"The Obstacle is the Way" w/Chance Garton & Jared Weiss
I sat down with Jared Weiss on the Jared and James channel to talk about making the obstacle the way, working with emotional charge, and how conspiracy research can lead back to spirituality.
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In this episode
Core themes
Making the obstacle the way
Jared described a lifelong belief that anything is possible and said challenges reveal what people are made of. Chance answered that he liked to tell people not to run from obstacles or treat them as walls, because in his view the obstacles are the course. He used the image of running hurdles in track, where the hurdles show where the course lies. Chance added that in his experience the biggest challenges seemed to be offered to people with the biggest reservoir of spiritual energy, and he encouraged Jared to keep sharing his anything is possible story as he grew his show.
True self and stuck energy
Chance described the true self as the animating energy of the body, which he called prana or chi, and said biofield tuning was about finding where that energy was stuck. He explained that limiting beliefs were what constituted stuck energy, using the example of a fourth grade teacher repeatedly calling a child lazy. Chance said he worked under an explicit agreement with a person, and he treated the chakras and the aura as a language for speaking with the body's intelligence. He also told listeners to read bodily symptoms as metaphors, and he framed this as his own working view.
Emotions as polarities and charge
Chance argued that emotions labeled as bad were attached to a polarity with ones people wanted to feel, so that sadness and joy were both green energy in his color framework. He described anxiety as the same frequency as excitement and said he spent that charge on preparation. He said anger could be reframed as assertiveness and used to set boundaries. Jared pointed to the film Inside Out, where sadness proved essential. Chance described a zero balance of emotional charge as staying in flow.
Conspiracy research and not knowing
Jared said that following conspiracy rabbit holes kept leading him back to spirituality and his own power. Chance agreed that conspiracy work and spiritual work were the same path, but he warned listeners against treating the truth community as dogma and against turning everything upside down out of contrarianism. He described staying in the I don't know camp as a place where potential lay, and he cited the inscription that certainty brings ruin. Chance also said he had moved to an I don't know position on the shape of the earth, while Jared said he leaned toward flat earth.
Alchemy, saviors, and life force
Chance used alchemy to explain what he called the external savior. He said the creator, destroyer and preserver of the trinity were one being, that a savior story served as a teaching tool, and that crucifying the savior meant removing the solvent to reach the pure extract. He described God as the life force energy that orders the cosmos and called the meaning of life life itself. Jared raised Spider-Man: Far From Home and Thor: Ragnarok, and Chance read the ship called the Statesman as a citizenship allegory and called Project Pegasus in Avengers a possible deliberate clue.
Quotes
“Don't run away from your obstacles. Don't look at them as a wall between you and what you seek to achieve. The obstacles are the course. It's an obstacle course.”
“One of my favorite things I actually like to say all the time is the only thing I'll ever know with 100 percent certainty is I'll never actually know anything with 100 percent certainty.”
“It takes some practice to start thinking of life in the sense that it's like a dream to be interpreted rather than some kind of narrative authored by a mysterious unknowable force. The author of the experience is you.”
“This whole idea of questioning everything, as well as looking into why these people are lying to us, it actually ends up leading you back to empowerment. That's one of the most amazing things that I've found within this whole truth world.”
“What you can do to harness the anxiety energy and translate it into excitement and something that powers you would be, if I'm feeling this stage fright about something that's coming up, why don't I just spend this charge on preparation?”
“Conspiracy work is spiritual work and vice versa. An authentic spiritual path will lead you towards recognizing the darkness that exists in the world, or the dissonance that exists in the world, and vice versa.”
“Your imagination is your connection to the divine. It is the mind of God speaking to you and through you. It is the transference of things from potential into a manifest reality.”
“Instead of keeping it in an external sense that something outside of me is what saves me, it is the life force within me and its natural flow towards continuing itself and propagating itself into new vessels, and life going on. The meaning of life is life.”
