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 Welcome.

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 This is, I guess, the first episode of a podcast, which I believe I'm going to call "Imagination."

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 I'm here in front of this camera and with time travel of the internet in front of you,

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 I'd just like to share some things I like imagining in the world.

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 And as I do so, I'm going to fill in little tidbits about my past.

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 I'll share the wildest imaginations, and then I'll also deep dive into the specifics of

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 how I see this as actually possible.

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 And it's, I'd say first I'm here to share my imagination because I have all these ideas.

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 Some of them might be really great, some of them might be really terrible, but what I'm

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 sure about them is I haven't shared many of them with many people, and like spiritually

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 from my heart I'm being called to share them just with the idea, like it's selfish to hold

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 on to all these ideas and not share them, and then they're weighing me down and I need

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 to get out there, and I couldn't even fully explain why, but it's a feeling and I'm drawn

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 to share.

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 And I'll probably unpack and try to, I don't know, rationalize or explain why I think I'm

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 doing this, but really I'm being called to share.

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 And if you're listening, I guess you're being called to listen and I'd love to hear from

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 you too.

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 I could start this whole discussion or share in so many different ways.

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 I could start with my childhood, where I grew up, I could start I guess the external story,

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 the series of events and chapters, the so-called plot of my life, how I got here.

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 I could also talk about the inner world and my thoughts and feelings about how I got to

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 be to this moment today, and I could also talk in a bunch of, well, talk from a bunch

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 of other perspectives and try to weave those all together, and I guess I'd like to share

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 both how I arrived to imagining some of the things I'm going to share, and also just share

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 them because I like them and I want to share.

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 So I think I'll start with that because that's the light inside of me that helps me get up

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 in the morning, and it's the light that I'm increasingly connected to that I'm hoping

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 to share, and it's we live in a world, whatever this realm is, the earth, the world, whatever

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 this reality is, and it's interesting that you look around and there are a lot of people

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 that appear to be suffering, and there's a lot of people that appears to be a lot of

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 inequality across any spectrum, whether it be financial wealth or power, the traditional

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 ones, or there's a lot of disparity in emotional wealth or well-being, like these intangible

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 qualities like are you in flow with life, are you loving it, are you hating it, are

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 you trying to do good, are you trying to do evil, or perhaps you're just ignorant, like

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 there's so much disparity in the different perspectives of the world where you look around

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 and I've seen a lot of people that are a little bit concerned, to put it lightly, that maybe

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 things aren't so great, maybe because of political or environmental reasons, like things are

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 bad, should be scared of, I don't know, big storms because we as humans maybe messed up

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 the planet with our pollution and maybe that's changing the climate, and I think it's pretty

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 established scientifically that humans have affected the climate, and that's the thing

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 to worry about, like who knows though, I don't really want to talk about climate change,

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 but more specifically, maybe the earth has been damaged because of some unenlightened,

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 selfish reasons where people take certain actions out of self-interest, and economics

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 call this externalities, however what they do maybe hurts other parts of the greater

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 system, although within the world that they're considering, it's all profit, it's all good,

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 it's all positive, so there's a lot of concern about just the overall health of the planet

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 as a biosphere, as a living organism. Similarly on the political and technological, geopolitical

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 front, I've noticed a lot of discomfort around elections and wars, and there are people killing

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 each other for various reasons around the planet, and a lot of people think this is

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 even good, and some people think this is bad, there's a lot of debate about it, but it's

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 hard to look at that and not wonder, like something doesn't feel quite right, I don't

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 think there are too many people, maybe I'm wrong, but they would say like murdering other

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 people in the name of war is good, but there may be a lot of people that say well, not

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 doing that is worse, but either way, like is war something that we'd like we as people

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 to have on this planet, like what if, like imagine a world without war, or listen to

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 the Jonathan song, Imagine, really listen to it, that one touches my heart, or imagine

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 a world where we live, where all people live, or most people at least live in harmony with

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 the systems, with nature, with the weather, with the planet, and where all people are,

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 or maybe most people, people that say choose to, are happy, they feel and flow with life,

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 they don't resist anything, and every moment is delightful, let's say, maybe not necessarily

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 positive in the traditional sense, maybe not overflowing joy, but there is a beauty and

