Time of Transition (Bernhard Guenther & Laura Matsue)

New video about the deceptive astral realm and what Sri Aurobindo called the “Intermediate Zone.” It is the realm behind much channeled material, the UFO/alien phenomenon, and what many people enter when they take psychedelics, “medicine plants,” or expand their consciousness in other ways, with many impostor spirits masquerading as Divine forces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxZ_O2xaLjk

“There are all kinds of forces, entities, and beings that hijack our minds and work through us. That's how wetiko works, it hijacks our creativity so these forces can create their desired reality through us and our mechanical reactions. Something foundational to understand is that they need an entry point. They can tap into our different parts, our protective mechanisms, and the parts of ourselves we've exiled. They create alliances, so to speak, with parts of ourselves via traps of agreement. When we're disembodied and not connected to self, that's when these forces come in. It's not necessarily that they fully possess us; they influence us through suggestion, as the Mother would say. Then we take these suggestions or thoughts as our own, and it creates a certain reaction. It's also about understanding the porosity of the mind, meaning the mind is permeable. It’s not an enclosed citadel separated from everything else. Other forces can flow through us all the time and can initiate certain thoughts and emotional states, but the more we're connected to self-energy, the less hold these forces have on us. The more we're connected to higher divine forces, the more we become vessels for benevolent forces, spirit guides, our daemon, our creative spirit, and our angel. We need to open ourselves in a grounded manner, not a dissociated one. Understanding occult laws and traps of agreement is key.” -Bernhard Guenther Enrollment is now OPEN for Mastering Spiritual Warfare, a 10-week spiritual warrior training in discernment, protection, and divine alignment. Click here to learn more and apply, https://www.masteringspiritualwarfare.com Episode 133, Part 2 - 12 Psycho-Spiritual Tools for Spiritual Warfare To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 170+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

“[A powerful spiritual experience can end in spiritual emergency]. And if that spiritual emergency isn’t integrated, and the hardened ego doesn’t dissolve into a more humble, healed, grounded, and integrated self, people tend to tip in one of two directions: inflation or fragmentation. When they inflate, they do what Carl Jung called identifying with the archetypes, which is developmentally very dangerous. Their language then centers on being chosen or special. They might claim to be a Pleiadian, an alien, a holy figure, a starseed, or a lightworker who has been given “special codes” to awaken humanity. They can also take on a very rigid religious identity as well. If they fragment, which means they slowly lose their connection to themselves and their relationships, they tend to isolate as they psychologically disintegrate. In both cases, the person loses their connection to reality. The issue in conventional psychiatry when this happens is they label it as psychosis or hallucination and then jump in, medicate the person, and put them on drugs and whatnot. Materialistic psychiatry and psychology deny that these spiritual experiences are real and use drugs to suppress the experience entirely. That doesn’t heal it and sets off a whole other array of problems and issues down the road. The person goes numb, and the transpersonal connection will likely become disconnected. They often get stuck in some sort of frozen state, held functional on psychiatric drugs or even ending up institutionalized. -Bernhard Guenther Episode 177 – Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Psychosis? Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2026/06/27/spiritual-awakening-or-spiritual-psychosis-tcm-177-part-1 @timeoftransition

We have an entire culture that rewards spiritual narcissism and grandiosity and can no longer differentiate between true spiritual awakening and spiritual psychosis. Sometimes a person goes to an ayahuasca ceremony, breathwork retreat, meditation intensive, or has a powerful mystical experience, and instead of becoming more humble, grounded, and embodied, they become more inflated, grandiose, dissociated, or detached from reality. They come back claiming to be awake or to have been saved by Jesus, and that they are chosen. Some claim they received special codes and knowledge indicating they are in contact with aliens, ascended masters, or spirit guides who transmit information only they have access to. All of a sudden, they are a “shaman,” a “spiritual teacher,” a “starseed,” a “lightworker,” or a “grid worker.” They build a new identity around the experience and mistake it for spiritual realization and awakening, when in fact they have fallen more deeply into illusion and grandiosity. They are “dreaming to be awake,” as Gurdjieff would say. The ego starts to become spiritualized, they begin to identify with archetypes, and they are easily deceived by imposter spirits. In fact, if there is unresolved trauma, a fragile sense of self, unprocessed shame, or no real grounded psychological foundation, the experience can make the person worse. The light that breaks through can illuminate everything they have suppressed. And if they cannot integrate it, they may either inflate into spiritual grandiosity or fragment into dissociation. This is one of the great dangers in modern spirituality. On top of that, we live in a world where a materialistic worldview dominates and labels any spiritual experience as hallucination, with no real framework to help people who are going through a spiritual emergency. In our new episode of The Cosmic Matrix Podcast, Laura and I explore the fine line between genuine spiritual awakening, spiritual emergency, and what many refer to as spiritual psychosis. We look at why powerful spiritual experiences can become dangerous when they are not properly integrated, why ego strength matters, how trauma and shadow come to the surface during awakening, and why discernment is essential on the path. LISTEN HERE: - Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Psychosis? https://veilofreality.com/2026/06/27/spiritual-awakening-or-spiritual-psychosis-tcm-177-part-1/

