Journey Into The Heart Of The Primordial
Aug 16, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min · 13 segments
In this episode Daniel and Michaela discuss the idea of spiritual teachers and those who pretend to be them as well as those who stray from their path as teachers. The episode is not so much ha…
Daniel Du BoisHost
Michaela Gaffen StoneHost
For the listener, we were having a conversation, as we often do, prior to hitting record, and there was something very pertinent in Instagram today that was comparing Pentecostal and various other religious well we'll stick with pentecostal comparing that to the spiritual um groups if you will of people who you know are seeking abundance and believe that it's going to flow to them no matter what etc etc there's a lot of direct comparisons that canon were made that it's it basically is the same thing in different clothes
Yeah, and that's the thing, right? So whenever there's a spiritual hunger in humanity, there are people willing to fill that with slop.
There are people willing to feed you the fast food instead of the good, solid nutrient spirituality that you need.

Yeah, I think that there are people who see a gap and, ooh, I can fill that and I'll make money while I'm doing it.
And,

But when it is your motivation for doing things and it's really the driving force behind how you do the things, and how far you're prepared to go, that becomes a different matter.

And that's kind of what's coming up here because the Pentecostal stuff, it's about control.

It too is, it's a kind of control in that you're not being told you have to do these things, but at the same time, everybody else in your group is doing it.
So

there's a peer pressure form there rather than a, book that tells you you have to do it.

But money then is behind the whole thing, right? There's all these things you have to buy, these tools you have to have, even the way you dress is a particular way.
Like, and one of the things that kind of stood out to me is as the person who's talking about it in the video, It's like, so you're mentioning some very real practices and some very real tools at your disposal spiritually.

For the listener, we were having a conversation, as we often do, prior to hitting record, and there was something very pertinent in Instagram today that was comparing Pentecostal and various other religious well we'll stick with pentecostal comparing that to the spiritual um groups if you will of people who you know are seeking abundance and believe that it's going to flow to them no matter what etc etc there's a lot of direct comparisons that canon were made that it's it basically is the same thing in different clothes
Yeah, and that's the thing, right? So whenever there's a spiritual hunger in humanity, there are people willing to fill that with slop.
There are people willing to feed you the fast food instead of the good, solid nutrient spirituality that you need.

Yeah, I think that there are people who see a gap and, ooh, I can fill that and I'll make money while I'm doing it.
And,

But when it is your motivation for doing things and it's really the driving force behind how you do the things, and how far you're prepared to go, that becomes a different matter.

And that's kind of what's coming up here because the Pentecostal stuff, it's about control.

It too is, it's a kind of control in that you're not being told you have to do these things, but at the same time, everybody else in your group is doing it.
So

there's a peer pressure form there rather than a, book that tells you you have to do it.

But money then is behind the whole thing, right? There's all these things you have to buy, these tools you have to have, even the way you dress is a particular way.
Like, and one of the things that kind of stood out to me is as the person who's talking about it in the video, It's like, so you're mentioning some very real practices and some very real tools at your disposal spiritually.
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