August 31, 2025 • 39 mins
What if the strangest experiences of your life—those inexplicable premonitions, those moments of just "knowing" something you couldn't possibly know—weren't coincidences but glimpses into a deeper reality?
The source field, as quantum physicists call it, is a vast ocean of consciousness that we're all connected to, though most of us have forgotten this connection. Through a personal story about a prophetic dream that accurately predicted my sister's pregnancy years ago, I explore how these moments of intuition reveal our true nature as spiritual beings having a temporary human experience.
The Human Game operates in two distinct phases. First comes the conditioning phase, where childhood experiences and traumas create what I call MUD—Misguided Unconscious Decisions—that cloud our vision and keep us operating from instinct rather than intuition. Then comes the awakening phase, where we recognize our unique purpose and the specific work only we can do based on our particular combination of experiences, talents, and perspectives.
Understanding the difference between instinct and intuition is crucial. Instinct feels familiar but leads to repeating the same patterns and struggles. Intuition initially feels uncomfortable but leads to synchronicities, growth, and fulfillment. The intellect serves whichever of these we choose to follow.
True transformation requires more than just habit change. We must rewrite our limiting stories, rewire our emotional patterns, and then retrain our behaviors—in that order. Most approaches focus only on retraining while neglecting the deeper work of rewriting and rewiring, which is why they often produce limited results.
Whether you interpret this framework literally or metaphorically doesn't matter as much as its utility in helping you clear away the mud, reconnect with source consciousness, and discover the unique contribution only you can make. The Human Game isn't just about personal growth—it's about participating in the evolution of consciousness itself.
Ready to start playing? The Human Game program launches September 8th.
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https://www.nextlevelhuman.com/the-human-game
Welcome and Dream Premonition Story 7:28
The Source Field and Consciousness 15:29
Stories and Human Understanding 23:11
The Two Phases of the Human Game 29:39
Instinct vs. Intuition 37:14
Rewrite, Rewire, and Retrain 39:53
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, everybody, welcome to the Next Level Human
show.
I apologize about the audiotoday If you hear that.
I'm actually riding in the carand thought I would knock this
out.
And I know that some people areall about the professional
quality audio and all that kindof stuff, and I love that stuff
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too, but I also like to just dothese shows.
You know shows when I have thetime and when it strikes me.
I didn't get one in earlierthis week, so I'm going to get
it in now.
Hopefully you're getting good,crisp audio, and that's okay
with you.
What are we going to talk abouttoday?
I want to talk about somethingthat I have really been talking
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about a lot lately, and it's onmy mind because I've just
launched a new program calledthe Human Game, and the Human
Game is what we're going todiscuss.
What exactly is it, how can youunderstand it and how can you
interact with it and what arethe rules?
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And so I want to start bytelling you a story that
happened to me in one of my lastyears in medical school, and so
I graduated from medical schoolback in 2004.
So this is over 20 years ago,and it would have been around
1999, early 2000.
And I know that because it hadto do with my sister, and I was
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sound asleep and sleeping andhad a dream, and in that dream
my grandmother, who had passed,walked into my room, gently, put
her hand on my back and in mydream I turned over and began to
have a conversation with her.
And in that dream she told melots of things.
I only remember two of them,though, because they became
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apparent to me after the fact.
She said a lot of things, butthe two things I remember were
the following Number one yoursister is pregnant with a boy.
And number two, she said, inthese particular words and I
think it stuck with me justbecause of the oddness of the
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choice of words, she said stayout of the civil war that's
coming within the family.
And as it so happens, the nextmorning my sister, who at the
time was living in New York Cityand I was in Seattle, called me
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.
And at that time I didn't havea cell phone.
I had, you know, one of thoseanswer machines and landlines
and anyway, it was just weirdbecause I picked up the phone,
it would have been late in,maybe afternoon her time, early
morning my time.
I forget why she was calling.
But I said oh, how come youdidn't tell me you were pregnant
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?
I'm kind of the jokester in thefamily.
I was just going along withthis dream, I was remembering.
She started laughing.
I was like what the hell are?
I was remembering and shestarted laughing.
I was like what the hell areyou talking about?
I am not pregnant.
I have no desire to havechildren right now.
I'm on the pill and we have noplans of having kids.
She had just been about ninemonths in a relationship with
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her now husband and so I justkept the joke going.
Of course I didn't know, I wasjust joking around.
I said well, you're pregnant,so good luck with that.
I had this dream and you'repregnant.
So, and she laughed and said,whatever.
Then we had our discussion andhung up the phone and about two
weeks later she calls me andgoes Jade, I'm pregnant.
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What the fuck like, tell me allabout this dream.
And of course, at that momentI'm like what?
You're pregnant and this kindof blew me away.
So I told her all about thedream and then I remembered some
of the other aspects, like Itold you, and her son, sol,
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middle name Jade, was namedafter me because of this, and
I'll get to the point of this injust a minute.
But also I want to tell youthis other part about the civil
war in the family.
So about 10 years after that,there was a major upheaval in
the family regarding my sisterand my brother and the rest of
the family, and this family kindof schismed, kind of into two
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groups, and I had alwaysremembered what my grandmother
said and I tried to remainneutral.
I did remain neutral the entiretime.
Now, why am I bringing this up?
Because it has everything to dowith the human game.
And after this event, of course, it took me many years it's not
until actually fairly recently,in the last decade, right?
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So this is over 25 years agonow, right?
Or is it?
What?
Is it so 2000,?
But yeah, so 25 years ago Istarted to realize there's
something to this and I startedto realize this was not the
first kind of experience I hadlike this.
I had had experiences like thisas a kid, where I would get
information or seem to knowcertain things and just
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understood certain things aboutwhat would happen or what the
future might hold.
And it wasn't until probablythe last year after I went
through my breakup, divorce, anaffair on my behalf and complete
upheaval of my life, which manyof you who follow my work and
my podcast know that I tell thisstory a lot and try to teach
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from it, because I believethat's what our struggles and
suffering are meant to dothey're meant to be lessons for
ourselves, for growth, but alsoto help other people grow and
learn and not make the samemistakes.
And I started to realize, as Ibegan to study quantum physics
and the neuroscience of changeand the biology of belief and
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the psychology of transformation, the Psychology of
Transformation that what I wastapping into at these moments of
premonition and getting thisinformation is what the quantum
physicists would call thezero-point field, or what hippie
types, woo-woo, new age typesmight call the universe, what
religious types call God, whatphilosophers might call source
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consciousness.
I've come to calling it thesource field.
It just has a nice ring to it,kind of sounds like the force
field and helps me conveybasically what it actually is.
So this source field is thisvast field of information, and
if you listen to quantumphysicists like Frederico Vigine
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and philosophers and scientistslike Bernardo Kastrup and
others, they will speak of thisfield as synonymous with
universal consciousness.
