The Pathway To Your Results

The Ceremonies of Life

• Derick Grant • Season 5 • Episode 214

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Your whole life is a ceremony in which the divine is trying to bring heaven to earth, helping you experience your true nature in physical existence.

• Ceremonies don't end when you leave retreat settings - they truly begin when you return to everyday life with triggers and challenges
• Viewing challenges through a scarcity lens amplifies problems, turning minor issues into major ones
• The ceremonies of daily life reveal parts of ourselves not aligned with our desired reality
• Integration is the real spiritual practice - applying awareness consistently over time
• Emotional exhaustion and resistance often signal the old self fighting to survive
• Your frequency isn't tested in moments of bliss, but in moments of chaos
• Wisdom without consistent action leads to spiritual inflation
• Your ego will repeatedly try to rebuild cages after your spirit breaks free
• Life's hardships aren't failures but doorways to transformation
• The depth of your spirituality is proven through emotional maturity in daily life

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Once you see what you actually are, that you're an infinite, limitless being, you'll see that nothing exists outside of you. I'm your host, derek Grant, and this is the Pathway to your Results. Podcast Bro. This podcast is for anyone who has been on their journey of self-development. If maybe you've used any type of plant medicine or any type of modality to help you, you've had a ceremony to help you to expand your self-awareness, and what that ceremony looks like.

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I'm not specific to anything. I mean I'm going to talk about my ceremonies, but it doesn't have to be like ayahuasca. It doesn't have to be like ayahuasca. It doesn't have to be any of that. It's just the sacred work and then integrating it and realizing whatever happened in this example, whatever happened in the jungle. Oh, it didn't just stop there in the jungle. I realized this last week.

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I couldn't understand what was going on with me. I was in a place. I was in such a place energetically. I haven't been in this, not that I'm aware of. I have not been in this place in my existence when I literally couldn't get my head above water. I couldn't see. Imagine this You're in the ocean and you're treading water, you're treading water, you're treading water and all of a sudden you went underneath and now you can't even get your head above water and I'm doing all I can. I'm literally. I'm like is there someone I can call? What do I do? I don't know what to do to get myself out of this mode and I realized I was actually just in a ceremony. Good God, almighty, y'all stay with me. Don't think that you had to ingest something. Don't think that you had to go on a retreat and do all this for you to be in a ceremony.

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When you start, looking at, a ceremony ain't nothing more than the initiation of this new version of you. Do you honestly think that it was only confined to a substance? It was only confined to a plant medicine, it was only confined to you being at a sacred location? Oh no, it's not, because that isn't what you came for. Your whole life was a ceremony. Good God, almighty, you ain't trying to hear nothing. I'm saying your whole existence was a ceremony that the divine was trying to bring heaven down to earth. The unseen was trying to bring seen. The celestial body was trying to bring it into the terrestrial body. You were trying to take that which you actually are and see how much of it. You could see in this physical existence Now, when we take certain modalities like ayahuasca, when you're in a ceremony, these things have these psychoactive properties that allow you to experience these parts of yourself.

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But the reason why I'm saying this is because just because you're in the jungle on Saturday, don't think that the ceremony is going to be done when you get back to work on Monday. The ceremony is going to keep going and I'm not talking about you actually taking the medicine. We have ceremonies all through our lives because these are the initiations for us to transform into a new way of being. Now I realized last week I ain't got nothing in a cup. But that's actually when the ceremony really begins. People think, oh, I'm in the jungle, I'm on my retreat, I'm on my no, that ain't the ceremony. The ceremony is when you get your butt back home, when that medicine wears off, when you whack back here, as we would call it, in the proverbial jungle, when you get back in the jungle and you got John at work and you got Christie at the DMV, you got all these people that are triggering you and bringing all these things up. This is really when the medicine and all that you've gained comes in for you to start working on.

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So I realized last week I'm going to tell you a little funny story. Maybe it's not funny, it ain't funny but it is funny. But I'm going to go ahead and tell you I was in such a low place energetically and I couldn't figure out why. Well, I ended up figuring out why. I ended up seeing through a series of things. Basically, there was someone in my life who was attached to my field that I actually experienced in an ayahuasca ceremony that I'd saw and it was draining and pulling my energy and I couldn't think straight. I had been here before, but this time I had new awareness. I knew what it was Weeks before this had been starting, the ceremony had started. I hadn't even realized. And I'm like, before I knew it.

