Gregg Braden: How Differently Would You Live If You Knew This Power?

[Music] Western science has just arrived that the understanding that that there is in fact a field of intelligent energy that connects everything certainly in our world and it's believed beyond our world even the entire universe our science is only now arrived at the understanding through the experiments and through the studies and the modeling the equations that tell us in fact that field exists so this is a place where we are now and it's the place where the ancient the indigenous traditions have always begun they have always started from the place that we are part of everything that that we are part of a greater existence that everything is connected and they have devoted their time rather than than trying to explore and prove to themselves this existence really is there they devoted their times to understanding how to work within this existence what does it mean to life and death what does it mean there are time together in this world if this field is really out there can we communicate with it and if we can what is the language that it understands well the understandings in terms of Western science that this intelligent field exists in late 1990s early 2000s is is when the the experiments actually confirmed what Max Planck in 1944 stated the father of quantum physics Max Planck actually said that the matter that we see in our world doesn't exist it says the stuff were made out of doesn't even exist in the world that we see doesn't exist the way we believe it does what he said was what we see is matter is here because of the existence of we called a conscious an intelligent mind and these are his precise words and he followed that statement by saying that underlying this mind is the matrix of all matter and this is the coin he turned in 1944 of course the movies series was based on the studies that came afterward but it's actually been around since the mid 20th century so this field the matrix or the divine matrix is it now is being called is recognize is as the field of intelligent non vention 'el energy it doesn't work the way electricity or our broadcast energy works and perhaps that's one of the reasons it's taken so long for science to catch up with the fact it was there because our equipment isn't built to detect this kind of energy on the one hand the other hand these ancient indigenous cultures they detected it through the equipment of their bodies they understood how the sense and feel and work and move in this field so for me I was trained as a scientist and in my training there was never an allowance for the possibility this field could exist as a matter of fact in the last 100 years science has has missed the mark twice in terms of their explanation the story that science gives of how our world works and we're now paying the price for where science got it wrong essentially and and it's coming full circle it's being corrected but the first place that this happened was with the belief that's the space between things is empty and now we know that nothing could be further from the truth there's there's a lot going on and what we always thought was empty space but from the experiments were performed in 1887 very famous Michelson Morley experiments to detect whether or not this field was there when when those experiments were interpreted as as proving the field wasn't there 100 years over a hundred years ago from that point forward our science has been based in the belief that everything is separate from everything else what happens in one place doesn't have any effect on anything else into what happens in this lifetime has nothing to do with any other lifetimes and when we leave our bodies there's nothing for our souls to travel into this is going to be important as we talk about some of the the implications of our time in history and where we're going so it's the first principle where they got it wrong in the second was that science Western science has believed firmly that the experiences that we have inside of our bodies our thoughts feelings emotions beliefs our prayers our affirmations in here have no effect on the world beyond our bodies and now we know that these two assumptions are flat wrong there is something in the nothing and we do have the ability through our hearts what is called a coherent heart based emotion to create the fields in our bodies the fields of our beliefs of our thought feelings and emotions that extend beyond our bodies into the divine matrix so when people ask what is the divine matrix the the way to answer that it is the container for the entire universe as far as scientists understand right now everything that happens in this universe and then the higher dimensions of this universe are all within the context of this field number one number two that the divine matrix is a bridge between our inner in our outer worlds it's the conduit that allows our prayers and our good wishes for one another to move from our hearts into this field and be disseminated and distributed in the field in ways that we're only beginning understand in ways of the pr2 the five the laws of physics as we understand them today and that's exciting and number three this field appears to be a mirror in that the quantum soup of all possibilities if you will that exists as this field will will mirror back to us it's like a large projection screen that's everywhere all the time it will mirror back to us what we claim to be true in our heartfelt beliefs not what we speak as our truth rather what we truly feel is is the the the reality of the way our lives work our relationships the way our worlds work what we hold in our hearts is our truth this field will mirror it back and where this gets really interesting is sometimes those truths that we hold our unconscious truths and we're not even aware of what it is that we truly believe we know what