Episode 9: Evelyn C Rysdyk

November 18, 2024

Evelyn C. Rysdyk

My surname rhymes with “PRIZE bike”

Once described as “ ...part storyteller, part minister, part scientist and part fairy godmother," Evelyn C. Rysdyk is the author of several noted books on shamanism including, The Norse Shaman, Spirit Walking: A Course in Shamanic Power, A Spirit Walker’s Guide to Shamanic Tools, The Nepalese Shamanic Path (with Bhola Banstola) and Shamanic Creativity.

Along with her writings, Evelyn is an impassioned shamanic teacher and guide with over thirty years of experience working with people who are eager to grow and experience their true power. She has been a featured instructor for The Shift Network, for Sounds True and other online teaching venues. Evelyn is also the founder of the Spirit Passages Academy and the New Humans • New Earth Summit.

Evelyn uses her loving humor and passion to open people’s hearts, expand their awareness and inspire them to live more joyful, fulfilling, and purposeful lives. She acknowledges that as people awaken their full selves, they are much more likely and able to make their unique contributions toward positively transforming our world.

She may be contacted through email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelynrysdykofspiritpassages/

Episode Transcript

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Mark Entrekin: And part of that's what we're talking about today, which is achieving unity through the power of encouraging, inspiring, and including others.

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Mark Entrekin: some of the things I do to help that on the personal side is helping couples build prenuptial or pre-relationship agreements for clear understanding. I say prenuptial or pre-relationship, because the nuptial is not required.

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Mark Entrekin: We need help sometimes I know I did, and I wish I would have had more help at the time.

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Mark Entrekin: in front of each of us, personally or professionally, because they work both ways. I work at the personal side as well as things that come from the office.

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Mark Entrekin: I'd love for you to email me today. That's [email protected]. The screen, you see right now is my

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Mark Entrekin: So what are we doing today? This is achieving unity weekly. Podcast I am here every Thursday. With you. I hope you will come back next Thursday and the following Thursday.

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Mark Entrekin: It's going to be on Thursday. So the end of 2024

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Mark Entrekin: in 2025, I'm starting courses on Thursdays. So the podcast will switch to Wednesdays at the same time.

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Mark Entrekin: One Pm. One Pm. Pacific time, 4 pm. Eastern. Of course it goes across the Us. And around the world. We have a lot of international listeners. Also. Some of those are up, some of the people. We appreciate them because it may be 2 in the morning where they are, maybe 3 in the morning, love having them here.

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Mark Entrekin: Engineers know it, and they know it well. But it also works in the home.

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Mark Entrekin: Agile is the ability to create and respond to change, enabling success in an uncertain and possibly struggling environment by emphasizing adaptability through better collaboration and communication.

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Mark Entrekin: Lean is a methodology focused on maximizing value by minimizing waste.

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Mark Entrekin: Oh, how much do we waste today, but optimizing our processes through continuous improvement.

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Mark Entrekin: Also, as I spoke of achieving unity through encouragement, inspiration, and inclusion. Encouragement is the powerful force that lies at the center of the heart of empowerment.

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Mark Entrekin: Now for the excitement of today? What I'm excited about Evelyn, and I talked just the other day. Evelyn is like prize bike. Her name's like prize bike, so it's Evelyn Reizdyke.

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Mark Entrekin: She was once described as a part storyteller.

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Mark Entrekin: are you seeing my page. I don't think I shared my page.

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Mark Entrekin: I forgot about that.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Your logo is up behind you.

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Mark Entrekin: And that's not what it should have been sorry about. That

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Mark Entrekin: Here is Evelyn, which you will talk to her directly in just a second, as I talked about the part scientist, part fairy godmother.

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Mark Entrekin: She has been a featured instructor for the shift network

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Mark Entrekin: for sounds true and other online teaching venues. Evelyn is also the founder of the spirit passages, Academy and New humans. New Earth Summit website, www.spiritpassages.com, if you help me. Welcome. Evelyn

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Mark Entrekin: and here we are with Evelyn Reizdack. Evelyn, how are you today?

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I'm great, Mark. That was quite a enlightening presentation, because I didn't know you were involved in quite so much which is really great to hear.

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Mark Entrekin: You know, Evelyn, I think I take after you when I look at the things that you were doing

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Mark Entrekin: and I'm going to try to just be quiet right now, and let you tell me

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Mark Entrekin: I've got your notes. I can, of course, read them, but that would be near as fun.

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Mark Entrekin: I was listening to you, Evelyn. Tell us a little bit about you a little bit about how you share about your journey into Shamanism. What drew you down this path

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Mark Entrekin: and get us started a little bit here, Evelyn, thank you so much. Go ahead.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Thanks, Mark.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Well.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: since we've been talking a lot between the 2 of us around Unity and finding a way to reunite our family and the the destructiveness of othering.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I like to preface the fact that I was raised

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Evelyn Rysdyk: in that location. My father ran a service station. My grandfather drove a cab for the cab company that was attached to that building, and my grandmother was a dispatcher.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and in spite of the fact that my father was not terribly well educated, he was learning disabled. He made it through high school.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: And he also

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Evelyn Rysdyk: married a very bright woman, my mother and they had 3 kids. I'm the 1st one. I was the training child.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: at any rate, having grown up in that milieu.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: they were capable of being together and being kind.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I was basically raised as a small child in that gas station, like being in a playpen in the office kind of thing.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and whenever the weather was bad, my father would make sure the people that were waiting for the bus would wait inside the office.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: So now I've got like a little audience, right, you know I'm a little baby, and all these people are going. Oh, she's looking so the little old Italian widows would crochet me dresses, and the wonderful. The knife Grinder would. As I got a little bit older and could stand up and get into trouble, the knife grinder would come and dance the tarantella with me, and give me a quarter for that.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: And all these wonderful people from different places, not just in Europe, but in Asia. There was a fabulous black community there, and that

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Evelyn Rysdyk: that that area informed me about people, that there is a quality in all people

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Evelyn Rysdyk: that is consistent.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and only the veneer changes.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: You know the good furniture is the stuff without veneer, you know, the veneer is the problem

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Evelyn Rysdyk: where people look differently than one another, or worship differently, or love differently, or speak a different language, or

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Evelyn Rysdyk: that needs to remember that we are family.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and we are. We are closely related. We are 99.9% of our DNA is exactly the same as everybody else's.

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Mark Entrekin: I don't mean to put you on spot. Could you go a little bit more, because I think about that.

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Mark Entrekin: And as per our discussion, we're only 1012, 13,

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Yeah, it depends on who you talk to, but we are based.

