December 31, 2024 • 28 mins
We explore what it means to "come alive" in 2025 by embracing our authentic selves and accepting everything that has brought us to this point. True transformation begins with accepting who we are right now, letting go of what doesn't serve us, and opening ourselves to the infinite possibilities that await when we truly know ourselves.
• The power of asking "what's next?" for your spiritual journey while staying open to possibilities
• Why "coming alive" requires going deeper into knowing who you truly are
• How unforgiveness creates mental clutter that blocks your creative potential
• The limitations of a materialistic worldview that only believes what can be physically perceived
• Learning from the story of autistic children who communicate telepathically from a place of pure consciousness
• Steve Jobs' daily mirror reflection: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today?"
• The importance of accepting everything about yourself to make room for growth
• Understanding that you are constantly evolving whether you acknowledge it or not
There is something inside you that is begging you to come alive, begging you to get back in the game, begging you to put the ball in motion. Don't you want to really feel life happening through you? Don't you want to live life out loud, outlandishly? Don't you want to feel like you've never felt before?
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Dr. James Mellon (00:00):
I'm going to put up a slide and it's a
question for you all.
Here we go what's next If I hada dollar?
For every time people ask methat question what's next for
you in your life, what's nextfor the Global Truth Center,
especially in Palm Springs?
They're like so what's next forus?
(00:21):
And I'm like I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know If I thought Iknew I'd be doing what Thor was
talking about trying to plan thesteps for something, as opposed
to staying open to what is next.
Because when I do know what'snext, I take action, but I first
have to give the question amoment.
(00:43):
So my question to you today iswhat's next for you as we step
out of an old year into a newyear?
What's next, mindy?
You don't need an answer tothis.
Obviously, karen and Brad, Iknow some of your things you're
doing in the upcoming year, butwhat's next for you, consciously
in consciousness?
What's next for you consciouslyin consciousness?
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What's next for you in thedevelopment of your mind?
What's next for you in terms offinding out who you are?
What's next for you in terms ofremembering who you are?
What's next?
So that's a question I want youto think about over the next
few days what is next?
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Because ultimately, at the endof the day, you're part of this
infinite intelligence that wecall God, that we call the
quantum field.
You are that energy that'sconstantly bubbling up.
That energy, that purepotentiality, knows what's next,
because it is constantlyevolving into what's next.
(01:53):
You don't have to help it.
What you do have to do is guideit in your own life.
So the question, what's next?
Begs you to ask yourself insidethe deepest level what, what do
, what do I want to be doing now?
What wants to come through menow?
(02:14):
So some of the lyrics thatmindy just sang, one of the ones
that I loved so much was go onand reignite impossible dreams.
Oops, and we're gone.
No, here it is.
Go on and reignite impossibledreams.
Be the one you never thoughtyou could be.
(02:36):
Come alive this moment.
So our theme for the new year iscome alive in 25.
What impossible dreams have yougiven up on?
What dreams, what thoughts,what desires have you maybe
given up on?
Have you maybe thought it's toolate or they're old ones,
(03:00):
they're no longer viable to me?
But if you actually took themout and looked at them, you'd
realize there's still a lot ofenergy there, and some of that
energy may be energy that'spushing it away from you,
because it's energy of havingopinions and thoughts and
judgments about it.
But what, if, just what, if youwere able, at the end of this
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year, to throw everything aside,everything, and all that was
left is this field of joy andlove and energy and creativity?
What if you were able to pusheverything aside and be in that
moment of anything I decide Iwill make happen and know it's
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true, because in one sense, thatis true individually for each
one of us in our lives.
So, come alive.
This moment.
For me, come alive means I amgoing to drop deeper and deeper
and deeper and deeper intoknowing who I am, so that I walk
this earth more creative thanI've ever been, that I am in
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such a state of knowing who I amthat when I speak my word and
so it is it is Because I fearthat way too many practitioners
are really saying, and so I hopeit will be sometime soon,
really, because unless you areabsolutely certain and in that
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state of pure knowing, you'restill hoping and wishing and
praying and thinking right.
So who would like that for thenew year?
That's the come up.
The rest of your life?
I'm not sure.
Let me think about it.
I'm not sure.
Let me think about it.
The more we go deeper into ourtrue identity, the easier it is
(05:00):
to create the lives we say wewant to live.
So that's why I've picked thistheme for the year come alive.
Besides, it rhymes with five,but come alive in 25.
So I have a question for you,and it's this what do you want?
You're all here today sittinghere, and all of you online, all
of you that are watching online.
You're here virtually or inperson.
(05:22):
What do you want, mary?
What do you want?
And there's actually an endingto that sentence, but I want you
to just sit with that for aminute.
What do you want?
And there's actually an endingto that sentence, but I want you
to just sit with that for aminute.
What do you want, jenny?
Good health, and I knew thatthat's what you were going to
say, right, you know?
Just ask yourself what do Ireally want?
What do I want?
(05:44):
Whenever I ask that question, Iusually hear to be happy.
I want to be happy, but thatopens up the door to so many
things, because the realquestion here is what do you
want tomorrow to look like?
