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Speaker 1: [gentle music]

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

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

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Speaker 1: it for yourself. I'm Stephen Trumbek.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Joshua Swenson. This episode
of Reality 101 is part three of See, Wake Up,

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Speaker 2: Remember. We're finishing our
conversation on the topic of direct non-dual

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Speaker 2: realization, what it implies about
how reality works, and why this matters at all

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Speaker 2: beyond a neat experience. Uh, but
before we dive in on that topic, we like to
check

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Speaker 2: in, so I'm wondering how you're
arriving today, Stephen.

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Speaker 1: I'm arriving pretty good. I'm, I'm
always excited to, to chat, uh,

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Speaker 1: and to share, you know, what I've
learned, what, what we've learned. Um, I'm
coming

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Speaker 1: off a weird experience, uh,
yesterday, where I,

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Speaker 1: uh, talked to my past self [chuckles]
in a liminal state, like right before I

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Speaker 1: chose to come here. Uh, like right
before making the decision to

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Speaker 1: live a hu- live a human life here,
which is-

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Speaker 2: Mm

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Speaker 1: ... profound and weird and pretty
emotional. Uh, pretty strange. Uh, if

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Speaker 1: you guys are new to those ideas,
that's what you can do. Time isn't a thing. You
can

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Speaker 1: talk to your past self or future
self. Um, but yeah, uh, maybe we'll get into
that

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Speaker 1: another time, but that's how I'm
arriving. It's like, dang, uh, the weight of

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Speaker 1: meaning [chuckles] feels. I got, I
got big feels, but I'm happy.

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Speaker 2: Mm.

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Speaker 1: Um, so how are you?

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's cool. Um, thanks for
sharing that. Um, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: feeling a little

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Speaker 2: lower energy, lower mood. Um,

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Speaker 2: and uh, yeah, just in a little bit of
a transitional phase. Hap- often happens in

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Speaker 2: the summer. Feel like I go through a
period of unraveling and inner exploration and

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Speaker 2: holding open for what wants to emerge
through me. And uh, just this morning,

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Speaker 2: there was this interesting [chuckles]
... I, I feel like synchronicities often, uh,

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Speaker 2: around birds happen to me. I had one
a couple months ago about hummingbirds, and

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Speaker 2: this time, uh, it's always crazy
getting my kids ready to go out the door and,
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Speaker 2: something shifted. I was able to
connect with my daughter and, uh, just

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Speaker 2: transmute her grumpy energy into
excited energy. And they open the door and, um,

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Speaker 2: this hawk takes off. It was right,
sitting right on our, uh, we live in a fifth

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Speaker 2: floor apartment, and it was on the
floor kind of like 10, 15 feet away from our

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Speaker 2: door, and it was feasting on a
pigeon. [chuckles] So it's just like we just get
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Speaker 2: glimpse of it flying off, holding the
pigeon and, uh, and uh, yeah, then there's

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Speaker 2: like blood and feathers everywhere
and, uh, some of the feed that was in the

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Speaker 2: pigeon's stomach. Um, so that was
just a, that's just, I don't know. I just, I
don't

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Speaker 2: know what to make of that, but it
was, those kind of things happen and they just,

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Speaker 2: I'm just like, uh,

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Speaker 2: I, I choose to s- to experience this
mundane reality more like a dream, you know,

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Speaker 2: laden with symbolism and meaning. And
so, uh, I think I'll have to sit with that for

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Speaker 2: a little bit. But yeah, that's how
I'm arriving today, a little bit in a, a
quandary

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Speaker 2: and, uh, yeah, excited for this
conversation and to, uh,

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Speaker 2: see how it unfolds. I, I listened
back on the, our last recording. It's been a

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Speaker 2: little while, and that, well, that
conversation went really deep, and there was a

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Speaker 2: lot of really profound, uh, things
that came through there.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm curious if you have a,
if you have anywhere you'd like to, to pick

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Speaker 2: up, 'cause I know we wanna just like
give some space today for discussing the

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Speaker 2: implications of that last, uh,
experience.

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Speaker 2: Maybe a recap, you know?

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Maybe just a short recap if you'd
like to give it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the short recap. This is the
part three that was supposed to be a one part

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Speaker 1: episode. [chuckles]

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Speaker 2: Yeah. [chuckles]

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Speaker 1: But it was meant to be like one arc,
you know, just pulling one thread of some of

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Speaker 1: the experiences that I've had, uh,
which, you know, getting the repeated

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Speaker 1: instructions to see, wake up, and
remember, and really leaning into that in

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Speaker 1: meditation, throughout waking life,
like just feeding this belief like a bonfire.

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Speaker 1: And all the places it led to various
perspectives that were weird, right? They were,

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Speaker 1: they're all valid, but they're all,
they were much different than our regular waking

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Speaker 1: life, for me anyway. Um, you know,
I've- don't have extensive psychedelic

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Speaker 1: experience, so for me, uh, you know,
the depths of meditation was as non-dual as it

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Speaker 1: got. But these were, I was like, I
was giving a, getting a tour of like various

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Speaker 1: perspectives that were all still me.
And of course, this applies to, to anyone, any

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Speaker 1: individual soul, um, that you all
have these valid perspectives as well. And

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Speaker 1: it ended, ended, air quotes, as if
we're ever done, uh, with

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Speaker 1: really a bizarre f- I think you
mentioned like fireworks experience in
pre-planning

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Speaker 1: this episode, where just a whole
bunch of stuff, just symbols and all sorts of 3D

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Speaker 1: imagery. It looked like music
visualization. It was truly wild 'cause I was
sober

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Speaker 1: and kind of in a bad mood, just
watching it all play out in the visual field.
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Speaker 1: was, it was wild, and I think right
after that happened, I got the verbal thought,

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Speaker 1: uh, "Stephen, I hope you believe in
miracles because you just got one." I'm like,

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Speaker 1: "Pssh, I don't know what you're
talking about, but okay. I mean, it looks cool,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it means." And then
of course, right after that, I had the

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Speaker 1: experience where I feel like I got
inverted. Like, I am- Like a

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Speaker 1: hole in the center of the world
shaped like a person. All the thoughts and
emotions

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Speaker 1: and everything, it's all like it's
been flattened. It's all of equal importance
now.

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Speaker 1: Just as im- I- it's just as much me
as the tree is. And I had a sense of self that

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Speaker 1: was my entire field of experience,
and it was so sudden. And like [laughs] I was

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Speaker 1: just kind of grumpy and yeah. Nothing
special had happened right before that, but it

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Speaker 1: was instantaneous, and I had the
realization that this is how it really is. And
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Speaker 1: there's a sort of collective like
sigh, like, "Okay, he gets it." And it felt like

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Speaker 1: that was a very special moment, and
maybe that's something we'll get into today. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever felt this,
but it was like this was a threshold moment in

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Speaker 1: a conscious creature's development.
Okay, cool.

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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.

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Speaker 1: Like you're literally in like a
different echelon now. You're like in a
different

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Speaker 1: category. The things we can do and
say and interact with you, you're like, you
know,

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Speaker 1: you're like bronze tier now or
whatever. [laughs] You c- we can like, if you
can

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Speaker 1: imagine like a Star Trek Prime
Directive sort of thing, there's actually maybe
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Speaker 1: categories. I don't know if this is
universal. I doubt it. But in general, I think

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Speaker 1: it, it's at least philosophical, but
probably has more hard rule implications. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm inferring all that.
But this is what it felt like, is intuitively I

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Speaker 1: just knew that like, well, things are
different now. Like the kinds of things I can

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Speaker 1: do and experience and interact with
people and d- they're allowed to do different

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Speaker 1: things now. Uh, you're no longer in
like a protected status. Like you're not in like

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Speaker 1: a nature sanctuary anymore because
you know this. Once you've had this realization,

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Speaker 1: things change. And the reason why,
specifically, again, all intuitive, was

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Speaker 1: that because nobody can stop me now.
It's like you-- if you can get in a rocket ship

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Speaker 1: and go to Venus or whatever, you
know, the people who are hanging out in a
satellite

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Speaker 1: around Venus, I'm not saying any of
this is true, this is just [laughs] just a

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Speaker 1: complete fabricated example. They
can't stop you from visiting now. So nobody's

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Speaker 1: gonna try to contain you anymore
because they can't. They literally can't. And so

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Speaker 1: once you've had realizations of
certain kinds, you can leave, like you can get
out

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Speaker 1: of the, the zoo. [laughs] So there,
there's no point in trying to keep you in it

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Speaker 1: anymore. Uh, and so you're now in a
different... You can do different things. It has

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Speaker 1: real utility. Um, so that's the
summary plus like some of the broader
implications

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Speaker 1: beyond just the personal. Like it, it
matters, uh, in ways that I'm still trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out.

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Speaker 2: Hmm.

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Speaker 2: Um, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I- it was really interesting to hear
that experience. Like I think we spoke

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Speaker 2: shortly after you had the initial
experience. You shared it with me, and then to

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Speaker 2: hear it again on the podcast and to
listen and to absorb more and more of that. Um,

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Speaker 2: and, uh, yeah, I don't... I, I feel
like, uh, my

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Speaker 2: meditation practice, uh, is pointing
me in a different

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Speaker 2: direction, um, where much of my f-
focus has been on

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Speaker 2: connecting very deeply with my body
and, uh, getting in touch with the energy that

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Speaker 2: is flowing in through me and is held
in different spaces. I've been doing recently a

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Speaker 2: lot of like meditation around my
sacral chakra and releasing blockages

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Speaker 2: there, and then my, you know, my
chest, my heart center, and opening more and
more.

