Sunday Morning Live: The Split That Made You Sick

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Morning Live with your host Aaron Tomlinson.

[00:00:03]Hope everybody's doing well out there today.

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[00:00:37]Yeah, that appears to be the case. So, hope everybody out there is doing well. I want to talk something interesting that I've been thinking a lot about and that I talk a lot about on this channel uh that I've talked about in interviews that I've written about on posts on Substack and Facebook is uh you know my passion is to help people live better lives to help people heal to help people feel more empowered and give them practical things that actually work. And my passion is especially for people who feel like they've tried everything. You know, they've put a lot of effort into self-development, into self-improvement.

[00:01:28]They've you you know, I'm looking for the the seekers out there. You tried religion, maybe you didn't try religion.

[00:01:35]You tried some shamanic healing, maybe you haven't. You've tried energy work.

[00:01:39]You've tried holistic health. You've tried diet. You've tried psychotherapy uh but nothing really seems to satisfy.

[00:01:49]Nothing really seems to uh land where everything sort of falls into place for you and you feel good. You have a abiding baseline sense of feeling okay, being okay. You have an abiding baseline sense of empowerment and you've healed. You've done your shadow work. Uh that's that's like that's the end result, right? You feel empowered. You feel alive. You feel connected to people in your life. You feel connected to your world. You feel connected inside your own body. And you're living the life that you were meant to live. And there are so many people who are stuck in that journey, who are trying to get there, but keep going around the same mountain, keep wandering through the same wilderness, keep coming up against the same issue over and over and over again. And my heart really, really goes out to that group of people especially. And some of it is just my personality. Some of it's just the way I'm wired. But I have this uh dogged determination that no matter what situation a person finds themselves in, no matter how dark or desperate it may be, no matter how bad the medical diagnosis may be or how difficult the depression or shutdown may be in someone's life, I just hold this frame, this belief frame inside myself that any situation can change, that anybody can be transformed, that anything can heal.

[00:03:26]Now that can sound uh polyanish.

[00:03:33]Uh I definitely have taken heat over the years. Uh especially recently I think as people have become more aware of the pain in the world and maybe just because we have it seems like more pain in this world than we've ever had before and the world is changing so fast and uh it seems that systems are collapsing. It seems that people are becoming more and more divided. Maybe that's why. But I know anytime I put out that declaration that no matter what a person's situation is, they can transform. It doesn't always mean that the person is going to get exactly what they want. But it does mean that whatever situation they're facing, they can face with a sense of hope, with a sense of empowerment, and with some sense that everything is going to be okay in the end. And I'll get flack for that. I'll get a lot of push back. Those are those are bold promises.

[00:04:32]um almost there's like this underlying suspicion that if you put an empowering message out there like that, if you put something out there that says no matter how desperate a situation is, you can transform it. You can no matter how long you've been stuck in a problem, you can change, you can reform, you can heal.

[00:04:52]Um, but there there's almost this this this skepticism that's just the air that we breathe, especially in like deconstruction communities or especially in religious communities where they never saw any demonstrations of power.

[00:05:07]They read about miracles or signs and wonders in the Bible but never see them.

[00:05:11]And so, uh, there can be this just air of skepticism that if somebody talks like this, they must be working an angle. they must be trying to um dupe people uh etc and so on. And I'm just saying that not because um I'm making a defense, just because when I put that statement out, I observe myself getting back in terms of comments from people a lot of defensiveness and and understandably so and for good reason because uh the you know the self-help industry itself, just books, just self-help books, not even talking about retreats and seminars and and um YouTube channels that have uh these large footprints where they're making lots of money off of the advertisements or uh the views and the shares and the comments, whatever, however that stuff works. You know, it's a it's a billion probably a multi-billion dollar industry and it has to keep you coming back, right? Just like in therapy. And I'm speaking as a therapist, by the way, so this is critique from the inside. And I I do think there is value. Let me say this. I do think there's value in talk therapy. Tremendous value in talk therapy. I believe in it wholeheartedly.

[00:06:29]Uh, I also believe that there is value in a long-term relationship with a good therapist that you trust and that you have a therapeutic alliance with because I think that it's healthy for us to uh have someone with us on the journey that we can process with through talking things out that can challenge us that can see things that that we can't see hopefully sits in a more objective place. I say hopefully because it can be hard sometimes as a therapist to keep that objectivity. It's one of the main things that we're trained to do is to hold that space of objectivity for people. And um and so there's value in it, but the model itself is built on you coming back. If you don't come back for the next session, the therapist does not get paid. Now, I'm not saying that there are any therapists. I don't know of any therapists. I don't think I've ever met a therapist that would deliberately not help someone to keep them coming back.

