Time of Transition (Bernhard Guenther & Laura Matsue)

“The main thing I’ve noticed with the law of attraction is how people use it to push their real feelings away by forcing themselves to think positive thoughts, to not experience negative emotions, because they see them as “low vibration”. It’s focused on aggressively forcing yourself to think positive thoughts. This focus on only the positive often results in emotional suppression and denial. So, if you have a negative thought, you deny it and push it away. For example, maybe you have a negative thought, like, “I need to quit my job.” And then you think that’s just a negative thought, and you push it away. This kind of thinking can easily delude and confuse you and make you constantly paranoid. If something bad happens, you might blame yourself and think, “Oh my God, this happened because of that negative thought I had.” And while our thoughts and our state of mind are really important for the actions we create and the feelings we have, I am not dismissing that, I’ve noticed a lot of people take this to an extreme where they use it as a form of emotional repression. This suppression of everything negative puts people into a state of denial and then ironically, emotional suppression, and the state of denial it puts you in is not good for manifestation.” -Laura Matsue Episode 115, Part 2 - Debunking 10 Popular Myths About Spirituality and Inner Work To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 160+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

“Our greatest blind spot is mistaking technological advancement for progress in consciousness, as if humanity were at the peak of its evolutionary trajectory. It is a cunning deception, especially for those who are solely externally oriented and stuck in a materialistic worldview and linear time. In truth, everything moves in cycles, and we have been in a long descent for thousands of years, a regression in consciousness that can be seen as a form of devolution. Yet this descent is not an error or “mistake.” It is part of a larger evolutionary arc, a precursor for the spiritualization of body, mind, life, and matter according to Divine Will. The darkness of this age of materialism we are in now is not the end. It is the threshold before the light breaks through. Yet, we must become receptive to the Light as transducers for Divine Will. This alchemical transformation is achieved via psycho-spiritual inner work and a conscious and sincere aspiration to the Divine, to bring forth the Self, the kingdom within, which is the internal condition to be receptive to the Divine Force from above. If we don’t learn our lessons during this Time of Transition, we might experience again what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother called a “dark night of civilization” with the Divine pressing the “reset button,” as it has happened many times before.” -Bernhard Guenther Related to Episode 155 – The Psychological, Spiritual, and Esoteric Aspects of the AI Revolution Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2025/06/06/the-psychological-spiritual-and-esoteric-aspects-of-the-ai-revolution-tcm-155-part-1 @timeoftransition

“When people age, and their hearts have closed and hardened from the decades of suppressed emotions in their bodies, their shadows will become denser, uglier, and more hostile with time. Their unhealed pain is like a black cloud that follows them silently, that they’re waiting to offload onto anyone they meet who triggers them. When people age and do so with grace and an open heart, you can see in their eyes a light that shows they’ve loved deeply, have lost deeply, and every experience that has broken open their hearts has transformed their souls. They gain emotional wisdom from their unique soul experiences. They become faithful elders - wisdom and beacons of light for their community. You can see that wisdom etched on their face. We all have a choice to become that light for others or that black cloud, depending on what we do in middle age. You either become wiser and lighter with time or more suppressed and darker with time depending on how you live your life now.” -Laura Matsue Episode 88, Part 2 - Essential Self-Work Tools for Uncertain Times To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 160+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

Sincerity: The Ultimate Spiritual Protection All authentic spiritual and esoteric traditions, East and West, agree on one thing: sincerity is the foundation of the path. It is the prerequisite for giving yourself to the Divine without conditions. But sincerity is not what most people think it is. Many believe they are sincere while lying to themselves. Real sincerity is radical honesty. It is the willingness to see yourself without spiritual makeup, without pretense, without polishing the image. It is the capacity to admit: I am not as conscious as I think I am. Sincerity is the sword that cuts through self-deception, spiritual bypassing, and inflated narratives. It strips away the ego’s disguises, the stories we tell ourselves to avoid seeing the raw truth of who we are, what drives us, and where we still hide. It demands that we face life without self-deception, without victim-blame consciousness, self-importance, pride, or self-pity. It’s easy to appear sincere on the surface, to say the right words, put on a smiley face, adopt the right persona, or project a polished image, and yet be fundamentally insincere in the deeper work. To be sincere means to confront your own lies, especially the ones you tell yourself. It enables you to engage the parts of yourself you might otherwise prefer to avoid. No knowledge, information, psycho-spiritual modality, technique, mantra, or spiritual system can compensate for a lack of sincerity. Hostile forces can easily manipulate those who are insincere and dishonest with themselves. Insincerity opens the doorway to adverse forces and the Luciferic temptation. Sincerity is the ultimate spiritual protection. It is more powerful than any visualization, prayer, device, crystal, or affirmation. Because none of those work without sincerity. Sincerity creates a frequency that aligns you with the Divine, making it harder for deceptive forces to reach you. It is the attitude of engaging in the inner work without excuses and committing fully. Yet the ego can easily hijack the concept of sincerity. When someone says, “But I am sincere!” it’s often a sign they’re lying to themselves. Being convinced of one’s own total sincerity is usually a form of unconscious insincerity, a red flag of ego inflation. As the Mother, Mirra Alfassa, pointed out: “...When you are sure that you have attained absolute sincerity, you may be certain that you have plunged into falsehood....” A true sign of sincerity is the capacity to see and admit all the parts within oneself that are not sincere, and still commit to the work anyway. The same goes for those who claim to be “humble.” The very need to say it is usually a sign of a lack of humility. We become more sincere as we progress, but the state of absolute sincerity is enlightenment. Godspeed. Bernhard Guenther

