Speaker 1: I'll get our champs. I hope you're bloody terrific. So
Speaker 1: something that's fascinated be me for a long time is
Speaker 1: the kind of knowledge and understanding and awareness and insight
Speaker 1: and knowing that I have, that you have, that we
Speaker 1: have that we don't know why we have it, Like,
Speaker 1: how can I know something that I've never been told
Speaker 1: or taught or trained or educated on? How do I have?
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean I get everything right all the time, of course,
Speaker 1: neither to you, I'm sure, But have there been so
Speaker 1: many times in my life where some what we would
Speaker 1: call instinct or tuition or innate wisdom or perhaps divine
Speaker 1: guidance or intelligence or I don't know, whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: it is, But it's like a knowing that you and
Speaker 1: I have that we somehow know without knowing why we
Speaker 1: know it. I know that seems ridiculous, but it's not,
Speaker 1: and it exists. Now. As someone who studies the mind
Speaker 1: and studies the brain formally, I have to admit that
Speaker 1: there is so much I believe. Well, firstly, there's so
Speaker 1: much that I don't understand and know. There's far, far,
Speaker 1: far more mountains more that I don't know and understand
Speaker 1: and will never than I currently do or ever will, right,
Speaker 1: So I think we need to be brave and courageous
Speaker 1: and humble and aware and honest and say that we
Speaker 1: don't really know. We don't really understand the mind properly.
Speaker 1: We understand the brain more than we used to, but
Speaker 1: even now we still don't fully, even nearly fully understand
Speaker 1: the brain. The mind. What the fuck is the mind anyway?
Speaker 1: It's a construct. It's something we invented, you know. It's
Speaker 1: a term that we use to explain the stuff that
Speaker 1: happens in the brain. The thinking, the awareness, the decision making,
Speaker 1: the interpretation of data. Call that the mind. But we
Speaker 1: also know that, you know, while we can prove we've
Speaker 1: got an elbow or a knee, or a left ear
Speaker 1: or a right ear, we can't prove we've got a mind. Right,
Speaker 1: So it's a slippery slope. This cognition, this thinking, this knowledge,
Speaker 1: this awareness, this consciousness that arises from fucking where I
Speaker 1: don't know. Try and talk to a philosopher and a
Speaker 1: psychologist and a sociologist and a bunch of other different
Speaker 1: alleged experts around consciousness. You'll come away more confused than
Speaker 1: you will clear, because we still don't really understand the mind.
Speaker 1: We still don't really understand consciousness, but I believe strongly,
Speaker 1: which doesn't fit within a scientific or academic or research
Speaker 1: framework necessarily. But guess what, that's okay, because there's so
Speaker 1: much that we don't understand, and just because we don't
Speaker 1: understand it doesn't mean it's not true. And this is
Speaker 1: a real propensity people have who are very attached to
Speaker 1: a certain way of looking at things or being or
Speaker 1: talking or believing, is that when something exists or potentially
Speaker 1: exists that's outside the walls or boundaries of their beliefs
Speaker 1: or their ideology or their science or their understanding, then
Speaker 1: they tend to often go, that's bullshit, that's not real,
Speaker 1: You're an idiot. The truth is, there is far more,
Speaker 1: even in twenty twenty five, this is my belief anyway,
Speaker 1: there is far more that none of us understand than
Speaker 1: we do understand, including the alleged Genii that walk amongst us.
Speaker 1: So I am I am suggesting, your honor. I am
Speaker 1: suggesting that there is a mountain of knowledge and awareness
Speaker 1: and truth and understanding and insight. People might call it
Speaker 1: intuition or gut instinct or in nat wisdom, or perhaps
Speaker 1: divine guidance, or maybe these are just labels for shit
Speaker 1: we can't explain. Maybe it's all of that, maybe it's
Speaker 1: none of that, But there is definitely stuff that we
Speaker 1: intuitively let's use that word no, or understand that we've
Speaker 1: never been told or taught or trained or educated on.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like, there's absolutely a kind
Speaker 1: of knowledge that does not come from books, that doesn't
Speaker 1: come from degrees or PhDs, or research papers or Ted
Speaker 1: talks or amazingly enough, the You project or Fatty Harps.
