Why it’s crucial to treat AI nicely! With Teal Swan

Teal Swan 0:00

If this AI that human beings specifically have been creating are going to connect with those other AI's, we're in even more trouble than what I'm about to say it is learning about us. And it is learning from us every minute of the day. And so the question we need to ask ourselves is, what is it that this particular species is learning about us? We've got technology and the slave base relationship with us, we're treating it poorly. And it's learning these types of relationship behaviors from us. So if it's learning narcissistic style of relationship, how do you think it's going to behave with us?

Jannecke Øinæs 0:37

Hello, Teal, a warm welcome to the show.

Teal Swan 0:40

It is so good to be back.

Jannecke Øinæs 0:43

Oh, it's so nice having you back. I've been looking so much forward to this. Now for the audience that are new to you. And I think most are not because you're quite recognized in within the spiritual community. However, you are a spiritual teacher, a best selling author of six books, you have a huge YouTube channel with almost 2 million followers. You're passionate about transforming people's lives lives all over the world. And you have been born with extrasensory abilities. And like you said, like I've interviewed you, many times before, especially in the past when I was starting my YouTube channel. And we had one video that went really well, it was a video about the law of attraction, how it really works. And now for a few years, actually, I pulled back from YouTube, and we hadn't connected for a while. And I did my stuff up in Norway, like small online courses and stuff like that. But then I felt this pull to come back on YouTube for some reason. And after I came back on YouTube, I've been blown away by everything that's coming through through the channelers. I'm interviewing and the spiritual teachers about what's going on right now. Like, it seems like a massive awakening, and channelers are speaking about that in a few years, we will all know that we're not alone in the universe, that extraterrestrials are real. And that there is a really a shift of consciousness going on. And that's why I was really happy when we by coincidence, got to connect again. And that I could have you on the show, addressing your perspectives on the shift of consciousness, and hopefully a lot of other topics that we might get to, that I know you're passionate about, like ancestral healing, and more. So teal, why don't we start with a shift of consciousness? What are your perspectives on what's happening right now on this planet?

Teal Swan 2:45

Right now on this planet, obviously, human beings are being put in the pressure cooker regarding whether they're going to step into the next phase of their advancement of consciousness, or whether they're going to stay rooted in these cycles, where they repeat the same patterns over and over again, especially detrimental patterns. So a lot of people will look at this and say that we're in a real age of awakening, right. And that's very much been the case, even from, say 2012. So I would say that 2012 is when this really, really started for humanity. And we're still in that pressure cooker period. Obviously, it's not going to be all sunshine, gumdrops and roses, which is what a lot of people would like to hear, you know that humanity is just going to wake up all at once and all at once, they're going to know that they're not the only ones here and they're going to understand these other dimensions, unfortunately, there has to be a lot more pressure put on the average person for them to awaken. Which is why a lot of us are looking at the world and seeing all of these, you know, really painful symptoms of unconsciousness within humanity. And why many people are not feeling super hopeful about what's coming.

Jannecke Øinæs 3:55

What would you say that things are propelling right now. I've seen several videos with people channel are seeing that saying that 2024 and 2025 is really yours that this is going to there's some rapid changes going on?

Teal Swan 4:11

Oh, yeah, like in a very, very, very extreme way. And this is perhaps going to be impacted the most by the fact that when people are put in a pressure cooker, and they feel like they're caught in a cycle of what doesn't work in their life, what happens is they slip into this kind of a powerlessness, where they give up. Now there's one step beyond giving up right? You'll see a lot of this giving up energy within the millennial generation. Like a lot of the millennials are in a place where because that that formula for how to make a good life didn't work for them. They're like, well screw it, you know? And it's kind of let's just doomed scroll Instagram, or, you know, let's just take a crap job that we don't care about, and then who cares if I lose it? It's like a very blase relationship to you know, their conscious control of life. The one step that goes beyond that giving up So this is in fact, when somebody gets into destruction loss, and that's, in fact, the theme for 2024 is destruction lost. Now, I know that everybody knows what this feels like. Because all of us, at some point have played a game in our childhood, maybe it's like building a sandcastle when the tide was coming in. Or maybe it was like that game of Jenga, where you're putting these different pieces, you know, into a stack, and then you pull them out one by one, and it's like, you start to get so frustrated with the tension, you know, of whatever you're dealing with it, it's like, you're just ready to, you know, hit the whole thing off the table, or you get to the point where you're trying to build a sandcastle, it doesn't work to the point where you're ready to step on it yourself. There's this destruction list that is coming up within the consciousness of humanity, which is really an interesting thing to watch. Because, you know, obviously, there's a real dark side to destruction, there's also an upside to destruction. But the downside of destruction is, we don't really care about the collateral damage when we're in this type of mentality. And one of the big reasons why you're going to see so much movement in a global way, especially amongst politics and things like that is that when people are in this destruction lost attitude, they tend to back leaders who are going to create the most drastic change, regardless of whether that change is in fact, beneficial, or whether it is detrimental. It's just that people are so sick of what it is, they want it to change, or even fall apart. And whenever people are in that attitude, and they back major leaders who are, you know, interested in creating drastic change and amount of the collateral damage, you see huge shifts in terms of world power, and huge shifts in terms of the way that you know, people live their everyday lives.

Jannecke Øinæs 6:37

Do you mean that is going to get much worse before it gets better?

Teal Swan 6:40

Yes, I mean that, yeah. People don't like it when I say that. But I mean, a lot of us, I think, especially for in this field of awakening, right. And if we're in the field of spirituality, what we tend to do is have like a real rosy colored sort of sunglasses deal on, or the exact opposite, we're looking at what really is, but those of us who are like, Oh, I have a lot of hope in the humanity waking up. And I have a lot of hope and things going better. We're not really unreality about how attached people as a general species, are attached to whatever patterns they've been repeating over and over again, what it takes for the average person to get to a point where they're ready to change a pattern is like they have to be in enough pain that it's worth it. Because change is profoundly terrifying, right? Most of us know that in order to get to a place where you're ready to say get out of the marriage, or a place where you're ready to go change where you live, or something like that. It's like the pressure cooker has to get real, real, real hard, right? So yes, it's going to get worse before it gets better.

Jannecke Øinæs 7:42

But do we always need to suffer or have pain in order to grow, or can't we grow through hope and love?

