Stop Believing Lies About Your DNA | Bruce Lipton

What if the real problem is what you believe? You've been told you're just your DNA, just a machine, but that's a lie. And if you don't change that belief, it could cost you your future. In this speech, Bruce Lipton reveals that your thoughts can rewire your body, your mind can shape your life, and we're in the middle of a massive breakdown and breakthrough. The old systems are dying. You're not here by chance. You're here to build what's next. You can stay a victim or rise as a creator. Choose. Special thanks to Liz Dawn for partnering with us to release this content exclusively here on my YouTube channel. And if you make it to the end of the video, put a hashtag #believe in the comments below so we can feature you in a future video. Believe. For me, it's very exciting this time because there's something going on and you all know about it. You all know something's going on. And why you know about it, if it's not conscious, here's what's important. There's an unconscious experience that you have running through your body. It's related to something in biology that we call the biological imperative. And the biological imperative is something that scientists know about. They know it exists, but they don't understand the mechanism behind it. But let me explain what it is. Any organism, from a bacterium to a human, if threatened in any way, will take every evasive action to stay alive. And so the system starts to recognize if a threat exists and then goads the biology into getting in preparation. So if you try to kill a bacterium, it will not just sit there and wait for you to kill it. It will do everything. Well, the biological imperative is built into us, and what it's saying right now for all of us, whether we know it or not, there's something going on. It's kind of edgy right now. And that what it really means is that there's an awareness that our survival is in threat right now. And people are beginning to wake up and move to it. So it used to be kind of a funny joke when everybody used to walk around with the signs, "The end of the world is near." But it's not really such a joke anymore. And it's not really the end of the world, but we're facing a very, very severe situation. I'll explain what it is. 5 times in the history of this planet, life got wiped out and started all over again from just the leftover pieces. These were called mass extinctions. And essentially it just wiped out the biosphere and started over. The 5 mass extinctions that have already occurred have been attributed to things like comets or asteroids hitting the Earth and destroying the environment and causing all the great upheaval. But unfortunately, science has now recognized the fact, and this is it, listen, it's a very serious fact, that we are not flirting with the 6th mass extinction, we are deep into the 6th mass extinction. We're talking about species leaving this planet at rates never seen before in the history of evolution. That we're also beginning to recognize that our own survival is now a very serious question of what's going on. When you start talking about scientists actually saying that within 40 years, now within 35 actually, the fish will be fished out of the ocean, we have to start being nervous about stuff like that. That the Arctic ice, they say within 5 years, will actually be gone during the summertime. So this also changes quite a lot. So we're deep into it. And what's different about this one is that scientists recognize that human behavior is principally behind the problem that we're facing. So it says that if we really want to do something, then it's for us as human behavior people to get up and do something about it. And we'd have to be able then to understand the nature of the future. And people who look at the future are called futurists. And how can you understand or how can you perceive into the future? And the answer is, can you see patterns that manifests so then you can project the pattern. Well, just before we start, I'd like to give you a certifying exam for pattern, okay, to see if you are, you know, eligible for a futurist certificate. So here's what I can do. Ask about 4 questions related on pattern. So for example, the first one is an easy one. Here are several numbers in a row. There's a blank spot and I ask you to fill in the blank spot. And if you get the answer, then you're— what is the answer? 65. All right, see, that was a good one. Okay, but I'm going to get you coming up really good now, okay? The next one, a little bit more different. Okay, using letters, can you project what the next one is going to be? P. You're doing good, 2 out of 2, that's great. Okay, here's a hard one. How about this one? If you get this one, it'll be a surprise to me because this is a whole set of random letters and numbers and it really has no answer, so whatever you want to put in there is a suitable answer. Okay, how about this one? And the answer is— okay, the last Futurist exam question. Don't look at your neighbor's test paper. Here we go. And the answer is 2. 2. You go, what do you mean there's an answer to that? Well, let me explain what goes on here, and I'll explain that last one in a second. When you see a pattern that's quite obvious, it's very easy to make a projection. Numbers 1 and 2. When you don't see a pattern and there appears to be no pattern at all, anything you throw out as a possible answer is a possible possible solution, but it's a total guess. There's no futurism in that. The last one is an interesting one because the last one is the formula for pi. And the significance of why I brought it up is this: while it looks on the surface that there is no pattern, deep inside there is a pattern if you have some more awareness as to what it means. So what it says is this: some things are easy to see because the patterns show up. Some things are impossible to see because there is no pattern at all. And the scarier ones are the ones that don't look like there's a pattern, but there actually is a pattern, because if you don't understand it, then you can miss what the future is all about. So the issue about this is why I'm getting ready, because I'm going to show you some patterns. And the patterns are very exciting because they talk about what is right in front of us right now. And it's really neat because my dear friend and brother Greg Braden He talks about some aspects of this in his book Fractal Time. So what he's seeing in a fractal time in regard to planetary movements and the Earth's position in the solar system and all that is actually connected to biological life on this planet. And the reason is because there is an astrological foundation to life. And people think, well, that's, you know, that's pseudo stuff. And it's like, no, it's actually astrophysiology. For example, The position of the moon or the cycling of the moon is obviously tied into the menstrual cycle, 28 days and patterns like that. There's a day cycle, a 28-day cycle, a yearly cycle. All this has to do with the movement of the planet in relation to the sun and the other planets. So when the whole Earth is now in a very precarious position, it's actually being reflected on this planet. We're going through an evolutionary step right now. Unfortunately, I cannot assure you of the outcome of this evolution because the outcome of this evolution is either we make it or we don't make it. And here's what the difference is. This is not a passive process. The evolution that's in front of us requires our participation and our activation. You can't sit home in the living room and expect the evolution to turn out by itself because it's an evolution that we're involved with. And it has to do with the change of civilization. And the interesting thing about civilizations— civilizations have life cycles just like people have. So they're living things. And why is that relevant? Because over time, what you can see is this. Over time, a civilization is born, it matures, and after a period of maturity, it goes into a state of decline. Just like a person, okay? The beginning part of a civilization is a period of development. In a period of development, what's happening, just like in a child, civilization or a child, is trying out new things to see what things kind of work for them. Then you get into a period of maturation where you own your rigid belief. That's where your parents, and then you as parents to kids, say, "This is the way it is, and I'm telling you, even if you're a kid and you're trying all this stuff, this is the way it is." And then you hold the law down to the child. And if you're the child, then you rebel. And if you're the parent, you get upset when the child is still doing developmental things. And then here's the problem: this universe is dynamic. There is nothing that stays the same. Nothing. Relevant? How can a civilization maintain a rigid belief in a world that's dynamically changing? It says it can't. And when you hold a rigid belief in a world that changes, here's the problem: you create challenges. You create challenges because you're not flexible enough to accommodate the changes that are in front of you. So the rigidity causes challenges, the challenges cause an undermining of the civilization, The civilization then goes into a period of decline at that point. And in this point of decline, it doesn't mean that all the people get wiped out and the civilization gets wiped out. In the period of decline is when the next civilization is being born and people are trying out all different kinds of things for the new civilization. And these people are frequently called cultural creatives or creative minorities. I refer to them as imaginal cells, which we'll talk about a little bit later. And why this is relevant is because you are part of the cultural creatives. Why? Because you're in here listening to this stuff, this weirdo stuff that we talk about, while everybody else on the main street is saying, "What are you guys doing out there? You know, you're kind of weird." And the fact is, I'm glad you're weird because if you're weird, we have an opportunity to look at something different. If you're not weird, then you're just cut out of the same cookie cutter as everybody else, and then we're in a lot of trouble. You have to congratulate yourself for what? Being inquisitive and curious and looking for other answers at a time when we're facing grave challenges in this civilization. But it's interesting because if I talk just about Western civilization, I can tell you we've been through civilizations that have come and gone. I mean, people glibly talk about the end of the Roman civilization. Well, yes, there was a Roman civilization and yes, it did end. And so the interesting part is We are in a civilization that is in the exact same place as where the fall of the Roman civilization is. If I go over Western civilization, these are the civilizations that have come and gone over a time period. There was animism, which is the belief like the Native Americans or the Druids in Europe or the Indians in South America, the Aborigines in Australia. These are people who lived on the earth and lived in the world as spiritual and material. And then we went into polytheism. And polytheism was a change of belief. And I'm going to go over each one of these, but it came and it went. Polytheism was the Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians. Boom, they crashed. They were replaced by monotheism, Judeo-Christian monotheism, which was the last civilization. And the current civilization, which is on its way out, is called scientific materialism. I'm going to explain each one of these, but the issue is Scientific materialism is going through a crash and burn right now. And the significance is the beliefs that we have been living by are changing, which means we change the foundation of a civilization. So I said, what is the foundation of a civilization? Well, let me tell you something. This is a fun part because it's like, get your brains going. I know it's early in the morning, but let's see if we can get them going because this is a story that makes— wow, it makes sense. And it goes like this: earliest humans on this planet. What did they recognize? Well, they recognized there were two realms of existence. They recognized there was a physical, material, mechanical realm, like the animals, the plants, the people, and all that. But they also recognized there was a spiritual realm, an invisible realm. And the relevance about this is that was the beginning of human thinking. It was, let's recognize there are two realms to the universe, the physical realm, the invisible realm. And the relevance about that, the invisible realm, we usually talk about as like the spiritual realm. And the point that I'm going to show you is that what has changed over civilization's time is how much we emphasize the material realm versus how much we emphasize the spiritual realm. There's a pattern. And when you see the pattern, why is it relevant? Because it tells you exactly what the next step is, the one that we're approaching right now. So I want to illustrate it with a gradient, meaning if I scored people as a civilization and how much they emphasize the material realm versus how much they emphasize the spiritual realm, then in this particular gradient of color, I would say in a spiritual realm, the darker the color, the more you believe in the spiritual realm. So it says at the bottom of the gradient, the— where the white is, nah, you don't believe in spirituality as really relevant. But if you go up to the top, then those people up there believe 100% that spirit is everything and the material world is not really relevant. A parallel gradient but in the opposite direction would be related to the material realm. If you're at the top of the gradient where it's white, you don't really believe the material realm is relevant. But as you go to the bottom of the gradient, then you emphasize the material realm is more relevant than the spiritual realm. Does that make sense? So then if I put the two gradients together, they actually look like that. So there's three layers: yellow at the top, green in the middle, and blue at the bottom. And it basically says that where a civilization's emphasis is on, I can plot it on this map right here. Now here comes the exciting part. Civilizations have character and belief systems. Where do they come from? How, you know, we live by these beliefs. Where do they come from? Well, here's the exciting answer. In that earliest human history, we had the human questions that are called the perennial questions because they're always being re-asked and looking for answers for the questions. The perennial questions are 3 of them basically, and the questions are: How did we get here? Why are we here? And the last one is, of course, important, is now that we're here, how do we make the best of it? And why is this relevant? And here's— and this is the beautiful part. Listen to this. When a civilization buys the answers to the questions from some entity or organization, listen, the civilization then perceives of that entity or organization as the truth provider for that civilization. So if you accept the answers, let's say, from the church, Then the point is, if you have any questions about life, you go back to the church to get the answers. So the truth provider of a civilization is the one that we accept the answers from. That's number 1. Number 2, when the answers change to the questions, it always entails a change of civilization because we change our beliefs and change the way we live after that. So the interesting part is I will show you the history, and then the most exciting part is The answers for today's civilization have changed in the last 20 or 30 years. Why? Well, new science has come in and said the stuff that we were believing in is not really right at all. Significance is we must accommodate the new beliefs to come into this world. That's what we really have to understand. Okay? So if I start looking at this, I would say the answers to the questions constitute what is called a basal paradigm for a civilization. Basal means foundational. Paradigm means idea blueprint or a set of ideas. So the basic ideas by which a civilization bases itself is based on who gives the answers and what the answers are to the questions. So as we look over time, you'll see a change. And as you see the change, you'll see the civilizations have changed with it. And what I want you to look for is there's a pattern. And if you see where the pattern is, then there's a projection. Of where we are on the, you know, on the cusp of going right now. So if I start off, I'd say let's go back to the earliest civilizations in Western civilization, and that was called animism. Animism is like the Native American beliefs, which I said. And what does it represent? Animism was this belief that to the animists there was a physical world and a spiritual world, and they were completely entangled. You can never separate one from the other. So if an Indian wanted to hunt for a deer, He first had to pray to the deer spirit to appease the spirit so he can have the material element. What it said was everything that was physical was also spiritual. So rain had spirit in the raindrops, trees had spirit, animals have spirit, humans have spirit. And so they recognized completely a 50-50 balance. Yes, there's a material realm and a spiritual realm, but you cannot separate them. They're both one and the same. Honor both and then you live. And that's why they're on the midline. And so that was the belief system. I said, "Well, what was their answer to the questions that the people accepted at that time?" In animism, how did we get here? Mother Earth and Father Sky. Well, that was really cool because here's what the relevance is. That is accurately a scientific understanding of actually how we got here. Meaning this: you were made out of chemistry. Yeah, but where'd the chemistry come from? Well, it was part of the Earth. And yet it wasn't the kind of chemistry that's in your body. Your body has a different chemistry than the Earth under your feet. What's the difference? Well, the earth under your feet is called inorganic chemistry. The body chemistry is called organic chemistry. I say, well, what's the difference? And the answer is this: organic chemistry is created by taking the physical planet's chemistry and fusing it with sunlight. So it's enlivened chemistry. It's got energy built into this chemistry. And that's because of that energy makes us different than rocks. Rocks are sedentary chemistry, inorganic. They don't do anything. But living things have movement and shape, and they change, and they do all this changing. Well, how did you get activated chemistry? And the answer is you infused it with energy. Yes, and where did the energy come from? The sun. So why is it relevant? Well, then if I look at your body and say, where did it come from? Well, the chemistry came from the earth, but the enlivening energy came from the sky. And therefore, in absolute truth, You are derived from Mother Earth and Father Sky. And that's an accurate scientific assessment. Why are we here? To tend the garden. They saw this as a garden and their role was to keep harmony in the garden. Which turns out to be the absolute reason scientifically why we are here. Okay? And I'll talk about it. Thirdly, how do you do it? And it says you live in balance with nature. So that they were always living in harmony with each other and the balance of nature. But— Time goes on, answers change, different providers to the answers occur. The next level of evolution was what we would refer to as polytheism. Okay, so it's about 4000 BC is when polytheism started coming in. Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. I say, well, what's different about polytheism? Well, here's what's different. The first thing is this: notice that the movement is now moved up into the spiritual realm more than the balance realm. And the significance was this: polytheists took the spirit out of the individual objects. The raindrop didn't have spirit anymore. The tree didn't have spirit. The human didn't have spirit. Where's the spirit? Oh, it was separated into things called gods, and they were separate from the material realm. So all of a sudden, people started to say, well, I am not spiritual and you're not spiritual, but there's spirit out there in the form of different gods. And it changes the way we look at ourselves in the world that we live in. So in Polytheism came in, we started to emphasize more the spiritual realm. Why? Because they started to try to appease the gods that they created. So I say, well, how did the polytheists answer the question? Polytheism said, how do we get here? We came from chaos. You go, well, that's totally different than the other people just said. And it turns out, well, it might sound totally different, it's still scientifically grounded. For what reason? Well, they talk about where the material universe come from, the physicists. They talk about a Big Bang. What was the Big Bang? A chaos of energy that exploded into a material realm. So it was according to the physicists, the Greeks pretty much had an understanding on it. We came from chaos. Why are we here? To please the whimsy of mischievous gods. And what that said is that what you had to do was appease the gods to be in harmony on the planet. And the gods just, you know, had a big fun time here. They were gallivanting all over the place. And the relevance about this is that understanding how to do that was important. How could you please the god? Well, here was the catch, and it said, don't anger the gods. And you say, well, what does that mean? Well, here's what I'm talking about. To the Greeks, the gods could transform themselves into any entity structure. They could be a spider, a bird, or the human sitting next to you. Why was it relevant? Well, if you lived in a world where you really believed that the god could take on another form and could be a person sitting in the chair next to you, What would you do to make the best of it? And the answer is, well, don't anger the person next to you. And so the reality is you never knew who or what was a god. So what did it do? It kept everybody up on a higher level because you didn't ever want to offend a god. So you were good to everyone and everything. So it was built-in philosophy of the program. But the interesting thing about it is during this time, the Greeks came up with the Golden Age of Greece, which was the golden age of philosophy where the issues about the world were discussed. There were two principal characters that lived at exactly the same time that created two totally different philosophies that we've been playing with ever since. The two philosophers are Democritus, and if you never heard of Democritus, you know the word he coined. It was called atom. He was the guy who created the concept of an atom. He was a materialist, and what he said is, hey, the physical world is what you see, and that's all that exists. Don't try to infuse it with invisible stuff. It's just a physical mechanical universe. He explained that it was made out of atoms, which are the uncuttable— that's what it means in Greek, uncuttable, meaning smallest particle that exists in the universe is called an atom. He said there are all different kinds of atoms. You mix them and blend them together like recipes and you can create the world. So he said, you're made out of particles. The particle's the smallest thing called atoms. And you and everything around here is made out of these in different combinations, and that's why everything is different. It said also that between the particles, between you and me, there's empty space, so don't worry about anything in the empty space, there's nothing there, just focus on the material plane. And lastly he said, well, where did life come from? Well, he equated it to something that we would consider