What do you want tomorrow tolook like?
We ask ourselves these kind ofquestions on December 31st, when
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we're sitting at a party orwe're just contemplating the new
year what do I want 2025 tolook like?
But the truth is, whateveryou're doing right now has
already created tomorrow.
Whatever you believe right now,wherever your beliefs have
taken you all through 24 to thismoment, that's creating 2025.
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You are already giving your ownpredestiny a shove because
you're living in those beliefsand those thoughts.
So the question what do youwant tomorrow to look like?
It's kind of important just toget the idea of what you would
like it to look like.
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There's more work to do at thatpoint to find out what am I
actually creating right now?
Because the truth is, when Isaid to you earlier, what's
going to be different thisSunday?
Until next Sunday, we're goingto have a New Year's Eve party
or something in between, andthen New Year's Day to celebrate
, and then we're going to be inNew Year in the new year, and I
honestly feel like 2024 flew by.
(07:10):
Did anybody feel like 2024?
Just like I feel like we justdid this right and some of you
may feel it went really slowly,depending on what happened in
your life, but I can tell youthat what's going to be
different today to next week isabsolutely nothing, unless
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something happens to you, unlessyou do something.
Because if you stick with thesame old, same old, and you
stick with the same beliefsystem and not only stick with
the same belief system, but youstick with the same level of
belief and you're at the levelof I do good, I create parking
spaces and I create good, funthings in my life, but is there
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more?
I asked somebody I'm not goingto say who, but I asked somebody
how they're doing.
They said it couldn't getbetter and my thought was, yes,
it can, it can, but I get theconcept, because the concept of
it can't get any better is adeep concept if it's being lived
and this person actually doeslive this.
But that's that level.
It could not get any betterbecause I know who I am so
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profoundly.
Now I just have to get my ducksin a row of what I want to do
with it.
How do I want to live from this?
So what do you want tomorrow tolook like?
And here's the title of my talktoday why will it be different?
Why will it be different?
Why will you be different nextSunday from this Sunday?
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And you've all been sittinghere.
Many of you have been sittinghere many Sundays.
I've been doing this since whenI first went to hear Eric
Butterworth speak.
I've been every year.
I talked about this yesterdayin Palm Springs.
Every year when we were going toUnity in New York, kevin and I
on New Year's Eve and a bunch offriends would get together for
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a New Year's dinner and we wouldall write our intentions for
the new year out on pieces ofpaper and then I would collect
them and put them in the desk inthe foyer and leave them there
all year.
No one was allowed to come inthere and open them up and try
to remember what they wrote.
They just stayed there.
We usually forgot they werethere until the following year.
It was like, oh, let's see.
(09:22):
And we'd pull them out andeverybody we'd like one at a
time, read what our intentionsintentions were, and then we
would all judge each other onhow well we did.
And it was always reallyannoying Because every year
Kevin pretty much got every oneof his intentions handled every
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year, really.
And I would read mine and you'dhear Kevin, nope, you didn't do
that one, but he was right, Iwas like 50-50.
You know, I was like 50-50.
But then I remember I don'tremember when we stopped doing
that.
Maybe we'll do that this year.
Yeah, I just went.
No, I don't remember when westopped, but I remember at one
(10:09):
point listening to everyone'sintentions for the new year and
I'd already been working withEric Butterworth and studying
with him for a couple of years.
And no, it was when we were inLA.
We'd moved to LA, but a lot ofour friends had moved here as
well.
And we did that.
And I remember hearing all theintentions and going, wow, we
just don't intend big enough.
(10:30):
And I even thought of myself.
I went I'm actually trying tohedge my bets, so next year I
actually have a clean slate.
So let's intend some simplethings here, folks.
But that's not what it's about.
How big are your beliefs?
And are your beliefs big enoughto support the intentions that
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you innately have deep inside?
And that's the question fortoday.
As we move into this New Year'sEve, new Year's Day thing, what
will be different?
And when I asked that lastnight in Palm Springs, someone
said what will make it different?
And they said what will bedifferent?
And I said Last night in PalmSprings, someone said what will
make it different?
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And they said what will bedifferent?
And they said I'll be different.
But how?
How will you be different?
What is it that changes you?
What is it in you that changesyour life?
What is it in you that makesyour world different?
You really need to think aboutthis, because what it is is what
you're believing, what you'rethinking.
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Carl Jung said this we cannotchange anything until we accept
it.
As you all know, I start BODson Thursday morning at 7 am and
I was looking for a slide, aspecific slide for one of my
PowerPoints, and I found thisslide, and I saw this lady
standing in the mirror, but myfirst thought was not, she was
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not judging herself.
She actually has her headtilted in such a way of like,
not bad.
And I know what I want to dowith this and this quote of Carl
Jung we cannot change anythinguntil we accept it.
So thank you, robbie, forgetting some mileage out of
forgive everything, because tome, unforgiveness is clutter
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that is occupying your mind andit doesn't leave room for the
new and it doesn't leave roomfor the new.
It doesn't leave room for yourinnate ability to create
whatever you want in life.
