Outdated Thinking is Destroying You! | Gregg Braden on the MINDSET SHIFT You NEED!

We are not broken. We are in transition. In a world moving faster than ever before, Gregg Braden warns that clinging to the past is not only futile but also a barrier to thriving in the present. The stakes couldn't be higher. Our outdated thinking is perpetuating global crisis, from economic instability to environmental collapse. And in this speech, Braden challenges the false narratives of competition and separation, offering a vision grounded in scientific evidence and ancient wisdom that highlights cooperation interconnectedness, and resilience. He reminds us that the solution to our greatest challenges already exists, but they require a shift in mindset and a willingness to embrace the new. This is not about surviving. It's about thriving in the greatest transformation humanity has ever seen. Special thanks to Liz Dawn for partnering with us to release this content exclusively on our YouTube channel. And if you make it all the way to the end of the video, leave a believe in the comments so I can celebrate with you. Believe. I'm going to start with a statement from a man who I, I just have so much respect for. Evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson. Are you familiar with his work? E.O. Wilson? You will be. He was born in 1929. He's still with us. Brilliant, brilliant man. What he said is this. He began by saying that we are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. Okay, that's a very cool statement. He could have stopped right there. And, and it would work really well. But he didn't. He went on, and because he did go on, it makes tremendous sense for our program today. He said the world from now on will be run by people that he calls synthesizers. A synthesizer, that is someone who's able to put together the right information, just the right information at just the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. And that's where you and I are today. It's no longer enough to be an expert in one thing. We've got to know a lot about a lot of things, at least a little about a lot of things, and be able to pull it together to make sense in a meaningful way in a world that we live in now that the experts are calling a world of extremes. And this is what I want to talk to you about today, this program. We are living a time of extremes, and the extremes have led to what is being called a new normal. And this is important. I'm going to focus on this just for a little bit this morning. We are living a new normal. The rules of the way you and I have been led to think of our relationship to our bodies, the world out there, economies, money, jobs, career, health, all of that has changed, and it's never been broadly acknowledged in the mainstream media. So a lot of people are clinging to an idea of the past. In a world that no longer exists. And the struggle in their lives comes from them waiting for things to get back to normal. We're going to explore this a little bit. A new normal has emerged, and the world that you and I— let's see, how old is everybody in this room? I'm just going to look real quick. All right, we're all within 80 years of one another, so, so we're all about the same age. We grew up in a world in the 20th century, most of us, based in science. And I want to say I was trained as a scientist. I think science is good. Science does not have all the answers. Science is a relatively new way of thinking of our world. It's only about 300 years old. But our ancestors have 5,000 years of experience to explore who we are in our relationship to the world. It's not scientific in scientific language, But our ancestors had very deep understandings that are now being borne out today. They're being proven correct by the best science of our time. And I think that's important because the science— maybe we've asked too much. Maybe we've expected too much from science. You know, all science can do is give us information about us and our world. That's all it can do. It can't solve the problems. That's up to us. We have to have the wisdom to know how to apply the knowledge that science gives to us. And that's where 5,000 years of history comes in really handy. We can learn from our past if we have the wisdom to learn from the cycles of civilization that have been here before, the cycles of climate change that have been here before, the cycles of people trying to provide for large populations and share vital resources. We can learn from that if we have the wisdom to do it. So I'm going to talk a little about the false science that's led to many of the crises that we have today And I'm going to round out today with a conversation and an experience of personal resilience. Now, MISHKA asked me to do two programs, and they asked me to do two different programs. So I am doing another one tomorrow that picks up where this one leaves off, and we will go into a lot of direct experience with resilience. If you're not with me tomorrow, I want you to have some of that today and then go see some of these other amazing speakers. If you are with me tomorrow, I want you to know it's not a carbon copy program. We're going to go much deeper. With direct personal experience in terms of resilience. So that gives you some idea of what we're doing today. Let's begin. Let me begin with some facts. It is a fact that you and I are living a time of extremes. Now, it doesn't mean bad things are happening or even good things for that matter. It means big things. Big things. Have you noticed big, big things happening in the world? I mean, it's like, how many stopped watching TV? My wife and I did as well. We live in a rural area in northern New Mexico. We stopped. Let me tell you why it doesn't do any good for us. Because everywhere we go in the world, people say, "Well, did you see the news today?" And I say, "No, we stopped watching TV." And they said, "Well, let me tell you what you would see if you had seen the TV today." So we get to hear about it all anyway. But the key is the media focuses a lot on bad things, and you know that. And almost every day you wake up, you know when you turn on the news, you're going to hear— they're going to zero in on some bad thing happening somewhere. But it's not all about bad or good, as I said. It's just big. We're living a time of big things. Our world is changing in ways that you and I have never seen. Our parents never saw it. Our grandparents never saw it. We don't have a good blueprint. We don't have a template to deal with the kind of change that we're being asked to go through. It's a fact that our lives are changing in ways that we're simply not used to. I'm not going to say it's good or bad or right or wrong. We're just not used to it. And if you don't compare it to anything else, sometimes you wouldn't even know the change is there. Have you ever thought about that? It only seems different and extreme because we're comparing it to what we've come to know in the past. It's happening faster than we've been prepared to accept. Even the leaders who I've spoken with that knew a lot of change was coming, they said, "Yeah, we knew it was coming. We had no idea it was going to happen this fast." I'm just going to share another story. I was hesitating for a minute in the interest of time, and it's so present with me. I want to share a story. You know, you never— when you do these programs, you never know who's going to show up in the audience. So I did a program, I was just outside the Beltway in Washington, D.C., Arlington, Virginia, last year, and I was doing a program, and there were a lot of really suspicious-looking people in the audience. They had black suits and black sunglasses and little earpieces, you know, and high-tech stuff. So I said, first thing, I said, you know, we're not going to talk about dark governments, or secret governments. We're not going to talk about conspiracy theories, so if that's why you're here, you can leave. And a bunch of these guys just got up and left. So I said, okay, now we can talk about the good stuff, you know. So during a break, a man came up to me who works in a government agency, and what he said, it was really interesting. He said, there was a time that we— and I don't know who we is— there's a time that we believed we understood what was happening and the changes that are happening in the world. And he said, but this is his language, he said, "Something has gone awry and we don't have that understanding any longer." I said, "Why are you here?" And he says, "I want to see your take on what it is that's going on." My sense is what he is seeing as awry is the wild card. It's the unknown factor of human consciousness and human hearts working together as a family to build a new world recognizing the unsustainable things that don't work any longer. That's what he was saying. So our lives are changing in ways we're not used to, faster than we've been prepared to accept. And it means we've got to think and live differently now than we ever have. And that's what I want to do today. For a lot of people, the extremes— there was a time in the past where we separated the big world out there from our living room, from our everyday lives. If you notice, you can't do it any longer. We can no longer separate the extremes on the planet from the extremes in our own backyard, in our lives, in our homes, and at our jobs, in our schools. For example, climate change is a perfect example. We can no longer separate the climate change happening halfway around the world, like these 3 multiple consecutive storms in the Philippines last year. Remember when that happened? Absolutely wild. You can't separate that from what's happening in our own backyard. This was the floods in Colorado late last year. My wife and I, we live in a rural area in northern New Mexico. So our neighbors to the north were getting this, while our extremes in New Mexico were just the opposite. This is taken on our property just outside of Taos, New Mexico. You can't separate the big stuff out there from what's happening in our lives any longer. You can't separate the price of energy and oil and what's happening in the world of oil from the food on your dinner table. This is really interesting. I did some work with the U.N. late last year, and we had the opportunity to see some research they'd done. Look at this relationship between the price of oil and the price of food. The red is the oil and the blue is the price of food. Even if you can't see the color, you see the relationship, right? When the price of energy goes up, the price of food goes up. And you say, well, you know, what's the big deal? So we pay a few cents more. Well, we're blessed in this part of the world. But if you live in the Middle East, where the price of rice now is $5 a bag, and you need 4 bags of rice for your family for a week, and you only make $25 US, $100 a week, all of a sudden the price of food is out of your range, as well as the price of housing and the price of food. This is impacting our global family tremendously. We can no longer separate the economies of the world. I think you know that. You can't separate what's happening from the euro and the yen and the dollar. Now, as I was putting this together, I realized I was coming to the Conscious Celebrate Your Life weekend, and so I thought I should do some channeling. So while I was putting this slide together, I channeled the US dollar. And the dollar had a message that the dollar wanted me to share with you, and this was the message right here. So you can't say Gregg Braden doesn't do any channeling. There it is right there. Well, you know, the economies of the world and our economy, they're so deeply entwined. You cannot separate them any longer. We can't separate the fact that all of those things are impacting the way people have made livings. In the past. Factories are closing, industry is shutting down, and the net result of that on a global basis is you cannot go to any neighborhood in the world and not see this. And I see it every, every, everywhere I go. Have you noticed more of this? So the big changes are showing up in our personal lives. You can't separate one from the other. We also know that we can no longer separate what we call spirituality from the real world. If you're in this program, I would imagine you have spent some time studying yourself, self-help. You've explored your spiritual past, your spiritual traditions. And I want to thank you for the work that you've done. There is a tendency for many people to try to keep spiritual work separate from everyday life. And my sense is this: I think we're at a time where you can't separate our spirituality from our everyday lives. If we were ever going to apply those amazing principles of love and compassion that we learn about our hearts and our spirituality to our everyday lives. I can't think of a better time than right now. How about you? You think this is the time to apply those things? That's one of the reasons I'm so excited about Marianne Williamson running for political office. Yeah. I'll say I'm fully behind her. She's invited me to be her consultant for climate change and those kinds of things. But that's a perfect example of spirituality being now incorporated into our everyday lives in a really big way. We live in a globalized world, and the fact is, in our globalized world, we share everything, everything, the good stuff, the bad stuff, the big stuff, the little stuff. You cannot go anywhere in the world and not see this symbol of culture right here. I have to tell you, I've been to Tibet a number of times. You're going to see some images. Last time I was in Tibet, in Lhasa, Tibet, downtown Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Plateau, They now have a McDonald's. The problem is they have no cows to make hamburgers, but what they have an abundance of is an animal called a yak. And the monks love to joke and say they're having a big yak attack when they want to— and the nuns. It's true. If you know any Tibetans, ask them. Ask them about a big yak attack. We share culture all over the world because we share everything. We share technology, and the irony is The technology placed— I've spent a lot of time in the nunneries and the monasteries where the monks and the nuns go to be isolated, to focus inward, and look at what's happening. The technology. These are monks texting one another. Or the sadhus, the holy men on the Ganges in India when I was there last time. Look at this. Globalization means we share everything. We're sharing culture, we're sharing technology, we're sharing information. It means we're sharing the extremes of our world. We can no longer separate. If it's happening in one part of the world, sooner or later it's going to show up in our lives. If it's happening with our brothers and sisters somewhere else, it's going to happen to us somewhere. And that's important for us to acknowledge. The extremes have created new rules and what is now being called a new normal. However, there is a reluctance, and in many cases a flat-out resistance in the mainstream media. They will not share much of the information that you're going to see here today, although what I'm going to share with you is based on peer-reviewed science. It's scientific fact. It's not my hypothesis, not my theory, it's scientific fact. Now there's good news, and I wanted— this Valentine's Day weekend, I thought we should start off with the good news. The good news is that we already have the solutions to all the big problems in the world. As a scientist, working behind the scenes, the defense industry during the last years of the Cold War. I've seen some of the highest high-tech stuff you could ever imagine. We've had it for decades. We already have the solutions, technological solutions, for all the big problems in our world. For example, we already have all the food we need to feed every mouth of every child and every woman and every man on the face of this earth right now. There is no shortage of food. That's not why people are going hungry. There's no shortage of food. It's the thinking that doesn't make it a priority for that food to get where it needs to go. That's the problem right now. Right now, we already have the technology to bring safe, clean, efficient, sustainable electricity into every home of every family on the planet. We can do it in a way that's cheap, resources that are abundant, create zero, zero greenhouse gases, cannot be weaponized. We already have this technology. It's there right now. We already have the means to close this gap between poverty and wealth. It's ripping, it's shredding our communities. Have you seen it happening? And it's being used by the media and politicians to divide us against one another. It's called class warfare. Every time you talk about liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, every time you talk about wealth and poverty, and when you talk about all of the things that divide us, that's what keeps people stuck in their powerlessness. And it's been very effective, unfortunately. But as we become aware of it, it becomes less effective. We already have the way to close that gap. We already know how to create communities that build clean, sustainable, and self-sufficient ways of living like this one right here. Does everybody know where this is? It's in your backyard. You know where it is? This is part of Arcosante, Paolo Solari's community. I think he passed last year, as a matter of fact. We lost a brilliant man last year. What a visionary, way ahead of his time. Paolo Solari, if you're not familiar with him, is a visionary architect. Built this community. This is one portion of it called Arcosante. It's just on the other side of Tempe, I believe. Is it down in— is it up north? Okay, I get disoriented when I come here. This community right now, 5,000 people are sustained in this community. They create their own power, they grow their own food, and their own economy is based on people working to sustain the power and food that gives them life. It's a beautiful balance. We already know how— and there are others. Northern New Mexico, the Earthship communities. Those of you who've been in Northern New Mexico, based on recycled materials that build the most amazing, beautiful fully off-the-grid solar and wind and renewable-powered homes. They have solar toilets. I could do a whole program on how a solar toilet works. But I want to tell you, it involves no water at all. I'll tell you a little piece of it. It's so cool. I went into the architect's office one day. He had a mason jar sitting on his desk. And it had some stuff in the bottom. Just ash. And I said, "What's that?" He said, "What you're seeing in this mason jar, about this big, He said, "That is the result of a family of 3. This is what is left from the waste created by their bodies for a month after using a solar toilet." When you take all the moisture and everything out, it takes up very, very little room. There's no odor. There's no— I mean, it's like ash. The solar toilet does that. You don't have to waste all the water. Water is a precious commodity in our part of the world. Think how much water we use. We already have this technology. We have all this amazing— We've got the solutions to the big problems. So the question When I see that, and you're probably wondering sitting in your chairs, if we already have it, where is it? Aren't you wondering that? Where's the stuff? How come we're not using it? As a scientist working in the corporations and the industries, one of the things I learned back in the '70s and the '80s was that the world that we were living then and we're living now, it was never meant to last forever. It was meant as a bridge, as a stepping stone to a better world. And a lot of the technology that's breaking down now It wasn't supposed to last 100 years. The power grid that brings power to all of our homes, those wires hanging up out there, Tesla developed those late 1800s, early 1900s. I'm going to channel Tesla just for a minute. He said, "This isn't supposed to last forever." He said, "This is to ease the suffering in the world now while I build the next phase." But the bankers got stuck in the money that was being made from charging people for power. The internal combustion engine was never meant to be the engine that lasts forever. We weren't supposed to burn oil forever. So the world now, the unsustainable world that's breaking down, it was never meant to last forever. It's actually outlasted the due date that many of its inventors had in mind. The question, where are these solutions now? The answer is why we're here. It's the greatest crisis, a bigger crisis than any, bigger than climate change, bigger than the way we're dealing with resources, any of that. It's the crisis in thinking. It's the crisis that hasn't made it a priority to ease the suffering of our global family. Hasn't made that a priority yet. It's the crisis in thinking. It's a fact that the world of the past no longer exists. I'm going to spend a few minutes— this is important. The world that you and I have known disappeared, and nobody told us. Okay, there was no special on BBC or on CNN or a glossy exposé in an airport magazine somewhere. The mainstream media has never really acknowledged it. They've done just the opposite. Politicians have a vested interest, academics that have a— college professors have a vested interest, political leaders, spiritual and religious leaders have a vested interest. If you listen closely, they're all promising you and me that if we support them, things will get back to normal. You notice, back to the way they used to be. And I'll tell you why it's impossible, because that world is gone. It no longer exists. Here's what I mean by that. We no longer live in a world of isolated countries where a lot of those ideas used to work. We don't live in isolated economies or isolated technology or energy or defense or communications. And because that changed, that's the globalization, It means the things that you and I deal with in our lives every day for ourselves, our families, our loved ones, the way we share the things that are vital— medicine, resources, education, all those things— those things have changed as well. The idea of money, what money means and how you create it and how you save it. If you're still thinking the old way that you find something of value, you hang on to it and wait for it to increase in value, you're still thinking in the old paradigm. The whole idea of money is changing. The idea of jobs and careers, religion, spirituality, medicine, health, security, all that's changing. So my wife and I, Martha, we live in a rural area in northern New Mexico, and we've seen this, that the world of the past no longer exists. Stories are a good way to illustrate a point, so I'm just going to share a story with you here. Last year we were driving up through northern New Mexico, southern Colorado, up through the mining communities. In very rural areas. If you've ever been up there, very sparsely populated areas. And we stopped at a convenience store for gas. And I went and asked the cashier, I said, "How are things in your town? How's the economy?" And at first the cashier, she didn't even look up. She was counting money. She didn't even look up. She says, "Do you really want to know?" And I said, "Yeah, I wouldn't have asked." And then she looked up and she said, "When the mines are open, life is good." She said, "Pay is good." People feel secure. They're secure enough to have new babies, to build new homes, to buy new cars. They put their kids to school. They are confident enough to take the leap to try new jobs and new careers. She said, when the mines are closed, life is hell. She said, life is hell, and that's what's happening right now. And I said, well, how many people could those mines possibly employ? She said, when the mines are running 24/7, she said, 600 people work in the mines. And I said, okay, well, how many How many are in your town? She said, we have 1,800 people in the town. So a third of the town works in those mines. I said, well, that's got to be tough. What are you doing until the mines reopen? She says, we're waiting for things to get back to normal. She said, until then, we're doing whatever we can. The guys, they work on one another's cars. They chop firewood for the winter. They bale hay. They help with the gardens, all this stuff. I said, how long— this is why I'm telling the story. I said, "How long have the mines been closed while you're waiting for things to get back to normal?" She said, "9 years." 9 years. This town is in suspended animation. They put their lives on hold waiting for things to get back to normal. And it looks like— the town looks tired. It's run down. Everything kind of ground to a stop because they are clinging to an idea of a world that no longer exists, waiting for that world to come back. And because they're doing that, They can't make the space to embrace the new opportunities of the new world that's already here, where they can thrive in ways even more than they were able to in the past. And I remember thinking as I got back into the truck, I said, "I feel like I've just seen a microcosm in this little community of what so many people are seeing in the world." And maybe you know people that are thinking along these lines as well. I see this a lot, especially when we go to Europe. The language is a little different. But for many people, there's a sense that life was chugging along pretty well. You know, it had its ups and downs. It was doing pretty well. Something happened. For some people, it was 9/11. For some people, it was the economic collapse in 2008. But whatever it is, something happened and that we entered into this zone and we're waiting for things to get back to normal. We're waiting to exit the zone. In Europe, they say they're waiting for the other shoe to drop or the other foot to fall. I hear that all the time. Do you hear that or do you feel that sometimes? Here's the thing. It's never been acknowledged in the mainstream, the fact that that world is now gone. And here's why it's important. This is why I want to say this to you. You and I have never been given the opportunity to mourn the passing of a world and a way of life that we have known in the past, that we grew up with, and that no longer exists. And it's important because until you let that go, it's really hard to make room for the new opportunities that come about in a very, very different way. So I think about this. I miss that world. There are things— Santa Fe, New Mexico, there was a beautiful Borders bookstore on a corner that was a landmark. I miss seeing Borders bookstores. I miss the little mom-and-pop shops that used to fix like the holes in my boots. These are my Tony Lama boots. I got them shined at the airport just for you up on this stage. You got to take care of these things. These are 20 years old, you know. I miss the people that used to help us with that, the little mechanics that used to be able to help us with our cars or with our computers. Now you go to the Geek Squad and maybe you can get it fixed in a couple of days by somebody that knows what's going on. It might sound silly, but I think it's important. If you haven't done so, I'm going to invite you to do this. Sit down and make a list. Don't do it while you're driving or operating heavy machinery, please. Make a list of the things that you miss and the things— and maybe you don't even know you miss them— but the things that are no longer in your world that used to be. And give yourself a few moments. It doesn't have to be a big ceremony. Just give yourself a few moments to mourn the loss of those things. It's okay to miss them, and that creates the opening so that you can begin to embrace the new opportunities. Otherwise, you're like that little village waiting for things to get back, and everything's on hold. There's a whole new world. That's all those new solutions. They're, they're already out there. It all comes down to this, and I think this is— I think this is important. The way you and I answer a single question holds the keys to our ability to make sense of this change, to adapt. We don't want to just survive. You know, we did all that last night. I did all that last night. I don't know, maybe there's another risk that's here. I don't know. It's a perfect segue into what we're doing. We don't want to just survive and hang on by the skin of our teeth waiting for things to get back to normal. We'd like to thrive even to a greater degree than we were before the changes happened. That's why this is important. The way you and I answer a single question holds the key to our ability to do just that. The question: If I said to you the way you answer one question is the reason for every decision you have ever made in your life, from the time you were conscious of making decisions till the moment you walked through that door and when you leave today. The way you answer one question, it's the reason for every one of those. If I said that the way you answer one question is the basis for every choice you've ever made, your choice of