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I look at my bank account. I get a thing from Best Buy, best Buy withdrawal, and I'm like when's Best Buy? I've been to Best Buy in a year. I'm like somebody's stealing money on my account. Somebody's stealing money. Can't even think straight.

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Right, get home, go on Yahoo to type in what's the I don't know the number Best Buy, what's Best Buy help number? Get the Best Buy help number. You tell me why the number that pops up, the first number I copy and paste, put on my phone and called it. It said 1-8-something-something Best Buy. So I figured that was it. I figured that was it. Go ahead and call.

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Guy hops on the phone. Sounds like he's in a call center in the Philippines or Indonesia somewhere. Answer the phone. I'm like, yeah, here's what's going on. Lost this, blah, blah, blah. Best Buy took the money out, blah.

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He's like okay, what's your email address? I said here's the email address. He said okay, good, for security purposes, we want to make sure this is who this is. I said yep, this is my name. Something feels off, though. Something just don't feel right. So I keep going, keep going, keep going. He then tells me that my account has been hacked. I'm like yes, it has been hacked. Someone's charged me hacked. Someone's charged me.

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Now, mind you, I hadn't been the best buy in a year and I knew it was a year because I had bought a drone. I had not been there in a year, though. Then he's like I'm like I just want the money back. I'm in a hurry. How do I get the money back? Can you cancel it, refund it? What do I got to do? He's like well, we can't refund it, but here's what we can do. You can go in your app store and purchase a gift card for the amount that you need and then send it to yourself. And I know what you're thinking right now, I know, this month, I know he ain't do this. I know he ain't do this. This sounds wild and crazy.

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Now, if you don't want to listen to my podcast anymore because I'm a dummy, that's OK with me, but here's the deal. I was a dummy for a couple of minutes, so I went ahead and I did this. And he goes okay, good. I said what do I do? He goes send it to this email. I'm like well, I sent it. I said I haven't gotten any confirmation. He goes oh, okay, I'm going to call you from another number and then text it to that number. So I'm like okay, well, I'm like so. Then here's, my spidey senses start tingling. I'm like dude, this sounds like it's off. He goes how is it off? It it's your email, it's your thing. I'm like oh, yeah, you're right. Yeah, okay, I go ahead and send him the screenshot of the gift card so he could have the code, so he could go ahead and take the money.

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I did it. I know what you're thinking right now. You probably stopped the car. If you're listening to this right now, I can't believe this old goofy mother. I did. I'm not ashamed to admit it. But here's where I am ashamed to admit it. Not only did I do it once, I did it again. I know what you're thinking why. Why it's so obvious. It's so obvious. It's not obvious when you're looking at everything from your wounds. See, I was in just the right space to be looking at everything from a place of scarcity. And here's the deal you ready. I was so worried about that amount that they took out of my account, out of Best Buy and it really was Best Buy that did it, because it was a re-annuing auto-renewal. I was so worried about that amount that I went and then charged and lost the same amount two more times. So really it wasn't the amount, it was my scarcity lens that I was looking at everything through. So here's what I realized then. Okay, stay with me. Okay, I'm looking at everything through scarcity.

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I was able to get my head back above water, but then, all of a sudden, I went back down into it. The following week, schumann Resonance was acting crazy. I went on vacation, was just exhausted and I'm like, oh my goodness, I feel like I'm in another ceremony. My body's weak, I'm tired, I'm wrestling with myself Should I work out? Should I do this? Should I go for a run? Should I not go for a run? See, there's part of me that lives in I'm not doing enough. There was a conflict, a real conflict, and I couldn't just sit with myself and I'm like, what am I supposed to do? And I kept fighting and fighting, and fighting. It took me, finally, for two days, resting, resting, giving myself what I knew I needed. On Saturday and Sunday I was able to get my head back above water.

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So the reason why I'm saying this, it was really just the old me begging for survival. It was the old me trying to live in the old wound of we're not doing enough. And I realized the only way that I was going to be able to kill it because it was still feeding off of this old way of mine was I was going to have to starve it with new actions. You hear what I'm saying. I was going to have to integrate this new vision of who I wanted to be instead of living from this history that I was taking on. So I think of it like this I was in the jungle months before and that showed me the mountain that I had to climb, meaning it showed me all the things that I have to deal with. It showed me all the wounds, it showed me the source of it. But the integration, meaning the ceremonies after the ceremonies, that was me climbing that mountain.