“If we expect that you’re just going to sit in meditation and [immediately] experience these profound meditative states, it’s not the point. The first thing that you’re going to witness in meditation is how insane your mind is. We need to realize that this idea of demanding things or complaining or blaming or having temper tantrums doesn’t help. We have to learn to face the difficulties in our practice with perseverance and faith. Faith was really the main thing that was guiding me throughout my experience. I trusted in the process of meditation, and I trusted that if I kept going, it would help me with my relationship to God and the spiritual path. So there has to be a sense of faith and not expecting anything to happen, just doing your practice every single day, you know, chop wood, carry water, just do it. Don’t expect anything to happen. And you never know when [Grace] will hit you. It can hit you out of nowhere. It can subtly hit you, or it can hit you in a very intense way.” -Laura Matsue Episode 164 – Beyond Karma: The Mystery of Divine Grace Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2025/11/15/spiritual-shocks-why-souls-evolve-under-pressure-tcm-165-part-1 @timeoftransition

“There is the trap of creating a spiritual identity and saying things like, “Oh, I’m a reborn Christian now,” and wearing that identity.” Or the New Age approach of suddenly becoming a lightworker, here to be of service and bring heaven to earth, saying, “I’m a starseed or a wander and I came here from another dimension,” you can easily lie to yourself. For me, a true starseed or lightworker would never say they are one to begin with. The ego can easily hijack this, and then you identify with the [spiritual ego]. Sometimes people claim, “I come from the 6th, 5th, or 4th dimension, I’m a starseed, I’m coming back to help the world,” but their whole life is a mess. They blame the earth, saying things like, “It’s not really suiting my higher vibration.” But when you think through this logically, okay, well, you’ve already gone through 3D and learned the lessons, you should have mastered them already. So why is this a big deal? You deal with basic physicality and do your mission, but if you blame the lower frequency of this earth on your issues because you’re so “highly evolved,” there’s a contradiction in that statement.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 74, Part 2 - Common Traps on the Path to Awakening and How to Avoid Them To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 160+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

“A lot of people, especially those who woke up over the past five years, by questioning official culture and official narratives, have fallen deep into the rabbit hole of conspiracies. Obviously, there are conspiracies, but some people dove head on into it, and their whole focus remained completely external; everything suddenly became a psyop. Everything is a trap, everything is scripted, but this too can be a trauma response, a kind of schizoid split rooted in hypervigilance and paranoia, because of the shock taking a negative turn. It led to more disembodiment, dissociating, especially black and white thinking, meaning an inability to see nuance in events or in people. A highly dysregulated nervous system can also be a fear response in itself; it’s the black pilled mindset. There’s a focus on endless exposure to how corrupt and evil the world is that leads to being stuck in a doom-and-gloom mindset. But others who were awakened used the shock differently. They didn’t just question the system, get into conspiracies, do external research and all that; they started questioning themselves. They put the mirror on themselves, and that’s an appropriate use for a shock like that. They questioned their life choices, relationships, attachments, and their real purpose. They asked the ultimate question, “Who am I in all of this? Why do I want what I want? What are my goals, or what is my aim? Why am I here? What is my life really about?” For them, the shock became a disillusionment of their own lives, their own personality structure and identity, because disillusionment is a necessity on the path to awakening. All spiritual traditions have talked about the death of the conditioned, wounded, or programmed ego personality that then opens the way towards a deeper level of awakening. So, they started looking within, beyond the ego surface and that’s the kind of shock Gurdjieff really talks about, one that can awaken you to a higher level of consciousness if it’s met consciously and turned inwardly with humility and aspiration for truth.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 165 – Spiritual Shocks: Why Souls Evolve Under Pressure Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2025/11/15/spiritual-shocks-why-souls-evolve-under-pressure-tcm-165-part-1 @timeoftransition

