WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.040 Hey there, welcome back. We're about to take 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:05.660 a really deep dive into some pretty wild concepts. 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:07.500 You know, you sent over some fascinating stuff, 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:09.300 including that interview with Deepak Chopra. 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:12.580 And it's got us thinking about the very nature 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:15.480 of reality, what consciousness really is, even 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:17.960 down to the fundamental building blocks of the 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:19.579 universe. You know, like what is it all made 00:00:19.579 --> 00:00:22.460 of? Yeah, it's like. You sent us on this quest 00:00:22.460 --> 00:00:24.859 to unpack these pretty heavy ideas. You know, 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:26.859 we're talking about the composition of the universe 00:00:26.859 --> 00:00:28.899 and then we're diving into things like extrasensory 00:00:28.899 --> 00:00:32.159 perception and even the emergence of like a new 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:36.020 human species. So, yeah, lots to cover. And it's 00:00:36.020 --> 00:00:38.079 pulling from physics, the study of consciousness, 00:00:38.460 --> 00:00:41.020 ancient wisdom, and all thanks to you, thanks 00:00:41.020 --> 00:00:43.149 to the material you shared with us. Right. And 00:00:43.149 --> 00:00:45.630 really at the center of it all is that MB Explorers 00:00:45.630 --> 00:00:48.950 podcast you shared, where Maya Alec and Jonathan 00:00:48.950 --> 00:00:52.289 Cohen, they had this incredibly far -reaching 00:00:52.289 --> 00:00:54.950 conversation with Deepak Chopra. It seemed like 00:00:54.950 --> 00:00:57.530 they covered everything, like the deepest mysteries 00:00:57.530 --> 00:01:00.509 of the universe, the potential impact of AI, 00:01:00.950 --> 00:01:03.270 and even like the untapped abilities that we 00:01:03.270 --> 00:01:05.750 humans might have. So where do we even begin? 00:01:05.890 --> 00:01:08.030 Like, how do we even start to unpack all of this? 00:01:08.230 --> 00:01:09.849 Well, maybe we start with a question that seems 00:01:09.849 --> 00:01:11.269 like it should have a simple answer. You know, 00:01:11.329 --> 00:01:13.310 something really foundational. But it turns out 00:01:13.310 --> 00:01:16.109 it's one of the biggest open questions in science. 00:01:16.150 --> 00:01:18.189 Like, what is the universe actually made of? 00:01:18.269 --> 00:01:19.989 Right. You would think we would have that figured 00:01:19.989 --> 00:01:23.250 out by now. Adams, the periodic table, all that 00:01:23.250 --> 00:01:25.409 stuff we learned in school. But get this, the 00:01:25.409 --> 00:01:27.810 ordinary matter, the stuff that makes up you 00:01:27.810 --> 00:01:30.269 and me, the stars, everything we see and touch, 00:01:30.849 --> 00:01:33.290 that only counts for a tiny, tiny fraction of 00:01:33.290 --> 00:01:35.489 the observable universe. We're talking 0 .1%. 00:01:35.629 --> 00:01:38.890 And then, what about the other 99 .9 %? Well, 00:01:39.030 --> 00:01:41.069 about 70 % of that is something we call dark 00:01:41.069 --> 00:01:43.790 energy. Imagine this. You throw a ball up in 00:01:43.790 --> 00:01:46.189 the air, right? You expect it to slow down. But 00:01:46.189 --> 00:01:49.109 instead, it starts accelerating upwards, faster 00:01:49.109 --> 00:01:51.430 and faster. That's kind of what dark energy is 00:01:51.430 --> 00:01:54.090 like. It's this mysterious force that's causing 00:01:54.090 --> 00:01:56.209 the universe to not just expand, but to expand 00:01:56.209 --> 00:01:58.659 at an accelerating rate. And then there's this 00:01:58.659 --> 00:02:01.079 other thing called dark matter. Makes up another 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:04.180 27 % or so. And it's completely invisible. It 00:02:04.180 --> 00:02:06.739 doesn't interact with light or any kind of electromagnetic 00:02:06.739 --> 00:02:09.819 radiation. Like we can't even see it. We only 00:02:09.819 --> 00:02:11.520 know it's there because of its gravitational 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.620 pull. Without dark matter, galaxies wouldn't 00:02:14.620 --> 00:02:16.419 have enough mass to hold themselves together. 