This one is going to sound like a hard left turn. It isn’t. I recently sat down with Paul Bock — retired Green Beret, husband, father, and author of The Disclosure Agenda — and we went DEEP into the disclosure movement, UAPs, “non-human intelligence,” channeling, remote viewing, CE5, ancient gods, New Age spirituality and spiritual warfare. But the question underneath all of it was much bigger: What if disclosure isn’t simply revealing the existence of another intelligence? What if we’re watching a new religion form in real time? Paul makes the case that this emerging belief system already possesses many of the components we would associate with religion: methods of contact, spiritual practices, messengers, revelation or “downloads,” a cosmology, teachings about human evolution and promises about where humanity is going. And this one hits particularly close to home for me. Because I've participated in some of these worlds. Yoga. Esoteric spirituality. Oracle work. Channeling. Experiences I couldn't easily explain. Some of it felt beautiful. Which raises an uncomfortable question: Since when did “this feels good” become our test for truth? Paul and I explore that, deception, discernment, Christ, and what responsibility we carry as men if our children are going to inherit a world where the line between technology, spirituality and “intelligence” becomes increasingly difficult to discern. And after almost two hours talking about some absolutely wild shit, we ended somewhere incredibly simple: Know God. Know His Word. Pray. Lead your family. Serve your wife. Teach your children discernment. Because whatever the world looks like 20 years from now, our families need men who know Who they belong to. 🎧 Aliens, Satan & The Coming Religion — with Paul Bock Watch/listen when you have some room for this one. Then come back here. I want to know: What part challenged your existing worldview the most?

This week we talked about a lot. 1 - Peter stepping onto the water while the storm raged around him. 2 - The insane cognitive demand of modern life – and what happens when we don't unplug and give the mind a chance to spin down and idle. 3 – My impatience with Theo and the remembering that presence isn't proximity alone. It's participation. 4 – Getting sideways with my wife. Getting "emotionally flooded." Acting from my wounds instead of my values. And then having to FIRST, to make it right, to give her my strength (and not perpetuate Adam's failure of passivity with the feminine). And underneath all of it, I think there's really only been ONE lesson. THE WORK is the work. Not knowing about it. Not reading about it. Not agreeing with it. Not listening to another podcast about it. I say this last one with reverence and a little fear of God, but not just PRAYING about it alone. Actually DOING IT. Putting one foot in front of the other into the moment of impossibility, the fear of the unknown; putting in the work that life and God is asking of you. Life will eventually put you under enough pressure that your ideas about who you are, the books you've read about discipline, about marriage, about parenting – none of it actually matters very much. Your training does. The sets and reps you've put in. Your willingness to step forward into the unknown and into the fear. Can you regulate yourself when you're frustrated, hurt, angry? Can you stay curious when your five-year-old asks question number 57? Can you repair when your hurt would rather sweep it under the rug while hoping she goes first... or forgets about it altogether? Can you put the phone down when your digital-lust wants another hit of social media? Can you keep your eyes focused on the Highest when you're being pulled by the winds and waves of life? Can you actually be the man you've been talking about becoming? Wishing to be? I didn't get all this right this week. I made mistakes. That's why I do this work.

What's good, brotherhood. The foundational piece of my work inside Patriarch and Order of kings is training. Repetition & intensity produces state change, and the development of the traits we need in order to show up in the ways we desire to in our lives. Just like strength training in the gym produces muscle gain, strength gain; just like intervals and distance runs on the trail produces gains in endurance, speed, recovery; it's this work that develops the traits we need for success within the four walls of our home: patience, presence, empathy, connection, self-regulation, etc. Here's the LIVE from this morning 👇

One sentence from this week's conversation with Pat Barber keeps echoing in my head: The goal isn't to make life easier for your children. The goal is to make your children more capable. That changes everything. Instead of doing it for them... Invite them into it. Let them cook. Let them build. Let them carry. Let them fail. Let them try again. The project might take twice as long. You'll probably have to bite your tongue. But years from now, they won't remember that Dad finished the project quickly. They'll remember that Dad believed they were capable enough to help. That's how confidence is built. Not by telling a child they're amazing. By giving them something meaningful to become amazing at. You can listen to this Pre-Patriarch conversation with Pat Barber here. Reflection This week, where are you making life easier... ...when you could be making your child more capable? What's one real responsibility you're going to hand over this week? Not because they'll do it perfectly— but because that's how they'll learn. 👇 Share one thing you're committing to this week.