The Way Forward

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 256: What They Don't Tell You About Data Centers, Water Control & Mass Surveillance with Clayton Tucker Data centers and flock cameras are damaging our society in ways that most people can’t even think of. My guest today is Clayton Tucker: Lampasas rancher, Secretary of the Texas Farmers Union, and candidate for Texas Agriculture Commissioner running to halt AI data center expansion statewide. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4OuXr8LWLk If this episode resonates, The Way Forward is how you support the work—and find others near you already living it: https://thewayfwrd.com/join

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 255: How You Can Become Self Sufficient Without Owning Land with Curtis Stone Can you live a sovereign lifestyle while making six figures on a small piece of land? That’s exactly what Curtis Stone has done. Curtis is the author of The Urban Farmer and founder of Freedom Farmers. He lives off-grid in southern British Columbia with his two kids, and has spent almost two decades teaching people to grow food, find land, and build self-sufficient lives. Most homesteading content skips the ugly part, Curtis doesn't. He talks about collapsing from exhaustion, failures that outnumbered wins ten to one, and realizing paralysis by analysis is the biggest thing standing between people and food. He shares why he thinks Phoenix is one of the worst places to be if the shit hits the fan, and his eleven scales of permanence for evaluating land. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w3fWKIx-9Y&t=886s

I’ve polled over 3,000 of my followers at this point, asking: “You’ve found your health & freedom people online, but are you struggling to find health & freedom community in person?” 94% of respondents voted “Yes.” Clearly this is a massive problem. Social media and digital platforms have allowed holistic health & freedom minded men and women to learn about all of the problems with government, food systems, modern medicine, and more, and it’s allowed us to learn information that leads to a more true, healthy, and free life, if embodied and applied. It’s also helped us to connect with people from all over the world. But there’s a huge piece missing… One of the biggest predictors for health and longevity is the quality of our relationships. For so many of us, when we look to our immediate surroundings, we’re desperately struggling to form deep, quality relationships because we’re struggling to find others in our area who just “get it.” So what do we do? We turn back to our devices and social media platforms for a sense of validation and a semblance of community. Or, for some, we spend all of our time going to every health & freedom event possible, just to get a taste of what it’s like to be around others who get it. Both avenues are mostly unsustainable, and oftentimes they don’t lead to lasting, local, day-to-day relationships. So we’ve developed a solution for that problem. TheWayFwrd.com is an unincorporated, private based membership organization that allows you to easily connect with other like-minded men and women—as well as farms, schools, practitioners, and more—locally, no matter where you are across the world. Our platform includes an easy-to-use map that allows you to type in your zip/postal code and easily locate health & freedom oriented people, farms, practitioners, alternative schools, and more in your local area. We have members across the world doing regular meetups, finding aligned businesses, finding new jobs, and even some finding romantic partners. We wholeheartedly believe the next step to expand the health & freedom movement across the world is via connecting locally, in person, with others who get it. And our platform is designed to help with that.

Connecting with other holistic health, freedom minded men and women in your local area is essential for The Way Forward. We’ve built a platform that acts as a solution for that. TheWayFwrd.com helps you easily connect with like-minded men and women in your local area. We’ve made it so incredibly easy for you to find both people and resources like Holistic Health practitioners, local farms, alternative schools for your kids, and Moore and your local area—wherever you are. We have members doing regular meet ups in their local area, forming networks, connecting with local farms and other businesses, and even some members who have literally found their spouse on our platform! 2,500 members across the world, and steadily growing. Https://www.thewayfwrd.com/join

Sharing here in addition to the community wall on our platform in case others hadn’t checked the platform: Hey everyone. Someone recently posted on the community wall upset that I hadn’t replied to their direct message. I’d just like to offer some honest perspective here… I currently have 1,336 unread text messages. Excluding Email, instagram, Facebook, twitter, telegram, WhatsApp, and Signal. Just texts. It is overwhelming, to say the very least. I am one man. I run multiple businesses (TWF community, the podcast 6x episodes a month, Confluence, and health coaching on the side). I have a wife and 3 kids that I like to give most of my attention to. Please understand that I do my best to respond to everyone, but it is utterly impossible to keep up. If it’s really urgent, please email our team at hello@thewayfwrd.com. Also, I DO NOT WANT this platform to be about “ME.” This platform is for US, who are interested in creating a more healthy, free, and coherent world wherever we are. That’s the intention behind this platform—to facilitate connections so YOU can connect with others locally (and virtually) who are doing the same, and build/create what you feel is best for you. With love, Alec

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 254: What Scientists Are Getting Wrong About Plasma with Dana Kippel Plasma makes up 99.9% of visible reality, and almost no one talks about what that means for consciousness, healing, and the nature of this experience. My guest, Dana Kippel, is an author, filmmaker, and researcher who wrote A New Force after a transcendental meditation session gave her what she calls the full definition of plasma in a single moment. She'd barely heard the word before that. Four years later, she's built an entire framework around it. She argues that plasma isn't just the fourth state of matter. It is sentient and feminine. It's the layer where consciousness, memory, belief, and physical reality feed back into each other. Ether by another name. The practical implications get uncomfortable in the best way: Why the same "demon" appears differently to different people. Why UFOs kept changing shape across centuries. Youtube: https://youtu.be/E226fTUCkz0

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 253: The Hidden Link Between Your Breathing & Your Self-Esteem | Mark England The language we use and the way we breathe have a tremendous impact on our mental health. Mark England is a TEDx speaker and co-founder of Enlifted, and he's spent 19 years studying how words and breath create the story we live inside. His definition of mindset stopped me cold: it's the story you tell yourself. That story is made of words. It's made of breath. You can't work on one without the other. Youtube: https://youtu.be/_Ew7BDrEJQs

In Belgrade with my oldest son! Hope to see some of you at Liberpulco later this week!