Despite the darkness in the world and whatever darkness, hardship, or struggle you may be facing in your own life, divine guidance is always present. It is always available and always trying to reach you. Most of us simply can’t see, hear, or sense it. We’re caught in the ego’s fixed preferences, our likes and dislikes, and how we think things should be. We cling to desires and outcomes. We fall into self-pity and victimization, or we swing to pride and inflation. Neither state can perceive higher guidance, because it works beyond human logic, morality, justice, or any idea of fairness. There are ways to open yourself to Grace and become more receptive to this higher guidance. It requires a deeper surrender. But that guidance is not a genie in a bottle that grants any wishes or fulfills any desires. Grace has one purpose: to bring you closer to God and closer to who you truly are. It's the ultimate state of freedom we all long for deep down inside. It can work through disintegration, struggle, taking away that which you cherished the most, and anything the ego sees as failure, as well as through breakthroughs, support, success, and meaningful synchronicities (if we can notice them). God will never forsake you, judge you, or punish you for being "bad". But God also won’t reward you or give you special treatment just because you're a “good” boy or girl. Those ideas come from dogmatic religious programming, human traits, and lower states of consciousness projected onto an anthropomorphized image of God. Grace moves beyond the duality we’re so identified with and even moves beyond the Law of Karma. “Providence is not only that which saves me from the shipwreck in which everybody else has foundered. Providence is also that which, while all others are saved, snatches away my last plank of safety and drowns me in the solitary ocean.” – Sri Aurobindo To go deeper into this, listen to our podcast "Beyond Karma: The Mystery of Divine Grace": https://veilofreality.com/2025/10/30/beyond-karma-the-mystery-of-divine-grace-tcm-164-part-1/

Wise words from an old friend who recently transitioned. From the short time I have gotten to know him, I can say that he lived this incarnation with authentic commitment, aligned with his dharma and purpose: "We are not a helpless victim of our circumstances. We all have within us the power to make that to which we are committed happen. When we have circumstantial reasons why we could not keep our commitment, usually it is because our commitment was not authentic. We manifest our commitment if it is authentic. Therefore, when we want to know what a person is truly committed to, what we need to do is to look at his/her action and result, not what he/she says. Inauthentic commitment comes from your mind, your socially conditioned mind. Living your life with the pretense of inauthentic commitment is a form of deception and irresponsibility. Your conditioned mind thinks that you should be committed to something worthy or good to prove your self-worth. The idea of doing something great or participating in some good cause makes you feel worthy and therefore you think that you should do it. Nothing that is intended to make you feel worthy or good is ever a genuine commitment coming from your heart and soul. True commitment has nothing to do with proving your worth, greatness, goodness, or virtue. Authentic commitment is the creative expression of who you are—i.e., your authentic self. When you are truly committed, you will never try to prove how worthy, good, or great you are but will be moved from within to creatively express your soul’s passion and your heart’s love." - Yasuhiko Genku Kimura

“[The Matrix control system] works on all levels, through the political, sociological, and psychological, externally, but it also works through you. The matrix control system aims to deviate humanity from capital Truth, Divine Truth, spirit, and conscious evolution. These forces have interfered with the evolutionary process, as Sri Aurobindo has talked about, that something has interfered with the natural organic evolution of human progression. The key aspect to understand about the 3D matrix, which most people focus on and think of as the matrix, is that it is just a symptom, a manifestation of hyperdimensional 4D occult hostile forces working through humanity. The 3D matrix is the government, institutions, banking, and mainstream medicine, while the 4D matrix is the occult forces or the hidden forces…that have interfered and manipulated humanity for thousands of years.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 100, Part 2 - Debunking Popular Myths About “The Matrix” To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 160+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

