Dr. Martha Beck

Here's one of my favourites.

I could give you the normal answer, which goes down easily with most people. Or I could give you the truth, which sounds really weird.

I could give you the normal answer, which goes down easily with most people. Or I could give you the truth, which sounds really weird.

I was hoping you would say that. So in all my work, and this means from the time I was little, I remember being dreadfully anxious about not having done enough toward it. On the night before my birthday one year, I was lying there thinking, there's something I'm supposed to help with on the earth, and I have not done enough, and I've got to get moving here. And the next day I turned four.

I was hoping you would say that. So in all my work, and this means from the time I was little, I remember being dreadfully anxious about not having done enough toward it. On the night before my birthday one year, I was lying there thinking, there's something I'm supposed to help with on the earth, and I have not done enough, and I've got to get moving here. And the next day I turned four.

So ever since I was little, my whole intent has been based on this feeling that I was meant to help with a shift that would happen in the world during my lifetime. And I did not know what it was. So I would ask myself, what is it? I would spend hours thinking, what is it? And the only thing I got as an answer was this poet, this bit of poetry from T.S. Eliot.

So ever since I was little, my whole intent has been based on this feeling that I was meant to help with a shift that would happen in the world during my lifetime. And I did not know what it was. So I would ask myself, what is it? I would spend hours thinking, what is it? And the only thing I got as an answer was this poet, this bit of poetry from T.S. Eliot.

And it goes, I said to my soul, be still and wait without love, for it would be love of the wrong thing. And wait without hope, for it would be hope of the wrong thing. There is yet faith, but the love and the hope and the faith are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing. All right.

And it goes, I said to my soul, be still and wait without love, for it would be love of the wrong thing. And wait without hope, for it would be hope of the wrong thing. There is yet faith, but the love and the hope and the faith are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing. All right.

As I got older and studied more, I began to think what I'm meant to help with is a shift in the way human beings perceive and think. And that is why I couldn't know what it was because To explain to someone a fundamental shift in the way they think would have to be processed through the way they're thinking now. And so it would be fundamentally misunderstood.

As I got older and studied more, I began to think what I'm meant to help with is a shift in the way human beings perceive and think. And that is why I couldn't know what it was because To explain to someone a fundamental shift in the way they think would have to be processed through the way they're thinking now. And so it would be fundamentally misunderstood.

So now I'm old and I don't care what people think of me. So I just say this right out loud. It was a deep secret in my heart for decades. And now I just say, I think there is going to be a shift in the way in human consciousness. And I think it is going to change the way humans relate to the planet, relate to each other, relate to themselves. And I could be wrong, but I don't care.

So now I'm old and I don't care what people think of me. So I just say this right out loud. It was a deep secret in my heart for decades. And now I just say, I think there is going to be a shift in the way in human consciousness. And I think it is going to change the way humans relate to the planet, relate to each other, relate to themselves. And I could be wrong, but I don't care.

I'm going to keep trying for it till the day I die.

I'm going to keep trying for it till the day I die.

Wait, without thought, but actually, no, I actually have a theory now. My undergraduate degree was in East Asian Studies. I lived in Asia and studied Chinese and Japanese. And they have a concept in Asia that is not well known in modern Western culture. And that is the concept of awakening. And it's awakening out of the dream of thought.

Wait, without thought, but actually, no, I actually have a theory now. My undergraduate degree was in East Asian Studies. I lived in Asia and studied Chinese and Japanese. And they have a concept in Asia that is not well known in modern Western culture. And that is the concept of awakening. And it's awakening out of the dream of thought.

Which is, I mean, the whole thing is now like half of our listeners are at this point probably thinking, Stephen has brought a lunatic to the program. I will not listen to this episode. But I'm promising you, it gets really cool if you focus on it. Because when you awaken, and it's a shift in the way, a fundamental perception.

Which is, I mean, the whole thing is now like half of our listeners are at this point probably thinking, Stephen has brought a lunatic to the program. I will not listen to this episode. But I'm promising you, it gets really cool if you focus on it. Because when you awaken, and it's a shift in the way, a fundamental perception.

It's also very strong in India, Tibet, and the other Buddhist countries. It's a shift where you leave the aspects of your thinking that cause you internal suffering. You cease to suffer after you awaken. I think that's actually an epigenetic shift that is inherent in the brain of every individual and that many individuals throughout history have gone through it.