Zach Bush
Appearances
Healing + Human Potential
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Emotional trauma seems to be the most profound and disruptive toxicity that we can enter into, and it's the foundation of every organ disease that we know. If you store an emotion in the system, you disrupt the relationship between the energetic and biologic systems. The chemical trauma of an herbicide, pesticide, or an antibiotic.
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quite distance from the dust moment in some ways. I think where I tend to hear the regrets is when somebody is now faced with stage four cancer and is starting to come to terms with the fact that there's an end point coming, but that end point might be years out or months out or whatever it is. And so that's when they start to do that reevaluation and reevaluation.
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One of the themes that has come through pretty strong in those regrets over the years is, as individuals caught up in the social constructs that we've created, there's a sadness that we spent so much time with the people that we spent so much time with, and we didn't spend enough time with the people that we really felt resident with. And for a lot of that, there's...
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I tended to hear that far more often from people in urban environments. When I was in Virginia with a lot of my hospice work, I dealt with a lot of deep rural community, you know, fifth generation poverty and, you know, been rural on the same pieces of land for generations, you know, passed down.
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It's the only reason they, they subsisted was because despite their poverty, there was family land that was passed down generation to generation and, And so they were living in the same place their grandmother lived. And I didn't hear those regrets from those people that were connected to lineage.
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But the wealthy people that were living in cities and living these wealthy lifestyles of separatism that is often framed or carried out in the frameworks of social caste systems where you're from West Richmond or you're in one of these environments where there's so much social pressure and we're sitting in one of the biggest enclaves of this in the world is Los Angeles here.
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And during the first evacuation, I was put into a hotel in Northern Santa Monica just, and would be evacuated from that then a few hours later. But the sitting in that hotel lobby that evening, having some food and watching the people pour in and,
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you could tell immediately who had come to the hotel flown in from some European destination or out of town and who was being displaced from, you know, the Pacific palisades because they just look different. And the amount of effort that Los Angeles, Miami, New York, you know, the amount of effort going into creating a false identity is visible. And, um,
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the fire has a way of suddenly shattering the false identity. And so I saw a lot of acceptance of death and turnover in my rural population that were fifth generation poverty. And I saw a lot of shock and regrets in the people that had been more affluent and had lived into these quote unquote successful pathways of false identity and
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And so the shattering of identity that happens when a fire comes through or a hospice moment comes upon you, the level of shock will depend on what level of performative success you've had in your life. And for me, that's been a long, slow deconstruction. I started my life in relative poverty.
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I say relative because the poverty in the United States is, you know, in stark contrast to something that you would find in India or something like that. But yeah, Grew up in government housing, low-income housing. Dad was a tree trimmer at the university making $2.40 an hour. And we were a hippie family in Boulder, Colorado, doing our thing. And it was a wonderful way to grow up.
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I think there were so many beautiful things about growing up that way. And then worked myself into medical doctor at an Ivy League program and everything else. And so I went through the journey into this environment of... You know, performative identities. And what I found is the more altruistic you think your identity is in this performative path, the more difficult it is to let go of.
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And it took me decades of being a doctor before I realized that my identity as a doctor was disrupting my authentic capacity as a human. And my authentic capacity showed up in my full force. And so I slowly let go of a lot of those pieces. I let go of the university and all of the...
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accolades and you know constant awards that we give each other that's one of the funny things about performative environments you probably know you could quickly determine am i in a performative kind of a place or am i authentic place based on the number of awards that you're busy either receiving or giving to others if you're running around receiving and giving awards you're probably in a false reality
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Nature's not awarding the oak tree for being a good oak tree. When you are in your authentic natural self, the value that you bring is so inherent that you overwhelm the environment around you with a state of grace and generosity that is met with a equal gifting economy back to you and a sense of gratitude in this reinforcing environment.
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And nobody has to give anybody an award to reassure each other that your fake reality is good or fake reality is successful. And so when we look at something like award ceremonies, we need to take a deep look at what are we trying to convince ourselves of here? What is the Oscars trying to convince the world of?
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We're trying to convince ourselves that the world of storytelling in Hollywood and actors and actresses are the most valuable thing on the planet. And when we look at things like the Nobel Prize or something like this, Or just the awards that we give people socially. You think of somebody like an Elon Musk who gets so many direct or indirect social rewards and accolades for doing what he does.
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Wow, so many. I have so many of those. Yeah, when I was an associate hospice director, I was admitting 80 patients a week to die, and I did that for four years. So at some point, there's so many thousands of stories or whatever that kind of amalgamate into an experience. I would say the ones that stuck with me the hardest were the children.
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He's a genius mind, but he's a good example of somebody that's not running around trying to get awards. He's authentically expressing himself, and you can like him or dislike him. I agree with some of his visions. I disagree with others, but that's irrelevant.
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The fact is he's a generative engine and he's got this personality or this demeanor that keeps him pretty devoid of the desire for any recognition or any awards. To reassure him that he's on his right path, you know. And so you got that Elon Musk who's in his own world, creating his own world, creating from the visions that he has.
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And then you have people running around who don't have access, haven't tapped into their own visionary capacity, haven't tapped into the divinity of themselves yet.
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And for that, they're putting all of their operational efforts towards producing somebody else's vision, producing something outside of themselves, trying to make social metrics, you know, meet social metrics, try to be performative in that environment. And that's where that award-seeking reassurance behavior starts to really sneak in. Am I doing a good job?
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Yes, because here's the awards I've gotten. And I know a lot of phenomenal actors and, you know, some dear friends in that space. And I've watched their journey similar to mine is when you are, you know, awarded many times as a great doctor and a great teacher or a great actor and you've got all these awards sitting around. Yeah.
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the journey to de structuring that and getting to who is my core authentic self and how is that different than these identities or roles that i've taken on in the community and you find as you sink into that authentic state this is what it feels like to live a life that's ready to die ultimately i'm ready to die today because i've been authentic again today and that feels like such a relief at the end of the day you sleep so much better if you just simply had an authentic day
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and you were ready to die because every moment you were here, you were aware of these higher levels of impact where you just were a good oak tree just because you're an oak tree, not because the oak tree performed today. I was a good Zach today because I showed up as Zach today and I let life flow through me and I didn't have any metrics of success or failure.
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And frankly, this has been challenging in business. I've been running companies for 15 years and it's very challenging to run companies where you're not
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We can overcome that instantaneously if we get over this psychological bust in our identity that we were abandoned by nature. Take a vial of your blood, send it across town, put it under a microscope, You take an aspirin and all of the platelets in that test tube will instantly respond to the aspirin. And so it doesn't matter where that cell is. It's responding to your collective experience.
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putting a lot of emphasis on, you know, the award feedback to your personnel, because then they're, they're, if, if you're going to run a company in that same way, you want to be an authentic self that just shows up as self, every single person in the company, they're going to have to find that same core self-worth self-identity and your journey as, you know, a boss or a founder or CEO, you know,
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has to be its own journey and their journey needs to be separate from that identity. And, and that's challenging.
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It's challenging to create these corporate and social structures in which there's an understanding that authentic showing up is the inherent reward of life because our social structures have really said, well, if, if you're a good employee, then you should get the following awards and you know, there's growth and there's things and there's more money next year than this year.
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There's all these expectations and, on the situation to reflect a successful year or a successful contribution. And so for me, I find that duality quite interesting of are we performative and running around reassuring each other that the performative nature is good, or are we showing up authentically and willing to just experience self today?
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You know, when you see kids on hospice and watch them transition, it's so starkly different than how adults tend to transition or our elderly experience. There was an 11-year-old girl that passed away under my care. That has really stuck with me.
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Yeah, maybe just come up for a 30,000 foot view, just thinking about identity at these different layers. And so the soul might be a description of an energetic identity that's permanent. This is the thing that allows you to knit yourself together in your mother's womb.
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there's no biologic template in your mother's womb to create a human embryo, nor have we found that template or some sort of book of directions in the ovum, in the egg, or any of the cells that birth out of it. And so somehow there's this energetic experience of this is a human becoming human because this energy center or this energetic identity knows how to manifest
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She really showed me what it looks like to be fearless in life and have no fear of death either and just ready for the transition and, in fact, relieved for the transition, I think, a lot. She seemed to be somebody who picked her exit moment. She had overheard a doctor talking to her parents earlier in the year
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you know, in a state of order that we would call human. And so the energy field that you become as you let go of the biological body, which we see at the hospice moment is, you know, these near-death experiences.
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One of the eerie things about near-death experiences, and you hear dramatic, beautiful stories of people have, when their heart stopped and their brain function went quiet, they were gone for 15 or 20 minutes, and then they came back in.
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During that 15 minutes, many of them will travel around the world and see all the loved ones or connect to the ancestors or they'll leave the planet and go to distant universes or galaxies and experience.
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Then they're snapped back into the body as I'm paddling their chest and shocking them back into the body and putting chemicals and drugs into their bodies to get their heart restarted and force them back into the body on some level. when they come back in, whatever story they tell, they never doubt their identity. Their identity never disappeared. It's always I am and I had this experience.
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I had this experience. I knew this. I was there. The I never disappears. And so that's what I would call the soul is this energy center that predates and postdates the biologic experience. Then you have a biologic identity. So you have energetic identity, soul. Then you have biologic identity, which is a body.
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And this is where the science of my laboratory has spent the last decade or more really working in detail is understanding what allows a biologic vessel or container to have an identity. And the answer under the microscope is healthy boundaries. And so I developed with my colleagues a whole line of dietary supplements from fossil soil that function as the cell-cell communication system.
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network within a human body. And so you can picture this much like a cell phone tower system where each cell phone becomes actually completely useless as a communication device if the cell phone tower is down. And so the cell phone tower that helps one cell talk to the other cell is something called redox chemistry in biology.
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And these redox molecules are made by bacteria and fungi that we're extracting from fossil soil. The human cell makes a tiny little cohort of these molecules as well. Really, the only one the human cell makes is nitric oxide. And then the mitochondria, the bacteria living inside of our cells, make a host of oxygen-based molecules for redox communication.
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But what we discovered in 2012 was that the soil and our gut were carrying in the microbiome a massive treasure trove of communication molecules. And the bacteria and fungi in their diversity are producing an extremely fluent method of communication. So we're extracting that from fossil soil. We put that into a liquid state and then we add that back to human experience.
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The diversity of the communication is from soil 60 million years ago. Homo sapiens come along 300,000 years ago. So we're actually giving people an experience of a level of cell-cell communication that actually hasn't been present in the human experience because the soil systems of 60 million years ago were far more verdant and deep and more biodiverse than the ones that we have today.
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And so when you start to give this back to humans, and you can do it in a petri dish with human cells or you can give it to a patient, And the radical nature of cells communicating and what happens has shown us that the most important thing ultimately is self-identity. And so the first thing the cell does is to create a boundary in which it understands outside and inside.
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that the doctor was trying to help the parents come to terms with the fact that this was the end. The parents had struggled to stop doing the heroic efforts, you know, and the transition to hospice for a child is very difficult for a parent to...
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And that's the definition of a system. I think it was Buckminster Fuller who defined that. I think a system is anything with an outside and an inside. And so the human body as a system of identity is defined by these boundaries that are defined at the gut level, at the blood-brain barrier, kidney tubules. So what's outside and inside the human system is...
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apparently one of the primary priorities of your biologic system because the second the communication network hits a gut lining, the gut lining starts making more tight junctions, which is a healthier boundary. And so the most important thing to the body is your self-identity at the biologic level.
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And extraordinarily, there's an entanglement between your biologic identity and your soul identity or your energetic identity. And this is where we spend a lot of our time in our clinical work now. My clinic really morphed from like at the university, I was developing chemotherapy and I was doing all the drugs for endocrine management of diabetes and bone disease and thyroid disease and
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everything you can think of. And so I was in this pharmaceutical management of disease. After 17 years in academia, I realized this is a chasing after the wind. I will never prevent a single disease if I keep just treating these end stages of things.