[00:07:26]There's plenty of people out there struggling with their mental health right now. And we're living in a culture that's more aware, more open to talking about mental health, more open to talking about things like depression and anxiety, more aware of trauma, childhood trauma, and how those things affect and impact our lives. So it's that's really really a good thing. So there are people always coming in. I'm just saying the model itself, the self-help model is built to keep us going to seminars, buying books, whatever. The therapeutic model is built to keep us in therapy.

[00:08:01]It's designed um in such a way that you have this giant book called the DSM that has thousands of diagnosis and you're supposed to come in and we're supposed to uncover where you fit in that book. And then we're supposed to find the evidence-based treatment that treats that specific condition. And then we're supposed to apply that. And then when we're taking notes and bill billing insurance companies and stuff, we have to show how these are all connected.

[00:08:34]This is the diagnos. Here's the diagnosis. Here's the evidence-based treatment. Here's how it's applied. And here's how it's going. And that's supposed to be therapy.

[00:08:45]And the problem with that is that human beings are a lot more complex than just a diagnosis.

[00:08:54]But it tells us something about our culture.

[00:09:00]And I think that there are larger frames, and stay with me on this because this may not make sense at first, but I'll explain it. There are larger frames that we live within. And by frame I mean uh things that we believe to be true, things that we mentally ascent to, things that seem so second nature that we don't even challenge them.

[00:09:26]And by and large most of us in the modern world I would say definitely most people in the western modern world live inside certain live inside a certain frame that I want to talk about today that I think uncovers a huge part of the problem and that's called the cartisian split and I'll explain it to you in a minute but I think it just As I've been thinking about this, understanding the Curtisian split and understanding how we signed that agreement long before we ever had any kind of critical thinking and how it's so agreed upon in our society, our culture, because almost every system that we have is built on this cartisian split. And so every experience and all the information that we've ever been exposed to our entire lives serves to confirm this philosophical assumption and bias that we have inherited after centuries after the western culture and the western world has been built on the ideas of Renee Deard.

[00:10:43]And it's the problem is I let let me say it this way. I think this gets to a real root of why we don't feel empowered and why we don't change and why we stay stuck or why we solve one problem only to encounter another one.

[00:11:04]We overcome our depression only to become anxious. We overcome our anxiety only to have a life event traumatize us and we find oursel back in the same cycle or in the same circles again. It's because of one fundamental understanding of the world that injured us, really hurt us and made us sick. And without examining that, without looking at that, without understanding that, and most importantly, without completely undoing it, it's going to be very hard for us to get well, and it's going to be very hard for us to feel empowered or hopeful or have any kind of uh existential or spiritual quest that's meaningful. If you missed the video that Derek Day and I did on Friday night on existentialism and spirituality, I'd highly encourage you to go back and watch it. It was it was a really cool and fun uh podcast to do together.

[00:12:00]We talked about meaning. We talked about existential meaning, spirituality, all this stuff. All right, so let's get down to it. When I talk about the Cartisian split, what am I talking about? So Renee Deart um is really one of I would say two primary um philosophical thinkers whose thoughts and ideas shaped not only the scientific method but the entire way that we perceive the world in the west. Dart was a French mathematician and philosopher.

[00:12:33]He lived from um uh let's see if I can find it here. was born in 1596 and lived until 1650.

[00:12:41]And like all of us, you can't just lift Deart and his way of thinking out of the context of the world in which he lived. And so he lived in a world where, you know, religious wars had torn Europe apart.

[00:13:02]And the old scholastic synthesis from um Thomas Aquinus was falling apart in the intellectual world.

[00:13:12]A lot of the stability and authorities had collapsed in in in many ways I guess you could say uh his world sort of mirrored our own because I believe our systems are failing. I believe our systems are collapsing. I I believe that we are on the verge of a whole new way of being and living with with AI and everything that's that's coming in and coming at us. So I think you could say that the tensions and the difficulties of his age mirrors our own. And he wanted to develop he had a really solid healthy motive and and not all about the way he thought about the world was bad.

