condemnation. He encouraged listeners to recognize themselves as the active presence of love and to access the forgiveness tools available through the WhyAgain.org website, the mobile app, and the extensive library of archived radio shows.

Movie 2012 “The Other Son” two boys were switched at birth and the baby born to the Israeli family is raised by the Palestinian family and vice-versa. The issues the families face and deal with.

It is not ‘knowing’ about the tools but using them. Gandhi said if you want potatoes you have to use the hoe.

Einstein said “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings”.

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October 16, 2023, began with Jeanie introducing the day’s program and reading a passage from A Course in Miracles, Lesson 153: “In my defenselessness my safety lies.” She shared how this lesson connected deeply to her own life experience, particularly around fear and anger in past relationships, and how shifting into trust in divine love offers a path out of defensiveness. She emphasized that defensiveness creates more fear and conflict, while defenselessness opens the door to peace and inner strength. Michael Ryce added that he always includes the word “power” in the lesson, affirming that “in my defenselessness my power and safety lie.” He explained that fear and defensiveness generate energy fields that actually attract the very experiences one wishes to avoid. Using the story of Job, he reminded listeners that “that which I feared most has come upon me,” illustrating how fear empowers unwanted outcomes. He clarified that this is not about blaming victims but recognizing the participatory nature of life, where generational patterns and unresolved energies resonate into present experience until they are forgiven.

Ryce elaborated on the quantum nature of resonance, noting that unconscious patterns—even those from many generations ago—can radiate energetic waves that attract experiences matching unresolved fear. By canceling goals and choosing forgiveness rather than projecting fear outward, individuals can dissolve those patterns within themselves and prevent them from being reinforced in the outer world. He pointed out that Yeshua’s Aramaic instruction was to “forgive as to your brother,” meaning the focus is on removing the internal resonance that fuels conflict. Ryce stressed that true safety comes not from defenses, but from living as the active presence of love and choosing to dissolve the fear-driven energies within.

During the show, Ryce also shared a personal story about reconnecting with his cousin’s son, who had endured deep trauma in childhood, including witnessing violence at a very young age. The conversation opened new layers of grief and healing for Ryce, as he recognized how much unprocessed energy still resided in his family system. The experience underscored the importance of continuous forgiveness work and of holding space for generational healing. Callers joined the discussion, raising questions about ongoing struggles, including grief over animals, attachment issues, and disappointment in personal healing progress. Ryce and Jeanie, along with caller insights, explored how denial often hides in subtle language patterns—phrases that make outside circumstances appear to be the cause of inner pain. They reminded listeners that shifting to responsibility language, acknowledging “this brought up my grief,” rather than “I am upset about that,” allows the mind to reveal what truly needs healing. The show closed with encouragement to continue using the tools daily, recognizing healing as an unfolding process that works layer by layer rather than in a single instant.

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Email from Babeth, when you say ‘not just to let someone off the hook for what they’ve done or to forgive what they’ve done,’ does it mean I can’t file a claim for justice to stop multiple rapes from the rapist? or can I do both: forgive and ask justice to stop him? many thanks for your answer.” A second email explains it is a multiple happening and is now showing up in her daughters life. What is forgiveness and why is this happening to me again? nothing comes to you that is separate from you.

An experiment with people chosen to be attacked by prisoners.  this first study, the potential victims were videoed on the street. The videos were shown to the inmates and they chose who they would victimize. They chose the same people.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/04/journal-of-interpersonal-violence-study-suggests-attackers-choose-victims-based-on-the-way-they-walk.html 

Other articles of similar situations, how criminals ‘size up’ people to attack.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20131104-how-muggers-size-up-your-walk
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1020744915533
https://www.girlswhofight.co/post/body-language-victim-selection-how-to-lower-risk-by-walking-confidently 

Be aware, not blaming the victim but energetically I am involved in my life. Need to remove that part of me so I draw in different experiences.

The hosts discuss the concept of creatorship, explaining how energy patterns stored within individuals, often inherited through generations, can manifest repeated traumas, such as abuse or other negative experiences. Through vivid analogies and examples, including a reverse prison lineup experiment and personal anecdotes, the hosts illustrate how unresolved trauma continues to resonate and draw similar patterns into one’s life. They also highlight how forgiveness, as taught by Yeshua in Aramaic, involves collapsing perceptions based on hostility and fear to access and remove these underlying energetic blocks.

All the old energetic causes have to be faced and removed (forgiven). That opens the energy window for everyone in the family system to more easily be freed.

Key concepts: Forgiveness verses Pardoning. Respons-ability verses Blame. Accountability from your being (love) human awareness instead of hostility or fear.

Pardoning is not a requirement for healing.

