Ep 510: How You're Brainwashed Like A North Korean And You Don't Even Know It

Start Your Transformation Now⁠  Are you one of those people who believe that money and spirituality are incompatible? Do you believe it’s OK to make money and be rich? As you know, I’m a “spiritualist” and I’ve also learned that one of the most powerful things we can do for the world is to become rich, then use that as a tool and we can better the world. In this episode, I have a guest, James Wedmore, and he’s a good friend. Not only that, but his business also attracted $9.4 million dollars last year.In this episode, we talk about Spirituality, Business, and Prosperity, and specifically, we talk about guiding principles that have helped him to become financially successful. James is very spiritual and he lets his spiritualism guide him in business. I do the same, and working from this place has been financially good for both of us. This is a candid, fun “interview” and my intention is that you see how we approach business and the rewards of prosperity and service that it brings us. You deserve to be abundant and prosperous! Listen, apply, and enjoy! Mentioned resources: Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase. Let’s Connect:  ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ | ⁠LinkedIn⁠  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ so we can reach more people.  Listening on ⁠Spotify⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 

Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim explores why conflict isn't something that exists "out there" in the world, but is instead created the moment a person takes a side. He argues that all division — political, religious, personal — is a product of the human ego identifying with a single, limited interpretation of reality, and that true peace only returns when a person stops defending a position and remembers themselves as consciousness rather than the body or the belief.  Jim illustrates this with a personal story about getting scammed by a fake towing company, his upbringing around fundamentalist preachers in Texas, and a Coca-Cola versus Pepsi metaphor he uses to describe "mastering neutrality." He also examines how this same dynamic shows up in parenting, where trying to control or judge a adult child's choices is really just another form of taking sides.  This episode offers listeners a practical way to recognize when they've fallen into righteousness or division — and how to return to peace instead.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) Where conflict actually comes from — Jim explains that disharmony isn't a lack of peace in the world; it exists because people don't know themselves as source rather than ego.  (07:38) Why institutions divide — Jim points to preachers, politicians, money, and religion as forces that split humanity by disguising ego and dogma as morality.  (11:02) The Coke and Pepsi metaphor — Jim introduces "mastering neutrality," showing that both sides of any argument are simply two versions of the same illusion.  (13:53) Whatever you fight weakens you — Using a Mother Teresa quote and Wayne Dyer's tree metaphor, Jim reveals how opposing anything grants it power and traps a person in conflict.  (20:00) Why the "correct side" winning never brings peace — Jim challenges the belief that healing the world means making one side win, and reframes what true unity requires.  (27:45) Peace as a realization, not a result — Jim closes with the truth that divine mind has never been divided or taken a side, and neither should the listener.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Every time a person declares one side right and the other wrong, they step out of consciousness and into the ego's illusion of division. Peace was never meant to come from winning an argument or fixing the world outside — it comes from remembering that the listener, at their core, is the same undivided source as everyone they're tempted to oppose. Letting go of the need to be right isn't weakness; it's the doorway back to harmony.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 

Start Your Transformation Now⁠  You’re already thinking, “What is my greatest advisor?” Let me get to the point and be blunt, your own death is your greatest advisor. We, humans, spend a large part of our lives avoiding the one thing that is inevitable in our lives, our own transition of the planet, or what we call death.The truth is this, when we embrace the totality of our being and we accept our “death” we can then use it as our “life advisor” and we can use it to understand what’s important to us and how best to live our lives. Most of us persist in seeing our lives from the smallest “part” of ourselves and that keeps us blind. Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  How would your ascension advise you? Let’s Connect:  ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ | ⁠LinkedIn⁠  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ so we can reach more people.  Listening on ⁠Spotify⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 

Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim opens a new series comparing North Korea's overt, state-mandated ideological conditioning — its real "Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System" — to the covert brainwashing many Westerners experience through consumerism, nationalism, and religion. The difference, he argues, isn't whether brainwashing exists, but how visibly it's enforced.  Jim details North Korean practices like mandatory portrait care and weekly self-criticism, then shows how Western consumerism and the need to feel "good enough" condition people just as thoroughly, only without coercion. His goal: separating listeners' true identity — their consciousness — from the conditioned "container" of the body and ego.  This first episode in a multi-part series is an essential starting point for anyone ready to question who they really are.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) The hidden link between North Korea and the West — Jim reveals that the only real difference between a brainwashed North Korean citizen and most Westerners is the name and method of the conditioning.  (05:18) Who gave you your thoughts? — Jim challenges listeners to question who actually taught them their fears, preferences, and even their own name.  (14:31) Inside North Korea's Ten Principles — Jim details real mechanisms like mandatory portrait care and weekly self-criticism as a mirror for subtler Western conditioning.  (19:49) Consumerism as covert brainwashing — Jim traces his own teenage desire for Polo shirts to a culture that uses advertising to convince people they're incomplete.  (28:22) Who chose your reality? — Using a scene from The Devil Wears Prada, Jim shows how decisions we believe are our own were often shaped long before we could choose them.  (30:17) You are consciousness first — Jim reveals the series' foundational truth: listeners are consciousness that inhabits a body, not a body that has consciousness.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Most of us believe we are free-thinking, autonomous beings, but the truth is that nearly every thought, preference, and fear we carry was downloaded into us by family, media, culture, and society long before we were old enough to question it. Recognizing this isn't a cause for despair — it's the first step toward real freedom. The body is a container, conditioned and shaped by the world around it, but the listener is not that container; they are the consciousness, the life force, that inhabits it. Reclaiming that truth is where authentic power begins.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now Do you love where you are in life right now? Happy with your money? Your job? Your relationships? This will be a short write up because it all comes to this: Where you are in life right now you have chosen to be there. Yep, it’s your choice. Life Is Choice. Life is a continuous process of choice which means “Life IS Choice.” In this episode I talk about:[1:32] Unconscious V Conscious choice[2:45] The definition of choice[4:08] Making choices before you find yourself having to make a choice[12:47] Why choosing from your feelings is self-sabotage[20:52] And, the ultimate choice you have made in your life. This is a simple episode and a powerful one. When you fully embrace the power of choice your life will change forever. Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  If you don't like where you are in life, start making different choices Let’s Connect:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim explores a provocative idea: the listener has no birth date. While the body has an incarnation date, the soul — the true source of power — never dies and therefore was never born. Jim explains that most people live exclusively from their 3D, mechanistic identity, completely disconnected from the continuous soul-consciousness that is the actual source of all power, peace, and creation.  Jim unpacks why chasing external power — money, status, recognition — is an outdated model of consciousness that is rapidly collapsing as humanity evolves into higher levels of awareness. He reveals the single word that secretly sabotages most people's ability to create what they want, and offers a radically different way to relate to desire itself.  This episode challenges listeners to stop chasing and start remembering who they truly are.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) You have no birth date — Jim introduces the central idea that while the body has an incarnation date, the soul is continuous and was never born, and explains why this is the seat of true power.  (03:24) Continual vs. continuous — Jim distinguishes between the body's continual, repeating incarnations and the soul's continuous, unbroken existence, and why identifying with soul changes everything.  (10:13) There is no point A and point B — Jim dismantles the manifestation myth that separates a person from their desire, using the metaphor of a small wave and a big wave both being made of the same substance.  (15:56) Old power structures are crumbling — Jim explains why external forms of power (money, politics, status) are an outdated 3D model collapsing as consciousness evolves into a 5D paradigm.  (23:15) The hidden danger of "I need" — Jim reveals how the word "need" instantly creates separation from the thinking substance that creates all things, and why this keeps people stuck.  (27:10) To need nothing is to have everything — Jim shares the epiphany that anything available to others is available to the listener, and closes with a final truth meant to be felt rather than analyzed.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  The body has a birth date, but the soul does not — and remembering this is where real power begins. Most people sabotage their own desires by living from "I need," a word that instantly creates separation from the one substance that all things, including the listener, are made of. There is no point A and point B, no chasing, no struggling to close a gap that was never truly there. The invitation in this episode is simple but profound: stop relating to life from need, and start relating to it from wholeness. To need nothing is to have everything.  Mentioned Resources: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase. Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now Have you ever asked yourself why you’re on this planet? I don’t mean “what is your purpose while you’re on the planet, but the bigger question is…why on this planet? I attempt in this episode to get you to start thinking from a much higher perspective about the nature of your existence here on Earth.Most people search for a lifetime looking for their “purpose,” and they spend their life like a dog chasing his tail looking for this answer. When people think about their purpose, they are mostly thinking about how that gives their life meaning relative to others, but have you ever thought about the bigger cosmic purpose of you coming to this planet? In this episode I talk about:[4:12] How most people see life only in the context of time on the planet[5:39] How do you grow and evolve beyond your perceived time here?[7:09] How we are all born into a world that traps us in a small reality[11:53] Where is your predominant focus on your life right now?[17:27] And, the two biggest reasons you are on this planet. The point of this whole episode is this. Are you living fully into the duality of self and have you evolved into someone who lives from the higher value, meaning and purpose of your cosmic self or have you lived for the sustenance and convenience of your 3D ego? Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Do you live to serve and make the world a better place and do you live to serve and EVOLVE your higher self as much as you can? Let’s Connect:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim draws on an unexpected pairing — Henry David Thoreau's timeless wisdom and the mechanics of Amazon's fulfillment system — to reveal why most people never advance confidently in the direction of their dreams. The culprit isn't a lack of ambition or effort — it's the deeply ingrained belief that one must know how to create an outcome before taking the first step.  Jim illustrates how the moment someone clicks "buy now" on Amazon, they hand the process over to an intelligent system they don't understand, and trust it completely. Yet when it comes to their own desires, most people do the opposite — worrying, strategizing, and attempting to micromanage a delivery they were never meant to orchestrate.  This episode offers a paradigm shift that could change everything — and a single affirmation listeners can begin habituating today.