Bruce Lipton
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Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
But everybody else will see them, and they will make a response to you. And I go, so now let's put this in perspective. I have an ability, according to quantum physics, to create the character and quality of my life. I'm the creator of my life. But I'm looking at my life and I say, it doesn't match what my wishes and desires are.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
The world is filled with chaos, crime, health problems, all stuff going on. It's like, I wouldn't create that. I go, not in your conscious mind. You would never create that. But you're not creating from your conscious mind. Your life is being created from your subconscious programs, which are other people's behaviors. And you don't see it. Everybody else sees it.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Conclusion is very strong and very important. You look at your life with wishes and desires and say, I'm having trouble manifesting. I'm not getting what I want. And I say, but why not? And here's your answer. Because these people out here have messed with me and that guy messed with me and this guy interfered and that guy caused a problem.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And all of a sudden you start to realize, oh, I'm a victim and those people interfere with my life. And I go, okay, correction factor, clear the screen. What's the point? You were creating behavioral programs they were responding to. What was the point? You created the problem. No! I go, yeah, but you didn't see it. So can I blame you for it? No, 100%, no. You cannot be blamed for the problem.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
You can become aware of the problem, and then you can be empowered to do something about that.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Okay, well, you know, let's start with a very important scientific fact, because everything is going to be predicated on this most important fact in the world, and that is the most valid science on this planet at this time is quantum physics. Now, most people go, that's the weird stuff, and that's too crazy, but I'm going to put it this way.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
It is the most truthful of all the sciences on the planet. And principle number one is what I want to emphasize. And principle number one, since 1927, and emphasized over and over again over the years, is consciousness is creating our life experiences.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Well, this becomes profoundly important because it says that your consciousness is part of a co-creation of our life experiences, that everybody's consciousness is involved. And all of a sudden, it takes us out of a world where, oh, things happen to us, into a world where we're engaged with things happening. And so we have to understand the role of this consciousness.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Well, first of all, we start with a simple premise that we have to, let's connect the brain to the worker day world, and that is this. The brain is a computer. It's not like a computer. It is a computer. It has all the same functioning attributes as any of your desktop computers right out there right now.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And I say, if you understand how your computer works, now I can give you an insight about how your mind works, because the mind is an expression of the brain. and the brain is the computer. And so when we're going to talk about the mind, I have to say all of a sudden, when you say the mind, everyone thinks, oh, there's one mind out there.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And I go, no, no, each of us has two minds, and they're very different. And if you don't understand them right away, problem number one. Okay, the two minds, let's list them. The original version of the mind is called the subconscious mind. That subconscious means below awareness. It means it works without you even having to pay any attention to it.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
So, for example, your heart's beating, your body temperature's being regulated. You can walk without thinking about putting one foot in front of the other. It's just automatic. It works under the level of consciousness, subconscious, okay? The more recent addition is the new mind called the conscious mind, which is just behind your forehead right here.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And that's a mind that has your wishes and your desires in it. I said, what's the difference between the two? Subconscious mind is the equivalent of a hard drive that has programs in it. Conscious mind is the creator mind, which has access to the keyboard. So I can type in what I want into my computer, but it also can run with the program. Okay? So now I say, so what's the point?
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And the point is this. Yes, the subconscious mind's hard drive programs are in it. Conscious mind's creative. But here's the fact where the problem comes from, and that is the conscious mind can do two things that are different.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
It can look out your eyes like looking out the windshield of the car and you're driving your vehicle body and you're the driver and you're looking into the world and you're driving where you want to go. Conscious mind, that's really pretty good. And I say, well, that's the conscious mind that's taking us to wishes and desires. I go, yeah, but what else can a conscious mind do?
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And I go, oh, it can think. What the hell does that mean, think? I say, when the mind is thinking, it's not looking out, it's looking in, because thoughts are inside. So the direction or the point of view of the conscious mind is based on, is it looking out the window at the world and paying attention?