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Mark Entrekin: That's right.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: All distant cousins

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and our differences that we we highlight with one another about oh, our differences.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: That's only 0 point 1% of our DNA,

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Evelyn Rysdyk: the way that we're.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Perhaps colored differently in our skin, but each one of us, as a human being, has a skin tone that matches soil, sand, or clay. Somewhere on the earth

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Evelyn Rysdyk: we look like the body of the earth.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: We we are.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Part of this extraordinary.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: very large family. Now we're over 8 billion of us, and we have the capacity to do brilliant things. If we ignore the 0 point 1% that makes us different

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and pay more attention to the 99.9 where we're the same.

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Mark Entrekin: That is so true.

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Mark Entrekin: I don't want to go into too much, but like I told you about my story

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Mark Entrekin: I have no idea where that blood came from. Do you think my parents cared.

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Mark Entrekin: every one of us in this call have one of those 4 blood types, probably an A or an O.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Absolutely. And what's interesting to me also is how easily

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Evelyn Rysdyk: But as a child, you know, you watched television when you were a child. It was black and white back then, for those of you.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Right 3 channels. And you, I was watching television. And I went to look what the interesting thing was. I used to watch space shots and all that kind of thing. I was a geeky kid. What can I tell you? And what was on that day was the big march on Washington. It was 1963, and Dr. Martin Luther King was doing his. I have a dream speech, and because it was on the channels that carried all the space shots I knew. This is something important I should pay attention to right.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: So I'm sitting there watching it. And my dad came into the room.

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Mark Entrekin: That's an excellent point. I mean, Evelyn, how you just said that that tribalism that's a very interesting term.

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Mark Entrekin: because we do generally associate with just certain people.

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Mark Entrekin: we've become a little bit little bit tribal like you're saying right.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and it was interesting to me, and we lived pretty close to the city. I mean, you could sort of spit to the to the Queen's border. From where I was

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Evelyn Rysdyk: we, my father and mother managed to raise enough money to get us out of the apartment, and they bought a tract house a little further out on Long Island.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: But it was also that I've got mine, and that's all that matters. I've got mine.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and that that to me just did not sit well, I mean I don't know where I got all of that understanding, but it was, it felt sick to me

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Evelyn Rysdyk: We were all called girls back. Then, by the way, I'm I'm a mid-century mid 20th century model.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: we'd have to go to specialty stores to get pants that would actually go down past our ankles right, you know, like they touch your shoes, woohoo, and skirts long enough to wear to school without having a teacher. Give you a hard time about your skirt being too short.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: whether we had accented speech or not was irrelevant. We would share with each other like whether or not we thought something looked good on one another. Did you try the green one, you know, and that was that was the way

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Mark Entrekin: I love what you're saying right now. I'd like to bring up 2 quick points. Number one that was almost like your tall tribe

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Mark Entrekin: And then, second, if anyone has a question, I do have my note on my chat up here. You have a question to ask us as we're going through this. Please just put it into the chat. We'll bring it up and and talk more later. But.

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Mark Entrekin: Ellen, that's what I heard you talk about there, listening from you earlier

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Absolutely, and it was an inclusive, tall tribe. It wasn't just just white faces in there. It wasn't just people who were born in in the United States. It was a whole mix

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Evelyn Rysdyk: that was actually kind of fun, because inside those doors we could be who we really were.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and the same thing with the place where you could get big shoes, too, you know, because you got big feet if you.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Exactly so in the in the early sixties they had those awful pointed shoes, you know, girls with big feet

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Evelyn Rysdyk: not going to happen, so that that was a place where we could find, you know, heels that actually fit us.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Drag queens may have lived might have shopped there as well, but that's a different issue.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: So the idea that these things are not only possible. They have happened before in the strangest places where people recognize the things that separate us

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Evelyn Rysdyk: are Bs, basically, everybody's allowed to be proud of their heritage, but not at the effect of somebody else, you know. Like not going well. I'm more important than you are, because I'm this religion or this color, or I speak this language, or

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Mark Entrekin: And that is so true, Evelyn, I love what you're saying, and it goes back to some of those books about what's your why?

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I think some part of us we're part of the animal kingdom, although some people shudder at that idea. I think it's really great.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Well, I think it's important to recognize we're not that different, you know. We forget we're part of nature. Nature is someplace. We go on vacation for the view, you know. No, no, we're part of nature can't breathe without it. Can't drink without it. We'll die without it.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: other people in an effort to feel better about ourselves. And it's and it's a kind of bypass we do over shoveling our own

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and then we don't have to try to put other people around in order to feel like oh, I feel better now.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I'm better than them. I'm good.

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Mark Entrekin: Insecurity of those people. And I talk about this a lot also. Sometimes it's an immaturity. Other times it's an insecurity. People are constantly finding something wrong to make them feel better.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: They feel just as bad about themselves. They're just spreading the misery around.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and that is not going to get us to the place where we can actually work together to solve the problems of global climate change.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Pulling ourselves together as a family is part of not only our survival, but the survival of all of the species.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and you know we'll we'll talk about that, I'm sure. A lot in this conversation.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: 1st of all, I'm too tall for most of the boxes, but second of all.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Yeah, and they never got a big enough box. That's a good thing.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: So I followed that track because I felt much more free in that track.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: the place was 1st of all. It was, I went there in 1973.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: There were returning veterans there, so they were a good 10 years or so older than I was. There were people from all over the world.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: There were people who were every possible nationality, race, creed, and color in that school, and

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Evelyn Rysdyk: And so they were all there in art school.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: that included the very 1st transgender woman I met who was taller than I was, which was.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: This was 1973.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: And lots of gay men and Lesbian women.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: You're back headed back to Kansas. I forgive me if any of you are from Kansas.

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Mark Entrekin: But but that's in the movie. That's right.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: It's just a movie.

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Mark Entrekin: Wizard of Oz. Yes.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: So in coming back out of this rarefied era of art school, where it was like a multifaceted diamond of all of these people that were incredibly talented and

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and inspirational to me as well, because some of them were so amazing at what they did.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: But

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Evelyn Rysdyk: when I came out

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I was. I was back in back in Kansas, and you know people were behaving

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Evelyn Rysdyk: not so well by that time. We're moving now toward the eighties.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and with the 80 Si had gay friends, of course.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and

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Evelyn Rysdyk: they started to get sick.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: And this is a really hard

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Evelyn Rysdyk: part of my life.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Somebody who I really cared for a lot. He was a brilliant pediatrician.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: he was the lover of a friend of mine.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and he was

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Evelyn Rysdyk: he got sick

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and died within a very, very short time.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: like.

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Mark Entrekin: I'm so sorry.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Couple of a few weeks.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and then I watched other people.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: You know there was a

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I lived within a short ferry ride of Fire Island.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I was on the mainland Fire Islands, a barrier beach off of the south part of Long Island. It's

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Evelyn Rysdyk: east of

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Jones Beach you may have heard of, and we'd go there in the summertime. You know it's everything was open. There'd be fabulous shops and great places to dance, and it didn't matter what your sexuality was. You were welcome at Fire Island, and

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Evelyn Rysdyk: the 1st summer I went there. When, after Rodney had passed away.

