Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 217: The Lies We've Been Told About Water & Hydration with Erin Sojourner & Gina Bria

If you think you know everything about water and how hydration works, think again.

Contrary to popular belief, hydration isn’t about how much you drink… It’s about how water functions inside the body. Most people focus on intake while missing the form water needs to support energy, clarity, and resilience at the cellular level. That’s why many feel foggy or depleted despite constantly drinking. Liquid water alone doesn’t create hydration. Ancestral cultures understood this long before measuring ounces. Desert peoples stayed hydrated well before modern plumbing existed.

In this episode, Alec talks with Erin Sojourner, CSO at Spring Aqua, and Gina Bria, an anthropologist and founder of the Hydration Foundation.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/0boqdGS4v3A

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No confirmation yet, but I may be interviewing Marjorie Taylor Greene soon…

Pray I get the chance! I have LOTS of questions.

And although I’m not a fan of politicians, I sincerely commend her bravery as of late.

New for Confluence 2026 ✨

We heard you when you said you wanted more time to settle in, more time on the land, and more space before rushing back to “normal life.”

So we built that in.

This year, Confluence expands beyond the core festival days with: → Early Arrival Day (Wednesday, April 22) → Integration Day (Monday, April 27 – depart Tuesday by noon)

Arrive regulated. Leave grounded. Let what emerges actually land.

Both are optional add-ons for Confluence 2026 ticket holders, $111 each, limited capacity.
www.confluenceevent.com

In these times, it’s incredibly easy to be distracted, anxious, afraid, and outraged by pundits, agendas, and narratives that do not have your best interest at heart.

And many who claim to have your best interest at heart actually don’t.

And then there are others who also claim to care, yet feed you a steady diet of fear, doom, outrage, and hopelessness.

I’m here to remind you of something important: you are far, far more powerful than you’ve ever been led to believe.

Your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs don’t just inform your words and actions. There is very strong indication that they act as causal vectors with respect to both your physiology and the nature of reality itself.

The placebo effect, the nocebo effect, psychosomatics, mass psychogenic illness, mass social contagion, the Maharishi effect, and more all strongly indicate that your state of being and what you consistently focus on has a direct impact not only on your body, but on the world around you.

There is also strong indication that the human body does not end at the skin. We generate and interact with an energetic field, often referred to as the biofield, through which information is constantly being transmitted and received. And while I acknowledge that models like the aether cannot be known with absolute certainty, there is compelling historical, experimental, and experiential evidence suggesting that reality is permeated by a subtle medium through which energy, information, and awareness propagate.

If that is even partially true, then your thoughts and feelings are not confined to your head. They move through your nervous system, your heart, your tissues, your water, into your biofield, and outward into the environment itself—sending signals into the world that you are participating in shaping.

And if that sounds too woo-woo for you, at the very least you can acknowledge this: your beliefs, thoughts, and feelings undeniably inform and color your words and actions, and your words and actions shape the world around you.

Water has been shown to alter its physical orientation and structure based on thought-energy, meaning the thoughts and feelings it is exposed to.

And considering your body is largely composed of water, all living organisms are largely composed of water, and water permeates all facets of reality, what happens when large numbers of people embody perpetual shame, rage, anger, hatred, fear, doom, and despair?

What effect does that have not only on the waters of their own bodies, but on the waters of the world?

I am not saying to put your head in the sand. And I am not saying to “try” your way into forced positivity.

It is important to be aware, but not consumed. It is imperative that you feel the authentic emotions that are arising within you, but not become them and be totally overtaken by them. There is a fine line here—and it’s worth paying attention to.

What are you allowing into your mind?

What are you consistently giving thought-energy to?

How is it shaping your beliefs, your thoughts, your emotional state?

How often are you consuming and engaging with content rooted in fear, rage, and despair,

and how often are you consuming and engaging with content rooted in love, compassion, peace, and joy?

Guard your heart, guard your mind.