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Or is it thinking, because if it's thinking, then it's not looking out, it's looking in, a thought is on the inside, you know? And I say, so why is this important? because it says that when you are thinking, you're not looking out at the world. Your thoughts are inside. I go, what if you're driving the car and you start thinking? I go, well, conscious mind is not looking out the window anymore.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
It's inside your head looking for whatever you're thinking about. I go, yeah, but who's driving the car? Oh, The subconscious mind, this is critical, is called autopilot. It's the one that if the conscious mind's busy, it's just like the pilot got out of the seat, the autopilot sits in, takes over.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And the autopilot happens to be, as a computer, a million times more powerful than the computer running the conscious mind. So I say, so what's the point about all this? And I say, well, the subconscious mind's got programs in it, and it plays, it takes over the control when you're not paying attention, like when you are thinking. I go, oh. I say, well, how much of the day are you thinking?
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
I go, 95%. I go, what does that mean? I say, well, then it says, how much time are you actually in the driver's seat looking out the window and going towards your wishes and desires? I go, 5%. Five percent is all you are moving toward where you want to go. I go, well, who's driving when I'm thinking? I go, the subconscious. It's got all the programs.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
It knows how to drive the car when you're thinking. You could be in thought and then all of a sudden start to come to attention, look out the window of your car as you've been driving and realize you haven't paid attention to the road for the last five or so minutes and you're still there. I go, yeah, subconscious, powerful computer took over and it drove it for you. So now here comes the point.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Consciousness is creating our life experiences. Principle one, quantum physics. Consciousness is derived from the mind. Okay. But the mind can either be driven by the conscious creative mind, or it could use the programs and then have the, you know, habit mind, so to speak. I go, well,
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
95% of the day you are thinking with your conscious mind, so that means 95% of the day your life is coming from the subconscious programs, okay? And at only 5% are you actually looking out the window and going toward where you want to go in your life. And I say, well, here's where the problem is. I say, well, these are programs. I go, yeah, where did you get these programs? Oh,
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
The first seven years of your life, and actually three months before you're born and the seven years of your life, your brain is evolving. It's not finished doing its job yet. That consciousness is not a predominant activity of a child's brain at all. that the main activity of a child's brain under age seven is theta, which is a vibration. I say, vibration? I go, yeah.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Put wires on a person's head, electroencephalograph, read their brain function. It's vibration. There's a vibration for consciousness, alpha, and a higher one, beta. These are higher vibrations. That's where consciousness comes from. But a child under seven is not really into that level. It's at the lower level called theta. Theta, imagination.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And that's how kids under seven mix real world, imaginary world. The broom is not a broom, it's a horse, you know, things like that. I say, yeah, that's theta. But what you don't recognize is this. Theta is also hypnosis. And you go, so why should I have hypnosis for seven years? And the answer is simply this. In the older days, we'd go buy a computer, and it didn't come with programs.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
You got a brand new computer, take it home, plug it in, push start, the screen lights up, it's booted up, and I say, now do something. You just bought a new computer. And you go, I can't. I said, what do you mean? I said, first you have to put programs in. Then you can use a computer. So, oh, we put in how to surf the web, write a document, spreadsheet, art, blah, blah, blah. These are programs.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And I say, and once the programs are in, Then you can actually use a computer and put in what you want into the computer. And I go, a child's brain is a computer. It boots up. Last trimester of pregnancy, screen's on. But it cannot do anything until first it gets downloaded programs. I say, how does it get downloaded programs?
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
I go, oh, the brain for the first seven years is in theta, which is hypnosis. I go, oh. How do you get programs? A baby, a kid can't go to school. They can't read a book. They can't do classroom stuff. I said, but they need the programs to get their computer going. I say, nature made the first seven years of hypnosis. How do you get a program when you're a child? You watch.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Whatever you're watching is downloaded. It's a video recorder, everything. And I said, well, what are you watching? I say, you need to be a member of a family and you need to be a member of a community. And there are rules. There are all kinds of rules. And each culture has different kinds of rules. And I say, well, you have to fit in. You have to learn the rules.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Like a kid under seven, what are you going to take him to school? Can't do that. Ah, all the kid under seven has to do is watch. Just watch the parents. Watch what the man child does, what the woman child does. Watch what the community is doing. And you're observing their behavior, yeah, but you're also downloading it. Why?
