The Resilient Mind - How Consciousness Shapes Our World - Gregg Braden

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GGyf89IX7cGregg Braden is a five-time New York Times best-selling author, scientist, educator and pioneer in the emerging paradigm bridging science, social policy and human potential.Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/Download_JournalSpecial thanks to Lewis Howes, subscribe to his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/lewishowes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind Podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to how consciousness shapes our world with Greg Braden. Watch the full video on YouTube by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. There's an emerging philosophy in the scientific community right now. I think that we'll help to answer that question. This is completely unscripted.

I don't know where we're going to follow your lead on this. So I'm going to begin by sharing that philosophy, and it begins with a statement that simply says, that consciousness informs itself through its creations. And we break that down, what it means is the things that we build in the world around us, everything from the books that we write and the art, the sculpture, the dance, certainly the music, are entertainment in some respects, and beyond that, that they are reminding us. They're telling us something about ourselves that we are asking ourselves,

to either remember or perhaps learn for the very first time. And if this is true, Lewis, it applies to technology as well. I'm a scientist by degree, a systems thinker. I've worked during the Cold War years in some of the most advanced technologies, for example, in the SDI, Star Wars Defense Initiative, advanced lasers, communication, radar systems. And I've seen and deeply respect this technology. And I'm going to say at that time and even to this moment, I have yet to see any technology built in the world around us that does not mimic what we already do in the cells and the systems of our body. And in many cases, we meet and exceed the capacities, we do it better.

Really? So the answer to your question about what is it that we're about to give away, our humanness is under attack right now. We are the product of multiple generations where to be human, the idea of our humans has been denigrated, it has been degraded. We are teaching our young people in school right now. Our young people are being taught that carbon-based life in general, in human specifically, are flawed. Among our flaws, emotion, because emotion clouds sometimes our logic and our ability to think

clearly, our human experiences of empathy, sympathy, compassion, the ability to self-regulate our own biology. These are seen as flaws. And for young people, if there are flaws, it means we need a savior. And the savior is being touted as technology. AI, computer chips, chemicals in the blood, RFID chips under the skin, sensors in the body, nanobots. So the idea, this 2030, this was reflecting a statement by Ray Kurzweil. Ray Kurzweil, I think some of our viewers know he's, he's an author, he's a visionary, he's a futurist, he is heading up AI research at Google right now. And he made two statements that I think are relevant to this conversation. First, he said by the year 2030, which is only five years from now, I mean, we're just about the year 2025. He said by the year

2030, when we talk to someone on the street, we will no longer be talking to a pure human. We will be talking to someone who has either embraced or been mandated to have some kind of technology accepted into their bodies. So by 2030, we will be speaking to human hybrids. By the year 2045, he says we will have achieved what he just wrote his most recent book about, something called the singularity. The singularity is essentially the internet of all things, where we have become a digital representation of ourselves in this internet of all things, along with the world around us. All of our natural resources, every form of wildlife, all the food we eat, the energy we consume, everything will be in this massive database run by artificial intelligence that is already being built. it's already underway. So I wrote a book called Pure Human, and I wrote this book to advocate for our humanness

to celebrate and maybe, maybe awaken a deeper sense of pride for what it means to be human and a deeper appreciation for our humanness. So it's a long answer to a short question. I want to kind of lay that out as we start this conversation. Yeah, and I think a lot of people that are watching or listening, they want to figure out how to go

from a place in their life that they're unhappy or unfulfilled with, to actualizing their potential, their dreams, their desires, but they don't know how to go from where they are currently to manifesting or creating that reality, that untapped reality in the future. And they don't know how to draw it to themselves faster. How do I bring this idea into the world and make it happen? I'm with those people.

You know, just off camera and just now, we just had a conversation. I don't talk about a lot because it's not obvious. often relevant, and I'm not ashamed to share. I'm the product of a very dysfunctional, abusive, alcoholic family. I was born in 1950s, and the idea of abuse and addiction and counseling and therapy were very different in the 50s and 60s than they are. It was not accepted then as much, right? Well, my... Looked down upon. It was as there was a stigma. Something's wrong with you if you need that. There was a stigma. There was a stigma. attached to it. And to complicate even more, it was born in a rural community in northern Missouri,

which is for our international viewers, it's right in the middle of this big, beautiful country who we live in. So I was raised in an environment where the abuser will typically belittle and criticize those around them to elevate their sense of worth. And fortunately, I was born with a very strong soul compass. I didn't believe what I was being told. I'd be younger brother, four years younger, same household, same experience, you know, listening to the same things. And he's a good man, and I love my younger brother,

and we're like night and day. If you were in this room, we don't look alike. We certainly don't think alike. Wow. And unfortunately, he believed everything that he heard and has chosen to be defined in his life by that criticism. And I can't say consciously when I made the decision, but I remember thinking I will not be defined

by my father's idea of who I am because I was blessed, as again, with a strong soul compass. I'm not saying I did it all right. For me, in the 50s and 60s, music was my outlet. And I began playing guitar at 8, play it to this day. I'm a musician when I'm not doing what I'm doing right now. And I left our home at the age 14, which now I think is probably illegal. But I moved in with my rock band.