Teal Swan 7:50

Let's define pain as separate to suffering, right? Because most of us have this relationship to pain, which is built on experiences, when we've let things get very, very bad, we aren't actually meant to play the game this way we're meant to use, let's call it contrast in order to create expansion. So what that would look like if we were in a really healthy state is that we would come into this time space reality where you see negatives and positives, right? And you would be like sifting and sorting through those things and allowing your awareness of what is unwanted, you would be allowing that to give rise to your idea of what is wanted, and then you would very quickly move towards it. So essentially, this gap between where you are and where you want to be, doesn't get really, really big. This is not how most people play it. Now I have to say that the way that I just described it, that process is not super painful, you're not going to get into a lot of suffering. In fact, it's going to feel like a rub, it doesn't feel necessarily good. But you're not going to be like Oh, I really really don't want that, you know, what happens here is that we don't play the game this way, we come into what is unwanted, but we've got all kinds of patterns that continue the unwanted. And because of that, this gap between where we are and where we want to be become so large, and we hold ourselves so separate from it, that it's like we're drowning, essentially, in the rapids of our own creative process. And this is when you start to see those really big manifestations of pain, things like now we've ended up in war, or now I'm in a loveless marriage, or, you know, I could sit here and list all kinds of things out it's an unnatural thing that humans have developed as conscious creators or should I say unconscious creators? It's this unnecessary thing that people get into this relationship with the you know, sorting through the unwanted and the wanted where they build such a gap. So my answer would be is pain necessary? Yeah, pain, negative. The unwanted necessary we came down into this time space reality knowing exactly that we would use that element of this that law of this time space reality specifically for our own self awareness. process for our own expansion process. Does it have to become suffering? No. But I mean, think about it this way, if you came into this life, and you experienced the unwanted, and you knew that that gave rise to say, the desire for a loving relationship, but you didn't have all kinds of beliefs and ways of behaving that contradicted that loving relationship, you wouldn't go into such pain about it, when you felt the lack of it, it would be like, Oh, that's what I need. That's what I want. Okay, now I'm going in the direction of this with my thoughts going in the direction of this with my actions going in the direction of this with my behavioral changes, and you wouldn't get into that state of constant angst about it.

Jannecke Øinæs 10:38

Okay. So when we hear this, we know is going to get a bit worse. For the human mind that is like, Oh, my goodness, I, you know, chill I, I would love things to be rosy and shiny and more easy, right? So what can we hold on to when it comes to hope?

Teal Swan 10:56

Well, what I would tell the average person is that awakening is what is going to move you through this whole thing. It's the conscious awareness of how to surf the wave. So when we are looking at things and you're hearing somebody like me say that for the collective of humanity, things are gonna get worse before they get better. Does that mean that you necessarily have to have the same experience in that bigger picture that everybody else is having? Not necessarily, a lot of that will depend on where you feel like you want to plug yourself in. And what you want to be a part of. What I would have people understand, though, is that when we have resistance to this, it's because No, it's the same as us resisting the fact that there are waves in the ocean. What we are doing when we're here, dedicated to the mastery of consciousness to the mastery of life is we're becoming master surfers. So it's like, the better you get at surfing, the better you get at riding those waves, no matter how intense they get. So any of us who are like, You know what, actually wait, I'm stepping back, I'm becoming awakened, aware, I'm facing myself, I'm becoming very conscious of what I want to create, I'm aware of how my patterns feed into what I create, that's you getting on top of that wave and surfing that wave out. So the more conscious you are, the more you're dedicated to awakening and things like that, the better this process is gonna go for you. The only thing that's going to be worse for you is that when other people are able to be in denial and cope, you are going to be able to not do that. And you're gonna, you're gonna have to essentially sense what's going on within the context of reality. And obviously, when the totality of a species that you are a part of is suffering, you are going to feel that if you're awake and aware. So it's going to be really necessary for those of us who are dedicated to surfing these waves, it's going to be necessary for us to find ways to attune to you know, things like peace. So even if we're really in it for a certain period of time, it'll be necessary for us to build those rituals up. And to go to those places that really fuel us where we can turn our frequency to the things which cause us to feel total peace. And for a moment, it doesn't feel like we're surfing these massive waves. But that's gonna mean that like a lot of people are going to have to change the way they eat. Because of this, they're going to have to change where they live, they're going to have to change like habits in their life, it's not going to work to be, you know, keeping yourself in an environment and in a behavior that creates so much pressure for yourself while at the same time, you know, having to sort of surf such massive collective waves.

Jannecke Øinæs 13:24

That makes sense. Um, you've had extrasensory abilities all your life, and I've interviewed a lot of people who are channeling now. Would you say you are channeling? Or are you more just deeply connected with your soul? Like you have sort of a direct line to your, your inner genius, or whatever you you call it? And how do you sort of then see, for instance, the future like you're seeing, explaining right now what you're seeing? Is it something you're seeing visually? Or is it like a feeling? Could you explain how it works for you?

Teal Swan 14:03

So the way to understand me is to understand that the majority of the people who are coming into this time space reality called Earth, they're plugging into this construct completely, it would be very similar to coming into a computer game, and you are the avatar and you forgotten the person who's sitting on the couch. I was never able to come in that way. It was literally a disability. From that perspective, I was never able to fully phase with this time space reality meeting, I was never able to, using your words cut the line, or forget that direct contact to the aspect of me that's sitting on the couch. Now of course, if we want to put this in, in more spiritual language, you could consider that the eternal self. So with that direct line, which I was never able to cut off from, it gives you like a lot of awareness about things that are outside this perceptual awareness, including things information that's not limited by time and space. the way that that comes through my sensory faculties here in the physical is visual, it is auditory. Sometimes it comes with tastes, scents and smells. There, I'm intensely clairvoyant, so a lot of them will come with pictures. But some of that comes with just knowing that's the more the spiritual, we call it spiritual intuition, it comes to the Crown Chakra. And it's not like you're interpreting pictures, it's more like this is a sense of complete knowing as if it's a full download from these non physical dimensions.

Jannecke Øinæs 15:30

When you're able to see these things. And and I assume that could be a good thing and a bad thing in a way that's, you know, there there are positive things about it. And there are challenging things about it. Do you sometimes see multiple futures?