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:18.180 So scientists are really trying to figure out 00:02:18.180 --> 00:02:21.060 what this dark matter is. There's even this hypothetical 00:02:21.060 --> 00:02:23.629 particle called a wimp. But we still haven't 00:02:23.629 --> 00:02:25.750 found it. So think about this. Everything we 00:02:25.750 --> 00:02:27.930 can actually observe, everything we can see and 00:02:27.930 --> 00:02:30.430 touch, that's only a tiny sliver of what's really 00:02:30.430 --> 00:02:32.750 out there. And even that tiny bit, that 0 .1 00:02:32.750 --> 00:02:35.750 % made of atoms, well, even that behaves in really 00:02:35.750 --> 00:02:38.370 strange ways at the quantum level. Oh, you mean 00:02:38.370 --> 00:02:40.469 that whole particle wave duality thing? Yeah, 00:02:40.689 --> 00:02:43.889 it's totally mind -bending. So at the smallest 00:02:43.889 --> 00:02:47.030 scales, Things like electrons. Sometimes they 00:02:47.030 --> 00:02:49.069 act like particles, like little tiny balls of 00:02:49.069 --> 00:02:51.389 matter. But then other times they act like waves, 00:02:51.770 --> 00:02:53.490 like they're spread out and don't have a specific 00:02:53.490 --> 00:02:56.349 location. And these waves are basically mathematical 00:02:56.349 --> 00:02:58.729 descriptions of probabilities. It's like, what's 00:02:58.729 --> 00:03:00.569 really going on down there? Like, what is the 00:03:00.569 --> 00:03:02.830 universe even made of? Well, according to the 00:03:02.830 --> 00:03:04.509 interview, the best answer we have right now 00:03:04.509 --> 00:03:07.530 is, we don't really know. It could even be... 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:10.400 Potentially like nothing at least not nothing 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.259 as we currently understand it which then leads 00:03:12.259 --> 00:03:14.819 to this other huge question Like the second big 00:03:14.819 --> 00:03:17.759 open question in science And philosophers have 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:19.599 been wrestling with this one for I don't know 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:22.039 thousands of years It's that whole hard problem 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:24.900 of consciousness, right? If the universe is mostly 00:03:24.900 --> 00:03:28.860 this Mysterious nothing then why does it feel 00:03:28.860 --> 00:03:31.099 so real to us? How do we experience things? Like 00:03:31.099 --> 00:03:33.039 where do our feelings and thoughts come from? 00:03:33.219 --> 00:03:35.219 It is a very fundamental puzzle, right? I mean, 00:03:35.219 --> 00:03:38.060 how do we go from this? universe that's mostly 00:03:38.060 --> 00:03:41.159 dark energy and dark matter, to this rich inner 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:44.319 world that we all experience. And like you said, 00:03:44.419 --> 00:03:47.259 this is not a new conversation. As they talked 00:03:47.259 --> 00:03:49.000 about in the interview, Plato was grappling with 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.219 this whole mind -body problem way back when. 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.639 I mean, he even suggested that maybe the universe 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.250 is ultimately made of ideas. Right, so it's not 00:03:56.250 --> 00:03:58.289 just about matter. And that idea that the universe 00:03:58.289 --> 00:04:00.389 as we see it might be kind of an illusion, that 00:04:00.389 --> 00:04:02.590 resonates with a lot of wisdom traditions too, 00:04:03.009 --> 00:04:06.650 like Eastern philosophies, the Kabbalah, Sufi 00:04:06.650 --> 00:04:08.710 mysticism. They often talk about the universe 00:04:08.710 --> 00:04:11.289 as being this kind of emanation or appearance 00:04:11.289 --> 00:04:14.729 of a cosmic consciousness. And some modern thinkers, 00:04:14.770 --> 00:04:16.490 they even propose that we could be living in 00:04:16.490 --> 00:04:19.329 some kind of a simulation, you know, a complex 00:04:19.329 --> 00:04:21.850 digital world outside of our familiar space and 00:04:21.850 --> 00:04:23.990 time that's constantly generating our reality. 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:26.500 using information, like through an endless stream 00:04:26.500 --> 00:04:29.040 of ones and zeros. It's a pretty wild concept 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:30.540 to try to wrap your head around, right? It's 00:04:30.540 --> 00:04:33.740 like everything we encounter from the ground 00:04:33.740 --> 00:04:36.819 beneath our feet to, I don't know, distant galaxies. 00:04:36.819 --> 00:04:39.180 It could all just be different arrangements of 00:04:39.180 --> 00:04:42.639 information. So if we're in this like. cosmic 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:45.379 dream or simulation. What does that even mean 00:04:45.379 --> 00:04:48.199 for our own consciousness? Well, the interview 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:50.379 suggests that consciousness is not just another 00:04:50.379 --> 00:04:52.779 form of computation. It's fundamentally different. 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:55.379 They describe it as non -computable, meaning 00:04:55.379 --> 00:04:57.899 it can't be replicated or fully understood through 00:04:57.899 --> 00:05:00.959 algorithms. It's also described as borderless, 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:04.560 infinite, spaceless, timeless. It's like ultimately 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:06.980 beyond our comprehension. Freeman Dyson even 00:05:06.980 --> 00:05:09.399 said something like, God is what the mind becomes 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:11.920 when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension. 