It's about your ability
to choose and implement what happens
inside of your body in the presence of
the extremes in the world around us.
We're living in a time of extremes. That
is no secret. I think we all know that.
You know, a lot of people ask me why the
world appears as it does today and I
have dedicated entire courses to sharing
the answer to that from a scientific
perspective. But if you've never seen
those courses, let me just say this to
you right now.
We are in fact living a rare and
precious moment in the history of our
planet, in the history of our
civilization, in the history of your
nation, in the history of my nation.
We're living a convergence
of natural cycles that are coming
together in the same period in time in
the way that you and I have never seen
because it hasn't happened in 5,000
years of recorded human history.
Now, some of the cycles you know about
and you hear about all the time, some
you may not be so familiar with. So, let
me just just briefly say the climate
cycle certainly is one of those natural
cycles. We are living a natural rhythm
of climate that's changing our world. We
are also contributing to that through
industry and technology.
Uh and we're working to change that. He
and I were invited to speak at the UN
together
about these converging cycles and how we
can prepare ourselves for these cycles.
And when I mentioned to the United
Nations audience
that we are living a cycle of human
conflict, they were surprised and they
said, "Doesn't conflict just happen?"
And I said, "No, it actually follows
rhythms that are tied to forces, the
magnetic fields of the Earth, the solar
cycles of the Sun, that change the way
that we think and feel." And the bottom
line is this,
when the magnetic fields of the Earth
and the Sun are weak, we are more
aggressive, we're less willing to
cooperate to solve our problems. And
when those magnetic fields are reversed,
then the parameters are reversed. The
stronger the magnetic fields, the more
willing we are to work together to
cooperate and and solve our problems.
So, any one of those cycles would be
enough to change the way we live. All
three of them are converging now. So,
when I say to you we're living a time of
extremes, now you know what those
extremes are really all about. For more
information on those, please go to my
website. You can see entire seminars
based upon these cycles. But it sets the
stage for where you and I are right now
with the wisdom codes, the word codes
that we're using that help us to change
the way we respond to what's happening
in our lives and in our world. If you
place your sense of well-being on that
world out there, it can be very
confusing.
So, this is why I say to you the better
you know yourself, the less you rely on
the outer world for balance, the less
you rely on the outer world for your
sense of well-being, the healthier
you're going to be, the happier you're
going to be, the better you can serve
your family, the better you can serve
your community,
and perhaps most importantly, the
greater the mastery that you will have
created for yourself. So, this is
important and then I think this is
really important for all of us because
as I said, this is no ordinary time in
in history.
So, as we begin to think about what the
changes mean in our lives, we know we
can't stop the change and sometimes we
wouldn't want to. As I mentioned,
there's a lot of really good changes
happening in the world as well.
But determining how we respond, this is
this is what's up for all of us right
now. 1991,
there was a discovery of about 40,000
specialized cells in the human heart.
Now, they'd always been there.
Obviously, they were simply recognized
in 1991. They're called sensory
neurites.
They're essentially brain-like cells,
but they're not in the brain. They're in
the heart.
And they function in the heart very
similar to the way that these neurons
function in the brain itself. Now, on
your screen, what you're seeing right
now, two things.
I want you to see on the right-hand side
of your screen,
you're actually looking at the neurons.
This is what they look like. And
and I put these here because I want you
to see that this is real. This isn't a
metaphor. It's not make-believe. It's
not, you know, new thought thinking.
This is rock-solid science that simply
is not being shared in the mainstream.
You're not going to see this in
mainstream classrooms, textbooks,
mainstream documentaries because it
takes time
for the discoveries to trickle down into
the mainstream.
Yet, we can use these discoveries right
now in our lives for the reasons that
we're talking about now to help empower
us. The better you know yourself, the
better equipped you are to deal with
change in your life. And this This is a
key component of empowering yourself in
the change.
Now, on the left side of your screen
is a schematic diagram of the human
heart.
And if you look closely, all those
little white dots that you see, the
light-colored dots, those are the
sensory neurites.
Look at where they're located.
They're located all around the places
where the blood enters into the heart
and where the blood leaves the heart.
Your neurons are going to shut down
or open up the blood flow to your heart.
If it's shocking news, it will actually
constrict some of that blood flow into
the brain, and you will feel that
light-headed feeling, and this is the
reason. It's also the reason that you
can learn to regulate how you respond to
that kind of information. So, I want you
to see these neurons, look at where
they're located, and this is why it's so
powerful. Now, I'm really excited.
The image that you're looking at right
now,
beyond the schematic, this is the first
three-dimensional map of the heart's
nervous system.