So one of the things I'm goingto ask you to do between now and
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Wednesday at midnight yeah,wednesday at midnight, tuesday
at midnight, wednesday morningI'm going to ask you to pay
attention and go in there and dosome research on yourself.
What is it that you don'taccept about yourself?
Finally, I'll say for me, at 70years old, what do I not accept
about myself?
What parts of me, what thingsabout my life do I not accept
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about myself anymore?
Somebody asked me a questionlast night about West Side Story
.
For those of you who don't know, I did that show, but some
people don't know that because Idon't say it every day.
But it was a great question andshe kind of nailed me on it.
She said so why was West SideStory such a horrible experience
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for you?
And I went in and I explainedwhy.
But it was all about things Ididn't accept about myself and I
said and why I'm so good withit now, why I'm okay with it.
And I get the incredible giftthat those people gave me to
give me something to talk aboutfor the rest of my life.
But this incredible gift ofchoosing me out of thousands of
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guys that wanted that part, thatwas quite a gift.
I didn't see it that way formany, many, many, many years and
I had to go through thisspiritual journey to get to the
point where I finally acceptedwhat made it so was an asshole I
was.
I had this gigantic ego.
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Seriously, I had this giganticego covering up this gigantic
low self-esteem Because I cansee it now, this gigantic ego
covering up this gigantic lowself-esteem.
Because I was a gay actortrying not to be, trying to make
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sure everybody still saw me asa man, right.
And then they cast me in one ofthe butchest roles in history
in musicals, and I just feltlike the imposter.
I was suffering so bad from theimposter syndrome and I made
Jerome Robbins' life miserable.
Now he was a miserable man, butI still made his life more
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miserable.
I was like a moth to his flamefor the two of us and I've
always, for so many years, Iblamed him.
Why am I telling you this story?
Because you all have storieslike that and you may not have
gotten to where I've gotten to.
You may have not gotten to theplace where you accept the
actual reality of what happenedand let it go, because Carl Jung
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is right we cannot changeanything until we accept it.
So one of the other questions Ihave a lot of questions for you
today what do you still need toaccept about yourself in order
to let it go, in order to beable to stand in that mirror?
Thank you, audrey, for thatreading.
She talked at the meditationabout a mirror being, like the
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mind, fully impersonal, and itjust shows you whatever you put
in front of it and gives youwhatever you put in front of it.
So what do you need to acceptin order to put it aside and
leave yourself open to what youwant?
To coming alive?
Because you know what, ifyou're going to come alive into
the same crap you've been comingalive into, that's not going to
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help you.
And I know you're all doingwonderful things too.
Don't think that I'm sittinghere going.
You all need help, that's notit.
But we want more in 24.
We want more.
We want to be the more.
We want to be true to who weare.
So what do you need to accept?
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You have a few days left toaccept where you are and decide
where you are going, and that'sthe thing.
What's next?
Where are you going?
You know you can't go anywhereif you don't know where you are
going, and that's the thing.
What's next?
Where are you going?
You know you can't go anywhereif you don't know where you are.
It's kind of hard to goanywhere when you don't know
where you are.
You wouldn't know whichdirection to walk in.
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You wouldn't know where to go.
So I'm giving you theopportunity here and asking you
to take the opportunity foryourself to really ask what do I
need to accept about myself,about my life, about the past,
about the history?
If you hear yourself tellingthe same victim story over and,
over and over again, that needsto be accepted and let go of,
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because it's not serving you.
It is keeping you in a holethat you will never crawl out of
.
This is the year to put allthat into perspective.
This is the year to get all ofthat and make perfect sense out
of it.
So you know we live in a prettymaterialistic world.
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Yes, wouldn't you say?
We live in a prettymaterialistic world.
We pretty much gauge our livesby what we see, feel, taste,
touch, hear.
You know it's all this stuffout here, our houses, our cars,
our clothes.
And I'm not saying that's a badthing, it's not.
But when we live from thatperspective, the materialistic
perspective, the Newtonianperspective, when we live from
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that, our belief system suffersbecause we tend not to believe
anything that we can't see, hear, taste and touch.
And when we live from thatperspective, that materialistic,
newtonian place, when we livefrom that, we don't tap into
that part of ourselves that hasthe ability to create anything,
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not just what we see.
So d Doug Draper led me to apodcast which is called the
Telepathy Tapes.
I got on the treadmill in PalmSprings I'm going to get
emotional for a minute and Ithought you know, doug's never
led me wrong, he's alwayssteered me in the right
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direction.
So I turned on this podcast.
I don't listen to podcasts whenI'm running, when I'm on the
treadmill, because I like toclose my eyes and just listen to
classical music and disappear.
But I turned it on.
I said I'll give it a minute,two minutes, and then I'll turn
over to the guitar solos.
Well, I didn't.
I spent the half hour, orwhatever it was, with the whole
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podcast of the first one, and itwas about consciousness, but it
was really about consciousness,but it was about these tapes,
this documentary really that'sbeing done on autistic children
and how autistic children cancommunicate telepathically.
