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I was living and working in Hong

Kong and one day I found a

lump on this side of my neck

and when I went to the doctor

and they did a biopsy, they discovered

that it was lymphoma, which is a

form of lymphatic cancer. I was very,

very shocked. And surprise, so over a

period of four years, I developed so

much fear of this cancer and I

was following everything I was

researching about it and I lived my

life. I would started to live my

life just trying to get rid of

this cancer that was in my body.

That I kept getting worse and weaker

and weaker. And at that point the

doctors said that it's too late even

for anything. Your body is already too

far gone. You're already dying. You only

have about 3 months to live.

I kept wishing that this was a bad dream.

My body was not absorbing any

nutrition. I weighed 85 lbs. I

looked like a skeleton. My lungs

were filled with fluid. The tumors

now in my body were all

over my lymphatic system. They were

the size of golf balls. And

by February the 1st. 2006, I went

into a coma. The nurse gave me

a big dose of morphine because I

hadn't been able to sleep or anything

for many days because of the fluid

in my lungs. And I was in

so much pain and so much discomfort.

And then on February the 2nd. In

the morning I didn't wake up O It

was at that point that the doctors told

my family that these were my final hours

and that my organs were now shutting down

and I was going through the dying

process. But what

everybody around me didn't know was

that I had left my body

and I felt amazing. I could

see and feel and hear everything

that was happening all around me,

but I felt light and free

and all the pain. Is gone

and all the fear was gone, something

that I call unconditional love. You know,

just I'd never felt anything like that

in my physical life before. And I

was aware of my body lying there

in that hospital bed, but my body

looked so small and helpless and

lifeless. Compared to how I was feeling

now and I wanted my family to know that

I'm fine. In fact I'm better than fine. I

feel fantastic. But there was number way

for me to communicate with them. I was

able to see and hear everything the

doctors were doing, like they were taking

fluid out of my lungs and it was very

different. From having physical eyes, it

was more like I had 360°

peripheral vision. I could be aware

of things that were happening behind,

on the sides, above, below, everywhere

and beyond the walls. I was

seeing and hearing Conversations take

place beyond the hospital room. And

my husband was talking to the doctor

outside, about 40 feet away, outside the

room that I was in, and I was able

to see and hear everything. I could even

see and be aware that my brother who was

living in a different country, he was

living in India at the time. I was able

to see that he was rushing. To get on

a plane to come and reach me because

he wanted to get to me before I

died. I remember even feeling, gosh, I

better not die until he gets here.

Like many of us who grew up in the

60s and 70s like I did, I knew science

is the pathway to truth. And as much as

I wanted to believe a lot of what I'd

heard in my Methodist Church growing up

about an afterlife, about God, power of

prayer, my work in science, and

especially as I pursued a career.

Neurosurgery left me wondering how

conscious awareness could survive the

death of the brain and body. So I

taught for about 15 years at Harvard

Medical School. That was all setting the

stage for my near death experience.

So it's important to point out we never,

ever understood why this happened. When I

first got to the emergency room, the

doctors were very alarmed because of how

quickly I'd gone downhill over 3 1/2

hours. I was deep in coma, grand Mal

seizures, and they found out the next day

from microbiology that it was Gram

negative bacterial meningitis. Caused by

E coli. And then of course they put me in

three powerful intravenous antibiotics on

a ventilator. And I went through that

week not really showing any signs of

improvement. So by the end of the week,

the doctors held a family meeting on day

7 of coma. It was a Sunday morning when

they said it was I was from a gone from

a 10% chance of survival. Down to 2%

chance, but unfortunately they thought of

it as if I was in that 2%

survivor category that would never

translate into any meaningful recovery.

So that's why they suggested stopping the

antibiotics and just letting nature take

its course. Let the infection run. Let

me, let me go. So way too deep

in coma to have had. Any experience,

especially when you realize that the CT

and MRI show extensive damage and yet the

exact opposite is what I experienced O

how that journey unfolded was beginning.

In that earthworm I view I was rescued

by a slowly spinning white light.

Initially that portal LED up into what I

call the the gateway. Valley. It was far

more real than this world. It makes this

world look like a dream. That's one thing

that people have trouble understanding

because they think this is ********

reality. Well, that world is far more

real than this one. It was so refreshing

and reassuring. I cannot put it into

words. And it was. Soon after that that

I had this sensation of a soft summer

breeze blowing through that was like my

first awareness of the divine presence of

that infinitely loving force. That so

many other near death experiences from

all continents, all cultures, all belief

systems, all millennia and the last 5000

years have talked about this same kind of

realm and. To where our religions come

from and all that. To me, it

felt very, very real. In fact, it

felt more real than this physical

reality. It was as if my awareness

was expanding more and more, like going

through different levels, because after a

while I started to leave this physical.

Level and when we leave our

physical body, we leave behind everything

that's associated with our body, our

biology, our voice, our race, our

religion, All of that gets left

behind. And what crosses over is

just pure essence, pure spirit.

Or pure love. We can call it whatever

we want. And so I started to encounter

the essence of the spirit of other people

who were familiar to me, like my dad,

who had died 10 years ago. I felt

his presence around me and even though he

wasn't in his physical body. I

recognized him immediately. It was

literally like his energy and my energy

just merged and I was like, ohh dad,

it's you. I just knew. And we're not

even talking to each other. We don't need

to explain who we are. We know what

each other is feeling right away without

words. My dad and

I, when I was growing up, we had

a very turbulent relationship because I

rebelled against my culture. I come from

a culture where women are considered

second class citizens. And so my dad and

I clashed a lot, like a lot. And

I even ran away from an arranged

marriage. So when he passed away, I

had always thought that I had let him

down, that I had disappointed him as a

daughter. But now here he was on the

other side with me and all I felt

from him was pure unconditional love and

I felt he understood why I was the

way I was. So it was just

the most incredible feeling. I

then felt that I was surrounded by

other beings and I didn't recognize them

all from this life, but I did

feel that I was just unconditionally

loved by them and that they were

there to protect me and help me.

And I started to understand that I've

always been protected. But not just me.

We all are. But we don't realize it. We

don't know this. I

was surprised by the incredible power of

love that I felt by thousands of beings

around me going off into the mist with

their heads down, murmuring, many

praying. I remember the angelic choirs

above that were fueling all this

beautiful dancing and merriment served as

yet another portal to higher and higher

levels. All the way out to what I

call the core. Infinite inky blackness,

but filled to overflowing with

unconditional love of that divine source.