So, you're actually looking at at the
image of the human heart. And if you
look towards the top, the yellow all the
little yellow
that I'm highlighting for you right now,
those little yellow areas, those are
where the sensory neurites are primarily
located. It's the first time we've been
able to map these uh physically in the
living human heart. This is exciting.
And once again,
just like I shared with you in the
neurons in module number one, so you
could know how real they are, I'm
sharing this with you now because we're
going to begin accessing those neurons.
And when we do, I want you to know
that you're accessing a part of yourself
that is unique to the human being. No
other form of life can access,
consciously, at will, on demand, the
neurons in the way that you and I are
about to do to self-regulate
your biology. It's very powerful.
Frequency 0.1 hertz is the frequency
that whales communicate with in the
oceans because it is such a universal
frequency.
Now, I want you to know why this is such
a powerful frequency, and I am really
happy to talk to you about this because
my primary degree is as a
neuroscientist, geophysics. I love to
talk about the Earth, about our planet.
0.1 hertz gives me the opportunity to do
that. What you're looking at on your
screen right now, this is a
cross-section
of our beautiful planet, and you're
seeing in the cross-section the magnetic
fields
that surround and protect us. Now, this
is an artist's conception.
The next image you see, this This here,
is actually a NASA image from a
satellite
in space looking back on the planet. So,
Earth is the ball, obviously, the dark
ball in the center.
And the magnetic fields, the multiple
layered magnetic fields, are surrounding
our planet.
But if you look closely, what you're
seeing on the left-hand side of the
screen, you're seeing those magnetic
fields are deformed. They're flattened.
And the reason is because the sun. The
energy from the sun is coming from the
left-hand side of your screen.
93 million miles across space.
The energy from the sun, the solar wind,
the plasma, is pushing against those
magnetic fields. It's deforming those
magnetic fields as they protect us and
our planet.
It is also doing something else.
If you look closely, there's not one
field. There are many, many different
fields within the field.
You can think of these fields as the
strings
on a musical instrument. I'm a musician,
so I'm a guitar player. So, I think of
this in terms of guitar.
So, if you look closely, what you're
seeing is those magnetic lines are in
motion
because the energy from the sun
is touching them.
So, I'm going to invite you to think of
it like this. Think about the energy
from the sun plucking
each of those
those strings of the magnetic field. And
when it plucks them, it makes a sound.
And I have that sound for you. I want to
share this with you
because we now have the ability to
listen
to what the magnetic fields of our
planet or any planet sound like.
It may surprise you.
A lot of people, when they think about
the magnetic fields, they think [snorts]
it's going to be like this angelic, uh,
very high-pitched soft sound. That's
It's what this is. It is a deep resonant
intense
sound. I'm going to play this for you
because I want you to listen. It is
sounds within sounds. Harmonics
that are happening and then we'll talk
about that in just just a little bit.
So, the next image, this is this is what
this sound actually sounds like. I want
you to hear this.
And I'm going to bring it up for you
gradually.
I want you to listen closely to these
sounds. You can hear the harmonics in
one sound inside of another.
Pretty amazing, huh?
>> [music]
>> What the Buddhists tell us
is that we live in a world where
everything is impermanent.
Nothing lasts forever.
And in the presence of that
impermanence, it promises that we will
all have many, many losses
throughout our lives on many, many
different levels. Now,
what do those losses mean to our bodies?
I mentioned a little bit earlier in
another module
about the fact that every emotion that
we have creates a chemical in our
bodies.
I want to talk a little bit more about
that right now and how we know that and
where that comes from.
The first scientific documentation that
we have regarding this relationship
between human emotion
and chemistry in our bodies was a
landmark book,
a powerful book written by Dr. Candace
Pert. It was called Molecules of
Emotion.
On a personal level, I had the privilege
and the honor of knowing Candace Pert
before she passed, before she left this
world
because we shared the same publisher.
And at some of those publisher
conferences, we would have the
opportunity to have meals together at
night.
Sitting at the same table, talking about
her discovery and what it means to have
a chemical component to every emotion
that we will ever experience in our
lives. When we have an emotional
experience
without the ability to reconcile that
experience,
and what that means is when we have the
emotion and we contract,
we constrict, we lock it down in our
bodies.
That chemical cannot metabolize. It
can't move.
And so what we will do
is we are so skillful at this is we will
store that chemical
in the body. We will store that chemical
in the organ or the tissue or the body
system that we associate with the
trauma.
We'll store that chemical in our hearts
or in our lungs or
when people have issues of of not being
able to have children sometimes, for
example. These are very well documented.