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So launched out of the university in 2010, started a nutrition center to reverse chronic disease, and then was faced with the challenge of like, okay, wow, there's a whole world out here that I wasn't told about. There's functional medicine, there's integrated medicine, there's Chinese medicine, there's
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reiki there's all of these 9 000 year technologies and brand new technologies and so it was like on a daily basis hundreds of things coming at me like maybe this will work maybe this will work maybe this will work so for a decade i was trying to sift through the the mess that everybody has to deal with once they stop just trusting that there's a drug for their thing and they start to say well there's got to be a better way now you're faced with the internet and
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You're a deluge of information of everybody promising that they just found the new biohacking tool that's going to make you younger or better or prevent your cancer or whatever it is. Digging through all of that for a decade, I finally got back down to the only thing that matters is do you have a self-identity ultimately?
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And the quantum entanglement between the biologic identity and the energetic identity that we might call a soul became pretty profound. We got to see it under the microscope often, but some good studies have been interestingly done where you can take a vial of your blood, send it across town and
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put it under a microscope, you take an aspirin, and all of the platelets in that test tube will instantly respond to the aspirin. And so what that shows us is that there's a quantum entanglement of your self-identity at the soul level with your biologic identity. And so it doesn't matter where that cell is, it's responding to your collective experience.
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come to terms with the fact that there really is you know an end point coming is really hard and they had you know pushed for so much care over the years so much treatment and surgeries and interventions and 40 rounds of chemo and This kiddo had been through so much, and she overheard the doctor say, you know, trying to get through to the parents the severity of the situation.
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And so your body is a non-local phenomenon of biology connected and entangled with a soul. How the hell does that happen? Like, how does a soul, some ancient fractal of God show up to animate a human cell? And then how does that one ovum, that egg, know how to produce 70 trillion cells? And then those cells go to turn over every two or three days for an 80 year lifespan.
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How is that identity so baked in there? And, you know, this is framework that is my experience. And so you can take this or leave this. But I've stopped trying to believe anything I haven't actually seen and felt and experienced myself.
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And that was 17 years of higher education and academia, slowly letting go of all of that to realize I can't believe anything I've been ever taught in a textbook until I've experienced it for real myself. And that was a long, slow process of... I believed that, but I haven't felt and seen that. Oh, gosh, I felt and saw these other things that don't agree with that.
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I'm going to have to let go of that belief and go with what I've felt and seen. And so for that, I've been deconstructing and reconstructing my worldview for a long time. And this moment of entanglement is one of my most fascinating pieces of biologic evidence that I've seen ever. There is a moment that we call the zinc flash that happens at the moment of conception.
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This is achieved through an insane amount of energetic concentration. My 70 trillion human cells on average have about 200 mitochondria when I'm at my optimal youthful health. I'm half a century old, so I've lost about one or two percent of those mitochondria per year since I was about age two. So maybe I've got somewhere around 120 mitochondria per human cell.
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at this point in my life and that's the aging process is ultimately less mitochondrial metabolism per cubic centimeter and so i'm producing less light energy that's what the mitochondria do they release sunlight from glucose or fatty acids and so there's less sunlight being produced or released per cubic centimeter of my body than i had when i was two the results are pretty obvious i'm repairing
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less well. And so I end up with scar tissue rather than stem cell replacement. I end up with arthritis instead of a joint that's always fluid. And so these changes in our bodies that are natural as we age are a result of diminishing light energy per cubic centimeter, which gets us at the story of life itself. Life is ultimately a concentration of light energy, period.
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And so to understand how much light it takes to organize chaotic matter into a syntropic or organized identity at a biologic cell level, you have to appreciate the intense brightness of biology. The sun is the brightest thing physics does. We call it a star, we call it a sun. That thing is a nuclear fission and fusion reactor that's generating massive amounts of energy per cubic centimeter.
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But it doesn't produce life. It does not enough energy to organize matter around it into living systems. To get that, that sunlight has to be captured by these chlorophyll or other little tiny plastids inside of plants, inside of green things. where the sunlight can be stored in between carbon bonds. So CO2 is extracted from the atmosphere. It stores sunlight between the carbons.
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That turns into a carbohydrate or a fat in the plant matter. An animal goes eats that. The animal and its cells will break apart the carbons through the mitochondria and release the sunlight.
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it's that innovation of the mitochondria that was allowing life to occur on this planet because the mitochondria are able to release 10 000 times more light per cubic centimeter than the surface of the sun and so life is ultimately an innovation that allows for the concentration of sunlight per cubic centimeter a thousand fold to get to a single-celled organism like a bacteria ten thousand fold to get to an earthworm or a human
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She had overheard them that he didn't feel that she would, you know, still be alive by the end of the year kind of thing. And that was, you know, February or something like that, that she had overheard that. And she ended up passing away around, you know, late in the evening on the last day of the year.
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And so you're 10,000 times more energy per cubic centimeter than a sun. The reason I can look at you and you're not blinding me is because you're using all of that energy. Instead of you just emitting it like the sun does, you're utilizing that 10,000x concentration of light to make order out of chaos.
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You're taking space, time, energy, particles from the universe, and you're turning them into a human body. That takes an enormous amount of energy to achieve and then to maintain.
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And so for you to continue to manifest this body every millionth of a second, which is the speed at which your atomic structure has to keep disappearing and reappearing, you have to have so much light per cubic centimeter. So the aging process is one of decaying that, but this quantum entanglement between the soul and the biology is this moment of conception.
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I had mentioned that the average human cell has 200 mitochondria per cell. The egg, the ovum that lies within your ovaries and is released and floats into It takes a magical journey through the unorganized abdominal cavity to find the fallopian tube and then from the fallopian tube into the uterus. That egg floating along has half a million mitochondria in it.
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One cell with half a million mitochondria. And so we were already at 10,000 X with 200 mitochondria. Now you're at millions of times brighter than the sun or something. It's an insane amount of energy with half a million mitochondria sitting in that egg.
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And the purpose of that much energy seems to be to ignite this moment of entanglement between an energetic identity, what we might call a soul, and the biology that will be manifested from it. And so at the moment of conception, those half a million mitochondria discharge a massive amount of light, and it blinds the microscope when it happens.
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And so this zinc flash that happens must allow for this entanglement to occur between a physics field that we would call a soul and a biologic possibility that we would call a human body. That flash happens and life occurs. It's beyond miracle. It's beyond magic. It's beyond anything that the human brain can really wrap itself around.
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And so I have such a deep state of wonderment for the miraculous nature of life. And I spend a lot of my time trying to help humans understand what we've done to ourselves over the last 50 years. Because what we have done is we have maximized a lifestyle, a social system, an economic system that rewards antibiotic behavior.
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And so, you could tell in that experience that she had logged in her brain that she didn't, there was no longer any expectation for her to be around into the new year, you know, and she had held on. for as long as she could or felt like she needed to for her parents, really. And I've seen that a lot with death and dying, whether it be an elder or a child.
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antibiotic era started in really robust ways in the 1940s, but we had long been engaged in our effort to try to sterilize the human experience. We did it with alcohol and everything else back in the day. Then antibiotics come along in the 1940s, and then we start using antibiotics in warfare. We use antibiotics in herbicides and pesticides for food production.
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We build macro antibiotic systems by building fences in the name of conservation or ownership, and all the fences break the flow of macro flora and fauna, which is antibiotic at the macro level, just as our chemical drugs are antibiotic at the microscopic level. So we've developed a whole human behavior system, human economic system around antibiosis.
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Biosis or biotic refers to the relationships that collaborate to create the possibility of life. which I think is a cool definition. The relationships that collaborate to make life possible. Antibiotic is something that's inherently against the relationship piece of that. And so it breaks the relationships that make life possible.
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And so when you take an antibiotic, you are doing massive devastating effect on your relationship to the microbiome, your relationship to the human cells, your relationship to self ultimately.
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and this is why we see an increase in anxiety disorders and depression after a course of antibiotics and take two courses of antibiotics in a short period of time these numbers can get quite large so so we're breaking our biotic nature when we take or adopt antibiotic behaviors in our food system in our medical system and our conservation efforts and for that we we are depleting
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the amount of mitochondria per cubic centimeter, because mitochondria are small bacteria that live inside our cells. So if you take an antibiotic, you're going to kill a lot of mitochondria, not just the bacteria in your gut, you're going to kill a lot of mitochondria. And so the light per cubic centimeter goes down.
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When you start eating food with chemical residues, and all of us eat it every day, organic is a step in the right direction, but organic is very rarely free of glyphosate, which is the most prevalent antibiotic and herbicide weed killer that we consume. 85% of the air we breathe in the United States, 85% of rainfall is contaminated.
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So it's in our rain, it's in our fossil aquifers, it's everywhere, this chemical. And so we've saturated this planet with an antibiotic. And for that, we are diminishing the amount of light per cubic centimeter on the planet. There's less life every year now to generate the light energy that allows life to occur.
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And so for this, we see a 10,000 times increase in extinction rate of species over the last 50 years. And so we're accelerating the end of life as it's currently exhibited or expressed on this planet for this diminishment of light. And this zinc flash is a critical piece of that is the soul can no longer connect to the biology if you don't have that half a million mitochondria in there.
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And so when this diminishment of fertility in both men and women is largely a decrease in the amount of energy that it takes to do this quantum entanglement between the soul identity and the biologic identity. It's long-winded, but that's as good as I can get at it.
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They've often come to terms with their own departure and have often seen their next chapter and have seen past the veil in those months leading up to their transition. But they often stick around on behalf or in an effort to ease or help those that are going to survive the situation with their mental journey and psychology of it.
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So I guess that gets us into a third layer of self-identity, which is psychological identity. And so you've got energetic soul identity, you've got biologic identity, and then you have the human psychological identity. Of the three of those that's most damaging to our health, the psychological identity is the most damaging and creates the most vulnerability for the human.
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I think you're right about that. I think there's this sudden realization that we must not be separate from nature. We must be nature. And this is exciting because it's getting at the root wound of humanity.
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If there's a root wound that I've seen all over the world in every indigenous to non-indigenous colonial cultures, all the rest, we have a fundamental root wound of we're separate from nature and we're trying to heal that at every level. We're so vulnerable to the drugs that palliate abandonment disorder.
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And I've seen this in indigenous cultures just as much as I've seen them in colonial cultures is that wound is very present and has to be because we're so addictive in our behavior. Addiction is a symptom of an abandonment disorder.
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And so the addiction of alcohol or drugs, those are small examples of a deeper reality that we are all as humans addicted to something because we have this disorder of abandonment at our fundamental psychological identity level. So to be human is to have been rejected from nature. And you can read this in our own definition of nature.
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Go to Oxford English Dictionary, look up the word nature, and it will tell you that it's everything in the firmament of the earth. It's the minerals, the plants, the animals, everything as opposed to humans or anything humans have made. So not only did we write ourselves out of nature, we made ourselves in opposition to nature. Everything as opposed to humans or anything humans have made.
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And so it's this oppositional belief system that then puts us in an egoic structure of, well, we better protect ourselves because screw you. If we're abandoned, then we're going to be, you know, belligerent, you know, like we're going to. We're going to beat you. We're going to beat you at your own game, nature. We're going to kill you before you kill us.
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And so we have hunted into extinction all of the major species. Anything bigger than us, we basically hunted to extinction around the world. And we did that for tens of thousands of years. If you've read some of the recent books of sapiens or things like this, this is not a new problem in the last 50 years.
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We have been hunting to extinction animals that we felt threatened by for a long time, tens of thousands of years. And so we have this fear of nature. And this sense of abandonment then leads to addiction behavior. And I've seen this in the jungles.
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I've been with the most recently contacted, you know, the last peoples on the planet right now to make contact with what we would call a modern civilization was 1996 deep in Ecuador jungle.
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And I've been there and sat with the indigenous elders and shamans in that space and watched their kids and grandkids scrolling Facebook behind them as they shared their indigenous wisdom of a 75 year old in the jungle, watching their 50 and 25 year old, you know, descendants already addicted to the same technologies that our, our children and ourselves are addicted to in this culture and,
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which is just unmasking this abandonment disorder and our propensity to addiction. Go to any reservation within the North American thing to sit with some of our First Nations in Canada or Native American communities in this culture, and you can see them clinging to the memory of their language, of their stories, of the identities. that, you know, have nearly been extincted now.
