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His e-mail includes music, comic, and ENT, and he is definitely, all three of those as I've known him, Reverend Ali Bierman, and I'm really glad you joined us here today for the Lets Get Metaphysical Show, which is all about what do you most love about your life?

What is your priority?

What priority do you want to live?

And that's why this guest today, as I've known him, he is multi-talented, and he's really into whatever he's doing, and that's why he's here helping me, because I just bought a brand new computer, and hopefully the show will come to you.

That's what it's saying, Bla Ze Bey.

Okay.

So, I let him introduce himself to you, and would you please share with us three things that nobody or hardly anybody knows about you?

Yeah.

Greetings, all.

My name is Bla Ze Bey.

You're getting kind of caught up with it, which is funny.

Look, this is what's funny, Ali.

My life is like, there's like bloopers every day in my life.

So, I don't want you like all like, don't even feel bad.

This is the, this is part of being around me.

Weird stuff just happens, trying to get everything together.

But yes, my name is Bla Ze Bey.

I'm so grateful to have met Ali.

I think it's going on like three years now.

We went, that was the wisdom app we met on.

Oh yeah.

And that was, that was quite the experience, meeting her and podcasting at that time.

But, three things about me that nobody would know.

I played the piano.

I haven't played in a while.

I just started playing again.

So I'm like getting back into the groove, but I used to play the piano for my former church when I was going to church.

And just playing by ear, I used to play in the talent show and doing things.

But now I'm writing music, so now I want to get back into playing again.

Another interesting thing most don't know about me, if you've seen me for the first time, I'm a runner.

I started doing, I'm training for a marathon.

I started doing these races in the last six months.

I did a 5K yesterday.

But we can go into that another day, and I can apply metaphysics to that all day.

You see how the video did it there?

He's supposed to do that.

I got it.

It's going to be doing this all throughout the interview.

I'm going to figure it out.

But I got it in the lens.

You're special.

Yeah.

And it seemed like in that, I don't know.

Zoom has changed so much.

It used to just be like, you can click over there, click over there.

I figured this out.

But I started running.

I did two 5Ks.

I did a 5K yesterday.

I ran two 10K races.

I did a half a marathon.

And next month, I'll be doing my first marathon.

So that's that.

Another fact, many don't know about me.

I just got diagnosed with ADHD.

Interesting.

I mean, no, that, I was grateful to, like, hear, like, it's not just me that something else is going on.

So I know, like, right now, you know, everybody's talking about, you know, like ADHD, you know, autism and all of these titles.

For me, I wasn't, I'm not looking, I don't say that, you know, just looking for a title or something to be under, but I've been struggling my whole life, not knowing that it was something else, you know?

And especially for black men, I talk about this because many black men are going through this and don't know it's, everybody's going through it, somebody's going through it, but particularly I'm talking to black men because one, we are taught to just whatever's going on with us, we're taught to just deal with it, you know, deal with your emotions, you won't be crying about nothing and, you know, that could really affect your mental health later on.

And it was really starting, yeah, and it was starting to affect my mental health, like I'm 35 now, but it started to affect my mental health in a way where, I'm sorry, I know I can't be losing my mind, there's gotta be something going on, you know, so yeah, I went and I started going to therapy first, and then through that, I got a diagnosis.

But even with that diagnosis, even with, you know, being tested for ADHD, I'm not so worried about the name, but it does get challenging, and it does help to give a name to something and to start pointing things out, like if I get overwhelmed, or if I get overstimulated, like now I have words that describe certain things that I just, I didn't know, like you don't know what you don't know, you know?

So I say all that to say, like especially my Black men in general, but especially my Black men, if you feel like whatever it is, don't feel like you can't talk to nobody, like you don't have to suffer in silence.

Whatever is going on with your mental health, like go talk to somebody, don't feel like it'll make you less of a man.

It helped me to understand what it means to be a man by going and getting that checked out, you know?

Wow, that was definitely not what I was expecting you to talk about.

That's important.

Whatever message you have is exactly the message you're supposed to share today.

So thank you for doing that.

Was that three things?

Yeah, that's three things.

I think it was.

Yeah, I play piano.

I'm going to start doing piano videos again, the running and, you know, ADHD.

That's exciting.