And I would cycle through those levels. I

would tumble back down to that earth

where my view, but I could navigate back

up by remembering the sounds the music

provided portals to traverse those

around. And I'd been

told every time I entered the core you

were not here to stay. You'll be going

back, but we'll teach you many things.

And then a lot happened on that side.

But I reached a point where I felt

that I had a choice as to whether

to come back into my body or to

stay on the other side. No part of

me wanted to come back because my body

was sick and dying. I was suffering here.

My family were suffering, taking care of

me, but it was like I entered

this state of clarity where I then

understood why I had been sick. I

understood how it was that so many

of the thoughts and the decisions and

the choices I had made in my

life had led me to that. Point

where I was lying there on that

hospital bed, and I realized that I

had lived this life of fear instead

of a life of passion and joy

and love. I had

never allowed my soul, my spirit, to

express itself and be all that it had

come here to be, and that I was

more powerful than I had ever known or

believed. O in this state of clarity, I

received the message that now that you

know the truth of who you really are.

Go back. If you choose to go back into

your body, your body will heal. And it

was at this point that I felt my dad

was telling me you need to go back, it's

not your time yet.

And so it was at that point that I

made the choice to come back. I started

to understand that I had a bigger

purpose, to fulfill something much

bigger. And I didn't know what it was. I

had no idea what it was, but it was

like I had the understanding that all I

have to do is be myself and live my

life. Fearlessly, and my purpose would

unfold before me.

And it was at that point that I started

to come out of the coma. My family and

everybody around me were really shocked,

but they were so happy that my eyes were

opening U. It was like I had one foot

on each side. I kept saying to them, dad

is here. Dad's telling me that it's not

my. Time I'm going to be fine. And

I was just saying this over and over

and they were wondering what's going on.

The doctor basically told my family don't

raise your hopes because she's still

critical. Sometimes it happens. And then

the doctor said these are the drugs just

messing with her mind. She's

hallucinating. But then I said to the

doctor. Aren't you the doctor that took

the fluid out of my lungs at about 4:00

AM this morning? And that's when he said,

but you were in a coma, you couldn't know

that. So he got really shocked and

started to wonder what's going on? I said

to my husband, isn't he the doctor that

said, I'm not even going to make it

through the night?And my husband said

you couldn't possibly have heard that. He

said that to me outside of the

room, down the hallway near the nurses

station. And then what started to happen

is over the next few days, the

tumors just continued to shrink and the

doctors just could not understand. I

had to start getting a little bit

stronger and start getting out of bed

and within 3 1/2 weeks they could

find no trace of the cancer anymore

and within 5 weeks they let me

go home to live my life cancer

free and that was 14 1/2 years

ago. And then I came back

to this world. But when I did, when I

woke up in that ICU bed on Day 7 of coma,

all I knew was where I had been.

My brain was so wrecked and I still had

no memories of my life before. So when I

was first coming out of coma and they

first extubated me, I was still not even

recognizing loved ones at the bedside,

although that recognition in my language

came back very rapidly, literally over

hours. Memories were even more complete

than they had been before,That was

something that was a real shock.

Everything turned around tremendously. I

mean, inexplicably. And that that's one

of the points that's made in that case

report about my medical records is how

this is not just like, ohh, well, we see

this, you know, 1% of the time or we just

don't see it. The medical

people's opinions was very, very mixed.

One thing that they all agreed on is

that I am lucky to be alive. They

all agreed that I should have died.

Another one of my doctors says that all

the things that I experienced, what I say

happened on the other side, seeing my dad

and everything he says. That was my brain

hallucinating. And he says that was the

drugs messing with my mind. But that's

the other part that the doctors and the

medical people could not explain is how

was I able to see my my brother? How

did I know he was on a plane flying

to see me? And how did I hear the

doctors?At my Doctor Who

was treating me actually said that you're

not the first person to tell me

such a story. And he said he

has heard other patients who have

experienced crossing over on the other

side. And what happened, though, is that

I was interviewed once by a local

newspaper. And then the newspaper

journalist said to me, would your doctor

be willing to verify everything that

happened? And I said, yes, he completely

believed me. But when the newspaper

interviewed him, he didn't say everything

the way he said it to me.

And he he was too embarrassed to

speak it publicly and. Many years later

is when another doctor said to me

that, yeah, if we say these things

publicly, we can be ridiculed and we

can even lose our license.

True open minded skepticism is absolutely

important ingredient in this quest. I

will say I was my own

worst skeptic. I'd spent 54 years

of my life honing a very

conventional scientific worldview, but

essentially my coma journey to a

neurosurgeon interested in explaining

consciousness. Had a tremendous number of

lessons to help me understand that much

of what we thought was completely wrong.

And what I've found and is in the 11

years since, I've worked with many

scientists around the world who are

interested in consciousness all of the

tremendous evidence that is available to

all of us who study things like the.

Afterlife parapsychology. The reality of

things like telepathy. Remote viewing

out of body experiences.

All these phenomena of consciousness

bringing science and spirituality

together and explaining consciousness in

a much more satisfactory fashion

than the very bleak and

paltry fiction of materialist

explanation. So obviously you have

to study these phenomena directly.

My name is Dean Rayden, I'm the

chief scientist at the Institute of

Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, CA. If you

don't know what ions is, then you

should not be watching this movie because

it's just, it's too late. Basically, the

Institute of Noetic Sciences is an

institute devoted to studying the nature

of consciousness. It's part of a

spectrum of experiences. So some of them

are psychic, some are mystical, some are

deja vous, clairvoyance, precognition,

the whole range of experiences that are

actually very common in terms not of

belief, but of what people actually

experience. These kinds of things happen.

The next question is, well, why don't we

find?Departments of psychic research and

every university. The answer is that in

the modern world we follow a certain set

of assumptions about the way that reality

is. And so a philosopher would call it

materialism. And it's the idea that

everything that we know, including the

mind, is made-up out of matter and

energy. From that perspective,

the idea that aspects of your mind

or awareness can transcend space and

time, because that's the strangeness of

mystical and psychic experience, these

things are considered impossible. It's

not possible to have parts of your

awareness extending away from your brain.

Because the prevailing idea is that it's

impossible. The only way of understanding

the experiences is that they're either

made U or they're coincidence or some

other mundane explanation. One of

the problems with materialist science is

they keep looking in the material world

to try and prove things. So if you're

looking at the physical brain and you're

saying, well, we have assumed that this

thing creates consciousness, and then you

see all these things you can measure like

on a functional MRI or on Magneto

encephalography or spectral

electroencephalogram. And whatever your

mode of examining the brain, if you're

sitting there thinking whatever we see is

going to explain it all, you're obviously

misled. Sorry, it's not there.