Yinka in chatroom said she was just given a book by Napoleon Hill on the file-folder effect. “Outwitting the devil”

Reading again from ACIM on “In my defenselessness my safety lies” and “Responsibility for Sight” – acknowledges we are in a world of energy and resonates.

Decision is automatic (ex. the color of your car). Choice is from higher being – requires one to listen to that still small voice.

michael gave the example of when he ‘forgave’ the poverty thinking and the whole energy of how the universe supported him changed.

Watch https://www.youtube.com/michaelryce_whyagain ACIM ‘What is the World?’ videos and the 3-hour Why Again workshop https://whyagain.org/free-3-hour-why-is-this-happening-to-me-again/

Matching bags of garbage Fear and Anger pulling against each other like ‘tug-of-war’. Drop your end of the rope and it changes their game whether they want it to or not.  https://whyagain.org/healing-through-relationships/

Can go back and listen to the audio on radio show archives:
HTR Part 1 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mindshiftersradio/2021/12/01/December-1-2021-mindshifters-radio-with-host-dr-michael-and-jeanie-ryce.mp3?localembed=download
HTR Part 2 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mindshiftersradio/2021/12/14/December-14-2021-mindshifters-radio-with-host-dr-michael-and-jeanie-ryce.mp3?localembed=download

Power Point explaining forgiveness https://whyagain.org/powerpoints-explain-2/

The conversation extends into practical tools for forgiveness, such as canceling goals and using guided processes like worksheets and breathing techniques to collapse destructive perceptions. The show addresses complex questions from listeners, including how forgiveness interacts with justice, emphasizing that holding others accountable and practicing forgiveness are not mutually exclusive but complementary. By removing fear-based patterns, individuals can change the energetic dynamics of their lives and relationships, leading to healing and empowerment.

The episode underscores that forgiveness requires continuous practice and responsibility, not blame or guilt. It calls for individuals to address the unconscious patterns driving their life experiences. The hosts encourage listeners to explore resources, including workshops, books, and apps, to deepen their understanding and application of forgiveness as a tool for liberation and transformation.

YouTube https://youtu.be/9etaSOxVuiQ

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Educare Unlearning Insight for the day : Clarity
Clarity is innate. It arrives when there is no resistance to the way life is being.
Our ‘figure it out mind’ is searching for the clarity that only comes from the soul.
The soul receives, reveals, and unfolds the highest order of the Universe that you are ready for.
Can you let yourself relax into receiving unmanifested Potential as it takes form?
The conditioned mind gets afraid of this because it ignorantly trusts the buckets of knowledge it has gathered and stored,
More than the River of Truth waiting to pour Itself out for you.
One way to develop this capacity is to try writing without editing, suppressing, or controlling that which is unfolding.
Another is to meditate by observing without grasping whatever floats through consciousness, independent of the content.
With practice you will surprise your mind with the new clarity that arrives, often speaking ideas you have never thought of before.

October 18, 2023, opened with Jeanie sharing several daily inspirations, including teachings from Krishnamurti, Edgar Cayce, and Educari Unlearning, all of which emphasized clarity, openness to receiving, and the importance of relaxing into life without resistance. She connected these insights with the MindShifters practice of journaling and with meditation as ways to bypass the analytical mind and open to the flow of spirit. She also shared a playful family story about Arya learning food-combining principles, highlighting how children are naturally receptive when teaching is done in love.

When Michael Ryce joined, he reflected on current events in the Middle East and described the trepidation he felt writing a public article about the conflict. He recalled similar feelings years earlier when presenting at the Holocaust Museum, where he taught about forgiveness from the perspective of responsibility. Ryce emphasized the spiritual principle drawn from Job: “That which I feared most has come upon me.” He explained that generational trauma, stored in our genes and family systems, perpetuates cycles of violence and victimhood until those energies are forgiven. He distinguished between true forgiveness—removing internal trauma patterns—and the cultural distortion of pardoning others. Healing, he stressed, requires facing inherited trauma and using the Aramaic tools of forgiveness to dissolve them.

Throughout the discussion, Ryce highlighted how perception is autobiographical and rooted in denial, projection, and dissociation. When we believe something outside of us is the cause of our pain, we lose access to the part of ourselves that requires healing. Forgiveness restores this access, collapses false perceptions, and allows love to flow into previously blocked spaces. He referenced Carl Jung’s teaching that “whatever is rejected from the self appears in the world as an event,” showing how unresolved energies inevitably surface until they are faced. Jeanie and callers reflected on how these ideas applied to current personal and global challenges, including fear, political turmoil, and childhood experiences of cultural trauma. They discussed how even large-scale atrocities mirror the same unconscious patterns that play out in families, emphasizing that transformation comes when individuals take responsibility and apply forgiveness.