I lost my piano in one of the moves.

It was our family piano.

Boy, do I miss it.

Boy, do I miss it.

I have a couple of guitars, but it's different.

I can't just sit down and do it well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You just, whatever happens is, I believe, is supposed to happen, and that's not always an easy lesson.

However, now that I'm learning that, it's a whole lot easier to get through my days.

I had a brain injury in 96, and boy, I couldn't even use my eyes.

Everything was so disturbing.

Then after the stroke, the same thing's happening, so a lot of what you described.

I'll be struggling with, because my brain is healing itself, but it's not where I used to be, so I can get confused and overwhelm everything you're talking about.

I'm thinking, I don't understand, how come I can't keep up, and how come I don't understand?

Because I used to, but that doesn't mean that there's anything wrong or bad about it.

It's just part of my journey.

Even as me being diagnosed with ADHD, I know I'm neurodivergent.

I've always been neurodivergent wherever that was.

And I know there was a time, like I could be on the autistic spectrum.

But the thing is, is us being neurodivergent, and those who are neurodivergent, we are some of the most brilliant people in the world.

We've all, some of the most famous people were neurodivergent.

Like Albert Einstein was a neurodivergent, you know.

So many people.

And we're able to do certain things that the average person can't.

And this is not, it's not saying that we're just better or, you know, anything like that.

But when you do have that neurodivergence, you hyperfixate on things, you know.

And you eventually build a relationship with that.

So, like, I was hyperfixated on just music, period.

Vibrations, sounds, I've always been hyperfixated on, you know.

So, when it came to doing music and even playing the piano, like, I can say I was playing the piano before I was actually playing the piano.

Because when I would listen to music, I would listen and I would act like I was playing the piano, you know.

In my head, I was.

So, when it came to playing the piano, it kind of made it easy.

Like, it was still a challenge because you got to practice, practice, practice.

But I already had the movements down because I was doing it before I even touched the piano.

So, you know, we just, we have a relationship to certain things.

We have a relationship, like a hyperfixation with things, and that's how we excel the way we do.

You know, everybody is just different.

Before I had kids, I was a clarinetist.

I wanted to be a professional.

And if I was someplace where I couldn't play, I'd read the music and I'd do exactly what you were just saying.

I'd be doing it in my mind and in my fingers, even if I didn't have an instrument in my hand.

I think a lot of people do that.

Certainly, a lot of creative people.

And mentioning that, it was almost like being in choir.

When I was, I used to be in choir growing up from middle school up into college.

And the things that I started learning about metaphysics, about spirituality, when it comes to breathing, visualization, affirmation, all of these things that you learn on this journey, I started to get that from music first, whether it be singing in choir.

My choir teacher telling us to breathe from the diaphragm.

I got exposed very young, not knowing that that would become some use in my everyday life.

I'm also clairvoyant.

Well, I'm clairvoyant as well.

A part of that was built through my musical training, being in choir, because whichever choir teacher that I had, shout out to all my choir teachers, by the way, all my music teachers.

They gave us visualizations.

My high school teacher, Ms.

Wilcox, she would say like when we're singing certain parts, I can visualize a flower blooming.

She would give us these visualizations.

That's what trained my clairvoyance.

Clair Ardian, being able to hear things and being able to hear music when there's no music playing or being able to hear beyond the normal hearing.

A lot of that was developed in choir and doing music, and those who do music, you understand what I'm talking about.

You know what I'm saying?

It's like you just have a different relationship with sounds.

You hear things that some things you wish you didn't hear.

But a lot of that came through my musical training.

So I'm very grateful for that, because it really laid the foundation for a lot of my spiritual practices and mental practices.

I don't come from a musical family per se, but we loved, like we had to use music for everything, whether it be in church, family gatherings.

You know, it was always some music.

On Sundays, or Saturday, excuse me, Saturday morning, my mom would be playing gospel music, R&B music while we cleaning up, you know.

Music was always playing.

But I started to notice a pattern that certain relatives were actually doing music.

Like I had a, well, I have a cousin who raps.

He's a Christian rapper.

He's been doing music for a while.

And you know, at first I was like, okay, that's cool.

But then I noticed like, okay, then I'm getting into music and rapping, and songwriting.

