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0:00What if there is more to your capacity
0:01[music] to create miracles than you've
0:03been taught to believe? And the place to
0:05begin understanding it is your own
0:06brain. And if you've ever experienced a
0:08coincidence that felt too precise to be
0:11random, or you watch something that you
0:12thought was impossible suddenly become
0:14possible, you've probably wondered, "How
0:16did this happen?" So, in this episode,
0:19we're going to explore miracles through
0:20the lens of neuroscience, what we know
0:22about the brain, how it shapes our
0:24experience, and whether we can develop a
0:26greater capacity to invite the [music]
0:28extraordinary into our own lives. So,
0:30let's get into it.
0:35All right, guys. I think it's
0:35appropriate to start this conversation a
0:37couple of thousand years ago. There was
0:39a guy, supposedly, by the name of Jesus
0:41Christ, who was documented as having
0:44performed miracles. He healed the sick.
0:47He was able to feed 5,000 people from a
0:49loaf of bread and a single fish. He was
0:52able to know his own future. He walked
0:54on water. He raised himself from the
0:56dead. He defied material reality. So,
1:00one important question is, how did he
1:02perform these miracles? And then on top
1:04of that, why were we told by him that we
1:09would perform miracles even greater than
1:11he did? I think this is a question worth
1:14exploring. I hear a lot in the Christian
1:17world about Christ, a lot about him
1:19dying for our sins, but I don't hear a
1:21lot of conversations around this kind of
1:23one-liner he dropped in the middle of
1:25his gospel, which was, "Oh, you can
1:27actually do things greater than I am
1:30showing you you can do." Can you imagine
1:33for a moment if you could develop a
1:35practice to build mastery around
1:38intentional miracle making. Now, these
1:41documented miracles were not exclusive
1:43to Christ. There were other saints, from
1:45Mother Teresa to Pope St. John Paul II,
1:48to yogis from the East that have all
1:50been documented. And as I started
1:52exploring miracle making, cuz I I like
1:55to intentionally manifest and create
1:57miracles in my own life. What really
1:59challenged my thinking was a book called
2:02Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa
2:04Yogananda. Okay, this is one of the
2:06books that had a great influence on my
2:08spiritual development. Paramahansa
2:09Yogananda was a saint who lived most of
2:11his life in the 20th century. So, what's
2:13interesting about this is this is not
2:15thousands of years ago, right? This is
2:17from less than 100 years ago. He wrote
2:19his own autobiography and in it he talks
2:22about looking for his guru. And as he
2:25was looking for his teacher, he ran into
2:28a bunch of other gurus who lived in the
2:29Himalayas and in really remote places
2:32who had developed the capacity to do
2:33things like levitate or to be in two
2:36places at once, to move things with
2:39their mind, telekinesis, right? To
2:41manipulate just as Christ is documented
2:43to have done
2:45material reality. In fact, his teacher
2:47Sri Yukteswar
2:49does a couple of things over the course
2:51of Yogananda's autobiography. One is he
2:54manipulates the weather in order to make
2:56it nice weather for an event that was
2:58particularly important to him. And
2:59there's actually an interesting story
3:01where he's able to influence, basically
3:03mind control a wandering peasant to
3:05teach Yogananda a lesson by sneaking
3:08into Yogananda's uh dorm room and
3:10stealing his cabbages. So, C.S. Lewis
3:13has this thing around Christ that he
3:15calls liar, lunatic, lord. And he
3:17basically says like, "Look, you have to
3:19make a decision, right? Do you Do you
3:21think Jesus Christ was a liar? Do you
3:24think he was crazy or do you think he
3:26was who he says he was?" And I think the
3:28same thing applies to Yogananda. And I
3:30don't think he was lying and I don't
3:32think he was crazy. I think he was
3:34actually witnessing what he claims he
3:36was witnessing.
3:38So, let's unpack this for a little bit.
3:40How might it be possible to manipulate
3:43the material world? And what is the
3:45influencing mechanism that is inside of
3:48us that does the influencing? Uh for
3:49this, I'd like to turn to something
3:51Einstein once said, which is reality is
3:53an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
3:55And what he meant is the reality is not
3:58how it represents itself. The physical
4:00world, the material reality, uh is
4:03interpreted by our five senses. And
4:05science tells us this, neuroscience
4:07tells us this. What we're experiencing
4:08is not what is actually there. And a way
4:11to think about this is we experience a
4:13very physical, sensory, fixed, material
4:17reality, but it's actually much more
4:19vibrational. Like if we, you know, look
4:22at any physical thing in the world, the
4:24device that you're listening to this
4:25episode on, it's made up of uh
4:27molecules. Those molecules are made up
4:29of atoms. Those atoms have parts, like
4:31the nucleus of an atom with neutrons and
4:33protons and electrons that are orbiting
4:36around this nucleus. But as we continue
4:38to look at the smaller and smaller and
4:39smaller smaller pieces, we start moving
4:41into, let's describe it as the quantum
4:43world. And what we see is that what is
4:46actually there is not always there.