And during that time, the drugs were abundant. And I watched beautiful, talented men and women. We have a female vocalist. I saw their lives destroyed in a matter of months through the kids. chemicals that they put into their bodies. And, you know, Lewis, I didn't know then, obviously, what I know now, but I always had a sense that there's something about us that is so rare and so beautiful that we need to honor and respect this gift of the body. And I had a sense I would need this body for something later in life. And my friends didn't think that way. So it was

hard to have these conversations. Sure. But I was always looking to see what it is within me. How can I be the best version of myself? How can I serve this world? When I leave this world, I don't know how long I'm here. We never do. I feel good and I think I'm here for a while. But the day that I leave, when I look back, I want to know that I left no stone unturned in that I gave to and loved to this world to the best of my ability knowing what I know. And I do. I love this world and the people of this world. We're going through a tough time right now, man.

It's a tough time. It's not just America. It's everybody in the world. And what I want our viewers to know is it's not going to last forever. And it's not random. It's not spontaneous. There's a structure. We are moving rapidly toward the close of a cycle.

There are cycles within cycles. There are cosmological cycles. that shift our planet. There are geologic cycles that I studied as a degree geologist. There are financial cycles. There are economic cycles. There are conflict and war cycles. And many people don't know that the conflict in war are actually driven by natural rhythms. There are magnetic fields of the sun influence the earth. It influence our heart rate variability. They influence our sleep patterns. They influence blood pressure. All those things. So they're all converging now. And they appear to be converging around the year 2030. So to have that conversation,

we need to tread on territory that many of my peers are not comfortable talking about. And I'm happy to do that. And I want to do it in a really good and a responsible way. The year 2030, for example, the United Nations has identified 2030 is the year they want to remake society and remake the world through what are called the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The World Economic Forum is identified 2030 as the target date for their vision, their vision of what they want the world to look like. So now we're covering a lot of ground. Let's just back up. W.E.F. World Economic Forum. Independent, non-elected individuals. They started meeting in 1971,

Davos, Switzerland. We all hear about the meetings every year that, you know, for a week, you get little tidbits. The billionaires. Yeah, you get little, well, they're CEOs of corporations. They're politicians. They're kings. They're queens.

They're leaders of nations in many cases. And they've always met to have, you know, their conversations about what they feel, what these elites feel that our lives and our world should look like. And I have every right to do that, no problem. Until 2019. Now, the United Nations has had a series of programs beginning. They started, then there was UN SDG,

or the Sustainable Development Goals, SDG for the year 2000. Their 15-year plan, they've expired in 15, and now they're looking at another 15 years, which expires in 2030. They put together 17 sustainable development. development goals that on the outside, Lewis, are beautiful goals. And when you look at these, if you go to the computer and go to the website, they are a list of 17 things. Who wouldn't want these in the world? Food security. Who doesn't want food security? Global health for families. Global health for children. Who doesn't want those things? Now you read the fine print of how they

plan to achieve those goals. And it is horrendous. It is a remaking of of social structure, of family and society, social engineering to a degree we've never seen in our world before, and leading to a world of centralized power and control. So let me, I'll just give you an example. Food security. Everybody wants food security on down without, you know, 100%. Now you read the fine print. You would think they would want to help small agrarian families in rural areas throughout the world.

their idea of food security is to pump money into the big pharma and big agriculture. Corporate farms, GMO, seeds, GMO insects to take care of these things. And what's happening is the little farmers are being forced out of business in the rural areas, not just of America. This is happening all over the world. And it's what it says on their website. I mean, they're telling you how they want to achieve these things. So the small guys get forced out of business, these big corporate farms, they come in and they're buying up the farmland throughout America and throughout the world. That's not good for us.

That's not good for us. Some of the climate goals that they're looking at. I'm hesitant to get into this because each one could be an entire program. But let me just share. I want to share something with you. And you probably, you may not be aware of this. As a degree geologist, I did a little experiment in January of 20th. And I said, let's look at these climate goals because we're being led to believe that we are the problem.