like a billiard game. You hit the cue ball, it bounces off one of the other balls, which then bounces off another ball, which then bounces off another ball, and pretty soon all the balls on the table are moving, and that's called where life comes from. So motion is the result of the collision of atoms, and that would make sense to a lot of those people. So these were atomists, people who believed in a physical mechanical world. At the very same time, though, was this guy Socrates. And Socrates, he was a dualist. He said, oh, there's actually a physical realm and a non-physical realm. So he acknowledged both. And he said that in the non-physical realm, he talked about spirits and souls and form. So this was the realm of ideas and information, but not in a material plane. He said very importantly that the non-material realm, the invisible realm, existed before the physical realm, and it would always be here even if the physical realm comes and goes. Okay, and most importantly, and listen to this because it comes back into monotheism, he said that the invisible realm was the perfect realm. It's the ideal realm. Why is that relevant? Because it says if the invisible realm is perfect, then what about the physical realm? Ah, the physical realm is actually what he called a corrupt shadow of the ideal. Well, I'll give you an example what he meant. So he'd say something like this: in your mind right now, can you imagine the concept of a perfect circle? Can you imagine a perfect circle? The answer is yeah, you can imagine that. So that's the idea realm, the realm of form. And I say, Now if I give you a pencil, can you accurately make a perfect circle? The answer is not really. You can approximate a perfect circle, but you'll never absolutely make a perfect circle. So what does it mean? The ideal realm is perfect. The physical realm is a shadow, not as good as the ideal realm. So in the physical realm, you try to live to the ideal, but you can't get there. Okay? So he's a dualist in this regard. So if we're talking about what controls life, then we have two different perspectives from the Greeks. If life is controlled from the outside, then influences from the outside enhance the formation and character of life. In contrast, you can have a completely different vision. Life arises from the inside. That some mechanism on the inside is unfolding and then, boom, life pops out of it. So if you believe the outside is controlling you, then more or less you're following the belief of Socrates and you're a spiritualist. Yes, forces from the outside enliven my body. Democritus on the other side, no, he says, no, that's not it. What he says is that it's made out of atoms, the atoms start colliding into inside the body, and the collision of all the atoms creates the live functions and behavior, and that's where we came from. And so if you believe that, you're a mechanist. And this has been a duality ever since. It's actually the primal duality, whether you believe in the physical plane or the spiritual plane. Well, the interesting thing is time moves on. And if you look at the scale of time on the bottom, you'll see it accelerates each time. It's like almost cutting in half each time. Each next phase is shorter than the previous phase. The next phase is what? Monotheism. And monotheism takes us where? Higher up into the spiritual realm. Why? Because in monotheism, the spiritual realm is primal. This realm is considered to be damned. You don't want to be in this physical plane because this is not where the perfect or ideal is. God is perfect and ideal. This is just a different— this is a way station. So I said, well, how did they answer the questions? What did civilization do to change the answers? The answer is this: how did we get here? Monotheism says divine intervention. We got here because God gave us a spark of life. I said, okay, that's cool. I said, why are we here? Ah, we're here to live out plays of morality. Why? What does all that mean? Well, they bought a belief in the Christian church that this is not the realm you want to be in. You really want to be in heaven. You want to be up there where all the ideal stuff is, all that wonderful stuff. This is actually a deterrent from getting to heaven. So if you live on this planet and you get caught up in the physical realm, you are not, you know, moving on your path to that spiritual plane. So the concept of the church was to actually cause anything that's material to be damned Don't hold on to the material realm because it'll take you away from going to this other place. So we move away from that concept that the Earth has any value or your physical body does. Matter of fact, that's why Opus Dei— what did they do? They used to beat themselves with sticks and stuff. Why? Because if they felt happy in their body, that means they were not focusing on going where they were going to go. So if you can make life really miserable, then you'll be really delighted to go to the other place when it's time. Okay, so how do you make the best of it? Well, you live by the laws of the Bible and the laws of Scripture. And it's very, very interesting because in this particular time when monotheism took over the basal paradigm, uh, they, they had to make a decision about, well, what is their science going to be? Because science existed before the church. Science was already in the Greeks. So they had to carry a science forward. Well, when they carry that science forward, what was going to be? And the issue is, well, they had two choices. You're either going to be a spiritualist or a mechanist. Well, it's obvious what they did. Religion adopted the spiritualist plane and the mechanist point of view about life actually disappeared at that point because why? Don't focus on the material plane. And so they took Socrates' idea of a perfect or ideal invisible world as compared to a corrupt physical world and emphasized it. Is there a question? Oh, okay. Okay, so this is why we lost the mechanical, material relevance to the world. But it was very interesting because how did the church run it? And here's what they had. They had some knowledge that blew everyone away because what did they know? That knowledge is power. They knew that. And why was it relevant to them? Because what did they claim? Absolute knowledge. The church was infallible. That meant its truths were the truths and nobody could challenge them. If you challenge them, You'd have to go to court called the Inquisition. And why was this important? Because if you're going to claim infallible knowledge, what else do you claim? You can never make a mistake. Because if you make just one mistake, then you don't have infallible knowledge anymore. So if anybody ever came up with a different idea, you had a choice. You could accept their idea or get rid of the person. And you obviously know what the church did. The Inquisition was— if you got called to the Inquisition court, Don't even pay for the lawyer, you're not going to win anyway. It was already— it's a kangaroo court. Nobody could win. And so they control by absolute knowledge, which is absolute power. But the problem with absolute power, it absolutely corrupts. And the issue is, this church which was teaching, let's let go of the material realm and go to this other place— well, they, the church leaders, were wearing ermine and rubies and diamonds and gold and Where did they get all that physical stuff? From the parishioners who gave it all up to them to go to the other place. So they fell into the trap. And the problem with this trap is that it led people to question the church a little bit more profoundly than before. And that questioning led to the Protestant Reformation. And note that from the spiritual plane of the church, we now drop back toward the material realm. Well, why? Because the Protestants came in and said this: Hey, material world's not so bad. Matter of fact, I'll tell you something. If God really loves you, God will give you more material stuff. So we left behind the get rid of the material stuff and turned around and started the, you know, the Protestant work ethic. If you work hard and you're in harmony with God, you will be rewarded with physical stuff. So the physical plane started to come back in, you know, vogue again. And the issue that was interesting is When the church got questioned by Martin Luther, it opened up the questioning of the church, and that was the foundation of modern science. Science appeared at the point of the Reformation. It didn't change— so far there's no change to the basal paradigm. We still have the belief that divine intervention, you know, living out plays of morality, and living by the laws of the Bible. So even though Protestants came in, civilization's still the controlled by the same belief system. Okay, well, what was interesting about this is science started to come into play because science could start to question. Science started to look at the universe. As René Descartes once observed, the universe looks like a giant clock. Matter of fact, you can tell time by the movement of the stars, the sun, and the moon. So it's like, wow, it's a giant mechanism. Well, to scientists, they thought, well, if it is a mechanism, you should be able to understand it. Now, scientists didn't let go of God. What scientists just said was God created a mechanism and then let the mechanism run by itself. So God's out there and the mechanism's running over here. So scientists started to look at the universe, and what Isaac Newton did was able to create differential calculus. That was the first step to then use that to plot the movement of the planets. And you say, well, what was relevant about that? He was able to accurately predict the movement of the solar system. And the issue is, you say, well, why is that relevant? Because in science, if you can predict it, then that means you have an insight to the truth. So science predicts the nature that the universe is a machine because here's why. Isaac Newton, in his equation, put the physical mass of a planet, how fast it was moving, the direction it was moving in. He put this stuff into the equation, solved the equation, predicted the movement. And you say, well, what was relevant? And here's what it was. He didn't put God into the equation. He didn't put spirit into the equation. He said if you just study the physical mechanical universe, You'll understand the nature of it. So from that belief, science started to move into a physical mechanical interpretation of the world as opposed to the church, which maintained the concept of a spiritual realm. Science became not just science, listen, it became scientific materialism, meaning science said, "We study the physical mechanical world. We don't have to invoke God. We can just see it as a machine." And the relevance about that, of course, is Democritus in his grave was very happy about all this because Democritus was the materialist of science, fully supported Democritus. Well, what does that mean? Religion on one side said, "No, it's all spiritually controlled." Science came back and started to look at the mechanical control. And here's where the issue was. They made a détente with the church. Remember, the church is still all-powerful. I mean, Galileo came up and said, "Okay, the Earth is not the center of the universe as the church said." It was the center of God's firmament. Galileo supported Copernicus and said, "No, the sun, we move around the sun." They threw him in jail for the rest of his life. It was a nice jail, it was his own house, but the idea was he was under arrest for the rest of his life for even saying that. So it says the church was still in control. Why was that then important? Because scientists had to appease the church. And how did they appease it? And it still played out today, so this is important. How they appeased it. Is the issue we have today. And it goes like this: science said to the church, we will leave the invisible realm to you. You can have spirit and God and invisible forces. We will only focus on the material plane. That's why it was called scientific materialism. Okay, so science said if it comes to issues of spirit and all that, that's metaphysics, and we leave that to the church. When it comes to the material plane, that's physics, and we— that's what we do. So why is that important? Science, by its definition, leaves out the invisible forces. It says, "No, it's not relevant to our world that we live in." Okay? Well, René Descartes was the guy who came up with some big ideas, and one of them was "Cogito ergo sum," which he talks about a mind-body relationship. He said that the mind and body are separate and distinct substances. Mind is a thinking substance, but it has no physical qualities to it. Mind is not physical. It's something out there. We don't know what it is. It's not tangible. But the body, in contrast, is a physical substance, but it doesn't have any ability to be aware. It's a machine. It's just as like how much awareness is in a clock, you know? So basically, the body has no awareness, the mind has awareness, but the mind is not physical, so it's not related to the material plane. The body is a mechanical device. So when Isaac Newton came, the mind-body duality took on a different look. In Newtonian physics, you study the matter only, so the concept of mind becomes separate from body. And science does not entertain the concept of mind in science. So even today, even though we talk about the placebo effect, they still don't want to emphasize the role of the mind, even though they acknowledge it exists. But they said, "We're not going to study it," even though it's one-third of all healing. The forces of mind, not tangible, become vital forces, spirits. That's what it started to become, spiritual stuff. So what we used to talk about as vital forces running through a body is now recognized as, well, that's a spiritual energy, you know, and stuff like that, and it's separate from the physical plane. So science says, "We study the physical body. We leave to religion the concept of vital forces, spirit, and all that stuff. It's not our part. We don't really care." So science became scientific materialism. It does not care about anything invisible in this world. When you look at a human body in the universe, because everything in the universe is mechanical, the human body is mechanical. And they started to understand that if you take apart the machine, you can understand how it works. And if you understand how the machine works, then you can actually control the machine. Well, that's the mission statement of science from over 350 years ago. It's still the mission statement of science: to obtain knowledge that can be used to dominate and control nature. That's what science wants to do. It says, yeah, Mother Nature's a crazy bitch, and what we have to do is help her out. And so that male energy gets in there and says, we can control Mother Nature. It's like Boy, that's a big idea which has no foundation, but that's where we've been for 300-some years, okay? So science said, "We'll just study this." Now here's what's interesting. As science becomes more and more popular, it also starts to get more and more of the attention of the people. But here's a very important point. Science cannot participate in the basal paradigm. It cannot displace the church. You say, "Why?" And I say, "What's the first question? How did we get here?" Science had no idea how we could get here. Science could offer nothing. So the idea is science is still, although showing miracles, cannot participate in a basal paradigm because it doesn't have the answers to the questions. But it becomes more focused on the material plane. And we start to look more and more into the material world. And what happens is this, that we start to then go down deeper into the material plane. We hit the midline. And the midline is critical. The midline is perfect balance. In the midline, again, it says what? Matter and spirit are one of the same. I say, what was going on at this point? And this is in the 1770s. And I put 1776 for a reason. Because this was called the Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Enlightenment? Yeah, that was a philosophy about how you could live on this planet in harmony and beauty and wonder. And I say, well, where did this come from? And I say, well, in England, John Locke was a philosopher, but in France, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the principal founder of the principles of Enlightenment. And I go, yeah, where did he get his principles of a utopian world? Here's the joke. He got it from studying the American Indians. He looked at the American Indian culture as this most peaceful culture that existed. There was a United States of Indians here. It was called the Iroquois Nation. 500 years before the white people from Europe got here, the Indians were here. And they already had the United States. They were very peaceful. Rousseau wrote about them and came up with a concept called the noble savage. What was a noble savage? It was a person who could stand on the land and make the best out of his life because of his abilities. Nobody stopped you because of any other reason in life. It was your abilities that you could manifest. You could become anything you wanted to be in this country called the New World. What was relevant? In Europe, oh man, What— where were you born? What was your station of birth? Why was it relevant? You were born lower class, I don't care how smart you could have been. You could have been Isaac Newton. If you came from the lower class, you would never rise above the lower class. And what it meant was, it's a class status. So you were determined before you were born. Well, there was a lot of people who were not in the upper class. And when they started reading about this enlightened concept of, hey, you could live on this land and not be restricted by your birth status and you could become anything you wanted. It took a lot of attention and people started going about, "Hey, what about that New World? That's really cool. I like that New World idea." And so Europeans started coming over from the old country into the New World to become like the noble savages. They dressed like them, they lived like them. The Europeans that came later and saw their former Europeans dressed like Indians were totally like, "What happened to you guys?" But they were living that dream. Relevance? The philosophy of Enlightenment led to a spiritual belief called deism. Deism is this, listen, that nature and God are one and the same. Relevance? You study nature, you'll understand God. And so the people at the time were not just spiritualists, they were scientists. And I said, well, who were some deists? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine. Some of these names ring familiar to many people. Why is it relevant? The founding of the United States was founded on Enlightenment principles. It was founded by deists who believed in this understanding. And it irritates me no end to hear the fundamentalist Christians Tell me that this United States was a Christian nation. It was never a Christian nation. It was a deist nation. You say, "What do you mean?" I say, "Look at the Declaration of Independence." Well, you can't see it from that level, so I'll just show you what's the first sentence in the Declaration of Independence. "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them. That's total deism. It's the laws of nature and of nature's God. It didn't say Christians can't be Christians. It just said God and nature are one and the same, and it's not any particular religion that owns this. You can have any religion to buy into this story. So it was devoid of any organized religion, but said, "We are deists and we are at the midline." Why? Nature and God, one and the same, live in harmony, study the world. Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, not just political statesmen, scientists. Why? Because science was a higher calling at that point. Well, that was really cool, except for the United States brought along a lot of European, not just good traits, they brought along a lot of bad traits from the Europeans. One of the bad traits just happened to coincidentally be they killed all the Indians that brought them over here in the first place. So the reality is, well, we blew them out of the water, except I want to tell you a simple truth if you read the book. The principles in the Constitution and in the Declaration of Independence were derived from the American Indians. The American Indian philosophy was coined by the Founding Fathers into the principles of the United States. So then we killed the Indians, Their emphasis in spirit was still here. But unfortunately things changed. And one of the things that changed after the founding of the United States was this guy shows up. Charlie Darwin. Charlie comes in with a new concept of how do we get here. Hey, Origin of Species, by means of natural selection. They go, what does that mean? Well, basically it says this. You take two animals, you mate them together, you get a litter of offspring. While most of the litter of offspring will resemble the traits and characters of the parents, every now and then a weirdo shows up the runt of the litter or something quite different, and this is a difference in expression. Well, I say, well, that's interesting, but why was it more interesting in those days? Before Game Boys and movies and television, people had entertainment which included raising and breeding animals and plants. That was a way of life. Well, the relevance is this: everyone essentially was then very familiar, if you take two parents, mate them, you can get a weirdo offspring. So what Darwin says, well, if you just take that weirdo and let it breed on its own, it could lead to a whole different organism. Well, everybody said, wow, that sounds totally real and sensible. Well, I mean, we're breeding these things, we could see it. Well, it became so real and sensible that it overrode the belief of Genesis, which was, hey, all of a sudden there was nothing, and then there was this great tour de force by God, and several days everything was created, throw some humans on the top, Done. This way it said, no, no, over time the variations led to all these different things. Well, people bought that. And when they bought that, it changed the understanding of the world. Because when we bought that, what happened is we started to go into the material realm. Why? Because at this point spirituality didn't mean anything to anybody. It was a physical body that was mating with another physical body that gave rise to physical offspring with different traits. And so people started to believe less in God and spirit as a controlling force, and then we start to move into the physical plane. 