Ryce also explained the importance of canceling goals within the forgiveness process. He illustrated how projections are maintained by unfulfilled goals placed onto others, and that only by canceling those goals does perception collapse back into its source, allowing the underlying trauma to be removed. He stressed that forgiveness must be continuous, since hostility and fear will otherwise keep re-generating painful experiences. The show closed with encouragement to use the practical tools available, including the Why Is This Happening to Me Again? workshop, the Heartland Aramaic Forgiveness app, and YouTube teachings. Listeners were reminded that returning to love is always an inside job, and that choosing forgiveness—personally and collectively—is the path to ending cycles of violence and reclaiming the awareness of ourselves as the active presence of love.

Carl Jung said “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

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October 19, 2023, opened with Jeanie announcing updates about upcoming events, including the StillPoint Breathing workshop, and inviting listeners to participate. When Michael Ryce joined, he began by emphasizing the opportunity to live fully as human beings by functioning from the active presence of love rather than hostility or fear. He explained that what people experience emotionally is not caused by others or external circumstances, but by the thoughts linked to those perceptions. A flower, a child, or even a sky cannot “make” someone feel joy or sadness; rather, the thoughts associated with those images resonate within and bring internal content forward. Every moment of hostility or fear, he stressed, reveals another layer of work to be done in healing.

Ryce went deeper into the contrast between the true self and the false self. He clarified that the brain, which stores “carbon-based memory,” generates corrupt perceptions rooted in hostility and fear. He pointed to the biblical passage where Yeshua calls Peter “Satan,” explaining in Aramaic that “Satan” means deceiver—one who misleads by functioning in the “mind of man” rather than the Creator’s plan. In this sense, living out of carbon-based memory equates to living in illusion. Ryce explained that true forgiveness dismantles the false self, while resistance arises because people often identify with that false self and do not want to let it go. He reminded listeners that the essence of who we are is love, as seen in a newborn child, and that regaining conscious, active, present love is the goal of this work.

The discussion turned to StillPoint Breathing, which allows participants to move beyond the brain’s dominance and access deeper levels of being. Ryce explained that breathing through the mouth during this process helps silence the brain, opening space for direct experience of love and connection with the Creator. He highlighted that the real Battle of Armageddon is not a physical war in the Middle East, but the internal struggle between being and non-being. The battleground is the body, and unresolved hostility or fear manifests as illness, trauma, and suffering. Healing requires choosing love and using the tools of forgiveness to dismantle the false self and return to our true nature.

Callers then joined the conversation. Susan reflected on Michael’s Facebook post about the Middle East, calling it a corrective document that distilled the essence of Aramaic forgiveness without pushing religious dogma. Michael noted that he may eventually expand this material into a book, possibly titled Would the Real Yeshua Please Stand Up?, to clarify the difference between the cultural misrepresentation of Jesus and the true Aramaic teachings of responsibility and forgiveness. The dialogue expanded into how traditional theology often perpetuates guilt and blame, while the Aramaic understanding restores empowerment and direct connection to love. Other callers shared insights about defenselessness, harmony with natural law, and how collective healing occurs when individuals align with love. The show closed with reminders that forgiveness is an inner technology, that each person must do their own work, and that regaining conscious connection with love is the key to healing personally and globally.

FREE 3-hour workshop https://whyagain.org/free-3-hour-why-is-this-happening-to-me-again/

Listen to Shaina Noll song “You Can Relax Now” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-mfPQIEaUA

YouTube https://youtu.be/LFkIYdNxcoQ

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October 20, 2023 2^nd hour hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce and framing the conversation around an article by Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky. Sapolsky had argued that free will does not exist, claiming human behavior is entirely the product of forces beyond conscious control. Michael responded by contrasting Sapolsky’s view with the Aramaic understanding of forgiveness and choice, emphasizing that while inclinations and generational patterns influence us, true choice is a spiritual faculty available when we step beyond carbon-based memory and the automatic decision-making of the non-being mind.

Michael explained that resonance drives most of what people call “decisions,” but these are not genuine choices. Instead, they are the automatic surfacing of content from generational and cultural conditioning. He described forgiveness as the process that collapses the mind’s false constructs and allows direct contact with actuality, creating space for true choice to emerge. He drew on the Aramaic meaning of forgiveness, “to cancel,” showing how canceling goals interrupts destructive patterns. He also reflected on biblical metaphors such as the Jews’ forty years in the desert, interpreting “desert” as unconsciousness and “promised land” as the state of conscious choice.

A key part of the show involved callers engaging with the theme. Peter D. shared insights from his work in high-reliability industries, emphasizing system accountability and individual responsibility. He challenged the idea that free will is nonexistent, and Michael agreed, distinguishing between reactive decisions and awakened choice. Another caller, Dan, connected free will directly to Love, describing it as what remains when unconscious inclinations are cleared. Together they explored how forgiveness, still-point breathing, and awareness of generational influences open space for authentic human choice, moving beyond victimhood and blame.