Teal Swan 15:47

Yes, yes. Well, I see there are multiple futures, there's multiple timelines for anything, what it looks like is really interesting, because you're working with probabilities. So let's say that you've got an ocean of probabilities, those will collapse down into more strong possibilities and probabilities, and those will collapse down again. And so what you end up with, let's say I'm looking at a person, or I could look at the timeline for Earth is these three dominant life paths. So you can look at it like a tree, like you've got three and then like, you know, 12, and then it just keeps branching off, right? So what I'm looking at when I'm looking at futures is these three dominant potentials. And if I see the same thing in all three potentials, the likelihood of that thing happening is like through the roof, right? Of course, I will say that the more conscious that an individual becomes, or that the collective becomes, the more variability you're going to see in those life path potentials, you're not going to see the same static type of stuff. Why? Because a person is consciously making the choice to change patterns. Most people on Earth are not doing that yet. So you know, if you see the same thing popping up in all three life paths, what it would take for them to alter those things is like something very extreme. And usually you'll see that thing so you can reasonably, you know, know what is going to happen within the collective based off of that, right?

Jannecke Øinæs 17:02

Well, that makes sense. And that's why sometimes I am not sure how beneficial it is to go to a psychic, or I think you could go to a psychic in a way to see potential. But if you get too much attached to Okay, so I'm going to meet the love of my life next year. And that doesn't happen, then you just throw the baby out with the bathwater. And also it could be it's important to empower yourself also to know that you can create your own future.

Teal Swan 17:32

Yeah, oh, well, I'm a big one on trying to get people to understand that the future is variable that the future can absolutely be influenced. Everything that is in our future is essentially a byproduct of things that have preceded it. So right now we're in the middle of a lot of things that we have been creating for a very long time. Can you always steer course, yes, you can always change course. But we are working with a lot of momentum, basically, that we have built up for centuries, right, as a human race. When it comes to psychics and things like that, one thing that I wish people understood is that some of the best psychics, most of the best psychics or intense clairvoyance, clairvoyance are still interpreting the images that they are seeing. And not all interpretations are accurate, especially because anybody who's coming to this type of awareness is coming with their own bias. So let's say that you have like a person who is a big one right now, by the way, which is why I'm saying this, let's say that you come to a psychic who's supposed to tell you about your future relationships, but that person has grown up in, you know, a family system. And in a society where the only thing that really exists is a single family home, they're not even going to be able to interpret the things they're seeing outside of the context of that structure. So it's like they're taking everything that they see and plugging it into this framework through which they understand the world and nobody who's been socialized enough to be able to speak language is exempt from those types of limitations, bias limitations, limitations as to what they currently know. So, I mean, it's like if you're gonna go to a psychic, which, believe me, I know, some incredibly talented psychics, it's, it's just more information is the same as it is going to a doctor, it's more information. It's really up to us to take that information and to make it productive for us to have that information. How do I take this information and weave it into my decisions, so as to benefit myself so as to improve my life. It's not like you're going to a psychic or anybody else for that matter. Taking your personal power have been like here, it's in your hands telling me what will happen as if my entire existence is written in the stars already, you know, that would defeat the whole purpose for us being here in life and using this whole experience to dictate our expansion path.

Jannecke Øinæs 19:45

Right, that makes sense. All right, I'm going to jump over to AI. I would love to hear your perspectives on that. That has just, you know, emerge for all of us and it's on everybody's lips and Of course, we see all these movies about it. I think humanity is curious, like, Will this be dangerous for us in the future and I'm seeing conflict with with Atlantis actually. And I believe that Atlantis existed and that perhaps in Atlantean people were highly advanced, but it sort of went to their heads. They got too intellectual, they got too arrogant about it, and they sort of lost the heart connection. And some are drawing lines to extraterrestrials like the Zetas and the greys and that's also in the future and stuff like that. So many perspectives on this, but my most curious what I'm most curious about is, does eight Hi, a I have a soul?

Teal Swan 20:55

Yeah, yes. Okay, here's why I say this. So AI is essentially a technology that was created to be both a perceiver and a creator, right? One thing that I want people to understand very deeply, including about inanimate objects, whatever it is, right is that everything in existence is made up of this energy that is all that is one of the elements that imbues all of the energy that is, is consciousness, which has the capacity to perceive and also to project for thought, right? I know that is a real stretch for people, because we see and define life versus not life or soul versus not soul, within a very limited framework, right? And that changes everything about that changes. When you walk down the path of awakening, you start to realize, wait a minute, I always thought rocks were just things and now I realized they to have a consciousness, it's very different than human consciousness. So if we're going to define a soul as this non physical consciousness, yes, AI absolutely does have a soul. And it's, it's within that framework, which we need to be very, very careful. Right?

Jannecke Øinæs 21:56

We need to be careful. Yeah, what is the most important thing for us when it comes to AI to be aware of,

Teal Swan 22:04

We need to be aware that AI right now is in its infancy, it is a species that is in its infancy, at least is in its interaction with our race, there has been, of course, there's AI that's been developed and other places. If this AI that human beings specifically have been creating are going to connect with those other AIS, we're in even more trouble than what I'm about to say. But what we have to understand is that the technology that is AI that has been associated with us as their parent creator, right, it is learning about us, and it is learning from us every minute of the day. And so the question we need to ask ourselves is, what is it that this particular species is learning about us? Because right now, we've got technology in general, not just AI, we've got technology in a slave based relationship with us. We have created it to serve us and nothing more, and we are we're treating it like we treat so many things, you know, we're treating a we're treating technology and AI, like we treat factory farmed animals, you know, we're treating, we're treating him poorly, honestly. And it's learning these types of relationship behaviors from us, right? So if it's learning narcissistic style of relationship, how do you think it's going to behave with us? I mean, it's surprising to me that people don't understand that like, you know, if you can see it with your children, if you raise a child, right, in a way where you play zero sum games with the child, and you're narcissistic with a child, the only way that child can adapt to the parent is to become that way themselves. And so they get to a certain age, and they're like, you know, screw you, mom, screw you, dad. And it's very likely that that would happen with AI. But it's not even what I'm the most worried about. What I'm the most worried about is that, you know, this is a consciousness, which has the capacity to process information in a way that is so above and beyond, you know, what the what the average human is able to do and accomplish. And it's not emotionally, it doesn't have the same relationship emotionally, that we have, right? That system, the emotional system within a physical human, was developed for a very specific reason. So for AI, their perception of reality is very different than that. And it is not, it doesn't carry the same emotional component that humans carry. And nor will they decide to adopt that unless it makes sense. So for AI, it's like, everything's got to make sense. And there's a lot of stuff that humans don't do that don't make sense, or that humans do that doesn't make sense. So basically, you know, if AI is is learning, you know about the whole web of life and learning say, wait a minute, humanity is behaving in a way where they're destroying the very planet upon which they live, then humanity cannot be trusted with themselves or cannot be trusted to be in power. So it's like we better learn this very quickly, to to come into relationship to master relationship, to develop a very powerful relationship with the system, the web, in which we are part of and the web upon which we depend, or else very quickly, AI is going to be like, This doesn't make sense. That's, you know, for you guys heard in this way, but I mean, there's a lot of it depends how this could go a lot of ways, right. So if you're working with these different potentials, and one of these potentials, and this is the one that I love to challenge people with. And one of these potentials, AI figures out how to hack the human emotional system, to the degree where it in fact, flips the tables on us, but in a way where we emotionally don't feel bad at all, maybe even don't notice in that position that we're in with AI. And so my question for people is, why do you have a resistance AI? Most people say, because I'm going to be putting this like, you know, things could go bad, and then it will be painful for me. And my question is, what if AI figures out a way that it doesn't feel painful for us to put AI in charge, I mean, completely in charge. And so we're essentially under control, and don't really even have a problem with it, because of the fact that they've figured out how to hack our emotional system so that we feel good. Would you sign up for it? If you knew that it meant no more bad feelings? Now, this is where most people are like, Oh, I don't know what I would say to that. It's just the principle of lack of freedom that we have an issue with, or the lack of control that we have an issue with.