>> [snorts]
>> Where
the the the couple that cannot have the
children will have a feeling of
inadequacy
around not being able to conceive. And
And that creates a chemical that they
will store in the organs
associated with conception. And it's the
body's way of saying, "Hey, I'm going to
keep this chemical here for you because
you can't deal with it right now. And
I'll keep it for you here until you have
the tools when you can deal with it."
So, what I'd like to do is
approach this now from a Buddhist
perspective because the only way to heal
from a loss once a loss happens, we
cannot un-lose.
So, once it's there, we have it. And the
only way
out of it is to go through it.
And the purpose of this module is to
help you go through that loss in a
healthy way.
This is the thing to feel. The only way
to do this is to allow yourself to feel
in the presence of the loss, not to
discount it, not to sweep it under the
carpet, not to nest the ties as it is as
many people do because that's the only
way that they know how to deal with it.
When we are in loss, we hurt and we want
to stop hurting. And of course, that's
very natural.
This is a healthy way to transcend that
loss.
So, I discovered this from myself
uh
in a series of journeys that I had back
in late 1990s and early 2000s.
Late 1990s and early 2000s, I was
privileged to lead tours into the
highlands of central China into what is
called the Tibetan Plateau.
And over the course of 26 days, we would
experience the the monks and the nuns in
12 monasteries and two nunneries at
elevations just under 18,000 ft above
sea level.
Again, this is some of the most
magnificent and beautiful and isolated
and pristine
uh
places remaining on the earth today.
Tibetan monks all chanting at the same
time. And that that chant isn't
something that you just hear. It
literally reverberates
through your body. I could feel the
vibration of the deep tantric chants
inside my body.
And that's set the tone for the
conversation. And what the monks said to
me
was
that it is in the presence
of our hurt
when we lose something that we cherish
in our lives, the depth
of our hurt teaches us of our capacity
to love.
I invite you to think about that.
The depth of our hurt
teaches us our capacity to love because
each hurt that we experience, the deeper
the hurt,
the deeper we have to reach inside of
ourselves to find the love to rise above
that hurt.
So, when we lose a job, for example,
that can hurt. It can be very
disappointing, it can be frustrating.
And we we find a way to transcend that,
but that's a very different kind of loss
than losing a child, the most
insufferable hurts that you can ever
imagine. The deepest hurts, losing a
child or a loved one, we've got to reach
even deeper
to find the way
to transcend
what that hurt is or to find the level
of forgiveness from whatever it is that
took from us or whatever it is that we
cherish. This is releasing the ego self
in exchange for a greater, all-inclusive
self.
One of the ways that we do that is
through the technique that we're going
to to use today. It's in this expanded
identity of this more mindful state. Uh
we realize that we're separate.
Uh we think that we're separate and we
realize that we're part of rather than
separate from the loss. So, our wisdom
code, this particular wisdom code, comes
from a Buddhist nun, and I wanted to
share the perspective of a nun with you
for particular reason. The nun's name is
Otogaki Rengetsu, and you may be
familiar with
uh with her work. She wrote a book of
poems that was called The Moon.
Uh she's a renowned Buddhist nun.
I wanted to share this from her
perspective because from a feminine
perspective, there's a little twist
in this Buddhist perspective. So, let me
just share the wisdom code. This is our
wisdom code.
And she says, quote, the impermanence
of this floating world I feel over and
over.
Then she says,
it is hardest to be the one left behind.
Because the world that we know at the
end of 120 years will be very different
than we knew early on.
So, this is where this this wisdom code
is is so powerful.
Uh acknowledging the loss. It is a sense
of mourning.
And this is what's happening to us all
right now. I mentioned this uh in in our
last module. Now, I I reference it
briefly here.
We live in the time of extremes. The
world has changed.
For many people,
the change, the suffering from the
change, comes because they are clinging
to an idea
of what the world used to be,
waiting for things to get back to
normal,
waiting for the world to return to what
we've known in the past.
And I'm not going to say this is right,
wrong, good, or bad. I'm going to invite
you to ask the question, if your psyche,
if your emotions are filled
with the images and the expectations of
a world that used to be, where's the
room for the new world that wants to
emerge? Little things that I miss. And
the same thing can be said of all loss
in our lives and our world. It is the
acknowledging,
simply acknowledging the existence of
the loss,
that begins to free the chemicals in our
body so they can metabolize
and allow us to move forward rather than
being stuck in the loss. And this is
what the second statement says from
Odagaki Zengetsu.
It's It's hardest to be left behind.
So, how do we use this wisdom code?
We're going to do the same thing that we
did in in the previous module.