Feel the emotions that arise, but don’t become them. Be aware, but not consumed.

Your coherence matters far more than you’ve been taught to believe.

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 218: Debunking All the Myths About Slavery, Civil Rights, MLK & Ku Klux Klan with Chad O. Jackson

It’s time to re-evaluate the commonly accepted narratives about MLK, civil rights and the KKK…

In this episode, Alec sits down with Chad O. Jackson for a long-form conversation about Martin Luther King Jr. and why his legacy still provokes such strong emotional and political reactions. Chad is an independent filmmaker and researcher whose work returns to primary sources and overlooked voices, and that lens shapes everything we talk about here.

They dig into how the Civil Rights Movement is taught, celebrated, and reinforced from an early age, often without room for deeper examination. Chad draws from archival research, period publications, and primary documents, showing how interpretation influences public memory just as much as the facts themselves.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/EPxphTNFdl0

This looks so epic! Well done, Veda!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KoS-2Se1MQ

The entire field of genetics is utter nonsense.

Genes are used as a scapegoat, not only by modern allopaths, but so called alternative practitioners as well.

The assumptions laden in the field begin at DNA, and go all the way to the applied science.

Unlearning this nonsense will set many of us free, and allow us to dive deeper into the true root causes.

Learn more here:
https://linktw.in/XbAtHc

The second meetup of the TWF Herts & Beds uk group
~Dawn

We’re aware that some people are having issues playing our most recent episode on Spotify and Apple… we’re working on it!

Others are able to play it just fine… could be a censorship issue.

- Alec

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 219: What The Media Hides About Epstein, Kirk, Trump & Israel with Ian Carroll & Chris Crutchfield.

This episode was recorded prior to the recent Epstein Files release.

The mass media have been hiding a lot of things from us, and it’s probably worse than you thought…

In this episode, Alec is joined by Ian Carroll & Chris Crutchfield for a wide-ranging conversation on how modern systems shape perception, behavior, and control. Ian breaks down how banks, asset managers, and corporate structures exert influence not through headlines, but through incentive design and financial leverage. He shares how questioning COVID narratives, financial corruption, and media overload led him to trace power through banking, corporate ownership, and information flows rather than political theater.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/LnlDQY-Dt1E

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Interviewing the legendary Cal Washington in studio today! What would y’all like to see us to discuss? What questions would you like me to ask?

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Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 220: This Process Allows You to Overcome Any Addiction & Limiting Belief with Josh Trent

You’re not running your life… your belief system is.

Alec is joined by Josh Trent, an identity transformation architect and the longtime host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast. For nearly a decade, his work has centered on helping driven, burnt-out achievers unwind the emotional and belief patterns that run their lives.

Identity under pressure reveals how much of who we are was shaped long before we had a choice, with unconscious beliefs often tracing back far beyond our own lived experiences. Nervous system regulation, money stories, and lineage show up as an interconnected web that influences how daily life is experienced and navigated. Addiction and self-abandonment surface as signals of deeper disconnection.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/mAf5zUYJPkU

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 221: The Biggest Homesteading Myths & The Easiest Way to Start with Kymber Rae

If you want to start a homestead because of what you saw on Instagram, you need to watch this episode.

Alec has spent a lot of time questioning the images of off-grid living and homesteading that dominate social media, especially the polished versions that assume massive capital, teams, or invisible support. Those images can feel paralyzing when you’re trying to build something real with limited time, money, or energy. The idea of total self-sufficiency often operates more like a story than a livable path, and holding it as the end goal can stop momentum before it starts.

Alec is joined by Kymber Rae, a first-generation homesteader-to-be, living on the edge of farmland and Boreal Forest in Saskatchewan, Canada. She’s renovating a mobile home on a budget, gradually working the land, and raising a new family while learning as she goes.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/qyHPxl10cjs

I’d like to share some brief thoughts surrounding my appearance on The Highwire:

Overall, I feel great about it! I think I mostly articulated my points very well, and presented a unique, compelling case regarding the lack of evidence for the germ paradigm as well as a window into a terrain-based health (for lack of a better term) perspective.