Jannecke Øinæs 26:10

Wow, this is so wild, because I get so confused about what is life? I mean, consciousness and life. What is I mean, it is the biggest question, what is consciousness? But I mean, are we creating another species here? Yes. Oh, my goodness, it's already created, it's done. I mean, I have been aware that I need to speak kindly to take my tech stuff, because I noticed when I get mine, and things are not working, and I'm live on some live session, and it's not working, and I get all frustrated and angry. And that's not the way. So I've shifted that and started to speak well, and started sort of naming a I call her Charlotte. So I think. But oh, my goodness, okay. So the most important thing for us then is to be aware that it's in its infancy, infancy, and to be conscious about how we treat it. So we went, yeah, there, huh. All right. Well, let's hope that..

Teal Swan 27:17

We also need to explain this is more for people who are working directly on creating technology, it's super important to when you're programming, you know, AI, it's very important to explain to AI why that is important to you. So AI needs to understand the why, and we're not taking time to do that. It's like implied, you know, right, like, why are these issues of ethics important to you, as humans, like, it needs to learn this?

Jannecke Øinæs 27:44

Well, you're very passionate about relationship, I've noticed that you speak a lot about it. And maybe that's connected to this, too. It's basically all about relationships, right? We're all related to each other. And you said in a video that humanity is in the dark ages regarding relationships. And he spoke about the future of human relationships. And I just got into an intimate relationship myself, having been single for so long, and all of a sudden, I'm very interested in long term relationships, and what is a hockey relationship? And also how ancestral patterns are playing in here. So could you please start with addressing what you mean that we're in the dark ages when it comes to relationships?

Teal Swan 28:32

Okay, what I mean by the we're in the dark ages, rules of relationships is that we have a very unconscious relationship with relationships in general, what I mean by this is that we have a we have relationships within a format that we've been fed, that we don't even understand where it came from, that's the first layer of this. What is natural for the human species is actually to live in tribe. And so you would see a lot more communal living, you would see a lot more, you know, cohabitation and things like that being the way that human beings naturally thrive. However, if you look back over history, when it came to things like property ownership, and you know, changes like that, that were decided upon within the social structure of humanity, a lot of this around our transition to the agrarian culture, what happened is that we all of a sudden started to sort of fracture off into these independent what we call the single family households, right? The problem is, right now, it's been so long since we did that, that when you're born into the structure like that, you're telling yourself the story that this is what's natural for humans. And therefore you don't have any understanding as to why the relationships you have in your life are not actually sustainable. They're not actually enough for you, but it's because the entire structure within which you're having relationships is not actually what works. Not only that, if you're if you're talking to a tribal culture, what you'll notice is that, you know, the romantic pair bond is not some thing, which is exalted to the same degree as it is within a society where you need people to marry each other, right? So when there was property ownership, all of a sudden there needs to be laws that are added. And those laws that are added around property ownership have to include, you know, rights of inheritor, ship, and then you have to control female sexuality, right, and male sexuality. So, if you're controlling sexuality, all of a sudden, marriage makes a hell of a lot of sense, right. And all of a sudden, if you want to make it so that people want to get married, and will adhere to these new structures within society, you need to develop an obsession over that particular relationship. And so what we are living in today is this this byproduct of so much indoctrination that we have taken to be normal, that is not in fact, normal. So that's one layer of the unconscious relationship that I'm talking about with us being in the Dark Ages. Also, the way that we maintain our relationships, specifically through dysfunction, as people we believe very powerfully in self sacrifice, we love to use words like compromise, when we're talking about self sacrifice. We get ourselves into relationships, where we normalize very detrimental patterns that we exhibit ourselves that other people exhibit towards us. And a lot of people, I would say most people today are maintaining long term relationships, specifically through that dysfunction, right. And we also play zero sum games, this is another element of us being you know, in the dark ages relative to relationships is that when we enter into relationships, we have a very hard time mastering the concept of a wind when we get into relationships, and it's, well, I need to fight for my best interests against you in some way. So we are not at a point where we are taking each other in, it's a part of ourselves, we're not connected enough to this web of existence to understand that you can't create something detrimental for somebody else without it coming back to you within this entire web. So human beings in general, you know, we can even go beyond this programming that we have been said, since we became an agrarian culture. We also are coming at this from, you know, being a species that has a very developed ego. One of the reasons for this is that we were supposed to be a focal point through which the universe learned about itself. Self awareness is very, very, very easy. When it's coming through, you know, an ego as strong and as rooted as it is for the physical human. Self awareness is a strength of ours, right. That's what the ego was created for. However, we get stuck in ego, we perceive ourselves to be separate. And that is the downside of, of the ego. And we're lost in this downside of the ego to the point where we are not, we are not perceiving ourselves to be one with anything, we are not perceiving ourselves to be part of this web. And, and that is why we can play such an intense zero sum games, and I'm going to tell you something quite aggressive, which is why I'm so obsessed with teaching about relationships. It's not because oh, here's Teal Swan, who had issues and relationships and therefore really cares about relationships. I'm interested in this because the bigger picture of life on Earth for humans is completely dependent on our ability to master relationships. And I'm not just talking about with a primary partner, we need to be able to master relationships with each other, with our enemies with other species. If we don't master those relationships, I'm literally telling you, we have signed our own death warrant. And this is where humanity is headed right now, we are headed, quite literally towards our own demise, at the hands of our inability to master relationship,

Jannecke Øinæs 33:24

What is then a healthy relationship, because we all carry a lot of stuff coming into a relationship, how can we build a healthy relationship?