we like to think we believe but what we truly believe in our heart sometimes is masked even to us and it is through the wisdom of recognizing what the world brings to us in our everyday lives our relationships our abundance our health our romance or lack thereof all of those things those are all mirrors in the mirrors don't lie their mirrors in this divine matrix showing us our true beliefs what we claim to be true of ourselves in the world our limits and our capabilities this field the divine matrix of the many ways that scientists now describe the field and and what makes it so significant in our lives is the fact that number one through this field all matter appears to be connected and the word that science is using for this connection now is called entanglement what entanglement suggests is that when something happens in one place in this field in the divine matrix it can be in another room next to us it can be halfway around the world that the effects of that something can be felt almost everywhere simultaneously so let me just describe what I mean by that a little bit there was a a very famous experiment that was done in 1997 made that the cover of the scientific journals but it never made mainstream public media and I think here's the reason why it sounded like a very technical experiment what scientists did at the University of Geneva was they took a particle of the stuff our world is made of it's called a photon we'll packet of light particle of light if you will and they wanted two identical particles so they took this one photon and they broke it into two so both pieces have the same properties and they had a specialized device where they could fire these in opposite directions at the same time seven miles for one particle in one direction seven miles in the other direction when they reach their destinations they're now 14 miles apart they're using fiber-optic cables to do this and once those particles are at their destination they can begin the experiments and what they found was whatever they would do to one particle in a moment in time the other one acted like it just had the experience faster than it could have if this one were transmitting the information to the other one sometimes this one would act like it was having the experience before this one even finished its experience the vicar said they were tickling or disturbing the particles they would change the charge or change the spin rate or force the particle to go take path a or path B but whatever they were doing over here this particle always had the identical experience as if they were still connected even though they were physically separate and the reason this experiment is so important is it is now demonstrating to the scientific mind what the ancient indigenous traditions have always said and that is once matter is physically connected even though it may become separate and distant from where it was originally it's always linked energetically always linked energetically and here's why that's important because we live in a universe many light-years in diameter and we're made of particles that were once all converged into a single unit a matter of fractions of a second after what's called the Big Bang with scientists believes the beginning of our universe so if you could take all of the space out from between all the particles in our entire universe many light-years distant and bring all those particles back together scientists say that that we would take up about the the space of a single green pea very compact very hot a particles of matter and this is where we were at one time the particles of your body and our listeners in my body we were once a part of all the stars and we were months part of this Big Bang and if we were once connected even though we are now physically separate the experiments suggests that the energy connecting us remains and when I began to understand that as a scientist it helped me to understand when I hear the ancient and the indigenous people say we're all connected we're all one suddenly began to make sense because my mind needed something to hang that nice thought upon I wanted it to be true I guess didn't know in my training as a scientist there was nothing that led me to believe that it could really be true so the entanglement is one one of the descriptions of the nature of this relationship the second is what is called a hologram or a holographic principle and I wanted to lay the foundation so we could share both of these together in a hologram the definition of a hologram is that every piece of something mirrors the entire no matter how large or how small that is so I'd like to give an example of of what that means I'm a very visual person to help illustrate this back in the 1980s there was a series of bookmarks that came out in the new thought community well shiny strips of foil that had images that were put there with a holographic process and if you held them in the light just right you would see that image actually come alive it looked like it was hovering above above your hand and there there was an image of the face of Jesus and mother Mary and there was one of a Great Pyramid and the dolphin and a rose unfolding or a number of them out there those little bookmarks if you have one you can do an experiment that you can only do it once because there destroy your bookmark in the process but if it's a truly a holographic bookmark you can take that bookmark and you can cut it into a bajillion little pieces with a pair of scissors and you can take the smallest one of those pieces a little Fleck under a microscope with an exacto knife and cut it in half even again and take that little Fleck and look at it under magnification and you'll still see the entire image in that Fleck no matter how small no matter what shape it is and this is by definition this is the holographic principle every piece of the something