1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: I'll get our champs. I hope you're bloody terrific. So 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: something that's fascinated be me for a long time is 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: the kind of knowledge and understanding and awareness and insight 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 1: and knowing that I have, that you have, that we 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,479 Speaker 1: have that we don't know why we have it, Like, 6 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: how can I know something that I've never been told 7 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: or taught or trained or educated on? How do I have? 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: Doesn't mean I get everything right all the time, of course, 9 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: neither to you, I'm sure, But have there been so 10 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: many times in my life where some what we would 11 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 1: call instinct or tuition or innate wisdom or perhaps divine 12 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: guidance or intelligence or I don't know, whatever the fuck 13 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: it is, But it's like a knowing that you and 14 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: I have that we somehow know without knowing why we 15 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: know it. I know that seems ridiculous, but it's not, 16 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: and it exists. Now. As someone who studies the mind 17 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: and studies the brain formally, I have to admit that 18 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: there is so much I believe. Well, firstly, there's so 19 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: much that I don't understand and know. There's far, far, 20 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: far more mountains more that I don't know and understand 21 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: and will never than I currently do or ever will, right, 22 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: So I think we need to be brave and courageous 23 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: and humble and aware and honest and say that we 24 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 1: don't really know. We don't really understand the mind properly. 25 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: We understand the brain more than we used to, but 26 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: even now we still don't fully, even nearly fully understand 27 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: the brain. The mind. What the fuck is the mind anyway? 28 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: It's a construct. It's something we invented, you know. It's 29 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: a term that we use to explain the stuff that 30 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: happens in the brain. The thinking, the awareness, the decision making, 31 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: the interpretation of data. Call that the mind. But we 32 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: also know that, you know, while we can prove we've 33 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: got an elbow or a knee, or a left ear 34 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: or a right ear, we can't prove we've got a mind. Right, 35 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: So it's a slippery slope. This cognition, this thinking, this knowledge, 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: this awareness, this consciousness that arises from fucking where I 37 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: don't know. Try and talk to a philosopher and a 38 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: psychologist and a sociologist and a bunch of other different 39 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 1: alleged experts around consciousness. You'll come away more confused than 40 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: you will clear, because we still don't really understand the mind. 41 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: We still don't really understand consciousness, but I believe strongly, 42 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: which doesn't fit within a scientific or academic or research 43 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: framework necessarily. But guess what, that's okay, because there's so 44 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: much that we don't understand, and just because we don't 45 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: understand it doesn't mean it's not true. And this is 46 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: a real propensity people have who are very attached to 47 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: a certain way of looking at things or being or 48 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: talking or believing, is that when something exists or potentially 49 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: exists that's outside the walls or boundaries of their beliefs 50 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: or their ideology or their science or their understanding, then 51 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: they tend to often go, that's bullshit, that's not real, 52 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: You're an idiot. The truth is, there is far more, 53 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: even in twenty twenty five, this is my belief anyway, 54 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: there is far more that none of us understand than 55 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: we do understand, including the alleged Genii that walk amongst us. 56 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: So I am I am suggesting, your honor. I am 57 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: suggesting that there is a mountain of knowledge and awareness 58 00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: and truth and understanding and insight. People might call it 59 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: intuition or gut instinct or in nat wisdom, or perhaps 60 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: divine guidance, or maybe these are just labels for shit 61 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,119 Speaker 1: we can't explain. Maybe it's all of that, maybe it's 62 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: none of that, But there is definitely stuff that we 63 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: intuitively let's use that word no, or understand that we've 64 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: never been told or taught or trained or educated on. 65 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like, there's absolutely a kind 66 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: of knowledge that does not come from books, that doesn't 67 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: come from degrees or PhDs, or research papers or Ted 68 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 1: talks or amazingly enough, the You project or Fatty Harps. 