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And so when you see a child that's that expanded, that has no victim mentality, no fear of death, and has enough care and sense of her parents and everything else that she would be
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And despite them clinging to those and doing such a heroic effort of just surviving the onslaught of a genocide that's been going for hundreds of years, for them to cling to that and at the same time knowing those stories, knowing the singularity, knowing we are nature, we are part of nature, the addiction levels are so high because of the trauma patterns.
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And so when you layer that abandonment disorder with subsequent trauma that's not being cleared from the system, then you get human behavior of today.
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And so we are now become energetically, genetically, probably not energetically, I think the soul is, you know, that physics field can't be perturbed in the same way that perhaps the biology does, but there can be a disconnect between the energy field and the biology. And we witnessed this many times in my clinic with a camera made in Russia that
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does a pulse wave electrical induction of energy across the fingertip. And then you can map the photon discharge off that explosion off the fingertip. And for that photon discharge, you get to see the patterns of chaos or order in every organ system of the body. And so we were able to do this induction field of the energy field of the body to see that
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the biologic stress was perturbing the energetic imprint on those cells and so the stress of the liver was leading to liver disease because of the disconnect between an ordered energy field and the disordered biology or the subsequent disordered energetic field. that was resulting from that. So you can have energetic disruption, biologic disruption, psychological disruption.
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And the thing that seems to be accelerating that faster than anything else is coming from the psyche part of the trifold identity, which is emotional trauma. Emotional trauma seems to be the most profound and disruptive toxicity that we can enter into. And it's the foundation of every organ disease that we know, whether it's cancer or autoimmune disease or
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living to that that last you know possible moment to help them in their journey and everything else and myself and everybody involved in her care team i think she had a sense of all of us and and she was doing something so loving and caring towards everyone and so i think a soul when it starts to really see itself rather than you know be convinced that you
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major depression or acne, it doesn't matter. Fundamentally, there's got to be an emotional underpinning to that because if there is no emotional field disruption, then the biology is healing very quickly. If you store an emotion in the system, you disrupt the relationship between the energetic and biologic systems.
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So now the chemical trauma of an herbicide, pesticide, or an antibiotic becomes really profound. If you're not disrupting it with that psychological, emotional toxicity, then we are quite resilient to these factors. The American Gut Project did a really – it was an accidental discovery there. The American Gut Project is such a beautiful thing.
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There's something profound I got witnessed in that they were studying these African tribes of the gut microbiome as these hunter-gatherers, the last hunter-gatherers on Earth, and they were watching the microbiome of these guts of the hunter-gatherers. And they, not surprisingly, saw exponential larger populations of biodiversity in the gut of a –
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hunter-gatherer in west africa than they do in you know the urban cities of america the hunter-gatherer has 40 000 species of bacteria tens of thousands of species of fungi the americans got 8 000 instead of 40 000 you know and says we're walking around with 80 loss of our microbiome diversity just by being in this chemical environment of being human in a technologic space
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But what they showed is there was a missionary group that moved through this area and dropped off for these indigenous tribes, these hunter-gatherers, boxes of antibiotics in case they got sick. And so this was translated to them, if you get sick, you can take these antibiotics and they can help your children or you. So it was very altruistic.
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But as it turned out, the translation didn't go well because they didn't actually have a term for sick because it's not part of their tradition.
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cultural identity of being sick or healthy they're just them all the time and they biologically are present and they're quite resilient and they don't have any chronic diseases in their their communities and so these boxes get dropped off not understanding when they're going to get sick but they're all these shiny little red capsules and everything else around the fire that night the tribe put passes all this around and consumes the entire
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you know, boxes and boxes of antibiotics. And the researchers are just like stunned the next day when they come back and realizing that that was probably the end of the microbiome. As we understand it, this was the last semblance of a healthy microbiome. And in one night they, they took these boxes of antibiotics. So there was this deep sense of loss and just tragedy and,
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But the researchers kept doing their work. And so they were collecting stool samples from the whole tribe every day or every couple of days and sending those across the ocean to get genomic sequencing and all this.
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A month and a half later, all of the data comes back in a shocking way that the next day, the next day, the next day after taking box of antibiotics, there was absolutely no change in the microflora of these tribes. These peoples are so connected to their greater ecosystem that there's no... sever between their microbiome and that of the soil they're sitting on or the air that they're breathing.
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They are a continuum of nature and nature is constantly reinforcing their connected state in biology. And deeper than that, they have no emotional trauma or belief of sickness. And so there's no place for them to put in their energy field the belief that they aren't enough or they aren't complete or they need something else.
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human body is is the identity the soul starts to do beautiful you know expansive work and soul is always doing that i think but for the the being the human being to reach that singularity of soul consciousness or soul awareness of the infinite nature of itself And it starts to realize I'm here on Earth to do something far beyond this lifetime or far beyond the finite nature.
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And so for the lack of emotional trauma, these people are extremely connected and resilient and regenerative in their microbiome, in their cell biology, in their immune identity, all these things. And so for me, I think it's just hopeful that while the psychological trauma of emotional storage
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is a great disruptor, the release of that leads to this intensely regenerative state that really is almost bulletproof to the chemical nature. And so for that, I've come to realize while the chemicals are a big problem, we can overcome that instantaneously if we get over the psychological bust in our identity that we were abandoned by nature.
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Your body is a non-local phenomenon of biology connected and entangled with a soul. Addiction is a symptom of an abandonment disorder. We are most addicted to emotional input. And that's how we build our stories. It's how we build our relationships.
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Yeah, the abandonment disorder, I think, is something that is interesting to look at in human history because Homo sapiens, or some version of our sapien genetics, seem to have large social societies that built technologies that are far beyond what we can do today. quite recently, 10,000 years ago.
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So Homo sapiens have been around 300,000 years, and we had a way of interacting with our environment, whether it be through information technologies that we were getting from some sort of lineage off planet, or we can come up with all kinds of myths and stories as to what was happening, but we have an enormous amount of archeologic evidence that we were building stuff that we can't build today.
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And so there was a period of time of hyper-intelligence, hyper-connectedness, and we definitely seemed to be more attuned to the fact that we were having a finite experience of an infinite soul. And so the ways in which the Aztecs played sports is a good example of it. They had this...
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amazing game that's some sort of mashup of what we would think of football or soccer today and basketball, where they had to kick this tiny little ball or hit it with some body part other than their hands to get it through this tiny little stone hoop that was far up, high up. It looks to me like it's 10 meters up or something, 30 feet above ground.
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So they had to get this tiny little ball up through this tiny little hole. And when you look at this at one of the Aztec centers, like that looks physically impossible to do that. But these games would apparently go on for days until somebody scored or somebody won the game. And the captain of the winning team. had the honor of being executed at the end of the game.
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I'm here to constellate with these other souls of my parents and caregivers and siblings. And I'm here to pass on information, pass through experience. All of this. And so that I think is something that's really informed the rest of my life is to try to constantly be aware that I need not be limited by my human experience in the day to my understanding of why I'm here or what I'm here to do.
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Well, that's just a fundamentally different relationship to life. So there was not only technological capacities to build pyramids we can't build, there was this understanding that the highest honor is to go back into the spiritual realm having achieved something impossible in the physical realm.
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And so there's this honor of physicality and this great achievement of I brought an infinite soul into a finite experience to create the impossible and that's the highest thing I can do and I'm so ready to recycle into my energy field to do this again. I want to see what I can become next. Maybe I become White Lion or something. That's a different relationship to nature.
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And we have a lot of evidence that it was here quite recently. And then I've traveled all over the world looking for some answers here because it's one of my biggest mysteries that I'm trying to solve for because I think it's so important to how are we going to survive extinction if we are to. We're going to have to figure out what happened 5,000 or 7,000 years ago.
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Between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago, there was a global amnesia to all oral histories. The Khoi and the San people of Africa have a 100,000-year oral history. 100,000 years of this is how it went, this is what occurred, this is where peoples were, this is what the Maori and the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and New Zealand have got 40,000-year history.
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Most of our North American indigenous peoples have 40,000-year histories of oral tradition. And then if you ask any of them what happened 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, they've got no story as to when this occurred. Why did we suddenly go into this separation moment? Why did we lose the technologies? Why did we develop fear, guilt, and shame as dominant social structures?
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And so I believe the abandonment event could have happened that recently. The abandonment disorder may have happened then. When you're abandoned from nature, you immediately don't think you're enough. And when you don't think you're enough, you are in a state of scarcity on every other social level. And so this moment of scarcity happened in our collective psyche a few thousand years ago.
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And in that, we started to develop a deep sense of need for ownership. And in ownership comes... empire or colonial behavior and so not only do you need enough for today you need to make sure your kids and grandkids have got more than enough because you don't want them to starve and so now you're storing storing stuff rather than letting it flow on a daily basis and we do have a digital
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indigenous cultures that have not bought so deep into this. But I don't think anybody's free and clear of this abandonment disorder. Again, this propensity for addiction is so ever prevalent across peoples that I think we all carry at least a kernel of this deep abandonment disorder.
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But what comes out of it then is this sense of ownership and scarcity models that then drive our current exploitive, extractive, destructive nature as humans. We weren't always like that. As recent as a couple hundred years ago, we had a different relationship to that. There was 100 million people living in North America when Europeans arrived 400 years ago.
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That 100 million people were being fed by an agricultural system that was far more complex than what Europe had at the time. And so the Iroquois and many other nations were teaching agriculture. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, these guys were all agronomists.
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All of the families that came over to start living in the United States all had to be agronomists because there wasn't, they needed to start again. So they were learning how to farm and do these complex food system things from the nations that had been here for 40,000 years. And for that, you know, there was a lot of respect and reverence for natural law that had come out of the Iroquois. And
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Benjamin Franklin had studied the heck out of it through Confucius and China in the mid-1700s, and Benjamin Franklin had written many treaties on natural law in the mid-1700s before he would help pen the Declaration of Independence and everything else that would become the founding documents of the United States.
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But you can see the ways in which we poisoned both the food system at that time and the concepts of natural law with this deep wound of Benjamin And this belief that we were not enough. And we poisoned it in our original documents. We poisoned it in our farming systems. We came so close to being able to perpetuate a different future. And we failed for this deep, deep wound that we carry.
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And for that, I get excited about every single moment of my life because I'm now sitting in a room with a couple people that I've not spent any significant time with in the past, and our souls are here. There's 8 billion people on the planet. We're in the midst of wildfires all over Los Angeles. Houses are burning down. Lives are changing dramatically.
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Yeah, you're hitting on a very important word there, which is feeling. And this is much different than emotion. And so this has been a slow learn for me. But what we were watching in the energy field, the disruption between the energy and the biologic identity was emotional trauma, emotional storage.
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9,000 years of Chinese medicine had mapped out very carefully which organ systems stored which emotion. And so your unprocessed emotion of grief sits in the base of your lungs. Guilt in the prostate of a male. That sense of I am not enough in the colon. These things are stored all over the body in very predictable ways and they disrupt the energy field. Those are emotions.
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How I would describe an emotion is a mental construct of a small bandwidth of a feeling. The feeling of unconditional love begins in grief. You have to come to terms. If you have unconditional love, you have to come to terms with you're about to lose whatever it is you're falling in love with.
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Because if you really come to terms with everything is divine and on its own sovereign path and not on your path,
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everything you fall in love with is going to disappear and that might be a child who dies it might be your parent that dies it may be the spouse that divorces you it's all temporal it has to be because everything's on its own sovereign path and nobody's required to be on its other side and somebody else's sovereign path you know so everything is on its own sovereign path and therefore everything will diverge all of the souls are going on their own path for eons there is none of them that are living parallel journeys and so we will simply lose everything that we love
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And so unconditional love has to begin in the understanding of the grief of loss is worth it. And for that unconditional love, it'll take you into a journey into what I would call joy and ecstasy and these states of acceptance and these states of wonderment. And then it will take you back into loss and grief again.
