You Know What's Right. So Why Can't You Do It?

War Gets 100% Funding. Peace Gets Zero. (One Man's Plan to Change That)

🌐 Link to our Guest and Books: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Music: https://amzn.to/4ene0Rk (paid link) Web: jazzforpeace.org (paid link) Philipp’s Book: 🌐Spiritual Parenting: https://amzn.to/4e0Xx5e (paid link) In this episode, Philipp Kobald sits down with musician and peace activist Rick DellaRatta, the founder of Jazz for Peace, to talk about what happens when you spend 25 years trying to live up to a poem you wrote on a rooftop less than a quarter mile from Ground Zero. War Gets 100% Funding. Peace Gets Zero. (One Man's Plan to Change That) Together, Philipp and Rick talk about: * Why Mozart's story is really a parable about what happens when genius outgrows its usefulness to power * The music industry's deep corruption, and why the Mozarts of tomorrow still die unheard * How technology eliminating jobs could free people to follow their actual passions, if we let it * What Brazilian carnival teaches about the power of "a lot of people doing a little bit" * The ancient idea that churches were originally acoustic healing centers * The uncomfortable math: war is funded at 100%, peace at 0% ✨ *Main Takeaways* * Music carries every quality that makes us human: creativity, artistry, humanity, intellect. Tapping into those qualities is itself a form of peacemaking. * The artists who could change the world are almost never known during their lifetime, and their impact is greatest in the era they actually live in. * If technology frees people from unwanted labor, the question becomes whether we fund their dreams or funnel the profits to a handful of people at the top. * Community doesn't require everyone to be a virtuoso. Sometimes it just takes giving 5,000 people a simple rhythm and getting out of the way. * Peace isn't underfunded because it doesn't work. It's underfunded because we've never seriously tried. 💬 *Quotes* * "We live in a world that funds war at a hundred percent and funds peace at zero percent." — Rick DellaRatta * "I've been trying to live up to the words of a poem for 25 years." — Rick DellaRatta * "When we fill our souls with creativity, artistry, humanity, intellectuality… we will have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction." — Rick DellaRatta *About our Guest* Rick DellaRatta is a musician and founder of Jazz for Peace, an initiative he began after September 11 that uses music to support humanitarian causes worldwide. This conversation moves between Mozart myths and modern warfare, between Austrian skepticism and New York jazz clubs, between a skiing injury and the healing properties of sound. Rick shows up in a neck brace and plays a Backstreet Boys song reimagined as jazz, then recites a poem about peace that's been quoted on over 150 websites in languages from Icelandic to Japanese. If you're curious what it looks like when one person decides to spend 25 years proving that music can do what politics won't, press play. ━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 *CHAPTERS* * 00:00 Introduction * 02:11 The connection between skiing and jazz * 02:45 A tale of two musicians: Mozart and the regular kid * 06:33 Jazz for peace: the origin story * 10:18 Why great artists are never known in their lifetime * 13:00 The 25th anniversary of jazz for peace * 14:11 Before and after 9/11: a musician's turning point * 16:04 850 benefit concerts and the United Nations performance * 17:59 Solutions: technology, jobs, and following your dream * 20:26 Why we never found the next Mozart * 24:21 The passion debate: will free time free creativity? * 29:41 The healing power of music * 33:07 Our greatest qualities live inside music * 35:10 Brazilian jazz and the power of community * 38:42 Live performance: "I want it that way" turned into jazz * 44:51 How to get involved with jazz for peace * 50:18 Peace is funded at zero percent * 53:15 Final thoughts ━━━━━━━━━━ #holisticcircle #philippkobald #worldpeace #musicheals #activism #spiritualmusic #jazzmusic P 16 26 (E0137) - Apr 28, 2026