69 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: There's just a bunch of stuff that you and I 70 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: have access to. I can't explain it. I believe there's 71 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: a level of knowledge and awareness, whether it is instinctive 72 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: or intuitive or whatever that means. But there's an intelligence 73 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: that you and I can access when we I believe 74 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: when we get out of the story that oh, all 75 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 1: of that is mumbo jumbo bullshit. Now, just because it 76 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: doesn't fit within my framework of logic or my framework 77 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: of science or my internal database what I know, understand, 78 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 1: have experienced believe, that doesn't mean it's not true. It 79 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: just means for me at this point in time, I 80 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: don't get it. But just because you know, if you 81 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: if you try to get me to explain many many 82 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: things like how the fuck an iPhone works, I don't know. 83 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: I cannot explain to you how it works. Like if 84 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: you said, tell me how this doesn't even matter, you 85 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: could ask me a million things. I know how to 86 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: use it, I know how to access it, I know 87 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: how to download things, I know how to cert But 88 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: if I had to try to explain to you from 89 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: a technological point of view, what I couldn't But that 90 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I can't benefit from the thing that 91 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: I don't fully understand. Are you with me? And I 92 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: think this kind of knowledge that we have access to 93 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: is a little bit like that phone that you and 94 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: I have access to that we don't really understand. Even 95 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: I've got a new car recently ish. It's not fucking amazing. 96 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: It's a nice car, but it's got so much technology. 97 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: If I couldn't explain to you how nearly all of 98 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: the shit in that car works. But what I can 99 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: do is I can drive it. I can use it. 100 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: I can benefit from it. I can access it. It 101 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: can take me places, it can make my life easier, 102 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: it can help me. It can be a tool that 103 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: I use I think so too. While of course education 104 00:06:51,560 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 1: and actual knowledge and understanding and resources and tools are 105 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: amazing things that we cognitively and psychologically can access, but 106 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: then there's this other space that isn't about, like I said, 107 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: books or degrees or podcasts, and not something that can 108 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: be downloaded from the internet. We can't google it, you can't. 109 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: It doesn't ask for permission this kind of knowledge. It 110 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: doesn't speak in paragraphs. It whispers at nudges, It punches 111 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: you in the face, it tugs at your sleeves, and 112 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: sometimes it kind of overwhelms you. And it's not always logical. 113 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: But then what's logic, Well, logic is what we think 114 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: makes sense. Logic is us trying to understand something, interpret something, 115 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: process something, give meaning to something using a particular scientific 116 00:07:53,040 --> 00:08:00,080 Speaker 1: model or framework or psychological process. That to us is 117 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: what we call intelligent or logical. Now, not everything through 118 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: that lens is going to look like it's real, is 119 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: going to look like it makes sense. Think about all 120 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: of the things over we've been around three hundred thousand years, right, 121 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: Imagine imagine for two hundred and ninety nine thousand of 122 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: those years and more explaining three hundred people sitting in 123 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: a metal tube flying across the sky. Well, for all 124 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: of the people living until one hundred and fifty years 125 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: ago or one hundred years ago, but for all of humanity, 126 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: that would have been a ridiculous, fucking idea, totally illogical, 127 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: because at that point in time we didn't understand. We 128 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: didn't understand, and there are things that happen that are real. 129 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: There is truth that is real, There is there is 130 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: I believe there is an I. By the way, clearly 131 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not trying to tell you how to 132 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: do this or why to do this. I just think 133 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 1: it's important that in the middle of all the conversations 134 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: about the brain and the mind that I talk about, 135 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: without pointing you in a direction or telling you what 136 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: to do or what not to do, or in fact, 137 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: without making any kind of suggestion, just going, hey, there's 138 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: this thing that exists. I think there's this kind of intuition, 139 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: this knowledge, this awareness, this wisdom, call it what you want. 140 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: There's something that you and I can access. It's that insight, 141 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 1: that understanding, that knowledge, that awareness that you and I 142 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: have sometimes without knowing why the fuck we have it? 143 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: How do I know that? How do I I've had 144 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: many times, and I've shared quite a few on this show, 145 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: and I won't bore you a store, but many times 146 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: where I have not been thinking about anything particularly and 147 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, I've had a sense or 148 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: a feeling or whatever you want to call it. I 149 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:18,479 Speaker 1: would almost call it some kind of download where I 150 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: feel like I should do something or I shouldn't do something, 151 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: and I pay attention to that, and in the paying 152 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: of attention, I avoided something that could have been very problematic. 