Then I got another cousin that is in the songwriting and making music, and another cousin and my nephew.

So you got to start paying attention to those little patterns.

There's a musical, music runs in our DNA.

So that's something that I want to pass down to the next generations.

Now that I know that I'm able to see this pattern, that's one of the things like we do music, and it's more than just making music to be famous, or making music to be whatever, it runs in our DNA.

That's how we connect with God.

That's how we connect with life is through music.

The universe is making a song right now.

So it's like doing music that also connects you, it connects you with nature, because nature moves in a rhythm, and the cosmos moves in a rhythm.

So that connects you on all those different levels.

So that's something that I'm, music is always going to be involved in some way.

And I'm gonna teach my nephews and my niece, and if I have children, they're gonna know the importance of music as well, not just to listen to it.

I'm listening to you, and my mom, well, she had four sisters and a brother.

My mom was the only one musical, and she'd sing and dance.

None of my cousins, none of my other aunts, uncle, nobody.

Because I hear how you say it runs through your family.

It didn't run through my family.

Nobody else was in the music.

Just interesting.

Those are like those little inherit, we talk about inheritances.

Things pass down, we think it's just money or inheriting land.

No, we inherit talents and spiritual gifts.

I know the artistic part, I've inherited that from my mom because she's an artist.

She doesn't sing, but she's a spread artist.

The arts, that is something that just runs in the family.

I see it as an inheritance because it's a blessing, because it's opened up so many doors for them.

Yeah, that's one of them things.

I'm going to continue to pass down.

I'm understanding why I'm so crazy about you, even though I hardly ever connect because that's how it was in my family.

My father was so gifted everything, and I can just do things.

He could build, he create, he could design, had a gorgeous voice.

He was an artist and I didn't know until later after he was gone.

In his scraps, I saw pictures that he was drawing and designing.

I didn't know all the stuff he designed and built.

I designed and built.

The builder.

Yeah, I built furniture.

If I want to know how to do something, he died when I was really young.

It's not like I had a conscious teacher, but I just know how to do things.

Everything that you're describing, I just know how to do it.

Those are inheritances.

A lot of times is we have to go through things in life for us to really activate those inheritances.

Especially neurodivergence, but anybody with those talents, there's some point in your life where you have to go through something that makes your talent, that actually makes sense.

Like some people, they know when they're a child, oh, I was meant to be a singer, or I was meant to do that.

Some people, that happens later in life, but there's always something that you have to go through.

It's like it's not easy.

It's like that's the trade-off.

You have to go through something.

Some people come from broken homes, they go through some type of drug addiction or some type of abuse.

It's like that's what make, even though it's tragic for anyone to go through that, you have to go through something for you to activate that gifts.

I hear what you're saying.

Yeah, if you look at all the leaders in whatever field, it's exactly what you're saying.

They had some kind of nature.

It sounds crazy.

That's the alchemy.

We have all of these talents.

We do so many things.

It's hard for me to just shoot, just to say that I'm one thing.

I love comedy.

I like to write, but I'm not religiously doing these things, which if I was, I'd probably be somewhere else with it.

But with music, oh, it's alchemy.

Everybody's alchemy is different.

If I could just say something, instead of just saying I'm a rapper, a musician, this or that, I'm alchemist.

It's every time you're playing something, every time you're writing, you're making a joke.

Even us having this conversation right now is alchemy, happening in real time.

I'm an alchemist and I can prove that.

I'm with a part of a music team.

It's me, Bla Ze Bey, Vinnie Crew, and Love Ego.

These are two artists that I've met here in Beloit, Wisconsin, and we've been, they're some rapper rappers.

I just started rapping back in 2019.

I'm a songwriter, but after I started working with them, that's when I became an artist.

I was just writing songs.

I wasn't trying to be on stage.

I'm shy.

I'm always trying to be in the background, but the way life works, if you're supposed to be on stage, in front and center, that's what's going to happen.

But being around them has helped me to become a better artist in general, because they are serious about their craft.

When you hear them, they are rappers.

You know when you can hear somebody singing and somebody singing, or somebody rapping, like they some rappers.

So they helped me build confidence in my craft.

So we released a song called Better Days, and what I love about Better Days is it's got a gospel feel to it.

I grew up in the church.