contains the entire something on on a different scale of magnitude and this is important because is now believed that we are holographic in nature that we mirror all that there is in this universe that the universe is holographic in nature William Blake said this so beautifully and as poem he said the entire entire world is reflected in a grain of sand and it's more than a nice poetic saying there there's truly something to this this fact and it is it is through the holographic principle that nature it's one of the most powerful principles in nature and perhaps one of the least understood because it is through the principle of the hologram and the entanglement that nature can create a lot of change in the entire universe by initiating that change in only one place because by definition of the hologram every every fragment mirror the whole so when a change is made in one fragment that change is mirrored in the whole of a living hologram that's important for us because it says to us that when we create peace and our family dinner table or in our communities for example that that peace is experienced in the hologram of consciousness of the Divine matrix in a way that extends much more than simply there's not simply limited to it to our family dinner table or or our prayer group and and this is why our prayers people ask me all the time they say if I if I am praying for my loved one in the battlefield of Iraq halfway around the world I can make a really good prayer but how do I get to prayer over there I mean it's got to go a long ways how how do I get my prayer from here to there and this is the beauty of the hologram in the two particles that were separated by 14 miles when one of them had its experience and the other one acted like it had its experience scientists say how did the information get from one to another and in the hologram the answer is it doesn't have to because it's already there the information doesn't have to travel because it's already everywhere all the time our prayers when we create them in our hearts for our loved ones are already with them on that battlefield halfway around the world when we speak to our loved ones who have passed over into into another world what we're actually doing is we are speaking to the essence they're energetic essence that is now within the layers or the higher dimensions of this divine matrix and we don't have to to pump or send our prayers into the 8th dimension or the ninth dimension by virtue of being in our hearts because we exist in those dimensions as well it's already with them the whole idea of dimensionality 25 years ago as a scientist if I walked onto a stage and talked about anything and a live audience talked about anything happening in higher dimensional state spaces there's a good chance of be live left right off the stage and now because scientists simply didn't acknowledge or mention much more than the three or four dimensions that we deal with now third as our physical world the fourth dimension being time in time-space there are a number of new theories that scientists are developing to explain and unify the laws of physics as we know them today and this has been the great challenge of Western science as we haven't been able to come up with one story that explains the entire universe because our stories are fragmented the mathematics stories of quantum physics or the mathematical stories of Newtonian physics they don't mesh they don't they cannot work together to give us a coherent understanding of the universe and where this may be changing now science has come up with new theories a number of different theories that are actually able to merge quantum and mechanic's quantum mechanics and the Newtonian theories together the quantum theories saying that we live in a universe of energy and the Newtonian theory saying we live in a universe of things and it's the mathematics that describe the energy and the things they're trying to link together well the new series the new theories are called string theories and although there are a number of different string theories eleven at least there is now a super string theory that brings them all together and the reason I'm saying this what makes it so interesting is for these theories to work and to unify the quantum mechanics and the Newtonian mechanics and the physical in the energetic world to do that the theories require that we live in a universe of at least eleven dimensions and very possibly 25 dimensions they say they must be there for these theories to work and what's so interesting is the higher you go in the dimensions the simpler the mathematics become and where everything looks separate in our three-dimensional world in our polarity world everything is that's all we live in the world of pluses and minuses men and women light and dark hot and cold black and white true and false love and fear we live in this polarity world and this is where the mathematics do not work and I would expect that they wouldn't work here because everything here is in that separateness however the beauty of these new theories and the way that they tie into the ancient the indigenous traditions both of life and death and life continuing after death what we call the death is that they require this this higher dimensional experience and the higher you go in these dimensions the mathematics become simpler and simpler and simpler and they actually unify in the higher dimensions very very simple mathematics and the reason this is interesting is because what the studies now have shown is that when you and I have a feeling coherent heart based emotion in our feelings those emotions are actually coherent their length they're in resonance with these higher dimensions where everything is one so when we are having an effect and we have a feeling and we see a physical effect in our world it's not that our feeling changed something in this 