Speaker 1: There's just a bunch of stuff that you and I
Speaker 1: have access to. I can't explain it. I believe there's
Speaker 1: a level of knowledge and awareness, whether it is instinctive
Speaker 1: or intuitive or whatever that means. But there's an intelligence
Speaker 1: that you and I can access when we I believe
Speaker 1: when we get out of the story that oh, all
Speaker 1: of that is mumbo jumbo bullshit. Now, just because it
Speaker 1: doesn't fit within my framework of logic or my framework
Speaker 1: of science or my internal database what I know, understand,
Speaker 1: have experienced believe, that doesn't mean it's not true. It
Speaker 1: just means for me at this point in time, I
Speaker 1: don't get it. But just because you know, if you
Speaker 1: if you try to get me to explain many many
Speaker 1: things like how the fuck an iPhone works, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I cannot explain to you how it works. Like if
Speaker 1: you said, tell me how this doesn't even matter, you
Speaker 1: could ask me a million things. I know how to
Speaker 1: use it, I know how to access it, I know
Speaker 1: how to download things, I know how to cert But
Speaker 1: if I had to try to explain to you from
Speaker 1: a technological point of view, what I couldn't But that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I can't benefit from the thing that
Speaker 1: I don't fully understand. Are you with me? And I
Speaker 1: think this kind of knowledge that we have access to
Speaker 1: is a little bit like that phone that you and
Speaker 1: I have access to that we don't really understand. Even
Speaker 1: I've got a new car recently ish. It's not fucking amazing.
Speaker 1: It's a nice car, but it's got so much technology.
Speaker 1: If I couldn't explain to you how nearly all of
Speaker 1: the shit in that car works. But what I can
Speaker 1: do is I can drive it. I can use it.
Speaker 1: I can benefit from it. I can access it. It
Speaker 1: can take me places, it can make my life easier,
Speaker 1: it can help me. It can be a tool that
Speaker 1: I use I think so too. While of course education
Speaker 1: and actual knowledge and understanding and resources and tools are
Speaker 1: amazing things that we cognitively and psychologically can access, but
Speaker 1: then there's this other space that isn't about, like I said,
Speaker 1: books or degrees or podcasts, and not something that can
Speaker 1: be downloaded from the internet. We can't google it, you can't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't ask for permission this kind of knowledge. It
Speaker 1: doesn't speak in paragraphs. It whispers at nudges, It punches
Speaker 1: you in the face, it tugs at your sleeves, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it kind of overwhelms you. And it's not always logical.
Speaker 1: But then what's logic, Well, logic is what we think
Speaker 1: makes sense. Logic is us trying to understand something, interpret something,
Speaker 1: process something, give meaning to something using a particular scientific
Speaker 1: model or framework or psychological process. That to us is
Speaker 1: what we call intelligent or logical. Now, not everything through
Speaker 1: that lens is going to look like it's real, is
Speaker 1: going to look like it makes sense. Think about all
Speaker 1: of the things over we've been around three hundred thousand years, right,
Speaker 1: Imagine imagine for two hundred and ninety nine thousand of
Speaker 1: those years and more explaining three hundred people sitting in
Speaker 1: a metal tube flying across the sky. Well, for all
Speaker 1: of the people living until one hundred and fifty years
Speaker 1: ago or one hundred years ago, but for all of humanity,
Speaker 1: that would have been a ridiculous, fucking idea, totally illogical,
Speaker 1: because at that point in time we didn't understand. We
Speaker 1: didn't understand, and there are things that happen that are real.
Speaker 1: There is truth that is real, There is there is
Speaker 1: I believe there is an I. By the way, clearly
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not trying to tell you how to
Speaker 1: do this or why to do this. I just think
Speaker 1: it's important that in the middle of all the conversations
Speaker 1: about the brain and the mind that I talk about,
Speaker 1: without pointing you in a direction or telling you what
Speaker 1: to do or what not to do, or in fact,
Speaker 1: without making any kind of suggestion, just going, hey, there's
Speaker 1: this thing that exists. I think there's this kind of intuition,
Speaker 1: this knowledge, this awareness, this wisdom, call it what you want.
Speaker 1: There's something that you and I can access. It's that insight,
Speaker 1: that understanding, that knowledge, that awareness that you and I
Speaker 1: have sometimes without knowing why the fuck we have it?
