Contemplating the Innerverse with Chance Garton on Soul Nectar Show
I joined Kerri Hummingbird on her Soul Nectar Show on Valentine's Day 2021, snowed in, for an unplanned conversation that wandered from art as a spiritual path to the third eye, nothingness, the ancestral biofield and the debt-based money system.
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In this episode
Core themes
Art as a spiritual path
Chance traced his road to InnerVerse back to a college class on writing the spiritual journey, which reopened questions he had shut down after losing his faith in his late teens. Music festivals followed, where he met people living by their creativity and realized that the only gap between us and our heroes is time and effort. He framed aptitude as passion, and care as the conduit that moves energy through every system, and said that became the founding scope of the show: art as a way to liberate yourself from suffering.
The dark arts and the beauty way
Chance described a recent plot twist in his thinking: not all art serves humanity, and artifice can work against nature, as the word pharmacy, traced to a Greek root tied to sorcery, hints. Kerri offered the beauty way, a life lived in harmony with nature's cycles of birth, flourishing, release and death. Chance answered with the vulture, whose beauty lies in its harmony rather than its looks, since it turns rotting carrion into one of the most sterile compounds known to science.
Perception and the original light
Picking up Kerri's reading of gene key 11, Chance proposed an inverted model of perception. Rather than the brain stitching together signals that arrive at different speeds, he suggested the third eye takes in undifferentiated source light while the amygdala decides how much of it you can handle. That light is split through the thalamus and routed to the senses, which act as filters rather than detectors. In this view nothingness is inseparable from somethingness, and the void and the clear light of source are one.
Aperture, death and the ancestral field
Kerri said she would rather not see the entities she clears, and Chance called this aperture: something you are in charge of, which can open to one spectrum and stay closed to another. He spoke about owning your death as the final moment to choose who you are. Drawing on Eileen Day McKusick's biofield anatomy, he described an ancestral field reaching out like tree rings, mother's line on the right and father's on the left, where old obstructions distort the light we project outward.
The unbegotten self and false valuation
Chance said he is over beginnings and endings and sees creator and creation as one eternal process, a verb rather than a noun. Genetic continuity, he suggested, gives the unbegotten self a reference point in the void, like a save point in a video game. Turning to Kerri's concern about homelessness in Texas, he argued that debt-based money turns society into a game of musical chairs, and that calling part of source a resource, or a living being a legal person, is how false valuation takes hold.
Quotes
“I came to realize the only thing different between us and our heroes is the time and effort.”
“The beautiful thing about the vulture, which is only beautiful because of its harmony, not because of what it is, is that its excrement is one of the most sterile biological compounds known to science.”
“What's important is to know that you are in charge of the aperture.”
“Your death is not a curse, it's a blessing, and at the end of your life, in the moment of your death, it's the final moment to choose who you are.”
“Even all the bad experiences that come to us, they're there to crack the shell.”
“My body, my DNA holds all the experiences of all of my ancestors.”
“It's our anchor in the nothingness, in the void. It's our reference point. It's like a save point in a video game.”
“Taking something from nature, saying that this part of source is now separated and divided off, and we're calling it a resource instead of source.”