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) The Thoreau challenge — Jim opens with Henry David Thoreau's call to advance confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and poses the central question of the episode: why don't most people actually do it?  (02:53) The real reason dreams stall — Jim identifies the core obstacle: not knowing how to create a desired outcome. When people can't see the path, they stop moving — and this episode dismantles that pattern entirely.  (06:18) The Amazon metaphor — Jim uses the mechanics of ordering on Amazon to show how effortlessly people trust an invisible, complex system to deliver results — and why they should extend that same trust to the universe.  (10:36) Stop micromanaging the delivery — Jim humorously illustrates what it would look like to try to control every step of an Amazon delivery, making plain how absurd — and counterproductive — it is to do the same thing when pursuing a life goal.  (15:06) It's not your job to know how — Jim shares his own shift from being "the king of how" to trusting that the universe is far more capable of orchestrating outcomes than the analytical mind ever could be.  (22:17) Action + trust, not action + worry — Jim explains why taking physical action while simultaneously worrying and strategizing cancels out results, and what it looks like to act from a place of aligned consciousness instead.    Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Most people abandon their desires not because the dream is too big, but because they can't see the path and have mistakenly made it their job to map every step. The universe doesn't need help figuring out how to deliver — it only needs to know what is wanted. Jim offers this affirmation to begin habituating: I do not know how [my desire] will come, and that is fine with me. The universe has channels I cannot see, and I am open to all of them.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now⁠⁠⁠⁠  OK, OK, so you read the headline and you were probably thinking, “Jim, what the heck is wrong with you?” I totally get it and I don’t want you to have the kind of STD that most people dread, I want you to have another kind, well, the acronym with the letters – STD. What does STD stand for? Easy: Surrender, Trust and No Doubt and that’s the topic this week. In this episode I talk about:[1:16] What my definition of surrender, trust and doubt are[4:23] How control is woven into not wanting to surrender[5:19] Your greatest cause of unhappiness[7:30] Accepting what “is” in life[8:37] The energy waste of “fighting” one’s self[19:08] Allowing yourself to trust your unconscious mind[24:58] Why you can trust your unconscious mind and the universe[33:02] Trusting all is well and not doubting yourself[35:45] And, letting go of the illusion of control I’ve never been a “control freak,” per se but I used to get into my share of control, and it’s toxic and debilitating. You probably already know that it’s just a complete energy drain and it exhausts you. In this episode, it’s my intent to ask you to take a look at yourself and to look at the ways you’re trapped in control and maybe don’t even know it. When you live from the paradigm I propose in this episode, STD, life becomes so much easier and free. Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Control is an illusion and when you get into the illusion of control you are controlled by the illusion of control. Let’s Connect:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now⁠⁠⁠  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim explores one of the most overlooked truths behind human suffering: the belief that we are separate from source. He unpacks how centuries of conditioning have led most people to operate as mechanical beings — doing things to create outcomes — rather than recognizing themselves as the consciousness that is the source of all creation. Whether it is money, love, or health, the struggle to achieve these things stems not from lack of effort, but from a fundamental misidentification of who and what we truly are.  Jim traces this separation from René Descartes' mechanistic worldview to childhood lessons about earning and doing, showing how deeply the belief that we must work to deserve is wired into the human psyche. He also draws a sharp distinction between dogmatic religion, which reinforces separation from the divine, and the direct knowing that each person is not a human having spiritual experiences, but infinite consciousness inhabiting a human form.  This episode is an invitation to stop trying to be human and start recognizing the truth: you are source, you are consciousness, and everything you are seeking is not something to attract — it is something you already are.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) The origin of pain — Jim connects the pain of money, loneliness, and health to a single root cause: the belief in separation from source, and why most people never close that gap despite intellectually agreeing we are all one.  (02:44) Descartes and the mechanistic lie — Jim traces how René Descartes' mechanistic worldview conditioned humanity to operate as doing machines, separating action from consciousness and setting the stage for a life of polarity and struggle.  (06:06) Consciousness vs. mechanical behavior — Jim explains why effort alone rarely produces the desired results, and how the real issue is the mismatch between what someone is doing and the consciousness they carry while doing it.  (09:31) The brainwashing of religion and childhood — From Southern Baptist fire-and-brimstone to a dime earned cleaning flower beds at age five, Jim illustrates how early conditioning and institutional religion quietly sever people from their true identity as source.  (15:19) You are not human — you are consciousness — Jim makes the case that most people have it backwards: they believe they are humans with consciousness, when in truth they are infinite consciousness that has taken on a human form — and that distinction changes everything.  (20:12) The transformational question — Jim closes with a powerful question to sit with: What would be true if I were pure consciousness having this human experience? — inviting listeners to explore it not analytically, but as a felt, living awareness.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  You are not a human being trying to find God, abundance, or peace. You are consciousness — infinite, whole, and complete — temporarily inhabiting a human form. Every struggle and every painful pattern traces back to the moment we forget that truth and begin identifying with the container instead of the consciousness within it. Stop trying to be human. Start recognizing yourself as source. Sit with the question Jim offers, let it move beyond the analytical mind, and allow the awareness to settle in. That shift — from doing to being — is where transformation actually begins.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim