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Russell Brand

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“Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. It was a really Lovely intense experience. The scenery, the environment's so gray, and the conversation so colorful.”
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“She was so lovely. It's actually, she loved me so much, it was so unself conscious. It was so unself conscious. Oh, you are, darling. Shame isn't it? Well, old Twad, that's Kai Bosch. What's that drug? She's doing I tell ya, I see on Kilroy, it lead to worse things sixty seconds.”
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“I'll take 60 seconds of me now. I love you, Nan. I'm all right. I'm not so crazy. You were right about the drugs, though.”
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“And they're alive already. You can't even get someone that's dead back, my nano back. I'd love a minute in my nan. I'll take my nan.”
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“God, there's some good people that I've met, though, aren't I? Because I'm going to pluck us straight a virtual stranger. A virtual stranger.”
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“It's only 60 seconds, and I've never seen him again. I mean, there's no one in my life that I love that I want to give up on that. So 60 seconds, I'm never going to see him again afterwards.”
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“But the thing is that can I just break this down a bit? You're dispatching them after that. So it's in a way. And do you have to know him? Is that contained in the connection?”
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“Oh, yeah, yeah. Trevi. Trevi. Trevi women, that's their only treatment center in the country that is able to take women with addiction issues and complex needs that have kids already because obviously it's very difficult to look after women that are drug addicts that have kids and stuff. So that place though, they do a fantastic job down in your ends in Plymouth.”
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“Why is there a river that bifurcates England and Wales, or at least separates England and Wales, although actually England and Wales both conceptual, so bifurcates that bit of land? That is currently called England and Wales. On a campsite I went to during pandemic. I went there on a holiday in one in vans, you know, that you can do up from within.”
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“Yeah, come with Melanie. She should be right up her alley. We're offs there, Biet Simpkins there, Vandana Shiva, proper leaders, both in political and spiritual spaces, because in the end these are fake divisions. There is only one space. You'll love it. Come, come and do a turn on the Saturday night.”
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“It's not only Erudite to talk like that. Think of perhaps one of the great archetypes of the working class we have nowadays, Danny Dyer. He's a poet. He talks beautifully. It's nice to be specific.”
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“So, me, I'm basically, look, you know what I mean? I can't live like that with my kids, can I banging on at them like John Wesley from the pulpit or MLK? I just got to say. All right, how's it going? Do you want that to eat? I'm not letting you eat that. Come to why not? You know, I mean, I'm laboring. Why don't you tell me stuff you've done at school? What do you mean you've got a boyfriend? I'm doing all I'm saying, all the normal chats everyone's happening. But what I'm trying to do is recognize they ain't going to get a better conduit than me for good or for real. So I better get the out of the way. I get out of the way for them, you know?”
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“I've all we can do for each other beyond father daughter is become who you are, become who you are, become who you are, become who you are, trust that it's going to be beautiful, that you're not ugly, that you're not hideous, that you've made mistakes, you've done stuff wrong, you've had stuff done too, all of this, all of this, and yet become who you are, become who you are, become who you are. So all I want is I try to not go, this is everything, I think. Don't go unconscious. Don't go unconscious. Stay present, stay present. Things will make you go unconscious. It might happen as I leave this room. It might happen when the people from the next room come in. You can go unconscious at any moment. Don't go unconscious. Stay present. Stay present now. God is now. May you find God now. That's the only place you're going to find, God. You're going to find him yesterday. You're not going to find him in a week. God's ear now. Find it. Find it absolutely. And when I say God, I mean absolute unity, absolute inclusivity, absolute love, absolute unity among us all.”
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“I'm trying my best to arm them. I'm trying my best to arm them. I'm trying my best to Arm them like Sarah Connor or something I'm just trying to tell them. And also they are them I see every day how they're more powerful than me already so you know they'll be all right God has no grandchildren they'll be all right they've got their path I know they're gonna hurt me you know I know that”
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“Because it's so ordinary, Stephen. Any old lady, any old man used chat to anywhere. Oh yeah, my mum was like that. My dad was like that. My little girl It's just so beautiful.”
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“The way you love your children must become the way you love all people. Love Asram Das was told by his teacher, tell the truth and love everyone. Not easy. Not easy if you tell the truth to love everyone. It teaches you everything, it teaches you everything to become a father, it teaches you you're going to need other fathers. It teaches you you're going to have to become a father. It teaches you you're going to have to become a father to that little boy. It teaches you everything. All lessons are there. All lessons are there.”