I think it's important to be clear that

the brain and the mind, or the brain

and internal experience are clearly

correlated with each other. So there's a

relationship between brain activity and

our internal experience, but that

relationship actually doesn't say very

much about what is the causal direction.

The usual presumption is that the brain.

Processing is the causal reason why we

have consciousness, but that's an

inference that would be very difficult to

justify because it could just as well be

in the other direction. And in fact, this

is what gives rise to ideas that it's not

that the brain is generating

consciousness, but rather the brain is

receiving consciousness, or as a filter

of consciousness, which is somehow. Out

there, this is the difference between

looking at a radio and listening to it

playing music and opening U the radio

expecting to find little tiny people with

instruments in it. Well, that's not what

happens. You open the radio and you see

something which ultimately is receiving

information that's coming from somewhere

else. From the time

I was a child, I was intrigued by

the physical world and by what is the

mine. So I went on and got my

PhD in neuroscience and then began doing

research in rehabilitation neuroscience.

So things like working with children with

cerebral palsy, people with stroke,

people with Parkinson's disease. They're

trying to find new therapies to help them

move better, to make their brains

function better again. So I enjoy that.

But I should say that at a certain

point in my career, I had an experience

in meditation at a meditation retreat

that shifted my whole understanding of

awareness. I was a bit in

a quandary because and had a sense that

there was more to consciousness than I

had originally thought. And everybody on

this world would say the brain is very

important in our embodied consciousness.

We all know that. But at the same time

when you look at other research, for

example on near death experiences, you

find out somebody has had cardiac arrest.

Their brain has completely stopped, and

yet these people nevertheless retain

their consciousness. And they do

something even more than that. They

actually see now everything around them

from a perspective outside of their body.

The point is that if there is no brain

activity and the entire cortex, there

couldn't even be a hallucination. And

that's what the materialist

neuroscientists have to deal with. And of

course, one of the things they'll say is,

well, maybe the experience happened when

there was still a little bit of brain

activity and they just thought it was

happening in the middle of the coma. But

in fact, you can prove by what they were

seeing. That they were definitely in the

middle of a deep deep coma with

no brain activity watching things

happening then and they are seeing

nonlocal events that would be impossible

even to see what the normal brain.

You've been studying the wrong thing. The

brain doesn't produce consciousness, but

it's simply that, a transceiver or a

filter. A filter is is a beautiful

word for it. And that's not a

new theory. That actually came more than

100 years ago from the likes of

William James, who was a renowned Harvard

psychologist. FCC Schiller was another

proponent of filter theory, as was Aldous

Huxley, who wrote Doors of Perception. He

came to realize that consciousness was

far more profound than just something

produced by a brain locally.

So right now the brain filters everything

out but the five senses and therefore I

see you and the things around me as

almost like a measly trickle, someone

said of what is actually available for me

to see. And the idea that William James

brought forth was that when you have a

mystical experience or a near death

experience. What happens is those filters

in the brain are actually partially

removed, but in normal weakening physical

consciousness, those filters are there

for a good reason to help us function

in this physical world.

Yeah, clearly what we perceive with our

ordinary senses in the everyday world is

not the world, it's the cartoon of the

world. We're picking up portions of the

electromagnetic spectrum, which is very

thin, goes from DC or the 0 Hertz

up to basically Infinity. We're picking

up a thin slice. This is true. For

every one of our senses. So we're picking

up little tiny pieces of an energetic

world out there, and from that

constructing the world that we see.

So our sense of what is out there, our

common sense view is a construction. We

know that that's easy to demonstrate.

Then of course, it begs the question,

well, what is the real world? What is it

really like there? It gets much more

difficult to talk about when we think

perhaps that under certain degrees of

meditative experience, under

transformative. Experiences that could be

spontaneous. What is often reported is

typically by Mystics that they now

experience the world the way it actually

is. One thing

that happens with many people who have

a near death experience is that when

they come back, they now have psychic

abilities that they don't even

necessarily want. And sometimes these

psychic abilities frighten them. What we

study are experiences. Ultimately, people

have strange experiences, so. It would

include things like precognitive dreams

and presentiments of things about the

unfold, telepathic experiences, mind

matter, interaction affects, those kinds

of things. The challenge from a

scientific perspective is how do you then

take those experiences, bring it into the

laboratory so you can study it under

control conditions. Where you can tell

the difference between a coincidence and

a real effect. So for precognition, many

different types of experiments all

suggest that we do have the capacity to

know what's about to unfold, even under

conditions where we can't infer it. We

also have many experiments showing that

through clairvoyance that we can

perceive. Not always visually, but we can

perceive something that is happening at a

distance O That means that both through

space and through time we somehow can do

that. We have the perception ability to

do that. Another whole class of studies

is the nature of whether consciousness

survives bodily death. So it was

consciousness part of the body or not.

They clearly interacts in some way, but

maybe it doesn't need the body. So these

are survival based studies where we look

at things like mediumship and near death

experiences and those kinds of phenomena,

some of which can be brought into the

laboratory. And we can verify whether or

not, for example, a medium who claims to

be talking to a dead person and getting

information from that dead person, is the

information correct under conditions

where they can't fake it or they can't

get the information in other ways. And

there too, we can verify that that

actually does happen sometimes. Or maybe

capable of much more than we currently

think. So from a scientific perspective,

these things shouldn't happen, but they

do happen. So clearly we've missed

something important. So I want to find

out what it is. What does it mean?

I'm Rupert Sheldrake. I'm a biologist. I

did research at Cambridge on the

development of plants. I taught at

Cambridge. I was a fellow of Clare

College. I studied philosophy at Harvard.

I did history and philosophy of science

there. But the reason I did that was

because when I was a student in

Cambridge, I felt that. Biology had

become very limited by this mechanistic

theory of life, treating animals and

plants as machines and treating people as

machines, and I wanted to see if

it's possible to have a philosophy of

science or a way of doing science

that was more broad and more inclusive.

Since then, I've been doing research.

Doing morphic resonance memory in nature

and on unexplained abilities of animals

and people. There's a lot of

evidence for these phenomena. I mean

from years of research and by

psychic researchers and

parapsychologists. But from the

materialist point of view, all my

mental activities in my head. So

if I think about you and your 100

kilometers away and I want to telephone

you and you start thinking about me, and

when I ring you, you say that's funny,

I was just thinking about you. A very

common kind of telepathy, almost everyone

who's experienced this, and I've shown by

means of controlled randomized

experiments. That this is not just

childcare incidents, but from a

materialist point of view, that's

impossible. My thoughts cannot possibly

influence you. 100 kilometres away

Phenomenon like telepathy is impossible.