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So basically, the United States forgoes the spiritual element of its founding and focuses on the material elements of a material world based by a material science. And the basal paradigm now changes. Why? Science has answers. Science has answers to the question: How did we get here? Scientific answer? Well, random mutations. Accidents of those runts that show up in the litter. I said, yeah, then I said, "What was our purpose to be here?" And this is a scary one. If you buy that truth, that it was random accidents, and I said, "Well, then why are we here?" Then the only truth that science can give you is the scary one. It was an accident. We're here for no reason at all. We just had lucky genetic dice. We won the game and here we are. And why is that relevant? Because it detaches us from the environment and from nature. You're not here because nature brought you here. You're here only because of accidents of nature. So you're not connected to nature. And now the big difference is this. This is the catch. Previous civilization, the church, how do you make the best of it? Live by the laws of the Bible. How about this current one, the one we live in right now? How do you make the best of it? You live by the laws of the jungle. What's the difference? Whoever is left standing is the winner. Yeah, but how do you get to be the winner? Ah, science has no morality. It's not based on morality. It says, boy, who's the last one standing? Relevant? You could be Albert Einstein or you could be some jerk with an Uzi and you could be the last one standing. So all of a sudden it said it makes no difference what you do as long as you win the game. So there's an end but no means. The means is anything it takes to win. Undermine your neighbor, undermine your own family, makes no difference as long as you're winning. And you emphasize the material plane. Why? Spirituality is totally irrelevant in this philosophy like this. So what we buy into— ah, science came in and started to emphasize the material plane. What happened to the church? Ah, the church all of a sudden started to disappear. Well, it's still there, it doesn't have the emphasis and power it did before. And you would say, "Yeah, but I know some people who are very spiritual and religious." And I'm going to suggest something. If that spiritual religious person who's claiming they're still connected to the old monotheistic paradigm gets cancer, my question is this: Do they go to the priest first or do they go to the doctor first? And the answer is mostly they'll go to the doctor. So I'm going to say, yes, very good lip service to the spiritual realm, but when it comes down to my personal health, I think I'm going to buy the science point of view. So it says, yeah, you might claim spirituality, but you're still part of the science domain. Okay? So we leave the spiritual element out. Science starts taking apart the body. It's a machine. They want to understand how it works. Why? Because if you understand how it works, you can control it. So the first thing they do is they start taking it apart and find that a body is made out of protein. Protein molecules. Well, proteins are over 150,000 different ones. What do they do? They're the building blocks of your body. So your physical structure, based on proteins. Your functional behavior, based on proteins. So the character of the proteins is directly related to the character of your life. Your traits are determined by your proteins. So protein, interesting word, pro-tein means primal particle. So the primal particles of your existence are the proteins. Well, we study the nature of the proteins and we're looking at what controls the, you know, the characters of protein. What controls what the traits are of the proteins? Well, we were looking and looking and from the time of Darwin, well, we knew heredity was responsible. But Darwin didn't know about genes. But they knew that it was something physical inside the sperm and egg because they carry the traits from the parents. So something in there had to be the control factor. By 1953, the answer comes. And the answer has now taken us to the fullest bottom of materialism because the answer from Watson and Crick is DNA. You came from your DNA, a physical source for the world that you live in. Your traits, your characters are locked into that DNA. So all of a sudden it says, "Yeah, that's the fullest material expression of the planet. There's no God, there's no spirit, it's your DNA that makes all the difference in the world." That buys a concept called the central dogma. The central dogma is a belief from Francis Crick, who was one of the co-founders of DNA, that says what? That the flow of information in biology is DNA goes to RNA goes to protein. That's how information comes in. I say, why is this relevant, this concept called the central dogma? And here's what's relevant. You are the protein at the bottom of the chart. Your body is protein. But you came from your genes. So why is this chart relevant? Look at the flow of information. It doesn't have arrows going from the protein back up to the DNA. And you say, "Well, what does that mean?" I go like this. Your physical body and your physical life experiences cannot change your genetics. It doesn't go backwards. Significance? You are a readout of your genetics. And at that point, you cannot control it. Well, that becomes very serious in this underbelief because it says genes control your life. And it's called the central dogma. I just want to bring this up real quickly because I taught it for 15 years in medical school. And what was neat about it is after teaching DNA, RNA, and protein all those years, not until I left the university did I even look up the word dogma in the dictionary. It was a surprise of my life. Why? Because the definition of dogma is a truth truth based on religious persuasion and not scientific fact. And it turns out this was never actually proven by science. It was accepted by science because they already thought that was what they were looking for. So when the answer fit in, they said, "That's what we were looking for," and they accepted the answer. Nobody ever knew that in 1958 when this was published it was a hypothesis. Why? Because they remember it was a hypothesis maybe for the first 10 years. But the next 10 years and the 30 years and 40 years that it's been in the literature, over that time we bought it as a scientific truth when it was a suggestion. It was never proven, but we bought it, that genes control who we are. And why is that relevant? Because, as this illustration in Life magazine says, your characters and your traits, not just your physical ones, your emotional traits, your behavioral traits, come from where? The DNA. And the significance, that's what I was teaching in school at the time, genetic determinism says your fate is predetermined at the moment of conception. When those chromosomes from your mother and father come together, selected genes are picked out and your life is now predetermined in those genes. So you don't have any control over your life. It comes from the genes and you cannot influence those genes. The relevance then comes down very simply to this: the world that we live in, the truth that we buy, Why? Because when we buy truth today, do we go to the church and ask the priest, "What do you think about the nature of the physics of the universe?" And the church has nothing to do with that. I say, "Well, where do you get your truth?" "Oh, you go to science." Why? Because they gave us the answers to the questions. So if you have any questions about the universe, you go back to science. And the first thing science tells you is this: As far as they know, you didn't pick the genes that you came with. They know that the genes control who you are. If you don't like the genes that you came with, tough luck. You can't change them. That's what you got. So you didn't pick them, you can't change them, you can't influence— they control you. Well, then you are a victim. You're a victim of heredity. You can't influence the fate of your life. You got Alzheimer's running in your family? I'm sorry to hear that. You got cancer running in your family? I'm sorry you hear that as well. Why? You're a victim of your genes. Now, the problem with this is— I'll just short-circuit before you leave, if you leave in the next minute. That's not true, but we buy it as true. Because when you buy it as true, that also then means that you recognize your victimization, that you are powerless in the unfolding of your life because the genes have some control. And that led us to the model called the medical model. And this is what medicine looks at you and says: You're a biochemical machine and you're controlled by genes. You're like a vehicle and they are like the auto repair place. You're sick, you drive into the bay, They open up your hood, they look inside, tell you, "Hey, you need some new parts. Go to the pharmacy. Here's some parts." And you're just a machine. That's all you are to them. Okay? So we buy into this particular belief. But something happened. They wanted to look for the genes. They wanted to identify all the genes. You say, "Why?" Because if we understood all the genes that are in there, then we can manipulate you and dominate and control nature and give you the genes that you want. You want something different in your life? We can engineer it to you. So we do the Human Genome Project. But then you look at the curve. Look what the curve is doing. It's going back up into the spiritual place. Why? Because somewhere between 1953 and the Human Genome Project 2001, the people started changing their belief system. I said, what do you mean? Well, in 1953, you're a biochemical machine controlled by genes. By 2001, Half the population, if in a state of illness, would prefer to see an alternative or complementary healer than a conventional medical doctor. Oh yeah? Why would they do that? Well, number one, it seems to be more effective than conventional medicine. And number two, because the alternative complementary healing is based on what? Energy, invisible forces, spirit, mind. And all of a sudden it's, well, Science was trying to ignore that and get down to the nitty-gritty of the mechanics, the people started to say, "I'm not buying that story. I want something different, and it works better." So the people are starting to move toward what? Back toward the spiritual plane again because the mechanical plane didn't give the answers they were looking for. And so the Genome Project came in, and why was this relevant? Because they were going to make a list of all the genes. Very quickly, even I was taken in by this because I was thinking, "Okay, it's a humanitarian project. They're going to make a list of all the genes." of all the genes so we could fix people. That's really nice. Here's the problem. It wasn't a humanitarian project. It was a venture capitalist project. I said, venture capitalists? Who's going to make money out of that? They anticipated there was going to be 150,000 genes. You say, why? A gene is a blueprint to make a protein. Yeah? How many proteins do you have? Over 150,000. Well, if you have 150,000 proteins and you need 150,000 genes to make 150,000 proteins, 150,000 proteins. And you say, so what? And I'm saying venture capitalists said 150,000 new drugs. And they were going to patent every gene, which they did. Every gene got patented by a private organization. Your genes are patented by companies. And the relevance about that was, were they interested in your health? Hell no. They were interested you're going to be excited to buy new jeans. And so basically it was venture capitalists, and yet the bigger, badder joke, they convinced us to pay for the research. So your tax dollars and your money and contributions paid for the research and they patented all the genes. So think about that at some point of your friends in the pharmaceutical industry. Well, here's the fun part. Mother Nature doesn't like people like that. So when the results came in, what was the surprising results? The results revealed this. There were only 23,000 genes. They go, wait, wait, wait, we need 150,000 genes, there are only 23,000. Ah, no, science made a mistake. Science had a belief system that is now proven to be false because obviously with over 120,000 genes missing, their belief system cannot be right because they can't accommodate an understanding with that few genes. So the whole thing was boom, oops, we made a mistake. But the momentum of the industry, the power of the pharmaceutical industry, which was pushing all this, doesn't care about the mistake. Matter of fact, they don't want you to know about the mistake. Why? They're still selling you drugs based on the old model. So the interesting thing is the whole medical model says you cannot be controlled by genes. It doesn't work that way. So now I'm going to tell you what I call the 4 myth perceptions of the apocalypse. These are 4 perceptual beliefs that we have bought as truth in the current paradigm that are now found to be, by new science, totally false. Why is that relevant? Because when you change the answers to these beliefs, you change the foundational beliefs of the culture. We do not operate in the new paradigm with the old beliefs of genetic determinism, that you're a victim of your genes, and that there's only a material realm. So what are the beliefs? Well, Now, these are 4 scientific beliefs that are now found to be flawed. And yet these beliefs, when I tell you, shape the character of the civilization we live in. So if you change the answers, you change the character of the way we live on this planet because we're having a problem. And the first one of this has to do with— the first belief has to do with— the fact is this. Dear Albert Einstein, you can see him before Texas Instruments calculators working on his calculations right there. Albert Einstein came up with an important phrase for this moment in time, and it goes like this: We know we're facing extinction. We know that the way we are living is contributing to the failure of the environment and the ecology and the collapse of the biosphere. We know that. We know that if we continue to do what we do, we are heading straight into that extinction. So what does it mean? It says, well, as he wrote, You can't solve the problems by using the same kind of thinking that created the problems. What does it mean? It means that the institutions— academia, healthcare, economy, politics, and any other one I want to bring into the picture right now— the institutions that are supporting us in the way we've been living according to the beliefs that we used to hold are still encouraging the old beliefs. The institutions are taking us on a path to hell. Why has that become important? Because as Einstein says, you don't want to go on a path to hell, then you damn well better change your thinking. And that's why the institutions are falling and failing right now. Why? Because they're responsible for us head-on collision with extinction. And so for us to survive, they have to crash. So when people are looking out the window and are going, The world's falling apart. Everything, you know, my money is not— oh, my government, oh, my healthcare, and all this. I say, cool. That's really cool. Why? Because if it doesn't crash, I sure as hell know we're going to die. We have to change the belief system. We have to change the world of healthcare, the economy, the government. Why? Because they are following old beliefs that are causing us to come to this point. So when I talk about these beliefs that have to be changed, why is it relevant? —because if we continue to operate by the beliefs, then we already know what the conclusion is. We're going extinct. And that means then it's time for new science, and the new science is already here. And if we then use that new science to program the culture, then we will change the way we live and take us out of the possibility of extinction. Even though I don't mean that we will or will not. I don't know what the outcome is going to be, but I know that we have to make the changes. Myth perception number 1 is the belief that biology is based on Newtonian physics, that we're a mechanical physical body. Well, it turns out if you believe that, what is the cultural expression? If you believe that, what is it? How do we live life? Basically it says organisms are DNA-controlled robots. So you are just a machine, you're a chemical thing, you got DNA, you're a programmed device. Well, the relevance then, we focus on material possessions. And that's what this whole world is consumed with. He with the most material possessions, or he with the most toys, when they die, win. Well, that's what everybody's doing. Accumulate. How much matter can I accumulate? Because that tells me how viable I am in the competition of evolution according to Darwin. Survival of the fittest. It says, how much stuff do I have? Well, that's really cool. If everybody is digging the earth to take the stuff out of the earth, there's a point where there's no stuff left in the earth and you destroy the environment. Well, yeah, we've done that. To do what? To gather material stuff. Because we focus on the material plane in a world called scientific materialism that says ignore the invisible, live here in the physical world. We become disconnected from the spiritual realm when we buy this because the spiritual realm is irrelevant in scientific materialism. Yeah, but there's a new physics. Now this is about Well, let's say, "Geez, almost 100 years old." I say, "Yeah, but it still hasn't worked its way into science yet in the sense of our biological medical sciences." I said, "What does it mean?" Quantum physics says that energy and matter are one and the same. You can never ignore energy because it's always connected to matter. Quantum physics is the equivalent of Native American belief system, animism. Matter and spirit are one and the same. It says that what we believe as polarities are nothing. They're not polarities. They're ends of a spectrum. So even if you believe that you're polar opposite than another person, you are still in the same spectrum. So the idea is we must get rid of the polarities because they're divisive of the system. You stand in the midpoint and look at the two polarities, then you have choices. If you stand at one polar point, then you've ignored the other polar side. You can't live that way. Being in the middle is where it's all about. We now know from physics that consciousness influences life. Look, here's a quote from James Jeans, one of the founders of quantum physics: "A stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality. The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine." And then he goes, listen to this one: "Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter. We ought rather hail it as the creator and the governor of the realm of matter. Your mind is creating this reality. That's what it says. Quantum physics says that. Quantum physics says you're not just an observer, you're a participant. You can't be a detached observer. The only way you can be a detached observer is be outside of the universe. Well, nobody's outside the universe. So even scientists thinking they're observing something and being detached from it, quantum physics says, no, you're not. By just observing the experiment, you're participating in the experiment. So you influence it with your belief system. So the new physics is different than Newtonian physics. Quantum physics says, yeah, there is a mind. And not only is there a mind, the mind overrides the physical realm. That's what quantum physics says. Your consciousness is creating all this. Einstein had a wonderful quote: "The field is the sole governing agency of the particle." The field means invisible stuff. The particle is the material realm. So it says the invisible realm is the sole governing agency of the material realm. Or in this case, the field, the mind, is the sole governing agency of the body. And this is what quantum physics says. What you say in your mind is unfolding is what you have in your body. And that is the new science. Myth perception number 2 says genes control biology. Well, the relevance in a cultural expression of believing that is that genes control our life. Your life is controlled by genes. So don't tell me that you have any control over your life. You don't know that. You're just a machine and I'm going to be the doctor. I'm the mechanic. You got a broken body, I will fix it. You can't do anything about it. That's the belief system, so the victim comes in. Genes determine an organism's value. In a material world, material genes determine your value. Not just the value of corn or cows, the value of people is determined by the traits which are controlled by the genes. So you can say, well, we don't like these people, they represent that. Well, how do you— oh, they have these genes. That's why, oh, we breed, you know, like the breeding of the upper class. We breed with other upper class people. Why? Genes are valuable. So we take people and materialize them and categorize them on a value based on their genes. This is totally foul. That we become victims of our heredities, I talked about, because you didn't pick the genes, you can't control them and change them. And then we need a rescuer. And that, because as your victim, then you give up power over your life and say that other people have power over your life, and that is no way to live on this planet. The new science, which I talk about in my other book called "The Biology of Belief," is called epigenetics. Epigenetics means above genes. We now know that the forces of the mind and thought and the field above the mechanical realm control the genes. The new epigenetic perception is the mind controls the genes. That you have personal mastery over your life if you understand this, and if your mind says you don't, then you don't. No? Okay. That there is a need for personal responsibility. We gave up personal responsibility when we said, "I have no control over this, so don't ask me to be responsible. I didn't pick these genes." It's like, no, no. You are responsible. And in a world, in this, today's world, try to find responsible people, especially in the government. There are no responsible people in the government. They're only responsible to themselves themselves, and we're getting screwed again. Why? Because it's just a way of life in this world. No responsibility. And that runs all the way up through the whole political thing, okay? Myth perception number 3, which is based on Darwinian belief, says we're here in a survival of the fittest competition. Yeah, what does that mean culturally? Oh, it profoundly changes a culture. Why? Because evolution is driven by a struggle of survival. So it says your life every day when you get up, and if you buy this belief system, It's a rat race out there. It's a dog-eat-dog world. Get out there and gird yourself because you're going to go out there and fight to stay alive. So being alive is now a job and a struggle. That's what it's all about. If you're not sure you're going to stay alive, then you live in fear. Fear of what? Well, competition. Why? Because the other person might take what you need to be alive. So now you're going to fight the other person to stay alive. Yeah, but competition then leads to violence and violence leads to war. We fight each other over this planet for survival. Why? Because we believe we have to. That's the truth that came down from the truth provider, science. We're driven by a winner-loser mentality. How do you know if you win? If you're winning, you're standing, you win, and the other guy who's laying on the ground, he loses. So in this world, there are winners and losers. Problem, because then you're still in the competition, okay? But it now turns out it's not the survival of the fittest, it's the survival of the fittingest. Meaning this: nature does not give a damn about the individual. You could say, look, hey, come on, keep us alive, nature. Look, we had Mozart, we had Einstein, we had great Newton. And nature will say, so what? Why? Nature is saying, what is the group doing to the environment not what the individual is doing to the environment. Nature is concerned about what the community does and does not care that we can hold up an individual human and say, "Look what humanity created, this one individual!" Nature doesn't give a damn. Nature wants to know what the group is doing. Nature is based on cooperation and community. The biosphere is a community. The only one that's not being communal in the biosphere are the humans. And nature is saying, "We don't need you anymore." So basically that's what the big issue is, okay? That the drive to stay alive is driven by altruism and love. Yes, altruism, I help my fellow man because by helping them I help me. And I do this out of love for everything in the world. Well, yeah, I think that's a new vision that we should be entertaining right now on this world that's based on the edge of nuclear annihilation. Right? That