romantic partner, your choice of friendship, your choice of job, career, Healthcare. Every choice you've ever made. If I said the way you answer one question is at the heart of every challenge that's ever crossed your path or may be with you right now, would you want to know what that question is? You have to say— just say yes. If you say no, this is a really short program. So say, "Gregg, what is the question?" Oh, I'm really glad that you asked. Please don't be deceived by the simplicity of this question. It's a simple question. Every human who's ever walked this earth has had to answer this question in one way or another. Every civilization, every spiritual community, every religious organization that asked people to follow them have had to answer this question. The question is simply this: as individuals, we have to say, who am I? And there's a lot of us here So the question becomes, who are we? And here's why it's important. The way you answer this, either consciously or subconsciously, it forms the lens through which you look at the world and you look at your relationship to the world. And that lens is what determines how you deal with life. The way you answer, who am I? Some of you have known me for a long time. I've spent the bulk of my adult life doing my very best to answer the question for myself, who am I? And to share what I found, who are we? Some of you have even traveled with me to places throughout the world where I have gone to find the answers to that question. My thinking has been, I'll just share my, my thought process. My thinking has been that if I could find places least disturbed by the modern world, those places would hold the information that was most intact. About our relationship to the past. So I've gone to the places of our ancestors, and every time I share this slide— there was a woman not long ago that she said to me, she goes, "Greg, your journey to answer the question is documented by the length of your hair over the years." And I think she's looking— this is 1986 in Egypt. I think she was looking at that one right there. And I actually noticed that less than the color. I said, "Yeah, the color of my hair over the years is—" has changed. But my journey has taken me into some of the most amazing, amazing places remaining on this Earth today. Places that have been least disturbed. And this is the hardest part of the program for me. Every slide that I'm going to share with you has got a story, and I can't share all the stories, but I want to give you a sense of the continuity of knowledge that our ancestors have anchored and preserved for you and me today. If we have the wisdom to see that. My journey has taken me into some of the most magnificent— whoops— magnificent monasteries remaining in the Earth today. This is on a Tibetan plateau, just a little over 17,000 feet above sea level. It's an amazing, amazing place. I've had the opportunity to go to some of the most amazing temples in the world and some of the most humble mud brick monasteries like this one in the Sinai Desert in Egypt, 7,000 feet. Above sea level on the Sinai Plateau. You would never in a million years imagine that from looking at the outside of this monastery, you wouldn't imagine what the inside is going to look like. So I'm going to share it with you. It's 1,500 years old. The first time I walked in, this is what I saw when I walked in the door. It was this. That's exactly what I said when I walked in. I said, wow. And then I realized it's been there 1,500 years. They've had 1,500 years to shop, 1,500 years to decorate. But the reason I'm sharing this, it's in places like this. In this monastery is where we found this library that is second only to the Vatican. The Vatican actually is trying to get this library into Rome for, quote, "safekeeping," unquote, even though it's been here 1,500 years. In this library are the records of our past, including the records of the crucifixion from people who witnessed the crucifixion. Woodcuts. The woodcuts from those who witnessed it, the illuminated manuscripts describing what they saw, and the images from the artisans that portrayed who the man was that was crucified. How many of you are familiar with something called the Shroud of Turin? It leaves— I've spoken about it many times, done entire programs. It's the cloth that has the mysterious body of a man that was crucified. We don't know for sure who it is. Because there is no Jesus test. There's not like plus is Jesus, minus it's not, you know, or red it's not, or blue it's Jesus, or whatever. But in a court of law— I studied law when I was in school— in a court of law, if you have two separate things like a fingerprint here and a fingerprint there, a footprint there, a footprint there, a tire tread there, tire tread there, and if you find 12 points on one that match 12 points on another, you say they are the same in a court of law. That will hold up in a court of law. When the scientists did the computer renditions of the face on the shroud and the face in this image in this monastery, they found over 250 match points. So we don't know who the man was, but we're pretty sure that the man in this image is the man, whoever it is, that was in the shroud. These are the kinds of things that you find in the monasteries. This information that has been preserved in such powerful ways. In this monastery in Tibet, we had the opportunity— this beautiful little monk took us into a deserted chanting hall where there's a secret monastery behind the wall. We walked into a completely dark room, and we— and this is— I'm so proud of this picture. I walked into a dark room in a Tibetan monastery, and I took a picture of the dark room, and that's, that's it. And then— thank you. I Just that nod of approval means so much to me. Thanks, my brother, I appreciate it. When the lights came on, this is what we saw when the lights came on in this monastery. Here's my hand right down there. We're looking up at the corner of a 1,500-year-old Tibetan library that's 3 stories tall. And these books, these are Tibetan books, they're based on information that was available before paper was even created, recorded on the stones. That information, it's so precious, it's so sacred, it became the core of things like the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Hebrew tradition, of the Buddhist texts, Buddhist tradition, of the Christian texts, and even the ones that were edited. This is a fragment of the Gospel of Thomas that used to be a portion of the modern Christian Bible before it was removed by the church in the 4th century. Prior to that, it was a a very precious, very respected part of the Christian text and the Bibles that followed. So when you go into these places that have been least disturbed by the modern world, you see this information recorded. We have the opportunity to be with the people that live the traditions in the texts and in the monasteries. And this is where, this is where you really have the opportunity to share with another human. It's in the human moments of life. We share meals together. I've been with them in revolutions in their countries when their leaders are killed, when their babies are born, when their families die. This is the kind of experience where hearts touch and where there's a trust and an openness. And then we get to find out about their past and their history. These are sadhus in Nepal, for example, or the tantric Tantric masters in northern India. This man, I don't know if you can see him from where you are, he's covered with cremation ash from the bodies that he's cremated. His job is to help the souls move between the worlds during the day. What an amazing experience to have. I've had the opportunity to meet with the monks and the nuns and the lamas in these monasteries to know what they have known about us and our relationship to the past and things we're only beginning to understand. Been with the shaman throughout the Andes, and some of you have traveled with me. And if you're going to Peru with me this year in July, you will meet the man in the middle. Isn't he beautiful? A beautiful shaman. He— I love this picture. He is standing on his tiptoes. I love to go to Peru because I tower over all of the Peruvians when I'm there. He is from a tribe, a tradition called the Q'ero. And the Q'ero, there are only about 600 of these people left in the high Andes. About 15,000 feet above sea level, south of Cusco. So we have the opportunity to work with these people and their understandings of sustainable living and the traditions that have led them to that point. We have the opportunity to be with the women, the women that anchor the powerful feminine wisdom that is emerging in this world right now. I don't know about you, I'm ready for a female president. You think it's a good time? I don't know who it's going to be, I don't have an attachment to who it's going to be. It may be somebody that we don't even know yet. I'll just tell you, it's Valentine's Day, so I can share this. Did you know that women think differently than men? So, it's true. So what I know, if we had a female leader, I think she would probably be less likely, less inclined to use war as a first response to solve our problems. My name is Liz Dawn, and I'm with Celebrate Your Life Events. And the presentation that you've been listening to was recorded live at one of our Celebrate Your Life conferences. And this program was created exclusively for Evan's audience, and I'm super thrilled to share this information with you. So come check us out, take a look at all of our retreats and programs and conferences that we have to offer. Click the link below, and hopefully I'll see you in person. All right, now let's get back to the presentation. I think this is a good, a good time to do it. But I've had the opportunity to be with the women like this. Look, I look at her eyes. This is a Quechuan woman from, from the southern Andes. Look at the wisdom in her. I would follow her anywhere. She could be my president. I would, I would vote for her. And I would— I think she knows about healing. I think she knows about peace. I think she knows about taking care of children and families. And I think that's important. So the point is, And there's a point to all this. That I've had the opportunity to explore some of the most ancient, isolated, mystical, remote, and best-preserved examples of our past to understand what they have known that we either have forgotten or maybe that we never knew. And that is the whole point. When we say, "Who are we?" For 5,000 years, we've had a story. From our ancestors about who we are, 300 years ago, we— now maybe not you in this room, but we in the West— that story was thrown out and replaced by science. Science came along 300 years ago and threw the baby out with the bathwater, as the saying goes. They threw it all out and they said, "If you can't measure it, if you can't prove it, it doesn't exist." And we started at zero, and the scientific story that you and I are steeped in is a story full of false assumptions that are leading to the crises and the problems. Healthcare, have you noticed the chronic epidemic of cancer in the world right now? I've been to places in the world where it doesn't exist. Or Alzheimer's, have you noticed that? I've been to places with cultures where it simply doesn't exist. That tells me it is not a factor of age. It's not a factor. It doesn't mean when you get older you're going to get these. It's about the way we live our lives and the way we've been conditioned to live our lives, what we've been conditioned to eat and to accept as food into our bodies. Some of it's not even food. For 300 years, science has tried to answer the question, "Who are we?" And they've come up with answers to what are called the 6 perennial questions. Every civilization, whether you're Rome or Greek or whether European or American, whether you're New Age communities, whether you're the Catholic Church, whoever you are, these 6 questions have to be answered if you're asking people to follow your tradition, to follow your belief. And I'm just gonna— I know they're hard to read. I'm gonna start from the very bottom. This is an inverted pyramid. It's called the Pyramid of Knowledge. The 6 questions beginning at the very bottom, very intuitive. The first question: where does life come from? Number 1. Number 2: where does human life come from? Because human life may not come from where the other life came from. Whole story going on there. That's a whole workshop unto itself. The third question: What is our relationship to our body? Are we connected to our body, or are we separate and powerless from our bodies? The fourth: What is our relationship to the world around our bodies? Are we connected to the Earth, or are we separate and powerless from the Earth? The fifth: What is our relationship to the past? We're being led to believe that we are the pinnacle of sophistication, the most technologically advanced, wisest civilization ever on the Earth, and it began primitive, and it's been a one-way trip up to the top. That's what we're led to believe. Taught in our schools today. The sixth question: How do we solve problems in our world when we face the crises? These are the perennial questions. You and I are steeped in the science that is based on separation. We are steeped in a story of separation. We've been told that life, origin of life, completely random. It's being taught in the schools today. That the origin of human life, completely random. That we are separate and powerless when it comes to access and healing of our bodies, that we are separate and independent from the world around us. This is important because it affects the way we think and live. We treat the earth poorly if we believe we're separate from the earth. And our bodies— if something happened to our bodies, we say, "Oh, I don't know how that happened. It just happened." Our relationship to the past, we've been led to believe it is this linear one-way thing, and we've been led to believe That nature is based upon a model of competition and conflict. That was Mr. Charles Darwin that taught us that. The problem with these is that every one of these, every one, have contributed to the extremes that we're living right now and the way we're dealing with the extremes. If you want to see the consequence of living a world of false assumptions, it's the world we have right now that's breaking down because it's not sustainable. Now, the new discoveries, new peer-reviewed science, so these aren't my theories, it's not my hypothesis, it's peer-reviewed science, is what I'm sharing with you now, is telling us a new story. They're saying that life isn't random, the origin of life. The origin of human life is not random. They're saying that we are deeply connected to our bodies. Thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs have a profound effect on our brains and our hearts and the chemistry in our bodies. We're deeply connected and interdependent with the Earth. Our relationship to the past is cyclic. We have been here and experienced climate change in the past. We've been here with technology in the past. I'm going to share with you the science. I'm just giving you a map of where we're going, but here's the big one. Look at this. The best science of our time is now overturning Darwin's ideas and saying that nature is based upon what's called cooperation and mutual aid. The new story is a story of connection, not separation. You would think people would be thrilled to know this, and here's the reality: there is a reluctance, there is a resistance in the mainstream to share the scientific facts in the mainstream media, the documentaries on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, in mainstream classrooms, in mainstream textbooks. Are there any teachers in this room? School teachers? You can, you can raise your hand, it's okay. I want to thank you for the work you do. Now, are there any teachers in this room? I thought so. I want to thank you for the work you do in public schools in the West, and it's not like this everywhere in the world. In the West, teachers can only share in the classroom the curriculum that's been approved by the school board. If the school board does not approve the new science, even though it is peer-reviewed— y'all know what peer-reviewed science is? It's when the scientist makes a discovery, writes the paper, he circulates that to other scientists and says, "Tell me where I'm wrong. Poke holes in my theory." And it can take years. And when it is accepted, it is then published as a fact in peer-reviewed science. So even though we have that, there's a reluctance to share it in the classroom. So look at the net effect. We're now steeping our young people in the same story of separation that has led to the crises that we're living today. We're asking them to solve the problems with the thinking that led to the problems. Does that make any sense at all? It doesn't. And it's changing. It's changing slowly. I want to give you some examples of this so you don't have to take my word for it. How connected? We know now we have a story of connection. How connected are we? Scientists— and they're still teaching this in the classroom— scientists are teaching and they believe that 96% of the universe is what's called empty space. Now you and I know there's no such thing as empty space, but that's what's being taught. But this is interesting to me, empty space. In 1999 NASA built the Chandra X-ray Observatory and look at the mission statement, quote, "To detect invisible fields of energy in empty space." Think about that, that's an oxymoron. They built, they spent billions of dollars to build a machine to find what's in nothing. Is what they're doing. So I want to give you an example. Now we're starting at the big level. This is what they found. So 1999, Chandra went out to find these. Now you all have heard of the Hubble Space Telescope, right? Okay, I'm going to start with Hubble. This is an image from the Hubble Space Telescope, and where you see these arrows right here is believed to be the center of the universe, if you believe in the Big Bang theory that everything began with the release of energy. That's the center of the universe right there. And Hubble, can you see how Hubble sees everything as kind of separate? I mean, there's a little fuzz around them, but this is pretty separate from that, that's separate from this, that, you get the idea, right? To the naked eye. Now, don't blink, and look at exactly the same place through the eyes of Chandra, the telescope that's using different wavelengths, and see if everything still looks separate. Exactly the same place, look at this. It looks actually like a spider web, doesn't it? And it's interesting because indigenous people tell us we live in the web of creation. In the Hindu traditions, the great god Indra wove the web of creation. Or in the Hopi, in our own backyard, right here in Northern Arizona— I forgot where we are— Spider Grandmother wove the web of creation for her children, her grandchildren, to live their lives on the web. Okay, this is one wavelength. And you say, well, what's in those black places? There's nothing there. That must be empty space. Look at this. When they look through another wavelength, look at what it looks like. Energy is everywhere. Everything is connected in fields of energy, with fields of energy. We're only beginning to understand. And it goes all the way down to the quantum level of the atom. Here's a quantum atom. I don't know if you can see. It doesn't show up very well on here. But these are actually— you can see the vibrations, the wavelengths of energy connecting one atom to another. So the story of separation, it's breaking down. We know that things are connected from out there to deep in our bodies. Charles Darwin, 1859. I want to say a word about Darwin. I have a lot of respect for the man. I think he was a good scientist. He tried to do something in 1859 that no one had ever done. He tried to move the beliefs away from religion and the Catholic Church. Up until that time, the church answered all the big questions. Who are we? Where do we come from? How do things work? That was the church. Darwin said, I'm going to take a— I'm just paraphrasing, I'm channeling Charles Darwin. He said, I'm going to take a stab at it, he said, to get us off the mark. But he said, the moment new discoveries show where mine doesn't work, he said, my discoveries break down. He was willing for his discoveries to break down. It's modern academia that will not allow his discoveries to break down in the face of the new discoveries. All right, so I'm just going to do this quickly. Darwin wrote his book, Origin of Species, 1859. The original title, Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, that's the title you see today. When you go back to the original text, you see the rest of the title, and it gives it a whole different vibe. Here's the rest of the title: The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Whole different vibe, isn't it? It tells us Darwin saw life as a struggle, so he interpreted his observations through the eyes of struggle, and he believed there were favored races. Darwin said this when he began looking at life, and I want you to see this in his own language. This is the language that he used that scientists are fighting to keep in the classroom today. He believed that life began with a single organism and then became more complex. This is how he said it. If I use this language to defend my thesis today, I wouldn't get to the end of my thesis. This is what he said. He goes, "Therefore, I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed." If I walked in to defend my thesis, I said, "I should infer from analogy that probably this happened into which life was first breathed." Who did the breathing? You know, it doesn't really address that. But I'm going to give you a sense of the language that they're fighting to keep in underlying the principles in the classroom today. All right, here's the deal. I'm a geologist. That's my degree is in geology. So this is one of my favorite images here. This is a geologic map of time. The most recent is on top, the most ancient is at the bottom. Darwin believed that life evolved slowly, gradually, over long periods of time and adapted. The problem is right here, about 545 million years ago. You all heard of the Big Bang in physics, right? The release of energy. There's a Big Bang in biology. It's called the Cambrian Explosion because this is the Cambrian period. All I want you to see from it is this. During this period of time, 98% of all the known forms of life appeared on the Earth during this time that's called the Cambrian Explosion. I don't know why, but I know it's not Darwin's idea of evolution. Here's a little chart showing how quickly— boom! All of a sudden, all this— 98% of all the forms of life that we see today showed up within this little window of time. That is not Darwin's idea of evolution for life. Now, when it comes to us, what about us? This is Celebrate Your Life. It's Valentine's Day weekend. I want to give you the latest and greatest. You want to see the very latest and greatest in— you've all heard of the missing link, the theory for the missing link. Do you want to see the latest and greatest on what's going on? Just say yes. Oh, I'm happy. Okay. The update, the search for the missing links, the latest and greatest update is it's still missing. And I think it's probably missing because the evidence suggests it doesn't exist. I want to share this with you. This was taken off a PBS— I'm going to go somewhere with all this. I made statements that the new science has overturned the old thinking. Now I'm giving you evidence of that. And then we're going to do something with it. All right? The search for human past, the missing links. Here we are up here. We've been led to believe that all of these other little skulls are beings that are our ancestors. I'm going to highlight in blue. Can you all see what I just did in blue? Every one of those that's taught as fact to our young people today, if you look closely right down here on the legend, they are called speculative or inferred connections. There's no physical evidence that they exist. They are believed to exist. My feeling is, if we were on the right track, after 150 years of the best minds of the planet and the most money and the best equipment and the best scientific thinking, we would be a lot closer to finding those missing links if we were on the right track. What do you think? You agree? I don't know exactly what my beliefs, but the science doesn't support the theory that's being taught right now. Darwin came up with an idea. Science, they've been trying to fit the discoveries into Darwin's idea. That's not what science is about. Science is about seeing what's there and what the story is it's telling us. It's just the opposite. Science can only serve us if we keep it honest, and it's been hijacked. Science has been hijacked. All right, the search for missing links. These don't even exist. They're believed to exist, but they're taught as fact. Now I'm just going to tell you just the bottom line right here. There's a story of something that happened in 1987. 