They will speak of quantuminformation as the same as
universal consciousness, and Istarted to understand this field
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as this vast field of source,potential and possibility, a
field of information, a fieldthat, when we get into
subconscious states like alphatheta states, psychedelic states
, meditative states, differentstates that actually happen in
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everyday life, if you've everbeen thinking about a friend
while you're driving in the carand had them text you or got a
download in the shower ofcreative stuff that you're
working on, you kind of know alittle bit what I'm talking
about.
Of course, if you've ever donea psychedelic journey or tapped
into this field throughmeditation, you definitely know
what I'm talking about.
Of course, if you've ever donea psychedelic journey or tapped
into this field throughmeditation, you definitely know
what I'm talking about.
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And I started to realize thatthese experiences that I had had
in the past and with my sisterduring this dream, were me
essentially tapping this field,and in this field, time is not a
thing.
There's only ever the now, andso future and past merge.
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Now, what does this have to dowith the human game?
Well, if we start to understandthis new science, that
materialism, the idea thatconsciousness is just all in the
brain and the brain creates ourqualitative reality.
If we start to see that that isnot necessarily how it works,
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which science quantum physics isbeginning to point to Now?
Of course, that's incrediblycontroversial, and many
physicists or other scientistswho are listening to me talk
right now may have severe bonesto pick with me with saying that
, but there are many, many of usnow, myself included, who
believe this is exactly what'sgoing on and that materialism is
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not actually how this works,that it works more like idealism
.
Whereas materialism says thebrain is the source of
consciousness, idealism saysthat consciousness is primary,
it's all around us, that ourbody, made of matter, and
everything else that we can seeis just a different form of
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energetic consciousness,consciousness being primary, and
so that our brains are morelike a filter for consciousness,
like a radio receiver or anantenna for consciousness, and
we humans are individual aspects, fragments of this
consciousness that can tap inwith our own antennas to the
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greater consciousness field,this source field, and when we
do that, we can gain quantuminformation and perhaps glimpse
things that may not havehappened yet.
Now.
This to me is surprising for meto even talk about, because, as
a guy who is an evidence-basedguy.
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For a very long time I wouldhave heard myself having this
conversation and really scoffedat it.
And just to give you a littlebit of background on that, you
know my background when I was inmy early 20s studying
biochemistry.
You know I grew up with ahippie mom, so it does make some
sense.
It's not like some of thisinformation is foreign to me.
And when I was in my late teens,early 20s, my first couple
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years of college, I delved intolucid dreaming and meditation
and these kinds of things,remote viewing and I was highly
into this stuff.
And then I went away to analternative medical school,
bastyr University, which was inSeattle, washington at the time,
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which was one of only a fewuniversities in the United
States that trained primary carephysicians in lifestyle
medicine.
And I opted to go to thatschool because when I looked at
the traditional medical schoolthat I was on my way to East
Carolina University MedicalSchool, I saw at that time that
they did not do any training innutrition, any training in
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psychology, any training inhealth and fitness, which was
something I was steeped in atthe time.
So I took a chance and went tothis new school and at the time
you might be saying, well,that's no big deal because all
that's mainstream now, but atthe time this was like
witchcraft medicine.
All my friends told me do notdo that, you're going to kill
your career, you're never goingto work, you're never going to
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have a future.
And I followed my intuition, Ifollowed my heart.
I went anyway, having no ideathat this would be the future
and that this would becomemainstream.
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However, while I was there, Ibecame very, very put off by
alternative views because, theway I saw it is, most of my
colleagues and most of myteachers and most of the people
at that school were steeped inwoo, new age mythology,
unsubstantiated claims.
We were learning reallyhigh-quality basic sciences and
things like that, but alongsidethat we were learning homeopathy
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and traditional Chinesemedicine and Ayurvedic medicine
and all that stuff was to me,unfounded, unsubstantiated, and
some of my classmates were soout there.
I actually began to have adistaste for what I might call
making shit up, and rest assuredthat I still see much of the
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alternative medicine world asmaking stuff up and I still am
very evidence-based and believewe should be evidence-based.
But it is funny to me thatthrough that process of then
getting very deep in science, Ieventually, through science,
found my way back to these earlyroots, into lucid dreaming.
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In fact, my deep work that manyof you have been interested.
Depth-enhanced emotionalprocessing combines depth
psychology, lucid dreaming,alpha-theta brainwave states and
dimensionalized consciousnessprompts to get people into the
subconscious mind, to rewriteold dramas and traumas keeping
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them stuck in their lives, inhealth and fitness and wealth
and career and finance andpersonal relationships and
purpose and meaning.
And so all of this to say thatI have found my way back to this
new understanding.
And the new understandingbasically goes like this, and
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before I tell you this, I wantto just share something with you
Stories are how we humans makesense of the world.
Stories are how we decide whatis useful and they guide us in
what is useful, us in what isuseful, and they don't always
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portray what is literally true,but they can point to universal
truth.
Let me give you an example.
Let's take the story of HarryPotter, right.
So that story we all know isnot literally true, but we would
agree that there's universaltruths embedded inside of that
story.
It's a useful story aboutcourage and integrity.
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For someone like me who's notsomeone who believes the Bible
is the word of God.
I see it as simply a book ofmetaphors that can provide some
universal truth.
So from my perspective, I seethe Bible very similarly, and of
course, these stories and thesetruths might come from the
source field.
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So, in a roundabout way, Iguess we could say the Bible is
the Word of God.
The men who were writing thisbook were getting downloads.
Of course, they're filtering itthrough their own human filters
, which can be contaminated withtheir own dirty filtered lenses
mud, which we'll talk abouthere in a minute, which is why
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many of these stories getcontaminated.
You'll find some universaltruths and you'll find some
pretty atrocious stuff as well,and the reason why is because we
humans can download aspects oftruth, but we also have our own
instinctual, what I call mud,which I'll explain in a minute,
which can get us stuck and getus confused as to what is useful
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.
But the reason I bring this upis because when we're looking at
the human game, what we want todo is we want to, as we embark
on trying to transform ourselves, enrich others and evolve the
world by doing our unique work.
What we want to do is tellourselves good stories that help
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us do that work and detach fromwhether or not these stories
are actually true.
For example, I'm going to tellyou a story, and I'm actually
not necessarily attached towhether it's true or not.
I don't even know that Ibelieve that this is literally
true.
I just see it as a verypowerful, useful story, and the
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story goes like this we humansare spiritual beings who have
agreed to come down and playthis game in a human avatar body
, and so we come down into thisgame to grow our spirit, to help
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grow others, spirits that arehere with us in human avatar
bodies, with the purpose ofevolving our collective selves,
which is essentially sourceconsciousness, and in that
process we learn and we teachand we love.
And in that process, as we,let's say, incarnate into these
human avatar bodies, we forgetthat we are higher consciousness
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and we are tethered to andattached to the source field and
of course, we are fragments ofit.
So we have access to it, butnot complete understanding.