00:05:12.540 --> 00:05:14.800 So the suggestion here is that this consciousness 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.720 is what allows for all computation, but it's 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:20.079 not a product of computation itself. That's a 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:23.220 pretty big shift in perspective. And waking up 00:05:23.220 --> 00:05:25.560 in this context, it's not about your morning 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:27.519 alarm, right? It's about shifting our awareness 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:29.839 from this perceived projection, this everyday 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:32.779 reality that seems so solid. to the source of 00:05:32.779 --> 00:05:35.740 that projection, to this underlying cosmic consciousness. 00:05:36.180 --> 00:05:38.139 Wittgenstein even had this similar idea, you 00:05:38.139 --> 00:05:40.160 know, where he compared our life to a dream, 00:05:40.459 --> 00:05:42.660 and he said we occasionally awaken to a deeper 00:05:42.660 --> 00:05:45.490 reality. There's this really important aspect 00:05:45.490 --> 00:05:47.810 of this dream we're talking about, our beliefs. 00:05:48.250 --> 00:05:50.509 You know, the interview says we only see things 00:05:50.509 --> 00:05:52.430 that we believe in, not the other way around. 00:05:52.490 --> 00:05:54.490 Think about that, like our childhood conditioning, 00:05:55.029 --> 00:05:56.930 everything from our economic background, ethnicity, 00:05:57.410 --> 00:05:59.610 to our emotional upbringing, religion, and even 00:05:59.610 --> 00:06:02.290 our spiritual environment. All of this shakes 00:06:02.290 --> 00:06:04.990 how we perceive the world. It forms our belief 00:06:04.990 --> 00:06:07.629 system. And they give this really powerful example 00:06:07.629 --> 00:06:11.209 with that kitten experiment. So they raised kittens 00:06:11.209 --> 00:06:13.269 in an environment where they only saw horizontal 00:06:13.269 --> 00:06:15.850 stripes. And those kittens, they grew up unable 00:06:15.850 --> 00:06:19.129 to perceive vertical lines and vice versa. It's 00:06:19.129 --> 00:06:20.990 like their brains literally didn't develop the 00:06:20.990 --> 00:06:23.370 neural connections to process what they hadn't 00:06:23.370 --> 00:06:25.730 experienced. It's crazy, right? Like our experiences 00:06:25.730 --> 00:06:28.610 actually wire our perception. Yeah, exactly. 00:06:29.050 --> 00:06:32.300 So what we think of as matter... as this tangible 00:06:32.300 --> 00:06:34.819 stuff, might not actually be the fundamental 00:06:34.819 --> 00:06:37.439 reality. It's more like a perceptual activity, 00:06:37.540 --> 00:06:40.279 a way that our consciousness interprets experience. 00:06:40.620 --> 00:06:42.720 Think about it. You have a sensation, or you 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:45.220 hear a sound. Where does that happen? Not inside 00:06:45.220 --> 00:06:47.420 your brain, as some miniature image or sound 00:06:47.420 --> 00:06:50.240 wave, but seemingly outside of space -time, in 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:52.300 consciousness itself, and even the brain itself. 00:06:52.379 --> 00:06:54.800 From this point of view, it's just another experience 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.420 within that field of consciousness. Wow. OK, 00:06:57.420 --> 00:06:59.699 so if our perception shapes a reality so much, 00:06:59.980 --> 00:07:01.949 and if consciousness is this fundamental non 00:07:01.949 --> 00:07:04.389 -local thing, what does that mean for us? For 00:07:04.389 --> 00:07:06.509 our own evolution. Yeah. And the potential we 00:07:06.509 --> 00:07:08.870 have as humans. Well, the interviews suggest 00:07:08.870 --> 00:07:11.689 that humanity is at a crucial point in its evolutionary 00:07:11.689 --> 00:07:14.509 journey, with AI, you know, artificial intelligence, 00:07:14.910 --> 00:07:17.529 advancing so rapidly. There are risks, of course, 00:07:17.949 --> 00:07:20.889 but there's also the potential for amazing change, 00:07:21.149 --> 00:07:23.569 for us to transform into something new. And that 00:07:23.569 --> 00:07:25.449 actually leads to a pretty radical prediction. 00:07:25.689 --> 00:07:28.189 They talked about the emergence of a new human 00:07:28.189 --> 00:07:30.769 species, which they called meta -humans. And 00:07:30.769 --> 00:07:33.069 they think this could happen within, like, the 00:07:33.069 --> 00:07:36.250 next 20 years. It's the idea that these large 00:07:36.250 --> 00:07:38.329 language models, which, you know, everyone's 00:07:38.329 --> 00:07:40.430 using now, they're subtly changing our brains. 