4:48There's a probability of the material
4:50reality being there. It's a little bit
4:52more like a shimmering, fluctuating
4:54field of energy that our five senses
4:56interpret into what we see or what we
4:59hear or what we smell. Now, human being,
5:02more specifically the brain and the
5:04nervous system,
5:05is constantly vibrating. So, you are an
5:08electrical, mechanical organism
5:11that is putting off a frequency. It's
5:13transmitting a frequency, just like a
5:15light bulb transmits light or a coil
5:18might transmit some sort of frequency or
5:20vibration. We're constantly vibing.
5:23And [snorts] so, how do we vibe? We vibe
5:25according to how we think and how we
5:27feel. Your thoughts and your emotions
5:29are vibrational phenomenon that occur
5:31within your nervous system,
5:33and that has an interaction or an impact
5:36on this vibrational reality around us.
5:40We begin to calibrate the reality around
5:43us through our presence, through our
5:45state of being, which is the collective
5:47sum total of what we believe, of what we
5:49think, and what we feel. That's our
5:51transmission. And so, on one level, this
5:55is how we create coincidences and
5:57synchronicities. This is how when you
5:59think about somebody, they have a
6:01subconscious impulse to call you.
6:05Or you think about somebody and over
6:08there in their own reality, they've had
6:09a series of subconscious decisions that
6:11they've made so that they arrive at the
6:13same restaurant or grocery store that
6:14you're at and you run into them.
6:16Or this is how a desperately needed
6:18resource. I'm sure there's been a time
6:20in your life where like you needed a
6:21thing really, really bad and the thing
6:22shows up. That's because we are all a
6:25part of and connected to this field of
6:27consciousness or this field of vibration
6:29and we are sending out a communication
6:31across this field and it is being
6:32received by everyone and everything that
6:36is also the field and the field is
6:37responding and you are also responding
6:39at subconscious levels to other people's
6:42influence and so you are all part of the
6:44rendezvous and synchronicities that they
6:46create in their life. You know, years
6:47ago and I've talked about this on other
6:49episodes, I was at a
6:51speaker training for the world's
6:53greatest inspirational speaker, a guy by
6:55the name of Les Brown, and I tell the
6:57story of how one morning I was really
7:00stressed out and I was looking for
7:02something to uplift my spirits and I
7:04found some daily Bible quotes and I
7:06thought to myself, you know, wouldn't it
7:08be nice if there was a way that based on
7:09how I was feeling, stressed, anxious,
7:11overwhelmed, I could find a
7:12corresponding Bible verse to lift up my
7:14spirits. And I'm at this training and
7:16Les Brown is telling the story. It's my
7:19favorite story that he tells and at the
7:20end of the story, he reaches into the
7:22nightstand and he grabs a Gideon's
7:23Bible. But I had no idea what a Gideon's
7:25Bible was.
7:27Well, on the way home, on a 3-hour trip
7:29back to my house,
7:31I end up blowing out a tire on my car,
7:34rolling into a gas station. I'm waiting
7:36for AAA to come and change my tire and
7:39an older gentleman walks over to me,
7:41mistaking my identity, starting a
7:43conversation with me. And as he walks
7:44away, he says, "By the way, do you own a
7:46Gideon's Bible?" I said, "No, I don't."
7:49And he said, "Well, that's not why I
7:50walked over here, but I just have an
7:52inspiration to give you one." So, he
7:54walks back to his car, he comes back, he
7:55hands me a Gideon's Bible, and I says,
7:57"Do you know how this Gideon's Bible
7:59works?" It was a little small pocket
8:00Bible, and I said, "No, I don't." And he
8:02said, "Well,
8:03it's got a table of contents. And so,
8:05depending on how you're feeling,
8:06stressed, anxious, overwhelmed, you can
8:08find a corresponding verse in the Bible
8:10to uplift your spirits." That was a
8:11miracle.
8:13Right? I don't know how the miracle was
8:14created, but when I actually look back,
8:17part of that miracle making was me
8:20saying, "Hey, wouldn't it be nice
8:23if there was this thing?" And it was
8:25already in my awareness without me
8:26knowing about it, because it was part of
8:28my the favorite story that Les Brown
8:30tells that I got to hear in person.
