Conscious Rebels Podcast by Caitlin Mjelde & Paul Davis

Caitlin Mjelde & Paul Davis
  • 4.3 (11)
  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Updated Weekly

The Conscious Rebels Podcast digs into the hidden systems shaping your mind, your money, your health, and your beliefs. If you’re waking up, questioning everything, and craving real freedom, this is your space. www.thecaitawakening.com

  1. 2d ago

    Conscious Rebels Podcast: Hijacking Jesus Part 2

    Paul and Caitlin build their case against the Apostle Paul using his own words. In Galatians 1, Paul openly admits he never met Jesus, never sat under his teaching, and never learned from the actual apostles, he says his gospel came entirely from a personal, private revelation that no one else witnessed or could corroborate. He even calls it “my gospel,” twice, in his own letters. As Paul Davis puts it from his legal background: this wouldn’t hold up in any court. You can’t be the sole witness to your own vision and call it evidence. The episode traces what happened next: Paul spent three years in the wilderness before ever meeting the Jerusalem apostles, then publicly rebuked Peter to his face in Galatians 2, the opposite of the private conflict-resolution process Jesus taught in Matthew 18. Paul and Caitlin compare Paul’s claimed visions to other historical figures who claimed private revelation from God (Joseph Smith, Muhammad, David Koresh, Jim Jones) and ask why Paul’s version gets treated as beyond question. They also dig into the forgery problem: 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus almost certainly weren’t written by Paul at all, and no author of the New Testament was likely someone who actually knew Jesus. The conversation lands on how this “hijacking” became official doctrine: the split between the original Nazarene/Ebionite Jesus movement and Paul’s gospel, and how Constantine and Eusebius chose Paul’s theology at the Council of Nicaea, not because it was true, but because it was useful for consolidating the Roman Empire. Anyone who disagreed was declared a heretic once Christianity became Rome’s official state religion under Theodosius. This is Part 2 of the Hijacking Jesus series. Catch Part 1 for how the original Essene and Nazarene movement Jesus came from got buried in the first place. PS — You can join our Deconstruction Circle weekly inside Conscious Rebels Network. Join or learn more here. Follow Caitlin on: Instagram TikTok Follow Paul on: Instagram TikTok Get full access to My Countercultural Life at www.thecaitawakening.com/subscribe

    Conscious Rebels Podcast: Hijacking Jesus Part 2

  2. Aug 9

    Conscious Rebels Podcast: Hijacking Jesus, Part One

    How did a message about loving your neighbor turn into a religion built on blood, fear, and eternal torment? In this episode, Paul and Caitlin trace the actual history of how Jesus's teaching got hijacked, starting six centuries before Jesus was even born.They go back to the Babylonian captivity (Jeremiah 8:8, "the lying pen of the scribes made God's law into a lie") and show how Israel's priests absorbed blood atonement theology from Babylonian and Sumerian mystery religions, turning a simple law into 613 burdensome commandments no one could actually follow. From there, they trace the rise of the Essenes and Nazarenes, the Jewish mystics who rejected blood sacrifice and believed the law was really just "love your neighbor as yourself," and the movement Jesus and John the Baptist came out of.Paul and Caitlin also dismantle the doctrine of hell, showing that "eternal conscious torment" isn't in the Old Testament at all, and take apart the Apostle Paul's argument in Romans 3 that "no one is righteous," revealing the specific Old Testament passages Paul left out that call Abraham, Job, Zechariah, and Elizabeth righteous. They connect all of this to the psychological toll institutional Christianity takes today: shame, hypervigilance, and a narcissistic-abuse-style pattern of dangling an unreachable ideal to keep people compliant.This is Part 1 of a series unpacking exactly how Jesus's original message was hijacked, and what it actually said before it was rewritten. PS — You can join our Deconstruction Circle weekly inside Conscious Rebels Network. Join or learn more here. Follow Caitlin on: Instagram TikTok Follow Paul on: Instagram TikTok Get full access to My Countercultural Life at www.thecaitawakening.com/subscribe