And because we are like anantenna picking up a particular
frequency that dominates us,while we can tap into other
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frequencies, we can't do that,naturally, and the way to think
about this is think about itfrom a radio station point of
view.
You know, when I was coming up,a child of the 80s, we still
had those radio so that youwould, you know, turn the knob
and you'd be going from stationto station and be like, and then
you get some static, and then,finally, you'd hit on a radio
station that might be playing,you know, top 40 pop music, or
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might be playing hip hop, ormight be playing country, or
might be playing classical,right, and so what?
The way to think about us isthat we are each our own station
and indeed our own music, andso we are each a particular song
being downloaded from thissource field.
We have our unique frequency,the unique song we play, and, of
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course, we have a channel werelate to too, so we could call
that our people per se.
So let's say I'm 107 FM, butmore particularly, let's say 107
FM plays hip-hop music, andmore particularly, I'm 107 FM
and I'm in the hip-hop genre andlet's say I'm more like the
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artist Drake and I'm aparticular song that Drake sings
, right, and so certain peoplewho also vibe with Drake, I vibe
with, and certain people wholike hip-hop, I vibe with and
they're kind of like my people,but all the other music I can
explore and learn from.
I can learn from country, I canlearn from classical and any of
these types of music or otherpeople or songs that I reject or
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neglect or think are bad, Iexclude and don't learn from.
And so you can think of this asour job here is to expand our
awareness, try to find fullconnection to the source field
and grow ourselves in this way.
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And this is what the human gameis all about.
The human game is basically away of understanding how to talk
to and engage with the sourcefield, source consciousness, the
universal field, god, if youlike.
And so this human game is agame that we humans must play.
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The only problem is there's twoaspects to this game, two
phases to the game.
The first phase is aconditioning phase.
When we're children, when we'reteenagers, when we are
individuals who are young adults, we get conditioned.
We come here we don't knowabout the world, we're ignorant
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to it and we forget our naturalnature, and this is on purpose.
And so we get wounded and weencounter traumas and dramas and
struggles and trials andtribulations and difficulties
and struggles and trials andtribulations and difficulties.
And because we don't have thewisdom and the maturity or the
skills and the tools or theknow-how to make sense of the
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world.
We pick up our culture's senseor we focus on survival.
We form what I call MUD.
It's an acronym, it means M-U-D, or Misguided, unconscious
Decisions.
They're misguided because atthe time that we get exposed to
these difficulties, we didn'thave the knowledge, the
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experience, the know-how, thewisdom, the tools, the skills to
make sense of it.
It's unconscious because thesethings live in our unconscious
mind and follow us around like ashadow.
They kind of haunt us, so tospeak.
And they're decisions because,whether we remember it or not,
we made a choice about how tosee ourselves and the world as a
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result of what happened to us.
Now, much of this mud cloudsour vision and this conditioning
phase is designed this way tocondition us, so that we have to
wake up to the work, the uniquework that we must do to grow
ourselves, to enrich others andto evolve our little piece of
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the world while we're here inthis 3D reality.
And the second phase is theawakening phase.
And the awakening phase is whenyou realize that your history,
your unique genetics, yourunique pain and suffering, the
unique people you've interactedwith your unique interests and
passions and talents and all therest, all of your historical
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nature and personality, etc.
The uniqueness of you realizingthat you are unique.
There has never been anotherhuman like you on the face of
the earth or humanity, nor willthere ever be again.
And because of that uniqueness,you have unique work that you
can do.
By the way, you're not specialin any way just because you're
unique, but your uniqueness doesallow you to do something
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special in the world.
There's work that you can do inonly the way that you can do it
as a result of everything thathas happened to you, all that
you are and all that uniquenessand the awakening phase is you
waking up to that?
And, from my perspective, in thehuman game.
The human game is prodding you,nudging you.
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Source consciousness is workingthrough you and with you to
evolve itself.
You are a piece of it, anextension of it.
It is using you as the leadingedge of its experiences for you
to grow individually, enrichothers and evolve yourself and
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the greater collectiveconsciousness.
This is the story of the game.
Now, whether that is true ornot is irrelevant for me.
It's incredibly useful as anoperating system for you to grow
and get better and feelmeaningful purpose in your life,
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and so the human game is allabout learning to interact with
this source field, learning theway that it speaks and becoming
the work that you are meant tobe.
And when I say meant to be, Ijust want to clarify this here
in a minute.
I don't think it's necessarilymeant to be.
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It's more possibility to be.
There are many different thingsbased on your passions, your
talents, your pain, yoursuffering, your history, your
genetics, your uniqueness thatyou could be.
For example, I have a uniquebackground, right, your
uniqueness that you could be.
For example, I have a uniquebackground, right.
My background is in strengthand conditioning.
My background is in psychology.
My background is in naturalmedicine and functional medicine
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.
I have extra expertise intranspersonal psychology and in
philosophy and the philosophy ofconsciousness and interesting
quantum physics and all of thesethings.
Now I could be a healer, which Idid.
Spend much of my time being ahealer.
I could be a trainer.
I could be many things, but nowI have focused on teacher.
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Teacher is the global thingthat I do, and then my unique
history, expertise and all thosethings make it so that I teach
in a particular way, and so Ican choose.
So it's not that it's meant tobe and that I have to find it.
It's more that it's something Ichoose and create based on the
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possibilities.
For me, now, this is important,because I can't sing, and so I
don't have the possibility ofbeing a rock star.
I can't go and manifest being,you know, a Taylor Swift type of
person.
I can't do that.
I don't have the skill sets forthat.
I don't have the knowledge, theexperience, the know-how, I
don't have the historicalbackground, I don't have the
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vocal cords right.
And so we do have to work withinthe limits of our natural
nature.
In the same way, when we occupythis 3D world, we can't
manifest our way out of gravity,so to speak.
There are rules in the 3D worldthat might not apply in other
dimensions, but they apply here,and these limits force us to
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work within those limitations.
And so the idea, then, is wetake on this role, we pretend
this is the way it works, we usethis story in the human game to
grow ourselves and to havemassive upgrades in
self-development and a nextlevel human life.
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And, by the way, it just sohappens that psychology research
tells us this is the way itworks, that the beliefs, the
stories we tell, the quality ofthose stories determine the
quality of our lives the belief,for example, if I'm sick, that
I can actually heal myself,adjust the probabilities that I
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actually will when I think aparticular way.
Studies by Aaliyah Crum, forexample when we look and we
perceive a food as a particulartype of food, whether healthy or
not, it actually changes thereaction that food has in our
biochemistry.
And so we have these studies,studies by Rupert Sheldrake, for
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example, that demonstrate thatthe scopostesia, for example,
that you can actually sense whensomeone's staring at you in a
double-blind, controlled fashion, which means consciousness is
not local to the brain, if webelieve those lines of research,
research by Tanya Lerman out ofStanford University, talking
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about how story changes the waypeople interact with the world,
what they believe they'recapable of, and how the world
changes around them.
