Apple Pie Playground, October 4, 2026

Apple Pie Playground with Valerie Let's go there, Christs What does knowing that we know nothing have to do with Christ consciousness? Nothing? Let's talk. The Value of Knowing Nothing and Witnessing Healing Through Presence Valerie opens a solo hour on Apple Pie Playground by asking what it means to say "I know nothing," starting from a Hogan's Heroes memory and a story of healing she overheard at work. She explores justified true belief, letting go of falsehood, and why presence may matter more than knowledge when witnessing someone else's healing. Welcome to the Playground and Hogan's Heroes Valerie opens the hour by welcoming listeners back to the playground and thanking BBS for keeping it a safe place to be themselves. Her topic is the value of knowing nothing, which she links to Sergeant Hans Schultz, the character in the old comedy Hogan's Heroes who would say "I know nothing" whenever he had let something slip. She remembers the phrase from childhood and wants to explore what it could mean to say, in her words, I know that I know nothing. Before turning to theory, she shares a story she witnessed by accident earlier that week, which she describes as beautiful and says many listeners will recognize themselves in. She says she will be careful with the details so as not to give away too much information. A Workplace Conversation That Shows Presence Valerie describes a professional woman in a busy office who was approached regularly over several weeks by a client. Each visit he shared a little more of his life struggle, and she listened and encouraged him. On the day Valerie overheard them, he announced that he had been clean for over a month and wanted to share that excitement with her. The room was crowded and loud, with phones ringing and people calling for help, and the man leaned in until he stood right beside her workstation. She tried to acknowledge him, but she was pulled away, and when she returned her coffee had gone cold. She felt frustrated and bad that she could not give him the time he seemed to need. Valerie says that at one point the woman shrugged and told her, "He knows that I get it." In Valerie's reading, the woman had come through her own hardship, and the man sensed that healing energy and sought it out. Presence, Electromagnetism, and the Law of Attraction Valerie argues that the encounter was not an accident but the way healing is meant to work. She describes people as electromagnetic beings who send out a resonating frequency of information that others pick up without a word being spoken. When a person has healed trauma, addiction and self-doubt, she says, that healing cannot be stopped and begins to help others heal themselves. She links this to Christ consciousness and points to the golden halos in old portraits of Christ as a picture of the good work that creates a beacon for others. Valerie calls this the real law of attraction and describes humanity as a shared field of coalescing life-force energies. She then asks listeners whether Christos is only a human story in a book or something cosmic that everyone shares. She questions whether it makes sense to worship Christ as a figure set apart, since that worship keeps people separated from the Christ within themselves. Letting Go of Falsehood Instead of Proving Truth Valerie turns to the idea that knowing we know nothing might be a strength rather than a weakness. She suggests that the journey toward wisdom could be a process of negating falsehood rather than compiling truth, chipping away at false beliefs, views and identities by testing and observing each one. She admits that letting go is a difficult lesson for her, but says that detaching brings a sense of release, balance and an inner knowing. To examine knowledge itself, she walks through philosophy's definition of justified true belief, a belief that is accepted as true, factually accurate and supported by evidence. She notes that when proof is missing, what remains is theory, opinion or speculation, and that the definition is hard to pin down. Valerie then names the toll of prizing knowledge. She describes how arguments over who is right create social movements, political parties, religious affiliations and private clubs, and how knowledge can rank above compassion, friendship and equanimity. She says, "Somebody's right, and somebody's wrong," and calls that a heavy price to pay. Enlightenment, Presence, and the Witness of Healing Valerie asks whether listeners equate enlightenment with knowledge, with knowing exactly what to say and how to convince others. She wonders whether being a higher self means having to translate and sermonize grand ideas, or whether people imagine they must become a better form of perfect before they can witness someone else's healing. She asks if Christ has been misconceived as omniscient and unrelatable, and suggests he came into human history as a man so that he could relate to and understand people from within. She asks listene