3-dimensional world rather our our feelings are speaking to the blueprint and the higher dimensions and we're seeing the shadow of that change in our physical world and this to me tremendous implications in terms of life and death our soul the seat of the soul where do we come from where do we go in between lives where do you go after after we die do animals have souls all of these questions these understandings now are bridging the language of science in the language of spirituality and the ancient in the indigenous traditions have been here for 8,000 years in a very exciting new way that gives us this this this very holistic picture of who we are and how we relate to one another and what life is really all about to me that's very exciting as well a growing number of mainstream scientists within just the last two years this is now 2007 so 2006 early 2007 a growing number of mainstream scientists are now putting forward an idea that is gaining tremendous momentum regarding consciousness who we are in consciousness the nature of our physical reality and how things really work and when when we first hear about this idea it almost sounds like science fiction and then we ask where does science fiction come from many times it comes from the intuitive hit of how the world works and what's possible and then it becomes the reality of our world what these signs are saying mit signed is Seth Lloyd for example in his 2000 book programming the universe literally is proposing that our entire universe and consciousness is either a computer in and of itself that the universe is a quantum computer this is what they're saying or if the universe is not a quantum computer that the universe is the simulation that is being run on a big computer somewhere and when I first began to hear this you know at first as a scientist I think you know this sounds pretty out there but I began to explore why mainstream physicists would it leading universities would begin to look at things this way and my training of the senior computer systems designer from Martin Marietta aerospace during during the Cold War years so it of course it's my language but the more I began to understand and I look at the comparisons every computer has a language that it uses to get things done consciousness is the operating system of this universal computer and belief is the language that it recognizes every computer turns bits of information off and on to make things happen and I said well in a universe we don't have bits and and I began looking at the comparisons and they're looking at literally the stuff our world is made of the atoms are the bits when the atoms are turned on and in physical existence they are reality when they are not turned on their uh knatoms or anti atoms or antimatter that are not in existence and they're they're taking this so seriously this this proposition that we may literally be living a simulation of some kind but they've done mathematic modeling to determine the probability that we are or are not living a simulation and the the mathematics suggests strongly that we are living in a simulation and the reason I'm mentioning this here I know it's a very different way of thinking about things it sounds like the movie The Matrix but where did that come from the reason that this is important is because we begin talking about the soul what the ancient indigenous traditions say to us is that while a part of our soul speaks and experiences through this body we're not really here at all that our higher self is is a part of a greater existence and we always go like this it's somewhere else expressing through this body we just come back from a tour in Australia and the aboriginals in Australia as well as many other traditions say this isn't the real world this is the illusionary world and and they spend more of their time in what they believe is the real world and what we would call the dream state so all of this ties together when we talk about life and death existence consciousness between lifetimes where do we go when we leave this body from the perspective of these these new ways of seeing things from physicists and quantum physicists who are looking at this as a simulation it's when our part of the simulation is over it doesn't mean that we are gone forever it just means that we're no longer expressing here and we're in those higher dimensions wherever this simulation is being run from so it's a it is a fascinating concept and the more we begin to explore it and when you look at the mathematics and they plug in all the variables they say it's more likely than not that we are actually living in in a universe that is is the result of a massive simulation that's being run from somewhere else sounds like a Star Trek episode Seth Lloyd is is the man the MIT physics professor who's developed the first feasible viable quantum computer and he said even in the infancy of our computers a quantum computer is so powerful it wouldn't take much more to model an entire universe on a quantum computer and the thinking is that who or whatever is responsible for the simulation is probably uh lightyears ahead of us in terms of technologies so so to believe that they may have quantum computers that could manipulate the bits of matter and it sounds very technical in some respects and it stretches us in some respects and it also and that's the purpose of films like this - we're looking for new ideas and new ways to think out of the box whether it is a reality or even if it's only a metaphor even if we only use this as a metaphor it's a powerful metaphor that allows us to hang our beliefs upon because whether it is a physical reality or a metaphor that we live in a simulation the bottom line is this that if we understand the language that this reality recognizes then we are no longer limited by the law is the relative laws of physics as we know them it means that we no longer