Ben Stewart: Beyond the Veil of Deception

Ben Stewart’s life as a traveler has been one of transitions from the military to art, to the music industry and, now, to a filmmaker exploring psychedelia and the mysteries of the world in short- and long-form productions on YouTube and Gaia TV.

Paul finds a long-lost brother in his wide-ranging Living 4D conversation with Ben that veers from having a relationship with God to organized science behaving like a mob…

• Ben connects with Paul via Pete Evans. (2:19)
• Ben’s crash course in filmmaking. (4:20)
• Burning Man, Waking Infinity and the unlimited power of the question mark. (11:30)
• Ben’s first real love: Music. (14:36)
• “Allegorical teaching is more important than facts.” (19:33)
• Why Ben is an artist. (23:00)
• Maintaining a balance between skepticism and open-mindedness. (26:57)
• Consciousness is a psychic substance. (30:48)
• Ben’s relationship with God is one that’s constantly improving. (37:35)
• What percentage of the ideas in your head are truly yours versus the ones that came from external influences and authority figures like your parents? (44:35)
• Do the actions of one person in a world of 7 billion really matter? (48:20)
• The ego — one of God’s greatest inventions – helps us learn to love. (51:20)
• Learning how to embrace and integrate “the enemy” from The Matrix and Star Wars. (58:29)
• Why science isn’t “totally clear” about anything… (1:07:04)
• Science is an institution operating with a mob mentality. (1:12:40)
• “Religion starts the wars and science builds the weapons to kill people.” (1:14:40)
• “My entire life is a series of disappearing steps.” (1:20:22)
• Going deep into sonic geometry. (1:26:16)
• All of us are “immature magicians.” (1:32:25)
• Is history a static concept and really true as we’ve always been taught? (1:40:12)
• “When you can’t make a decision because you can’t rely on the experts, that’s your soul inviting you to an honest exploration of your own.” (1:47:23)
• Traveling to other dimensions of reality. (1:50:08)
• Myth is written as if it’s the history of humanity when it’s really the future of humanity. (1:58:45)
• Create your own kind of meditative ritual that works best for you. (2:07:13)
• “Enrich your mundane experiences of life by bringing more awareness into them.” (2:11:36)

• Psychedelica and Waking Infinity on Gaia TV
• Ben’s Esoteric Agenda, Kymatica and Ungrip on YouTube
• David Icke’s The People’s Voice
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• The work of Thomas Campbell
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• The work of Edward Edinger
• The work of Amy and Arnold Mindell
• Where is Science Going? by Max Planck
• The Field: The Quest For The Secret Force in the Universe by Lynne McTaggart
• It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn
• Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery by Rupert Sheldrake
• The Vedas and Logos
• Secret Drugs of Buddhism by Mike Crowley and Ann Shulgin
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen
• The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality by Michael Talbot
• Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson
• Contact Ben via Facebook or email him directly at talismanicidols@gmail.com.

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