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“In the best case scenario the best case scenario they are walking into a future That you will not be there Guide them through. So I suppose what that asks of you. He's an understanding of your place in this world, and an acknowledgement both of Your relative insignificance but simultaneous omniscience omnipotence simultaneous is a paradox all energy come from polarity. Acknowledge the polarity. Don't hate the polarity. Don't hate the others. Don't let them tell you those people are different from you because they wear a baseball cap or they voted to leave Europe or because they identify with these pronouns or because they believe in this cause or that the absolute unity.”
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“Teaches me, taught me there's a lot more important things in this world than me. But I learned this lesson in a variety of ways now. There's a lot more important stuff in this world than what I want and what I think and what I reckon. It don't amount to much amidst the infinite. Taught me that love is real, that the most miraculous things are accessible and ordinary an animal, that you can procreate life into being what a gift and it flows through you and we're part of an endless chain and God has no grandchildren. They belong to the world. They don't belong to you. And it's your job to just stand there and bring out of them whatever's in them and just stand back and marvel and weep at what's in them. The horror, the beauty, the horror, the dreadful beauty of what a child unfolds into, your awareness that they”
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“This love is more than a sensation. It is a duty and it is the deepest truth of our kind that when we love one another, we acknowledge the truth that we're not separate from one another. Isn't it glorious to move from that position where you think, I don't like that person, I don't like that person, then, oh my God, they're the same as me. I love them. I love them because you have recognized the truth and truth and beauty are one, as Wilde says, that there is something it rewards us. It rewards us. It's speaking to us. I heard it argued that once there was a great unity and the infinite intelligence for its own amusement lost in the atemporal a spatial abyss sent all things into fragmentation only to see which ones would awaken and recognize the unity of our origin, the deep unity of our origin. When will we come home? When will we come home to love?”
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“Except for the Zaya, longing, yearning to be at one with, to be connected to, to acknowledge that what's in there is the same as what's in here, that we have a shared purpose. Isn't love the felt awareness of the true unity that undergirds apparent separation? We come into form for a little while. All of us were twice, twice before we were a single cell. You were a single cell, then you were two cells in the belly of your mother, and way, way, way back, you were an amoeba. And there it is in your programming and your coding. The unity is there materially and practically forget esoteric theology, forget ontology. It's there as a factors and observable fact. It's there as a cosmic factor. There was a big bang. Unity is there. Love is the felt remembrance of this. Why does love feel good? Although love, as we know, can be very painful when love is not reciprocated, when love is rejected, when love cannot unfold.”
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“Oh, my friend, well, there is an argument that romantic love is derived from the idea of chivalry, which was, as the word suggests, a kind of late medieval notion that we should focus our ardour on the individual. Like a knight would attach the colors of their bequeathed betrothed or beloved to their lance as they jousted metaphorically. Really, though, this chivalrous idea is but one aspect of love. And they note that many people never had actual conjugal relationships with the symbolic feminine divine feminine figure that they would attribute that quality to. Romantic love, I feel, romantic love perhaps as all forms of love, obsession, attachment ultimately are, I was taught this, I didn't make this up, are the inappropriate substitute for the true love of God. What is love, whether you love West Ham United or your wife or your children or your beautiful, it sounds new breath worker girlfriend.”
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“But it's because people have been lazy, because we are in the Kali Yuga, we are in a time of darkness. They're forgotten in this darkness that when people say, There is a father they mean there is a figure that is more powerful than you, that loves you, and if you don't do what's right, you are going to hell not after you are in it. If you don't do what's right, you are oh no, I'm so unhappy I'm in this bedset that we talked about earlier. Why? Because you didn't listen to the father because you perhaps couldn't find the father because as I've alluded to many times you live in a culture that wants to distract you from the father or the mother or whatever word helps you, that is there within you waiting to be born that you've been distracted from understandably because of the primal urges to compete and acquire and eat and defecate. All of this is normal, ordinary. Forgive yourself immediately and now move forward to what it truly means. Well, you understand to me. I understand all the problems of religion. Religion shouldn't make you hate other people. Religion should make you love everyone. They've all got that written in there. Why don't we focus on that bit? Because if people start doing that, you can't manipulate and moving around on a little chessboard and turn them into little consumer blobs. Obviously, obviously.”
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“Principles Values that occur in all of them. And many of them, or this Huxley's Huxley offers, are about overcome the self. There is something bigger than the self. You're not real. Who are you when you don't have your name? They call it the unborn in Buddhism. Marcus Aurelius says, you are dead, your life is over. Now live the rest of your life properly. Get rid of it. Put down the corpse.”