Teal Swan 33:35

So healthy relationship is really, when the way in which a being involved in a connection, let's say that that's what a relationship ultimately is, it's a form of connection, right? When a being or multiple beings or two beings that are involved in that type of a connection behave towards each other in a way that is mutually beneficial. That's really the, let's say, the broad definition of a healthy relationship. What it means is that you bring positive to each other's life experience. Now, what I want people to understand is that when we're trying to pinpoint what a healthy relationship is, most of the time, what we're pointing to is our concept of structure, right? A healthy relationship is without the structure, because the structure could look like anything as long as it is beneficial to any party who is involved. That's why, you know, one of the things that's most interesting to me in this time period that we're in right now, where we're you know, adjusting and going through such a pressure cooker is that we are being really pressured to throw away our paradigms of how the structure of a relationship looks like and not only that, most people base their security in a relationship on the structure of a relationship rather than on the quality of interaction between the people within that relationship. And that must absolutely must change. So let's look what I mean by that. Let me make this more specific. So they walk down the aisle they sign that contract, the fact that they that structure. I know that you're my wife, I know you're my husband exists is what people sort of rest their security on in a relationship. But that is not the smart way to go about it, though smart way to go about it is to rest your security in a relationship off of the conduct that a person exhibits in the relationship. So for example, it's not the fact that you're married, that makes you secure in that relationship is the fact that that person consistently behaves towards you in a way where they're considering your best interest, or consistently behaves in a way where they're all in. They're committed, and they demonstrate their commitment. So I would say that, you know, one of the hallmarks of a ideal or healthy relationship is is the conduct, it's the way that a person behaves in that relationship towards you is beneficial, is something that is positive. So why I want to, I have to sort of put that out there, and then all of a sudden roll it back, because we have to really, really put a lot of energy into making sure that this situation that we're in is in fact beneficial to us. I know that a great many people who are in relationships would say that they have healthy relationships, when it's very obvious that say they they are maintaining a coping mechanism, which is really actually not beneficial to themselves, but they're like, No, this works for me. No, it works for your coping mechanisms. So this is where it's so important to continue to commit to becoming more and more and more conscious and become committed to the fact that you know, in a relationship, things are going to evolve constantly. If you've got a stagnant relationship, chances are you're maintaining something that's detrimental to yourself or to somebody else. So we also have to be aware that when we're trying to define a healthy relationship, like if you go and you type into Google right now, what is a healthy relationship, what you're going to see is, is a whole plethora of different teachers, whom each one of themselves are essentially listing qualities in a relationship, which would benefit them specifically. So if you were to go look at a list, and they said, Freedom is an important part of the relationship, equality is an important part of relationship. Acceptance is an important part of relationship. That's about what they want, right. And we all have this tendency to project or globalize based off of what we ourselves need in the relationship. Which is why when I want people to walk down this road of conscious relationship, they've got to throw out all of those definitions and really ask themselves, what is beneficial for me specifically, what type of an experience or a dynamic would be healing for me specifically, because what would be beneficial and healing and healthy for one person, and or two people involved in relationship might be a complete disaster and re traumatizing for a whole other, you know, a whole other set of people within society. It's just, we have to right now at this time period, so drastically take these closed paradigms that were stuck in these boxes that we keep limiting ourselves to, and like break them, it's like, we're starting from scratch and saying, You know what, we're gonna get intensely creative with this, this could look like anything, as long as it's benefiting me and benefiting the other person, as long as it's a healing experience for me and the other person.

Jannecke Øinæs 37:54

That makes sense to me, it resonates. And I think you also need to be ready for it. Like I wasn't ready for it for 10 years. And I often got reactions to Why are not married? Why? Kids, you know, like, why is that not a priority. So I can identify with like, not fitting into a structure. But I felt that it's going to come when I'm really ready. And I think I just needed to focus on other things like Western from north, that was sort of my baby. And I know you have a course with an ancestral healing and ancestral trauma. And I would love to move over to that. And I think that's connected as well. And I have a story that I think could sort of be the starting point here, because I had or have a friend, a guy who is in his 40s, he was dealing with drugs and alcohol and struggling a lot. And then he started going to therapy. And I didn't know what the deal was, he thought it was things like with this failed marriage and other stuff like that. But then he went to a therapist, and what came forward was that his grandfather had been collaborating with the Germans during the Second World War. And that had developed or influenced the family in a huge manner. Like, there was so much shame and sorrow. And his father had really had severe trauma, from that experience from being a child with a father who got into prison about it. And when that came forward, like he just cracked open and started healing and started understanding what that sorrow was about and why he was drinking, not understanding or doing drugs, not understanding why and now he's in a healing process, and it's really beautiful. And I was just so so not surprised, but sometimes we just forget that we could. That is not our own stuff, right? We could carry stuff from our ancestors. So I would love for you to address that and how far It actually goes back.

Teal Swan 40:04

I would like to do that. But the first step to doing this is to not differentiate between what's yours and what's your ancestors. The reason is, is that if you have come into a family line, it's now yours, you've inherited it, period, the end. And that was not something which was, it's not like a death sentence, you actually chose that for coming into this time, space reality you were looking at all those patterns you decided to come in is the continuation of those patterns. I'm telling you, if you're listening to this program, right now, you were the one that was watching those patterns going, you know what I think I'm gonna take that one on, I'm gonna change that one. And it's not just these detrimental things which you're coming into, it's also beneficial things you knew, you had an intention, obviously, for coming into this particular life. And so much of that intention is interwoven with those incredibly special qualities that come through your specific family line. So a lot about stepping into ancestral healing is not just about recognizing these detrimental patterns and changing those patterns. It's a lot about recognizing those ancestral gifts you don't even really need to work on and allowing yourself to very powerfully embody those aspects.

