Gregg Braden
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Oct
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to change the biology of our bodies, to change what it means to be human. And we are the prize, Lewis. This is what I want to say. This is what 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 of divinity that have been built to make that association, but the contemporary definition of divinity has nothing to do 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 as 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 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. We're 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, what 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, and man, you can pay your bills and talk to your friends, and you never even, you never typed a letter. That's very sophisticated.
Exactly, exactly. 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 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, because 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 sympathy, empathy, compassion, forgiveness, understanding to 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.
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. So you're in survival mode a lot. 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 an adult and 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 was 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, well, 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. 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 sobbing. 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 that. 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.
through grief counseling, redefining, and it's different for everyone. For me, I had to find a sense of safety, knowing that my protector 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 go in our lives. The ability to resolve grief is a facet of human divinity.
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 into 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. So first of all, when someone feels that, it's always good to get it checked out because you don't know. You cannot determine unless it's happened in the past and you recognize this is exactly what happened in the past. You really can't determine.
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