This is probably one of the weirdest and most entertaining episodes I've ever recorded - back in the days I've been spending three weeks in a hippie village, San Marcos, Guatemala, where I had the opportunity to meet the epitome of "unusual, nonstandard people" and man, what should I say? That was an experience - a rollercoaster ride between light-heartedness, confusion, overburdening, "WTF"-moments, curiosity and the willingness to understand - I have to admit that although I haven't admitted it back then, that I've been judging a lot because...imagine yourself, sitting in a hostel, having dinner and all of a sudden people are starting to tweet collectively like birds...more and more people are doing it except you and two other guys, so that you're finding yourself in a moment of complete what-the-fuck-ness....but on the other hand I've been also having unbelievably deep and beautiful conversations about life, literally feeling the incredible open-mindedness, empathy and non-judging spirit of my interlocutors that made me question my personal judgements - I mean, come on, who am I to judge anyways? The same with Aleks in this episode: he used words like "the intergalactic council", but also explained his genuine intention wanting to heal people, to make them happier in a pretty reasonable manner, stating that "the most important thing about healing is if you want to heal, you need to want to change – because doing the things the same way you’ve always been doing is what created your problems in the first place." I guess everyone would agree with Aleks, right? Moreover, he does reiki healing - a healing discipline that gets more and more attention because it simply works - something that is somehow hard to understand with the rational mind because he is basically just holding his hands above your body, channeling energy and healing your "problem".
In the end, judging someone else means revealing an unhealed part of yourself. So, if you judge somebody ask yourself: “What is this person reflecting back to me that I don’t like about myself?” & “What is this person reflecting back to me that I have disowned within myself?”