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
That's the programs of how to be a member of a family and how to be a member of a community. They're observable behaviors. And then you record those behaviors. Now they're programs. And they become part of your subconscious mechanism. I go, so cool, first seven years. I observe other people and download their behavior.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And I go, well, this is really important because that's how you're going to learn how to be the member of the family or whatever. I go, now here's a problem. The people that you're downloading behavior from don't necessarily have your wishes and desires in their behavior.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
They don't necessarily do what you want to do, but you copy them, and if they have a defect in their behavior, if they have a problem in their emotions or whatever behavior, you observed them, you downloaded that too. So when you downloaded them, you downloaded not just their behavior, but you downloaded all the emotional stuff that went with that behavior. And so guess what?
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
The downloads are not you. They're other people. I go, so what? I go, well, once you're past age seven, you can control with the conscious mind. I go, yeah, you do control with the conscious mind. I go, yeah, but you also are thinking. I go, oh, God, that takes away from the control. I go, how much? 95% of the day. I say, so what does that mean?
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
I say, well, then the mind is controlling your life, yep, 5% of the day from your wishes and desires, conscious mind, and 95% from the programs that you got from other people. And I say, oh. But what if I got negative programming? I did. My father and mother had a dysfunctional relationship. I observed my father to see how do men behave. I recorded his behavior.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
And then once I started to try and find a partner, when I played those programs, I downloaded from him, all those partners ran away. Why? Because it was dysfunctional behavior and I downloaded it. I was operating from some bad programming. But the point was, Why wouldn't I have seen that I was operating from bad programming? I go, okay, let's go back and recognize what was the fact.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Why am I playing a program? Oh, because my conscious mind is thinking. I go, oh? And I say, and where is it paying attention? Or, you know, what is it paying attention to when it is thinking? I go, thoughts inside my head. Oh, it's not paying attention to what's going on outside. I go, no, no, it's not looking outside. Then I say, then why is the problem?
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
I say, because the autopilot subconscious with the programs, when it kicks in and starts playing the program, like my father's behavior for relationships, it was playing because my conscious mind wasn't paying attention. So whatever was coming out in my behavior, I didn't see it. But everybody else did. And I say, what was the result?
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
I couldn't get a relationship off the ground for nearly 50 years. Why? Bad behavior. Did I see it? No. Did everybody else see it? Yes. Story that's been told a thousand times by me, now a thousand and one. You have a friend. You know your friend's behavior. And you know your friend's parent. One day you see your friend has the same behavior as the parent, and you're going to tell your friend.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
You're going to go, hey, Bill, you're just like your dad. Back away from Bill. I know what the answer is. You already heard the answer. The answer that Bill's going to say is very clearly, how can you compare me to my father? I'm nothing like my father. And everyone laughs because they've had this experience. And I go, what is the point of the story? This is why I'm telling it.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Everybody else can see that Bill's behavior is like his father's. The only one who can't see it is Bill. And I say, and now I go, so what? I go, ready for this? We are all Bill. Everybody, whoever you are, 95% of the day you are playing programs. These programs did not come from you, the basic ones. They came from downloading other people's behaviors.
Dhru Purohit Show
How to Manifest Your Dreams and Work Past Self Doubt in 2025
Up to 60% of the programs that we download, and that's the average number, 60%. It's higher in many cases. 60% of the programs that we download are dysfunctional. disempowering, and self-sabotaging behaviors. And you go, yeah, but if I was playing those, I would see them. I go, no, again, if you were playing them, it's because you're not paying attention.
