Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 240: The Lies Modern Science Told Us About  Alchemy, Consciousness, & Quantum with Dr. Steven A. Young

Science removed Aether, and it was one of the worst mistakes they could make.

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Steven A. Young, a PhD-trained theoretical physicist, alchemist, and author of A Fool's Wisdom. He spent eight years inside the quantum framework before walking away from it.

I asked him to explain why atomism is such a problem, and what he said about how nuclear physics experiments actually work changed how I think about the entire field. The "particles" are in the human mind; the data are waves.

We get into CERN's Shiva statue and the Celtic deity it's named after, why Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving modern cities, what yellowcake really is, and why sulfur, not uranium, may be what's powering reactors.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/DJGzz1XiFCs

We're getting together in Colorado, July 11th, 2026. If you are in the area or know of folks who are craving connection that live in the area, please share!

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 241: Building Financial Freedom & Abundance Through Alternative Systems & Crypto with Oto Gomes

Most freedom-minded people either distrust crypto completely or speculate blindly. Oto Gomes has been building a third option since 2012.

Most people in the freedom space have written off crypto as an NSA trap, and I used to lean that way too. Oto Gomes spent ten years preparing tax returns before discovering Bitcoin in 2012, and he's built a financial framework that challenges almost everything I assumed about decentralization, sovereignty, and where value actually lives.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/QJTEFGIwkq0

CONFLUENCE 2026 AFTERMOVIE

Each year, as we gather with these special people on the sacred land of Sovereignty Ranch, we are overcome with an indescribable feeling.

And each year, we leave wondering: how could we ever top this?

And somehow, it keeps getting better.

It's not the speakers. It's not the musicians. It's not the workshop leaders. Those are all wonderful additions, but they're not what makes this event as special as it is, and they're not why it continues to grow in impact year after year.

It's the people.

The people who know and embody truth, beauty, and goodness.

The people who are awake—not only to the deeper problems of the world, but to the calling deep within themselves.

People who know that as long as we continue to reconnect with the natural world, with God, and with each other, we are actively birthing the beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Together.

We all see it and feel it when we're there together.

This event is a profoundly impactful microcosm of how human beings can live—in connection with God, the land, and each other.

We come together, create an immense and ineffable coherence, and carry it home to spread across the Earth.

We hope you'll join us in continuing to amplify that coherence next year for our 5th edition, April 22–26, 2027.

With love,

The Confluence Team

🎵 Lincoln Jesser - Time to Heal
📹 Existential Co & Pantheon Media

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 242: Neuroscience, Consciousness & The Limits of Science with Brandon Cowling

A neuroscience student at UT Austin is challenging the foundation of his own field.

Brandon Cowling is a 20-year-old pre-med junior with over 70K followers, exploring where neuroscience meets consciousness. His perspective matters because he's inside the curriculum asking the questions most students are trained not to ask.

You'll learn why the Epstein file release functions as mass trauma neuroscience, hijacking the amygdala and shutting down the prefrontal cortex across millions.

This episode is jam-packed. Together, we examine Kundalini as a measurable nervous system phenomenon, how the spiritual community and scientists jump to causes they can't prove, why the placebo effect might be the most ignored truth in modern medicine, the Ancel Keys fraud, and manifestation as both biology and something more.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/M0mJux6fjnA

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 243: Why Homeopathy Is The Future of Medicine with Melissa Kupsch

Homeopathy has more to do with our energy field than people think.

Most people think homeopathy is a sugar pill that does nothing. After signing off on close to 12,000 student cases, Melissa Kupsch has watched it resolve everything from decades-long chronic constipation to anaphylaxis to debilitating anxiety that survived years of psychiatric intervention.

Melissa is a world-leading homeopath, founder of RMDY Collective and RMDY Academy, and one of the most grounded voices I know on what energetic medicine actually does inside the body.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/lPKtEi82wRg

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 244: The Power of Recall Healing, Family Constellations & Heart Coherence with Dr. Richard Massey

Your body is continuously recalling the trauma from your past.

After ten years as a board-certified anesthesiologist, Dr. Richard Massey watched his sister-in-law reverse pre-eclampsia in three days by eating more eggs. That moment ended his career in conventional medicine.

He now works with live blood microscopy, heart coherence biofeedback, recall healing, German New Medicine, and family constellations. What he keeps seeing under the microscope is not pathology, it’s the body healing. It took him thirteen years to say that out loud.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/svDLRxQCplI

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 245: The Lies About Anarchy & Politics The Media Want You To Believe with Catherine Bleish Bonandin

Anarchism is not what they made you believe.

Catherine Bleish Bonandin spent two decades in the freedom movement, got arrested twice, was profiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and eventually walked away from frontline activism after a police officer added her name to a monitoring list while she was raising an infant.

She now produces Anarchapulco in Mexico and Liberpulco in Serbia, and partners with Liberland. She lives on Greenbriar, a consensus-based intentional community in Texas, where she homeschools her kids and teaches Game of Village.

This one runs deep on what real community looks like when nobody's making you stay.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/idBG88CLxMA

If this episode resonates, The Way Forward is how you support the work and join the community making it possible: https://thewayfwrd.com/join

As the world continues to push us toward connecting digitally, we're looking to do the opposite.

This September, we're inviting just 25 people to join us for a few unhurried days on a private island in Belize.

This isn't designed to be a conference, and it isn't simply a vacation. It's something closer to a curated island gathering that sits somewhere between the two.

Expect meaningful conversations, a little adventure, a little play, beautiful natural surroundings, incredible farm-to-table meals, and plenty of unstructured time to simply enjoy being human again.