And so we have lots and lotsand lots of data that suggest
that this is actually the way itworks, actually the way it
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works, and so whether it'sactually factually true that we
are spiritual entities occupyinga human avatar body.
It is a very useful game toplay, because the story is
powerful in its ability togenerate massive useful outcomes
for us as humans.
And so the goal, then, of thehuman game is to awaken.
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And so I'll say one more thing,and then we can wrap this idea
up.
We have these two phases, theconditioning phase and the
awakening phase, and then weknow that the goal is to choose
and create the unique work thatonly we can do in the way that
we can do it.
Choose and create the uniquework that only we can do in the
way that we can do it, and thisjob comes down to understanding
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the way that sourceconsciousness or the source
field speaks, and this comesdown to the download that we
have when we are incarnating ashumans.
Again, understanding the humangame.
Well, one piece of software wehave is intuition.
Another piece of software,let's say, we have is instinct,
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and another piece of software wehave is intellect.
And so now we can essentiallysay instinct comes from mud,
it's designed to keep us safeand, by the way, this is useful,
because if we're going to livelong enough to evolve and do our
unique work on the planet, weneed to stay away from danger.
We need to understand what isgood or bad, we need to
understand this, and instinctdoes that.
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The problem, though, is instinctkeeps us safe, keeps us in
survival mode and keeps us fromintuition.
Instinct is mud-based.
These misguided, unconsciousdecisions.
This is what instinct causes usto do.
It causes us to go back intothe same familiarity.
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So you know, you're operatingfrom instinct when you encounter
the same repeated patterns.
You're operating from instinctwhen you encounter the same
repeated patterns, recurrentobstacles, struggles on repeat,
stuck emotions, over and overand over again.
Instinct causes us to loop againand again and again.
It causes our beliefs not tochange.
It keeps us stuck.
At its worst, it devolves us ashumans and spirits.
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Intuition, on the other hand,pushes us forward.
It's higher intelligence.
It nudges us with things likesynchronicities and
serendipities and positive signsand elevated emotions and new
opportunities to upgrade ourbeliefs and evolve ourselves.
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And so these two pieces ofsoftware they're not necessarily
at odds, but oftentimes, ashumans, we can't distinguish
between them because they feelexactly the same.
They feel like gut level stuff.
Most people playing the humangame who say they're operating
from intuition are reallyoperating from instinct.
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They are operating from old mud, old fears, and the only way
they know is to understand howsource consciousness prods us
and pushes us.
When you're operating frominstinct, it's like going down a
road that looks familiar butquickly becomes frustrating.
Repeated patterns, recurrentstruggles, stuck emotions,
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recurrent obstacles continue toshow up again and again in
health, in wealth, in financeand career, in personal
relationships, in love and inpurpose and meaning career, in
personal relationships, in loveand in purpose and meaning.
When we're operating fromintuition, however, this is the
hard part, because intuitionfeels kind of strange.
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It feels like fear mixed withcomfort.
It feels like fear mixed withpossibility, whereas instinct
feels like familiarity thatturns to frustration.
Intuition feels like fearful atfirst, but then it becomes fun
and fulfilling Because as you godown that road, once you
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overcome the fear and get out ofyour comfort zone and follow
your intuition, you startrunning into synchronicities and
serendipities and newopportunities and you elevate
and you grow.
And this is why some of theworst things that have happened
to us you hear this all the timefrom people who live a
self-examined life, the personaldevelopment life.
Many of you listening to thislive that lifestyle.
Otherwise you would not belistening to this.
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We share that, you and me.
We share the idea that we wantto live an examined life and
elevate ourselves as humans,idea that we want to live an
examined life and elevateourselves as humans.
Many of us who are on that pathwant this fulfilled, fun aspect
of what intuition brings, butit can be fearful.
These synchronicities andserendipities and new
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opportunities grow us, push usto evolve.
Now here's the trick.
The other thing is the otherthing that we have.
The other piece of software wehave to work with us is the
intellect, and this is where itgets tricky, because the
intellect is neutral.
It simply serves instinct orintuition.
So if you're operating from mud, misguided, unconscious
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decisions and your instinct, theintellect will convince you
you're right.
It will convince you to findthings in the world that, yes,
your beliefs are right.
Yes, you're right to have donethat.
Yes, don't change your beliefs.
Yes, those people are scary.
Yes, you know all those things.
That's what intellect does.
It convinces you you're right.
Now we all know this.
Look out in the social medialandscape.
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Now it's just people usingtheir intellect to justify their
instinctual fears.
Now intellect can work theother way as well.
You can use intellect to furtheryour intuitive growth, and this
really does come down to whatwe've heard in religions and
philosophies and ancient schoolsof thought, from Buddhism to
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Taoism, to Christianity and allthe rest, this idea that there's
really two paths.
There's the path of fear andthere's the path of love.
Well, this is what we'retalking about here.
There's either the path ofinstinct fear or the path of
what source field is made oflove.
Following your intuition leadsyou down that path and leads you
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to doing your unique work andwaking up to your full potential
and possibility.
And so the human game is allabout you learning how this
process works, to actually be indialogue with and communion
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with the source field, to beginto rewrite the old, misguided,
unconscious to stories not erasethem, by the way, and not erase
them, but edit them, upgradethem to new stories for new
possibilities of meaning.
If you're going to grow as ahuman, you've got to get out of
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the mud.
You need to rewrite and editthose stories.
You also need to rewire theemotional holding patterns,
those fear-based emotions andtriggers that keep you stuck.
And then, of course, you haveto retrain habits and behaviors.
But isn't it funny that everyother self-development program
out there, what it does is itretrains.
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It's all about tiny habits, andyou know, learn to get on board
with your circadian rhythms andbalance your nervous system
when there are two much moreimportant and powerful things
that the rest ignore, much moreimportant and powerful things
that the rest ignore.
Retrain is all about thebiohacking and the
self-development books and thenervous system balancing and all
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of that kind of stuff.
But rewrite is what gets at themud and rewire is what gets at
the emotional holding patternsthat reinforce that mud.
You know mud is interesting.
It can be solid like cement,sticky like a mud puddle.
Emotional holding patterns thatreinforce that mud.
You know mud is interesting.
It's kind of.
It can be solid like cement,sticky like a mud puddle, or
loose like, you know, muddywater.
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And ultimately, what we want todo is we want to clear that mud,
we want to break through thatmud and we do that by dropping
into the subconscious mind andbegin to rewrite those stories
and to integrate and tobasically say, oh, that pain,
that suffering, that thing thatI'm blaming, complaining,
whimpering, whining about orblaming people and finding fault
with that was actuallysomething that I needed.
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I need to own it.
I need to take responsibilityfor it.
I dare say I need to use it to.
I need to take responsibilityfor it, I dare say I need to use
it to grow.
That was the entire purpose ofit.