Therefore all the evidence for it, the

fact that most people say they've

experienced it, it just proves these are

stupid people who've not been. Educated

enough. And if there's evidence for it

from scientific experiments like my

experiments or those of Dean Radian or

many other scientists, then those

experiments must be flawed. There must be

some error in the experiments. This

debate has been going. It's not really

a debate because it's it's a denial

campaign. Has been going on for decades

and enormously influences the educational

systems. Most people are interested in

these phenomena because they actually

happen and they influence their lives.

But then when they see a culture

of denial in the scientific world, what

this does is makes people feel that

science is dogmatic. Narrow and limited.

And they're right. It's really

unfortunate the way science is practiced

today. It's kind of like an old boys

club. We're about the only way to get

things done is to do experiments that

prove the accepted hypotheses about the

universe. And yet when you hit all these

jagged edges that say the model is wrong,

what our current community?Tries to have

us do as well. No, stick to the plan.

But if you sooner or later get to a

point, as Thomas Koon pointed out in his

book about scientific revolutions back in

the mid 20th century, where you have a

breaking point where there's so much

evidence that breaks the rules of the

reigning paradigm that you have to

basically throw the paradigm out. So

at this time, there are approximately 10

different meta analysis of classes of

experiments looking at various kinds of

psychic phenomena published in mainstream

journals. So why is it remain

controversial? They will say that the

reason why these studies look like

they're significant is because of

questionable research practices. The

dreaded QRP. So the QRP's include things

like selective reporting so that you're

only publishing the positive results and

you're not publishing the negative

results, which will create a bias when

you do the analysis. O What they're

looking for is generally is one of two

things. So they're looking for an

application which is undeniable typically

involved in some way. Making a lot of

money. If you're so smart, go to Las

Vegas and make a lot of money. O

that's one one approach. The other one

that changes people's minds is a single

personal experience. The whole point of a

taboo is a social agreement about what

you can talk about and what you shouldn't

talk about. The irony is that. Despite a

huge amount of scientific evidence

showing that these experiences are what

they seem to be, they're real. The taboo

persists in the academic world,

especially not so much outside of

academia, but within mainstream academia.

You're simply are not allowed to talk

about this stuff. When you step out of a

worldview like this, you know what will

happen. In terms of what your colleagues

will think about you, they will say, ohh,

my goodness, this person has now gone

weak minded and they are not really a

credible scientist anymore. And it's

very, very true that many young

scientists who do not have tenure at

universities yet, who have started to do

research on meditation, have not received

tenure from their colleagues because the

colleagues decided. That they were really

not academically credible like they

originally thought they were. So you

know, you have a high probability of

losing your career. So one of

the complaints I get from my more

mainstream colleagues is that if psychic

phenomena were really true, it would

upset everything that we know not to

throw away all of our books and start

over again. To which I replied that is

actually not the case, that what we know

about physics is very likely to remain

exactly the same because the the physical

world is very stable. What we know about

biology and chemistry and all the rest of

it is going to remain the same. We

don't throw away the science we've got.

What the science we've got has done is

established a whole range of facts about

nature, and it's extremely successful in

building machines. It's very unsuccessful

in understanding consciousness. In

understanding the interconnectedness of

nature and in understanding our role in

the world and in nature, that's why

we have an ecological crisis. There's

something gone horribly wrong by applying

this kind of science, which is very

limited without a bigger picture. Science

is one way of understanding the world.

It gives a pretty good picture for a lot

of things, but it doesn't do very well in

understanding the nature of

consciousness. In order to then

understand psychic phenomena, we probably

need to revise or relook at some of the

assumptions underlying the way that

science has developed. And so one of the

ways of doing that is to question the

assumption that everything starts with

physics. Maybe there's something more

fundamental than the physical world. And

So what do we know that's that doesn't

seem to be physical and yet quite real.

It's our internal experience. It doesn't

seem to have physical qualities to it,

but we can't deny that we have

experience. So maybe that's more

fundamental if that's the case, then if

you think of of this scientific

disciplines. As a hierarchy with physics

at the bottom and then chemistry,

biology, psychology, maybe there's

something that needs to go below physics.

OA number of thought leaders today across

the board in science are beginning to

say things like what's more fundamental

than matter and energy is information.

It's somewhat more abstract. And where we

think of as physicality, but from

information you can create matter and

energy. You can you can describe it

and form a universe based on information.

Well, all of that is closely aligned

with the esoteric traditions which say

ultimately that consciousness is more

fundamental than the physical world. It

all comes from consciousness somehow.

Whether it's Kabbalah or Neoplatonism or

Hermeticism or you name it, you find it

in in almost every esoteric tradition, a

way of thinking about how consciousness

in its primordial state turns into

reality. That idealism,

that's the notion that only the mental

exists, and that in fact the universe

is mental primarily, and that all the

physical universe simply emerges based on

the principles of that mental realm. Top

down causality when you combine the

consilience of the neuroscience of

consciousness. Philosophy of mind of

quantum physics, which is the most

fundamental presentation of the mind,

body question. And they're all converging

to say consciousness is the one thing

that exists, that all of physical reality

emerges out of that. It just becomes

obvious that this is a mental universe.

Mind has tremendous power over matter.

And we proved that all the time as

humans with our own health, by basic

education in the university was

understanding the nature of cell biology,

how cells work. So I was a stem

cell research scientist at University of

Wisconsin School of Medicine, where I was

a professor, and at Stanford University

later where there was a research

scientist. Expanding the knowledge of

epigenetics to understand the nature.

What is the difference between genetics

and epigenetics? When I say this

character, this disease is under genetic

control, that is the belief that

genes turn on and off and

made the disease. This makes us

a victim. Because as far as we know,

we didn't pick the genes and here the the

genes turned on and off by themselves.

Then you realize I'm just like a time

bomb and one day the gene goes boom and

then I get cancer. I'm a victim. But the

new science, epigenetics, which means

control above the genes, which turns out

to be. Environment. But our perception

of the environment is what

controls the genes. I say

well, if perception and environment

control genes, we as individuals,

we can control our environment

and we can control our

perceptions. Consciousness, lifestyle,

belief systems. These are the ultimate

controls of the gene. So the relevance is

important is because as we know that if

you've got a cancer gene and that's what

you believe, then you think I'm going to

get the cancer and then you get a cancer

and you say the genes did it. And now we

know now that there is no cancer gene.

There is not one gene that causes cancer.