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 acceptance of the ever-changing nature of this world, I could get a little bit spiritual

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 here and quote some, reference some Buddhist ideas, or Indian ideas, or New Age ideas where

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 nothing is permanent, talk about quantum physics, and nothing is even real, maybe, maybe there's

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 no actual physical matter, and depending on what consciousness is, and how consciousness

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 observes matter, that creates reality, there's a lot of fun rabbit holes there in terms of

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 the intersection of science and spirituality that I'll probably walk down a little bit

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 with you guys, or with you guys and gals, with all of you people, whoever's listening,

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 no offense to a few, I don't mean any offense by using any particular titles, to me it's

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 all people are beautiful and equal, and should express themselves as authentically as possible

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 with whatever language feels appropriate and whatever, so I love all of you, so no offense

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 if I use a language that is, no offense is intended if I use any language that offends

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 you, it's just would be out of my lack of awareness of how to speak authentically and

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 lovingly to you, so please don't take anything as offensive, at least if I'm intending to

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 be offensive I'll let you know I'm intending to be offensive, so let's talk about some

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 ideas that we could, that I imagine, so I imagine a world where every being, let's say

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 human being, every member of, type of animal that we call man or human, is self-sufficient

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 and feels safe and protected or safe and secure and comfortable and not afraid of anyone else

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 coming to hurt them, let's imagine that for a second, imagine what it would feel like

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 to not worry about your next meal, not worry about having to do something you hate because

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 your boss asked you to and you need to get that money in order to survive, imagine a

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 world where it's not about survival, it's about each and every one of us feeling held,

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 feeling good from this place of stability and groundness and calm, each and every one

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 of us is able to express ourselves authentically in, from the heart, whatever that means to

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 you, to me that means something that's beyond just intellectual thinking, it's a spiritual

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 concept, and yeah in this world every being can express themselves authentically and interact

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 with other beings peacefully and harmoniously and share each of their authentic and unique

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 perspective on the world through stories, through art, well really I think it's all

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 art, I'll get to that, through technology, through music, through dance, through any

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 expression, through architecture, through religion, through computer programming, something

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 I like through electronics, another thing that I've spent a lot of time doing or perhaps

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 through plumbing or making fires or putting out fires or you know just stretching our

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 bodies and learning how they work, these are some crazy technology, I don't know how

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 this thing works but learning how to use this body that even that's a form of expression

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 and of what it means to be human, yeah so imagine that, I imagine this world where people

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 are just in flow with life and they just enjoy it, it's fun and it's flow, or it's fun

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 and it's flowing, I like describing things with verbs and adjectives and avoiding nouns

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 because well my world view is that there are no nouns, it's all just a flowing illusion

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 that somehow is yet fully real and tangible, I don't know how long I've been going here,

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 let me check my video recording over here, yeah that does not have a, does that have

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 a time stamp, 12 minutes, 15 seconds, maybe about 30 minutes is a good first episode here,

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 so I've just asked you to imagine a world where the baseline at least is at peace, where

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 each individual being feels at peace, feels comfortable, grounded, safe, in flow, whatever

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 and the world and from these strong individual points of consciousness, so I'm conscious,

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 you're conscious, my mom is conscious, all of these people are conscious, whatever that

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 means to you, each as an individual is pretty self-sufficient, at least to the point where

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 there isn't as much dependence on the external world or structures that may fail for happiness,

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 for joy, so like let's get a little bit crazy, let's really imagine, let's imagine that you

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 didn't have to eat, you never got cold, you didn't have to sleep, you couldn't die, maybe

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 you could never be embarrassed because you know people are pretty afraid of being judged

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 by others, like what does that look like, what is a world where everyone has no fear

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 of others, no fear of injury, death, pain, embarrassment, anything, no fear at all, what

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 do people like that do, like what world would you build if you had no fear, what would you

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 like to see, and kind of like that's the basis of all imagination is you start with, let's

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 remove all, this is what I do, like remove all the constraints, what are the things that

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 I'm worrying about, I'm fearful of, that bother me, and from this point, like what could be

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 different, what do I imagine differently, so first I'm imagining this, it's almost like