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And so the feeling of unconditional love is a full bandwidth of every emotion you can think of. The emotion of love is this little tiny thin bandwidth that we've decided to define as, oh my gosh, I got this fluttery feeling. I think I love this person. I think this person loves me. And that little fluttering feeling and emotion lasts for seven seconds in the neurology.
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And so in this abandonment disorder, emotions are a perfect drug because they give us this neurochemical experience. And because we are so prone to addiction because of our underlying abandonment disorder, All of us are more addicted to emotional input than any other thing on the planet. More than alcohol, more than drugs, more than whatever it is. We are most addicted to emotional input.
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Macroeconomic structures are failing all over the world. the amount of drama on the planet is so profound and so severe in these moments that we're living in, and yet these three souls decided to be in this room right now. And we can call it a podcast, we can call it something.
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And that's how we build our stories. It's how we build our daily social interactions. It's how we build our entire sense of self-worth is out of how many emotions did I experience today? And when we start to get numbed out, we get depressed. And so if we can't feel the emotions, major depression is inevitable.
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And I think that's the biggest experiential learning that I did in depression is I had managed depression in thousands of patients and in my own immediate family.
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for years before i ended up getting depressed and when i developed major depression i couldn't believe the discomfort of it because it's not just being blue it's not like oh i'm not happy today well that's not actually depression depression is a state of numbness where you can no longer feel and when you can no longer feel what you've been told is the only thing that really makes you valid as a social animal when you can't feel love for your own child when you can't have that emotion of like oh my gosh i love you so much
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When you can no longer generate that emotional frequency that you've been told is the most important thing, love is the fabric of everything. If you can't feel or give love, then you're worthless. This is where we suicide. And so we suicide at that moment of numbness rather than sadness. Numbness is the most terrifying thing to the biology because it means we're no longer alive.
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And so we're looking for an out immediately when we become chronically numb and we can no longer self-stimulate with emotions. And so a lot of this addiction to emotional input is our problem and our crisis and is driving our disease. And the problem at the biologic level with emotion is it can't metabolize through the system.
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When you lodge the emotion of grief in the lungs, it doesn't have a way of getting out of the energy field there. It's just stuck there and it will chronically disrupt the relationship between the energy field and the biology. Anger in the pancreas, guilt in the prostate, wherever these things are occurring, the emotion is not a full waveform.
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It's a distilled abstraction of the feeling and therefore can't metabolize through the system and so we just store it.
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so the difference between emotions and feelings is you can store the one the emotions and in the other you clean the system if you fully feel the world around you and you fully feel the emotion of rejection from a lover or loss of a child or the burning down of your house if you fully let yourself feel all of that It moves through your body surprisingly, shockingly quickly.
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And it actually cleans the body just like a big set of waves does on the ocean surface. When a big set comes in, it wipes out the previous stuff. The big waves carry a lot. And feelings are big waves for biologic reset. And so you really nailed it with your descriptions. And one day you woke up and you really felt what it felt like to have the I'm not enough belief. Yeah.
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And there's a lot of human productivity and human ingenuity going along behind the scenes of the cameras and in your mind and your capacity to hold space for a discussion. But there's this higher plane happening where there's, for some reason, these three souls decided to step into a room right now and constellate while 8 billion others are on their journeys. What are we here to do?
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And so you had an emotional belief that was disrupting you and your biology. And then you allow the feeling to come along and sweep it all clean. And so that opportunity that we have is to become more feeling organisms and allow ourselves to feel everything. Don't numb it out. Don't distract yourself from it. Feel all of it and just acknowledge where it's happening in your body is a good way.
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What's the difference between emotion and feeling emotions up in your head and you're waiting for this little neurologic thing of like, Oh my God, I'm so sad. Or, Oh my God, I'm so in love. Or, Oh my God, I'm doing a feeling often starts in your core down your abdomen and will sweep through and move through an arm or move out through the fingertips or move to your face or up into the neck.
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So feel not only what you're feeling, but where are you feeling it and where is it moving and how is it moving and let, and then let that become your big wave experience and start to learn how to ride those big waves and If you learn how to serve feelings, you're going to be very clean very quickly.
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And so I closed my clinic ultimately to try to A, stop being the problem because the longer I was a doctor that people had to come to with the belief that I had something they didn't. a piece of knowledge, a piece of technology, biohacking, whatever, I was part of the problem.
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And so by closing the clinic, it was my announcement to the world of like, you have everything you need, and I'm no longer going to pretend that I have something you don't have. I got nothing in my 17 years in academic training that you didn't already have at your biologic level.
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What you have at your biologic level is an inherent identity of who you are, and you're quantum entangled with your soul, and that is enough to heal anything. And so let's go there. And so we closed the clinic and we launched Journey of Intrinsic Health, an eight-week program. And the first week is dedicated and we put people in constellations of eight people to witness each other.
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Because if you're witnessed in your healing, it sticks. If you go on a healing journey and you're isolated, You have to learn the lessons over and over and over again before you start to believe it.
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But if you're witnessed in your healing moment, when you make that one little breakthrough where that part of you heals instantly because you let go of the psychological belief system and you suddenly reconnected to an original design, original soul connect.
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that spark is so bright that people will see that and reflect that back at you at that moment and when you get it reflected back at you what just happened then your experiential learning is compounded and so the eight week program is one of experientially learning that you are whole experiencing learning the process of becoming a biologic generative engine as a reflection of an energetic soul or identity that's been here forever
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And so the journey of intrinsic health has been so fascinating and the first week of it is dedicated to the state of being, the state of letting go of all of the roles that has currently or up until this moment been your amalgamation of a sense of self-identity, burning all of those roles. Burn it down and let your true identity, that soul identity, start to shine through.
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And then having six or eight people witness you in that unmasking, you will see yourself for that. And you have to be seen in that because you can't actually see yourself. You have to see it in the face of another. And so this is where we serve each other well. As egoic split minds, as we function as great mirrors, no matter how much I talk, no matter what I do, you'll actually not see me.
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It's impossible for you to see me because I've got an egoic shield up, but you can see yourself in that mirror. And so as egoic split beings, we also have to acknowledge that there's a role for that too. There's a blessing we can give each other, even though we don't know how to make ourselves completely vulnerable and seen.
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We can see ourselves in one another more profoundly if we sit still and be a mirror and be witness to and give people feedback to what you're witnessing, the sparks of life back in them. It's actually you're witnessing yourself sparking back to life in them. And so there's this beautiful mirroring journey that we get to do for each other.
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And that just changes all perspective, I think, is that to your friend's point, when you start to live the way in which you're going to die, you become multidimensional throughout your life rather than waiting to be a three-dimensional being, realizing at the end of your journey like, oh, I'm a multidimensional being and I've been here forever and I'm going to go do something else now.
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And it's been interesting for me as I let go of kind of that doctor identity to watch people with no medical training healing each other more effectively than I did as a doctor. And so it's the witnessing of one another now where we become the human medicine. And I believe this is the moment we are in as we are going to go past plant medicine era and we're going to start to become human medicine.
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And the human medicine is at a much higher order of healing than plant medicine can bring you. And so if we need plant medicines to get us over this hump of abandonment and say, oh my gosh, we never got kicked out of the garden. We are the garden. The garden's us. We're connected. Thank goodness. get over the abandonment disorder, but now you gotta heal the disease of being human.
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And we have to do that at a fast enough rate that we allow something to go extinct here, which might be our inhumanity. The inhumanity is the judgment that comes, as you said, once scarcity hits, once you've been abandoned, you have scarcity mentality, you start to have ownership. The first thing that happens, your assumption, if I've been abandoned, I must not be enough.
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And if you're not enough, then you start to store this behavior of judgment. And so that's good, that's bad. And now you rebuild social structures and we believe in ethical codes. Ethics is ultimately a symptom of a disconnect. We don't need a field of ethics. The oak tree does not need an ethical manual to figure out how to be a good oak and take care of the rest of the forest.
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It simply does by being itself. so ethics is is the effort to understand a wounded psyche or to try to force social behaviors that are better or something like that to a wounded psyche of a humanity we can let go of ethics completely and simply behave ethically by you know reconnecting to the this source of of core value core identity core expression But to do that, we have to let go of judgment.
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And that's very difficult to do for others. It's very hard for us not to run around judging everything, especially ourselves. So we are such brutal critics and judgment, you know, arbiters on our own behavior and our own selves.
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To start to live that every day of living, breathing a finite life, body, biology in a more permanent physics of reality is a beautiful way to live. And it relieves us of some of the apparent drama or limitations of being human and starts to move us towards this glory of nature is ascending through everything, including me.
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ION stands for Intelligence of Nature as a brand. And it came out of the science I was talking about earlier around this fossil soil. And so the extraction of the intelligence of a complex micro ecosystem that no longer exists on the planet was the breakthrough. And so in 2012, we started extracting ION. Soil elements from these fossil layers of soil out in New Mexico and Arizona.
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And we've now found six other places around the world that have these well-preserved fossil soil systems that carry these really high concentrations of diverse carbon molecules that function as this wireless communication network.
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And so it's been a real extraordinary journey into that humble reality that there's no pill, there's no solution for disease, but there is a reconnected potential for life to happen. And so when cells have unfettered access to information, they become bulletproof.
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and that journey has been interesting in that you know the the terror of herbicides our laboratory is one of the most experienced in the world with glyphosate and we we are have published many papers around glyphosate but we're about to publish what i believe is the definitive paper on all of the biologic pathways by which glyphosate disrupts human biology at these extremely tiny levels down to like two parts per billion
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which is currently our threshold of detection of this molecule. So even at our lowest detectable level of this molecule, we're showing all of the pathways of biology that are disrupted severely and are contributing to the extinction of species. And so this publication will, we hope, finally start to move the needle.
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We've testified in front of the EPA over and over again about the terror of glyphosate at the biologic level and in ecosystems and human health and all this, and it just continues to get approved. And so we're hoping that this definitive document really kind of overcome some of the justifications and, and kind of workarounds that the regulatory and scientific industries have been in denial around.
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But regardless of, of that, our excitement is that ion has shown us that nature has never allowed a wound that she didn't already have a solution for. Nature has never allowed an injury to occur that she didn't already have a solution to and,
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And so before we even had teased out glyphosate's damage, we were showing that these molecules from fossil soils were reversing the damage of herbicides and pesticides immediately. And so that was such a crazy thing to witness. There had never been a model like this for us to understand as scientists. How does nature...
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not only overcome the injury, but actually make you stronger, not weaker for these intense chemical traumas. And that's what we see over again in our studies is that the gut lining, if you have enough communication network from these fossil soils, if you drink ion at the same time that you eat your meal that has the glyphosate in it,
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the gut membrane actually increases its strength, not decreases it after that glyphosate injury. So you're getting stronger, not weaker, if you have the communication network in place. Biologically, how that presents, or clinically, how that phenomenon presents is pretty extraordinary, and it was really our autistic community that started working with us in 2014. Mothers...
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Mothers of autistic children had learned more about the gut-brain connection than any of the doctors in the world had by this point. And so by 2014, there was this starting to, you know, accept that the microbiome had roles in all diseases was just beginning. And these mothers had really drilled down on the science that was still nascent at the time and had come to these conclusions. And so...
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daily social interactions it's how we build our entire sense of self-worth is out of how many emotions did i experience today and when we start to get numbed out we get depressed numbness is the most terrifying thing to the biology because it means we're no longer alive nature has never allowed a wound that she didn't already have a solution for
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while others, doctors, et cetera, had been very slow to adopt this new category of dietary supplements that ION was representing, these mothers saw it, understood it immediately, implemented it immediately. And as a company, we can't talk about disease and supplements at all because of the way that the FDA regulates these spaces.
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So these mothers went out on their own and created their own Facebook groups and everything else, and they were sharing all of the science, and they were sharing the impact that it was having on their children. And so we had like this grassroots movement happening from this technology out of soil that nature had created.
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And the autistic children have now for more than a decade shown us the beauty of reconnecting a human mind to its nature. And these children are just genius, beautiful angels among us. And so the autistic community kind of led the charge for us, but we've done a lot of work with different populations of different diseases to help us understand that it's not about treating diseases anymore.