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“I do. Yeah, I'm in this one, the only one, they're all the same. I suppose if you want some help, perennialism by Aldous Huxley is a good place to look at where he identified in the same way that Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung it could be said identified respectively that there are mythic tropes that appear to recur in all cultures. He began a write a famous book, which I believe gave the name to the phrase perennialism in which he observed that Eastern mysticism, Sufism from the world of Islam, and certain aspects of Christianity, particularly Gnostic Christianity and what is commonly regarded as first century Christianity, had within them, not archetypes as in, you know, the crucifixion, which we know occurs in many folktales and mythologies, not just in Christianity, not narrative devices or characters that recur, but ideologies.”
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“What a coincidence that we live in an environment that seems to be cultivated in order to distract us from the ever present divine.”
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“To believe that there is a greater power that will come into being if I surrender, but become intuitive to what one of my teachers calls the whispers on the wind, that I will be directed, that my job is to stay out of my way, that my life is none of my business, to not look at my day like it's a chunk of thing that I want my day. I'm going to eat it up. This is, oh wow, this gift, I'm alive. Oh my God, what a miracle. It's incredible. And to stay in that feeling of grace and stay in that feeling of gratitude and to spot as quickly as possible when I inevitably give it up, give up your connection to God for a biscuit. Give up your connection to God because someone has a nice car. Give up your connection to God because someone says something about you on the internet. Give up your connection to God because people lie about you or attack you. Don't give up your connection to God. And in order to not give up your connection to God, you are going to have to cultivate a very strong connection to God because elsewhere, as you say, much noise, much dish.”
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“Ah, okay We achieve so much through will. I'm going to create a podcast. Oh, look, I did that thing I was going to do. Now I have to create various sets around the globe.”
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“For me always patience patience try to be patient because impatience is ridiculous to think I know when something should happen is mental concept so I try to work on patience to be very very patient mostly I work on this there is more to be achieved by surrendering self-will than can ever be achieved by utilizing it and that's a very very very very difficult thing to practice particularly when agitated”
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“Because if I start, it's very difficult to stop another momentum takes over. So yes, it is, of course it is, because these are part of, you know, again, part of the blob, part of the primal, it was competition, it's part of who we are. Status is part of who we are. So I try to stay out of the ring, as one of my teachers says. Stay out of the ring, stay out of the ring.”
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“Machinery. Yeah, I tried to not go near it. I tried to not go because, in a sense, back to basics for me. Recovery is somewhat based on abstinence, like I don't have an odd drink or the occasional line or the occasional or the occasional, I don't do it, I don't do it. So I try to practice good hygiene there.”
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“And so each day there's much work to be done, and I am a father of young children, and I have a dog that I adore, and I have many animals. So I have a lot of very simple pastoral duties that have to be done. And I have a lot of spiritual things that have to be done to hold me together. So there's a lot to be done. And then often I get to a point where I'm so tired at the whole enterprise feels like it could collapse inward like a narcissistic, semi-gothic souffle. So there has to be a lot of caution, a lot of caution. Also, I'm a person, perhaps you identify and agree with a sense of purpose and mission and a deep, deep belief that the most profound and significant change is imaginable are possible by virtue of the fact that they are imaginable in fact because the role of imagination we see all around us in every building every object every book every cultural artifact as well as the many flawed and defunct aspects of our culture”
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“Magnetism or whatever. So, what it feels like if me is that there is a great deal to get done. That's what it feels like. There is a great deal that needs to get done. And in order to do it, I have to surrender strongly, otherwise I will mess it up badly. That's what it feels like. So that's why there's a lot of ceremony that is communing with that which is unknowable. You know, prayer, ceremony with other people, acknowledging the sacred, not forgetting the sacred. That the most important things are difficult to measure and weigh. But they are there anyway.”
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“Something is amazing, but sometimes it's very, very sometimes it's very, very fast, sometimes it's very volatile. I feel like it undulates a lot. This I understand to be very common to addicts experiences of extreme high, extreme low, fastness, not natural to be serene, evaluating information very, very quickly. It feels fast sometimes, very fast, and it has a strong sense of craving and longing, which is a type of magnetism, I suppose. And I suppose magnetism is a longing for unity, connection. It's very difficult to discern physical forces because they are by their nature non-anthropological. And it's very easy to anthropomorphize physical phenomena like gravity or”
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“although I don't keep it myself, and I try not to look at it, but it exists. And so I have to participate continually with that and ensure that an organization is around me that is able to facilitate the things that I'm good at and accommodate the many things where I am currently looking to improve. I have to make order the content. We try to do this in three days. That means a couple of days a week, I'm available for different types of expedition and adventure, such as this one. This is why for me, the spiritual life has to come first.”