00:07:40.930 --> 00:07:43.230 And when you combine that with epigenetic modulation, 00:07:43.730 --> 00:07:45.730 that's where your environment influences your 00:07:45.730 --> 00:07:48.029 genes. Without actually changing your DNA, it 00:07:48.029 --> 00:07:50.199 could lead to significant evolution. They even 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:51.920 suggested that, like, as we're listening right 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.220 now, our frontal cortexes are potentially changing 00:07:54.220 --> 00:07:56.459 in real time. Now, this is all pretty challenging 00:07:56.459 --> 00:07:59.540 for people who have a strictly materialist worldview, 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:01.519 you know, people who only believe what they can 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.100 see and measure. But the interview emphasizes 00:08:04.100 --> 00:08:05.959 that there are real things out there that we 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:07.920 can't easily measure. Like, some people say they 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:11.000 can see auras. Or take Thomas Campbell, for example. 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.720 He had these out -of -body experiences after 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.000 doing transcendental meditation. And that brings 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:19.459 us to extra sensory perception. You know, ESP. 00:08:19.529 --> 00:08:22.910 and non -local potential. The interview explored 00:08:22.910 --> 00:08:25.410 the possibility that these are latent abilities, 00:08:25.810 --> 00:08:29.110 things like ESP and remote viewing. That might 00:08:29.110 --> 00:08:31.149 become more common in this new kind of human. 00:08:31.569 --> 00:08:33.690 They even shared that story about the telepathy 00:08:33.690 --> 00:08:36.070 tapes. Oh yeah, that story about the young boy 00:08:36.070 --> 00:08:38.070 from New Jersey. His mom was convinced he could 00:08:38.070 --> 00:08:40.870 read her mind. So researchers set up this experiment, 00:08:41.330 --> 00:08:43.389 put the mother in one room, she was reading a 00:08:43.389 --> 00:08:45.769 book silently, and then the boy, he was in another 00:08:45.769 --> 00:08:48.559 room. typing on a computer. And get this, he 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.460 was typing out exactly what she was reading. 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:52.340 It's incredible, right? And when they asked him 00:08:52.340 --> 00:08:54.679 how he did it, he just said, I love my mother 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:57.820 so much. And that led to this fascinating idea. 00:08:58.299 --> 00:09:01.120 What if love is actually a form of non -local 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:04.080 correlation or entanglement between their consciousness? 00:09:04.700 --> 00:09:06.519 It would be similar to the quantum entanglement 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:09.059 they've observed with particles. And the interview 00:09:09.059 --> 00:09:11.440 even highlighted that the Nobel Prize was given 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.679 for research into quantum entanglement. And building 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.110 on that, they presented this perspective. that 00:09:16.110 --> 00:09:19.330 love isn't just an emotion, but maybe a fundamental 00:09:19.330 --> 00:09:22.149 force that connects everything. Maybe it's even 00:09:22.149 --> 00:09:24.950 like the ultimate truth, as the poet Rumi suggested, 00:09:25.450 --> 00:09:28.169 a state of oneness, where the boundaries between 00:09:28.169 --> 00:09:30.950 you and me or between us and the universe dissolve. 00:09:31.490 --> 00:09:33.990 And this concept of love extends to healing too. 00:09:34.330 --> 00:09:36.230 They mentioned the general theory of love from 00:09:36.230 --> 00:09:39.269 neuroscience, which talks about things like limbic 00:09:39.269 --> 00:09:41.409 resonance, you know, where our emotional states 00:09:41.409 --> 00:09:43.970 can sync up with the people around us, and limbic 00:09:43.970 --> 00:09:46.480 regulation. where one person's calm energy can 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:48.659 actually help to regulate another person's emotions. 