Children can communicatetelepathically and it was
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stunning that someone couldcommunicate almost at 100% from
a very intelligent place, eventhough they are nonverbal and to
most of us we will just assumeand expect well, this is who
they are and this is all theycan do.
You know, we'll just take careof them for the rest of their
lives.
But the one thing that reallystruck me was when this child
started answering her mother.
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Her mother would thinksomething and she would.
She learned how to use an iPadand she'd write it out on an
iPad and answer her, but shehadn't asked her a question and
one of the tests they did was inanother room.
The mother said where are youfrom?
She wrote down where are youfrom and in the other room she
took down the answer.
So it was really fascinatingand it was about consciousness,
that there is a layer ofconsciousness that people that
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need to get there to communicatefind.
But you and I don't necessarily,because we're still out here,
because we're verbal, we're good, we're the complex ones that
really know what we're doing andyet this child wrote on her
iPad something to the effect ofI'm actually very smart and I
enjoy school, except that theteachers think I don't know
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anything.
And it was very interestingwhat she wrote.
It was almost like a get overit.
I'm here, I'm in here and evensaying and this is what I love,
even saying on her iPad I lovewho I am, I know I'm autistic
and I'm good with it.
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She's accepted that becauseit's who she is.
She's accepted something thatwe all would see as a limitation
.
She's accepted it and thank youfor that, doug.
I've now started wanting to readpeople's minds.
I'm like, well, if she can doit, I can do it.
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I just haven't learned to do it, and that's our whole thing.
We just haven't learned to doit and that's our whole thing.
We just haven't learned toremember who we are.
We're still functioning fromthis Newtonian, materialistic
worldview.
I'm everything I've done in allthe world that's happened to me
.
No, that's all just what you'vedone with who you are.
So the real question is are yougood with who you are?
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All of it?
And could you perhaps look atit all in a different way?
Because you know what thematerialistic view of life does
not work.
It's an existence.
It's not a fullness of life,it's just an existence and I'm
done existing.
I want to live.
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I want to come alive in 2025.
I want my dreams, myaspirations, the things I want
to do, what I want to write,what I want to sing, what I want
to dance to, what I want tovisit, what places I want to go
All of that I want to come alive.
If this little girl can typeonto an iPad that she is
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brilliant and knows who she isand is good with it and loves
all these things, why can't I?
I can, and so can you.
So what do you need to accept?
I'd like you to read this.
For the past 33 years, I havelooked in the mirror every
morning.
This is the theme today, audrey.
I've looked in the mirror everymorning and asked myself if
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today were the last day of mylife, would I want to do what
I'm about to do today?
And whenever the answer hasbeen no for too many days in a
row, I know I need to changesomething, steve Jobs.
So question how many of youhave had too many days in a row
where you have come to theconclusion you're not really
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that excited about what you'reabout to do that day.
It's just something to thinkabout.
Change it up, make a decision,come alive, choose something
else.
Now, most of us don't choosesomething else because we don't
think we can.
We think we're incapable of itsomehow.
But you know you're notincapable.
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You know you are capable ofwhatever you decide to do.
So what do you want?
In this quantum field, thisquantum world, you are evolving,
whether you know it or not.
You are evolving because lifeis evolving, because the
universe is evolving.
Everything about you changesevery single moment.
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Something new is happeninginside your body, something new
is happening inside your mind,something new is happening
inside this universal field ofpure creativity.
It is constantly moving.
It is riveting, if you reallythink about it, that the
universe is constantly movingand expanding and growing, and
so are you.
But, as Jeff Bezos says, what'sdangerous is not to evolve.
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Now, the truth is, you can'tnot evolve.
You can't not evolve, but youknow what you can do Ignore it.
You can put up your walls.
All that in you is evolving andgrowing, and there's that in
you that knows more than youcould ever possibly dream to
know.
But you can keep putting yourhand up and saying stop, no,
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this is what's the truth.
So why will it be different?
Why will next Sunday bedifferent than this Sunday?
Well, ultimately, at the end ofthe day, things change because
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you change and you changebecause you decide to change.
And once you decide to change,you then have opinions and
judgments about what's changing.
And then when things changearound you that you don't like
are changing, then your opinionsand your judgments and just
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look at the political fieldright now all those judgments
and opinions and all thatnegative energy literally takes
up the space in your life whereyou could be coming alive.
So, as we finish this year, wehave two things to do Accept
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everything that has come thisfar in your life.
Accept it all, love it all.
Be willing to see yourself assomething so magnificent, so
perfectly perfectly born, rebornin December to come alive in
January.
So that's the first thingAccept it.
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And the second thing is to giveyourself the opportunity to
know yourself better.
That's what this year has to beabout.
If you're going to come alive,it's because you're going to
know yourself better, becausethere is someone inside of you.
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That's not who I see.
It's not my opinion of you,it's not what I think you look
like, or it's not what I thinkyou sing like, or it's not what
I think you sound like.
It's not your political choices, it's not your gender choices,
it's not your sexual choices,it's none of it.
There is something within allof us, that innocent, infinite
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child.
I wish there was an iPad, wecould find that we could just
communicate from that space,because that's what that little
girl was communicating from thatspace.