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Speaker 2: As you were speaking, actually, I
felt that opening up more, which is I, I always

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Speaker 2: take as a sign of synchronicity and
connection and, uh, the path that I'm meant to

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Speaker 2: be on. And, um, yeah, but, uh, so
when I hear

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Speaker 2: about these like y- your capacity to,
um, just through

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Speaker 2: meditation, you know, go to like
these really, into these really deep, uh,

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Speaker 2: altered state experiences, there's a
part of me that's a little jealous and a part

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Speaker 2: of me that's like, "How do I get
there?" [laughs] You know? And, uh, I feel like
you

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Speaker 2: a unique capacity, or I think we each
have unique capacities, unique skill sets too,

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Speaker 2: um,

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Speaker 2: yeah, that, that are the f- are
foundations for exploration and, um, maybe
there's a

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Speaker 2: yeah, I actually listened to a
podcast recently which was recounting this

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Speaker 2: book called, um, The Secret of the
Golden Flower, and it's a, a

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Speaker 2: Taoist book. Um,

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Speaker 2: there was a contemporary of Carl
Jung's who traveled to China and

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Speaker 2: was intending to convert the people
there, but then ended up being converted

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Speaker 2: into, you know, their practices, and
this is a, a teaching that has been pa- passed

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Speaker 2: down for millennia, and he was able
to receive the teachings and re- record it. And,

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Speaker 2: uh, what's described in the book just
reminded me a lot of some of the things that

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Speaker 2: you've been describing. Um, they talk
about like, you know, different practices that

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Speaker 2: inev- eventually lead to, you know,
opening up this like inner visual

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Speaker 2: mandala-like flower. You know, like
that, that's kind of like a signifier of like a

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Speaker 2: level of a- of attainment along this
path.

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Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I have more to share, but
that's where my mind or- initially goes to. I'm

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Speaker 2: curious how that lands with you.

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Speaker 1: I love you so much, man. I love you-

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Speaker 2: [laughs] I love you too

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Speaker 1: ... enough to say that you were
feeling jealousy. You know how rare that is? Uh,

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Speaker 1: this is just-

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Speaker 2: [laughs]

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Speaker 1: I can't take it aside, so we're gonna
just leave this in the episode.

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Speaker 2: I, I, yeah, I feel my feelings.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I, I gotta be honest. [laughs]

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Speaker 1: 'Cause you're not g- you're the only
one. I have. I feel it all the time. I feel all

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Speaker 1: the time, uh, when I see people doing
things, and you're right, we do each have

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Speaker 1: unique gifts. There's aptitude. I see
it when I'm doing the psi practices with other

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Speaker 1: people. There are so many that I, no
matter how hard I try, like I can get maybe at

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Speaker 1: most a tiny amount after a lot more
effort than they put in or nothing, and it's

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Speaker 1: very frustrating. Um, so aptitude is
definitely a thing. So I think that, and

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Speaker 1: yes, you could very well be on a
different path of development. Who knows how
many

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Speaker 1: there are? The-- what you're talking
about is working at like a different layer, and

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Speaker 1: all of these are valid. Like they're
different perspectives. Yes, we have a

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Speaker 1: connection through our body to the
Earth, and there are other forms of spiritual

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Speaker 1: connection or energetic connection,
different layers, and it's complicated. They all

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Speaker 1: mix together. I think the reason I
was shown this perspective is because it leads

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Speaker 1: directly into whatever-- what comes
next, which is the Reality 102 experience that

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Speaker 1: happens the very next day. We won't
get into that today.

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Speaker 2: Hmm.

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Speaker 1: But it was-- I needed to know that I
was my entire reality. I needed to like

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Speaker 1: complete that narrative arc that I
was shown in the, the end of Reality 101. "Hey,

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Speaker 1: you are everything. Remember when you
literally felt that you were the things around

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Speaker 1: you and not just yourself?" Uh, not
in like a... Like you were literally made out of

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Speaker 1: the same thing. It's like your body
is just everything you're experiencing. It's

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Speaker 1: what it feels like directly. And I
needed to have that in a waking state
experience,

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Speaker 1: and I wasn't like in a trance state.
It just like, bleh. But I had-- I needed to

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perspectives, but I was getting this
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uh, useful. But one thing I would say to when
you

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have a perfect recipe, but for me, this comes

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doggedly repeating over and over to myself in

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just repeating, but believing, investing

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really true." Trying to get the belief to the
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your foot down, it doesn't fall through the

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with like, "See, wake up, remember," like

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like crazy, and then it happened, and I think

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that's, that path will look different for

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the realization will look different for

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But I think this is a truth that anyone can get

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it will work for anyone,

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underlying model, but let's see. [both laugh]
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like really big journeys, uh, sometimes going a

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must-- I work occasionally as

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people in altered states of consciousness. So I

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about exploring to, uh, go on that route. But,

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what comes up through a psychedelic journey can
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intense suffering, you know, all the things,

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profound and transformative. And, uh, and

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like thresholds, um, I thought that I was

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and, you know, I've probably gone on like over
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different medicines, uh, maybe 200. [chuckles]

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descend further or like, you know, go

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of it more as like a descending into the depth

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been thinking about

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cannabis to help me navigate. Uh, and this time
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happens." And it started out very mild, and, uh,
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Um, yeah, hard

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that I am,

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my whole reality, or, you know, underneath

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like a body or a mind, a

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just like wearing this- ... clo- these

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explore itself in different perspectives. And it

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reaction [laughs] where, uh, past and

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[laughs] And, uh,

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immediately possible. You're just like, "Oh
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the path to take." Um,

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channels, and you think of a person, and you

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I'm like, "I should probably close this off and

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explore in that space." Uh, and then the other

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journey, um, which, you know, this description

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remember you saying in the last episode that,
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everything around me just was so much more

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all me, you know, and this is just the

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from this outside perspective. Um,

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incredible and, uh, so I think, uh, that

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going to that state, I know that I've had

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before, and every time I return to that state,
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really am." Why do I keep forgetting? I have to

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uh... Well, I think the process of, like,

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it's a substance that really powerfully alters

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automatically into this altered state,

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to go deeper, like I said about the, um,

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new pla- new plateaus, right? Or deeper

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these kind of like thres- going behind these

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capacity to go deeper, but it's also like this

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experience this, you know? And then it, my, uh,

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after the medicine leaves my system, and so I'm

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Like, I'm not quite at the state where I can
hold

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like, I get to, uh, get little

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I think it's like a glimpse of where I could be

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something that I can sustain, [laughs] you know?

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Um, his podcast is, uh, Point of

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of his classes together. And he talks about

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which I don't think involves psychedelics, but
it

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Um, where he's able to exit the construct, he

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several of these excursions and inc- to
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or beyond, you know, physical reality. And it's

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uh, it kind of felt like that, like I had left

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like, hard to, hard to, like, then make the

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try- I was trying to, like, make my lunch and

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like I need to, like, bring it down a little
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um... Yeah. I'm curious how,

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Speaker 1: I think you're experiencing even
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Speaker 1: psychedelics are showing us something
true. Uh, I do think they stimulate our

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is... Obviously, you know better about this than

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cooperative and you're creating-

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Speaker 1: ... some of the, the experience. But
that's, I think that's because that's true

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Speaker 1: also. Uh, but I think you're seeing
something even deeper than what I was

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experiencing The same things that you experience

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life. I didn't have any, you know, sixth sense
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senses come online. It was literally just like,

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think." That was the strangest part about my

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Speaker 1: I can, I can use my hands. I could
talk. I could crack a joke. I could walk around.

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in the center of my reality.

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Speaker 1: And like, this is obviously not me.
And I think you were experiencing something even

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connection of a soul to everything else, right?

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Speaker 1: There is no real distinction between
these things. We draw lines at, I won't say

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ultimately just still the same thing. I think
we're

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point. I think you were experiencing a much

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even the individual soul.

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Speaker 1: You're getting way more. It was a
yes, and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the thing I really
appreciate about your process is that it's, um,

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through a period where I was doing a lot of

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my body can't sustain this. That, you know, I

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as it was just harder and harder to come down

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kind of like... And it was just like, like after

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all that night.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I got to sleep at like, you
know, 4:00 AM or something. Uh, but it's just

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that, uh,

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Speaker 2: this current incarnation is like
[chuckles] not quite ready to hold all

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Speaker 2: that. But the process that you're
going through is like this incremental, you're

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Speaker 2: being guided by your, um, you know,
your soul family, your spirit guides,

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Speaker 2: and they're giving you things that
you're, you know, at this current stage, ready
to

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don't know. It's interesting. I'm, I'm finding

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psychedelics less, you know? It, it'd been

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of journey when I wanted to try this LSD

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Speaker 2: journey, and as I came down from
that, I was like, "You know, I think I'm good
for

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Speaker 2: Whereas I went through a period where
I was doing things like that, you know, every

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Speaker 2: two weeks or something like that, and
I was just like, it was so... That

367
00:26:49.384 --> 00:26:54.704
Speaker 2: being in that state was so enticing.
You know? Like the, that state of power and

368
00:26:54.784 --> 00:27:00.724
Speaker 2: clarity and, um, energy, you know,
aliveness, was so enticing that I

369
00:27:00.744 --> 00:27:03.764
Speaker 2: was just like drawn back to it. But
at some point, I realized I couldn't sustain it

370
00:27:03.824 --> 00:27:09.284
Speaker 2: anymore, so now I'm like, "Okay, the
gradual path is the, is the path for me." And

371
00:27:09.384 --> 00:27:13.444
Speaker 2: I, I know that this is kind of like
a, a common thread amongst like psychonauts,

372
00:27:13.644 --> 00:27:14.944
Speaker 2: like Ram Dass. You know, he-

373
00:27:15.184 --> 00:27:15.444
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm

374
00:27:15.444 --> 00:27:20.384
Speaker 2: ... was a big explorer in the, what?
'70s or '80s, and then, you know, turned more

375
00:27:20.444 --> 00:27:25.964
Speaker 2: towards, uh, meditation. Alan Watts
has said, uh, with psychedel- about

376
00:27:26.044 --> 00:27:30.144
Speaker 2: psychedelics, "Once you pick up--
Once you get the call, pick up the phone. Once

377
00:27:30.204 --> 00:27:34.504
Speaker 2: you, once you receive the message,
pick up..." Uh, "Once you receive the message,

378
00:27:36.244 --> 00:27:38.124
Speaker 2: hang up the phone." [chuckles]
That's, uh, that's what it is.