Genes are correlated with cancer, meaning

if your life is not in harmony and

you have one of these genes, you can

activate a cancer. But the point is

having the gene does not cause the

cancer. 50% of the women that have the

same BRC 1 gene never get the cancer.

The point is very important. So we

have to help people, take them from

the belief I'm a victim and give

them the science that no, your

consciousness is creating this life

experience and here your consciousness is

controlling your genes. And so

my evolution took me from the genes

to the role of the mind, and

that the mind is the absolute control

of our biology. And when we give

our power to other people, their beliefs

control our biology. If I buy their

story and it's not a good story,

then. Have just altered my life and This

is why we need to take the power

back. And people say, ohh, that positive

thinking doesn't really work. But that's

not true. The best example of positive

thinking in a scientific study is called

placebo. You have a disease and doctor

says here's this new pill and it's the

brand new science. And it's going to cure

you and, and you believe it and you take

the pill and you get well, then you find

out the pill was a sugar pill. O then

you're left with O, what made me? Well,

it's not the sugar pill. It was the

positive belief in that sugar pill and

how it's going to help your life.

Sometimes mechanistic doctors try to

dismiss all alternative healing by saying

it's nothing but the placebo effect. But

the fact is the placebo effect works,

and in fact, regular medicine depends on

placebo effects as well. It does it

really matter what we call it? The

fact is, it's happening. And

it shows that the belief and

the expectation are actually influencing

the healing process. But people don't

recognize negative thinking is equally

powerful, but it works in the

opposite direction. The American

Psychological Association has recognized

90% of doctor visits.

Are due to stress, and it turns out

that stress is the major cause of

problems in health and that stress is a

consciousness issue. So if you can

control stress, then you can control your

health and that's what the new science is

all about. So the

mind body connection is now recognized as

a thing. The next stage are things like

affirmations. Affirmations, in terms of

the literature of affirmations, rivals

the number of books sold for religious

texts. It's extremely popular. It's been

around a long time in many different

versions. There are some people who will

say, well, if you want a gold plated

Mercedes, you just think about it really

hard and and there it is and now you

have a gold plated Mercedes that's yours

somehow. O of course nothing works that

simply but because of the association

between the idea of you create your own

reality and suddenly manifesting mounds

of. Gold out of nothing. And people of

course would be very reluctant to say,

well, I believe in that because it sounds

crazy. In fact, as stated, it is crazy.

But on the other hand, that doesn't mean

that affirmations don't work, that they

don't, they don't manipulate the world in

some way. So I personally believe based

on the experimental work that I've done

that. Do create our own reality on many

layers. So even among my colleagues, what

I just said is probably considered

controversial because I'm, I'm more

liberal minded than some of my more

conservative colleagues. But based on the

experiments that I've done, the way that

I interpret it, I think that we actually

do to a small extent, manipulate the

world. In a literal way, and not simply

in a psychological way. If

you look back at various spiritual

traditions, even from way back in India,

intention was considered very, very

important. And in fact the term in

Sanskrit is sankalpa. It means that when

you have a strong intention that you can

literally move ahead much, much more

quickly than you can if you don't have

an intention. With whatever you want to

do. And people might say, well, that

doesn't always happen to me. But what we

often notice with an intention is that

there's the surface of our intellect that

says, for example, I want to lose weight.

But underneath there's a stronger, what I

would call my alligator brain or my

unconscious desire to eat wonderful, rich

foods. And they often compete with each

other. And so you think your intention.

Have to lose weight? But you may have a

stronger intention for something else, or

your intention may be distracted. Then we

might look at our distractions or the

things that might keep that intention

from happening, like maybe a fear of

actually being successful in the world

that some people may have.

We have to understand during development,

the brain is the equivalent of a

computer, and the beginning part is it's

got an operating system. So now the brain

is going to work, but it doesn't have

any programs. So nature creates the first

seven years of a child's life to download

programs a child below 7 has. The

vibration of the brain that's less than

conscious. It's called Theta. You can't

give a an infant a book and say study the

rules of how to be a member of a family,

study the rules of how to be a member of

a community, thousands of rules. So how

does a child get a chance to learn? It's

not even able to read. And the answer is?

It doesn't have to because the brain

isn't Theta, which is hypnosis. It

watches the community and whatever it

sees is downloaded, just like a video

recorder. Watch my mother, watch my

father, see how they did it. I record

that. Now I have a program. So for

the first seven years we download

behavior. That from other people. And the

problem is this, most of their program

behavior is not very positive. So we're

actually downloading programs that are

not helping us. And this goes into the

subconscious. So the subconscious is like

a hard drive and a computer. It's got

programs, OK. And the conscious mind is

the creator, like the one that types on

the keyboard. But you still have

to work through the program. So

here's the interesting conclusion. 95% of

our life is coming from the

program. Your life is a print

out of your program. Conscious

mind is wishes and desires. That's what

you want from your life, health,

happiness, good relationship, good job,

conscious mind creative. But when

conscious mind is thinking, 95% of the

day the automatic behavior is coming from

the program. Very often we don't realize

the concepts that we're holding inside of

us. About either I can't do that or this

is impossible or things like that. And I

think that's an interesting word that we

use often. I psychologists use it as

well, that we project onto the world what

our story, which is our own filter, our

own lens is telling us about it. We have

in our head very positive thoughts, but

our life doesn't match the thoughts. If

the life isn't working well, if we say

you're a victim, that means I'm

powerless. Ohh, it happened to me. I'm

just a victim. I go, there are no

victims. We are creating what we are

doing. So all you have to do is look at

your life and first thing is this. You

say the things that I like that come into

my life, they come into my life. Because

I have a program to let them come

in more important, the things that you

want but you struggle over. You have to

work hard for it. You have to sweat

to make it happen. Why are you working

so hard? The answer is inevitably

whatever you want it and you can't get

it is because the program. Who have

doesn't support it. And so of course the

most important thing is can I change the

program? You have to remember this is the

habit, mind. Habits do not want to change

if a habit changes and it's not a

habit anymore. So thank God you learned

how to walk before you were too. It

doesn't change. And you're still walking.

You could be 100. OK, but that creates an

issue. Then what if my programs that I

don't want and I want to change them, I

go ohh well it learns in a different way

than the conscious mind. This is why

people read a self help book and if you

give them a test they they can get 100. I

understood everything in the book I say.