Homeless at 13, He Decoded Biblical Prophecy with Math Guest: Guy Morris

🌐 LINK TO OUR GUEST AND BOOKS: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Book: The Last Ark amzn.to (paid link) guymorrisbooks.com Philipp’s Book: 🌐 Spiritual Parenting: amzn.to (paid link) EPISODE SUMMARY: In this episode, Philipp Kobald interviews Guy Morris, award-winning thriller author and former Fortune 500 strategist, discussing his journey from childhood trauma and homelessness at 13 to Harvard and decoding Biblical Prophecy through mathematics. Main Hook: What If Prophecy Isn't Prediction, but a Warning We Keep Ignoring? Guy Morris, a homeless teenager who developed economic models outperforming the Federal Reserve, spent decades on "prophecy analytics," validating prophetic outcomes against real-world events. He found a cumulative probability of over three trillion to one that the correlations he identified are coincidental. DISCUSSION POINTS: * Guy's refusal to let a violent childhood define his future. * National Geographic article on dying fish stocks as a key to prophetic interpretation. * Difference between treating prophecy as fortune-telling vs. understanding the present. * AI spy program escaping a government lab and FBI agents visiting Guy. * Mapping lethal autonomous weapons, cryptocurrency, and trust collapse onto ancient texts. * Spiritual case for AI being neutral; character of wielders determines outcomes. * Near-death experiences and quantum physics on consciousness. ✨ MAIN TAKEAWAYS: * Prophecy is meaningful when validated against real-world outcomes. * Spirituality is a personal quantum connection; no institution can manufacture it. * Greatest threat isn't technology; it's the character of controllers. * Healing from trauma through connection, communication, and sharing stories. * Pursuit of immortality by those fearing death may destabilize the planet. 💬 QUOTES: * "To me, it was the hand of God giving me a chance to change my stars. I have worked tirelessly to try and be worthy of that opportunity." — Guy Morris * "I hope I will never find enlightenment, because I want to keep searching for it." — Philipp Kobald ABOUT OUR GUEST: Guy Morris grew up on the streets, ran away at 13, earned a Harvard scholarship, and had a four-decade career with IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft. After retiring, he focused on AI risks in thriller novels like Swarm. His nonfiction book Prophecy Analytics outlines his mathematical framework for interpreting scripture without dogma. 📖 CHAPTERS: * 00:00 Chance to Change Stars * 00:19 Welcome to Holistic Circle * 02:18 From Homeless to Harvard * 05:03 Faith and Prophecy Questions * 08:03 Prophecy Analytics Breakthrough * 13:56 Warnings for Our Era * 21:52 Why Write Prophecy Analytics * 25:41 Turning to Thriller Writing * 27:13 Swarm Origins and Escaped Spyware * 29:12 Cracks in the Web and FBI Visit * 30:51 AI Prophecy and Modern Threats * 32:22 Can AI Become a God * 33:30 Third Temple and Ark Hunt * 37:15 Crypto Banking and AI Guardrails * 46:15 Death Spirituality and Legacy #holisticcircle #prophecy #artificialintelligence #spiritualawakening #bibleprophecy #endtimes P 12 26 (E0127) Apr 6, 2026

