Running, Resilience, Reincarnation, and the Light of the Soul
Reverend Blake Rubie hosts The Church of the Souls Evolution with a personal monologue on lifelong running, Army fitness, kidney donation, health habits, veganism, singing, spiritual growth, reincarnation, the afterlife, prayer, extraterrestrial civilizations, and humanity’s need to evolve beyond war into love, dignity, and peace.
Reverend Blake Rubie Opens With Fitness, Memory, and Personal Reflection
This episode of The Church of the Souls Evolution, broadcast on August 8, 2026, is hosted entirely by Reverend Blake Rubie. The corrected transcript identifies Reverend Blake Rubie as the host and notes that the raw transcript used “Reverend Blake Ruby,” while the user-confirmed spelling is Reverend Blake Rubie. He begins by welcoming listeners and describing his morning workout at a rubber track, where he walks, jogs, and adds sprinting. From there, the episode becomes a deeply personal reflection on physical discipline, aging, health, music, spiritual growth, and the soul’s journey.
Army Running, Monterey, and the Commander's Cup
Reverend Rubie recalls his years as a runner, especially during his time in the Army at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, from June 1992 to June 1993. After telling his company that he could run two miles in about twelve minutes, he was made captain of the Golf Company run team. He describes the Commander's Cup competitions, daily training, formation runs, cadence, calisthenics, routes down to the Pacific Ocean, and the challenge of running back up the steep Monterey hill. He remembers that the team won the Commander's Cup five times in twelve months and that their best time was eleven minutes and thirty-nine seconds.
Kidney Donation, Injury, Recovery, and Exercise Adaptation
The episode then turns to one of Reverend Rubie’s defining life experiences: donating a kidney to save his son’s life in 1995. He explains that the surgery left him with a painful scar, long-term discomfort, and physical limitations that made running, push-ups, sit-ups, bending, turning, walking, and other movements more difficult. He also discusses later medical profiles in the Army, Walter Reed, GERD, reflux, spine fractures, spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, and the gradual shift from running to walking. Rather than presenting this as defeat, he frames it as adaptation, experimentation, and a continuing effort to remain active in a way that works for his body.
The Rubber Track, Sprinting Technique, Shoes, and Breathing
Reverend Rubie gives practical detail about his present-day workout routine. He prefers a rubber track because it is softer on the joints and avoids pavement, dirt, rocks, holes, and low-traction surfaces. He uses the straightaway rather than running the curves, believing the curves can affect the knees over time. He discusses shoes, especially Skechers slip-in models, and explains that tight laces can create foot pain or affect gait. He also describes beginning sprints slowly from a jog, building into acceleration, and breathing primarily through the nose while running because, in his experience, it helps synchronize the arms, feet, and body.
Singing, Toastmasters, Sobriety, and Vegan Discipline
After discussing his workout, Reverend Rubie moves into his singing practice. He explains that he warms up a cappella, uses a microphone and sound system, and has memorized more than 150 songs. He connects singing with confidence, church solos, Toastmasters, personal growth, and public speaking. He also reflects on sobriety, saying he has not had alcohol since Labor Day weekend in 1988, and then turns to veganism, which he began in 1999 after donating a kidney. He describes becoming vegetarian first, then vegan, partly for longevity and health, and explains how discipline, research, fiber, and persistence helped him make the lifestyle work.
Venezuela, Aging, Gratitude, and the Songs He Loves
Reverend Rubie shares memories of moving to Caracas, Venezuela, as a new vegan in 2001 and learning to survive on beans, rice, vegetables, spaghetti with marinara, and cheese-free pizza. He speaks warmly of the Venezuelan people, describing them as positive despite hardship and economic difficulty. As he approaches his seventy-second birthday, he reflects honestly on health, mortality, blood work, an arm wound, and waiting for biopsy results. He also lists many songs he loves and performs, including works by the Eagles, the Doobie Brothers, America, Neil Young, the Allman Brothers, John Denver, Traffic, James Taylor, Don Henley, Billy Idol, The Guess Who, the Beatles, and Gordon Lightfoot.
Spirit in the Body, Reincarnation, and the Afterlife
The second half of the monologue becomes more explicitly spiritual. Reverend Rubie describes human beings as spirits in material bodies, here through a process of reincarnation, and says that when people die, they transition to the afterlife as pure spirits. He compares the body to worn-out clothing that the spirit leaves behind and says the real self is not the body, but the soul and spirit within it. He teaches that each lifetime offers an opportunity for growth, spiritual development, and increasing the light of the soul. In his view, the Creator’s spark is placed into every soul, and the purpose of life is to brighten that divine light.
Prayer, Peace, and Humanity’s Spiritual Evolution
Reverend Rubie closes with a prayerful call for humanity to rise beyond war, violence, and spiritual immaturity. He says prayer can help save the world and repeats the message that “man will prey on man until man learns to pray for man.” He contrasts Earth’s violence with higher extraterrestrial civilizations that, in his view, may live with greater love, dignity, and respect for life. He asks whether people want to return to another low-evolution world of conflict or graduate toward higher worlds where beings recognize the sacred light within one another. The episode ends with a heartfelt prayer to Mother and Father God, asking for help, peace, love, and blessing for all people.