379
00:27:39.424 --> 00:27:40.244
Speaker 1: Yeah. Don't keep doing it.

380
00:27:40.264 --> 00:27:41.004
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

381
00:27:41.024 --> 00:27:42.844
Speaker 1: Now you're just hitting the button
over and over again.

382
00:27:43.084 --> 00:27:45.364
Speaker 2: Yeah. [chuckles]

383
00:27:45.444 --> 00:27:49.084
Speaker 1: Well, one of the nice parts of doing
it the gradual way, and I would describe it the

384
00:27:49.144 --> 00:27:52.984
Speaker 1: same way, is that it is, you bring it
into your everyday life.

385
00:27:53.364 --> 00:27:53.384
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.

386
00:27:53.424 --> 00:27:57.804
Speaker 1: I'm not in that kind of state all the
time. It's actually very hard to get back to

387
00:27:57.924 --> 00:28:02.784
Speaker 1: even that level of like, uh, like
non-dual realization. But with deliberate

388
00:28:02.824 --> 00:28:07.604
Speaker 1: practice, I find that my av- I find
that my average state is more and more like

389
00:28:07.664 --> 00:28:12.924
Speaker 1: that. Like I am moving or shifting
around my entire reality when I walk, when I

390
00:28:13.144 --> 00:28:17.804
Speaker 1: think, when I do stuff. Like they're
all-- My thoughts and emotions are more

391
00:28:17.864 --> 00:28:22.124
Speaker 1: co-equal with my surroundings and
with other people's thoughts and emotions.
They're

392
00:28:22.164 --> 00:28:27.124
Speaker 1: like, more like fields, as some
people describe them. It's like a thing I'm
pouring

393
00:28:27.784 --> 00:28:33.184
Speaker 1: my experience, my influence into,
rather than a thing that is just mine. And so

394
00:28:33.224 --> 00:28:37.544
Speaker 1: there's all these other experiences
that like become a different waking state when

395
00:28:37.583 --> 00:28:40.564
Speaker 1: you can stabilize it like this. So
I'm not like that all the time-

396
00:28:40.584 --> 00:28:40.624
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm

397
00:28:40.624 --> 00:28:46.064
Speaker 1: ... but I, I bring in these
capacities into my waking state just by default.
It just

398
00:28:46.124 --> 00:28:51.504
Speaker 1: seems to happen. And I've learned a
lot, almost just, just direct experience, of

399
00:28:51.544 --> 00:28:56.144
Speaker 1: course, but I've alm- learned almost
enough through, like you've said, I'm in like

400
00:28:56.204 --> 00:29:00.924
Speaker 1: telepathic communication largely with
my sister and mother most of the time, but

401
00:29:01.024 --> 00:29:06.984
Speaker 1: others too. Um, and it's just pretty
chill, but it's mostly, uh,

402
00:29:07.824 --> 00:29:11.584
Speaker 1: a lot of it is about instruction
and... But it's really instruction through
doing.

403
00:29:11.624 --> 00:29:14.784
Speaker 1: It's through living, right? What does
this mean? Ah, what did that happen?

404
00:29:14.824 --> 00:29:18.284
Speaker 1: [chuckles] It's, it's not like, uh,
the lectures are few and far between. It was

405
00:29:18.304 --> 00:29:23.064
Speaker 1: like six months between the next
lecture. Um, one of the things that came to mind

406
00:29:24.284 --> 00:29:27.824
Speaker 1: is how like non-physical people, who
are in these kinds of states all the time or

407
00:29:27.904 --> 00:29:33.884
Speaker 1: can move around them freely, how they
experience life, I don't know for sure, but I

408
00:29:33.944 --> 00:29:37.944
Speaker 1: would, uh, reason that my, my twin,
who's not physical,

409
00:29:39.824 --> 00:29:44.084
Speaker 1: s- has spent most of her life, if not
all of her life, that way. And so she makes an

410
00:29:44.144 --> 00:29:47.824
Speaker 1: excellent study in like, what would
you be like if you were like that all the time?

411
00:29:48.624 --> 00:29:50.304
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.

412
00:29:50.344 --> 00:29:53.844
Speaker 1: And I know that when I get like
really depressive or really upset, just life
stuff,

413
00:29:54.124 --> 00:29:59.424
Speaker 1: life is hard, and I'm caught up in
it. She, at least for a while, had a really hard

414
00:29:59.484 --> 00:30:04.144
Speaker 1: time understanding why I was so
upset. I wrote down like the exact quote. I read
it

415
00:30:04.184 --> 00:30:09.864
Speaker 1: right before this episode, which was,
"This is just a game. We're just

416
00:30:09.924 --> 00:30:11.464
Speaker 1: playing. That's not you."

417
00:30:11.684 --> 00:30:11.685
Speaker 2: Mm.

418
00:30:11.684 --> 00:30:17.104
Speaker 1: "This isn't me." Like I could feel
the frustration. Like, "Why are you so upset? I

419
00:30:17.264 --> 00:30:19.824
Speaker 1: wanna help you, but I don't
understand like why you're so upset."

420
00:30:19.864 --> 00:30:19.865
Speaker 2: Mm.

421
00:30:19.864 --> 00:30:20.524
Speaker 1: Like she knew.

422
00:30:20.564 --> 00:30:20.684
Speaker 2: Mm.

423
00:30:20.724 --> 00:30:25.064
Speaker 1: Like it's not like-- They're not
dumb. They, they understand like you're
associated

424
00:30:25.104 --> 00:30:29.224
Speaker 1: with yourself and your thoughts, your
emotions. So I'm, I'm upset 'cause this thing

425
00:30:29.264 --> 00:30:34.820
Speaker 1: happened or because I feel miserable
about this idea. But for them it,

426
00:30:35.240 --> 00:30:38.220
Speaker 1: I think it's much more obvious
because they're in a state kind of like the

427
00:30:38.260 --> 00:30:42.500
Speaker 1: experience we just described, where
it is directly experientially obvious that your

428
00:30:42.560 --> 00:30:45.760
Speaker 1: thoughts and emotions are not yours.
They're just happening. Like, you can create

429
00:30:45.800 --> 00:30:49.320
Speaker 1: them, but you don't have to have
them. Even your body is just an expression of

430
00:30:49.360 --> 00:30:52.560
Speaker 1: yourself. Even your surroundings is
just an expression that you can switch up

431
00:30:52.600 --> 00:30:56.320
Speaker 1: whenever you want to. Why are you so
upset about this thing? Just dump that thought.

432
00:30:56.360 --> 00:30:59.440
Speaker 1: Like, you're not having fun with it.
Just, just why are you... I don't get it.

433
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:00.280
Speaker 2: [chuckles]

434
00:31:00.360 --> 00:31:04.580
Speaker 1: So I-- that is just as much
instruction as, like, the direct experience is
seeing

435
00:31:04.620 --> 00:31:06.020
Speaker 1: the contrast between us.

436
00:31:07.300 --> 00:31:07.540
Speaker 2: Hmm.

437
00:31:09.180 --> 00:31:13.120
Speaker 2: I would say, "You don't know how hard
it is to be down here sometimes. [chuckles]

438
00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:14.280
Speaker 2: Come on, give me a break."

439
00:31:14.740 --> 00:31:19.020
Speaker 1: I can be petty. [both laughing]

440
00:31:19.100 --> 00:31:19.460
Speaker 2: Yeah.

441
00:31:21.260 --> 00:31:21.620
Speaker 2: Hmm.

442
00:31:23.900 --> 00:31:26.940
Speaker 2: I've, I've heard of, uh, um,

443
00:31:29.140 --> 00:31:34.480
Speaker 2: yeah, that humans are unique amongst,
uh, intelligent species,

444
00:31:35.080 --> 00:31:37.500
Speaker 2: uh, across the universe. Um,

445
00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:41.260
Speaker 2: um, and that they are--

446
00:31:43.020 --> 00:31:48.420
Speaker 2: Th- that, that this experience of
being separate, being separated from source or,

447
00:31:48.500 --> 00:31:52.360
Speaker 2: like, the deeper layers of reality
is, uh, a unique experience.

448
00:31:57.040 --> 00:31:59.860
Speaker 1: It certainly is. It can be uniquely
miserable, too.

449
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:00.480
Speaker 2: [chuckles]

450
00:32:00.500 --> 00:32:04.560
Speaker 1: I think one of the strangest things
about going along this like, I guess, a path of

451
00:32:04.620 --> 00:32:10.180
Speaker 1: progression, of being shown how it
really is, at least in some perspectives, is
that

452
00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:14.800
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to, like, get
outside of behind my thoughts and emotions and
just

453
00:32:14.860 --> 00:32:19.580
Speaker 1: see them as a thing that is
happening. I think that is the normal experience
for

454
00:32:20.500 --> 00:32:26.240
Speaker 1: most conscious entities. That is the
gist that I get as well, is that we're

455
00:32:27.540 --> 00:32:31.880
Speaker 1: oddballs and that we s- kinda like
toddlers. We still think that this is all ours.

456
00:32:31.940 --> 00:32:36.220
Speaker 1: It's like you get, uh, you know, my
kids especially when they're really young, like,

457
00:32:36.280 --> 00:32:39.840
Speaker 1: they run into the door, they get
angry at the door. Like, "This dumb door hit
me."

