Alexander Matos and Brenda Ford

00:01 My name is Brandon or back Ford. I'm 45 years old. Today is August 30th 2016. We are here at the Atlanta History Center, and I'm with my new friend Alexander.

00:16 Hello, my name is Alexander Matos on 25. Today is August 30th 2016. We are here at Atlanta, Georgia.

00:28 Delete the history museum and I'm sitting across from my wonderful new friend Brenda. I'd like you to tell me a little bit about your background who is Alexander.

00:46 In in short Alexander is a

00:50 Young public speaker who spends a lot of time traveling and volunteering. I have actually volunteered for a number of different organizations over the course of the last last couple years including but not limited to tedx Nave sink tedxpittsburgh tedxcambridge. The shirt that I'm wearing right now is actually from new Peaks. Then it says I love my life and actually on the back that says she Heartbreakers new Peaks things like the 99u conference. And remember when the pope was in Philadelphia. Yeah. I was a volunteer Captain up there as well. So I spent a lot of my time volunteering actually this this last Sunday I missed a volunteer volunteer community that I usually go to which is known as food not bombs. They specialize in bringing

01:45 Food that would otherwise be thrown out to the community which to me is like a central to like my life's Mission. I believe that free food free energy and Free Housing is possible with the technology. That is a lot of to us today and I feel that

02:04 The free market Enterprise that America was established as makes it possible for those things to get disseminated into the world. However, because we still live in a very egoic form of capitalism, which borders on feudalism. I feel that in some cases those Technologies or the or the stand which would make those things possible off and you didn't come from it started when

02:38 I was a kid and it's going to be it's going to be a long stretch.

02:47 CI I've always been you know, if you talk to me today, you know, my friends always know me as they don't have Alexander's always happy boy. But you know today I even still work behind a cash register up it Cost Plus World Market in New Jersey and if you come up to my register though, you can ask me out. Hey, how are you? And I'll say I'm absolutely ecstatic is always well where that comes from is the idea that our thoughts create our reality and as a kid as I developed that understanding that it was quite a reality. I realized that

03:27 I had to or I I felt I had to look into alleviating people suffering at something that I want to do as a kid and then some reason why wouldn't you I want to graduate high school ended up going into college and studying psychology and flunking out because it turns out that wasn't the best way to help people in my eyes and

03:53 How do I how do I put this? I'm sorry? I'm a little bit little nervous still.

04:00 But how

04:05 Sorry still talk nervous. I don't know why.

04:10 But in short

04:14 I felt that if that were true if our thoughts really do create a reality then it is.

04:22 My mission in life to make sure that we are learning how to get food out to the public quickly learning how to create new forms of Easley harness energy that can be free and also that I had to find a way to make housing for the housing thing is actually a much harder thing to do then the other two simply because if you look at all three of those categories, they are someone's piggy bank is really what a ball down to all of those things are assets and to Define asset very simply an asset is something that puts money into your pocket passively you don't have to necessarily be there for and at the end of day people will always need some place to live people will always need some form of light energy War.

05:22 And people will always need food. So to provide those things for free is is ultimately to destroy someone's asset and that's the that's the

05:37 It's not so much a danger, but it's that it's the obstacle if you if you tell someone hey, do you know that thing that you do for a living we're going to shut that down so we can move on this free system. So that more money can be focused on other things like newer types of research or anything like that or I'm allowing people to live more opulent lives there not be too happy about that that I can understand that.

06:06 Because if you look at look at energy energy someone's 1.6 trillion-dollar piggy bank. Look at housing.

06:15 Housing is

06:17 You know, we we have laws that measure down. I mean like now we're going to the point where we actually measuring air space where we can actually rent airspace which I think is really cool because it's cool and kind of kind of sad because if somebody builds like let's say someone's building a skyscraper and I buy the airspace above their skyscraper. If they build up past that point I can charge eventually rent for that space where I can lease out that space that are spaced to them to allow them to build higher but so long as the building stand at that height. I I like money which I think it's really stupid because I think it's like super-ego

07:04 But

07:07 Backtracking a lot of bit

07:15 I guess.