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It's about reconnecting ourselves to the natural systems that make disease obsolete. And that's what nature intended. She was going to do so much redundancy in healing that disease was not...
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necessary outcome and that's been the experience of some of these West Africa tribes and everybody else historically is there was no reason for us to have a word of sickness or disease in the language because it didn't exist because we were so tied into nature that the redundant systems of repair were fundamentally more profound and eloquent than any source of disruption or injury could have created for us so
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Ion has been this really extraordinary journey into the human potential that lies within a reconnected humanity. When nature re-embraces us and welcomes us back into her arms, we are going to experience a level of connected, resilient, regenerative biology that we've just been disconnected with for certainly thousands of years, maybe tens of thousands of years, maybe not even since our origin.
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Because again, these molecules that Ion has haven't existed in human history. They predate humans by... by millions of years. And so it's really intriguing to me is, has nature been waiting to reveal her ancient potential for our distant future, you know?
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And can we stay in play when we start to really reground into the whole matrix of nature and all of her historic dimensional intelligence and genius? and what's going to happen there. So ion was a powerful tool there. Ion has gone on to understand that nature delivers its nutrients and its nurture through these molecules as well.
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So not only are they communication network, these carbon molecules also function as the ferry system or the taxi system to get nutrients inside of cells. there's been an increasing awareness of the importance of bioavailability of nutrients or supplements over the years.
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And so there's been a lot of technologies that have come along that we call nanotech and things like this to increase the bioavailability. And so you can get liposomal or nanotech curcumin on the market now. But we've shown in our laboratory and clinical trials that even if it's the fanciest liposomal nanotech thing on the market, you're still not ever going to see that curcumin in the urine.
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It doesn't go from your gut to the bloodstream all the way through the kidneys. It's not saturating the system. There's this biologic breakdown of delivery. Contrast that to dissolving that same curcumin in ion before it's consumed. You suddenly have 3,000 nanograms per milliliter of urine or curcumin in your urine.
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So you have this massive concentration going through the whole body suddenly if you just suspend it in these molecules. And this is kind of obvious when you start to think about soil systems is how does a mycelium network get nutrients from one side of the farm to the other? And it does it through these carbon molecules.
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And so the fiber optic cable of a mycelium is structural there, but the functionality is actually in the carbon molecules inside the fiber optic cable, not the cable itself. And so these molecules of ion are the communication network and the delivery system of nature's nurture.
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And as we start to really better understand the feminine and masculine within nature, we start to realize that the feminine is actually what protects systems. The masculine never does. The masculine is a system of structural holding. So the mycelial cable is the masculine structures. these big proteins that hold space, but they don't functionally move or take care of anything.
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It's the nurture of the feminine flow through that mycelium network that actually delivers the nurture that creates safety for all of the offspring that would be downstream. So It's the feminine that nurtures us into safety. Protection comes from the maternal state of being rather than the paternal.
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And I think if we could reverse that in human behavior, we'll end up with a completely different society overnight. Because if we understand that mothers are what protect their children and their social systems, and men no longer are burdened with that, well, we can stop war.
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The masculine being tasked with protection when it doesn't have the ability to actually nurture in nature the same way that the feminine does,
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only option we have is battle each other war and so i think it's the misappropriations of identity that men have been burdened with that forces us into this extractive destructive competitive war-like behavior in business or in fiat countries or whatever it is
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When we surrender to the fact that the feminine knows how to protect everything, then we're going to start to go back to a feminine method of sociopolitical change. And for this, we'll find natural law again. And so I started the Institute of Natural Law with a couple of incredible groups of women and people around the world so that we can start to understand what does sociopolitical mean.
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change look like in our future when we start to embrace the feminine flow and protection that's inherent in our natural systems and within ourselves and start to give back the masculine its rightful role. Interestingly, when the masculine gives up this warlike behavior of protection, its real role comes forward as the one that will open the heart. And so the feminine is that that will protect.
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And the masculine is that will open the heart. What do I mean by that? It turns out that to open the heart or to actually experience love, you have to witness beauty. And so the role of the masculine within myself or yourself, your masculine side of you, the role is to witness the beauty of the flow of life through you.
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And if you witness your own flow, you will fall in love with yourself immediately. And so the opening of the heart happens when the masculine witnesses the feminine within itself. Each being, whether it be a leaf, a mycelial network, or a human, has both the masculine and feminine within it.
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And we need to start to develop experiential learning in our children so that they learn that they do have the capacity to see their own flow of life through them, that they can actually see their own creative, intuitive, function and the creativity that flows through a child to create that piece of art or to write that first poem or to write the first love letter.
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That flow of creativity is the feminine flowing through. And so you teach a child to witness its own beauty. There will no longer be this sense of I'm not enough. There will only be a sense of like, oh my gosh, I am this creative force of nature.
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and i create beauty just as i appreciate beauty around me and we will fall in love with ourselves at a very early age or maybe we just won't fall out of love with ourselves at these early ages and we'll stay in love with ourselves long enough to get out of our egoic competitive warlike behavior and start to turn ourselves over into feminine care nurture and protection and then use that masculine witness of the beauty to open our own hearts back to a possibility of a different future
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I hope it helps. I'm not at all sure that it does in some ways because there's this duality that we are living in as human beings. We basically signed up for a journey to forget everything. And I think we probably come in as infants or newborns or we're in the womb with complete consciousness. I think we begin complete and then we buy into that.
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Thank you so much for having me on. Thank you for all you listening. Blessings on all of you. Much love.
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a journey of incompleteness, you know, this fractioning of our psyche, this fractioning of our self-identity, the fractioning of our ego, egoic mind. And in that, a deep amnesia that we come from wholeness and we go back to wholeness. You know, I hope that it's just a reminder to everybody that you are perfect. You were born perfect.
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There's no way you weren't perfect or else you wouldn't have completed yourself in the womb. the complexity of turning a single cell into 70 trillion cells that are all differentiated into dozens of different organs that are carried out in a symphony of behaviors through hundreds of thousands of different protein signaling cascades driven by
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You know, enough DNA information to wrap around the earth 2 million times. Like the scale of a single infant is so grandiose. The DNA in a single newborn wraps around the earth 2 million times.
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The amount of genetic information, the amount of protein intelligence, the amount of molecular coherence and collaboration, there's no way you weren't perfect at the beginning or else you could not have pulled off that miraculous feat of forming yourself in your mother's womb. It's impossible.
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And so with that impossibility of imperfection or the inevitability of your perfection that allowed you to form, coming to terms with the fact that you signed up to forget everything and be on a journey back to remembering all of that, I think at least gives framework if it doesn't necessarily relieve the human nature of fear, guilt, shame that comes around the death process or the belief that it is the loss and end of something.
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All of those are in some ways very real. It's worthwhile to acknowledge that in the three-dimensional space there's an end. This physical body is no longer there of your grandmother or your father or whoever's passing or your child. There is an end point in the physicality of the situation and it's worth feeling all of that. And I guess that would be my conclusion to the matter is
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Framing it in any context of rebirth versus endpoint is hopefully, you know, helps reduce some of the stress, fear, guilt, shame, and move us to more of a wonderment towards it. I hope that as a society, we could move back to wonderment of death. If you find yourself really locked in fear of death, I would invite you to go to Bhutan or Tibet.
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These are cultures that have spent tens of thousands of years honoring and in wonderment of death. And all of their efforts are to be in constant reverence to the dying. And there's... the culture is far more driven daily.
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Every day there's marches in the streets and parades and, you know, honoring of, of those that have passed in the last couple of days or the last week, you know, and so there's more reverence being paid to the death or the rebirth there than in the entry point of a birth.
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And so these cultures I think are useful to tap into, to, to just realize there's a different way of bringing reverence and wonderment to this thing that we call death and, And a curiosity. It drives me. I am so curious to see what I see on the other side when I get to witness myself. Because I've had two events in my life that might be called near death or whatever.
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Two events in my life where I kind of saw past the veil for a moment. And the beauty of everything is so startling. And most of all, the beauty of yourself. And so I'm... I'm curious and in wonderment of when will my soul decide I'm done with this three-dimensional journey? What am I here to complete before I decide to do that next contract when I am ready for the next thing?
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I feel the same way for everybody who's dealing with these fires right now. It's like, isn't this kind of an extraordinary thing? Your house has been there for some decades and Your children maybe grew up in it. There's some sense of desire for permanence of the house. But your house just went up in smoke on purpose, too.
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And everything that you thought was important just burned to the ground and is in ashes. What's left after that is beauty. And I think you do get to see that in times of natural disaster of any scale. You see the best of humanity coming through over and over again. And it's because we, for a moment... drop the performative nature of being human in an egoic world.
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And we just become authentic for a moment. And we authentically grieve what we just lost. We authentically rejoice in what was saved. And we authentically re-evaluate what's truly valuable to us.
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We have failed to appreciate the miracle of life and for that we have so desecrated that life. We try to fix our kids and their problems. We try to fix our house. We try to fix our companies. We try to fix our products. That mentality is getting away from the fact that there is an emergent beauty and there is an emergent creation force coming through humanity that is inevitable.
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it's unbelievable like what the heck are we doing we have failed to appreciate the miracle of life and for that we have so desecrated that life it does seem to be that phenomena where the fish doesn't know water because it's so ubiquitous within its environment right like uh
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I like the image of the fish not realizing it's in the water and not appreciating that, I think.
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our current condition is that we don't even we're afraid to be in the water right now so we're the fish that keeps jumping out of the water trying to breathe air so we're not even breathing the right environment we're not we're so afraid of what we were born into that we don't want to be in it and so we keep jumping straight out of the water wondering why we're you know can't breathe
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We got to fall back in the water. And that water is this ocean of abundance that nature has bred into our own bodies. We are soil system. Human biology, again, most complex ecosystem of the planet, more bacteria, fungi, protozoa, parasites, et cetera, in a single organism. We are life force expressed in biodiversity.
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And we keep trying to jump out of that biodiversity into this loneliness and into this rarefied environment where we can't breathe. We got to fall back in the water at some point. And something that I've experienced since our last time together is a sudden realization of why everything I've created the last 15 years has kept collapsing around me. And it was largely because I was
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trying to build and live from my heart and it was a refreshing place to be in because before that i had been up in my head and for the 30 years i had spent my head 17 years out in academia multiple subspecies medicine trying to think trying to control nature through my my own knowledge
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it was such a relief to get in my heart i think that's the moment i came i became the fish that would stop trying to jump out of the water and started just like going to the water and i was so happy in the water when i got there and well oh my god this is nirvana i've reached And so I was experiencing, you know, the water. And every day I was like, oh my gosh, there's so much love.
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I'm so overwhelmed by the amount of love I feel, which is actually an expression of the beauty that I see. I can see so much more beauty when I'm in this torrent of energy that's coming through a human heart. And so I was like, oh, this is incredible. This must be where I, so I built companies and nonprofits.
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And I built family from there, and I built, you know, friend network, everything else, and it was so unstable. And we destabilized one another in our effort to hold on to each other because we were all told we should be in the heart. The result of that, personally, was so much heartbreak that I can't even really put a word to it.
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That amount of heartbreak finally shattered my heart so that I could no longer stay in that container. And the final blows kind of came in December and January this year. And that final shattering fell me out of it. I found myself in a very, very quiet place. And so that's a long story into what is it that we're striving towards as human beings.
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And in looking from that still space with me back up to heart, I'm realizing that we are supposed to be witnessed to the world from a silent space. So we're not imprinting or becoming codependent with what we may call love.
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And so if you're really a step into your full humanity, I think you're going to find yourself into an extreme state of stillness and a willingness to see the beauty without owning it, without having any codependence on it, without thinking you're the source of the love that's going to come to that entity. And so I'm recreating my whole world over the last few months now.
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And the simplicity all in it just awes me. And I think I'm finally figuring out how not to be a fish out of water, not to be the river, but just to be the damn fish. Just be the fish.
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Somewhere along that sense of abandonment from nature, we developed the fear of death. And we started to see death and what comes after it different than life.