And when you do that, the mudbegins to release and then you
begin to grow and awaken in thisgame and life begins to change.
And so you want to step in thisgame and learn how to rewrite
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and rewire, not simply retrain.
Therapy, psychedelics, coaching,most energy work, emdr,
hypnosis all of these things canhave some utility, but none of
them rewrite, rewire, retrainall at the same time and in the
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right order, and this is whythey fail most of the time for
most people, or seem to only getyou so far.
And so that's what the humangame is about.
And so, at the risk of ramblingon and on and on I could talk
forever on these concepts I'mgoing to leave it there to pique
your interest.
The human game is now availablefor purchase.
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I have just launched it for itsinaugural opening, and it is
available now.
And it is available at thecheapest rate of all the Next
Level Human offerings $97 amonth, the cost, basically, of a
daily coffee habit for threemonths.
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I hope you will join us withthe human game.
We start September 8th.
Thank you so much for hangingout on the podcast and I will
talk to you at the next show.
All right, everybody, welcome to the Next Level Human
show.
I apologize about the audiotoday If you hear that.
I'm actually riding in the carand thought I would knock this
out.
And I know that some people areall about the professional
quality audio and all that kindof stuff, and I love that stuff
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too, but I also like to just dothese shows.
You know shows when I have thetime and when it strikes me.
I didn't get one in earlierthis week, so I'm going to get
it in now.
Hopefully you're getting good,crisp audio, and that's okay
with you.
What are we going to talk abouttoday?
I want to talk about somethingthat I have really been talking
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about a lot lately, and it's onmy mind because I've just
launched a new program calledthe Human Game, and the Human
Game is what we're going todiscuss.
What exactly is it, how can youunderstand it and how can you
interact with it and what arethe rules?
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And so I want to start bytelling you a story that
happened to me in one of my lastyears in medical school, and so
I graduated from medical schoolback in 2004.
So this is over 20 years ago,and it would have been around
1999, early 2000.
And I know that because it hadto do with my sister, and I was
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sound asleep and sleeping andhad a dream, and in that dream
my grandmother, who had passed,walked into my room, gently, put
her hand on my back and in mydream I turned over and began to
have a conversation with her.
And in that dream she told melots of things.
I only remember two of them,though, because they became
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apparent to me after the fact.
She said a lot of things, butthe two things I remember were
the following Number one yoursister is pregnant with a boy.
And number two, she said, inthese particular words and I
think it stuck with me justbecause of the oddness of the
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choice of words, she said stayout of the civil war that's
coming within the family.
And as it so happens, the nextmorning my sister, who at the
time was living in New York Cityand I was in Seattle, called me
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.
And at that time I didn't havea cell phone.
I had, you know, one of thoseanswer machines and landlines
and anyway, it was just weirdbecause I picked up the phone,
it would have been late in,maybe afternoon her time, early
morning my time.
I forget why she was calling.
But I said oh, how come youdidn't tell me you were pregnant
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?
I'm kind of the jokester in thefamily.
I was just going along withthis dream, I was remembering.
She started laughing.
I was like what the hell are?
I was remembering and shestarted laughing.
I was like what the hell areyou talking about?
I am not pregnant.
I have no desire to havechildren right now.
I'm on the pill and we have noplans of having kids.
She had just been about ninemonths in a relationship with
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her now husband and so I justkept the joke going.
Of course I didn't know, I wasjust joking around.
I said well, you're pregnant,so good luck with that.
I had this dream and you'repregnant.
So, and she laughed and said,whatever.
Then we had our discussion andhung up the phone and about two
weeks later she calls me andgoes Jade, I'm pregnant.
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What the fuck like, tell me allabout this dream.
And of course, at that momentI'm like what?
You're pregnant and this kindof blew me away.
So I told her all about thedream and then I remembered some
of the other aspects, like Itold you, and her son, sol,
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middle name Jade, was namedafter me because of this, and
I'll get to the point of this injust a minute.
But also I want to tell youthis other part about the civil
war in the family.
So about 10 years after that,there was a major upheaval in
the family regarding my sisterand my brother and the rest of
the family, and this family kindof schismed, kind of into two
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groups, and I had alwaysremembered what my grandmother
said and I tried to remainneutral.
I did remain neutral the entiretime.
Now, why am I bringing this up?
Because it has everything to dowith the human game.
And after this event, of course, it took me many years it's not
until actually fairly recently,in the last decade, right?
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So this is over 25 years agonow, right?
Or is it?
What?
Is it so 2000,?
But yeah, so 25 years ago Istarted to realize there's
something to this and I startedto realize this was not the
first kind of experience I hadlike this.
I had had experiences like thisas a kid, where I would get
information or seem to knowcertain things and just
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understood certain things aboutwhat would happen or what the
future might hold.
And it wasn't until probablythe last year after I went
through my breakup, divorce, anaffair on my behalf and complete
upheaval of my life, which manyof you who follow my work and
my podcast know that I tell thisstory a lot and try to teach
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from it, because I believethat's what our struggles and
suffering are meant to dothey're meant to be lessons for
ourselves, for growth, but alsoto help other people grow and
learn and not make the samemistakes.
And I started to realize, as Ibegan to study quantum physics
and the neuroscience of changeand the biology of belief and
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the psychology of transformation, the Psychology of
Transformation that what I wastapping into at these moments of
premonition and getting thisinformation is what the quantum
physicists would call thezero-point field, or what hippie
types, woo-woo, new age typesmight call the universe, what
religious types call God, whatphilosophers might call source
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consciousness.
I've come to calling it thesource field.
It just has a nice ring to it,kind of sounds like the force
field and helps me conveybasically what it actually is.
So this source field is thisvast field of information, and
if you listen to quantumphysicists like Frederico Vigine
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and philosophers and scientistslike Bernardo Kastrup and
others, they will speak of thisfield as synonymous with
universal consciousness.
They will speak of quantuminformation as the same as
universal consciousness, and Istarted to understand this field
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as this vast field of source,potential and possibility, a
field of information, a fieldthat, when we get into
subconscious states like alphatheta states, psychedelic states
, meditative states, differentstates that actually happen in
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everyday life, if you've everbeen thinking about a friend
while you're driving in the carand had them text you or got a
download in the shower ofcreative stuff that you're
working on, you kind of know alittle bit what I'm talking
about.
Of course, if you've ever donea psychedelic journey or tapped
into this field throughmeditation, you definitely know
what I'm talking about.
Of course, if you've ever donea psychedelic journey or tapped
into this field throughmeditation, you definitely know
what I'm talking about.
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And I started to realize thatthese experiences that I had had
in the past and with my sisterduring this dream, were me
essentially tapping this field,and in this field, time is not a
thing.
There's only ever the now, andso future and past merge.
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Now, what does this have to dowith the human game?
Well, if we start to understandthis new science, that
materialism, the idea thatconsciousness is just all in the
brain and the brain creates ourqualitative reality.