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 252: The Secret Connection Between Nature, Heaven & The Human Mind with Chris Winters There’s a lot of misconceptions about electroculture and our connection with the divine. And Chris Winters can tell you the truth about all of them. Electroculture has become a buzzword on Instagram, but almost everything circulating about it misses the actual mechanism. The people teaching it have never grown a paying crop with it, but Chris Winters has, for over a decade, on a working organic vegetable farm in Tennessee. Chris is the founder of The Fertile Current and a medical qigong doctor who spent his first years farming fighting nature, using blood meal, bone meal, and every conventional organic input, until a crisis of conscience forced him to rebuild his soil fertility from scratch with rock minerals, biochar, and antenna systems that collect atmospheric charge. Youtube: https://youtu.be/czoQzzZQFtU

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 251: Parents: THIS Is Why Your Kids Don't Listen to You (It's Not Their Fault) with Dr. Tom Cowan If your child is not listening to you, they’re sending you an important message that you keep ignoring. Dr. Tom Cowan, alternative medicine doctor and author of Common Sense Child Rearing, joins me to unpack what he learned from decades in family medicine, raising his own children, and years of watching families up close. We also get into the trap of "gentle parenting", the MAHA movement's role in keeping people dependent on authority, and why the health freedom crowd keeps recreating the same dynamic at the dinner table. Youtube: https://youtu.be/gKfUzuJzme

Hey all, Although we would’ve liked to have a fall version of Confluence this year, for a variety of reasons, it’s just not in the cards… HOWEVER… We have some amazing things cooking for Confluence in 2027, taking Confluence well beyond a single weekend in April. With that, we’ll look forward to seeing you on April 22-26, 2027. 😉 - The Confluence Team

Hey friends, Interview the Archivist today

A must read!: https://open.substack.com/pub/dontslapsnooze/p/did-covid-come-from-a-lab-or-a-porta?r=1cuxx1&utm_medium=ios

Said this 5 years ago. Stand by it today. Replace “media” with “government.” And it’s the same. I think Fauci is the fall guy to legitimize the idea that COVID was a real bio weapon that came from a lab, that we should be afraid of man made viruses, and that the government will hold itself accountable for the agendas it is a part of.

A friend of mine reached out wanting me to interview someone running for political office in a US State, who, as part of her platform, would require disclosure on a whole host of issues. I am torn on whether it’s even worth doing a podcast with her. On one hand, it could be an interesting conversation. On the other, I am philosophically a voluntaryist as many of y’all know, and don’t even believe government’s authority is legitimate in the first place. Thoughts?

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 250: The Next Level of Spirituality & Knowing Yourself with Garrain Asé. You need to let God purify you, and you’re about to find why. Garrain is one of America's top 25 personal development coaches, a bestselling author, and a speaker who has reached over 4.7 million people across 100 countries. When I invited him to Confluence, everything in his life was being stripped away. His business and investments were cut in half, and his identity was dissolving right along with them. In retrospect, he realized that's what it looks like when God purifies every part of your life that's out of alignment. He said yes anyway, and that trust became the thread of our entire conversation. If you're in the middle of a personal storm right now, this conversation is for you. Youtube: https://youtu.be/oSOFgTbCt-w

A dear friend and member of TWF is in need of help. If you have the means to help, I know his family would really appreciate it: “My family is facing an immediate financial crisis. We've exhausted our savings, have been forced to max out our credit cards (we're currently at over $50,000 in debt), falling behind on essential expenses, and are now forced to leave our rental home by the end of the month, with nowhere to go nor money to move anywhere. My partner and I are doing everything we can to keep things moving forward while caring for our 7-year-old daughter, three dogs, and cat. Your support would provide critical stability; helping us secure temporary and/or long-term housing, cover essential living expenses, and bridge the gap until we return to bringing in much more abundance, returning to at least normal levels, if not more. Stephen continues putting out applications for Chief of Staff and Program Management roles, and his coparent's also doing what she can, to bring in abundance, too. If you feel called to help, Venmo and PayPal provide the quickest availability to funds, while GoFundMe transfers may take several business days or longer, especially when using a credit card. Venmo: @Stephen-Kantola-1 PayPal: @SMKantola GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-me-and-my-family-until-i-get-fulltime-work Thank you for considering an investment in our family's next chapter. Every contribution makes an immediate and meaningful difference.”

Also I love Yerasimos. One of my dearest friends. Take a joke everyone. Lighten up.