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. This past year has been amazing, beautiful, growth-filled, also challenges and pretty weird and wild, I'm sure full spectrum for many of you. This episode is actually going to be different.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Very, very difficult to do. And so basically it says, well, wait, we are programmed. I go, yep, that's the foundation of the matrix. All of us are programmed. We're running these programs 95% of the time. We do not see these programs. We only see the consequence of these programs. So if you don't mind, I'll use an example that I've been using since 1980 because there's not a better one yet.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And that is you have a friend and you know your friend's behavior and you happen to know your friend's parent. And then one day you see your friend has the same behavior as their parent, which gets you, hey, Bill, you're just like your dad. back away from Bill because I know exactly what Bill's going to say. And you know it if you've ever said it.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And Bill's going to say, how can you compare me to my dad? I'm nothing like my dad. But everybody else sees that Bill's like his dad. Who's the one that doesn't see it? Bill. I go, why not? Because when he's playing the programs he downloaded from his dad, he's the one that doesn't see it. Everybody else sees it.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
So all of a sudden it says, your life is not being controlled by your wishes and desires while you're running the program. And you run the program 95% of the day because that's the amount of time you're thinking. So are you creating the life you want? I go, not necessarily at all. As a matter of fact, you're creating the life you've been programmed to create.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
It's going to be a compilation, snippets from this whole past year's worth of conversation, 15 selected best moments, hard to choose because there are so many great ones, but it's
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
How do you discern, I suppose, what materials would say you could boil down to biochemical kind of reactions? When you're using the word spiritual, do you ever refer to metaphysical, non-material realities? Because I know so much of your work has been bringing forth what feel like metaphysical experiences into understandable brain chemistry and kind of bridging the gap between the two.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Please, yeah.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Two sides of one door, as you have so eloquently shared.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
So powerful. And there is a... There's a part in this book, The Awakened Brain, that I really love. So this was advice Howard Thurman that you quoted gave to someone who is struggling to make a decision and desperate for guidance. And Thurman wrote a letter, his handwritten response
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
If you haven't seen some of the episodes from this past year, today's episode will be a good touch point, a little portal into that whole conversation with that guest that I think you might find interesting, as well as maybe reminders from previously loved episodes from 2024.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
said, you're like a little boy under the Christmas tree who has so many gifts, he doesn't know which one to open first. The main thing is, you must wait and listen for the sound of the genuine which is within you. When you hear it, that will be your voice, and that will be the voice of God.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And it feels like when you're in those moments of depression, despair, where you're speaking to awakening as the other side of the door, making space for silence to discover that which is genuine within you to emerge is... It's our primary task is to make space and see what's trying to emerge from within us.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
I would actually love to just jump straight to your kind of awakening experience that you had that really was the pivot, the shift from being a materialist scientist into exploring consciousness in a much more fundamental way. So could you walk us through your experience?
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
I'm curious, do you think that there are levels of fundamental reality that are simply inconceivable to the human mind and understanding? Like we wouldn't expect a monkey to understand quantum mechanics or entanglement or have even the baseline ingredients to be able to have any semblance of anything regarding quantum mechanics.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Are there things that you think that are simply beyond the capacity of the human mind to understand and deeper levels of reality?