“We need to differentiate between what's a strong emotion versus what is true intuition. A lot of us are mainly guided by strong emotions; we like things, we don't like things, we want to avoid painful thoughts and experiences, and we want to move towards experiences which are not painful. There's an inherent survival instinct within that, but then we tend to just go wherever our emotions guide us. There’s also the issue in the New Age, when people say, “Just trust your feelings and follow your heart” - that can be very deceptive because just having positive feelings does not mean something is true or it's coming from higher guidance. Positive feelings can happen because you feel that this is going to get you approval from other people and your parents, or it can be coming from your own conditioning. Feelings are information, but they're not inherently trustworthy in themselves. This is why it’s really important to be aware of your own inner world, your own emotions, to be able to quiet the mind, and to process some of the emotions from your past so that they're not guiding you every which way and clouding your intuition. There is a sense of equanimity and objectivity and a calm mind that's necessary in order to feel that intuitive guidance. For myself, if my mind is spiraling mentally around an issue, I'm not going to be able to hear intuition or higher guidance, but when I feel centered, present, and mentally still, then I actually get that guidance.” -Laura Matsue Episode 176 – Personal Will vs. Divine Will: From Striving to Surrender Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2026/06/08/personal-will-vs-divine-will-from-striving-to-surrender-tcm-176-part-1 @timeoftransition

“The creativity you don’t express consciously can act as a demon in your life. Instead of creating, it will turn against you and destroy things in your life, like relationships and yourself. Unexpressed creativity doesn’t die; it will get buried deep in the unconscious. On the surface of your life, it could show up in various compulsions and addictions. It can show up in love addiction, especially. Creativity expressed becomes a channel for God’s higher wisdom and knowledge, it’s a way your higher self and angels can speak to you and guide you through inspiration, while creativity suppressed becomes a portal for demons. This is why so many deeply creative people suffer sometimes, even to the point of suicide. Their daimon (creative guiding force) has become a demon (destructive force). To create is to allow yourself to be a channel for the divine’s infinite creative wisdom. To suppress your creative potential to create is to invite its shadow. The choice is yours: Will you let your creativity be your salvation, or will you suppress it until it becomes your undoing?” -Laura Matsue Episode 87, Part 2 - How to Actualize Your Creative Potential To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 175+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

“The deeper question is: What is the story we are being guided into? What are people being prepared to believe, fear, trust, worship, or consent to? I don't see disclosure as a neutral act that finally reveals the Truth. It looks more like the formalization of a narrative. The issue is not only what is being disclosed, but how it is framed, what is emphasized, what is omitted, what worldview is being installed, and what kind of relationship humanity is being prepared to enter with nonhuman intelligences and unseen forces, which I don't doubt exist. I'm also not denying the physical side of the UFO event; it's not black-and-white, but the physical effects don't automatically prove a purely physical origin. A phenomenon can affect the physical world without originating strictly from the physical world. For the most part, it can even be a symptom of a nonphysical, spiritual, interdimensional technology. That's also why this whole advanced alien technology narrative is so deceptive. For a lot of people, it’s the dangling carrot. Beyond the lights in the sky or secret government programs, we need to look at what reality is, what forces influence all of us without exception, and what kind of beings or intelligence may have been interacting with us from unseen realms under different names, mythologies, and masks.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 175 – UFO Disclosure, False Light, and Spiritual Warfare Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2026/05/19/ufo-disclosure-false-light-and-spiritual-warfare-tcm-175-part-1 Enrollment is now OPEN for Mastering Spiritual Warfare, a 10-week spiritual warrior training in discernment, protection, and divine alignment. Click here to learn more and apply, https://www.masteringspiritualwarfare.com @timeoftransition