153 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: Now you can listen to that and go, that's fucking bullshit. 154 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: I don't blame you, I agree. I I pride myself 155 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: on my logic, on my rationale, my reason my ability 156 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: to think clearly, express communicate clearly and logically, you know, 157 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,319 Speaker 1: use my brain, use my mind, tap into my resources. 158 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: But also, if I'm being as honest as I can be, 159 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: there are things that have happened to me and around me, 160 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: and because of me, and in spite of me, there 161 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 1: are things that have happened in my life that make 162 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: absolutely no sense based on my understanding of what sense is, 163 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: based on my understanding of how the world works and 164 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: what is logical and the mind and the brain. I 165 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 1: believe your honor. I just believe that there's a kind 166 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: of knowledge and intelligence and truth that exists outside of 167 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: my understanding and my knowledge and my brain. I don't 168 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: know how it works, but I don't need to know 169 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: how it works to perhaps believe in it. Think about 170 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: how many people believe in a god that they can't prove. 171 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: How many people believe the for example, what Christians called 172 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: a salvation story, that this guy called Jesus came and 173 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: he hung around thirty three years, and then he died 174 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: on the cross and he was resurrected from the dead, 175 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: and he you know, all of these things that you 176 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,839 Speaker 1: and I can't prove, right, we don't have proof, But 177 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: a lot of people have faith. A lot of people believe, 178 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: and that's okay. So not everything that we believe, not 179 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: everything that we have faith in, do we necessarily need 180 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: to have hard evidence or unequivocal proof. I think, you know, 181 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: it's in that split second feeling that you get before 182 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: your brain has time to run the numbers and to 183 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: figure it out. That that quiet certainty that sometimes you 184 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 1: can get or feel in the middle of the noise, 185 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: like that knowing that bypasses language and the decision that 186 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: makes absolutely no sense on paper, but all the sense 187 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: in your body or in your soul or in that 188 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: other place that exists that I can't ex explain and 189 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 1: doesn't fit in within the parameters of my very small 190 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: brain and understanding. And I think sometimes that knowledge or 191 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: that that whatever it is, that truth shows up as clarity, 192 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, I know, I'm clear now 193 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: nothing's changed, but everything's changed. Sometimes it's a red red flag. 194 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's an uneasiness that logic can't explain. But when 195 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:36,839 Speaker 1: you go, oh, there's something wrong, but there's nothing evidently 196 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 1: wrong to your eyes or your senses, nothing's changed like practically, 197 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: logically intellectually everything's fine, but you somehow know that it's not. 198 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 1: And then you lean into that and you realize later, wow, 199 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from. That, but that 200 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: came from somewhere, and that was wisdom, That was truth, 201 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: That was that was knowledge, that was something for me 202 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: to access. Sometimes you know that. Sometimes it's a strange 203 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: sense of peace in the middle of what could be chaos. 204 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: And of course, as I said, alright ready, like science 205 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: doesn't love this stuff, of course, and that's cool. I'm 206 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: literally a scientist a couple of times over and a researcher, 207 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: and I get it. But science is not who I am, 208 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: and a scientist is not who I am. It's it 209 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: tells you part of who I am, and tells you 210 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: about my job and my work and my research. But 211 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: you know, as even as a scientist, what we want 212 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: to do, which is very hard, and to be honest, 213 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: I don't think many scientists do. It is to get 214 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: our own feelings, our own emotions, our own personal beliefs, 215 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: our own bias, our own fear and anxiety and embarrassment 216 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: and