Key idea
I want to expand what I consider possible — instead of assuming my current model is complete.
I think our human bodies are a bit like a VR headset. What we can perceive depends on the code we are running.
Learning with and from others expands what feels possible, and upgrades the code. It exposes angles I wouldn’t see on my own, and it surfaces limits or unconscious programs I didn’t know were there.
When I say “bringing my monad something new,” I’m talking about expanding what my avatar can see by deliberately adding new perspectives into my field — especially from people on similar journeys who arrived there by different routes.
That’s the context for why I’m taking a class called Astral Travel Training through a group known as Earth Guard.
👉 https://www.theearthguard.org/programs/training-courses
Why Earth Guard, and why now
I’d been aware of this group for a couple of years. About a year ago, I seriously considered taking one of their courses — but when I checked in with my higher self, the answer was clear: not yet. Not a no… A not now.
I didn’t fully understand why at the time, but I trust the part of me that knows when timing matters. So I moved on to other paths, other adventures.
Then sometime in the summer/fall of 2025, the timing shifted.
The thread came back.
The founder of Earth Guard kept popping back up in my YouTube feed through collaborations with other creators I followed. Eventually I took the hint from universe.
I went on a binge-watch, revisiting everything I’d seen before and catching up on everything new — and I loved it.
If you’re curious, this is the channel: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@alobarjones/featured
Recognition, not reverence
What hooked me was attitude.
I especially loved the videos where entities operating behind addictions, as well as those claiming authority over humanity, were interviewed. I have my own lived experience with wetiko riding people I love, and with the little people of my Gaelic heritage — two familiar classes of con artists — so I recognized these entities immediately: their personalities, their habits, their manipulation styles, and their sense of entitlement.
OMG – I laughed. More than once coffee came out my nose.
The way these beings are addressed — directly, without deference — matches my own stance.
I was once kicked out of a Reddit group for being “disrespectful” to Hekate. I said plainly that these beings claim authority they do not have over humanity, and people lost their minds.
I’ve also told my mother from a young age that the “little people” don’t actually have power over me, even if they know my real name.
She was scandalized. And afraid for little me. But sovereignty isn’t superstition-friendly.
This clip pretty much sums up my position:
Earth Guard is the only group I’ve seen publicly take this same posture toward demons, gods, non-human intelligences, and authority structures more broadly.
No groveling. No priesthood. No outsourced sovereignty. That got my attention.
The membership layer
From there, I joined the Earth Guard membership site: 👉 https://www.theearthguard.org/
This includes video content that isn’t publicly available — less polished, less filtered, and much closer to raw data.
What delights me there is a category they call “pre-flight chats.”
These aren’t performances. They’re candid conversations — everything from mundane coordination to real-time discussions about what the team is doing that day as an astral unit.
You don’t see the actual operational work (and you shouldn’t). But that behind-the-scenes context matters.
It showed me that this team and I hold very similar views about the nature of reality, even though we arrive there through different experiences.
Why I hesitated on the class
Within this ecosystem, the Astral Travel Training course is the next layer.
I hesitated because I don’t really think of myself as great student material.
I already have solid ground in my energetic life. I wasn’t looking to be taught how to astral travel. (Pro tip: it’s a natural human skill — it just needs exercise, like any other muscle.)
I’m content with my energetic ecology. I love my monad — the parts I consciously know — and I interact with them regularly.
I don’t carry big existential questions like “Why am I here?” If you’re curious about my take on that, there are plenty of posts on this site already. I’ve spent years engaging those questions directly, including through formal study in metaphysical traditions.
Not because I believe in certificates, professors, or institutional authority — but because it was a convenient container. It let me go deep into what I care about, and a master’s degree checks a box that translates directly into a higher pay scale in corporate systems. (HR accepts it without blinking. My boss even jokes about asking me for tarot or astrology advice to predict supply chain trends.)
I learned a lot, especially that professors are just as full of shit as anyone else.
😄
A private obstacle I had to resolve
There was also a very real, very personal obstacle I had to account for before joining this class.
Bear is not especially aligned with my deep woo.
At his worst — when alcohol was running the show — he would be openly hostile to it. Actively attacking the parts of me that explore beyond consensus reality, because it was an easy shot to take, AND because the demon running that addiction script feared that power in me.
I don’t experience that hostility as him, exactly. I experience it as something that rides people when they’re dysregulated — defensive, threatened, reactive. Call it addiction dynamics, shadow behavior, or wetiko. The label matters less than the effect.
What mattered was this:
I didn’t know how I could attend a course like this openly while that pressure existed inside my marriage.
I made a practical calculation. For all his resistance to my woo, Bear still deferred to institutional authority. Credentials carried more weight with him than lived wisdom — and more weight with him than my own discernment.
That master’s degree gives me cover.
If I needed to, I would frame this as continuing education. Independent study. A continuation of an already-established academic path. Something legible to him, even if the substance itself wasn’t.
With that plan, I checked in again with my higher self.
The answer was simple: register for the course. The rest will be sorted.
So I trusted. And I committed, financially and emotionally, to a class I had no idea how I would survive attending.
And almost immediately, everything came to a head.
It wasn’t gentle. It wasn’t smooth. Tension that had been building for years broke into the open.
The outcome was that Bear stopped drinking.
Not gradually. Not symbolically. The version of him that would have attacked me hardest on this path lost its footing. The pressure inside my life changed shape, abruptly.
I’m not claiming causation in a simplistic way.
I’m saying the timing was exact.
And I take that as confirmation that this decision is aligned.