393
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Evelyn Rysdyk: I started to see men who looked gaunt.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and they started to have the spots from carpocy sarcoma.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: And I said, This is this is not okay. I have gay friends. I'm I'm really concerned about my friend Chickie. My, I had all these wonderful guys that I knew as well as women.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and so I made sure. I went and joined all the Marches to try to get the Government to recognize that we needed funding.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I walked a lot more than I can walk now, I can tell you.

399
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Evelyn Rysdyk: and the the

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Evelyn Rysdyk: under President Reagan. At the time there was no funding available, and there was a big conservative backlash that basically made people feel as though it was their own fault that they were sick.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and that they were dying. And

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I remember marching past a religious building. It was a Cathedral.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and the people from the Westboro Baptist Church were chanting, GAYG. A. Y. Got age yet got age yet.

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Mark Entrekin: Oh, that's so sad!

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Evelyn Rysdyk: As

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Evelyn Rysdyk: friends of mine were dying, and they were dying on other people's couches because their families threw them out.

407
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Evelyn Rysdyk: and they were cared for in large part by the gay women

408
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Evelyn Rysdyk: who brought food, who tended people at their bedsides or sofa sides, who nourished

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Evelyn Rysdyk: as best they could

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Evelyn Rysdyk: the people that were ill in the community.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and that

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Evelyn Rysdyk: that

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Evelyn Rysdyk: time was

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Evelyn Rysdyk: was heroic in some ways, but mostly

415
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Evelyn Rysdyk: like a holocaust.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: because so many people, because there was an unwillingness to embrace

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Evelyn Rysdyk: the people that were dying that were not like you.

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Mark Entrekin: And wasn't there like you're saying. I'm sorry to interrupt you here, Alan, but what I'm hearing is

419
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Mark Entrekin: the same way I was. I'm hearing myself, and so that you're saying because

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Mark Entrekin: I had no problem with one being gay.

421
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Mark Entrekin: But I had no other idea. I didn't know. I

422
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Mark Entrekin: went to gay bars with friends and my spouse.

423
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Mark Entrekin: and she'd go with me, and we would talk to others. But

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Mark Entrekin: I had no idea about

425
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Mark Entrekin: aids or anything else, and

426
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Mark Entrekin: as I mentioned earlier in this podcast. About

427
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Mark Entrekin: rumors and things you hear on something like Facebook. And you just don't know.

428
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Mark Entrekin: But it's what we hear. And once we hear it

429
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Mark Entrekin: doesn't matter, we take you to the Bible.

430
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Mark Entrekin: We take it as law.

431
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Mark Entrekin: So the things you're talking about I can.

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Mark Entrekin: I can feel some of the things

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Mark Entrekin: that you were encountering.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Well, well, this is an expression of your humanity, you know, because just because you're human doesn't mean people are humane.

435
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Evelyn Rysdyk: Yeah, you know.

436
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Evelyn Rysdyk: that's the honest truth. So

437
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Evelyn Rysdyk: today, we're we're seeing

438
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Evelyn Rysdyk: the the largest population in the Lgbtqia plus community. It's a lot harder to say than just gay

439
00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:06.669
Evelyn Rysdyk: the people that are taking the the

440
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Evelyn Rysdyk: the worst prejudice, and, in fact, being killed at a very high rate, are trans. Women of color

441
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Evelyn Rysdyk: there, and that is horrifying to me.

442
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Evelyn Rysdyk: because

443
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Evelyn Rysdyk: this is supposed to be a nation where you can become

444
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Evelyn Rysdyk: your heart's desire.

445
00:36:30.450 --> 00:36:38.439
Evelyn Rysdyk: You get the, you know. That's that story of you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps and be whoever you really want to be.

446
00:36:39.690 --> 00:36:41.890
Evelyn Rysdyk: Well, it's not true for everybody.

447
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Evelyn Rysdyk: it's not true.

448
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Evelyn Rysdyk: and that

449
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Evelyn Rysdyk: that

450
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Evelyn Rysdyk: lie

451
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Evelyn Rysdyk: that we tell ourselves.

452
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Evelyn Rysdyk: I think, makes us go like this.

453
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Evelyn Rysdyk: I don't see that

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Evelyn Rysdyk: that's not my community. It's okay.

455
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Evelyn Rysdyk: and not from a mean-spirited place. But from a

456
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Evelyn Rysdyk: I can't let that in.

457
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Evelyn Rysdyk: because I let that in. That's going to mean I have to change my perceptions about who I am and where I live and what's not working.

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Mark Entrekin: And if you don't mind, I'll just toss in a quick process there of some of the

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Mark Entrekin: the prejudices, and I have all kinds of work here for prejudice. But I would say with what you're going on, because you are my star today, and I want you to know that. But

460
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Mark Entrekin: when I went through my divorce.

461
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Mark Entrekin: my 2 children and my ex. It was during the time of the quote unquote deadbeat Dad, when that guy who won the lottery and shut out his children, shot his ex spouse, shot everybody.

462
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Mark Entrekin: and all of a sudden they came up with that terminology, that of the dead be death. But yet

463
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Mark Entrekin: that prejudice hit me while I was in the courthouse

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Mark Entrekin: while I was in the courtroom with those judges, and what the lawyers had to fight against because of that aura of the deadbeat, Dad. And the reason I tell that story, though.

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Mark Entrekin: is that when I walked out of that courtroom and back into the theoretical real world that prejudice wasn't there for me. But the point I want to make here is that prejudice is there for you for any one of color, that prejudice. Is there 24 HA day, 7 days a week? Right? It was traumatic for me. I was destroyed.

466
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Mark Entrekin: but I was only destroyed by that court system while I was in the courthouse.

467
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Mark Entrekin: Rulings from it, of course, but that was minimal.

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Mark Entrekin: But yet you're talking about people such as yourself, such as so many people

469
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Mark Entrekin: that this impacts them, the transgender black that's bothering them. That's impacting them. 24 HA day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, right.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Absolutely. And unfortunately, it's also

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Evelyn Rysdyk: not to the degree of of being murdered. But

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Evelyn Rysdyk: right now we're in a time period where just being female is dangerous.

473
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Evelyn Rysdyk: particularly if you're a fertile female.

474
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Evelyn Rysdyk: so.

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Mark Entrekin: Tell me more.

476
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Evelyn Rysdyk: Well with the restrictions on abortion. There have been women dying of sepsis because they could not have the procedure to remove a fetus that had died

477
00:39:16.720 --> 00:39:20.260
Evelyn Rysdyk: and died of, and therefore they died of sepsis.

478
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Mark Entrekin: In the womb.

479
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Evelyn Rysdyk: The not the baby, the mother.

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Mark Entrekin: All right, sepsis, but.

