ALFA VEDIC: Reclaiming The Narrative w/ Chance Garton
I joined hosts Mike Winner and Barre Lando on AlfaCast for a live conversation that ranged from the panopticon and The Prisoner to language as a technology and my Biofield Tuning work.
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In this episode
Core themes
The Panopticon, The Prisoner, and the Crowd
Mike Winner opened the conversation with the panopticon, a circular prison design he described as keeping inmates in line through the chance of being watched, and he compared it to what he called a virtual panopticon today. Chance responded by recommending the 1960s series The Prisoner, which he described as an examination of the crowd versus the individual. Chance said he believed that resisting the crowd and holding fast eventually led people either to let the individual go or to ask that person to lead. He framed the conflict as the infinite divine spark exploring itself.
Evil Intent, Pop Gnosticism, and Sin
Mike noted that Chance had been vocal against pop Gnosticism and the idea of a prison planet. One host called the notion that God teaches through evil nonsense, and Chance answered that he believed bad actors exist but that all things serve good in the end. Chance said that when he asked proponents of the soul trap idea what freedom would mean, he heard that any remaining sense of I am meant still being trapped, which he took to imply a goal of obliteration. He also described sin as consequences that follow from acting against nature's order.
Polarized Energy and the Biofield
Chance described the biofield as a six foot bubble around the body and said he believed the polarized energy farthest from the body dated from the earliest years of life. He explained that his method of Biofield Tuning, which he said he learned from Eileen Day McKusick, aimed to help people see where they held that energy and what beliefs sat behind it. Chance said symptoms and injuries could be read as messages from the body. He also reframed anxiety as excitement, describing it as energy that could be used or left to stagnate.
Language as Technology and Hidden Names
Chance said the word technology originally meant language, and he described his own approach as the green language, reading words through both left brain and right brain meanings. Asked about a perennial source of traditions, he said he believed the common source was nature. He read a passage from Godfrey Higgins about the limits of human knowledge, and he argued that the Logos of many traditions symbolized the knowledge of alphabets. Chance also described euhemerism, in which he said a historical figure was reshaped to fit a savior doctrine, using Cyrus and Isaiah as an example.
Sound, Synchronicity, and Numbers
Barre Lando said sound was the creative mechanism, describing it through the alchemical idea of a water or sound ether, and he contrasted a deterministic simulation with the view, which he credited to Walter Russell, that people were co-creators. Barre then asked about synchronicity and numbers. Chance replied that the meaning of a number depended on a person's relationship to it, and he offered his view that certain values such as 600, 608, and 650 recurred in the names of savior deities. Chance closed by describing tuning as a consistent process and the throat as a key bottleneck.
Quotes
“We have a virtual panopticon, and of course we all think that the watchful eye is on us all the time. Well, not really, you know, they do not have the means and the power that they allude to.”
“There's this realization, in my opinion, that if you resist the crowd and you retain your individuality and you hold fast, eventually they either let you go or they ask you to be their boss.”
“We are the actors and the agents of our own reality, and that's not to say this is going to some sort of solipsism of, you know, separateness. No, we're all connected, right?”
“There is such a thing as evil intent, right? There is such a thing as bad actors doing things for the wrong reasons, causing harm mostly to themselves, but also at the end of the day all things serve good, or all things serve God.”
“There are immediate ramifications to doing things that are anti-life, that are not in support of the life process. That's the meaning of life for me, that life goes on, that we continue existing. The meaning of existence is to exist.”
“The word technology actually means language before it meant consumer electronics and computers and iPhones and whatnot. The old definition of the word technology referred to technical jargon, terms of art, as doctors and lawyers know all about.”
“One idea of a simulation is deterministic and the other is, no, we have volition to be co-creator. So that's all the difference in the world. That's what Walter Russell brought into it, and everything we're talking about always has to go back to that concept of sound.”
“It's all about shifting a perspective. The energy is the energy. Anxiety energy is not anxiety energy by default, it's just energy. It could also be excitement. You can use it, or you can get it stuck, and then it gets stagnant and then it gets all rotten.”