[00:13:54]It's just that it got well I'll leave I'll leave the judgment out of it but he wanted an unshakable foundation for knowledge and actually Deart wanted to preserve as I understand it he wanted to preserve religion he wanted to save religion he saw there was tremendous value in it and so he was trying to divide eyes, a way of thinking about the world and a way of thinking about humanity that would preserve these things. And he started his project with radical doubt.

[00:14:42]He walked through this thought experiment of radical doubt and he said, "I'm going to doubt everything that can be doubted. What if my physical senses are actually lying to me? What if an evil demon has completely deceived me?

[00:15:03]What if I'm actually living inside a dream right now and not inside of the real world? It's like skepticism to the max, doubt to the max. I'm going to doubt everything. I'm going to be skeptical about everything. radical doubt and he comes to this conclusion after working through this thought experiment that the fact that he is doubting is a fact that he has being so he's he's famous for this saying I think therefore I am but for Dart thinking meant doubting Douing thinking meant something very specific. It meant an analytical form of thinking where doubt was at the top of the food chain where doubt was the highest part of at the top of the hierarchy.

[00:16:06]So I doubt therefore I am I cannot doubt the doubter. In other words, that was really the conclusion that Decart came to. I cannot doubt the doubter because the doubter is still there. So therefore what he's saying is the foundation of everything is skepticism and doubt and then he comes up with this brilliant idea and it really was brilliant for its time but it set in motion. You'll see how it set a lot of things in motion. He came up with this brilliant idea that the only thing that could be trusted was this analytical way of thinking. this analytical way of doubting, this criticizing thinking, the thought process of consciousness.

[00:16:50]And he proposes that the world is made of different kinds of stuff and you have two primary kinds of stuff. You have the stuff of the mind.

[00:17:06]That is what can be the bedrock of what can be trusted. Kind of ironic, isn't it? What can be trusted? The one thing that can be trusted is that I doubt thinking. This thinking invisible substance. And remember, he's trying to save religion. And so the soul is its own thing and it's self-contained.

[00:17:33]And it can only be explored and understood through self inquiry. And so you know therapists out there um anybody that works in psychology, anybody that works in any kind of clinical setting, it's interesting how this split even governs the way we do our work. Unless you do a lot of sematic processing. And again, I'm I'm just talking to therapists. Sorry, getting into the professional lingo there, but if you've gone to psychotherapy, that's that's a broader frame. If you've gone to psychotherapy, then you know that self inquiry is the way that we change.

[00:18:11]Self inquiry is the way that we heal.

[00:18:14]But the point is it is split off and everything else is essentially dead machinery.

[00:18:26]Now that doesn't mean that Deart didn't recognize life, but he did make a distinction, at least as far as I understand, between the human soul and every other kind of living creature, living being. We had the IMO day. We had the image of God. And so therefore, even scientific experiments on other primates, scientific experiments on other animals was justified because we were a different kind of eternal living stuff than what they were. So for all intents and purposes, in fact, uh I read a quote where Deart said, you know, like when a when an animal is screaming when they're performing, you know, cuts or various different types of experiments to explore and understand the world. It's like a clock that's chiming. So the universe becomes a clock that's sort of wound up and unwinding. This is how it's seeped into western thought.

[00:19:31]the universe, the the the world out there, matter is dead material, right?

[00:19:37]So, this set the foundation for physics, this set the foundation for biology.

[00:19:40]It's at the foundation for psychology.

[00:19:42]Everything flowing forward after that.

[00:19:47]The problem and so what happened is is he's making not a philosophical statement. I'm going to differentiate this just a little bit. He's not making a philosophical statement. He's making an ontological statement. And ontology is a word that you're going to hear me use a lot because I think our ontology is completely wrong. I think our maps in western uh society about what the nature of reality is, what most people think the nature of reality is, I think is completely wrong.

[00:20:17]So I talk about ontology a lot. Ontology means the nature of things. The the human mind is separated from everything else including the body. The body is just part of this physical world. So you have the physical material world which is mostly just dead stuff doing its thing like machines and you have the interior world which consists of analysis of analytical thought. Notice he didn't say I feel therefore I am. He said I think therefore I am. And so this split caused uh it wasn't just one split. It caused uh many splits to take place inside of our lives, inside of the way that we show up, the way that we are. I think therefore I am. It's it's a statement about onlogical being. And when it becomes accepted even at a subconscious level, then we spend most of our time thinking that thinking is the most important thing about being human. thinking that thinking is the most powerful thing about being human.