Michael also drew on neuroscience, scripture, and even stories about baboon behavior studied by Sapolsky to show how hostility and fear shorten life, while gentleness and care transform communities. He tied this into the biblical creation story, where the infusion of Napsha (spirit) into Adam signified the arrival of choice. The program closed by reaffirming that humanity’s essence is Love, and that forgiveness empowers us to release past influences and reclaim the true faculty of conscious choice.

Additional Notes: “Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all things you think you want. Your trifling treasures put away, and leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ can come” (ACIM, W-164.8:1-2)

Adomos (clay) was the body then God breathed into it life and Napsha became a living spiritual being.

“Stress: Portrait of a Killer” full documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYG0ZuTv5rs which we have referred to for years.  Sapolsky’s video on being in Kenya every year to continue an ongoing research project he’s been working on for about 30 years now. This is the unique story of his Keekorok baboon troop, and how after the alpha males (the angry stressed members of the troop) died from tuberculosis, the remaining troop (mostly females) very quickly transformed into a very peaceful troop, and since then, a peaceful approach has become a cultural norm for them. A norm that has continued for 20 years now, and that also transforms other aberrant baboons from other troops that may wander into the troop. 

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October 23, 2023 2^nd hour hosted by dr michael ryce continued the discussion from the previous week about Robert Sapolsky’s new book Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will. Jeanie Ryce opened the show, recalling Sapolsky’s earlier documentary Stress: Portrait of a Killer and how it had revealed the destructive effects of unresolved goals on baboon communities. Dr. Michael Ryce joined to expand on the distinction between decisions and true choices, offering an alternative to Sapolsky’s view that human beings are simply automatons driven by neural impulses and external influences.

Michael explained that decisions are the product of resonance—automatic reactions triggered by stored brain-cell data and generational patterns. In this sense, Sapolsky is correct: if one only lives from the level of the brain and carbon-based memory, there is no free will. However, Michael emphasized that humans are unique in their capacity for origination, the ability to create something new that is not simply a replay of ancestral patterns. He described forgiveness in its Aramaic sense as the key to this origination, since canceling goals dissolves corrupt perceptual constructs and opens access to the deeper unconscious dynamics driving hostility, fear, or addiction. When these patterns collapse in the presence of Love, true choice emerges.

The program engaged callers who shared personal stories. One participant described betrayal by a relative who had stolen money, and his tendency to blame himself as “stupid” for trusting them. Michael reframed anger as a drug and self-condemnation as a power-person message ripe for worksheet work. He reminded listeners that the forgiveness process is not about pardoning others, but about collapsing perceptions driven by corrupt data. Canceling goals exposes hidden generational influences and allows healing. He explained how the Harvard nine-bit mind research demonstrates the limitation of perception, and how goals act as the driver determining which fragments of data are selected to build reality.

The conversation also explored scriptural metaphors. Michael contrasted the Greek distortion of forgiveness into “letting others off the hook” with Yeshua’s original Aramaic process that collapses false perceptions. He reflected on Adam’s “deep sleep” as a metaphor for humanity’s unconsciousness in carbon-based memory (the 666 structure), and awakening in Christ as the reemergence of the higher mind of Love. He linked this to the “law” in Aramaic, not as external rules but simply as “how it works”—emphasizing that when humans violate the law of energy by living in hostility and denial, they suffer avoidable collisions. By reclaiming the higher faculties of Love, humans move beyond automatic decisions and step into genuine choice.

The show concluded with encouragement for continued practice. Michael stressed that every worksheet, every act of forgiveness, cleans up another piece of corrupt generational data and restores the possibility of conscious origination. Unlike animals limited to instinct, humans can originate new behaviors, new perspectives, and new creations—fulfilling the unique gift of free will that Sapolsky’s science overlooks.

Additional Notes:

2008 full documentary “Stress: Portrait of a Killer”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYG0ZuTv5rs which we have referred to for years.  Sapolsky’s video on being in Kenya every year to continue an ongoing research project he’s been working on for about 30 years now. This is the unique story of his Keekorok baboon troop, and how after the alpha males (the angry stressed members of the troop) died from tuberculosis, the remaining troop (mostly females) very quickly transformed into a very peaceful troop, and since then, a peaceful approach has become a cultural norm for them. A norm that has continued for 20 years now, and that also transforms other aberrant baboons from other troops that may wander into the troop. 

