215: Plot Twist: Reverend Michael Beckwith on His Strange Journey from Ganja to Guru of Agape Spiritual Center

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Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this Plot Twist episode, we bring you an extraordinary story from Reverend Michael Beckwith, founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center. With a congregation of over 9,000 people each week, Reverend Beckwith is a prominent thought leader featured in the film and book, "The Secret," and has been a guest on Oprah several times. He's also the author of several spiritual books and hosts the popular podcast, Take Back Your Mind.But Reverend Beckwith’s journey to becoming a spiritual lea...

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0:00.0	The police took me from the street and brought me to the house where the marijuana was.
0:08.0	Everything they did was illegal, but it doesn't matter. They brought me to the house and asked me was this mine? I said no I don't live here.
0:14.4	So I had a different address on my license. They subsequently took me to the police station,
0:20.5	handcuffed me, went and got a search warrant, then came back, uncuffed me, took me to the
0:26.7	house and arrested me as if they had gotten a search warrant and came into the house.
0:32.1	Now the inner voice told me I was
0:34.3	walking totally free. It already said you're this is not your destiny don't even worry
0:39.8	about it. And that's when everybody thought I was crazy. I'm paying attention to what's happening in the courtroom, but I'm meditating and I'm reading because I've already been told I'm walking. I don't know how I'm going to walk, but I've already been told I'm going to walk. So everybody's saying Michael's
0:52.8	speak down on Jesus, he's crazy. They're telling you you should leave the country.
0:55.5	But once the locals get to you for all that marijuana, the feds wants you because they
0:59.4	found all those guns in your house. I said no, I'm not even going to have a record.
1:05.0	A friend welcome back to the Light Watkins show I'm Light Watkins and I have
1:11.4	conversations with ordinary folks just like you and me who have
1:15.0	taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've
1:20.0	identified as their mission in life.
1:22.8	Today we have a bite-size plot twist episode.
1:26.7	A plot twist is a shorter clip from a past episode
1:29.9	where the guest shares the story of the pivotal moment in their life trajectory and the idea behind
1:36.4	sharing their plot twist is to inspire you to lean into those plot twists when they happen in your life because usually
1:44.8	when you get turned around from what you thought your path was in life what's actually
1:50.0	happening is you're being detoured towards your actual path. And sometimes it looks like
1:55.1	getting fired or it could look like getting a divorce. Or in the case of this week's guest,
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