[00:21:21]But is it? See, what if it isn't?

[00:21:25]The downstream effects are tremendous because medicine, the body now becomes a mechanism and the mind is essentially irrelevant to it and the emotions are essentially irrelevant to it. In fact, we don't even know what bucket under this cartisian model to put the emotions in. Are they in the body? Are they in the mind? They're not part of the thinking analytical part. You never felt an emotion the same way you experience an analytical thought. Nobody ever felt solving a math problem. Well, I did because I thought I was terrible at math. But it's interesting as I've gotten older and gone back through report cards and old assignments and stuff, I was actually really good at math.

[00:22:08]So, I don't know where I got that idea.

[00:22:10]Um and then spirituality was impacted as well the way we look at spirituality because uh spiritual is something nonphysical.

[00:22:25]So it's all about the inner work and the inner work becomes introspection.

[00:22:31]The outer world becomes completely irrelevant. It's either uh a creation of God that's eventually under the Christian framework going to be destroyed by fire in a new heaven and new earth replacing it but it's out there right or it becomes Maya it becomes uh nothing but an illusion but either way it becomes something separate something other than something less important this life in this world which really opened the runway for what we call uh spiritual bypassing. Not dealing with pain and suffering in a real way, but trying to spiritually bypass it.

[00:23:13]Whether it's by binding the devil and pleading the blood or whether it's by uh affirming analytically and philosophically that we are just joy and peace and love at our core, but that core is completely something other than physical reality.

[00:23:33]It's completely something other than what I'm experiencing. And so my pain, my suffering, my grief, my anxiety, somehow it's less real. Right? So this really got into spirituality on all and and just keeps reproducing itself and reproducing itself over and over and over again because we haven't looked at the foundational issue which is this philosophical cartisian split. It affect the way we relate it to our environment, right? It affects ecology. The earth is a resource um that we can take from to improve our lives, right?

[00:24:11]um we can abuse it. we can um justify anything you know as long as it improves our lives any kind of crime against the environment of this earth whether it's against animals like I mentioned where you know the cruelty uh of animal experiments or whether it's you know dumping uh chemical garbage into our oceans with no thought at all for how it's affecting and impacting life down there. So, so that problem rises out of this split. And then here's something really, really interesting.

[00:24:53]Most of us, you know, are probably on some level involved with AI, right?

[00:24:59]whether you're using open AI, open source AI, chat GPT, um, Gemini, Perplexity, Grock, whatever uh, thing you might be using, even if it's just asking questions or trying to fact check something or whatever the case may be.

[00:25:13]But AI actually is is, uh, the culmination of Dayart's philosophy because all it does is think.

[00:25:24]It's pure cognition.

[00:25:30]It is thought without body.

[00:25:34]It is what the way I hear radical nondual oneness and AI are arriving at the same ontological place. If we say we are all one and the goal of spiritual enlightenment is to realize this oneness to realize that inside of you that suffering is just a pain body and it's part of a passing away illusion. We are all one and um uh this out here doesn't matter and whatever I do to you I'm actually doing to me because you're just another version of myself.

[00:26:16]then we're stripping away the experiential and relational components of life and you're not helping, you're damaging, you're harming, you're doing harm with those kinds of philosophies and ideas that don't really deliver the goods. They really don't.

[00:26:35]They're dehumanizing. I'm very strong on this because I think it's a sickness and I think it's promoting a sickness and I'll get push back from that and I'll lose followers and that's okay because I'm not trying to talk to everybody. I'm just trying to talk to those somebody's that resonate with the things that I'm saying so that we can build a better life and build a better world for ourselves with things that actually work with answers that actually deliver on the goods.

[00:27:04]And so we see that AI then how how is AI then not the same as oneness? Because here's the thing. AI is pure thought, pure cognition, but completely disembodied and also completely removed from rel relationships.

[00:27:26]It is an I without a body and it is an I without a we.

[00:27:34]So, oh no, Aaron, of course there's a wei because we put the prompts in there.

[00:27:37]See, we think that we relate and we've we've just we've made relationships so shallow.

[00:27:44]Sure, I hear there are people that are marrying AIS and whatever, so they have emotional attachments, but do AIs feel?

[00:27:51]Do AIs um relate in the same way that we relate? Of course not. Of course not.