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“I have to make a lot of content Because every day I'm on rumble, every day I make an hour of content, every day we make an additional ten to fifteen to twenty minute video on a news subject that generally encompasses an establishment narratives and a way of explaining that that is hopefully inclusive. Every day we have other social media content. We have a business that I'm part of a significant business endeavor that I regard as a movement rather than a business, but as you are all too aware, if it doesn't function as a business, it will not function at all. So it has to have good hygiene and housekeeping. I literally am here not under the pretense of being a CEO, but because it is part of my job and I do have a diary”
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“We do need to be very self-compassionate, and I think we have to perhaps recognize that it is not a commodity that can be externally required, but an external coordinate can indeed ignite that which is already there dormant and latent and awaiting to be born. Precisely the necessity for initiation we return to here, the initiation is to activate, activate that which is already there. Activated surrender, not passive surrender not passive surrender, activated surrender. I'm a vessel. I'm here for whatever you are. I trust myself, God. I pray to you, God, not my limited conception of you, God, with my tiny little mankind mind. I pray to you, God, as you know yourself to be, and I offer myself to you, God, 100% and totally please you. Please take away from me everything that is not of use to you. Put aside all my preconceptions and use me, God. The wound becomes a portal.”
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“Be glad of the wounding too because it is sadly a gift to you. That doesn't mean it was right or that there weren't perpetrators or that it's not bad or that the culture doesn't need to change or any of those things, all those things are definitely true. But from it, all of the time you see it, go great Ormond Street, go anywhere watch the Paralympics, he's everywhere. It's everywhere. People overcome.”
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“It's all going to fall apart. It's all going to fall apart except for these permanent principles and a connection to the eternal achievable through consciousness. This is why I need ceremony. This is why I need practice. This is why I need peers and mentors and mentees. And from the wound, from this place of I'm not good enough, nobody loves me. I don't fit in. The only way that I can achieve trust is through having some authority or value as accredited by a culture that I don't even bloody trust as compared with a metric that I don't even agree with. Instead of this now, and again, continual moment to moment, I'm not suggesting that I am any better than anybody else, just that I'm not any worse than anybody else. That's the biggest thing that I'll offer. It's ongoing. It's continual. But the thing I'm glad of it now, I'm glad of the wounding, and you will be too, whoever you are.”
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“I was taught from the wound comes the salve from the wound comes the salve, the place of the deepest wounding will provide your salvation. This is what you must investigate. It is not when people love you, we always feel it's because of the strength or the capacity or the virtuosity, but often it's the vulnerability and the fragility because we all know that this vulnerability and fragility is something we share. This is what comedy is to me, Stephen, is the ongoing acknowledgement. Everyone's running some game. I'm this, I'm doing this, I've got this going on. You're going to die.”
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“Do green juice. I do hot, cold. I attend a support group, and then I feel okay, okay. That's what I get to feel if I do all that. Then I don't feel like a lunatic, a vacillating wild glass of mad vicissitudes that could lash around anything in its search for connection.”
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“Vulnerability, the touch, the awareness of sameness, but differentness, the acknowledgement that we are creatures, that we are embodied creatures, all of these things, I think, contribute to that. So for me on my day, yes, everyday prayer and meditation, first thing, everyday rigorously ensure that I've done things for other people, preferably without letting other people find out that I make myself available to other, in my case in particular, men that require help with their issues around addiction and mental health that I have checked in with other people that I consider to be peers around the challenges that I face psychologically that I don't spend all my time obsessing just about what I want. I have to do quite a lot to not be crazy. I have to do quite a lot to not be crazy. So the hot, the cold, the BJJ, the yoga. There's someone I work with once who said every day I get up, I meditate, I pray, I do exercise.”
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“Absolutely. Touch very important for us late ape creatures. That's why a hairdresser is you tell the hairdresser or the barber stuff. This is why in strictly come dancing, they can't stop falling in love. They're performing these rituals that are designed to elicit certain states.”
