Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Tue, 31 Dec 2024
Here's the link for my 2024/25' journal prompts, I hope you enjoy them! https://www.knowthyself.one/journal-prompts To celebrate the ending of 2024 and welcome in a new year, we’ve put together a special episode with our favorite Know Thyself moments over the past 12 months. Each one is aimed at supporting you to actualize your purpose and become the truest version of yourself in 2025. We’ve split the episode up into 3 sections: to Know, to Thrive, to Create. For deep spiritual wisdom and answers about this reality we live in, listen to the “Know” section, where Dr Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, Michael Beckwith and more share beautiful reflections. To find harmony in your mind, body, and spirit and actualize your unique purpose this year, listen to the “Thrive” section for reflections from Rich Roll, Kute Blackson, Kimberly Snyder and more. And lastly, to turn your unique gift into creations that can support the world, tune into the “Create” section, where 6lack, Steven Pressfield, Omarion and more share profound insights into the creative process. Thanks for a great year and for being on this journey with us, we’re so excited for all that this next year will bring. SURVEY: Share Feedback with us about the show: https://www.knowthyself.one/survey ___________ Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 1:42 Dr Joe Dispenza - Your Personality Creates Your Reality 8:08 Bruce Lipton - 3 Steps to Reprogram Your Subconscious 18:08 Gregg Braden - 3 Powerful Steps to Awaken Heart/ Brain Connection 33:24 Dr. Lisa Miller - Is Spirituality Limited to the Brain? Awakening To The Schumann’s Resonance 42:26 Federico Faggin - The Awakening Consciousness Experience that Transformed me 48:37 Donald Hoffman - Waking up Beyond the Simulation 54:47 Annaka Harris - The Illusion of the Self 1:02:59 Rupert Spira - The True Nature of Our Being & Our Longing for Happiness 1:14:26 John Vervaeke - 4 Aspects that Define Meaning In Our Lives 1:22:14 Michael Beckwith - Becoming a Conscious Creator & What Law of Attraction is Missing 1:36:10 Rich Roll - Facing the Inner Critic & Cultivating Self Love 1:39:34 Kimberly Snyder ⁃ Becoming Magnetic to Your Dreams 1:47:14 Kute Blackson ⁃ Surrender and Allow Something Greater to Unfold 1:56:50 Paul Chek ⁃ Awakening Your Genius & Creating From Soul 2:05:52 Steven Pressfield ⁃ Facing Off With Resistance & Fear To Powerfully Create 2:11:15 6lack ⁃ Overcoming Creative Blocks & Rediscovering Inspiration 2:15:33 Omarion ⁃ Navigating Self Worth in Success 2:20:51 Conclusion ___________ Watch the Full Length Episodes: Dr Joe Dispenza - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQIwZ41Ro1w&t=1273s Bruce Lipton - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WKjO78zDUI Gregg Braden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zw-fAVO2Q4&t=66s Dr. Lisa Miller - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUe0oaH7GtQ&t=3155s Federico Faggin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6NHRB5V1eE&t=63s Donald Hoffman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffgzkHCGZGE&t=40s Annaka Harris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kabwgbq9Fhg&t=4945s Rupert Spira - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smqgkab8HZI&t=1991s John Vervaeke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwnb6CkFlQ&t=5607s Michael Beckwith - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwxSB0-dfKg&t=1485s Rich Roll - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8vMjFGLmoA&t=1740s Kimberly Snyder ⁃ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIH2kGolxgk&t=3988s Kute Blackson ⁃ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEfBfw-Wy74&t=8s Paul Chek ⁃ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic4d21EeyKc&t=7789s Steven Pressfield ⁃ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H8kHnReaVk&t=2061s 6lack ⁃ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZkdi8OC3A4&t=35s Omarion ⁃ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvDlrVmGrKw&t=43s ___________ Know Thyself Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ Website: https://www.knowthyself.one Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4wglCWTJeWQC0exBalgKg André Duqum Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreduqum/
Chapter 1: What reflections can help us welcome the new year?
Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. This past year has been amazing, beautiful, growth-filled, also challenges and pretty weird and wild, I'm sure full spectrum for many of you. This episode is actually going to be different.
It's going to be a compilation, snippets from this whole past year's worth of conversation, 15 selected best moments, hard to choose because there are so many great ones, but it's
If you haven't seen some of the episodes from this past year, today's episode will be a good touch point, a little portal into that whole conversation with that guest that I think you might find interesting, as well as maybe reminders from previously loved episodes from 2024.