YouTube https://youtu.be/6TnYE6IEpEY

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New website pages created for excerpts from these radio shows on Free Will https://whyagain.org/freewill/ and another page on ‘Stress:Portrait of a Killer’ by Robert Sapolsky https://whyagain.org/stress/

October 24, 2023 2nd hour hosted by dr michael ryce carried forward the ongoing dialogue around Robert Sapolsky’s claim that free will does not exist. Jeanie Ryce opened the program by sharing new resources on the whyagain.org site, including a page devoted to “free will” and another collecting Sapolsky’s videos. She highlighted his research with baboon troops, where the most hostile alpha males succumbed to tuberculosis from tainted meat while the calmer members of the troop survived, creating a more peaceful community. This, she noted, paralleled Western models of stress-related illness and raised the question of whether humans are likewise trapped in predetermined patterns.

Michael Ryce responded by affirming that if one only functions within carbon-based memory and automatic resonance, then Sapolsky is correct—life appears predetermined. But he contrasted this with the higher human faculties that emerge when one awakens to their identity as Love. He explained that goals act as the rudder of the mind, shaping perception and experience. By canceling goals, one collapses painful perceptual constructs and gains access to the underlying generational inclinations that drive behavior. In the presence of conscious active Love, these old patterns dissolve, revealing the capacity for genuine choice, will, imagination, intuition, and true perception.

Michael emphasized that these spiritual faculties have been obscured by “cheap copies” such as decisions replacing choice, willpower replacing will, fantasy replacing imagination, and psychic projection replacing intuition. He connected this with biblical metaphors: the Jews wandering the desert as an image of unconsciousness, and the “promised land” as conscious co-creation. Forgiveness in its original Aramaic sense, he stressed, is the process of removing corrupt generational data and awakening these higher faculties. Without forgiveness, humans remain trapped in repeating their ancestors’ patterns, but with it they can replenish creation by originating something new.

The show also included callers. Terry reflected on the film Inception, noting how it illustrated layers of energetic patterns and the file-folder effect of cascading influences. Michael agreed, pointing out that forgiveness weakens the power of those inherited patterns and allows one to live from purpose rather than programming. Peter later shared an Air Force training exercise showing how perception is unreliable, paralleling the CIA’s own conclusion that perception is an active, biased process. Michael closed by quoting Francois Fénelon, who described how greater light exposes hidden faults, reminding listeners that awareness of dysfunction is proof that healing has begun.

Additional Notes:

We all come in as pure Love.  But our culture specializes in knocking Love out of us and then sends us out to find somebody to love us.Five Spiritual Faculties: Reason or Choice, Will, Intuition (Inner Tutor), Imagination (Image in something new) and True Enlightened Perception (Actuality)  See FIVE SMOOTH STONES and five things HUMAN WILL can do (PDF format) and then listen to an excerpt from July 13, 2020 (MP3) explaining difference in Will and willpower.

Manage your mind indirectly by goals.  MIND/GOAL MANAGEMENT Worksheet revised 2017 from Getting the Stress You Need (PDF format).  Stress is related to Goals.  The Spiritual Faculty of Will can Frame, Set, Select, Maintain and Cancel Goals.

George Miller in 1956, Magical Number Seven Plus or Minus Two, what we call the 9-bit mind.  The mind is a reducing organism that only gives information useful in the moment (for survival). Irrelevant to Actuality and hinders us from bringing into the world what comes next – to replenish the face of the earth. A good slave to the king if we don’t turn our mind in another direction (Napsha). The Mind of Christ (Love) instead of the mind of man.

Watch “ACIM What Is The World” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFPn8heN21Q

CIA on perception https://whyagain.org/images/PDF/CIA_PsychologyOfIntelligenceAnalysis.pdf

YouTube https://youtu.be/EWzW9AorfHY

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October 25, 2023 2^nd hour began with Jeanie Ryce introducing the continuation of the conversation about Robert Sapolsky’s claim that free will does not exist. Before Michael Ryce addressed the article directly, they responded to a listener’s question about whether doing too many worksheets could cause physical sickness and about who exactly is being forgiven when using the Aramaic process. Michael clarified that one never forgives another person. Instead, forgiveness in its original Aramaic meaning is applied to the energetic patterns inside oneself that are “off the mark.” He explained that the Greek distortion turned forgiveness into pardoning others, which can be useful for breaking mental associations, but true forgiveness collapses the projections of the mind and removes internal energies of hostility, fear, and trauma.

Michael emphasized that healing crises can arise when suppressed energies begin to release. Symptoms of healing, he noted, are identical to symptoms of disease—the difference lies in whether the energy is moving in or out. As old generational traumas and hostilities are released, one may feel sickness, confusion, or depression, but these are signs of deep cleansing. He linked this to the Aramaic term “sin,” originally an archery term meaning “off the mark,” showing that forgiveness is literally the process of removing disintegrative energies from the tissue structure. He stressed that willingness to go through physical, mental, and emotional discomfort is essential for healing, since these symptoms mark the dissolution of unresolved pain.

