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>> According to the Toltecman, every night that we go

to sleep, most of us have amnesia.

And so when we enter into the dream state,

we don't know who we are.

But really, there's a part of yourself

that's actually participatingin the creative process.

They believe that creative process

that happens in the dream stateis what shapes the awake world.

And so if you want to master the awake world,

you have to master the dreamworld.

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>> One of my theories aboutdeath when it happens--

it's like when you wake up in the morning.

You remember a bunch of elements of your dream--

different scenes, situations.

But as the day goes on, it fades out

like a glass of water beingthrown back into the ocean.

>> Now, as Plato says, learning is remembrance.

He calls it anamnesis, non-amnesia.

And so that's the goal in life is

to remember what we forgetin the act of birth.

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>> Let go of your fear inconsidering the illusion

in this life.

>> All these traditions havedifferent ways of explaining

where we come from.

What is this thing that everybody calls God?

And what is that?

And for a very long time,religion, and philosophy,

and science were not exactlysaying the same thing.

And now, long story short,the newest physics, the newest

science is basically startingto point in the same direction

as these ancient traditions.

At no point does the universesay, oh, that's it, stop.

You've got to stop right there.

That's as small as you can go.

This circle could startout the size of a galaxy,

or the size of a quark.

It doesn't matter.

You can always sub-divide and get

more information out of that space.

So does it make sense, then?

You can stay inside of any finite boundary--

is the possibility of aninfinite amount of division,

or therefore, an infinite amount of information?

Cool.

You're infinite beings.

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>> This stuff pisses me offabout this cosmic connection.

What is that group thingwhere they're coming in from--

we're all connect--

I don't believe that for a second, man.

I am not connected to nobody--

no how, no way.

>> We're a minuscule part of reality,

and we don't even know where we come from.

We don't know where we're going.

We don't know why we're here.

We don't know who made us.

And we could be gone at any second.

In light of that, how do we behave?

What do we do?

And does this even matter?

And what's the point?

Right?

Those are the questions that we ask.

It seems thatconsciousness is evolving

And the truth is I don'tthink anybody knows anything.

I don't know anything.

That's for sure.

And yet, we learn from our experience,

and we try to offersomething to one another.

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>> If you see anyone takeadvantage or suspicious

activity, please report itto a monorail official on any

of the monorail stations.

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>> One of the beauties of natureis to see that all of creation

is a series of fractals.

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>> Fractal comes from the word fracture.

All of nature is going alongcertain fracture lines,

proportional symmetry throughout, top

to bottom, all the way down into the cells,

all the way down to the quarks, all the way down

to the subquarks, all theway down to the Higgs boson.

Hence, when someone like Hermessays, "As above, so below,"

and as below, so above, that's indicating

this kind of self-similarityfrom the above to the below

and vice versa.

So we are holographicimages of the divine source.

>> The person who's thinkingabout this is just a small

piece of it.

The mind that's thinking about it is just--

it's like a particle in the universe,

but is also the universe.

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>> Each one is made likethe two leaves of the womb--

and if you know a vagina.

And there's a little bright orange seed

that pops out and is actually still attached

like an umbilical cord, sothat birds can notice it better

and carry it to be planted somewhere.

It's an incredibleprocess and so beautiful.

So what we do today is to share about harmony.

Everybody can understand harmony.

You can be a musician.

You can be an artist.

You can be a housewife.

You want harmony in your house.

It's applying to all aspectsof life, the basic secret

of the universe.

And that is called--

has been called traditionallythe golden ratio,

or the golden number, or the golden proportion.

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>> There's a bit of confusionabout what the golden section,

golden ratio, or golden mean is.

And you can use all of those names.

First of all, the golden section is the cutting

of a magnitude, a line, whatever it might be,

at an asymmetric point, inwhich the whole is to the longer

segment in the same ratioas the longer segment is

to the shorter segment.

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You have proportion when the whole

is to one segment in the same ratio

as the longer segment is to the shorter segment.

Well, it turns out there'sone and only one place.

