Michael Beckwith

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Know Thyself · E143 - Michael Beckwith: Discover The Life You Were Designed to Live · 15 Apr 2025 podcast

But in my own upbringing, I was always balancing between now what we call quantum physics and quantum entanglement and things like that and the mysticism. It was always a nice, nice bridge for me.

It's just different. Yeah. Because you see them, you see the intuition, you see the physical prowess, you see the non-thinking. suddenly doing something that they never planned before, you know?

I remember the guard, Nate Archibald, I think, New York Knicks, you know, he was going down the court, and there were three people guarding him, and he did some kind of weird move and turned around and went up 360 and laid it in to win the game. And when the announcer asked him, how did you know to do that move? He said, I didn't.

He said, that move took me over because it was the only move that could happen to get through three people. So it was an intuitive intelligence that took him over, the zone, the flow. So yeah, I know we're surrounded by divine intelligence. not divine intellect, but divine intelligence.

And it uses the intellect, uses the physical body, uses the mind to weave through whatever's going on to reveal a healing, a destiny, a slam dunk, a poem, a medical incision. A doctor, I was reading about a doctor who had to do a very intricate surgery on an infant's heart. And he said he prayed. And it was, the procedure took hours. What he said for him was like five minutes.

And they were patting him down, you know, with that sweat. But he said he felt something on his hand guiding him. And he was able to do this surgery. So whether it's that or a slam dunk, you know, there's this intelligence of love just flowing through us if we allow it to take place, you know.

You have to have the practice on whatever you're working on. So the body is already in tune to that, and then something takes over. You know, and there are people that have natural ability to say natural ability. Yeah, like more savants. Yeah. But a lot of times people who have natural ability don't develop their highest capacity because it's come so easy for them.

You know, I had a friend years ago who's, he was a natural athlete. He is a natural yogi, but he never would like do the practice, right? So as years went on, you know, I became better at, I wasn't naturally flexible. You know, he's taller than me, so he was naturally faster. But as we went on in our life, you know, I ran varsity track. I was undefeated on my mildly relay leg.

You know, I became very flexible in yoga. And he stayed pretty much the same. He was a natural, but he didn't develop the practice to actually activate his potential. So I think that whatever skill we're trying to develop, you have to practice it. I like to practice meditation. I do have a certain gift of I can open myself up and I can go speak.

I can open myself up and I have this access to certain levels of wisdom and knowledge that's within me. But I'm not going to skip my meditation. You know what I mean? I want to go, I want to activate that. I want to be in tune with that on a regular basis. So I'd rather give up doing eating something at that moment, I'd rather sit, you know, and get in tune, you know, eat later.

But the word practice, I think, is important. I think... That devotion to it? Yeah. It's like... like people will say, you know, what are some of the advanced teachings? And I'll say, well, theory is beginning, practice is advanced. So you study all the stuff, read all the good books, you read the Bhagavad Gita, you read the Dhammapada, you read all the stuff, you learn the mystical teachings.

That's beginning. The advance is actually trying to practice that. Sitting, you know, having some level of practice where it dawns on your awareness. You have an aha. You have an insight. It's like, oh, I've heard that a million times. But now when I sat... I understood it at a whole nother level. But you don't get that without the practice. You have to have a moment where you think not.

The actual encounter. Yeah. You have to have an encounter. You have to have your own personal revelation of what you believe. You can hear a million speakers and you say, oh, that's beautiful. I believe that. Ooh, yeah, I'm inspired. But you have to have a personal revelation of that. And that's what you get. You can be walking on the beach. You can look at the ocean. You can be still.

And then suddenly, oh my God, I know that now. I actually feel that. That's absolutely true. I'm actually at one with that wave. I'm actually at one with the tree. I'm actually at one with all of life. Of course, before you may have believed it. Right. You know, you read the quantum physics. You're at one with everything. Right.

Absolutely. And we live in a world where we, as you said, put on a pedestal the intellectual understanding of something. rather than actually having the encounter with it. And I used to have a teacher that would say, he called it the consciousness. He would tell this parable of fish swimming in the ocean. And when it turns, they all kind of do that.

And then a big wave comes and knocks one of the fish on the sand. And he sees a beach ball, and he sees people having a picnic, and he sees all this stuff. He has no language for this. And he's looking, he's looking, he's looking, and the wave knocks him back into the water. And the other fish say, what did you see? And he says, he can't describe it. Because he had no reference to what he saw.

And so, you know, when we begin to open up, we go into that space where we don't really have the language for it. You know, then later on when we use language, it's the same words we used to use, but they mean something different. Because the context has changed. And so we want to throw ourselves over the cliff, jump in the water, so we're living in our own.

I don't really know how to describe this, but it's real.

But you can't talk about what it is because then that word right there is separating from the is-ness of it. You just have to just be quiet and let your light so shine. Oh, that's good, man. It's sweet. I was thinking, I was in the store the other day and the woman was so rude and just, you know, it was like giving me no energy. I'm buying stuff, no energy. It was like,

And part of my mind said, this person really shouldn't be with the public. She should be in the back room working, but she shouldn't be out here. And then I changed. I said, you know what? I don't know what's happened to this woman. She may have gotten a bad phone call, may have had some trouble with her kids at home. I just started just thinking. And then I started having compassion.

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