We humans and fossil fuels are the problem. So rather than pushing back, let's just accept it. What would the world look like if we met every one of those goals? So let's take carbon dioxide, for example. Right now, CO2 levels, about 420-ish parts per million. I haven't looked in the last few months. I don't know, but it's in that ballpark. Is it high, higher than it was 10 years ago? Absolutely.

Is it higher than it was 50 years ago? Absolutely. Is it the highest it's ever been on our planet? As a geologist, I can tell you absolutely not. We've had times during the Cretaceous and the Jurassic periods, where a thousand parts per million, two thousand parts per million. And life, Earth was lush, green, life thrived. It was a little bit warmer. It wasn't unbearably warm. The ice melted. The sea levels rose. and here's the interesting thing. What you see on those geologic maps is sometimes the CO2 levels are high

and the temperatures are low. At times the temperature high and the CO2 levels are low, they're not necessarily 100% directly correlated. So if we were to meet the goals, right now the UN is proposing right around two, I think if we met the goals, we would see a CO2 level right around 220, or so parts per million.

Now, most people say, okay, what's the big deal? Extinction level CO2 on this planet, when the CO2 drops below a certain level, forests die, and life does no longer thrive. That is 180 parts per million. Wow. Now, the CO2 on Earth, it's not like you can take a little dial and fine tune and click,

you know, by 10 parts per million here and there. I mean, if they knock it back to the 220s, We're about 36, where's that 36 away from parts per million away from the 180. That is really, really bad for us. So as a geologist, I went to the charts and I said, when was the last time we saw that on this planet? And it was during a time we called the Pleistocene era. We saw low levels of carbon dioxide. Forest died.

Temperatures dropped. Right now, our average global temperatures are about 59 degrees Fahrenheit. These proposals would drive it back to. 46 degrees Fahrenheit, which means we'd have more ice in northern hemisphere, forest dye, and extinction levels, here's the bottom line. It's not good for us. Those proposals are not good for humans. And you say, well, who's it good for? There's a whole conversation around that. So that's one thing right there. Now let's take it to the next level. Let's look at what's happening. We're being encouraged to have conflict. Right now, the wars. They see very few people trying to back

off and de-escalate. Everybody's full scale ahead. Now, hopefully that's going to change, but at the time of this conversation, there's a very real concern of the kind of wars that we haven't seen since the Cold War in the 1980s with nuclear weapons. What is the outcome of that? What we see is we're being encouraged for the nations of the world to deplete their weapons, deplete their resources, deplete their manpower. All right? That's not good for us. And that's happening. So now we've got a remaking of the planet that's not good for us. We've got a remaking of our defenses that's not good. And now you look at society. And the social bonds that hold us together as families and communities and societies are systematically being dismantled. It started right around 2014 with the Occupy movement, the rich against the poor, which is an important conversation. We need to have it in a kind way to solve the problem. But it was weaponized to divide. us rather than use as a way to bring us together. And then it went from that to men against women, important conversation that was weaponized. It went blacks against whites, Christians against Muslims,

Jews against Muslims. Now men against women again, adults against children, the whole gender issue. And when we allow ourselves to get drawn in to these conversations that hit those primal instincts that elicit states of consciousness, that betray our very nature, they elicit hate, they elicit revenge, they elicit fear. That steals from us

the very essence of our humanness, and I'm going to talk about that here in just a moment. So now that's being happened. You put this all together, and you begin to look, there's a systematic movement to remake this world in a way, I'm 70 years old,

I've never seen this in my 70 years. Really? Here's where this is different from any time in the past. A systematic movement to remake the world around us and a systematic movement to remake the world within us. Because we now have the technology to change the biology of our bodies, to change what it means to be human.

And we are the prize. Lewis, this is why I want to say, or our viewers to know. I want people to have a deeper appreciation and be proud of our humanness because it's through our humanness that we have access to something that no other form of life has.

And that is, I'll use the word, and then I'll define it. And then we can have a conversation about it. The word is human divinity. For many people, divinity is linked with religion. And I can see why. There are schools, you know, of divinity that have been built to make that association.

But the contemporary definition of divinity has nothing to with religion. It literally reads, divinity is the ability to transcend perceived limitations. Transcend means to become more than perceived. I love this. They may not even be real. We may be living limits in our lives. And it's a 14-year-old boy from a dysfunctional alcoholic family. I was told what my limits as a man, as a human, would be.