1987. You all have heard of Neanderthal beings, right? When I'm in Germany, they correct me and tell me it's Neanderthal, not Neanderthal. So Neanderthal or Neanderthal. An amazing discovery in a cave under the earth, a Neanderthal infant was discovered in a rare state of preservation. She wasn't mummified. She wasn't fossilized. She wasn't frozen. They say she was just preserved. She was preserved so well that her hair was preserved, her fingernails were preserved, and you tell me what else was preserved. Her what? DNA. All of a sudden we had the DNA of someone supposed to be our ancestor to compare to us. The discovery was '87. The results were not released until the year 2000 in a very prestigious journal, Nature. If you want to write it down, it's on the recording. Volume 404, March 30th, the year 2000, page 490. I'm going to cut to the chase. The bottom line. The last sentence of the last paragraph of the conclusion. Here's what they found. When they compared Neanderthal DNA to ours, quote, "The results suggest that modern human was not, in fact, descended from Neanderthals." They're not our ancestors. As a matter of fact, they found evidence we shared the Earth. We walked with the Neanderthals on the Earth, which means we couldn't have descended from the Neanderthals. The evidence suggests we even had Neanderthal boyfriends and girlfriends. Now, I guess I have to tell you a quick story. I was in New York. I said that to a Hay House audience. And there was a woman on the front row and she said, "I still do." And what made it really interesting was her boyfriend next to her was not laughing when she told me this story. I think they had a whole workshop to do after. All right, so we know who we're not. We're not descended from these beings. You all have heard of Cro-Magnon. You've heard of Cro— when you were in school. They don't even use that term anymore. It's been replaced with another word. Anatomically modern human is the new word. It's pretty self-explanatory. Here it is right here. Here we are. Just the bottom line here. If we want to really understand who we are, we showed up as anatomically modern humans 200,000 years ago on the Earth, and we haven't changed in 200,000 years. Our body proportions haven't changed. If you put a 200,000-year-old anatomically modern human next to me, a skeleton, You couldn't tell us apart. Cranial capacity is the same, brain size is the same, body proportions are the same. I don't know what did happen. That's not Darwin's idea of evolution. The DNA doesn't support evolution. The fossil evidence doesn't support evolution. If we want to get to the bottom of it, we would check this out. And I'm not suggesting we throw everything— thank you, I know, right? I'm not suggesting we throw everything out, but I think to honor our young people, let's share the new discoveries alongside the existing theories and let them know that there's still something for them to do. They can still contribute to this mystery. Okay, Darwin himself said, he goes, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications," he said, "my theory would absolutely break down." His theory has broken down. It's not being allowed to be replaced with the facts, and that's a problem. That's a problem. Alright, now here's the next piece of Darwin. This is going to take us right to where we're going next. Darwin is the one that suggested nature's based upon competition. Survival of the strongest. And these are his own languages. He said instincts such as young cuckoo birds ejecting their foster brothers from the nest. Ants making slaves of other ants. They capture them. They don't kill them. They make slaves out of them. Darwin said when you see that in nature, those are examples of a general law that applies to us. And the law is characterized right here. He said, "Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die." That's Darwin's belief. That's where survival of the strongest comes from. It was later adapted, survival of the fittest. Survival of the strongest. If you want to see what that means, now our entire society, our civilization is based upon this false assumption of 150 years. The economic system that's breaking down is built on survival of the strongest. Corporate systems that are breaking down, the way we're trying to solve problems in the Middle East, disappearing resources between our neighbors, even the way husbands and wives and couples and partners vie for power in their relationships. It's all based consciously or subconsciously on survival of the strongest. Here's the problem: new science is telling us that's not what nature is based upon. If you're taking notes, do one of these through your notes. It's no longer true, but it's still being taught as fact. The good news, new studies Over 400 studies asked the same question: What's the optimum amount of competition in any situation? In the classroom, in the family, in the workplace? All 400 studies came back, quote, "The ideal amount of violent competition in any environment—the classroom, the workplace, the family playing field—is none." Violent competition is always destructive, and science is actually telling us—this is a very prestigious journal, New Scientist. April 16th, 2008: What we see in the wild is not every animal out for itself. Cooperation is an incredibly successful survival strategy. When cooperation breaks down, the results can be disastrous. Nature is actually based upon this model of cooperation, what's called mutual aid, and that changes everything. Okay, I'm going to come back to that in just a minute. I'm moving quickly down that pyramid. I want to talk about civilization. You and I were in school, our kids are in school, we're taught that it's only about 5,000 years old. It began right here in ancient Sumeria. Everything else we study is more recent. Here's Egypt. There's India, the Indus Valley, Greece, Rome. There's the Inca, the Maya. It all began right here. The problem is the data doesn't support it. And I personally documented some of these sites. I've been to this place right here. This is outside of about 4 hours north of Lima, Peru. It's a new archaeological site that is blowing the doors off of our beliefs of Western civilization. Martha and I went down there on my birthday a couple of years ago. This guy kept showing up in all my pictures. Martha took that picture. What we're looking at is now documented as the oldest technologically advanced civilization in all of the Americas. It's older than the Inca, older than the Maya, older than the Aztec, older than the Olmec, older than the Toltec. It's older by 1,000 years, older than any of those things. It's rewriting all the history books and they're not teaching it in mainstream classrooms. This site right here, I'm standing next to a circular plaza. When you— this is what it looks like on the ground. When you look at it from an aerial view down, it's called Caral, Peru. Here's what it looks like looking down. But it's a huge site. It's a 150-acre site. There's 5 pyramids, 3 of these plazas, in a place where this is not supposed to have happened. Now, we're told that civilization began 5,000 years ago. That's when this one ended. This ended when we're told civilization began, and it extends another 2,000 years back to 7,000 years before present. That's one example. There are many examples. I'm going to go right now to the oldest. I'm talking fast because I'm going to go somewhere with this. The oldest, oldest example anywhere in the world, now scientifically acknowledged, is right here. It's very close to the Syrian border where they're having problems, the revolution that's happening in Syria right now. It's called Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. This site is a site that archaeologists say it shouldn't exist. They say it shouldn't even exist. It is a series of 15 circular temples under the ground. 4 have been excavated. You're looking down in one right here. The Smithsonian photographer gave me permission to share these with you in this room. I cannot record them on a film. So you're looking at some very rare images here. This is— these are the tops of the columns that have been buried. Because they were buried, the hieroglyphs are very well preserved. Look at these. Look at these. So here is the mind-blower on this one. You can see they haven't even gotten to the bottom yet, and where they're dating right now, is already— they're dating this about 13,000 years before present. That's twice as old as what we've been led to believe. It's in the last ice age. Right here. 11,500 to 11,000— 11,300 to 11,500. Now they've pushed it back to 13,000 years before present. Now, here's the timeline of history you and I were raised with. It's what— if you have kids in school, this is what they're looking at. Let's plug in some of the new dates. Here is Caral, Peru. Here's the Great Sphinx. We didn't even get to talk about that today in Egypt. Here's another site, Çatalhöyük in Turkey. We didn't even talk about that. In India, the Gulf of Khambhat. Here's Göbekli Tepe. It looks interesting. I'm a geologist. I want to see what's happening in the world when these places are existing. So I'm going to plug in some geology. You all have heard of the Ice Age. You have to because I just mentioned it 4 minutes ago. The blue is the last ice age. It ended right here, 12,000 years ago. There was 4,000 years of unsettled weather and a big storm. When Martha tells me it's going to be a storm— she says, "We have a storm in northern Mexico." I said, "It's going to last 4,000 years?" She said, "Nope." And I said, "No big deal. It's all relative." Now look at what's happening. These ancient sites are near— and now they're pushing Göbekli Tepe right over here in 13,000 into the last ice age. Now, you've all come through 2012. Aren't you glad we made it through 2012? And we don't have to talk about it anymore. But when we did, you remember we were talking about the 5,000-year cycles. That's what the big deal was. I'm going to put those 5,000-year indigenous cycles up here. Here's 2012. We just finished that one. And the dark lines that you see, here's the one before that. Here's the one before that. There's the one before that. Look at what happens. The history we have learned, we're teaching our kids, is not the history of the world forever. It's the history of our 5,000-year cycle only. It doesn't take into account the 5,000 years before. And that's when these other sites— all of these sites are from the cycle before ours. And there was probably another one before that. So I'm sharing this with you because there's a lot we can learn from those who have come before us. They lived through things then that we're living through now. We can learn from them, what worked, what didn't, the kinds of things we need to do more of and what we need to do less of. So why does all this matter? Why did I just share all that with you? Here's why. Because we solve our problems through the way we think of ourselves. And we've been led to think of ourselves through the story of separation. The story of connection tells us something very different. The story of connection, right here, it says that life isn't random. Human life isn't random. That we're deeply connected to our bodies, deeply connected to the world around us, that civilization is cyclic, and here's the big one right there, right there: Nature is based upon cooperation, not competition. That changes everything. In our time of extremes, when the new normal is emerging and our lives are changing faster than we've ever, ever experienced, if we go about solving the problems, making the choices through the old story, we know where that's going to get us because it's the world that's breaking down. Now we have new understandings, and that's why when I showed you, I said all those solutions— we already know the solutions. Why aren't we using them? They haven't become a problem because this is just now becoming known in our world. So anything we can do to really share— and I know I went through that quickly. All the documentation for those new discoveries is in the book that came out in 2011. It's called Deep Truth. So if you want that, The bibliography has all of that information in there. The information about where we're going and what I'm going to be talking about tomorrow, a new book is called The Turning Point. It was released last week. And that is about the resilience and the extreme. So I just wanted to say that. Okay, can you see how the thinking, can you see how the thinking is important? Subconsciously, we're steeped in the story of separation and it plays out in our lives, our relationships, our loves, our romance, the way we heal or don't heal our bodies, the way we go about finding the conditions that heal or don't heal our bodies, the way we solve Problems between nations. It all boils down to the way we think of ourselves. This is the crisis in thinking. So the discoveries give us reasons to think differently, but the world, the world right now is giving us the reasons to live differently. And that's where I want to go with all this. Resilience is the key. You see why, why those things are important? It gives us the reasons we think very differently. When we, we have an entire generation of young people now being steeped in the belief of survival of the strongest, a military, militaristic generation that's led to the crises that we're living today. If our young people win— and I've been with the classrooms, we've done pilot programs— when you get a sense that you live in a world where nature likes you, nature's not out to get you— yeah, we see violent competition in response to specific circumstances. It's not the rule of nature. And the more violence you see, that tells you how far we've strayed from the deepest truth of our relationship with nature. When young people get that, the world feels different to them. And I would be so honored if we could be the generation that could open the door and pave the way for an entire generation of young people to feel that the world loves them. Resilience. Resilience is the key to adapt. It's the key to healing the hurt in your life. Even if you're not into anything I've said so far, your ability to be resilient to life— and there are different kinds of resilience. We're talking about what's called expanded resilience. This isn't the resilience where you bounce back from a big problem, where you bounce back from a trauma. That's not the kind of resilience we're talking about. We're talking about the kind of resilience where you think and you live every day in a way that allows you to thrive in the new normal. That's different than living the way you've always lived and then trying to bounce back to get back to a normal functioning. But the interesting thing about resilience is this. Our ancestors— and this is the value of going into those monasteries and the nunneries and spending time with those people— they all had to be resilient for the changes. Can you imagine being a woman living in Tibet in the last 60 years and what you've had to live through? You've got to be resilient to be a woman there. Or in the native peoples here right in the desert Southwest. So universally they talk about resilience and they all say this is where it begins. Buddha is showing us where it begins. In the Christian traditions they're showing us where it begins. And this is Valentine's Day weekend, so I thought I'd make it really clear. It begins right here. Resilience begins in our hearts. And a lot of people don't think about it that way and here's why. This is Here's a printout from— it's now called an ECG. It used to be called an EKG, electrocardiogram. Each beat of your heart, you know, when you hear it, you go, "Bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum." And we're conditioned to think that each— the distance from one bum-bum to the next bum-bum to the next bum-bum, that that distance is the same, that the time between each bump is the same. Each peak is called an R-wave. There's an R-wave. R, R, R, R. We're conditioned to think the distance between here and here is the same as that, the same as that, and it's not. And it's good that it's not. It's measured in milliseconds. So for example, right here between that R wave and that one is 845 milliseconds, 745 milliseconds, 812, 732. Here's why it's good that they're not all the same. When you and I are really young, we first come into this world, here we are in a new world. We're checking out this new world. You've got to learn quick. You've got to learn that the stovetop is hot. You've got to learn that every dog in every living room is not as friendly as the dog in your living room. You've got to learn that stuff fast. To do that, you have to have a high level of resilience, which means the distance between each heartbeat has to vary tremendously. All right? The more that varies, the greater your resilience. As we get older, the term is we become set in our ways. You've heard that. We become rigid in our thinking and it's reflected in our heart rate. And the heart rate becomes more regular and more regular and more regular. The more regular your heart rate is, the less resilient you are to the change in life. That's important because we're going through, remember, the time of extremes. The world's changing in ways we're not used to, ways we've never seen. Faster we have to be prepared to accept. Have you noticed a lot of people can't take the change? They're checking out. People are leaving, people are getting sick, or they're getting sick and leaving. Sometimes it happens in that order. It has a lot to do with how they feel about themselves in the world. And there are other people that are thriving, doing better than ever. Better than ever. All right, so here's the thing. As we get older, we become more rigid in our thinking. We lose the resilience. The good news is you can change that. I want to give you a sense of it today because there's so many great speakers here to see. Heart rate variability is what we're talking about. HRV. All right? It's all about this conversation between your heart and your brain. Every moment of every day, your heart and your brain are having a conversation. Your heart is sending a signal to your brain. The quality of that signal tells your brain what chemistry to release into your body. If you feel safe— like, you all probably feel this is a pretty safe room, the speaker's not too scary today— then your heart is sending a signal to your brain that looks a lot like this. Appreciation, gratitude, care, very even, regular signal. If you feel unsafe or you've been hurt and your hurt is unresolved, someone's violated your trust, anger, hate, rage, jealousy, then you're sending this kind of a signal to your brain. Now I'm not saying one's right, wrong, good, or bad. They have very different qualities. This one, chaotic signal, releases chemistry from your brain that you call high-stress chemistry and that will wear you out and eventually it will deplete deplete you to the point where you're susceptible to other health problems. This quality right here, you'll have a tremendously enhanced immune response. Your anti-aging hormones, they kick into overdrive. I'm 260? Okay, 250. No, you know, I told my mom, I told my mom when I was 5 years old, I've told her, I said, "I'm on the 200-year plan in this world." My mom's health is declining. And her cognitive abilities have gone. Sometimes she doesn't even know who I am. I saw her last 2 weeks ago, about 10 days ago. And it's funny what she remembers. She doesn't know exactly who I am, but she knows I'm on the 200-year plan. She says, "You don't have to worry about this because you're going to be here 200 years." You know, like that. I said, "Yeah." Okay, so you get the idea. The way you feel in your heart determines the quality of the signal that goes to your brain, and that affects everything. The heart is really the master organ that gives the instructions to the brain. We're taught that the brain is the master organ and we leave the heart out. If you went to school anywhere in the 20th century up until— I think they're still teaching this. This is interesting because it's the key to our most cherished and ancient spiritual traditions. It was all about creating the feelings in the heart to optimize brain chemistry. That's why it's worth going to the monasteries and the nunneries. It's all about something called coherence. You can measure coherence, 0.10 Hz. When you create the feelings that give you 0.10 Hz, you're in optimum coherence. My dear brother Joe Dispenza and I, if you go see him, he'll talk about this as well. We just did a program in Seattle, Washington together, the two of us, for a full day, and we had a really good time exploring the ancient and the modern principles together. Now, in this program, 90 minutes, we have just a few minutes left. What I want to do is say this: the greater the coherence The greater you can optimize that conversation, the more resilience you're going to have in your life. Now I'd like to give you an experience without knowing all the techniques. When I have spent time with the indigenous people, I ask them, "How do you guys do this? How do you activate, move into your heart?" It's the hardest thing. And especially in the West, because in the West, if I invite you, if I say, "I invite you to move your awareness from your mind into your heart," You're so accustomed to being in your mind, most of you, myself included, that we will think about what it's like if we're in our heart, but we're in our mind thinking about it. But the monks have the same problem. I said, "How do you guys do this?" And here's what they do. Number 1, what they do is they gently touch their heart center in a way. Now, if you're Buddhist, they touch like this. That's part of what— that gentle pressure. Or you can do it with your fingertips. But here's the key. Your awareness will automatically go to the place you feel the sensation. So you don't want to be doing this. If you do that, you know where your awareness is going to go. I always think of the ball players, you know, or the musicians. You know what they're doing all the time. It's another workshop. My heart is open to you. I'm just flowing, okay? So this is the first thing right here, to move your awareness into your heart. But here's the thing, and this is what I'd like to share today. One of the ways How do you teach something that everyone experiences uniquely? How do you teach that in a room? It's different for you than it is for me, different for you than it is for me, different for men than women. How do you do that? The way they do it is what I'd like to share here. Is they offer a common experience that is heart-based and allow everyone to experience it uniquely so that you can identify for yourself your response to the common shared experience. Does that make sense? All right, so this is what I'd like to do in here today, and I'm going to cover two bases while I do it because not only is it a heart-moving experience that I'm going to share with you, but it ties into everything we just did. We're moving from a paradigm of separation, competition, to connection, cooperation, and what biologists call mutual aid. I'm going to share some new signs. We're going to have the opportunity to go back into Tibet to a different monastery and see different monks, different abbots. We're learning about a language that has no words. It's the nonverbal language of the human heart that has been referenced in the poetic sense for a very long time. But now our own science is telling us that the heart, your heart, from the moment you take your first breath in this world, your heart begins to commune. And I'm going to be really clear about this word. Do you know that the word prayer does not exist in the ancient Jewish, the ancient Christian, or any of the texts prior to 1700 years ago? There is no word prayer. The word prayer is an artifact of human interpretation, human intervention. When you go back into the original texts and you re-translate, whether we're talking about the Sumerian or the Aramaic or the original Hebrew, the word prayer does not exist. Do you know what word they use? It's a beautiful word, commune. Doesn't that have a different feel than prayer? When we're praying to something or someone or a being or an entity, to me that feels very different than communing, having a communion with the forces of this world. So we're learning about this language that we speak every moment of every day. You're having a conversation with the stuff, the literal field of energy that holds this universe together. You're communing with that field right this minute. And the question is, do you know what you're saying? Well, the answer to that is in the world around you. It's in your checkbook. It's what your balance looks like. It's in your relationships and your workplace and your intimate relationships, your friends, your family. It's in the success of your heart's desire. All of those things are the field answering the communication and the conversation that you've been sharing for a lifetime. And from the perspective of the ancients, there really isn't a right, wrong, good, or bad. It's just about us recognizing that we're in this feedback loop. There's a feedback mechanism out there, and if we don't like what we're seeing, we're given the tools to change that. And that's really important right now, really important right now, because we found yesterday If you were not with us yesterday, a large part of our morning was talking about why it seems that the world is changing so very, very quickly right now. I asked for a show of hands in the room yesterday. There were about 600 people in the room, and almost everybody said, man, it feels like something big is happening. It is. And the experts are telling us that something big is happening. It's not our imagination. And the reason it's happening is because you and I are living this rare convergence of great cycles of time, unlike anything ever seen in 5,000 years of recorded human history. Now our own scientists within the last couple of years have just begun to understand that where Earth and our solar system is located in an orbit around the center of our great Milky Way galaxy, it's called the Great Central Sun. I know you've heard of that before. For if you study ancient texts. Where we are in our journey around that source of energy at the center of the Milky Way determines in large part what happens on this planet. It determines things like climate change, weather patterns, whether or not the sea levels are high or low, whether or not the ice caps are frozen or melted, whether or not it snows in North Dakota in July, whether or not we can grow food in Colombia in September. September. Colombia, South America. I was born in Missouri, it's not Columbia, Missouri, for you Missourians in here. It determines all of those things, but even more than that, it determines great leaps in spiritual growth on this planet. Because when the world changes, you and I have to change to accommodate that change. We've got to change our lives to accommodate whatever is happening on the Earth. Well, that's what's happening right now. Why are all these things happening right now? What we found yesterday is that you and I, we're living the end of a 5,000-year-long cycle. If you're taking notes, it's actually 5,125 years. And it's interesting because this cycle happens to coincide with human history as we know it today. So these great cycles of time determine in large part what happens on our planet and how we respond. This 5,125-year-long world age is what it's called, happens to coincide. Everything we know is recorded human history happened in this cycle. Now, our belief systems and our science in the past, they believe this is all there was. They think that the beginning of human history was 5,000 years ago. But what the ancients said is that's just the beginning of this cycle. There was another cycle before that, and there was another cycle before that. And now our archaeologists are beginning to find the evidence that bears that out. And I mentioned this yesterday, I'm going to say it right now, because this is why you and I are living such a rare, precious moment in the history of this planet. In the cycles of the past, when the world changes, people choose to respond to that change in one of two ways. If they see the world change and the things that are familiar disappearing, They will fight one another, violent competition, to try to keep everything as it was in the way that they're comfortable. And in the last cycle, 5,000 years ago, that is the way human civilization chose to respond. And the war was so bad that nobody won, and they were forgotten for 5,000 years until the archaeologists began to recover the remnants of their civilization. I talk about this in the new book. But there are other cycles where we have chosen— I say we because I asked my audiences yesterday, most people believe we've been here before. You think we've been here before? All right, well, and I think that's what we're all sensing now. Something big is happening. We want to get it right. We want to do it well. There are other civilizations that work together. The cycle that we're living right now, this time of change, what the records show is that it is a very intense period of time, but it's brief. It will only last about this generation. It'll be over in a few years, and then the world will be as it is going to be for the next cycle. But we're the generation that bridges these two ways of being. What do you think the chances are of being on this planet at precisely the time when we end one way of being and begin the next? We end a 5,125-year-long world age that happens to coincide with the end of another cycle that's about 26,000 years long that happens to coincide with us crossing the equator that separates the top from the bottom of our Milky Way galaxy. All three cycles are converging right now. So if it feels like a special time in the history of this planet, it is, and these are the reasons why. This is what we did yesterday. We said that these world age changes They bring changes in the planet, magnetic fields, climate, sea levels, and resources. And when those things change, cycles of war and peace are directly related to this. That's all the big stuff. It comes right down to our everyday lives, the way you and I feel about ourselves, our bodies, our relationship to the world, our relationship to one another. Political cycles, economic cycles, they're all linked to these global cycles. So the crash in the economy, if we knew how to read the cycles, it wouldn't have been a surprise to anyone. Those that know the cycles knew that crash was coming. They didn't know the magnitude, but they knew it was happening. And they knew it was happening the last time because it works in cycles. Our spiritual growth is linked to these cycles, and that's what I want to talk to you about today— our spiritual growth. We talked yesterday about 3 discoveries that change everything. In terms of the way we think of our lives and our world. The first of these is that when I was in school, when you were in school, if your kids are in school right now, the science classes are teaching them that the space between things is empty. That the space between you and me, that there's nothing there. When you look at the nucleus of an atom and that first electron, that the space in between is empty. It's flat out wrong. But we have an entire civilization based on the belief that everything's separate from everything else. And that what happens in one place has no effect on what happens somewhere else. We've built our lives that way. It's wrong. The second discovery is that our inner experiences, your experience— we're going to work with these before you leave here today— your inner experiences of thought, feeling, emotion, belief, heart-based thought, feeling, emotion, and belief speak to the stuff that holds everything together. You communicate with the stuff that holds this world together. And it goes so far, we've even found that human emotion is so powerful that on 9/11, when the world watched the unfolding of what was happening in the United States on that day, our satellites 222 miles above the surface of the Earth were picking up the changes in human heart fields of the magnetic fields of the Earth and relaying that information back to scientists every 30 minutes. That was the chart you saw yesterday, and we talk about it in the new book. It was the first time scientists said, my God, we really are linked. We really are part of all that is. The satellites in space are picking up the magnetic fields of human hearts. So I want to begin this, this morning. My man brain, when I hear things like this, I want to believe I want to believe that everybody's related. I want to believe that those fields are out there, but I need to see it. Because we've all been told that we're one, and we've all been told that we're