You Think You've Surrendered. You Haven't Even Started. > with Diana MaAr Divine

🌐 GUEST LINKS & BOOKS As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. * MASTERING QUANTUM CREATION: [https://amzn.to/4txwhQK](https://amzn.to/4txwhQK) (paid link) * Diana MaAr Divine Web: [http://dianadivine.com * Philipp's Book – Spiritual Parenting: [https://amzn.to/4e0Xx5e](https://amzn.to/4e0Xx5e) (paid link) YOU THINK YOU'VE SURRENDERED. YOU HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED. Diana MaAr Divine has spent more than 25 years exploring consciousness, kundalini activation, hypnotherapy, Akashic records, plant medicine, and quantum healing. Her path moved from growing up in Belarus during the Soviet era, through childhood in Israel during the Gulf War carrying a gas mask to school, to eventually building a life in the United States helping people reconnect to what she calls alignment instead of “fixing” themselves. In this episode of the Holistic Circle Podcast, Philipp Kobald and Diana explore surrender, fear, emotional intelligence, trauma, AI, spirituality, and why many people collect spiritual concepts without actually transforming their daily lives. Diana compares personal transformation to tuning an old radio through static. Most people, she says, stay inside the noise because it feels familiar. The conversation keeps returning to one difficult question: if spirituality does not make you a better parent, partner, neighbor, or human being, what is it really doing for you? TOPICS DISCUSSED * Why the reptilian brain confuses “familiar” with “safe” * The difference between fear and real danger * Why resistance may actually signal transformation * The difference between IQ and EQ in the AI era * How kundalini energy works, explained through lightning and nervous system physics * Why Diana refuses to call herself a healer * How sensitivity can become a strength instead of a weakness * Why surrender is a continuous process, not a one-time event * What happens when spirituality becomes practical instead of performative ✨ MAIN TAKEAWAYS * Fear and danger are not the same thing. Fear is often projection onto the unknown. * Healing changes when you stop assuming you are broken and start seeing yourself as misaligned. * Emotional intelligence may become the defining human skill of the next decade. * Real spirituality should improve the quality of your relationships and behavior. * Transformation usually begins outside the boundaries of what feels comfortable or familiar. 💬 QUOTES “Fear is an illusion—everything you’re actually looking for is on the other side of it.” —Diana MaAr Divine “If spirituality doesn’t make you a better human, it’s just another hobby.” —Philipp Kobald 📖 CHAPTERS * 00:00 Fear Is an Illusion * 00:15 Podcast Welcome and Guest Intro * 01:38 Diana Divine Origin Story * 04:45 Offerings, Courses and Book * 08:18 Is Channeling Dangerous? * 12:15 Clearing Noise and Creating Flow * 18:54 Civilization Trauma and Shutdown * 23:42 Fear, Survival and Future Shifts * 28:51 Authenticity Across Worlds * 29:43 Masculine Feminine Balance * 30:09 Kundalini Paths Explained * 32:46 Quantum Transmission Effects * 35:19 Surrender and Zero Point * 38:09 IQ Versus EQ in AI Age * 42:17 Reframing Healing as Alignment * 48:22 Candlelight Ripple Conclusion #holisticcircle #philippkobald #kundaliniawakening #quantumhealing #spiritualsurrender #fearandfaith #consciousliving #emotionalintelligence P 11 26 (E0124) - Mar 30, 2026

You Know What's Right. So Why Can't You Do It?

🌐 Link to our Guest and Books: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Book: Beyond Power https://amzn.to/4e0UCJD (paid link) PHILIPP’S BOOK As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 🌐Spiritual Parenting: https://amzn.to/4e0Xx5e (paid link) What happens when a spiritual conversation takes place in a city where sirens go off mid-sentence? In this episode, Philipp Kobald talks with Daniel Bookman, a Jerusalem-based lawyer and author, about the collision between spiritual ideals and lived reality, where ethics get tested every day. YOU KNOW WHAT'S RIGHT. SO WHY CAN'T YOU DO IT? Maybe you've read the books, followed the teachings, and felt certain about your values. Then life handed you a situation where the right thing and the necessary thing pulled in opposite directions. Daniel Bookman has spent decades navigating this territory. Trained in law, grounded in Talmudic study, and living in Jerusalem, he explores moral questions not as theory but as daily practice. His books examine religion through a rational lens and the ethical tensions within democracy and geopolitics. TOGETHER, PHILIPP AND DANIEL TALK ABOUT: * Why isolation weakens moral judgment * The paramedic's dilemma: saving someone who tried to harm you * How democracy inherited structures of power from monarchy * Why marriage and parenthood are ethical training grounds * The danger of reacting to short-form media without reflection * Jewish ethics on speech, gossip, and responsibility ✨ MAIN TAKEAWAYS * Without relationships that challenge us, selfishness becomes the default * The deeper divide in society is often about power, not ideology * A 30-second clip is not the same as understanding a conflict * Religion may be more about ethical conduct than belief * Thinking before speaking is essential for a functioning society * First answers rarely survive honest reflection 💬 QUOTES "You should know that you will fail, right? If you don't know that you will fail, why would we start in the first place?" — Philipp Kobald "We should think, not take everything for granted. We can save a lot of problems in the world if people would just think before we act." — Daniel Bookman ABOUT OUR GUEST Daniel Bookman was born in Glasgow, moved to Israel for rabbinical studies, and has practiced law in Jerusalem for over twenty years. His work focuses on religion, democracy, anti-semitism, and ethics in modern geopolitics. Find the full episode on the @HolisticCircle YouTube channel. ---------------------------------------- 📖 CHAPTERS * 00:00 Introduction * 03:09 Guest Background * 11:40 Why People Seek God * 23:30 Moral Dilemmas * 34:26 Religion and Democracy * 48:17 Media and Antisemitism * 54:53 Jewish Ethics of Speech #holisticcircle #ethics #criticalthinking #jewishwisdom #faithandpolitics #selfinquiry #consciousliving #questioneverything P 10 26 (E0123) - Mar 27, 2026