07:18 It would start with where do you want to know? Cuz I know I know I've probably lost lost lost lost a lot of lot of people at this point. So a lot of energy to to to make these ideas come to fruition, but when you get when you're talking about our thoughts are capable of becoming our reality if I'm thinking that I'm hungry and I need a meal so that's my thought. How are you? How is how is Alexander going to help make that a reality for me at the end of the day?

08:00 When you're when you're hungry or let's say you're you're having a response that a response to your body cuz your body's telling you that you need energy you need you need food. And your immediate thought is I have to get it.

08:16 There's a whole idea that you have to grow it and there's a whole idea that you have to do it. But at the end of the day, the font is the inertia is the energy is the movement inside our bodies before we move the rest of our bodies to get that which we want to make things a little bit clearer I suppose.

08:43 When I was younger.

08:47 I went from public school to private school back public school to another private school. And this was very taxing on my psyche and for a large majority of my childhood. I was as very very miserable. It's because when we were doing going to public school is because we need to be mean to be rolled and rolled in school. That was really it but my parents my both my parents being very religious. They want to make sure that I was going to school. Not only

09:26 Had an outstanding academic curriculum also instilled morals in US

09:33 And

09:35 Despite living in Matawan New Jersey. There was this great Christian Academy known as Metuchen Christian Academy, which was roughly about an hour away from our house to stay put create a perspective on our way for a house now because an hour away there was no bus system or anything to come pick us up. So we had to be driven there my dad being an accountant working for Mackenzie up in New York City didn't have didn't really have the time to drop us off and my mom in order to have the lifestyle that we had because you know why my family was bring tools do a six-figure income in the house of the time in order to make sure that we get in public school and maintain the lifestyle that we had. My mom would work from Night Shift graveyard.

10:24 So it was it was passing on her so she would go from Night Shift to graveyard. Come home pick us up and drop sorry and drive an hour just to make sure that we were that we were we were in the right school and you say we how many brothers and sisters are we talking about one other siblings and it was so funny because you know as a kid, I didn't realize all the hard work that my mom really like my my mom and my dad both put in and omigod when I when I think about the hardware they put in for us, it's astronomical, you know, I always make this joke with my friend that I have the best parents in the world and that the ones best suited for me literally V.

11:19 But anyway, so we ended up having to be pulled out of that school now at that school. I felt really safe because I was in a place where we were always we are always taxed. We're always make sure that we were challenged in some way people were really nice and at the time I guess I had this form of synesthesia because I couldn't separate

11:49 A uniform from a perceived series morals

11:53 Now when I got transferred from there to my to my public school again back it back in Strathmore. I had this slight superiority complex and I literally thought I was better than everyone and Rawlinson purposes intellectually. Not not not Valley for Valley, but intellectually I was because when I was going to the other private school, their first grade was the equivalent of most people's 3rd grade by the time we got to third grade. We were already touching on.

12:33 Integrated histories and we were already we had already started learning some basic Latin. We are staying in Hebrew and all the other crazy stuff when people were just starting to learn their times tables. We were beginning to work on Geometry things like that and

12:51 I ended up going back to the Strathmore and you know, I got needle I had this this I get him better and you know, which really isn't at all but it was Inseparable from me. And at that time I was a little of doing little agitated because at a Christian you learn that, you know, Tom you treat others the way you want to be treated that you make sure that your

13:24 You're upholding upholding the rules at all cost that you make sure that you're always being friendly Inn on your best behavior and sex was just something you just didn't talk about and here I come back strap more than you know, what the third grade they're already making sex jokes, and I'm like, okay and to me that was it was it was something completely abhorrent it was just disgusting thankfully much humor, you know, but at the time it was it was like his third grade. You don't know you don't make those kind of jokes. So I literally separated myself from these people that I used to. Do. You know who I associate very easily with and I felt like a fish taken out of water my depression really hit when I ended up going into now I went from