Of course, you could flip it around.

You could cut it over here--

that you get exactly this proportion.

We call it the divine proportion,

because it's how nature works.

The primordial cision, thefirst-- like a scissors,

the first cut.

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>> That's the balancepoint of beauty, harmony,

and best relationship in allthe universe on all levels.

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If everything is justexactly 50% on both sides,

nothing happens.

It's static.

It's stuck.

In life, you need to havespiraling and vortexing.

You always need to have oneside that gives some momentum,

so things can start to happen.

We jump in the middle of life.

We become life.

The human body is the bestbook, the book of life.

>> So the body is a resonantgolden proportion instrument.

Navel cuts us at the golden cut.

I've been measuring my studentsfor something like 30 years

now.

In fact, generally speaking,you don't have people

who are perfect golden cuts.

They tend to be like the plants.

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>> So plants are using in thevery placement of their arms

and feet-- their branches, andtheir leaves, and their seeds.

They are using the golden ratio.

It's used by all the universe everywhere.

But you need to know what you are looking

for, because the plant does notsay, look, this is 137 degree.

You need to understand thegeometry that is involved.

One leaf here.

Next leaf-- we come here.

And there is a spiraling of thatangle, which is 137.5 degrees--

which is directly relatedto the golden ratio.

But you enter the 360 degree in the equation.

You get 5, or 1 over 5, a reciprocal of 5.

A fractal series, a fractal progression

of golden ratio to infinity.

Infinitely small,infinitely big never stops.

>> The golden ratio at 1.6180339is pulling everything in nature

towards it.

So when these numbers--

Fibonacci numbers begin with 0 and 1,

each new number is the sum of the previous two.

So it goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3,5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89,

144, and, of course, a child can keep doing it.

Each ratio of twoadjacent Fibonacci numbers

are an approximation to the golden mean.

What happens is it goes above and below.

But as the numbers get higher, it's

zooming in from both directions, collapsing

into the golden section, which is--

the sink is the magnet thatpulls everything towards it.

So it's teleological.

It actually is-- teleos is theGreek word for end or purpose.

Things are moving towardssome incredible divine purpose

or end, pulled by the divine source.

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>> Ratio is a universal language.

Because all the plants,and all of the seashells,

and all of the different forms in nature,

right down to sub-atomic particles,

and the spirals of galaxies--

they all contain it.

So what does it mean?

How deep does it really get?

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>> Human consciousness also spirals that way

in my research.

It's very, very much arepetitive, iterative pattern.

And I have likened them attimes to Fibonacci numbers

to the spiral, to a conch.

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>> We start with a discussionof, what is consciousness?

Consciousness is the ability toreceive and react to stimuli.

So if you look at a proton or a neutron,

if you start talking about the protons being

able to react with the electron, then you

can say that they exhibit consciousness,

a very basic consciousness.

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>> It seems to me thatplanets, after they form,

especially rocky planets, needa huge amount of time to provide

the basis for complex life.

They need billions of yearsof cleaning of the atmosphere.

And then after those billionsof years, you get this luxury--

this rarity of having, say, oxygen

that powers cells with more energy that

allow cells to get togetherand form animals, and plants,

and fungi, and things like that.

And it's really the getting to complexity--

the network of nerve cells, vascular plants,

the network of root systems,and the network of eco-systems.

And when you get enough complexity,

you can then support animalsthat get bigger brains.

And as their brains get bigger, they

can engage in something calledself-reflection, like awareness

of self.

If you see yourself reflected in the river,

you understand what you're looking at.

There's only a few animals that do that.

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>> When babies are born, theydon't know they have a body.

At some point, they start recognizing

the confines of their physical body,

and that it is separate from something else.

>> So when infants in thebeginning-- when they are born,

they are in their subconscious state.

They are living on an instinctive level.

And even if they're lookingat mother, they're not saying,

oh, this is my mother.

I like her.

Or she's too fat.

I don't know.

I don't like my mother.

Children don't have that mindthat discriminates and chooses

for or against what is present.

So that means human beings--when they become conscious,

they begin to choose for and against.

>> When we look, and we see, and we label,

we stop and we solidifysomething that's continually

moving and changing.

And so then we're shaping thatdream, or molding that energy,

based off of our belief structures,

our lives, our sleep states, our emotions.

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>> You know, the question is, what am I?

I mean, that's a questionthat's just been around forever.

And there was a time wherethat was your body, right?

If you said, where am I?

you would point here.

You'd say this is right here.

>> At first, people understandthemselves as a concrete body,

and so their identity is their physical self.

>> And then there's a pointwhere you realize, well,

I don't have a body.

I am not a body, but I have a body.

That's your body.

Then you realize that about your thoughts.

And you realize, well,no, those are my thoughts.

Those are my feelings, right?

Those are my ideas.

That's my desires.

But who's saying-- who's doing the possessing?

We're talking about not what we're looking at,

but where we're looking from.

>> You recognize you stillhave a concrete body.

You recognize you have this subtle self,

but you start identifyingwith something new.

And that something new is awareness itself.

Your identity is awareness.

This room is inside your awareness.

This body is inside of your awareness.

Everything outside of youis everything inside of you,

and there's not a separation between them.

When you identify with that as me,

it changes the way you think about everything.

>> And certain people have that experience--

is that they see the world and yet,

they can see it most clearly bylooking inside of themselves.

And so they find that the entireuniverse is within themselves.

That which they thought was justpurely inside of themselves--

they can see outside of themselves.

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>> I grew up in a Methodist Church.

And sometimes people would get the spirit.

They would run up and down the church aisle,

and that always terrifiedme-- the church.

So consequently, I never embraced religion.

In fact, at one time I thought maybe God

was a creation of man, justto fulfill his purpose,

for the most part.

And ironically, I discoveredGod through science,

through quantum physics.

The most basic of elements is energy,

and energy pervades the universe.

We are all connected.

Now, this energy could be intelligence.

It could be information.

It could be whatever you want to call it.

But the bottom line is it'sdivine as far as I'm concerned.

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>> The meaning of the struggleswe all face is very simple.

It's all about lessons.

What have you come to learn?

What do you need to know?

The struggles we have today are about fear.

They are about the fact that people

don't get that everything weare and everything we see here

on this planet are illusions.

We are just energy.

And the vibration is whatcreates what we're looking at.

>> Everything vibrates.

Everything moves to and fro.

Everything has a periodness,like the pendulum.

>> Some people might say the onething that connects everything

is God, or the one thing thatconnects everything is light,

or love, or a lot of different things.

But physically,literally, all the matter

that we see in this room and ourown bodies are made of atoms.

We've never have found any matter

that's not made of atoms.

>> Everything is--

Madame Blavatsky, the theosopher, said--

all atoms are vibrations,that that's what they are.

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>> I had a dream oncewhere I asked the question,

if the cosmos began, couldit have started from a single

point?

And if it had started from a single,

cool point, how would it have come to be?

Well, it could have beenthat one point begat another.

One point became two.

Why?

Because that point had aprobability of disappearing.

So what do you do if you'rea dot with a finite lifetime?

You make a backup.

When it makes its backup and then those particles

make their copies, the optimalunpacking of that whole system

is to flow along a Fibonacci spiral.

And it goes out to a certain point where

there's too much crowding.

You start getting unpredictability,

and things start colliding.

And in the universe, therefore,if you had explained it

in human terms, a breathingin of order and a breathing

out of chaos.

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>> The wave is actually bornout of this duality of this

pairedness.

So you go from singularity,pure void, to duality.

And you need duality for a spiraling wave action

to appear.

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>> Look, religions, and superstitions,

and whatnot find patterns.

And people come up withstuff in their imagination,

but we need something objective.

And the only way to find truth--

was objectively true is to havea community that reviews itself

of predictions, hypothesis testing.

All these wonderful coincidenceshappen in our lives constantly,

right? if we're really tuned in.

So we have to believe in the field,

because we're constantly guided.