desire to be right. We need to get all 217 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: of that shit out of the way if we really 218 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: want to know what is capital. I underline nine times 219 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: what is true or what might be true, because the 220 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: problem is, and I've said this many times before, with 221 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: any kind of belief or any kind of perspective that 222 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: you might have or idea or philosophy or practice or 223 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: habit or behavior or group that you belong to. When 224 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: that way of thinking, when that oh, I know what 225 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: is truth, I know what is right. I know that 226 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: we are right and they are wrong. When that kind 227 00:15:54,440 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: of thinking is intertwined with your identity will now you 228 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: are unteachable because if I question your thinking, I question 229 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: your identity. And this is the tough thing. Some things 230 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: that are true don't make sense. And some things that 231 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: are true we can't measure. We can't hold it up, 232 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: we can't see it, we can't poke it, we can't 233 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: replicate it in a lab. We can't explain how somebody 234 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: just knows. I mean, I think in a way, not totally, 235 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: but in a way. Neuroscience is slowly catching up. The 236 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: gut has its own neural network. The body stores memory. 237 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: We know that. We know that pattern recognition operates beneath 238 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: the conscious, conscious mind, conscious awareness. And your brain. As 239 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: fucking incredible as your brain is, your brain is incredible. 240 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: It only knows what it knows. Your brain only knows 241 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: what it's been taught and told and trained. But as 242 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:18,440 Speaker 1: we know, intelligence is not only the domain of the brain. Intelligence. 243 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 1: If intelligence can live in our body, then maybe it 244 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: can live outside of our body, and maybe we can 245 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: access that. I don't know. I don't know, but I 246 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,679 Speaker 1: do know that there's more intelligence in you and me 247 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: than just the stuff between our ears. And maybe, maybe 248 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: maybe there's a kind of wisdom truth intelligence that you 249 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: and I can access that, as I said before, makes 250 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: no sense, makes no sense based on what we believe 251 00:17:53,520 --> 00:18:00,159 Speaker 1: to be senseable. And in some ways I think like 252 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: we've been told to outsource our wisdom, to trust the 253 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: experts over ourselves, to seek permission, to wait for evidence, 254 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: to wait for it to make sense before we move. 255 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: But sometimes the body moves before the mind catches up. 256 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: And sometimes the soul, whatever that is, knows before the 257 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: ego understands whatever the soul is and wherever it is, 258 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: if we have one. Sometimes I think the smartest part 259 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: of you and me is the part of you and 260 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: me that can't really explain itself. And though I don't 261 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 1: think every gut feeling is gospel, and yes, trauma can 262 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: masquerade as instinct and fear can dress up as intuition. 263 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: That's why I think, you know, self awareness matters. And 264 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: as I said at the start, you know, not every 265 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: inkling or every hint of anything is going to be 266 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: something concrete. But at the same time, it pays to 267 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: at least pay attention, like we've got to know the 268 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: difference between our conditioning and our maybe our compass, maybe 269 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 1: our spiritual compass or our internal sat nav, you know, 270 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: the programming, and what else is beyond the programming, that 271 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 1: space maybe between old programming and knowledge and real wisdom, 272 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: real insight. And I think when we do, I think 273 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: when we do kind of tap into this, it just 274 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 1: opens a bunch of doors. I know. For me, you know, 275 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: I'm very much about optimizing my brain and my mind 276 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: and my cognition and learning and being a lifelong learner 277 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: and understanding psychology from a behavioral and a practical and 278 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: an academic and a theoretical, a real world perspective. I'm 279 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: really interested in that, as you know. And I'm really 280 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: interested in the brain from a biological and a neurological 281 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: you know, and again from a practical point of view 282 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: and a sociological point of view. But I'm also I 283 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: think I'm also equally fascinated with what else is there? 