The Way Forward with Alec Zeck

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No animal in nature needs to be taught how to give birth. So why have we convinced human mothers they do?

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Stu Fischbein, an obstetrician who spent more than two decades attending hospital births before stepping outside the system to examine it more closely. After years working in highly structured medical environments, he began asking a difficult question: why hasn’t more intervention led to better outcomes?

Modern approaches to birth and healthcare have drifted from basic human biology, and how fear, liability, and protocol often replace judgment and trust. This isn’t a debate about extremes—it’s a grounded look at how medical intervention, when applied by default, can create cycles that are hard to escape.

We also touch on trusting your body, the loss of autonomy in healthcare, and why outcomes haven’t meaningfully improved despite more technology, more testing, and more control. The patterns we unpack here don’t stop with medicine—they show up anywhere systems replace thinking.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[01:43] How birth was medicalized through vilifying midwives and destroying natural practices
[12:25] The takeover of obstetrics training and the relegation of OB-GYNs to gatekeepers, while outcomes worsened
[18:29] Dr. Stu’s shift from classical training to questioning everything
[33:33] Why we need to educate 13-15 year old women about their bodies
[45:42] How and why the NICU admission rates have doubled
[01:03:37] Why for-profit hospitals can't financially survive if women who don't need medical intervention go elsewhere
[01:30:38] How doctors manipulate women using relative risk instead of actual risk
[01:52:25] How to retrain the obstetrical system starting with medical schools
[02:26:09] Why treating 99.9% of GBS-positive women with antibiotics destroys babies' microbiomes
[02:36:12] Why routine pap smears and mammograms are mostly unnecessary
[02:45:25] Why nature designed women to give birth alone in safe spaces

Resources Mentioned:

Midwife books by Sara Wickham | Website
Breech Without Borders | Website

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Find more from Dr. Stu:

Birthing Instincts | Website
Birthing Instincts | Instagram
Birthing Instincts | Podcast

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We obsess over food and supplements. Meanwhile, the light we live under every day is quietly wrecking our biology.

In this episode, I sit down with Matt Maruca, founder and CEO of Ra Optics, to discuss how artificial light, blue light, and disrupted circadian rhythm quietly impact energy, sleep, and long-term health. Matt shares how a years-long personal health journey led him to study circadian biology and the essential role light plays in human physiology.

We explore why modern indoor environments are so biologically mismatched, how LED lighting and screens affect mitochondrial health, and why sunlight is powerful but not something to mindlessly overdo. Matt also explains how light influences hormones, mental health, and recovery, and why most wellness conversations miss this entirely.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00:00] Introduction
[00:08:02] Matt’s childhood health struggles, and the discovery that changed everything
[00:12:23] Diet alone can't fix your health, so what is at the root of chronic disease?
[00:16:34] The fourth phase of water inside your cells and why 40% of sunlight is designed specifically to structure it
[00:18:33]  The devolution of artificial light — from fire-like incandescents to blue-heavy, infrared-stripped “junk light” LEDs
[00:39:16] Blue light, your circadian rhythm and mental illness
[00:45:22] Why "more sun is better" is wrong
[00:57:15] How a chance encounter at an event turned a garage tinting operation into Ra Optics
[01:13:19] Why traditional sunglasses blunt the health benefits of sunlight, and the lens innovation designed to fix that
[01:20:58] What makes Ra Optics different from other blue light blocking glasses on the market
[01:30:02] Why doing all the right things still left Matt miserable, and the event that created a huge shift
[02:09:27] The hidden problems with "circadian bulbs" on the current market
[02:20:12] How to protect your light environment and stay healthy while traveling

Resources Mentioned:

The Way Forward episode on the Hidden Dangers of EMFs, Artificial Light, & Wifi (How To Avoid Them) featuring Tristan Scott | YouTube
The Way Forward episode on Circadian Biology, Leptin, & Light featuring Sarah Kleiner | YouTube
The Life Stylist episode on Extreme Biohacking: Millennial Edition with Matt Maruca | Listen Now
A mitochondrial paradigm of metabolic and degenerative diseases, aging, and cancer: a dawn for evolutionary medicine by Wallace, D | Article
The Fourth Phase of Water by Gerald Pollack | Book or Audiobook
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz | Book or Audiobook
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries | Book or Audiobook
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss | Book or Audiobook
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda | Book or Audiobook
South: The ENDURANCE Expedition by Ernest Shackleton | Book or Audiobook
SaunaSpace | Website

Find more from Matt:

The Light Diet Podcast | Spotify or Apple
The Light Diet | Instagram
Ra Optics | Instagram

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Alec Zeck | Instagram
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If consciousness is moving forward, are you moving with it or resisting the invitation?

In this episode, I sit down with Edmund Knighton for a grounded, uncompromising conversation on The Law of One, consciousness evolution, and why love isn’t a feeling you wait for, it’s something you practice.

This discussion moves through the nature of density of consciousness, the accelerating forces of polarization, and why service to self vs service to others isn’t a moral debate, but an evolutionary sorting process. Conflict, suffering, and global instability aren’t framed as failures of the system here, they’re revealed as catalysts for awakening, testing whether we respond with fear or clarity.

We also address why spiritual bypassing keeps people stuck, how vulnerability functions as a stabilizing force rather than a weakness, and why embodiment — not dissociation — is required for real spiritual maturity.