[00:27:59]Now, here's the other thing that happened.

[00:28:02]This split didn't just happen out here.

[00:28:07]Maybe, if not just as importantly, more importantly, is the body's descent is is we're disconnected from our own bodies. Our thoughts, our feelings live inside of here. And so this is where the really disempowering frame comes in. My thoughts, my feelings, my prayers, my beliefs, my aspirations, my dreams, they have no real existence outside of this skull, this monkey skull.

[00:28:45]And they don't impact the world in any kind of effective or living way. They don't even affect my body. But the problem is is that the body never signed off on Deart's philosophy.

[00:29:03]The world never signed off on Deart's philosophy. So in actuality then it's the Deart philosophy that in itself when we think about it ontologically is the illusion is the Maya.

[00:29:17]And this is where and why and I'm going to I'm going to I I came at one this teaching really hard just a second ago, but this is where I tip my hat to it.

[00:29:25]It's a step in the right direction. And the reason it's so popular is because we know we know in our bones. We know in our bodies because our bodies contradict the cartisian split. And I'll explain this again in a minute or I'll explain this to you in a minute. But our bodies know that this is not real. Intuitively we know this split is not ontological.

[00:29:45]Maybe philosophical but it's not ontological. It's not the nature of things. And so we hear oneness teaching and it makes a lot of sense to us. Yeah.

[00:29:53]We're not separate. And that's where you're doing great work. People that are promoting that uh promoting oneness thought, oneness teaching. This is where the hermetic principle of all is mind uh or all is this one thing made of this one stuff. That's where I agree. That's where I tip my hat. That's where I say, "Yeah, we're on the same team. Let's let's get this done." And it's a good first step for people because it breaks down that barrier between the physical and the conscious, between the mind and the body, right?

[00:30:33]It breaks that perception that whatever's happening out there is just mechanical stuff doing its own thing and whatever's going on in here is really just my mind, which is also the result of living mechanical stuff doing its thing. Right? That aspect of oneness teaching is super important.

[00:30:56]But here's here's the reality.

[00:31:01]Analytical thought takes place in very specific regions of the brain through neural networks and neural pathways.

[00:31:09]And most people incorrectly believe that the brain is only in the skull.

[00:31:20]And they believe that because that's what they've been talking. Now this isn't a metaphysical statement by the way that I'm making. I'm making a physical statement but based on recent discoveries in neuroscience because the truth is that you have neural pathways.

[00:31:37]You have neural pathways that run through the esophagus that run into the heart that connect to the largest nerve in the body which is uh the vagus nerve and you have uh at least 40,000 neurons inside the heart itself. So you have a brain inside the heart and these neurons create neural pathways and these neural pathways can change. So essentially what I'm saying is is there's a network in the heart that thinks that feels and that chooses that can be mapped and scanned by neuroscientists has been discovered. I think it was discovered in like 1991 or something like that and has been studied. The heart also emits an electromagnetic field that extends several feet beyond the skin.

[00:32:32]So your living organ, your energy is going past your body. So the the mind doesn't just live in the skull. There's a mind in the heart. Your energy vibration doesn't isn't trapped within the skin. Isn't held tightly by the skin. The electromagnetic energy extends out. And that electromagnetic energy is the same electromagnetic energy that's causing your neurons to fire. But it's uh signal is uh I think mag its magnetic energy is uh something like 50,000 times stronger electric energy something like 5,000 times stronger than what can be measured in the brain. So this isn't just you know a smaller brain. It may have less neurons, significantly less with only 40,000 compared to what's in the brain.

[00:33:25]But it's emitting tremendous power and tremendous energy flowing and coming from your heart.

[00:33:31]Then there's this other mode of perception. If I were to ask you how many senses, if I were to ask the average person, how many senses do you have? The average person is going to say, I have five senses. I can see, I can hear, I can taste, I can smell, can feel.

[00:33:46]But the truth is again that science has mapped out anywhere up to 30 different senses that we have. We're just not talking about them.

[00:34:01]So you have a whole perceptual network inside your body that is the perception of your internal state.

[00:34:14]And you also have a brain in your gut and most of the serotonin which they say is responsible for you know lack of serotonin or problem with serotonin is responsible for depression. They treat depression medically by addressing serotonin. And 95% of your serotonin not only is manufactured in your stomach but resides in your stomach not in your brain.