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So instead of understanding that the first law of thermodynamics, which is you can either create or destroy energy, it only can change forms, that's a very hard premise to believe in when you are sitting there with a loved one and suddenly they're not there in the three-dimensional realm that you were just experiencing. And...
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I was just on stage this morning at a near-future summit and shared some perspective on the permanence of identity. And it was interesting that I got off stage and immediately had a mother come up who had lost a child and wanted to know, can I actually still connect to that thing? Is that identity still in the universe?
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it was a new turning point for her and then minutes later i'm walking out and the woman comes up will i see my mother again who passed you know in that sense of realization maybe these identities are permanent not temporary and it wasn't really the purpose of my talk but it was the the reaction to this possibility that maybe identity predates and postdates your biology.
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And so this is, I think, a beautiful journey for humanity now. And I've seen it so many times in hospice. I was admitting 80 patients a week to die for four years. And so you see thousands of deaths.
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there's this process that happens that I can only maybe call the thinning of the veil. Like you suddenly start to see past your seen reality and start to see or feel the reality that's more multidimensional past that individual. And it's not just for that individual. The whole room can open up.
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It may be just lexicon, but I've been moving away from... The word interdependence in some ways in our work around large-scale regeneration, the scale of continents, and then down to the microscopic level at the single-celled organism. But the concept, I think, is absolutely spot on, which is this phenomenon in which a single cell in isolation becomes cancer.
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And so somebody who's crossing the veil is opening a portal for you to move back and forth between these realities of a perceived three-dimensional guy that sits within a multidimensional multiverse, a universe. And so that
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is something that i really experienced over and over again and i would say that you know death when you really sit with it is the ultimate medicine and so much of what we're doing in my seven day experiences and everything else in these nature struck places is to really immerse people in the death process of how do you die to yourself meaning the self that you believe yourself to be and so how do you die to the perception of your reality your perception of self so that you can feel the original medicine
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because your unique medicine is a code for somebody else. And ultimately, that's what you find at the deathbed is that soul showed up here to unlock elements within everybody around them throughout their entire life. They were constellating with other souls and they were delivering, even in the contentious relationships and the broken relationships and all the things we might have judgment on,
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In those moments, they were passing on the codes. They were giving the gift to the other individual that they needed on their journey by just being them. And so that's going to be the precious moment of humanity, I think, is when we start waking up in the pillow in the morning realizing this is why I came.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
I came here to silently sit within a human body to bring the medicine of my soul to this moment. And now I'm going to be willing for the universe to move me on the great seven-dimensional chessboard to find out who I should be next to today.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
Everything's temporary. In a strange way, we've developed such a commitment to permanence, and we are chasing permanence in every area of our lives, therefore divorcing ourselves from nature at every moment. We've got to stop holding on to things as if they're here to be forever, and I think that relates to every area of human life.
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I think the most damage we do to one another is through trying to make relationships permanent.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
and in that we anchor each other to a past reality that's no longer real and so when you try to make permanent the love that you feel for somebody you're asking them to be the thing that you fell in love with permanently and the fact is they won't only even be that by the time you marry them like they've already changed and yet you're trying to anchor them in a point in time of i fell in love with these traits
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And in that process, you will drain them of those traits. And that's the Course in Miracles definition of human relationships. And so there's this amazing moment as you go through the Course in Miracles of realizing, oh, my God, I'm creating the hell that I'm living in by draining the divine nature of everything around me out of it by believing that I'm separate from the source.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
I'm separate from nature. And so when you are separate from nature and then you separate God from nature and then you separate yourself twice from God,
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
A monocrop over 10 million hectares destroys the intelligence and life force within the biosphere within that area. And so certainly isolation or monoculture, the monotony of the way in which humans move typically is to destroy biodiversity and try to create a scaled version of a monopoly or monoculture. That that era needs to end.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
you're going to start sucking everything from around you until it's gone and that's ultimately what a cancer cell does a cancer cell not realizing it's part of the greater organism in its isolation it starts to fail to be able to make its own energy so it has to draw energy from other sources and so as small as a tumor is you know somebody dying of lung cancer that lung cancer is smaller than it might be the size of a baseball at the most but oftentimes the size of golf ball
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
it represents 0.1% of the total body. How is that actually killing an organism? It's sucking so much energy out of the greater organism in its loneliness, in its sense of disconnect, in its sense that it is incomplete and can't solve for the wholeness. So in its desperate nature to try to become whole, it's sucking you dry.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so we have in our constructs of marriage and relationship that's trying to reach for permanence, draining each other of the best within us. And I've been through two marriages to the two most amazing women I've ever met, and I drained the best out of both of them, and they drained the best out of me.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And we left those relationships feeling some degree of loss or heartbrokenness or loneliness or disconnect.
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and in the beauty of it you know especially in my first marriage i got to witness what it suddenly felt like when i switched the table around and realized for the first time i was going to be able to unconditionally love this woman because everything i had done before that was conditional and i hadn't hadn't realized it and i was only in my deep deep you know you know pouring out of my heart to try to convince her to come back that i realized
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
That's the most conditional thing I could possibly say. If I'm really professing love for a human being, why would I have it that her path had to keep lining up with mine? And of course she was right. The path that she's taken us both on through her intuition of her path has been spectacular.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
When you get 10 birds in a flock, they line up in a V. But you put 10,000 birds together, you start to express sacred geometries at the scales of a kilometer. This phenomenon of becoming creator is already inherent in your biology. Everything's temporary. There is no such thing as death. There's only rebirth. There's not a such thing as an endpoint to nature. There's only the recreation.
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to be able to see that being now independent of myself, independent of any construct of permanence that I needed from her. It has set me free. It has set her free. And I just hope that us as humans can start to stop, for goodness sake, stop defining the ends of things as failures. and realize everything is impermanent. Everything is in a constant state of ascension.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
There is no such thing as death. There's only rebirth. There's not a such thing as an endpoint to nature. There's only the recreation. And so what you're speaking to around that seasonality is this embracing of change. And you really expect nature to do the same thing tomorrow. And right now in monoculture farming, you do.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
You expect her to grow the same amount of corn that she did last year, and you find out she won't. So now you're putting her on ICU drips and forcing her further out of her nature to try to continue to squeeze the same amount of corn out of her acreage next year.
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And so it's this pursuit of permanence and productivity of a relationship or a farm field or an ICU that's driving us to these extreme degrees of consumption and destruction that's sucking the energy out of the planet.
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and so this is a really fun moment for us to reconsider what what would seasonality look like in human design of cities of hospitals of schools of systems of industry what would it look like if we always plan for seasonality and the constant state of change becomes our understanding and that is so deep that we actually create a value system out of it How fast are you willing to change?
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And I've enjoyed being a friend to you and to our greater community because we've allowed each other to go through a lot of different changes. the people that are in our circle have changed so radically since last year when we shared that time in Egypt. Not a single one of us looks to be on the same path that we were then.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And that's the beauty of friendship, is that it is a model of human relationship that I think can allow us to get out of this scarcity model and this model of permanence. And my best friends, you know, from when I was a teenager, you know, I was 12 years old when I met my best friends out in Colorado.
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And we did all kinds of crazy antics and miracles and survived our teen years for all the stupid things we did. But When I drop back in with them in Colorado, 40 years later, we're the same joy. We have just such interesting curiosity for like what's happening to the person.
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But our understanding of what emerges as an alternative to that or by nature's design has been shifting. And so I'm blessed to be helping a group of us come off the ground with the Institute of Natural Law for the last couple of years. And we've been really investigating that. What is the systems of natural law that determine physics, biology, and ultimately human systems?
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And oftentimes a year or two, three years before, since we've really talked, it takes 30 seconds to drop back in and be like, oh. let's play, let's play, let's go. And so there's no real questioning of like, what was your journey since last time? And then let me judge that for a while. And why haven't you been on my path? Friendship is this beautiful thing that allows you to do the murmuration.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so we already have a beautiful human construct that is the alternative to you know, these contractual relationships where we're trying to be somebody's partner for life or whatnot. And we're willing to start to step into the possibility that maybe our paths do stay in parallel or we weave or we come in intersections. And let's value every one of those designs.
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Why would it be any less successful to have a three-year marriage at an intersection than a 20-year marriage that held two kids and all this? You know, they're simply different weaves. They're simply different sacred geometries in the murmuration of my life, your life, everybody's life.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so when we stop designing for permanence in our buildings or our relationships, we're going to have a very rewarding experience of allowing a greater beauty to emerge as we murmurate as humans.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And the first line of natural law is ultimately sovereignty. And I think that that's what we've been reaching for. And perhaps mistakenly, using this word independent or freedom as a concept. And there is no such thing as independence, as you say. Independence leads to isolation, isolation to chaos. And so that's the second law of thermodynamics.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
They're inseparable. You can't have growth without the stress. And that's a really interesting design within nature. At the human body level, it's done through or exemplified in many, many different systems. But a cool one is bone. We think of bone as like the scaffold that we hang muscle off of.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
Bone is a living organ that produces more endocrine hormones than any other part of the body by logarithms. It's the most complex system of communication and transformation of any system within our bodies. It's constantly remodeling. And the only way to get your bones stronger is to fracture it.
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And so when you do weight-bearing exercise, you go for a jog, or you run down a flight of stairs, or you bounce on a trampoline, You are creating millions of tiny little micro fractures within the bone, which then call in osteoclasts that clean up the broken bone and call in an osteoblast to lay down new bone.
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And pretty soon, six hours, 12 hours later, you have more bone density than you did before you fractured it. And so there's this beautiful homeostasis between friction and growth that exists at the cellular level. And stagnancy is the only way to die quickly in the end. So in our effort towards comfort, always 72 degrees, air-conditioned rooms, heated rooms, you know, sweater.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
You never walk in snow without like four layers of rubber and plastic and wool between you and the snow. you're isolating yourself from friction, you're isolating yourself from stress, you're going to become very stagnant in your biology. The most powerful way to witness this is watching your loved one end up in a hospital for three days. their muscle tone just goes away. They shrink.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
Their face looks different day on day. It's terrifying to watch how fast they're dying in the hospital bed. And I've watched thousands and thousands of families panicking at the bedside because they're literally watching their loved one just like wasting away in real time. And every time they come back in to visit every day or two, there's...
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
looks like they're more dead and in fact what's happening is they're more isolated from the frictions of the world so atrophy and the loss of life is a is a phenomenon of stagnancy so as we go into seasonality and as we start to embrace the friction we're going to grow quickly it seems on the on the path of
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so ultimately, this concept of connectivity is critical, but there may be a slight difference between the concept of interdependence, the word dependence suggesting that one thing can't exist without the other, to a concept of sovereignty, And then once you get sovereignty at the atomic level or the cellular level, you immediately create polarity.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
You know, like the one-on-one, you know, that oneness that we're after, again, that gets back to the sovereignty here. And so once you settle into that sovereign experience of being self, I think there's an opportunity for us to understand the purpose of friction, the purpose of change in our life. And when you stop resisting it, then friction doesn't lead to pain.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And that's why we resist friction is because we learned that if you don't,
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know get away from the friction you start to get over hot and you start to get inflammation you start to get inflammation in your relationships inflammation in your own body and your immune system is dysfunctioning and now you have allergy and gut sensitivity and all this stuff it's because you're trying to design your life for permanence and you in that you found out that the more you held on to something the more friction you had and if you held on kept holding on then the friction got painful so somewhere in your subconscious you've linked friction with pain
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
But the only reason the pain occurred was because you were failing to surrender to the friction and let it change your direction. So friction never becomes pain in nature. Nature just keeps changing direction. And so friction is what creates a murmuration.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
You wouldn't have those great curves within the murmuration of 10,000 starlings if it wasn't for the changes in the friction between the air currents that is created by the wings in front of you, behind you, around you. So it's the flight of humanity that's creating these frictions on the planet.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And if we would start to realize, oh, I'm having friction over here, that doesn't mean I need to hold on tighter and resist it or get mad at it or have judgment on what's causing friction. I need to let that bend my curve. And when we start to see life as a constantly bending curve rather than a straight line that we're trying to maintain, we will be much more free of pain.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so I really believe that this is one of the unintended consequences of the 1980s and 90s. And well, maybe it was 90s and 2000s, but somewhere in those couple decades, it started to be kind of in the zeitgeist that we all needed an intention board.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And we needed to like create the, this was before Pinterest, but everybody had literally a whiteboard and they were cutting pictures out of magazines and putting them on their dorm room of their intention board of their life. That gives the belief that there's a straight line to your future.