My new article is a foundation piece for what I understand as psychospiritual work and why I believe it is essential during the Time of Transition. We are living in a period of global and cosmic upheaval, where most people are disembodied, dissociated, and dysregulated. It shows up as a loss of a spiritual orientation, psychological fragmentation, and a deepening disconnection from the Divine in the midst of technological seduction, deceptive spiritual teachings, corrupted religious dogma, and the increasing influence of unseen forces that most people are unaware of. In times like these, psychological work alone is not enough, and spiritual work alone is not enough. We need an integrated approach that can meet the whole human being and help us discern what is influencing us, what is calling us upward, and what is pulling us downward. This article explores: - What Is Psychospiritual Work? - The Limitations of a One-Sided Approach - Psychospiritual Work Is a Bridge Between Worlds - Why Differentiation Is Essential in Psychospiritual Work - The Porosity of the Mind - The Danger of the Intermediate Zone - The New Age Astral Circus - Beyond Mental Discernment and Creating the Divine Center Within - The Great Unveiling at the End of an Age - The Dark Age of Materialism and the Spiritual Vacuum - The Great Work of Alchemical Transformation - Why This Work Is a Battle That Affects You Beyond Your Personal Life - The Role of Will in Psychospiritual Work - Who This Work Is For and Who It Is Not For Read the full article here: https://bernhardguenther.substack.com/p/the-necessity-of-psychospiritual

“Gurdjieff talked about how if you’re not able to discern the truth and lies within yourself, you’re not able to discern truth and lies in the world. And what does he mean by that? He means we have all these different parts within ourselves. From an esoteric or psychological perspective, these parts can filter and cloud our perception or pollute our perception. We can easily have a trauma response, thinking this is our true self coming through, or it could be sub-personalities coming through, an inner child we identify with, which we mistake for the true self. Our shadow gets triggered, and we project it externally into the world. And many other forces can influence us, which ties into spiritual warfare. A lot of people acknowledge the idea of spiritual warfare, especially nowadays, but people are still externally oriented, not understanding that the number one task to face in spiritual warfare is understanding what is affecting you and what forces are working through you. Because our mind is porous, we are constantly influenced by all kinds of thought forms, entities, beings, our inner parts, shadow parts, and sub-personalities. So we need to be able to differentiate within ourselves what is what. This is the task of the great work. And only until you have a better grasp on that can you then have a better grasp on “outside events,” so your perception and discernment don’t get polluted unconsciously or distorted through your own stuff or things that you’re not even aware of.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 153 – The Spiritual Warrior’s Path of Navigating the Spiritual Realms Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2025/05/04/the-spiritual-warriors-path-of-navigating-the-spiritual-realms-tcm-153-part-1 Enrollment is now OPEN for Mastering Spiritual Warfare, a 10-week spiritual warrior training in discernment, protection, and divine alignment. Click here to learn more and apply, https://www.masteringspiritualwarfare.com @timeoftransition

“When you don't consciously carry your shadow, you will make others responsible for it. But it will show up in disguise, in your judgments, pointing the finger at others, your criticisms, and telling others what they should and should not do or who they should and should not be. When you carry your shadow, you begin to take these feelings inwardly and ask yourself what your perceptions and finger-pointing at others are telling you about some quality in your own inner world that you may have disowned. Most will not look within because it is tremendously uncomfortable to withdraw what is usually projected onto others, sit with it, and take responsibility for it instead of making someone else to blame. Yet, it's the only path to true wholeness and knowing who you are. You paint your inner world onto the outer world. Your relationship to both yourself, and the outer world changes when you transform the inner world. This is the alchemy of the soul.” -Laura Matsue Episode 109, Part 2 - Becoming Who You Are Meant to Be To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 175+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

“Malevolent entities ​like to keep humanity in this frequency prison, in the lower nature and lower expressions of these emotions [like anger, hate, envy, fear, or anxiety]. It's a trap to suppress these emotions or to only try to be positive and uplifting. We need to transmute and integrate the shadow and consciously work with these emotions. Then we connect to self, and that's where we can really protect ourselves from these influences. It's also important to understand that these occult forces throughout human history have tempted and do tempt humans with greed, power, and sex, working through them. You have to understand that the work, the war, is through us, because they implant thoughts, certain suggestions, and false spiritual and religious beliefs.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 119 – Beginner’s Guide to Occult Forces Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2023/11/09/beginners-guide-to-occult-forces-tcm-119-part-1 Enrollment is now OPEN for Mastering Spiritual Warfare, a 10-week spiritual warrior training in discernment, protection, and divine alignment. Click here to learn more and apply, https://www.masteringspiritualwarfare.com @timeoftransition