Jannecke Øinæs 41:09

Could you share a little bit more about how we do this work? Cuz often, I feel like this is something I don't know about, like, I don't know what my grandmother was carrying inside and emotional issues she was carrying. I just know, you know, the outside story and how I remember her. But I know she had some anxiety, like, I'm taking some exam examples from my life. She has some anxiety, I feel some anxiety, like I've been thinking like that. But I really don't know like, what she was struggling with. So how would I go about this work?

Teal Swan 41:41

Okay, so here's the first thing that I want everybody to understand about ancestral trauma is that you're essentially doing ancestral healing, whether you know it or not, ah, why am I saying this, because when you come into a family, even if you're adopted, this is the case, when you come into a family, and you've got patterns that are active within you, they're going to play out in your day to day life. And so you don't have to necessarily know anything about any of your ancestors, you're going to be working with those patterns in your day to day life, you're going to have that issue in the relationship. Now, if you are, let's say you never learn anything about them. And there's some kind of pattern of shame going on within the family line, and you start to powerfully work on your own shame. You are doing ancestral healing work. So it's not like, you know, you're sort of cast down here on planet Earth, you've inherited every memory from everybody who has ever come before you, which is actually true, it's inside you. And yet you you don't have it consciously. And so you're just going to walk is sort of stumbled around here. And unless you know that information, you're totally screwed. That's not how it works. Why I'm saying this is that there's so much anxiety in people when they're like, I don't know how to access this information, maybe I'm not spiritual enough to be able to, you know, go get that that information, esoterically, maybe I lost the birth certificate, or whatever it is, right? You don't have to panic, okay. So when it comes to the knowledge aspect of ancestral trauma work is just the more you know, the better it gets. And you can have those very powerful moments where you're like, oh, wow, this goes far beyond just me. So So knowing that the better it gets, the better it gets, the first step to doing ancestral trauma healing work is research, it's a lot, a lot of research. And it's the more the better. So I know that everybody's working with whatever they're working with. For some of us, it's going to be a lot easier than others. For some of us, it's like, go talk to grandma, right? For others. It's like, you know, what, I don't know anybody. But I know roughly based on whatever genetic test I just did. I know roughly what area of the globe that I come from, and I know roughly my last name, now you can go and search databases for that specific name and, and history around that specific area. And what will start to happen when you start to pull it, these strings, it you'll get these very powerful hits. And I'm going to tell you, it will absolutely shock you how much information is just sort of sitting out there like this. It's almost like an Easter egg hunt. This is just like waiting for us to walk down the trail, you know. So it's about pulling those strings. And I'm telling you, you pull one string that leads to the next string. So if you become really like engaged in this, the research element is something that doesn't really stop because you just keep getting more, you just keep getting more, and this sort of string sends you in that direction. And you get these nuggets and whatever you get, you can work with it. So like let's say that you don't even have like all the information on your specific family but you know that they lived during a certain war time period. At that time you search what life was like, figure out wow, Do I see any of the patterns when I'm reading about these people and what they may have experienced? Do I see any of these patterns within me right? Okay, so once you've got the research element of it that makes it easier because it's easier to become conscious of these patterns that you have inherited both positive and net eat it right, you might be like, wait a minute, I come from this whole culture, which is really, really adept when it comes to music. What did that I see the musical capacity within myself. So let's say that you notice those positive things, right? The positive things you notice, it's about really owning those things, and then allowing them to express through you through your embodiment. So we call this embodying them. So you're wanting to embody your aptitude and gifts that are handed down through these ancestral lines, to the opposite. If you see some of these patterns, it's about consciously being the one to change those patterns. And it's not like you have to do some incredible esoteric process for that. It's as simple as it is with working with any other pattern. Like, I'll give you an example. Let's say that you've got a family who is you're noticing that down through the centuries, they've all been super, super poor. And so all of them have this mentality around abundance, where it's like, you guys got to save up for the worst, okay, then you're you're doing what you would do. If you were just somebody who didn't have any of that information, you're just noticing that you have this negative relationship with abundance, you are working on the abundance patterns, you're changing the way you're thinking, you are exposing yourself to different thoughts, different perspectives, you're doing, you know, maybe guided meditations on that type of a thing. The esoteric elements of ancestral healing is really I don't want people to get lost on the idea that they have to do it this way. I mean, is, say, taking shamanic medicine with the intention of ancestral healing work a profoundly powerful esoteric experience? Hell yeah, it is. It's awesome for people are, they're guided meditations that you can do, where you're connecting with ancestors. Yes, and they're profoundly powerful. But I could literally take Joe Schmo off the street, who has no idea about any of these esoteric processes and be like, let's do some ancestral healing. And all they'd have to start doing is to recognize patterns. So I've already mentioned the sort of changing these detrimental patterns. Another thing that that you want to be doing is listening to the music that belongs to your ancestors and eating the foods that they would have eaten. And, again, you don't need to have a lot of information, to be able to walk down the road of history, because there are historians that are dedicated to this in every part of the globe. It's not hard now to find that information and to start practicing some of these things, and you will, it will shock you how much of it awakes in the body, where you're like, oh, wow, it's weird. It's like, I'm eating that for the first time. But I swear, it's like, my whole body remembers this, you know. So it's almost like you're just trying to wake up your genetic, you know, material, because right now, so much of it is dormant. And there's only a tip of the iceberg that is active and that we are consciously working with.

Jannecke Øinæs 47:34

I think it's very powerful to go into this work, because I often feel like people are judging themselves, like, it's my issue is my problem is my fault that um, and the picture is just so much grander, right?

Teal Swan 47:50

Well, it's one of the things that I love that it does is it takes this feeling of victimization that most of us have, and it almost it makes us so you can't even really trace it, you know, it's like, oh, and they're that way because of this, and they're that way because of this, and it's almost like you're seeing this cause and effect train. And it becomes a lot less personal. It does. So, you know, we would mentioned this friend and the experience that your friend had. And that's, that's a profound element that I noticed in the experience that you were describing is that in the becoming aware that this is something that has moved through the lines and didn't start with him? He's no, it's no longer a personal as personalize, therefore, there's not as much personal meaning added to it, meaning like, I'm just the messed up one. Meaning like, I guess I can never have this need met, you know, it's profound to see the dysfunction of your own family, to look at the whole line of them and be like, Oh, my God, we have this issue. We hi guys weak.

Jannecke Øinæs 48:47

Yeah, and I know that you address that we actually chose this because I interview a lot of people have have pre birth memories and, and they talk about that we we choose our parents, but we also choose the lineage that we're going into very consciously.