[00:34:37]Your stomach produces dopamine. Your stomach is involved in emotional regulation just like your heart's invol involved in emotional regulation. And the fascinating thing is is that most of the information that's traveling on the information highway of the vagus nerve is not coming from the head down to the rest of the body. It's coming from the the entic nervous system, the gut brain from the heartb brain and going up into the heart. Which means that the brain, the head is receiving more information from the body and from these two other nervous uh uh sorry, these two other brains. It's receiving more information than what it's sending. It's taking in more messaging than what it's sending out. And that receiving of information from the body is what interception is all about.

[00:35:24]but thinking trauma escaping feeling and emotion and going up into your brain into what's called the default mode network where you're just constantly thinking and constantly analyzing and working overtime up here.

[00:35:40]Literally, they can show it impedes and can shut down that interception part of you so that people aren't living connected to their bodies. They're not living connected with their bodies.

[00:35:53]they're split. They think therefore they are and they're not even aware that their uh the reception of that information is being blocked or being shut down. So that I've worked with people that didn't know when they were hungry, didn't know when they had to go to the bathroom, couldn't feel their own heart beating in their chest, weren't aware of how they were feeling in their body or where they held stress in their body. And oftentimes these people are horribly traumatized by life and so they've escaped up into their brains and they're living exclusively in mental content.

[00:36:22]That's a horrible split.

[00:36:26]So the body is not something an object that I have.

[00:36:34]It's the subject. It's not the object. I have a body. It is part of the I am being in the world. And this is where again I love I love the oneness part.

[00:36:46]But being in the world means that this whole thing is connected. Now, this is where I do affirm and believe in oneness that it's all we're all part of one thing. We're all connected to one thing and because I believe consciousness is fundamental, but I don't reduce consciousness down to analysis. I want to be clear, but awareness and experience and interior an interiority is that interiority interiority. I don't know that that the physical world much like a pansychist or like an animist uh someone from a culture that believes that the rivers have spirits that the that there are spirits on the mountains that they can talk to the rocks and the rocks will talk back to them. This is a world view that says yes what appears in front of us as strictly physical matter is in a sense a Maya in a sense it is an illusion because there is a mind and an interiority that is uh part of the living world and we fit into this thing.

[00:38:00]So, a dream that I had last night can have significant meaning and correlation to the events that are happening in my life because there's no split. There's no division. I can dream myself awake. I think there's a book out there by that title. I can uh decipher my dream and then decipher my life. Hat tip there to my friend uh Tiana Galano. You can uh pick up her book by contacting Tiana.

[00:38:32]You'll find her on my friends list. Um but that whole the whole concept that you know I'm dreaming can affect my health. It can affect can give me I can get wisdom in the night from the dream and I can know how to apply it and that can help me solve my problems in my daily life. omens or signs, things that appear that get our attention that connect to what's happening in our lives that occurs in what from the cartisian mode for sure is seemingly disconnected becomes suddenly meaningful and suddenly consequential so that I can see nature begins to speak to me, but not just speak to me in the way that it inspires awe and wonder, but actually speak to me in a way that allows me to heal. Speak to me in a way that allows me to see the patterns of my own life. To understand what's going on with me, to understand what is mine to do in this current circumstance or in this situation.

[00:39:45]And that's just the physical world that there's an there are invisible layers.

[00:39:49]There are consciousness, there is energy, there is healing, there's messaging because all of this is connected and it's not split anymore. so that my body knows more oftentimes oftentimes my body knows more than my brain and I will get through life uh in a more empowered way by just listening more to my body. I can solve my problems by listening more to my body. I can heal my diseases by listening more to my body. I can solve relational problems and financial problems by listening more to my body. I can be in the world and participating in the world and I can grow and I can learn from the messages that nature is sending me. I can recognize omens. I can recognize synchronicities. I don't have to call them, oh, they're just coincidences.

[00:40:46]I can know that they are very powerful uh very powerfully connected.

[00:40:57]This means that my beliefs can influence reality.

[00:41:02]This means my emotions can influence outcomes that I'm completely disconnected from in any other way. This means that precognition, knowing something ahead of time. This means listening to my intuition, listening to my dreams, listening to my emotions, all the ways of knowing.