The program then returned to Sapolsky’s arguments against free will. Michael acknowledged that if one only functions from carbon-based memory and resonance, then Sapolsky’s determinism is largely correct—life appears predetermined by genetics and environment. However, he argued that humans are unique in their ability to originate new information, transcending automatic inclinations through conscious awareness and forgiveness. He critiqued organizations like “Justice Without Retribution” for using language focused on blame and retribution, which perpetuates the very energies they aim to end. Instead, he suggested reframing such missions toward healing and care in the presence of Love, since whatever one focuses on, one strengthens.

Michael also drew on scripture and science. He cited Yeshua’s Aramaic phrase “let thine eye be single and thy body will be filled with light” as a principle of resonance: what one focuses on becomes embodied in form. He contrasted Sapolsky’s determinism with the Dartmouth neuroscientist Peter Tse’s argument that neural variability creates space for free will, and he expanded on the CIA’s recognition that perception is an active process, though limited by resonance with stored content. Michael concluded that forgiveness weakens destructive inclinations until they are gone, restoring true free will. He closed by affirming that punishment has no place in a compassionate society and that forgiveness is the only consistent tool to dissolve generational trauma, addictive patterns, and hostility, thereby restoring Love as the essence of human life.

Go to https://whyagain.org/healingcrisis/ on Healing Crisis which is what you are experiencing.

YouTube https://youtu.be/wx168rxljYI

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Step into the use of the tools whatever they are, find what works for you. This work is to turn the focus inside and connect to a deeper wisdom

Podcast “We Can Do Hard Things” episode 252 by Glennon Doyle

We completed the article on Sapolsky and free will. Go to https://whyagain.org/freewill/ to relisten to excerpts.  Also, https://whyagain.org/stress/ on Stress and Resources to release the stress.

October 26, 2023 2^nd hour began with Jeanie Ryce sharing a daily quote that reflected on the madness of believing our thoughts and judgments, and how true peace comes when those illusions fade. She tied this to the show’s recent discussions of Robert Sapolsky’s argument that free will does not exist, noting that while his perspective was valuable, the MindShifters work offers a different understanding grounded in forgiveness and conscious choice.

Dr. Michael Ryce expanded on this theme by reading from his developing article on suffering, generational trauma, and the roots of violence. He emphasized that what people dread or fear creates blueprints in the mind that eventually manifest in their lives, echoing Job’s statement: “That which I feared has come upon me.” He explained that unresolved trauma and fear-based fantasies generate repeating painful outcomes, and that only forgiveness—the removal of these corrupted constructs—can break the cycle. He warned against the cultural trap of victimhood, explaining that blame only perpetuates suffering and blocks the awareness of Love. Victimhood is a great place to go if you don’t want to be responsible.  Understand how the world works.

Michael contrasted the Aramaic understanding of forgiveness with the Greek distortion of “letting others off the hook.” He urged listeners to abandon the false idea of forgiving others and instead practice true forgiveness, which collapses the internally generated projections of hostility and fear. He drew from scripture, Carl Jung, Albert Einstein, and Rumi to illustrate how unconscious generational trauma becomes the “shadow” that drives destructive behavior. Jung’s insight that “until the unconscious becomes conscious, it will direct our lives and we will call it fate” was presented as central to understanding why cycles of war, abuse, and family conflict repeat.

Carl Jung said “The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.”

Rumi said “Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”

True Aramaic forgiveness is not pardoning (letting someone off the hook for what they triggered in you). Never forgive anyone but forgive continuously.

Callers joined the conversation to reflect on cultural and political conflicts, such as the Middle East, and how children are indoctrinated into patterns of fear and hostility. Michael connected these patterns to generational traumas reinforced by myths, scriptures, and unresolved pain. He emphasized that healing requires one person or community to “get big enough” to bring Love into the space of trauma, interrupting cycles of vengeance and projection. He closed with a reminder that active, present Love is the master solvent of trauma and that each upset is an invitation to forgive, release hidden pain, and reclaim the awareness of our essence as Love.

michael read the first half of his article about what is going on in the middle east. Written after he saw the article from a family that lost other family in the current event, “We really don’t understand why this happened to us,” said Raz. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/17/british-israeli-girls-family-hamas-israel-gaza-attack-beeri/

YouTube https://youtu.be/ZgmhFXn7y1c

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Building Brain Cells. Key thought: energetically stay connected to Love regardless of what is going on in the world.