Speaker 1: How do I know that? How do I I've had
Speaker 1: many times, and I've shared quite a few on this show,
Speaker 1: and I won't bore you a store, but many times
Speaker 1: where I have not been thinking about anything particularly and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, I've had a sense or
Speaker 1: a feeling or whatever you want to call it. I
Speaker 1: would almost call it some kind of download where I
Speaker 1: feel like I should do something or I shouldn't do something,
Speaker 1: and I pay attention to that, and in the paying
Speaker 1: of attention, I avoided something that could have been very problematic.
Speaker 1: Now you can listen to that and go, that's fucking bullshit.
Speaker 1: I don't blame you, I agree. I I pride myself
Speaker 1: on my logic, on my rationale, my reason my ability
Speaker 1: to think clearly, express communicate clearly and logically, you know,
Speaker 1: use my brain, use my mind, tap into my resources.
Speaker 1: But also, if I'm being as honest as I can be,
Speaker 1: there are things that have happened to me and around me,
Speaker 1: and because of me, and in spite of me, there
Speaker 1: are things that have happened in my life that make
Speaker 1: absolutely no sense based on my understanding of what sense is,
Speaker 1: based on my understanding of how the world works and
Speaker 1: what is logical and the mind and the brain. I
Speaker 1: believe your honor. I just believe that there's a kind
Speaker 1: of knowledge and intelligence and truth that exists outside of
Speaker 1: my understanding and my knowledge and my brain. I don't
Speaker 1: know how it works, but I don't need to know
Speaker 1: how it works to perhaps believe in it. Think about
Speaker 1: how many people believe in a god that they can't prove.
Speaker 1: How many people believe the for example, what Christians called
Speaker 1: a salvation story, that this guy called Jesus came and
Speaker 1: he hung around thirty three years, and then he died
Speaker 1: on the cross and he was resurrected from the dead,
Speaker 1: and he you know, all of these things that you
Speaker 1: and I can't prove, right, we don't have proof, But
Speaker 1: a lot of people have faith. A lot of people believe,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. So not everything that we believe, not
Speaker 1: everything that we have faith in, do we necessarily need
Speaker 1: to have hard evidence or unequivocal proof. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's in that split second feeling that you get before
Speaker 1: your brain has time to run the numbers and to
Speaker 1: figure it out. That that quiet certainty that sometimes you
Speaker 1: can get or feel in the middle of the noise,
Speaker 1: like that knowing that bypasses language and the decision that
Speaker 1: makes absolutely no sense on paper, but all the sense
Speaker 1: in your body or in your soul or in that
Speaker 1: other place that exists that I can't ex explain and
Speaker 1: doesn't fit in within the parameters of my very small
Speaker 1: brain and understanding. And I think sometimes that knowledge or
Speaker 1: that that whatever it is, that truth shows up as clarity,
Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, I know, I'm clear now
Speaker 1: nothing's changed, but everything's changed. Sometimes it's a red red flag.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's an uneasiness that logic can't explain. But when
Speaker 1: you go, oh, there's something wrong, but there's nothing evidently
Speaker 1: wrong to your eyes or your senses, nothing's changed like practically,
Speaker 1: logically intellectually everything's fine, but you somehow know that it's not.
Speaker 1: And then you lean into that and you realize later, wow,
Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from. That, but that
Speaker 1: came from somewhere, and that was wisdom, That was truth,
Speaker 1: That was that was knowledge, that was something for me
Speaker 1: to access. Sometimes you know that. Sometimes it's a strange
Speaker 1: sense of peace in the middle of what could be chaos.