[00:41:23]Because you see at the end of the day what this split has done is this split did not enlighten us. This split contracted us. It's not just a philosophical statement. It's a philosophical contraction that narrows the scope of uh trustable information that uh removes us from even being able to experience life in an embodied participatory and empowered way. And so by undoing this uh split, by looking at it, by observing it, by realizing that it may not be reality at all, and that the older ways of thinking may be a map that is closer to the actual territory of what's around us. And then that can open us up to metaphysics because we don't just say that all the real stuff is only the quantifiable stuff, only the observable stuff, only the measurable stuff. That's the only real stuff that's out there. Well, you cannot see, no one can see and put under a microscope the affection that you feel for your family.

[00:42:37]No one can uh measure the suffering that you experience when your heart is broken or when life disappoints you. And to say that that is unreal is is is is dehumanizing.

[00:42:52]But it's contracting. It's a contraction.

[00:42:56]It's it causes us to live life in a more narrow way. And when we live life in a more narrow way, we're going to live life in a less empowered way. We're going to live life in a less holistic way. And there's going to be medicine available to us for our healing that comes not only through the physical world through herbs and plants and medicines and stuff like that. But there's medicine that comes because there's an entire world of consciousness. There's an entire spiritual world that is highly populated with beings that can assist us with beings that hold medicine for us with source and creator itself that we can connect to with uh realms of knowledge and wisdom that we can have imparted to us about our lives that can help us understand and solve and work through the problems that we're going through and feel supported in the worst times of our lives. And know that we are empowered towards a brighter future that has purpose and that has meaning and that has hope and that we are here for a reason. We are here for a purpose and we're not just a collection of atoms bumping into each other that became enlightened primates just so that we could self-reflect and think about all this stuff just to eventually be extinct. What a depressing way of seeing the world. People can try to intellectually bypass that and do intellectual gymnastics to say, "My world has gotten so much better uh since I became an atheist because I left Christianity." Well, then your Christianity stinks. It stinks bad because there is really no meaning or hope in that. There's just attempts to try to intellectually bypass now instead of spiritually bypass the real existential ache and cry that most people have that all of us have. Let's be honest. All right. I came across a little passionate. I probably made some statements I'm going to be disappointed in myself for making.

[00:45:00]But I am passionate about this stuff.

[00:45:02]And I want to come back to the oneness thing because I know that that probably upset people more than anything else that I said. But we have to call out things that are making us sick. And so like I said, the oneness part is healthy. But when I diminish grief, when I diminish living life in a real way, in a meaningful way, in a participatory way in this world, I'm making the world sicker. I am not making it healthier. The intention may be there. Oh, no. We're all just uh uh compassion at our core. We're all just happiness at our core. We're all just joy at our core. Can you not see how that's reductionistic? Can you not see how that itself is a contraction?

[00:45:46]Because you're saying what what what do you see? I want to just ask a person when you hear that. At your core, you're compassion. At your core, you are healing and light. Okay. But what's what's the what's the visual that goes there? Because and what does that say about the rest of you? If at your core you're these things, at your core, doesn't that make you smaller? Doesn't that make you contracted? I'll tell you what I see in my mind. I see a a core like a core of an apple or core of an onion, right?

[00:46:18]Like it's not you you it's the thing you throw out.

[00:46:22]I'm not saying that people are saying you throw that, but it's like it's it's like I see it like right here just this little part of me that's a core. And yeah, I know I need to let that radiate out. And there's some truth in all of that. But I just think we need to be aware of our language and how our the way we language things can have very powerful impact on the way that people perceive our message and the way that people think. So again, I affirm the oneness part. Uh but I think there are aspects of it when it's not nuanced and when it's communicated especially when it's communicated there's no self and that your pain in the moment is less real than this other stuff. Uh I don't know why we have to do that. I don't know why we have to quantify things in that way. And I think talking about things in that way does more harm than it does good. So um I don't want to end on a bad note though. I want to end on a positive note. So let me know in the comments if you think I'm full of uh tell me in the comments um if you if you appreciate it, if it helped you in some way, let me know. That feedback is really really important to me. And uh thank you if you made it all the way to the end. I appreciate it. All of you that have been supporting me um with your donations monthly, I really really appreciate that as well. Uh and um yeah, maybe I should put up those links if you want to support um monthly.

[00:47:42]even if it's just $5 or something. All of that helps during this time, during this transition that we are going through. And uh I look forward to being with you again uh next week. And I hope that you have a wonderful day and a wonderful week.