Episode 120: The Shamanic Dreaming Arts, Recapitulation & Castaneda featuring Joel Schafer is now available for viewing/listening on all of our streaming platforms.

Joel is a personal empowerment mentor and teacher of the shamanic dreaming arts. With years of experience in Toltec teachings and practices, Joel guides people on a path of reclaiming their vital energy and attention. Through online courses, one-on-one mentoring, and in-person workshops, he shares powerful, non-linear techniques based on Toltec knowledge. These methods help individuals discover their purpose, heighten their awareness, ground themselves, and reclaim their focus. Joel’s approach blends practicality with magic, offering clear, transformative solutions to life's challenges.

Here's some topics we covered in this episode:

Joel's Journey to Toltec Teachings: Hear about Joel’s start with Toltec teachings, psychedelics, and how he discovered the work of Carlos Castaneda.

Medicine Men, Women, and Healers: Learn how the wisdom of these healers shifted Joel’s life and approach to shamanism.

Shamanic Dreaming Arts: Explore Joel’s work in the shamanic dreaming arts, including how to empty your story and become more resilient.

The Gates of Dreaming: Discover how the gates of dreaming lead to your parallel being and what working in these gates feels like.

Training Awareness: Understand how you can train yourself to perceive energy with your whole being and the significance of awareness in this practice.

Astral Entities and Their Origins: Joel explains where astral entities come from and what they are in relation to shamanic dreaming.

Recapitulation and Taking Back Your Power: A breakdown of recapitulation, what it is, and why it’s necessary for reclaiming personal power.

Power Plants and the Energetic Body: Insights into the role of plant medicine, why it’s sometimes necessary, and how it affects the energetic body.

Understanding the Flyers: Learn about the “flyers” and how understanding them helps you navigate what’s happening on a deeper spiritual level.

Shamanic Principles and Practice: Joel emphasizes the consistent work needed in shamanic practices and how to integrate these principles into everyday life.

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Join us tonight at 7PM U.S. Eastern for the YouTube premiere of episode 121: Ez-Water, Aether, & The Biofield featuring Carrie Bennett.

Have you ever wondered how light, water, and nature can influence your health and well-being? In this episode, we welcome Carrie Bennett, a leading educator in the emerging field of quantum biology. With multiple degrees in biology, nutrition, and bodywork, Carrie shares her journey through holistic health and the discoveries that shaped her understanding of the complex quantum mechanisms within our bodies.

Carrie is an educator, speaker, and practitioner in quantum biology. Her relentless enthusiasm for learning and deep research equips her to explain the complex quantum mechanisms at play in the human body. As the lead faculty member and advisor for the Quantum Biology Collective, Carrie trains practitioners in applied quantum biology for clinical practice. She currently sees clients through her online practice, helping them thrive using light, water, and nature.

Click here to catch the Youtube premiere.

Welcome to a new month of meaningful conversations and deep connections at The Way Forward. We’ve lined up a variety of events for October, and we hope you’ll join us as we continue building together through these shared experiences.

Here’s what’s coming up this month:

Men's Community Call
Wednesday, October 2nd at 8 PM Eastern
Join us for an evening of open dialogue and support in our men’s community.

Commercial Law Education (Replay)
Wednesday, October 9th at 1 PM Eastern
Catch the replay and expand your understanding of commercial law in this insightful session.

Breathwork with Christopher August – Restore Your Peace
Monday, October 14th at 1 PM Eastern
Join us for a transformative breathwork session, designed to help you break free from limiting beliefs and experience deep peace from within.

Men's Call, Book Review (Book – TBD)
Wednesday, October 16th at 8 PM Eastern
Dive into a new book and exchange ideas in our men’s book review discussion.

Women's Community Call
Thursday, October 24th at 8 PM Eastern
Ladies, come together for an evening of empowerment and connection.

Seeding Abundance Calls
Wednesday, October 9th at 8 PM Eastern
Wednesday, October 23rd at 8 PM Eastern
Join our biweekly discussions focused on fostering abundance and growth in all areas of life.

We’re excited to connect with you in these upcoming events. Mark your calendar, and stay tuned for more details soon!

Just a quick reminder that our Men's Community Call is happening tonight at 8:00 PM Eastern Time on Zoom. We hope you can join us for another meaningful conversation!

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May 7-12, 2025

3rd annual Confluence:
Coming Together for Health, Freedom & Coherence.

Stay tuned for early bird ticketing!

We're excited to share two incredible learning opportunities with you that will deepen your understanding of the sacred journey women embark on through life's biggest transitions.