458
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:40.001
Speaker 2: [chuckles]

459
00:32:40.080 --> 00:32:45.920
Speaker 1: It's like we're still stuck at that
level in a lot of ways. Um, and I had

460
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:50.080
Speaker 1: noticed that as I progress a l- you
know, this awareness gets baked in. I make it

461
00:32:50.140 --> 00:32:53.400
Speaker 1: sound like I've done something
amazing. It's just happening to me. Like I'm,
I'm

462
00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:56.800
Speaker 1: leaning into it and I am practicing,
but I think it's just a thing like walking that

463
00:32:56.860 --> 00:33:01.120
Speaker 1: anyone can do. Like you already know
how. It's a natural thing. Like you'll ke-

464
00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:06.400
Speaker 1: you'll get there if you want the same
experiences because this is how it is. I think

465
00:33:06.460 --> 00:33:12.320
Speaker 1: that it's weird to me that I can
still think and feel emotion. Like I can still
go

466
00:33:12.360 --> 00:33:17.100
Speaker 1: back down, air quotes, "down" into
like being associated with my experience. I can

467
00:33:17.140 --> 00:33:20.940
Speaker 1: play a video game or get lost in
music, and I'm not thinking the whole time, "Oh,

468
00:33:20.980 --> 00:33:22.560
Speaker 1: this is an illusion. This is all
fake."

469
00:33:22.660 --> 00:33:22.661
Speaker 2: Mm.

470
00:33:22.660 --> 00:33:25.700
Speaker 1: "I'm just creating it." Like, no, I'm
in it. I'm in it totally.

471
00:33:26.100 --> 00:33:26.140
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.

472
00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:28.280
Speaker 1: Just as much as I was before. But-

473
00:33:28.740 --> 00:33:28.840
Speaker 2: Yeah

474
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:34.200
Speaker 1: ... I can also stop doing that and
go, "Meh." Not always. I'm not perfect. You
know,

475
00:33:34.300 --> 00:33:38.700
Speaker 1: I still get tightly associated and
caught up in my own drama like anyone. But that

476
00:33:38.760 --> 00:33:42.380
Speaker 1: is less and less becoming my default
state. How can it not be? Once you've had these

477
00:33:42.420 --> 00:33:46.760
Speaker 1: experiences, you never go back to the
same shape once you've had experiences like

478
00:33:46.820 --> 00:33:51.720
Speaker 1: this, and you keep practicing it. So
it's like you have the option to be exactly as

479
00:33:51.760 --> 00:33:55.420
Speaker 1: you are right now. You, you're not
gonna lose that. I found that very reassuring

480
00:33:55.440 --> 00:34:00.600
Speaker 1: 'cause it always scared me to unwind
myself this much. But you can continue to do

481
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:04.760
Speaker 1: it. You can be exactly as you are
right now if you want to be, at any point in
time.

482
00:34:04.800 --> 00:34:08.560
Speaker 1: But the moment you're tired of that,
you can go, "I think I'm gonna go back to a

483
00:34:08.620 --> 00:34:14.000
Speaker 1: non-dual chill. I feel like I'm
everything," or whatever. Do whatever you want.
And

484
00:34:14.060 --> 00:34:18.520
Speaker 1: you have control. That's the
difference. You get awareness and then control,
and you

485
00:34:18.540 --> 00:34:23.260
Speaker 1: have a choice now. Uh, and that was
very reassuring for me 'cause I thought that I

486
00:34:23.260 --> 00:34:29.260
Speaker 1: would be stuck like that. The
[chuckles] expanding gives you the optionality

487
00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:30.720
Speaker 1: to be expanded and to have more-

488
00:34:30.740 --> 00:34:30.880
Speaker 2: Yeah

489
00:34:30.900 --> 00:34:33.900
Speaker 1: ... awareness and control over your
reality, but you don't have to. You can still

490
00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:36.660
Speaker 1: just be a dude chilling, like playing
a video game.

491
00:34:36.860 --> 00:34:37.440
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

492
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:41.900
Speaker 1: You don't have to be burdened by this
greater knowledge and awareness. You can put

493
00:34:41.920 --> 00:34:45.280
Speaker 1: it on. You can scale up and down.
It's like the ceiling goes up. You can go back
to

494
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:50.360
Speaker 1: your old level, but you don't lose
the ability to be expanded or to, to stop caring

495
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:53.999
Speaker 1: about things that don't matter or to
shift your experience of what's actually

496
00:34:54.040 --> 00:34:58.740
Speaker 1: happening around you. You, you get
more, but it doesn't end up being less. You can

497
00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:01.840
Speaker 1: still be smaller if you want to. You
don't lose it.

498
00:35:02.120 --> 00:35:02.121
Speaker 2: Hmm.

499
00:35:02.160 --> 00:35:06.320
Speaker 1: So there's really nothing to lose,
except for if you want the confinement for some

500
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:06.680
Speaker 1: reason.

501
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:07.001
Speaker 2: Yeah.

502
00:35:07.080 --> 00:35:08.100
Speaker 1: Then I guess you lose that.

503
00:35:09.980 --> 00:35:13.500
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really interesting. I
have thought a lot about this and just

504
00:35:13.540 --> 00:35:18.660
Speaker 2: experiencing more recently. Like, I
used to love playing video games. I used to love

505
00:35:18.700 --> 00:35:24.400
Speaker 2: watching television shows. I was big
into Marvel movies and, uh, yeah,

506
00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:30.220
Speaker 2: everything, you know. Um,
consumption, you know. I was a consumer of
popular media

507
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:36.280
Speaker 2: and, uh, there was a period in my
life when maybe that was satisfying. But, um,

508
00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:43.900
Speaker 2: yeah, I don't know. Like, it's
interesting as it, like coming into this world,
you

509
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:49.560
Speaker 2: know, from that, I, I believe that
we're, you know, when we die, uh, or perhaps

510
00:35:49.620 --> 00:35:53.200
Speaker 2: already, you know, like there's a,
like you've shared about in your last, last

511
00:35:53.260 --> 00:35:56.640
Speaker 2: episode, there's these, these
different selves that exist on different layers
of

512
00:35:56.680 --> 00:36:02.600
Speaker 2: reality. So, you know, there's a part
of you that is in that higher state, uh, or

513
00:36:02.680 --> 00:36:05.680
Speaker 2: I don't even wanna call it higher
'cause I don't wanna say that there's a
hierarchy.

514
00:36:05.720 --> 00:36:07.080
Speaker 2: But, um,

515
00:36:08.680 --> 00:36:14.020
Speaker 2: that isn't confined to this material
realm, you know, of, uh, matter and time,

516
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:21.320
Speaker 2: physicalism. Uh, but when you're in
that higher state, uh, I imagine that I look

517
00:36:21.380 --> 00:36:26.480
Speaker 2: down on this and it's almost like a
video game. It's like The Sims or World of

518
00:36:26.520 --> 00:36:30.000
Speaker 2: Warcraft, like a massively... We ta-
I mentioned this last time too, the massively

519
00:36:30.080 --> 00:36:34.420
Speaker 2: online multiplayer game, you know,
uh, where we're all creating this reality

520
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:38.360
Speaker 2: together. But it's like, "Oh, well,
that looks fun. Let me, let me go in there and

521
00:36:38.780 --> 00:36:43.996
Speaker 2: experience that." But in order to
really Get into the game, we have to

522
00:36:44.636 --> 00:36:50.236
Speaker 2: forget that anything else exists, you
know? And then, you know, you can just fall in

523
00:36:50.255 --> 00:36:55.556
Speaker 2: love with everything and experience
everything as if it's, um, real, you know? Uh,

524
00:36:56.556 --> 00:37:01.916
Speaker 2: and, uh, I, I think about, I think
about that and I'm like, you know, the first
time

525
00:37:01.996 --> 00:37:05.456
Speaker 2: trying ice cream, you know? The first
time having sex.

526
00:37:06.056 --> 00:37:06.156
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.

527
00:37:06.276 --> 00:37:11.476
Speaker 2: The first time playing a video game.
Zelda, Nintendo 64, Ocarina of Time, like one

528
00:37:11.516 --> 00:37:15.396
Speaker 2: of my first, like, games that I
really fell in love with, you know? And now if I

529
00:37:15.416 --> 00:37:20.876
Speaker 2: were to go back and play that, I'd be
like, "Well, this is... Eh." [laughs] You

530
00:37:20.916 --> 00:37:26.076
Speaker 2: know? Um, and I, I like-- It's so
hard for me to find anything that I'm,

531
00:37:27.356 --> 00:37:30.436
Speaker 2: like, in terms of popular media, that
I'm actually, like, really interested in,

532
00:37:30.516 --> 00:37:36.016
Speaker 2: because nothing really satisfies, uh,
the, I guess, the

533
00:37:37.316 --> 00:37:41.496
Speaker 2: interest that I have now, or the
developmental level I've sort of reached or, you

534
00:37:41.556 --> 00:37:46.595
Speaker 2: know, reflects some of these higher
realities that I've begun to contemplate.

535
00:37:47.296 --> 00:37:51.736
Speaker 2: So I, I think of, like, also The
Matrix, like this red pill, blue pill, right?
Which

536
00:37:51.796 --> 00:37:54.276
Speaker 2: is the one that keeps you in the
matrix? The blue pill, I think. [laughs]

537
00:37:54.296 --> 00:37:54.936
Speaker 1: The blue pill, yeah.

538
00:37:55.016 --> 00:37:58.536
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I don't think I could
take the blue pill. I mean, I kind of wish

539
00:37:58.576 --> 00:38:02.916
Speaker 2: sometimes that I could take the blue
pill, and, like, just go back and believe that

540
00:38:02.956 --> 00:38:08.236
Speaker 2: this is all, like, like money matters
and, [laughs] you know, um, uh, a life where I

541
00:38:08.236 --> 00:38:08.237
Speaker 2: get to play-

542
00:38:08.236 --> 00:38:09.196
Speaker 1: Well, you took the blue pill to get
here.