And this is where I began to push against those limits and test those limits. Now, I didn't know then, obviously, what I know now. But the ability to transcend the limits that we've been indoctrinated through family, culture, society, science, medicine, have all led us to believe we've got limits. And here's the thing. New discoveries are blowing the doors off every one of those. those limits, consciousness informs itself through its creations. The technology that we're building in the world around us is reminding us that we are that technology, that within us, we have the capabilities as what we now call soft technology, not computer chips. And chemicals in the

blood and wires under the skin were more than that. We're human. We're neurons. And we're DNA. and we're cell membranes, and we have the ability to self-regulate this soft technology in a way that no other form of life has. And here's the beauty, and this is every guest you've ever had, is hitting on one facet of this technology.

When I was in the industry, where I learned is the more complex a system is, the simpler the user interface. You've probably seen that. I mean, pick up a cell phone, you touch the screen, the man, you could pay your bills and talk to your friends, and you never even, you never typed a letter.

That's very sophisticated. So our user interface is like that, and it is the subject of our most ancient and cherished spiritual traditions, thoughts, feelings, emotions, breath, focus, nutrient, and movement. That's our user interface. When we know how to bring those together in the right way, in just the right way, we are awakening the potential of a soft technology that was given to no other form of life. and it's a very different way of thinking. So divinity, as we're covering a lot of ground here,

divinity is the essence of our humanness. Divinity is the part of us that's timeless, it's ageless, it's where our love begins, it's where our sympathy, empathy, compassion, forgiveness, understanding, to where our healing begins, is our divinity. So there is a concerted movement now to veil us from our own divinity to steal that power from us because when we are no longer connected with our divinity we are more vulnerable to fear more vulnerable to the agendas and the ideas of others

and more willing to accept other people's views of what our lives and what our world should look like but you didn't accept your parents views of you i didn't i didn't reject them i just didn't accept them It wasn't safe in my family to reject anything. If you've been around alcoholism, that's very unpredictable. You know, your father comes home. You never know which father you're going to get. You never know how your conversation is going to be heard or responded to. You are in survival.

Can I just do a little side journey on that? Just to show how deep that goes, I lost my mom during COVID. I wasn't ready for it. And it surprised me because I'm going to do. adult than I'm 70. And I knew that I was going to lose her at some point. But when you're in a dysfunctional family, an alcoholic family like that, at least in our case, my mom is always my protector. And there was a part of me, not the grown adult Greg, but there was a part of my psychology when my mom passed that realized that my protector in this world was gone. Wow. And I

ended up, I was twice in the hospital with heart issues. Really? That were not heart issues. They kept saying, Mr. Braden, there's... Psychological issues. Well, they call them somatic now, which is very kind. But it was funny. I mean, they went through all the tests and they said, Mr. Braden, you're really, really healthy. I said, there's nothing wrong with your heart. And I said, well, what am I feeling? And they said, the somatic, what, this is the doctor. He would come in and say, there's nothing wrong with you. I don't know why you're here in this hospital bed. I was in the ER. He said, I know why you're here in the ER and then he left. A nurse came in. The first thing she did, she looked at me.

Listen, she said, what's happening in your life? And I started to say the words. I just lost my mom. And I couldn't even get those words out. And I was just sob. I wasn't even crying. It was like gasping sobs. And she said, you're dealing with unresolved grief. And I said, okay, yeah, I know about no surprise there. She said grief. Not grief isn't bad, but the unresolved grief. can actually have a physical influence on the little muscles in the chest around the heart. And if you don't know any better, and it's good to get it checked out. She said, you think you're having an episode, a heart episode. She says, unresolved grief.

I went to a grief counselor and went away and never came back. How does someone unresolved their grief? Through grief counseling, redefining, and it's different for everyone. For me, I had to find a sense of safety, knowing that my potential. was no longer in the world. And I say that because I know I'm not the only one. Other people have that experience. But that's how deep and how lasting those kinds of experiences, you know, go in our lives. The ability to resolve grief is a facet of human divinity. If someone is experiencing symptoms, whether it be heart palpitations or they don't know if

it's grief or not, they're feeling anxiety, maybe panic attacks, maybe all that, ADHD, maybe, you know, just depressive thoughts, things like that. What happens when a someone who is experiencing some type of mental or emotional altercation in their body? What happens when someone decides to go the medical route versus the healing somatic route? Well, I'm going to answer it in two ways, and this is not separate from this conversation we're having about human divinity. And I'm going to tie back in the day.

What we're now exploring, I just want to give context and structure here, we're exploring, getting into the nitty gritty of the power of human divinity and why we want it and what happens if we give it away. If we give our humanness away, we no longer have the abilities that I'm going to share right now. So this is, it's part of the conversation. First of all, when someone feels that, it's always good to get it checked out because you don't know. You cannot determine.