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
There seems to be... various enlightened beings, masters of meditation that have emotionally embraced it, what they would say is close to 100%. Where they have literally no fear of the body because they clearly have the perception that it is not them. Where if somebody comes up to you, God forbid, on the street and puts a gun to your head. I'd be scared. Scared to death. Right.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
It seems like in the metaphysical practices and the contemplative sciences, you can arrive at the place experientially, emotionally, where you truly perceive the source of that which you are, and therefore that which you are not does not have the grip over you.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Which is interesting because it requires both the rigorous science and logic to be able to explore these things and explain it with the limited capacity we have for language. And then the contemplative practices that allow us to arrive there experientially to become closer and intimate and become one with that which we truthfully are.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Yeah.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Yeah. I find it so interesting how... I think largely around the time of the Vienna Circle and the 19th, 20th century, there was kind of this big divorce between the simultaneous contemplative practices and metaphysical practices alongside the scientific explorations.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And like most people don't understand to the degree in which Newton himself had just as much exploration into alchemy than the sciences. And it makes sense that they're kind of, they're one in the same in the source. And then there's the experiential side, and then there's the logical side. There's the particle, there's the wave.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
You know, there's two ways to come at something from the top down, from the bottom up, you know, in the way that it's processed. Yes.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
If the possibility of consciousness being fundamental is real, it really does line up with a lot of Eastern wisdom traditions around the illusion of free will, self, and that there is a more fundamental aspect of being that is the witness and awareness of any arising and passing away of phenomena and contents in our experience. Yeah. that gives rise to a true sense of freedom.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And so as the show is the Know Thyself podcast, we really like to explore how this is, what is the most fundamental aspect in nature of ourselves, which feels as, you know, I have many experiences and I'd love to hear some of yours where you experience and taste such a depth of stillness, whereas there is the absence of experience, but there is still consciousness floating in a void, it seems.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Yeah.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Yeah. So when you say like sense of self, what are you referring to as most people kind of operate with that notion? And then we can kind of start to see the illusory nature of it and come back into what's more fundamental.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
I really love that analogy of the sense of self being like waves in the ocean, because we can see that they're still connected. And yet there's a more essential nature of one's being, which would be like the ocean. Yes.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And we can see under FMRI machines through psychedelic use and advanced meditators, the reduction in activity in the default mode network, which goes hand in hand with this loss of an experience of a solid self.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
So any thoughts you want to share there as well?
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
In the deeper examination of our fundamental longing for happiness, which you pick a person randomly off the street and you ask them, do they want to be happy? Everyone's going to say yes, right? And the I that wants to be happy, many of us have different perceptions on, but we tend to feel it is this kind of locust of thoughts and emotions localized in our head.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And we have this identity, personality structure in which we engage the world with. And it's through the perception of that separate self that happiness is perceived to be gained through the possessions and gain of exterior material possessions and an arrangement of relationships, something happening a certain way outside of us.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And you're inviting the perspective to realize the source of who you are, which is happiness. And I often think of this metaphor of like a lighthouse illuminating a beach. In many ways it has been said that what we are looking for is the place we are looking from.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And a lighthouse that's illuminating is almost like looking for its own light, failing to recognize that it is the source of its own illumination.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And so as we start to peel back the layers of our preconceived notions of self to see who we are more fundamentally, that field of awareness that we can tap into, I would love for you to reflect on that and start to guide us with the direct experience of that. Because I think non-duality can be seen as a philosophically dense topic of exploration, but it's also very simple.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And the immediacy of direct experience one can come into contact with it. What say you? Yes. Okay.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
One tool that I also want to share with you guys is that I'm going to link down in the description my year of end review journal prompts for 2024 reflections and 2025 intentions. These questions can help guide you into extracting the lessons from this past year, and then also get really intentional with the change that you wish to see both internally and outside of yourself in the world in 2025.
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
For people that don't know, what is the meaning crisis? And can you share some stats and some context for just how bad it currently is on the planet right now?
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What do you want to exist even if you don't?
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E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
So now if you take the, let's say, the average American, what is the ultimate red pill that would change their perception? If they take that red pill that they wake up to the illusion of how they've been living, what would that red pill be?
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It feels like more now than ever, society pulls us into a slumber because we have so much more comfort and convenience than ever before, which is beautiful. Would you say that there's more things you have to guard yourself now to be able to really be in the participation of paying attention to how your life wants to unfold in that way?
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But right now, the easiest one is just falling in love. And science has recognized why. Let's give a reason as to why we play programs, okay? Let's start off with a simple basic fact. The human brain is a computer. It's not like a computer. It's actually a far better computer than humans have ever created. But it is a computer and still has the same functions and basic operation procedures to it.
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How do you see the process then of us habituating into our smallness? If there's this infinite light within us that wants to express creatively in service to the world, but we have these ideologies, dogmas, belief that shrink us down into a mold that is conforming to society or fits the economic machine, but that holds that light in, how do you see that happening
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And how do we guard ourselves from that continuing to happen?