related. And I've been in so many workshops. I know many of you have as well. People say that. How many workshops you've been in where you go in and the speaker says, you're a powerful being, and you write down, I'm a powerful being? You know what I'm talking about. Then you are connected to all that is. OK, I'm connected to all that is. Is you are one with all beings. You are one with all beings. Take a deep breath. Visualize yourself by a bubbling brook and feel that oneness. And then you get up and go to lunch. And how real is it? So the reason I'm doing what I'm doing— I'll just tell you a little bit. I was born a Cancerian male. Anybody know about Cancerians? Cancerians live in the world of emotion. Well, I'm a double Cancerian. And depending on how you run the charts, I've got 6 planets in the 12th house and every one of them is in Cancer. So my world is about emotion. That's the only reason I'm saying that to you. And to tame that, my man brain had to learn a way to negotiate those emotions. And what I found for myself, and I think this works for a lot of people, is if we give our left brain, our logical brain, something to work with, Once it is quelled and satisfied, it will step out of the way and let us move into our hearts. I work that way, and I think many of you probably do as well. So I'm gonna honor the way that I believe we learn: our left brain, our right brain, and our hearts. I wanted to see how real this field was. Well, your tax dollars are paying for a satellite. You've probably never even seen the results of what this satellite has found. So I wanted to share this a little bit with you. How many have heard of the Chandra X-ray Observatory? About 6 people. Your tax dollars are paying for this amazing piece of equipment orbiting the Earth called the Chandra X-ray Observatory. I would think that every one of you would have a beautiful hardbound book of all the Chandra images that have been captured over the years. You don't? I do. I'm just going to share one of them with you now. Okay, now this is interesting because scientists believe that the space between things is empty. That's what's been taught. Look at the NASA mission statement for Chandra. To detect invisible fields of energy in, quote, "empty space," unquote. So our own scientists are saying maybe it's not so empty. Maybe there's something up there. Okay, so here's what Chandra is doing. First of all, you all heard of the Hubble Space Telescope, right? Okay, this image is from the Hubble Space Telescope. Where these arrows are is the center of the universe. Not the Milky Way, but the universe where scientists believe everything began with a Big Bang a long time ago. That's a male-oriented term. It was a male scientist that called the beginning of the entire universe the Big Bang. You know that. His name was Fred Hoyle. It was 1951. I know that because when I ask female scientists, "What would you call the beginning of the entire universe?" They say, "Well, we wouldn't call it the Big Bang." They said, "We'd call it something like the first dawn of the new breath, of the new beginning." But we got the guy out there in '51, and we're looking at the Big Bang, and it happened right here, okay? Okay, so this is what Hubble Space Telescope is seeing. With the naked eye, this is what you could see if you had the vantage point of Hubble. There's no special equipment going on here. And what I'd like for you to see from this is see how these galaxies, they're a little fuzzy around the edges, They're pretty much separate from one another, aren't they? I mean, this is separate from this, this is separate from this. Okay, now the Chandra telescope is looking at the same place, but it's using special equipment that can see the, quote, empty space and the invisible fields. Now don't blink because you're gonna miss this. So the next image you see is what Chandra sees looking at the center of the universe and And see if everything still looks separate from everything else. Isn't that beautiful? I remember when I first saw that, the first thing I thought of, it felt to me like a web or a net, which is precisely the way the ancients described the field that holds everything together. The Hopi talk about Spider Grandmother weaving the web of creation. The Hindu traditions talk about the great god Indra wove her web in a faraway abode so that we could have this world. You know, and there are some empty places over here, but if you look through another lens, those places are filled in as well. If you look at the composite, it looks like a big mass of stuff. There's no empty space in the universe. And this applies down to the level of the atom. Everything in the atom is connected. We are all part of this massive vibrating, pulsating, illuminating field of energy, and we're only learning about what it means for us to communicate with this field. Does it help to see that? You'll think about that a lot. It helped me to see it as well. Okay, I don't like to talk about my material from the stage, but people were asking me yesterday. If you want to know more about the field that connects everything, The Divine Matrix is the book that tells you that. If you want to know about the language that communicates with that field, The Spontaneous Healing of Beliefs, Belief is where that material is. If you want to know about the cycles of time and what it means to us, in March of this next year, this new book will be out, Fractal Time, and that is what that is all about. And that's all I'm going to say about those. But now you don't have to ask me. All right. Thank you. So the key, the key to all of this that we're talking about, how do we relate to our world, we find that key in a non-physical scientific language in some of our most cherished spiritual and ancient traditions, like this beautiful Tibetan tapestry that is actually called the Heart Sutra from the Mahayana Buddhist traditions. It's about the 1st century. This is a direct quote, a single sentence. It can't get much clearer than this. It says, quote, reality exists only where we create a focus. A focus. You and I are learning how to focus an energy through the way we feel about our world. It's not what we verbalize, it's not what we command, it's the way we feel the world in our heart. That focus is important because it leads to what is called the great spiritual mystery. We began talking about this yesterday, that says that there's a focus we create in consciousness that triggers a process inside of our bodies It interacts with the forces of creation that affects our physical world. This is the key. A focus we create in consciousness affects our bodies and our world. When I was an engineer working in the fence industry during the '80s and I learned this, I said, man, I want to know about that focus. I want to know how to do that. I want to know what that's all about. And it's an ongoing process. How do we go about doing these things? Well, modern science is just now Scientists now are arriving at the understandings where those ancient traditions began. Modern science is just catching up. It's so interesting to me to see how this is working. Because modern science— there actually is an experiment that's going on right now. If you want to look this up on the internet, the very prestigious journal Nature, volume 446, April 2007. I'm saying it in the mic so now it's on the recording. There's an ongoing experiment. Nature is reporting on where that experiment stands right now. The bottom line, the scientists are asking a question that sounds more like a question out of Philosophy 101 in first year of college. Do we create the world by looking at it? That's the question the scientists are asking. So they have this ongoing experiment. Now I'm going to save you. I felt that this is probably a bottom line group, right? I just, I felt you this morning. I said, man, these guys want to get to the bottom line of this whole thing. So I'll save you all the details and I'll just cut to the chase. Do we create the world by looking at it? This journal of Nature says right now it looks like the answer is yes. They said it's not enough just to allow for us to be connected to one another to account for the results that are being seen in the experiment. Something else is happening. The people in the experiments are actually creating and rearranging the atoms of their physical reality in these experiments. This is going to change everything. This is the stuff that changes everything that's very, very similar to the great secret of our past. Almost every major spiritual tradition has said exactly the same thing. Whether you're talking about the healing of your body, the healing of the bodies of your loved ones, peace at your family dinner table, peace in your community, peace between nations, abundance in your checkbook, success in your careers. As different as all of those sound from one another, they're all part of this same principle. The way we feel and the feelings that we create. This is where we're going to go with this. We're going to go into the Tibetan monasteries in a little while and understand how they do it, and then we're going to do it in this room before we leave. Then we're going to go out and be fruitful and multiply and change the world because it's a great deluxe One Week in Phoenix Celebrate Your Life 2008 Conference. All right. I wanted to share this with you. For those yesterday, we saw a miraculous healing. We saw the video of a cancerous tumor disappear inside the body of a living woman through an ultrasound in less than 3 minutes in response to something that the practitioners were doing. They were having a feeling in their hearts, and her body responded. Many of you saw that, some of you didn't. So I'm going to share a different kind of healing here today. It's, it's another before and after. But my question was, you know, you all have seen these before. You've seen before and after miraculous things on YouTube and all that. What makes this different? I wouldn't even show this to you except for one reason. What makes this different is we're going to look at the healing of a woman in the lower part of the screen as a series of still images. And then we're going to go back in the upper part of the screen and look at the brain state of the person doing the healing as it corresponds to what happens in the woman's body. Does that sound like a cool thing to do? Okay, I don't have any young people in my life. When I say cool, I I've been corrected lately, and I understand the word is sweet. Does that sound like a sweet thing to do? Actually, there's another word that now supersedes sweet, but I don't like the new word, so I'm going to stay with sweet and cool. To me, this is the value. I said, you know, yeah, the healings are cool, but I want to see what's happening in the brain that triggers that experience. Are you okay if we do this? Scientists have discovered that healing and peace between nations There's a direct relationship here. They happen in the same brain state that we dream in, where we are not attached to the outcome. That's interesting. It's like when we want something to happen, that may be the very thing that stands between us and the fruition of our heart's desire. So this isn't the clearest image, but I know you're going to be able to see what's happening. This is a scan. It's a thermal scan of a body of a 19-year-old woman. I was just on tour in Japan a couple of months ago. This was done at the Japanese university. What you're looking at— there's a little chart on the side. I think you can see it. Can you see it in the back by the door? Can you see the colors okay? These colors indicate how much activity, primarily energetic and blood-based activity, The blood carries an energy, and all of those are being measured, are happening in different parts of the body. Red is up at the top. That means it's really cooking. Blue is at the bottom. It means not much is happening. So some places you'd want to see a lot, like here's the heart. You want to see a lot of activity there, you assume. Lungs, brain. But look at this right here. That is the activity from a massive ovarian cyst on a 19-year-old Japanese woman. So here is how this works. She comes into a room and she's standing on one side of a partition. On the other side of the partition, the healer comes in. They have never met. There is no verbal communication. They don't speak. The healer doesn't know if it's a man, if it's a woman, doesn't know the nationality, doesn't know that there's an ovarian tumor, doesn't know the age. No communication. And here's what happens. At time equals zero, Right there. This is when the healer comes in. The healer isn't doing anything but evaluating. You would call it empathing. I'm going to have to ask that you not take pictures because I made a promise that I wouldn't have these duplicated in any way. You can have that one, but if you'd help me keep my promises— this is going to be really important when we go into Tibet— please help me honor the privacy of our monks and nuns and our friends. You okay with that? Can we do it that way? They said that I Mishka said that I could show the images if they weren't recorded, otherwise I have to pull them and it's no fun for the program. So this is the body of the woman, time equals zero. She's sitting in the room. Okay, the healer comes in and he's evaluating, he's empathizing. Now look at what happens. 3 minutes into the healing, that tumor is going away. 7 minutes into the healing, it's essentially gone. Now I wouldn't even show that to you because I know you've all seen these things before. Before. But let's look at the brain state. Let's see what the healer is doing. This is so cool. This image on the top, you're looking down on the crown of the healer. Her nose is— and it is a female, it's a female healer, by the way— her nose is pointed to the top, and the same colors apply in her brain on this chart right over here. So let me ask you the first question. Here is the healer. She's come into the room. She's evaluating. Do you see a differentiation between her left and her right brain? Yes or no? Do you see much of a differentiation? Some say yes, some say no. The answer is no. There's really not much differentiation here. Pretty much this is a whole brain experience. Let me ask you another question. On this scale from red to blue, is her brain highly active or not very active? Exactly. And this is going to be the point of the whole thing. Whatever it is that's happening within this healer that facilitates a healing in 7 minutes, it's not happening in the brain. And you're going to see this, it tells the whole story. So right now, this healer's brain is relatively inactive and there's really no differentiation between the left and the right brain. 3 minutes into the healing, let's take a look and see. Now, Do you see a differentiation between left and right brain? Now you have a better idea of what I'm asking. Can you see it now? Okay, but what is the differentiation? Which side of the brain is starting to become more active? Is it the left brain? Is it the man brain that likes to tell things how to happen? That engineers our world? No, it's not. Look at this. The right brain is starting to cook up right here. It's gone from the blue past into the green into the yellows. But this is interesting. The left brain is still relatively inactive, and parts of it right here— what color is that right there? White. Where is white on the scale? It's not. Parts of the left brain are becoming off the scale inactive. This is not a left brain process. If there's any doubt, look at this one. Now what's happening? This right brain's cooking, right? And it's correlating with the healing. While this tumor is being healed, look at what's happening in the brain of the healer. Her right brain is cooking, but look at her left brain. It's so inactive, it's off the scale inactive. It doesn't even show up. And then here it is through the finish. Look at this. And this tells the whole story. This is why I'm sharing it with you. I know it's not the, the clearest image, but you— I know you get what's going on here. This tells the whole story. I'm going to— your little piece of homework just for a couple of minutes, if you can remember this image right here. You're going to see it again in just a minute in a different context. Okay, so that's your— can you kind of remember what the shape of that looks like? Okay. You don't have to tell me now. But you just did, and you were right. Okay. This tells the whole story. What is happening in this healing, whatever it is that's occurring, It is a right-brain intuitive experience. There's an experience that is happening in the body of the healer. Remember, a focus that we create in consciousness affects our physical world. The healer is creating a focus in consciousness, and now we're looking at her brain to help us understand how it's happening. And it's not happening in the brain. Her brain is triggering another experience in her body. That's linked with intuition, with feeling. And that's precisely what you're going to find when we go into this monastery in Tibet. It's exactly what you're going to see. All right. Does that make sense to you? Isn't that interesting? All right. Now we're going to shift gears a little bit. We're going to go back and look at those NASA images again. And I think you're going to be really— I hope you're as excited about— you know, even if you're not excited, will you please act like you are so I feel good? About what I did because this is such a very cool correlation that I'm going to share with you here. Okay, NASA has another satellite your tax dollars are paying for called the COBE, or COBE. It's pronounced both ways. How many of you have the beautiful hardbound version of your COBE satellite photographs on your bedstand for light bedtime reading? Okay, 2 of us. So those tax dollars paid for something useful. All right, COBE is imaging the radiation that's left over from the moment our universe began. So with the Big Bang, there was a release of energy, and there are remnants of that energy still out there. And the scientists are saying if we can map where that energy is, it gives us an idea of the shape of our universe. Okay, and they're looking at different wavelengths. It's like looking through different glasses, different lenses. Okay, so this is the first image you're going to see are all the wavelengths together. It's the composite wavelength. And this is what our universe looks like right now. This is the entire universe. It looks kind of cool. There's a lot we could talk about here. You know, there are many places in this program where one image we could talk about for the rest of the morning. And this is one of those places. But we're not going to, because we're going somewhere. This is a cool image. And you see a little bit of a shape on here. But we're going to look at a different wavelength now. And if there are any numerologists— if you're a scientist or an engineer, this is the 53 gigahertz wavelength. But if you're not, and you don't care about that, if you're a numerologist, 5 and 3 53 is the number 8. It's God's number. So you can either say we're looking at 53 GHz or we're looking at God's number, and you said the same thing. So when we narrow down only to these wavelengths, this is the exact same image looking at only the wavelengths of God's number. And look at what this looks like. Does that look like any kind of a shape that you've ever studied in ancient Healing traditions. Anything to do with balance, maybe? What does it look like? Exactly. Does it look anything like that? I'm glad you said yes because I put that image there. If you said no, it just wouldn't work at all. Exactly. Our entire universe, when we're looking at this wavelength, happens to assume exactly the pattern of energy that we equate with balance. Now, this is where it gets really, really interesting. Here's the universe in this state of balance that we've come to know. And the next image is where your homework comes in. Have you ever seen this before? What is that? It's the human brain. But it's not the human brain doing just any old thing. What's the human brain doing? It's healing. Our human brain in the state of healing assumes the same pattern of energy as the entire the entire universe in the state of balance that it's in right now. Don't ask me to say that twice. I don't even know where that came from. In other words, in other words, it's as if we bring ourselves into alignment at the highest levels of creation, that that alignment then filters down as above, so below. It's a fractal experience, a little experience in our bodies of what is happening in the greater universe. Isn't that beautiful? I've never seen this correlation before, and I almost took it out in the interest of time, and I felt like I just enjoy sharing it with you. I wanted you to see it. Okay. So it's the human brain while it is healing. So my question is, what is the brain responding to? What is the brain of that healer responding to? And this is what brings everything together. The brain is responding to a heart heart-based experience. You're going to begin seeing this. We're going to work with our heart. We can intentionally, on demand, create a condition in our hearts that send the signal to our brain and align that healing state. The brain's just following the instructions. Our brain's sitting there saying, okay, I'm, I'm waiting for you to tell me what is it you'd like for me to do. And that instruction is coming from our heart. We have grown up in the civilization and the culture and the society where We were taught the brain does everything because it's a male-oriented society and men think with their brain, right? There's a whole workshop we could do on that. So what is the brain responding to? Well, the answer to that question is right here. Every moment of every day, there's a conversation between your heart and your brain. It's a two-way conversation. Your heart is sending a signal to your brain. Based on the quality of that signal, your brain is sending chemistry back into your body. The quality of that conversation is called coherence. We're gonna talk about coherence a little bit. You're gonna hear this word a lot. If it sounds technical to you, pretty soon it won't because you'll be so used to hearing it. It's just about a kind of balance. And the optimum coherence, for you engineers out there, you can actually measure is 0.10 cycles per second, 0.10 hertz. It's a very low frequency signal between our hearts and our brains. This is the same signal that communicates with the magnetic fields of the Earth that the satellites pick up. Okay, so low coherence. When we are in a low coherent state, if you can measure respiration, heart rate, or pulse, it will give you an idea of the coherence between your heart and your brain. We're going to do it in here with someone in in just a moment. So respiration, when you see these rough, jagged, irregular readings, heart rate variability, HRV, could you see how they're irregular and rough? Pulse transit time. These are all signs of low coherence. The conversation between the heart and the brain is this irregular signal, and it happens in the presence of what we would call negative emotions: frustration, anger, jealousy, hate, rage. You all know that. The flip side of that is that these negative emotions— I'm sorry, the consequences— is the negative emotions create a lot of experiences in our bodies that we wouldn't necessarily want to have. Over 1,400 biochemical changes happen in your body when you get angry. When somebody cuts you off on the freeway in traffic, they're off having a great day because they made their exit. You're still reeling from the anger you're feeling because somebody just dishonored you on the freeway. You're triggering 1,400 biochemical changes that last throughout the day, bathing you in stress hormones like cortisol, heart rhythm chaos, cognitive shutdown. You don't perform very well. We don't solve problems well in this state. But you already know that. The flip side of that is in high coherence. Can you see how nice and even and regular these are? Appreciation, gratitude, love, compassion, all things that we would consider to be positive emotions. They facilitate really good biochemical changes. Studies are showing that you could have 3 minutes of high coherence and you will trigger a 100% increase in the DHEA levels of your body. That's the anti-aging hormone. That's the precursor to all the other hormones in your body that will last for 6 hours after that 3 minutes. We're going to do it in here today. We all look younger when you walk out of here today. Isn't that great? We'll all be 90 minutes older in time, but we will not have deteriorated in that 90 minutes. That's the key. Heart rhythm coherence is much improved in the presence of high coherence. So these are all the effects. Well, what does that mean? If our heart is so powerful, if our heart is so powerful and it can do all these things, how come It seems like people die between about 70 and 100 years of age. You ever ask yourself that? I ask audiences all the time, "Why do we die?" And first people laugh. They say, "Well, we die because of old age." Old age is not a disease. That is a catch-all for medical people who don't know what else to say when they're asked that question and they want to sound authoritative. There's nothing wrong with being 600 years old. As a matter of fact, the ancient Essenes said that you and I are living in bodies that should be here 900 years. I'm going to talk about this just a minute. 900 years. Now, it sounds silly to us, to some. Would you ever want to live here 900 years? Why? Because of what our life has been like up to this point. Think about what— think how much you could get done in 900 years. You know, we think about a project in terms of 5 or 10 years. What could you get done in 100 years? Or I like to think of this: what would it mean if we you were 900-year bodies and you look another human in the eye and say, "Honey, I love you. Will you spend the rest of your life with me?" 900 years. Some people say, "Yeah," and some people say, "God, no." All right, these are facts. Every cell in your body has the ability to reproduce and heal itself, bar none. Even cells that we were told could never do so. Brain cells now are documented as healing and reproducing themselves. Spinal cord tissue that we were told could not do these things. Heart tissue that we were told could not do these things. Every one of you have stem cells in your body right this minute. You don't need to get them from a newborn infant. They're with you from the moment you were born. They actually live right at the point behind your navel, and they're waiting. Your stem cells are waiting for you right now. They're waiting for you to send them the instruction so they can do what they came into this world to do. For some of you, they've been waiting a long time. For some of you, you talk to them every day. The language that allows us to access this is the language of the heart. People say, well, what about the DNA? We've heard that DNA can only replicate so many times and those little telomeres break off. They get brittle and they break off. They can, but you know what? Your body is so brilliant that you have an enzyme that repairs those if it's given the instruction. Construction to do it. There's no reason. Our hearts, our hearts are such amazing, amazing organs. But the leading cause of death in adults in the Western world, age over 65, what do you think it is? So it's called heart disease. I began looking at it. I said, well, what is heart disease? I want to know what this is. I found that our heart beats about 100,000 times each day. Mine's beating harder right now because I'm working really hard for you all. 