481
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Evelyn Rysdyk: And that kind of

482
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Mark Entrekin: But the baby has died in the womb, or.

483
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Evelyn Rysdyk: In the room, in.

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Mark Entrekin: Right, and then and then the the mother. Then.

485
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Mark Entrekin: wow, okay, this is again. This is learning. I don't. This another thing. I had no idea about this.

486
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Evelyn Rysdyk: Yep. Yep.

487
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Mark Entrekin: It may have been glanced across some newspaper, but

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Mark Entrekin: new parent always has the negative. Where is the learning? So please go ahead.

489
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Evelyn Rysdyk: Well that that idea that we can other anybody.

490
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Evelyn Rysdyk: You know that, and that is

491
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Evelyn Rysdyk: our responsibility to to pull the reins in on ourselves when we start doing that.

492
00:40:08.050 --> 00:40:12.529
Evelyn Rysdyk: when we other someone, we are smothering someone.

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Mark Entrekin: I saw that say that again.

494
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Evelyn Rysdyk: When you.

495
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Mark Entrekin: When we are.

496
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Evelyn Rysdyk: Someone.

497
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Mark Entrekin: Othering.

498
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Evelyn Rysdyk: Smothering someone.

499
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Evelyn Rysdyk: and that to me is just a truth I feel in my gut.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: because, believe it or not, I live in a fairly small in terms of population state. I live in the State of Maine.

501
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Evelyn Rysdyk: and yet there are a hundred, and I think it's 130. It may be actually more than that, 130 languages spoken in the schools in Portland.

502
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Evelyn Rysdyk: because we have people from everywhere here, because we accept people who are refugees.

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Mark Entrekin: Okay.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: And

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Evelyn Rysdyk: the fact that we have this incredibly diverse population, at least down here in Southern Maine.

506
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Evelyn Rysdyk: is so sweet to me

507
00:40:59.140 --> 00:41:01.850
Evelyn Rysdyk: because I can walk around and be

508
00:41:01.870 --> 00:41:03.390
Evelyn Rysdyk: delighted

509
00:41:03.490 --> 00:41:07.179
Evelyn Rysdyk: by hearing languages I have never heard. When I was young

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Evelyn Rysdyk: I hear all of these different languages. There's 2 couples that I see in Portland that dress completely in their traditional clothing. I think they might be Nigerian, but they wear their

511
00:41:24.060 --> 00:41:25.660
Evelyn Rysdyk: beautiful clothing.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and they they are stunning. In fact, I passed. One was the woman was waiting at a bus stop, and I mouthed at her. You look beautiful, and she smiled.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and I was so pleased because she was beautiful. She had this beautiful sort of turban thing, you know, with a fan kind of on either side the way it was tied. She just looked.

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Mark Entrekin: Can I just touch on that? A second because you just said something that of course, lit me up.

515
00:41:51.810 --> 00:41:53.640
Mark Entrekin: You told someone

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Mark Entrekin: they were beautiful, and they were you. You are achieving unity

517
00:41:59.720 --> 00:42:17.089
Mark Entrekin: by harnessing the power of encouraging others, inspiring them on who they are and including them every day. And that's exactly what I'm going with in my speech. I would just want to say thank you for saying that, because again, what you did to that person

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Mark Entrekin: who was wearing, as she called it, the traditional clothing, not wild, not crazy, not

519
00:42:23.560 --> 00:42:26.419
Mark Entrekin: just traditional clothing. And you compliment.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Beautifully colorful. You know

521
00:42:29.140 --> 00:42:35.739
Evelyn Rysdyk: I have to say, you know this. This is pretty snazzy, but nowhere near as beautiful as African textiles are.

522
00:42:36.030 --> 00:42:37.190
Evelyn Rysdyk: They are just

523
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Evelyn Rysdyk: fantastic. The color combinations are like spring bursting out all over.

524
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:49.280
Evelyn Rysdyk: And she she just looked like spring standing there waiting for the bus. You know it's just like.

525
00:42:49.520 --> 00:42:54.700
Evelyn Rysdyk: And it was. It was just so joyful. We have a group of

526
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Evelyn Rysdyk: Somalian Bantu people, and the Bantu people in Somalia were oppressed.

527
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:03.860
Evelyn Rysdyk: So they they came as refugees here, and

528
00:43:04.350 --> 00:43:08.359
Evelyn Rysdyk: people got together to donate a hundred acres to them because they're farmers.

529
00:43:08.410 --> 00:43:14.219
Evelyn Rysdyk: And so there is a Somali Bantu farm here that helps provide food for the community.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Excuse me.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: there are all these different individuals here from during the Vietnam war. We got a bunch of people from Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia. There are all these people in a city of only 60,000 people, by the way, or maybe a little bit more than 60 now.

532
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Evelyn Rysdyk: and there is an electricity

533
00:43:36.470 --> 00:43:40.030
Evelyn Rysdyk: when people of all different places come together.

534
00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:56.920
Evelyn Rysdyk: and that they, you know, they sit together in the emergency room waiting to be seen by a doctor, or they're off at a concert together, or with one of the fabulous restaurants. That's the other wonderful thing about having people from all over the world. The food in Portland is killer.

535
00:43:57.400 --> 00:43:58.470
Evelyn Rysdyk: and

536
00:43:58.480 --> 00:43:59.840
Evelyn Rysdyk: you've got this

537
00:44:00.170 --> 00:44:16.349
Evelyn Rysdyk: diversity in all the richness of people, their languages, the the way they bring their own aesthetic to the world. They the food that they have, that you may never have had before these

538
00:44:16.560 --> 00:44:17.940
Evelyn Rysdyk: these gifts

539
00:44:17.970 --> 00:44:23.490
Evelyn Rysdyk: that we can give one another simply by agreeing to be together

540
00:44:24.690 --> 00:44:25.520
Evelyn Rysdyk: and to.

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Mark Entrekin: Tell me something. I don't mean to interrupt you again, but I know I keep doing it, but we only have 15 more minutes. Tell me more if you would about your Shamanism, and maybe this is where you're going. I hope I'm not rushing you, but I love some of your affiliency impact. We talked a little about your

542
00:44:43.780 --> 00:44:48.329
Mark Entrekin: growing up in the in the Gay and the Lgbtq plus, and

543
00:44:48.390 --> 00:44:52.109
Mark Entrekin: tell me about your Shamanism. And maybe that's where you're going. I'm sorry if I'm rushing you.

544
00:44:52.160 --> 00:44:54.789
Mark Entrekin: but this is so interesting.

545
00:44:56.010 --> 00:44:57.070
Evelyn Rysdyk: It's all good.

546
00:44:57.220 --> 00:45:00.209
Evelyn Rysdyk: So I practice Shamanism.

547
00:45:00.460 --> 00:45:10.259
Evelyn Rysdyk: I was as a small child I was a Methodist, but I practiced Shamanism as a way to. 1st of all, get unstuck. I had a period of depression.