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I remember one of the first impactful audios that I listened to was by Earl Nightingale, which is the strangest secret that talks about how the opposite of courage is not cowardice, but conformity and living in a society where it's so easy to conform and it's painful to stand out in many different ways. It's upon us more now than ever to have an intention and vision for our life.
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And I really love how you speak to that intention deficit disorder.
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When the old days, when we would buy a computer, you'd go home and you push start and it boots up. And then I say, okay, let's do something. You go, oh no, I can't do anything. I go, well, you got a brand new computer. The point is, no, first you have to put programs in the computer and then you can access the computer via the keyboard, which is the creative part of the computer.
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It's kind of interesting to flip it on its head when so much of us, and I fall prey to this at times, to live in a future-based proposition, thinking that when I get something or if I get something, then I'll be happy one day, you know, or there's going to be some sort of experience or sensation or feeling of joy that is going to be lasting once something happens.
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And it's just so much so the opposite, right? So can you speak about flipping it on its head that if you can embody the energy and emotion and vibration and feel attuned to that, that is the pole, that is the magnet that is going to draw it to you.
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The brain of a human has two parts to it. We say the mind, everybody goes, the mind, like there's one mind. I go, well, that's the problem right away. There are two minds. They're interdependent, and they have totally different functions. The latest evolution of the mind is right behind your forehead. It's called the conscious mind.
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It feels like there's so much power in the detachment from that preference, because I think the Western mind can really love to latch on to what we're talking about here as a tactic to get things instead of, if I source and realize that I am the source of my own joy and happiness and kindness and grace, and then vibe these virtues, then I've become successful in that way because it doesn't really matter, I guess, what the external circumstances are as much because you've anchored that within your own being.
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yeah, it's just easy to view it as a tactic to get things versus like, no, you got what you want, which is the feeling behind the thing in the first place. Right. And then the things will show up. Right.
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It feels like the desires or dreams that we have can only be recombination of our past memories. So like, you know, if I had a certain car, I want a really nice car. If I had an experience of certain, you know, circumstances happen, it's always informing what our dreams possibly are.
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And I just really love the understanding of if you're going to live in the surprise and mystery of life and the beauty and joy of how it's going to unfold, then it has to unfold greater than you could imagine.
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It's the prefrontal cortex, part of the brain lobe right back here. That's the seed of consciousness. That's the seed of your spirituality, in fact. And I say, well, 90% of the brain back here is called the subconscious mind. I go, okay, so what's the difference? The conscious mind is creative. The subconscious mind is programs, just habits, hard drive, okay?
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Yeah, and you sharing that, it both feels like an acknowledgement and also a reminder to yourself.
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Especially in a society and culture that often celebrates the most high achievers being fueled by that not enoughness that we were talking to.
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Now, the issue about this is that with a conscious mind, we can be creative and do everything we want. But the conscious mind does two things, and one of them is look out your eyes like the windshield of a vehicle, and with wishes and desires, the conscious mind will take us on the road to where we want to go. but the conscious mind can think. I go, so what's the problem?
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I feel like as you start to awaken to more of your true nature and you start to tap into the intelligence of your heart, you start to find regulation in your nervous system at a baseline level, like you start to find more ease in your system, there is a whole different place from which you're manifesting your reality in terms of your career, success, your finances, your relationship, everything.
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And I would just love for you to speak to that, how the more we tap into the heart and as we go kind of up through these stages of, you know, stages of consciousness, essentially, the place in which we attract things, people, places and opportunities radically changes.
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I go, well, thinking is not looking out. Thinking is looking in. So the moment you start thinking, your conscious mind's not paying attention to the world outside here. I go, yeah, but what if you're driving the car and you start thinking? I go, well, almost everybody does it anyway.
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Put it on screen.
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Coincidence, synchronicity.
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I love the Taoist saying, the master does nothing yet leaves nothing undone.
