Over Sharon 35: Chance Garton - Chatting with Chance
Chance Garton joins Sharon and Brandon for a mind-melting chat. Gravy overload on this one, as we discuss things like energy healing, Biofield tuning, astrotheology, syncretism, world alphabets, word play, green language, “history” books as allegory, and much more!
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In this episode
Core themes
Reframing the past self to free up energy
Chance described looking back on himself as a teenager in a band and realizing he had been telling himself that version of him was foolish. He said he reframed it by imagining meeting that teenager as a stranger, and found he would have admired him. Chance suggested that forgiving or reframing a past self can free up energy, and said he took steps toward working for himself soon after, though he did not claim a one to one cause. Sharon described treating present triggers as old wounds she could work on instead of blaming others, and Brandon said interacting with people can speed self healing.
Wholeness, oneness, and the healing paradox
Chance described a paradox in which healing always moves toward wholeness while there is always more to improve, and he advised holding a mental posture of wholeness while continuing to optimize. He said life force energy, which he also called spirit or chi, was the oneness, while egos and vessels stayed plural, and he warned against concluding that nothing matters because all is one. Brandon noted that the word healing can imply someone is broken, a sneaky way to bring in a victim story. Sharon shared a Tolkien analogy about characters being aspects of their author.
Lumashi, constellation writing, and scripture
Chance described Lumashi, a Sumerian or Akkadian term he translated as constellation writing, and proposed that astronomer priests used wordplay and green language on constellation names to derive stories. He suggested the Garden of Eden and Noah's Ark could be read as interpretations of the Pegasus Square, and said the name Homer may mean hostage. He credited John McHugh's book The Celestial Code of the Scriptures for the term and Dylan Saccoccio's Spirit Whirled books for related keys. Chance argued that allegory was empowering while literal history was not, and he criticized New Age Gnosticism on that basis.
Tree leaves, alphabets, and syncretism
Chance described Godfrey Higgins, an early 1800s researcher, and said his work Anacalypsis matched a 16 letter Hebrew alphabet to the letters Cadmus brought to Greece and to the Celtic alphabet, with each letter tied to a tree. Chance proposed that early writing may have used leaves, pointing to the leaves of a book, Odin hanging on the tree, and Bacchus being called Liber. He said he did not accept a crystal origin theory a host raised, since he saw no evidence. He also offered syncretism examples, noting that the mothers of Jesus, Buddha, and Hermes were named Mary, Maya, and Maya.
The astral realm as a possible metaverse
Chance offered what he called a conjecture, not a claim, that the astral realm could be a collective layer of thought forms built from mythology, astrology, and belief directed at solar characters. He said he drew on his biofield work, where he described thought forms creating structures in energy fields, and compared it to Baudrillard's hyperreality. He also said chakras and tuning could be used as a language to talk to the body without being accepted as dogma. Brandon said he and Sharon had speculated that people once communicated telepathically before Babel, and Sharon linked that to Reiki.
Quotes
“At some point, Chance says he's going to Bearfest and I'm like, me too. So I was like, well, I'll see you there. And I met Chance in person and he gave me a little mini tuning session, which went great.”
“I do know that whenever you forgive, for lack of better words, or reframe your perspective on a past version of yourself, you can free up a lot of energy. And I think that was what helped me have the throughput to take the next big steps.”
“When you heal yourself, it becomes like a superpower because you still have that point of view. And now you can understand how it works, and then you can help other people because of it, too.”
“There's a bit of a paradox here because the true healing process is always in coming to wholeness. But yet there's always more healing to do no matter how much wholeness you've achieved.”
“One of the things we say a lot is to do something till you're done. If you have a habit someone would consider a bad habit, or it's something that is not a healthy habit for you, but you just can't stop, so just do it till you're done.”
“The alchemy of it tells us the external savior carries you to a certain point, and then you don't need it anymore. And if you keep it, you've actually poisoned your concoction.”
“Each different tree has a different shape of leaf, and that leaf would be a letter, and the letter would be named after the tree that it came from.”
“A God's acre is just a word that means graveyard or cemetery. They called it that because it was like a field where the souls have been returned to God.”