    Conscious Rebels Podcast: Hijacking Jesus, Part One

  3. Aug 6

    Masculine Containment, Religious Conditioning, and What Men Were Never Taught with Alex Charfen

    Caitlin sits down with Alex Charfen, founder of The Brotherhood Society and creator of the concept of masculine containment, for a conversation that goes way beyond relationship advice. Alex has been working with men online since 2007 and spent years studying why the same patterns keep showing up in relationship after relationship regardless of who either partner is. What he found is that most men were never given an actual initiation into how to lead themselves, and that religion, conditioning, and childhood wounding filled that gap with something that looks like leadership but produces the opposite. The conversation covers the trigger, escalation, rupture, withdraw, repair cycle that shows up in almost every relationship and why repair is the wrong thing to focus on. What masculine containment actually means and why it has nothing to do with dominance over anyone else. Why men who stop reacting and start regulating often find that everything in their lives, including their businesses, changes dramatically. The role obligation sex plays in destroying intimacy and how so much of what religion teaches men about their wives is producing the exact opposite of what they actually want. Caitlin brings her own lens to all of it, including how Christianity trained her to elevate men at her own expense, what it looks like to finally stop doing that, and how this connects to everything she is exploring in Mental Hell, her documentary on the link between evangelical Christianity and mental health. Find Alex: The Brotherhood Society: https://thebrotherhoodsociety.com Masculine Containment: https://masculinecontainment.com Follow Caitlin on Instagram and TikTok @thecaitawakening for more conversations like this one. PS —If this conversation resonated, Conscious Rebels Network is where we go deeper on all of it. Live calls, a weekly Deconstruction Circle with Paul Davis, and a private community of people who are done going back to sleep. Learn more here. Get full access to My Countercultural Life at www.thecaitawakening.com/subscribe

    Masculine Containment, Religious Conditioning, and What Men Were Never Taught with Alex Charfen

  4. Aug 2

    Conscious Rebels Podcast: Jesus Never Taught Blood Atonement

    Christians have three go-to verses they use to prove Jesus died to satisfy God's anger. In this episode, Paul and Caitlin go through each one and show that none of them say what you've been told.They break down "a ransom for many," the "blood of my covenant" line from Matthew, and the go-to Old Testament prophecy in Isaiah 53, reading each one in its original context instead of the version you heard in church. Paul, a former attorney, calls this what it actually is: proof-texting, pulling a line out of context to build a case it was never meant to support.The conversation also gets into how the virgin birth prophecy in Isaiah 7 has nothing to do with a virgin or a coming Messiah, why nobody actually knows who wrote the Gospels, and how the New Testament canon was chosen based on whether a book matched existing orthodoxy, not whether it was true. Paul and Caitlin connect all of this back to Jesus's actual mission: not to satisfy an angry God with blood, but to expose and dismantle a corrupt religious system.Plus: an update on their upcoming documentary, Mental Hell, and details on their new weekly gathering, Deconstruction Circle, happening Wednesday nights. PS — You can join our Deconstruction Circle weekly inside Conscious Rebels Network. Join or learn more here. Follow Caitlin on: Instagram TikTok Follow Paul on: Instagram TikTok Get full access to My Countercultural Life at www.thecaitawakening.com/subscribe

    Conscious Rebels Podcast: Jesus Never Taught Blood Atonement

  5. Jul 26

    Jesus Did Not Die For Your Sins

    In this episode, Paul and Caitlin tackle a question straight from their social media comments: if the kingdom of God is already here, why did Jesus have to die and leave us? The conversation unpacks what oneness with God actually means, why Jesus rebelled against the temple's blood sacrifice system, and why the "good news" institutional Christianity preaches isn't the good news Jesus came to bring. Plus: the mysterious lost Q source, why the Gospel of Thomas reveals a completely different side of Jesus, and why sin might not mean what you were taught. PS — Caitlin and Paul host a Deconstruction Circle weekly inside Conscious Rebels Network. Join or learn more here. Follow Caitlin on: Instagram TikTok Follow Paul on: Instagram TikTok Get full access to My Countercultural Life at www.thecaitawakening.com/subscribe