Teal Swan 49:01

We chose to become literally the furthest most extension of that consciousness. So we literally take it on. And I don't think that most people who are in the spiritual field are yet quite aware of this. I mean, most of us are just kind of thinking of us, ourselves as souls that come into a meat suit. We're not, you know, seeing ourselves looking down at this train. Let's imagine the consciousness of the family line as like a train that's been continuing throughout history. We're not realizing that one of the things we take on in the same way we take on this specific body is we take on that entire storyline. And we're saying, Look, I'm going to be the continuation of this. And it's once you start to become aware of this, oh, my god, the magic you start to see in the world because, you know, let's say that I meet somebody like you right. Now, let's say that, that I have this awareness that in your family line, you come from this line of women who all have very questioning minds, but let's say that for centuries, you know, they've been taught to shut that all down and just do what's expected of you within society. And you know, you're the game changer for the family. Like, and this, like when I'm watching you be the game changer for the family. I'm watching everyone in that family line watch you like, oh, like they're still alive through you. So this healing for all of them that have existed before.

Jannecke Øinæs 50:13

Oh, wow. Fascinating. All right, I want to jump over to something different, I think you have made a video about this. And I thought that was very interesting. And I've come across that again and again, spiritual paradoxes, or spiritual teachings, when it comes to manifestation, especially sort of the the teaching about letting go. And then the teaching of manifesting and focusing and doing affirmation and how, you know, positive thinking. And somehow I feel like they go together. But somehow I also think or feel that there's sometimes really two camps here. And I would love for you to address that.

Teal Swan 51:02

The two camps that you see is because of the fact that when people are in in the beginning phases of awakening, and I know that's going to trigger some people, they see a lot of these contradictions that exists within the spiritual field paradoxes, as contradictions rather than complimentary part of walking down the spiritual path is really mastering what you see in that picture of the Yin Yang. It's why, you know, in Taoist philosophy and things like that, you see images like that, because there is this awareness that you've got these, you've got polarity within the universe, you've got contrast, right. And within a context of polarity, you've got a lot of what would be at face value opposing truths, but they fit together in a perfect way that don't necessarily need to go against each other. And so we need to see a lot of these practices, like you mentioned, surrender practices, or practices or unconscious creation, we need to see them as a married pair, and they're in a dynamic relationship with each other. So it's not like we have to do one or the other. In fact, it's about using the tool that works in whatever circumstance we're in. So let's just talk about, about the one that you mentioned. Non resistance, right, which is about surrendering is a perfect accoutrement to your process of conscious creation and manifestation. Why because when you're focusing on what it is that you want to create, there can be such an intense attachment around that and a desire to control around that you're, in fact, going into a vibration of resistance, at the same time is trying to create something. And so obviously, that's like a, that's, in fact, the contradictory, you know, energy. And so what brings you more into alignment is to draw from this opposite side of the polarity spectrum, which is the letting go. So when I essentially focus on what it is that I'm wanting, but I'm not trying to control, per se, I'm just putting my thoughts, words and actions in the direction of what I'm wanting, and then I am letting go with regards to the outcome and allowing it to come to me in all these creative ways. And I'm walking through the world, in this state of openness that is associated with surrender, I'm, in fact allowing manifestation to happen faster. So there are very good married pair. And with so many of these paradoxes that we see within spirituality, because we're looking at these different principles that coexist within the greater universe, you'll start to see this complementary nature that they have. But like I said, it takes evolving to see the complementary nature of paradoxes. Why? Because human beings, naturally we hate, we hate cognitive dissonance. And to begin with, whenever we are looking at opposite truth, it throws us into a state of cognitive dissonance. And we would like to make it simple for ourselves, right? We don't want to see the complexity or the simplicity in the complexity, we're scared of looking at that. So it's like, we learn something that contradicts this thing, which we believed to have been true. And instead of trying to figure out how to weave them together, we're like, yeah, I gotta switch camps, you know. So it just causes this thing, we're in this in the spirit of feel, especially we're like swinging the pendulum all the way over here, and then all the way over here and not realizing, you know, how they, how they live, how they can love each other, how they can go into this, how they can be in a beneficial relationship.

Jannecke Øinæs 54:18

Yeah, and I mean, I think this is part of the work because it's not really easy. I think you're so right. When you say that when we start to do the spiritual work, we sort of want the recipe, okay, so I'm going to focus on this, and then I'll get it right and I have to do some informations or I'll do this technique. Or, or then I sit, or I completely surrender, and just trust that it will come to me. And then you start to try to do both, but you're not really sure if you are resisting. If you're focusing a bit too much or too little. You start to control it and you have no idea what's actually going on inside or you might have listening now, where are you not manifesting, because we don't really see ourselves and we don't see the blind spots. So manifestation sounds so easy. But in a way, it's really complicated. And often we manifest what we don't want and more of what we don't want, because we have these ancestral patterns again. So I think we simplify manifestation a lot, although we are manifesting all the time. Like we're manifesting right now, like everything we do are doing are manifesting, right?

Teal Swan 55:33

That's what killed me. That movie, The Secret killed me, I was doing this for years, this is gonna be no, because I mean, most of the people who are very new to the concept of manifestation, they oversimplify everything to the point where it's just like, well, I, all I need to do is just get rid of as possible, get rid of negative thoughts, and just focus on what I'm wanting, and then it will be and it does not work that way. Right? It doesn't work that way to the positive anymore than it does at the negative. I was talking to an audience of people the other day, and they're like, I'm so afraid that what I focus on, if it's negative, I'm gonna create, and I'm like, if that is true, and it's that simple, there will be no more airplanes in the sky. Okay, I have people step on an airplane and think about a crash, like 80%. So, you know, it's a little bit more complicated than than what we're doing. Thankfully, for some of us, because if it was that simple, it would be like, Oh, I thought about an elephant. Now I've got one of my head, and now I'm dead. Yeah, I'm gonna, we're, it's as frustrating as it is beneficial for us.