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So I'm saying this to everybody here because here's the deal. This is what sometimes we can glamorize in the spiritual world, in the self-development world. We will glamorize ayahuasca and psilocybin and bufo and toad and doing all these modalities and seeing all these parts of ourselves and having these psychedelic experience. But guess what? We forgot the whole point of it. The whole point of it was transformation in this moment, to not be who I was before I went to the ceremony. You ain't trying to hear nothing, I'm saying right now. So why, why, why, why, why?

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I realized in this moment I'm like, and I started to think, if I'm being honest, I started to think like do I need to like, heal more wounds? Do I need to? No, here's what it is. You need to start realizing that integration isn't sexy and it won't be three weeks after, it's going to be months after. You're going to be in a ceremony after ceremony, after ceremony, after ceremony. So I'm here to tell you please hear me when I say this I tell my children, as a matter of fact, I should go get my kids right now and bring them all I Success.

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Success just means moving forward. What is the key to success? They always say consistency. Consistency is the most spiritual thing you can do after you have a ceremony. I'm trying to tell you ain't trying to hear nothing, matter of fact, let me take my sweatshirt off because you ain't trying to hear nothing. I'm saying right now, it is the most spiritual thing you can do when it comes to you working on yourself and taking this information and knowledge from the spiritual modality of ayahuasca or psilocybin or toad or whatever it is, is being able to be consistent with the awareness that I had when I was in ceremony, for when I get back home and now I'm in another quote, unquote ceremony without the cup.

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Do we see how this works? So if we're not careful and I've seen this happen too Wisdom without that action becomes what we call spiritual inflation. And now here we are. We keep making trips to Tulum and we keep doing this. Now, don't get me wrong. There's purpose and there's serving in it, but it's about you recognizing that we have the ceremony with the medicine. And then life gives you the other ceremonies, and they may look different, they may feel different, but they have the same intent to show you the mountains that are in front of you. And then you must integrate this knowledge and understanding that you have to be able to conquer them to be able to dissolve them.

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So no, you don't need another download. Oh, I don't. Oh, my gosh, if I could just get a download, if I could just get like a synchronicity to know what I need to do. No, you know what you need to do. You need to use discipline with what you've already been given. You hear what I'm saying. Some of y'all ain't trying to hear nothing. I'm saying, matter of fact, I'm about to get off this mode. You ain't trying to hear nothing. I'm saying it's not about more, more, more, more, more. Because here's the deal. It's easy to feel that divine shine and be off that divine dust when you're in that jungle. But let me see if you can feel the divine when you ain't trafficking them kids in the back screen and throwing goldfish at the back of your head. Let me see if you can do that. You see what I'm saying your frequency isn't tested when you're in bliss. It's tested when you're in chaos. This is why a lot of people are so afraid of ayahuasca, because they know they're going to have to go into a place that they haven't been before. But I'm here to tell you.

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When you are in life, you have ceremonies happening all the time. Those ceremonies are intended for the same reason. So I was going through this tough time, this man is over here saying whoa, you've been scammed. I realized when I was scammed, I said this was a ceremony, this was an initiation, and I did not pass it. So life circled back around the next week. Oh, my goodness, my back. Why is this? Why do I feel so out of it? I can't even think straight. Blah, blah, blah. This, this is a ceremony. And my body felt like I was in a ceremony and I realized this is just another opportunity for this part of me who does not serve this desired reality, to die. I have set the intention, the vision where I wanted to go in life, and now life is showing me what I need to do to get rid of it by bringing up the parts of me that don't resonate with it.

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So the reason why I'm saying this is because you may have an ego death in a ceremony. This is why it's so hard when we have a ceremony after the ceremony, because when we have a medicine that we're ingesting, that gives us permission to have an ego death, but you're going to have an ego death. When you're sitting in traffic, you're going to have an ego death. When you're going through that divorce, you're going to have an ego death. When that kid triggers you and says something back to you, you're going to have an ego death and all of these other opportunities. So the reason why I'm saying this when you start realizing that your life is literally just a series of ceremonies and integrate and ceremonies, and integrate and ceremonies and integrate, your integration becomes the crucifixion and the resurrection. Do you hear what I'm saying right now? It becomes an opportunity for you to die and an opportunity for you to grow.

