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Speaker 1: [instrumental music]

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Speaker 1: Reality 101 is a journal of
impossible experiences from first-hand
explorations into

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Speaker 1: the nature of reality, what it means
for all of us, and how you can experience it

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Speaker 1: yourself. I'm Stephen Trumbick.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Joshua Swenson.

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Speaker 2: This episode of Reality 101 is part
two of See, Wake Up, Remember. We're continuing

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Speaker 2: our conversation about what is real
and the long, winding path from imagination to

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Speaker 2: validation. This one is about how it
feels to work alone for something impossible,

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Speaker 2: not knowing whether you'll ever get
it. But before we dive into that, we always like

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Speaker 2: to start with a little check-in, so
I'm just wondering how you're arriving today,

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Speaker 2: Stephen.

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Speaker 1: Cool. Uh, always got something to
share. This is always weird for me 'cause we're

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Speaker 1: talking back in time.

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Speaker 2: [laughs]

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Speaker 1: I can't help but spoil, like,
[laughs] some of what comes ahead because I'm, I
don't

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Speaker 1: stop, right? Um, so before I tell you
how I am, I wanted to say that we got some

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Speaker 1: feedback on the show. Now we got
feedback on the show so far from, you know,

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Speaker 1: regular, uh, human beings. Uh, as I
was publishing I think the second

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Speaker 1: episode, just hear a thought, doesn't
feel like mine. Normally people don't share

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Speaker 1: feedback like this, but we can do
whatever we want here. So [laughs] I'm just
gonna

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Speaker 1: tell it to you as I experienced it.
Don't know who it is. Here's the exact quote, "I

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Speaker 1: would really like for people to
listen to this." And the next line is, like,

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Speaker 1: "More spiritual, more cosmic." But
when they say more, there's, like, a plus sign,

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Speaker 1: like a conceptual, like, increase,
like a chart.

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Speaker 2: [laughs]

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Speaker 1: Like, just include this. Like, it's
good. Keep it as it is, but just, you know, work

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Speaker 1: this in a little bit. Don't forget
these angles and just, like, there's a, like a

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Speaker 1: math equation. Like, go include these
in. [laughs] Very weird. I just laughed and

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Speaker 1: said, "All right, I'll see what I can
do." [laughs] So if we can see if we can get

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Speaker 1: some more spiritual and cosmic,
whatever that means. [laughs] Um, as far as how
I

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Speaker 1: am, I'm having a very good day. Had a
pretty profound meditation experience again

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Speaker 1: today. Um, for those of you who have
read my blog, the differentcompass.ink, there

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Speaker 1: is an article called Dancing
Starlight Dude in Jeans. I feel like about

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Speaker 1: 30% that guy right now. Uh, so it's
pretty weird and very happy day, uh, but

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Speaker 1: that was kind of the goal. If you
don't know what I'm talking about, [laughs] you

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Speaker 1: can go read it if you want to. I
think we'll eventually cover it in the show. Um,
so

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Speaker 1: all that to say is I'm feeling real
good. Um, how are you, Joshua? [laughs]

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Speaker 2: Hmm. Thanks for sharing. I love
hearing the, uh, uh, astral feedback. [laughs]

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Speaker 1: I thought it was hilarious.

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Speaker 2: [laughs] Uh, plus cosmic, plus
spiritual. Okay, I'm gonna write that down. Hmm.

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Speaker 2: Check, check. All right. I feel like
I was doing pretty cosmic, pretty spiritual in

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Speaker 2: the last few episodes, so.

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Speaker 1: It seemed like it, but it's all
relative.

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Speaker 2: I gotta get more, more cosmic and
spiritual. [clears throat] But yeah, um, I'm
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Speaker 2: feeling pretty great today, and, um,
just, uh, I've got a filmmaking

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Speaker 2: project that I'm working on, and so
when I'm in the flow with something like that, I

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Speaker 2: always just... It's just, it feels
really great. I'm excited to wake up. I'm
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Speaker 2: to go to work. Um, yeah, so that's
cool. And I wanted to

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Speaker 2: share an experience I had, what was
it, last night, uh, meditation. And

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Speaker 2: normally my big meditation
experiences happen in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 2: so, but this one came through, uh, in
my evening meditation. Uh, I've been

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Speaker 2: doing, um...

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Speaker 2: I've been using binaural beats, uh,
and meditation music focused on different

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Speaker 2: chakras to help me anchor my
awareness, uh, and so I started with the
meditation

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Speaker 2: of, uh, in my solar plexus 'cause I
was feeling a little anxiety, uh, in that space.

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Speaker 2: Um, resolved that energy, and then I
shifted to a throat awareness, um,

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Speaker 2: [clears throat] throat resonance, uh,
music, and then shifted to a,

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Speaker 2: um, third eye opening, s- um, music,
and this was binaural beats, which is, like,

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Speaker 2: different, um, frequencies playing in
different, in either ear, which is supposed to

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Speaker 2: help calibrate and sync your
hemispheres. Um, [clears throat] and this one,

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Speaker 2: um, yeah, I was just feeling opening,
uh, in the space in my,

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Speaker 2: uh, in my head. [laughs] I have a
long history with, uh, becoming aware with

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Speaker 2: how I'm holding tension in my body
and, um, energy and emotion and how they come

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Speaker 2: through and feeling deeply into those
spaces. And then something started happening

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Speaker 2: in... I started getting this, like,
clicking sound coming through, and it was like,

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Speaker 2: it felt like it was coming from
inside my head, almost as if, like, there was,
my

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Speaker 2: sinus was kind of, like, popping open
or, like, there was-

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Speaker 1: So like a physical clicking sound?

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Speaker 2: It, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.

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Speaker 2: [clears throat] And, um, I had
recently watched the trailer for the Steven
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Speaker 2: movie coming out, Disclosure Day,
which I am very excited to see. And, uh,

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Speaker 2: there's one scene in that movie where
a news anchor, uh, it seems like her voice

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Speaker 2: gets taken over, and there's this,
like, kind of haunting clicking noise that comes

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Speaker 2: through. And so I w- when I saw that,
I was like, "Oh..." Uh, a- and then the, the

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Speaker 2: movie itself, it seems to be
associated with the grays 'cause at, at some
point

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Speaker 2: there's a image of a, um, a moose,
and the moose is, like, leaning

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Speaker 2: over one of the characters, and then
its nose shifts into the face of a, a gray. So

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Speaker 2: you're like, "Oh, this is m- this is,
these are the aliens in this movie. These are

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Speaker 2: grays." Um, and I, I thought, you
know, I'm aware that a lot of these beings,

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Speaker 2: um, appear to tel- telepathically
communicate with people, and, um-

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Speaker 2: Uh, so I was like-- When I saw the
trailer, I was like skeptical. Like, "That's not

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Speaker 2: what they sound like when they
telepathically communicate, probably." But then
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Speaker 2: this clicking noise in my head, and
I'm like, "Oh, shit. It's the Grays." [laughs]

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I don't have any
experience with this-

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Speaker 2: No

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Speaker 1: ... this part of your cosmic drama.
[laughs]

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Speaker 2: And then, and then, um, so I was
like, "Okay. Uh, well, let me see."

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Speaker 2: And, um, I've had some experiences in
attempting to reach out,

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Speaker 2: uh, with these beings in the past and

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Speaker 2: feeling as if they were reaching to
me. Um, and so I imagine what

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Speaker 2: if I'm sitting in the presence of one
of these beings, you know, as if like I'm

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Speaker 2: meditating before, um, a Gray
sitting, you know, on my bench here with me,

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Speaker 2: and my whole body lights up with this
pinging sensation. So it felt like, you know,

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Speaker 2: confirmation. It kind of feels like,
you know, being in the presence of a predator.

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Speaker 2: Um, like imagine-

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Speaker 1: Yeah

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Speaker 2: ... swimming with a shark or a whale
or something like that. You know, just human--

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Speaker 2: Modern-day humans don't get the
opportunity to, uh, interact with

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Speaker 2: anything that's more intimidating
than we are [chuckles] on a daily basis.

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Speaker 1: But not necessarily threatening. To
clear. I mean, I don't wanna put words in your

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Speaker 1: mouth. You tell me.

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Speaker 2: Right. Uh, there's a feeling of...
I'm, I'm, I'm like-- I-- If, if one of these

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Speaker 2: beings show up, showed up in my room
right now, I feel like I would be-

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Speaker 1: Well-

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Speaker 2: ... very intimidated. I, I would be-

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Speaker 1: It's a little different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The-- But like imagining
physically being in the presence of one of these

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Speaker 2: beings. Um-

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Speaker 1: Uh, I like to call it like a, like a
pressure wave. Like for me-

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Speaker 2: Mm

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Speaker 1: ... it's like something is like
pushing on me, like to the point where almost
like,

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Speaker 1: yeah, adrenal response, where you
feel like your-

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Speaker 2: Yeah

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Speaker 1: ... brain is being shut down and
you're, you go into fight or flight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It can feel like a pressure wave
coming at you, and it's like it's hard to like
stay

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Speaker 1: conscious in, in the midst of that.

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Speaker 2: Mm.

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Speaker 1: I've had that in dream and liminal
experiences, but not physically. I've never had
a

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Speaker 1: physical close encounter.

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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, that
was...

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.

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Speaker 2: That was kind of my response, you
know? I, I think, uh, I've sat through numerous

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Speaker 2: experiences with these beings, uh, or
like with like imagining presence of them and

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Speaker 2: then like kind of getting these
pings. Um, and I'm like always like, it feels

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Speaker 2: as if I'm communicating or as if I'm
in the presence of them. Um, yeah.

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Speaker 2: So-

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Speaker 1: Just like we talked about-

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Speaker 2: ... that's what came through-

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Speaker 1: ... last time

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Speaker 2: ... my meditation. [laughs]

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Speaker 1: 'Cause your med- the meditation?

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Speaker 2: No, that's what through-- came
through in my meditation.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: And, and then it was like it was, uh,
there was a kind of like conversation I felt

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Speaker 2: like I was having as I was-

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Speaker 1: Mm

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Speaker 2: ... um, as I was imagining this
presence. So it's like, is this happening in

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Speaker 2: imagination, or is this happening in
reality? Or is there [laughs] some gray area?

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Speaker 2: Who knows? Yeah. [laughs] That's kind
of the point, right? Why we're talking.

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Speaker 2: [laughs]

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember what we talked
about. I mean, you literally brought it up, like

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Speaker 1: what we talked about last time. You
have to hold all of this stuff in this like

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Speaker 1: maybe sort of space where, yeah, you
got strong validation, but you have to hold

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Speaker 1: lightly as to why. Were you being
encouraged because you took seriously that
perhaps

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Speaker 1: there could be another being here
that isn't physical, and that is why you're
being

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Speaker 2: Mm.

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Speaker 1: Or is it literal, in the sense that
it's direct? No, literally this exact species of

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Speaker 1: entity you think is here. Or is it
literally just praise for even having considered

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Speaker 1: that?

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Speaker 2: Mm.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe it could be any of those or
something else, right?

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Speaker 2: Mm.

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Speaker 1: It could be something else entirely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Uh, I would take seriously what you
felt-

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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm

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Speaker 1: ... without holding too t- tightly
onto any one interpretation-

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Speaker 2: Yeah

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Speaker 1: ... until, you know, it sort of comes
out eventually. It comes out in the wash. You

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Speaker 1: eventually-- There's a through line.
There's a pattern. Then eventually you're like,

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Speaker 1: "Okay, these other narratives can
fall away." It wasn't literally-

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Speaker 2: Yeah

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Speaker 1: ... a gray alien or, you know, maybe
it was. I don't know. Like the other things

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Speaker 1: will fall away over time if you take
it seriously.

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Speaker 2: Mm.