October 27, 2023 2^nd hour opened with Jeanie Ryce reviewing recent conversations about Robert Sapolsky’s argument against free will and inviting listeners to submit articles or topics for discussion. She emphasized how new perspectives help build “brain cells” for understanding, echoing Yeshua’s statement that one must have “eyes to see and ears to hear.” Dr. Michael Ryce then explored the importance of idioms in language, using examples to show how mistranslations from Aramaic into Greek distort the meaning of key spiritual teachings. He explained that forgiveness in Aramaic means removing the pain and hostility moving within oneself, not excusing another person’s behavior. He contrasted this with Greek distortions, which often reduce Love to sentimentality, sexual passion, or self-sacrifice rather than the truth of Love as the essence of human life.

Michael emphasized that the “world of the mind of man” is a realm of perceptual constructs shaped by hostility, fear, and generations of trauma, while the “world of the plan of God” reflects actuality grounded in Love. He connected this with the Beatitudes, noting that just and fair behavior between people is essential to access the deepest guidance within. Without forgiveness, he warned, generational patterns of rage, grief, and violence perpetuate themselves endlessly, both within families and in nations. He cited the PBS documentary Shattered Dreams of Peace as an example of how peace efforts in the Middle East collapsed due to unresolved hostility, reinforcing the need for forgiveness tools to break cycles of vengeance.

The conversation turned to policing and justice systems. Jeanie shared historical research showing how American policing in the 1700s originated as slave patrols, embedding patterns of hostility and fear into the system. She highlighted ongoing injustices faced by Native Americans, including high rates of violent crime and legal barriers to prosecuting offenders on reservations. Michael and Jeanie contrasted “law enforcement” with “peace officers,” envisioning a society where those in authority embody Love and compassion rather than fear and aggression. They also referenced the film Killers of the Flower Moon as a modern reminder of historical injustice against Indigenous peoples, showing how greed and violence destroy communities when love and justice are absent.

Callers expanded the dialogue with reflections on history, culture, and spirituality. One caller described the merging of African and Indigenous traditions in music and ritual, noting how drumbeats and circle dances created powerful pulses of connection. Michael reflected that much of what is called “civilization” is built on the obliteration of such indigenous practices, replacing authentic life with “sophistication,” which literally means falseness. Another caller spoke about his half-sister’s passing, sharing how despite rigid religious beliefs, she radiated Love at the end of her life, illustrating that Love transcends doctrinal divisions. Michael concluded by reminding listeners that all healing is the return to Love, that separation is an optical delusion, and that forgiveness is the technology for removing intergenerational trauma so humanity can live as the mystical body of Love.

What it takes to heal – the mind will organize pictures to what we think is in our world. The mental environment that we swim. Mind Energy became flesh. Living in an optical delusion, we are connected. We can’t extract from life. The mystical body of Christ – we are many cells in one body.

YouTube https://youtu.be/AQS1R9FJr-4

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Michael explained that in Aramaic, the word translated as “heaven” can also mean “expansion,” pointing to the human purpose of growing into the fullness of Love. He reminded listeners that the mind only serves up what it contains, and if it is filled with unresolved pain, it will project that pain outward and insist others are to blame. Western culture reinforces this denial through language, embedding blame into common expressions such as “she made me mad” or “that situation frustrated me.” Michael contrasted this with Yeshua’s original Aramaic teaching that life and death are in our words, and that the energy we generate with our thoughts and speech shapes our physiology. 

A major theme of the show was addiction and its roots in unresolved trauma. Michael defined addiction as the compulsive use of people, substances, or activities to anesthetize pain or block higher guidance. He explained that power-person messages—both direct and indirect—often create the self-condemning beliefs that drive addictions. Healing, he said, does not come by fighting the addiction directly but by forgiving the trauma-based energies in the unconscious that sustain it. He shared dramatic examples of people whose addictions naturally dropped away once they used forgiveness tools to dissolve the underlying pain. Power Person messages, addiction to adapt and survive (may help one cope but long term are not supportive). If effort is put into facing the trauma based energies then the addiction drops away. Must “forgive from your heart the wrongs of your brother.” the heart is your unconscious, you remove (forgive) from your unconscious the wrongs you place on your brother. Don’t let anyone (including yourself) off the hook for the pain you experience…that is pardoning. Forgive continuously. You are constantly in the state of becoming. Then you can consciously engage in what is possible. Arrive as the active presence of love. Life will show you what you are holding onto, the energetic pattern in you will resonate anyone who holds a similar energetic pattern.

Michael clarified a key misunderstanding about forgiveness. He stressed that Yeshua never told anyone to forgive another person in the modern sense of “letting them off the hook.” Instead, forgiveness in Aramaic means removing the painful energy from within oneself, especially from the unconscious, which Yeshua referred to as the “heart.” True healing requires constant forgiveness—not of others, but of the false content we project onto them. This is the process that collapses the stories of the nine-bit mind and dismantles generational patterns, revealing the deeper truth of who we are as Love.

