Hello, everybody. I hope you are all as well as you can be, especially considering everything that's going on right now, and that you're all still safe and happy.

First, before I forget a couple of things, I just wanted to say thank you to all you guys, Kate, Crystal, Ruth, everybody who got together and sent us all of the cleaning supplies and everything else that you sent.

It has made a world of difference in getting through this quarantine.

You know, things like cleaning supplies are really, really hard to come by in New York right now. This place, I've never seen the city like this. It's it's hard to even describe, but thank you guys so much for that.

And I now I come out of this with a couple of new addictions.

One of them, I didn't realize how much I needed Thieves Oil soap in my life until after I actually used it, and it's kind of amazing.

Anyway, what I wanted to talk about was how, you know, we as human beings in the past few centuries especially, have started trying to divide everything into these categories of black and white, of good and evil.

And that's not how the universe views life.

It doesn't view life as so clear-cut. You know, people will look at difficult times that we're going through, like what we're going through right now, and this is a difficult time, and they'll say, you know, why, why is this allowed to happen?

And that was kind of what I wanted to talk about today.

And I guess what made me start thinking about it is next door to me is an old blind man. He's an old black guy. He's probably, I would say, in his late 60s, but he's completely blind.

And on warm days, he comes out on the stoop of his apartment, someone will bring him down, and he will sit on the stoop and listen to audiobooks and turn his face up into the sun just to feel the warmth of it on his skin.

And one time, he said—this was a couple of years ago—he said the word God, G-O-D, stands for generate, order, and destruction.

Generation, order, and destruction. That word sort of encapsulates everything that the universe is doing, that it's this big cycle.

First, it generates forms, it generates things, it generates energy, and then it orders those things, structures them all so that they are productive, constructive, lead to our growth and development.

Well, what happens eventually is that when things become too ordered and there is no new energy brought into it, things start to stagnate.

The universe does not want us to stagnate. It wants us to keep advancing at all costs, just so that we can understand and learn to the deepest core of our souls what we are truly capable of.

Sometimes, whenever we start to stagnate, the universe throws this curveball at us that to us looks horrific because it destroys our order.

But the universe doesn't see it as horrific or evil; it sees it as a way to prod us forward into making changes, into developing new habits, new routines, going in new directions, dealing with life in completely different ways so that we can start to generate again.

I'm going to show you something. If you look right behind me, you see there used to be a building back there.

I'm not sure how well you can see it with this camera, but there used to be a building back there.

You would see it every day, and now it is rubble. A couple of days ago, they completely leveled a block-long building.

this is kind of what's going on in the world right now. Before they could build a new—I mean, that building was just an old, burned-out project, but before they could start building something new.

What they're getting ready to build back there is a 17-story apartment building.

They could not build that brand-new building until they destroyed the old one first. Whenever that old one was built, that was generation. Whenever people moved in, it lived in there for years and years, that was order.

It was doing what it was designed to do, but eventually it started to stagnate. The building itself started to degenerate, so they had to destroy it in order to create something new that's more beneficial to us.

I honestly believe this is the same thing that's going on in the world right now.

We are in an alchemy, what they call the calcination stage where everything gets reduced to ash.

You know, that first stage when you burn everything down to its essential salts, that's sort of what we're going through in society right now, in the world in general, with everybody on lockdown.

It doesn't mean it's easy. The divine is in all things; it is in destruction as much as it is in creation.

It is in all things. That doesn't mean it's always going to be pleasant when we experience it, but what it does mean is that all things, no matter how painful, and no matter if we can't see it from our perspective where we are right now, eventually we will reach a stage where we can look back and see the purpose that it served.

We will see the changes in ourselves and in the world whenever we come out the other side of that process that will make us one day look back and understand why.

certain things happen. I've experienced that over and over my entire life, and I believe with all my heart and soul that that's also what we are going through right now.

The world is in a calcination stage. When we come out of this, whenever it is, if it's May 1st or if it's July 1st, the world is not going to be the same.

The world will never, we will never go back to the exact same world that we left behind.

We are different because we have had this experience. So the world that we create after this, from this rubble, will be something new.

We will take what was useful for us from the old world and bring it into the new and as we create.

But new things are coming, and I believe with all my heart that they're good things. Doesn't mean they're gonna necessarily be easy, but I do believe we just have to hang on, keep taking care of each other, and good things are going to come from this.

One other thing before I forget, I just did another interview with the Wrongful Convictions podcast. It's the podcast that Jason Flom does about wrongful convictions and people who are on death row, stuff like that.

I believe it's coming out on Monday, if I'm not mistaken. It's a special, special edition of the podcast.

I think they're gonna call it like the Lockdown Edition or the Quarantine Edition or something like that. But we were talking about things like ways to cope with this, how to look at it and not, you know, degenerate into just despair at the state that everything is in, especially here in the city.

But that's coming out on Monday. I'm having a little trouble with my hands again today, but I'm resting and just give me a couple more days, and I will be back up and running and typing.

So, I just want to say I love you guys. I'm glad that you're here with me, and I'm glad that I get to be here with you in this time.

And yeah, it's not pleasant, but just try to remember that amazing things are around the corner whether you know it or not.

Good things are coming. I love you guys, and I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Generate. Order. Destruction.

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