543
00:38:10.676 --> 00:38:13.376
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get to-- I took the blue pill
to get here, but gra- like, I've been taking

544
00:38:13.476 --> 00:38:15.896
Speaker 2: little red pills my whole life since
then. [laughs]

545
00:38:17.496 --> 00:38:23.236
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's a good analogy.
I've said that you do get to take the red pill
if

546
00:38:23.316 --> 00:38:27.476
Speaker 1: you go on this sort of path of
spiritual progression. Ugh, that's the word,

547
00:38:27.576 --> 00:38:29.696
Speaker 1: spiritual. It's-- This is how it is.
It's reality.

548
00:38:29.736 --> 00:38:29.776
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

549
00:38:29.816 --> 00:38:31.516
Speaker 1: It's the same thing. This is no
difference.

550
00:38:32.016 --> 00:38:32.036
Speaker 2: Yeah.

551
00:38:32.096 --> 00:38:37.916
Speaker 1: It's, uh, you get the red pill, but
then you still live in the matrix. Like, this

552
00:38:37.976 --> 00:38:38.796
Speaker 1: is, like, the biggest-

553
00:38:38.836 --> 00:38:38.856
Speaker 2: Hmm.

554
00:38:38.876 --> 00:38:43.796
Speaker 1: Like, you gotta be kidding me. What?
I have to go back? [laughs] No. No, I know it's

555
00:38:43.836 --> 00:38:46.016
Speaker 1: all real, but now I'm here still.
Like-

556
00:38:46.096 --> 00:38:46.276
Speaker 2: Yeah.

557
00:38:47.196 --> 00:38:50.956
Speaker 1: And I've often had-- I like to take
the perspective that it's all real, and this is

558
00:38:51.016 --> 00:38:54.436
Speaker 1: a choice, right? It's, it's... Is
nothing real? Is everything real? I feel like

559
00:38:54.476 --> 00:38:58.796
Speaker 1: that's a fundamental decision. Uh, or
you, you can try, like, graduated, like, oh,

560
00:38:58.876 --> 00:39:04.756
Speaker 1: this is real and this isn't. But I
prefer to treat it as it's all real, um, 'cause

561
00:39:04.796 --> 00:39:08.876
Speaker 1: that's, that's more meaningful to me.
And, but I've experienced what you're

562
00:39:08.916 --> 00:39:13.416
Speaker 1: experiencing too, and I think that
from my conversations with, you know, our mutual

563
00:39:13.476 --> 00:39:17.076
Speaker 1: friends and other friends that I have
that are doing this kind of thing, you just

564
00:39:17.156 --> 00:39:21.916
Speaker 1: stop caring about materialistic
things. You stop going for cheap dopamine fixes.
The

565
00:39:21.956 --> 00:39:26.476
Speaker 1: kinds of easy, cheap entertainment or
stimulation that used to do it for you, they

566
00:39:26.576 --> 00:39:31.996
Speaker 1: fall away naturally. Uh, sometimes
you can still enjoy them, but I think in a lot
of

567
00:39:32.036 --> 00:39:37.056
Speaker 1: ways it's like growing out of, like,
eating, uh, crappy candy or junk food that

568
00:39:37.096 --> 00:39:39.156
Speaker 1: doesn't taste good. You have higher
standards now.

569
00:39:39.456 --> 00:39:39.457
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.

570
00:39:39.476 --> 00:39:44.356
Speaker 1: And it's generally a good thing, and
it's because you're after something else. So

571
00:39:44.396 --> 00:39:48.276
Speaker 1: that's, like, healthy. It's not like
you became numb to it so much as it's just,

572
00:39:48.336 --> 00:39:48.496
Speaker 1: like,

573
00:39:50.176 --> 00:39:55.516
Speaker 1: for me, it feels less meaningful now,
and I, I'm after something that takes a little

574
00:39:55.576 --> 00:39:58.796
Speaker 1: more effort to cultivate, but also
has more richness and dimension to it.

575
00:39:58.936 --> 00:39:58.937
Speaker 2: Right.

576
00:39:58.956 --> 00:40:02.036
Speaker 1: It's not just like-- It has
complexity in its flavor. If we're using the
food

577
00:40:02.096 --> 00:40:04.996
Speaker 1: analogy, it's not just sweet,
artificial flavor.

578
00:40:07.596 --> 00:40:11.736
Speaker 2: Yeah, and all of that, uh, media that
I used to be into was like, oh, here's stories

579
00:40:11.796 --> 00:40:16.996
Speaker 2: about superheroes. Here's a video
game where you get to have cool magic powers.
And,

580
00:40:17.056 --> 00:40:22.956
Speaker 2: uh, the more I deepen into these
practices, it's like, wait a minute, I can do
that

581
00:40:23.016 --> 00:40:28.876
Speaker 2: for real. [laughs] Uh, my, my buddy
Steven over here can

582
00:40:28.956 --> 00:40:31.836
Speaker 2: see without eyes and spin a, uh, a,

583
00:40:33.556 --> 00:40:36.636
Speaker 2: a psi wheel around. [laughs]

584
00:40:36.736 --> 00:40:37.156
Speaker 1: So can you.

585
00:40:37.776 --> 00:40:41.256
Speaker 2: Yeah, so can I, you know? I need, I
need to, I need to invest the 30 hours of

586
00:40:41.296 --> 00:40:42.336
Speaker 2: practice. [laughs]

587
00:40:42.376 --> 00:40:43.496
Speaker 1: Feels like you have less than that.

588
00:40:43.516 --> 00:40:49.356
Speaker 2: [laughs] And, uh, my daughter this
morning was like, "I

589
00:40:49.436 --> 00:40:54.876
Speaker 2: wish I could fly. I wish humans could
fly." And I was like, "Well, there is this

590
00:40:54.936 --> 00:40:56.636
Speaker 2: book called They Flew-

591
00:40:57.056 --> 00:40:57.316
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm

592
00:40:57.316 --> 00:41:03.296
Speaker 2: ... which is a historical study of
accounts from the medieval times when,

593
00:41:03.516 --> 00:41:08.076
Speaker 2: you know, these monastics, um,
Christian monastics would get in such ecstatic
states

594
00:41:08.136 --> 00:41:13.696
Speaker 2: for their love of the divine, Jesus
or God or, you know, divinity,

595
00:41:14.396 --> 00:41:19.416
Speaker 2: that they flew. And there were
hundreds of people that witnessed these events,
and

596
00:41:19.456 --> 00:41:24.916
Speaker 2: it happened numerous times. Uh, and
the conclusion of this academic who's

597
00:41:24.956 --> 00:41:30.896
Speaker 2: researching this is they flew.
[laughs] And, uh, yeah, I

598
00:41:30.956 --> 00:41:36.576
Speaker 2: read Autobiography of a Yogi: The,
The Life of Yogananda when I was in college.

599
00:41:37.736 --> 00:41:42.516
Speaker 2: And, uh, that starts this, basically
this who- whole account of all of these yogis

600
00:41:42.576 --> 00:41:48.336
Speaker 2: and the incredible yogic superpowers
that they have. Uh, [laughs] and there's a part

601
00:41:48.356 --> 00:41:51.976
Speaker 2: of, there's a part of me that's just
like, I don't think I believed it back then,

602
00:41:52.196 --> 00:41:56.116
Speaker 2: you know, when I was younger. I was
like, a part of me wanted to believe it and so

603
00:41:56.156 --> 00:42:00.196
Speaker 2: that's why I took up meditation.
[laughs] That's the part of me that's like,
that's

604
00:42:00.216 --> 00:42:05.436
Speaker 2: why I started meditating. Um, you
know, there's accounts of, like, yog- yogis or

605
00:42:05.956 --> 00:42:08.716
Speaker 2: people who would, like, fly and shoot
fire out of their hands. Like, basically

606
00:42:08.776 --> 00:42:13.696
Speaker 2: anything like a superhero, modern-day
Marvel superhero could do, uh, there are

607
00:42:13.756 --> 00:42:17.296
Speaker 2: accounts of it happening, happening
in human history. [laughs]

608
00:42:17.336 --> 00:42:20.976
Speaker 1: So I believe this is true. I've heard
similar accounts through Dean Radin's book-

609
00:42:21.116 --> 00:42:21.117
Speaker 2: Hmm

610
00:42:21.116 --> 00:42:25.896
Speaker 1: ... where people have levitated in
front of hundreds of people, and clearly before
a

611
00:42:25.956 --> 00:42:28.316
Speaker 1: time where wires or special effects
were possible.

612
00:42:28.836 --> 00:42:28.916
Speaker 2: Yeah.

613
00:42:28.936 --> 00:42:34.656
Speaker 1: You know? Uh, this was, this is what
happened. And I think that it is

614
00:42:34.716 --> 00:42:36.816
Speaker 1: possible. Those are extreme moments.

615
00:42:37.316 --> 00:42:37.496
Speaker 2: Yeah.

616
00:42:38.196 --> 00:42:38.496
Speaker 1: And

617
00:42:40.236 --> 00:42:43.596
Speaker 1: for me, th- I want the same thing. I
want superpowers, but, uh, the reason we're

618
00:42:43.656 --> 00:42:46.036
Speaker 1: talking right now is I want everybody
else to have them too.

619
00:42:46.176 --> 00:42:46.296
Speaker 2: Yeah.