And unless it's happened in the past and you recognize this is exactly what happened in the past. You really can't. That's terrifying. It's scary. It is. It is. And fortunately, we live in a city where we had, it's a small, Santa Fe, New Mexico. It's not a big 80,000 people, you know, it's not a big community.

But we had, and I had good medical care. To answer the question, we have to understand what's really happening. every emotion that we've ever had in our lives from the moment, even before we emerged into the world through the birth canal while we're still in the womb, every emotion that we're having has a chemical equivalent that is called Candace Purt was the first Harvard-trained medical physician that linked emotion in chemicals in the body and in a scientific way. Wow. I had the honor of knowing her before she passed in 2013. She wrote a book called Molecules of Emotion. I'm sure a lot of your viewers are familiar with that. And she identified these chemicals.

They're called neuropeptides. Neuropeptides typically will be created by the emotion and they metabolize through the body. No big deal. Unless we're having an emotion that we can't resolve. Then the neuropeptides, our bodies are so smart. The neuropeptides will stay in the body. The body will actually store the neuropeptides.

and this is where it gets really interesting, in the organs, tissues, and glands that we associate with our trauma. And everyone has trauma. And everyone's trauma. Your trauma, you might have a trauma, and I'd look out and say, what's the big deal? Because my filters interpret it differently.

Or I would have a trauma, and you would look at it and say, come on, Greg, you know, suck it up and get over it. Because your filters are different. But we all have trauma, and it's personalized. And those neuropeptides will stay with us 10 minutes. for 70 years. Until we have the tools to resolve the trauma, sometimes they'll give you a little nudge

to let you know they're still there. It might be a little irritation, it might be a rash in the body or inflammation or swelling, and we will take a pill or put on a cream to make the symptom go away, but that neuropeptite is still there. And then they'll say,

well, maybe you need a little bit more, a little bit more of a little bit more of a nudge, and then we start developing symptoms of things that we call illness and disease. But this is so fascinating to me because the science is showing us rarely do our bodies break. Rarely do we have illness and disease in the way we think we have it. What we are experiencing is our body in the presence of the conditions, the epigenetic conditions that we've given it to work with. It can be nutrition, it can be environment, and the most powerful environment is the emotion.

environment. 90 or 90% is the emotional environment. So rather than saying our bodies are broken, which ruins the trust that we have in our bodies, it's useful to say what am I giving my body to work with? What is the environment? And sometimes the emotional environment is a subconscious. In my case, it was subconscious. I had a subconscious fear of not being safe. because I wasn't when I was a child. Even though you were in their late 60s at that point and you were an adult and you could logically say, well, I have resources, I have protection, I have a home, I have money, I have safety. But the little boy in you didn't feel safe.

Well, it makes sense because the first seven years, average, first seven years of a human life, we are in an altered state of consciousness. It's actually called a hypnagogic state. is the term that psychologists use where we have very few of any filters. We are absorbing behavior patterns from our caregivers. This is nature's way of preparing us for life. Nature believes that we're going to be in the same environment that our parents are. So we learn from our parents how to deal with conflict and how to treat people that you like

and how to treat people you don't like. We mimic them. We do. Consciously and subconscious, those are consciously, those are the programs up until the age of seven. The Jesuits knew this. Maybe you've had other speakers talk about this. They would say, give us your sons, because it was a male organization, give us your sons until the age of seven, and they'll be ours forever. Wow. So what they meant, give them to us for this first seven years. They can go home to you, but they won't want to because they will be indoctrinated into the patterns of the Jesuits and their home life will no long. makes sense. That's an example of how powerful those first seven years of life are. It's the programming, right? It's the programming. So the neuropeptides can stay in the body as long as they need to. And there are techniques, breathwork techniques, heart brain coherence. I know my brother Joe Dispenza, he and I have taught together and we use these techniques. There are all kinds of body EFT and, you know, body memory therapy, and that's a whole

conversation, but there are a lot of ways to resolve that. And it's fascinating to me because when we do resolve them through a breathwork session, for example, those neuropeptides are made of chemicals in the body and elements, minerals, and you'll actually begin to taste, metallic taste in your mouth or your urine. Your urine will smell funny because it's not the typical urine. It's, these are chemicals, or your tears or your perspiration will taste different, and it'll smell different. You'll sweat and you'll smell different when you're going through this because now those neuropeptides are metabolizing through the body, through body secretion. Processing it's body secretion. So it's tears, perspiration, saliva, sexual fluids, feces, all of those things is how

we release. Wow. Oh, they've been fascinating. This goes, this goes back to the power. Human divinity is the part of us that's timeless, it's ageless, it's all-knowing, it is the part of us where our healing begins. And what the science is showing is that divinity doesn't live. Those patterns don't live in our bodies. This is where it gets really, really interesting. It's already interesting. Now it's going to get really, really interesting.