Did your life change? No, but I

understand everything in the book and I

go that's because conscious mind

downloaded that information. But

conscious mind only working 5% of the

time means I don't care what you read in

the book, your subconscious is still

controlling it. But now we want to change

subconscious. I go, but that has to have

a special learning process. So there

are three ways to change beliefs #1

self hypnosis, earphones at night #2

create a new habit and practice it,

just practicing repeating it and #3

energy psychology is a way of changing

programs very quickly. And this is what

we all need now because the planet

is in a very tough. Situation right now

and we all have to change our beliefs

because our beliefs are creating a

problem. Unfortunately, we do not

come into the world with the users

manual. It would be very convenient if we

did have a users manual with an index

where we could look U things like, well,

why am I here? Do I have a purpose? All

of those kinds of questions. But we don't

have that. The closest that we have to it

are traditional religions, because they

will be very happy to tell you exactly

why you're here and what you should do.

And all the rest of it. But for somebody

who doesn't follow traditional religions,

it still doesn't take away this internal

sense that we have that we want to know,

is there meaning to anything?

That people experience tragedies in their

life of any sort, they immediately come

face to face with this notion of do I

live in a completely purposeless universe

or is there some meaning to any of this?

But it's a question that everyone faces

at one time or another. Ultimately, what

you really learn is what you learn from

the inside. My dad was

an artist. He taught me to observe. We

lived in the deep country. I was used to

being alone. It was natural to look at

the weather, look at the sky. And Dad was

very good. Yes, he he always, always

noticing which way the wind was blowing.

And he'd he'd noticed the the way that

what was happening to the leaves. When

they were growing and. We had

compulsory Chapel. We'd have to go to

Chapel twice a day and say our prayers

in the morning and evening beside our

bed. So I very soon began to find

a safety in what I might call prayer.

I went to a school of meditation in

London and I stayed with them for 20

years. Needs to go down. I was

given a mantra. You were given a

sound which seems like a a meaningless

sound and you just repeat this sound.

This is how meditation works. You never

try to get rid of thoughts. You can't

do that. But you put in an alternative,

like this meaningless mantra, and you

just repeat that sound. Even if you just

say it half a dozen times, for those

few seconds your attention is not on your

thoughts, it's on this mantra.

You know, the more you give attention to

something, the bigger it gets, doesn't

it? It magnifies. The more you think

about your problem, the bigger it gets.

But if you think about something else,

what happens? It gets less, because the

attention is really the life force that

gives things life. So if you turn your

attention to something else. Your

thinking is diminished. This is how

meditation works. And I've had

a long life. I've been a farmer, I've

been many things, I've travelled widely

and done all sorts of things. But but

this meditation I've practiced morning

and evening, I've hardly missed. For

all these years and I still do

it now, and I really consider this

to be my work.

Thinking the little voice in the head. I

love the way Michael Singer puts it in

his book The Untethered Soul. He calls

that running stream of thoughts in the

head, the monkey mind that we all have.

You know these, this chatterbox of

thoughts, inner dialogue. He calls that

the annoying roommate and so many people.

Identify with that. They think they are

their thoughts, their memories of what

they've been through in their life, and

they identify completely with that. And

that can be a terrible trap.

That little voice in our head, that's not

who we are. That's not the deep and

profound kind of higher consciousness we

are. But we can come to identify very

richly with that by going within.

For example, many scientists,

philosophers, artists, musicians, et

cetera have found ways to get into

that kind of universal mind by quieting

the voice in the head and actually

opening themselves to full blown

creativity. Getting in that hypnagogic

space, it's a rich source of of

creativity, of understanding, of insight,

of guidance. As

a sentient being, we all have the power

to meditate, to go within consciousness

and explore and find out much more about

who we are and what our relationship with

the universe is. So

let's assume that there is a parallel

between our understanding of the physical

world and our understanding of

consciousness itself. The conscious

world, the conscious mind, are very

tightly coupled. The classical physics,

in a sense, is like a refinement of

common sense. It is the world as we

see it. It's real. Our awareness is as

real as well. And just below that we

started saying, ohh, the world is a

little bit more complicated. Quantum

physics, nuclear physics. You also find a

meditation. The world there is a little

more complicated too, because now you're

more in contact with your subconscious.

You go down, down, down, down, down until

you're at the bottom. We don't know what

the bottom is, but let's assume it's way

down there somewhere, both in the

physical sense. Fundamental sense.

So in in the magical traditions, this is

the way that that magic is described as

working, that you go down into the state

that a magician will call nosis or a Yogi

will call samadhi, which is a deep level

of awareness where you're still able to

operate that that is then not simply

parallel to the physical world. That

converges with it. It is the physical

world at these deep levels. So if I'm at

this very deep level of of reality where

mental and physical are not that separate

from each other and I put a little

intentional spin that I want something

that can manifest into the physical

world. It's the something that I wanted.

What I've just described is. Basically

the idea within the yogic tradition where

the cities, the special powers that arise

as a result of meditation, a very tiny

thought or intention as a deep mental

state could manifest as a monstrous

effect in the physical world.

The caution that happens within the

magical traditions is to avoid black

magic. Black magic is overriding somebody

else's free will. And This is why in

in parables and stories you constantly

read about the equivalent of Darth Vader,

You have someone with a little bit of

talent, they start using it. They were

originally doing only white. Magic. But

they get seduced by the power and they

become Darth Vader. It's how we decide to

use that power which is starting to spin

out the ethical considerations of it.

So each and everyone of us is

more than just a physical body. I

discovered there is so much more to

our reality than we have ever been

led to believe, but we have not

been taught to tap into it.

And the intuition is really your

connection to your higher self or your

soul or your spirit or source or whatever

we want to call it. And the mind

is what decides how much of the spirit

or soul is allowed to come through. And

to me, this is what it means to

have an. Open mind versus a closed

mind. People who have a more closed

mind struggle more because they allow

less of their intuition or their spirit

to come through and express itself

through their physical body. So the mind

literally acts like a filter. You have

the choice as to how much you

want to. Open that mind U.

And when you allow your intuition, your

intuition will always guide you to what

is best for you. What

does it make me feel? Does it make

me feel expanded or small? And that is

one thing that they don't teach you at

schools or college. Nobody asks you how

does it make you feel, including what

career you choose. One

of the consequences of a materialistic

understanding of the brain mind

relationship is that it leads to the idea

that your sense of awareness, your

consciousness, is a side effect of the

brain processing. And that leads to the

notion of a nihilistic universe. It's a

universe that doesn't have any meaning or

purpose. That, in a sense, is

the the way that modern civilization

works, that the the best that you can do

in a nihilistic universe is to die with

the most toys. That's the way it's

sometimes put. And among other things,

the notion that your life really doesn't

have any meaning to it and that you're

completely isolated from other people,

which is another. Consequence of

materialism leads to things like greed.