“There are a lot of people out there who claim they are “hacking the matrix” or are “awake”, but their dogma, pride, and unconscious hatred towards huge categories of people is actually an energetic feeding frenzy for the dark forces that feed off the creative energy of this planet (which is essentially what “the matrix” is on a spiritual level). Be wary of any media channel (mainstream and alternative), any influencer, a movement, a group, which makes you feel that it’s justified for you to have rage towards certain groups of people. It’s a sign that wetiko (the mind virus) has infected them, their movement, and will infect you through the group energy if you’re not conscious.” -Laura Matsue Episode 111, Part 2 - Undreaming Wetiko, The Nightmare Mind-Virus - Paul Levy To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 175+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

“When people ​hear ​the ​call ​of ​their ​own ​purpose and ​don't ​answer ​it ​again ​and ​again, ​it ​shows ​up ​in ​their lives through symptoms ​like ​depression ​and ​meaninglessness ​or ​they ​get ​involved ​in ​something ​like ​chaos ​and ​toxic ​relationships. There are a million ways people hear the call, then they hang up the phone and distract themselves. ​Eventually, ​that voice gets quieter and quieter, and they're just caught in their own conditioned patterns again. Do you ​mostly ​act ​from ​your ​personal ​desires, ​from ​your ​likes and ​dislikes? ​Or do you ​feel ​the ​pull ​of ​something ​larger ​that's ​orienting ​your ​choices ​and ​what ​you ​do ​from ​day ​to ​day ​that ​goes ​beyond ​your ​personal ​preferences? Because ​​I ​feel ​like ​God's ​plan ​for ​us ​is ​often ​very ​different ​from ​what ​our ​ego ​plans ​for ​us, and ​it ​can ​be ​very ​annoying ​when ​you ​realize ​that. It's ​like ​your ​life ​purpose ​is ​something ​you ​were ​specifically ​designed ​to ​do, ​but ​we ​like ​chasing ​things ​that ​will ​win ​us ​approval ​from ​our ​parents and ​our ​peers. We ​like to do things that give us belonging and make us fit in, so we have to go against that. That's ​what ​the ​whole ​process ​of ​individuation ​is ​about.” -Laura Matsue Episode 176 – Personal Will vs. Divine Will: From Striving to Surrender Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2026/06/08/personal-will-vs-divine-will-from-striving-to-surrender-tcm-176-part-1 @timeoftransition

“Everybody who is really sincere on the path will be confronted with the limits of personal will. When something happens in your life, despite how much you wanted it, you worked for it, put in all the effort, the visualizations, and manifestation rituals, you still do not get what you wanted. It ​can ​be ​a ​disillusionment that ​happens ​through ​a ​loss ​or even a ​success ​when ​you ​still ​get ​something but ​feel ​empty ​and ​unfulfilled inside, because ​the ​personal ​will ​alone cannot ​satisfy your ​true ​soul ​being ​and ​true ​self. That's ​when, naturally, ​the turn ​comes inward ​to ​seek ​something ​beyond ​what ​the ​ego​personality thinks it wants. ​It’s ​a ​big ​turning ​point ​in ​many ​people's lives. That's ​almost ​the ​initiation, so to speak, ​the ​disillusionment ​when ​we ​understand ​and ​truly ​realize ​the ​limitations ​of ​personal ​will ​and ​that ​you ​will ​never ​be ​fully ​fulfilled ​by ​anything in the external world. Or by trying to change something on the outside through your personal will. At that moment, the question changes from what the personal will usually asks, “How do I get what I want?” To, “Who am I? What is truly being asked of me?” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 176 – Personal Will vs. Divine Will: From Striving to Surrender Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2026/06/08/personal-will-vs-divine-will-from-striving-to-surrender-tcm-176-part-1 @timeoftransition

In this new video, I explore the deeper meaning of spiritual warfare, why the term itself often triggers resistance and denial, and what it means to become a spiritual warrior during this Time of Transition: Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqZYIdfHq0

“The emotional loosh produced from getting triggered and a thought projection can create a thought form. Then the thought form can create an entity which feeds on itself through this feedback loop. The thing about thought forms is that they’re transferable. So if I were to have a huge [burst] of anger, it could create an entitized thought form having anger energy. And if someone else happens to be walking by and they have some sort of a minor resonance with anger, it might go over to them and influence them. So you could say, the majority of the so-called entities or energies that we struggle with in life, in some sense they're our own, but some of them are also caused by others. That's why certain cities, neighborhoods, or homes have really negative vibes, because they're just saturated with these negative thought forms created by all the collective suffering of the people there, the collective negative energies. So you can go through different geographic regions and towns, and you can feel the different vibes of these areas because it's all about what the collective thought form atmosphere is in these areas.” -Tom Montalk Episode 11, Part 2 - Tom Montalk – The Matrix Control System To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 175+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