If we start to see that that isnot necessarily how it works,
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which science quantum physics isbeginning to point to Now?
Of course, that's incrediblycontroversial, and many
physicists or other scientistswho are listening to me talk
right now may have severe bonesto pick with me with saying that
, but there are many, many of usnow, myself included, who
believe this is exactly what'sgoing on and that materialism is
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not actually how this works,that it works more like idealism
.
Whereas materialism says thebrain is the source of
consciousness, idealism saysthat consciousness is primary,
it's all around us, that ourbody, made of matter, and
everything else that we can seeis just a different form of
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energetic consciousness,consciousness being primary, and
so that our brains are morelike a filter for consciousness,
like a radio receiver or anantenna for consciousness, and
we humans are individual aspects, fragments of this
consciousness that can tap inwith our own antennas to the
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greater consciousness field,this source field, and when we
do that, we can gain quantuminformation and perhaps glimpse
things that may not havehappened yet.
Now.
This to me is surprising for meto even talk about, because, as
a guy who is an evidence-basedguy.
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For a very long time I wouldhave heard myself having this
conversation and really scoffedat it.
And just to give you a littlebit of background on that, you
know my background when I was inmy early 20s studying
biochemistry.
You know I grew up with ahippie mom, so it does make some
sense.
It's not like some of thisinformation is foreign to me.
And when I was in my late teens,early 20s, my first couple
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years of college, I delved intolucid dreaming and meditation
and these kinds of things,remote viewing and I was highly
into this stuff.
And then I went away to analternative medical school,
bastyr University, which was inSeattle, washington at the time,
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which was one of only a fewuniversities in the United
States that trained primary carephysicians in lifestyle
medicine.
And I opted to go to thatschool because when I looked at
the traditional medical schoolthat I was on my way to East
Carolina University MedicalSchool, I saw at that time that
they did not do any training innutrition, any training in
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psychology, any training inhealth and fitness, which was
something I was steeped in atthe time.
So I took a chance and went tothis new school and at the time
you might be saying, well,that's no big deal because all
that's mainstream now, but atthe time this was like
witchcraft medicine.
All my friends told me do notdo that, you're going to kill
your career, you're never goingto work, you're never going to
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have a future.
And I followed my intuition, Ifollowed my heart.
I went anyway, having no ideathat this would be the future
and that this would becomemainstream.
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However, while I was there, Ibecame very, very put off by
alternative views because, theway I saw it is, most of my
colleagues and most of myteachers and most of the people
at that school were steeped inwoo, new age mythology,
unsubstantiated claims.
We were learning reallyhigh-quality basic sciences and
things like that, but alongsidethat we were learning homeopathy
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and traditional Chinesemedicine and Ayurvedic medicine
and all that stuff was to me,unfounded, unsubstantiated, and
some of my classmates were soout there.
I actually began to have adistaste for what I might call
making shit up, and rest assuredthat I still see much of the
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alternative medicine world asmaking stuff up and I still am
very evidence-based and believewe should be evidence-based.
But it is funny to me thatthrough that process of then
getting very deep in science, Ieventually, through science,
found my way back to these earlyroots, into lucid dreaming.
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In fact, my deep work that manyof you have been interested.
Depth-enhanced emotionalprocessing combines depth
psychology, lucid dreaming,alpha-theta brainwave states and
dimensionalized consciousnessprompts to get people into the
subconscious mind, to rewriteold dramas and traumas keeping
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them stuck in their lives, inhealth and fitness and wealth
and career and finance andpersonal relationships and
purpose and meaning.
And so all of this to say thatI have found my way back to this
new understanding.
And the new understandingbasically goes like this, and
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before I tell you this, I wantto just share something with you
Stories are how we humans makesense of the world.
Stories are how we decide whatis useful and they guide us in
what is useful, us in what isuseful, and they don't always
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portray what is literally true,but they can point to universal
truth.
Let me give you an example.
Let's take the story of HarryPotter, right.
So that story we all know isnot literally true, but we would
agree that there's universaltruths embedded inside of that
story.
It's a useful story aboutcourage and integrity.
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For someone like me who's notsomeone who believes the Bible
is the word of God.
I see it as simply a book ofmetaphors that can provide some
universal truth.
So from my perspective, I seethe Bible very similarly, and of
course, these stories and thesetruths might come from the
source field.
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So, in a roundabout way, Iguess we could say the Bible is
the Word of God.
The men who were writing thisbook were getting downloads.
Of course, they're filtering itthrough their own human filters
, which can be contaminated withtheir own dirty filtered lenses
mud, which we'll talk abouthere in a minute, which is why
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many of these stories getcontaminated.
You'll find some universaltruths and you'll find some
pretty atrocious stuff as well,and the reason why is because we
humans can download aspects oftruth, but we also have our own
instinctual, what I call mud,which I'll explain in a minute,
which can get us stuck and getus confused as to what is useful
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.
But the reason I bring this upis because when we're looking at
the human game, what we want todo is we want to, as we embark
on trying to transform ourselves, enrich others and evolve the
world by doing our unique work.
What we want to do is tellourselves good stories that help
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us do that work and detach fromwhether or not these stories
are actually true.
For example, I'm going to tellyou a story, and I'm actually
not necessarily attached towhether it's true or not.
I don't even know that Ibelieve that this is literally
true.
I just see it as a verypowerful, useful story, and the
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story goes like this we humansare spiritual beings who have
agreed to come down and playthis game in a human avatar body
, and so we come down into thisgame to grow our spirit, to help
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grow others, spirits that arehere with us in human avatar
bodies, with the purpose ofevolving our collective selves,
which is essentially sourceconsciousness, and in that
process we learn and we teachand we love.
And in that process, as we,let's say, incarnate into these
human avatar bodies, we forgetthat we are higher consciousness
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and we are tethered to andattached to the source field and
of course, we are fragments ofit.
So we have access to it, butnot complete understanding.
And because we are like anantenna picking up a particular
frequency that dominates us,while we can tap into other
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frequencies, we can't do that,naturally, and the way to think
about this is think about itfrom a radio station point of
view.
You know, when I was coming up,a child of the 80s, we still
had those radio so that youwould, you know, turn the knob
and you'd be going from stationto station and be like, and then
you get some static, and then,finally, you'd hit on a radio
station that might be playing,you know, top 40 pop music, or
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might be playing hip hop, ormight be playing country, or
might be playing classical,right, and so what?
The way to think about us isthat we are each our own station
and indeed our own music, andso we are each a particular song
being downloaded from thissource field.
We have our unique frequency,the unique song we play, and, of
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course, we have a channel werelate to too, so we could call
that our people per se.
So let's say I'm 107 FM, butmore particularly, let's say 107
FM plays hip-hop music, andmore particularly, I'm 107 FM
and I'm in the hip-hop genre andlet's say I'm more like the
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artist Drake and I'm aparticular song that Drake sings
, right, and so certain peoplewho also vibe with Drake, I vibe
with, and certain people wholike hip-hop, I vibe with and
they're kind of like my people,but all the other music I can
explore and learn from.