'Cause I love you right now. I'm loving you right now. It's the best way I know how to love you in this room. Our heart pumps about 6 quarts of blood through 12,000 miles of arteries, vessels, and capillaries every 24 hours. I was trained as an engineer, and when you have a piece of equipment that the whole mission depends on, it's called mission critical. If that piece of equipment fails, everything stops. I would call our hearts mission critical. Would you agree? Okay, mission-critical equipment, one of two things happen. It's so important when you build it, you either build the piece of equipment and then you build a backup in case it fails, then you build a backup to the backup, or you build the original piece so well that it simply cannot fail, or if it does, it can repair itself. We've only got one heart, so we don't have a backup or a backup to the backup. So that means this heart must be a really good heart that we've got. So why would it suddenly stop after only 70 to 100 years? A gentleman named James Blumenthal, Duke University, did some studies. And what he found? High blood pressure, vascular plaque, stroke, those are the symptoms that we call heart disease. But what he found was that they actually result from what we call unreconciled long-term fear, frustration, anxiety, disappointment. This is published in Journal of Consulting Clinical Psychology, Volume 67, 1999. So it's on your audio. And I looked at all these and I said, I said, those are all symptoms of something else. What is it? What are they really telling us? What the studies found, and this is probably no surprise to you, but I know you're going to feel it the minute I say it. These are all symptoms that fall under the umbrella of hurt. Unreconciled hurt. So I had to ask myself, do we hurt ourselves into death in this world? Is it the hurt that we have from the loss of everything that we cherish, including a way of life that we've always known? Is that, is that really what's happening here? Unresolved hurt? Well, I mentioned to you that the ancient Essenes talk to us about our beliefs, and what they say is this: they say that when our soul hurts when our soul hurts from the pain of the things that we lose and are familiar in life, that our pain is transmitted into the body as the spiritual quality of the energy of the life force that goes into every cell. But the same thing works in reverse. These are from the book, "The Spontaneous Healing of Belief." At the back of the book, there are a series of belief codes. That was belief code 20. Belief code 21 21 says the same principles that allow us to hurt ourselves to death also work in reverse. They allow us to heal ourselves into life. Yesterday, those of you who were with us, you saw two ladies who are documented as being 120 years old right now, and we know there are others out there. And I mentioned that the ancient Essenes, they said that we literally have come to this world— there's no reason for us not to be here for 900 100 years. Well, I'm going to tell you the next thing I say, you're going to laugh when you hear it, but then it will make a lot of sense. They say that we're in 900-year bodies, but that the first 100 years are the toughest. I told you. They said the first 100 years are the most difficult, and here's the reason why. It's in the first 100 years of a human life that you and I will suffer the hurt and the loss of everything that we cherish. Everything that we know is true, everything that we've come to love and hold dear will leave us in that first 120 years— I'm sorry, 100 years. And what they say is that most humans simply cannot survive the learning curve, that our heart is such a magnificent, powerful organ that 70 to 100 years appears to be how long our heart can hold up to the stress and the pressure of that unresolved hurt before it simply gives out. But they say if you can find a way— can you feel that right now? I'm looking at your faces, I know you feel it. If you can find a way to be with the things that you love in this world, to be with the people and the experiences the pets, the family. Cherish every moment as the present moment. And when those things leave us for whatever reason, if we can find a way to redefine what that leaving means to us, that we have a whole new life in front of us. And this is what the ancients had learned to do. You and I are living at the end of a 5,125-year-long cycle. That's the end of a 20 25,625-year cycle that happens to be happening at the same time our planet is crossing over the galactic border. Everything that we have ever known and loved and cherished is changing. We're the generation that is bridging all that has ever been with what is yet to be, and we are learning to reconcile this in our lives, whether we're talking about a planet or we're talking about our daily careers, our daily lives, the same thing. That's why this time is so precious and so special. Well, I think it even goes deeper than that. I suspect it even goes deeper. This is a Greg-ism. The Essenes don't say this. But you all have heard, and I have as well, that we come from a realm— we're not from around here. If you want to see an alien, look at the person next to you. Nobody's from around here. We're here for a while. We're loving each other. We're going to share some time together. But we come from a realm where we don't have these bodies. And we are in spirit, in family, linked as a unity, as a oneness. And I suspect that the original hurt that we feel from leaving that togetherness and coming into the isolation and the loneliness and the separation of a single human body is probably the hurt that we're all really dealing with. We might not talk about it at the water cooler on Monday morning after the football game, at work, but I think that's probably what's happening. And, and we so long for that connection that we try to recreate that family in this world with partners and friends and siblings and pets and places and things to help us feel those things that we long to experience again. You think that's possible? I think it is too. And I think the first step in healing is saying, I think it's possible. So thank you for that. I feel healed already. All right. First 100 years are the hardest. I'm on a 200-year plan. Who's gonna be on the 200-year plan? Who do I get to see in this room 200 years from now? Make a date. Cool. Okay. All right. All right. Stem cells, wake up. Okay. What we found yesterday is a human heart. How can the human heart have that effect? Here's how. Scientists are telling us the answer. Right here. The human heart has an electrical field that's about 100 times stronger than the one of the brain. Human heart has a magnetic field that is about 5,000 times stronger than the brain. This is why it's easier to feel your way into the solution, to feel your way into the healing, to feel your way into your heart's desire, than to engineer it with your mind. There's— sometimes it's good to engineer with our minds if you're going to build build a space shuttle and send some people to another world, you want good engineers and you want them to use their mind and you want them to have good sleep and have a really good day the day they do it. But if we're engineering life, this is quantum heart-based engineering. We're working with a different field here. All right. So coherence, 0.10 cycles per second. How in the world do we do something like that? Well, this is what I wanted to know. And as an engineer, I was trained to look in the world around me. Journey for the answers. In 1986, I had my first journey into the highlands of central China and Tibet, looking for the places that had been least disturbed by Western civilization, thinking that maybe there we would have a better idea, I would have a better sense of what we had lost. And if we could find the principles and then bridge them with the best science of today. This is the question I asked. I said, we're living a world It's changing so fast, and there's this judgment about either following the path of science or the path of spirituality. I said, what happens if we marry our two great ways of knowing, marry the best of our spiritual traditions and the best of our science into a greater wisdom if it's going to help us? How do you feel about it? You think that's the way to go, to honor our past? Well, I think that's exactly what's happening right now. Right now. So in Tibet, it's an amazing, beautiful part of the world. It was in this monastery where we met this beautiful little monk. Now I'm real close to the screen and you all are on the edge. I don't even know if you can see this. Can you see that he's got a smile on his face? Can you see that his cheeks are kind of puffed out right there? This beautiful little monk— there's a whole story I could tell you here. In the interest of time, I'm going to have to go fast. But it was this monk I asked the question I ask I asked every monk, every nun, every opportunity I had. I said, "Do you have a secret hidden library in this monastery?" And after a lot of conversation and some camaraderie and some really bonding experience together, it was this little monk that said, "Yes." And my next question was, "Can I see it?" I had a group with me. I said, "Can our group see this library?" He said, "Yes. Wait right here." Well, time means nothing in Tibet. I just— I'm going to tell you that right now. So this little monk, see these keys in his hand? He got on his bicycle and he rode 30 miles in one direction to another monastery to get those keys and 30 miles back while we wait right here. It was worth the wait because now he's taking us into this empty chanting hall. And if you've never seen one of these, they don't heat them in the winter. They're really cold. They say, "If you're cold, put on more blankets." So you can see the robes are so thick they stand up even when the monks leave. And we know that this is a false wall, and behind this wall there's a library. It's 3 stories tall, 3 stories tall, but it's only 12 feet wide. And it's dark. And they told us that we couldn't use our video cameras. So we went past these 30-foot-tall Buddhas of compassion, went past this hallway that had these beautiful prayer wheels that we rotated every one as we went past, into an absolutely dark room that looked just like that. And I worked hard to get that slide for you. And when the lights came on, what you see next is what we saw when we turned on our flashlights. This is the first image of this library. And this is, I don't know if you can see, this is my hand with a flashlight right down here, and we're looking at the corner of the room. Okay, so these are the corners, two bookshelves, because these are Tibetan books. They've been here 1,500 years. They're loose pages sandwiched between the covers. And I asked my little monk, I said, "What's in these books?" This is one of those places we could spend the whole morning talking, and I'd love to do it. It's hard not to, actually. I said, "What's in these books?" And he said, "I'd like for you to talk to somebody else to answer that question." So they took us to this monastery down the road to meet with the abbot of the monastery. The abbot is the elder of the monastery. They don't get a lot of company here, so this was a big deal. And all the monks at this particular place, even they don't get to see their abbot sometimes. So they were giving us a private audience. They put on their robes. They were leading us in a very solemn procession up to the place where we were going to meet with this abbot. I had never met this abbot before. I had met the previous abbot who had died unexpectedly. And the man I'm about to meet that you're going to see is the new the new younger abbot, only in his 80s. And here he is right here. This is a beautiful man right here. So this was— we had to go through the formality of a greeting, and they told me, they said, whatever you do, don't look up, don't look into his eyes. Well, I had to peek. You know, I consciously, consciously, I knew I wasn't I wasn't going to, but it was an automatic thing. But it was okay. He smiled and it was good. But then they let me ask him some questions. Okay, and I asked him, I was writing the book, The Divine Matrix, when this picture was taken. And I asked him the question. I said, in your tradition, what is the force that holds everything in the universe together? What connects everything? And he went off with a translator and they had this whole conversation. I could have left that monastery, had a cup of yak butter tea and come back. By the time they had this whole thing going on. And he came back and he answered me with one word. I said, "What is the force that connects everything in the universe?" He said, "Compassion." And I said, "Well, wait a minute," through the translator. I said, "Is compassion a feeling that we have in our bodies, or is it a force of nature that connects everything in the universe?" And he went off and had a conversation with my translator. And he came back and answered me with one word. I thought it was a mistranslation. I asked him to do it again. He came back with the same word. "Is compassion a feeling in our bodies or a force in the universe?" He said, "Yes." This is a very deep, very powerful teaching. Because this beautiful man at 17,000 feet above sea level, halfway around the world in this old monastery, is telling us, as he has been taught in his tradition, for centuries. That you and I are born with the ability to create an experience inside of our body, specifically in our heart, that literally— not metaphorically— literally attunes us to the very stuff that connects everything in this universe. And what we do with it after we get there is up to us. Well, about 5 years earlier, I had met this man. This was the previous abbot. Of the monastery. This is the man that mysteriously died. We don't know what happened to him. And this was the man that I had asked the first question to when I went there. Isn't he a beautiful man? I asked him— I don't know how old he is. They wouldn't tell us. I asked a number of times and they just giggled. Because time means nothing to Tibetans. So it was this man, I guess 600, maybe, I don't know. It was this man I asked the question. I said, when we see your prayers for 14, 16, 18 hours a day, when we see the mudras and the mantras and the bells and the bowls and the gongs and the chimes and the incense, and we see your prayers on the outside, I said, what are you doing on the inside? How— when we see a miraculous healing, how did you do that? This is the value of being with a living culture. If you walk into an Egyptian temple, you see some cool hieroglyphs that somebody made a long time ago, but those people are gone. We can't ask them. And we may not even know how to read those hieroglyphs correctly. But these are living cultures, and you can ask them again and again until either they answer you or they get tired of the conversation and kick you out of the monastery. I said, when we see your prayers on the outside, what's happening on the inside? And this is the man that told me, you've never seen our prayers. Because a prayer cannot be seen. He said, what you see are the things that we do to create the feeling in our bodies. He said, the feeling is the prayer. Feeling is the prayer. Then he asked how we do it in our culture. And I began to realize that when you and I lost this part of our biblical texts in the 4th century, 1,700 years ago, the very books that were edited and removed that tell us of the power of human emotion and heart-based experience to move this world, to heal our bodies, and to create that peace. And we know that because those texts are now being recovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi libraries and the Coptic libraries. Feeling is the prayer. Well, specifically, the feelings of appreciation and gratitude. Gratitude. And this is where we're going to go with the whole thing— appreciation and gratitude. When we experience heart-based feelings of appreciation and gratitude, that is how we create that heart-brain coherence. But your mom knew that. How many of you, how many of you, when you were children, went to bed and your mom said, before you go to sleep every night, you give thanks for everything in your prayer Remember that? Some of you? How many? A lot of us may not have known exactly why we were being told to do this, but this is what gratitude and appreciation— in the English language, scientists have found that these two words best approximate the feeling in our heart that creates 0.10 hertz and floods our body with life-giving chemistry from gratitude and appreciation. The key is to feel from the heart as if the outcome already exists. Now this is important. The healing that happened of the Japanese girl and her tumor, or if you were with us yesterday and you saw 3 practitioners having a feeling and the cancerous tumor disappeared inside the body of a 47-year-old a 66-year-old Chinese woman. It's the same feeling. In the early 1980s, 200 people were trained to have the kind of feeling we're talking about. They were stationed throughout the war-torn areas of the Middle East during the Lebanese-Israeli War, the first Israeli-Lebanese War. And when they did what they were trained to do, all that happened was peace in a broad geographic area. Only 200 people. It's a potent language, a very potent language. What is common with all three? My friend David, those of you who were with me yesterday, the Native American prayer of rain. He didn't pray for rain to happen because if you say, "Great Spirit, please let there be rain," you've just acknowledged the rain's not there. You've just acknowledged the very condition that you're hoping to change. He felt the feeling as if the rain had already come. The healer in the Japanese hospital felt the feeling as the woman was whole and complete, fully enabled, fully capacitated. The 3 practitioners felt the feeling as if that woman were whole and complete, fully enabled, fully capacitated. They didn't even focus on the tumor. They didn't focus on the tumor because if you do, you're judging the tumor as right or wrong or good or bad. They held this woman in the feeling of her greatest potential. And this is something you and I can do for one another every minute of every day. Every minute of every day to the best of our abilities. The woman in the medicineless hospital in China, it's not about making her tumor go away. If she had a cold, it was probably healed. If she had a hangnail, it was probably healed that day. The 19-year-old woman in the Japanese hospital, It wasn't about focusing on healing anything because the moment you make that judgment, you've just created the energy that may stand between you and your heart's desire. This is a subtle and powerful difference. So please work with me on this. It's the difference between coming from the outcome rather than working toward the outcome. Does that make sense? How many saw the movie Ghost? Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore. Anybody see that movie? Wasn't that a great movie? Okay, what's your favorite scene in the whole movie? Just tell me. Everybody in every country in every audience will tell me the same scene. So just tell me right off, which one was it? The potter's wheel. Wasn't that a hot scene? She's there, her husband's gone, she's missing him. He's a ghost, he doesn't know how to be a ghost. She's working out her frustrations on a potter's wheel with a nice vase. It has nothing to do with this workshop, but I just have to acknowledge it. I knew it right off the bat because it's everybody's favorite scene. But there's another scene that has a lot to do with this workshop. If you haven't seen the movie, I don't want to spoil it for you. There's another scene. Patrick Swayze's a ghost and he's on— he's at a train station. Remember, he's at the train station and he's on the subway. What do you— it's not the tarmac. I've been in airports. Platform. He was at the platform. He was at the platform of the subway. He's a ghost. There's a can lying on the ground, and as a mortal man, he liked to kick cans. He tried to kick this can, and his foot went right through it because he's a ghost. And the more he tried to kick it— this is his man brain saying, I'm going to make that can move. So he scrunches up his face to get red, his veins are popping out, and he's trying harder and harder to do the same thing that didn't work the first time, thinking it's going to make a difference the next time he does it. And he's getting really frustrated and the can's not going anywhere. And all of a sudden another ghost comes by and says, "Hey man, it doesn't work that way. You can't do it like that here anymore." He says, "You got to feel it." And the minute he did that, the can was moving. He was moving it, kicking it all over the place. That's a perfect example. It's that subtle, "Hmm," that little shift of coming from the place where we feel that somehow we're going to make or impose our will upon the world to the switch that comes from the place that our heart's desire has already happened. It simply has not been mirrored in the physical reality yet. That's how those healings happened. That's how the peace happened. Does that make sense? I see a furrowed eyebrow or two. It's a very different way for the Western mind to think. Think. Remember the scientific experiment that's happening? We saw in the journal Nature early in this program that said observation creates reality. Okay, what we now know is the way we feel, our expectations about our world, literally are rearranging the stuff our world is made of on subtle levels if it's a passing expectation. But if we can hold that focus and and be very clear about where and how it happens, that is where the miracles happen. That is how you bring change into your world. And we do it through a heart-based experience. And this is what I'd like to do in the time that we have remaining. I want to be very clear. I'm working closely— I have since 1991— with an organization called the Institute of HeartMath. H-E-A-R-T-M-A-T-H. How many here have heard of HeartMath? Quite a few. Okay, great. Good people. If you've never heard of them, they are a pioneering research organization that have come from many walks of life. They're medical doctors, authors, engineers, scientists, computer designers, medical technicians. They've left their respective careers at Stanford University, UCLA, private corporations, all come together to study the power of the human heart in ways that have never been explored before. If you haven't heard of them, you're going to a lot, and I'm going to share with you the reason why. There's a new initiative that the media is very excited about that allows all of us to participate in a heart-based experience to bring a transformational shift to the magnetic fields of this planet. Before we do that, let's have some experiences that are the kind that will contribute to that project. And then we'll talk about that a little bit. You okay if we do it that way? One of the things that HeartMath was able to establish in the early '90s is this image, and you've seen it a lot, a lot of magazines, articles, that there is a physical field. I mean, this isn't New Age metaphor. It's not the aura. It's not the prana. It's not the chakra. It might be linked to those. This is an electrical and a magnetic field that can be measured around the human heart that looks like like a little donut called the torus. It's a tube torus that extends 5 to 8 feet beyond every human heart. We're all within 5 to 8 feet. Actually, we're pretty close in this room. So might be, uh, I don't know, 450, 500 people in the room, but we're sharing— there's a heart field. We are all sharing a heart field in here right now. It's so real we can work with it, and we're going to. So what I'd like to do is this: we're going to go through a little process The steps to the process might look familiar, but the techniques are what I'd like to share with you today. We're going to learn how to focus in our heart. And this, I think, in Western audiences is the most difficult thing to do. You know what I've found? If you tell someone to focus in their heart, you know what they do? They think about focusing in their heart. Because that's our conditioning. So it's like a muscle. We have to work with it. We're going to feel very precise kinds of feelings. And we're going to do some breathing. So before we can do that, what I'd like to do is this. I knew it would be very fast. This probably isn't the cleanest way to do this in here. But I'm going to do it this way anyway. What I'd like to do— let me do this. I'm going to bring this up. They have a piece of software that they have allowed me to use as an independent author. Remember I said if we can measure either pulse transit time, heart rate variability, or respiration that will give us an idea of the coherence. Who in here would like to have your coherence? Would you like to do it? You're the first one with your hand up. Would you, if you'll come to this side. What's your name? Charlotte. Charlotte, and how do you feel about mathematics? I always liked math. Do you like math? Oh, we're gonna have fun. This is Charlotte. Charlotte, this is our audience. If you'd come up. Please give Charlotte a hand for coming up here and being brave. Would you have a seat in this chair? Okay, now have we ever met before? Do I have anything in my sleeves? Alright, yes, I know. Alright, so what we have here, that's a— it's a really sophisticated piece of software made very simple to use. This is called an EM-Wave PC, EM, Emotional Wave PC. There are a lot of different modes that we can use. What I'm going to ask you to do, if you'll take your index finger, place it in this cuff to where the fleshy part of your finger is over the little diode underneath, and you're right, this, this hand, and I'm going to ask you just to put it right. Can you feel the little diode in there under, underneath your finger? Comfortable? And if you'll have your hand motionless, and you can either put it on your leg or you can set it on this desk, whatever you'd like to do. Okay, and I'm going to go into a mode It's kind of a technical looking mode, but there's a lot of things that we can do here. And we'll begin. It's going to do a little calibration. And I'm not asking her or you to do anything special right now. So it's going to calibrate. What you see is up on the top of this, we're going to actually be able to look at her heart rate variability. And I believe these are— I think they're 30-second windows here. This is her current heart rate. It's at 83. And in just a moment, it's going to take all the information that's getting from her body, from Charlotte. And Charlotte, you can see it right there on the screen. Everything that's happening, it's going to determine her coherence ratio between low, medium, and high. Red, blue, and green. There's no contest. Everybody is different. Usually this is what happens: 100% red, because that's the way we are in our daily lives until we make a change. Okay, this is precisely what we want to have happen here. What I'd like to do, I'm going to ask Charlotte to do something. And I'm going to ask you all to help from where you are. And I'm going to ask that you not watch the screen. You've seen it. You know what's going on here. If you watch the screen, you're mesmerized by the technology. And you can't go into your heart if your focus is there. So I'm going to invite you first to close your eyes. Everybody just close your eyes. Put your notebooks down for a few seconds here. Charlotte, if you'll do the same thing. Same thing. You won't need to take any notes on this. When I ask you to move into your heart— please close your eyes— when I ask you to move into your heart, what I learned from the Tibetans and from my native friends is the best way to do this— it's a secret that they use all the time— is if you will physically touch the center of your chest. Touch your sternum over your heart. You can either do it momentarily, or you can place your hand there and leave it there. Or you can form a prayer mudra and hold it there. But the physical sensation that you feel in that part of your body will automatically draw your awareness to that place. This is why they ask you not to, to cross your legs or all these other things, because if you're feeling the pressure between your knees or your thighs, your awareness is going there as well. So when you can just sit and you feel a light pressure in the center of your chest. And if you'll move your attention to that part, move your attention into your heart and begin to breathe from that place just for a moment. If you'll continue to breathe into your heart center, to the best of your ability, if you can feel the feelings of gratitude and appreciation. Okay, gratitude and appreciation for anything, whatever that means to you. Everyone has a different experience of gratitude and appreciation. For some people, it's a look of their children's eyes when they wake up in the morning and they're happy just because they woke up. For some people, it's looking into the eyes of your spiritual master in your meditations, into the eyes of Mary or Jesus or Buddha or God. For some people, it's the feeling that you feel when you hold a newborn child in your arms, or you hold a brand new puppy or a little kitty in your arms. Whatever that feeling is for you, if you can feel those feelings of gratitude and appreciation. And as you feel those feelings in your heart, if you can breathe from that place, breathe those feelings of gratitude and appreciation. Okay? Keep your awareness in your heart. Remember to breathe. Feel the feelings of gratitude and appreciation. As you feel them in your heart, allow that feeling to move away from your body into the room around you. But this is an active process of focus, gratitude, and appreciation in your heart. It's not about zoning out, okay? To the best of your ability, feel those feelings of gratitude and appreciation. OK, if you take one more deep breath and slowly begin to open your eyes. And we can see what happened here. We began— Charlotte, you did a really good job. Thank you. We didn't have a good connection on her finger at first. And it wasn't tight enough. She has a tiny little index finger. And it was bouncing around. But once we began to get the readings, right in here we started getting good readings. And almost immediately— see, she was in 100% low coherence when we hooked her up, as most people are. If you just walk in from the street and you sit down, you're in a low coherence state. But within— and this is why I wanted you to see this— once we got this finger— can you see where it's jumping up and down here? The finger cuff isn't on right. But once we got the good connection, look at this. This is a minute between 2 and 3, and then there's about another half a minute. So in a minute and a half, once we got that connection going, she went from a 100% low coherence down to 72% low coherence. 