it's all done with harmony and balance is nature's key. That we have to learn to live in harmony and balance. My God, we can't live in competition. That's 180 degrees away from our survival. That this world has to learn right now there is one humanity. That we are the cells in a body called humanity. When we fight each other, that's called autoimmune disease. Self-destruction. And that we have to recognize it's a superorganism called humanity. That evolution is based on a random process. That's the belief we have. Why is that relevant? Because in a cultural understanding that it says there was no purpose for our existence. We were just here to play in the garden. Destroy it if you want. That's what they said. You have domain over the garden. You can do whatever the hell you want. Okay, go up there and rape it and pillage it and see what's left. No garden. That we become disconnected from nature in this belief because we say, "Hey, we were just given nature." The church in the previous civilization and science in this civilization both come to the same conclusion through different means. The church said, "You were only here because God added you at the end." God made nature and said, "Okay, throw some humans in there." So we aren't connected to nature, we just got added on. Science says completely differently but same conclusion, You got here as a result of accidents, so it's not relevant. You were just here, so hey, take advantage of the situation and enjoy it. That's what it says, okay? But we now know that evolution was not driven by random mutations. It was driven by adaptive mutations, that each organism that was brought into the environment was brought in to help maintain balance and harmony in the environment. But every time you introduce one organism, ultimately it overgrows the balance. And what does nature do? Bring another organism in to bring the balance back. And when that gets thrown out, you bring another organism in and another organism. But each time you bring another organism in, it has more power than the previous organisms. So nature is like a seesaw, balancing with each new organism coming in, swinging like this, ultimately trying to do what? Stay in balance. And where are humans in this seesaw? We're at the fulcrum, meaning we have one foot on one side, one foot on the other side. What's the net result? Lean one way, we take the environment this way. Lean the other way, we take the environment this way. Yes, humans profoundly shape the character of the environment because of our level of evolution. So we were actually evolved here to maintain the ecosystem, the one that we're destroying, okay? We are driven to acquire awareness. This is one of the things that we know in evolution. The more awareness we have, the more capable we are of surviving. Surviving without destroying ourselves and the environment. And that we must evolve through community and technology. People say technology is the bane of our existence, and I'm going to say, "No, it's not." I'll tell you why. Because you're not a single entity, you're made out of 50 trillion cells. And I go, "Well, what about that?" And I say, "They created technology to make us!" There's technology in the body that human scientists can't even come near yet. And we talk down about the cells and the fact is, I think it's time to give them a little bit more credibility and power. Why? They created us with technology. Why do we need the technology? Because with technology we can make a small footprint and live on this planet. Without technology we'd destroy the environment, which we're doing right now. So that these 4 myth perceptions are changing. And I say, okay, before I push the button, so where Where do you think now, futurists one and all, where's the curve going to next? Anybody see it? Please? Okay, I'll show it to you if you didn't see it. It's going back to the midline again. Why? The midline is the power point of the evolution. We've already done the spiritual realm. We have now completed the material realm. And we get to the midline called holism, which may be 2020. 12. Okay, and when you say, well then, where do we go after that? And the question is, just think about it, should we go back up into the spiritual realm again, do redo the spiritual thing again? The church wants you to do that. That's why all the fundamentalists are coming out of the woodwork. Hey, we're approaching the midline, but if you keep going, man, we could shoot through that midline, get back up to the spiritual place again. The scientists, on the other hand, are saying, no, no, no, come on back down, come on back down to the material realm. So science and spiritualists are opposing each other as we approach the midline. The point is we don't have to replay these. We already did these. The evolution is a jump out of this duality into a more whole, complete system. So if you go back into the spiritual realm and ignore the science, then you've missed the evolution. The evolution is to take what we have, put it together in a form of holism. I say, well, how does holism answer the question? Yes, we got here through Mother Earth and Father Sky, but we did it through an adaptation process, meaning we came from spirit, we came from matter, but we're here to bring harmony and balance in this situation. And that's why we are here to tend the garden, and in so doing acquire awareness so that we can tend it more efficiently and effectively and keep it healthy. And then how do you do it? Live in balance with nature in community, the human community. And evolve our technology so that we don't destroy the environment in the process. So, we're going through a process of evolution. The world we live in is based on a geometry. You say, "Why? What's geometry?" Geometry is the math by which you put structure into space. And in fact, even the Greeks knew that geometry, they said, existed before the material realm. That God is the geometry. The math that puts us here. The geometry that we learn in school is called Euclidean geometry. You know, that's the one with graph paper, cones, spheres, and all that kind of stuff like that. That geometry doesn't create nature. You cannot make a cloud and a mountain using cones and spheres and cubes and things like that. There's a new geometry called fractal geometry, and it came to fruition in about 1983, although it was at the turn of the 1900s when the idea was conceived of fractal geometry. The problem is, to understand a fractal image requires a million or more calculations. So, Raul Julia, the mathematician who came up with the concept of fractal, had it in his head, but it would take him many lifetimes to do a million calculations to see what it was, so he never saw what a fractal was. 1983, Benoit Mandelbrot at IBM, using supercomputer at that time, that level of computer, which is like your home computer now, solved the fractal geometry and it turned out that the patterns of nature were present, that you can throw a number into a calculator and create a plant or an animal or a mountain with clouds. So it says fractal geometry and it becomes different because fractal geometry is based on as above, so below. It says the structures repeat through nature. It's a very important understanding because it says if you understand the pattern at one level, you can understand it at another level. Well, let me tell you about pattern evolution. Our belief is evolution evolves over a long period of time. And that this evolution goes up, that there are imperceptible changes over a long period of time. And it turns out that belief, a Darwinian belief, is totally wrong. We now know that evolution has punctuation marks. That it seems to go along, then there are big jumps, which have been in the past like mass extinctions, where a big jump, boom, blows out the whole existing system and a whole new one comes in. And then blows up and then another one comes in. So evolution is not a continuous process. It goes along and then has virtually instantaneous changes. So it's not like a long imperceptible thing. Well, there's, in my new book I also talk about a missing understanding that biology has about evolution. We talk about all the one species evolving into another. But what they missed is this: there are jumps in evolution that are based on this. You start with a primitive organism like a bacterium. And the bacterium were here for the first— right after the Earth was formed. Within half a billion years there were bacteria here. And the bacteria are single-celled organisms. Obviously you can't see them. So the first period of life is just a whole bunch of all different kinds of bacteria and all variations created on bacteria. But then the next point, when the bacterial world started to get crowded, what bacteria did was join up into a community. And these communities are called biofilms. This is a new area of study. They're actually like a community of different bacteria in the same membrane. So they're all different functions and yet they're a small community working together. Well, the evolution of the small biofilm community led to the cell type that makes up our body called the eukaryotic cell, the cell that you're familiar with, the nucleus, mitochondria, and all that. Well, those structures inside the cell were former bacterial agents that were living in the same environment. You start with a single entity, create a colony or community, and then evolve that to its own unity. So bacteria form biofilms, which then led to the eukaryotic cell, the advanced level of cell. Well, the advanced level of cell is a completed single entity. What did it do? It started to hook up with other single-cell entities, started making multicellular organisms. And then it led to the highest level of that unity is a human, 50 trillion cells in harmony. Well, the human looks like an individual endpoint. Yeah, we are an endpoint of a community of eukaryotic cells where each eukaryotic cell is a community of bacteria. And then what does the human do? Well, then the human is a single cell and evolved a million years ago. And what did it do? Hooked up with other humans, made colonies just like colonies of cells. The colonies of people became the foundation of human community. But what's the evolution? The evolution is this. That we start to recognize that all humans are one organism where we're the cells in a larger body. And so evolution has these jumps. And where are we now? We're at the resolution of, okay, as complete cells, we're pretty complete. What are we forming right now? The superorganism where we recognize we're the cells in one giant organism and take the barriers down that have separated one people from another people all these years. And 2012 seems to be an evolutionary shift where we say it's not individual governments that work this place, it's the collective government of all the people. The internet is one of the primary driving forces to bring us all together as one entity in this. So, in our previous evolution, 50 trillion cells came together in a community to make a human being. The current evolution is to take 7 billion humans, put them together into one entity called humanity, that we are cells in a higher organism. Organism. And the relevance about all this comes down to this quick point: fractals repeat the pattern. So humans are repeating this pattern. Human civilization is a living organism, an animal. So then human civilization would be repetitive of the previous pattern of evolution. So that would say there was a state of human civilization that was fish-like, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal. So let me just quickly go through them. In civilization experience, The first civilizations were called mariculture. People couldn't get away from the water. You needed to, just like fish, you had to have the water. So people lived at the edges. They lived on the coast. They traveled from coast to coast. Wherever the water was, they could live, but they were like fish. But we developed the technology where we could go find the water somewhere else, take the water with us, or at least somehow or other get water to places where it wasn't there. And that was a period called agriculture. So we started to go deeper into the land. So we stayed with the water, but we could take the water with us or find the water. So just like amphibians, we could leave the water, go onto the land. But then the next level of evolution in animals was an animal that was designed totally for the land, not for the water. And that was called the reptile. The reptile is like a machine. They're digital. Their eyes click. Their heads click. They're just machines. We talk about them, especially dinosaurs, Dinosaurs as killing machines, giant machines, which they are. Yeah, but then what level of society would then represent that reptilian phase? And the answer is the Industrial Age. Why? Think about it. What's the fuel of the Industrial Age? Oil. Where did it come from? The blood of the dinosaurs. That's what they call it. We are fueling our civilization with a reptilian character. And why is it relevant? Because reptiles were designed to live on land. They were, you know, I mean, just machine-like things. But here was the important part. A 5-inch lizard is like a 50-foot dinosaur. It's the same blueprint. I can take the same blueprint of a 5-inch lizard and blow up a 50-foot dinosaur. Yeah, but something happened in the way of doing that. If I say the 5-inch lizard has a leg that does this movement, and I say, how many muscles does it take the 5-inch lizard to do that with? I say 10. And how many nerves? One. Now I say I got a 50-foot version of it. The leg is this big around. How many muscles? It still does that. How many muscles does it take? 10 million. How many nerves? One. Dinosaurs' bodies got bigger. The brain stayed small. So I go back to our industrial world and I say, well, what were the small lizards? Mom-and-pop shops. They were mom-and-pop little industries. That's really cool. And I said, "What were the dinosaurs?" "Oh, that's when they grew into the giant corporations." And I say, "Yeah, but what are giant corporations characterized by?" "Massive bodies and very little awareness." So General Motors will make an SUV when we have no oil. It's like, "Oh, that's good thinking, guys." And why is this relevant? Because at some point, the reptiles have taken over the situation. We live in a corporate world today And guess what the biggest corporation is? Oil! The fuel of the dinosaurs, the biggest reptiles of all! Previous administration included. The relevance about that is that ultimately the reptiles gave rise to birds, the mechanical birds that flew off into the sky. Birds have perspective. Birds fly above it all. They can see down and see things. Mammals, I mean not mammals, reptiles walk right into the middle. If there's a tar pit, man, boom, they're into the tar pit. Birds fly above and go, "I wouldn't go there, that's a tar pit." So with perspective, I say, "Well, yeah, when did we hit the bird phase, the period of aviation?" I say, "Oh yeah, Wilbur and Orville Wright, yep, they took us off the ground, changed civilization." The world got really small very quickly with aeronautics. I say, "Yeah, but what was the fullest evolution of the birds?" We landed on the moon. And I say, yeah, and what happened then in 1969? Well, they took a picture of the Earth from space, the perspective of Earth in that little, you know, that little blue-green thing and all that blackness. And you were here and I was here. It was a hippie period. And what was all that about? It was a period where the reptiles gave rise to the birds. They then got up to the space, shot the picture of the Earth, and we hippies on this planet said what when we saw the picture? We better take care of this place. We better take care of the air, and we better take care of the water, and we better take care of the children. And all of a sudden I say, what is taking care? Nurturing. What is the character of mammals? Nurturers. The mammalian civilization was seeded in 1969. Then I go back over evolution. I'll tell you an interesting fact. Well, we were seeded in 1969 as nurturers. Guess what? Go back in evolution. The dinosaurs were here, the birds were here, and the most early mammals were here all at the same time. The primitive mammals were the little soft furry guys, and the dinosaurs used to step on them and eat them and all that kind of stuff like that. Yeah, well, guess what? We evolved in 1969 as a soft furry people. We are the meek. The meek are the mammals. Yeah, and what happened? The dinosaurs crashed and the meek took over the Earth. And today, we're in mid-crash. The corporate entity, the dinosaur, is falling. And you are here, and you are the mammals. You're here to take care of yourself, take care of your family, take care of your community. Yeah, why? We are evolving out of the corporate destruction, the reptilian version of the world that we live in. And we are moving into this, and you are principal. And the principal part about this is that you become important, because when we complete humanity and the whole world then becomes, in the sense of people, what giant superorganism called humanity, the Earth is complete. And when the Earth is complete, what does it represent? It's a cell. And what happens when a cell is complete? Go over evolution. When a cell is complete, it hooks up with other cells. So we're on the verge of becoming intergalactic when we evolve and are born in this level. And why this all becomes important for us right now is that we're on the edge of making an important decision. And that's why I said this is not a passive process. If we all want to go home and sit down and watch TV till the end, it will end. But you have a choice, and you have a participation level where it's your choice, and you have to do something about it because If we evolve, it's because we evolve as a community, and if we die, we die as a community as well. The answer isn't in yet. It's a good movement toward this because people are waking up every day to go there. And I see a very bright future in this regard, but I can't give you the end. Oop, how did that get there? This new book is interesting, just fun because I like the universe's jokes. This book came off the It came off the printing press on August 7th. I remember they told me it was just coming, they were going to deliver it to me on August 7th. They told me it came off the press. And then guess what? Aliens recommend my book. On August 8th, the largest crop circle in the world was reported. And guess what? It's Vitruvian Man and butterfly wings. So, it says that we're moving toward this. And I'm so wanting you to hear this because I really want you to understand. We can walk above all the destruction. The earth could be counted out by people saying, "Hey, we're in a terminal phase, man. It's extinction. Terminal. Terminal illness." And then what I say is this. Yeah, but when a person has terminal illness and all of a sudden they have a profound change of belief, they get what is called a spontaneous remission. And the point is, We are converging as a humanity to a spontaneous change in belief, which will then provide for a spontaneous remission. When we get the new science and learn to live with each other in the harmony and balance of the midpoint, we will change this planet around just as fast as a spontaneous remission, which is spontaneous, can bring back the health. And all of us are participating in this. Here's what we're going to start with. This is like a given if you know my other stuff, and if you don't know it, but it's still a given. Here it goes. My work was involved with the nature of what controls cells. Our belief system and what I was teaching in medical school was the conventional story that DNA controls cells. My research with stem cells involved experiments where you actually remove the nucleus of the cell and essentially all the genes. And it shows that the cells live for 2 or more months without any genes in them. And that they're not just sitting there, they have a whole life. They're eating, digesting their food, breathing, moving around, communicating with other cells, avoiding toxins. Basically, what's the point? The point is this: cells can live without DNA for a long period of time and their life is totally coordinated. What does that mean? DNA is not controlling biology. And so the question is, what is actually controlling biology? So my work very simply was based on this: I took genetically identical cells. I was cloning stem cells. I was cloning them. Some people think, well, that's relatively new stuff. Just to let you know, I was cloning stem cells in 1967. That was 41 years ago. What I had the opportunity of doing is isolate one single stem cell, put it in a culture dish by itself. It would divide into 2, 4, 8. Pretty soon I had thousands of cells. The unique part of the experiment, though, is that every cell in that petri dish is genetically identical. Identical siblings. And the significance about that was then what I did was split up the cells in a petri dish into 3 different petri dishes. Same genetically identical cells, 3 different petri dishes. But I changed the culture environment in each dish. And in dish A, the cells form muscle. In dish B, they form bone. And in dish C, they form fat. And so the whole question comes down to, as I was teaching medical students, genes control life, the cells were revealing what to me? That the fate that they were expressing wasn't based on their genetics. Why? They were all genetically identical. So the only thing that changed from one cell dish to the other was the environment. So my work was really then leading off in a new direction that shows that it's environmental information that you receive and interpret that then adjusts your biological behavior and your genetics. The new science, which I saw 40 years ago, now in the last 10 years has become a foundation of the brand new science that I'm going to mention here, changes everything we know about life. Because what you were taught and what I was teaching was genes control life, genetic determinism, genes control your fate. The new science is not genetic control, isn't it? The new science is called epigenetic control. And it's a difference of day and night. It is the reason why civilization is in a crux of changing itself right now, which is this lecture. And let me just explain what epigenetic control means. Epi is a prefix that means above. So when I say epidermis, it means layer above the dermis, skin. When I say genetic control, that means control by genes. The new science is called epigenetic control, and that means control above the genes. So the new science says you are not controlled by genes, you're controlled by your perception of the environment. As you change your perception of the environment, you change your genetic activity on a day-by-day basis. And here's one astonishing fact: every gene blueprint that you have in your body right now, by responding to the environment— listen to this— You can create 30,000 different variations from the same gene. Why is that relevant? The answer is this: because 95 to 97% of us got here with a perfectly adequate set of genes to have a healthy, happy, loving existence on this planet. 