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But here's the deal your ceremonies are not bound by space and time. You don't know how they're going to show up. Sometimes they could be the big heavy hitters that are pretty obvious. Like dang, I'm going through a death right now, and then sometimes it could be the little short ones, the small ones. They're just little residue, little parts of you need to get off.

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So I just realized last week man, ceremonies on ceremonies, on ceremonies. The ceremonies are going to be there. They're going to be there, and it's not because of the medicine, don't get me wrong. Once you ingest the medicine, it's always going to be there. But it's the multidimensional awareness that there's more going on that will always be there. And as long as you have the awareness, integration will always be needed. Do you hear what I'm saying? As long as you have the awareness, integration will always be needed. So what is my point for you? My point for you is this my point for you is this you get done with one ceremony. There's going to be more. There's going to be more opportunities. They're not bad, it's not anything negative, it's just an opportunity, because if we're not careful, we'll run away from these ceremonies that come. We'll run away from these tough times, and this is the complete opposite of what we intended to do when we came here. We came here to grow, we came here to be these sovereign beings.

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So I have a piece of warning for you, because here's what I've found. Think of it like this You're like a bird and your ego's the cage, and a ceremony comes, hardship comes, and all the hardship does is break the lock off so the bird can get out. You get out, right? Oh man, I made it out. That's you integrating the information and understanding that I need to break out of this cage. I need to break out of this old parrot. I need to break out of this old way of being, of fear, of shame, of guilt. If you're not careful, if we're not aware, that ego is going to seek to rebuild another cage after your spirit has already broken free to fly. And it ain't no careful, it's going to happen. So you're going to have battle after battle after battle, but in between, each battle is a breakthrough. So this is why I'm telling you it's super important that you don't confuse your resistance or the hardship with the ceremony. Don't confuse that with failure.

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Okay, there was times I told you the hardest ceremony I ever went through. I was down in the jungle. I was on that jungle floor wrestling with my ego. Literally, I'm wrestling. I got dirt all over me. I'm sweating. I'm wrestling with my ego and I couldn't. It was so slippery and that was the hardest thing, that. But I never turned back and went back to that version of me. I never went back. That was when the Black Panther was assumed.

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So the reason why I'm saying this to you and anybody else who has this yeah, we got retreats coming up. We got one more retreat coming up here in 2025 in October. Still got three slots left, but in 2026, start teaching people how to go to the next level. We're going to do two-day retreats, two-day retreats back-to-back. Now you can do one, you can do one, but it ain't nothing like doing two. You thought you went deep on the first one. Wait till you get to the second one.

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So the reason why I'm saying this for you all is realizing that you're going to have ceremonies outside of a ceremony, and every ceremony is here to give you keys, and then life's job is to show you which doors you need to open. See, the ceremony is going to give you the keys. It's going to show you here it is, here's all the stuff that you need to work on, and then life's like here's the door, here's the door, here's the door. So my point is it's not about you seeking more answers. So my point is. It's not about you seeking more answers. It's about you start using what you got. Start using what you got, and here's the deal you will use it up, and you'll get to a point. You will come to a place and you're like I feel like I need more. I feel like there's another level. I feel like there's something like this is working, but there's like another. Okay, maybe it's time for me to take another trip to the jungle. Maybe I have to go see this shaman. Maybe it's time for me to get involved in this breathwork ceremony. Whatever it may be, you will know, though, but my advice to you is use what you have right now in these non-ceremonial ceremonies. And here's the deal I've realized I don't need to be in a jungle to have that ceremony.

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The same type of condition, I'm telling you. It was the exact same fatigue. I was out of it. I didn't know. I literally told my wife I'm like, I don't know who I am. I feel like I'm lost right now, and this went on for four days.