548
00:45:10.490 --> 00:45:14.000
Evelyn Rysdyk: and, you know, depression kind of does this to you.

549
00:45:14.300 --> 00:45:18.950
Evelyn Rysdyk: Your world narrows down. You feel like one of those horses, you know, with the blinders on.

550
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:22.190
Evelyn Rysdyk: and the 1st journey I had

551
00:45:23.490 --> 00:45:32.329
Evelyn Rysdyk: opened up my worldview because it's a kind of expansion of consciousness. I don't think of it as altered consciousness, but an expansion

552
00:45:32.350 --> 00:45:36.690
Evelyn Rysdyk: of consciousness, you see more, perceive more than

553
00:45:36.830 --> 00:45:39.359
Evelyn Rysdyk: what you do with your ordinary vision.

554
00:45:39.790 --> 00:45:43.330
Evelyn Rysdyk: and I happen to use drums for that. I don't use

555
00:45:43.730 --> 00:45:49.610
Evelyn Rysdyk: sacred plants, because I'm of an age where I'm on medication that doesn't go with those plants. So.

556
00:45:51.003 --> 00:45:53.480
Mark Entrekin: Allergic to them. But yes, I understand.

557
00:45:53.480 --> 00:46:01.680
Evelyn Rysdyk: Like well, but drumming works just as well. Drum beats, or or anything that is repetitive, 4 to 4.5 seconds.

558
00:46:01.700 --> 00:46:05.250
Evelyn Rysdyk: 4 4 to 4.5 beats per second

559
00:46:06.060 --> 00:46:14.180
Evelyn Rysdyk: will allow your brain to produce 4 brain waves simultaneously. Alpha, Theta Delta, and gamma waves.

560
00:46:14.500 --> 00:46:21.400
Evelyn Rysdyk: and over a period of time you actually are rewiring yourself for more capability.

561
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:30.160
Evelyn Rysdyk: Now I use it to to find out answers to questions. Meet my ancestors, and particularly the one who was an herbal doctor who gave me a recipe I wanted.

562
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:31.470
Evelyn Rysdyk: and

563
00:46:32.270 --> 00:46:40.729
Evelyn Rysdyk: all these ways that you can use that doorway to support people as a healer, as a communicator that those

564
00:46:40.870 --> 00:46:42.070
Evelyn Rysdyk: gifts

565
00:46:42.610 --> 00:46:48.690
Evelyn Rysdyk: I like to liberally spread around for other people to to have that experience, because when you

566
00:46:49.030 --> 00:46:54.139
Evelyn Rysdyk: lose the blinders, mine were there because of depression, but we've all got them.

567
00:46:54.510 --> 00:46:58.189
Evelyn Rysdyk: you know. We all have our little things that we're.

568
00:46:58.190 --> 00:47:01.690
Mark Entrekin: And and those blinders could also be there because of lack of knowledge. Sometimes.

569
00:47:01.690 --> 00:47:02.409
Evelyn Rysdyk: Which is right.

570
00:47:02.410 --> 00:47:02.990
Mark Entrekin: Of course.

571
00:47:04.290 --> 00:47:13.299
Evelyn Rysdyk: Absolutely, and it doesn't even matter how they got there. We could have had them enculturated in by our church, by our family, by our schooling whatever.

572
00:47:13.470 --> 00:47:19.010
Evelyn Rysdyk: But when we open up and we begin to look at the fact that we're in a world that is

573
00:47:19.140 --> 00:47:21.100
Evelyn Rysdyk: exquisitely alive.

574
00:47:22.300 --> 00:47:38.430
Evelyn Rysdyk: that the natural world is not just animals and birds, but that everything is communicating with everything else. There's so much research now about the fungal network that's underneath forests and actually underneath any kind of healthy soil.

575
00:47:38.650 --> 00:47:40.470
Evelyn Rysdyk: And it works like

576
00:47:40.730 --> 00:47:43.180
Evelyn Rysdyk: like the Internet.

577
00:47:44.000 --> 00:48:01.050
Evelyn Rysdyk: You can get these trees talking to one another and supplying things like a message from a tree that's being attacked by an insect. It sends chemical messages through the fungal network to other trees to tell them to produce this chemical, because the bugs don't like it.

578
00:48:02.200 --> 00:48:06.460
Mark Entrekin: Wow! I grew up in science. And that is so interesting.

579
00:48:06.460 --> 00:48:07.260
Evelyn Rysdyk: It's it's phenomenal.

580
00:48:07.260 --> 00:48:08.050
Mark Entrekin: Never.

581
00:48:08.050 --> 00:48:11.849
Evelyn Rysdyk: There are 2 species of trees that

582
00:48:12.220 --> 00:48:18.000
Evelyn Rysdyk: work together, Suzanne Simard's book, and I can't remember the name of it. I apologize for that.

583
00:48:18.050 --> 00:48:22.190
Evelyn Rysdyk: She was working for the forest industry in Canada.

584
00:48:22.560 --> 00:48:30.289
Evelyn Rysdyk: and she observed that when the the fir trees that they would use for

585
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:32.740
Evelyn Rysdyk: lumber and whatnot were

586
00:48:32.770 --> 00:48:37.009
Evelyn Rysdyk: in close proximity to birch trees. They seem to do a lot better.

587
00:48:37.470 --> 00:48:40.789
Evelyn Rysdyk: What she found out through research is.

588
00:48:41.150 --> 00:48:44.169
Evelyn Rysdyk: of course, fir trees have needles that are green all year round.

589
00:48:44.330 --> 00:48:46.749
Evelyn Rysdyk: and the birch tree has leaves right

590
00:48:46.850 --> 00:48:49.389
Evelyn Rysdyk: so in the summertime, in the spring and the summer.

591
00:48:49.590 --> 00:48:51.910
Evelyn Rysdyk: the birch tree sends sugar

592
00:48:52.090 --> 00:48:53.309
Evelyn Rysdyk: to the fir tree

593
00:48:54.140 --> 00:48:57.560
Evelyn Rysdyk: got extra sugar doing well here. Here's some for you.

594
00:48:58.570 --> 00:49:00.039
Evelyn Rysdyk: In the winter

595
00:49:01.350 --> 00:49:02.760
Evelyn Rysdyk: the fir tree

596
00:49:03.160 --> 00:49:04.939
Evelyn Rysdyk: helps to restore

597
00:49:05.270 --> 00:49:06.460
Evelyn Rysdyk: the sugar

598
00:49:06.720 --> 00:49:08.540
Evelyn Rysdyk: for the

599
00:49:08.570 --> 00:49:14.809
Evelyn Rysdyk: birch tree. Who then, has more than enough to produce leaves so that it can produce its own sugar again.

600
00:49:15.010 --> 00:49:19.070
Evelyn Rysdyk: So these 2 very different trees, I mean.