The Victim You Don't Know You're Being

🌐 Link to our Guest and Books: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Book: It's You. Oh Fuck. It's ME. https://amzn.to/3QeggAr #ad Philipp’s Book: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 🌐 Spiritual Parenting: https://amzn.to/4e0Xx5e #ad Chad Taylor: 🌐 https://chadtaylorpsychotherapy.com.au Philipp Kobald sits down with Australian clinical psychotherapist, recovering alcoholic, and author Chad Taylor for a conversation about projection, personal responsibility, and the comfort of staying stuck. The Victim You Don't Know You're Being Maybe you've noticed it. The fourth partner who turned out to be just like the third. The boss who feels eerily like your father. The story you tell about yourself that always ends with someone else doing something to you. Maybe you've spent years "working on yourself", reading the books, doing the breathwork, sitting with the therapist, and somehow the same patterns keep showing up wearing different faces. What if the search itself has quietly become the problem? What if the protector you built as a child has slowly become the prison? Chad grew up in a chaotic home and realized at nearly 40 that the victim role had become his personality. Together, Philipp and Chad talk about: * Why profound spiritual truths can't be explained — only tasted * The difference between real trauma and the trauma we nurse to feel loved * How the ego's "protection" quietly turns into a prison * Why most spiritual practice is counterfeit * Why you keep ending up with the same kind of partner * What responsibility without self-blame really means * Why service and humility matter more than technique ✨ Main Takeaways * You can hand someone a banana for ten years, but they won't know what it tastes like until they bite it * Collapse is often what cracks the protector open * Most addictions are counterfeit spiritual experiences * If it keeps happening to you, there's a choice you're not seeing * A good deed is something nobody finds out about * The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection 💬 Quotes "It's almost like we're in an abusive relationship with ourselves. The ego engaged the egocentricity to keep it safe, and now the egocentricity has imprisoned it." — Chad Taylor "Sometimes you need a lot of words if you want to say something that you actually can't say." — Philipp Kobald "I'd probably be better off learning why I keep choosing them than making a YouTube channel about narcissistic partners." — Chad Taylor Chad's work draws on Jungian analysis, the wisdom of the 12 steps, and decades of lived experience on both sides of the therapy room. 🌐 https://chadtaylorpsychotherapy.com.au 📖 CHAPTERS * 00:00 Ego’s Counterfeit Fixes * 00:29 Podcast Welcome and Guest Intro * 02:57 Can Spirituality Be Simplified * 04:40 The Banana Experience Metaphor * 08:20 Book Reveal It’s You It’s Me * 10:24 Victimhood Culture and Accountability * 12:28 How Victim Identity Gets Programmed * 16:51 Egocentricity Walls and Reconnection * 24:50 Mentor Energy Transmission * 25:34 Chasing Real Presence * 26:32 Book Origin and Intent * 27:57 Substances and Spiritual Shortcuts * 31:49 Community Over Guru Culture * 33:00 Love Connection and Addiction * 37:10 Podcast Lessons and Humility * 38:37 Therapy Service Over Money #holisticcircle #philippkobald #personalresponsibility #shadowwork #spiritualawakening #recoveryjourney #innerwork P 09 26 (E 0122) 18 Mart 2026