The first one is The Postpartum Puzzle Masterclass - happening October 10th, 7pm Eastern

Join this myth-busting free masterclass that sheds light on the real root causes of postpartum depression. We'll unravel fear-driven narratives that often leave women feeling powerless, while learning to honor postpartum as the significant initiation it is. Discover the essential knowledge to hold space during this transformative phase with respect and reverence.

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The second is Uncovering Birth - a 5 Month Program

This comprehensive program equips you with the tools to support women through pregnancy, birth, and beyond. Whether you're holding space for conception, postpartum, loss, or even death, this live mentorship will provide both practical knowledge and a deeper understanding of normal physiological birth, as well as the challenges within the modern birthing landscape. You'll also gain the skills to start or enhance your doula business with integrity while mastering this profound rite of passage.

Learn More About Uncovering Birth

I’ve been listening to the most recent podcast with veda Austin and its blowing my mind. This post had me connecting some dots to her work and how she was saying peoples eyes can project holograms when they hold a clear vision in their consciousness.

I feel the conspiracy theory/truther side of social media is allowed to be so dominant because it keeps people from being able to hold a clear vision of a beautiful and healed world in their consciousness.

It just jumps from one shocking topic to the next, always exposing some evil here or there. Then I find myself distracted with that mind chatter at times where I would otherwise like to be peaceful, meditating or visualizing my dream reality.

I know if we choose to focus and heal ourselves, we will ripple that out to others and the world effortlessly, but it can certainly feel like that’s a cop out without “action” sometimes, yet remembering how powerful and divine we are is completely side stepping the whole game “they” are trying to entice us to play.

I’m so grateful for all these beautiful leaders and teachers I have been learning from. Its very refreshing to hear perspectives like this.🙏

I’ll be in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on November 1-2 to speak at this incredible homeopathy event held by RMDY Collective!

I hope to see you there!

https://rmdycollective.org/collections/shop-all/products/rmdy-social

Register for free here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlf-ugrjsqGtM_1MR2UqXtajM6NNUCJX4_#/

(just this morning I wrote this for another reason...)

Arguments About Truth

You will find 10,000 videos on youtube arguing about nothing-ness, everything-ness, something-ness. Videos about self-love, other-love, God-love. Video arguments about who has a better, more accurate understanding of actual reality, and about non-duality. And even more video arguments about ‘The Meaning Of Life… Here Are 10 Tips about How to Make Life Work for You!’ 😁

The fact is as JK says, "Intellect stops here."

Bottom line: None of these discussions or arguments about the Essence/Truth of Life are ultimately true, because The Truth cannot be put into words, images or sounds by Intellect. Intellect can only dance around the Truth. Arguments about Truth are like satellites revolving (dancing) around the Earth, with all the satellites talking to each other. Since the human mind can only dance around the Truth, you can imagine that all the different egos dancing around the Truth will argue endlessly about what Truth is, and how to possess it.

The only way to experience Truth is by yourself, for yourself, and within yourself.

Even then, it will only be a small glimpse... a partial experience of the Full Truth... because our human ability to experience the Full Truth of Reality is inherently limited (i.e. each of us is only a 'tiny spark of God'). Only The Creator is capable of being, and experiencing the Fullness of All. If you were to be given a full experience of Truth, your material/biological perceptual apparatus (mind and body) would instantly vaporize, because it's material limitations cannot begin to hold or sustain the Immense Power of that experience.

Nevertheless, a partial glimpse by yourself, for yourself, and within yourself, for only a few moments, is easily enough to totally turn your whole world upside down, and set you on a totally different path in life. The sheer awe-full-ness of a partial Truth experience instantly shuts down your puny idiot ego... and your remaining innocent, authentic Self (spark of God) is immediately stunned into wide-eyed silence. 😳

After the experience you will remain stunned for some time. Eventually it slowly wears off, and you are back in this Earthly reality. You attempt to process that amazing experience. Your idiot ego attempts to come back online, which it slowly does… but you can subtly feel that it has been changed in unknown ways. You make whatever sense of the experience that you can. The most important realization: “That is Home. There is More, much More, much Deeper. That is where I must go, with all my heart and soul and effort.”

Which is as it should be, because it keeps us seeking, moving forward, improving ourselves, evolving.

The more awareness of Truth/Reality we embody, through our own personal experiences (not books or youtubes, though they can be momentarily helpful along the way), the more we realize that co-creating and co-evolving with God/Source/Creator is, and will always be the best path to take. (IOW, salvation through technology is a dead end.)

Thus we see that in our Earthly lives, turning fully back to Nature, which on our planet is God’s fully integrated expression of life-evolving-itself-toward-ever-greater-awareness, is the only Path that is fully in harmony with our best interests; with All of Life’s best interests.

So, in the purely practical sense, as always, Nature is the Only Way Forward, and the Only Way Home.
Honor Nature.