One tool that I also want to share with you guys is that I'm going to link down in the description my year of end review journal prompts for 2024 reflections and 2025 intentions. These questions can help guide you into extracting the lessons from this past year, and then also get really intentional with the change that you wish to see both internally and outside of yourself in the world in 2025.
So the link for that will be down in the description alongside a five to ten minute questionnaire for those who feel called to check out and give feedback for us here at Know Thyself. We're expanding a lot this next year and Yeah, I just wanna stay connected with you guys.
And so any feedback, constructive criticism, things that you've loved that we've been doing to do more of, we'd love to hear and get that feedback from you. That's it for me. I hope you enjoy these 2024, 15 selected moments from the podcast.
So let's start with a very simple understanding. Your personality is made up of how you think, how you act, and how you feel. So the present personality who's listening to this podcast has created the present personal reality called their life. Not their mother, not their ex, you know, they're responsible for creating their life.
And if they think the same way, they act the same way, and they feel the same way, they're the same personality. And of course, they'll have the same personal reality. And I think most people try to create a new personal reality as the same personality. When it doesn't work, we literally have to become someone else.
So then, if the majority of our thoughts are the same thoughts based on memories we have of experiences in our life, the moment we start remembering our problems, we're thinking in the past, right? So those memories have a feeling or an emotion associated with them. So the moment you think about your problems and you feel unhappy, Not only is your brain in the past, now the body's in the past.
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Chapter 2: How does personality shape our reality?
Chapter 3: What are the steps to reprogram your subconscious mind?
So then, if the majority of our thoughts are the same thoughts based on memories we have of experiences in our life, the moment we start remembering our problems, we're thinking in the past, right? So those memories have a feeling or an emotion associated with them. So the moment you think about your problems and you feel unhappy, Not only is your brain in the past, now the body's in the past.
So it's that thought and that feeling. It's the image or memory and the emotion. It's the stimulus and response that's immediately conditioning the body to memorize that emotion. Now the body is literally living in the past because it's so objective.
It doesn't know the difference between a real life experience that's creating that emotion and the emotion that person is fabricating by thought alone. So to the body, it's in the past experience 24 hours a day, okay? So now the body physiologically... is now in the past.
So then the hormones of stress create the emotions of anger, and aggression, and frustration, and impatience, and competition, and hatefulness, and fear, anxiety, worry, insecurity, envy, jealousy, guilt, unworthiness, shame, suffering. Those are all derived from the hormones of stress. Turns out when that response switches on,
when we perceive a threat or a danger in our outer world, the response from whatever condition in the outer world gives the body an arousal. And so then if you keep doing that and you keep giving the body a rush of energy, the body becomes dependent on its external world to feel something.
So the arousal from your coworker, from your ex, from traffic, from the news, something in your outer environment is producing that kind of addictive rush of energy. Then people begin to use the problems and conditions in their life to reaffirm their addiction to that emotion. They need the bad job, they need the bad relationship, and they become addicted to the life that they don't even like.
And so an addiction is something you think you can't stop or an addiction is something you know that is not good for you. And you do it anyway. So people are unconscious to the fact that the arousal from the stress hormones is knocking their brain and body out of homeostasis. It's knocking it out of balance the majority of the time.
So we can actually think about our problems and create the same physiological response as if we were being chased by a predator. So what was once very adaptive becomes very maladaptive. So you turn on that response, you can't turn it off.
Now you're headed for disease because stress is when the body's knocked out of balance and there's no opportunity for the body to return back to balance and order. That imbalance becomes the new balance and that's when we head for some type of disease or imbalance in our bodies. So then... Those emotions that we feel tend to drive our behaviors and we behave as if we're in the past.
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Chapter 4: What is the connection between heart and brain intelligence?
If we invite people to come in, this time not to the MRI machine, but the EEG machine that captures energy given off the back of the head, how we're using the brain, brainwaves. What we find is that people to recover, people to move through despair, through an awakening, give off high amplitude alpha, specific wavelengths. High-amplitude alpha goes by another name in another field.
It's Schumann's resonance, the constituent wavelength of nature from the Earth's crust up one mile all the way around the Earth, which means the spiritually engaged brain vibrates at the wavelength of all life, of nature, creation. So the kingdom, Eden was not long ago and far away. It's here now, and it is a choice to enter through our seat of being.
And we readily then have available... The felt oneness is mirrored by the oneness of wavelength. That to me is the most beautiful finding in science.