601
00:49:19.590 --> 00:49:24.110
Evelyn Rysdyk: they'd they'd be in different countries, right? Practically, they're so different.

602
00:49:24.720 --> 00:49:31.879
Evelyn Rysdyk: Yet they have figured out that, hey? You know, if we get together and share some of these resources, we're going to do good, and they do.

603
00:49:32.310 --> 00:49:33.860
Evelyn Rysdyk: they flourish.

604
00:49:33.940 --> 00:49:37.100
Evelyn Rysdyk: And what they're using is something as humble

605
00:49:37.170 --> 00:49:40.760
Evelyn Rysdyk: in our minds at least of this mycelium

606
00:49:41.020 --> 00:49:44.970
Evelyn Rysdyk: that connects the mushrooms, because the part that we we take and eat

607
00:49:45.090 --> 00:49:46.999
Evelyn Rysdyk: if we're smart enough about mushrooms.

608
00:49:47.180 --> 00:49:50.389
Evelyn Rysdyk: that's just the fruiting body that's the one that sends out the

609
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:52.950
Evelyn Rysdyk: the spores. So it grows more mushrooms.

610
00:49:52.960 --> 00:50:00.089
Evelyn Rysdyk: But the good news is happening underground, where all these chemicals and water and all these things are being shared

611
00:50:00.900 --> 00:50:02.289
Evelyn Rysdyk: across the forest.

612
00:50:02.670 --> 00:50:07.559
Evelyn Rysdyk: and in any healthy soil you can cultivate that in your yard as long as you don't use

613
00:50:07.870 --> 00:50:09.390
Evelyn Rysdyk: chemicals on your lawn.

614
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:15.419
Evelyn Rysdyk: so that idea that everything is so vibratingly alive.

615
00:50:16.290 --> 00:50:17.210
Evelyn Rysdyk: Is

616
00:50:17.520 --> 00:50:20.940
Evelyn Rysdyk: nature almost going? Hey? What about you?

617
00:50:21.910 --> 00:50:25.069
Evelyn Rysdyk: Are you feeling vibrantly alive today? No.

618
00:50:25.190 --> 00:50:28.110
Evelyn Rysdyk: come on outside with me. Come on, come on.

619
00:50:28.610 --> 00:50:32.979
Evelyn Rysdyk: or pay attention to what's happening by your bird feeder

620
00:50:33.100 --> 00:50:36.860
Evelyn Rysdyk: or the critters that come we have. We have a little suburban lot.

621
00:50:36.870 --> 00:50:38.619
Evelyn Rysdyk: It's 8 tenths of an acre.

622
00:50:39.240 --> 00:50:47.769
Evelyn Rysdyk: and there's a drainage ditch to the little river that cuts cuts off part of the the back part of the property, so we just decided to let it go wild.

623
00:50:48.160 --> 00:50:49.690
Evelyn Rysdyk: It's become a forest.

624
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:52.020
Evelyn Rysdyk: We have

625
00:50:52.590 --> 00:51:06.080
Evelyn Rysdyk: amphibians, we have reptiles, we have all manner of birds, we have deer, we have possums, beavers waddle up from the city, from the river, from the city.

626
00:51:06.470 --> 00:51:10.519
Evelyn Rysdyk: What else have we got? We? We had a moose walk up our driveway.

627
00:51:10.530 --> 00:51:15.919
Evelyn Rysdyk: and all all kinds of critters basically have found like, Oh, it's pretty good. Here, let's stick around.

628
00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:20.180
Evelyn Rysdyk: And all we did is let nature take its course.

629
00:51:21.210 --> 00:51:23.909
Evelyn Rysdyk: So most of the things are

630
00:51:24.570 --> 00:51:26.210
Evelyn Rysdyk: things that the birds planted.

631
00:51:27.510 --> 00:51:34.259
Evelyn Rysdyk: Some of them are not native, but they're being kept in check by the other ones that the birds have planted.

632
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:42.229
Evelyn Rysdyk: So we look outside the back, and we have a forest there that was never there. It was just scrubby old grass when we moved in.

633
00:51:42.490 --> 00:51:46.600
Evelyn Rysdyk: and now, 30 years later we have this little forest

634
00:51:47.220 --> 00:51:49.090
Evelyn Rysdyk: that feeds all these critters.

635
00:51:49.090 --> 00:51:49.850
Mark Entrekin: That's awesome.

636
00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:53.259
Mark Entrekin: So down in Southern Mississippi, so there's

637
00:51:53.310 --> 00:52:02.439
Mark Entrekin: too much here. But I feed the hummingbirds. I feed the cardinals and the blue jays and the bluebirds, and the there's so many other animals and love that.

638
00:52:02.550 --> 00:52:05.269
Mark Entrekin: But what I'm hearing you say you're pulling this together

639
00:52:05.460 --> 00:52:06.310
Mark Entrekin: so

640
00:52:06.560 --> 00:52:08.180
Mark Entrekin: they can help each other

641
00:52:08.520 --> 00:52:10.530
Mark Entrekin: in the growth that you're doing.

642
00:52:11.480 --> 00:52:16.219
Evelyn Rysdyk: And for us, I think because there's 8 billion of us, and we and actually.

643
00:52:16.230 --> 00:52:21.960
Evelyn Rysdyk: we and the species that we have domesticated are the largest biomass on the planet.

644
00:52:22.980 --> 00:52:24.379
Evelyn Rysdyk: Let that sink in.

645
00:52:25.160 --> 00:52:27.619
Evelyn Rysdyk: It's not insects anymore. It's us

646
00:52:27.700 --> 00:52:30.780
Evelyn Rysdyk: and the plants and the animals we've domesticated.

647
00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:32.560
Evelyn Rysdyk: So

648
00:52:33.330 --> 00:52:35.890
Evelyn Rysdyk: I think we kind of owe it to nature

649
00:52:37.310 --> 00:52:41.470
Evelyn Rysdyk: to figure out how to work with all that vibrancy and encourage more of it.

650
00:52:42.780 --> 00:52:46.770
Evelyn Rysdyk: And it's something that feels really good.

651
00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:54.660
Evelyn Rysdyk: It reminds me of those wonderful old trees that were my friends walking to school when I was in grade school. I loved those trees.

652
00:52:55.290 --> 00:52:59.630
Mark Entrekin: What is it? It works with the trees, the plants

653
00:53:00.100 --> 00:53:01.510
Mark Entrekin: does it work with animals?

654
00:53:01.780 --> 00:53:02.930
Mark Entrekin: Oh, sure.

655
00:53:03.160 --> 00:53:04.130
Evelyn Rysdyk: Oh, sure.

656
00:53:04.350 --> 00:53:10.800
Evelyn Rysdyk: because the herd of deer that comes and visits our yard they give. They give it if we pull in the driveway, and they're still out.