The show also included powerful exchanges with callers. Susan shared how she planned to introduce Aramaic forgiveness to her church vestry, citing a sermon by Rev. Lisa Smith Fry that highlighted the mistranslations of forgiveness into Greek thought. Michael encouraged her efforts and recalled his own introduction to Aramaic through teachers like Rocco Errico. Another caller, Peter, described being flooded with multiple issues after working through a major personal problem, and Michael explained this as the natural surfacing of unconscious material when vitality increases and forgiveness begins to collapse old perceptions. Cary humorously reflected on how being triggered by Michael’s words signaled he was in the right place for growth, leading into a closing discussion on honoring truth and resisting the cultural tendency to cling to blame.

The program closed with the reminder that most of humanity lives in blockage of truth, trapped in generational patterns of fear and hostility. Forgiveness, by removing unconscious content and collapsing false stories, is the universal solvent that dissolves illusions and restores the active presence of Love.

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Michael Singer Podcast with Commentary (Best Of audio files on MindShifters Academy site) https://ch4cs-com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/MS+Thursday+Group+10-26-2023+Excerpt+Michael+Singer+with+Commentary.mp3

Tonight Support Group with Dr Tim link to join https://mindshifters-academy.org/tuesday-mindshifters-support-group/

October 31, 2023 2^nd hour began with Jeanie Ryce updating listeners about her recovery from a fall and reminding them of resources available through whyagain.org and MindShifters Academy. She introduced reflections on recent shows, which had explored Sapolsky’s claim about free will, the dynamics of power-person behaviors, and addiction as an anesthetic for trauma-based energy. Jeanie explained that anger functions as an addiction in the same way, covering underlying fear and pain. She emphasized that forgiveness is not about pardoning others but about going inside, identifying the triggered goal, and canceling it to dissolve the stress and return to Love.

Dr. Michael Ryce joined the program with a deeper teaching on Job’s statement, “That which I feared has come upon me.” He described this as a profound insight into how fear and dread create blueprints in the mind that then manifest repeatedly as life patterns. Using the analogy of quantum physics and observer effect, he explained that what the mind focuses on becomes embodied reality. He stressed that hostility and fear are forms of mental illness, common to nearly everyone in the culture, and that they manifest as both psychological and physical disease. Healing requires owning this dysfunction rather than projecting blame outward, which keeps one locked in denial. Look at symptoms with the eyes of treatment or look behind the physical is an underlying issue (the cause)

Michael highlighted the importance of perception shaped by brain cells, citing philosophers like Russell Hanson and physicists like Einstein, who observed that what one sees is determined by prior knowledge and theory. He warned that Western medical models too often treat symptoms without healing the underlying mental-emotional roots. Forgiveness, in contrast, collapses false perceptions, exposing generational trauma and allowing Love to dissolve them. He connected this with the biblical principle of “eyes to see and ears to hear,” noting that insight only comes when the mind is prepared through direct experience of Love.

The program also featured a heartfelt exchange with Doug, who shared deep grief about failed relationships and his longing for restoration. He traced his pain back to patterns inherited from his father, who, he believed, died from the weight of unfulfilled family dreams. Michael guided him to see that pursuing external relationships before fully incarnating as Love would only repeat those patterns. He encouraged Doug to practice the “letting go of attachments” exercise, beginning with his former marriage, so that he could dissolve guilt and stop attracting relationships that mirror unresolved trauma. Michael reminded him that true success is not external but comes from living as Love, and that healing generational guilt frees one to create from wholeness. Release emotional attachment https://whyagain.org/emotional-release/

The show closed with Jeanie sharing her vision of expanding in “five measures,” revealed to her in StillPoint sessions. These measures—awareness, trust, will, safety, and incarnation—outlined a process of fully embodying Love. Together, Michael and Jeanie affirmed that this is the real work: to release attachments, collapse fear-based fantasies, and incarnate the active presence of Love as the foundation of all healing.

Additional Notes:

TV series “The Chosen” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chosen_(TV_series)

Watch “I Can Only Imagine” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6450186/ true story of Mercy Me’s lead singer Bart Millard. He was abused by his father as a child. He turned to Christianity and wrote and sang Christian songs but his healing of his suppressed energies doesn’t happen until the active love of his father is present. His father changed first, after being diagnosed with cancer. Bart doesn’t want to acknowledge his father changed at first.

https://whyagain.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/TheRoseTheButterfly.pdf looking outside for something to achieve. “Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all the things will be added unto you.” Seek to incarnate as a human being on earth. If we don’t do that first then everything else fails. If all your ‘getting’ doesn’t begin there then you aren’t. Truly cancel all goals for something external, heal that mind that is separated from true self. Incarnate – your primary purpose. Everything external is a distraction. 

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