And all this stuff--

miraculous stuff seems tobe happening all the time.

Science cannot clarify.

Mysticism cannot explain.

Geometrical patterns cannot explain.

And it's something beyondall human mind explanations

and story.

We just use it.

We have to trust it.

It's what drives the world.

It's what we are.

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>> Phi is the name that has beengiven to the golden proportion.

That's the capital form,and that's the lower case.

Notice that the lower case iskind of a spiral by itself,

which is interesting.

And the capital letter is a magnificent symbol.

You can see I put two different colors here.

There is like a central axis, the male energy

of the universe, and thewomb of the Madame goddess.

The cosmic energy of the mother is the round--

the curve.

And the straight line saysthe yang energy of the unit.

The yin and the yang are perfectly harmonized

in the great clip there, that we use now

for expressing the golden ratio.

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>> The yin and the yang--they are born from each other,

and there's just this constant interplay.

We're born out of that--

the dance and theinterplay between the void

and the creative impulse.

Sometimes when we talk about yin in the void,

we think of the darkness.

I think about the womb.

I think about the stillness and silence.

I think about ourconsciousness before thought.

And then the yang is what is born out

of that into action, andexpression, and the creative,

and the movement.

>> With a lot of the qigongand Taoist practices,

they say the only way tobring about true yang is from

complete yin, which is the ultimate stillness.

So it means no desire.

The heart's calm.

And when you reach the calm state,

then emerges that spark,because I would imagine you've

come in contact with your true nature.

>> I have a special spiritualteacher who talks about

stopping all seeking.

That's where meditation-- again,this bringing us into stillness

is where we are in a placewhere we can experience reality.

Just stop the mind.

Stop wanting anything.

And there's something for me that

happens in that, that goes beyond words.

>> What you perhaps aredoing is quieting the mind,

or exciting the mind, or both,to the point where you suddenly

lose the observer.

You lose self and youmerge, because you become

part of this huge information system,

and you're in the non-dual state.

But at the same time, you have vision.

Vision comes into your system, because there's

history out there.

And the history can pattern non-locally

on to your consciousness,through your filters.

Consciousness may be justsimply awareness and openness

to all of this in the present moment.

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>> There is a pull towardsevolutionary unfolding,

and it's moving.

It's being pulled towardsthis golden ratio.

And not just the beauty of it, but what it also

means in terms ofharmony, and harmonization

of human relationships, and going back

to the Delphic oracle--

nothing in excess.

Find the point of moderation.

Find the mean between the extremes.

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>> Beauty is one of the mostpowerful forces on the planet.

Crystals are inherently beautiful,

and it's really easy to see.

And there's quite a bit of agreement from people

all over the world that theylook at something beautiful,

and there's no denying it.

Crystals are this amazing oxymoron,

because they're so hard, so dense.

They're harder than steel onthe Mohs scale of hardness,

yet they're very fragile, also.

If I took a hammer-- boom,I could knock it right off.

They're very solid, but they're transparent.

In fact, your eye has never looked

through that much dense matter before.

Within their being, theyhold a great deal of paradox.

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>> We see in binaries.

Our senses have developed so that they

have to make distinctions.

So our eye can see the corners of things.

It can see black and white.

It can see different colors.

But it sees the edges and thedifferences between the edges.

The ears hear differences in sound.

And when we walk, we walk with one foot

and then the next foot.

We have kind of a binary systemmade up inside of ourselves.

And our species tends to reallylook at the poles of things.

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>> Anything that manifests,manifests in polarities.

And how we deal with polarities is a function

of how we process reality.

If there is an in-breath,there's an out-breath.

If you kind of appreciatethe color white,

you have to know thatthere is the color black.

The next step of maturity isto realize that any polarity--

you could hold both aspects of it.

>> People think of humility and arrogance.

When you think, OK, I am a very humble person,

and then you realize, oh, justby declaring that I'm humble,

aren't I arrogant?

Or, oh, my gosh, I'm such an arrogant person.

But by recognizing that, aren't you

really claiming some humility there?

