Checking in with John Waters, Ep #47

I often feel like I’m living two lives. There’s the world I live in that I can see around me. Then there’s the world I can’t see but can feel in my heart. The gap between them seems to be getting wider and wider. Something is amiss. Is there a day of reckoning coming? Is change going to happen?

John Waters is a man who isn’t afraid to speak the truth. He’s able to put words to how many of us are feeling. In this captivating episode of UPThinking Finance™, John Waters returns to talk about the current state of the world, whether or not we’re in a spiritual war, and how to take steps in the right direction.

You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...
The current state of Ireland (and the world) [2:07]
What can we anchor ourselves to? [12:12]
Is change going to happen? [17:51]
Are we in a spiritual war? [23:18]
The God we found in Alcoholics Anonymous [29:47]
Taking steps in the right direction [41:08]
Live your life to the fullest today [44:07]
Is change going to happen?
It was during the Industrial Revolution that fathers left to work outside of the home. John believes that things were lost in our culture because of this shift. It’s become exacerbated. It’s only now we’ve realized that this was a deliberate undermining of family authority, strengthening states and weakening families.

What’s happening feels like a supreme trick. It feels like we’re being tested and things will go back to “normal” someday. How else can we explain it? We lived in a democracy. Where did it go? Can we have it back? Can the responsible parties fix it?

Can one person come in and “slay the dragon?” Is there a figure sitting in the wings waiting to intervene in the world? John feels physically affected by the state of our world. The only hope he feels is this: Evil cannot win. The world won’t work if evil wins. If you destroy the world and the people in it, it won’t be worth living in.

The God we found in Alcoholics Anonymous

The most important emphasis in AA is that “I am not God.” Most of the woke ideologies have people saying “I am God.”

The God we’ve experienced in AA has given us a clean canvas. The experiences I’ve had where God has manifested himself are what I fall back on. The experiences I’ve had don’t always align with the doctrines of structured religion. That’s the lens I use for personal discernment.

Fundamentally, John is driven by the idea that without a higher power, there’d be nothing. His existence and the complexity of it exist because of a higher power. How can we look at everything and decide that there was nothing before and after this? The program gave John courage. He can believe in things with no rational reality other than experience.

John said something powerful: “Something makes me.” We are not something that was made. We are being made now. We are being generated at this moment. Something does that. It’s a reality that defines his every move. It changes the way you walk in the world. Humanity has lost that.

He believes that prayer is a call to plug into God’s power. When you’re plugged into that, whatever happens to you is meant to happen. Once you surrender, everything will be okay. If God can help me get sober and live a life I haven’t earned, he’s certainly greater than everything we face.

Must a spiritual awakening happen for us to survive?

We are fighting for the spiritual essence of our civilization. We are fighting for the possibility that we will still have that after this is over. Must a spiritual awakening happen for us to survive?

Inevitably, something happens that makes everything okay again.

We must take things one day at a time. We aren’t clinging to sobriety for dear life. All we have is today, so we must stop worrying about tomorrow. We can just do the things we need to do today and move on.

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Resources & People Mentioned

The Sibling Society by Robert Bly: https://www.amazon.com/Sibling-Societ...
Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous: https://www.amazon.com/Not-God-Alcoho...
John Waters & Dr Thomas Binder on The Abi Roberts Show: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/tnt-ra...
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