284 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: Or is there anything else? And I think sometimes instead 285 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: of overthinking everything, analysis paralysis, that maybe maybe when we 286 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: get out of the noise, maybe when we find some 287 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: quiet time, some still time, maybe when we turn off 288 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: the phone, maybe when we turn down the whatever else 289 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: it is, maybe when we be still, Like I think 290 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: so much we already know and maybe some of the 291 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,439 Speaker 1: stuff that we already know, maybe some of the stuff 292 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: that you know as I'm talking to you now, that 293 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,120 Speaker 1: you know things that make you uncomfortable or even scared. 294 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: You know, your internal sat nab is screaming at you, 295 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: your instinct, your intuition, that that knowledge that you have 296 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: about that thing that you don't even know why you 297 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: have that knowledge, but you know it's real, you know 298 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 1: it's true. And I think we that kind of knowledge, 299 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: that awareness, that instinct, that truth that we have access to. 300 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: I think we ignore that at our own peril. And 301 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: as I said before, I'm just going to reiterate, not 302 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: every inkling is some big download from some ethereal, you know, 303 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: kind of philosophical overlord, or not every not every little 304 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: kind of twitch that we have is some kind of 305 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: amazing insight or truth or message from who knows, No No, 306 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: I think for the most part, but most of our 307 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,160 Speaker 1: life will be controlled by the mind and the brain 308 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: and emotions and interactions. For the most part, I think 309 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: that's most of our lives. But I also think that 310 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: there is an element or a potential component to the 311 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: human experience that we can lean into. Some people would 312 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: call it spiritual insights. Some people would call it more 313 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: prime primarily or evolutionarily, you know, instinct like animals have. 314 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,679 Speaker 1: Instinct are kind of how the fuck do animals know 315 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 1: how to do? All the shit that nobody taught them? 316 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: You know, there's this space that we can go, I believe, 317 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: So listen to your gut, respect your instincts on er 318 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: inner compass, especially when it doesn't make sense, because maybe 319 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: some of your best decisions won't come from your head. 320 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: They might come from that quiet voice that already knows. 321 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if this resonates with anyone, this message, 322 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: and as I said off the top, I didn't record 323 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: it because I think there's some kind of directive attached 324 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: to it, or there needs to be. But I do 325 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 1: think that for some people. I genuinely think for some people, 326 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: this is not a message they want to hear or 327 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: may not relate to at all. And I totally understand that. 328 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 1: I don't think they're wrong and I'm right at all. 329 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 1: I think for a range of reasons that I might 330 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: go into now that is true. And not only is 331 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: it true, it's one hundred percent okay, But I do 332 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 1: think for a percentage of you, and maybe you're one 333 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: of those people. I feel like you know that there 334 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: is a kind of truth and knowledge and awareness and 335 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: understanding that you have access to. And I think that 336 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: I could be wrong. I just think that if we 337 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: have that, we must have that for a reason. Why 338 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: would that be there if not to be of service 339 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 1: to us, if not to guide us, if not to 340 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 1: support us, if not to protect us. They're my thoughts. 341 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: Let me know if this resonates with you. Head over 342 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,719 Speaker 1: to the you project Facebook group if you would. If 343 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: you're not already a member, no hooks, catches, agendas, just 344 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: become a member and let me know what you think 345 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 1: about this chat. Because I'm curious and also, oh I'm 346 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 1: still talking. Oh god. Also, I think like this kind 347 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:47,919 Speaker 1: of really general me thinking out loud. It's quite a 348 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,719 Speaker 1: departure from let's explore the mind again. And I wouldn't 349 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: mind opening this door and leaning in a little bit 350 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: more if some of you are interested, because I have 351 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,959 Speaker 1: more thoughts. I have more thoughts. And again, I'm not 352 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: trying to be the high watermark of knowledge. I am 353 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: not directing or suggesting. Maybe I suggest here and there 354 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,159 Speaker 1: I do. I'm definitely not directing or prescribing. Let's say that. 355 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: I think I can say that honestly, but I just 356 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: think that there is so much more to consider and 357 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: so much more to the human experience than what most 358 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 1: of us are currently operating within. All Right, that's me. 359 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: I love your guts, so yeah,