>> You cannot know how good athing is until you know how bad

a thing is.

>> It's just part of theexpression of being human to go

through every shade of what we can experience.

>> So we have a light on one side,

we have dark on the other side,and everything in between.

And my experience is thatthe divine consciousness

is all that is, both the light and the dark.

Both the most amazingthings that are happening

and the most heinous things thatare happening on this planet

is a part of this divine consciousness,

expressing itself in all of these different ways.

And where does that spectrum lie within us?

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>> A lot of things that werecognize as being negatives

are actually just a part of human experience.

That voice of fear will speak up and say,

I'm being courageous here.

I'm trying to protect the self.

And then the voice of courage will say,

I'm just insane if I don'thave a healthy dose of fear.

And almost all of us haveallowed fear, for instance,

along with a lot of other things to take

a center place, rather thana deep, spiritual place

of abundance.

The important thing to realizeabout spiritual progression--

the deepest states of refined consciousness

more easily fit into thatmore developed vessel.

So you have to develop the structural capacity

to hold the state of awareness.

And so there are these aspectsof ourselves that are there.

And if we're not aware ofthem, they become shadow.

And they're sort of doingsomething in our lives,

but we're not fully aware of them.

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>> So what I'm saying is inorder to change the world,

we don't have to act on the external things.

We have to act in the way that people think,

the way people see things, and the way

they understand their life.

You make the rule.

You make the way to break the rule.

>> There is a bigger and biggersplit that's taking place

in the New Age consciousness,because a lot of people are

living in their upper chakras.

They're not going down.

They're not doing the descent.

I find that the work really begins

on the spiritual path, at least for me

and people I've worked with-- is when

we do the descent into theunderworld, when we really

start looking at our own stuff,and we start digging deeper.

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>> To me, shadow is at thehidden part of any person,

pieces of yourself that youpushed aside or repressed.

A lot of times it has to dowith what is traumatic for you.

What is traumatic for you may not

be traumatic for anybody else.

But we all have our own littleplaces that cause trauma in us.

>> At some point, you beginto become aware that there are

multiple pole dimensions within yourself.

You sort of have thissymphony of aspects going on

in yourself, and you begin to recognize it.

To the extent that you havethings going on in yourself

and you're not fully aware of it--

I mean, that's your shadow.

And one of the primarytendencies that we all tend

to do is we project our shadow.

Typically, the things wedislike the most about ourselves

without acknowledging thatwe projected on other people.

>> Working with the shadow,there's an unconsciousness

there.

So when people are projectingor launching their own stuff

on to somebody else, a lot of it's

because they'reunconscious of what they're

holding within themselves.

And we have to project ourown stuff on to somebody else,

so we can see it, and externalize it,

and begin to work with it.

>> Let's say if I'm making ajudgment about the way that you

think--

if I point that finger right back at me,

I'll find that I also think that way.

So my inside is like your inside.

My subtle self is like your subtle self.

>> So whatever is up in you, andwhatever lesson you need to be

learning, or whatever youneed to be looking at--

if you're kind of consciousof that, you'll see it

reflected in the people around you--

your family, your friends.

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>> Because it's the part ofourselves that we don't own,

right?

Something that's kind of happening

in our lives that is there.

It's niggling us.

It's calling us.

It's bothering us, but wedon't see it as ourself.

So it's in form, butit's not in our identity.

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>> And then there's also the collective shadow,

which is a whole-- anotheraspect we hold-- our shadow,

our own personal work that we have to do.

And as we're working on that, we also

hold the collective shadow,so the much bigger picture

of what's happening in globalconsciousness, the shadow

of the Earth of human nature,of our culture, of our family,

of our community.

>> A certain kind of collectiveconsciousness evolves around

our country, or our tribe, or our family,

and makes the other, that's notpart of that group, our enemy.

And we fight them, and we glorify that.

And a lot of the harm that itdoes is in the shadows, too.

In order to maintain that kindof military, nationalistic

mythos, we isolate ourselvesfrom the actual experience

of war.