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 a mental state of no fear of joy of flow of connectedness, and that's beautiful, and I

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 think a lot of people would enjoy imagining that, but very quickly there are these little

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 voices and these pesky things like, well that's not practical, that's just a dream, people

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 aren't like that, people are bad, people are greedy, people are selfish, there's not enough

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 resources for everyone, how people would never work together that well, and all of these

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 rationalizing little worms will come through and eat apart that imagination, and I'm sick

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 and tired of that, I don't want to let the worms eat away at my imagination anymore,

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 so I'm just sharing it, and maybe some other people will do the same, and maybe together

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 we can imagine and then build a better world. I like building, I like creating, and I think

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 there's some people in the world that they just like existing and enjoying, there's other

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 people that like creating, there's other people that like destroying, and I want to be careful

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 here saying that destroying isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's making getting rid of the

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 old and ready for the new, and if this can be done without harming, without violence,

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 it's perhaps actually a very noble thing to do. If you can introduce an idea that destroys

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 an old paradigm that was holding people back, let's say you destroy a superstition or a

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 false belief about how the world works that makes room for a new one, like we all hear

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 that people used to know that the earth was the center of the universe, or it was, and

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 the sun revolves around the earth, and now we know that in fact the earth revolves around

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 the sun, and you can make a lot of precise scientific measurements using equipment, I've

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 not done this myself, but it seems pretty likely that this is true, and a new paradigm

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 here of this rational scientific thinking came along, and now the destruction of the

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 old, let's say incorrect worldview made room for a new worldview which has enabled so many

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 new human experiences and levels of thriving, and perhaps some harm as well, but it's getting

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 rid of that old way of thinking that made way for a new one. I think some wars in the

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 world are perhaps, this is going to be controversial almost certainly, but some wars were fought

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 not necessarily to kill people, although that's what happened, and that is wrong, but they

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 were done to destroy ideas that people were afraid of or threatened by, and I think I'm

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 probably going to have to back up that claim before I go to it, but what's interesting

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 is that when wars happen, culture is destroyed and ideas are destroyed with it, because when

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 you kill a lot of people and you destroy their culture, it's gone. And I don't think, I'm

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 not saying this is good, what I'm saying is that however, this is true, this culture is

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 destroyed and in the absence of the destroyed culture, a new culture comes about. And I

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 think what I'm imagining is, what if we could do this, keep the old culture, preserve it,

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 not kill any people, but still make room for the new. So there's a little tangent there,

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 like there are people that like creating this, people like destroying, and perhaps, perhaps

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 there's a way of seeing the good side of destruction, like go to a forest after it burned, it's

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 a little depressing, but there are some trees that will never sprout seeds without burning

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 first. And all the old trees die, their nutrients return to the soil, and that old makes way

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 for the new, and it is very beautiful, I recommend it. So a few more ideas of imagination. So

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 imagine if you could live anywhere in the world, and imagine that you could bring your

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 whole home with you. Whatever amenities are important to you, you can bring them with

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 you. Let's say, let's really imagine here some technology that currently does not exist,

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 but let's say you could fly or teleport an entire modular home, or you could say today

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 I want to go and experience a beach in South America, but I'd really like to bring my gas

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 stove, and my shower, and my laundry with me, but I want to bring my whole home because

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 that feels excessive, more of a small home cabin experience. You have this technology,

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 you snap your fingers, the couple of rooms of your house are rearranged, you've got your

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 kitchen and your bathroom, bedroom, living room, this is enough for this trip, they all

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 clip together, the other rooms stay behind, and you fly your entire home to some beach

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 in South America, and you enjoy it. That sounds fun. I'd like to build that, maybe we need

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 some better technology to get there, but interesting idea. What else do I imagine? So another thing

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 that's really near and dear to my heart is connecting, communicating, same route as communion,

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 connecting with other people to hear their stories, and just admire the infinite beauty

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 that is humanity, that is life itself. So I love meeting people, I love going to events

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 and talking and hearing stories, I love reading for the same reason, I love movies, podcasts,

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 and I love all of these because there are different ways of, at least on some level,

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 getting a taste of the art and of what it's like to be someone else. And with the advent

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 of the internet, one of the main beautiful things of the internet now is that the shape