620
00:42:46.872 --> 00:42:50.652
Speaker 1: For, for two reasons. This is how
reality really is. Yes, we're living a physical

621
00:42:50.692 --> 00:42:54.792
Speaker 1: experience, and it's cool to be able
to confine yourself for the challenge or

622
00:42:54.811 --> 00:42:58.072
Speaker 1: whatever, but it's really lame to
believe that's all there is, and you can't do

623
00:42:58.112 --> 00:43:02.992
Speaker 1: anything else, and to be trapped here
in an endless cycle. Uh, and I think that's

624
00:43:03.012 --> 00:43:06.572
Speaker 1: where humanity is, is we're
miserable. In the best-case scenario, it's cool
to do,

625
00:43:06.752 --> 00:43:10.232
Speaker 1: you know, play on hard mode and live
a physical existence. In the worst-case

626
00:43:10.292 --> 00:43:14.092
Speaker 1: scenario, it looks like we've created
a 1984 scenario for ourselves-

627
00:43:14.112 --> 00:43:14.172
Speaker 2: Hmm

628
00:43:14.172 --> 00:43:18.332
Speaker 1: ... where we're, we're trapped in our
own little thought prison because we don't

629
00:43:18.392 --> 00:43:21.812
Speaker 1: know that you can have more, that you
can levitate, and you can shoot fire out of

630
00:43:21.832 --> 00:43:25.532
Speaker 1: your hands. It'll be really hard to
do that right now.

631
00:43:26.192 --> 00:43:26.372
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.

632
00:43:26.572 --> 00:43:31.072
Speaker 1: The reason these experiences matter
is that awareness always precedes control. Those

633
00:43:31.112 --> 00:43:34.732
Speaker 1: people did those things intuitively
as extreme outliers.

634
00:43:35.372 --> 00:43:35.512
Speaker 2: Hmm.

635
00:43:35.552 --> 00:43:39.992
Speaker 1: They could not have possibly taught
anyone how to do it. Or they meditated for 30

636
00:43:40.052 --> 00:43:44.972
Speaker 1: years under a waterfall until they
just, like, had their entire reality in a vice

637
00:43:45.012 --> 00:43:48.692
Speaker 1: grip. They could not have possibly
shown anyone else how to do it, and obviously,

638
00:43:48.772 --> 00:43:54.552
Speaker 1: that's not practical for most people.
But if we all start to change it, we all

639
00:43:54.652 --> 00:43:58.852
Speaker 1: gain a measure of awareness. Like
real- there's no difference between a physical
and

640
00:43:58.892 --> 00:44:03.472
Speaker 1: a non-physical reality as far as I
can tell. It is the same thing. It's just a

641
00:44:03.512 --> 00:44:08.892
Speaker 1: different rule set. We could change
it if we all push on it. We all change what it

642
00:44:08.952 --> 00:44:13.132
Speaker 1: means 'cause we have that control.
The inner senses that we thought were weak were

643
00:44:13.172 --> 00:44:16.872
Speaker 1: actually incredibly powerful. In-
intuition, you know-

644
00:44:16.972 --> 00:44:17.072
Speaker 2: Hmm

645
00:44:17.072 --> 00:44:21.052
Speaker 1: ... belief, imagination, all of these
things are actually very powerful. But the

646
00:44:21.092 --> 00:44:23.532
Speaker 1: world around us has been made heavy
by those-

647
00:44:23.572 --> 00:44:23.592
Speaker 2: Hmm

648
00:44:23.592 --> 00:44:28.472
Speaker 1: ... same forces. They have, like, a
momentum. They're, these psychic power... Flying

649
00:44:28.532 --> 00:44:33.312
Speaker 1: is hard because we've spent a very
long time believing none of this is possible.

650
00:44:33.812 --> 00:44:37.912
Speaker 1: There's this weight to everything. I
think some of it is built in, too. I think that

651
00:44:37.972 --> 00:44:43.652
Speaker 1: this is just a lower [chuckles] magic
or heavier place, probably by design. It's

652
00:44:43.692 --> 00:44:48.792
Speaker 1: nice that way. But we're kind of
stuck in a hellish scenario now where we don't
know

653
00:44:48.832 --> 00:44:53.972
Speaker 1: that we can do more. We can, we can
change it. We don't have to. And you can do it

654
00:44:54.012 --> 00:44:58.892
Speaker 1: at the individual level, and it
always starts with realizing you can, and then
you

655
00:44:58.952 --> 00:45:04.072
Speaker 1: do it directly. It's, it's very
strange, but once you have awareness over how it

656
00:45:04.132 --> 00:45:07.852
Speaker 1: works, like, directly, not just
conceptually, you're experiencing it, you can
begin

657
00:45:07.892 --> 00:45:11.652
Speaker 1: to control it. And it's not a lot.
Like, I can move a piece of tinfoil without

658
00:45:11.712 --> 00:45:16.612
Speaker 1: touching it. I can move it under
glass without touching it. That's pretty cool. I

659
00:45:16.652 --> 00:45:20.832
Speaker 1: can see without eyes. That's pretty
cool. But anyone could do that, and these are,

660
00:45:20.872 --> 00:45:22.972
Speaker 1: like, perception. It's obviously-

661
00:45:23.012 --> 00:45:23.072
Speaker 2: Hmm

662
00:45:23.072 --> 00:45:27.372
Speaker 1: ... not super strong. I'm not lifting
a car. I'm not seeing across the world in real

663
00:45:27.432 --> 00:45:31.512
Speaker 1: time or into the past. I think all of
those things are possible. There are no real

664
00:45:31.592 --> 00:45:36.692
Speaker 1: rules. Most of the rules are soft
rules, and we can change them, but everyone
around

665
00:45:36.732 --> 00:45:40.592
Speaker 1: me is, like, acting like dampeners.
[laughs] It's super hard.

666
00:45:40.712 --> 00:45:41.312
Speaker 2: Hmm. Mm-hmm.

667
00:45:41.352 --> 00:45:45.012
Speaker 1: You can change your own reality
because you are your own reality. Like, that's,

668
00:45:45.052 --> 00:45:50.032
Speaker 1: like, what I was shown, and then it
kept being true, and then I experienced it. D-

669
00:45:50.072 --> 00:45:52.532
Speaker 1: the reason you can move a piece of
tinfoil is 'cause you're moving yourself. The

670
00:45:52.552 --> 00:45:56.032
Speaker 1: reason you can see without eyes is
because you're seeing yourself. Like, of course

671
00:45:56.052 --> 00:45:59.952
Speaker 1: you can. We are each our own entire
reality, and they overlap in ways, you know,

672
00:46:00.052 --> 00:46:02.212
Speaker 1: we'll get around to based on what I
was shown anyway-

673
00:46:03.132 --> 00:46:03.152
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm

674
00:46:03.152 --> 00:46:08.612
Speaker 1: ... from my understanding. And that's
why you can do it. And you can alter your own

675
00:46:08.652 --> 00:46:14.392
Speaker 1: reality however you want, but you are
also overlapping everyone around you. And

676
00:46:14.712 --> 00:46:19.792
Speaker 1: we're all influencing each other, and
we could do anything if only we, like, enabled

677
00:46:19.832 --> 00:46:25.692
Speaker 1: ourselves to do it. We work together
on this. Um, but I think some small b-

678
00:46:25.912 --> 00:46:28.832
Speaker 1: bit of hope here is that every time
somebody does something like this, I think it's

679
00:46:28.892 --> 00:46:32.652
Speaker 1: easier for everyone else to do it.
I've seen that with Mindsight, with telekinesis.

680
00:46:32.992 --> 00:46:36.812
Speaker 1: The people I show it to, especially
in person, they get it like that. Metal bending,

681
00:46:37.632 --> 00:46:41.572
Speaker 1: uh, I've bent a s- a fork into a
knot, like, recently-

682
00:46:41.592 --> 00:46:42.392
Speaker 2: [chuckles]

683
00:46:42.392 --> 00:46:46.152
Speaker 1: ... at the meditation retreat. Metal
bending's really hard for me alone. You give

684
00:46:46.192 --> 00:46:47.092
Speaker 1: me, like, four hours-

685
00:46:47.132 --> 00:46:47.152
Speaker 2: Hmm

686
00:46:47.152 --> 00:46:52.932
Speaker 1: ... I could bend a spoon. But it's
maybe 50/50. It's not easy. But I just

687
00:46:52.972 --> 00:46:55.712
Speaker 1: walked up and did it in front of a
group of five or six people who were all very

688
00:46:55.772 --> 00:47:00.212
Speaker 1: excited, and they all believed it was
possible, and then they did it. And, like, uh,

689
00:47:00.792 --> 00:47:04.372
Speaker 1: and now they can go home and do it
too, and they could not have done it before.
It's

690
00:47:04.412 --> 00:47:09.112
Speaker 1: like it, it cross-contaminates. Every
time you do it, and no matter where you are,

691
00:47:09.192 --> 00:47:11.112
Speaker 1: it seems to get easier for everyone
else. So-

692
00:47:11.392 --> 00:47:11.452
Speaker 2: Hmm

693
00:47:11.472 --> 00:47:14.792
Speaker 1: ... the good news is, is it's getting
easier all the time. I think that's why we see

694
00:47:14.852 --> 00:47:15.132
Speaker 1: so many-

695
00:47:15.192 --> 00:47:15.232
Speaker 2: Hmm

696
00:47:15.232 --> 00:47:19.292
Speaker 1: ... UFOs and people are talking about
psychic powers. I think it's literally getting

697
00:47:19.412 --> 00:47:24.112
Speaker 1: easier to do. So all that to say,
tell your daughter is, like, learning how to fly

698
00:47:24.152 --> 00:47:25.952
Speaker 1: is getting easier by the day.
[laughs]

699
00:47:25.972 --> 00:47:28.212
Speaker 2: [laughs] Oh, good response. Good
response. I'll try that.

700
00:47:28.592 --> 00:47:28.732
Speaker 1: Yeah.