If we had the directexperience of those folks,

we might not send them off towar for the reasons that we do.

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>> The oldest thing in thebook is warring, right?

Blowing up other people.

Oh, they didn't do that.

So you're back and forth.

Back and forth.

So what is it they say?

Trying to get a new result fromthe same thing is insanity.

So here we are.

Where are we at?

We're insane.

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>> There's a collectiveego that forms in a group,

and that can be twisted.

A collective ego doesn't reallyhave a monitoring conscience,

so I think that's why such damage can be done.

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>> I don't think we've beenassuming that we can just throw

stuff away.

It's like we're throwing it away in our backyard,

and it's just going to go away.

We just haven't-- we justforgot that that's the backyard.

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>> Help us out to bekinder to our Mother Earth.

I ask you this, myancestors and great creator.

I recognize you as a maker of all things

to show us how to be kind to our Mother,

so we can drink cleanwater, breathe clean air,

and grow good food on your soil.

Encourage the hard conscious.

Yep, all my relations.

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>> So we started a place ashuman beings-- homo sapiens,

whatever you want to call us.

We started it very, very close to Earth.

And we've gone very, veryfar from what-- we've

become distant with the land.

And a lot of disconnect happened,

which led to other Ds-- dysfunction, deluding,

all of the divorce with the connection,

a real deadly divorce, divorcing yourself

from the connection you have.

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>> What kind of footprintdo we want to leave?

What kind of cellular footprint do we

want to pass on to who stays here?

Killing animals for sport--

that's not the kind offootprint we want to leave.

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>> Is there really any shadow?

Is there really any such thing as evil?

I struggle with that.

I'm not 100% sure, but I'dlove to believe that there's

no such thing as evil.

There's just somebody who's inpain, who's lost, who believes,

in fact, that they are theopposite of who they really

are.

They've embodied the falsepersona of the shadow.

So one of the most importantthings we can understand,

about why we believe somebody becomes

this version of their false self,

is this idea that during trauma or after trauma,

we must attach.

We must connect.

We must cope.

The first example might be when you

went through the trauma of childbirth,

coming from this perfectlyhomeostatic environment,

getting squeezed through this tight tube with all

this screaming.

And then these bright lightsand a smack on the butt.

Believe me, that's a traumawhen you come from this to that.

And yet, why do most childrenseem to do quite well?

is because they had authentic attachment.

What's authenticattachment for that child

would be the mother's breast, and then

the oxytocin, and the bondingchemicals, and the mother

staring into the baby's eyes.

And even though the baby mightnot have an understanding,

the subconscious knows I'm OK.

I'm safe.

I'm loved.

But sadly, we live in an environment

where the opportunities forauthentic attachment are few,

and the opportunities for what we

call pseudo-attachment, or addictive attachment,

or false attachment are plenty.

And we say that duality comes from the moment

of our first trauma, combined with

our first false attachment.

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And in that moment, there'sa fracturing of the psyche.

And the shadow, if you were, or the false self,

is created in that moment.

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>> There's emotion.

There's anger.

There could be fear.

There could be humiliation, shame.

It gets stored in the bodyand held by the muscles,

because we don't want to feel that.

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>> You have something going on inside--

a pain, a judgment about yourself,

a concept that you need help with.

And it all starts withseeking this higher level.

We wish to be more.

We wish our experience of thismoment to be more than it is,

so I'm going to inject some other substance

to try and bring me higher.

>> Body is the temple of God,but it has become the temple

of the devil, the ego.

It has become the abode of the ego.

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So ego has taken over somuch of subconscious energy--

we call pranic energy--

and abused it so much that thebody has lost sense of feeling.

And feeling is through which you experience

different aspects of your life.

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>> So the consciousness gets trained into a rut,

and then the body reflects that pattern.

Disease originates first in the spirit,

and then it filters downthrough the energetic levels.

So by the time it hits the body, that's

just how the picture has been painted.

That's how the clay got molded,because of the pattern that's

been operated in for so long.