All of the human vices are then amplified

because you have to lookout for yourself.

You're not connected with other people.

It doesn't matter if somebody starving on

the other side of the world. That's the

view of reality that we end U with.

We're becoming better and better at

creating distractions, which is an

escape, and there's nothing wrong with

it. Escape. I mean, sometimes the world

is such that you want to escape it. It's

not clear, though, that it's telling us

something, which is what we really want

to know, which is what is actually going

on here. It's alarming, it's tragic. And

it should fire up anybody who

who heads what I say to

take this work seriously, dead seriously.

This raising of consciousness truly is

salvation. See, it saves us from

this pit of darkness or ignorance

which is called the world.

Infinite love, infinite fulfillment is

what you might call our real

home. This is where we come

from. Somehow we left it, We

lost paradise and we fallen into

this world. The human condition lost

in thought is really a state

of darkness or ignorance.

The wisdom of man is foolishness to

God. Human knowledge

is ignorance.

Wisdom or faith is that as at

a higher level, when you begin to

function from here rather than from here.

And if you've long sufficiently the

truth for whatever it is, love

or peace or fulfillment in true

knowledge, you will gradually find like

a sort of compass within yourself

that have been LED in this

direction. And then freedom,

you could say, takes you by the hand and

leads you along the way. Yes, it takes a

bit of getting used to. If you're not

used to it, then fear is one of the

things we have to overcome. That you've

spent much depends on how determined you

are, how, how much you want to be free.

One of the problems with society and

the way that we live right now

is that we are conditioned to operate

from a place of fear. For example,

the news media fills us with fear.

Even our financial system is driven by

fear of not having enough money. But

in actuality. The fear itself is

what causes the problem. It cuts

us off from our connection to

our spirit or our higher self

or source. It cuts us off

from our intuition. And so my

work has been for myself is

to always maintain that connection. And

to not buy into the messages that

this paradigm is constantly feeding us,

don't buy into those messages.

And when people say to me that ohh, what

you're saying is wonderful but it's not

practical for this life, we have to be in

survival mode. My answer is for me, I

used to be in survival mode and it gave

me cancer, so I refused to go into that

mode anymore. I have

been depressed about the state of

the world, about the land, land

misuse, but the real.

Depression, which lasted 7.

For years. The occurred when

I was 47, after a

great love experience which really

turned me upside down. I

suppose you could say it

altered the course of my

life. I wondered for several

years. Not really knowing where to

go or what to do. So I know

a lot about depression and despair.

As the world is full of good advice,

isn't it?I

often think one of the most practical

things is simply go out for a walk,

open the window, see there are other

people out there, some of them even worse

than you are, in a worse state, and

then one thing leads to another.

Well, as they say, time heals. Sometimes

you just gotta stick it out like the

weather. Sometimes you just gotta wait,

wait a bit. Mercifully, things

come to pass, both the good and the

bad. For most of us, sometime in life,

the the clouds do pass.

A lot of people ask me, is

it just about positive thinking? No, it's

none of that. It's about being yourself.

And when you are being yourself,

sometimes you have a bad day. Don't

suppress it. It really is about embracing

every aspect of you, even the parts

of you. That are struggling, even the

parts of you that don't feel good.

It will pass, but the next step

is to be optimistic about the future.

To me, being optimistic is very different

from being positive. Optimistic means I

may not feel this way now, but

it doesn't mean it's always going to

be that way. Tomorrow's gonna be

different. You

are a facet of the Divine or

God or Source. So if all you

do is to allow Spirit and know

and trust that my Spirit came here

for a purpose and a reason, and

you allow it to express itself through

you, what is truly yours comes to

you. That is

such an important concept, and I realized

when I came back from my coma journey

that the vast majority of problems in our

world are not because I don't love my

neighbor enough, not because I don't love

my enemy enough, but I don't love myself

enough. The wonderful

story about this new, new science is that

programming is what creates our life and

parents are programmers. And so if

parents knew that their words that they

say to a child are shaping the future

of that child, then parents would start

to say different things to their children

instead of criticizing them. Saying

that's not good enough and you don't

deserve this and who do you think

you are trying to get them to

do better? But remember, child under 7

is not thinking, it's just recording.

What is it here? Not good enough,

not worthy, not lovable, not deserving.

It's more effective for parents to say

you are the most wonderful child, you are

smart, you can do anything, you're very

powerful, you're a creator. Why? Because

if those are the programs and then the

child's life is 95% from those programs,

all of those programs give power to a

child. And so we have to. Recognize I

want to be a conscious parent so

that if both parents are doing this,

at some point they will rewrite the

negative programming and then become

truly conscious parents and creating the

next generation with power.

This is a lesson that's very crucial

for this world to learn today, especially

in the face of ongoing violence, warfare,

conflict, refugees. Humanity at our

current level of progression is in a

very kind of barbaric phase of our

growth. And it is time

for us to wake up and realize we

have responsibility. In fact, I would say

that our materialist science, by giving

us this lead of thinking, we're all

separate. And then Darwinian evolution,

which was misinterpreted in the 20th

century as survival of the fittest and

competition, you know, only the strongest

survive. That's not. The way evolution

really works, in fact, modern biologists

will point to the amount of collaboration

and cooperation in the biological world.

That's how biological success happens,

and we see exactly the opposite with

what humans are doing in wrecking our

planet even as we speak and.

This kind of greedy selfishness and

the polarization of wealth with the

rich. I just saw today that

the 400 wealthiest families in the

United States have more wealth than

the bottom 60% of the population.

That's wrong, completely wrong. And we

see that all around the world.

Becoming rich comes with a number of

perks. The appeal of getting more money

means that your life becomes a lot more

comfortable. And yeah, I know plenty of

very wealthy people who are very, very

unhappy because they learn, among other

things, that while you can get some

creature comforts and your life can be

easier in many ways, it does not address.

The question of who and what we are and

and also is not going to address the

question of you're going to die and what

do you think about that?My

wife, my family, my home, my job, my

work, my possessions, my money. So what

can we take with us beyond the grave?

That's really a good question. What can I

take with me beyond the grave?

Everything else we leave behind, Jack

could tell you. When you reach my age,

it's only too obvious.

Clouds come and go, the seasons come and

go, Everything in this world comes to

pass. That's the nature of this world.

That this stillness is eternal. It

doesn't change, does it?

It's here, it's in

France, it's in Australia.

Same stillness, unchanging, always

now. This

is absolutely crucial to be present.