97%. Well, the significance is that when we get sick in that 97% group, we can't blame the genes for that because we already got here with genes. So you say, well, where does this cancer come from? Cancer genes? No, there are not really any cancer genes. Now the biggest understanding of cancer, it's an adjustment of your own genes in response to how you see life. And that's how you get a spontaneous remission. Well, how do you do that? Change your perception of life and the cancer goes away. And the fact is, you change your genes every day. Now there was a recent study with identical twins. The moment they're born, they're almost reading exactly the same genes in each body. But they found after 1 year, 2 years, 5 and 10 years, they diverged. And what happened was each of the siblings had a completely different genetic reading based on their life experiences. So the relevance is this: if we go to the old belief, genetic control, you're a victim of your heredity because you didn't pick the genes and they control your fate. Then you have to live with, "Oh, I got cancer running in my family, cardiovascular disease, whatever." It turns out now, no, we are not victims because now we recognize that perception controls the genes in what's called epigenetics. Well, the relevance? You can change your perception. And when you change your perceptions, you change your genetics. And it accounts for all the kinds of miracle healings and things like that, which are not really more miracle than understanding the nature of your beliefs are real, that they go into the brain, they cause the brain to change the chemistry of your body, and the reality is you change your life by how you see it. And all of a sudden then you get to the bottom line, then the only thing you're a victim of is your perception. But what that means is, well, then you're not really a victim because then you have the freedom to change your perception. So the reality is we have been masters, but we have beliefs perceptions of being victims. The more I program you to be a victim, the more victim you manifest. Okay? Your limitations are only your belief system. I'll give you simple examples. This is a longer lecture because I wanted to talk about my new stuff, but I need to get everybody up to some level here. Basically, so what the whole new biology comes down to is that you are very, very powerful people. Yet we've been programmed to be what? Frail, victims, susceptible to all kinds of illnesses. I'll give you 3 different ones that I use in my normal lecture. Walking across fire. Hey, fire burns. Why? Because a person who is not ready to do that will walk across the same coals that somebody just walked across and didn't get burned. The other person will get severe burns. It's not the fire, it's the attitude or belief of the person walking across the fire. Number 2, and I use this in my lectures, I show some newspaper articles which I'm sure you've heard of in the past because there are numbers of them where there's been a car accident. And a woman will lift up the car and hold it until the baby or child can be taken out of the car. One woman, 5 minutes, held the car until neighbors could come with a jack and hold it up so that she could get her son out. And the reality is, She's not holding up the whole car, 2,000 pounds. She's holding up half a car, 1,000 pounds. The problem is this: weightlifters who do this for competition, they lift 600 or 700 pounds. That's a big deal. Here's an untrained, unathletic woman just lifting up 1,000 pounds. Why? Her belief system doesn't allow her to not lift it up. Her child's under there, so nothing in the world's going to stop her from that. My last one that I want to talk about is down south Baptist fundamentalists work themselves up into a religious frenzy religious ecstasy state. They testify that God protects them. How do they testify? Some of them play with rattlesnakes and copperhead snakes, which are very poisonous vipers. And guess what? During their handling of these snakes and saying that God protects them, if the snake bites them, guess what? No adverse effects from that. Now, those are mild ones, because here's the one I wanted to tell you about. In the same group of people, some people testify that God protects them. And this is a belief system unshakable. So don't try this at home unless you have unshakable belief. They drink strychnine in toxic doses and testify that God protects them and they have no adverse effects. Now you stop for a second. So you can walk across fire, you can lift 1,000 pounds, you can drink poison. Who's the frail person we're looking for? They're not here. It's only in the belief system. And I wasn't raised in the Christian tradition, but I just stepped back and just tell you what. This is the message that Jesus has been telling for all those years without the science. The science now says the same thing. He said you renew your life with your beliefs. He said you healed yourself with your faith, which is your belief. He also said this. Now, this is interesting because it's only been a couple of thousand years, and I haven't seen anybody really come to the forefront about it except for this. He said you could do all the miracles that I did, better than I could, but you don't believe. So all of a sudden it says the concept of belief is now becoming biological. It's not just a religious kind of thing at all. It is now biology because they recognize that your brain is controlling your body's conditions. Oh my God, I'm still not getting to this topic. Here's the next point. I told you I had cells in Petri dishes. I changed the environment. Environment and they change their fate. I take a petri dish of cells, put it into a bad environment, the cells will start to get sick. How do I make the cells well? I don't give them drugs. I take them out of the bad environment, put them into the good environment, and they start to grow and they start thriving. And while I'm talking about cells in a petri dish, as I mentioned in my lecture yesterday, what you don't realize is this. You see yourself as a single individual entity. That's a total misperception. You are comprised of 50 trillion cells. It's the cells that are the living entities. You are a community of cells. And your mind is the device that reads the environment and adjusts the conditions inside the body. So what's the simple truth? You are skin-covered petri dishes with 50 trillion cells. Your brain adjusts adjust the culture medium by releasing chemicals and signals into the system to adjust the medium. And so how you perceive the world is continuously adjusting your cellular cultures. So if you walk into a bad environment and living in that bad environment and your perception of that, then you will change the culture medium, make a toxic environment, your cells will get sick. Then what do you want to do? You say, "Oh, the cells got sick." No, the cells didn't get sick, they're just complementing the environment. Rather than trying to take drugs to fix ourselves, the answer to the new biology is change your perception of the environment. And when you do that, you become free and empowered. And yet your belief systems all come in. So the nature, before I start on all this, is understanding this new biology. My book is called The Biology of Belief and basically says this: your life and your biology are controlled by your beliefs and your perceptions. That I talked yesterday and said a very important fact. The mind controls biology, but there are two parts to the mind. There's the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind— listen to this— has the creative part. The conscious mind has your spiritual part. The conscious mind is the logic part of your system for creating and making things in your life. The conscious mind— now catch this, this is the catch point— is the part of your mind that has your wishes and your desires and what you want from life. If I asked any of you what you wanted from your life, the answer will come from the conscious mind. So I say, yes, we're running our lives with our conscious mind. Everyone thinks they're running their lives with their conscious mind. And here comes the news: no, you're not. You're running your life with your subconscious mind. 95% of the day you use the subconscious mind rather than the conscious mind for running your life. Why the big difference? The subconscious mind is programs based on experiences. The fundamental programs in your subconscious mind you got from other people. You got them from your parents, your siblings, your family, and your community. Whatever programs they were running when you were an infant before 5 years of age, you downloaded those programs in your subconscious mind, and the brain was designed to do that because you can't be conscious unless you have data. And the data has to come from somewhere. For the first 5 years of your life, you're in a hypnagogic trance, that your brain functions are in theta EEG, which is hypnosis. So a child lives in an imagination hypnosis state, theta, to do what? Download everything they need to know about to live in the family and the community. And so whatever beliefs were programmed by watching your parents, watching your family, or whatever they taught you at that point, those are the fundamental programs your subconscious mind— relevance? Those are the programs that run your life 95% of the day. Relevance? They weren't your programs, they were other people's programs. So you run your life 5% of the day with what you want and 95% of the day with what you've been programmed. Inevitably, the programs that you got in that other subconscious mind, inevitably they're limiting, self-sabotaging belief systems that take away your power. And it becomes very important because we live in a world, if you notice the world we live in, it's based on a hierarchy of power. There are very powerful people and there are people with no power at all and everything in between. And here's a fact, from the biology. We're all equally powerful creators. So then all of a sudden it's like, well, how does that sentence stand up in regard to the reality we have a whole range of power? Because then you might ask me next, well, if we're all equally powerful, where did these guys get more power? And here's the joke: they didn't get any more power. They took away the power from you. And we've all been disempowered to every degree that says why you can't walk on fire is a normal thing, why you can't normally drink strychnine, why you can't normally just go out and pick up a car out in the parking lot. Everybody can do it, but we don't believe it. And everything is now based on belief. Well, this work that I'm going to be talking about right now extends that. And it's based— this is the book, the audio version just came out. The written version will be out after the first of the year. This is extending the story of the biology of belief. For what reason? Here's how it works. Biology of belief personally says your beliefs control your biology. But guess what? We also got programmed with cultural beliefs. So guess the difference? Your personal beliefs affect you personally, but cultural beliefs affect the culture collectively. Whatever is a cultural belief affects generally the whole population. Okay? The whole premise that we'll be talking about is things are changing. Best illustrated by this cartoon here. Things used to be funny. So let me just tell you, things are changing. So let's look at some changes. And here's why. And here's what I'm going to tell you. First I'll just talk about some of the changes you're very familiar with. But then I'm going to tell you the most interesting understanding. The changes that are going on right here, the crises that we're facing as a group, are not accidents. They've already been designed. I can tell you why they're happening, what happens when they do happen, and where we're going. Because nature is fractal, and I'm going to talk about fractals. Okay? So let's start with the first thing. What are the crises that face us? Global warming is one of them. And the concept of global warming is that, well, we may not necessarily have caused all the global warming. We are contributing to global warming by the way we're altering the terrain and the environment. By changing agriculture, by cutting down the rainforest, and all the other things that were— the pollution in the air. We are contributing to this. And it says that if we don't change our way, then we are going to hasten our extermination in this entire process. So there's global warming issues that we're facing. Of course, everybody in this room is probably very familiar with economic collapse. And this is a requirement. I just want to play my— a little bit from my favorite news. If anybody watches news, this is— I will suggest my favorite news, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. And here's what Jon had to say about that. I hope the sound comes out. You gonna say something? There's so much to even talk about. The devastating hurricane obviously in Texas. I guess there was a bit of a financial hiccup today with the collapse of the banks. Funny story, you know all that money that we've been giving to the banks? They don't have it anymore. Gone. Like, we were giving it to them and we're all like, "Oh, you know, we're gonna need that later for food and stuff." And the banks are all like, "It's cool with us, don't worry about a thing, we're just gonna— whoa!" There's a financial collapse and there's a reason for it. And we'll talk about that. In addition to that crisis that's facing us, we're also facing this reality of a mass extinction. This happens to be a very interesting picture of a nest of dinosaurs. And you can see they went extinct so fast nobody got out of the nest. And the reality is what science has now revealed to us, that we're into the 6th mass extinction on this planet. Meaning we have a history of 5 previous extinctions where life essentially got wiped out. The 5 previous times it got wiped out due to things like comets or asteroids hitting the Earth and changing the environment and wiping out organisms. The 6th one is the one we're in. Scientists have now fully recognized it. Things like these little scary facts that within 40 years the oceans will be fished out. That's a fact, okay? That humans are on the verge of going extinct as the environment is going downhill. What's unique about the 6th mass extinction? Scientists have recognized it's due to human behavior. So we're precipitating our own mass extinction at this this particular moment. We're facing issues with resource depletion. And the interesting thing about resource depletion is this, is that we talk about it now, and you've heard, I'm sure, that we've got to the 50% mark, that we have used up 50% of our oil. Anybody heard that or not? Well, you know what the relevance about that is? You might stop and say, "Hell, it took us 100 years to use the first 50%. We got some time." I want to show you the falseness of that belief. And I'll show it to you with an experiment. Here's how the experiment works. The design of the experiment— there's enough growth medium in this test tube to last exactly 1 hour for this experiment. Here's the experiment. At time 0, I put a bacterium in the culture. Within— it divides every minute. So after 1 minute, there are 2 bacteria. After 3 minutes or 2 minutes, there's 4. After 3 minutes there's 8, and we can keep doubling. And so what I'm going to show you though is to watch this culture medium as the cells are growing in there, okay? So here's how it's going to look. We start, it's going to take 1 hour, and then all the growth medium is going to be used up. So we start. Now we got 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc. By the time we get to 2 hours, 20 minutes, we have 1,000 bacteria. And you go, wow, 1,000. Look, it doesn't even hardly touch the growth medium. There's no big deal with 1,000 bacteria in there. But then every time it hits another 10 minutes, it jumps orders of magnitude. So we have 1,000 bacteria in there now. And you can see, well, look, they've got a tremendous amount of medium. If you're one of those bacteria, you've got nothing to worry about. You've got a lifetime in there. Now we have 1 million bacteria. And it's like, wow, there's so much Just a lot of medium. Nobody's concerned about the medium here. Now we have a billion bacteria. And hey, bacteria are still in there using that medium. Nothing's gone. It's like if you were in there, safe zone. Now we have a trillion bacteria. And going up to a quadrillion bacteria now. And watch what happens. 5 minutes and we haven't touched it. Oh, in the last 5 minutes, the last 1 minute, boom. 50% in the last 1 minute. Because 1 doubling of the population, when you got to 50%, uses the remaining 50%. Guess what? The use for oil doubled in the last minute. Because India and China, which weren't using those oil reserves, are now using them to the extent that we're using them. So when you think you got 50% left, you got 1 minute left. And we're running out of fuel, and that means there's a whole crisis of change. So we're living in a major crisis right now. Okay, and it's very interesting because it scares a lot of people. Because like, what the hell is the future going to have here right now? Well, I want to tell you something. I'm going to tell you what the story is, and then we'll go into it a little bit deeper. When I talk about cells, which I introduced yesterday, and I talk about the cells, it's very interesting in this regard. They're miniature people. And I say that for a simple reason. Virtually every cell in your body has every function that you have in your body. You show me everything in the human body and I'll show you where it is in a cell. A cell is in truth a miniature person. So you have little cells running around your body, 50 trillion of them living in a community. And the significance about that is then you could see cells as being people. You could live in a cellular environment for a moment. So here's the environment I want you to live in. A caterpillar. It's moving along and it's growing. The cells are part of the digestive system. Cells are part of the cardiovascular system. Cells are part of the nervous system. They're all working. Cells have jobs. That's interesting enough. Every one of your 50 trillion cells got a job right now. And the relevance about this, all the cells in that caterpillar are growing. They're all getting excited. It's like, hey, economy's moving. Caterpillar's growing. Everything's getting bigger. Hey, this is a great economy, man. We're all making money hand over fist. Fist over fist, everything's great. And then one day, all of a sudden, it starts to slow down. And the cells are looking around like, oh wait, it's slowing down, business is slowing down, we're not eating as much anymore, and now we're not taking in stuff anymore, and we're not taking care of things. And cells get laid off. And there are cells now in this body of this caterpillar that have no jobs. They start to panic. A lot of them commit suicide, a process in biology called apoptosis. And if you were a cell, just put yourself in that community and look around and go, It's falling apart. It's crazy out there. And then guess what? Within the population, genetically identical cells, same as all the other cells, have a different idea, a different vision. I love the name of these cells. They're called imaginal cells. And the imaginal cells are the cells that create a butterfly. So in the midst of all the destruction that's going on and all the other cells running around with their mitochondria cut off and, "Ugh!" like this, there are other cells going, "Cool, man, we're going to really create something much better." And they create the butterfly. And I want to tell you, in the crisis that the world is going through, if you're in this room, you're part of the imaginal cells. You are the people that are going to take us to the next level. But how do you take yourself to the next level? And the answer to that was provided by Albert Einstein. And I love this picture of Einstein before before Texas Instruments had a calculator. And there's Albert. What did Albert say about the situation? He said, "We can't solve the problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. The problems we're facing on this planet are the way we are living based on our belief systems. And our belief systems control our biology and the biology of everything involved." Now here's the next level. There's an evolution going on right now, and I'm going to tell you about it. But it's not the evolution of you as an individual. You're not going to evolve like extra hands and arms and things. Nothing's going on like that. Humans have evolved. What's evolving is an organism called humanity. We are cells in a larger living organism. We just haven't owned it at this moment. And why is it important? Because right now when we're killing each other and destroying everything around us, What would that be equivalent of in a human body? And the answer is autoimmune disease, self-destruction. And what's going on in the outer world is reverberating into the inner world because you take your environment and you convert it into your biology. So as we're destroying ourselves in the whole global picture, we're destroying ourselves internally with our health issues. Most of the health issues today are autoimmune diseases, self-destruction, and it's based on a belief system. And why it's important for us to recognize is that we're changing our beliefs and moving into another phase of human evolution. And civilization— and this is a fact, it's not just because you can see it, it's a fact because I'm going to tell you the science— civilization as we know it is ending right stinking now. It's ending. It doesn't mean we end, it just means a new civilization is going to begin. So we're in a crossover point from one to the other. How does it work? Well, sociologist and historian Arnold Toynbee, a long time ago, wrote a number of books about the nature of civilization. And he talks about civilizations as living organisms, which they are. And he talks about a civilization as a living organism has cycles. It is born, it matures, it declines, and then a new civilization comes in. So if we make a map of time, And I plot the growth of a civilization, it will look something like that. A curve that comes back down. The first part of the curve is the part of the curve that is development. So when a civilization is forming, it's in a developmental phase. It's trying things. Let's try this, let's try that, and see what things kind of work. And once we start to find the things that work, we then virtually canonize these beliefs as law. This is the way it is in our world. We've tested this. Well, that leads to a period called rigidity where the civilization says, "These are our beliefs and don't anybody challenge me in these beliefs." And the problem with rigidity is that the world is not a static place. It's dynamic. It's always changing. If we keep our beliefs in a static place, it leads to challenges. The challenges of not being open enough to evolve. And so the more rigid The more rigid we are, the greater the challenges become. Well, the problem with— as soon as the challenges appear, then civilization starts to decline. Those that are rigid in their belief systems. And it's the ending of a civilization. But the civilization just doesn't end abruptly. As one civilization is ending, a new civilization starts to manifest itself. And so as one is going downhill, another is taking off. So we're in a crux right now of a civilization coming down and a new civilization coming up. The formative period is that developmental period and it is provided, the advances are provided by what we would call, or at least Arnold Toynbee called, creative minorities. Creative minorities are the smaller part of the population that has different creative answers to deal with what's going on versus the people with rigid thinking. You're in this room, you're obviously part of the creative minority coming in to entertain ideas of a new belief system. So we're going through this process right now. It's happened many times in Western civilization, so let me show you the history of it. It works like this. Over time, we've seen this in Western civilization. We started with a civilization called animism, moved into something called polytheism, then moved into something called monotheism, then moved into the current version called scientific materialism, and that one is crashing down and the new one is taking off right now. It's nothing new. We've done this for thousands of years. So the reality is, why is it changing? And the answer is, there's a reason why it's changing. Belief controls our behavior and our biology. And the fundamental beliefs deal with this. Here's the point. The character of a civilization is determined by the answers to these 3 questions called the perennial questions. The perennial questions: Number 1, how did we get here? Number 2, why are we here? Number 3, hey, now that we're here, how do we make the best of it? Here's the nature of the answers to this. Whoever provides the answers to these 3 perennial questions questions, whatever entity or organization provides the answers to these questions, they become the truth providers for that civilization. Because if we accept their answers as the truth, then we seek their answers in everything else as truth too. And the answers that shape these questions, or the answers from these questions, collectively are called the basal paradigm. Basal means fundamental. Paradigm means blueprint of ideas or basic ideas. So the fundamental ideas of a civilization are provided by the answers to these questions. Over time, the answers change. But when the answers change, so does the civilization. And that's a given. It happens every time. So if I was to look at the nature of how it worked, here's what I would do. First people on this planet already knew. They said the world as they saw it is comprised of two parts. The visible, material, physical universe in front of your face and the invisible stuff, the invisible part of the universe. And so there were two domains. We can call it the material and the spiritual domains. And the significance about what happened over civilization is how much emphasis we put on the spiritual versus how much emphasis we put on the material domains. This has changed over time. So if I would go back, And I would say, "Let's make a chart. And here's what we're going to have a chart. And here's our chart." It's a gradient of spirit. At the top would be belief 100% in the spiritual realm as the control of the world. About the middle is 50% that the spiritual realm is responsible for 50% of our lives. And at the bottom of the chart, it says 0%. Those people at the bottom don't believe spirituality has any role in life. So that's a chart. But I can make a parallel chart for matter. And I say the same thing, but this is reversed now. The bottom of the chart, if you believe down at the bottom, it's 100% matter controls the world. 