I'm not religious no more, but that soul that I was around in church, you know, that spirit is still with me, and I still, you can still feel that in whatever it is that I'm doing.

So I love that it's just a feel good song.

We wrote it back in 2022, and when you hear it, you wouldn't have known, because it speaks through all timelines.

You know, it speaks for every generation.

Every time I talk to you, you have a different focus.

So, yeah, I'm waiting for you.

Yes, it's always something different.

That's how the spirit moves with me, you know.

And I used to feel bad for that, Ali, because I was like, why can't I just focus on one thing?

Why can't I?

It's like my focus will be here, and then my focus is here.

In a lot of ways, you know, you need focus on one thing.

But sometimes, you're not like, I'm not supposed to be stuck in one area.

You know, like right now, my focus has been running.

But it will go, you know, it's knowing where to put your focus and to put that energy.

But it's all using that same spirit.

Like it don't matter what I'm doing, what genre I'm doing, where I am, you're going to know it's me.

You know what I'm saying?

It's not me trying to be something that I'm not, not me trying to be better because like even some of the music, it might not be like the rest of the music, whether it might not be like the rest of the music that's popping, but it's me, you're getting me.

You know what I'm saying?

It's like just don't matter what it is that I'm doing, I want you to feel my vibration.

You're going to feel the vibration of Bla Ze Bey.

I feel it all the time.

That's why I love doing everything with you.

Because there's no such thing as time or distance.

I feel it strongly from you.

For those of you who are just listening, you might want to go over to YouTube.

The link in the description where they can go stream the song.

It's one of those, it's the feel good song.

What I like about it is, it's three different artists.

We have three different things going on, but yet we all three are looking for better days.

You know what I'm saying?

We all on that same page, in our own different world.

I like that.

The most fun I ever had in a service was, I think it was Southern Christian.

It was a Baptist wedding, and the place was rocking, and it was so much fun.

I love gospel music, even though I'm not religious anymore.

But gospel music, I still listen to my gospel music, because my ancestors were in the church, and they loved gospel.

So that's still a part of me.

And gospel is alchemy.

Gospel is alchemy in music.

We had, like you said, listening to those songs that might have been, like you said, minor keys, might have been monotone.

And then to take that and to put that up with a certain feeling, you know, like a certain, like let's say with Christian or with Catholic hymns.

And let's take like, let's say a person who has been enslaved, and they then lost somebody, or they're going through some type of anguish.

And they put that into, they're singing that hymn with that anguish, with that anguish.

It creates, there's alchemy taking place right there.

You know?

So it's like when you hear Baptist music, or especially Black Gospel music, that is a sacred science.

That's not just the genre.

That is a sacred science of healing, of changing your vibration.

When they change the key, when you change, one thing I like in Gospel is when they are modulating the keys, you're also changing your vibration too.

So it's like, as you're going higher, it's like symbolically, you get into heaven.

You know, that changes your vibration.

It's healed.

Well, this is cool.

I'm just so glad I'm with you today and you're sharing all this stuff.

Because the whole point is, you love this.

It shows who you are.

And that's the whole point of our show.

If you're not living what you really love, you're wasting your life, in my opinion.

And to show the love.

There's love right there.

Love.

What is it about?

For those of you listening, and if you haven't already done it, go ahead and get, it's a very short, I guess you could call it a book, your first steps on your spiritual path, because it will fit right with everything you've been learning from Bla Ze today.

And just give you another way of looking at your life and your world.

And that link will definitely be in the show notes.

And also, always remember that Audible has a gift for you.

So if you follow that link, you get to have 30 holidays to explore in Audible.

And there's a whole lot there.

It's not just Audible books.

Please check out everything that you've heard today and whatever links that we're putting in there, because it can move your head to a different space.

And it starts with a thought.

And then we put our feelings in it.

And if your life isn't terrific, if it doesn't feel good, nobody's doing that to you.

You're doing that to you.

And you get to change it.

You have to make the conscious decision to do that, though.

Thank you again for joining us here today.

Again, I am Reverend Ali Bierman.

This is Let's Get Metaphysical Show.

Remember to enjoy.

That's capital I-N, capital J-O-Y, every moment, because nothing in your life happens outside of you.

Everything happens with N.

I look forward to being here with you next time.