    Jesus Did Not Die For Your Sins

  6. Jul 19

    Deconstruction, Toxic Religion, and Coming Home to Yourself

    In this episode, I sat down with Kam Snow, a recovering Christian entrepreneur, content creator, and someone who spent six years working in politics before moving into coaching and marketing. He is in the middle of one of the most honest seasons of his life. The conversation goes deep on what deconstruction actually costs. The identity. The certainty. The community. The belief that your desires can be trusted. We also get into the Heidelberg Catechism, Martin Luther and the Peasants War, the prodigal son as the actual gospel Jesus was preaching, why evangelical Christianity fundamentally erases women, and what it means to deconstruct not just religion but politics, identity, marriage, and everything else that gets built on top of a foundation you were never actually given a choice about. Find Kam: TikTok: @kameronsnow Substack: The Recovering Christian Entrepreneur Facebook: /kameron.snow PS — If this conversation resonates, you should know that I’m currently producing a documentary called Mental Hell exploring the link between American evangelical Christianity and mental health. Follow @mentalhellfilm on Instagram and TikTok for updates as filming continues. Get full access to My Countercultural Life at www.thecaitawakening.com/subscribe

    Deconstruction, Toxic Religion, and Coming Home to Yourself

  7. Apr 12

    You Are Not Your Programming ft. Rob Pikula

    This week Caitlin sits down with Rob Pikula, Conscious Alchemist Coach, medical and Reiki master, author, and someone who has spent over two decades doing the kind of deep spiritual work most people never go near. Rob’s awakening started long before his heart attack six years ago, but that experience cracked something open in a new way, exposing the limits of conventional medicine and sending him deeper into energy healing, past life regression, astral travel, and learning to work with the different energies and entities that move through us. In this conversation they get into the programming installed in us from family, religion, and society before we’re old enough to question it, what it actually looks like to alchemize dark experiences into something that serves your growth, and why the work we do on ourselves is never just for ourselves. Caitlin also gets real about her own recent journey and what it revealed about the ways she had been unknowingly holding herself back from showing up fully in the world. This one went places neither of them planned. The best ones always do. 🙏 Connect with Rob: 🌐 consciousalchemistcoach.com Want to be in the room for the full conversation including the exclusive member Q&A that never gets posted publicly? That’s what Conscious Rebels Network is. [Join Conscious Rebels Network] Get full access to My Countercultural Life at www.thecaitawakening.com/subscribe

    You Are Not Your Programming ft. Rob Pikula

  8. Mar 15

    Deconstructing Everything with Steven Francisci

    Steven Francisci, U.S. Navy veteran, author, and founder of Healing Roots On Up, joins Caitlin for a conversation about what it actually looks like to deconstruct everything you were handed and rebuild yourself from scratch. They get into how fear of hell pulled Steven into evangelical Christianity after the military, how that framework quietly stunts your growth, his experience with hospitalization and being cycled through psychiatric medications, and the healing modalities that actually moved the needle for him. They also talk about outgrowing your community after deconstruction, the grief that comes with it, and why pulling away from people who no longer resonate isn’t something to feel guilty about. Want to hear what happened after we stopped recording? Members of Conscious Rebels Network got access to the full live Q&A with Steven, plus replays of every guest conversation we’ve ever had. Contact Steven:Email: healingrootsonup@gmail.com Instagram: @HealingRootsOnUp Books referenced + links:[Steven’s book] From A**Hole to Alright: https://amzn.to/4bkCKX1 No Bad Parts (book on Internal Family Systems therapy modality): https://amzn.to/4rw9d2OA Liberated Mind: https://amzn.to/47Gzggx [Join Conscious Rebels Network] Get full access to My Countercultural Life at www.thecaitawakening.com/subscribe

    Deconstructing Everything with Steven Francisci
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