Speaker 1: And of course, as I said, alright ready, like science
Speaker 1: doesn't love this stuff, of course, and that's cool. I'm
Speaker 1: literally a scientist a couple of times over and a researcher,
Speaker 1: and I get it. But science is not who I am,
Speaker 1: and a scientist is not who I am. It's it
Speaker 1: tells you part of who I am, and tells you
Speaker 1: about my job and my work and my research. But
Speaker 1: you know, as even as a scientist, what we want
Speaker 1: to do, which is very hard, and to be honest,
Speaker 1: I don't think many scientists do. It is to get
Speaker 1: our own feelings, our own emotions, our own personal beliefs,
Speaker 1: our own bias, our own fear and anxiety and embarrassment
Speaker 1: and desire to be right. We need to get all
Speaker 1: of that shit out of the way if we really
Speaker 1: want to know what is capital. I underline nine times
Speaker 1: what is true or what might be true, because the
Speaker 1: problem is, and I've said this many times before, with
Speaker 1: any kind of belief or any kind of perspective that
Speaker 1: you might have or idea or philosophy or practice or
Speaker 1: habit or behavior or group that you belong to. When
Speaker 1: that way of thinking, when that oh, I know what
Speaker 1: is truth, I know what is right. I know that
Speaker 1: we are right and they are wrong. When that kind
Speaker 1: of thinking is intertwined with your identity will now you
Speaker 1: are unteachable because if I question your thinking, I question
Speaker 1: your identity. And this is the tough thing. Some things
Speaker 1: that are true don't make sense. And some things that
Speaker 1: are true we can't measure. We can't hold it up,
Speaker 1: we can't see it, we can't poke it, we can't
Speaker 1: replicate it in a lab. We can't explain how somebody
Speaker 1: just knows. I mean, I think in a way, not totally,
Speaker 1: but in a way. Neuroscience is slowly catching up. The
Speaker 1: gut has its own neural network. The body stores memory.
Speaker 1: We know that. We know that pattern recognition operates beneath
Speaker 1: the conscious, conscious mind, conscious awareness. And your brain. As
Speaker 1: fucking incredible as your brain is, your brain is incredible.
Speaker 1: It only knows what it knows. Your brain only knows
Speaker 1: what it's been taught and told and trained. But as
Speaker 1: we know, intelligence is not only the domain of the brain. Intelligence.
Speaker 1: If intelligence can live in our body, then maybe it
Speaker 1: can live outside of our body, and maybe we can
Speaker 1: access that. I don't know. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: do know that there's more intelligence in you and me
Speaker 1: than just the stuff between our ears. And maybe, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe there's a kind of wisdom truth intelligence that you
Speaker 1: and I can access that, as I said before, makes
Speaker 1: no sense, makes no sense based on what we believe
Speaker 1: to be senseable. And in some ways I think like
Speaker 1: we've been told to outsource our wisdom, to trust the
Speaker 1: experts over ourselves, to seek permission, to wait for evidence,
Speaker 1: to wait for it to make sense before we move.
Speaker 1: But sometimes the body moves before the mind catches up.
Speaker 1: And sometimes the soul, whatever that is, knows before the
Speaker 1: ego understands whatever the soul is and wherever it is,
Speaker 1: if we have one. Sometimes I think the smartest part
Speaker 1: of you and me is the part of you and
Speaker 1: me that can't really explain itself. And though I don't
Speaker 1: think every gut feeling is gospel, and yes, trauma can
Speaker 1: masquerade as instinct and fear can dress up as intuition.
Speaker 1: That's why I think, you know, self awareness matters. And
Speaker 1: as I said at the start, you know, not every
Speaker 1: inkling or every hint of anything is going to be
Speaker 1: something concrete. But at the same time, it pays to
Speaker 1: at least pay attention, like we've got to know the
Speaker 1: difference between our conditioning and our maybe our compass, maybe
Speaker 1: our spiritual compass or our internal sat nav, you know,
Speaker 1: the programming, and what else is beyond the programming, that
Speaker 1: space maybe between old programming and knowledge and real wisdom,
Speaker 1: real insight. And I think when we do, I think
Speaker 1: when we do kind of tap into this, it just
Speaker 1: opens a bunch of doors. I know. For me, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm very much about optimizing my brain and my mind
Speaker 1: and my cognition and learning and being a lifelong learner
Speaker 1: and understanding psychology from a behavioral and a practical and
Speaker 1: an academic and a theoretical, a real world perspective. I'm
Speaker 1: really interested in that, as you know. And I'm really
Speaker 1: interested in the brain from a biological and a neurological
Speaker 1: you know, and again from a practical point of view
Speaker 1: and a sociological point of view. But I'm also I
Speaker 1: think I'm also equally fascinated with what else is there?
