Michael Berg

Hello and welcome to Let the Bird Fly, a podcast about living freely in a world given back to us.

This is Wade here in the podcast studio, joined by my dear friends and colleagues, the Reverend Dr. Michael Berg and the Reverend Professor working on the doctor part, Jason Oakland.

And we are happy to be getting into a somewhat regular recording schedule here on a sunny yet a little bit chilly day.

Thursday here at Wisconsin Lutheran College.

The sky is somewhat blue.

And we're hoping to be in this regular schedule on Thursday morning so we can get your weekly episodes.

In addition to the Winging It series, we have going, which Michael is doing with Nate Wardell, and the sermons we try to get out every Sunday.

So it's a good time to get back into the swing of listening to Let the Bird Fly if you've fallen out of it a bit, and we'll be doing our best to get you regular content.

Peace and riches, blessings.

I am Michael B. Beckwith, the host of Take Back Your Mind.

peace and blessings everyone and welcome to take back your mind i am michael b beckwith the host of this podcast the founder of the agape international spiritual center every week i get to have like wonderful conversations with wonderful people people who are making an impact an imprint on humanity in such a way that hearts are opening individuals are creating a level of sovereignty over their own mind and making a difference on the planet, remembering why they have arrived on this sojourn on Earth school.

So I welcome you to Take Back Your Mind.

If you don't know who she is, I'm going to give you a little information, and then we're going to have a wonderful conversation.

Now, she's an author, speaker, spiritual teacher, and co-director of the Kabbalah Center, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to making ancient spiritual wisdom practical and accessible.

She's a best-selling author of Fear is Not an Option and Rethink Love and the co-host of the popular Spiritually Hungry podcast alongside her husband, Michael Berg.

Through her books, teachings, masterclasses, and speaking engagements, Monica helps people navigate relationships, fear, Purpose, personal growth, emotional resilience with greater awareness, and of course, compassion.

Staying in spirit seems to be the secret to this feeling of being inspired.

I also find that inspiration flows in other areas of my life when my primary mission is like what Michael Berg so beautifully describes in Becoming Like God, Kabbalah, and Our Ultimate Destiny.

Just as every being is God's business, every being becomes our business as well.

That is, being inspired necessitates the willingness to suspend ego and enter a space where I want to share who I am and what I have in a completely unlimited fashion.

It's the new year in Kabbalah and Judaism, but anybody can celebrate the spiritual energy from it.

Michael Berg, who runs the Kabbalah Center, was sharing this unbelievable consciousness, and it's worth sharing right now.

And the example that he gave, and I want to make sure I reference him because it was so meaningful to me, is that talk about this exact concept.

It's something I've been wrestling with myself because I do believe in being a go-getter, but I also believe we're not in control.

Thanks for having me, guys.

Thank you, Michael and Monica.

The first 18, 19 years of my life was like any other kid.

I was a son of two immigrants that immigrated to the U.S. from Japan.

And then it's your deciding factor of how high you can bounce back from that point.

So, yeah, for your point, your life.

I mean, Michael, everybody has that.

Everybody has a reference point.