Taking a moment to be a bit more direct with my podcast listeners.
If this doesn’t apply to you, feel free to skip this.
Most podcasts have corporate backing, massive donors, exclusive episodes behind paywalls, or big brand advertisers footing the bill.
The Way Forward has none of that. We’ve had many potential advertisers approach us that we ultimately turned down in order to stay in integrity. I don’t want to endorse products or brands I don’t personally use or believe in.
I also haven’t been as clear about this as I should have been—and now I’m swallowing my pride and asking for help.
This podcast is sustained overwhelmingly through memberships to TheWayFwrd.com.
Our show has roughly 140,000 downloads a month. If even a small fraction of that chose to support, we’d be able to sustain this.
We’re not asking for donations. We’re asking you to join TheWayFwrd.com as a means to support our show.
Membership is $99 a year (about $8.25 a month—think roughly the cost of a couple organic kombuchas at Trader Joe’s), and it allows you to instantly connect with people, practitioners, and community aligned with health and freedom in your local area.
If you’d like to see the podcast continue, this is how you can support it.
Https://www.thewayfwrd.com/join
Thank you,
Alec
If this doesn’t apply to you, feel free to skip this.
Most podcasts have corporate backing, massive donors, exclusive episodes behind paywalls, or big brand advertisers footing the bill.
The Way Forward has none of that. We’ve had many potential advertisers approach us that we ultimately turned down in order to stay in integrity. I don’t want to endorse products or brands I don’t personally use or believe in.
I also haven’t been as clear about this as I should have been—and now I’m swallowing my pride and asking for help.
This podcast is sustained overwhelmingly through memberships to TheWayFwrd.com.
Our show has roughly 140,000 downloads a month. If even a small fraction of that chose to support, we’d be able to sustain this.
We’re not asking for donations. We’re asking you to join TheWayFwrd.com as a means to support our show.
Membership is $99 a year (about $8.25 a month—think roughly the cost of a couple organic kombuchas at Trader Joe’s), and it allows you to instantly connect with people, practitioners, and community aligned with health and freedom in your local area.
If you’d like to see the podcast continue, this is how you can support it.
Https://www.thewayfwrd.com/join
Thank you,
Alec
The Way Forward
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What if your community is all around you, and you just don't know it?
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Is he “signaling that he’s a free mason?”
Sure. He could be. That’s a possibility.
And that type of signaling absolutely does occur. “They” let us know their allegiance to various occult groups and dark organizations through symbology.
But the paranoia, lack of discernment, inability to hold nuance, and inability to understand the importance of context within the so-called “truth” community is, really, a fascinating phenomenon to observe.
Basketball was my life growing up. Literally. Basically my entire identity. My dad was a college basketball coach until I was 9, my first word was “ball”, and I spent night and day playing. From age 12 and up, I spent—no joke—at least 4 hours a day training for basketball, whether it was a school day or not.
My weekends? Basketball. Every weekend. Playing in tournaments or practicing.
You get the picture.
Prior to the nerve damage in my left arm from my 2017 shoulder surgery (lost fine touch), I was a hell of a 3 point shooter.
When I was a sophomore in high school, before I ever knew what free masons were, I started Point Guard on the varsity basketball team at my high school. In an away game in February against Olathe East, I caught fire. Went 5/5 from the 3 point line. Guess what I did on my last make?
Running back down the other side of the court, I put 3 fingers up, made a circle with my thumb and pointer finger, and put it around my left eye. 😮😮😮
Again, I knew nothing about Freemasons or the illuminati at the time. I was just doing a common 3-point celebration that many of my friends and basketball players I look up to did.
To the non-basketball-familiar truther, this screams dark symbology. But to a basketball player, this screams “Harden just hit a 3-pointer before this picture.”
Symbology needs context.
My good friend Chris Crutchfield is a filmmaker who used to work in Hollywood. If you know Chris, you know that he’s fully aware of what’s going on in the world, that Hollywood is rampant with freemasonry and satanism, and that symbols are flashed to subtly and sometimes blatantly show allegiance.
The other day he told me (paraphrased) that oftentimes when he was on photo/video shoots in Hollywood, there would be dozens, if not hundreds of takes for each shoot. And with the photos, some of the times the up-and-coming actors would put their hand over their eye because they ran out of ways to pose and just felt awkward.
Now, could some of them have been signaling their allegiance to the Illuminati? Of course. For sure. But some were just posing in a way that was different than the previous 100 poses they’d done that shoot.