15% medium, and 13% high. And those numbers kept climbing. If we went ahead and did this for another, you know, another minute, 2 minutes, what we'd see— and this is what we do— what we'd see is that the red would begin to decrease, and we'd see more and more coming up on the other side. And it happens really quickly if we can follow the focus into our heart without zoning out. But a lot of people are trained when they go into that space, they just like doze off. I mean, I've had people snore. And that's okay. Just when you wake up, get back with the program, you know. Or if the person next to you wakes you up, you'll be with the program. I wanted you to see how quickly in a minute and a half, she was already in 13% high coherence. That's how quickly your heart will respond if you give it something to work with. To work with. We're going to do this one more time. Charlotte, you did a really good job. I'm going to unhook this. Thank you. And you can unhook this. And you're now in 13% high coherence. Have a really good day, and thank you. Thank you, Charlotte. You can go down this way. Don't do this while you're driving. Actually, you want to do it while you're driving. I need another volunteer because this looks a little technical, not so much fun. I had the opportunity to to put my hands on the tummy of an infant within about 24 hours of coming into this world. And it was a really powerful experience for both of us. We were hooked up on the monitor, and it was very, very cool to see how this happened. So this looks a little sterile, looks a little technical, little left brain. It's good if you want to know what's happening. But you can use this— young people like to see pictures, children, adults like to see pictures. There's another mode that we can use this. And what's your name? Phyllis. Hi, welcome to the stage. Audience is Phyllis. Phyllis, this is the audience. If you would be so kind, if you could put your finger in there until the fleshy part of your index finger is over that little diode, and it feels— not all the way through, you want the fleshy part of your— this part, right? You want the fleshy part of your finger to feel that little diode underneath. Can you feel it there? And if you, uh, can you take off an earring? I'm going I'm going to do something else as well. There's a different mode that we can use here that's a lot more fun. So what we're going to do is we're going to create a garden, because we've always heard that we live in a garden anyway, right? We came to the garden of this world. We're going to make it beautiful. What should happen here, if I do this well— that garden doesn't look very exciting. It's all in black and white. What will happen is the sensor will pick up what's happening in the room. When you do what you're doing, Because we're sharing a heart field to some degree, we are all being picked up. We're all sharing a heart field in this room. And as the sensor goes through every 7 seconds, it will take a reading of the coherence and it will populate this garden depending on what that coherence looks like. Okay? So let's— you okay if we do that? All right, so let's do this one more time. If you all watch this because you'll be mesmerized. You'll be mesmerized when this happens. Close your eyes, touch the center of your chest, move your heart awareness into your chest, and just breathe. Just breathe from that space. Focus at the place of your body where you feel that sensation. Out of your mind and into your heart. And to the best of your ability, feel for you what are feelings of gratitude and appreciation. Gratitude and appreciation for anything, whatever that means to you. We've all got something to feel feel gratitude for in this world. Continue breathing. Just feel feelings of gratitude and appreciation in your heart. Keep your focus in your heart. Touch that place right over the center of your heart. This is what the monks and the nuns do. They feel the feeling of gratitude and appreciation for the things that they choose to bring to fruition in this world. And you can do this in your life. Feel the gratitude and appreciation for the healing of your loved ones as if it's already The healing of your own body. For the healing that happens in every moment of every day. Feel it right now. Breathe that feeling into your heart. For the safety of our loved ones. The safety of our children. The peace between nations that's already happened. Gratitude and appreciation for the new world that began with the election of a new leader in this country. The whole world is watching. Gratitude and appreciation for the opportunity to choose. Touch the center of your heart. Touch it with your hands. And just breathe that feeling into the world. And you're doing right now exactly what those monks and nuns were trained to do. If you take one more deep breath and slowly begin to open your eyes. How many of you have ease finding that gratitude and appreciation in your hearts? You do it? Is it hard for anyone to find that place? We found even with young children, who have had really tough lives. If you can tell those children to feel what it feels like when they hold a baby bunny in their arms, even kids who have had a tough time can feel that. We had problems with a connection up here, but we got a little bit, we got some color in our waterfall. If we had done this longer, we'd populate the whole garden. I promised that I would honor our timeframes here today, but you get the idea. You get the idea of what this feeling is all about, right? It's not a that you think about in your mind. It's something that you create in your heart. You did a great job. Thank you very much. You helped us populate the waterfall a little bit. Thank you very much. And we're almost finished. One more thing. Okay, so what you're doing right now, that feeling in your heart stems from a new discovery that Earth and the magnetic fields of the Earth and the human heart work in the same frequencies. In other words, we're feeling those feelings, and our heart is 5,000 times stronger magnetically than our brain. What we're actually doing is we're communicating with the very fields that sustain life on Earth. This has led to this new project bringing millions of people together across cultural boundaries, religious, spiritual, international boundaries. Doesn't even matter what belief system, how you meditate or how you pray, bring everyone together to create coherence in a very precise way. It's led to a hypothesis that when many of us come together, strong collective emotion has a measurable impact— our satellites are telling this— on the fields of the Earth. A new project that is now called the Global Coherence Initiative— I'm going to talk just a minute about what it is, how you can participate if you choose. The goal is to unite millions of people from varied beliefs and cultures to shift global consciousness from instability and chaos into balance and cooperation by doing just the kinds of things that you were doing right now. The Institute of HeartMath is heading this up. It's a two-phase project. They are building hundreds of sensors, deploying them throughout the world to measure the fields that tell us about our hearts. And then they are training. Their goal is to have trained 100,000 people by the end of next month. We're about two-thirds of the way there right now in the techniques that you're learning to do. If you would like to know more about the Global Coherence Initiative, if you go to my web page, the home page, in the middle there's a button that says click here to learn about Global Coherence Initiative. You'll have a slideshow and it will tell you how to If you want to do everything from a passive observer just to watch this project, if you want to become a member of a community and have your data input, you can do that. If you want to become a trainer and teach people a myriad of techniques working with the HeartMath folks, you can do that. It's all right there. I'm excited about this project because it is the first time a science-based initiative has been embraced by the global media, and it's happening right now. It's happening right now at a time that the experts are telling us you and I are living a time unlike any other time of 5,000 years of recorded human history. The world is changing, the cycles are converging, and the very fields that sustain life on the earth, you and I are learning to communicate with those fields, commune with those fields through our hearts, which we were born to do to begin with. Your heart is the one organ in your body that creates the strongest electrical, the strongest magnetic field, much stronger than your brain. And it's all coming together at the close of a great cycle as we end one world age and move into the next. What a beautiful, beautiful convergence of experience. Right now we are posed on the precipice. We've got a choice. Where are we going? It's yet to be decided. You and I are making the choice right now, and the question is, what are we choosing? You now have the language with which to make that choose— that choice. And everything we've done in here is a context for everything that you will see in this conference, in your world, in your life beyond. We ran over a few minutes. I want to tell you how much I appreciate this time together. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for our volunteers. God bless. Have a really Really good day. Thank you. Yesterday we began with this flowchart. It's called the great spiritual mystery. The mystery that says something that we do in our lives triggers a process inside of our bodies that interacts with the forces of creation and affects our physical world. Something that you and I can create, a feeling, an emotion, a belief inside of our bodies interacts with the stuff that we can't see in the world and that modern science until recently hasn't even acknowledged and affects change in our physical world. We are born with the ability, the language to speak through our hearts and influence, not control, not manipulate, not impose our will, but we influence the healing of our bodies, the peace between nations, the abundance, our spiritual abundance, our material abundance, the quality of our relationships, our romance, our friendships, the success of our careers, all of those things. That's why this work is so relevant to everything you do. There are people that I met in the lobby that said, "Well," they said, "we usually don't come to spiritual conferences." And I said, "That's okay." Because what we're doing in here, from my perspective, spirituality is life. We are spiritual beings walking this earth. It's a mystery, truly, as to where we've come from. A lot of theories out there. The bottom line is nobody knows for sure. It's a mystery as to where we go when we leave this place. A lot of theories. A lot of my best friends are speaking here about what that means. James von Prague even speaks to dead people on the other side. But we really don't know. What we do know is while we're here, we've got some time together. We've got some time together to explore this world. And in our exploration, we have created conditions and situations now that we have to deal with. And what our own science is telling us, and what the wisdom of our past has always said, is that we're part of everything that we've created. And that means that we are part of any solutions that come to pass. That's what this flowchart is telling us. Something we do in our lives affects our physical world. If we do not understand how it happens, when it does occur, we call it a miracle. If, if we have a feeling and all of a sudden the breast cancer is healed, the doctor says, "Oh, well, that's a miracle." And they just write it off to a miracle. They say, "You know, we can't explain it." Because these relationships are not understood. And we mentioned yesterday, if we do understand these relationships, they're no longer miracles, it's a technology. And it's a technology that ancient cultures have used. It's a technology that indigenous peoples are still using today beyond the borders of this beautiful country of ours. And so my path has been as a scientist During the Cold War years of the 1980s, working in a nuclear missile program, designing software for the MX missile in Denver, Colorado, in my weekends and spare time, I was researching the text, finding out, hopefully, the information that would help us to create the world where we'll never have a war like that again. And what I'm doing to you is, to the best of my ability, bringing the essence of what I have found to share with you. To add to your toolbox everything you already know. And every one of you, you, you all could get up here and do a program just as easily about the things in your life. You might not have the same pictures, but you would have the experiences that you could share that are meaningful to other people. So I'm just acknowledging that, and I want to say how honored I am to be here today and that you would come and allow me to share this day with you, and how much I appreciate your patience because we're going to move really fast in some places kind of slow in some other places. I appreciate your trust in allowing me to lead you through this material. The reason that our modern world has been so slow in picking up what that flowchart is saying to us is because, as good as our science is, we know that it is based in two false assumptions that were proven false only— only at the end of the 20th century. Now first years of the 21st century. Two false assumptions: the assumption that everything is separate from everything else, number one. Number two, the assumption that what happens inside of our bodies has no effect on the world beyond our bodies. We now know is the fact that we live in a world that is made of a shared matrix of energy. There's stuff, there's something that underlies this physical reality. We cannot see it, but it fills All space. There is no empty space. That something goes by many names. It's been referenced by many traditions in many different ways. We know it's there, number one. Number two, we now know that you and I are born speaking the language that influences that stuff. We call it emotion, feeling, belief, intent. That stuff has so many different names. We identified a few of these yesterday. Some physicists are now calling this field of energy the quantum hologram. Lynne McTaggart wrote a beautiful book a few years ago, and I'm actually presenting with her in Hamburg, Germany next month. Her book was called The Field, simply entitled The Field. Stephen Hawking is calling it the mind of God. The father of quantum theory called it the matrix, now being called the divine matrix. All names for the same field. So if you were not with us yesterday, This is the essence of what we did to help us understand that that field is there. And we arrived at this point. We said, "If we're going to use that field, if we're going to use the Divine Matrix, we've got to understand a little bit about how it works and speak the language it recognizes." We're doing a little of that both yesterday and today. So now, now this gets to be an interactive program here because this is a choice point in the program. See, it says right there. Choice Point, but it's not just any old Choice Point. What city are we in? For the recording, what city are we in? Chicago. Chicago. So this is the Chicago Choice Point that we put in last night. Okay. Are you ready to answer a big question? Okay, here we go. The question is this: Do you want to stretch your awareness of what you believe about our world today? If you say no, it's a very short program. So you almost have to say yes, okay? So whether you want to or not, just say yes for now, okay? Yes, okay, cool. All right, so my question is this. We have an opportunity. Do you want to explore the deep reality or the safe reality? They're both good programs. They're both a lot of fun. And they both have a button that goes with them. And either button is going to give us a good program. However, before we can go into deep, I have to have your permission. So are we going to do— How many want the safe reality? It's fun. It's a good program. You want this one? Safe? Deep? Okay. Well, you got to help me out here. We got to push that button. Are you ready? It says we can't do it. It says, "Access denied." If you saw the movie The Matrix, that's the screenshot from The Matrix. Access denied. Well, we said deep. I wonder, let's see, what else is it asking? We said we want the deep reality. Do we want the deep reality, or oh, do we want the really deep reality? Really deep? Okay, here we go. A couple of buttons here. So if we want really deep, we've got to push that red button. Can you help me out? Oh, okay. All right, we got it. Gotta make it fun, right? This could be some really dry stuff, I'm gonna tell you. We do these programs. We do programs for elementary school, a very different language that I use. We do some for middle school. We do some for high school seniors. We've got a seniors program. We've done some in nursing care facilities for elderly people who have a really short attention span. The key is big pictures and a short program. But this is the language I like to use here, so I'm more comfortable with what we're doing right here. So the deep reality is that a growing number of mainstream scientists— these aren't like old retired guys sitting on a park bench feeding the pigeons on, you know, somewhere in the middle of nowhere thinking of a new project. These are mainstream scientists are beginning to suspect that our universe and our bodies and our lives actually work like a really, really big computer. As a matter of fact, not only are they suspecting it, MIT professor Seth Lloyd, who is the designer of the world's first feasible quantum computer, he didn't say it works like a computer. This is a quote. He said, "The universe is a computer. It's a quantum computer." And in longer programs, we can explore precisely what that means and the parallels between the way a universe works and your body works and your laptop works are probably no coincidence. And the parallels are striking. They are astounding. But the bottom line for all this, you all know enough about computers to know that an electronic computer uses numbers to get things done, right? When you type an email, ABCDEFG, hello Greg with two Gs, you know that those letters are being converted into ones and zeros that go across the line somehow. And get translated to someone else. That's electronic computer is programmed by numbers. Our consciousness computer is programmed as well, but it's programmed by belief. It's not the ones and zeros of numbers. It's the energetic patterns of what you and I create within our hearts. Does that make sense? Are you okay with that? In longer programs, we can go into a lot more detail. If you're interested in the technical details, they're there. And when I share them with young people, what I used to say is it's very cool. But I've learned quickly that cool is no longer the word that young people use. You probably know more about that than I do. Well, it is sweet, and now they've graduated to another word that I don't even want to use on the stage. So I just either hang out with sweet or cool. One of those two words is what I'm going to use. I think it's very cool. The parallels between the electronic and the consciousness computers, both of them need programs. To get things done. The programs— when you look at the way belief works, you look at the way programs work, they are so similar. Belief literally is a code based on a language that you and I were born speaking in our hearts. Now, I think intuitively we all suspect that, we sense it, and we've heard it for a long time, you know, the language of the heart. But it's always been used more in a poetic sense. Now it's becoming very concrete, very very tangible and very factual. So I've asked the question before: how much power do we really have to change our world, to change our lives, to change our bodies? How much power do you think we have? I know because you're in a workshop here, you're all gonna say we have a lot of power, but, but how much power do you really believe? Let me ask this: how many of you believe that you were born into this world with a power that you have never fully utilized? You believe that? Do you sense? Okay, that's almost everybody in the room. Then let me ask the next question. If you have that power, how come you've never used it? We don't know how, or we are so conditioned— even people that have spent their lives in monasteries halfway around the world where this understanding is supported day in and day out, they say our conditioning is so deep that we are powerless beings. Subconsciously that even they, when they're trained, have to break through the disbelief to access that inner power, to access what it's all about. This is a quote. I love this quote. It is out of the first-century Buddhist sutra, the Mahayana sutras. This is actually from the Heart Sutra, is what it's called, and it's a direct quote from a translation. It says that the reality of our world, whether it's your body or whether it's our physical world or whether it's our situation in life, reality exists only where we create a focus. The question is, how do we create the kind of focus that influences our reality? This is where modern science now is only catching up with those ancient traditions because science has discovered the force of belief. Scientists know that belief has a power, but scientists don't believe it. Science has found the force of belief, and they don't believe it. How many of you have heard something called the placebo effect? Everybody in this room, probably. If you're a medical student, you know that you get about 15 minutes of first-year med school where they talk about this little fluke called placebo, and then they don't talk about it anymore. It may be the basis for the healing of the last 8,000 years of human history. Because modern medicine is said to be only about 100 years old, but we've been healing ourselves for 8,000 years without modern medicine. What did we use? Well, this might give us some insights into what it is. The term was actually coined in 1955. H.K. Beecher, chief of anesthesiology at Boston's General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, published his landmark paper. It was called "The Powerful Placebo." You've probably seen it before. The bottom line of the paper was that he studied a number of people who had undergone medical procedures, and he found that about a third of them healed from essentially nothing. And this led to a group of studies. Now I want to share just how far the placebo studies have gone if you are not aware of some of this. Those of you that are less familiar with the placebo, placebo is when someone is given something by a person that they trust. It might be themselves, it might be a doctor, it might be a friend, it might be your parent. And they believe that whatever it is that they have received, either a substance or a procedure, will help them with a condition. They believe it to be true. That's a placebo. This goes so far And if you have not heard of some of these, I want to share these with you. There's a cardiologist in Seattle, Washington. His name is Leonard Cobb. He took this one step further and used a placebo procedure in a heart— a heart procedure that is typically used for people that have a condition called angina. And the idea is that the blood flow needs to be increased in certain parts of the heart. What they typically do is they will go in surgically into the heart. They'll tie off a couple of arteries in one place to force the blood somewhere else. And it's got about a 90% success rate. So when someone hears that they are going to get this procedure and they know it's got a 90% success rate, they say, "Oh, you know, I'm probably gonna be okay in about 3 hours." So here's what he did. I wouldn't want to be the patients. Here's what he did. He took the patients, he anesthetized them, he took them into surgery, he opened them up as if he were going to do a surgical procedure, but what did he do? Absolutely nothing. He closed them right back up. He stitched them back up. What do you think the effect was? The placebo surgery had exactly the same success rate of 90% as if the procedure had already been done. When in reality nothing was done, and the only thing that changed was the people believed that something had been done. This has had such an impact on the medical community, they now have stopped the original procedure altogether. It's called internal mammary ligation. It's abandoned. Talk about this in the new book, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief. But it goes even further than this. How many of you have heard of the nocebo effect? It's the opposite of placebo. Placebo is where you believe something can help you. Nocebo is where you have good reason to believe something will harm you. This is a very famous study. It's ongoing today. It's the very famous Framingham Heart Study. Began in 1948. What they did, 1948, they took 5,209 men and women between the ages of 30 and 62. They had been evaluated every 2 years for cardiac risk factors. Now they're taking the children of the original people and the grandchildren of the children. So the study goes on across generations. Every 2 years. The bottom line— I know you're all bottom line people in here, right? We don't want to spend any time doing anything. We just want the bottom line, right? Because this is the deluxe bottom line 90-minute Chicago Celebrate Your Life program. That's why. Okay, so the bottom line. I got up at 3 o'clock this morning and wrote bottom line on there. Just for this moment, so I want you to enjoy it. Enjoy my bottom line moment. Okay, bottom line is this: the women in the study who believed that they were prone to the heart disease, even though they may not be, were nearly 4 times as likely to die from the conditions they believed that they would have than other women who had exactly the same risk factors, but didn't believe that they would be affected. The only thing that was different was how they felt about what was happening. Well, scientists see this. Medical people see this and they say, "Well, maybe it's psychosomatic. It's all psychosomatic." Well, it is, but what does that mean? What does psychosomatic really mean? Well, look at this. If you've never seen this study, this is a very rare study. It was only published a couple of years ago. Very, very powerful. Showing that our body believes what we believe to be true on the chemical level in the cells of our brain. Our bodies believe what we believe to be true. This is an unprecedented study of belief. It was done in the Turin Medical School in Turin, Italy, May of 2004. Interesting it's done in Turin, Italy, right? You know what else is there? The Shroud, the very famous Shroud of Turin. If you don't know about the Shroud, we do an Easter program at ARE, Association for Research and Enlightenment, every year on the East Coast, and you'll see some amazing images of the Shroud. But that's another program. I had to work hard not to put it in here. Okay, here's what they did. Patients were given drugs that mimic the dopamine that naturally occurs in the brain to relieve pain. These were people that were having a lot of body pain. Some of them were— they had MS, for example, in some of the patients in the studies. Others had undergone chemotherapy. A lot of pain. So they were given a drug that would mimic the body's natural dopamine as if it were already there. And when that happens, the pain is relieved. Okay, so they knew that. Here's the catch. The drug has a lifespan of only 60 minutes. The drug only lasts in their body 1 hour and then it's metabolized away. The pain comes back. The drug is no longer there after that hour. The patients didn't know that. So they were given this drug and what they came to understand was every time they got the drug, they knew that the pain went away and they were gonna feel better. Okay, well, this is a placebo study, so you know what they did. The patients were actually given a placebo that was saline. There was nothing else in there, but they were told it was the stuff that they had had before. And because every time before, they had experienced the relief of the pain when they got the placebo, what happened? OK, well, you know where this is going. But you may not know exactly how far it