If you've ever been to Confluence, you know there's something difficult to explain that happens when our community gathers in person. We're bringing that same spirit to Belize - just smaller, more intimate, and with the beautiful Caribbean Sea as the backdrop.

We'd love to have you there.

The Way Forward Island Experience

📍 Prana Maya Resort, Belize
📅 September 23-27, 2026
👥 Limited to 25 guests

https://marwellnessgroup.com/the-way-forward-island-experience-with-alec-zeck/

For those asking—the resort IS offering payment plans for our September retreat.

The resort is wellness focused (all organic farm to table food, yoga & qigong classes, vibroacoustic beds, RaOptics in each room, etc), on a private island just a short boat ride off the coast of Placencia, Belize. It’s truly magical…

I hope you’ll join us!

https://marwellnessgroup.com/the-way-forward-island-experience-with-alec-zeck/

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode 246: The Real Cause Behind Mineral Deficiency (& How to Fix It) with Caroline Alan

The cause of mineral deficiency is not what most “mineral experts” say it is.

Mineral deficiency may be the most overlooked driver of fatigue, poor sleep, cramping, anxiety, and burnout in modern life, and almost no practitioner is talking about it at the cellular level.

Caroline Alan is the co-founder and CEO of BEAM Minerals, and her background reads like a survival story before it ever became a science one.

After flatlined adrenals, periodontal disease, recurring infections, and years of insomnia, minerals were the one thing that changed everything for her. From there, she went deep into microbiology, cellular biology, and soil science to understand why.


Youtube: https://youtu.be/bMwFcH3LJrg

Catch our latest release - now live! Episode 247: The Real Cause of Insomnia & Sleep Issues with Derek Lacey.

Most people think they go to sleep to wind down, but Derek Lacey says sleep is when your life force expresses itself the most.

Derek is a sleep facilitator and the founder of The Art of Falling Asleep. His work reframes insomnia, dreaming, and even the purpose of sleep itself.

He spent years rotating through Ambien, Xanax, NyQuil, and Dramamine. He even went camping with no technology and still could not sleep for two nights in a row. Then in 2015, something shifted, and it had nothing to do with magnesium, blackout curtains, or any other protocol.

Our conversation moves into territory I have not heard another sleep expert touch on: why the mind is not the brain, why determination to fall asleep is often the thing keeping you awake, and how Derek believes the purpose of life is to sleep.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/GDpHrxL_tt8

Join us tonight at 7pm ET for the premiere of episode Ep 248: How to Reclaim Your Sovereignty Before the 2030 Global Reset with Gregg Braden

The global reset is coming, and we need to get prepared.

Gregg Braden is a five-time New York Times best-selling author, scientist, and pioneer in the emerging paradigm bridging science, social policy, and human potential.

From 1979 to 1991, Gregg worked as a problem solver during times of crisis for Fortune 500 companies, including Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) where he worked as a Senior Computer Systems Designer, and Cisco Systems, where he became the first Technical Operations Manager in 1991.

He continues problem-solving today, and his research resulted in the 2003 discovery of intelligent information coded into the human genome and the 2010 application of fractal time to predict future occurrences of past events.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/D2CqGtBiN24

Getting a lot of flack on my interview with Gregg Braden—multiple people saying I’ve “sold out”, and I understand why.

He brought up a lot stuff I don’t agree with: aliens from other planets, the genetics dogma, vaccines, and more.

And the problem people have is I didn’t push back enough.

Here’s the context that people don’t understand. There’s always more context…

Gregg’s team told me I only had 1 hour, and he couldn’t go any longer than that.

My typical podcast length is averaged at 2 hours 50 minutes, so that I typically CAN go deep and push back/share my perspective where I feel appropriate.

But as he was saying some of the many things I disagreed with, that time limit was lingering in the back of my mind. I knew that, if I pushed back on any one of the points I disagreed with, it would derail the conversation and we’d have no time to get into things I intended to discuss.

Ultimately, we really didn’t get into many of the things I wanted to discuss anyway, which was a huge bummer. I love some of the info Gregg has put out on consciousness, the mind, and the nature of reality. And we didn’t really get into any of that.

What that said, the onus is on you as the listener to take what resonates and leave what doesn’t, irrespective of a situation like this. Also, I genuinely love interviewing people that I don’t agree with on everything, cause it’s an invitation for my to check myself on my own perspectives, and also learn that people I disagree with DO have the capacity to share some golden nuggets of wisdom.

There's a version of health optimization that's making people more anxious, more neurotic, and less resilient, and almost no one in the space is willing to call it out.

The holistic health space has a problem, and Ste Lane is one of the few people naming it. He's a coach, homesteader, and host of Radical Health Radio. His lens on ancestral health, masculinity, and human vitality is shaped by everything from cage fighting in England to raising kids on the land in Tennessee.

Ste and I have been orbiting each other's worlds for years, and this conversation is the first time we’ve been able to sit down and dig in.

A lot gets covered, but the real thread underneath is this: most people are outsourcing their health to protocols, supplements, peptides, and fear-based content, and it's making them weaker, not stronger.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/Axo6u3KNuTQ

Also, I don’t even get angry at the people who are quick to call me and others shills/controlled op/sell outs anymore.

You’re not my target audience. I want an audience that is open minded but skeptical. Those who ask “hey Alec, I noticed you didn’t push back at Gregg. Why is that?” Rather than those who immediately assert (without evidence) “this is proof Alec is controlled op!” Lazy. Paranoid. And fucking gay. Not my people. See yourself out

And I mean gay in the context of lame. No offense to gay people.

Gay can mean happy, homosexual, or lame.

Just like fag can mean cigarette, a dereogatory term for a homosexual, or a nickname for Yerasimos Stilianessis

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