701
00:47:28.772 --> 00:47:31.492
Speaker 2: She seems to be developing a very
skeptical bent. Uh-

702
00:47:31.972 --> 00:47:36.492
Speaker 1: Well, maybe not then. [laughs]

703
00:47:36.532 --> 00:47:40.512
Speaker 2: [laughs] Um, yeah, maybe I need to
get her some church or something. [laughs] I

704
00:47:40.552 --> 00:47:45.812
Speaker 2: know. Um, yeah, no, this is really
fascinating. I think you said everything that I,

705
00:47:46.792 --> 00:47:52.692
Speaker 2: how I would've responded to that, you
know. Um, that, uh, uh, these

706
00:47:52.752 --> 00:47:57.612
Speaker 2: people who experience these, um,
incredible feats... Well, now from this

707
00:47:57.652 --> 00:48:02.952
Speaker 2: perspective, we think of, like,
flying as an incredible feat. But, uh, a
different

708
00:48:03.012 --> 00:48:08.632
Speaker 2: reality where, you know, an entire
culture is, uh, just takes that

709
00:48:08.772 --> 00:48:14.532
Speaker 2: as normal, it wouldn't be. Because,
uh, I think a assumption of this show and, you

710
00:48:14.572 --> 00:48:17.892
Speaker 2: know, as we're exploring is that you
create your own reality, but, like, multiple

711
00:48:17.932 --> 00:48:22.432
Speaker 2: minds create reality together. You
know? So we're living in a shared reality that
is

712
00:48:22.512 --> 00:48:27.412
Speaker 2: co-created, uh, and we're setting the
rules for each other. Uh, we're, you know.

713
00:48:28.592 --> 00:48:34.152
Speaker 2: So when I'm trying to do something
that is, uh, uh, impossible

714
00:48:34.872 --> 00:48:40.412
Speaker 2: by the standards of all of the minds
around me, it, it really is hard even if I

715
00:48:41.592 --> 00:48:46.352
Speaker 2: make myself believe it, you know? Or
it's even hard to, like, get myself to believe

716
00:48:46.392 --> 00:48:51.028
Speaker 2: it 'cause I don't, uh- Uh, I'm
competing with all of those other thoughts, you
know,

717
00:48:51.088 --> 00:48:56.708
Speaker 2: which, you know, l- exist as both
like a script in my mind and in conversation and

718
00:48:56.768 --> 00:49:02.368
Speaker 2: in media that's all around us. Uh,
but also psychically, you know? We're all

719
00:49:02.428 --> 00:49:07.028
Speaker 2: interpenetrating in that way, I
believe. So the-- Yeah, I think that's why it's
also

720
00:49:07.068 --> 00:49:10.988
Speaker 2: so important for conversations like
this to happen, for more and more communities to

721
00:49:11.048 --> 00:49:15.588
Speaker 2: form, where people are meeting each
other and validating each other's experiences.

722
00:49:16.208 --> 00:49:20.128
Speaker 2: Um, everybody's got a, the weird in
them. [chuckles]

723
00:49:20.168 --> 00:49:21.168
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.

724
00:49:21.268 --> 00:49:24.968
Speaker 2: I, I believe everybody has had these
kinds of experiences, uh, some form of

725
00:49:25.008 --> 00:49:30.328
Speaker 2: anomalous experience, whether they
remember it or not. Um, and that's a part of

726
00:49:30.368 --> 00:49:36.248
Speaker 2: ourselves that has gone, uh,
repressed, uh, traumatized, buried deep

727
00:49:36.308 --> 00:49:42.148
Speaker 2: down. Uh, you know, we're living at,
in a world that has inherited a vast,

728
00:49:42.628 --> 00:49:42.828
Speaker 2: uh,

729
00:49:44.628 --> 00:49:49.508
Speaker 2: trove of like, yeah, just
generational trauma, cultural trauma, all of
these traumas

730
00:49:49.568 --> 00:49:52.648
Speaker 2: that have like, a lot of them have y-
uh,

731
00:49:54.228 --> 00:50:00.148
Speaker 2: bent around or associated around
repressing these things. Um, yeah,

732
00:50:00.308 --> 00:50:05.968
Speaker 2: think of like the witch trials or the
Crusades, uh, genocide against Indigenous

733
00:50:06.008 --> 00:50:11.108
Speaker 2: people. All of these things
represent, you know, war, a war against
consciousness.

734
00:50:11.708 --> 00:50:16.728
Speaker 2: Um, and so when you say that we're
living in a kind of like 1984 Orwellian reality,

735
00:50:17.728 --> 00:50:20.628
Speaker 2: doesn't seem that way when you walk
out on the street. But if you [chuckles] really

736
00:50:20.668 --> 00:50:25.888
Speaker 2: begin to like look at our structures
and, um, thought control systems and

737
00:50:25.948 --> 00:50:31.008
Speaker 2: everything, it-- and the ways that we
limit ourselves, it, it really, like that

738
00:50:31.048 --> 00:50:32.128
Speaker 2: really resonates with me.

739
00:50:33.928 --> 00:50:34.308
Speaker 1: It's tragic.

740
00:50:34.348 --> 00:50:35.488
Speaker 2: Uh, yeah.

741
00:50:37.088 --> 00:50:39.468
Speaker 2: This also brings me to another
question. Uh,

742
00:50:41.268 --> 00:50:41.488
Speaker 2: so

743
00:50:44.888 --> 00:50:49.668
Speaker 2: we are these, uh, multidimensional
selves. There's a self that exists on a higher

744
00:50:49.708 --> 00:50:54.968
Speaker 2: reality, a higher self that, uh, you
know, knows all of this stuff and is inhabiting

745
00:50:55.028 --> 00:51:00.808
Speaker 2: this, [chuckles] uh, really wise
state, I guess, or enlightened state

746
00:51:00.848 --> 00:51:05.668
Speaker 2: perhaps. Uh, but there was a choice
somehow that was made f- to

747
00:51:06.488 --> 00:51:12.208
Speaker 2: descend into the more contained, uh,
limited reality that we are now

748
00:51:12.808 --> 00:51:13.428
Speaker 2: inhabiting.

749
00:51:14.968 --> 00:51:20.848
Speaker 2: And when we die, we go back to that
because the soul, you know, that's what a soul

750
00:51:20.968 --> 00:51:25.928
Speaker 2: is. Then why try to ascend at all
within the,

751
00:51:27.108 --> 00:51:31.128
Speaker 2: within this, within the construct?
Does that, does that make sense?

752
00:51:31.128 --> 00:51:33.768
Speaker 2: [chuckles]

753
00:51:33.908 --> 00:51:38.488
Speaker 1: Yeah. Um, so we're getting on the
periphery. This isn't-- What I'll respond with
is

754
00:51:38.548 --> 00:51:43.528
Speaker 1: my firsthand experience rather than I
was shown or taught about this directly.

755
00:51:44.428 --> 00:51:49.888
Speaker 1: Um, so meaning I'm still learning
here. I'm refining [chuckles] the models on this

756
00:51:49.948 --> 00:51:54.368
Speaker 1: one. This is not, "Hey, this is
true," in an experience that I totally believed
and

757
00:51:54.508 --> 00:51:59.028
Speaker 1: later replicated. But this is what
I'm inferring, you know, by bumping into the

758
00:51:59.068 --> 00:51:59.428
Speaker 1: walls-

759
00:52:00.048 --> 00:52:00.408
Speaker 2: Hmm

760
00:52:00.408 --> 00:52:05.988
Speaker 1: ... um, doing stuff. My opinion is
there's two reasons. You're either

761
00:52:06.068 --> 00:52:10.848
Speaker 1: somebody who could already do these
things anywhere you were. You, you say, I

762
00:52:10.888 --> 00:52:14.828
Speaker 1: believe that, you know, everyone has
these multidimensional selves, higher selves.

763
00:52:15.388 --> 00:52:19.088
Speaker 1: But for many people, you've maybe
never accessed them for the first time. Like
your,

764
00:52:19.668 --> 00:52:22.988
Speaker 1: your soul is literally like in
progression. Like you've never-- You've done it

765
00:52:23.068 --> 00:52:26.508
Speaker 1: sporadically, or it's mostly
subconscious, or it's intuitive, right? It's not

766
00:52:26.588 --> 00:52:31.628
Speaker 1: totally awake. Uh, it's there, but
it, you can't embody it the way you would want

767
00:52:31.688 --> 00:52:37.088
Speaker 1: to. You can't access what it's
capable of, right? You can't fly. You can't
change

768
00:52:37.108 --> 00:52:39.968
Speaker 1: your whole around, reality around you
'cause you don't have access to these higher

769
00:52:40.028 --> 00:52:45.288
Speaker 1: selves that have the capacity to do
that. This is my un- developing understanding,

770
00:52:45.788 --> 00:52:49.628
Speaker 1: and that some people, you know, their
individual soul, obviously we're all the same

771
00:52:49.668 --> 00:52:53.388
Speaker 1: person, but on this level that we're
talking about, you've never done that before.

772
00:52:53.848 --> 00:52:55.948
Speaker 1: You're trying to wake it up for the
first time.

773
00:52:56.588 --> 00:52:56.608
Speaker 2: Hmm.

774
00:52:56.608 --> 00:53:02.288
Speaker 1: But some people have, and so they've
chosen to come here, and I think even in the

775
00:53:02.328 --> 00:53:08.168
Speaker 1: air quotes afterlife, non-physical
world, I think that you are still in a, maybe in

776
00:53:08.228 --> 00:53:12.248
Speaker 1: a canonical sort of heaven, or you're
in a place that you can understand. That

777
00:53:12.288 --> 00:53:12.768
Speaker 1: doesn't mean-

778
00:53:12.788 --> 00:53:12.808
Speaker 2: Hmm

779
00:53:12.808 --> 00:53:16.028
Speaker 1: ... that you're th- thrown to the
winds. You can go anywhere you want

780
00:53:16.088 --> 00:53:19.888
Speaker 1: interdimensionally, and you can,
[chuckles] you can go be part of a hive mind
now.