8:33And then, through a series of man,
8:35probably hundreds of coincidences,
8:38this thing that I had asked for shows up
8:40in my hand. So, how did that happen?
8:43Through frequency, through transmission,
8:45through
8:46um emotions, through subconscious
8:48influence of both myself and other
8:50people and this gentleman.
8:52And by also being non-resistant to it.
8:55This was not a thing where I'm like, "Oh
8:57man, I wish I really had this thing."
8:58And so, it turned from a want into a
9:00need. It was like a wouldn't it be nice?
9:04And it showed up. So, if we really look
9:06at what's happening there,
9:08my thoughts, my emotions, my decisions,
9:11my perception, my nervous system
9:13was the portal for a miracle happening.
9:17Now, let's take this a step further,
9:18because yeah, it's one thing to have an
9:20amazing story that defies all logic and
9:24rationale as to how this thing that was
9:26already in my awareness that Les Brown
9:28was speaking about, that I had a
9:29subconscious desire for, showed up at a
9:31gas station hours later.
9:34That's a little little different than
9:35walking on water and raising the dead,
9:37don't you think?
9:38So, let's take this a little bit
9:39further. What if you could develop the
9:41capacity
9:43to actually stop all thought?
9:46Right? To prevent your senses
9:49from even interpreting reality
9:52so that you didn't buy into reality in
9:56the way that the brain is enrolling us
9:57into reality. I'm going to repeat that.
9:59What if there was a way that you could
10:01actually pause and insert yourself
10:05in between
10:06the interpretation of this fluctuating
10:09field, which is what your brain does to
10:10keep you grounded in reality,
10:13and
10:14that vibrational
10:16field of potential itself. What if you
10:18could go I'm not even sure I buy into
10:22what my senses
10:23are telling me. Even in the microsecond
10:25that it takes to translate reality
10:27through your senses. To slow down so
10:29much
10:31that you can actually see behind the
10:33manifested illusion. Remember Neo in The
10:36Matrix?
10:37Like there were times where he could see
10:38all the zeros and ones.
10:40Is it possible that people like Christ
10:42and the saints and the yogis
10:45could develop themselves in such a way
10:47that they could actually
10:49have an opinion about whether or not
10:50they agree on the material reality, and
10:53then insert their influence at the field
10:56level to manipulate the physical
10:57reality. That's the question. Now,
10:59what's interesting
11:00is Yogananda
11:02taught a practice called Kriya Yoga
11:05that was designed to slow your thoughts
11:08down so much and to withdraw your senses
11:12from the physical reality that you could
11:13accomplish exactly this. What I'm saying
11:16is is what I'm suggesting might be
11:18possible is exactly the practice that
11:21Yogananda taught through the Kriya Yoga.
11:23This was the ancient secret of the
11:25yogis. It had to be passed down from
11:28yogi to yogi to yogi. And what was so
11:30special about Paramahansa Yogananda was
11:32he actually introduced this practice to
11:34the West. Now, we know as we study
11:37Christ, he was involved in some sort of
11:40practice like this, too. Christ would
11:43withdraw and develop himself. You know,
11:46we don't really know what happened
11:48between Christ as baby Christ and the
11:52Jesus, right? The Christ who showed up
11:54at 33 years of age. I don't think it's
11:56an unrealistic assumption to say
11:58somewhere along the way he developed a
12:01practice and it would not be surprising
12:03if the practice that he developed was
12:05the same practice that allowed Yogananda
12:07and all of the yogis to perform miracles
12:10and that is that they could control
12:11their minds in such a way that they
12:14effectively no longer bought into or
12:17reacted to the material reality, but
12:20instead they could imagine reality
12:24and could broadcast their intention and
12:27their vision
12:28for what was so powerfully and
12:31unwaveringly that reality conformed to
12:34their intention. You don't have to look
12:36really far to see that Christ was
12:40guiding us in this direction. In fact,
12:41he was pretty explicit about it. If you
12:43just read what he said, "Be not
12:46conformed to this world, but be
12:49transformed
12:51by the renewing of your mind." It's
12:53right there.
12:54It's It's in the instruction book.