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Speaker 1: Um, you'll get these corrections in
iteratively. So sounds like progress to me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 2: yeah. I have the perception that we
are living in a time when some kind of

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Speaker 2: disclosure or contact is approaching.
Um, and with, uh, with something like this

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Speaker 2: movie and Steven Spielberg, you know,
publicly coming out and saying, um, you know,

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Speaker 2: he believes this phenomena is, the
phenomena is real, that, uh, that creates a

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Speaker 2: doorway for the phenomena to enter
more broadly into public consciousness, uh,
which

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Speaker 2: then creates the opportunity for more
of these experiences and more contact to start

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Speaker 2: happening. Just as when Whitley
Strieber in the '80s published his book
Communion,

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Speaker 2: and all these people started
remembering their own contact experiences, um,
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Speaker 2: flooding the gates of like, you know,
just opened the floodgates. Um, so

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Speaker 2: I feel like these, the Grays are
particularly like kind of creepy looking,
[laughs]

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Speaker 2: you know? Or just like my perception
and culturally, like my, you know, upbringing

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Speaker 2: and everything, like, uh, they're
alien. You know? They're just unknown.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Um, so there's like a, there's a
terror like associated with encountering the

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Speaker 2: unknown. You know?

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Speaker 1: It's a straight-up biological-

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Speaker 2: Yeah

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Speaker 1: ... reaction.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: There's a number of like-

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly

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Speaker 1: ... in the lore, there's a number of
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I was like, "Oh, it's coming again." So I

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coming through. [laughs] I'm just sitting with
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It was pretty, pretty cool. Um, but yeah, it was

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think it's any harder to, like, put a thought

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change, like, what card you draw in a video
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no, it's not any harder. Like, there's, nothing

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just bec- ah, it came through a physical

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nothing. Like-

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traditional, like, means, like, oh, it has a
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meaning now? Like, you've... Before, this meant

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me. And, um-

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to sit in the presence of these beings, you

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that I am prepared, and that was the
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like, "I'm ready to make contact. Oh, I'm want

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me to make contact, please." Like, [laughs]

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Let's see.

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So awesome, man.

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happens next. Sounds like it's good.

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too.

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picking up where we left off. Um, Steven was
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then a, uh, conversation with

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me if I'm, if I'm misremembering, but that's, I

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room. It's weird. Whatever. Yes. Uh, so she has
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You get them way later. Uh, but just call her

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pass- fashion, you always know which one you're

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wrapping up that experience, and I'm coming off

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just after the new year now,

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like, I feel like I'm just, like,

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I have, [laughs] I've been given this, like,

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how consciousness interacts with reality on a

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thinking about it. Like, [laughs] I have some

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beginning to see, like, benefits to what before

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spiritual chaos. Like, it was noise. Like, a lot
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sticking my finger in the spiritual wall outlet.

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[laughs] It doesn't make any sense. Um, but

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cool." Like, now I'm getting utility and, like,

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conversation and, like, good feelings. Oh, a
family.

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beyond death. [laughs] I'm, I'm starting to get

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back to work. Uh, so I work a corporate job,

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it's corporate America, you know? It's tough.

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to slip into a depression. Not only do I

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the kinds of experiences, I am, like,

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to get this kind of experience back, whether it

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like, in those liminal states or meditative

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contact or just get any impression. I'm trying
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even it's just a vivid dream or something,

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happening to me at this point. It's not just

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kinds of incredible effects. Those

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straight Steven. That good feeling is gone,

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and I am completely depressed by my
surroundings.

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"You gotta be kidding me." [laughs] Like, this

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it now. I'm like, "Wait, what? No, this can't

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like, the more it leaves me. I feel like the

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log in.

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something's wrong. And then my computer, like,
straight

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it. And I'm trying to use an alternative device,

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with, like, the proprietary software to be able
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Nothing works. All the backups, everything. No
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they're supposed to be there. It's this storm of

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and, like, [sniffs] nothing is working.

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matter what I do. Like, I am beating down doors.

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I can do is sit here in my office, right? Like,

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I'm a software engineer. I can't, [laughs] I

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The number of things that go wrong is just

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corporate tech support, and I get

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talked to in tech support. This man is reading

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listen to, like, podcasts and books at two

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quarter speed. He is reading so slowly that I
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in tears. Like, this can't be real. Like, this,

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multiple times. And, like,

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like, "This can't be real." Like, I literally

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not here. Like, I can't actually do my job. And

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like, "It's been four or five days now." You

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whatever, so, like, everything's warming up.

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fine. But I'm-- At some point, I get the sign.

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supposed to sit with this, and I'm supposed to
just,

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bit." I'm not going to be allowed to jump right

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go right back to being regular Steven, doing my

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corporate software development is, like, the

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didn't just happen to me. This set of incredible

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like I'm being forced to be given space to

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means and who I wanna be and what I'm gonna do
with

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writing an article. Um, there's an article on
the

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Room With No Exit." So if you wanna know what

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one. [laughs] It's very angsty. It's F this,

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This is stupid. Uh, not that I'm ungrateful, but

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I'm,

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corporate America suburban

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this feels so wrong. We could be doing anything.

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I can't do anything. Like, I'm, I've just been

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gone, right? And more maddening is that I'm

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I'm,

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I'm not actually, like... I'm not being allowed

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doing my job or getting lost in that. But also,

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end too. None of these, like, supernatural or

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They're gone. I'm just depressed. Um, so that's

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while, like a little over a week, a week and a
half,

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but after something like this happens to you,

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dread that sinks in. Like, I can't talk to

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And I'm like, "What the hell?" [laughs] Like,

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What if this never comes back?" Like, that, I'm

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what if I'm crazy or this isn't real? Like,

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Like, I still have doubts as to what it means

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condition. But I'm far more afraid of the

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it's just gone now? That's how I'm feeling.

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about that? [laughs] That's what I'm sitting

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Speaker 1: with, right? What would you do? It's
not, it's not clear. Like, I'm obsessively

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Speaker 1: poring over my journals. I've got so
many journals. Like, what did I do to create

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person. Like, but not [laughs] because something

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Speaker 1: crazy has happened to me, but because
I want it back. [laughs] I want the magic

378
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Speaker 1: back. Um, one night before my
birthday, so it's been like a week and a half or

379
00:23:13.528 --> 00:23:17.748
Speaker 1: so at this point since the
experiences of the last, the end of the last
episode.

380
00:23:19.548 --> 00:23:23.148
Speaker 1: I can't sleep. Like, I'm trying to
force, like, out-of-body experiences. I take,
um,

381
00:23:24.708 --> 00:23:27.368
Speaker 1: [tsks] there's a supplement you can
take for lucid dreaming. I can't remember what

382
00:23:27.428 --> 00:23:30.048
Speaker 1: it... It starts with a G.
Galantamine, I think. Um-

383
00:23:30.288 --> 00:23:30.448
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.

384
00:23:31.228 --> 00:23:35.248
Speaker 1: Nobody go start pounding this stuff.
Like, [laughs] do your own research. Um, but,

385
00:23:36.268 --> 00:23:41.468
Speaker 1: um, trying to force an out-of-body
state, uh, which, you know, I'd had a few.

386
00:23:42.108 --> 00:23:47.068
Speaker 1: Um, I'd been practicing that too, and
it doesn't work. [laughs] Nothing happens. I

387
00:23:47.108 --> 00:23:51.848
Speaker 1: end up just staying awake all night,
basically all night, laying in my bed. This is

388
00:23:51.908 --> 00:23:57.808
Speaker 1: two days before my birthday now. Um,
I'm just, like, talking to myself. I'm, like,

389
00:23:57.868 --> 00:24:03.448
Speaker 1: in this childlike state. It's so
weird. Uh, I, I end up literally

390
00:24:03.508 --> 00:24:07.708
Speaker 1: monologuing to myself for, like, six
hours in bed, like, not sleeping, in my head,

391
00:24:07.868 --> 00:24:10.988
Speaker 1: right? I'm like, "I'll wake up my
wife." And I'm just talking about all sorts of

392
00:24:11.028 --> 00:24:15.208
Speaker 1: things, and at some point, I notice
that this is weird. Like, I even mention to

393
00:24:15.248 --> 00:24:19.028
Speaker 1: myself, "Huh, where's the other part
of me, like the other half of me that usually

394
00:24:19.068 --> 00:24:23.428
Speaker 1: makes me sound smart when I say
stuff? Because I feel very dumb right now."
[laughs]

395
00:24:23.468 --> 00:24:23.548
Speaker 1: Like-

396
00:24:24.068 --> 00:24:24.128
Speaker 3: Hmm.

397
00:24:24.168 --> 00:24:28.904
Speaker 1: Just like a child. I feel like a
child. I remembered I spent 20 minutes just

398
00:24:28.944 --> 00:24:34.484
Speaker 1: thinking about, "I wonder if I'll
ever get to pet a fox. I wonder how soft a fox
is.

399
00:24:34.584 --> 00:24:40.164
Speaker 1: I bet they're so soft. I really want
to pet a fox." Uh, literally for 20 minutes

400
00:24:40.424 --> 00:24:40.724
Speaker 1: thinking about-

401
00:24:40.744 --> 00:24:45.284
Speaker 2: Spoiler, you do get to pet a fox at
some point, right? [laughs]

402
00:24:45.324 --> 00:24:48.944
Speaker 1: So the next day, my wife announces to
me, "By the way, for your birthday, you're

403
00:24:49.004 --> 00:24:49.824
Speaker 1: taking the day off."

404
00:24:50.464 --> 00:24:50.564
Speaker 2: Ah.

405
00:24:50.584 --> 00:24:55.884
Speaker 1: "We are going to a capybara cafe
where you get to pet capybaras and other
animals,

406
00:24:56.244 --> 00:24:59.704
Speaker 1: and I just heard that they have a
fox, and you're going to get to pet it." We have

407
00:24:59.744 --> 00:25:02.684
Speaker 1: not talked about this. I hadn't told
her anything about this, and I'm like, "Oh my

408
00:25:02.744 --> 00:25:08.164
Speaker 1: God." [laughs] It's like, click. Hey,
don't forget, you're creating your own

409
00:25:08.204 --> 00:25:12.984
Speaker 1: reality, buddy. Like, this is still
true. Uh, do you wanna live in a depressive

410
00:25:13.124 --> 00:25:18.864
Speaker 1: state where you get to do nothing, or
maybe you could make something happen? And

411
00:25:18.924 --> 00:25:22.784
Speaker 1: it's just like the turnaround was so
fast that I just couldn't help but laugh. My

412
00:25:22.824 --> 00:25:27.284
Speaker 1: computer unlocks. I can go back to
work. I'm like, "Okay." It's like this, like,

413
00:25:27.344 --> 00:25:33.344
Speaker 1: this block is gone. Um, I remember,
like, desperately just

414
00:25:33.384 --> 00:25:36.344
Speaker 1: being like, "I want this back. Like,
I want this feeling. I'm done being depressed.

415
00:25:36.644 --> 00:25:41.664
Speaker 1: I [laughs] don't wanna do it anymore.
I'm done being depressed." And things start

416
00:25:41.704 --> 00:25:46.464
Speaker 1: happening again, like really quickly,
within hours of that.

417
00:25:46.684 --> 00:25:46.964
Speaker 2: Hmm.

418
00:25:47.064 --> 00:25:52.904
Speaker 1: Uh, I start having contact and
experiences again. Um,

419
00:25:53.924 --> 00:25:59.244
Speaker 1: I... The night before my birthday, I
go to sleep, and I'm in a, having a dream, and

420
00:25:59.544 --> 00:26:03.984
Speaker 1: m- a bunch of family members are at
my childhood home, and I walk away from the

421
00:26:04.044 --> 00:26:08.524
Speaker 1: party. I'm not lucid in this dream.
It's just, you know, I'm just in it. And then I

422
00:26:08.604 --> 00:26:10.784
Speaker 1: am in the pantry, and then I just
hear a voice.

423
00:26:18.044 --> 00:26:18.124
Speaker 2: Oh.