goes. They believed they were being given the same drug. In reality, they were given a simple saline solution, a placebo. Now, here's what made this study different. In the university medical school in Turin, Italy, they had equipment to do brain scans. And they scanned the brain of the people after they received the placebo. In fact, they were given nothing. But after they were given nothing, they scanned their brains and their brain cells responded as if the dopamine was actually in their bodies. Their cells believed what they believed in their heart. This is a quote. They say, "It's the first time we've seen the placebo effect at the single neuron level." in the human body. And that tells us— you can call it psychosomatic, you can call it psychological, you can call it whatever you want. The key is, and the bottom line— this is a bottom line crowd— is that when we truly believe, not when we just think it, not when we suspect, not when we hope, not when we wish, not when we're praying for— when we truly embrace the certainty that something is so, our bodies will respond internally And now the physics is showing us that the effect extends beyond our bodies into the world around us. When we have a feeling in our heart, we affect the world inside of our bodies as well as the world beyond our bodies. Yesterday we began a series of belief codes. They're pulled from the various books that are out there on that book table. This is belief code 11 from the Spontaneous Healing of Belief that summarizes what we've just done here. It says, "What we believe to be true in life may be more powerful than what others accept as the truth." If a doctor looks at you and says, "You know, you don't look so good to me. You may not have much longer in this world," which a doctor just said to a friend of mine recently, I think a doctor should never say that. That's a doctor's opinion, but there are a lot of factors that they are not accounting for. Here's where the danger is: if the person that hears that trusts and respects the doctor. What kind of an effect do you think it has on them? Or if a doctor says— now think about this— what if a doctor says, "You know, I've never seen a condition like yours before." That's always what you like to hear, right? "But I saw some new studies and I think there's a new drug that might help. I really don't think it's gonna help much you in your situation, but let's give it a shot." That doubt that has been introduced in the studies has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt to actually have a detrimental effect on the patient's ability to receive the benefit of what they're giving. And the truth is, it may not have much to do with the drug at all. It may have a lot to do with their belief, their trust that something has been— you all have heard this. How many of you found this to be true? You or your kids, you start to get sick. And you say, I don't want to go to the doctor, don't want to go to the doctor. And you say, well, I need to be at a meeting in 2 weeks. I want to make sure I'm good for this meeting. So I'll make an appointment. And you're feeling really bad. And you get to a certain point and you say, "OK, this is this bad. I definitely have to go to the doctor." As soon as you make the appointment, you get in the car and go, what happens? You start feeling better because in your mind you know that you're going to somebody that you trust that's going to help you feel better. And I'm not saying that they don't, but I think the way we feel about the choice we made has a lot to do with it. OK, well, here's the rest of the story. I just came back from a tour in Japan where my computer broke. I have a new computer and this is its maiden voyage. And there's stuff on the computer that apparently I haven't gotten rid of yet. So what we believe to be true in life may be more powerful than what others accept as that truth. Yesterday, some of you were with me, some of you were not. If you were, what we're gonna see is worth seeing twice. If you weren't, it's amazing to see, but we're gonna take it one step further. This was an image from a woman in Japan, a 19-year-old girl who was diagnosed with a uterine tumor, ovarian cyst is what it is right here. I'm sorry, it's ovarian cyst. And they're using these scans. These are thermal scans showing how much blood is going to different parts of the body. Some parts of the body you want a lot of blood, brain, lungs, heart certainly, but it's not supposed to be happening down here. There's so much tissue that is inflamed that that's why this is showing up. Okay, so they brought this girl in. To the room. They sat her in a room where the researchers were going to bring in a healer to work with her in ways that had never been documented before. So the young girl comes into the room. She is sitting on one side of a barrier. On the other side of the barrier is the healer. There's no communication. They've never met. No information is exchanged. The healer has no idea what's happening. The healer is simply sensing and feeling and empathizing with who ever is on the other side of that screen. And you saw this: time equals zero right here. This is where the young girl is in the room on one side of the screen, the healer's on the other side. 3 minutes later, the healer begins a process, and look at what's happening to the tumor. 7 minutes later, the healer is still working with this woman, and look at what is happening. Now, you've all seen before and after pictures before, but the reason this was so powerful for me to see was because there was another group of researchers that were working with the brain of the healer so we could see what was happening with the healer while the healing was being affected. So here are the scans of the healer above and correlated to the actual healings as they're happening. And if you've never seen one of these scans, to orient you, you're looking at the crown, the head, the nose is pointing up. If you see a little bump right there on top. That's the nose. The ears are on either side. And what I find so interesting here is that when the healer comes in and sits down, there's no judgment about the right or the wrong or the good or the bad or the health or the disease of the person next to them. And there's no differentiation between the activity in the left and right brain. Look at that. There's no differentiation left and right brain. And the overall activity of the brain is so low, it's right here at the bottom of the chart. In other words, not much is really happening in that brain consciously. She's gone into an altered state. But look at this. Once she begins the healing process— and then we're going to talk about what that healing process is. We're going to go back into the monasteries in Tibet, find out what they know about it. Then we're going to We're actually going to do some of this in here before the end of the day today. Because it wouldn't do any good to talk about it if we couldn't do it, right? Is this the right workshop? Cool, okay. So look at what happens. Now the healer begins to— remember our flowchart? Something we do in our bodies interacts with the forces of creation and affects change in our world. So the healer begins to do that something, and look at what happens to her brain. Look at this. All of a sudden, there's a differentiation between left and right brain. What's happening in the right brain? Look at the activity level. It's gone from blue into green into red. Man, it's cooking right here. But look at the left brain. This is what I think is so cool. The left brain, the man brain. Look at what's happening to the man brain. Look, it's going from blue to white. Is there any white on the chart right here? No. She's off the chart doing nothing with her left brain. This is not a thinking experience. It is an intuitive right brain experience that's created by feeling. Feeling is the only way to create this. Okay. And this correlates with where this tumor is disappearing. Now, when the tumor is gone, look at what has happened. There's almost nothing. There's so little happening here on the left brain. The right brain is doing all of this. It's a right-brain, heart-based feeling process. When I began to see things like this, my question was, "How? How do you create those kinds of effects? What is it that we do inside of our bodies that shifts the focus from what's happening in our left and right hemispheres into our heart?" Now, I've worked with scientists who will disagree with what I'm about to say to you. Scientists will say you've got to use the brain to do these things because the brain is the only place that thinks. Okay, no jokes. So you got the joke. I know it's being recorded, so I have to not use my other slides. What we now know is that your heart has its own brain. The human heart literally— this is not a metaphor, it's not figurative— it literally now has been documented with neural tissue, brain and spinal cord-like tissue, neurons in the brain. It has its own memory. And we're talking about what now is called heart intelligence, heart-based intelligence. I don't want you to take my word for it. In just a moment, I'm going to show you why. I want you to see with your own eyes and hear today so that you can really embrace this. Why? It's so much more powerful to feel your way into healing, to feel your way into peace in your family, to feel your way into peace between nations or into the success of your career or the abundance, your spiritual abundance or your material abundance. Your brain can do it, but your brain has to work so very hard. Because it was not designed to do what your heart is designed to do. And you're gonna see why in just a minute. Before we do that, one more little summary slide. Some of you were not with me yesterday. If you were and you saw this slide and you said, "Huh?" This is for you as well. Because what I want to do is define what I'm talking about when we say and use the word feeling. The ancients make a distinction between thought, feeling, and emotion. In this particular image comes directly from a Sanskrit text. So this is a Sanskrit image showing the energy centers, the 7 energy centers of the body. But they divide them 3 above, 3 below, and there's 1 in the center. Where is that 1 in the center? What is the organ it's associated with? Absolutely. Here it is right here. The 3 upper centers, the communication centers, are associated with what they call thought or communication, but what we think about has very little power in our world, in our lives, until we breathe, until we imbue some force, some power into that thought. And you and I are built to do that through what we call the emotion of the lower energy centers. When we marry the emotion of these lower centers with our thought, Now we have a definition of feeling. When we marry the emotion of these lower centers with the thought in our brain, what we do is we create what is now called feeling, and it happens in the heart. The ancients said to us, they're very clear, that we're capable of only two primary emotions: love and whatever you think the opposite of love is. For most people, it's love and fear. Put your own words in there. That doesn't work for you. The bottom line is this: when we have a thought in our mind— I shared a story yesterday. My engineer friend, John, he had affirmations all over his house, all over his car, all over his cubicle. Little Post-it notes, millions of them— well, hundreds of them— that he said millions of times a day. They all said exactly the same thing: "My perfect mate is manifesting for me now. My perfect mate is manifesting for me now." And I asked him, "Does it work?" He says, "I say them a million times a day." I said, "Does it work?" He said, "No." And I said, "Why?" And his answer to that is the key to what's happening here. He said, "No, it doesn't work." I said, "Why do you think that is?" He goes, "Look at me. Who would ever want to be with somebody like me? I'm an engineer." And he did. He said he wears the same— and I'll vouch for this— he wore the same clothes to work 3 out of the 5 days out of every week. And his life was all about work. But that's the key. His thought was, "My perfect mate is manifesting for me now." In his emotion, he even didn't think that he was a good partner. So when he created his feeling, how could he possibly draw a partner into his life? Because the thought was, "My perfect mate is manifesting for me now." But the emotion was the fear that he wasn't worthy of a partner. And this is where the technology comes in. You could have the same thought, pump in a different emotion, create a different feeling, and create different effects. That's technology. If he had the thought, "My perfect mate is manifesting for me now," and the love of what his life would be like in the presence of that partner, can you see how that would be a whole different effect, a different feeling? And it would probably create different experiences in his life. So if you weren't with us yesterday, that's a little bit of what we did. If you were, we talked about it a little bit differently. But this is the key right here. It all happens in our heart. Feeling and belief. Belief is a certain kind of feeling. In longer programs, we talk more about precisely how that works. Feeling and belief are very closely related, very closely associated. So when I talk about beliefs and the placebo effects, or I talk about feelings in the monasteries that we're going to, We're talking about a heart-based experience. Can you see why that is? Are you okay with that? Make sense? Does it? Okay, good. So the question: How do you know if you're having a thought or if you're having a feeling? You ever wonder that? Mom and I have this conversation all the time. Can we bring our lights down to the second setting? Can we do the, "We worked for your viewing pleasure." the romantic theatrical light setting here. Isn't that a great setting? Ooh, don't you feel different now? I'm going to have to talk differently. How do you know if you're having a thought or a feeling? This is one of the places really difficult. It's a very subjective experience. It's hard to talk about. A lot of speakers simply won't go there because it is hard to talk about. I wanted to, in our 90 minutes today, I wanted to work with us a little bit just to give you a sense of the difference between a thought and a feeling. Are you okay if we do this a little bit? How many of you wonder? Do you ever have a question about the difference between a thought and a feeling, or a feeling and an emotion? How do you know? Well, you know the definition. I've given them to you. But what does that mean in terms of an experience? And I think experience is the only way to really maybe differentiate between the two. So when we talk about a thought, for example, If you look at something— I'm going to come out here so I can see what you're seeing, so I'm not so close to the screen. Just for a minute. Can I come back here? Can I do this on the mic? I guess I can. Seems to be working. Okay. All right. Now I'm where you are. When you see that, what you see is a white circle against a black background. Not too exciting. You're registering that fact. That's a thought. You're saying, "Okay, big deal. White circle, black background." Don't have much feeling about that, probably. Am I right about that? When we begin to add color and depth and dimensionality, some people respond to that feeling, some may not. I don't want to suggest one way or another. But if you start to give your circle some color, you say, "Well, you know, it's looking a little more interesting. It's got that violet." Or if it has some depth. People seem to respond a lot to really bright colors. You begin to see things like this. But pretty much, this is a geometric form. You're probably not having a lot of feeling about that. Am I right? Okay? However, nature, using the same colors, often gives us a lot of feeling and we respond well to nature, to sunsets, for example. If this were a really bright projector, that would be a really brilliant sunset. We begin to respond to those things. People, people's lives, people's experiences, and especially when they are in deep devotional experiences, seem to give us a lot of feeling. Nature, like the ruggedness, the sheer ruggedness of a Tibetan glacier, that's a feeling-based experience. But we begin to see things like people. Now when you see that, do you have a feeling about that man? This is a man that we met actually in Nepal. He's a pilgrim. He had just walked 8 months across the Tibetan Plateau down into Nepal to be at the holy site where we had just pulled up in a bus, feeling a little guilty. We got there in 3 minutes from the hotel, and he'd walked 8 months across the ice of the plateau to be there. But when we talk about people, it seems like the closer we get to them, the more we begin having the feeling. And we see the devotion in their eyes. Do you have any kind of feeling when you're looking at him? The mark in the middle of his forehead is a callus, because the way he got to this site for 8 months was not by walking, but by doing full-body prostrations like this. See, that's the mark right there. That is actually a callus from doing these. And that creates a feeling. Can you feel the difference? It's more than just a thought. Did you see where you shifted? Something happened right there. You identify, you empath in some way. But every one of you is having a different experience, so it's hard to talk about it. You just know it's more than a white circle on a black background. You're empathing with his experience, with his thought, with what it took for him to get where he is. We saw a lot of these kinds of people on our last trip. They're holy men, sometimes holy women, called sadhus. Sadhus have renounced all their worldly possessions. They seem to hold their hands up like this a lot. Every time you see them, they're always doing this. They look like pretty intense people, right? Maybe not a lot of fun to hang out with. But there was one, this one right here. Doesn't he look like an interesting man? His body is covered with the ashes from cremated bodies. And his hair was so big I had to back up to get the rest of his hair in the picture. But he is a very, very intense looking man, isn't he? Okay, so I'm going to share an experience. I saw him. I walked right past him, took this picture. We made eye contact. I loved him. I just loved him in a heartbeat. And I felt like I wanted to hang out with him. I walked past him. And as soon as I did, I had this calling. I wanted to see if he felt anything when we walked past. I was with our group. He looks so intense here. And I turned around and snapped the next picture and caught this rare moment that I think probably betrays something about him that he didn't want us to see. Because look how intense he is here. And look at this next image. Okay, you're having a feeling right now. That's a feeling. That's a feeling that you're having in your heart. It's hard to put a label on it, but it's different than thinking about the white circle and the black square, right? It's a kind of a feeling. I want you to kind of get a sense of what this is all about. I know he's got a secret. See, I want to know what his secret is now. Let me tell you a story. Stories are good to help us with emotion. Some of you have heard this story. Some have never heard this story. It's a true story. It's a story of life. Two baby girls. Two baby girls prematurely taken from their mother's womb in a hospital in upstate New York in the year 2003, I believe. You may have seen this. Any medical healthcare professionals in the room, you know what happens the moment that preemies come into the world. Now, if you can imagine these two, these twins, They've been nestled inside their mother's womb next to one another, in this case for 7 months. 7 months they were there. They heard one another's heartbeats. They felt the warmth of one another. They felt each other kicking one another. They felt the heartbeat and the warmth of their mother. All of a sudden, in a few seconds, they're pulled from that environment into the harsh hot lights of an infant ICU. And what's the first thing they do with the kids? You tell me. Separate them. Absolutely. And they don't just put them in different incubators. Put them in different plexiglass incubators hooked up to different equipment in different rooms in different ICU wards, and now they're completely alone laying face down, their naked backs to the world. And immediately something began to happen. One of the girls was weaker than her sister. And in her ward, in her isolation, her vitals began to drop. She was failing. And the nurse that was on duty followed all the protocols, Nothing helped. And she said, "We're gonna lose this one if I don't do something fast. She's gonna die." She broke the protocols. Now you know where we're going with this, right? Sort of, maybe. And maybe not. Because the lights are low and I'm using my different voice. Okay, the nurse broke the protocol. She unhooked this little girl from all the equipment. She picked her up, held her in her arms. Carried her into the ICU where her stronger sister was in her incubator. But the next piece of this story tells the story, and it's the story, I think, of who you and I really are, because what I'm about to share with you cannot be learned. These girls were not here long enough in this world to learn what happened next. The nurse placed the weaker of the two who was dying face down on her tummy next to her stronger sister who was face down on her tummy. Both of their eyes were closed. The stronger one sensed, she sensed her weaker sister next to her and she reached out with her arm and put her arm around her sister's back. And the moment that she touched her sister, all of their vitals stabilized. And together they got stronger and stronger and stronger together. Can you feel that feeling? That's a feeling. That's not a thought. It's a feeling. How come you're crying? I'm looking at tears right now. That's the feeling. It maybe bypassed your mind. It touched something really, really deep in your heart. Maybe because it's true. Maybe because it's us? It's so primal. It's so elemental. It's so simple. And it's so powerful. So now's a good time to tell you another story. Maybe you saw this one, maybe you didn't. The ability to do surgical procedures on a fetus before they're born so that when they are born the condition that may have impaired them is healed by the time they come out of the womb has reached advanced stages now. I think you're all aware of that. In the year, I think it was 2000, this amazing documentation occurred of something that apparently happens frequently. We just don't get to see the pictures. What happened was this. There was a young baby boy. He was in his mother's womb and he had a spinal condition. So they were doing a routine surgery on this baby boy. Doing a spinal operation. Now here is the catch to the whole thing. The catch is that his mother was anesthetized because he's hooked up to his mother's blood supply. He is believed to be anesthetized as well. So here's the catch. What they do is they open up the mother's tummy, they pull her uterus out of her tummy and lie it on her chest to perform this procedure. So I'm telling you this now so when you see the pictures you'll know what you're seeing. Are you okay? I put a warning up here. There's the warning. And there's the reason it's warning. It's actually very beautiful when we see what we're about to see and I wanted to set it up before you do. Because while the womb sac was sitting outside of the body on the mother's tummy and both were believed to be anesthetized, the most amazing thing happened. The doctor had opened the womb, he was working on this boy's spine and all of a sudden this boy reached with his hand out through the slit in the womb into the air, and he grabbed the doctor's finger. Now, there was controversy as to whether or not this actually happened. I went directly to the source, directly to the site, and when you see what you're going to see, there's little doubt. The doctor is holding the finger. There's no doubt that the finger is grasping consciously the hand. This is what happened. Look at this. Here is the womb sac. Here's the mother's tummy right here. Here's the womb. Here is the hand. If there's any doubt about what you're seeing here, this hand is firmly wrapped around that finger. And when the doctor tried to pull away, the grasp didn't give up. And he shook this little baby's hand, and then he put his hand back into the womb closed it up, and he was born healthy and happy a few weeks later. And this little boy, this little boy now has a picture of his hand before he was born that very few people get to see. Isn't that a powerful story? It's a powerful story of life. Okay, so those are stories. They elicit a feeling. Do you have a feeling in your body? That's very different than looking at geometric circles and squares or even beautiful mountains and sunsets. The stories about life itself. This helps us to understand the difference between thought and feeling. Because it's different for every one of you, you now have to identify that difference for yourself. What is it that feels different about these stories than looking at a white circle on a black background? That's the language. That is the language that you were born with that speaks to the stuff our world is made of. Okay, so you okay with that? What is it that makes that feeling so powerful? Why is that feeling— why does it have any effect beyond your body? Yeah, you say, okay, I'm feeling that and I can see where it might trigger some brain chemistry in my body, but how could it affect this plant next to me, or how could it affect the healing of a person on the other side of a barrier that I can't even see? This is what I want you to see about that. This image is what scientists now believe the atoms of our world look like. This is what is called a quantum atom. It looks different than the atoms that look like little solar systems. There's no nucleus, there's nothing orbiting around anything else. There is a pulsation of patterns and zones of energy. The bottom line— in longer programs we could talk more about this— but the bottom line to this is that the energy being created here is electrical energy and magnetic energy. You've all heard that before. We live in a world of electrical magnetic energy. This stage, my body, your chair, your bodies, the atoms of the world, we are made of denser and less dense electrical and magnetic energy. That's no surprise, right? Okay. So it's the stuff that makes the world what it is today. This is so important, I put that word right up there. This is gonna sound really obvious, but I want you to think about this. If you want to change an atom, you've got to change the energy of that atom, right? You've got to change the energy. Okay, the key is that if you change either the electrical field or the magnetic field of the atom, you'll change the atom. If you change the electrical field of the atoms in a human body, you'll change the way that body is working. Or if you change the magnetic field of the atoms in the human body, you'll change the way that body is working. Okay, I'm gonna ask you a question, but don't answer because I worked hard to give you 3 clues, and I want you to see all 3 clues before you answer. So, question, don't answer. What organ in your body creates the strongest electrical field and the strongest magnetic field? Okay, but don't answer because I have a clue. Here's the first clue. What organ creates the strongest— but don't answer. What organ creates the strongest electrical pattern and the strongest magnetic patterns? Don't answer. And if you're just waking up and you're saying, "What is he doing?" What organ in your body is designed, the one organ that's designed to create the strongest magnetic field and electrical field in the human body? Last clue. It's your heart. That's what it does. The pumping of the blood may be the least of what your heart does. Maybe the least. Look at this. These are brand new studies. These are less than— I think they're only about 2 years old. Look at what the studies are telling us. That the heart's electrical field measured by the EKG is up to 100 times stronger than the electrical field in your brain. So scientists that tell me— I was doing a radio program 2 weeks ago, and they took callers after we had talked about this. And one of the callers said, "Mr. Braden, you should be ashamed of yourself." And I said, "Tell me more." He said, "Everyone knows that the brain is designed to do this, but the heart The heart doesn't have a brain is what he said. The heart cannot do these things. And I said, "Well, you know, bless his heart. He simply was not aware of the new studies." And I shared this with him. I said, "Please." I said, "I appreciate the intensity of your emotion in the moment. And please go out and look at the website. Take a look at the research papers. Can we create change in our world with our brain? Yeah, you can." Remember