00:09:49.139 --> 00:09:51.679 And even limbic revision, which means that deep 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:54.679 love connections can actually rewire our emotional 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:57.139 brain circuitry. Yeah. It really aligns with 00:09:57.139 --> 00:10:00.519 ideas about energy healing, you know, where intention 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.220 and connection really matter. Absolutely. So 00:10:03.220 --> 00:10:05.460 what some people call psychic abilities, the 00:10:05.460 --> 00:10:09.539 interview reframes them as these non -local damnit 00:10:09.539 --> 00:10:12.750 human potentials. or as these manifestations 00:10:12.750 --> 00:10:15.950 of non -local correlation or entanglement in 00:10:15.950 --> 00:10:17.490 the yoga sutras. They even describe all these 00:10:17.490 --> 00:10:19.929 extraordinary abilities that can come from deep 00:10:19.929 --> 00:10:22.470 meditative states suggesting that consciousness 00:10:22.470 --> 00:10:25.440 is this field of infinite possibilities. And 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:27.679 this kind of all circles back to intuition and 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.259 creativity, right, like true intuition. It's 00:10:30.259 --> 00:10:32.340 presented as more than just a hunch. It's a form 00:10:32.340 --> 00:10:35.179 of knowing that goes beyond logic, a holistic 00:10:35.179 --> 00:10:37.600 understanding that might even tap into what some 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:40.299 call the mind of God and radical creativity, 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:42.779 the kind that really pushes boundaries. It's 00:10:42.779 --> 00:10:45.100 described as disruptive and non -algorithmic. 00:10:45.179 --> 00:10:47.399 So it's different from even what the most advanced 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.889 AI can come up with. And this whole shift in 00:10:49.889 --> 00:10:52.710 how we see reality, it's really about going beyond 00:10:52.710 --> 00:10:55.509 that purely materialist perspective to one that 00:10:55.509 --> 00:10:57.809 acknowledges the role of consciousness, the power 00:10:57.809 --> 00:11:00.250 of our beliefs, and the incredible potential 00:11:00.250 --> 00:11:02.610 that we have as humans. And speaking of potential, 00:11:03.190 --> 00:11:05.090 the interview had this really interesting anecdote 00:11:05.090 --> 00:11:08.250 about how Maharishi Mahesh Yogi advised a young 00:11:08.250 --> 00:11:10.950 Deepak Chopra to study consciousness. And this 00:11:10.950 --> 00:11:13.149 advice led him to leave his successful medical 00:11:13.149 --> 00:11:16.620 career and follow his passion. which ultimately 00:11:16.620 --> 00:11:19.360 led to even greater things. Yeah, it's a powerful 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:21.559 example, you know, like sometimes we need to 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:24.220 look within and figure out what really resonates 00:11:24.220 --> 00:11:26.299 with us, what truly excites us, even if it means 00:11:26.299 --> 00:11:28.240 letting go of what we thought we should be doing. 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:31.299 It's not about ignoring practical considerations 00:11:31.299 --> 00:11:33.259 completely though, like they also talked about 00:11:33.259 --> 00:11:35.100 the example of not getting into medical school 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:37.019 and how that led to finding a different path, 00:11:37.460 --> 00:11:39.960 which can be just as meaningful. Right. And our 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.000 mindset is so important. Having what they call 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:44.940 an infinite mindset helps us to see and grab 00:11:44.940 --> 00:11:47.720 opportunities that we might otherwise miss. And 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:49.980 even something like good luck, they reframe it 00:11:49.980 --> 00:11:52.399 as the point where opportunity and preparedness 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.240 meet. Like you have to have the right mindset 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.539 and be ready when the opportunity shows up. And 00:11:56.539 --> 00:11:58.639 that's also connected to the idea of synchronicity. 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.120 You know those meaningful coincidences that happen 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:04.200 sometimes but to really experience those synchronicities 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:07.600 To really tap into that intuition The interview 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:10.179 suggests that we need to go beyond our ego to 00:12:10.179 --> 00:12:11.960 connect with something larger than ourselves 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:15.379 That mystery that some people call God or universal 00:12:15.379 --> 00:12:17.220 consciousness and they also talked about how 00:12:17.220 --> 00:12:19.980 everything is vibration You know our bodies our 00:12:19.980 --> 00:12:22.100 thoughts everything and they said that the space 00:12:22.100 --> 00:12:25.500 between our thoughts that brief pause it's potentially 00:12:25.500 --> 00:12:29.120 like God's mind, a state of pure silence and 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.059 presence beyond time. And that's where yoga comes 00:12:32.059 --> 00:12:34.720 in. A lot of people in the West just think of 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.600 yoga as the physical postures. But there's so 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:39.820 much more to it. You know, the eight limbs of 00:12:39.820 --> 00:12:42.539 yoga offer this whole path towards inner stillness 00:12:42.539 --> 00:12:45.240 and awareness. Those postures, the asanas, they 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:47.399 were meant to be comfortable seats of awareness 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.000 for meditation. And then there's breath control. 