424
00:26:18.364 --> 00:26:24.344
Speaker 1: And the voice is, it's my dad. Uh,
and since most of the

425
00:26:24.384 --> 00:26:29.484
Speaker 1: listeners won't know, my dad died a
few years ago, and he just says, "Happy

426
00:26:29.524 --> 00:26:33.803
Speaker 1: birthday, Steve." And I wake up
because it shocks me. There's just, like, this

427
00:26:33.863 --> 00:26:38.124
Speaker 1: electric, like, awareness. I'm
rocketed into, like, awareness, like you might
be

428
00:26:38.184 --> 00:26:41.844
Speaker 1: from a sudden, like, nightmare, like
when it scares you and knocks you out of it. I

429
00:26:41.884 --> 00:26:47.284
Speaker 1: wake up because it has this different
quality to it. Like, I know that it wasn't a

430
00:26:47.344 --> 00:26:53.024
Speaker 1: dream. Like, it was him. It was,
like, exactly the way he says it, and I wake

431
00:26:53.124 --> 00:26:58.264
Speaker 1: up, and I'm just crying [laughs]
like, 'cause I knew it was him. And, um,

432
00:26:59.044 --> 00:27:03.284
Speaker 1: before I had gone to sleep that
night, I usually just say goodnight, you know,
like,

433
00:27:03.504 --> 00:27:06.204
Speaker 1: like a kid says their prayers. I just
say goodnight to everybody. At this point, why

434
00:27:06.244 --> 00:27:09.784
Speaker 1: not, right? [laughs] Eh, you're out
there. I know you can hear me, so I'll say

435
00:27:09.824 --> 00:27:14.904
Speaker 1: goodnight to everybody. That night
when I said goodnight, I heard, not audio, but

436
00:27:15.744 --> 00:27:21.604
Speaker 1: thought, um, but to the point that it
was heard, like 12 different people say

437
00:27:21.644 --> 00:27:25.244
Speaker 1: goodnight and, like, happy birthday
at the same time, like all overlapping. Like,

438
00:27:25.304 --> 00:27:31.024
Speaker 1: it's just noise, like uh. [laughs]
And I'm like, "Okay, that's never happened

439
00:27:31.064 --> 00:27:35.384
Speaker 1: before." Normally, I just say
goodnight, and it goes out into the void.
[laughs] I

440
00:27:35.424 --> 00:27:40.184
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to make anything
happen. So, like, it's coming back to me now.
It's

441
00:27:40.224 --> 00:27:44.604
Speaker 1: coming back to me, and I'm coming
back with a vengeance. Like, I'm motivated now.

442
00:27:44.844 --> 00:27:49.144
Speaker 1: I'm s- coming out of the depression.
It's amazing how you can go from, "Ah, it's all

443
00:27:49.224 --> 00:27:54.684
Speaker 1: over. Nothing was real. This sucks.
It's all gonna go away now," to just a little

444
00:27:54.744 --> 00:27:58.964
Speaker 1: crack. You get a little crack, and a
little light comes in. You're like, "Ah, I'm

445
00:27:59.004 --> 00:28:03.884
Speaker 1: making this depression happen." Um,
it, it's really just, like, a continual offer.

446
00:28:04.144 --> 00:28:07.284
Speaker 1: There's been a number of times when
this has happened to me. It's like a... And

447
00:28:07.344 --> 00:28:11.744
Speaker 1: sometimes I've gotten, like, the
direct quote. I read that in my meditation
journal,

448
00:28:11.784 --> 00:28:16.044
Speaker 1: like, right before this. "Which life
do you want to live? You're the one that's

449
00:28:16.104 --> 00:28:19.964
Speaker 1: choosing. What do you want? Which one
you want?" That's all this is. [laughs] Like,

450
00:28:20.524 --> 00:28:24.344
Speaker 1: you're being shown a choice. There's
two paths here, buddy. It's not a one-time

451
00:28:24.384 --> 00:28:28.624
Speaker 1: choice between red and blue. It's
like a continual one, man. Which one you want?
Do

452
00:28:28.644 --> 00:28:34.064
Speaker 1: you wanna be, be depressed and scared
and worried and go back to this, or do you

453
00:28:34.124 --> 00:28:39.944
Speaker 1: want something new, something
different? Like, it's up to you. [laughs] I want

454
00:28:39.984 --> 00:28:40.884
Speaker 1: something new and different.

455
00:28:42.623 --> 00:28:42.984
Speaker 1: And

456
00:28:44.563 --> 00:28:50.164
Speaker 1: I'll say one more thing, and I'll,
I'll pause there. I had gotten some guidance
late

457
00:28:50.204 --> 00:28:54.624
Speaker 1: in the year before, like December, so
like a month or two before this,

458
00:28:56.364 --> 00:29:02.164
Speaker 1: when I was in meditation, to wake up
and remember, like,

459
00:29:02.264 --> 00:29:06.404
Speaker 1: it's time. Like, very certainly, like
coming down from, like, above, this, like,

460
00:29:06.484 --> 00:29:10.724
Speaker 1: this pressure. It was like, "This is
a very important message for you. You need to

461
00:29:10.784 --> 00:29:16.364
Speaker 1: wake up and remember. It's time to do
that now." And I had been receiving the word

462
00:29:16.864 --> 00:29:22.044
Speaker 1: see over and over and over again in
liminal experiences and dreams

463
00:29:23.724 --> 00:29:24.204
Speaker 1: all the time.

464
00:29:26.204 --> 00:29:30.084
Speaker 1: And that those three words, and
another one which we'll get to later if it ever

465
00:29:30.124 --> 00:29:35.504
Speaker 1: becomes relevant, which I'm focused
on now, getting those over and over again like a

466
00:29:35.564 --> 00:29:39.844
Speaker 1: mantra. Like, this is your task.
Listen, you want this. Like, you wanna know
where

467
00:29:39.864 --> 00:29:44.504
Speaker 1: this is going? You wanna know?
[laughs] Like, here it is. Here's your task.
Like

468
00:29:44.524 --> 00:29:48.424
Speaker 1: you're handing, like, the portfolio.
Here's your buzzwords. You need to see. You

469
00:29:48.444 --> 00:29:53.764
Speaker 1: need to wake up. You need to
remember. The, um, just, like, this incredible

470
00:29:53.824 --> 00:29:57.964
Speaker 1: importance, like this weight behind
this, like a, a mantra that I would come to

471
00:29:57.984 --> 00:30:01.824
Speaker 1: repeat over and over again, and this
would become, like, the quest, right? Here's

472
00:30:01.844 --> 00:30:06.244
Speaker 1: your quest, man. I mean, not the
ultimate quest, but, like, here's... You wanna
see

473
00:30:06.264 --> 00:30:10.924
Speaker 1: where this goes? Like, take this, and
take, and see where it goes. Here's your task.

474
00:30:15.304 --> 00:30:15.464
Speaker 2: Hmm.

475
00:30:18.744 --> 00:30:20.044
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot. Um,

476
00:30:21.724 --> 00:30:23.764
Speaker 2: I resonate with the, um,

477
00:30:25.444 --> 00:30:31.216
Speaker 2: cycling through periods of elation
and Uh, what feels like growth

478
00:30:31.336 --> 00:30:37.136
Speaker 2: and expansion, and then coming back
into how you describe more depressive states,

479
00:30:37.376 --> 00:30:39.756
Speaker 2: more periods like that. Um,

480
00:30:41.516 --> 00:30:44.936
Speaker 2: I like to think, from my own personal
experience, I like to think of those periods

481
00:30:44.996 --> 00:30:50.016
Speaker 2: differently. Like, I don't, I don't
think I could ev- could be potent- like, um,

482
00:30:51.296 --> 00:30:56.336
Speaker 2: I don't think it would be healthy for
me to be forever in the expansive state, you

483
00:30:56.396 --> 00:30:59.136
Speaker 2: know? I need to cycle back into... I,
I, I think the word depress-

484
00:30:59.156 --> 00:30:59.416
Speaker 1: Yeah, cancer

485
00:30:59.416 --> 00:31:04.276
Speaker 2: ... depression, personally, is, like,
negative. It's actually like, um... I like to

486
00:31:04.316 --> 00:31:09.056
Speaker 2: think of the yin and yang principles.
So, like, the, you know, maybe the periods

487
00:31:09.076 --> 00:31:11.096
Speaker 2: where, like, you're making, you know,

488
00:31:12.616 --> 00:31:17.156
Speaker 2: contact experiences and going deeper
in meditation or, um... That also, for me,

489
00:31:17.236 --> 00:31:22.436
Speaker 2: parallels, um, productive periods in
my work, and focus and clarity a lot of times.

490
00:31:23.036 --> 00:31:27.656
Speaker 2: You know, there's, like, yang, um,
more, like, extroverted energy and then, you

491
00:31:27.676 --> 00:31:33.176
Speaker 2: know, that energy always, uh,
exhausts itself and has to shift back into the
more

492
00:31:33.216 --> 00:31:38.536
Speaker 2: restful period, you know? But when
you've been experiencing this, like, these highs

493
00:31:38.576 --> 00:31:42.996
Speaker 2: and these elated states and, uh,
excitement, you know, it's like, [chuckles] I
just

494
00:31:43.036 --> 00:31:46.276
Speaker 2: wanna hold onto that, you know? I
think the tension comes when you're, like,

495
00:31:46.656 --> 00:31:51.116
Speaker 2: grasping, you know? Or at least for
me. Uh, that you wanna keep in one state over

496
00:31:51.176 --> 00:31:57.076
Speaker 2: another. The shifting is always
difficult. Um, but yeah, it was cool to see--
cool

497
00:31:57.116 --> 00:32:02.696
Speaker 2: to hear in your story how you're
shifting from one to the other and, um, yeah,

498
00:32:02.856 --> 00:32:07.896
Speaker 2: getting the, [chuckles] like, the,
the red pill, blue pill. It's also like this,
you

499
00:32:07.936 --> 00:32:11.436
Speaker 2: know, we've talked about integration.
How do you integrate these big experiences

500
00:32:11.476 --> 00:32:16.776
Speaker 2: into real life, you know? How do you
begin to weave it more into, you know, when

501
00:32:16.816 --> 00:32:20.476
Speaker 2: you're at work? Or, uh, how does your
work shift, you know? How do your

502
00:32:20.496 --> 00:32:23.616
Speaker 2: relationships shift once you have had
these kinds of experiences?

503
00:32:25.856 --> 00:32:27.336
Speaker 1: So up until this point, like,

504
00:32:29.176 --> 00:32:32.956
Speaker 1: I'd kind of forgotten about these,
like, mantras, like, sort of quest lines. Like,

505
00:32:33.036 --> 00:32:38.576
Speaker 1: these just, like, pointers to, like,
where to go next. I sort of sto- I stopped

506
00:32:38.596 --> 00:32:42.576
Speaker 1: having an internal locus of control.
Like, I expected, like, to be given the next

507
00:32:42.596 --> 00:32:46.336
Speaker 1: steps. And that don't, that, that
don't work. I'm gonna let y'all know right now,

508
00:32:46.416 --> 00:32:51.036
Speaker 1: you decide to embark on this path,
you start expecting somebody else, anybody else,

509
00:32:51.116 --> 00:32:55.936
Speaker 1: to tell you what to do. Yoink. It's
quiet. You're gonna get nothing.

510
00:32:55.996 --> 00:33:00.716
Speaker 1: [chuckles] Uh-uh. That's not how this
works. You have to be- you have to decide who

511
00:33:00.756 --> 00:33:04.616
Speaker 1: you wanna be at every step. This is,
this is a you thing. You're gonna be helped

512
00:33:04.676 --> 00:33:10.556
Speaker 1: along to figure out who you are and
learn more about the world and reality and, you

513
00:33:10.596 --> 00:33:15.316
Speaker 1: know, yourself beyond this life. All
these things. But it's gonna be you who's doing

514
00:33:15.376 --> 00:33:20.896
Speaker 1: it. If at any point in time you start
to become entitled, or you just begin to

515
00:33:20.936 --> 00:33:24.816
Speaker 1: display learned helplessness, or
you're just expecting handouts or somebody else
to,

516
00:33:25.516 --> 00:33:31.016
Speaker 1: to guide you, no. Any good teacher is
gonna be like, "Stepping into the background.

517
00:33:31.136 --> 00:33:36.616
Speaker 1: I'm gone now." Now you struggle until
you f- remember, "Ah, crap.