781
00:53:19.948 --> 00:53:23.928
Speaker 1: You can go do all sorts of crazy,
visit DMT places. I think that-

782
00:53:24.688 --> 00:53:25.088
Speaker 2: [chuckles]

783
00:53:25.108 --> 00:53:29.968
Speaker 1: ... maybe some people can, but I
think that it might look more familiar and happy

784
00:53:30.028 --> 00:53:34.188
Speaker 1: and-- Because I think that's what
your individual consciousness is ready for.
You're

785
00:53:34.208 --> 00:53:39.248
Speaker 1: not ready to handle being your own
reality entirely and controlling everything at a

786
00:53:39.288 --> 00:53:44.368
Speaker 1: low level. It's a lot of
responsibility to take that on, and some people
just wanna

787
00:53:44.428 --> 00:53:47.568
Speaker 1: chill with their friends and family
and know they're not dead. That is my

788
00:53:47.628 --> 00:53:51.588
Speaker 1: understanding, is that there's
something for everybody, and that you don't

789
00:53:51.648 --> 00:53:56.248
Speaker 1: s-necessarily stop developing, you
know, just 'cause you physically died. But

790
00:53:57.048 --> 00:54:00.088
Speaker 1: there's like a level of development
that only really happens when you're under

791
00:54:00.148 --> 00:54:04.288
Speaker 1: pressure and you're forced into this.
So that's one reason, and the other is if you

792
00:54:04.328 --> 00:54:08.588
Speaker 1: can already do those things, you have
no reason to really be here other than

793
00:54:08.648 --> 00:54:12.388
Speaker 1: personal adventure or whatever, and I
think it's to help people, is literally-

794
00:54:12.828 --> 00:54:12.868
Speaker 2: Hmm

795
00:54:12.868 --> 00:54:17.868
Speaker 1: ... their very presence is to help
people get out of this, collectively, humanity,

796
00:54:17.948 --> 00:54:22.388
Speaker 1: to help their current situation while
they're here. You have to work while you're

797
00:54:22.448 --> 00:54:26.648
Speaker 1: here, uh, within the system, right?
You come in to work within the system, but you

798
00:54:26.688 --> 00:54:32.088
Speaker 1: forget like everybody else does.
That's-- Those are two reasons, is that it, it
sort

799
00:54:32.128 --> 00:54:35.308
Speaker 1: of levels people up. You get to keep
your progress. You don't get to keep your

800
00:54:35.388 --> 00:54:38.628
Speaker 1: stuff, but you get to keep your
memories, your personal development, your life

801
00:54:38.668 --> 00:54:44.448
Speaker 1: lessons, your capacities of awareness
and conscious control over your reality. You

802
00:54:44.468 --> 00:54:48.908
Speaker 1: get to keep all that when you die,
and so that carries like a progression system-

803
00:54:49.528 --> 00:54:49.608
Speaker 2: Hmm

804
00:54:49.608 --> 00:54:54.168
Speaker 1: ... uh, through all of your lives or
wherever you go. And so once you've reached

805
00:54:54.208 --> 00:54:59.708
Speaker 1: these capacities, for the most part-
Uh, you get to keep them. And so you can move

806
00:54:59.808 --> 00:55:05.508
Speaker 1: on or do whatever you want or keep
being a human being. So you get a choice. Uh,
but

807
00:55:05.568 --> 00:55:11.168
Speaker 1: until you reach that point, you're
kind of on a guided path here just because the

808
00:55:11.228 --> 00:55:15.548
Speaker 1: universe is pretty loving. Doesn't
just throw you, throw you to the wolves. Uh,

809
00:55:15.988 --> 00:55:21.608
Speaker 1: you're kept in a somewhat zoo-like
environment until you can graduate out of it on

810
00:55:21.648 --> 00:55:26.988
Speaker 1: your own. That's my understanding.
Just interacting with people, non-physical, my

811
00:55:27.048 --> 00:55:33.008
Speaker 1: personal experiences, that's what it
seems to be like, is that you're growing up,

812
00:55:33.608 --> 00:55:37.548
Speaker 1: right? It's the-- That's what it's
like, and everyone grows up at their same rate

813
00:55:37.608 --> 00:55:41.008
Speaker 1: or, you know, they're 40 and they
still, [chuckles] they still haven't bothered to

814
00:55:41.028 --> 00:55:44.348
Speaker 1: get a job or a driver's license.
You're like, "What the hell are you doing?"
There's

815
00:55:44.388 --> 00:55:48.828
Speaker 1: plenty of those people too. So I
think those are all the reasons. So either you

816
00:55:48.868 --> 00:55:52.468
Speaker 1: already know how to do everything and
you showed up to help people or because it's

817
00:55:52.508 --> 00:55:57.208
Speaker 1: fun, or you don't yet and you're
learning how, or maybe you never will. It's up
to

818
00:55:57.288 --> 00:56:01.708
Speaker 1: you. Uh, so I think that's the most
succinct answer I can give based on my

819
00:56:01.748 --> 00:56:02.348
Speaker 1: experience.

820
00:56:04.828 --> 00:56:10.048
Speaker 2: I dig it. Um, cool. Yeah. This has
been a really fascinating conversation, and I'm

821
00:56:10.068 --> 00:56:15.108
Speaker 2: glad we got this time to unpack the
experience and just connect and share more and,

822
00:56:15.188 --> 00:56:20.468
Speaker 2: uh, see where the-- [chuckles] what
wanted to emerge and what conversation threads

823
00:56:20.528 --> 00:56:26.288
Speaker 2: wanted to be pulled. So I'm looking
forward to hearing, uh, in our next episode, you

824
00:56:26.348 --> 00:56:31.348
Speaker 2: know, the, how your experience
unfolded, and I guess we're gonna get Reality
102

825
00:56:31.408 --> 00:56:32.228
Speaker 2: next. So-

826
00:56:32.688 --> 00:56:32.988
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm

827
00:56:32.988 --> 00:56:32.989
Speaker 2: ...

828
00:56:35.108 --> 00:56:39.588
Speaker 2: um, yeah. Anything, anything you'd
like to share by way of closing or signing off?

829
00:56:41.268 --> 00:56:46.948
Speaker 1: Um, I'll be excited to share that
because that will be-- How is this a multiplayer

830
00:56:47.068 --> 00:56:51.988
Speaker 1: reality if you're everything? How do
other people get to exist within it? If you're

831
00:56:52.048 --> 00:56:54.868
Speaker 1: always touching yourself, if you're
everything around you, like literally,

832
00:56:54.948 --> 00:56:59.648
Speaker 1: physically, you are everything, uh,
how is that possible that other people ever

833
00:56:59.708 --> 00:57:02.968
Speaker 1: interact with you? Like, what lets
them in? What lets them change stuff or not

834
00:57:03.008 --> 00:57:07.928
Speaker 1: change stuff? And that's what the
entire thing is about, is how that is possible.

835
00:57:08.428 --> 00:57:12.368
Speaker 1: Uh, it's gonna bring up so many
quest- I still have so many questions. Uh, but
I,

836
00:57:12.428 --> 00:57:17.268
Speaker 1: I'm excited to, to share that because
I want people to know. I want

837
00:57:18.348 --> 00:57:23.068
Speaker 1: people to not just know that this is
how it really is. Just no dogma. This is aside

838
00:57:23.108 --> 00:57:26.208
Speaker 1: from any religious views or however
you wanna see it. Those things can all still be

839
00:57:26.248 --> 00:57:31.548
Speaker 1: valid. This is just the underlying
rule sets, like physics. This is how it works.

840
00:57:32.268 --> 00:57:38.228
Speaker 1: Because I want people to have the
choice to make the reality whatever

841
00:57:38.268 --> 00:57:42.288
Speaker 1: they want, and to at least have the
choice. If you don't ever wanna get a driver's

842
00:57:42.348 --> 00:57:47.208
Speaker 1: license or a job, [chuckles] like,
fine. Whatever. If you don't want to fly or to

843
00:57:47.248 --> 00:57:51.228
Speaker 1: have control or to have the
responsibility of what it means to have this
level of

844
00:57:51.268 --> 00:57:55.488
Speaker 1: awareness and control, you don't want
all that. That's cool. But you should at least

845
00:57:55.528 --> 00:58:00.388
Speaker 1: know you have the choice, um, because
I intend to take it. I suspect that you do,

846
00:58:00.468 --> 00:58:05.768
Speaker 1: too, and many others besides. Um, so
that's what I'm excited about, and if this

847
00:58:05.808 --> 00:58:08.768
Speaker 1: helps in any way, then it will have
been time well spent.

848
00:58:11.488 --> 00:58:15.408
Speaker 2: Yeah, man. I'm excited for that. It
seemed like this conversation also, uh, was a,

849
00:58:15.468 --> 00:58:20.908
Speaker 2: is a good preamble to that
exploration. We touched on some of those topics
in a good

850
00:58:20.968 --> 00:58:21.588
Speaker 2: setup. So-

851
00:58:22.068 --> 00:58:22.288
Speaker 1: Yeah

852
00:58:22.388 --> 00:58:25.288
Speaker 2: ... um, yeah, man. I'm looking
forward to it.

853
00:58:26.428 --> 00:58:26.688
Speaker 1: Cool.

854
00:58:27.488 --> 00:58:28.988
Speaker 2: Cool. See you then.

855
00:58:29.628 --> 00:58:30.768
Speaker 1: All right. We'll call it a wrap.

856
00:58:31.568 --> 00:58:31.728
Speaker 2: Yep.

857
00:58:34.188 --> 00:58:36.708
Speaker 2: This is Reality 101. Until next time.

858
00:58:38.188 --> 00:58:42.388
Speaker 1: Nothing is impossible, you're not
going to die, and everything loves you.

859
00:58:42.528 --> 00:58:52.988
Speaker 1: [outro music]