14:12 A Christian School to a private story of Christians Christian private school to back to the public school. And then from there I was transferred to a Catholic private school. There are distinct differences between a Christian School which is non-denominational and accepts all the nominations and a Catholic School which is a single denomination and also

14:35 What I didn't understand the time is when I was transferred over to the other private school. I saw everybody in the uniform. I was like, oh my God, they were once again back back in my try back in this, you know, these people that think like me that act like me and I didn't understand this little thing called geography because it just happens to be right up the road and I was really really excited for about 3 days until in 4th grade. I'm I'll never forget I was sitting next to a gentleman named Billy on him and he asked me if he asked me the same exact joke. Sofia asked me at Strathmore and do sit there be like. Hey you eat your sausage you play with a yo-yo man, and I was like,

15:18 Jordan uniform you don't make those kinds of jokes and remember my teacher walking by me and at that moment I said, I'm surrounded by idiots. She looked at me and said what did you say and you know being a good Christian Student. I was like, oh honesty is the best policy. I'm sorry. I said that I'm surrounded by idiots might not be the best and at that point I slipped into this depression, which I could not describe I wasn't able to articulate it at the time, but it was just so challenging to me to think that if people looked a certain way that they didn't hold a certain demeanor hold a series of beliefs.

16:04 And it was very very difficult for me and the only friend I really had was my sibling and The Game Boy that you know, thank God for video games right now.

16:19 And what ended up happening?

16:23 Was at the eighth grade.

16:27 When we were graduating we had this form to fill out and it was who had the Best Buy's who had you know, the best hair who was most likely to succeed who's going to become a goofball who is going to be late graduation All That Jazz and I remember sitting in class Run Angry as hell and I'm like, I don't care about this. I don't even know who's going to who who on Earth, you know who on Earth would I would I even put in these categories? I don't know any of you and I remember my teacher looking distinctly at me and she goes Alexander if

17:02 You are sorry. She goes if you spent the last.

17:06 Six years with these with the students and if you don't know the course of 6 years who has what qualities.

17:16 You have very sad and lonely future ahead of you.

17:22 And at that moment kind of hit me.

17:25 Wish you right?

17:28 And I I didn't know how to cope with it. I ended up coming home. Now. I was I was looking a little bit and tears. My mom asked me like what's wrong what's wrong? And she she knew from month. There was something wrong but you know, I could never articulated Matt day. I was like, I don't understand why I don't have any friends like and I don't understand why I hate people and I literally hated people like like literally hate it when people like I don't know why I do that and my mom goes, you know, she looks me.

18:01 She says

18:02 I don't mean understand everything that's going on with you.

18:07 I'm not going to tend to.

18:10 However

18:13 I do know this.

18:15 In order to have a friend. You must first be a friend.

18:22 That was my first introduction to how our thoughts create a reality because at that moment light went on in my head realizing that holy snap. Am I the core of the very problem which I'm experiencing and I realized that the answer was inevitably. Yes. The answer was clearly asked because I realized I didn't have any friends and if there are more than 30 people in one classroom in their four of us, this force was 120 something of it. That means that hundred and twenty times, denominator is what me

19:05 So I was like, okay. So I mean we sat down for the computer and begin typing out a letter which was both an apology as well as the realization that I guess you can say that started my career in public speaking as well because I asked the next day to to go reading from the class the night. I was writing it. My mom was looking at me confused. Like why where you going to write that now now that it no longer matters and I'm like, it's not it's not about them. It's about me.

19:36 It's about how how I treated them how and how I'm treating myself in this process?

19:44 Soy

19:47 That was that was my first instant about how our thoughts create our reality and it would later blossom into something a lot more and it really well. I really want to touch on it again till after I dropped out of dropped out of college.

20:08 At the age of 20 is 20 between 20 and 22 is when

20:17 I stopped studying psychology because I realized I realized that I've always wanted to help people after the after that point in the 8th grade. I was like, I always want to help people and I felt that in Psychology. I would be able to help people with their thinking their emotional problems. And I knew that people must have emotional problems cuz I had emotional problems and I need someone to help me with my thinking and all it took is someone saying the right things at the right time, you know, and

20:50 If I could help people in that way help them with their Consciousness help them with their thinking with a pattern that makes them pattern that really makes themselves miserable.