50% in the middle says, "Hey, the world is balanced. 50% is controlled by the physical world and 50% by the invisible world." And at the top says, "Eh, you don't believe in the material world. It's really the spiritual world that's relevant." But why I put the two charts is I want to put them together. So I have yellow going from bright yellow to white. White or blue, from blue to white in opposite directions, but I put them over and overlap them. And what I end up with is a double gradient. And so what we could say is at the top, anybody who's up there, they believe in spirit as the control of the life and matter is not relevant. At the bottom, yeah, you don't believe in spirit, you just say it's a physical mechanical world. And in the middle, it's balanced 50/50. And significance is we're going to use this as a chart. And I'm going to put a midline at the midpoint there where it's balanced, 50/50. And then we're going to put a time arrow into it and talk about Western civilization moving over time and their relationship to what do we believe as a civilization. How much do we believe in spirit and how much do we believe in the material world is what's in control. And here's where we start the chart. We start the chart at the balance point. And that was greater than 8,000 years ago. It was called animism. What was animism? Well, it's the beliefs like the American natives, the South American native Indians, the Aboriginal Indians, the Druids in Europe. What was the belief? There was a spiritual and a material world, and they were both equally valuable. So if a Native American wanted to go on a hunt and they wanted to capture an animal for food, what did they do? They prayed to the spirit of the animal. So they recognized that everything in their physical world had a complement in the spiritual world. Spiritual world, and you deal with both of them in the way of your life. So Native Americans, for example, as animists, believe 50/50 in the value of both the spiritual and the material world. And so here's an interesting understanding: the nature of the Native Americans was written up— the culture was written up by a guy called Jean-Jacques Rousseau. And you say, well, who's Rousseau? He's a philosopher that shaped what we call the Age of Enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is in the 1700s. And the Age of Enlightenment was pulling out of— after a long history of European culture got involved with religion and stuff, they started to pull out. And I'll just— we're going to come back to it in a second, because why is it relevant? Because it has every bit of meaning for why the United States exists today. And it goes like this. The United States exists today because of the Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Enlightenment gave a philosophy, and the philosophy was based on the American Indian. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the one who brought that into European culture. He wrote about what he called the noble savage. The noble savage was the expression of a free human on the planet living in harmony with nature and unbridled by belief systems that we put into place like in Europe. They were free to express whatever they wanted to express. It was a freedom of expression. And people read this stuff and they said, wow, I want a world like that. Because they were living in Europe at the time, which was that hierarchy of king, aristocracy, and poor people. And the poor people, if you were in that, you can't get out of it. It was a birth thing. Wherever you got born into, that's what you had. And this was a place to go that said, where those noble savages are, you're not bridled by your family history. You can make whatever you want out of your own life. So the Age of Enlightenment brought us the image of the noble savage into Western civilization. And said, "This is where we want to go." There's an interesting quote that Rousseau had. "Everything is good in leaving the hands of the creator of things, and then everything degenerates in the hands of man." And what they were saying is that European culture was a degeneration from what the high level of living was in the New World. And this is what sent people there. And I would say, well then, what the American Indians, among all the other animists of the world, believed in, How did they answer the questions? Because that shaped the paradigms. How did we get here? Mother Earth and Father Sky. And you know what? They were absolutely right in terms of absolute modern science. They are 100% right. And I'll tell you why. The Earth is inorganic. It's dirt and things like rocks and stuff like that. Life doesn't come from that chemistry. We are made out of organic chemistry. Where did organic chemistry come from? The answer: when sunlight hit the inorganic chemistry of the surface of the Earth, it changed some of that chemistry by— the chemistry absorbed the light. And so it becomes enlightened chemistry. That is called organic chemistry. The enlightened chemistry is the chemistry that moves with vibrations because it's got light and life in it. And so we were created from From what? The physical elements of the Earth combined with the sun, the photons of light, put them together, create organic chemistry. If you want to see the light come back out, burn organic chemistry and the light comes back out of it again. The reality is the animists were totally right. We were born of the physical substance of the Earth and enlivened by the photon and light energy from the sun. Mother Earth and Father Sky. Why are we here? To tend the garden. It was a wonderful belief system. They lived in a garden and they were caretakers of that garden. And how do you make the best of it? Well, live in balance with nature. And that they did. And there was a United States here before there was a United States of America. It was a federation of the Iroquois Indians. 6 states that lived in harmony for over 500 years until all those Europeans came over here to live in harmony with them and then kill them. And the reality was, how did they live? They lived according to this principle. They have principles that if we would adopt them into our world today, it would change our whole planet. Here's an interesting one, for example. The country was run by the council of grandmothers. There were chiefs, but the council of grandmothers, with all their wisdom, were the ones that declared war or peace. They were the ones that controlled the situation. The Indians in the far northeast of the United States They even had another idea. Only women were allowed to vote for the chief. It was very interesting because what they did is it provided a vision of a man who would be strong for them, but a man who would live in harmony with them. And so when women voted for the chief, it was much more balanced and harmonious than testosterone voting that we have today. So people lived with this. This period. But then things changed over time in Western civilization. And as what we're going to see is that instead of staying on the balance point, civilization moved more towards spirituality, moved upwards. And it became more inclined to see the spiritual world as being more important than the material world. And this was the age of polytheism, the age of Mount Olympus and the gods of Mount Olympus. And what did they think? Well, here was the point. Up until polytheism was animism. Who was spiritual in animism? Everyone and everything. What happened when polytheism came in? When polytheism came in, we created gods to represent spirit. We took the spirit out of ourselves. We no longer had spirit. Spirit was coalesced in a bunch of gods. Now the gods were still on the planet living on Mount Olympus, and they represent the god of water, the god of air, and all that. Before, when the Indians had It. Every raindrop had spirit. Now there's a god of water. And so we coalesced our spirit and put it into figureheads, right? And this was the age of polytheism. I say, well, how did they answer the questions? The Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians, etc.? Well, essentially the answer is, how did we get here? Their origins is that we came from chaos. Guess what? Scientifically valid. It was the chaos of the energy field before We came from the Big Bang that precipitated matter out of the energy. We came from the chaos of that energy and it precipitated matter. Why are we here? Hey, it just happened. It was chaos. I can't give you a reason why we're here. But they did have an answer of how to live here. And the answer was this: don't anger the gods. And why that became relevant to everyday life for these people was simply this: a god could take on any shape or form. So the simple truth was, if we were living back in those days, You'd be very careful about treating the person next to you with the greatest of respect. Why? Could be God. And that kept everybody on their toes trying to treat everybody— because you didn't know who the heck God was these days. So everybody was trying to work out and be pretty good. Evolution didn't stop there, moved further. So we go back to the chart and guess what? We go deeper into the spiritual realm. We go more towards spirituality up to the point that we hit called monotheism. And monotheism, what did it do? Well, it took all the spirits from all the different gods. What did it do? Put it into one god. And then what? Put that god in another world. So now we don't even have spirit on this planet anymore. And the whole concept of it was really based on the reality that we were brought here by divine intervention, that God gave us the spark and then put us on this planet. And the relevance about all this activity was that under this kind of regime, Then the belief was, because it was based— are they believing in spirit or matter as primary? Spirit. Spirit. It was so primary, listen to this, that they said being on Earth is a pain in the ass. Because we don't want to be here. We want to go wherever that place is, wherever they are. I don't know where the hell it is, but we want to go there. And so it said, everybody, don't focus on this planet. Don't focus on the material plane. The material plane is damned. And tried to get us so out of the material plane to focus on fixing your life to go to that place. So being on Earth was actually a hardship post for us. Because we weren't even meant to be here. We really want to go up and see the Divine Creator in this particular case. So the relevance is, this is 100% belief in spiritual as primary, and matter is actually damned. So you don't even want to be involved with matter. The church got involved with a lot of matter, but we don't want to talk about that right now. The issue about it is, what happened? Well, we changed our belief systems. We answered the questions now in a different way, and civilization changed. Because every time we change the beliefs of the culture, the culture changes its behavior and its lifestyle. So what are the new beliefs that we got with Judeo-Christian monotheism? We got here through divine intervention. God put us on this planet. Yeah, but why did God put us on this planet? To live out place of morality, to see if we're really worthy of going to that other place. So we do our job here. If we do it well, we get the reward of going there. How do you make the best of it? The laws of the Bible. Now, how did they control this? Well, here's the most fabulous smart thing they ever did. There's a premise on this: knowledge is power. And the church claimed absolute knowledge. They were infallible. And they stood on infallibility. We have absolute knowledge. Well, what is absolute knowledge? Absolute power. And they wielded absolute power. And ultimately, absolute power absolutely corrupts. And they became so corrupt that it really forced people to leave. But they held onto the power for a long time. How did they do that? Because anybody who challenged their belief system had to go to court. They were heretic. They had to go to Inquisition court. There was never in the world a more perfect definition of a kangaroo court than the Inquisition court. Meaning, if you got called into court, never in your lifetime would you ever imagine winning. Because nobody can beat them. Because if anybody beat the church and showed that the church was wrong in any single belief, the church lost infallible power. So the whole idea was anybody who challenged the church would have to be eliminated from the system to keep the power in the church. And so the interesting aspect about this is science didn't really develop in here. Why? Because if science came up with a new idea, then they'd have to kill the scientist. So basically it wasn't a great time for innovation, so to speak. And this held on and they held this and they really were very abusive. To the point that we saw that civilization said at some point, I can't take any more of this. This is too much spirituality and not enough material reality. The curve starts coming down because people start thinking about that nature might be part of God as well. And so the curve starts moving down. And the curve starts moving downwards from monotheism and moves down into the Age of Reformation. And now we're letting go of losing some of the spiritual and acquiring more of the material relevance of the planet. Because it was recognized if you could do well with material, then your God is shining on you. So owning and winning and making a lot of money was a sign that God loves you, so go ahead and do it. And the reality about this is it brought in the age of science. And how did it happen very quickly? The church had a problem in the Reformation. They were getting a bad image. And the church really does well when? Holidays. People show up at church for holidays. That's the best time of going to church. So the most important thing they were doing was to create a calendar of the holidays. Well, here was the problem. Because some holidays are on a yearly cycle. Jesus is born on the 25th of December this year, as well as last year, and the year before, and the year before. But Easter, that's based on a lunar cycle. That's a 28-day cycle instead of a 365-day cycle. What's the problem? A lunar cycle doesn't fit into a 365-day cycle. 28 days doesn't go into 365 evenly, so there's overlap and they don't line up. And so at some point the church was concerned because many of their pagan festivals they adopted were based on the lunar calendar. And so all of a sudden it's like, well, how the hell are we going to create this calendar to make sure everybody shows up to church at the same time everywhere? And then they had a problem because they couldn't figure out how to do it because they lived in a world that that the Church says was what? The center of God's firmament. That the sun revolved around the Earth, the moon revolved around the Earth, the stars revolved around the Earth. The Earth is the center. And so trying to create a calendar with the Earth in the center, it doesn't seem to work out. So they call upon this guy, and this looks like a mug shot. Actually, it is a mug shot. Forensic scientists actually pieced together from his skull, this is what Nicholas Copernicus actually looked like, so it is a mug shot. Nicholas Copernicus was called in. He was an astronomer, he was a medical doctor, he was a priest. And they called him in and said, hey, Nicholas, you have a lot of information about astronomy, can you put together a calendar? So he went back and he worked on it for a while and kept trying to get some data to be consistent, never worked. And finally he went back to an old idea from Egypt that said that the sun was the center of our system anyway. And he said, well, if that's the center, what if I change my calendar and astronomy using the sun as the center? The center. And as soon as they did that, guess what? He was able to accurately predict all the movements of the planets, and in this case, also predict the holidays with perfect accuracy. He runs back to the church and says, "I got it! I got it! I got it!" And look at it. "Oh my God, Nicholas, you did it! It's wonderful! How'd you do that?" "Well, I had to change a fact." And they said, "What?" "Well, I moved the Earth out of the center of the universe and put the Sun in the middle." You can't do that. That's heresy. But man, your calendar works. So they made a deal. The deal was this. The church says it was a don't ask, don't tell policy. The church says we're going to use your calendar. We're just not going to tell anybody how we got it. And neither are you going to tell them. And he agreed that he wouldn't tell anybody. Why? Because he knew where it is, you know, it's going to be an eventual court case. And he didn't want to lose. But he was brilliant, because Copernicus held this for almost his whole adult life, the fact that he had the knowledge that undermined the entire church's control on the planet, because he found the church was totally fallible. The Earth is not the center of the universe. What did he do with that knowledge? He waited until 1543, and he published that book on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres. Why is 1543 an important date? Nicholas Copernicus, 1473 to 1543. What did he do? In his intelligence he said, "On my deathbed, I will publish this. And the reason is, I leave the science behind and I'm out of here. You guys want to deal with it, you can't deal with it on a personal level, you have to deal with it on a scientific level because I am gone." And that date, in 1543, is marked as the date of the Scientific Revolution. It was the opening of modern science because it was the shot that brought the church down. Because at this point it was infallible no longer. Church didn't want to buy into it though, because within about 50 years later there was a priest, Giordano Bruno, who stood up publicly, because he was alive then, he made a mistake and said, Copernicus was right. They stripped him, tied him to a log, carried him to the stake, through his town and then burned him alive for saying that Copernicus was right. They mellowed a little bit more 50 years later. Galileo said the same thing. And this time, instead of burning Galileo—he was way too popular—they just imprisoned him for the rest of his life for saying this. So the church had a tough time letting go of all this. But irregardless, it shows up that Isaac Newton comes in. And Isaac Newton studies the nature of the movements of the universe and provides a foundation for Newtonian physics. And what he really revealed was that the universe was a machine because it was predictable, that you can identify exactly when a planet was going to be in a certain place at a certain time. And what was the issue that was important about Newton's work? He didn't put God or spirit into his equations. He studied the movement of the universe by just studying the physical character of the universe. And the relevance by that was, you mean you can understand the world without putting God Is there God and spirit in it? The answer was, "Yeah." Well, this started getting people a little bit more into that material plane because we started to recognize that if the universe is a machine, everything in the universe must be a machine, including humans. That means that it's all based on matter. So we started looking at the human body as a machine and taking it apart, just like you would take apart a machine to try to understand how it works. We don't put the energy and invisible forces called vital force. That's out of the system. Why? It's a physical machine. We don't need invisible forces. So the body becomes a machine as well. But now think about it this way. If life is a machine and you could take it apart and you could study the pieces of the machine and know how the pieces engage and work with each other, what does that offer you? An opportunity to control the machine. The idea is if you can adjust the mechanics, then you can run the machine if you know how the machine works. So the mission of science that was created right after this was to obtain knowledge that can be used to dominate and control nature. This is the mission of science for 300 years. This is what they're still doing now. They're trying to do like the Human Genome Project. Why? Because we can dominate and control life. They're still doing the same thinking. The interesting part about this is we go back to the time scale and we realize that Science has come in, but science cannot take over the basal paradigm. Science is not ready to take over the basal paradigm. It's the 1600s. Why isn't it ready to take over the basal paradigm? Because we don't have a lot of time. I will tell you the answer. The answer is this. First question of basal paradigm is how did we get here? These scientists at this point left it to God created us. And then left us alone to our own evils, whatever. So they left God in the picture. So God is still the Creator. So it's still under the church. It's still a Judeo-Christian monotheism world. But we're moving toward materialism at a very rapid acceleration. And in this acceleration, we go from monotheism to Reformation, and we hit the midline. Oh, the midline is relevant. It is the perfect balance. Balance point. And why is it important? Because it was when there was absolute harmony and beauty on this planet, when it was in the perfect balance point. It was animism before. This time it hits and it's called deism. What's deism? Well, deism is a belief based on the Age of Enlightenment. Remember the guy Rousseau who wrote about the Indians? That's when he wrote about them. And people came to America. Why? Because they wanted to live the life of the noble savage. And how do you live You understand there's a perfect balance between nature and God. That's what the whole balance was. So I go, well, what was deism for us? What was important for us? Because I'll tell you some deists. You ready? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine. Any names familiar? These were deists. They created the United States. This is what happened at the center of balance. The United States was created as balance to the world. And you know what's interesting? It really irritated me because in the last election that we just had and leading up to it, there were so many fundamentalists that were trying to tell me the United States was a Christian nation. And damn it, they're standing on that Christian nation. It never was a Christian nation. It was a deist nation. What is a deist nation? God and nature are one and the same. You can study and look about God up there in the invisible, or you can keep your eyes down here in the physical world and look at nature and see that is representing God as well. It was a balance point. The United States was built on it. The Declaration of Independence. What's the first sentence? The first sentence in the Declaration of Independence. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary It is necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth a separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them. The United States is a deist nation. It's not a Christian nation. George Washington was asked by a Muslim potentate, is the United States a Christian nation? He said, absolutely not. It's a deist nation. It doesn't say that God doesn't exist. God is half the issue. That it's nature, it's material, and God, and the harmony of the two creates us. And that's where we were. But science was still evolving, but science still couldn't take over the basal paradigm. So what happened at some point is then the timeline moves on. Now it's moving into the material range because science is now offsetting spirituality. Why? Science has miracles that the church could never imagine. They created all kinds of things: steam engines, telephones, telegraphs. All kinds of things were going on. Science was making miracles. And people were moving toward that science. And in 1859 they really hit it. Because in 1859 Darwin came in. Darwin gave us the theory of evolution on the origin of species. He said, how did we get here? Events of random mutations and accidents of heredity. And all of a sudden, people who were breeders of animals at that time, they didn't have television, they raised animals and plants. They all knew what Darwin was saying. That you take two parents, mate them, you get a lot of offspring, and every now and then, one of the offspring is a variant that has a whole different trait. And all people knew that, and then Darwin just said, well, take those variants and let them multiply, and they'll lead to other different species. So basically we created an origin. And now, for the first time, science actually takes over the basal paradigm because science can answer the questions. How did we get here? Random mutations. Why are we here? This is the hard one. Well, if you got here by accident, the first question, I don't know why we're here. We got here by an accident. It was the shake of genetic dice. I don't know why. Except they had an answer. No other reason than to reproduce. And that's the nature of that Darwinian biology. We're here, the genes are fighting each other, who's going to reproduce? How do you make the best of it? Remember the last one? How do we make the best of it under monotheism? The laws of the Bible. Guess what? Under Darwin, change the laws. It's now the laws of the jungle. It's the survival of the fittest. And what's interesting? Darwinian biology tells you what the end is, survival, but it doesn't tell you the means to get to that survival. And the relevance? In a Darwinian world, you could either be a super intelligent, like Einstein kind of person, or you can have an Uzi. Either one of those two can lead you to surviving in this world. So we live in a competitive world where we're all competing, trying to survive, in a materialist world. That says matter is the all of everything, not spirit. So how are you going to be successful on this planet? The more matter you have, the more successful. It's like being closer to God in the opposite direction. And so the whole world is now based on what? A competition to get the most matter you can at any cost necessary. It's irrelevant. There's no morality. All you need to do is just win. And that's the world that we adopted in the world that we live in right now. Well, the interesting thing about that is that this was our introduction into the material plane. And then what happened is that there was a continuation because under the belief of Darwinism, then the belief is that there's going to be a physical material thing that provides for our reality. And Neo-Darwinism is the next level of that. Neo means new version of Darwin. And that is 1920s 1953 for a very particular reason. Why 1953? And the answer to that is because of that. Now it was clear and defined and precise. We come from that. That's the DNA. That's the physical source of our life. That's the reason for being, our reason for existence. We bought into the belief that DNA controls our life to the extent— I just love this. This is the actual name of the concept in the text textbook, it's called "The Central Dogma." And the dogma was described by Francis Crick, Watson and Crick, Francis Crick, who was so enamored with his finding of DNA, extended the meaning to mean that DNA is the sole source of life. That DNA provides for the RNA, which then provides for the proteins, and we are protein machines. So that we come from DNA. Since the information only goes one way in this plan, then our lives can't change our DNA, but our DNA can spontaneously mutate and change our lives because the information runs in this one direction. Well, the significance about the central dogma is that genes control our lives. And that's where we get victimization because you didn't pick the genes as far as we know. And the genes that you have determine your traits. And if they're traits that you're not happy with, hey, that's the shake of genetic dice. And as a result of that, we have to live with those traits. But then, what do we get? Because we're victims. We're now really, we're victims because we bought into the belief that our DNA controls all of our traits, not just our physical traits. It is now talked about how it controls our emotions. It controls our behavior. So we're really just readout of the DNA. We're physical machines derived from physical molecules, and we're victims because we didn't pick them and we can't change the genes. And why is that relevant? Because if you believe you're a victim, then the first thing you've done is lost your power. You're now a victim. But if you've lost your power to then survive, you need a rescuer. The rescuer? Pharmaceutical industry. They will rescue you from all the problems that heredity gave you. And only a small cost. Like your life. And we bought into this. And this is where we are pretty much, except that the world is now changing just in the last few years. Now here are the changes. With this understanding that DNA was really what we were looking for to control our lives, then the idea of the Human Genome Project came in. Because if the Human Genome Project was going to be accomplished, that means we would make a list of all the genes. And if we make a list of all the genes, then we would be able to be better medical doctors because whatever problem you have, I could genetically engineer a new gene. You want to be like Einstein? I'll give you an Einstein gene, a Mozart gene, a Britney Spears gene, whatever you're looking for. And the reality is that we can control your life with these genes. So that led to the Human Genome Project. But it was interesting because as we were going into this Human Genome Project, people started losing faith in the medical profession. Why? Well, for one simple reason, it's the leading cause of death in the United state. So I would be nervous about it. I think it's safer probably just to take a blindfold, put it across your face, and try to walk across the interstate at rush hour than to go to a medical doctor sometimes. Okay? And I'm not knocking medicine other than this: medicine does miracles, and I would not deny that. Because if I need them, sure as hell I'm going to go there. But here's what medicine does miracles in: trauma. You need a physical part of your body cut out, a physical part of your body exchanged, you need to sew up your physical body, you want to replace parts, that's what medicine does and they do miracles with it. How they work, how the parts work or why they don't work, no, they don't know the answer to that. And so the issue is medicine has a right place but it also has failed because it doesn't have an understanding of how life works. But in going toward this Human Genome Project, that's where they're going, but if you can see what's happening, The curve is moving back up. Why? Because people were losing faith in the medical system. And where were they going next? Back to spirituality again. So when we hit the bottom that said, "Hey, you're just genes," there was a point where that didn't work either. So now there's a return. There's a movement back upwards as people are going to say, "There's got to be more than just this physical reality." And so we're all going into into that spiritual realm looking for it. The Human Genome Project even pushes us further, and I'll tell you why. Because when we did the Human Genome Project, we were going to find all the genes that make up a human. Little insight before I tell you the results: your body is made out of over 150,000 different proteins, different ones. It takes a gene to make a protein. Can you do the math? How many genes do I need if I have 150,000 proteins? How many genes do I need? [Speaker:STUDENT] 150,000. [Speaker:DR. MICHAEL STRANGE] Oh, you got it right. See, 150,000. Good. Here's the problem. When the results came in a couple of years back, there was a little bit of a problem. There were only 23,000 genes. We're missing 125,000 genes. What's the issue? It's not we're not missing 125,000 genes. Science had it all wrong. We are not genetic automatons. Our genes, we have the same number of genes as some of the lowest organisms on this planet. On this planet right now. It's not the number of genes that make us different. There's other factors involved. And those other factors are now relating to the environment, which is what? The invisible forces that we find ourselves in. So even science is having to open up the reality that life is controlled more or less by the invisible forces, even though it's physical. So why is this relevant? Because where was that chart taking us? I wonder if I can— oh, I don't want to go back too many things. It basically says this: hey, forget the idea of genetics as controlling your life. That's not what does it. There's not even enough genes to accommodate the story. That's out of here. So we go back to the beliefs that we live under right now. Why are we here? Hey, random mutations. It was total accident. I have no reason. So there's no purpose for our being on this planet. And that's one of the biggest problems at all. We disconnect ourselves from the planet as being relevant. We were just put on top of this garden to do anything we want. And so we have no respect for the garden. The unfortunate problem is, when you understand the nature of the new biology, you didn't get here unless you were supported by the garden. You got here as an evolution of the garden. You destroy the garden, you destroy the whole reason for your existence on this planet. So as we're destroying the environment, that's why scientists are now looking around saying, Hey, guess what? Coincidentally, as you destroy the environment, you're killing all the animals on the planet too. There's a reason, okay? How do we make the best of it? Competition. Survival by being the fittest. And all of this has led to the world of aggression, competition, materialization, getting all the matter you can, all the land you can grab, all the product you can grab as a measure of success. Success, and the whole thing's wrong. And I'm going to tell you why. There are 4 fundamental beliefs that I refer to as the 4 myth perceptions of the apocalypse. These are 4 myth perceptions that if we follow these as we have been doing it, we sure as hell are ending human existence on this planet. These are 4 beliefs that are being taught in school at the present time. That are now totally found to be wrong. Number 1: Biological processes employ Newtonian physics, meaning your body is just a physical machine. Change it with drugs and chemistry and all that. Uh-uh. We now know that your body is a quantum mechanical energy device. It uses energy fields in preference to chemicals for communication. That we respond to the invisible forces much more than we respond to the physical forces. So the invisible all of a sudden all of a sudden becomes a major part of who we are. Well, the invisible moving forces that physics talk about, isn't that the same definition, invisible moving forces, that spiritualists have talked about? The answer is yes. Science is returning us to the nature and power of the invisible forces in the field in the terms of quantum mechanics, or you can talk about spirituality. It's the same invisible moving forces. So we're moving back into the spiritual realm, but balancing the matter and the spirit. So the concept that we employ Newtonian physics, that's totally wrong. Biology is run by quantum physics. It's quantum mechanics. The energy vibrations run biology, not the chemistry. Myth perception number 2: Genes control biology. Well, we already know that's wrong. The whole thing, there's not enough genes, it doesn't work that way. It's actually an environment that shapes the genetics. So all of a sudden again, we go back to that invisible environment. That's responsible for influencing your genetic activity. Your mind creates an energy field which shapes your biology. So we're really not controlled by genes as much as we're controlled by our perceptions. The belief that we got here in a competition for the survival of the fittest and that's what makes our success is now totally wrong because scientists have revealed a most amazing fact. Evolution is based on cooperation. You look out at that field or any environment you look at and all the animals and all the plants and everything that's out there is living in a harmonious thing called an ecosystem. The only one that's not harmonious in the ecosystem is mankind. We're destroying the ecosystem based on a belief that we're here for the survival of the fittest. It is totally incorrect and totally destructive of human civilization. Those beliefs are wrong. That evolution is a random process, that you got here by total accident. It turns out, no. We now know there's a new mechanism of adapting genetics to an environment. That organisms actually express what are called adaptive mutations. Meaning, if an organism finds itself stressed in an environment, it will adjust its genetics to fit the environment. So why is that important? Because every organism that is here was helping to create balance in the environment. When an organism comes into the environment, we disturb the environment. It's like us. How do we disturb it? Well, in trying to get food and trying to take housing for ourselves and diverting the resources of the planet and messing with the environment, we involve ourselves with that environment. And we, in our life, impact the environment. And so we throw it out of balance. Well, actually, the first organism that came into the environment threw it out of balance. And what did nature do? Say, well, I was living in balance and I put this organism in and threw it out. So what does nature do? Put another organism in that balances the first one. And then that will throw it out a little bit, so nature throws another one in. And another one. And another one. And over evolution, each new organism that came in was here to balance something that what was already existing. And it's sort of like a seesaw. That if you put one organism on one side, the seesaw tilts. So what does nature do? Put an organism on this side, bring it back. And then it will get out of balance a little bit. So what does nature do? Add another one over here. And then it goes down. And so we're doing this seesaw business, trying to stay in balance. But every time you add a higher organism, the organism is getting closer to the fulcrum. In other words, the first organism is at the tip. And as you add more and more, you build up organisms toward the center. And where is humanity? This is the fabulous part. We're at the exact center of the seesaw. Why is that important? Because we can control balance by just moving our weight a little bit this way or our weight a little bit this way and the whole environment shifts. And our job was to stand in the middle and provide balance and harmony to the environment. And all we did was got in the environment and destroy the garden. So the whole reality is we lost the fact, but now we're manifesting. People say, "We did this to the environment?" The answer is, "Yes." We were here to bring harmony. We didn't know our job. We didn't know our role. And we little people who are at the fulcrum of the seesaw, by the way we alter the environment, have changed the world. And so our lesson is, we better come back and understand the middle of this thing and what our job is at this point. And that evolution is not random. And why is that relevant? Because in a few minutes, if I don't run out of time, and I may not, I will show you where we're going. And that's more fun. Yes. Okay. Because evolution is not random. There's a pattern. And when you see the pattern, it's going to blow your mind. Because if you're forewarned, then you're forearmed. That means you can deal with it if you know where we're going. So I'll try and get there. Okay. The point about this is, if you're plotting where we're going, where do you think the next point is going to be from where we are right now? Balance point. That's the beautiful part. And why is the balance point so beautiful? Harmony comes back to the planet. It was when the Native Americans were here. It was when the United States was created. And the next one is the United States of the world is the creation. The United States was an experiment. Experiment. It was a culture dish. What happens when you put cells into a culture dish? Well, they start to grow, and then they become very homogeneous. They, they all have the same traits. Nations in this world were like culture dishes, especially like in feudal Europe. They actually had like walls around nations. If you're inside the nation, you're inside that culture dish. If you're inside the next nation, you're in a different culture dish. They have different traits. The Swiss made cuckoo clocks. They were great at it. Or the Germans did that. Whoever did that. The English made fine dining. No, they didn't do that. All right. But here was the point. Now listen to this. When you inbreed a population, you can develop very fine traits. Like the dogs and cats that people breed, they breed these very fine traits. Isn't there a catch to doing that? Is there a catch? What is it? A lot of weakness and disease gets built into inbreeding, right? So every nation had beautiful traits but also some very bad inbreeding consequences. Every nation had walled itself off and let the civilization, a culture, a tissue culture with people in it. What was the United States? It was a new petri dish that opened up. But guess what? It took cells from here and cells from here and cells from here and cells from here. And brought cells from all over. And there's something called hybrid vigor. What does that mean? You take two purebreds, you breed them together, you get a mutt. But the mutt is more powerful in every way and more survivable than any of the purebreds. The United States is hybrid vigor. We exceeded the expectations of the world by what? Taking all the cultures and bringing them together to create the hybrid that we live with in this country. That's our success. It was the first image of a global civilization. Why? Because the population came from all over the globe and lived in one boundary with a set of rules. The original United States was the first egalitarian nation in the world. And what has become is something else now. We lost it. A virus got into our culture dish. It's called corporations. Corporations subverted the entire thing. Why? Because corporations took power over people. And once that happened, we lost our individuality to the power money of a corporation. So we lost our culture. But we're on our way to a new one. Holism. This last election is a wake-up call to this reality. Had we not voted this way, it sure as hell would have marked the real end of the United States. And why I say that is because when you look at the election not from in the United States, look at the election from outside the United States, all of a sudden the rest of the world— this is the first thing we've done in 10 or more years that we can be proud of as Americans because around the world everyone's saying, "Thank you, United States. You're leading the way once again in our world." So, thank all of us for participating in creating this new evolution. This is part of the evolution because it's bringing consciousness back. It's bringing personal responsibility back to our world. We're not victims. And this is what this whole new world is coming to. That's why this election was not an accident. It is a leadership role of the United States because we led it once before and lost it, and now we got a chance to pick the ball up again. And so if I come to you now and say, so what would be the new civilization? What are the beliefs of the new one? And here's what they are. That's the old ones. Here's what we're going to do. Let's replace them. How did we get here? We didn't get here through random mutations. We got here through a process of Mother Earth and Father Sky. Yes, we really did. We got here because the sunlight merged with the earth and created organic material. That's how we got here. But it wasn't by chance. We got here through what are now called adaptive mutations. So it says, You have a purpose on this planet. You didn't just get here by accident. You're not an accident. You are here. What's your purpose? Well, why are we here? Well, that's a Darwinian belief. That's wrong. The new one, why are we here? Hey, to tend the garden. Something we forgot, and now that the garden is really in a precarious state and may not survive, it's time for us to wake up and go back and tend the garden. Why? We evolved from the garden. You cannot live if you undermine the roots from where you came from. You destroy bacteria, you destroy humans. The reality is everything is built on something else and we're up near the top. So if you move out something from the bottom, then we fall from the top. And that's where we are right now. But it's more than that. We're here to acquire awareness. And that was the evolution of all life. All of life from the very beginning was to get more and more aware, from the most primitive organisms upwards. And how do we do that? First you make smart individual elements, and then what do you do? You group the smart individuals together in a community and share awareness as a community, and that's how you jump