I can learn from country, I canlearn from classical and any of
these types of music or otherpeople or songs that I reject or
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neglect or think are bad, Iexclude and don't learn from.
And so you can think of this asour job here is to expand our
awareness, try to find fullconnection to the source field
and grow ourselves in this way.
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And this is what the human gameis all about.
The human game is basically away of understanding how to talk
to and engage with the sourcefield, source consciousness, the
universal field, god, if youlike.
And so this human game is agame that we humans must play.
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The only problem is there's twoaspects to this game, two
phases to the game.
The first phase is aconditioning phase.
When we're children, when we'reteenagers, when we are
individuals who are young adults, we get conditioned.
We come here we don't knowabout the world, we're ignorant
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to it and we forget our naturalnature, and this is on purpose.
And so we get wounded and weencounter traumas and dramas and
struggles and trials andtribulations and difficulties
and struggles and trials andtribulations and difficulties.
And because we don't have thewisdom and the maturity or the
skills and the tools or theknow-how to make sense of the
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world.
We pick up our culture's senseor we focus on survival.
We form what I call MUD.
It's an acronym, it means M-U-D, or Misguided, unconscious
Decisions.
They're misguided because atthe time that we get exposed to
these difficulties, we didn'thave the knowledge, the
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experience, the know-how, thewisdom, the tools, the skills to
make sense of it.
It's unconscious because thesethings live in our unconscious
mind and follow us around like ashadow.
They kind of haunt us, so tospeak.
And they're decisions because,whether we remember it or not,
we made a choice about how tosee ourselves and the world as a
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result of what happened to us.
Now, much of this mud cloudsour vision and this conditioning
phase is designed this way tocondition us, so that we have to
wake up to the work, the uniquework that we must do to grow
ourselves, to enrich others andto evolve our little piece of
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the world while we're here inthis 3D reality.
And the second phase is theawakening phase.
And the awakening phase is whenyou realize that your history,
your unique genetics, yourunique pain and suffering, the
unique people you've interactedwith your unique interests and
passions and talents and all therest, all of your historical
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nature and personality, etc.
The uniqueness of you realizingthat you are unique.
There has never been anotherhuman like you on the face of
the earth or humanity, nor willthere ever be again.
And because of that uniqueness,you have unique work that you
can do.
By the way, you're not specialin any way just because you're
unique, but your uniqueness doesallow you to do something
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special in the world.
There's work that you can do inonly the way that you can do it
as a result of everything thathas happened to you, all that
you are and all that uniquenessand the awakening phase is you
waking up to that?
And, from my perspective, in thehuman game.
The human game is prodding you,nudging you.
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Source consciousness is workingthrough you and with you to
evolve itself.
You are a piece of it, anextension of it.
It is using you as the leadingedge of its experiences for you
to grow individually, enrichothers and evolve yourself and
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the greater collectiveconsciousness.
This is the story of the game.
Now, whether that is true ornot is irrelevant for me.
It's incredibly useful as anoperating system for you to grow
and get better and feelmeaningful purpose in your life,
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and so the human game is allabout learning to interact with
this source field, learning theway that it speaks and becoming
the work that you are meant tobe.
And when I say meant to be, Ijust want to clarify this here
in a minute.
I don't think it's necessarilymeant to be.
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It's more possibility to be.
There are many different thingsbased on your passions, your
talents, your pain, yoursuffering, your history, your
genetics, your uniqueness thatyou could be.
For example, I have a uniquebackground, right, your
uniqueness that you could be.
For example, I have a uniquebackground, right.
My background is in strengthand conditioning.
My background is in psychology.
My background is in naturalmedicine and functional medicine
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.
I have extra expertise intranspersonal psychology and in
philosophy and the philosophy ofconsciousness and interesting
quantum physics and all of thesethings.
Now I could be a healer, which Idid.
Spend much of my time being ahealer.
I could be a trainer.
I could be many things, but nowI have focused on teacher.
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Teacher is the global thingthat I do, and then my unique
history, expertise and all thosethings make it so that I teach
in a particular way, and so Ican choose.
So it's not that it's meant tobe and that I have to find it.
It's more that it's something Ichoose and create based on the
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possibilities.
For me, now, this is important,because I can't sing, and so I
don't have the possibility ofbeing a rock star.
I can't go and manifest being,you know, a Taylor Swift type of
person.
I can't do that.
I don't have the skill sets forthat.
I don't have the knowledge, theexperience, the know-how, I
don't have the historicalbackground, I don't have the
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vocal cords right.
And so we do have to work withinthe limits of our natural
nature.
In the same way, when we occupythis 3D world, we can't
manifest our way out of gravity,so to speak.
There are rules in the 3D worldthat might not apply in other
dimensions, but they apply here,and these limits force us to
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work within those limitations.
And so the idea, then, is wetake on this role, we pretend
this is the way it works, we usethis story in the human game to
grow ourselves and to havemassive upgrades in
self-development and a nextlevel human life.
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And, by the way, it just sohappens that psychology research
tells us this is the way itworks, that the beliefs, the
stories we tell, the quality ofthose stories determine the
quality of our lives the belief,for example, if I'm sick, that
I can actually heal myself,adjust the probabilities that I
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actually will when I think aparticular way.
Studies by Aaliyah Crum, forexample when we look and we
perceive a food as a particulartype of food, whether healthy or
not, it actually changes thereaction that food has in our
biochemistry.
And so we have these studies,studies by Rupert Sheldrake, for
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example, that demonstrate thatthe scopostesia, for example,
that you can actually sense whensomeone's staring at you in a
double-blind, controlled fashion, which means consciousness is
not local to the brain, if webelieve those lines of research,
research by Tanya Lerman out ofStanford University, talking
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about how story changes the waypeople interact with the world,
what they believe they'recapable of, and how the world
changes around them.
And so we have lots and lotsand lots of data that suggest
that this is actually the way itworks, actually the way it
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works, and so whether it'sactually factually true that we
are spiritual entities occupyinga human avatar body.
It is a very useful game toplay, because the story is
powerful in its ability togenerate massive useful outcomes
for us as humans.
And so the goal, then, of thehuman game is to awaken.
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And so I'll say one more thing,and then we can wrap this idea
up.
We have these two phases, theconditioning phase and the
awakening phase, and then weknow that the goal is to choose
and create the unique work thatonly we can do in the way that
we can do it.
Choose and create the uniquework that only we can do in the
way that we can do it, and thisjob comes down to understanding
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the way that sourceconsciousness or the source
field speaks, and this comesdown to the download that we
have when we are incarnating ashumans.
Again, understanding the humangame.
Well, one piece of software wehave is intuition.
Another piece of software,let's say, we have is instinct,
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and another piece of software wehave is intellect.
