Forbidden Knowledge

All you need to know about Nathaniel in 9:50 minutes

• Nathaniel Heutmaker

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 Curious about the mind behind the mic? This episode is your gateway to understanding the motivations that drive my work, which seeks to challenge the perception that our world lacks meaning and purpose. I offer heartfelt gratitude to those who've joined the journey so far and extend an invitation to learn more about my story on the Uzlaga Saga podcast. By fostering continuous learning and maintaining an openness to being wrong, I aim to inspire others to contribute positively to our society. Tune in to discover the profound purpose behind the Forbidden Knowledge podcast and see how history's echoes can illuminate our path forward. 

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Hello and welcome to the Forbidden Knowledge podcast. My name is Nathaniel Hoitmacher and I am the show's host. Today, we're going to be going over something a little different. Today, I'm going to be introducing myself, why I do what I do, the point of my work and that kind of stuff, and just basically giving you a short idea of who I am and what to expect from this YouTube channel as a whole, or the podcast as a whole, depending upon where you're deciding to listen or watch this. So I am somebody who is a scholar.

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I have studied the topics that I've been doing with starting way back in college. I got a degree in history from the University of Santa Cruz and I graduated in 2013. And since that time period, I've continued to study more history, philosophy, cult sciences and traditions, various different aspects of mythology, and the ultimate goal behind everything that I'm doing is to try to learn the mistakes of the past and trying to make it so that way I don't replicate them on a personal level and make it so way the cycles of history continue with me on a personal level, but also the opposite Making it so it doesn't happen outwardly as well, and trying to teach these various different ideas and lessons to other people. An example of how this plays out is if you study one civilization and you study the reasons why it worked well versus why it eventually fell, and then you compare this to tons of other civilizations, dozens upon dozens upon dozens of them, and you see the same reoccurring patterns over and over and over again and understand that, okay, if this particular element is always there when it's negative, um, then meaning it leads to something that is going to lead to the downfall of society, or corruption of society, or the destruction of society, then clearly and it's there every time the civilization collapsed and every time you study with it, then this is clearly something that should not be done and I, on a personal level, should also not participate in it or add to that misery that's going to lead to chaos and destruction for everybody else around me, and it's the same thing for all the good parts of it too. Meaning that, ok, and every time a civilization is thriving, then if this keeps popping up, every time this is negative, this is positive thing is also missing, then you know for certain that this is something that cannot be let go of. Um.

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Now, to be clear, this is not speaking as a notion of I know it all, because I don't. It's not possible. There's too much history for anybody to sift through. You could spend a thousand lifetimes doing the work that I'm doing and you will never know everything that there is to know. You could have a million people working on this for a thousand lifetimes and I doubt that they would know everything.

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But the point is to try to progress humanity forward in such a way that we can learn from our mistakes and not make the same mistakes over and over again. And I can flat out tell you right now that we are doing everything that we should not be doing if we want to maintain any semblance of a good society. We are very much on a path of deterioration. I'll leave it at that for the time being. Now that doesn't mean that there isn't hope, that there isn't ways of getting forward with it.

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It's very clear on what needs to be done with these things and that's why I am doing what I am doing. I am doing it because I love studying these topics. I love the personal development that comes from it. It has changed me deeply as a person, for what is going on? My entire worldview, has changed the way I behave and interact with people has changed, and I try not to make it so that way.

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I do any of the things that are negative and only focused on the things that I know are going to be beneficial to society and adding to the good aspects of it. I also want to be very clear that this does not detract from cultural values, so to speak, meaning that there are areas that it doesn't matter that you can do that and it's not going to impact the culture one way or another, and so this is not an idea of destroying all cultures and everybody behaving and doing the same thing. It's more about making it so that way we don't do the things that are going to harm each other, and make it so that way every culture can coexist peacefully, rather than making it so that way we constantly have to do what we have recorded in history over and, over and over again. I also don't look at things like Pompeii as an example. What I mean by that is that Pompeii was destroyed out of something that had nothing to do with their choices. It was because of a chalcosmic event that happened happened in this case of volcano going off and destroying them, so that doesn't help us in any way, shape or form, because we have no control over these situations.

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I've only interested in what we have control and or influence over as individuals and a species as a whole, and and my studies into this have been constantly challenged and I've constantly had to admit I was wrong and wrong and wrong, over and over and over again in order to get to where I am, and I will continuously do so for the rest of my life. But I have found that the reason why some of these stories exist forever, meaning the myths and legends and that kind of stuff is they point to much, much deeper stuff with it uh, the history. I used to back up that kind of things with it, and I think a good way of summing this up is that we live in a world that has no meaning, no purpose, none of that other stuff, because of the stories that we tell each other and that have been become the paradigm of ourselves and, and especially in the western world, and it's just not true we also have, where we have, no values of anything whatsoever. You have a phone, let's say a smartphone what? Three years, 36, maybe four years, you throw it out. It's worthless, even though you loved it at first. We have no value. We value nothing. And because we value nothing, we're on a road of deterioration instead of appreciation. We're on a road of things declining rather than things getting better with it.

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And if we as a species can come to the conclusion that we need to share certain values and make it so that way, the more and more of us are behaving that way, then that's the case. For that, then we should um the milgram experiment, which is the one where they go and they test people. You know where they tune knobs on the side of it in order to make it so. They electrocute person in the other room, but it turns out to be recording rather than not with it. You know it shows that people were willing to listen to authority for authority's sake.

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But that's only part of the experiment. That's not the only part that's going on there. They'll go all the way to harming each other, harming the other person on the other side, and even all the way up to potentially killing them. It's just a recording. There's not actually anything there. But when there's an example of somebody who refuses to do that, as soon as the participant says I don't consent, I'm not want to be part of this experiment anymore, that there's nothing I want to be part of it. Then it turns out that a lot of other people will stop and around 75 percent of them if everybody serves me correctly will not go to where they harm. They will end it right then and there, once they see an example.

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So courage is absolutely necessary in order to make it so. That way we can change the world and think things differently, and more people need to stand up for it. Hence why I'm putting my work out there. I'm trying to be an example of things that can change and make it so that people don't think that this is the only way that it has to be. And with that I will finish off here.

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This is just supposed to be a short little thing in order to get people to know me a little bit better. If you want to know way more about me, I encourage you to check out a podcast episode on something called the Uzlaga Saga the link will be to that down in the description where I am given a little more than an hour to talk about myself and how other people question me on that particular podcast that are friends of mine, and you can get to learn me on an even deeper level. I want to thank you all for tuning in and I hope you get something from this and understand kind of the point of the channel as a whole. Thank you and have a great day.