(And then maybe those in charge of choosing which photos were to be published intentionally chose the photos with the hands over the eye…)
Context matters.
Nuance matters.
Discernment matters.
“Look at this picture of [insert name of someone in the health and freedom movement] putting his hand over his eye. He’s controlled op.”
Some of them may be genuine signaling. I acknowledge controlled opposition exists.
Some, you can easily go back and watch the video and see that they were briefly itching their eye, and someone screenshotted that exact moment to frame them a certain way.
Everyone has been gaslit, lied to, and misled— especially over the last 5 to 6 years. The paranoia and lack of trust is 100% understandable.
What I’m attempting to do with this post is invite you back into grounded discernment, an ability to hold nuance, and an ability to understand context.
Take what resonates, leave what doesn’t.
Don’t blindly trust anyone.
Symbology will be their downfall, but symbology isn’t what’s happening every time.
Sure. He could be. That’s a possibility.
And that type of signaling absolutely does occur. “They” let us know their allegiance to various occult groups and dark organizations through symbology.
But the paranoia, lack of discernment, inability to hold nuance, and inability to understand the importance of context within the so-called “truth” community is, really, a fascinating phenomenon to observe.
Basketball was my life growing up. Literally. Basically my entire identity. My dad was a college basketball coach until I was 9, my first word was “ball”, and I spent night and day playing. From age 12 and up, I spent—no joke—at least 4 hours a day training for basketball, whether it was a school day or not.
My weekends? Basketball. Every weekend. Playing in tournaments or practicing.
You get the picture.
Prior to the nerve damage in my left arm from my 2017 shoulder surgery (lost fine touch), I was a hell of a 3 point shooter.
When I was a sophomore in high school, before I ever knew what free masons were, I started Point Guard on the varsity basketball team at my high school. In an away game in February against Olathe East, I caught fire. Went 5/5 from the 3 point line. Guess what I did on my last make?
Running back down the other side of the court, I put 3 fingers up, made a circle with my thumb and pointer finger, and put it around my left eye. 😮😮😮
Again, I knew nothing about Freemasons or the illuminati at the time. I was just doing a common 3-point celebration that many of my friends and basketball players I look up to did.
To the non-basketball-familiar truther, this screams dark symbology. But to a basketball player, this screams “Harden just hit a 3-pointer before this picture.”
Symbology needs context.
My good friend Chris Crutchfield is a filmmaker who used to work in Hollywood. If you know Chris, you know that he’s fully aware of what’s going on in the world, that Hollywood is rampant with freemasonry and satanism, and that symbols are flashed to subtly and sometimes blatantly show allegiance.
The other day he told me (paraphrased) that oftentimes when he was on photo/video shoots in Hollywood, there would be dozens, if not hundreds of takes for each shoot. And with the photos, some of the times the up-and-coming actors would put their hand over their eye because they ran out of ways to pose and just felt awkward.
Now, could some of them have been signaling their allegiance to the Illuminati? Of course. For sure. But some were just posing in a way that was different than the previous 100 poses they’d done that shoot.
(And then maybe those in charge of choosing which photos were to be published intentionally chose the photos with the hands over the eye…)
Context matters.
Nuance matters.
Discernment matters.
“Look at this picture of [insert name of someone in the health and freedom movement] putting his hand over his eye. He’s controlled op.”
Some of them may be genuine signaling. I acknowledge controlled opposition exists.
Some, you can easily go back and watch the video and see that they were briefly itching their eye, and someone screenshotted that exact moment to frame them a certain way.
Everyone has been gaslit, lied to, and misled— especially over the last 5 to 6 years. The paranoia and lack of trust is 100% understandable.
What I’m attempting to do with this post is invite you back into grounded discernment, an ability to hold nuance, and an ability to understand context.
Take what resonates, leave what doesn’t.
Don’t blindly trust anyone.
Symbology will be their downfall, but symbology isn’t what’s happening every time.
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Just wanted to say that I really appreciate those of you who decided to join the membership yesterday based on my ask for support. It really, really means a lot.
Thank you. I’m very grateful. ☺️
Thank you. I’m very grateful. ☺️
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Media is too big
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Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 212: How Too Much Artificial Lights & Sunlight Affect Our Lifelong Health & Mortality with Matt Maruca.
We obsess over food and supplements. Meanwhile, the light we live under every day is quietly wrecking our biology.