“The inner friction you generate to put yourself back on the path, even when it’s the most uncomfortable, even when you are most resisting, is exactly the fuel that you need to transform yourself. It also helps you develop an essential quality within yourself that’s really important for all of life, for finishing anything. If you can push past your own resistance and do it when you don’t want to do it, that helps you in every single area of life, because there are so many things that we would rather not do. We would rather just check out, scroll on our phones, and lose ourselves in addiction. The moment that you catch yourself and you do something different, and I would argue this is also extremely valuable in all areas of your life, is to push past that friction.” -Laura Matsue Episode 165 – Spiritual Shocks: Why Souls Evolve Under Pressure Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2025/11/15/spiritual-shocks-why-souls-evolve-under-pressure-tcm-165-part-1 @timeoftransition

“The more disconnected we are from self, essence, and source, the more traumatized we are, the more we lose our connection to our inner guidance, and the more we want outside guidance. We look for saviors or authority figures outside of ourselves to tell us what to do, and that’s exactly how we can be taken over. Dogmatic Christians wait for Jesus to save them, and the New Age waits for aliens to come back and save them. It’s the ultimate collective savior program. You see it in allopathic medicine; people say, “The vaccine is going to save us, take all these vaccines, take these pills, this is going to save you. It’s going to keep you healthy.” It’s the externalization of everything that is the trap.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 104, Part 2 - The A.I. Transhumanism Trap And The Way Out To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 160+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

“The Law of Seven explains why so many people start the work, be it shadow work, meditation, trauma work, healing, whatever it is, with real sincerity, only to hit a wall or to slowly drift off, or self-sabotage, and quietly abandon the process altogether. The structure behind the Law of Seven follows a musical principle, which is why it’s also called the Law of Octaves. Think of a musical scale and the seven notes do, re, mi, fa, so, la, si. That’s a complete octave. But what’s not commonly known is that within that octave, the Law of Seven, there are two specific intervals, and these are points where the process doesn’t automatically continue on its own. That means you need to inject new energy in forms of effort or awareness, or the whole thing will just falter, collapse, or reverse itself. According to the Law of Seven, these intervals are where the real test begins, so to speak, because this is where the energy naturally drops and resistance begins to intensify. If a conscious shock, which is a deliberate effort or a moment of presence, a sincere recommitment isn’t applied at these points, the process will either deviate from its original direction, become stagnant, or mechanical. That’s when people feel stuck. Or it can even reverse and regress into its opposite, when people completely fall back into sleep in the matrix. That’s why spiritual inspiration can turn into apathy, why deep insight can become dogma, why practices that once felt alive and life-changing start to feel dry and lifeless. Also, in relationships, that’s why they drift into unconscious patterns and get mistaken for love, like codependency. And most importantly, this is why people abandon the very work that could have transformed them, often without realizing it.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 165 – Spiritual Shocks: Why Souls Evolve Under Pressure Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2025/11/15/spiritual-shocks-why-souls-evolve-under-pressure-tcm-165-part-1 @timeoftransition

🔥New Podcast Episode: Spiritual Shocks – Why Souls Evolve Under Pressure Why do so many abandon inner work or do it half-heartedly? How are the ego and or Luciferic forces hijacking the awakening process? What does it actually take to stay the course? In our latest podcast episode, Laura and I explore: - The esoteric Law of Seven and how “shocks” are necessary to trigger real growth - The inner and outer forces that derail spiritual progress - Why spiritual will, sincerity, and humility are non-negotiable - How to recognize and resist the Luciferian temptation of spiritual pride, inflation, and ambition We also share personal stories, offer practical tools, and self-reflective questions that help you stay honest with yourself, grounded, and committed to the real work. Listen here: https://veilofreality.com/2025/11/15/spiritual-shocks-why-souls-evolve-under-pressure-tcm-165-part-1/

“You don’t become authentic overnight. It’s a process, and as Gabor Mate has said, inauthenticity is also based on the suppression of a lot of emotions and feelings. Stepping into authenticity will open up deeper layers of your being, where there might be emotions and feelings that you have suppressed for a long time. These emotions may not “feel good,” but need to be felt in order to be transmuted to connect you to your True Self and essence, because inauthenticity is a defense mechanism for all the stuff we don’t want to feel or see in ourselves.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 126 – How to Live a More Authentic Life Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2024/03/06/how-to-live-a-more-authentic-life-tcm-126-part-1 @timeoftransition