657
00:53:10.810 --> 00:53:15.500
Evelyn Rysdyk: They'll give us a look. It's like it's okay. Oh, it's only them, and they will go back to eating

658
00:53:16.050 --> 00:53:20.939
Evelyn Rysdyk: the moose. I don't know where the moose came from, but he walked up the driveway and just kept going.

659
00:53:21.570 --> 00:53:26.009
Evelyn Rysdyk: So animals understand each other.

660
00:53:26.020 --> 00:53:30.420
Evelyn Rysdyk: You know this. If you have pets that you know what they're thinking.

661
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:32.760
Evelyn Rysdyk: and they know what you're thinking.

662
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:35.800
Evelyn Rysdyk: If you think treats, they'll be up by the treats.

663
00:53:36.260 --> 00:53:38.709
Evelyn Rysdyk: And that idea that we

664
00:53:38.720 --> 00:53:45.229
Evelyn Rysdyk: we have to learn how to do it, you know, because they're not speaking English, or some other language that humans are familiar with.

665
00:53:45.250 --> 00:53:47.950
Evelyn Rysdyk: But animals read this.

666
00:53:49.170 --> 00:53:51.250
Evelyn Rysdyk: They read who we are here.

667
00:53:51.560 --> 00:53:52.620
Evelyn Rysdyk: If we are.

668
00:53:52.620 --> 00:53:55.249
Mark Entrekin: Our heart is that kind of what you're our soul.

669
00:53:55.250 --> 00:53:56.659
Evelyn Rysdyk: Feeling. It's our.

670
00:53:56.660 --> 00:53:57.080
Mark Entrekin: Feeling.

671
00:53:57.080 --> 00:54:01.660
Evelyn Rysdyk: If we're, you know, just smitten with our kitten, as it were.

672
00:54:02.730 --> 00:54:04.080
Evelyn Rysdyk: he was gonna know.

673
00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:08.779
Evelyn Rysdyk: because we're radiating that energy that's saying that person's safe.

674
00:54:09.950 --> 00:54:14.640
Evelyn Rysdyk: and imagine if we did that more for the other human beings.

675
00:54:14.750 --> 00:54:21.540
Evelyn Rysdyk: if we let ourselves fall in love with the rest of humanity. Yeah, it's got plenty of rough edges.

676
00:54:22.030 --> 00:54:23.220
Evelyn Rysdyk: I understand.

677
00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:26.370
Evelyn Rysdyk: but it's not all people that have rough edges

678
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:29.370
Evelyn Rysdyk: and to love.

679
00:54:29.460 --> 00:54:33.429
Evelyn Rysdyk: and if you can't manage love, at least be grateful

680
00:54:33.490 --> 00:54:36.070
Evelyn Rysdyk: for the beauty that they bring to the world.

681
00:54:36.640 --> 00:54:45.699
Evelyn Rysdyk: the the incredible ideas they have, the creativity they have, the way that we can be. Our finest selves

682
00:54:46.620 --> 00:54:49.050
Evelyn Rysdyk: is present in every one of us.

683
00:54:50.910 --> 00:54:51.930
Evelyn Rysdyk: And so

684
00:54:52.160 --> 00:54:55.149
Evelyn Rysdyk: I think if I'm if I'm going to leave you with anything.

685
00:54:56.170 --> 00:55:05.129
Mark Entrekin: You're right on track, because we're about 5, almost like 5, 5, or 6 min away. And that's what I want to get into leave, and we'll talk about what can we do going forward for the next few minutes? But please continue.

686
00:55:05.130 --> 00:55:11.210
Evelyn Rysdyk: I think that to leave you with the idea that you are far more powerful than you think you are.

687
00:55:11.640 --> 00:55:15.460
Evelyn Rysdyk: Your feelings extend past your body.

688
00:55:16.030 --> 00:55:18.649
Evelyn Rysdyk: and they affect not only your

689
00:55:18.660 --> 00:55:20.060
Evelyn Rysdyk: health and well-being.

690
00:55:20.260 --> 00:55:28.509
Evelyn Rysdyk: If you're angry or fearful, and anger is part of fear. By the way, fear has lots of faces, judgment, blame, shame, all kinds of things.

691
00:55:29.030 --> 00:55:31.989
Evelyn Rysdyk: So if you're afraid, let's just use afraid. It's so much simpler.

692
00:55:33.080 --> 00:55:34.110
Evelyn Rysdyk: You

693
00:55:34.150 --> 00:55:36.710
Evelyn Rysdyk: change your biochemistry.

694
00:55:36.980 --> 00:55:47.220
Evelyn Rysdyk: your digestion goes offline. Your upper brain goes offline. You can't think because your body's experiencing a fight flight or freeze response.

695
00:55:47.290 --> 00:55:55.080
Evelyn Rysdyk: which means your body thinks I don't need to think I'm not eating right now. All I have to be is fast and run away or hide.

696
00:55:56.340 --> 00:55:57.280
Evelyn Rysdyk: Now

697
00:55:57.710 --> 00:56:01.280
Evelyn Rysdyk: that's good. If you were being chased by a tiger, I suppose, but.

698
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:02.799
Mark Entrekin: To be in that state is.

699
00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:05.380
Evelyn Rysdyk: Much as we are in our culture

700
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:08.999
Evelyn Rysdyk: means. We are also damaging our DNA,

701
00:56:09.180 --> 00:56:11.620
Evelyn Rysdyk: because when we're in that state.

702
00:56:11.890 --> 00:56:15.749
Evelyn Rysdyk: our DNA actually winds tighter onto itself in our cells.

703
00:56:16.020 --> 00:56:17.860
Evelyn Rysdyk: Now, why do we care about that?

704
00:56:18.450 --> 00:56:21.280
Evelyn Rysdyk: Where the DNA crosses itself?

705
00:56:21.710 --> 00:56:27.740
Evelyn Rysdyk: It influences how the genes on that DNA strand express themselves.

706
00:56:27.960 --> 00:56:36.509
Evelyn Rysdyk: So if our DNA is responsible for cellular repair regeneration and basically telling the body how to be

707
00:56:37.050 --> 00:56:38.190
Evelyn Rysdyk: okay.

708
00:56:39.200 --> 00:56:44.070
Evelyn Rysdyk: So we have to learn to to antidote fear

709
00:56:44.930 --> 00:56:55.270
Evelyn Rysdyk: and a simple way to do that. And they've known this since the 19 nineties is to if you're feeling fear or you're angry, or feeling Judgy.

710
00:56:55.330 --> 00:57:02.649
Evelyn Rysdyk: which we do in our culture, feeling ashamed, or that you want to blame somebody else. That's all fear, that's all fear. And

711
00:57:02.740 --> 00:57:05.419
Evelyn Rysdyk: what you do is take a minute

712
00:57:06.220 --> 00:57:08.879
Evelyn Rysdyk: and just breathe with a focus on your heart.