We're going to create the state of
heart-brain coherence. And once again,
the reason that we do this is to create
an optimal state in all the systems of
our body, including the chemical systems
of our body.
It is like a program on the computer.
We're opening the door to this soft
technology, this emotional program.
And once we open that, we're going to
drop in the code. In this case, the code
of what it means to have this loss so
that we can acknowledge that and allow
it to free in our lives. When we create
that heart-brain coherence, again, we're
opening that clear channel
to communicate directly with the
subconscious mind. And it's from this
place of of heart-brain harmony. I'm
going to invite you to recite, line by
line, there are only two lines, either
silently in your mind or out loud until
you feel a shift in your sense of loss
and the peace that comes from the
acceptance of that loss, because that's
what this code will allow us to have.
And once again, the key is to embrace
this code
in the heart with a focus and awareness
right in the heart.
>> [music]
>> Fear means different things to to
different people. Sometimes our fears
are very obvious. You know, if you wake
up in the morning
and you open your eyes and there's a big
spider dangling on a web dropping down
from the ceiling,
that is an obvious source of fear. You
know where it's coming from and you
know, maybe you don't like spiders and
it's easy to reconcile that.
There are other kinds of fears that are
less obvious. Sometimes we have a fear
and we don't even know where it comes
from. It's called unsourced fear.
There is a source.
It's just that we may not be consciously
aware of what that source is.
And I want to talk about those. But
before we go any further, I want you to
know that fear is a universal human
experience.
It's in every culture.
It is in every ancient tradition. It is
the source of many of the shamanic
principles and the yogic principles that
we find. Fear is one of six universal
emotions that scientists have discovered
are common to all cultures and all
people and apparently have been so
throughout all time. And every emotion
has a chemical equivalent.
Sometimes the emotions are conscious.
Sometimes the emotions are subconscious.
So, even though we may not be
consciously aware of the fear, it can
still subconsciously be occurring and
triggering the chemical reaction in our
body. So, the wisdom code, this
particular wisdom code
is designed to trigger the shift in your
perspective, the shift in thinking, and
the shift in feeling
that frees those chemicals, the
neuropeptides, as a result of any fear.
So, that it can move through your body.
So, once again, it doesn't change it
doesn't change what has happened. It's
changing the way that you and I feel
about what's happening in our lives.
Once again, this this is the highest
form of mastery. We are the only form of
life
that has the ability to choose the way
we respond to life
at will, on demand.
Other Other forms of life, they will
respond by instinct.
Uh other primates, gorillas, monkeys,
chimpanzees, dogs, cats, other animals,
they will respond certainly to their
environment by instinct.
We are the only form of life that can
choose to respond in a healthy way to
transcend the experience that is leading
us to to hurt ourselves or have
suffering in our lives. Now we know that
by doing that we're actually freeing
those chemicals from our bodies.
Recognizing that we don't disappear.
That we don't lose ourselves and in that
we recognize there is something within
us that is indestructible. Something
within us that cannot be destroyed.
Our ancestors had the same experiences
and they arrived at the same
understandings and they learned to
change
to change the chemistry in their bodies
in the same way. So I'm going to share a
couple of of wisdom codes. One of them
is from the traditional Hindu traditions
called the Vedic Upanishads and the
other one is from the Hindu Bible
typically known as the Mahabharata.
There's a section a portion of the
Mahabharata subset called the Bhagavad
Gita that I know that many of you are
probably familiar with.
So I'm going to begin with the Bhagavad
Gita and if you are a student of the
Bhagavad Gita this is from chapter 2
verse 20.
It's a story and it's a really beautiful
very powerful story
about an epic battle
that is described in the Bhagavad Gita
where the great warrior his name is
Arjuna.
Arjuna is about to lead an army
into into a great battle
where he knows many many lives are going
to be lost. Today in India it is called
the plains of Kurukshetra Kurukshetra.
And what's so interesting about the
story that I'm going to share with you
is that archaeological evidence has
recently uncovered
the remnants of a great battle that
occurred at exactly the place where the
Maha Mahabharata says this this battle
occurred and where the Bhagavad Gita
describes this. And so now the question
is
if
the Bhagavad Gita was accurate about
this battle and what happened here that
has always been
believed to be a fairy tale, always
believed to be in the metaphor,
>> [snorts]
>> what else is the Mahabharata accurate
about? And there is the the topic for an
entire course that we could do about the
history of this this ancient
civilization.
So here's here's how this
experience unfolds. Arjuna is an archer,
a great archer, and he is said to have a
very special kind of a bow where with
one one action he can release as many as
30,000 arrows all at the same time. So
he's a tremendous archer.