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 of the communication, like mathematically, the topology has changed very drastically

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 from one where most people, I have an interesting diagram, maybe I'll add it into the edit into

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 the video, where there was a time where people lived in tribes, and a lot of the storytelling

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 came from an elder, there's this small little cluster of people and they would communicate

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 together. And throughout history, this has changed a little bit, there have been eras

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 where everyone looks up and the communication flows down from a king-like character. A lot

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 of times there are people that I'll say are in positions of power, I may break down what

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 that even means in a later episode, or what that means to me, I should say. And in a lot

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 of cases, there's like this top-down pyramid structure where the getting to know happens,

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 you might only get to know your couple close friends, and also what the people at the top

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 of this communication hierarchy think. And I won't go through all the different shapes

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 of how communing your communication or information flows, but what's interesting now is the internet,

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 the net, the web has this shape where you can potentially connect and communicate with

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 anyone, hear anyone's story, and anyone's voice can be the inspiration that changes

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 the world. And already so much good has come from this connectivity, I'd say also some

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 bad as well, maybe even so much bad, although what good and bad mean that maybe I'll explore

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 later, but some destruction, some pain, some suffering, but also great innovation, connection,

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 people can live in new places, and it's the fact that the shape of communication has changed,

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 there's this more connectivity between individual people, which in a spiritual sense is just

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 a physical mirroring of what the sages and mystics of ages have said, that all consciousness

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 is one and we're all connected and it's all love. And perhaps that is true, I'm pretty

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 across oceans, and even a pencil, the amount of people involved in creating a pencil, and

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 the intelligence, distributed intelligence of all the different people and buildings

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 and cars and trains and machines that go together, it's like an enormous organism, and it's,

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 if you squint your eyes even if you don't consider yourself a spiritual type, that does

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 look a little bit like a giant organism, even if it's not, but maybe it is. So now that

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 each individual being can share a story that could potentially touch anyone else on this

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 planet, and that is beautiful to me. It's very threatening to the existing structure

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 of the world, because now, let's say there's a very hateful idea, this one's kind of like

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 is actually the manifestation of evil on the planet, and all the problems in the world

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 a good example, it hopefully isn't triggering anyone. And if this idea is communicated well

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 enough, and a story spreads well enough over the internet, and there are people without

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 the awareness to realize the absurdity of such a claim, then perhaps because of the

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 internet, something as absurd as people who eat avocados or evil could spread, and a lot

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 of harm and violence could be done because people are attached to this idea that spread

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 in this unconstrained network-like flow. And I'd say there probably is a real danger to

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 that. However, unlike I think what a lot of people in power today are doing, I don't think

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 the way to stop this or to sort of mitigate the risk here is to try to stop the flow of

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 information and fact check and moderate what ideas are okay and safe, because when you

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 harm, you also stop the spread of so many ideas that could cause good. So I imagine

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 a world again where the so-called antidote to the bad ideas is more ideas, better stories,

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 better imagination, because I believe, I think, I maybe even know in my soul, whatever that

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 even means, what my soul is, just words coming out of me now, that people can be good and

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 that this is not true. And I think that belief and probably the lack of imagination that

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 it could be different is probably resulting in it becoming true, because if people don't

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 believe that anyone can be good, they will act as if other people could be bad, and perhaps

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 defensively start acting bad themselves, and little by little, people create that reality

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 they were trying to avoid by being afraid of it. And then it does become true. And in

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 fact, the solution here is not to try to ban badness from the world, but in fact, just

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 imagine goodness, and start building it. And maybe that's a good place to wrap up this

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 intro here is that I'm going to keep sharing the world that I imagined we could have, and

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 systems and personal AI assistants and flying homes and interesting electrical plugs to

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 share power with people when you're camping and how to keep your digital life safe and

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 avoid people exploiting your personal information to make money. Well, meanwhile, you get a

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 couple of measly scraps. And, again, I will just share what I imagined because, well,

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 what good is any or any of these ideas going to do if they're trapped in here or in here?

