Trying To Find Meaning | Chance Garton on Mr Kindness Podcast #117
Joining us from Missouri, USA is researcher and podcaster, Chance Garton. My favourite subject to read about is ancient history - in an attempt to figure out why we're here. The story of us humans is heavily influenced by myths and early religion, which I find fascinating. After listening to Chance's podcasts I wanted to talk to him as he's so knowledgeable on this subject. We go all over the map in this one - we even touch on Freemasonry. Very insightful and enjoyable chat with my man, Chance. Enjoy...
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In this episode
Core themes
The Biofield Has An Anatomy
Chance describes biofield tuning as the practice of returning stuck or lost life force energy back into circulation, working with weighted tuning forks inside the roughly six foot electromagnetic bubble he says surrounds the body. He credits Eileen Day McCusick as his mentor and points to her book on the electric body, and he tells the story of a recurrent shoulder injury that resolved in days once he used a device called the sonic slider. The deeper claim, in his telling, is that the field carries mind and memory, so where energy sits left, right, front or back reveals both the age and the belief that trapped it.
Woo, Placebo And Permission Slips
Both men circle the credibility problem. The host admits that five or ten years ago he would have written off every alternative modality as complete bunk, and now sees a bio energetic practitioner about once a year. Chance is blunter about his own field, saying there is a lot of charlatanry in energy healing, especially where multi thousand dollar attunement courses sell a certificate for something a person could simply give themselves permission to do. He taught himself from books rather than a class because he wanted to prove there was something there, and he folds in internal family systems and other tools the way a mixed martial artist would.
Truth Is Not Hidden, It Is Unsought
The host arrives wanting to know what is being kept from the public, citing a recent guest on the Anunnaki and the claim, which he attributes to a podcast he heard, that the Council of Nicaea in 325 decided which books stayed in the Bible and which were left out. Chance pushes back gently, noting he is skeptical of the provenance of the Nag Hammadi texts and that those would not have been at Nicaea anyway. His counter position is that the people who know something went and looked for it. He grants one worry: the Internet Archive being attacked has made source books harder to reach.
Lumping, Splitting And The Firstborn
Chance calls himself a lumper, syncretizing Lucifer, Phanes, Jesus, Bacchus, Hermes, Odin and the demiurge as aspects of one primordial mind, the trunk of a tree of life whose branches are all living beings. He reports that in the Orphic tradition this figure is Protogonos, the firstborn, and offers the philological argument, which he presents as his own reading rather than settled fact, that Noah relates to nous, meaning mind. He also flags the famous Albert Pike quote about starting a third world war as, so far as he knows, simply made up, and reads a long passage from Godfrey Higgins on knowing thyself.
Trauma As Conditioning You Can Choose Again
The closing stretch turns practical. The host, an army veteran, questions whether digging into old trauma helps or just keeps it alive. Chance agrees that revisiting what happened and how it felt heals nothing, and argues the real work is seeing how the event shaped behavior, beliefs about personality and expectations of life. Trauma creates adaptations, and people mistake adaptations for who they are. His worked example is birth by caesarean, where he reports a recurring pattern among clients of projects sabotaged just before completion. His advice for listeners is simpler still: check your sources, drop the blame game, go read the material yourself.
Quotes
“your energy field has an anatomy. And so there is energy that can get stuck off balance to the left, right front or back in the roughly six foot bubble around your body”
“not the hidden world, but it's the stuff we're not taught, the stuff we don't learn about”
“the difference between the people that know something and don't is the people that know something went and looked for it rather than not being told”
“I don't think the truth can be hidden. I think that as soon as you start asking for it, it's there.”
“everything would become animated and alive. I would look even at trees and the whole outline of a tree would become like a head and a face.”
“My ground is I think that we're in kind of an infinite recursion of wombs within wombs within wombs within wombs.”
“The funny thing about Lucifer too is Lucifer is not the devil in the Bible.”
“be really careful about whether or not you just take somebody's word for stuff. Even me, even me, go read source material yourself.”
Chance Garton is the host and producer of the Innerverse Podcast, where for over a decade he has investigated consciousness, mythology, symbolism, terrain health, and the psychosomatic language of the human body and mind. A biofield tuning practitioner, he uses tuning forks to help clients resolve physical symptoms, break negative patterns, and return to energetic coherence.
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