>> People get stuck on a thingabout themselves and never get

past it, because they've nowmade this their identity.

They're attached to their sickness.

>> The very thing that I wasgoing to, to cope with the pain

of my experience, the very thingI was going to escape it was

creating more of it.

I was blaming it on my past, my stabbing.

I justify it through this, because I

lost my eye when I was 19 ina stabbing, so I've suffered.

I'm OK.

I'm allowed.

And when I realized that I amdoing this in this moment--

to me, it's my fault--

is when I took full responsibility,

not just for the addiction,but for every single aspect

of my life.

Every single thing that I was experiencing

is when it all fell away.

All addictions fell away.

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>> When someone or somethingcomes into your life as a great

challenge, and what you perceivefrom them is a great deal

of pain, then they areactually your greatest teacher.

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That's what it's allabout-- getting the lesson.

Do we often get the lesson the first time around?

No.

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A toothpick taps us on the shoulder and says,

lesson time, and webrush that toothpick off.

The toothpick becomes a pencil,and the pencil becomes a ruler.

The ruler becomes a yardstick.

And the yardstick becomesa two-by-four and then

an oak tree.

And before you know it, a redwood

is slamming you with the same lesson

that the toothpick or the pencilcould have brought to you.

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>> If you react from fear,if you react by letting

pre-conceived ideas, prejudices,biases flavor your action,

that's not free will.

Free will is understandingthat you have a choice.

Free will is understandingthat when something comes up,

you need to investigate allthe possibilities of it.

And only then, when you choose,might you have free will.

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>> Karma means action.

Anything that you think--

thoughts are action on a certain level of karma.

And when it becomes verbal action,

it's the next level of action.

And then verbal becomes physical.

It's the grossest level of action.

So whenever your thoughts,feelings, or actions

are against the reality that youare facing at any given moment,

you are creating karma asa debt against the reality.

What is that?

That means whatever I'm facingat any given moment is reality.

But if I judge that person, thatsituation, I am creating karma.

Why?

Because the judgment comes not from who I am.

It comes from who I am not, as programmed

by my past experiences.

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>> Behaviors are often elicitedby sort of unconscious pictures

that we've created.

Something comes up.

I react to it, and I do it again.

It becomes a habit.

And it's like there's this unconscious picture

that the thing comes up, andthe picture tells me what to do.

What the brain expects to have happen--

it elicits a physiology anda behavior to make it happen.

>> Behavior follows belief--creates your reality,

which means that your beliefsystem will always lead

to behavior, consciously or unconsciously driven,

that will always create your reality.

>> So all the years that youhave spent in your life--

you've had it programmed bythe society, by the culture,

by education.

And that programming is your past.

And when it resurfaces asa reaction, that miss--

it's called mini reincarnation.

You reincarnated from your past as a reaction

to what is present.

>> Am I actually behavingin a way where I'm creating

a self-fulfilling prophecy, byjust recreating my pain state

over and over again?

And we would say that that's the case with all

of the world's dysfunction, thatit all operates the same way.

That it's all a hijacking of thesurvival centers of the brain.

That it's all dysfunction drivenby fear, driven by less than,

driven by isolation.

And that our solution is thesame, whether for a culture,

whether global, or whether an individual--

is that I have to step out of my story.

I've got to step out of my dynamic.

I've got to take personal accountability

and stop perpetuating the pattern that's been

going on over and over again.

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>> So every time that karma comes up,

as a reaction to what is present,

withdraw from your reaction.

And you are dismantling from your karma body

for that particular event,which created that karma,

similar to that event.

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And as a result, now, whenyou withdraw your reaction,

you can see the object as it is.

You can see the person as they are.

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>> The paradox in the senseof control goes like this.

The more I try to take controlof the world out there,

the more out of control it feels.

The flip side of the paradox is the more

you let go, trying tocontrol the external world

and respond to it, justaccept what's there is there,

and respond to it from this inner wisdom,

from your deep wisdom,and values, and integrity.

You feel a sense of control.

It's about control of me in theface of it, not controlling it.