There is something inside ofyou that is begging you to come
alive, Begging you to get backin the game, begging you to put
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the ball in motion.
It's just asking you Don't youwant more?
Don't you want to really feellife happening through you?
Don't you want to be a playerin the game?
Don't you want to live life out, loud, outlandishly?
Don't you want to feel likeyou've never felt before?
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Because I do, and I am on thatpath and I want you to come with
me, namaste.
I'm going to put up a slide and it's a
question for you all.
Here we go what's next If I hada dollar?
For every time people ask methat question what's next for
you in your life, what's nextfor the Global Truth Center,
especially in Palm Springs?
They're like so what's next forus?
(00:21):
And I'm like I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know If I thought Iknew I'd be doing what Thor was
talking about trying to plan thesteps for something, as opposed
to staying open to what is next.
Because when I do know what'snext, I take action, but I first
have to give the question amoment.
(00:43):
So my question to you today iswhat's next for you as we step
out of an old year into a newyear?
What's next, mindy?
You don't need an answer tothis.
Obviously, karen and Brad, Iknow some of your things you're
doing in the upcoming year, butwhat's next for you, consciously
in consciousness?
What's next for you consciouslyin consciousness?
(01:05):
What's next for you in thedevelopment of your mind?
What's next for you in terms offinding out who you are?
What's next for you in terms ofremembering who you are?
What's next?
So that's a question I want youto think about over the next
few days what is next?
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Because ultimately, at the endof the day, you're part of this
infinite intelligence that wecall God, that we call the
quantum field.
You are that energy that'sconstantly bubbling up.
That energy, that purepotentiality, knows what's next,
because it is constantlyevolving into what's next.
(01:53):
You don't have to help it.
What you do have to do is guideit in your own life.
So the question, what's next?
Begs you to ask yourself insidethe deepest level what, what do
, what do I want to be doing now?
What wants to come through menow?
(02:14):
So some of the lyrics thatmindy just sang, one of the ones
that I loved so much was go onand reignite impossible dreams.
Oops, and we're gone.
No, here it is.
Go on and reignite impossibledreams.
Be the one you never thoughtyou could be.
(02:36):
Come alive this moment.
So our theme for the new year iscome alive in 25.
What impossible dreams have yougiven up on?
What dreams, what thoughts,what desires have you maybe
given up on?
Have you maybe thought it's toolate or they're old ones,
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they're no longer viable to me?
But if you actually took themout and looked at them, you'd
realize there's still a lot ofenergy there, and some of that
energy may be energy that'spushing it away from you,
because it's energy of havingopinions and thoughts and
judgments about it.
But what, if, just what, if youwere able, at the end of this
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year, to throw everything aside,everything, and all that was
left is this field of joy andlove and energy and creativity?
What if you were able to pusheverything aside and be in that
moment of anything I decide Iwill make happen and know it's
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true, because in one sense, thatis true individually for each
one of us in our lives.
So, come alive.
This moment.
For me, come alive means I amgoing to drop deeper and deeper
and deeper and deeper intoknowing who I am, so that I walk
this earth more creative thanI've ever been, that I am in
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such a state of knowing who I amthat when I speak my word and
so it is it is Because I fearthat way too many practitioners
are really saying, and so I hopeit will be sometime soon,
really, because unless you areabsolutely certain and in that
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state of pure knowing, you'restill hoping and wishing and
praying and thinking right.
So who would like that for thenew year?
That's the come up.
The rest of your life?
I'm not sure.
Let me think about it.
I'm not sure.
Let me think about it.
The more we go deeper into ourtrue identity, the easier it is
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to create the lives we say wewant to live.
So that's why I've picked thistheme for the year come alive.
Besides, it rhymes with five,but come alive in 25.
So I have a question for you,and it's this what do you want?
You're all here today sittinghere, and all of you online, all
of you that are watching online.
You're here virtually or inperson.
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What do you want, mary?
What do you want?
And there's actually an endingto that sentence, but I want you
to just sit with that for aminute.
What do you want?
And there's actually an endingto that sentence, but I want you
to just sit with that for aminute.
What do you want, jenny?
Good health, and I knew thatthat's what you were going to
say, right, you know?
Just ask yourself what do Ireally want?
What do I want?
(05:44):
Whenever I ask that question, Iusually hear to be happy.
I want to be happy, but thatopens up the door to so many
things, because the realquestion here is what do you
want tomorrow to look like?
What do you want tomorrow tolook like?
We ask ourselves these kind ofquestions on December 31st, when
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we're sitting at a party orwe're just contemplating the new
year what do I want 2025 tolook like?
But the truth is, whateveryou're doing right now has
already created tomorrow.
Whatever you believe right now,wherever your beliefs have
taken you all through 24 to thismoment, that's creating 2025.
(06:29):
You are already giving your ownpredestiny a shove because
you're living in those beliefsand those thoughts.
So the question what do youwant tomorrow to look like?
It's kind of important just toget the idea of what you would
like it to look like.
(06:49):
There's more work to do at thatpoint to find out what am I
actually creating right now?