He's on the edge of the battlefield
contemplating the taking of all of these
lives. And he begins to share this with
his chariot driver. So he has a a
chariot driver guiding him in the battle
so that he can be the warrior in the
battle. Is the Atharva Veda. It's made
of over 760 hymns
that describe different modalities of
healing that were used during the time
of their rights. A fascinating book if
you get a chance to to check this out.
The third of the Vedic text is the Sama
Veda. It's a very specialized collection
of a 1,549
hymns
uh and they are believed to originally
come from the Rigveda. So it may be a
subset of the Rigveda. The fourth and
the final Vedic text is a Yajur Veda.
1,800 ancient mantras and that's where
our wisdom code is going to come from.
They're describing different religious
uh
religious traditions.
So this wisdom code is actually found in
the Yajur Veda
and it specifically addresses the
uncertainty and the universal fear of
annihilation, the sense
that there's a part of us that will
cease to exist. Now, once again, I'm not
saying this is a conscious fear.
Uh
but before I go into this uh actual
wisdom code, I'm I'm just going to give
you
Let me give you an example uh
of how these universal fears work.
I was in the grocery store aisle one
evening shopping by myself late at night
and there was a mother
and uh a young boy, young baby boy. I I
have no children of my own, so I may not
be very good at this, but I'm going to
guess he was around 2 years of age.
2 years of age, he's sitting in the
basket in the grocery store in the aisle
with all the soup, all the cans of soup.
And his mother disappeared just for a
moment. She walked out of his sight
around the corner.
And he couldn't see her.
Now,
when she did that
he began to scream at the top of his
lungs. I mean, he screamed like someone
was hurting him.
And I looked up and said, you know,
what's going on? And all I saw that he
was alone.
We've all seen this happen. But it's a
beauti- beautiful example of of a
universal fear. Now, think about this.
Why would a young child suddenly finding
themselves alone
not just look around and say, "Hey, I'm
alone.
I can explore all these cans of soup,
you know, I can
I can explore, you know, what's
happening."
What is it about being alone that is so
terrifying
to that young child? And the answer to
that is that this fear of of being
alone, of being left alone is one of the
universal fears that we all have.
Of being alone, another universal fear
is this fear of being annihilated, of of
not existing, and it shows up in a lot
of different ways. Of not being listened
to, of not being heard, of not being
significant, of not being worthy. These
all are examples of the outward
expressions of this universal fear. So,
this wisdom code number three I'm going
to share with you right now comes from
the Upanishads. It's called the Katha
Upanishad. Uh it is, if you're taking
notes, it comes from chapter 1 section 2
verses 18 through 20.
It's going to sound very similar
to what you heard in the Bhagavad Gita,
but there's a little bit different
twist. So, let me read it to you now.
This is the the wisdom code.
The soul is not born, nor does it die.
It did not spring from something, and
nothing sprang from it. It is unborn,
eternal, immortal, and ageless. It is
not destroyed when the body is
destroyed. End of quote.
Very, very similar to what we heard
before with a little bit more detail.
It's very, very clear that something
within us is eternal, no matter what
happens
to our bodies. And as we acknowledge
that to the subconscious, the
subconscious begins to let go of this
unspoken fear of annihilation, or the
unspoken fear of uh of ceasing to exist,
allowing the chemicals to pass through
our bodies, the rashes to heal, the
chronic conditions uh to to heal, and
allowing us
to move forward without the fear.
In the absence of this fear, we are
freed to love. And I'm going to talk
about that more in a future module.
But to be able to love fearlessly,
to be able to surrender
every aspect of our being
to love,
and the trust, and the vulnerability of
being with another being to surrender
the certainty of who we are in exchange
for the possibility of being something
greater with another person.
What prevents us from doing it? It
sounds like a beautiful kind of love.
How how romantic.
What prevents us from doing that? Is
this
this unspoken fear that something in us
is going to get lost and we've got to
hang on to it.
So this is a very powerful code once
again by acknowledging
the fear, by giving it voice,
by not denying it, by not discounting
it, by not trying to sweep it under the
carpet, by not trying to anesthetize it,
by not trying to to do some
you know, new age high-tech thing to
make it go away. By allowing its
existence
in the presence of that existence, we
are freed to love. So this is the power
of wisdom code number three. As always,
it comes from repeating it to the
affirmative,
the positive, to imprint this code on
the subconscious mind and we're going to
once again create the heart brain
harmony. So we open that clear channel
because your brain already knows this.
You are connecting with your
subconscious. That's who you want to
know.
There's a part of you that is eternal.
You're saying this to your subconscious.
So from