They don't live in the cells of our bodies. The cells of our bodies, the neurons, DNA, and the cell membranes, literally are antenna that tune us to an energetic place in the field that underlying. all existence, that we now know science confirmed it in the year of 2012, that the CERN's superconducting supercollider, they actually announced it on July 4th in America, 4th of July 2012, that there is a field that underlies all existence. 2022, the Nobel Prize in Peace. And no, in physics, the Nobel Prize in physics was given to the physicist that confirmed

that in this field everything's connected, entanglement. Really? Is what it's called. What is this field? that we're living in. It's an energetic, it's an energetic field. And we are, we are that field. Every human, the average human is about 50 trillion cells in the body,

approximately, give or take. You've got more cells than I do because you're taller than I am. Oh, wow. And every one of those 50 trillion cells has about 100 trillion atoms. And every one of those atoms is doing this. It's emerging from that field and collapsing into that field. Every nanosecond of the day, like right this nanosecond, And as it emerges from the field, it is building our bodies to fit the template that we hold in our consciousness.

That's crazy of who we are. And this is why healing is possible. This is why spontaneous healing is possible. When we change the way we think and the way we feel, we change that blueprint, we change the template. And that information will now fill in a new and healthier blueprint. And this is all, very well documented. I mean, it's, the science knows the bits and pieces. Science is reluctant to bring them together because it tells a story that many scientists are reluctant to embrace. What's that? The story is that we are not what we've been told. We're more than we've been led to believe. And that is the essence of why I've written this book. Yeah. I'm going to answer that question for you right now. What I'm going to say is this, Lewis, there's something in some of us, we humans, that is so powerful, it is so beautiful, it is so ancient, it is so precious, that there are organizations in the world today, and there always have been, societies in the

past that will go to any length to shield us from that part of ourselves, because that's where we find our power. When we are in our power, we are less vulnerable to fear. And fear, I think you'll agree is probably the greatest commodity in a world that is moving toward authoritarian, the ability to create authority and centralize that authority. In the world, that is our divinity. This is why we are the prize. We are literally the prize. And I want to make this conversation relevant to our viewers because so many people, they write to us and we see the comments and say, okay,

these conversations are cool. What's to have to do with the world? And what's that to do with my life right now? Yeah, the world out there. So here's what it has to do with the world that we're living in. That part of us that is so beautiful, powerful, ancient, precious, is the reason for everything we're seeing happening in the world. Those powers that be will stop at nothing to distract us and keep us diverted.

Nations will go to war with nations. Economic systems will be collapsed. Pandemics will be unleashed. Climate will be engineered. Nations will rise and fall. All in an effort to distract us. Wow. Because we are the prize.

The human body is the prize because our humanness is the link to our divinity. This is why I began talking about an ancient battle. There is an ancient battle between good and evil. And evil means different things to different people. But the ultimate evil is to shield a human from their divinity. when we are kept from our divine nature, our ability to love fearlessly, to forgive, to heal, to imagine, to innovate, to create. That is a form of evil.

And that's a form that is playing out right now. And this 2030 window of time is the window of time when it is proposed that our humanness, our biology, be replaced. Wow. With technology, with AI, with computer chips, chemicals in the blood that mimic. the systems that we do with synthetics, computer chips in the brain linking us to the computers now. And it's a very different way of thinking. Now, I'm a systems thinker. So I look at the big picture so that I understand where the nanosecond of my life fits into that big picture.

And then I let it go. We don't have to know any of this. But I want people to know that what we're seeing is not a crazy world. It's insane. It's not crazy. There is a method. There's a system. There's a process.

And it won't last forever. It's this little window of time where you're seeing the powers that be jockey for position. And our humanness is a problem. Wow. Because we are such powerful beings. Nobody's telling our kids that. Our kids are being told that they're flawed forms of life, that they need something outside of themselves to be the best version of themselves and to compete in business and compete in the world.

So our kids are willing to give. themselves away to virtual reality, to computer chips. I mean, I had some young people in one of my courses earlier. It was in the summer. And we were talking about NiroLink, the chip that FDA just approved from Elon Musk, as this is his company. And it allows a human without any wires at all to communicate directly with the hard drive on their computer.

And so here's these young kids in, in the room and they're saying, they're saying, Mr. Braid. And I said, no, please, Gray. And they said, okay, Gray. I said, I'm only 70. I'm not a Mr. Braden yet. They said, are you telling me that all I have to do is put a computer chip in my brain?