518
00:33:37.336 --> 00:33:38.676
Speaker 1: I can do this." Like, I-

519
00:33:38.676 --> 00:33:38.776
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm

520
00:33:38.776 --> 00:33:43.136
Speaker 1: ... gotta dig down deep and remember
like, "You know, I got this far," I'm gonna say

521
00:33:43.176 --> 00:33:47.476
Speaker 1: entirely on my own, "but I made this
happen. Like, I can do it again." So there's

522
00:33:47.556 --> 00:33:53.376
Speaker 1: that. But then there's also trying to
actually apply what I'd learned. Like,

523
00:33:53.716 --> 00:33:59.636
Speaker 1: trying to see the world as, like, me.
Like, I remembered what it felt like, even

524
00:33:59.656 --> 00:34:03.336
Speaker 1: though I was just, like, put into,
like, this simulated state. Like, I remembered

525
00:34:03.356 --> 00:34:07.396
Speaker 1: what it felt like. So I'm trying to
recapture that feeling. Like, I know it's true,

526
00:34:07.476 --> 00:34:12.136
Speaker 1: but it's a conceptual thing. I know
that I am, like, my whole reality. I remembered

527
00:34:12.156 --> 00:34:12.996
Speaker 1: what it felt like.

528
00:34:14.716 --> 00:34:18.096
Speaker 1: But I don't feel like that right now.
I feel like a guy sitting in an office chair

529
00:34:18.156 --> 00:34:19.716
Speaker 1: in an empty office. [chuckles]

530
00:34:19.756 --> 00:34:19.816
Speaker 2: [chuckles]

531
00:34:19.876 --> 00:34:24.456
Speaker 1: I have to drive an hour and a half
home now in a, in a little bit here. [chuckles]

532
00:34:24.516 --> 00:34:28.216
Speaker 1: Like, that's what I felt like. So I'm
trying to put these together, while at the

533
00:34:28.256 --> 00:34:34.216
Speaker 1: same time, you know, I, I'm a dad.
Like, I... My kids are acting up or they're

534
00:34:34.276 --> 00:34:38.016
Speaker 1: fine or whatever. Like, uh, there's
regular stresses. And, like, it keeps taking

535
00:34:38.116 --> 00:34:42.076
Speaker 1: over and intruding. So it's just,
like, this constant fight to, like, keep this

536
00:34:42.156 --> 00:34:47.295
Speaker 1: real. Like, to recapture this, like,
feeling. Like, it's so quiet and so easy to

537
00:34:47.355 --> 00:34:52.656
Speaker 1: push into the background of human
life. Um, but I, I don't want it to be that way.
I

538
00:34:52.676 --> 00:34:56.976
Speaker 1: want it at the foreground. I want to
change. Like, I want to see the world for what

539
00:34:56.996 --> 00:35:00.056
Speaker 1: it really is. I want more awareness.
I want more control. I wanna know who I am.

540
00:35:00.056 --> 00:35:04.076
Speaker 1: [chuckles] What the hell does this
mean? What do you want me to see? What am I

541
00:35:04.096 --> 00:35:04.696
Speaker 1: waking up from?

542
00:35:05.416 --> 00:35:05.436
Speaker 2: Mm.

543
00:35:05.456 --> 00:35:10.536
Speaker 1: It's maddening. Like, I know there's
more, but, like, I'm... I feel the gravity of,

544
00:35:10.576 --> 00:35:15.096
Speaker 1: like, culture and regular, like,
human life and corporate America and suburbs
and,

545
00:35:15.136 --> 00:35:19.196
Speaker 1: like, busyness just, like, pulling me
in over and over again. It's like I'm trying

546
00:35:19.216 --> 00:35:20.956
Speaker 1: to climb up a muddy slope over and
over-

547
00:35:20.996 --> 00:35:21.116
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm

548
00:35:21.116 --> 00:35:25.216
Speaker 1: ... just being pulled back down. And
I know it too, and I get a bad attitude, and I

549
00:35:25.256 --> 00:35:30.036
Speaker 1: get emotional. I don't, I don't wanna
do it. So I'm fighting all these forces. At

550
00:35:30.076 --> 00:35:34.056
Speaker 1: the same time, it's like I'm also,
like, keeping my meditation habit. But I'm

551
00:35:34.076 --> 00:35:37.836
Speaker 1: getting more and more serious about
it. Doing more, well more than my hour sit for

552
00:35:37.876 --> 00:35:41.956
Speaker 1: now. Like, I... Now I'm, like,
starting to push two hours sometimes. Like, I'm

553
00:35:42.476 --> 00:35:47.676
Speaker 1: serious. And I keep focusing on this
mantra and setting the intention. I want these

554
00:35:47.716 --> 00:35:51.256
Speaker 1: things, whatever they are. I'm trying
to open to this, and I'm playing all these

555
00:35:51.296 --> 00:35:54.556
Speaker 1: mini-games that you know about from,
like, um, the Techniques of Transcendence

556
00:35:54.596 --> 00:35:58.856
Speaker 1: course that we did. Trying to not
judge myself. I'm trying to grow as a person.
I'm

557
00:35:58.916 --> 00:36:03.376
Speaker 1: trying not to get-- let go of shame.
I'm doing all these other things. Like, I'm

558
00:36:03.456 --> 00:36:08.776
Speaker 1: trying to have even reactions to
stuff. I'm... So I'm doing all these things at
the

559
00:36:08.836 --> 00:36:11.556
Speaker 1: same time. It's not any one thing,
but I'm [chuckles] throwing the kitchen sink at

560
00:36:11.596 --> 00:36:12.276
Speaker 1: this because, like,

561
00:36:13.976 --> 00:36:17.776
Speaker 1: put the pedal to the metal here, man.
Like, I want whatever it is I'm trying to be

562
00:36:17.836 --> 00:36:23.256
Speaker 1: shown, and I'm, I'm fighting for it.
And it feels like a fight. It's whiplash, up

563
00:36:23.276 --> 00:36:28.576
Speaker 1: and down. And this is, like, over the
span of, like, the next month or so. Um, so

564
00:36:28.616 --> 00:36:29.536
Speaker 1: that's what it feels like.

565
00:36:32.152 --> 00:36:36.512
Speaker 1: Every morning, I want to wake up. I
want to remember. What are you trying to show

566
00:36:36.552 --> 00:36:41.112
Speaker 1: me? What am I trying to see? I sit
down and I meditate. I try to remember constant-

567
00:36:41.152 --> 00:36:44.412
Speaker 1: I'm constantly trying to draw myself
back into this, and there's this-- I begin to

568
00:36:44.472 --> 00:36:45.072
Speaker 1: notice that

569
00:36:46.832 --> 00:36:50.092
Speaker 1: meditation gets me to these higher
states where I feel certain that, yeah, I'm on

570
00:36:50.112 --> 00:36:53.712
Speaker 1: the right path. This is working, or
I'm starting to get insights. But then

571
00:36:55.692 --> 00:36:59.352
Speaker 1: outside of that, in maybe like
liminal states, like I get pulled back into the
slog

572
00:36:59.392 --> 00:37:02.472
Speaker 1: during the day. I'm getting pulled
down the muddy slope, and I'm just like, I
forget

573
00:37:02.532 --> 00:37:08.052
Speaker 1: about it. I, you know, I'm getting
drawn into whatever I'm doing. Um, I get upset.

574
00:37:08.152 --> 00:37:11.972
Speaker 1: You know, regular human life. I'm
just regular Steven, and all of this goes away.
I

575
00:37:11.992 --> 00:37:16.512
Speaker 1: don't think about it again. It's
like, there's so much whiplash, and I realize
the

576
00:37:16.532 --> 00:37:20.272
Speaker 1: importance of needing to like
integrate this into my life. Like I need-

577
00:37:20.472 --> 00:37:20.473
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm

578
00:37:20.472 --> 00:37:23.292
Speaker 1: ... to live as if it was, this were
true all the time.

579
00:37:23.852 --> 00:37:24.092
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.

580
00:37:24.212 --> 00:37:29.092
Speaker 1: Like, I can't-- If I really want this
to change, like if I really want to live a new

581
00:37:29.132 --> 00:37:35.072
Speaker 1: life and like see the reality as, as
it is or unveil it, it's gotta be at

582
00:37:35.112 --> 00:37:38.992
Speaker 1: the center, right? I'm still gonna be
Steven and live my life and do my job and

583
00:37:39.372 --> 00:37:43.732
Speaker 1: write my book and all the other
stuff, right? Be a dad. But this has to be like
at

584
00:37:43.772 --> 00:37:48.392
Speaker 1: the center. So I start to put it at
the center, and I take it very seriously. It's,

585
00:37:48.752 --> 00:37:53.052
Speaker 1: seems like such a subtle thing to be
like, "Oh, this is a thing I do in meditation,"

586
00:37:53.112 --> 00:37:57.632
Speaker 1: or maybe I, I set an intention before
I go to bed, or when I f- I notice, right?

587
00:37:58.392 --> 00:38:03.112
Speaker 1: Throughout the day. But now it's like
trying to invert it, trying to be like that

588
00:38:03.152 --> 00:38:07.592
Speaker 1: all the time, and I, I'm trying to
catch when I'm acting like I don't actually

589
00:38:07.652 --> 00:38:11.952
Speaker 1: believe I am my whole reality or
these amazing things are happening. There's a
life

590
00:38:11.992 --> 00:38:13.712
Speaker 1: beyond death. We could technically-

591
00:38:13.732 --> 00:38:13.733
Speaker 2: Hmm

592
00:38:13.732 --> 00:38:16.352
Speaker 1: ... do anything. All these things,
right? I'm trying to

593
00:38:18.612 --> 00:38:22.912
Speaker 1: sear those beliefs in so deep that
like that is my default state. And the other way

594
00:38:22.972 --> 00:38:27.852
Speaker 1: around, yeah, I'm technically typing
on a keyboard right now to write some corporate

595
00:38:27.892 --> 00:38:31.232
Speaker 1: software. Like, that's just the thing
I'm doing right now, and we can all, we can

596
00:38:31.272 --> 00:38:33.972
Speaker 1: all laugh about it, but like I still
have to do it, but still-

597
00:38:34.372 --> 00:38:34.552
Speaker 2: Hmm

598
00:38:34.592 --> 00:38:40.372
Speaker 1: ... it's not who I am. And I'm trying
to do that. See, wake up, remember,

599
00:38:40.492 --> 00:38:43.552
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. I'm
setting the intention. With a lot-- I'm sort of

600
00:38:43.612 --> 00:38:49.212
Speaker 1: glossing over how, [chuckles] how
desperate I feel at times. I want this so

601
00:38:49.272 --> 00:38:55.052
Speaker 1: badly. And boy, do I ever start to
see, wake up, and

602
00:38:55.092 --> 00:39:00.712
Speaker 1: remember. [chuckles] It starts to
happen. Um, so I'll pause there, see if you have

603
00:39:00.752 --> 00:39:05.832
Speaker 1: anything you wanna ask before I, I
tell you. But that was a long time to go without

604
00:39:05.892 --> 00:39:10.092
Speaker 1: validation. Doesn't seem that long.
What was this, two months maybe? You know, I

605
00:39:10.152 --> 00:39:15.512
Speaker 1: start to have some contact and like,
again, like offhand experiences again.

606
00:39:16.192 --> 00:39:21.292
Speaker 1: But they're not like what I
experienced in the Reality 101 thing. This is,
"Whoa,

607
00:39:21.332 --> 00:39:25.792
Speaker 1: this is happening. I am learning a
lot, and this is... I'm in another place. This
is

608
00:39:25.852 --> 00:39:31.352
Speaker 1: more real than where I was." That's
not happening anymore, right? So it's been about

609
00:39:31.412 --> 00:39:35.292
Speaker 1: a two-month span before things like
that start to trickle back into my life, which

610
00:39:35.332 --> 00:39:39.912
Speaker 1: is a [chuckles] really long-- It's 60
days. That's a long time to go. [chuckles]

611
00:39:39.972 --> 00:39:43.512
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like it, but I felt
every one of those days.

612
00:39:44.352 --> 00:39:44.572
Speaker 2: Hmm.

