Gregg Braden
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first heard Dec 2024
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And from that perspective, the transhuman movement in mass to be imposed upon a global population, from my perspective, is a form of evil. And I think it's important to recognize that.
It's a different way of thinking, and I'm acknowledging that. And what I think it's important is to be aware, knowledge is power, to be aware of the structure and the framework that is driving the change in the world so that you're not afraid of it. Don't be afraid of the change. Be aware that there's a fundamental battle to veil our truest potential.
And the way that you triumph in that battle is to live your potential. Live your potential joyously. Celebrate your humanness. And I think what I'd like to leave our viewers with, and I think probably the greatest task for any of us, is to preserve, protect, and cherish the gift of our bodies.
Because our bodies, as our ancestors told us, are the temple that houses something beautiful and precious. And we now know that that is our divinity. Ancient traditions always, when they built the temples in Egypt or Greece, they would build them in layers. And the innermost sanctum always held the highest knowledge and the most precious wisdom.
If our body is a temple, we have not one holy of holies is what they were called, but we have 50 trillion holy of holies because every cell in our body holds the DNA that tunes us to our love and our healing and our forgiveness. and our imagination, creativity, and healing. That is our divinity.
So I think our greatest task in this world is to preserve, protect, and cherish the gift of our bodies. And in that way, we honor our divinity and we honor what it means to be human.
We covered a lot of ground. I just want to thank everyone for clicking the link that brings us together because we know that you're... Your day is valuable, and that means a lot to us. It means a lot to me, and I think I can speak on behalf of the team here and those working even behind the scenes that you're not seeing right now. Shout out Chelsea and the team. Yeah, shout out to Chelsea.
It means a lot that you trust us with part of your day. I want to say thank you for that, and I look forward to our next.
So when people talk about whether or not their lives are meaningful, they're using meaning as a metaphor. It's like the meaning of a sentence. Sentences are meaningful. Like if I say doesn't mean anything to you, right? But if I say there's a cat on the mat, that means something. What goes into that?
If we slowly unpack the metaphor, we can get a sense of what people are gesturing to with the metaphor. So think about how all the words cohere together. They cohere together, right? They make sense together. And what they do is they connect you to the world with the possibility of truth. It could be true that the cat is on the mat, and then you're connected to reality.
So there's this coherence, there's connectedness, and the sentence signifies the world to you in a certain way, makes the world significant to you in a certain way. Now, if you look at all the work in reality, And I do because in the psychology of meaning in life, not the meaning of life, the meaning of life is some metaphysical proposal.
We're talking about a cognitive psychological phenomenon, the meaning in life. This is what people are talking about when they say, even though my life has been filled with frustration and failure and betrayal and guilt and shame, I still want to keep going because my life is meaningful. Okay?
And we can maybe talk a little bit later about how it's not the same thing as subjective well-being or mastery of one's environment. Okay. If you take a look at the four, there's four features of meaning in life. One is coherence. What people mean is there's something like the structure of their experience that's like the coherence of a sentence. Well, what does that mean?
Well, coherence is the opposite of absurdity. Absurdity is when you have two perspectives that are clashing so that one undermines the other. So here we are. You and I, we're in this little perspective. We're here and we're doing all this stuff and it's also meaningful. And then I get you to zoom out to the entire universe, the cosmic perspective.
And from that perspective, our little lives could seem insignificant, right? They could seem absurd. There's a clash. Now, before that gets too dark, realize that we have a way of dealing with reality. potential absurdity between perspectives and reconciling it with an insight. So we already have a sense of humor. That's what humor is.
Humor is when there's a clash between perspectives and then you get an insight that reconciles it. So just to hold that out so people don't admit, because when I sometimes say that, that's kind of a dark thing to say. Okay, so you want that. The next is, right, when I said the cat is on the mat, it oriented you. It made you look in a particular direction, gave you a focus.
So the next factor is called purpose. But the problem, I don't like that term because our culture is all about purpose. And we think of purpose as some end goal state of something we have to have, some status, some power. I got to get to, got to fulfill my purpose. The problem with that is if you... And I realized this in high school and I went around writing, there is no purpose.
Because I realized even then, before I saw any of this research, that doesn't work. Because if you never get it, your life was meaningless. And once you get it, once you've got your thing, your purpose, then your life becomes meaningless. So don't think about purpose that way. Think about it as orientation.
You need a North Star, something that orients you, helps you consistently focus, helps you navigate and track through reality and narrate and keep track of how you're tracking through reality. It's an orientation that allows you to narrate and navigate. That's what you need. The next is significance, like the sentence. Things have to be significant. You have to have a lot of significance.
You have to have things that seem very real, deep, not ephemeral, superficial to you. And then finally, and turns out most importantly, is mattering. Mattering matters the most. Mattering is the sense of being... connected to something, and I'm going to put it in scare quotes because it's another metaphor we have to unpack, something bigger than yourself.
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