Because the truth is, when Isaid to you earlier, what's
going to be different thisSunday?
Until next Sunday, we're goingto have a New Year's Eve party
or something in between, andthen New Year's Day to celebrate
, and then we're going to be inNew Year in the new year, and I
honestly feel like 2024 flew by.
(07:10):
Did anybody feel like 2024?
Just like I feel like we justdid this right and some of you
may feel it went really slowly,depending on what happened in
your life, but I can tell youthat what's going to be
different today to next week isabsolutely nothing, unless
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something happens to you, unlessyou do something.
Because if you stick with thesame old, same old, and you
stick with the same beliefsystem and not only stick with
the same belief system, but youstick with the same level of
belief and you're at the levelof I do good, I create parking
spaces and I create good, funthings in my life, but is there
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more?
I asked somebody I'm not goingto say who, but I asked somebody
how they're doing.
They said it couldn't getbetter and my thought was, yes,
it can, it can, but I get theconcept, because the concept of
it can't get any better is adeep concept if it's being lived
and this person actually doeslive this.
But that's that level.
It could not get any betterbecause I know who I am so
(08:16):
profoundly.
Now I just have to get my ducksin a row of what I want to do
with it.
How do I want to live from this?
So what do you want tomorrow tolook like?
And here's the title of my talktoday why will it be different?
Why will it be different?
Why will you be different nextSunday from this Sunday?
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And you've all been sittinghere.
Many of you have been sittinghere many Sundays.
I've been doing this since whenI first went to hear Eric
Butterworth speak.
I've been every year.
I talked about this yesterdayin Palm Springs.
Every year when we were going toUnity in New York, kevin and I
on New Year's Eve and a bunch offriends would get together for
(09:02):
a New Year's dinner and we wouldall write our intentions for
the new year out on pieces ofpaper and then I would collect
them and put them in the desk inthe foyer and leave them there
all year.
No one was allowed to come inthere and open them up and try
to remember what they wrote.
They just stayed there.
We usually forgot they werethere until the following year.
It was like, oh, let's see.
(09:22):
And we'd pull them out andeverybody we'd like one at a
time, read what our intentionsintentions were, and then we
would all judge each other onhow well we did.
And it was always reallyannoying Because every year
Kevin pretty much got every oneof his intentions handled every
(09:45):
year, really.
And I would read mine and you'dhear Kevin, nope, you didn't do
that one, but he was right, Iwas like 50-50.
You know, I was like 50-50.
But then I remember I don'tremember when we stopped doing
that.
Maybe we'll do that this year.
Yeah, I just went.
No, I don't remember when westopped, but I remember at one
(10:09):
point listening to everyone'sintentions for the new year and
I'd already been working withEric Butterworth and studying
with him for a couple of years.
And no, it was when we were inLA.
We'd moved to LA, but a lot ofour friends had moved here as
well.
And we did that.
And I remember hearing all theintentions and going, wow, we
just don't intend big enough.
(10:30):
And I even thought of myself.
I went I'm actually trying tohedge my bets, so next year I
actually have a clean slate.
So let's intend some simplethings here, folks.
But that's not what it's about.
How big are your beliefs?
And are your beliefs big enoughto support the intentions that
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you innately have deep inside?
And that's the question fortoday.
As we move into this New Year'sEve, new Year's Day thing, what
will be different?
And when I asked that lastnight in Palm Springs, someone
said what will make it different?
And they said what will bedifferent?
And I said Last night in PalmSprings, someone said what will
make it different?
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And they said what will bedifferent?
And they said I'll be different.
But how?
How will you be different?
What is it that changes you?
What is it in you that changesyour life?
What is it in you that makesyour world different?
You really need to think aboutthis, because what it is is what
you're believing, what you'rethinking.
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Carl Jung said this we cannotchange anything until we accept
it.
As you all know, I start BODson Thursday morning at 7 am and
I was looking for a slide, aspecific slide for one of my
PowerPoints, and I found thisslide, and I saw this lady
standing in the mirror, but myfirst thought was not, she was
(11:59):
not judging herself.
She actually has her headtilted in such a way of like,
not bad.
And I know what I want to dowith this and this quote of Carl
Jung we cannot change anythinguntil we accept it.
So thank you, robbie, forgetting some mileage out of
forgive everything, because tome, unforgiveness is clutter
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that is occupying your mind andit doesn't leave room for the
new and it doesn't leave roomfor the new.
It doesn't leave room for yourinnate ability to create
whatever you want in life.
So one of the things I'm goingto ask you to do between now and
(12:44):
Wednesday at midnight yeah,wednesday at midnight, tuesday
at midnight, wednesday morningI'm going to ask you to pay
attention and go in there and dosome research on yourself.
What is it that you don'taccept about yourself?
Finally, I'll say for me, at 70years old, what do I not accept
about myself?
What parts of me, what thingsabout my life do I not accept
(13:08):
about myself anymore?
Somebody asked me a questionlast night about West Side Story
.
For those of you who don't know, I did that show, but some
people don't know that because Idon't say it every day.