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Yeah, and it's really arriving at that place as you start to race through these different stages. You do experience more coincidence, synchronicity, bumping into people on the street, and you go from the logical, intellectual planning of your whole life to really allowing yourself to be surprised by something greater than you could dream of. And that's a really beautiful place to be.
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It's kind of interesting because at some point you get so caught up in your head thinking, and then you look out the windshield and realize you haven't paid attention to the road for the last number of minutes, but hey, you're still on the road, everything seems to be running okay, and I go, no problem, because the subconscious is autopilot.
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We all at different points in our life, and we surely know people that set out to become an actor and it's not working out, or they're looking for this relationship and they're really striving and it's not working out. And whatever the thing is we're trying to go after that we want, right? And it's not working out. I wanna reflect on that just a little bit more because
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it's tough when things aren't working out the way we want it and we want things to work out how we want them to that's part of the problem um and the trust in the unknown and the uncertainty is a beautiful place to arrive to often difficult to to work our way through um and i think in the face of that uncertainty it can be tough to navigate when is it time to double down
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When is it time to let go in the process of going after what I want to go after? And I think the place we're coming from when we ask those questions inform that decision a lot. And when we're actually in a place of surrender and we've let go, our egoic imperative of what we say we want from life, And then we're like, okay, but then there's still a part of us that kind of expects it.
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So the link for that will be down in the description alongside a five to ten minute questionnaire for those who feel called to check out and give feedback for us here at Know Thyself. We're expanding a lot this next year and Yeah, I just wanna stay connected with you guys.
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I feel like in the death of the expectation of what's going to come in, can something new be born out of that experience, right? But when we say we've surrendered and let go, and then you're like, okay, but like now that I've surrendered, like where is that thing?
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In other words, when the conscious mind is busy, the subconscious programs take over. you know how to drive a car, it's a program. Things that you know how to do, walk, talk, drive the car, do your job, these become habits. Habits are no thinking. Habits are just push the button, play the program.
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So the idea about that is, well, that's really cool because that makes our life a lot easier than trying to focus on everything in the world when you can just push the button. You can walk without thinking about walking, okay? So there's a great benefit to the subconscious. The
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Who you're becoming in that process.
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Well, the problem that comes up with the subconscious is if you're thinking, you're not looking out the window, you're not paying attention to what's going on, and the subconscious steps in and takes over, and I go, well, what's the point? I go, well, we don't see our subconscious programs. We don't see them because they're playing while we're thinking. And I go, well, what's the problem?
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As Jung says, until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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It's really important to examine where our neuroses are because those are the kind of the doorways into perceiving what our behavioral compensations are because of the psychic stress that we haven't fully dealt with.
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I go, well, 60% or more of the programs are disempowering, self-sabotaging, or limiting beliefs. So I go, well, what does that mean? I go, the moment you start thinking, you start playing the program. But if you have a dysfunctional program, Do you see it? I go, no, because it's automatic. The problem is everybody else sees it, and they're going to respond to your program.
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They're not responding to your conscious mind. They're responding to the habits you acquired. So the problem about that is we're unaware, and here's the number. 95% of the day is the average amount of thinking a person is involved with, which then translates simply to 95% of the day you're running your life with programs that you don't even see.
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This balance between talent and work ethic what's the balance between the two and finding success in your creative expression?
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But it becomes problematic because when things aren't working, the tendency of an individual is, well, I have great wishes to be happy, successful, loving, and to have all these things. And if it's not working, there's a tendency then to consider yourself the victim and then blame everything around you as why your life's not running right.
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Yeah. To me, it feels very sad of, you know, there's that one quote of like the richest place on earth is the graveyard. All the people's die dreams, you know, that weren't expressed. that go there.
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And I want to speak a little bit more into resistance with a capital R and its manifestations, because part of that creative expression, unlocking and being surprised by yourself, one of the struggles I find personally sometimes and often with a lot of people in the creative process is because we live in a world of infinite distractions, procrastination is very easy.