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And now every time you see yourself going on a path and it doesn't feel like you're getting to your intention board, you're failing, you feel like you must be out of your purpose, you got to go find your purpose, you must need to go to India, whatever it is.
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And the reality is, no, you need to sit in the currents of the air around you and then trust that the path is taking you into the most beautiful journey you could possibly do. And the things that you can see in your future that might have ended up on an intention board are on your journey, but they're not where you expected them. And they're not the destination. It wasn't a destination.
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It was a part of the journey that you were going to fly through. And if you start to give up the idea of getting to your intention, you start to find freedom in your own life.
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And so this is where I think the real freedom is going to come into humanity as we start to just let go of all the things we've been clinging to that create the friction that we then hold on harder and we get mad at and we judge and then we create pain.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so an electron will always have the proton, the proton will always have the neutron. And so there's these constellations of charges that form within the matrix of our physical reality that are held together by the sovereignty of each individual. And no point does the proton probably feel dependent upon the neutron. Instead, it's joy to share space with the neutron.
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And so it's not until you're in so much pain that you finally let go of the things around you and that kind of near-death experience that you find yourself moving freely again and there's new life on the other side of the pain.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
In my experience, it's more pain. So I had to go through more mental strife to get myself out of academia than humanly possible until I shattered my brain. Then I had to go through 15 years of breaking my heart until I shattered that container. And now I've found myself in this very still point.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
So for me, there was such a value system on the doingness and the flow and being the next thing and going to the next place that I didn't even know what it would feel like to be still. And if you'd talked to me six months ago as you did,
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
I'm sure I would have thought I was still I'm sure I would have been known about stillness of like oh yeah that's why we do mindfulness that's why we do breath work I thought I honestly did think that I knew what that was but I was living in this torrent of energy that I would call a human heart or the experience of living out of that this energy system of a human at the chest and
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
I would have discomfort in my life all the time because I had exited the safe things in my life. I had exited the beliefs that I need to hold on to, you know, a woman to create a safe haven.
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And I needed to create kids through that so that there was a sense of dependence that I would, you know, be valued by society and or need to create companies that then grew and then employed lots of people so that I would have value that I was providing for all these families and all of those systems of belief.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
You know, there's this sense of connectivity as a result of the polarity. And so as we think about that as social systems or human design, It inspires us to think past the concepts of independence or freedom towards this concept of sovereignty of each individual.
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Because every time I started to set that down, then I would go into the discomfort of the unknown. This has been a much different journey into stillness for me, where for the first time there is no discomfort in the surrender. I think that's maybe what's starting to happen to humanity as we grind down into our deathbed of a species.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
We're biologically failing for all of the antibiotics that we have disrupted the relationships of nature with. Seventy years of the antibiotic journey in our pharmacies and in our farm fields and the rest. has decimated the energy per cubic centimeter on this planet. And so the biology is failing as the lights dim on a planet that is poisoned by the chemicals that would destroy her relationships.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And every hospice moment, you see that sudden shift that happens to the being when they realize, oh my God, I'm not going to be able to put anything more in my bank account. I'm not going to be able to build anything else. I'm never going to be in love again. And you watch that person go super still.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And you would think that if you gave somebody the message of like, hey, you got three weeks or three months at the best to live, they would rush around trying to connect to all the people they love and telling everybody, writing letters madly of like, I love you so much. I've never seen it actually happen.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
every time somebody gets that message even if they're pretty well in body that they would have the strength to do something like that they tend to do the exact opposite of what i would have thought and they they tend to sit for long periods of time very still and witness little elements around them and oftentimes this is happening in a nursing home
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And yet that person is seeing more beauty in that room than they ever have before. And they see that cup of tea that's delivered on the tray. And the way in which the steam is coming off its surface is actually showing you the exact same sacred geometry that a murmuration of birds would follow.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
How does the steam in a billion droplets of water repeat the exact same patterns that 10,000 birds would also follow? And so that person will find the beauty of space-time in the steam off their coffee cup, sitting in a nursing home. And they will, in that time, fall more in love with themselves and their life in the last few breaths than they perhaps were allowed to in their whole previous life.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
Are you willing to lose all the leaves off the tree that you've spent so much springtime and summertime growing? Right now, our value systems as humans is measuring the number of leaves on your canopy. And if you start to drop those leaves, then you've lost value. You're going through menopause. You're no longer the CEO of a company. Well, you have less leaves now, so...
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not realizing it's the elder without the leaves that's putting all the nutrients back down into the ground for the young life below. And we need to start sitting with the oak trees in their wintertime to start to see the real beauty of what life could be. Before that, we might sit still in a nursing home and watch a cup of tea with an elder that's not in a hurry to talk to us.
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And once you have sovereignty, then instead of polarization, we get polarity and understanding that your opposite is actually really critical to your stability and your self-expression ultimately. And so while you're not dependent on that other thing, sodium is always sodium. If there's chloride, not chloride, sodium is always sodium.
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because they don't have a sense of urgency about anything, and they're starting to realize that everything is in an ascension path towards beauty.
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Yeah it's an allowing instead of a doing you know allow it to come through us and we get more rich for the space between I haven't quite gotten to my deathbed yet, I believe, but I do wonder if that's what kind of happens in that moment where instead of seeing the droplets of water that we call steam creating the shape or the birds flying in the formation to create the experience of a murmuration,
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I do wonder if it's possible that at that moment of really letting go of biology, where we really drop into singularity with source, we suddenly can appreciate the space between the birds as the thing that's creating the beauty. And it's actually the space between the steam that's creating the beauty. And it's the space between our words and thoughts that created the beauty of a life.
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as the space between the relationships that was the beauty held by a human life that flew.
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And it must be something like that because the speed at which somebody shifts from a sense of brokenness and isolation and estrangement from their own family to suddenly dipping across the veil, seeing reality from there and coming back in the body for a moment to tell me again and again, oh my God, it was all perfect and I am accepted completely. It's instantaneous again and again.
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But if you can give it an opportunity to bond to chloride, now it's salt. And you get this beautiful thing that is necessary for oceans to live and for life to breathe and all these beautiful things. But at no point does one lose the identity of the other. And the concept of interdependence
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So nothing changed except for the way in which you were seeing it. All of the events were the same, but you must be seeing the new pattern because you can see the space between the things. And so maybe that's the practice that we can start to move into, is to start to see the art and the beauty between the things that we so valued and thought were creating our reality.
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And all they were doing is really holding points in time to show us the beauty beneath the surface of a three-dimensional world.
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Just fly. That's what you were made to do. And you're ready to let go of all the, let go of the branch you're clinging to. Jump out of the nest you've been building and just fly. Feel with that. The bird spends most of its time outside of the nest. It just wants to fly. And so it flies from branch to branch. It flies from point to point. It flies in the air from other persons who fly in the air.
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To feel the space between it and the other birds. To feel the space of the friction between its wings and its rise. we need to fly. And if we do, if we really let go of each other to witness the beauty of the surrender and the space between us, we're going to create a new society almost immediately.
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And the frictions that are currently killing us or creating so much pain will diminish to just the change of direction. And so we got to surrender it all. We got to stop trying to hold on to each other. We got to stop trying to hold on to things or wealth or power. And we got to fly. And We will. I've seen every single death as a flight. It's a retaking flight. So you will do it. I will do it.
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And the invitation is for us to do it while we're still in the body. That's different than, I think, what I've been chasing with communities. I think we've been chasing spiritual experiences and the desire to feel something bigger than this reality we've made as humans.
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don't need to go find spirituality you are an energetic existence within what we might call spirituality spirituality is just a description of the unseen you know it's the felt world of the unseen that world is always there and it's permanent that's the way in which the cosmos works it's the way in which systems work and so we need to stop trying to escape these bodies to experience spirituality we need to start reforming our bodies in the spirituality
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runs the risk of us believing that there's one world government or one world system or you should sacrifice yourself for the greater whole. And so that's the shadow side of this kind of understanding that we're all kind of moving towards it. Like, all right, isolation is bad. What's the alternative?
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And that's a reversal of polarity of our current practices of retreats. And I want to go experience something in India and the rest. And it takes me back to one of my favorite quotes that I use all the time. And I misquote a little bit because I'm distilling down a long paragraph. Wendell Berry, who's one of the most brilliant minds of our last century, incredible poet and observer of nature.
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And he was testifying in front of Congress many times in the 1970s, 80s. But he was incredible when he said the sentence that until we understand every point or every place to be sacred, we will only create desecrated spaces.
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And I think that's our new journey is we need to stop trying to go find the sacred space or the sacred mountain or the sacred experience with our indigenous ceremony or our plant medicine or our meditation or our breath work.
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We need to stop trying to escape to the sacredness and we need to start to realize that every place is sacred and we need to start to manifest that sacredness within every part of our bodies.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
and there's an opportunity for us to change biology at a very very deep level to escape extinction and we would have to lose the genes of fear guilt and shame and to do that we have to lose the genes it's not the belief it's not the psycho-spiritual concepts of it it's you need to change the genetics that believed in fear gel and shame or were shaped by fear guilt and shame so if we are to persist as a species we have this short window of time needs to happen in this decade and it's been prophesied that we would succeed in this so i have great hope for this decade
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
But in this decade, we will lose the genes of fear, guilt, and shame. We are an ascension path. We will lose the fear, guilt, and shame the moment we let go of our bodies.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
But is it possible that we are ready to genetically modify ourselves through the release of fear, guilt, and shame to live a new biology and come out of our hospice moment in this human thing and create some sort of new biology that expresses itself in far more complexity, far more intelligence, far more connected beauty for the loss of those three elements.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so I think the concept of interdependence is good, but maybe we can nuance it into this concept of interconnection or constellations of sovereignty. And that will...