613
00:39:48.872 --> 00:39:49.692
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like the,

614
00:39:51.852 --> 00:39:54.332
Speaker 2: um, idea of mini-games- [chuckles]

615
00:39:54.372 --> 00:39:54.592
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm

616
00:39:54.592 --> 00:39:59.632
Speaker 2: ... you mentioned. Um, and I like
your framing of it of like, oh, I'm working on

617
00:39:59.672 --> 00:40:05.592
Speaker 2: myself as like different mini-games
or side quests. Um, I also, uh, in,

618
00:40:05.972 --> 00:40:09.912
Speaker 2: you know, engaging with a lot of this
material and having, you know, liminal state

619
00:40:09.952 --> 00:40:15.192
Speaker 2: experiences myself and coming into
more and more of this, um, perception that, you

620
00:40:15.232 --> 00:40:18.232
Speaker 2: know, consciousness is fundamental.
Um,

621
00:40:20.232 --> 00:40:26.012
Speaker 2: who I really am precedes this
physical form and, uh, won't finish,

622
00:40:26.092 --> 00:40:31.672
Speaker 2: won't stop when it ends. Um,
out-of-body experiences, all these things, it's
like

623
00:40:31.712 --> 00:40:35.552
Speaker 2: these are little data points that I'm
gathering, and then talking to people like you

624
00:40:35.592 --> 00:40:39.572
Speaker 2: and hearing your experiences and
other people who have had mind-bending
experiences.

625
00:40:39.892 --> 00:40:43.732
Speaker 2: We have a friend, Kate, who's just
[chuckles] had quite an incredible... We should

626
00:40:43.772 --> 00:40:45.372
Speaker 2: have her on at some time to tell her
story.

627
00:40:45.792 --> 00:40:46.012
Speaker 1: Yeah.

628
00:40:46.052 --> 00:40:50.792
Speaker 2: Quite an incredible experience. That
just points to the fact that like, wow, this,

629
00:40:51.072 --> 00:40:55.992
Speaker 2: you know, the idea that this is a
simulation, it really feels that way. Um, or it

630
00:40:56.332 --> 00:41:00.052
Speaker 2: seems that way. Like the data adding
up seems that way. So more and more I'm

631
00:41:00.092 --> 00:41:04.812
Speaker 2: starting, trying to kind of live into
that perception on a day-to-day basis and be

632
00:41:04.852 --> 00:41:09.032
Speaker 2: like, all the little things that
would have annoyed me are like, okay, if I was
in a

633
00:41:09.072 --> 00:41:09.692
Speaker 2: video game-

634
00:41:10.232 --> 00:41:10.352
Speaker 1: Hmm

635
00:41:10.352 --> 00:41:16.272
Speaker 2: ... if I was in a MMORPG, massively
mult- massive multiplayer online video

636
00:41:16.332 --> 00:41:18.452
Speaker 2: game, role-playing game. I used to
play World of Warcraft-

637
00:41:18.752 --> 00:41:18.852
Speaker 1: Yeah

638
00:41:18.852 --> 00:41:22.312
Speaker 2: ... and other games like that. So,
uh, I can resonate with that. I've played a lot

639
00:41:22.352 --> 00:41:27.172
Speaker 2: of video games in my life. If this
was happening in a video game version, if I was

640
00:41:27.192 --> 00:41:31.712
Speaker 2: in a video game now and this thing
happened, this would be like a little fun side

641
00:41:31.752 --> 00:41:37.212
Speaker 2: quest or mini-game. Like, you know,
the kids arguing and one of them spills Cheerios

642
00:41:37.272 --> 00:41:40.732
Speaker 2: all over the floor. Ooh, now it's a
mini-game to pick up all the Cheerios and put

643
00:41:40.772 --> 00:41:45.372
Speaker 2: them back. [chuckles] And just like
trying to reframe my life and all of my

644
00:41:45.412 --> 00:41:50.572
Speaker 2: experiences that, from that
perception has really shifted things for me. Um,
it just

645
00:41:50.612 --> 00:41:54.532
Speaker 2: brings more levity. It's like this is
all just like an experience. This is all kind

646
00:41:54.572 --> 00:41:58.492
Speaker 2: of like the point. It's fun, you
know? It's meant to be fun and engaging and a

647
00:41:58.552 --> 00:42:04.392
Speaker 2: challenge. Um, and then another, uh,
thing I've been

648
00:42:04.472 --> 00:42:08.212
Speaker 2: trying to sort of like live into that
more, this has also come through our

649
00:42:08.252 --> 00:42:14.012
Speaker 2: conversations, is to think of this
body as a

650
00:42:14.072 --> 00:42:17.812
Speaker 2: vehicle. Kinda like I'm sitting in
this car. You know? [chuckles] I'm like, "This
is

651
00:42:17.852 --> 00:42:23.332
Speaker 2: my flesh suit. This is my..."
[chuckles] I don't know if anyone's seen the,
the show

652
00:42:23.392 --> 00:42:28.572
Speaker 2: E- Evangelion. There's like these...
They're like, it's like a, like giant robots

653
00:42:28.632 --> 00:42:33.832
Speaker 2: that people pilot, but the robots are
actually like living giant robot, like robotic

654
00:42:33.892 --> 00:42:39.092
Speaker 2: flesh robots or something. I don't
know. But it's wild and really weird. Um- And I,

655
00:42:39.232 --> 00:42:42.092
Speaker 2: it was formative for me watching that
show, so I'm like, "This is-- I'm kinda like

656
00:42:42.152 --> 00:42:46.372
Speaker 2: in a, an Evangelion suit right now,"
[chuckles] 'cause I'm navigating my mundane

657
00:42:46.412 --> 00:42:50.372
Speaker 2: reality. And then you go, and you
have these liminal state experiences, and then

658
00:42:50.432 --> 00:42:52.232
Speaker 2: they confirm, yeah, um,

659
00:42:53.752 --> 00:42:57.832
Speaker 2: this reality isn't base reality.
[chuckles]

660
00:42:57.892 --> 00:42:58.492
Speaker 1: It is not.

661
00:42:59.432 --> 00:42:59.552
Speaker 2: Yeah.

662
00:43:00.032 --> 00:43:03.792
Speaker 1: So those little things that you're
doing continuously, they're not just, like, a
fun

663
00:43:03.872 --> 00:43:07.532
Speaker 1: anecdote. Like, that is what opens
you up to have these big breakthrough

664
00:43:07.552 --> 00:43:12.772
Speaker 1: experiences. Doesn't seem like it.
It's, it was maddening for so long. I can say

665
00:43:12.812 --> 00:43:15.912
Speaker 1: that now, but at this point in time
where we're talking in the story, like, I still

666
00:43:15.972 --> 00:43:21.912
Speaker 1: had not, like... I didn't truly
believe, like, at a low level. Like, it hadn't
sunk

667
00:43:21.972 --> 00:43:22.912
Speaker 1: all the way in that

668
00:43:24.532 --> 00:43:29.992
Speaker 1: I made this happen. Like, uh, well, I
o-opened it up enough for it to happen, right?

669
00:43:30.172 --> 00:43:33.252
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pretend I did it all
alone. But the things you just described,

670
00:43:33.932 --> 00:43:38.572
Speaker 1: recontextualizing how you see life,
you know, working on yourself, personal

671
00:43:38.612 --> 00:43:42.832
Speaker 1: development, like, changing your
perspective on what is really happening, is what

672
00:43:42.931 --> 00:43:48.332
Speaker 1: opens up the possibility for these
breakthrough moments which give you more
insight,

673
00:43:48.372 --> 00:43:53.932
Speaker 1: and awareness, and control, and
validation to do it again. Like, that's how it

674
00:43:53.952 --> 00:43:59.312
Speaker 1: becomes exponential. But it always
starts so small. It always starts so small.

675
00:43:59.932 --> 00:44:04.432
Speaker 1: Um, I've got a quote in one of these
journals, again from mother. It's like, in

676
00:44:04.472 --> 00:44:09.292
Speaker 1: meditation, it's like, I don't get a
lot of verbal communication from her

677
00:44:09.392 --> 00:44:15.072
Speaker 1: specifically. Hands off. [chuckles]
This is your life. [chuckles] You do it.

678
00:44:15.552 --> 00:44:20.032
Speaker 1: But sometimes, and this one time I
did, and I'll look up the quote for another

679
00:44:20.092 --> 00:44:25.932
Speaker 1: episode, uh, when we talk more about
this topic. But she was saying, "Just keep

680
00:44:25.972 --> 00:44:30.352
Speaker 1: going." Like, almost like, you know,
like your child is distraught. Like, [chuckles]

681
00:44:30.352 --> 00:44:35.972
Speaker 1: "Sorry you're struggling," but it
always feels like imagination. It always starts
in

682
00:44:36.032 --> 00:44:40.692
Speaker 1: imagination. That's how it starts.
Like, you have to believe it first, and it
starts

683
00:44:40.772 --> 00:44:46.592
Speaker 1: so small, but you just have to, like,
let it grow. Like, I know it starts feeling

684
00:44:46.672 --> 00:44:50.572
Speaker 1: im-imaginary, but that's how it
always happens. Like, you have to, like, let
that

685
00:44:50.612 --> 00:44:54.832
Speaker 1: happen in order to get to a point
where it's not just imaginary. It's happening in

686
00:44:54.852 --> 00:44:59.132
Speaker 1: the rest of your life, too. But
you'll, basically, you're never gonna get there
if

687
00:44:59.152 --> 00:45:03.612
Speaker 1: you keep stomping on it. You're gonna
stay where you are. And so it's this,

688
00:45:05.112 --> 00:45:09.772
Speaker 1: these little games that we play to
open ourselves up. Constantly meditating, saying

689
00:45:09.812 --> 00:45:12.392
Speaker 1: these mantras over and over again.
That's great, but if you can work it into the

690
00:45:12.432 --> 00:45:16.912
Speaker 1: rest of your life, that is what,
like, shifts how you see things. It doesn't

691
00:45:18.032 --> 00:45:21.852
Speaker 1: immediately show up in your life.
Like, your life gets better. Personal
development

692
00:45:21.892 --> 00:45:27.332
Speaker 1: is great, and you get those benefits,
but it is doing something unseen. It is

693
00:45:27.452 --> 00:45:31.712
Speaker 1: opening up some aperture and
potential that you can't see.

694
00:45:31.852 --> 00:45:31.853
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.

695
00:45:31.872 --> 00:45:32.912
Speaker 1: And it takes a while.

696
00:45:34.492 --> 00:45:38.892
Speaker 1: So I start to get some breakthrough
experiences. I wanna remember, [chuckles] and I

697
00:45:38.952 --> 00:45:44.792
Speaker 1: wanna wake up. And I start to. So I
start to go through experiences

698
00:45:44.832 --> 00:45:50.072
Speaker 1: where I wake up in profound states,
and I realize that there is, like,

699
00:45:50.652 --> 00:45:55.692
Speaker 1: more to me specifically. Uh, to give
you a short example, I'd had previews of these

700
00:45:55.732 --> 00:45:59.532
Speaker 1: experiences before. In earlier, in
one of my depressive states in, like, January,

701
00:45:59.892 --> 00:46:02.432
Speaker 1: 'cause we're now in late February in
the timeline,

702
00:46:04.172 --> 00:46:07.872
Speaker 1: you know, just sort of beating myself
up. I don't know what I was saying. Eh, I'm

703
00:46:07.912 --> 00:46:11.572
Speaker 1: never gonna do this. This sucks. I
don't know. [chuckles] Whatever, right? And I'd

704
00:46:11.592 --> 00:46:14.272
Speaker 1: been doing it for a little while. It
was supposed to be a meditation, ended up just

705
00:46:14.312 --> 00:46:17.792
Speaker 1: being a wine fest. About halfway
through one of my thoughts,

706
00:46:19.672 --> 00:46:25.432
Speaker 1: I hear my own voice. Like, hear it.
[chuckles] You haven't lived until you hear,

707
00:46:25.492 --> 00:46:31.072
Speaker 1: heard yourself talk to you. And,
like, ball up my thought, like the one I was
abo-

708
00:46:31.152 --> 00:46:35.232
Speaker 1: trying to think, like crumble up a
piece of paper, and throw it away. Like, the

709
00:46:35.272 --> 00:46:39.532
Speaker 1: thought is gone. Like, I'm trying to
form it, and it's, "Look, uh, I can't." It's

710
00:46:39.592 --> 00:46:45.152
Speaker 1: just gone. And they tell me, "You are
not useless. [chuckles] Stop it." [chuckles]

711
00:46:45.172 --> 00:46:48.652
Speaker 1: I'm like, "But it's my own voice."
And, like, there's no response after that. I'm

712
00:46:48.672 --> 00:46:53.312
Speaker 1: like, "What the hell?" [chuckles] So
a lot of people talked about having a higher

713
00:46:53.392 --> 00:46:57.492
Speaker 1: self and, like, you know there's more
of you outside of this place, right? It

714
00:46:57.532 --> 00:47:00.272
Speaker 1: doesn't all fit in your human
existence. You can call it heaven, you can call
it the

715
00:47:00.352 --> 00:47:03.312
Speaker 1: afterlife, you can call it other
dimensions. I don't care. Call it outside the

716
00:47:03.352 --> 00:47:07.492
Speaker 1: simulation. Whatever your worldview
is, there's more of you than you are aware of

717
00:47:07.532 --> 00:47:10.932
Speaker 1: here, right? And it's doing stuff.
For some of us, I, I think it's asleep.