713
00:57:09.220 --> 00:57:14.260
Evelyn Rysdyk: or you can just say the center of your chest, because I guarantee it's hammering.

714
00:57:14.360 --> 00:57:16.180
Evelyn Rysdyk: If you are angry or afraid.

715
00:57:17.040 --> 00:57:21.520
Evelyn Rysdyk: Breathe that way. For 10 was born in New York. I go for 15 times

716
00:57:22.530 --> 00:57:24.310
Evelyn Rysdyk: to settle down

717
00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:36.160
Evelyn Rysdyk: a little bit then, and this is the best part, because your feelings are so powerful. Remember something that you are really grateful for, or that you love.

718
00:57:36.830 --> 00:57:39.699
Evelyn Rysdyk: and let yourself fill with those feelings again.

719
00:57:40.200 --> 00:57:43.830
Evelyn Rysdyk: What happens is your hormones in your body

720
00:57:44.060 --> 00:57:57.840
Evelyn Rysdyk: will completely reset your brain will go back online, the upper part of your brain. Your digestion will start again. Your cortisol and adrenaline will calm down, your respiration rate will calm down, and you will be in that

721
00:57:58.180 --> 00:58:00.460
Evelyn Rysdyk: place of equilibrium again.

722
00:58:00.620 --> 00:58:01.750
Evelyn Rysdyk: However.

723
00:58:02.570 --> 00:58:06.520
Evelyn Rysdyk: the best part of it is, your feelings don't end at your skin.

724
00:58:06.910 --> 00:58:10.009
Evelyn Rysdyk: So you are now radiating

725
00:58:10.460 --> 00:58:13.389
Evelyn Rysdyk: a remedy to everyone around you.

726
00:58:13.700 --> 00:58:19.960
Evelyn Rysdyk: So stroll through the Mall, feeling those feelings, and you're going to give that bath to everybody. There.

727
00:58:20.150 --> 00:58:22.129
Evelyn Rysdyk: You're walking down a busy street.

728
00:58:23.050 --> 00:58:24.680
Evelyn Rysdyk: Give it to everybody there.

729
00:58:24.690 --> 00:58:31.609
Evelyn Rysdyk: because now you're giving them the opportunity to be in their most intact self.

730
00:58:31.890 --> 00:58:41.899
Evelyn Rysdyk: with their capabilities online. And with this online they might actually be able to solve problems not only their own, but support, changing the world around us.

731
00:58:42.410 --> 00:58:49.300
Mark Entrekin: And that's his point, too, I think. What you're talking about there, Evelyn, is that we can work together better. And unity

732
00:58:49.410 --> 00:58:50.900
Mark Entrekin: by taking those

733
00:58:51.050 --> 00:58:58.109
Mark Entrekin: 5, 1015 extra breaths. When we do have that fear, that false evidence about reality.

734
00:58:58.730 --> 00:59:02.700
Mark Entrekin: when we can take that away and just take those few breaths

735
00:59:03.180 --> 00:59:08.250
Mark Entrekin: and be able to work together, and when you see somebody in a hurry, go ahead, step back.

736
00:59:08.550 --> 00:59:10.830
Mark Entrekin: let them be in that hurry.

737
00:59:10.910 --> 00:59:16.170
Mark Entrekin: but step back and take those breaths like you're talking about, because that anger

738
00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:24.919
Mark Entrekin: action is not gaining effective results, or that fear that false evidence about reality is not doing us a bit of good, is it?

739
00:59:25.370 --> 00:59:28.850
Evelyn Rysdyk: Not at all, and the fact that our feelings

740
00:59:29.190 --> 00:59:34.379
Evelyn Rysdyk: can actually bathe the people around us with exactly what they need

741
00:59:34.620 --> 00:59:35.609
Evelyn Rysdyk: without us having.

742
00:59:35.610 --> 00:59:35.960
Mark Entrekin: Can.

743
00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:36.970
Evelyn Rysdyk: Anything.

744
00:59:37.500 --> 00:59:40.630
Evelyn Rysdyk: We're taking care of us first, st but it radiates out.

745
00:59:41.410 --> 00:59:45.690
Evelyn Rysdyk: I mean, you think about this when you're Christmas shopping. It's a very good tool for Christmas shopping.

746
00:59:46.060 --> 00:59:49.570
Evelyn Rysdyk: when everybody's trying to tear the last something that they all want.

747
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Evelyn Rysdyk: Just go into that place where you're feeling love and gratitude, or and or gratitude.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: You've taken some breaths.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: and you watch how people begin to settle down. We did this for

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Evelyn Rysdyk: well, I think we did it for

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Evelyn Rysdyk: maybe 5 years

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Evelyn Rysdyk: before we ever told the people in the Health Center we were a part of. We were shamans in a health center with doctors. And what have you?

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Evelyn Rysdyk: We had? We had meetings at lunch.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: Everybody started to talk at once.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: We would go into that state of being, and pretty soon everybody

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Evelyn Rysdyk: settle down and take turns.

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Mark Entrekin: That's beautiful. We have 1 min left.

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Mark Entrekin: What can you mentioned something earlier?

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Mark Entrekin: The last few seconds give us that one bit closure, because I have so appreciated listening to you and learning how to calm myself and not judge others. But it's your minute last minute.

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Mark Entrekin: Everyone. Thank you for being here, give us a little bit of a little bit. One last little bit of feedback.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: All I want to say to you is, you are more magnificent than anyone ever told you.

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Evelyn Rysdyk: You are more powerful than anybody ever told you this is for everybody out there

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Evelyn Rysdyk: that you have

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Evelyn Rysdyk: mad skills that you can

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Evelyn Rysdyk: enhance

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Evelyn Rysdyk: with practice because you are incredibly beautiful souls who chose to jump into form and play with the rest of us. Hooray!

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Mark Entrekin: Thank you so much. And for the notes, Damien, just writing here even for the thank you everyone very much for sharing.

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Mark Entrekin: Agree with you, and with the gratitude in helping us in that humanity class, Damien is from Rwanda. We're working together to help people down there.

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Mark Entrekin: I know I have Laura here, 2 of the people that own pictures from Colorado Springs, helping build and helping people

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Mark Entrekin: through you, Evelyn. Thank you so much, and like just saying, thank you for being here.

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Mark Entrekin: I appreciate it, and, thanks to all the guests that were here today, love having you here and hope I can see you next week and the following week.

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Mark Entrekin: Here we are achieving unity, harnessing the power of encouraging, inspiring, and including others.

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Mark Entrekin: personally and professionally.

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Mark Entrekin: Let's do it all together.

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Mark Entrekin: Thank you all

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Mark Entrekin: cheers, Evelyn. Thank you so much. This has been awesome. Have a great day. Everyone cheers.

Episode 9: Evelyn C Rysdyk

Evelyn C. Rysdyk

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