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
What a difference to live instead of fear death. The biohacking world has been symptomatic of our fear of death. It's a multi-billion dollar preying on our fear of death, fear of aging.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
humans will spend more money on biohacking in the next 10 years than they ever will on drugs because they're so afraid of aging um they're and and so this is playing into our fear guilt shame paradigm and it will die with the fear we will no longer look outside of ourselves for solutions to make ourselves young or make life permanent
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
when we realized that it's the flight that we were really looking for. The thing that kept everybody alive for long in the Blue Zones was actually human connection. There's nothing more potent than multi-generational human connection to expand a lifespan. So we need to speed up our acceptance of our human wholeness.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
help unify i think be a unifying field theory between something like you know your united states of america the capitalism the individual the power of the individual protect human rights at the individual level versus a socialism standpoint or viewpoint in france or denmark or russia wherever it is so it doesn't matter what your political position is or political expression.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
I'm sorry for the time that it took me, and I'm so grateful for the versions I created in that journey to murmurate into this exact moment. Because like you said, what an incredibly precious time to be alive. More will change in the next five years than any time in history, and even more so all of the times in history combined. We are going to go through such a radical change in our reality.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
We are about to find out that we are in a sea of intelligence throughout the cosmos, and we were never alone as an intelligent species, because the intelligence that speaks through us is not human. It's Mother Nature through the microbiome, through our colon.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And we are not alone in the cosmos as a species of intelligence, because so many have come so long before us, because we live in a cosmos of 14 billion years, and we were seeded here by other intelligences.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
and other species that are participating in a grand experiment called human right now and we have been nurtured and care taken through the whole journey and we're about to wake up to the reality that we have thousands of nursemaids around each of us every day because we hold a very special technology which is a column of water that's uniquely held in the geometry of a human genome that vibrates in a very specific frequency when it witnesses beauty so i think that while there may be species far more intelligent and advanced in their technologies
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
they are nurse baiting us and protecting us because there's a possibility that we will lose fear guilt and shame and ultimately step into the power of the human transformative technology of the human heart and we will witness the world with our five senses that make us believe we're separate from everything and when we believe we're separate from the murmuration of birds we see the beauty within the birds if we're not separate then we're part of the murmuration
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
In some ways, nature has been waiting to create a species that would think itself separate from everything so that it could witness the beauty more profoundly and vibrate in a frequency that might be called unconditional love. And for all of the other beings that are emitting that frequency, they may not be able to feel it.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And for that, they may not be able to transform sorrow and pain into joy and forgiveness. And so is it our capacity to transmute the elements of nature itself through a human heart that keeps us so closely protected by the intelligences that are around us? Sitting with a three-star general recently, I was told that there's been 300 instances of attempted nuclear war.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
300 times in the last 70 years, somebody has pushed a button or triggered a suitcase of nuclear weapon. And every single time, that has been disarmed by something. It's possible that space and time are not linear, and it's possible that our future selves are among us, stopping the nuclear war that we started and wiped out humanity with.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
So we are either protecting ourselves from this event, or we are surrounded by many, many other intelligences that are protecting us because we are special in our capacity to feel so uniquely for our distance from nature.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And I want to keep pushing the envelope with you and everyone else.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
It matters, are you following natural law or not? And if in each of those political systems, sovereignty is recognized, and then the power of the interconnectedness between sovereign beings emerges, then we start to build systems that are very coherent and have a pathway and a methodology of communication across lots of different psychosocial political matrices.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
As we go into seasonality and as we start to embrace the friction, we're going to grow quickly. We need to stop trying to escape to the sacredness, and we need to start to realize that every place is sacred, and we need to start to manifest that sacredness within every part of our bodies.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
We were designed through a birthright for something really great. And it may have even been an accident that it happened. Maybe nobody planned for the humans on this earth to express this biology that would do this incredibly powerful transmutation of the elements. But it happened. And we're here. And we're going to suddenly remember our birthright.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And we're going to suddenly realize how magnificent it is to be a soul that got to quantum entangle with a human body.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
The greatest crisis and surrender that we've ever seen will shatter our hearts so thoroughly in these next couple years for all the death we'll see, for all of the collapse of economies that we will witness, the dissolution of all the things that we thought were permanent. And we're so shatter our collective heart and our collective minds that we're going to all find ourselves in stillness.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And we'll suddenly remember why we're here. And we will rebirth a species in a moment. And I think that happens before the end of the decade. And I keep a loose hand on that. But I see the pieces assembling so fast now. And I feel myself going so slow to my tomorrow now. that I feel like I can even witness it now, even if it hasn't happened in the three dimensions.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
I feel like I can already see that humanity within myself.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
So grateful to be with you. I'm grateful to be witnessed by you and greatest to witness you.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
I'm easy to reach through all the different avenues, but Zach Bush MD takes you into my ecosystem of projects and everything else that has been manifested by so many people.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so brilliant minds and brilliant beings are in flight together and pulling something into reality that is now moving at a level that I could never imagine before as it comes out of this most recent death cycle of everything. And so I'm very intrigued to see how all of you fit in.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
I'm starting to see patterns emerge that are global and realizing that there's a constellation emerging that is going to fit into Project Biome, the nonprofit environment that kind of all of the peoples that have ever claimed themselves to be on a nonprofit pathway of activism. There's a common path with a very cohesive experience that we can all have together.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And Project Biome's holding a container for that possibility of unification of an organism out of 10.5 million organizations that are trying to fix things and start to become the murmuration of a human imagination for the Earth that we always wanted to live into. So Project Byram is an easy place for you to tap into on that nonprofit side.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
We would love to have your participation, your support in alignment with your family office or whatever resources you may command in your world. That alignment would be a beautiful murmuration there.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so I'm seeing everything as I come out of this death cycle, the phoenix rising is this much higher, higher complexity of interaction that will allow systems to interact with billions and trillions of dollars to start to participate in this upward ascension of the re-remembering of humans within the context of our nature, within every industry, within a government, within a political construct.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so natural law is starting to be expressed in this ecosystem. And so there's a lot of places for you guys to engage now with the imagination of everybody who's participated in my ecosystem over these last 15 years. And so lean in, be curious, and maybe see in there something of your own beauty and release what you're holding on to so that it can fly. We can go in and fly together.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
uh so in the same way that interdependence the word suggests a scarcity mentality and so when we're dependent on one another i would suggest there's a scarcity of provision in some ways you know and so dependent on you when in reality you know nature's not dependent on humans to do its thing you know if humans cease to exist in the next couple decades do our own extinction pressure
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
uh nature's going to to fill that void in an instant and it's going to do it through a more complex system that's going to stack geometry even more beautifully and we have more intelligence more beauty on this planet in a few years than we do now and so nature's always in an ascension pathway and so when we go from interdependence to interabundance we start to understand the way nature works and in the same way
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
I think that consumerism is actually an expression of the wound of abandonment. So we believed ourselves to be abandoned from nature at a deep level of the human psyche. And for that, we developed the ego as a protective shield saying, well, okay, fine, if you reject me, I'm going to fight you and I'm going to attack you with bigger weapons than you have. And
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
So we're our weapons are antibiotics and our, you know, because we're on germ warfare and like we're in this rush to try to figure out how to beat nature at its own game. So we have chemical pesticides, chemical herbicides, chemical pharmacy. And so we're pushing nature back to try to make space for humans. As a result, we go extinct and out in isolation.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so interdependence moving to interabundance. And then from that consumerism of I need lots of stuff because there's not enough. So I need to go find the thing that will make me feel whole or safe or, you know, filled up, satiated. without realizing the whole thing is within yourself. You know, that's the ultimate journey. You used the word from... Contributor. Contributor, yeah.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And if we do, the frictions that are currently killing us or creating so much pain will diminish to just the change of direction.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
So I also think of it as creator. And so moving from consumption to creation or... But contributor is a good word. I like that. It's a nice, again, look at how the...
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
biodiversity creates the whole you know so everybody's contributing to this beautiful home and so as you shift from that interdependence to interabundance and then as you move from scarcity and abandonment towards this radical acceptance and this kind of expression of nature through us then we move into this possibility that we should probably stop human doing and we can just you know shift into this quiet space of letting nature speak through us which is the vessel she designed and so these human bodies are very unique anatomy
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
We have more biodiversity in a human colon than any other colon on the planet. So you look at any of the mammals or you look at the reptiles, the human biology holds the highest amount of biodiversity of any segment of nature on the planet. And because that much biodiversity is speaking to one neurology, we then express something that you would call intelligence.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
But it's not actually human intelligence. It's ecosystem intelligence. And so this phenomenon of becoming creator is already inherent in your biology. You are contributing a voice to nature as a human being. There is so much biology speaking through you and there's so much biodiversity speaking through you as a human that you're expressing the intelligence of a complex system.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And when you start to trust that and you stop thinking that it's the human mind that needs to see a problem and then fix it, which is kind of that masculine male brain, wounded masculine perhaps, version of ourselves that we're all prone to. We try to fix our kids and their problems. We try to fix our households. We try to fix our house. We try to fix our companies. We try to fix our products.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
that mentality is getting away from the fact that there's an emergent beauty and there's an emergent creation force coming through humanity that is inevitable and so that is kind of where we move from that consumer to contributor is where we kind of move into this possibility that oh my gosh nature's just trying to express herself through us what if we start breathing together and slowing the heck down
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
I'm so thrilled to be here. Thank you, Andre, for having me.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
Slow down, slow down until you see the beauty that she's trying to show. And that feels much different. That feels like remembering rather than, you know, doing something.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
you named one of my favorite phenomenon in nature the murmuration of of the starling or birds you know that when you and it's such a good example of the stacking geometries of centropy you know centropy is the movement towards order from chaos and so that centropic function of nature accelerates and creates more and more beauty more and more complexity with the more participants
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so when you get 10 birds in a flock, they line up in a V. And they do a two-dimensional structure, but it's always structured. And that one in front peels off and joins the back, and they move up. And so they're sharing the leadership in a very simple geometry. But you put 10,000 birds together, They're now not just doing a multidimensional shape. That thing is in motion.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so a murmuration is that extraordinary phenomenon where 10,000 will start to express sacred geometries at the scales of a kilometer and, you know, of stacked birds in motion. And they create these super complex structures of sacred geometry and swirling motion. And so they'll create double helices. They'll create, you know, icosahedrons and all of this in motion.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so that intelligence is something that was called quorum sensing at the biologic level. And so when you get enough diversity or enough inputs into a single space, you start to see these really beautiful things that are far more spectacular than the sum of its parts. And so it's this true synergy where there's one plus one equals four, not two, you know.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And so that synergy of the centropic nature of multiple connections creates the beauty of something like a murmuration. And this is where I think we have fundamentally broken our contribution, moving from contributor back to consumer in our human systems as we break those interrelationships of tens of thousands and we turn it into a nuclear family.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And now you're a husband, you're a wife, and those are your children. There's your white picket fence. Everything inside this fence is yours. Everything outside of it is not yours. And so now you've isolated yourself from the 99.999% of nature that is the Mother Earth that was intending to be your mother in the first place.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And in that concept of ownership as a solution to scarcity, we create more scarcity. And so the murmuration of a bird is showing us if we would just let go of the belief that we're not protected and that nature's against us and we need to consume so that there's enough, letting go of that and increasing the number of connections, we return perhaps at the local level to a village model.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
But we're starting to have the technologies at our fingertips that are going to remind us of what it feels like to be wholly connected to the whole organism of humanity. And so cell phones and, you know, the tech world, Zoom, whatever it is, is leading us back to this possibility that there's more beauty with more connection. And right now we're relying on very low vibration technology.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
5G networks compared to what happens in a human cell is... Like we haven't even reached kindergarten. The technology inside of a human body is so far beyond our comprehension. And so when we all have this moment of amazement when a man comes along and says, I've filled a steel tube with solid rocket fuel and I lit it on fire and it shot up into the air and then it fell back on earth.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
And everybody's like, oh my God, that's so genius. We should put billions of dollars into that project. Meanwhile, there's a woman that is undernourished in the squatter villages of Philippines who creates a silent space inside of her called a womb. She surrenders that to the divine.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
She blinds herself to the very process that's going to unfold within her with progesterone so that her immune system itself can't even see what's about to unfold.
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E147 - Zach Bush: 6 Powerful Lessons Nature Teaches Us About Being Human
fully surrendering that to creator and this creative force takes a single human cell and turns it into 70 trillion human cells that self-organize into a body of a child that nine months later somehow emerges from her body quantum entangled with a identity that has been here since the beginning of time and there's no headlines
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8 Habits That Will Change Your Life: The Expert Advice You Need This Year
Yeah, the number one regret is I was performing the whole time. I never was actually being me. And I was afraid to be me. And I didn't even know what it would feel like to be me. But right now, as I'm dying, as that veil thins, I feel myself and I'm a beautiful being. I am whole.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
8 Habits That Will Change Your Life: The Expert Advice You Need This Year
And so really, the regret is, wow, if I'd just known I was whole the whole time and hadn't had to do all the performance. Every being is whole and there's no need for a performance. Whatever happened in your life, it looked like a good life, looked like a bad life. That's the beauty of near-death experiences. You suddenly realize it was all perfect. Like the whole thing was perfect.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
8 Habits That Will Change Your Life: The Expert Advice You Need This Year
It was exactly what I needed to learn the things I learned to become the one I became. And ultimately to realize I was whole the entire time. Any perception of incompleteness was incorrect. And so I hope that one of you falls deeply in love with your state as a being that is whole at every step of life. You are the most beautiful thing. You are the entire divine expression of your soul.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
8 Habits That Will Change Your Life: The Expert Advice You Need This Year
And that's where the near-death experience is a gift, is if you can actually feel what it feels like to be whole. It's not something to be achieved. You've always been whole. You were whole at the beginning. You will still be whole at the end of your life journey. If there's only a perception that you are incomplete right now, you are the most beautiful thing.