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Four days. Why'd it go on for four days? Because I resisted it. I knew that I needed rest. I knew that I needed to just chill. My nervous system said yo, chill out. B, sit down. Why are you always trying to rush and do it? Because I couldn't let go. My ego was still trying to hold on to this old way of hustle grind. We got to work ourselves into the ground until we don't have any left, and then, if we have a little bit more left, we do more. That's why I couldn't let go of it. And finally and I'm telling you it was a conflict I was like man. I looked like a flea on a dog's back. I was jumping all around the house trying to figure out what I got to do. Maybe I'll go do a couple pull-ups, maybe I'll do some pushups, man. No, sit your down, sit down. Wow, monday came around and I felt back to normal. Yeah, you felt back to normal because you gave yourself what you needed. You hear what I'm saying right now. You will always feel normal when you give yourself what you need.

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I'm going to start to attach normalcy to alignment and see what's normal for me may not be normal for you, but you need to know what's normal for you, meaning you need to know what alignment is. So some of us walking around here not feeling normal because we're not aligned, but that misalignment has become our new norm. Okay, life's going to do the job for you. Give you the ceremonies, it's going to do it, trust me, it's going to do it. But your job is to take this information, this understanding, this awareness that you had and integrate it, to apply it. Right, you got the drills. Now it's about taking the drills and putting them in the game. Put them in the game, go ahead, try it, see if it works. So I'm going to leave you with something here. I'm going to leave you with something.

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You all have a vision for your life. Some of us have more clarity than others, but you have a vision for your life. Some of us have more clarity than others, but you have a vision for your life. And sometimes your vision matches what society thinks or what your parents may think, and sometimes it doesn't. But realizing that your tough days and your hard days, if we can reframe them and look at them as a ceremony, it's not really about how it feels or how it looks. It's really about the opportunity for us to heal. But, more importantly, once you come out of the ceremony, it's about the truth that you choose to live. You'll start to realize that this ceremony, this hardship, this struggle, this failure, this setback, this divorce, this death, is the ceremony just opening up a door. It's opening up an opportunity, and that's life helping you. But here's the deal Life opens the door, the ceremony opens the door.

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Embodiment is what walks you through it, and you can't walk through it until you embody it. Do you hear what I'm saying? You have to embody the vision, embody the version of you who you are looking to become. This is why you have ceremony after ceremony after ceremony in life, because you have come up with a vision that has been dropped down from the ethers and you have this understanding that I know I can do more, I know I can be more. Yeah Well, you got that understanding that you can know more and be more, because life can never give you something and then not give you the capability to be able to bring into physical existence. So it dropped down from the ether and you got it. The universe gave you a map. Now it's asking you will you move your mother feet? Will you please move it? Will you please be it? Will you please embody it? We over here giving you doors and you over here standing and waiting.

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Motherfucker, walk through it, go, go, become the one who lives your truth. Become the one who lives in alignment in every ceremony that you have in life, every hardship that you go through. This is all it's trying to do. It's like when you're in an ayahuasca ceremony it's just trying to get you to see the light, that's all. But here's the deal In order for you to see the light, you're going to have to hold that mother flashlight in the dark. And this is what it's about. Your alignment will be tested when no one else sees it. Nobody else saw it.

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I told you I got scammed, I got scammed here. No one else sees it. Nobody else saw it. I told you I got scammed, I got scammed. But here's the beauty of it, because once I finally Carly brought it to my she's like you realize you got scammed. I'm like, wait what? I couldn't see it. But once she brought my awareness to it and I realized like, oh, I'm living in scarcity, I'm living in scarcity. I fixed it. And then, once I fixed it, best Buy gave me my money back. My bank gave me the money. I got everything back. I lost nothing because the lesson had been learned.

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So you can't bypass your human experiences to get to the divine. You're going to have ceremony after the ceremony after the ceremony. Integration means crying, it means pausing, it means breathing, it means journaling, it means meditation, it means choosing sovereignty, choosing your truth, choosing alignment, and this is the beauty of it, this is the beauty of life, this is the whole point of it. It's not about how deep you go into a ceremony, it's about how present can you be when those shadows show up again. And that is the work, my friends, that is the ceremony after the ceremony. Spiritual depth is proven in emotional maturity. So we still got spots left. If you want to come and partake in our ceremony and learn how to integrate and do all those good things, you know where to find it you can go to dgmindsetcom. Most importantly, I just want to tell you thank you for you continuing on and you keep going and all that good stuff. Keep going, and I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results.