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.460 That's pranayama. And all the different stages 00:12:52.460 --> 00:12:55.299 of meditation like dhyana, dharana, samadhi, 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.139 they're all powerful tools for cultivating self 00:12:58.139 --> 00:13:00.220 -awareness and connecting with that stillness. 00:13:00.220 --> 00:13:02.049 They even suggested a little experiment. can 00:13:02.049 --> 00:13:04.470 try. Notice the stillness between a question 00:13:04.470 --> 00:13:07.509 and when you answer yes, that tiny pause can 00:13:07.509 --> 00:13:10.330 be an experience of pure presence. That's cool. 00:13:10.470 --> 00:13:12.330 OK, so we've covered a lot. But before we wrap 00:13:12.330 --> 00:13:14.149 up, they also touched on a couple of other really 00:13:14.149 --> 00:13:17.409 big questions. Like, are we alone in the universe? 00:13:17.649 --> 00:13:20.129 And what about the multiverse? Yeah. So that 00:13:20.129 --> 00:13:22.610 whole Fermi paradox thing, you know, why haven't 00:13:22.610 --> 00:13:25.309 we found any aliens yet? It's a good question. 00:13:25.769 --> 00:13:28.029 But most astrobiologists today think that life 00:13:28.029 --> 00:13:30.629 probably exists all over the universe, even if 00:13:30.629 --> 00:13:33.210 we haven't found it yet. And it could be in forms 00:13:33.210 --> 00:13:35.629 we can't even imagine. I mean, this came up in 00:13:35.629 --> 00:13:37.429 conversations with experts like David Newman 00:13:37.429 --> 00:13:40.769 from MIT. And it's something that a lot of astrobiology 00:13:40.769 --> 00:13:42.750 departments are researching. And then there's 00:13:42.750 --> 00:13:45.870 the multiverse. It's a really mind -bending concept. 00:13:46.370 --> 00:13:48.450 You know, with that many worlds, interpretation 00:13:48.450 --> 00:13:51.549 of quantum mechanics. Physicists like Sean Carroll 00:13:51.549 --> 00:13:53.710 suggest that there could be infinite parallel 00:13:53.710 --> 00:13:57.110 universes. Like every possible outcome of every 00:13:57.110 --> 00:13:59.309 quantum event is playing out in a separate universe. 00:13:59.830 --> 00:14:03.159 But are these universes real? Or are they just 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:06.179 part of the imagination of the divine? That's 00:14:06.179 --> 00:14:08.419 a pretty big mystery to think about. So we've 00:14:08.419 --> 00:14:10.899 explored some really profound and interconnected 00:14:10.899 --> 00:14:13.279 ideas today. We've shifted our perspective away 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:16.159 from a purely material view of reality. And we've 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.240 acknowledged the role of consciousness, the power 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.220 of belief, and the incredible potential that 00:14:21.220 --> 00:14:23.799 each of us has. And to you, our listener, the 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.120 one who loves knowledge and those aha moments, 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:28.480 we hope this deep dive has given you some new 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:31.200 ways to think about your own potential. and the 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:33.720 nature of the reality we all share. Perhaps the 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:35.519 most thought -provoking idea to take away from 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:38.679 all of this is this. That love, in its deepest 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:41.100 form, could be the fundamental force that connects 00:14:41.100 --> 00:14:43.639 everything, that allows for communication beyond 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:46.720 space and time, and even facilitates healing. 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:49.840 You know, try exploring practices like meditation 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.639 or mindfulness, anything that can help you cultivate 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.299 that inner stillness. It could be the key to 00:14:55.299 --> 00:14:58.100 experiencing these concepts firsthand. Yes. Thanks 00:14:58.100 --> 00:15:00.159 for joining us on this deep dive. We really appreciate 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:00.399 you.