And so now we can essentiallysay instinct comes from mud,
it's designed to keep us safeand, by the way, this is useful,
because if we're going to livelong enough to evolve and do our
unique work on the planet, weneed to stay away from danger.
We need to understand what isgood or bad, we need to
understand this, and instinctdoes that.
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The problem, though, is instinctkeeps us safe, keeps us in
survival mode and keeps us fromintuition.
Instinct is mud-based.
These misguided, unconsciousdecisions.
This is what instinct causes usto do.
It causes us to go back intothe same familiarity.
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So you know, you're operatingfrom instinct when you encounter
the same repeated patterns.
You're operating from instinctwhen you encounter the same
repeated patterns, recurrentobstacles, struggles on repeat,
stuck emotions, over and overand over again.
Instinct causes us to loop againand again and again.
It causes our beliefs not tochange.
It keeps us stuck.
At its worst, it devolves us ashumans and spirits.
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Intuition, on the other hand,pushes us forward.
It's higher intelligence.
It nudges us with things likesynchronicities and
serendipities and positive signsand elevated emotions and new
opportunities to upgrade ourbeliefs and evolve ourselves.
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And so these two pieces ofsoftware they're not necessarily
at odds, but oftentimes, ashumans, we can't distinguish
between them because they feelexactly the same.
They feel like gut level stuff.
Most people playing the humangame who say they're operating
from intuition are reallyoperating from instinct.
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They are operating from old mud, old fears, and the only way
they know is to understand howsource consciousness prods us
and pushes us.
When you're operating frominstinct, it's like going down a
road that looks familiar butquickly becomes frustrating.
Repeated patterns, recurrentstruggles, stuck emotions,
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recurrent obstacles continue toshow up again and again in
health, in wealth, in financeand career, in personal
relationships, in love and inpurpose and meaning career, in
personal relationships, in loveand in purpose and meaning.
When we're operating fromintuition, however, this is the
hard part, because intuitionfeels kind of strange.
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It feels like fear mixed withcomfort.
It feels like fear mixed withpossibility, whereas instinct
feels like familiarity thatturns to frustration.
Intuition feels like fearful atfirst, but then it becomes fun
and fulfilling Because as you godown that road, once you
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overcome the fear and get out ofyour comfort zone and follow
your intuition, you startrunning into synchronicities and
serendipities and newopportunities and you elevate
and you grow.
And this is why some of theworst things that have happened
to us you hear this all the timefrom people who live a
self-examined life, the personaldevelopment life.
Many of you listening to thislive that lifestyle.
Otherwise you would not belistening to this.
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We share that, you and me.
We share the idea that we wantto live an examined life and
elevate ourselves as humans,idea that we want to live an
examined life and elevateourselves as humans.
Many of us who are on that pathwant this fulfilled, fun aspect
of what intuition brings, butit can be fearful.
These synchronicities andserendipities and new
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opportunities grow us, push usto evolve.
Now here's the trick.
The other thing is the otherthing that we have.
The other piece of software wehave to work with us is the
intellect, and this is where itgets tricky, because the
intellect is neutral.
It simply serves instinct orintuition.
So if you're operating from mud, misguided, unconscious
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decisions and your instinct, theintellect will convince you
you're right.
It will convince you to findthings in the world that, yes,
your beliefs are right.
Yes, you're right to have donethat.
Yes, don't change your beliefs.
Yes, those people are scary.
Yes, you know all those things.
That's what intellect does.
It convinces you you're right.
Now we all know this.
Look out in the social medialandscape.
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Now it's just people usingtheir intellect to justify their
instinctual fears.
Now intellect can work theother way as well.
You can use intellect to furtheryour intuitive growth, and this
really does come down to whatwe've heard in religions and
philosophies and ancient schoolsof thought, from Buddhism to
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Taoism, to Christianity and allthe rest, this idea that there's
really two paths.
There's the path of fear andthere's the path of love.
Well, this is what we'retalking about here.
There's either the path ofinstinct fear or the path of
what source field is made oflove.
Following your intuition leadsyou down that path and leads you
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to doing your unique work andwaking up to your full potential
and possibility.
And so the human game is allabout you learning how this
process works, to actually be indialogue with and communion
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with the source field, to beginto rewrite the old, misguided,
unconscious to stories not erasethem, by the way, and not erase
them, but edit them, upgradethem to new stories for new
possibilities of meaning.
If you're going to grow as ahuman, you've got to get out of
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the mud.
You need to rewrite and editthose stories.
You also need to rewire theemotional holding patterns,
those fear-based emotions andtriggers that keep you stuck.
And then, of course, you haveto retrain habits and behaviors.
But isn't it funny that everyother self-development program
out there, what it does is itretrains.
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It's all about tiny habits, andyou know, learn to get on board
with your circadian rhythms andbalance your nervous system
when there are two much moreimportant and powerful things
that the rest ignore, much moreimportant and powerful things
that the rest ignore.
Retrain is all about thebiohacking and the
self-development books and thenervous system balancing and all
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of that kind of stuff.
But rewrite is what gets at themud and rewire is what gets at
the emotional holding patternsthat reinforce that mud.
You know mud is interesting.
It can be solid like cement,sticky like a mud puddle.
Emotional holding patterns thatreinforce that mud.
You know mud is interesting.
It's kind of.
It can be solid like cement,sticky like a mud puddle, or
loose like, you know, muddywater.
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And ultimately, what we want todo is we want to clear that mud,
we want to break through thatmud and we do that by dropping
into the subconscious mind andbegin to rewrite those stories
and to integrate and tobasically say, oh, that pain,
that suffering, that thing thatI'm blaming, complaining,
whimpering, whining about orblaming people and finding fault
with that was actuallysomething that I needed.
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I need to own it.
I need to take responsibilityfor it.
I dare say I need to use it to.
I need to take responsibilityfor it, I dare say I need to use
it to grow.
That was the entire purpose ofit.
And when you do that, the mudbegins to release and then you
begin to grow and awaken in thisgame and life begins to change.
And so you want to step in thisgame and learn how to rewrite
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and rewire, not simply retrain.
Therapy, psychedelics, coaching,most energy work, emdr,
hypnosis all of these things canhave some utility, but none of
them rewrite, rewire, retrainall at the same time and in the
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right order, and this is whythey fail most of the time for
most people, or seem to only getyou so far.
And so that's what the humangame is about.
And so, at the risk of ramblingon and on and on I could talk
forever on these concepts I'mgoing to leave it there to pique
your interest.
The human game is now availablefor purchase.
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I have just launched it for itsinaugural opening, and it is
available now.
And it is available at thecheapest rate of all the Next
Level Human offerings $97 amonth, the cost, basically, of a
daily coffee habit for threemonths.
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I hope you will join us withthe human game.
We start September 8th.
Thank you so much for hangingout on the podcast and I will
talk to you at the next show.
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