have to suffer in our lives or age or we don't have to have the poverty and the disease we don't have to have the war if we understand the language then we literally can rewrite the reality code that runs are real or metaphoric simulation and to me it's we need some new ideas to look at the world because what we're seeing now is as so many people believe there's a single physical reality if you want to change it you've got to go out there and hammer it into submission militarily economically men bump in chess with men you know guys with big armies and in a lot of power and we know where that's gotten nice so it my feeling is that we need to think we need new ways to think about our universe and this is one of the most powerful and innovative ways I've seen in a long time and it's not so new just different language because this is what the ancients have always said they said you're not from here and that we don't live here and that this world is a dream and that this world is an illusion and then it opens up all kinds of questions if this is a simulation who's the architect when did it begin when does it end and all of these have implications in terms of life in this world life after death life from this perspective death just becomes a journey into the homeland of where everything begins rather than the end of everything that we've ever known so I I can't help but imagine one day if this is either a dream a simulation real or metaphorically we'll just wake up one day and we'll look at each other and we'll say what were we thinking what in the world were we thinking when we did all those horrible things to one another but what we now know is when I was in school and when many of our listeners were in school we were taught that this is a physical reality made of atoms and our atoms would look like little solar systems that were modelled as a little solar systems things in the middle called a nucleus with other things orbiting them like electrons and those days are long gone we now look at atoms rather than things orbiting around other things we look at them as concentrations of energy in space in time where there are no clear-cut things now where this gets important is that the scientists and this in the standard physics textbooks this is no surprise what I'm about to say is if you change the field of energy that the atom lives in you change the atom you can change that field electrically or you can change it magnetically and there are terms for the the effects the Zeeman effect the stark effect are well-documented effects of electrical and magnetic changes in the field that changed the atom or while it sounds technical and maybe not relevant where it gets really relevant very fast is our hearts are the strongest bio electrical and magnetic field generators in our bodies our hearts generate stronger electrical fields than our brains they generate stronger magnetic fields than our brains our hearts are 5,000 times as powerful magnetically than our brains and we hear about EKGs of our hearts they're up to a hundred times stronger than the EEG the electrical information our brains so when we create thoughts feelings emotions beliefs compassion prayers of forgiveness in our hearts that's the words that we call those experiences but to the field what we're doing is we're creating electrical and magnetic waves in here that are now known to change the stuff out here and then that way we are linked so when we talk about our universe possibly as a simulation it tells us that we are not separate that we are empowered not to control or manipulate or impose our will rather to participate is Princeton physicist John Wheeler suggests to participate in the way this reality unfolds to participate in our personal growth and healing in the healing of our loved ones to participate in the peace that happens in our families and between nations and the the little catch is that for us to share the beauty of this participation we must work together and share those heart fields and that I think is is where this learning curve is actually going and we may not use that language we don't have to understand all the technical aspects when people know that when you have a feeling it may have an effect but in our Western world we need our mind our our left brain our logic needs a framework to hang these very subtle spiritual understandings upon we'd like to believe and we just need a reason to believe it and the reasons are there if if we can take the understandings out of the very technical realm and and share them in the language it's relevant to two people that don't have that background science is only a language it's a good language it's only one language it describes our world and there are many other languages and I think for me this is the value of going into the monasteries of Tibet and Bolivia and Peru and the Paul we've been in monasteries in Egypt in their their libraries their records for 1,500 years people who lit have lived the traditions and perpetuated and taught them because we can look at them I can look at another human eye to eye heart to heart God to God in that moment directly or through a translator and I can ask them human the human I can say when you just did that miraculous healing mmm what happened in your body to make that happen how'd you do that and if I don't understand what they say I can ask them again and again and again until either kicked me out of the monastery because they're tired of my questions or they will answer my question and in this way we learn from this five thousand-year-old heritage of our past and we marry that with the best science of our day today in the book small miracles there is an amazing story it's a true story and I share it with our audiences a lot of what many people would call a miracle and for me it's it's a demonstration of just how real this field is that connects everything it's a story