718
00:47:13.632 --> 00:47:18.872
Speaker 1: One day in February, late February, I
wake up as this higher self, like, completely

719
00:47:18.932 --> 00:47:24.712
Speaker 1: embodied in my l- current existence.
That day is far too profound and weird to

720
00:47:24.752 --> 00:47:29.312
Speaker 1: describe here. You're familiar with
the experience, I think. It's on my blog. That

721
00:47:29.372 --> 00:47:33.712
Speaker 1: is the dancing starlight dude in
jeans experience. I'm not going to go into it in

722
00:47:33.752 --> 00:47:37.772
Speaker 1: detail here, only that I'd received
validation, oh, there is definitely more of me,

723
00:47:37.832 --> 00:47:42.972
Speaker 1: and I, [chuckles] I am him right now
in my life. I didn't have his memories, but I'm

724
00:47:43.012 --> 00:47:48.392
Speaker 1: like, "Whoa. Okay. This is weird."
And then a few days later,

725
00:47:49.612 --> 00:47:55.132
Speaker 1: I have another experience where I
feel like I am, like, a field of

726
00:47:55.192 --> 00:47:59.832
Speaker 1: awareness from a single point. I, I
don't have any of, like, my memories. I wake up

727
00:47:59.912 --> 00:48:05.812
Speaker 1: just like, "Whoa." [chuckles] And I
am completely unattached from my life. It's, uh,

728
00:48:05.872 --> 00:48:09.592
Speaker 1: like I'm being shown another
perspective of self. Like, I am, like, the field
of

729
00:48:09.632 --> 00:48:12.532
Speaker 1: consciousness from the point of
Steven. I'm no longer Steven. It's almost, like,

730
00:48:12.652 --> 00:48:17.752
Speaker 1: outside my own soul. It's very weird.
It's a strange experience. I think, uh, it's,

731
00:48:18.232 --> 00:48:21.592
Speaker 1: these are, like, Atman and Brahman
experiences, because I get a, a follow-up

732
00:48:21.652 --> 00:48:26.512
Speaker 1: experience right after that where I
am, like, this ray of light. This is after I

733
00:48:26.552 --> 00:48:31.432
Speaker 1: wake up. I've, I'm feeling these
things. Like, these are happening to me. I'm a
ray

734
00:48:31.472 --> 00:48:35.432
Speaker 1: of light that's, like, being shined
through a bunch of, like, fractal prisms, and

735
00:48:35.492 --> 00:48:38.932
Speaker 1: every time it goes through the prism
is like, this is, like, a conscious entity.

736
00:48:38.992 --> 00:48:43.312
Speaker 1: It's like a part of myself, and that
at the end of the line where the light is

737
00:48:43.332 --> 00:48:48.192
Speaker 1: shining, hitting, it's like- Where I
am now. Like, but it's already gone through all

738
00:48:48.232 --> 00:48:53.112
Speaker 1: these other changes, and like, but
I'm like all the light as well. So if you take

739
00:48:53.152 --> 00:48:57.152
Speaker 1: the first experience, that's like me
completely unfiltered, and then you shine it

740
00:48:57.172 --> 00:49:02.932
Speaker 1: through all these [chuckles] lenses,
and then you get me where I am here. Really

741
00:49:02.992 --> 00:49:07.032
Speaker 1: weird, really weird experiences, but
they all feel like me. At no point in time do

742
00:49:07.052 --> 00:49:12.192
Speaker 1: they feel like someone else. And I
feel like I'm being shown, like, different

743
00:49:12.252 --> 00:49:17.132
Speaker 1: perspectives of like these are all
true. Like, you're definitely not just this guy

744
00:49:17.172 --> 00:49:21.372
Speaker 1: in this body. That is happening. But
also check this out, and check this out,

745
00:49:21.452 --> 00:49:22.132
Speaker 1: [chuckles] and check this out.

746
00:49:22.172 --> 00:49:22.752
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.

747
00:49:22.812 --> 00:49:25.212
Speaker 1: These are also true, and they all
felt like me.

748
00:49:27.272 --> 00:49:31.852
Speaker 1: And so these keep me motivated, and I
know that stuff is happening.

749
00:49:33.492 --> 00:49:37.212
Speaker 1: But it's not easy. I still become
depressive. After each of these experiences,
it's

750
00:49:37.252 --> 00:49:42.272
Speaker 1: like [chuckles] you know, there's a
comedown. I can't repeat it, or I can't do it on

751
00:49:42.332 --> 00:49:44.932
Speaker 1: purpose. So many of these things are
just happening to me, and it's very

752
00:49:44.972 --> 00:49:48.272
Speaker 1: frustrating. I'm getting insights,
and lots of incredible things are happening,

753
00:49:48.332 --> 00:49:53.132
Speaker 1: which we'll cover in many other
episodes. But I never lose the plot of this,
like,

754
00:49:53.292 --> 00:49:58.712
Speaker 1: main thread. I want reality 102. I
wanna know what the heck is going on here. I

755
00:49:58.752 --> 00:50:02.432
Speaker 1: wanna know who I really am. What's
going on? What do you mean see? What am I

756
00:50:02.472 --> 00:50:06.992
Speaker 1: supposed to see? What am I waking up
from? Who am I? What am I remembering?

757
00:50:06.992 --> 00:50:12.432
Speaker 1: [chuckles] I never lose this plot, so
I'm starting to get, like, little pieces. They

758
00:50:12.452 --> 00:50:16.772
Speaker 1: don't fit together. There's no
cohesiveness. There's no connection between all
these

759
00:50:16.832 --> 00:50:20.592
Speaker 1: experiences. But I mention these only
because I'm getting results now. But they're

760
00:50:20.612 --> 00:50:24.892
Speaker 1: like piecemeal, like a dart. There's
no pattern. I can't find a, a narrative through

761
00:50:24.912 --> 00:50:28.812
Speaker 1: it all to make sense of it. I don't
understand what it means. So I'll pause there

762
00:50:29.872 --> 00:50:33.772
Speaker 1: before we get to, you know, at least
a partial reveal.

763
00:50:33.772 --> 00:50:36.592
Speaker 1: [chuckles] 'Cause it works.

764
00:50:46.152 --> 00:50:46.512
Speaker 2: Hmm.

765
00:50:52.132 --> 00:50:53.592
Speaker 2: Hmm. Yeah, I'm wondering if all of
these different,

766
00:50:55.211 --> 00:51:00.752
Speaker 2: uh, experiences are continuously,
like, having their own experience. Are they
aware

767
00:51:00.792 --> 00:51:06.472
Speaker 2: of you? Uh, are they also seeking
integration? Like, you know, the, these are all

768
00:51:06.512 --> 00:51:12.052
Speaker 2: different aspects of self,
experiences that unfold within the broader

769
00:51:12.112 --> 00:51:17.792
Speaker 2: reality, uh, consciousness landscape.
Uh, is there a

770
00:51:17.852 --> 00:51:23.272
Speaker 2: plane where, you know, we're all
pinpricks of light, or we're all [chuckles]

771
00:51:23.372 --> 00:51:27.792
Speaker 2: inhabiting our higher self and
interacting in that way, uh, and these are all

772
00:51:28.652 --> 00:51:31.952
Speaker 2: happening simultaneously on different
levels?

773
00:51:33.712 --> 00:51:36.672
Speaker 2: There's a lot to grok here. [laughs]
Yeah.

774
00:51:36.752 --> 00:51:41.252
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna gloss over that
part, because we've got so many damn selves.

775
00:51:41.312 --> 00:51:45.952
Speaker 1: Like I, I've started to make a list
of all the, like, valid other perspectives that

776
00:51:46.012 --> 00:51:47.732
Speaker 1: I've felt like myself-

777
00:51:47.792 --> 00:51:47.793
Speaker 2: Mm

778
00:51:47.792 --> 00:51:53.152
Speaker 1: ... but not like Steven, and it's a
growing list. And it's so bizarre, because every

779
00:51:53.212 --> 00:51:56.512
Speaker 1: time you never feel like, you know,
you've been taken over or you're somebody else

780
00:51:56.572 --> 00:52:00.392
Speaker 1: now. Like, it always feels like you,
and it almost always feels like a superset of

781
00:52:00.452 --> 00:52:00.992
Speaker 1: you. Like-

782
00:52:01.312 --> 00:52:01.332
Speaker 2: Mm

783
00:52:01.332 --> 00:52:03.972
Speaker 1: ... oh yeah, I still have my memories
and all that. Like, I get to keep all that.

784
00:52:04.352 --> 00:52:09.832
Speaker 1: But also I'm all this, this other
thing going on. So I mention those only to say

785
00:52:09.892 --> 00:52:15.252
Speaker 1: that I'm beginning to remember,
right? There's multiple, like, threads here. I'm

786
00:52:15.292 --> 00:52:20.452
Speaker 1: beginning to remember, like, parts
of, like, who I am outside of this, like, life.

787
00:52:21.292 --> 00:52:26.152
Speaker 1: Um, it feels like remembering,
because it feels familiar. And hopefully, you
know,

788
00:52:26.212 --> 00:52:29.952
Speaker 1: we'll do a whole episode on, like,
higher selves and alternate selves. But I'd just

789
00:52:30.032 --> 00:52:33.212
Speaker 1: offer the reassurance that it always
feels like you. That's the most surprising

790
00:52:33.252 --> 00:52:38.052
Speaker 1: thing, 'cause I often feared this
experience of, like, opening up, and like, I

791
00:52:38.072 --> 00:52:41.812
Speaker 1: didn't like having other selves or
other parts of selves. Like, I don't like the

792
00:52:41.872 --> 00:52:44.992
Speaker 1: idea that there's other parts of me
outside my awareness, [chuckles] conscious

793
00:52:45.032 --> 00:52:49.872
Speaker 1: awareness. But every time, like, when
I get the direct experience, and it's no

794
00:52:49.912 --> 00:52:50.272
Speaker 1: longer-

795
00:52:50.972 --> 00:52:54.172
Speaker 2: Oh, no, you're-- I was, I was just
doing that gesture to kind of like imagine what

796
00:52:54.192 --> 00:52:58.032
Speaker 2: you're, what you're ex- explaining.
So it's like you're a small self-

797
00:52:58.152 --> 00:52:58.252
Speaker 1: Yeah

798
00:52:58.272 --> 00:53:02.112
Speaker 2: ... your ego-based self. But then
when you have these experiences, it's kind of
like

799
00:53:02.152 --> 00:53:07.492
Speaker 2: concentric circles or like a widening
frame. So it's not like you are-- Like your

800
00:53:07.592 --> 00:53:11.792
Speaker 2: small, your small self is still
there, but you're just like, "Oh, this is
actually

801
00:53:11.832 --> 00:53:15.472
Speaker 2: who I am." I mean, I've had these
experiences numerous times in psychedelic

802
00:53:15.532 --> 00:53:16.012
Speaker 2: journeys.

803
00:53:16.272 --> 00:53:16.452
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.