Aside from some minor hiccups in explaining aspects of viral genomics, I think I did pretty damn good. I hope it helps other people begin to question the failed germ hypothesis.

I am so grateful that I was provided that opportunity—truly. Although I didn’t have a chance to comment on everything that I’d wished to comment on, due to the understandable nature of a roundtable, I feel like I was able to make a lot of really important points that added clarity to the terrain position as I see it. And, although we disagree on various issues, I’m tremendously grateful to Del and the team at The Highwire for giving me the opportunity, and giving me loads of time to share my perspective uninterrupted (again, with the understandable limitations of a roundtable).

Thanks a ton to my brother Dr. Ben Tapper for having my back and boldly sharing the terrain perspective from his chiropractic lens.

I’d also like to thank everyone who tuned in, prayed for me, and cheered me on through this experience. I could feel your prayers, intentions, and God guiding me (and don’t even start with the “has God been isolated nonsense”—I recognize and fully admit that I BELIEVE in God, and ultimately, I’m not talking about a claimed physical particle 😉).

And of course, most importantly, I’d like to thank my wife Kylee Gray Zeck and my 3 kids for being my biggest fans and supporters—and an especially BIG thank you to Kylee for supporting me in the work that I do in the world.

I’ll probably record some sort of play-by-play recap of the experience and release it as a podcast.

With love,

Alec

Also, let’s go ahead and nip this dumb shit in the bud, because I’ve already seen it come up:

The red bracelet I’m wearing is a Serbian Orthodox Christian Prayer Rope that I got from Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade, Serbia.

I am Serbian. My grandpa and grandma go to a Serbian Orthodox Church. My two oldest were baptized Serbian Orthodox.

I am a Christ follower. I don’t know where I stand on a lot of things with respect to the Bible, the possibility that parts of it were manipulated, the chronology, etc., etc.—I currently believe in reincarnation (or something like that), I don’t believe hell is eternal, I don’t know where I stand on the possibility that Paul was a false apostle, etc., etc.

But, for me, Christ was the most important spiritual figure ever, and the best representation of God on Earth (at the VERY LEAST).

That’s a big, nuanced convo for another day.

Lots of friends of mine in Puerto Vallarta right now. Lots of people in our “movement”, so to speak. Hearing some pretty nuts first hand accounts from people.

Please send some prayers and focused awareness on love and safety.

Interesting Times in Puerta Vallarta

I never, ever like to be an alarmist, and that isn’t the point of this post.

But I’ve heard first-hand, direct accounts from people I personally know who are there right now, of Anarchapulco attendees attempting to leave Puerto Vallarta and having their taxi driver murdered in front of them, machine gun fire and explosions going off since 9 AM, people having to literally hide, countless vehicles on fire blocking road access, and warnings being issued telling people not to come outside this afternoon or risk being shot.

This hits close to home because it’s many friends of mine who are being impacted, and many people who love and support my work. I’ve had several reach out asking me to gather others for prayer and focused intention.

Had I not spoken in Mexico a few weeks ago, I too would’ve been at Anarchapulco in Puerto Vallarta right now, and I would be directly affected.

I firmly believe in the power of focused intention and attention, and in the power of prayer.

So I’m asking you to join me in praying for protection over our health and freedom friends who are in Puerto Vallarta effectively sheltering in place, and for peace and protection over the innocent people across Mexico who are currently under threat of, or experiencing, acts of violence.

Pray with conviction and focus your awareness.

Wow! Woke up to see The Way Forward podcast charting at #5 in Canada, #12 in the US, #17 in Australia, #21 in New Zealand, and #30 in the UK in Alternative Health on Apple Podcasts! 🔥

Thanks so much for the support everyone! So grateful for what I do, and grateful that I’m positively impacting the lives of people across the world!