So powerful. And there is a... There's a part in this book, The Awakened Brain, that I really love. So this was advice Howard Thurman that you quoted gave to someone who is struggling to make a decision and desperate for guidance. And Thurman wrote a letter, his handwritten response
said, you're like a little boy under the Christmas tree who has so many gifts, he doesn't know which one to open first. The main thing is, you must wait and listen for the sound of the genuine which is within you. When you hear it, that will be your voice, and that will be the voice of God.
And it feels like when you're in those moments of depression, despair, where you're speaking to awakening as the other side of the door, making space for silence to discover that which is genuine within you to emerge is... It's our primary task is to make space and see what's trying to emerge from within us.
I would actually love to just jump straight to your kind of awakening experience that you had that really was the pivot, the shift from being a materialist scientist into exploring consciousness in a much more fundamental way. So could you walk us through your experience?
at that moment yeah i need to give you perhaps a little bit of background because uh i'm a physicist and therefore i uh study how physical reality works and with a sense that uh that that's all there is and that's really much pretty much what uh science today is telling us about the reality and i had I had accepted that that must be true.
And I was also expecting that if I did everything right, quote unquote, whatever that means, I should be happy. And that did not turn out that way. In fact, I did everything right, you know, according to the book, but I was not happy and I was pretending to be happy.
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Chapter 5: How can we overcome creative blocks?
You need a North Star, something that orients you, helps you consistently focus, helps you navigate and track through reality and narrate and keep track of how you're tracking through reality. It's an orientation that allows you to narrate and navigate. That's what you need. The next is significance, like the sentence. Things have to be significant. You have to have a lot of significance.
You have to have things that seem very real, deep, not ephemeral, superficial to you. And then finally, and turns out most importantly, is mattering. Mattering matters the most. Mattering is the sense of being... connected to something, and I'm going to put it in scare quotes because it's another metaphor we have to unpack, something bigger than yourself.
But this goes back to what I pointed out about Plato. We want to be connected to something that's really real. So these are the three questions to ask yourself to see if you have mattering. What do you want to exist even if you don't?
What do you want to exist even if you don't?
Chapter 6: What is the essence of true self-worth in success?
That's right. Got it. How really real is it? Mm-hmm. It's not virtual, not ephemeral, not superficial. How connected are you? How much do you matter to it? And how much of a difference does it make to you? Mm-hmm. How significant? So mattering and significant are turning out to actually be two sides of the same connectedness. I use the ancient word religio for that sense of connectedness.
So I'm basically asking you, do you have religio? Is it connected to something that's really real? And so much so that you care about it beyond your egocentric concerns. Those are the three questions. Now, a prototypical answer is, that people give, and it's a right one, is, well, my kids. And Elizabeth Oldfield, the kids are sacred in that sense.
Sacred is something you wouldn't exchange no matter how much money somebody was willing to give you for it, okay? So, well, do you want your kids to exist when you don't? Well, yeah, that's the whole project. Of course I want them to exist, and I'm trying to make the world a better place for them. So when I'm not here, they will flourish, right? Are they really real?
Well, if you aspire to being a good parent, they're way more important than you, and they're really real. I mean, having a child is one of the best ways to turn the arrow of egocentrism out to something other than yourself. You come to this stark realization as, wow, that being is more important than me. And if I don't live that, that child will die, right?
Like, I remember having those moments, and they're almost terrifying, right? And then, do I matter to my kids? I long to matter to my kids. I long to make a difference in their life. And they're super significant to me. And so, right? Kids are a typical answer of that. Now, here's one thing, and then I'll shut up so you can reply, right? When you have a kid...
All the measures of subjective well-being, that sort of, I feel really good about myself, the thing that shows up in beer commercials, and I feel really good, I'm good, I'm happy, I'm good, yeah, yeah, yeah. That, all of that goes away when you have a kid. You're sleep deprived. You're not eating. It's like being in a shipwreck. You're wet all the time for some reason, right?
There's alarms going off. That's the kid crying. The person you thought loved you most in the world, your partner, doesn't like you anymore, right? And you're getting sick all the time. Why do people do it? The subjective well-being is collapsing. Their finances are going down. Kids are wickedly expensive. So those are the two things we're supposed to be, wealth and subjective well-being.
They collapse. What goes up that more than compensates for the collapse in wealth and subjective well-being? Meaning in life. And that's what's at risk in the meaning crisis.
So many people on the planet are like bystanders to their life. And they basically live as a reaction to circumstances or situations, people, places, and events to consciously, we're at the stage of our unfoldment where we must consciously participate in our own unfolding. We have, you know, we're made in the image and likeness of God. What that means to me, I mean, God is formless.
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