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 Will they change the world? Will they change you? I don't know. I believe that maybe by

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 sharing my vision for a more fun and flowing world, you, whoever you are, will share yours

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 and together we will communicate, we will flow together, and then we'll build that world

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 that we've co-created by sharing our imagination and dreams. And that's the world I want to

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 live in. That's the world I want to build. And I think that's really the world we already

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 live in. It just we're not doing it yet. We're where we as all the people that live here.

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 So I'm starting to do it. Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I'm, but I'm not the only one. I think

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 mobile homes that don't harm the earth and maybe we move all the factories and polluting

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 things underground and we build them with materials that don't pollute the earth. I'm

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 saying we a lot. I hate it when people do that and yet I'm doing it. So apologies. But

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 like a lot of money or, and I might say, Oh, well money is just a technology that people

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 an episode. Or like, that's just a lot of work. Like, why would so many people put in

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 that much work to build that particular city? And my answer to that is, well, it's a lot

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 of work. And this is true. And I hope if enough people see that it's fun, and also find meaning

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 and fun in the work, it will happen. Like do people, maybe a question for this hypothetical

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 doubting person I'm admitting is like, do you like working? If so, I invite you to question

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 what about it you don't like? Is it that you're working for someone else? Is it that your

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 work feels meaningless? I'll create a caricature, an imaginary person here, which is someone

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 that's working in what's described as a bullshit job. It's a bureaucratic job, moving papers

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 and creating reports. It doesn't seem to really do anything. So let's say that you this hypothetical

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 still put a lot of work in any way because you need to take care of yourself pay the

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 bills, so to speak. But what if instead, you were working on building the purest and most

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 joyful expression of your inner dreams? Would that feel different? And the invitation I

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 have for for anyone is saying, well, what's how many people really need to be insane like

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 this and start building their dreams in order for little by little, that new world to start

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 taking form, and the need for a bullshit job that doesn't matter to pay the bills will

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 disappear because the technology, the communication, the open heartedness, and the goodness of

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 people will actually create a world where you don't have to be afraid. You don't have

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 to do a stupid thing to pay the bills and to maybe think about your dreams on the weekend.

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 a lot of the specifics, but like ponder this, like what if the the curse of after falling

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 from the Garden of Eden and being cursed to work? Maybe that curse wasn't like being thrown

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 in some physical or energetic slave camp, but it was more the curse that no matter what

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 and the kingdom of heaven within. And maybe we're entering a new era where the divine

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 light starts coming through not out of one particular man who is God who comes to earth

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 and and shares this the wisdom of God with the world. I'm talking about Christ here.

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 of heaven within starts revealing itself. And the return to the Garden of Eden isn't

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 some sort of portal opens in space and you're forgiven and you walk into the garden, but

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 it's actually you recognize that this earth already is beautiful and the work actually

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 is play or can be play and the only thing that really shifts is this divine light flows

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 through you so you can recognize this beauty that is within us already. So for some of

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 you I probably lost you now because it suddenly got religious or spiritual. And if that's

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 the case, I'm sorry, but for me this is not just a technological utopia fake place I'm

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 it is a Garden of Eden, it is a world of fun and flowing love and communication, communion

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 with all beings. And to imagine that it requires a bit more than just some new iPhones, it

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 requires a fundamental shift in how many, maybe not a majority, but how many people actually relate

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 to their world. And that's an internal spiritual, it happens within our brains or within our

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 that saves us, it's that we realize we can build that technology from our hearts and

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 that shift happens and that's why it's an inner shift or a spiritual shift. So with

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 that, I will leave you for today and I will reflect about and contemplate what I will

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 share next time. If you have any thoughts or questions or curious or suggestions on

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 what you'd like to hear me talk about next, please let me know, I will consider them.

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 I get a lot of internet is full of mean people, so if you're just going to trash me, I'll

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 ignore you. But if you want to connect in a genuine way, please do. I'd love to connect.

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 I realize I didn't know how I would end this thing, but I'll end here with just a

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 prayer or a meditation where I will really imagine this world of full of love and connection

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 and flow and creativity and authenticity and I will... imagining I'm sending whatever love

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 and light I have in my heart out to the world with the hope that whatever amount I have,

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 whether it's a crumb or an ocean or a drop, some of that reaches you and the people that

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 need it and that we take as people one step closer towards paradise on earth. Until next

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 Amen.