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Doctor Mike

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And it's not just because you're not Pablo Neruda.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

It's not just because you're not William Shakespeare.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

The reason is because the words that your language centers are probably in the left cortex.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And it's a complicated simulacrum for the complex right brain phenomenon.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And that's a lot of what's actually going on when you have a sense of the I am, you have the sense of the fundamental creator.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And by the way, that's not just Abrahamic religions, the karmic religions do this too.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

So the Hindus who believe that the Godhead is the ultimate force, it's pure love,

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And that the soul is kind of a chip of that that comes into existence, passed on toward enlightenment, which is perfection, and then reabsorbed back into the Godhead.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

It's all metaphors, like a little piece of a soul, and it's impossible for us to actually understand that.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And yet understanding can come beyond the way that, and this is hard for you and me, because we have a science background.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

It's like, if I can't describe it, it doesn't exist.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

No, we know that's not right.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

I don't know Bill Nye's argument, but I've talked to a lot of- Well, he argues against creationism and talks about the Big Bang.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Yeah, for sure.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And I would argue against creationism too.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

No, I mean, it's like all kinds of different ways that the ultimate I am, the ultimate creator can create

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

And the great thing about science is that it unfolds the information about the truth about the creation, which should make us more amazed, not less amazed at this sort of cosmic intelligence if we believe in it.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

Now, first thing to point out, the atheist might be right.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

I might be completely wrong.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Shocking Lessons He Teaches His Harvard Students | Arthur Brooks

In what regard?