804
00:53:16.612 --> 00:53:21.432
Speaker 2: It'd always be like this ex- uh, it
felt-- I began to describe it as like, uh, my,

805
00:53:21.492 --> 00:53:26.232
Speaker 2: my exper- my experiences are very
different from yours, but it felt like I was s-

806
00:53:26.312 --> 00:53:31.292
Speaker 2: unzipping my skin and, like, taking
off my clothes and being like, "Oh, this is who

807
00:53:31.372 --> 00:53:35.872
Speaker 2: I really am." Kind of getting back in
touch with this, like, essence. Um, and then,

808
00:53:35.932 --> 00:53:41.652
Speaker 2: you know, the journey ends, and I
congeal back into, uh, my small self, and
there's

809
00:53:41.692 --> 00:53:46.632
Speaker 2: a kind of forgetting [chuckles] and
getting lost like you've described, you know-

810
00:53:46.712 --> 00:53:46.713
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm

811
00:53:46.712 --> 00:53:52.612
Speaker 2: ... these depressive periods. Um, and
then I'm just like, "Oh." Had to have an

812
00:53:52.652 --> 00:53:55.772
Speaker 2: experience again. It's like, "Oh
yeah, why do I keep forgetting? Why do I keep

813
00:53:55.792 --> 00:53:57.252
Speaker 2: forgetting? Why do I keep
forgetting?"

814
00:53:59.732 --> 00:54:04.492
Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyways, just, uh, trying to
make sense of this. But it's also interesting,

815
00:54:04.552 --> 00:54:08.952
Speaker 2: like you're sort of like there's all
these different angles, like, uh, perceiving

816
00:54:09.012 --> 00:54:11.692
Speaker 2: yourself from or, like, versions of
yourself through.

817
00:54:13.492 --> 00:54:13.712
Speaker 2: Yeah.

818
00:54:14.332 --> 00:54:20.172
Speaker 1: Yeah. So all of that is crazy. It
feels good. Um, but I have never

819
00:54:20.232 --> 00:54:24.592
Speaker 1: lost, like, the main thread here. I
wanna recapture that state that I had at the end

820
00:54:24.632 --> 00:54:28.672
Speaker 1: of Reality 101. Why do I not feel
like I have, like, power and awareness? I'm
going

821
00:54:28.692 --> 00:54:32.212
Speaker 1: through all this stuff, but it just
feels piecemeal. When do I get to feel like

822
00:54:32.292 --> 00:54:36.312
Speaker 1: that? Like, when do I get to know?
Like, what's on the other side of this? Like,

823
00:54:36.592 --> 00:54:41.112
Speaker 1: punching this stupid veil. Like, what
is this crap? I keep getting little pinpricks,

824
00:54:41.592 --> 00:54:47.312
Speaker 1: like a little, little light coming
through. Um, so one day, uh, what is this? April

825
00:54:47.512 --> 00:54:52.828
Speaker 1: 8th now. This is a long time. It's
been four- Almost four and a half months since

826
00:54:52.868 --> 00:54:57.168
Speaker 1: that experience. It's been a slog.
It's been amazing, up and down, a lot of

827
00:54:57.188 --> 00:55:02.668
Speaker 1: whiplash. And I sit down for a
meditation. And this entire experience is also

828
00:55:02.708 --> 00:55:05.008
Speaker 1: documented on the blog. This one is
called See.

829
00:55:06.848 --> 00:55:10.348
Speaker 1: But I'll count enough of it here so
that we can converse. I sit down for a

830
00:55:10.388 --> 00:55:14.128
Speaker 1: meditation, which is otherwise,
honestly, a pretty crappy meditation. It ends up

831
00:55:14.168 --> 00:55:19.548
Speaker 1: being an hour of just like a wine
fest. And I had, and I started doing this

832
00:55:19.588 --> 00:55:25.008
Speaker 1: recently, but I remember praying,
which is very unusual for me. So I'm

833
00:55:25.588 --> 00:55:27.548
Speaker 1: former atheist. Now I'm

834
00:55:29.428 --> 00:55:35.408
Speaker 1: anti-organized religion. I don't know
what you call it. I know. I

835
00:55:35.448 --> 00:55:38.848
Speaker 1: know there's stuff out there. I mean,
look at the sign off of the show. Everything

836
00:55:38.908 --> 00:55:42.628
Speaker 1: loves you. Like that's, if that's not
spiritual and cosmic, I don't know what is. So

837
00:55:42.688 --> 00:55:46.328
Speaker 1: there we go. We worked it in. But I
remember praying. Like,

838
00:55:47.928 --> 00:55:48.548
Speaker 1: come on.

839
00:55:50.608 --> 00:55:56.447
Speaker 1: Give this to me. Like, I've been
working so hard here. Like, come on. Give me

840
00:55:56.507 --> 00:56:01.708
Speaker 1: something. And I start seeing these
visuals. Like, it's the end of an hour

841
00:56:01.748 --> 00:56:04.868
Speaker 1: meditation. I'm stone cold sober,
man. This is like,

842
00:56:07.328 --> 00:56:11.248
Speaker 1: I may as well not have meditated,
right? It's just a wine fest in the closet.
Plus,

843
00:56:11.528 --> 00:56:16.308
Speaker 1: you know, a little sincere praying.
And I start to see some visuals. This is not

844
00:56:16.408 --> 00:56:19.828
Speaker 1: completely unusual for me. Sometimes
I get like little visuals. I call it draw

845
00:56:19.888 --> 00:56:23.548
Speaker 1: sight. It's just images. We'll talk
about it when we get to mindsight and other

846
00:56:23.588 --> 00:56:28.768
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff later on. I see some
symbols like, oh, that's cool. And then they

847
00:56:28.828 --> 00:56:32.428
Speaker 1: start to get really vivid. So I am
seeing these. These are in the visual field. I'm

848
00:56:32.468 --> 00:56:35.988
Speaker 1: sitting in my walk-in closet. It's
dark, but I can see them whether my eyes are
open

849
00:56:36.028 --> 00:56:41.228
Speaker 1: or closed. They're being drawn into
my visual field. And like, oh, that's cool. And

850
00:56:41.268 --> 00:56:46.268
Speaker 1: then they get rainbow colored and
extremely vivid. I'm like, okay, this is pretty

851
00:56:46.328 --> 00:56:49.848
Speaker 1: weird because normally I got to be in
a really altered state to get visuals like

852
00:56:49.908 --> 00:56:54.608
Speaker 1: this. This is, it's pretty weird to
have this happen to you when you're just in a

853
00:56:54.668 --> 00:56:59.548
Speaker 1: regular state. I'm a little whiny.
I'm in a bad mood. And like, I'm seeing like all

854
00:56:59.588 --> 00:57:05.168
Speaker 1: these geometric shapes, like rainbow
colored bubble wrap. I'm zooming through planes

855
00:57:05.208 --> 00:57:11.068
Speaker 1: and like tesseracts, all these crazy
shapes and like spirals and just

856
00:57:11.148 --> 00:57:16.528
Speaker 1: insane visuals. Like off the charts
music visualization, like rainbow visuals. Like,

857
00:57:16.708 --> 00:57:22.508
Speaker 1: whoa. And this is so wild that I'm
watching this for like an hour and a half,

858
00:57:22.708 --> 00:57:26.548
Speaker 1: right? So I'm in the closet for
almost three hours at this point. Like, because
it's

859
00:57:26.588 --> 00:57:31.528
Speaker 1: amazing. Like, whoa. But it's totally
lost on me, man. I don't know what the heck is

860
00:57:31.568 --> 00:57:36.848
Speaker 1: happening. I'm watching this zooming
and going across a black hole event horizon.

861
00:57:36.888 --> 00:57:41.628
Speaker 1: There's like all these cones coming
out and like, whoa. And I just know, I have this

862
00:57:41.668 --> 00:57:44.768
Speaker 1: profound sense that every single one
of these impressions means something. They're

863
00:57:44.788 --> 00:57:49.048
Speaker 1: like, it's like sacred geometry. Like
it all is like describing some beautiful,

864
00:57:49.128 --> 00:57:53.548
Speaker 1: amazing truth about the universe. If
I could record this, I could sell it for 10

865
00:57:53.588 --> 00:57:58.868
Speaker 1: grand because like, I just know that
math nerds out there would be like, whoa. Just

866
00:57:58.888 --> 00:58:02.488
Speaker 1: like pouring over this. It's just
going down the drain for me because it's totally

867
00:58:02.528 --> 00:58:06.728
Speaker 1: wasted on me. I'm like, this is some
cool fireworks. I know it means something.

868
00:58:07.148 --> 00:58:12.468
Speaker 1: Don't know what. And all kinds of
crazy stuff. I remember at one point I felt I
was

869
00:58:12.528 --> 00:58:16.468
Speaker 1: sitting in a cave. I'm sitting in my
closet. And so I'm watching this happen. And

870
00:58:16.508 --> 00:58:21.588
Speaker 1: there's just like this tidal, like
this gush of like rainbow colored liquid that

871
00:58:21.648 --> 00:58:24.688
Speaker 1: comes in through the cave, like
through the mouth of the cave. And I'm in the
cave.

872
00:58:25.148 --> 00:58:29.948
Speaker 1: And then it hits me. As it washes
over me, I just like feel this like electric
like

873
00:58:30.668 --> 00:58:35.548
Speaker 1: surge of power. Like it's all
information. Every single one of these little

874
00:58:35.608 --> 00:58:41.388
Speaker 1: particles is just like hyper dense
information. I'm like, whoa. So at some point

875
00:58:42.068 --> 00:58:46.988
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, this is cool, but I'm
pretty darn tired and I'm getting hungry. So

876
00:58:47.088 --> 00:58:53.048
Speaker 1: I'm going to go make a sandwich. So I
go make a sandwich. And like the visuals

877
00:58:53.068 --> 00:58:55.928
Speaker 1: just kind of fade out, right? You
stop paying attention to it. And it's like, all

878
00:58:55.948 --> 00:58:59.448
Speaker 1: right, those are gone now. I'm like,
well, that was cool. Don't know what that was

879
00:58:59.548 --> 00:59:04.748
Speaker 1: about, but that was fun. The weirdest
part of it was the state I was in. Like I was

880
00:59:04.808 --> 00:59:09.507
Speaker 1: not in some altered state or a
liminal state or any sort of trance. It's
regular me

881
00:59:09.548 --> 00:59:14.748
Speaker 1: in a kind of bad mood. Like that was
cool. That probably meant something. So I eat

882
00:59:14.808 --> 00:59:18.468
Speaker 1: my sandwich and I go sit in the
hammock and I'm like, you know what? I should

883
00:59:18.468 --> 00:59:21.068
Speaker 1: probably get out my journal and like
draw some of those symbols while I can still

884
00:59:21.128 --> 00:59:23.948
Speaker 1: remember them. Like maybe somebody
can look them up and like tell me what it means.

885
00:59:24.688 --> 00:59:28.548
Speaker 1: So I sit down in the hammock and I'm
like, all right, which one should I draw? So I

886
00:59:28.588 --> 00:59:32.468
Speaker 1: started sketching and I'm like, what
am I doing? Like, it's just me. Like I can just

887
00:59:32.508 --> 00:59:37.828
Speaker 1: set an intention. Hey, self, show me
the most important one I need to see. And then

888
00:59:37.928 --> 00:59:41.948
Speaker 1: I see a symbol. Boy, do I see it. And
it snaps into focus real quick. I'm like,

889
00:59:42.008 --> 00:59:43.028
Speaker 1: whoa, that was fast.

890
00:59:44.828 --> 00:59:49.328
Speaker 1: Okay, cool. So I'm sitting in the
hammock and I color in the symbol and I'm
looking

891
00:59:49.408 --> 00:59:51.388
Speaker 1: at it. And as I stare at it,

892
00:59:54.148 --> 00:59:59.168
Speaker 1: I just like start to slip into this
weird state, like almost like in awe. And I

893
00:59:59.248 --> 01:00:04.308
Speaker 1: utter aloud. So here's the symbol.
You guys already got the disclosure on this
show.

894
01:00:04.348 --> 01:00:08.548
Speaker 1: So, you know, whatever. You don't
want to watch this. You already know that you're

895
01:00:08.588 --> 01:00:11.228
Speaker 1: moving towards these sorts of states
if you're paying attention. So here we go.

896
01:00:11.448 --> 01:00:17.128
Speaker 1: Here's the symbol. It's an eye with a
boy in chains. So these

897
01:00:17.208 --> 01:00:21.708
Speaker 1: bindings. It's a red-eyed reptilian
eye wrapped up in chains,

898
01:00:23.968 --> 01:00:29.628
Speaker 1: like suspended over this giant eye.
And I know the boy is me. And as I'm staring at

899
01:00:29.668 --> 01:00:35.288
Speaker 1: it, I utter aloud, I am not the boy.
I'm the chains. Like it just comes out of me.