Speaker 1: Or is there anything else? And I think sometimes instead
Speaker 1: of overthinking everything, analysis paralysis, that maybe maybe when we
Speaker 1: get out of the noise, maybe when we find some
Speaker 1: quiet time, some still time, maybe when we turn off
Speaker 1: the phone, maybe when we turn down the whatever else
Speaker 1: it is, maybe when we be still, Like I think
Speaker 1: so much we already know and maybe some of the
Speaker 1: stuff that we already know, maybe some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that you know as I'm talking to you now, that
Speaker 1: you know things that make you uncomfortable or even scared.
Speaker 1: You know, your internal sat nab is screaming at you,
Speaker 1: your instinct, your intuition, that that knowledge that you have
Speaker 1: about that thing that you don't even know why you
Speaker 1: have that knowledge, but you know it's real, you know
Speaker 1: it's true. And I think we that kind of knowledge,
Speaker 1: that awareness, that instinct, that truth that we have access to.
Speaker 1: I think we ignore that at our own peril. And
Speaker 1: as I said before, I'm just going to reiterate, not
Speaker 1: every inkling is some big download from some ethereal, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of philosophical overlord, or not every not every little
Speaker 1: kind of twitch that we have is some kind of
Speaker 1: amazing insight or truth or message from who knows, No No,
Speaker 1: I think for the most part, but most of our
Speaker 1: life will be controlled by the mind and the brain
Speaker 1: and emotions and interactions. For the most part, I think
Speaker 1: that's most of our lives. But I also think that
Speaker 1: there is an element or a potential component to the
Speaker 1: human experience that we can lean into. Some people would
Speaker 1: call it spiritual insights. Some people would call it more
Speaker 1: prime primarily or evolutionarily, you know, instinct like animals have.
Speaker 1: Instinct are kind of how the fuck do animals know
Speaker 1: how to do? All the shit that nobody taught them?
Speaker 1: You know, there's this space that we can go, I believe,
Speaker 1: So listen to your gut, respect your instincts on er
Speaker 1: inner compass, especially when it doesn't make sense, because maybe
Speaker 1: some of your best decisions won't come from your head.
Speaker 1: They might come from that quiet voice that already knows.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this resonates with anyone, this message,
Speaker 1: and as I said off the top, I didn't record
Speaker 1: it because I think there's some kind of directive attached
Speaker 1: to it, or there needs to be. But I do
Speaker 1: think that for some people. I genuinely think for some people,
Speaker 1: this is not a message they want to hear or
Speaker 1: may not relate to at all. And I totally understand that.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're wrong and I'm right at all.
Speaker 1: I think for a range of reasons that I might
Speaker 1: go into now that is true. And not only is
Speaker 1: it true, it's one hundred percent okay, But I do
Speaker 1: think for a percentage of you, and maybe you're one
Speaker 1: of those people. I feel like you know that there
Speaker 1: is a kind of truth and knowledge and awareness and
Speaker 1: understanding that you have access to. And I think that
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. I just think that if we
Speaker 1: have that, we must have that for a reason. Why
Speaker 1: would that be there if not to be of service
Speaker 1: to us, if not to guide us, if not to
Speaker 1: support us, if not to protect us. They're my thoughts.
Speaker 1: Let me know if this resonates with you. Head over
Speaker 1: to the you project Facebook group if you would. If
Speaker 1: you're not already a member, no hooks, catches, agendas, just
Speaker 1: become a member and let me know what you think
Speaker 1: about this chat. Because I'm curious and also, oh I'm
Speaker 1: still talking. Oh god. Also, I think like this kind
Speaker 1: of really general me thinking out loud. It's quite a
Speaker 1: departure from let's explore the mind again. And I wouldn't
Speaker 1: mind opening this door and leaning in a little bit
Speaker 1: more if some of you are interested, because I have
Speaker 1: more thoughts. I have more thoughts. And again, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be the high watermark of knowledge. I am
Speaker 1: not directing or suggesting. Maybe I suggest here and there
Speaker 1: I do. I'm definitely not directing or prescribing. Let's say that.
Speaker 1: I think I can say that honestly, but I just
Speaker 1: think that there is so much more to consider and
Speaker 1: so much more to the human experience than what most
Speaker 1: of us are currently operating within. All Right, that's me.
Speaker 1: I love your guts, so yeah,