And I can play Grand Theft Auto with no wires. No controls. No controls. Sweet. Or there's some other words they use, but sweet. Sweet was a lot of it because they don't realize this, the biological imperative. There is an adage in biology that says use it or lose it. Perfect example.

When I was back in the 50s and 60s, I was taught, and you probably were when you were young as well, that we were born with a fixed number of neurons in a human brain. And so this was leverage in college. You know, when you're in college, every beer you drink, you're going to lose some neurons, so you better not drink too many beers. You know, this is what they're saying. But now we know up until the last breath. the hippocampus in the human brain is creating new neurons, but there's a catch. Every time those neurons are created,

they must be engaged in a meaningful way within about seven days where they will atrophy and die. So that is true for all the systems in the body. We are a biological system that works on demand. If we don't use our systems, then they begin to atrophy. So you begin to replace the human brain with computer chips. Or here's a study. In the actual study it was done, young kids, three, four, five years old.

Get up in the morning. They eat their bowl of Cheerios or whatever it is. Their parents sit them on the floor with an AI visor. And they leave them there for a few hours. And here's what's happening. In that AI world, they're seeing stuff they would never see in their backyard. Wow. Yeah.

They're hearing sounds. They're seeing images, colors. and what has happened, this has gone long enough now that psychologists are able to do the studies. Those young people are, their physical stature is demented, their brain size is stunted, their cognitive development is stunted, their visual cortex is enlarged because look at what they're doing. They are simply watching rather than engaging in creating. When you and I were kids, I mean, we'd go out, we take a blanket off because they, I'd say, I'd, We, yeah, we make a tent and make a fort.

And all of a sudden we've got a fort and we're used in our imagination. They're not doing it. They're just watching it all done for them. And so the psychology magazines are actually showing now. And it can all be reversed through epigenetics so that they're not lost. But it's showing that it's not harmless. There is an impact. There is an effect.

And it's another example. When our biology is replaced with technology, the gift. of our humaneness begins to atrophy in many different ways in one generation. Next generation comes along through epigenetics now. It's passed down. And the body says, oh, you know, we don't do those functions anymore. We used to, but it's a vestige of our past because now we've got a chemical to create the immunity in our bodies, for example.

And that's something it's actually proposed, you know, right now. Right now, policies are being written. Laws are being enacted. to implement many of these technologies in our bodies. And the term, there's a general term for this, Louis, is called transhumanism. Trans simply means beyond. And human is our biology, so it's beyond our biology.

And I did an interview recently, and someone asked, they said, well, isn't this a part of our natural evolution? It's not, not a part of our natural biological evolution. It is a form of a technological evolution that's not good for us. It's not good for us humans because we lose the very essence of what is that we cherish in our humanity. We lose our ability to love, forgive, sympathy, empathy, compassion. We lose the ability to discern rather than judge. We're taught to judge, but the healing comes from our ability to discern.

We lose all of those things when we begin to give our humanness away. So we've just covered a whole lot of ground. I'm going to come back. There's a concerted effort right now in these next few years to diminish the power of our humanness. One of the ways that's being accomplished is by us either being encouraged or mandated. Some of the policies will be mandates coming from the UN through our United States Congress. they're going to legal route to accept technology into our bodies to replace our humanness. When we do that, we relinquish that precious, ancient, and sacred gift that we were given

when the first of our kind stepped onto this planet 200,000 years ago. You know, we've only been here 10,000 generations. Wow. 200,000 years, not that long. And we were given these abilities given to no other form of life. and now we're being taught and indoctrinated to believe that we are flawed, powerless, victims of a world that we have no control over and that we need something outside of us. So the flip side of this now, in the new science, and this is exciting, is showing us, wow, that we are literally a highly advanced, technologically sophisticated, soft technology. neurons. One of the reasons that science is beginning to think of us, maybe some of your

Augusts have talked about this, is that we've been conditioned to think of our biology is this soft, gooey, sticky, wet stuff, you know, inside the cells. And that is one way of thinking of us, but now scientists are looking us from a perspective of information technology. These are IT perspectives. And so the discoveries, they're not showing up in biology books. They're showing up in engineering journals like I-Triple-E, you know, and these engineering. Who's reading those? I mean, my community's not reading.

But let me just give you an example. There was the Journal of Advanced Computing Technology, which I don't read, and most of my colleagues don't as well, unless we're researching a book or something, came out with an article. and it showed that human DNA is literally a fractal antenna, is the term that they use. So what's that mean? We think of antenna as being tuned to something very specific, like a specific TV station or radio station or, you know, CB station or whatever.