“We believe that we are freely making choices and engaging in “free will”. In reality, we're responding to all kinds of impulses, suggestions, desires, fears, and forces we have not yet become conscious of. It's very mechanical. That's why Gurdjieff talked about how humans who are not really engaged in this deeper work and who have not become more self-aware, are like machines. This is really the illusion of free will at the level of the ordinary ego, which the personality identifies with, because the ego experiences itself as the doer. It believes I am choosing, I am deciding, I am willing, but much of what we call this personal will is this mixture of all kinds of conditioning, collective influences, lower impulses, forces, beings, and energies working through us. That's why one of the biggest parts of the psychospiritual path of awakening is being able to differentiate what is what within. What part is my true nature? What do I need to integrate, and what do I need to reject? That is the whole point of “to know thyself,” the practice of self-observation, is to be able to differentiate. This is not just an intellectual discernment; it's the necessity of creating certain spiritual sensitivity and psychic and spiritual organs that are part of this process of inner work.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 176 – Personal Will vs. Divine Will: From Striving to Surrender Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2026/06/08/personal-will-vs-divine-will-from-striving-to-surrender-tcm-176-part-1 @timeoftransition

Aligning the personal will with the higher will is one of the most important transitions on the spiritual path. It changes how we act, how we choose, how we respond to life, how we meet challenges, and how we begin to sense a higher force that guides us beyond our personal desires and preferences. In our latest episode, we explore the relationship between personal will and Divine Will. Topics we discuss: • What personal will is, how it operates, and why it eventually reaches its limits • The crisis of personal will and the different aspects of will • Why free will at the level of the personal ego is mostly an illusion • How the attention economy, technology, and social media weaken our will • Why psycho-spiritual work requires engaging the spiritual will • What true surrender to the Divine actually means and the misconceptions around it • How the personal will can become an instrument of Divine Will • Why alignment with the Divine does not mean that life becomes free of challenges, interference, or resistance Listen here: https://veilofreality.com/2026/06/08/personal-will-vs-divine-will-from-striving-to-surrender-tcm-176-part-1/

“The end of the Fourth Turning aligns with the end of a much larger cycle, the Kali Yuga. The astrology is also very intense this year and in the years to come, reflecting the close of a long cycle and the beginning of a new one. Neptune has entered Aries for good until 2038, and we move into a new phase of spiritual warfare. This energy can manifest as a rise in religious wars, ideological polarization, civil unrest, and mass movements driven by dogma and fanaticism. The battlefield is both internal and external, with hyperdimensional occult forces increasingly influencing humans from non-physical realms. Together with Pluto in Aquarius, Neptune in Aries sets the stage for the ultimate spiritual warfare as the splitting of humanity intensifies. At the same time, this cycle also offers an opportunity to step into true spiritual courage, individuation, take aligned action, and embody the path of the spiritual warrior with integrity and sincerity. The most important and most challenging battle is the one within, for the war is through us and has always been. Whatever happens, I know deep inside that it is all in alignment with what needs to unfold according to Divine Will.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 172, Part 2 - The Yuga Shift and the Planetary Transition Ahead w/ Bibhu Dev Misra Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2026/03/30/the-yuga-shift-and-the-planetary-transition-ahead-w-bibhu-dev-misra-tcm-172-part-1 Enrollment is now OPEN for Mastering Spiritual Warfare, a 10-week spiritual warrior training in discernment, protection, and divine alignment. Click here to learn more and apply, https://www.masteringspiritualwarfare.com @timeoftransition

I had a great in-person conversation with Smoke on the Smoke Trail Podcast here in Sedona. When I was invited on the podcast, I didn’t realize we lived only five minutes apart. In a way, Smoke and I arrived at the same trail from opposite sides, each coming to realize the integral truth of what Sri Aurobindo meant by “All Life is Yoga.” Smoke spent decades building businesses before realizing that outer success alone could not answer the deeper hunger of the soul. In my twenties, I went in the opposite direction and rejected the material world almost entirely, driven by one question: Who am I, and what is this life actually about beyond what we've been told and taught? In this conversation, we explore shadow work, spiritual awakening, evil as a teaching function, unseen forces, spiritual warfare, and how to discern genuine awakening from its counterfeit. It was a direct, vulnerable, and grounded conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6khIAS8M5qE