900
01:00:35.428 --> 01:00:41.068
Speaker 1: Like, whoa. And then the moment I say
that, my entire

901
01:00:41.128 --> 01:00:45.228
Speaker 1: experience of like I'm this guy
sitting in the hammock. I'll just read the
actual

902
01:00:45.288 --> 01:00:51.288
Speaker 1: journal. And then my entire
experience inverted. A self was the relief, the

903
01:00:51.368 --> 01:00:56.396
Speaker 1: hollow spot at the center of me,
which was everything else. There is only a

904
01:00:56.436 --> 01:01:01.636
Speaker 1: boy-shaped hole in my center. I feel
it. I did it. That's what I am.

905
01:01:02.916 --> 01:01:08.316
Speaker 1: So I am literally sitting in this
hammock, again, stoat cold summer, just kind of

906
01:01:08.376 --> 01:01:12.076
Speaker 1: drawing a symbol. And I say these
words out loud. And the moment I say them, like

907
01:01:12.176 --> 01:01:17.996
Speaker 1: flipping a switch, I am all of my
experience around me instantly snapped into

908
01:01:18.056 --> 01:01:23.956
Speaker 1: an extreme non-dual state. And I am
not just like non-dual aware, like I kind of

909
01:01:24.036 --> 01:01:27.715
Speaker 1: feel like I'm everything around me.
Like I can intimately tell the trees, the

910
01:01:27.776 --> 01:01:33.396
Speaker 1: clouds, the rocks, the hammock, even
me, the guy at the center, like it's all me.

911
01:01:33.796 --> 01:01:39.356
Speaker 1: Like I have a sense of like it was
made out of me. Exactly the same experience that

912
01:01:39.436 --> 01:01:44.036
Speaker 1: I had at the end of the reality
one-on-one, like what I was being shown. And
like,

913
01:01:44.496 --> 01:01:46.536
Speaker 1: I'm kind of freaking out. It's like,

914
01:01:48.316 --> 01:01:52.536
Speaker 1: it's pretty jarring for that to
happen. At the same time, I'm watching a guy
freak

915
01:01:52.616 --> 01:01:57.736
Speaker 1: out. And I have all these impressions
of like his limbs, his body, his emotions, his

916
01:01:57.776 --> 01:02:02.336
Speaker 1: thoughts. They're just like all
there. But it's so obviously not me. It's just
like

917
01:02:02.396 --> 01:02:05.356
Speaker 1: a thing that's happening in the same
way like a radio playing in a room or a movie

918
01:02:05.416 --> 01:02:11.336
Speaker 1: on the wall is not you. It's just
happening. Like I am rather fond of

919
01:02:11.376 --> 01:02:14.476
Speaker 1: this person, but it's just like a
car. It's like a narrative. It's just like a

920
01:02:14.496 --> 01:02:18.016
Speaker 1: wrapper. And it's so obvious that
these are just a bunch of different impressions

921
01:02:18.056 --> 01:02:23.916
Speaker 1: that I've stitched together and
called myself. But I am everything around me.
And it

922
01:02:23.976 --> 01:02:28.436
Speaker 1: is incredibly jarring. And I'm like,
and it's all me. And as I'm sitting there,

923
01:02:28.976 --> 01:02:33.736
Speaker 1: there's this sudden quiet. Now,
normally, at this point in time, I'd gotten
better

924
01:02:33.776 --> 01:02:37.256
Speaker 1: at it. I can usually reach out to
soul families, beard guides, whatever, at least

925
01:02:37.276 --> 01:02:42.056
Speaker 1: get something, at least a feeling. It
is dead silent. Nothing. Like

926
01:02:42.936 --> 01:02:48.336
Speaker 1: bizarrely silent. The whole world
feels quiet. Like everyone is just like holding

927
01:02:48.376 --> 01:02:52.776
Speaker 1: their breath. And I'm like, what the
hell is happening? Because I still have

928
01:02:52.816 --> 01:02:58.536
Speaker 1: thoughts, but I'm watching this guy
freak out. Like it's so weird. And I

929
01:02:58.596 --> 01:03:03.856
Speaker 1: just know that this is an important
moment. Anytime there's silence on the set, I'm

930
01:03:03.895 --> 01:03:09.476
Speaker 1: like, hmm, this is important. Hold on
a second. And as I'm sitting there, I just

931
01:03:09.536 --> 01:03:15.396
Speaker 1: decide this is how it really is. This
is actually how it is. Like I am my

932
01:03:15.436 --> 01:03:21.396
Speaker 1: whole reality. I'm not this guy. I
just thought I was. This is true. And the moment

933
01:03:21.496 --> 01:03:25.856
Speaker 1: I decided that, I wasn't just saying
the words, I decided it. There's like this

934
01:03:25.936 --> 01:03:31.716
Speaker 1: collective exhale. I can just feel
it. And I can feel this sense of like triumph
and

935
01:03:31.756 --> 01:03:36.476
Speaker 1: victory. And I'm like, okay, good.
Also relief. Like, okay, good. God, he got it.

936
01:03:37.636 --> 01:03:41.496
Speaker 1: Okay. Just trying to make sure he got
it. Because it wasn't, you can take

937
01:03:41.496 --> 01:03:45.056
Speaker 1: psychedelics and get into a weird
state, a non-dual state. You can realize, oh,
I'm

938
01:03:45.096 --> 01:03:50.956
Speaker 1: the universe. But this was profound
in that I had realized, not only had

939
01:03:51.036 --> 01:03:54.976
Speaker 1: I worked towards this state on my own
without any sort of influence

940
01:03:55.776 --> 01:03:58.236
Speaker 1: from the outside, but

941
01:04:00.516 --> 01:04:06.236
Speaker 1: I knew what it meant. I understood
directly. Oh, I'm just everything here. I'm the

942
01:04:06.296 --> 01:04:11.396
Speaker 1: rocks. I'm the hammock. And as I was
holding the hammock, like in my hands, like I

943
01:04:11.456 --> 01:04:14.916
Speaker 1: got it right. Okay, cool. You passed
the test. I knew that this was just one test,

944
01:04:14.976 --> 01:04:19.816
Speaker 1: that there would be more. But I was
feeling it. It's hard to describe how amazing it

945
01:04:19.856 --> 01:04:24.516
Speaker 1: was to feel it while awake. Oh my
God, it was real. Like four and a half months

946
01:04:24.576 --> 01:04:30.176
Speaker 1: later, it finally happened. Okay.
That was not just some weird dream or
psychedelic.

947
01:04:30.396 --> 01:04:35.576
Speaker 1: I'm here like right now feeling it.
And I put my hand on the hammock and the hammock

948
01:04:35.616 --> 01:04:40.976
Speaker 1: was no more or less me than the hand
was. And I could feel it. Like when I was

949
01:04:41.036 --> 01:04:46.956
Speaker 1: touching it, I could feel it. Like it
was part of me. Not like it. It was. Like

950
01:04:47.016 --> 01:04:52.036
Speaker 1: I knew. When this happens, you don't
have to guess. You just know. And I could feel

951
01:04:52.076 --> 01:04:56.056
Speaker 1: that it loved me. Like it was
shocked. Like the stuff that it was made out of
was

952
01:04:56.316 --> 01:04:59.816
Speaker 1: like a part of me that had been
separated for a long time was like, oh, he
doesn't

953
01:04:59.876 --> 01:05:05.176
Speaker 1: usually realize that we're the same
person. And it was like this reunion. Like I'd

954
01:05:05.236 --> 01:05:10.656
Speaker 1: come home like, oh, you know. You
know now. And it was just like celebrating. It's

955
01:05:10.756 --> 01:05:16.716
Speaker 1: so weird. And so for hours after
that, like it started to fade. I started

956
01:05:16.736 --> 01:05:20.816
Speaker 1: to come back down, reassociate with
my body a little bit. But I was just like

957
01:05:20.876 --> 01:05:24.056
Speaker 1: glowing. And when I would stop and
just like look at things like my desk or the

958
01:05:24.116 --> 01:05:28.116
Speaker 1: bowl, it would just, that state would
seep back partially. And I would begin to

959
01:05:28.156 --> 01:05:33.556
Speaker 1: realize that the bowl was me. Like it
was made out of me. Like I could feel it. And

960
01:05:33.836 --> 01:05:38.396
Speaker 1: I would get this profound feeling of
like love and connection from a bowl on a desk.

961
01:05:38.876 --> 01:05:44.536
Speaker 1: And like because it knew and I knew
that we were the same thing again. And

962
01:05:46.876 --> 01:05:52.736
Speaker 1: it was extremely profound. And I can
now reclaim that state on purpose. It takes a

963
01:05:52.756 --> 01:05:57.296
Speaker 1: little effort. I don't walk around
like that all the time. But once you've done it,

964
01:05:57.856 --> 01:06:02.016
Speaker 1: you can do it again. And so this was
a major milestone. And I knew what it finally

965
01:06:02.056 --> 01:06:08.036
Speaker 1: meant to see. Oh, this is what you
meant. In part, you meant for me to

966
01:06:08.136 --> 01:06:13.396
Speaker 1: see that you're not the person.
You're not a boy in the world. You're the entire

967
01:06:13.436 --> 01:06:16.656
Speaker 1: world with a boy shaped hole in the
center. Like you thought that you were this

968
01:06:16.716 --> 01:06:19.716
Speaker 1: thing walking around in the world,
but it's the exact opposite. You're the whole

969
01:06:19.756 --> 01:06:24.096
Speaker 1: world, man. You're your whole world.
You're a whole reality. This wasn't like, oh,

970
01:06:24.136 --> 01:06:28.176
Speaker 1: the rocks or the hammock or the bowl
was like, you're technically all the same thing

971
01:06:28.216 --> 01:06:34.076
Speaker 1: in a conceptual way. Like, oh, I feel
it. Holy crap. We are the

972
01:06:34.116 --> 01:06:38.376
Speaker 1: same thing. I can tell. I can feel
you and you can feel me. And it's we're the same

973
01:06:38.416 --> 01:06:44.096
Speaker 1: person. I couldn't control it, but I
was aware of it. And as I've said

974
01:06:44.136 --> 01:06:46.476
Speaker 1: before, awareness precedes control.

975
01:06:48.136 --> 01:06:53.876
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was the finale there
for the arc is that I finally in a waking

976
01:06:53.956 --> 01:06:59.076
Speaker 1: state got to see that I was in fact
my whole reality. And now I know it is true on

977
01:06:59.136 --> 01:07:02.916
Speaker 1: another level. It wasn't something
that was shown to me, something that I did and

978
01:07:02.956 --> 01:07:08.336
Speaker 1: can do again in the same way that I
can do mindsight. I can turn it on.

979
01:07:10.076 --> 01:07:10.476
Speaker 1: And it's

980
01:07:12.676 --> 01:07:17.096
Speaker 1: really the big reason behind doing
the show. I want to get people to that point

981
01:07:18.316 --> 01:07:23.556
Speaker 1: where they can feel it because it is
incredible to be

982
01:07:23.636 --> 01:07:28.316
Speaker 1: able to look at something or touch it
or just sit there and feel,

983
01:07:29.756 --> 01:07:33.396
Speaker 1: oh my God, it's me. All of this
stuff. When you're eating food, you're eating

984
01:07:33.436 --> 01:07:37.336
Speaker 1: yourself. When you look at your
computer, you're looking at yourself. It's all
you.

985
01:07:37.836 --> 01:07:43.096
Speaker 1: But not just like being told that,
but like feeling it without a doubt. Like,

986
01:07:44.376 --> 01:07:50.316
Speaker 1: oh, this is true. It's happening
right now. Like I can feel that it is. I want

987
01:07:50.416 --> 01:07:56.416
Speaker 1: as many people who want to realize
that to have that experience too. So there's the

988
01:07:56.456 --> 01:08:02.176
Speaker 1: finale for this one part of the
curriculum. If you only get there, man, I highly

989
01:08:02.216 --> 01:08:03.256
Speaker 1: recommend it to anybody.

990
01:08:10.936 --> 01:08:13.456
Speaker 2: This is Reality 101. Until next time.

991
01:08:14.936 --> 01:08:19.236
Speaker 1: Nothing is impossible. You're not
going to die. And everything loves you.