After a week in Costa Rica with Michael Bernard Beckwith, I'm going to share with you why the answer is actually you for every question you ever had.

And more importantly, what to do for yourself

once you adhere to that sort of methodology.

If you're anything like me, I had no idea who Reverend Michael Beckwith was.

And I say that, of course, I knew him loosely from seeing different things around the internet from him

seeing him speak to people like Oprah and up here on different television shows.

I had an idea of who he was.

But what I didn't have an idea of was the bias that I was carrying around based off of Reverend in front of his name.

You see, for me personally, I've now come to the fact of realizing that anyone that is tied to a religious dogma does something internally to me that I feel a little unsettled with. And I felt that way based off of my own bias.

I think it's fair to say that both you and I have bias

that exists in our lives.

I just happen to be announcing mine here.

That a pastor, a reverend, someone in that authoritative figure in my mind was going to be the person that said, no, no, you've got a one-way ticket

to hell if you do X, Y, and Z.

That doesn't make anybody comfortable.

It certainly wouldn't make me comfortable.

And that was the bias again that I had for Michael Beckwith.

But I didn't know anything about his Agape Church.

I don't even know if church is the right terminology now that I understand so much more about it.

But what I do know is that he has practitioners

that I got to spend an entire week within Costa Rica

as we mapped out an ongoing protocol

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