In this episode, Alec sits down with Matt Maruca, founder and CEO of Ra Optics, to discuss how artificial light, blue light, and disrupted circadian rhythm quietly impact energy, sleep, and long-term health. Matt shares how a years-long personal health journey led him to study circadian biology and the essential role light plays in human physiology.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gY_xeB8gns
For timestamps, links, and resources mentioned in this episode, visit our website: https://thewayfwrd.com/content/
We obsess over food and supplements. Meanwhile, the light we live under every day is quietly wrecking our biology.
In this episode, Alec sits down with Matt Maruca, founder and CEO of Ra Optics, to discuss how artificial light, blue light, and disrupted circadian rhythm quietly impact energy, sleep, and long-term health. Matt shares how a years-long personal health journey led him to study circadian biology and the essential role light plays in human physiology.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gY_xeB8gns
For timestamps, links, and resources mentioned in this episode, visit our website: https://thewayfwrd.com/content/
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Hey y’all,
Just a reminder: we can NEVER direct message you from this channel. It is ALWAYS spam.
Just a reminder: we can NEVER direct message you from this channel. It is ALWAYS spam.
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It truly is wild how much algorithms are manipulating our perception of reality.
Everyone is aware of how corrupt, deceitful, and biased the mainstream media is, so very few take it seriously.
I really think we underestimate how much algorithms have become what the mainstream media was.
For example, take this situation with Renee Good in Minnesota. Right‑leaning people likely have algorithms that were/are feeding specific videos/posts from large conservative influencers and accounts that are almost exclusively describing that the ICE agent’s actions were justified while creating a strawman of left‑leaning talking points or downplaying any concerns from the left. And they’re repeatedly fed content about dangerous illegals, the necessity of ICE, examples of protesters attacking state agents, etc., etc.
And that’s what they see over and over again.
And it’s the same on the left. They have algorithms that were/are feeding specific videos/posts from large leftist influencers and accounts that are almost exclusively describing that all ICE agents are evil pieces of shit, only showing examples of state agents violently detaining people, that Conservatives are all racist, that Trump is literally Hitler, etc., etc.
And that’s what they see over and over again.
And unless you have awareness of the way these algorithms work and how the black screens we are glued to are manipulating our perception, you approach the real, physical world as if what you are seeing on your screen that is selectively fed to you is universally applicable. 
It’s fullblown perceptual warfare. Two people watching the same event through different feeds aren’t even living in the same reality.
And when perception is fractured like that, control is easy. All you have to do is feed each side just enough of the story to keep them sure the other side is the enemy.
Everyone is aware of how corrupt, deceitful, and biased the mainstream media is, so very few take it seriously.
I really think we underestimate how much algorithms have become what the mainstream media was.
For example, take this situation with Renee Good in Minnesota. Right‑leaning people likely have algorithms that were/are feeding specific videos/posts from large conservative influencers and accounts that are almost exclusively describing that the ICE agent’s actions were justified while creating a strawman of left‑leaning talking points or downplaying any concerns from the left. And they’re repeatedly fed content about dangerous illegals, the necessity of ICE, examples of protesters attacking state agents, etc., etc.
And that’s what they see over and over again.
And it’s the same on the left. They have algorithms that were/are feeding specific videos/posts from large leftist influencers and accounts that are almost exclusively describing that all ICE agents are evil pieces of shit, only showing examples of state agents violently detaining people, that Conservatives are all racist, that Trump is literally Hitler, etc., etc.
And that’s what they see over and over again.
And unless you have awareness of the way these algorithms work and how the black screens we are glued to are manipulating our perception, you approach the real, physical world as if what you are seeing on your screen that is selectively fed to you is universally applicable. 
It’s fullblown perceptual warfare. Two people watching the same event through different feeds aren’t even living in the same reality.
And when perception is fractured like that, control is easy. All you have to do is feed each side just enough of the story to keep them sure the other side is the enemy.
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The “illegal immigration” issue is quite complex.
First, when we say “illegals”, we’re talking about human beings. People.
In part, we’re talking about innocent men, women, and children walking hundreds (if not thousands) of miles to escape conflict and corruption-ridden countries by any means necessary. Risking death to obtain more freedom. Just wanting a better life, taking chances even if it means losing life in pursuit of freedom.
In part, we’re also talking about possible agents and actors intentionally sent here to infiltrate the US “way of life” (whatever that means now) and wreak havoc.