21:02 I could change just about anything when I started setting cycle on a psychological theory and realizing that psychologists. I really got the stigma of all your fake doctor and psychiatrists were always prescribing medication. Which only math the problem is like this is not what I want to do but somewhere and here's what I'm looking for.

21:28 So I end up.

21:30 Ended up

21:32 Staying home for a long. Of that time and I did a little bit of traveling and I went to London with Paris is fine, but my mom is great, but my mom ended up pulling in.

21:47 All these like documentaries and things like that at the time everything for my permaculture to food to you know.

21:57 To this one thing called the secret and it talks it talks about how our thoughts create our reality impossible blah blah blah and at the time I was like

22:09 I was I was equally as skeptical as I was shocked like in shock about it and I look to my parents and wondered what they think. My mom said they're my mom's a biochemist to Mom. Look at that and she goes I wish I could believe this is true.

22:25 But you need to concrete data and my dad being an accountant or sure that what?

22:34 But

22:36 As I I spent time thinking about it, it it bothered me more and more like is that is that true? Is that true? And if if it is true, how would I prove it might my proof to my proof of my eyes is like if I could prove it to Mom and Dad or at least explain it in the way that they could go I get that.

22:57 Then be worthwhile for me.

23:00 So I began doing my research during that time. I came across great thinkers. Like dr. Wayne Dyer Deepak Chopra, you look at people like Bob Proctor and yada yada yada, but I was always interested. Okay, this is great the theories and what not. But where is the where's the where's the evidence? And where is it in Biochemistry? And what what is actually if our thoughts really do a tractor reality to us? What is actually doing it? And that's when I came across thinkers like Daniel G Amon and

23:38 And Amy, Cuddy

23:40 And I'm still standing by the work and one day I came home. I was like Mom and Dad. I need to take a seat. I need to explain something to you and everything. I explained to them explain Kaufman right now. Sorry.

23:58 When I say ha I thought Creer reality many people ask a question as you did before like how did that really happen though? Like come on, you know, you know will first we have to take the understanding of what a thought is. So what's a thought?

24:12 Something that happens in my head more scientific sense. What the thought?

24:20 I guess it's energy incense. It is an energy. What what type of energy is the question? So to boil it down a little bit further. Let's get a concrete definition for what a thought is font is an idea memory action or reaction that is willing in our brain that gets communicated effectively through a circuit what circuit we could communicate Warner Robins now to break down to break down a little bit more than she was before an idea ever play Tetris or a Rubik's Cube and you're sitting there fiddling with it you get frustrated with that you put it down to like no and then or ever build like a hundred piece puzzle and you eats just can't figure out the last six pieces always the last six pieces and you walk away and you nose while your grocery shopping while you're talking to a friend adjust.

25:13 Flares up your head like a I know how to figure this out and you can't wait to get back home just to put those pieces together. That's an idea a memory. Let's say we walk into let's say we walking to JCPenney, you know, and there's There's a Wocket. She spent at Nordstrom the four month does the whatever that would have the helicopter come in like, oh my goodness come smell this perfume and they spray that and what ends up happening is you smell that perfume you like. That's the same exact thing. My grandmother wore instantly. You have not not only do you start with calling the memory at the perfume. You start recalling the last word. She said to you the touch foreskin the last food that she made maybe some powerful words made the last moment. She saw her face. I know you remember all those things. That's what happens in memory and action.

26:09 Natural imagine light. Let's go back to the hunger example that you're hungry and you know, you're finally getting home and you know, either you sign your daughter or your husband or maybe your mother is already making a fresh batch of cookies to surprise you and you smell that Aroma just comes through your nose and flares up in the doll factory senses and you walk in you start salivating all this is being communicated through what is being communicated to on neurons. And what is actually happening. It's a force that's being weld up in the Bering nucleus some some scientists just the nucleus some scientists suggest that if it's just spontaneous. It just happens. I'm going to say that it will depend on the police because I personally believe it has to come from somewhere and to explain the Ethereal Aura of snow are all that is energy is going to be a little bit of a long process goes down the actual action of the cell and gets fired in the neural sin.