If you’ve felt unsure how to stay grounded, this episode offers clarity.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[02:22] What vulnerability reveals about transformation in the present
[08:44] Alec's dream about his grandfather revealed the movement from 3rd to 4th density consciousness
[15:19] The Buddha in Red Face story
[21:11] Integrating masculine and feminine energies increases the strength of both rather than diminishing either
[32:52] When Edmund discovered The Law of One
[42:53] The eight densities of consciousness
[53:01] Practicing love during division without falling into spiritual bypassing
[01:10:01] Why those in service to self are actually serving us by offering opportunities to choose love
[01:20:05] How the veil of forgetting and free will allow us to remember our true nature as creators
[01:43:58] Distinguishing your own essence from external noise through stillness and Steiner's practices
[01:57:35] Why true forgiveness becomes unnecessary when we understand our projections
[02:17:16] Why we cannot return to tribal ways and must move forward with new forms of conscious community
[02:39:30] What the Germanic and Slavic epochs reveal about humanity's progression from individual thinking to soul-warmed community

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Resources Mentioned:

Law of One | Website
Be Here Farm + Nature | Website
Being Human Event | Website
Buddha in Redface by Eduardo Duran | Book
Transcendent Sex by Jenny Wade | Book
The Red Lion by Maria Szepes | Book
Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan | Book or Audiobook

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Find more from Edmund:

Edmund Knighton | Email
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Alec Zeck | Instagram
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What if the history of the world — and the timeline of Christianity itself — has been dramatically misread?

In this episode I sit down with Paul Stobbs, creator of Understanding Conspiracy, known for his deep dives into Nephilim, spiritual warfare, and the exploding conversation around the millennial kingdom, the little season, and whether Christ may have already returned. Paul breaks down how he first got pulled into these ideas, why the topic overtook his channel, and how the movement around it accelerated far beyond anything he expected.

This episode digs into old world architecture, conflicting historical narratives, and the internal shift that happens when something in your body recognizes a thread of truth before your mind can name it. The tension between what we’re told and what we sense opens space for deeper questions — the kind that refuse to leave you alone. This episode isn’t about persuading you of a doctrine. It’s about discernment—how to sit with unsettling possibilities, stay grounded, and carry truth responsibly without letting it fracture your relationships, identity, or inner life.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00:00] Introduction
[00:13:40] How Paul went from conspiracy researcher to Christian, and why he thinks that's the natural endpoint
[00:23:57] The little season theory, why Paul believes Christ already returned and we're living in Satan's reign of deception
[00:29:48] How modern Christians reinterpret Jesus's clear words to avoid the obvious conclusion
[00:36:33] The architectural evidence hiding in plain sight
[00:50:24] The 700 years of phantom history and what really buried the old world (hint: it wasn't a mud flood)
[01:10:11] Why Native Americans have no record of the old world architecture
[01:15:00] What if "the rest of the dead" from Revelation are the indigenous tribes who picked up right where they left off?
[01:17:51] Historical evidence for the first-century tribulation: Josephus, the temple's destruction, and the mark of the beast
[01:36:19] Paul on modern Israel: "It's fake" — and the real Jerusalem might be somewhere else entirely
[01:39:29] The history that suggests the clown is literally a representation of a demon
[01:54:13] Paul's perspective on psychedelics: You're not leaving earth, you're just seeing the Nephilim spirits that infest it
[02:04:32] A psychiatrist and a psychologist both discovered the same thing, calling on Jesus helps patients deemed clinically insane

Resources Mentioned:

The Nephilim Looked Like Clowns by Paul Stobbs | Book or Audiobook
UnderstandingConspiracy | Youtube
Jerry Marzinsky | Website

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram
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What if the real “advanced technology” on this planet isn’t in Silicon Valley — it’s buried in temples, encoded in stone, sung by animals, and waiting inside your own nervous system?

Tyler Engle is the creator behind the mind-bending videos on animal “language,” sacred architecture, cymatics, and plasma intelligence that have taken over the internet. In this conversation, we trace how a kid from Wichita cleaning skyscraper windows and making bass music ended up reverse-engineering reality itself — through sound, geometry, water, and ancient temple science.

We get into how slowing down animal calls exposes a shared structure in communication; why the Kogi, bees, and birds might be using channels humans have forgotten; and how noise, screens, and stress have muted senses we were born with. From Machu Picchu and Angkor Wat to Egyptian pyramids and Gothic cathedrals, Tyler lays out why these sites look less like “monuments” and more like consciousness-amplifying technology built from water, gold, plasma, and sacred geometry.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00:00] Introduction
[00:09:53] The music production trick that revealed how all animals speak the same language
[00:13:14] How bees and plants communicate through the electromagnetic spectrum
[00:14:14] Our natural antennas have been snipped
[00:21:00] Why Tyler stopped asking "how did they build the pyramids" and started asking "what mindset did it require"
[00:25:39] How Egyptian temples functioned as a university including one where initiates had to swim through alligator pits
[00:30:46] What Tyler believes the true purpose of the pyramids is
[00:40:30] We stopped building resonance structures to live in and started building soulless boxes
[00:50:55] The lost temple science that tuned human senses and served as portals to communicate with the divine
[01:17:42] Why the ancients prioritized water and gold, and how humans serve as the conduit between them
[01:40:32] Why Angkor Wat looks like a giant circuit board designed for non-human intelligence communications
[01:46:42] Ancient aliens theory is actually a psyop that diminishes human potential

Resources Mentioned:

Cryptex Esoterica by Tyler Engle | Book
Codex Esoterica by Tyler Engle | Book
The Geomatrix by Tyler Engle | Book
The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth | Book or Audiobook
Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan | Book or Audiobook
Kybalion by The Three Initiates | Book
The Way Forward episode on Beyond Verbal Autists, Telepathy & The Nature Of Thought with Melissa Jolly Graves | YouTube
The Way Forward episode on Thought, Light & The Liquid Language of God with Veda Austin | YouTube

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