But it was a great question andshe kind of nailed me on it.
She said so why was West SideStory such a horrible experience
(13:30):
for you?
And I went in and I explainedwhy.
But it was all about things Ididn't accept about myself and I
said and why I'm so good withit now, why I'm okay with it.
And I get the incredible giftthat those people gave me to
give me something to talk aboutfor the rest of my life.
But this incredible gift ofchoosing me out of thousands of
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guys that wanted that part, thatwas quite a gift.
I didn't see it that way formany, many, many, many years and
I had to go through thisspiritual journey to get to the
point where I finally acceptedwhat made it so was an asshole I
was.
I had this gigantic ego.
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Seriously, I had this giganticego covering up this gigantic
low self-esteem Because I cansee it now, this gigantic ego
covering up this gigantic lowself-esteem.
Because I was a gay actortrying not to be, trying to make
(14:34):
sure everybody still saw me asa man, right.
And then they cast me in one ofthe butchest roles in history
in musicals, and I just feltlike the imposter.
I was suffering so bad from theimposter syndrome and I made
Jerome Robbins' life miserable.
Now he was a miserable man, butI still made his life more
(14:55):
miserable.
I was like a moth to his flamefor the two of us and I've
always, for so many years, Iblamed him.
Why am I telling you this story?
Because you all have storieslike that and you may not have
gotten to where I've gotten to.
You may have not gotten to theplace where you accept the
actual reality of what happenedand let it go, because Carl Jung
(15:18):
is right we cannot changeanything until we accept it.
So one of the other questions Ihave a lot of questions for you
today what do you still need toaccept about yourself in order
to let it go, in order to beable to stand in that mirror?
Thank you, audrey, for thatreading.
She talked at the meditationabout a mirror being, like the
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mind, fully impersonal, and itjust shows you whatever you put
in front of it and gives youwhatever you put in front of it.
So what do you need to acceptin order to put it aside and
leave yourself open to what youwant?
To coming alive?
Because you know what, ifyou're going to come alive into
the same crap you've been comingalive into, that's not going to
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help you.
And I know you're all doingwonderful things too.
Don't think that I'm sittinghere going.
You all need help, that's notit.
But we want more in 24.
We want more.
We want to be the more.
We want to be true to who weare.
So what do you need to accept?
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You have a few days left toaccept where you are and decide
where you are going, and that'sthe thing.
What's next?
Where are you going?
You know you can't go anywhereif you don't know where you are
going, and that's the thing.
What's next?
Where are you going?
You know you can't go anywhereif you don't know where you are.
It's kind of hard to goanywhere when you don't know
where you are.
You wouldn't know whichdirection to walk in.
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You wouldn't know where to go.
So I'm giving you theopportunity here and asking you
to take the opportunity foryourself to really ask what do I
need to accept about myself,about my life, about the past,
about the history?
If you hear yourself tellingthe same victim story over and,
over and over again, that needsto be accepted and let go of,
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because it's not serving you.
It is keeping you in a holethat you will never crawl out of
.
This is the year to put allthat into perspective.
This is the year to get all ofthat and make perfect sense out
of it.
So you know we live in a prettymaterialistic world.
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Yes, wouldn't you say?
We live in a prettymaterialistic world.
We pretty much gauge our livesby what we see, feel, taste,
touch, hear.
You know it's all this stuffout here, our houses, our cars,
our clothes.
And I'm not saying that's a badthing, it's not.
But when we live from thatperspective, the materialistic
perspective, the Newtonianperspective, when we live from
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that, our belief system suffersbecause we tend not to believe
anything that we can't see, hear, taste and touch.
And when we live from thatperspective, that materialistic,
newtonian place, when we livefrom that, we don't tap into
that part of ourselves that hasthe ability to create anything,
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not just what we see.
So d Doug Draper led me to apodcast which is called the
Telepathy Tapes.
I got on the treadmill in PalmSprings I'm going to get
emotional for a minute and Ithought you know, doug's never
led me wrong, he's alwayssteered me in the right
(18:30):
direction.
So I turned on this podcast.
I don't listen to podcasts whenI'm running, when I'm on the
treadmill, because I like toclose my eyes and just listen to
classical music and disappear.
But I turned it on.
I said I'll give it a minute,two minutes, and then I'll turn
over to the guitar solos.
Well, I didn't.
I spent the half hour, orwhatever it was, with the whole
(18:50):
podcast of the first one, and itwas about consciousness, but it
was really about consciousness,but it was about these tapes,
this documentary really that'sbeing done on autistic children
and how autistic children cancommunicate telepathically.
Children can communicatetelepathically and it was
(19:19):
stunning that someone couldcommunicate almost at 100% from
a very intelligent place, eventhough they are nonverbal and to
most of us we will just assumeand expect well, this is who
they are and this is all theycan do.
You know, we'll just take careof them for the rest of their
lives.
But the one thing that reallystruck me was when this child
started answering her mother.
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Her mother would thinksomething and she would.
She learned how to use an iPadand she'd write it out on an
iPad and answer her, but shehadn't asked her a question and
one of the tests they did was inanother room.