of a young Jewish boys name was Joey who at the age believe of 19 suddenly woke up one morning began to question 5,000 years of Jewish tradition he began to question all of the things he'd been taught by his family and his father took as a personal offense he said how can you question this this lineage of wisdom and tradition and Joey said I've got to go out in the world and find out for myself if these things are true or not and his father said if you turn your back on your tradition and you go out in the world and search for yourself you said you're no longer my son I have no son and Joey said I've got to do this and he and they left and he went into the world and he studied in the ancient and in the the Eastern traditions Buddhist traditions and the Jewish traditions and he was in a small cafe and I believe it was in Paris and you never know who's gonna walk into those cafes and a friend of his walked in from the states that he hadn't seen since he left and the first thing his friend said was I was so sorry Joey to hear about the death of your father and it was the first Joey knew that his father had died and so he immediately came back to the states and he began speaking to his father's friends and their neighbors and what he found is rather than turning his back on his son his father done just the opposite he was so proud of his son for having the strength to question five thousand years of faith and he he spoke about his son incessantly and honored his son's courage and this led joy back into the Jewish tradition that left to explore and that eventually led him in a traditional pilgrimage to the to the holy wall in Jerusalem and if you've ever seen this wall you know that it's made of these massive stone bricks they've been there for so long that the mortar holding them together has fallen out so where the mortar used to be they're empty spaces and the tradition is to inscribe a prayer on a paper or a cloth rolled up and place it place your prayer into that wall and this is what Joey was doing he he'd written a prayer to his father asking for his father's forgiveness for the pain that he'd caused and the suffering in the family and it was pacing back and forth in front of the wall looking for just the right place where he would leave his prayer and there was a place that card his eye and as he was raising his hand to put his prayer into that place the moment that he did that another prayer that was already in there somehow magically fell out at his feet and as he reached down to pick up the prayer that had fallen out it was already partially unrolled and he already recognized what was happening here it was a prayer in his father's handwriting that his father had written before his death and had come to precisely the same place and put in precisely that crevice in the wall that Joey had been drawn to and his joy read the prayer it was a prayer from his father to God asking for forgiveness for turning his back on his son and how much he really loved his son and how proud of his son he was and the reason I share the story for two reasons first of all we hear the story there's a feeling within us I feel it every time I share it that feeling is a language it's a nonverbal language and if I just simply said to you or to an audience have that feeling right now you might be hard-pressed to do it because there's no reason to have the feeling but when we hear stories like that that feeling came from a place of innocence of emptiness of non judgment you didn't know what was going to happen but you feel a feeling when you hear that story number one number two for Joey to find precisely the crevice in the wall where his father had been months before his death there obviously and for that for him to be there that moment and for that prayer to fall out of the wall at his feet and this is a true story there obviously was a communication that was not bound by time or space or in this case even life and death it was a message from beyond his father's life in this world and for that to happen there's got to be a conduit that carries that message that's the divine matrix that's the field that we're talking about so we know that that our our soul what we call our soul is is an energetic essence the number of studies were done early in the 20th century even trying to measure at the instant of death how much weight a body loses in their passing and no matter if the person was a 300-pound man or a 70 pound woman the the amount of weight that they lost I think it was 28 grams I believe is what it was was the average it was about the same a lot of controversy around around the studies and I'm not sure they've been duplicated well but the key is there there is apparently in essence within each of us that is not bound by this world and we asked the question in our mind when that essence leaves our bodies where does it go understanding that we live in the universe of at least 11 and probably 25 dimensions and that this field of energy is made of a non-conventional field that doesn't work the way electricity or our radio waves works all of a sudden it's not so far-fetched to believe that we're part of that essence and that we can move and travel and navigate and maneuver through those fields when we're not inhabited or inhabiting our bodies as we know them today it's giving a whole new meaning to life death when the ancients talked about heaven and their hands always went like this were those heavens and there are multiple heavens were those heavens the higher dimensions was heaven the language they used 5000 years ago for what our male dominated schematically oriented left brain technological society calls higher dimensional space state spaces are we are we talking about the same thing so this is again this is the value for of going back into these ancient traditions and and looking at it the way the way they look at the world through their