If you ask someone when were

you happy, almost everybody will give

you an answer. Often years and

years ago, often when they were

children. Then suddenly, without knowing

why, they were just happy.

And if you ask them to describe it.

They'll usually give you an answer which

describes being present. Just

seeing the sunshine we'll just by the sea

sides of seeing the waves of just

stroking a dog there suddenly feeling the

touch of the dogs or looking the dog's

eyes.

These are moments of insight and

amazingly, people remember them all their

lives. Because those are

the real moments where we've actually

touched on what's real in life.

It doesn't mean that all the problems

suddenly go away. Life is always offering

stresses and struggles, but no matter

what, in the end, everything's going to

be OK. And if it's not OK

right now, that means it's not the

end yet. Even death is not final.

Even death is something that's not to be

feared. But at the

end of the day, it's the actions we take

in this world that are part of our our

growth or lack of growth in those

spiritual realms. Because if all people

knew is ohh, that's a beautiful

afterlife. You know, this is such a

crummy little existence for me. I'm just

going over there wrong. Move because you

never dodged the issues that you face in

this life through suicide or through

leaving this world. And

so it's very important to realize there

is no way out but through. And the

more we bring that love into this world,

the more we actually grow as souls. And

that's why this whole universe exists, is

for sentient beings to make these

discoveries, to learn and teach together

in growing towards their understanding of

their connection. With the universe.

Interesting, as a scientist I never

believed in spirituality because I was

programmed with a belief of genes

controlling life. But as my world changed

and I started to see how the environment

was controlling the cells, I started to

recognize something that no two people

are exactly the same and the identity is

a set of protein receptors, antennas,

just like television. That is on the

surface of the South. I say, well, why

is it important? Because these are called

self receptors, receivers of self. Then

where's the signal of self coming from

that activates these antennas? The answer

is not inside the cell, outside the cell.

And that's when I start, ohh, my

goodness, my identity is picked up by

these. Antennas. But the antennas are

receiving a broadcast from the

environment. This is the television and I

am the broadcast. Because if I am

the broadcast, the broadcast is always

here. It's the televisions that come and

go. So then we have

to recognize the idea of death is not

what we have believed it to be an

end. The death just means, OK, the

television's broken, but you're still the

broadcast. You're still here in a

different form, and you can manifest the

physical part again. That's called

reincarnation, but you're always here as

a spirit. And once we own

that we are spiritual entities, then we

become empowered because the fear of

death will disappear. Field,

invisible moving forces that influence

the physical world. I go, OK, cool.

I go, wait. There's another word with

the same definition. Spirit, Invisible

moving forces that influence the physical

world. Whether you say the word field

or whether you say the word spirit,

they are. Functionally the same thing,

and so this is a uniting of

ancient spirituality and modern science

are coming across to become one again,

the same. I love

that quote from Nikola Tesla. When

science first begins to investigate non

physical phenomena, they will discover

more in the first decade than they have

in all the existence of the scientific

revolution. And I think that we're

getting very close to entering that

decade. Even now. This world is on the

verge of a tremendous. Revolution in

thinking that is long overdue.

I think that we desperately need a

kind of sense of spiritual reconnection.

In the Western world. There's been

extreme process of secularization, of

abandonment of traditional religion in

favour of a secular scientific worldview,

but that turns out to be very

thin and unsustained thing and and.

Gives such a narrow view of human nature

and consciousness and also leads to

consequences so destructive to the

environment and our relationship to the

environment. Previously before de Carte

in the in the Middle Ages in Europe,

the world view was that nature is alive,

the earth is alive, animals and plants

are truly alive. Beings with souls.

The whole universe is alive. The

stars are intelligent.

So what we need is a reconnection with

that sense of spirit and greater

connection with the the whole earth, the

whole cosmos, and the realm of

consciousness beyond the human level. And

that's where I think spiritual practices

are so important, because this is

something that for most people is only

meaningful through. Direct experience.

Meditation, connecting with nature,

relating to plants, pilgrimage, taking

part in festivals and holy days,

rituals, singing and chanting, fasting,

even sports, which for many people

is the most common way in

which in the modern world people

achieve an altered state ofconsciousness.

The big question, obviously, is who

am I? The one thing that

seems constant within me is my

awareness of everything happening around

me. That consciousness, that beautiful

miracle, is within everyone and

everything. It's a powerful concept that

that highest creativity within the

universe dwells within. US.

And if we could actually experience that,

it's like our heart just opens up in this

incredible feeling of bliss and joy and

wonder. When you do that, what

Mystics often talk about is that the

world is completely perfect. The world

out there, everything is working exactly

the way it's supposed to. So this is nice

if you're an ashram and everything is

pretty and quiet. It's not so nice if

you're in the middle of a war zone

somewhere, because into thinking that the

world is exactly the way it's supposed to

be. In the midst of of chaos, that

doesn't sound right. And nevertheless,

this is one of the more common things

that Mystics talk about, that their view

of the world is everything is

interconnected, it's related to

consciousness in some way, and it's

perfect. In my

journey, I shall very clearly not just

the afterlife, but I saw oneness with

that divine becoming one with. That was

never a concept that I would have

entertained based on my religious

beliefs. And that's a lesson that

unfortunately our religious systems have

in some cases lost sight of.

A universal spirit that is part of us,

that we have purpose and meaning in our

lives, but that we're all united at a

very deep level, and that you should do

unto others as you would have done unto

yourself. If you think of those

disco balls, you know those balls with

all those mirrors all around the ball,

They project a light onto the wall. When

you look at the walls in a room that

has the mirror balls, it's got all these

speckles of light on the walls. Imagine

if each of those speckles on the wall

was. One human being, one physical

person. O If you imagine that each

of these speckles of light believe that

they are as a separate being from

the other speckles of light, we start

competing with them and fighting with

them. The whole is fighting with itself.

And one day when we die, we

realize, ohh, my gosh, we were actually

all from the same source. We were

all actually one.

The other way of saying it is that we

are here because we are the universe that

is looking back on itself, right? So that

from just some mainstream scientific

perspective, the universe is here for

some reason and we are the universe. The

portion of the universe that is aware,

that's what we are as the universe being

self aware. It

said that we have a soul, which

is of course that divine spark, that

part, that light that lights every man.

Then there is hope for us. There's

more to life than meets the eye.

We can't capture it within our

thinking mind and describe it. So

it said that real knowledge is

not something we learn by description.

It comes from revelation.

My ways are higher than your ways and

my thoughts than your thoughts.

You are deeply loved and cherished

forever. You will be taken care of.