The mother said where are youfrom?
She wrote down where are youfrom and in the other room she
took down the answer.
So it was really fascinatingand it was about consciousness,
that there is a layer ofconsciousness that people that
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need to get there to communicatefind.
But you and I don't necessarily,because we're still out here,
because we're verbal, we're good, we're the complex ones that
really know what we're doing andyet this child wrote on her
iPad something to the effect ofI'm actually very smart and I
enjoy school, except that theteachers think I don't know
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anything.
And it was very interestingwhat she wrote.
It was almost like a get overit.
I'm here, I'm in here and evensaying and this is what I love,
even saying on her iPad I lovewho I am, I know I'm autistic
and I'm good with it.
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She's accepted that becauseit's who she is.
She's accepted something thatwe all would see as a limitation
.
She's accepted it and thank youfor that, doug.
I've now started wanting to readpeople's minds.
I'm like, well, if she can doit, I can do it.
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I just haven't learned to do it, and that's our whole thing.
We just haven't learned to doit and that's our whole thing.
We just haven't learned toremember who we are.
We're still functioning fromthis Newtonian, materialistic
worldview.
I'm everything I've done in allthe world that's happened to me
.
No, that's all just what you'vedone with who you are.
So the real question is are yougood with who you are?
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All of it?
And could you perhaps look atit all in a different way?
Because you know what thematerialistic view of life does
not work.
It's an existence.
It's not a fullness of life,it's just an existence and I'm
done existing.
I want to live.
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I want to come alive in 2025.
I want my dreams, myaspirations, the things I want
to do, what I want to write,what I want to sing, what I want
to dance to, what I want tovisit, what places I want to go
All of that I want to come alive.
If this little girl can typeonto an iPad that she is
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brilliant and knows who she isand is good with it and loves
all these things, why can't I?
I can, and so can you.
So what do you need to accept?
I'd like you to read this.
For the past 33 years, I havelooked in the mirror every
morning.
This is the theme today, audrey.
I've looked in the mirror everymorning and asked myself if
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today were the last day of mylife, would I want to do what
I'm about to do today?
And whenever the answer hasbeen no for too many days in a
row, I know I need to changesomething, steve Jobs.
So question how many of youhave had too many days in a row
where you have come to theconclusion you're not really
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that excited about what you'reabout to do that day.
It's just something to thinkabout.
Change it up, make a decision,come alive, choose something
else.
Now, most of us don't choosesomething else because we don't
think we can.
We think we're incapable of itsomehow.
But you know you're notincapable.
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You know you are capable ofwhatever you decide to do.
So what do you want?
In this quantum field, thisquantum world, you are evolving,
whether you know it or not.
You are evolving because lifeis evolving, because the
universe is evolving.
Everything about you changesevery single moment.
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Something new is happeninginside your body, something new
is happening inside your mind,something new is happening
inside this universal field ofpure creativity.
It is constantly moving.
It is riveting, if you reallythink about it, that the
universe is constantly movingand expanding and growing, and
so are you.
But, as Jeff Bezos says, what'sdangerous is not to evolve.
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Now, the truth is, you can'tnot evolve.
You can't not evolve, but youknow what you can do Ignore it.
You can put up your walls.
All that in you is evolving andgrowing, and there's that in
you that knows more than youcould ever possibly dream to
know.
But you can keep putting yourhand up and saying stop, no,
(24:30):
this is what's the truth.
So why will it be different?
Why will next Sunday bedifferent than this Sunday?
Well, ultimately, at the end ofthe day, things change because
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you change and you changebecause you decide to change.
And once you decide to change,you then have opinions and
judgments about what's changing.
And then when things changearound you that you don't like
are changing, then your opinionsand your judgments and just
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look at the political fieldright now all those judgments
and opinions and all thatnegative energy literally takes
up the space in your life whereyou could be coming alive.
So, as we finish this year, wehave two things to do Accept
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everything that has come thisfar in your life.
Accept it all, love it all.
Be willing to see yourself assomething so magnificent, so
perfectly perfectly born, rebornin December to come alive in
January.
So that's the first thingAccept it.
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And the second thing is to giveyourself the opportunity to
know yourself better.
That's what this year has to beabout.
If you're going to come alive,it's because you're going to
know yourself better, becausethere is someone inside of you.
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That's not who I see.
It's not my opinion of you,it's not what I think you look
like, or it's not what I thinkyou sing like, or it's not what
I think you sound like.
It's not your political choices, it's not your gender choices,
it's not your sexual choices,it's none of it.
There is something within allof us, that innocent, infinite
(26:45):
child.
I wish there was an iPad, wecould find that we could just
communicate from that space,because that's what that little
girl was communicating from thatspace.
There is something inside ofyou that is begging you to come
alive, Begging you to get backin the game, begging you to put
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the ball in motion.
It's just asking you Don't youwant more?
Don't you want to really feellife happening through you?
Don't you want to be a playerin the game?
Don't you want to live life out, loud, outlandishly?
Don't you want to feel likeyou've never felt before?
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Because I do, and I am on thatpath and I want you to come with
me, namaste.
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