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“Ah yes, trust good to embody the trust and experience the trust as they say if you want to know if you can trust someone trust someone and maybe it's difficult to seek out those trust opportunities where it can play out so microcosmically and practically because”
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“Try and stay fit. I got, you know, I got young children. I have another child coming. I have to stay fit. I have to be able to be God willing, present for these children going forward. And I love it. And it's what we're going to do. We're animals. Again, this anthropological idea. How might we have lived for those hundreds of thousands of years that predate the great miracle of agriculture? How might we have lived? We work. We touch one another. We're socializing. We groom and we graze together. It's nice. Like the kind of trust you develop with people in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, like they choke you to the point of unconsciousness, but then when you tap, it's over and that this is something that you share between you.”
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“We see why it's good for, I think, people to touch one another in a way that is playful and absolutely consensual, but sort of assertive. It's like kind of, I heard a YouTuber say, like dance actually. And it's very good for me. It really puts me in my body. It's not cerebral. I don't know about you, Stephen, but I suspect you're the same. I am very intellectually oriented. I live in here. I find it very easy to be self-obsessed and to get just caught up in all that stuff. So things that put me in my body, the body, the body holds the key, the body, the body, you've got a body is important, the body of Christ. It's very important to get in that cold water. It's very important to get into that yoga. Very important. These things are important and beautiful and connecting. So I do a lot of BJJ. I do a lot of yoga. I do a lot of other type of exercise, calisthenics, body weight type stuff.”
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“I'm glad you've asked this because this is a proper diary of a CEO stuff because this is actual scheduling. I have to live sort of like a monk, basically. I have to be conscious all the time. I have to be conscious about what I eat, otherwise I'll eat something stupid. I have to be conscious about what I say. Otherwise, I'll say something stupid. I have to be conscious about what I do. I have to familiarize myself with extremes continually. So I thank you, God have access to heart temperatures and cold temperatures. I expose myself to them regularly every day if possible. I do a lot of cold therapy. I get right in that cold. And while I'm in that cold, I think this thing taught to me by Michael Singer and anyone who's willing to watch Michael Singer's stuff, the moment in front of you is not bothering you. You are bothering yourself about the moment in front of you. Then I get in very, very hot temperatures and I think the same thing. The moment in front of you is not bothering you or bothering yourself about the moment in front of you. I do Brazilian jiu-jitsu because for me it was not natural to tangle like that. And I love Brazilian jiu-jitsu so much because O'Rogan actually was the first person.”
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“By not taking it now, for I tell you, authoritarian forces are abundant and abound. They are looking to colonize the very space of attention that exists right now, this moment. This is what is being colonized attention data on what? You The territory of the self. This is fertile. This is not nothing. It is not nothing to awaken to the reality of who you are in this very moment. That is not nothing, Stephen.”
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“The great sages and secular saints that we have been granted have shown us and told us be the change that you want to see in the world, whether it's our Gandhi or Alcolcom X, people that are willing to give their life for what they believe in, because what they believe in is bigger than their life. And you're gonna die anyway. You're gonna die anyway, but your principles, this is eternity, that we can touch eternity in the moment. So it's not like woo-woo to say meditate, wake up. This is changing the pre mama materia. It is the field of consciousness. This is, I suppose, what I'm advancing. Consciousness precedes matter. You have unique individual access to consciousness. You are online. You are on the grid. You are responsible for whether or not you believe this is possible. Nobody else can tell you what to do there. That is your private kingdom, your private domain where you can be for now, for now, whoever you want to be in there, please do not relinquish that right.”
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“the truth that we are individual, yes, but we are connected also that there are Goliaths that have incrementally coalesced due to the progression of the great sometimes unacknowledged revolutions. I'm not saying no one's acknowledged agriculture, industrial revolution, technological revolution, that all of these have been undergirded by principles of dominion that might as well be feudalism. In a sense, there is no change at all, except for the individual change that you yourself can make. This is why I think people get a lot of traction when they say, you know, look after yourself. This is part of it. Eat well, awaken, pray, meditate, recognize that it is normal to feel sometimes total despair and total despondency. Remember, all of these great journeys that we're describing that you're fascinated with began with exactly that, exactly that.”
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“Well, firstly, Stephen, people climb Everest every single day. They have to clear the litter from that mountain now. Once it was considered inconceivable. And every time there is an epochal shift, every time we say, oh, it seems that the sun doesn't go round the earth, it seems like the earth goes around the sun. Oh, there are things that are smaller than atoms. It appears that these sub particular phenomena that are so small is even difficult to label them exist in a unified field, that they are emanating but somehow connected to. I am speaking of course of quantum entanglement if you reverse the charge of a particle thousands of miles away, the partnering particle will reverse its charge also. There appears to be some unitive force. What I'm expressing is the most simple, practical, effortless achievement that we will ever yet undertake. It is merely the realization of”
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