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Pedram Shojai | Anti-Aging Cult: Why Trying To Live Forever Devours Your Soul

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Are we living in a parasitic Matrix designed to keep us disconnected from God and our true power?

Pedram Shojai | Anti-Aging Cult: Why Trying To Live Forever Devours Your SoulJosh 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

  • Why we live in a parasitic universe.
  • How the things that are trying to steal our attention, money, and energy are parasitic entities.
  • Why we can create anything with sustained attention.
  • How media and social media are designed to influence our emotions.
  • Why most people are angry about the current systems, but misdirect their anger.

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[06:15] Words Create Your Reality

  • How many people on social media can't be trusted.
  • Why the words we speak create our reality.
  • How deconstructing the self-talk language can heal us.
  • Why words can empower our weakness.

[11:00] Finding Purpose in Taoism

  • How Pedram got into practicing Taoist Kung Fu.
  • Why Kung Fu is an operating system for life.
  • How he was raised in a family that was angry at religion.
  • Why he found his way to Taoism through a book that fell off a shelf.

[16:50] Escape the Matrix

  • Why Pedram wasn't involved in religion growing up.
  • How he realized he was living in the Matrix.
  • Why he went from becoming a traditional medicine doctor to Chinese medicine.
  • How he started studying Taoism and ancient practices.

[21:35] Listen to The Voice of God

  • The importance of having God in our lives.
  • Why religious institutions are the middleman that get in the way of us and God.
  • How many people are puppeted by the parazites.
  • Why we have to learn to listen to the voice of God.

[25:15] How to Turn Your Awareness Inwards

  • How we can bring our neuroception back online.
  • Why our body needs safety in order to heal.
  • How every sounds and feeling contain information that tells us what's happening around us.
  • Why we can't hear God if we can't even hear our own heartbeat.

[29:40] Why You Can't Meditate

  • Why we get stuck in a shame spiral.
  • How leaky gut creates endotoxemia, which causes more than 80% of chronic diseases.
  • Why we can't meditate if our gut is in dysbiosis.
  • How every day is Kung Fu for Pedram.
  • Why the food we eat is destroying our natural gifts and making us sick.
  • The importance of testing our gut.

[37:40] Who Am I?

  • Why so many people experience anxiety and depression.
  • How we need to deconstruct the "I" with the right questions.
  • Who we think we are is not who we truly are.
  • The original definition of alchemy.
  • Why freedom comes from immortalizing our consciousness.

[44:15] How to Deconstruct Your Conditionings

  • How our parents did the best they could.
  • Why Pedram doesn't blame his mother for making him anxious.
  • How he's learning to set boundaries with his parents while being kind.
  • The importance of learning not to respond to our programming.
  • Why we're in the era of codes.
  • How we're being manipulated through codes.

[55:50] You Co-Create The World

  • Why the Luciferian experiment is not real, but our participation is real.
  • How our energy co-creates the evil.
  • Why we become eternal when we stop co-creating the human prison.
  • How we tell ourselves stories that distract us from becoming eternal.
  • Why our brain is always looking for signs of whether we can trust someone or not.

[01:01:00] The Journey of an Urban Monk

  • Why Pedram started calling himself "urban monk."
  • How he noticed himself being arrogant after he had studied ancient teachings.
  • Why people weren't able to receive Pedram's wisdom at first.

[01:04:50] How to Strengthen Your Intuition

  • How we can train our intuition to uncover whether someone is authentic or not.
  • Why the spiritual and self-development industry are full of evil people.
  • The importance of deconstructing our wants and needs.
  • Why nobody else can save us but ourselves.

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[01:10:00] Choose a Different Path

  • Why Pedram struggles with being a public figure because he doesn't want the fame.
  • How society norms can make us feel not good enough.
  • Why we need to stop avoiding the lessons that come through pain and suffering.
  • How transformation cannot be bought, it can only be created from within.

"There's a lot of parasitic energy in the biohacking community, convincing people to live forever versus immortalizing your consciousness. This is the difference between God and Lucifer. There are many nefarious players now that are just trying to get your money and get your attention. — Pedram Shojai

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About Pedram Shojai

Pedram Shojai | Anti-Aging Cult: Why Trying To Live Forever Devours Your SoulPedram Shojai, OMD, is a New York Times Bestselling Author, filmmaker, and doctor of Oriental Medicine. Known as “The Urban Monk,” he has dedicated his life to teaching people how to reclaim vitality, live with purpose, and cultivate true health.

Pedram has written eight books (translated into over 30 languages), produced and directed more than a dozen documentary films and series, and founded a successful streaming platform.

His work blends ancient wisdom with modern practicality to empower people to thrive in today’s fast-paced world.