Fractal antenna are receiving multiple signals from a broad spectrum of bandwidth simultaneously. We're pulling in information from that. the world around us all the time across this broad spectrum and that we're transducing it into meaningful signals in our bodies. That's a very different way of thinking of a human body. So I'll just run through this really quick. What the science is showing, 50 trillion cells in the body. Every cell is a miniature, a micro circuit. It's a gated circuit is what engineers call. It's got input, output, all the functions within our cells.

They function as transistors, as resistors, as capacitors that are massaging that information. Every cell has a voltage of about 0.07 volts. Say, well, that's not very much, but you do the math, 50 trillion times 0.07 is over 3 billion, over 3.5 trillion volts of electrical potential, which is in our bodies. In our bodies. Now, we don't actualize it all the time, but what if you could harness that for your own healing or to optimize, optimize cognition, optimize whatever it is we're going to do in our lives.

But it doesn't stop there because we're receiving photons of information. We're transmitting photons of information. We already said the DNA in our bodies, our DNA stores information. And let me just use the terminology and see if you've heard this before. The DNA in our bodies stores every successful genetic transatlantic transatlantic. action in our species in a way that's transparent, it is immutable, and it's secure. And if that sounds familiar, it should because that is the basis for what is the new financial system of the world, the decentralized financial system we call blockchain technology. Blockchain

technology mimics the way information is stored in the DNA of our body. Really? So once again, I'm saying all of this that we build around this is mirroring what we already do in our bodies. They compared a human brain to a microprocessor, the Salk Institute in La Jolla, is where this actually, I'm doing this from memory. Salk Institute in La Jolla. And the way they did it for our techie engineers out there

is they equated the synaps and the human brain between neurons to the transistors on the chip. And interestingly, the numbers are very similar. On a modern microprocessor, it's about the same number of synapses we have brain than they did the studies. And what they found is the human brain is a hundredfold faster than the process. Wow. Here's here's the beauty of where this goes. All of those computer chips, man, they're fast, they're accurate, hands down, but are they scalable? They can only scale

as far as the limit of the physics of the stuff they're made of allow. So if it's a silicon chip, the atoms are in predetermined geometric patterns that make silicon, and information can only move so fast across those things. So fast, yes, efficient, yes. Scalable, not so much. Now, human neurons, every time they push a human neuron to the edge of the limit that has been accepted in the textbooks. We do what humans do. The neurons morph and they adapt and open up an entire new vista of processing capability and we do this again and again and again.

What is the upper limit of a human neuron? We don't know. We may be infinite when it comes to scalability. That's soft technology. And it goes on from there. I'm just giving a example. I know I'm covering all the ground. Can I share one more? Go ahead. Go ahead. This is really exciting, and then we'll pull this together. There was an experiment that was done in 2022, and some of our viewers may be old enough to remember the computer game that I'm going to reference. 1972, a game called Pong, P-O-N-G, was released. Today it looks primitive. It is essentially a tennis game, a badminton game, two little blocks going up in one ball, and one ball, and it's going like this.

people were fascinated when that, you know, when that game first came out. So here's what happened. Scientists took human neurons independent from the body and put them into a petri dish. So they're not even attached to a human. And they have a special chip where the little dendrites, little tentacles, if you will, from the neuron will fit into a port on the chip. So now you've got a chip and a neuron interface. And they were able to hook that up to a computer that was loaded with Pong.

Well, guess what? These neurons started playing the game. Come on. Pong. But listen, they knew how to play. And the longer they played, the better they got. They learned. So here's the question now that the scientists have to ask, how does a neuron not attached to a human in a petri dish know how to play Pong?

Are the instructions stored in the neuron? The answer is no. and this is going to go back to what we said earlier, the neuron is the antenna that tunes to the place in the field where Pong lives in our, some people call it the Akashik record, or they call it the plont field, or zero point field, or the divine matrix, or the matrix,

whatever you want to call it, there's a field that underlies all existence, and that field is information. So in the experiment, the neuron was the antenna connected to palm in our lives, the neurons in our brain and the neurons in our hearts. And in every organ of the body, they now been found, connect us to that field. When we replace our natural biology with synthetics, and we no longer are using those neurons and we're no longer using DNA, we're still human. and we can still function, but we've lost our divinity. We've lost our ability to love, forgive, to initiate our own healing, innovation, imagination, creativity.

This is the essence of our humanness. This is why we're the prize, because when we lose those, we are vulnerable to power, control, and other people's ideas of what our humanists. of what our world and our lives should look like. The transhuman movement is the movement to do just that. In these next five years, you're critical. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.