back in the old days, back in the '60s, we had black and white TVs? I've still got mine, actually. But I'm going to tell you, the world looks a lot better sometimes through black and white. But remember when we used to see things like Uri Geller back in the '60s bending spoons? And he'd make it look really hard because the idea was it's got to be hard. Remember? So they'd scrunch up Uri or people like that. And he's a good man. And he brought a lot of visibility to the fact that we can change physical reality without touching physical reality. And so I honor him for that. And he made it look difficult. So he'd scrunch up his face and he'd make it, "Oh, I'm gonna bend this spoon." And I know if I had a colored TV, I would see big veins popping up and his face would get really red. But it's not like that. You can do this with your brain. But look at this. Your brain is relatively weak compared to your heart electrically. Your heart is 100 times stronger electrically than your brain. Look at this. The human heart is about 5,000 times stronger magnetically than the human brain. So if your heart is 5,000 times stronger magnetically, 100 times stronger magnetically, and a change in electrical and magnetic fields changes our world and heals our bodies, doesn't it make sense to use our heart? Makes tremendous sense to me. Feelings and beliefs produce patterns of energy inside of our bodies and our hearts, but those patterns extend beyond our bodies into the world around us. And that is why the feelings that we have are so powerful. And the irony is, the very texts that tell you and me the power of human feeling and human emotion, those are the texts that were edited by the early Christian church in the 4th century. And the words that tell us these things were taken away. And we know that because we're finding them now in some of the most remote repositories of knowledge in the world today, the monasteries of the world. When we have those feelings, it changes our bodies. It changes the atoms of our world. And it does so because of our heart-brain communication. When our heart— every moment of the day, our heart's speaking to our brain. Our brain is speaking back to our heart and flooding our body with chemistry. Our heart is sending a signal. And the quality of that signal is called the level of coherence. So when the signal is really good, we say we have high coherence between our heart and our brain. I was trained as a scientist. When I began to understand that, my question was this. I said, "How do you create that heart-brain coherence?" And that was what led me into some of the most beautiful and remote and pristine places remaining on the Earth today. It was at this monastery in 2005. I'm sorry, 1998 was the first time I was here, where I had the opportunity to meet this man. Now some of you saw him yesterday. Remember I said this was the new younger abbot in his 80s that replaced the old abbot who had died. And so yesterday you saw the conversation I had with this man. What I want you to see now, this is the older abbot that died. Who I had met years earlier. And it was this abbot in this particular monastery that answered the question so clearly when I asked the same question I ask every time I had every opportunity, every monk, every nun. I said, "When we see your prayers on the outside, what are you doing inside your body? When we see you elicit a miracle, when we see you heal somebody, in the room over there from sitting over here. How'd you do that? What are you doing inside your body? I said, when we see your prayers on the outside, what are you doing on the inside? And this is the man that said, you've never seen our prayers. He said, because a prayer cannot be seen. He said, you're not seeing our prayers. He said, what you see, what you see are the things that we do to create the feeling in our bodies. He said, the feeling is the prayer. The The feeling is what gets things done. The feeling is where the miracles come from. Then he turned the question on me and he said, "How do you do this in your culture?" And that was when I began to realize in our culture we lost the very texts that hold the words that tell us that feeling is the prayer. We know that because they've been recovered in the Coptic, in the Gnostic texts, in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi Library. Other programs we talk more about that, but that's what we learned from this man. It was in this monastery we went down and met with these beautiful monks. And it was here that we befriended one young monk, this little one right here. Some of you have seen this before, some never have. So I got up at 3:15 in the morning to put these pictures back in. So I want you to see these. And this was a little monk, I said, "You have a secret library." in this monastery that tells us how to create those feelings? And he said, "Yes." I said, "Can we see it?" And he said, "No, it's not possible." And I said, "Please." There's a longer story, but I'm just giving you the bottom line. I said, "Please." He said, "Okay, but I have to get the keys." Now, if you've ever been to Tibet, you know that time means absolutely nothing in Tibet. He said, "Wait right here." So this little monk got on a bicycle and he rode 30 miles in one direction to get these keys right here and 30 miles back while we wait right here. It was worthwhile wait because when he came back, he opened the door and he led us down a long hall past these beautiful Buddhas of compassion, past these beautiful prayer wheels that we rotate And inside are hundreds and hundreds of yards of linen with very sacred prayers all rolled up inside. And the idea is when the wheel turns, the prayer is rotated and it releases the prayer in— as long as it's rotating, the prayer is being shared with the world. We walked past these beautiful prayer wheels into a dark room that looked just like that. I worked really hard to get that dark room. And when the lights came on, this is what we saw. You're looking at the corner of a library. It's 3 stories tall. It's 12 feet wide. It's 1,500 years old. And here are the books that are in this library. Here's my hand with a flashlight right here. These are the Tibetan books that hold the wisdom of the things that we lost in our most cherished spiritual traditions. 1700 years ago. And I asked my little monk, I said, "What's in these books?" And he looked at me and he said, "Everything." And I said, "What do you mean everything?" And he said, "We have a record of every spiritual tradition that's ever come through this monastery." And I said, "If you could bring it all together, what's it telling us?" And it's telling us what you and I already know. He said, "They all talk about a field of energy that connects everything and they're talking about our ability to communicate with that field through our hearts. That's what these people have been doing over there all this time. It's leading to a new science, a new spirituality based in belief. Some scientists like this, some are having a lot of problems with it. Entire careers are changing. Textbooks are changing. And the reason is because it's all based on what we saw about 1 hour ago in this Buddhist sutra That our reality exists only where we create a focus. Our own scientists now are finding this beginning in 1909. It's called the observer effect. That where we focus our attention and the quality of our attention, what we're doing while we're looking into the world, the expectations, the feelings, the beliefs about that something are affecting our physical world. And again, longer programs, we talk more about all these. But this is the bridge between the old and the new, between science and spirituality. And the instructions for how we do these things are very precise. So what I'd like to do— I know I'm moving quickly. I want to get into one more monastery so we can have some direct experience in this room. We're not going too quickly, though, are we? Because this is the deluxe bottom line fast-forward seminar. So how do we do this? We've already talked about it. We talked about it yesterday. We talked about it a little bit here today. When we create a feeling in our heart, that feeling becomes the blueprint for what you want to happen in your world. Just think of it that way. So if you want perfect relationship, you want healing in the body, you want financial abundance, you want spiritual abundance, if you want to feel nurtured in your world, you want to feel loved in your life, you've got to feel as if those things are already present so that they can be mirrored back to you. When you have a feeling in your heart, you're creating the template in the fields that your heart creates so that the physical world can congeal around that field. Does that make sense? You okay with that? How do we do that? Feel as if the outcome already exists. This is precisely what our biblical text— this is the Gospel of Thomas, the lost Gospel of Thomas right here. The bottom line to the Gospel of Thomas in these particular phrases is feeling as if your prayer is already answered, your body is already healed, your perfect relationship is already here, your abundance is present. As if they've already— and give gratitude and appreciation and thanks for the things that are already there. That is how we bring them into life. Let me go to a different monastery just for a minute. This looks like a very primitive monastery on the outside. This is in the Egyptian mountains across the Suez Canal and the Sinai Peninsula at the base of Mount Sinai. Coptic monks, they've been here, Coptic Christian, they've been here 1,500 years. They bake their bread in the sun. They pump their water once in the morning. All the light is from olive oil that they use in this monastery. It looks really primitive on the outside, doesn't it? So I was not prepared for what I saw when we went into the main cathedral for the very first time. Look at what's inside this monastery. Can you believe that? And then I began to think about this place, and I realized it's been there 1,500 years uninterrupted. They've had 1,500 years to decorate in this place. They could put anything in there they want. It was in this monastery that is said to be only second only to the Vatican in Rome in terms of Christian and pre-Christian texts. And it's here that we began to find this library, and it's this library that holds many of the images, and some of you were asking about these earlier. These are called illuminated manuscripts. This particular one is in the little book, Lost Modes of Prayer. I signed a couple of those earlier today. I promised you that you would see this. It's in these texts that we find some of the oldest versions of the Bible, some of them made just 300 years after the time of Jesus. And we find in the original texts, we find the words that were lost that tell us how to create these experiences in our lives. How many of you have heard, "Ask and you shall receive"? Ask and you shall receive that your joy may be full. The words that tell you how to do the asking were lost. But if we go back into the original Aramaic, we can find those words. Want to take a minute and do that? Just quickly, I want you to see those, then we're going to do something here in the room. If we go back into the original Aramaic, it literally says—and this is a translation from Neil Douglas Klotz in his book Prayers of the Cosmos—ask without hidden motive and be. Be surrounded by your answer. Be enveloped by what you desire, that your gladness be full. If you are being, what's happening in your body? If you're being enveloped by what you desire, if you're desiring nurturing and love from your family, and you are enveloped by that, what's happening in your body? You're having a feeling, right? This is what he's saying in a 2,000-year-old text right here. Be surrounded. If you are being— it's not that you're doing something. You are embodying this experience. Be surrounded. Feel as if your answer is there. Feel as if what you desire is already present in your life. He's saying exactly the same thing. And if that looks too religious for you, there is another very powerful scholar, Neville. How many of you studied Neville back in the early— I think he died in 1974. An amazing, brilliant, beautiful, powerful, eloquent scholar from the Indies. If you've never read his book, "The Power of Awareness," I'll invite you to do it. Each chapter is a page and you'll think about it for a week. It's one of those kinds of books. Look at what Neville says. Neville says exactly the same thing. He says, "You must make your future dream a present fact by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled." Assuming the feeling as if it's already happened. And he said exactly the same thing as those old texts. Does it make sense? You okay with where we are right now? Gratitude and appreciation is the way that we create those feelings in our bodies. Modern scientists have found that in the English language, the words gratitude and appreciation best approximate the feeling that we need to have to create coherence between our heart and our brain. But you already know that because your mom already told you when you go to bed every night to give thanks for the things that have come to you, the blessings every day. It's that gratitude, that appreciation that heals your body. It heals your body and gives you these experiences. When we create gratitude and appreciation in our heart, we are literally Creating a coherence between our heart and our brain. Gratitude and appreciation are a way to do that. Okay. I'm going to catch you off guard. I need a volunteer. Don't think about it. Volunteer. You. There's steps right over here. Now, have I ever met you before? Have we had this conversation before? Did you know I was going to ask you to volunteer? And I didn't ask you if I knew I was going to choose you. Did you know you were going to choose me? No, I didn't know. Okay. Can we bring our lights back to where they were if I could ask you to sit here? Please. And what is your name? Tammy. Tammy. Thank you for being here. And thank you for— this is a beautiful audience. Aren't they nice? Nice people. Audience, this is Tammy. Tammy doesn't know what she volunteered for, but she may have an idea if she's ever seen the program before. There is an organization that I've worked with since 1991, the Institute of HeartMath. If you're not familiar with HeartMath, I'm going to invite you to go to my website. You'll hear a lot of information about HeartMath on the website. The bottom line to what we're going to do— I'm going to share this with you and we're going to do some things here. I'm going to hook you up to a little device and some software so we can see the changes in your body in response to what we're all doing in the room based on everything we've done yesterday and today. What we're going to ask people to do, what I'm going to ask Tammy to do, is we're going to learn how to create a heart focus to move out of our minds into our heart. That is key. That's perhaps the most difficult thing for Westerners to do, is to get out of their head. Once we have that heart focus, there's a quality of feeling that we create in the heart, and there's a breath that goes with that. The Institute of HeartMath pioneered some research in the early '90s, and they began publishing in mainstream peer-reviewed journals this diagram that shows a field of energy around the human heart that looks like a little doughnut. It extends between 5 and 8 feet around every human heart. So we are all— if we're all within 8 feet of one another, we're all literally touching one another's heart field in here. In longer programs, we can experiment and work with this. And we'll do it a little bit right now. Because it means whatever you're experiencing, Tammy's experiencing to some degree. And it's going to show up in her readings. And whatever she's experiencing, you're going to experience to some degree. And whatever we experience in here extends beyond the walls of this room because this field is linked to the greater divine matrix. And we could heal the whole planet in 15 minutes. Wouldn't that be a cool workshop? All right. So what we have, the Institute of HeartMath has given me permission as an independent author to bring a little piece of software that is used in a lot of research medical facilities. This isn't the most high-tech way to do this, but I wanted you to see this here today because it's the Deluxe Bottom Line Workshop. So what we're doing is this: if we can measure any one of three parameters in Tammy's body— and we'll be very kind— it will tell us the quality of the signal between her heart and her brain. It will tell us the quality of her coherence. If we could measure her breath rate or her respiration or what is called HRV, heart rate variability, pulse transit time, any of those things will help us. They all correlate to the quality of the signal between her heart and her brain. So we have a little finger pulse cuff that has an LED inside. And what I'm going to invite you to do with your index finger, if you put the fleshy part of your finger over this little plastic diode to where it's firm and centered on there to the best of your ability. I'll give you just a minute to do that. And then the key will be for your hand to be motionless. So if you can find— be comfortable here is fine, or if you'd like to sit— okay, that's good like that. Okay, and we're doing this intentionally now because I haven't asked her to do anything yet, and I don't want her to because we're going to do a baseline reading. So she is now hooked up to this machine. It's gonna calibrate just for a second, actually for a few seconds, and it's going to begin seeing— up on top we'll see her heart rate variability, HRV. We're going to see some things happening in the other windows here. In the lower right-hand side of the screen— and you can look now if you'd like, and then I'm gonna ask you not to look— lower right-hand side of the screen is we're seeing what are called coherence ratios. High, medium, and low. It takes a minute to correlate. High, medium, and low. Okay, the low coherence is going to be red. The medium is going to be blue. The high is going to be green. And most people, when you walk up onto a stage, you say everybody has low coherence. If you were to do me, I've got low coherence right now because we're not in our hearts. So it's very common to see 100% low coherence. It's not a test. It's not a contest. That's where things are right now. What I'm going to ask you to do, and I know you all were looking at her heart rate. If my heart rate were up there, it's about between 118 and 128 right now because I'm working hard for you all. So it's not unusual to see the heart rate up initially a little bit at first. So we see what's happening right here. Each of these little blocks of time is 30 seconds. So she's now almost a minute and 30 seconds. Into her reading here. If she does a sudden movement, you'll see a jump in a little red line, and that's what you're seeing happening right there. Okay, so you're doing really good. Now, what I'd like for you to do— and we can all do this together, you can help because you're part of what she's doing here— the way that the ancients taught us to move our awareness from our head into our heart is by simply physically touching your sternum just above your heart. And when you do this, that physical sensation draws your attention from your mind into your heart. If you ever spent any time in a monastery, what you'll see is they have a constant pressure because they have their hands like this, and they're physically touching— they're physically touching their sternum all the time, keeping that constant pressure there. You don't have to do that. I don't want it to be a big formal thing. I mean, when you most need to have this technology is when it's least optimum to do that. If you're driving your car down the freeway and somebody just cuts you off at the pass, you don't want to let go of the steering wheel, have your hands like this, and go like this. But you can reach underneath your seatbelt and just simply touch your heart. I do it all the time. Touch your heart. Bring your awareness to your heart. That's number 1. Number 2 is to breathe. And just remember to focus your awareness— we don't have to do it yet, I'm just going through the steps. You'll focus your awareness where you feel that sensation. And you will breathe into your heart. And now here's the key: to the best of your ability— and this is different for everyone— what I'll invite you to do is to feel the feeling of what, for you, is gratitude and appreciation. For something, for anything. Could be anything. Okay, I'm going to ask you to do those in just a moment. Before we do that, however, I'm going to ask you to close your eyes now because if you watch the screen, you'll be mesmerized by the technology. So I'm going to ask you not to watch the screen. Are you a mathematic type person? Okay, can you begin with 100 and count backwards by 13. Begin— if you want to do it to yourself or if you want to do it out loud, you can do it either way. Okay? So how are you doing counting backwards by 13? Okay, so you've done well enough. It doesn't make a difference if you were able to do it or not. What is happening right here, you can see this. When I asked her to begin counting backwards by 13, she was right here. Look at what happened. Can you see that? That was a stressful request. You can look if you want to see what happened. Here's what happened. You were right here when I asked you. It was right these last 30 seconds, right up here. And there was the peak right there. And then you got into the zone and you started doing something. The key, it was a stressful request. Okay. So if you'll close your eyes again. Okay. And now, because you're so good at that, if you can count backwards from 100 by 23. Okay. Now I'm going to invite you to do it, all of us. If everyone can touch your heart center right now. Close your eyes, because if you leave your eyes open, you'll be mesmerized by that technology. Yeah. We'll all do this together. I'm going to do it with you. Thank you. Touch your heart center. Move your awareness into your heart. And from that place where you feel the sensation, begin to breathe. In and out as if the breath were coming from that place. And it's important to remember to continue deep, full yogic breaths. Push your tummy out a little bit when you inhale. Just push your tummy out a little bit. That draws the air, the breath of life, into the deepest recesses of your lungs, brings your diaphragm down. And when you exhale, just pull your tummy in gently, just a A little bit. And while you're doing that, to the best of your ability, begin to feel for you what you would call gratitude and appreciation. And it's different for different people. For some people, they think of looking into the eyes of their children first thing when they wake up in the morning. And the children are so excited just because they woke up. For people who have followed a deep spiritual path, they may think of looking into the eyes of their spiritual mentor, Jesus or Buddha or their teacher. But whatever it is for you, if you can feel the feelings of gratitude and appreciation, okay, and then if you want to slowly begin to open your eyes, take a deep breath and open your eyes. And I want you to see how quickly this happened. What you're seeing right here— and I'm going to stop it right now. You did really well. When we began this, when you first came up, you were 100% low coherence, which is what I would expect from most people who are up here. And you settled in a little bit as I was speaking, and that's why I wanted you to come up before we did anything to kind of let you settle in a little bit. Okay, so that's your settling in right here. Then I ask you to count backwards by 13. Pfft. You're right up there. Then you kind of got into that. And then right here, and look at the time. Here is, it's less than a minute. It's about a minute is what we did right in through here. Everything began to kind of level out, become more evenly spaced certainly than it was over here. But this is the key. In 1 minute you went from just under 100% low coherence, you're now down to 75% low coherence, 22% medium coherence. And when you began to feel the feelings of gratitude and appreciation, you already— you were at 4% high coherence. And the longer that we do these things, what'll happen is we'll move into that higher and higher and higher coherence. The key is it happens so quickly. This is how quickly your body will respond. Now what the Institute of HeartMath has found— they published this in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA. It's on the website. You can find the articles— is that when people are trained to do this for only 3 minutes, when you can feel the gratitude and appreciation for as little as 3 minutes, that your DHEA level in your body— that is the precursor to all the other hormones in your body. People go out and buy this stuff at Wild Oats or Whole Foods trying to increase DHEA levels. Those DHEA levels will increase 100% in your body and they will last that for 6 hours after you stop what you're doing after only 3 minutes. And while the DHEA levels are up, the stress hormones of cortisol will decrease 23% in that same time. And all you're doing is having a feeling. That's it. All you're doing is having a feeling. And obviously, the more that you do this, the more effective it is. These are the kinds of feelings that heal our bodies. We've all had a healing to some degree in here right now. There's a woman in here yesterday who met me in the hall and told me about a healing that happened while she was watching the healing on the video that we saw yesterday. That video gave her body permission to heal itself. And it was spontaneous. We all are sharing a healing in here right now. You've done very well. And I'm going to say I think that's all we're going to have time for right now. So thank you very much. Can we give you a hand? If you'll take your seat. And I'm going to wrap this up pretty quick here. And I know that was very quick. And we're at a conference. And everybody's in here. And we're nearing the end of the day on the last day. But it was important. I wanted just to share a little bit because that kind of gives you a sense of what it's all about. It's important. To move your attention into your heart to allow the intelligence of your heart to do what it knows to do. Once you're in your heart, to breathe from that space and to the best of your ability— the feelings of gratitude and appreciation are the feelings that heal. The healers— the woman that was healing the young girl on the other side of the screen, she did not know that girl's condition. She didn't know the sex of the person on the other side. She didn't know that there was an ovary problem. or a cyst. She didn't know if it was a male or a female. What she began doing was feeling the feeling of gratitude and appreciation for the health and vitality of that woman as if it was already there. And you and I can do that for one another every day of life. This is the great healing that we can give one another is to see one another in our highest light regardless of what the illusion of life is giving us to look in. Don't buy into what the illusion of life is showing us. We don't have to deny it. You can say, "That is a possibility in this moment," and you know that there's much more for whoever it is that we're working with, whoever it is that we're healing. Has what we've done today made sense to you? Is it okay? Did we go too fast, too slow? Good? What we're doing is we're showing that that flowchart—something we do in our lives affects our body—that something is the power of feeling and belief. It's focused on our hearts. It has physical effects in our world. It's called "The Great Secret Everyone Knows Except the Science of the West." Scientists now are catching up with it. And this is, I think, the value of going in and honoring the indigenous peoples of our past. Because they've held this wisdom in a non-technical language that now gives meaning to our science. We asked earlier, "Who are we?" We're reality makers. The key is we can make only what we believe to be true. This is the great secret of feeling into existence. And it's a power that lives in every one of you. It lives in every one of us. And while this brings our program to a close today, it's actually the very beginning for where we go from here. Because I learn every time I'm with you. And my prayer is that we've offered something useful and meaningful to you in here that you can take to those that are sharing you with us for a little while today. Thank you for your time in here today. Thank you. Thank you. For another amazing Gregg Braden video, check it out right there next to me. I think you'll love it. Continue to believe, and I'll see you there. If you're in this room today, if you're at the conference this weekend, what I know is that you know this is absolutely no ordinary time in the history of our nation,