In part, we’re talking about people who are put in place by cartels and drug traffickers along trafficking routes.
In part, we’re also talking about people who just want a better life, are willing to work for wages that no US-born-and-raised people are willing to work for, and simply haven’t gone through the so-called “legal” channels to become a “citizen.”
And in part, we’re talking about people fleeing war-torn countries where US-backed conflicts and regime changes absolutely destroyed their homes, killed their family, killed their neighbors (“necessary collateral damage 🤡), ruining any chance of obtaining food, water, and shelter.
Very few have a viable solution, as it’s a very complex issue. And with that being said, all of the “solutions” I see are from people adhering to politically tribalistic talking points. No one wants to talk about this in a nuanced way. No one wants to discuss this with all of the proper context. No one actually wants a real solution for *human beings*, but rather to maintain whatever political tribalistic position they’ve regurgitated from talking heads on “their side.”
But what I do know is this:
The “illegal immigration” issue has, is, and will continue to be used as justification for the government to increase biometric surveillance, police militarization, AI-driven crime prediction tools, harsher technocratic crackdowns, and more.
And all of that can, and will, be used by whatever future administration is “in power” to violently impose its ideology on those who oppose it.
Whatever solutions are being discussed right now aren’t about creating more freedom for people in the US (or most Western countries, for that matter). It’s the opposite.
The left isn’t the problem. The right isn’t the problem. It’s the entire system that has otherwise (mostly) lovingly, well-intentioned people believing the “other side” is the problem, handing over their own power and authority while “their side” is in office.
Statism is the problem. Tribalism is the problem.
A lack of principles, values, nuance, contextual understanding, compassion, and inner-work is the problem.
First, when we say “illegals”, we’re talking about human beings. People.
In part, we’re talking about innocent men, women, and children walking hundreds (if not thousands) of miles to escape conflict and corruption-ridden countries by any means necessary. Risking death to obtain more freedom. Just wanting a better life, taking chances even if it means losing life in pursuit of freedom.
In part, we’re also talking about possible agents and actors intentionally sent here to infiltrate the US “way of life” (whatever that means now) and wreak havoc.
In part, we’re talking about people who are put in place by cartels and drug traffickers along trafficking routes.
In part, we’re also talking about people who just want a better life, are willing to work for wages that no US-born-and-raised people are willing to work for, and simply haven’t gone through the so-called “legal” channels to become a “citizen.”
And in part, we’re talking about people fleeing war-torn countries where US-backed conflicts and regime changes absolutely destroyed their homes, killed their family, killed their neighbors (“necessary collateral damage 🤡), ruining any chance of obtaining food, water, and shelter.
Very few have a viable solution, as it’s a very complex issue. And with that being said, all of the “solutions” I see are from people adhering to politically tribalistic talking points. No one wants to talk about this in a nuanced way. No one wants to discuss this with all of the proper context. No one actually wants a real solution for *human beings*, but rather to maintain whatever political tribalistic position they’ve regurgitated from talking heads on “their side.”
But what I do know is this:
The “illegal immigration” issue has, is, and will continue to be used as justification for the government to increase biometric surveillance, police militarization, AI-driven crime prediction tools, harsher technocratic crackdowns, and more.
And all of that can, and will, be used by whatever future administration is “in power” to violently impose its ideology on those who oppose it.
Whatever solutions are being discussed right now aren’t about creating more freedom for people in the US (or most Western countries, for that matter). It’s the opposite.
The left isn’t the problem. The right isn’t the problem. It’s the entire system that has otherwise (mostly) lovingly, well-intentioned people believing the “other side” is the problem, handing over their own power and authority while “their side” is in office.
Statism is the problem. Tribalism is the problem.
A lack of principles, values, nuance, contextual understanding, compassion, and inner-work is the problem.
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Yup. The power is in the people. Literally.
The creative life force flows through each and every one of us.
Our “thought energy” (beliefs, thoughts, feelings) as well as our words and actions.
Are your thought energy, words, and actions unwittingly empowering the state and those who wish to dominate and control?
Or are you “walking off the plank”, so to speak?
The creative life force flows through each and every one of us.
Our “thought energy” (beliefs, thoughts, feelings) as well as our words and actions.
Are your thought energy, words, and actions unwittingly empowering the state and those who wish to dominate and control?
Or are you “walking off the plank”, so to speak?
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