Summary of Major Ideas:

Marshall Vian Summers discusses spiritual “binky beliefs” that people tell themselves to feel better, such as “everyone is right where they need to be.” In reality “most people aren’t where they need to be, which is why their life needs to move, which is why their purpose and destiny is to take them into new territory, why they can’t settle for where they are and call it good when it isn’t good, when it isn’t real.” – Marshall Vian Summers

  • 00:40 Belief #1 “Everything happens for a purpose”. So if your 4 year old gets cancer, or a massacre happens in another country – its for a purpose? Do you see how A-moral this makes you? So, not everything happens for a purpose; everything happens – and you can use (almost everything) for a good purpose.
  • 02:28 Belief #2 “Everyone is right where they need to be”. Actually, the opposite is true – most people aren’t where they need to be, which is why their life needs to move, why they can’t really settle where they are.
  • 04:00 Belief #3 “There is a greater plan guiding my life”. Kind of, but in reality you will have to do a mountain of work to make that happen, with long periods of discomfort and confusion, and give up many things you think you should have or do have.
  • 04:50 Belief #4 “Only live for the moment”. This is an escape into the present, which doesn’t work because it is not in keeping with being sent here for a purpose, and having a role out in the world. If you only live in the moment – you can’t take a journey, because journeys require planning and actions.
  • 06:00 Belief #5 “All I have to do is just be open to guidance”. You have to be moving for Knowledge to start helping you navigate. If you are not moving, you are not navigating. The ship is in the harbor, it’s not going anywhere.
  • 06:55 Belief #6 “God is in the driver seat of my life”. No, God wants you to be in the driver’s seat of your life; God will sit in the backseat whispering in your ear, sometimes, which means you need to be the driver of your life. You are the one who need to get the vehicle where it needs to go, which may be far away from where you are now, and you have never been there before. This is how much responsibility is being conferred upon us to participate in an engagement with the Devine.
  • 08:35 Belief #7 “The universe supports me”. Not really, but Knowledge and those who sent you into the world supports you. The universe doesn’t care about you at all.