eyes and asking what did they know maybe that we've forgotten I had the opportunity a few months ago the last remaining gnostic sect to survive in the 20th and now the 21st century is a sect called the Mandans and interestingly enough the location of their home has been the border between Iran and Iraq right where goal for one and go for two rolled right through them and I was in another country where many of the Mandans had fled and one of the high priests asked to meet with me while we were we were in this country and of course I said yes and he brought with him a scroll that he says is over 6000 years old and it was written in Aramaic which is interesting to me because Aramaic was the language of Jesus and we're not sure when it actually began but what was interesting about this scroll in our biblical traditions the creation of humankind happens in a couple of sentences in the book of Genesis because we've got the Reader's Digest condensed version and a lot of things we know were edited out in other traditions such as the Mandans they are in scrolls so there is column after column paragraph after paragraph of information describing the creation of the human body first and how the powers-that-be then tried to put the soul into the body suggesting that our soul is in fact separate in comes from somewhere else and what makes it so interesting is is that the first few iterations of humankind could not hold the power of the soul or the spark or the light of God from this higher dimension and it was only when they perfected the genetic recipe for the bodies that we have now that they could get that the soul and it always says when they created the body of Adam it's not when he created the body now them when they indicating that there were multiple people created her multiple beings create the body of Adam they could not get the soul into the body of Adam at first so into the male body of Adam they place the feminine soul from a higher state space a higher dimension as the way we can interpret this and it was the marriage of the physical body with the feminine soul they gave Adam his animation and allowed him to become the man that he was and that either metaphorically or in reality this is the story that tells us that our bodies and our souls while they share time together and are merged in this moment that they are actually separate entities and when we talk about life and death here again we find in at least a 6,000 year old tradition that there's something inside of us that's not from around here that comes from somewhere else and we begin to think about our universe in our lives it's a simulation it's saying essentially the same thing that that we're projecting or experiencing through this physical body to find out something here about ourselves in this world that apparently we cannot experience in heaven or in these other worlds and in these texts they are what we would call plays of morality it's if you live in the 8th dimension and you wake up every morning in the 8th dimension and all there is is light it's easy to live in the light but if you wake up in this third dimensional world and you've got choices of light and dark and good and bad right and wrong and males and females and all the things that go with that then you have to choose and and that's where it gets really interesting so this is again this is the value of going back into some of these these ancient traditions because they had a language that was intact that describes our universe and who we are in a way that our science is only now beginning to understand whether the ideas proposed by the physicists that we are somehow living a simulated reality are real or metaphoric again for me the bottom line is they suggest that we are living in a universe and in the world that we're part of rather than separate from and as part of our world we are empowered to participate in our healing and in our abundance and in our peace and I believe that that may be what this this life is all about recognizing recognizing that there's a power within us that allows us to transcend the great suffering and achieve that the greatest joys that we could ever ever want to experience what that means to me in terms of everyday life is looking at the world around me through new eyes and recognizing that this world is nothing more nothing less than a mirror of what we claim to be true in our hearts and if we choose to live in the new world rather than trying to hammer in the submission externally we can choose in our hearts to feel and believe in in ways now that our scientists say actually affect and change the reality of our world through what's called coherent heart based emotion they aren't just thoughts or wishes feeling as if our bodies are already healed feeling as if peace has already happened in our lives in giving thanks or appreciation and gratitude for whatever time we have together in this world because real or simulated we don't really know how long it lasts or how long we're here so from my perspective every day I do my very best and I ask myself the question what can I do today to leave every place that I visit a better place than it was than when I got there and whether it means cleaning up the sink in an airport bathroom before I leave because it looks better when I left and it didn't when I came in or when someone stops me in the hall in a very busy conference to talk and I know I've got to be somewhere else am I too busy to talk to them or could I give them 60 or 90 seconds fully present fully focused and honoring and just say to them I can only honor you for for these moments and look them in the eye in that way these are the little things we can do in our in our day be fully present with everyone that comes into our lives and crosses our paths and where we choose to travel and share our energy leave that place a better place than it was when we left [Music]