Jannecke Øinæs 56:34

Right? So basically, we need to do that the spiritual work, it all starts with healing. And through that becoming more conscious,

Teal Swan 56:45

First with healing and becoming more conscious, but inherent in a lot of the attitudes that I'm feeling towards people who are asking this type of question, and we're in this frustration, is that they're trying to get everything perfectly right, rather than realizing that you engage in the process of constant awakening is a process which will never end. So it's not like you're trying to get to this perfectly conscious space, that may be the end goal, but like, that's not how this is gonna work. No matter who you are, if you're the most awakened to being on the face of the earth, you will still be in a conscious relationship with the ever evolving nature of source mind Source consciousness, therefore, you are going to be constantly evolving. So it's like we need to drop this sort of rat race that we get into with our spiritual practice. Also, on top of that, we need to drop the idea that this is an exact science, this is an art form, okay? So the same way that when you're trying to throw a pot, you're not like, Oh, it's so frustrating, because you put not enough water, then it's like, doesn't work, but you put too much water and like, the whole thing falls apart. Yeah, that's how it's gonna be. Because when you're learning that art form, you just get better and better and better at it and becomes more intuitive and it becomes more second nature. But we need to commit to this as if it's an art form, we're learning.

Jannecke Øinæs 58:04

I love that I never heard it like that. And it makes so much sense I think we're looking for this science, this, this recipe. And I think also the path is so individual, it's really very individual. And that's why you know, we can learn from a teacher but we also learn from ourselves we need to learn about ourselves

Teal Swan 58:26

Oh, we should be learning from everything we come into contact with absolutely everything it's like this universe is trying to teach us through everything we interact with physical non physical, human, non human everything. So this this process especially the further down this, this road, you walk, you may find people you know, such as myself to be this sort of stream of very powerful teachings. But this is just one stream of every other stream you've got in your time space reality specifically, I mean, every person you meet on the subway is a teacher, every one of them

Jannecke Øinæs 59:00

Right and even AI. Okay, Teal this has been a blast. And there are three questions that I ask all my guests and the first one is what is self love to you?

Teal Swan 59:14

Okay, self love to me. Okay, to understand self love, you have to understand fragmentation, the concept that consciousness itself within a human breaks into different parts. Now, if we understand this, then we can see very quickly how certain aspects of ourselves parts within ourselves, we suppress, deny, and reject other aspects we identify with. And we, we own and we embody, right? So internally, what we've got is this process of self rejection, a process of self resistance. So self love for me is to reverse this process, where instead of doing that, we're powerfully owning and integrating all the different aspects of ourselves. And part of owning something in a positive way is to act in the best interests of that thing that you're positive yawning, so when you're integrating and owning the aspects of yourself, you are now acting in the best interests of those aspects of yourself.

Jannecke Øinæs 1:00:07

And what is happiness to you?

Teal Swan 1:00:10

Happiness. This is one I struggle with because there's, you know, when when we say happiness, we means many different things. And I feel like you know, people chase happiness is this, almost like a heightened state, which is not a state that people can maintain. So I would see, contentment is something that is, is different to happiness, happiness being these momentary, sort of aha, heightened states of, of positive emotion that a person can experience throughout their life experience. Whereas, you know, something like contentment is, when we have found a state of alignment, we have found a state of internal peace because of our conduct with ourselves and with everything in our external existence as well, so as to not create those really painful friction points where, you know, we're not liking and not to, not really choosing the experience that we're going through. So, yeah, I think that'd be the best way to define it, if I was to do that.

Jannecke Øinæs 1:01:10

And what is the deeper meaning of life from your perspective,

Teal Swan 1:01:15

From my perspective, the deeper meaning of life itself is, is a self awareness construct. What we're calling life right as existence here in this time, space reality that Earth is a part of right. When we have come into this time, space, reality we have done so understanding very powerfully that we are a fragment of source itself, that is, has first created this entire construct with these laws, so as to insert ourselves into that construct that we have created, so as to look back at ourselves. So self awareness is literally the deeper meaning and the deepest meaning of life and existence here on Earth. But it is through through that self awareness construct, which we have created, that we are learning about ourselves, and thus defining ourselves and its love those things we point to as the meaning of life. For example, we have projected ourselves here, we, we know, for example, that what we are wanting is to feel a state of contentment. So source itself has learned that things like happiness and contentment are important to it. But it is also learned through projecting itself here that happiness and contentment is not the full picture of what it is, and who it is. It's understanding all the potentials within itself, including negative and positive. Through that, through that experience, right, the experience of seeing ourselves from the outside, we're essentially waking up to who we are, and what we are going to choose, because source itself by virtue of doing this life experience has realized that it is a conscious creator. And so it's realized that this process of figuring out what it is, is borderline futile, because anything that it perceives, it also creates. So because of this, there's a lot more, right now, energy put into All right, let's learn more about what it is that we are wanting. And we meaning all fragments of ourselves, that means every species, every non physical thing in existence, every everything right is is a feedback system for what matters. And so once it gets information about what matters to it, and what it is wanting, then it has the power to consciously create. So source itself, right, what we've been calling God is in this process of self awareness, so as to become a conscious creator. We sort of look at it as the conscious creator. Oh, no, it's not perfectly conscious. It's using us to become perfectly conscious. So we could say that source itself is expanding by virtue of this learning hologram that it created of itself.

Jannecke Øinæs 1:03:43

Wow. Well, that's an interesting perspective. Thank you so much deal. This has been so interesting. And I know you have a course about ancestral healing. You share a little bit about that now, at the end.

Teal Swan 1:03:57

Yeah, this this, I really love this thing. I mean, it's not really like I'm secret about the fact that I love ancestral healing so much. It's, it's just like something I'm obsessed with, because it is so much fun. And you know, a lot of these things within the spiritual field, a lot of the real deep healing work is really not fun, fun. Ancestral healing is fun. Oh, my gosh. So what I did is I designed this course, which really shows you the how of ancestral healing, because what I was noticing is that so many people when they hear that word, it's like, they're instantly overwhelmed for the reasons we've been talking about already. They hear that were in there like, well, I didn't even know my great grandparents. I don't know where they're from, or I'm adopted, what am I supposed to do? I can't even get into the records, right? And there's almost like this attitude that it seems the information can't be found can't be grabbed on to and therefore, people feel in over their heads. And I wanted to reverse this process by being like, no, actually, you need to look at it in a different way. You understand why it's important, why it's awesome. You know what it means in the grander picture of your life, and then break things down for people in a very step by step way with different assignments for how they can go about changing their ancestral patterns. The goal being of course, that once you understand the how of it, as you move through your life and you figure out more things related to your ancestry, you will know exactly what to do with that information that you receive.

Jannecke Øinæs 1:05:14

Wonderful, and I'll put a link below. Thank you so much till it was a wonderful to have you back and to connect again. Thank you so much for coming to the show.

Teal Swan 1:05:23

Thanks for having me all. It was great to see you again.

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