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And so I would just love for you to share as, you know, how to overcome procrastination as, you know, resistance to just putting your butt in the seat in writing or whatever people's creative expressions are. Because I don't know how many people listening to the show right now are writers, but we all use our creative energy in some capacity, right?
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And the fact was, no, you were the one that was running the program. They were just responding. So it takes us, it says, wait, we are responsible for the life we are living. And the issue about that is, well, what are your programs? Because they're running your life. I go, ah, you don't know what your basic programs are. I go, why?
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what really separates creatives that are able to find success which you can define in any which way you know for you but if you want to make a career out of it and be able to sustain yourself through your art I feel like the difference between creatives that make it there and don't is that devotion to the whatever it takes mentality and like
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working through all those feelings of self-doubt and, you know, just I've seen with my artist friends who like maybe take a break of not having made music for a little bit, they're doing their own thing and then they come back and like, do I still got it? You know, like all these things that, and so looking back on those times where you've had those emotions,
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I guess what wisdom, any other thoughts you have when that stuff comes up now of, yeah, imposter syndrome and all these things?
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Because the programming of the subconscious started, well, three months before you were born. and it's continuous for seven years, your brain, in that seven-year period, is running at a lower vibration when you put wires on a person's head, EEG. The vibration is called theta, which is just below consciousness. Consciousness is a higher vibe, alpha, and then even higher, beta and gamma.
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And so any feedback, constructive criticism, things that you've loved that we've been doing to do more of, we'd love to hear and get that feedback from you. That's it for me. I hope you enjoy these 2024, 15 selected moments from the podcast.
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How have you come to change what you see, like how you value yourself as a human being and also in relation to self-worth when the externalities of success, you know, fluctuate with your career, when you have a number one and then, you know, there's downtime or like, how do you see yourself as a, how do you value yourself and like, how do you come into relation with self-worth?
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You're running at theta, and I go, well, theta is imagination. I go, yeah, that's what characterizes kids. They live in the real world, the imaginary world, at the same time. I always talk about, oh, that great tea party. You pour nothing into the cup, you drink nothing, and that was the best tea you ever had in your life.
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Or a child riding on a broom, because in the child's mind, theta is imagination. The broom is a horse. I mean, to the kid, it really is. So if the mother says, give me the broom, the child's like not understanding what she's talking about because it's no longer a broom in that state of a child. It's now really a horse in their imagination. The problem? Theta is hypnosis.
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And I go, oh, so you're in a state of hypnosis for almost seven years. I go, why? Well, the answer is simple, and it goes, how many rules does it take to be a member of a family? How many rules does it take to be a member of a community? Thousands. I said, well, how are you going to teach an infant? They can't read a book. They can't sit in a classroom. So nature took care of it.
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Nature said, first seven years, hypnosis, download, observe those around you, your mother, your father, your siblings, your community. In observing them, you're actually downloading behavior, but other people's behavior. So it becomes interesting because we get the foundation of the rules by observing others.
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Now, the problem is if the people you're observing are not living in harmony, then by definition you've downloaded disharmony as well. And so all of a sudden it says, well, these are the programs. I go... Yeah, 95% of the day, that's where your life is coming from. Do you know these programs? So I ask people, tell me what program you got before you were born. Well, obviously, I don't know.
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Well, wait, wait, wait, you were programmed a whole year from zero to one. What programs did you get? No, no, from one to two, another whole year. I don't know those programs. They go, the biggest problem is most of the fundamental programs that operate our lives were downloaded before we were conscious, and we have no awareness of what those programs are. But we're running them 95% of the day.
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So I stand back and go, wait a minute. Your life is a printout of your programs. So the idea is this. All you have to do right now is just look at your life and go, The things you like that come into your life, well, they come in because you have programs to acknowledge those things. But this is the one.
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The things that you desire and you want but you struggle, you work hard, you put a lot of effort into it. I'm sweating over it. I'm going to make this happen. I'm working really hard to make it happen. I go... Why are you working so hard? And the answer is inevitably that destination you're seeking, that destination is not supported by your program. And then you're trying to override the program.