Pedram Shojai | Anti-Aging Cult: Why Trying To Live Forever Devours Your Soul
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Are we living in a parasitic Matrix designed to keep us disconnected from God and our true power?
Josh Trent welcomes Pedram Shojai, Taoist priest, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, and Qi Gong Master, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 781, to explore how modern society has become a parasitic system designed to steal our focus, time, and divine connection, how language, self-talk, and unconscious patterns shape our reality, and why reclaiming awareness restores the power to co-create with God.
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In This Episode, Pedram Shojai Uncovers:
- (01:15) We Live in a Parasitic Universe
- (06:15) Words Create Your Reality
- (11:00) Finding Purpose in Taoism
- (16:50) Escape the Matrix
- (21:35) Listen to The Voice of God
- (25:15) How to Turn Your Awareness Inwards
- (29:40) Why You Can't Meditate
- (37:40) Who Am I?
- (44:15) How to Deconstruct Your Conditionings
- (55:50) You Co-Create The World
- (01:01:00) The Journey of an Urban Monk
- (01:04:50) How to Strengthen Your Intuition
- (01:10:00) Choose a Different Path
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| 0:00.0 | You said, we're living in a parasitic universe. What did you exactly mean by that? |
| 0:04.8 | That's not a pedram original, actually. If you go back to the Gnostic gospel, pre-Christian Gnostic |
| 0:11.5 | gospel, they talked about these transdimensional entities called the archons that didn't live in an |
| 0:19.8 | embodied universe, but were parasitic and fed off of |
| 0:23.3 | our energy, our thought, our emotion, and that they pulled energy from reality that we live in |
| 0:30.3 | in order to survive. It's like a fungus growing on a tree. And I just remember reading that being like, |
| 0:36.9 | what are you guys talking about? |
| 0:40.2 | And it was a big part of their thesis. And then it just, you know, in all the shamanic work, |
| 0:44.0 | everything that I've done, there is this parasitic energy that feeds off of life. And life has |
| 0:50.4 | its own flow and its own direction. and life flows from crown to the root and |
| 0:55.0 | life creates more life and creates these stable fields and living to empower life |
| 1:01.1 | and and turn on and become more alive is the name of the game but if you look |
| 1:07.6 | around you everything on TV trying to grab your attention trying to get the money out of your pocket, trying to exploit you for sex and all the things that are out there are parasitic entities and or energies trying to pull your eyeballs away from your life and into where they want your attention. And where |
| 1:31.0 | your attention goes is where your energy flows. So if that isn't vampirism, I don't know what is. |
| 1:38.4 | I remember I was listening to Tony Robbins once and he said like, you know, where attention goes, |
| 1:43.0 | energy will flow. I feel like the masters, the ancient masters were switched on to the stuff that the contemporary |
| 1:49.6 | personal development gurus are really just reciting. Do you feel that way? |
| 1:54.0 | Yeah, I mean, listen, what's better than packaging ancient wisdom, right, making it your own? |
| 1:58.8 | And so this in Chinese medicine, in Taoist philosophy, |
| 2:03.1 | we have Jing, Qi, and Shen. Jing being the essence, your DNA, like the essence of your body, |
| 2:08.7 | which you kind of came in with. The chi is the energy of the metabolic process that's life. And |
| 2:13.0 | Shen is the spirit or the mind. And the chi always follows the shen. |
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