Jesus Had an Ego: What That Means for Your Spiritual Growth

Emotional Growth, Ancestral Healing, and Nature-Based Practices

Listen to the 3-year journey of Reap Your Roots and the revamp of our purpose. RYR is an online platform and community that focuses on reconnection to Self through emotional growth, ancestral healing, and Nature-based practices. To live in these modern times, these principles and practices are essential to have balance.  To be in relationship to our inner world and the Natural world will enable us to live in a state of profound peace and vibrant joy no matter what the circumstances have been or are in life.  With the wave of AI that is entering the world, it is even more important than ever to know what resources we can lean on to maintain steadiness, slowness, and sovereignty. The future is ancient, and this work will help us to thrive no matter what changes happen.  Listen in, and if it resonates, join the mission.

Jesus Had an Ego: What That Means for Your Spiritual Growth

What if Yeshua did not want us to worship Him, but to follow Him? In this episode, we explore the reality that Yeshua lived as both fully human and fully divine. He didn’t bypass the human experience. He felt emotions, faced challenges, and had to grow into his calling just like we do. From moments of deep connection to moments of anguish and surrender, his life reveals a path that includes both the sacred and the struggle.  We also look at the idea that Yeshua had an ego not as something sinful, but as part of the human experience he came to embody and transform. His journey shows us that wrestling with fear, doubt, and even resistance does not separate us from the divine. It can be part of the process of becoming aligned with it. Even in facing his death and crucifixion, we see the tension between human instinct and divine surrender. This perspective opens the door to a more compassionate and integrated way of walking the path. It moves us beyond an either/or mentality and into a both/and. Yeshua becomes not just someone to admire, but someone whose life gives us permission to be human while growing into our own divinity. If this resonates with you, you are invited to join Gnosis Rising, our free online community where we explore these teachings together and support one another in living a path that honors both our humanity and our holiness. JOIN HERE: 👇🏼 https://www.skool.com/gnosis-rising-3055/about

The Elemental Blueprint: Mastering Your Emotions Through Fire, Water, Earth, and Air

What if you viewed all your emotions as natural as the elements around you? This would be mastery of the mind, and the elements can actually help you.  In this episode, I break down the Elemental Blueprint, pairing the four elements with the four core emotions that most of us experience: 🔥 Anger (Fire) 💧 Sadness (Water) 🌱 Loneliness (Earth) 🌬️ Stress (Air) These emotions aren’t random or wrong. They are natural forces moving through you, just like the elements themselves. When you learn how to work with them instead of against them, everything changes. I also unpack the four common ways we get stuck: suppression, escape, explosion, and rumination, and how these patterns keep us operating in our unconscious patterns. From there, I walk you through a simple 3 phase path to transformation: emotional awareness, emotional resilience, and emotional alchemy. If you’re ready to understand your emotional patterns on a deeper level and start working with your inner elemens... Take the Elemental Blueprint Quiz! This will lead you to discover your own archetype and begin a proven path towards emotional mastery. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 https://www.reapyourroots.com/elemental-blueprint

The Mystical Christ: The True Story of Yeshua's Life

In this episode, I share my personal journey with building a relationship with Yeshua bar Yosef, who many of us know as Jesus Christ. Beginning with a deeply formative upbringing in orthodox Christianity and my time serving an LDS Mormon mission, those years shaped my devotion, discipline, and love for Christ. They gave me a foundation of reverence that I still carry. I also speak to my radical spiritual awakening, which didn’t pull me away from Jesus but rather expanded my understanding of who he was, what he embodied, and what he was inviting us into. As my worldview widened, I began to see Yeshua not only as someone to worship, but as someone to follow. I wrestled with resistance around the idea of “Christ” as a living state of being rather than a title reserved for one man. That tension revealed the subtle ways many of us are conditioned to keep divinity at a distance. We are honoring it, but never fully inhabiting it ourselves, which is what Yeshua commanded us to do. This episode is an honest reflection on the inner roadblocks I encountered while learning to accept Christ-consciousness as something we are meant to grow into. From there, the conversation turns toward the mystical Christ and the deeper meaning behind Yeshua’s life and teachings. We explore stories, symbols, and intentions behind his actions. We speak of where He might have been from 13-30 years old. And we speak to how He performed healings and miracles. Rather than placing Jesus beyond reach, this episode invites listeners to see Him as our brother who simply laid out the divine blueprint in human form. This episode is ultimately about resurrection of His Christed teachings that are encoded within us. If this conversation resonates, you’re invited to Gnosis Rising, a new free online spiritual community launching March 1st, 2026. Gnosis Rising welcomes all spiritual and religious perspectives and exists to help us remember, embody, and live the teachings of the mystical Christ together. To remember the way within! The Key Takeaways: (2:55) My Religious Upbringing (7:27) A spiritual awakening begins... (9:00) Yeshua and the title of Christ (17:23) Two roadblocks to owning our Christhood (26:10) Hearing other stories of Him (27:47) The Lost Years of Jesus (34:29) Discerning who truly acts with Christ-Consciousness (38:44) The Luminous Lightbody (41:51) "I'm trying to be like Jesus" (45:29) Where to find more of Gnosis Rising To Learn More: Instagram: gnosis.rising [https://www.instagram.com/gnosis.rising/] Email: jake@reapyourroots.com

The Fallen World Myth: How We Forgot the Earth is Sacred

For centuries, the idea of a “fallen world” has shaped how we relate to the Earth. We have been taught that nature is temporary, corrupt, or spiritually inferior. In this episode, Rachel and I explore how that belief quietly severed our responsibility to the living world, and how Christianity’s departure from earth-based spirituality served systems of control rather than spiritual truth. We share our own journey of realizing how looking to a future redemption was used to justify not taking care of the land and protecting all of creation in the present moment. We discuss how the Creator might even be trying to have a relationship with Him through His creations. The reality is that Yeshua’s teachings were deeply rooted in relationship with the elements, plants, and the natural rhythms of life. From seeds and soil to wind, water, and fire, nature was never separate from the sacred, but rather Spirit permeated all of Nature itself. He spoke with it constantly.  This is another pillar in our new free community that is set to launch March 1'st 2026. If any part of this episode resonates with you, reach out to learn more about joining the movement!