Forwarded from Confluence Festival (Alec Zeck)
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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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 [email protected].
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
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 [email protected].
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
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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
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
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Will be in Australia with my family for RMDY Conference in November!
We’ll be in Australia from 13th November - 2nd December. Looking to do some The Way Forward meetups/events while there
We’ll be in Australia from 13th November - 2nd December. Looking to do some The Way Forward meetups/events while there
Anonymous Poll
38%
Brisbane
3%
Gold Coast
25%
Byron Bay
41%
Sydney
16%
Melbourne
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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.
“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.
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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
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
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