“Quantum physics has empirically shown that there’s no objective universe, and the act of observing actually creates the universe observed, which is very much like a dream. And Wetiko works through the projective tendencies of the mind because we’re always projecting onto the inkblot of the waking dream. And one way of understanding Wetiko is to imagine this kitten, she’s looking in this mirror, and she sees her reflection, but she thinks that the reflection is a separate kitten, so she reacts to the reflection as if it’s a separate, objective kitten. Then, of course, the mirror just reflects that back, and she then reacts to that; she’s just reacting to her own projection. That’s one way of describing Wetiko: it entrances us, it hypnotizes us in such a way that we become entranced by our own projections, thinking they’re actually objective. So that’s why quantum physics is coming in, saying, look, just take a look here. There is nothing objective. In quantum physics, they basically discovered that the way we set up the experiment, the questions we ask, and how we interpret the data actually result in the answer we get back. The way we’re actually observing is creative. That’s a mind blower. We’re at the foothills of the Himalayas as a species of first taking in the quantum gnosis.” -Paul Levy Episode 14, Part 2 - Paul Levy – Wetiko and Quantum Revelations To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 160+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

“One of the things we don't talk about enough is that one of the main factors that has caused an increase in instances of “mental illness” has a lot to do with the culture of victimhood we've created around it. Many people find a new identity in their “mental illness”, which they cling to, which gives them points in a culture that glorifies the victim. Normal emotions get framed as disorders; medication becomes the main “cure.” But these drugs make people much worse, they never address the root cause of suffering, and then we have a culture of medicated adults who end up defending their “mental illness” at all costs rather than seeing them as the spiritual crises they are.” -Laura Matsue Episode 160 – How to Move From Victimhood to Empowerment Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2025/08/24/how-to-move-from-victimhood-to-empowerment-tcm-160-part-1 @timeoftransition

“The most common entry points [for occult forces] are your unconscious blind spots. We all have our own blind spots, unconscious trauma, childhood wounding, unintegrated shadow aspects, or giving into the temptations of the lower nature, like lust, greed, and seeking power over others. Everybody has temptations, and a lot of these are normalized nowadays. Pathology has become normalized. Any mechanical reactive behavior, where you just act out ego blind spots like pride, arrogance, self-importance, but also self-pity, victimizing yourself, and blaming others, and so forth. Anything that gets you out of Self, your True Essence, or that gets you disembodied, where you are out of the body and in your head, can create an entry point on an energetic level. The aura creates holes, and these holes in the aura tie into soul fragmentation, and that’s where these forces easily come in. These occult forces exaggerate all the issues you’re already dealing with and take them to another level, and this is how we can easily be manipulated.” -Bernhard Guenther Episode 119, Part 2 - Beginner’s Guide to Occult Forces To listen to this exclusive podcast, check the link below to sign up for our private membership section, where you will have access to over 160+ hours of *uncensored* podcasts where we dive much deeper and speak about topics that we can’t speak about on social media anymore. 👉 Sign up to tune into the full episode here: https://veilofreality.com/membership @timeoftransition

Have you ever felt inspired to change, to start meditating, commit to a spiritual practice, engage in healing and inner work, or finally do the deeper shadow work, only to lose momentum once resistance sets in? My latest article dives deep into why most people fall off the path, how the ego hijacks the work, and the subtle traps of spiritual bypassing, pride, and self-deception. It also reveals the esoteric Law of Seven behind real transformation, as well as the importance of conscious shocks, spiritual will, sincerity, and humility. READ HERE: https://bernhardguenther.substack.com/p/why-people-abandon-inner-work-and

“The number one tool you need to individuate is to learn how to withdraw your projections. The most important thing to understand is that there’s usually some seed of truth that allows a projection to attach itself to someone, but our shadow tends to over exaggerate it. So, when we tend to exaggerate and inflate things and only see a person in a one-dimensional way, we can almost be sure we’re projecting. Carl Jung summarizes it in this beautiful quote: “A man’s hatred is always concentrated on the thing that makes him conscious of his bad qualities.” Projection is something that you get used to engaging with, and there is gold on the other side, even though it’s uncomfortable, when you begin to withdraw those projections. When you withdraw your projections, you will feel more qualities of your True Self start to come back. You will literally feel more energy and more vitality because you’re no longer avoiding, repressing, and offloading parts of yourself you don’t want to see onto other people. So our projections are how the psyche and the unconscious makes itself known to us, and they’re very valuable to work with, even if they can be very uncomfortable at first.” -Laura Matsue Episode 163 – A Guide to the Path of Individuation Listen to this podcast episode by clicking the link below or by searching Cosmic Matrix on iTunes, Spotify, or any other podcast streamer. https://veilofreality.com/2025/10/15/a-guide-to-the-path-of-individuation-tcm-163-part-1 @timeoftransition