evolution. And the reality is right now we're all smart individuals, but we don't have the community. And the nature is the evolving global community, and it has to be a global community. Why? Because we can't have some other country like us in the past just say, "Hey, you can burn all that crap and throw it in the air and throw that stuff in the water," because it's all part of the commons. So every individual on this planet has to recognize we're not separate entities in that regard. Each country is like an organ in a body. And it doesn't work if you just throw an organ out of the body. So what do we have to learn is, yeah, it doesn't mean countries disappear. It just means we learn that as a group and a community and cooperation, that's where our survival comes from. We're going to a global world. Why? Because we can't let a rogue nation decide to throw everything off because it kills the rest of the world. Simple as that. How do we make the best of it? Not the laws of the jungle. Not at all. Learn to live in balance with nature. Yeah, that's the animistic way. We were back there. But there's more to it than that because it's also technological evolution. And you say, "Oh, come on, technology is the problem." No, it isn't. Technology is the solution. And you say, "What do you mean technology is the solution?" Well, here's an interesting fact. This body, human body, was made millions of years ago. By what? 50 trillion cells that came together. Did they just get into the skin and just say, "Hey, really nice." No, they did it with technology. Cells created technology that humans can't even understand. We don't even understand at this moment. They live 50 trillion cells in here. We can't do 6.5 billion people on the entire planet. You got 50 trillion cells in here that clean the system, wash that blood out, get all the toxins out, take care of the air, warm it, clean it, take care of all the processing, process food, get rid of waste and everything. How does it do that? With technology that we don't even understand. They created technology. That's what provided evolution. And the idea is, in the last number of years, we've even dropped the technological ball. We haven't even developed really good technology. And the technology we have is killing us. So what's the point? Evolution says we better damn well have some new technology that's as smart as the technology of the cells of the body. Otherwise, we don't stand it as a human system called humanity. It doesn't work. I got time. I'm going to show you shit. Oh, excuse me. I got excited for a moment. I'm sorry. The nature of the new biology, which I talked about yesterday, is that the intelligence of the cell is not the genes in the nucleus. The intelligence of the cell is the skin of the cell, the membrane. And that the more membrane you have, the more intelligence you have. Cells only can have a limited amount of intelligence, so what do cells do? Get together and plug in with each other and share intelligence. So every cell in the community is adding its awareness to the whole. And yet you want to expand the surface of the cell. The surface of the cell is the skin. And if you want to plot evolution, evolution is more intelligence, more awareness. That's what the whole evolutionary tree is. So what does it mean? Ultimately it says it's the geometry of creating more skin. And so if you look at the geometry of skin, then you understand where evolution is taking us. Well, the relevance is what kind of geometry does skin use? Well, here's a story, The Mathematics of Human Life, and it says this: mathematical studies of fractals— that's a new geometry I'm going to talk about in a minute— reveal that the repetitive branching within branching structure of a fractal represents the best way to get the most surface area within a 3-dimensional space. And the relevance behind it is this: The geometry is a math at how you put structure into space. Okay? So nature uses geometry. It does. We learn geometry from nature. Well, the interesting thing is the geometry that you and I learned in school is called Euclidean geometry. It's the one, remember, the graph paper cubes and cones and spheres, you know, or surface area or lines and whatever. This is Euclidean geometry. If I ask you a first question, can you create the nature that we live in using Euclidean geometry, yes or no? You did when you were 5 years old. I'll just tell you, remember back in that kindergarten class you did a tree? What was a tree? Wasn't it a cylinder with a ball on the top? Okay, that's Euclidean geometry. It's not nature, but you can understand it. Euclidean geometry makes these buildings but can't do a tree, can't do a mountain, a cloud, can't create animals. That's not the geometry that nature uses. So firstly, that's wrong. And I'll tell you why it's wrong. How many dimensions do the structures on the bottom of that picture have? How many dimensions? 3 dimensions. How many dimensions is that structure right here, this one right there? How many dimensions? 2. How many dimensions is a line? 1. This is a hard one. How many dimensions is a dot? No, 1 we got. 3 we got. Don't say 2, we got that. Try this. 3, 2, 1. 0. You guys, you got it right. That's fabulous. Why is this relevant? Because it doesn't have anything like 2½ dimensions. And you tell me, what the heck is 2½ dimensions? So, I'm here to show you. How many dimensions is a piece of paper? 2. Now watch this. How many dimensions is that? 3. Is this object a 3-dimensional object? It's always a 2-dimensional object, but it looks like 3. Oh, we're in a bind. It's not 2, it's not 3, it's 2.5. What you need is a fractional geometry. Ah, because this provides for buildings, but it doesn't make nature. Nature is a fractal geometry. The skin is 2 dimensions, but it appears 3-dimensional when you fold it up in a cell. Still 2-dimensional. So what is a fractal? This is the beautiful part. God, this is like the most fun, and I can tell you why. A fractal is the math that reveals the scientific foundation for this truth. As above, so below. It's built into the mathematics of fractals. Let me explain. Here's an example of a fractal. It's called the Koch snowflake. I'll tell you what the design of the fractal is here on this, this thing. It's an equation. Here, first thing about equation: fractal equations are just addition and multiplication. That's all it is. Simple. Not even square roots. Addition and multiplication. But here's the nature of a fractal. It's called an iterated equation. That means a repeated equation. Well, how does it work? You take an equation, solve it, take the answer and put it back in. How many times can you do that? Infinitely. Okay, remember this one. Here's an equation. Take a line and cut it in half. So you get now half a line. What do you do with it? Put it back in the equation, cut it in half. What do you got now? A quarter of a line. And then you put it back in, an eighth of a line. You just keep repeating. How many times can you do that? Infinitely. Okay, so it's repetitive using the same equation. Okay? Here's a repetitive equation. Start with an equilateral triangle. On every surface, measure the surface, and use that length to make another equilateral triangle and put it in the center of the surface. So, the first round is you measure the length, then you turn it into an equilateral triangle, which is this orangey-red one. And on each surface now, but then it says repeat it again. It says on every surface, take the length and turn it into an equilateral triangle and put the new triangle in the middle. So that's the yellow ones. And then on top of the new ones, now every time you create a new surface, guess what? You get to put another— repeat it and repeat it and repeat it, okay? So ultimately you get these very complex things from what? Just a simple repeat of the same equation. Now, a little bit more complicated, but still the same idea. And this is called the Mandelbrot set. And it looks like a little bit of a snowman or a beetle or something like that. It's the same idea, instead of triangles it's with spheres, so it's 3-dimensional. And it says that when you do the equation, you put a new sphere of a certain dimension at a certain place on the existing one. And each new round is shown by a different color. So if you look, the first round is dark blue, the second round is this green color, the third round is the light blue, the fourth is a reddish color, and it goes deeper and deeper. Can you see what's happening? Every time you do it, just like the triangles, this is a Mandelbrot set. And then you might say, but Bruce, what is all that fuzzy white stuff? And that is, oh, remember, it keeps getting smaller each time, so at some point you can't resolve what's going on, but there's something going on that makes all that fuzzy stuff. If you blow it up, like if you look in here, you can't see what's going on, but you blow it up and you can say, hey, there's more of the same little circles on top of each other over and over, and all the white The white stuff is just smaller and smaller circles you can't see, but if you blow it up, you can see it. So the nature of the fractal is it repeats the same image, but you can add chaos to a fractal. And this is the last science-y part, then I'll show you the fun pictures. What's chaos? A random event. So here's how you do the chaos. You have the fractal equation, and you say, let's say, you put the new object, be it a circle or a triangle, you move it to the left, you flip a coin. If it comes out heads, you move it to the left a little bit. If it comes out tails, you move it to the right a little bit. So that means there's a little variation every time you do it, okay? Just moves ahead or right. You want to see what happens to the variation? This is going to show you the same equation with variation. And it's on top of a bigger one, and then you see all the other ones, and then you see all this stuff. You say, what the heck is all that? Well, it's all this at smaller and smaller levels. Some of you in the front can see that there's a repeat of the fractal right there, one right there, and one right there. And the point is, because it's the same equation, it repeats the same image at different levels of the organization. Okay, let's take a look at one more. Same thing. You say, what's all this? It's the same stuff as that, but it's smaller and smaller images with different colors for each iteration. Okay, now here's what I want to show you. As above, so below. This is not a great resolution, but this is what I'm going to show you. We're going to fly into the fractal. Remember, it's 3-dimensional, so I can fly into it. And we're going to look at the Mandelbrot set, this little snowman thing. So as we fly in, we're going to look someplace, I think over here. And as you get closer, look, there's more and more of the Mandelbrot things. See, they're all over the place. There's more and more of them. Every time you go deeper and deeper, there they are, there they are, there they are. And then you go into this fuzzy stuff and you go, "Wow, what's all that?" It's all of the design working through. And you keep going deeper and deeper and deeper into this thing. And guess what? Guess what? Look at all that beauty. And look at this, the image repeats itself again. With all the beauty that's out there, and it's all created by the same image. Here, let's do it again. Now we'll do this one and we'll move through this one, we'll look over here, and watch as we go through. Now we'll look at the fuzzy yellowy stuff, right? Say, what's in that fuzzy yellow stuff? Well, as you magnify it, it becomes more structure and more structure, you can see more structure. And you're going deeper and there are images in here, and those little black images images here, and we're going deeper into this stuff, and I say, wow, look at all the beauty of all that. And it comes back again. You start with the same equation and you create chaos, and look what it all creates. You want me to give you one more? I've got to show you one more. Okay, one more, here we go. This one is a neat one. Okay, now watch. Look at all this stuff. And all of the— oh, look, here's baby, here's one, here's one. Now wait, wait, we're not finished yet. We're going deeper and deeper, and look at all the beauty that came out of all this stuff. All of it from the same equation, just repeating it over and over and over and over again. And look how deep and beautiful that comes. And there it is again. Okay, now I'm going to tell you what the fractal is in biology. It's the cell. Why is it important? The same cell that's in your body is the same one that makes a cat, the same one that makes the mouse, the same one that makes the fish, the same one that makes the worm. All the cells are the same formula. It's all the chaos. You repeat the cells and all the chaos and look at all the variations of life. It's the same as this. Now, I want to show you a mathematical equation because remember, it's like nature. So here's a mathematical equation thrown into a fractal. A mountain with clouds. It's a fractal, it's not real. Look at this one. It's a fern plant. It's not real, that's a mathematical equation into a fractal. Look at this one. This is real. It's a fractal. It's a mix between broccoli and cauliflower. But watch it. You see the same shape of this peak with all these little knobs on it? Take a look at any one of these. It's a peak with the same little knobs on it. Take a look at any one of the little knobs on here. It's a peak with little smaller knobs on it. It repeats itself over and over again. It's the same structure. It's called a fractal. It's easy to see when it looks like this, but guess what? Here's a tree in my backyard, and that's a fractal. You say, come on, that can't be a fractal. Where's the pattern? Now watch this. This is fun. The magic of computers. I will take this area right here and put a box around it, and I'm going to copy that image and move it. I'm moving the image. And I'll just move it and drop it randomly. Watch, here we go. Drop it. Take the box off. Where is it? That's called a fractal. The images are so repetitive that any one part is repetitive to another part. The world we live in is fractal. Okay? What does it mean? This is called the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone, 1899, Alexandria, Egypt. They found it. 3 languages. Bottom Greek, middle Demotic, hieroglyphics at the top. What was relevant? When they found this stone, there was hieroglyphics all over the buildings of ancient Egypt and no one had a clue as to what they meant. The Rosetta Stone, when they found it, had 3 languages on it. They interpreted the Greek, a story about certain kings and queens. Then they did the Demotic. Hey, coincidence, same story, same kings and queens. Intuitive leap. If the bottom 2 tell the same story, maybe this one does. And they used that as a key and deciphered all the hieroglyphics all over Europe using— or Europe, all over Egypt. This begins with an E, I got it. What was the point? Is that the story below and the story above are the same, and if you understand one, then you are given understanding of the other. Does that make sense? Now I'm going to change the meaning on the Rosetta Stone. As above, so below. That's what it means. But look at this. A cell and a human are fractal images of each other. I already started off the lecture and told you everything that's in you is already in a cell. I can study a cell, it has the same functions as you have. But then we become a cell of what? In the next larger thing, which is called humanity or civilization. If you know how a cell works, you know how a human works. That's why we do research on cells to understand human biology. But if you understand how a human works in a community of cells, then you can create civilization based on that. The answers to our civilization— here's the absolute truth: you've got 50 trillion cells living inside of you right now in a community. Every cell has a job. Every cell gets paid. Every cell gets healthcare. Every cell gets its protection. No cell left behind, and I mean it. So now where are we going and where have we been? This is beautiful. The images repeat themselves. Is humanity an animal or a plant, considering you're the cells? It's an animal, folks. You are cells in a larger organism called humanity. It's an animal. It's evolving. Yeah, but guess what? We already saw the evolution of animals at a different level on this planet. So the pattern of the evolution of animals is being replayed in the evolution of civilization, which is an animal replaying the fractal nature of it. So when I go back and I say, if we look at the organization of evolution of animals, we went from fish to amphibians to reptiles to birds and mammals. Well, guess what? Human civilization has passed through these stages. Let me tell you what they are. In human civilization, the fish stage was called mariculture. Those were the first cultures on this planet. They lived with the water because they couldn't go away from the water. They were like fish. They could not live if they didn't have the water right there. They were the ones that populated the world because they lived on the coast and they went across from coast to coast to coast and left civilizations all over the place. Amphibians, they took the water onto the land with them. When humanity hit the amphibian phase, it was called agriculture. We were no longer restricted to the edge. We could penetrate onto the land and take the water with us or find the water or get the water. We were no longer restricted to where the water was. And so we became amphibians and ended up on the land. But we weren't designed for real land use. Amphibians can live on the land, but they're not the swiftest of all animals on the land. They were designed to live in two environments. It was reptiles. They were the ones that were designed to live on the land. They were the ultimate biological machines. They are machines. You've seen lizards, they're digital. They go, like that. They click their eyes and tongues. They're digital. They're ultimate machines on the land. There was nothing that was developed evolutionarily to be on the land as powerful as the reptiles were. So the reptiles were the machines of animals. When did we hit the reptile phase of human civilization? I just said it. The Industrial Age. The Industrial Age. It started out with small lizards. The small lizards were mom-and-pop shops. Small. But then the lizards grew into what? Dinosaurs. And what are dinosaurs? Corporations. They took the mom-and-pop shop and made giant things. But here's the problem. Stick with me a couple of minutes, I got to tell you this, okay? Here's the problem. How do you make a dinosaur? You take a 5-inch lizard, make a blueprint of it, and then blow it up to 50 feet. It's the same thing. As a matter of fact, when I was a kid, there were a couple other people in here You probably remember a movie called One Million B.C. with Victor Mature. And they had dinosaurs before animations. How did they make dinosaurs? They took little lizards and taped little horns on their head and then photographed them with a magnifying camera. And they look like dinosaurs because they are. But here's the issue. Here's what happened with dinosaurs. They took the same blueprint and blew it up. So here's how it works. In a 5-inch lizard, the hind leg does this movement. It takes 10 muscles and 1 nerve. And I say, well, now it's a 50-foot lizard. Same movement, but now 10 million muscles because it's this big. How many nerves? 1 nerve. The dinosaurs got bigger and bigger and the brain stayed small because it was just using the same template. Well, the problem with that is that's cool if the environment's totally stable, but the environment shakes. Not enough neural intelligence to manage the massive body, and it started to fail. Today's world is dinosaur in this regard. What is a dinosaur? Well, it's got a small brain and a massive body. What's the brain? The awareness. What's the body? Administration. All corporations grew with massive administrations and little tiny brains. General Motors just woke up this year and said, "We better make cars that are more fuel efficient." That's a dinosaur. Okay, now here comes the interesting part. From the Machine Age, Industrial Age, from the reptiles, from the dinosaurs came birds. Who were the birds in our world? Who? Come on, give me the names, 2 names. They're brothers. The Wright Brothers. They flew. And what is different between birds and land animals? Birds have perspective. They're above things. They can see things. What happened when we hit the aviation age? The entire world shrunk from a giant thing into something very small. The whole thing was now seen as one small thing. But the fullest evolution, the day of the fullest evolution of the bird phase of human civilization was— 1969. We stood on the moon, and from that perspective we took a picture of the Earth, right? And what did the people, which are most of us, back in 1969, what did we say when we saw the picture of that beautiful blue-green thing in dark space? Man, you better take care of that, that's all we got. We better take care of that. 1969, the old hippies came out and said, hey, love each other. Love the children. Take care of the air. Take care of the water. Take care. What is called taking care? Nurturing. What is the character— who are the organisms that are nurturers? The mammals. The nurturers are the mammals. We in this room are the mammals. The nurturers of this planet. But here's the problem. When the mammals arrived, there were also dinosaurs. There were fuzzy little mammals and big giant ferocious dinosaurs. And what was the issue? The issue is the mammals were the meek. And what happened? The dinosaurs died and the meek took over the Earth. And why did the dinosaurs die? Because the environment was unstable and they were not able to manage in that environment. Only the mammals were. And the mammals are coming forward. And what's happening in the world right now? The corporations, the dinosaurs are dying. Why? Well, think about it this way. What's the fuel of our civilization? Oil. What is that? The blood of the dinosaurs. We live in a dinosaurian world fed by the blood of the dinosaurs. And the blood is running out. And the dinosaurs will crash. And you will win if you don't hold on to the dinosaur. Because if that dinosaur falls on you, you're dead mammal at that point. And we are in a stage of evolution right now, and you're watching it unfold in front of your face. The world is changing. The reptiles are losing their control. They don't do it willingly. They're ferocious. Remember, they're killers. They're not going to let go just because they see the end. They're going to hold on tighter. And yet the reality is this: we are all evolving nurturers of the planet, nurturers of each other, nurturers of the community, nurturers of the environment. We are the mammals, we are the meek, but we inherit this planet. And it's happening right stinking now. And as you go forth, then the secret of getting out of this is to let go of your ownership with the dinosaur. Because it's going down and it's time to create the new community of nurturers and harmonious people who live together. And this is what we're embarking on, and I'm so delighted because the people of America have seen this as, let's get off the old track and do something totally different. And that is us. And thank you for being the mammals. Thank you very much. For some more incredible Bruce Lipton motivation. Check the video right there next to me. I think you'll love it. Continue to believe. I'll see you there. I've got very excited about this talk because, as you know, we're going through some very interesting times right now. There's an evolution that's facing you within the next few months, and one of the most important understandings about this evolution is