27:09 What is being fired in neural synapse? How does it communicate with the next neuron?

27:19 Seems like it has to create like a small explosion in order to set like to touch the next door on like actually happening is a biochemical reaction which allows for the transfer of data on that data gets transferred much like in a computer circuit does it fires through an electro-magnetic pulse? That's what's fascinating. This is why you can go get MRIs and then this is why even when you're talkin about the neurons around your heart and would you go get you get an electrocardiogram you get an EKG that's check and checking the electromagnetic firing around the neurons your heart's not this was fascinated. This is this is literally what's going on. If you remember from chemistry that every single atom every single atomic structure naturally has an electromagnetic vibration few were literally attracting the reality of the world around you to you through your thoughts now for a lot of people that isn't enough because things get to ethereal. So what ends up happening

28:19 It's not just one or two neurons communicating. It's a whole series of neurons you ever remember being in literature or writing your complex writing classes and they said brainstorm. Well, that's a literal, It's the little concept of brainstorming and what ends up happening when wood brainstorm is every single thought that we have. Will there be an action-reaction memory or idea end up going down to the very center of Olympic brain know? What is the limbic brain responsible for this is what's confusing and so it goes down to the very center of a limbic brain which is responsible for all of our emotional chemical responses such as the feelings of Happiness, which most you which most most biochemist in psychologist and agreed today that it's majorly not only but majorly caused by serotonin and dopamine stress levels are linked to cortisol and hydrate.

29:19 As well as functions of are testosterone and estrogen.

29:26 So what ended up happening is?

29:31 As we're sitting there thinking thoughts and it's thinking thoughts consistently we are literally if you don't agree that we're creating the reality and drawing it to us. We are in essence creating the very fabric of our own bodies because we're becoming overtime as we introduce a set phone to ourselves again and again and again and again, we will actually be coming biochemically addicted to the way which we think

29:59 And this is not explained in in I understand why this is an explain in like Highschool how we think because that that is that is critical thinking because the end of the day

30:13 If you read books like The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle he talks about how you know, there is a misquote in human history that says, you know, I think therefore I am which is which is an accurate and for me that was like what you mean if I think therefore I am that this probably truth and the fact of the matter is everyone thinks animal stink, except if we consider the fact that when we grow up in a set environment, we are kind of programmed. Why do we know the language that we know? It's programming because our parents teach it to us would like the food that we like programming why we look like our parents genetic programming. And so essentially if your programs to think the way you think thinking is not

31:00 Existing

31:02 So what is it's choosing? This is why meditation is so fundamentally important because our thoughts are inevitably creating our reality except if we're not controlling or observing our thoughts and how they're affecting us.

31:20 Then we end up recreating a life that may or may not be the one that serves us the most a little bit of time and I I could talk to you for hours, but just it to sum up. What can we expect from you just in a few last words. What is your future? What is your reality right now working? Like I said, I'm working on bringing free food free energy and free pallets are free free energy in Free Housing the world. We housing seems to be a very it's a hard one to kind of do free energy is much easier to do things to a mixture of if you ever get the chance to watch a movie known as documentary actually called billions in change there is there's actually essentially what would be a stationary bike that allows you to generate energy after like two hours of peddling you have 24 hours energy. So you mix the mix that solar solar win.

32:20 And kinetic energy and you have pretty much free energy in which to me. It is strange that people aren't investing more in it. If you look at if you look at Germany right now, they're investing completely in solar energy there people who still argued that well in the winter time than I can produce as much simply because the sun's going to be not going to be out as much and I'm like, that's that may be true. But this is why I store batteries have to be on a mortgage. You are a talker on a roll I'm in and I'm going to pay attention to to where you're headed with your future cuz I think you have many of cool things to teach us. Thank you so much Alexander driving from, New Jersey to Atlanta stop. Thank you.