It's important to the health outcomes.

>> If I know that I have the power,

no matter what you do to me, nomatter what experience happens

in my life, I still getto hold on to compassion.

You can't-- nobody has the powerto take compassion away from

me.

I can choose to use mycircumstances or your behavior

as an excuse to surrender that aspect of who I am.

But we say that's when you really suffer.

>> And that's what Christ demonstrated.

He was so heavily abused for even

doing such a wonderfulwork throughout his life.

When he was on the cross, he said forgive

those who do not understand.

That was the complete death of his ego.

Therefore, he was born again,and there was a Resurrection.

He showed us the way--

how to die.

People think he died for us, so we'll

be liberated by following him.

No, follow what he did on the cross,

and then you will be liberated.

That's what is the meaning.

>> And this is where you getthe Christs and the Buddhas.

There are individuals who have gone

into a cosmic conscious experience,

but that stands before all of us.

All of us are Buddhas in themaking, Christs in the making.

Ultimately, we're going to achieve it,

but it may take some time.

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>> So the planetaryexperiences are horrible.

They're horrendous-- some of them--

many of them.

I can't take them away.

We can't take them away.

We can want them away.

We can wish them away.

We can heal.

Keep healing.

Keep doing your part.

I'll keep doing my part.

Do your own personal healing,because it's all fractals.

And the world will heal.

But as long as there are still battles going on

in your own system, therewill be battles going on

in the bigger picture.

>> So many people come throughwith this vision of, I need

to change the world.

And really, it's just doingthe work on ourselves,

because that shifts the vibration and the energy

that we hold around us.

And so that's really the firststep is to work on the self,

bringing that work back into the community.

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>> If you can connect with your divine source,

you will always be at peace.

You will have love.

You will experiencethings in life that are--

you might have something that happens.

You might get angry, but you won't hold it

for very long, maybe a half an hour,

two hours, or three hours.

And you'll let it go, because you know it

won't serve your highest good.

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If we unite with our consciousness,

we have the ability to change this world.

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>> If I could whisperinto the heart of mankind,

what would I say?

>> If I could whisper anythinginto the ear of the collective

human consciousness, it would be,

tap into your kindness andlive your greatest strength.

>> I would say that thereis nothing but love,

that that's really all that exists.

And it's all a dance of love.

>> I think we are all ahomeopathic drop in the pool

of humanity.

That would be my whisper.

>> If I had to whisper somethinginto the collective ear

of mankind--

that it's time to grow up,and it's time to wake up.

>> Know yourself.

>> Probably just have thecourage to tell the truth.

Ask yourself if it serves youand move towards what does,

and that will always be the truth.

>> Take time to find out theway you would really love things

to be.

Now, that's not just utopian, but the way we

would be treating each other--

that you would love it to be.

And then do it that way, regardless

of what someone else is doing.

>> We are all connected.

It's all the same.

There's only one life, and we better

start understanding that.

If we're not kind to one another,

it's going to be amiserable existence for us.

>> See-- and I told you thatI don't believe in all that.

I think it's an effort that happens

to make that thing go down.

It's not like a cable or a wire.

It's an actual sincere effort.

>> So what I learned fromthe jaguar is the pain

and suffering of the animal kingdom,

and it's not very pleasant.

And we are the perpetrators.

We are the cause of their suffering.

It isn't the animal kingdomthat has made humans suffer.

It is vice versa.

We are the culprits.

And I have experienced the pain.

>> Forgive for being sonaive, for being so hateful,

for being so angry, for being human.

>> We're destroying this place so fast.

I pray that there's a future for our children.

>> Remember anything you do, ora part of, belongs to a larger

dynamics of large events.

And you want to be part of always large events.

Learn how to be in harmony withyour neighbor, your partner,

your job, your situation, yourhouse, your community, just

like the universe is in harmony with you.

>> Listen to the faintestvoice, because your ego mind is

so noisy with crowd of voices.

Enter the silence.

And in silence, you'll berevealed who you really are--

god that you are.

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