Divine Patterns Decoded | Chance Garton on Natural AF Ep. 68
I really enjoyed this opportunity to return to the Natural AF Podcast with Isaac and Alexa.
Chance shares his personal journey of awakening to the deeper truths of energy, consciousness, and ancient wisdom; a deep dive into the symbolism of mythological archetypes like Achilles, Eros, and Chiron and their connections to bodily symptoms and emotional states; the interconnectedness of body, mind, spirit, and language; and the importance of trusting inner guidance and integrating subtle energy practices into daily life.
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In this episode
Core themes
Yarrow, Achilles, and plants as teachers
Chance described using divination to pick a plant as the guiding teacher for a client session, and said yarrow, Palo Santo, and dragon's blood had recently lined up with the stages of the alchemical great work. He explained yarrow's name through Achilles, the doctrine of signatures, and its use for wounds, which he called boundary medicine. Chance then linked shoulder, ankle, and liver patterns in the biofield to the warrior archetype and to taking on other people's burdens. Isaac said he had been drawn to yarrow, and one of the hosts raised the idea that plants carry their own consciousness.
Chance's awakening and path to biofield tuning
Chance told the story of his path, describing a Midwestern upbringing, an English degree that left him feeling aimless, and a period of psychedelic experiences that he said opened energy sensitivity and a vision of himself as a healer. He said a stubborn injury later led him to Eileen Day McKusick's podcast appearances and her Sonic Slider fork, and that he taught himself tuning by experimenting on friends. Chance said certificates act mostly as permission slips and recommended her standard training alongside the intuitive route.
Talent, aptitude, and following a calling
Chance argued that talent is a flawed word because a talent was an old measure of money, and he preferred aptitude, which he described as a function of care. He said opportunities arrive at the pace a person acts on them, like the next quest marker in a video game. Alexa described teaching herself human design and feeling validated by an advanced course, while Isaac said he tended to just try things, citing Galen. Alexa agreed with Chance that self-trust mattered more than outside approval.
Philology, grace, and the savior
Chance recounted reading a Greek word on a stranger's tattoo and used it to show how letter swaps connect grace, lord, and the sun across Greek and Persian. He said later traditions mistook titles for separate gods and that the savior myth was both priestly rebranding and an emergent feature of consciousness. Chance read Robert Taylor's astro-theological claims about Satan, which he presented as his own view. Alexa said she did not think belief in Jesus was required for salvation, and Chance agreed idol worship was unhealthy.
Desire, abundance, and patterns that answer
Chance described the savior as a symbol of the creative impulse of desire and said sublimating sexual energy into purpose supported abundance, summing it up as desire being the current in the river of abundance. In reply to a question from one of the hosts, he said German New Medicine did not fit his experience while it worked for others. He then argued that astrology, human design, and biofield anatomy all show patterns that speak back, and described Chiron as an example. Chance presented these as his interpretations.
Quotes
“The aptitude, man, it's not an intrinsic thing. It's a function of care. And I really want people to think about that and just dispel from their mind that person is really good at that and I could never do that.”
“Your body, when something is going on that is diseased or discomfort or injury, is not broken. It's not going wrong. It's not going haywire. It is a message sending you a message.”
“The savior is not sacrificing himself for everybody else. The savior is the truest, deepest, realest desire. Not superficial desire, not like I want the Bugatti desire, but like purpose driven desire, real fulfillment.”
“When we invest ourselves into investigating that pattern or weaving patterns of our own, that pattern speaks back to us. It sings to us. It's like God is there as soon as you look.”
“A talent is a measure of money. It's the sum of money. It's a weight of coinage or gold. So when we're talking about talents, is our talent only that which is worth money?”
“It's not about how other people view you, it's how you view yourself. And literally up until this point I just kept thinking, I don't know enough, I haven't been formally trained.”
“I don't think that you have to believe in this one person to quote unquote be saved. You can still have a connection to God and you can still be very close to God.”
“What I'm talented at, I just go and do it, like making topical remedies, experimenting with things, combining things that are unusual. But I was like, what about, like, remember Galen of Pergamum? He's like one of the first physicians doing brain surgeries ever. He just did it.”
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.
Kyle and Serena Denton are community herbalists creating wild-crafted and organic plant medicines out of Milwaukee since 2015. I have used their teas and tinctures on an almost daily basis for years now. Kyle is a great friend of InnerVerse and has appeared on the channel more times than I can count. These products work, not in the allopathic "pharma-medicine" way, but in a terrain-support, consciousness bolstering plant-teacher sort of way.
