What happens when your world feels like it’s cracking - your beloved pet is struggling, the future of work looks terrifying, and even your spiritual path feels off track?
In this deeply vulnerable and expansive conversation, Walt, Anne Marie, and David walk right into those questions and let the answers unfold in real time.
From the very start, Walt is honest about needing a “friend conversation” instead of a confrontational one. His cat Joy is not doing well, and he’s feeling it: “My cat and I are really close, it really challenges you to your core when you go through stuff like this.”
That emotional honesty sets the tone for everything that follows: this isn’t a polished spiritual talk. It’s real life, in real time, with real feelings.
David shares how, after rebuilding his home and successfully publishing his book, he threw himself into building Taya Academy. He stopped trance channeling the Stream and went “all in” on marketing, tech, and scaling a coaching program: “I created a full-on spin out for myself, I still created this prolonged low vibrational struggling period for myself.”
Even with all his spiritual tools, David found himself deeply spun out - meditation dropped, the Stream receded, and the business model stopped working. That collapse forced a brutal but liberating clarity: “I don’t want to coach anymore. All I need to do is share these transmissions from the Stream.”
The big takeaway? Even a spiritual teacher can get lost in ego, and that’s not failure; it’s part of the path.
Walt then turns to one of the most charged questions of our time: What happens to humanity when AI wipes out jobs and reshapes the economy?
The Stream comes through David and answers with nuance not doom, not denial. They acknowledge that AI will “unemploy everyone at some point” in many roles, and that leaders are already contemplating basic human income: “There are going to be fear-inducing events, designed to draw all of you, more and more, back into the matrix and get you back under control.”
But Walt challenges the narrative that AI automatically lowers human value, suggesting instead that it could elevate everyone: “Why should we believe that just because AI is coming along, therefore everybody is lower? To me, it seems like everybody’s higher.”
The Stream responds by emphasizing what AI cannot touch: true human creativity and source-guided consciousness: “That spark of ‘has never been before in this form’ is only available to human beings.”
The deepest reassurance comes here: “You’re nowhere near creating your own demise. How you experience what’s next is completely up to your reaction to it.”
Later, David shares a powerful inner practice he calls “fire walking” - not with coals, but with your worst fears. When he felt triggered by anti‑gay symbolism and the echo of Nazi imagery, he didn’t suppress it. He sat down and mentally walked through the absolute worst‑case scenario until the charge released: “You’re going to walk into the fire of your greatest fear and experience it mentally, so you can clear it.”
Walt realizes he’s been doing his own version of this with his cat Joy - mentally rehearsing the loss, feeling it, and finding some peace inside it.
Anne Marie distills the whole episode into one piercing truth: “It only has the power that you give to it.”
That’s the through line: with pets, with AI, with politics, with death itself - we don’t control what happens, but we absolutely control how much power we give it.
LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/david-strickel-the-next-age
David Strickel's Website: https://tyaacademy.com/
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