12:57So,
12:58let's look at what happens to us. We are
13:00born into a fixed reality. There is a
13:03collective reality created by all of us,
13:06the collective consciousness,
13:09and from birth, we become trained into
13:11that reality. We
13:14have senses
13:15as children, but our senses are also
13:18informed. We're told by everyone else
13:20around us what is,
13:22and that starts to develop a mechanism
13:25in the brain that locks us into a fixed
13:28and agreed to reality. Okay, I'm going
13:30to get into this in a second. It's
13:31called the default mode network. It's
13:33essentially a series of structures in
13:35your brain that hold together our
13:38perception of reality and hold together
13:40our personality so that we can be
13:42grounded into something. But the
13:44grounding
13:46into this reality is also an
13:49indoctrination and a domestication. We
13:51buy into what other people believe. And
13:54we can even see this with
13:55transgenerational belief systems.
13:57Usually, what money is for you is what
14:00money was growing up for you, which is
14:02what money was for your parents. What
14:04relationships are for you is what
14:06relationships were when you were growing
14:08up, which is how relationships were for
14:11your parents. But as we heal,
14:13we change our brains, right? We start to
14:16transform these limiting beliefs. We
14:18metabolize our traumas, right? And the
14:21good news is the brain is neuroplastic.
14:23So, the brain can be retrained. So, we
14:25re- Well, I feel like I'm yelling at you
14:27right now. I'm not yelling at you. I'm
14:28just very, very excited. We rewire a
14:31belief around money being hard to make,
14:34and we build a new belief around money
14:36or life being abundant. And the
14:38byproduct of that change, right? That
14:42rewiring is a reality of wealth and
14:46financial opportunity and financial
14:47abundance. And so, let's just hop a rail
14:50here for a second. When people engage in
14:52ceremonial healing work, I'm going to
14:54use ayahuasca here as an example,
14:57but uh could be a lot of things that are
14:59referred to as like psychedelic work,
15:01right? Psilocybin, LSD, MDMA therapy,
15:04ketamine, whatever. I'm going to use
15:05ayahuasca here cuz it's the best
15:07example. If you're not familiar, it's a
15:09a ceremonial tea experience that has
15:12been around for thousands of years that
15:14came out of indigenous healing work
15:17in the Central and South Americas. So,
15:18you take this tea, and what happens is
15:20there's an activation of a chemical
15:22called DMT. Okay, so when DMT becomes
15:26active in the body, people experience
15:29what are referred to as a hallucination
15:31or a hallucinatory experience. There's
15:33another word for it called entheogenic,
15:34which is actually a better word. It
15:36means other than ordinary experience.
15:38Because when we use the word
15:39hallucinations,
15:41it sort of implies that like what
15:43someone's experiencing is not real. But
15:44is that true? So, science tells us that
15:48during DMT activation, right, in an
15:50ayahuasca ceremony or if you take DMT
15:52directly or if you activate DMT in your
15:54body through extended transformational
15:56breath work,
15:58a series of systems in the brain, which
16:00are referred to as the default mode
16:01network, are temporarily shut down.
16:03Right, effectively the systems of the
16:05brain that hold conscious reality
16:07together and your personality together
16:09that have been reinforced since birth
16:11get turned off. And when they do, the
16:14byproduct of that is people experience
16:16an altered reality. All kinds of
16:18different things, from speaking to
16:19deceased loved ones to having
16:20conversations with God to seeing their
16:22future. The question is, is this a
16:24hallucination or is it a filter coming
16:27down to experience something that is
16:29equally real as our current reality, but
16:31not normally perceived when the default
16:34mode network is on? Question is again,
16:36is this a hallucination or is it the
16:38byproduct of the neurological filters
16:40that structure our perception of reality
16:42going offline for a little while? Okay?
16:45So, I want to take this one step
16:46further. Reality is an illusion, albeit
16:48a persistent one. What if you could
16:50disbelieve in reality so strongly
16:54that you could take down these filters
16:56on your own? You didn't need ayahuasca,
16:58right, you could just disbelieve in
17:00reality by learning how to withdraw your
17:02senses that are addicted to reality,
17:04and to be able to choose reality. What
17:06if you could disbelieve as well in
17:09someone else's
17:11reality, someone's illness, and believe
17:13in their well-being so much in such a
17:16determined way that your perspective
17:18overcame their belief in their illness
17:19and the byproduct of that was instant
17:21healing. Is this how Christ performed
17:24miracles? He disbelieved in the reality
17:26that was so much more than someone's
17:29belief in the reality that was that his
17:31reality became the predominant reality
17:34and the material reality changed for
17:36everyone around him. The byproduct of
17:38which in this case was healing. Note
17:40that Christ asked
17:42in almost every instance, "Do you
17:44believe in me?"
17:46And when they said, "Yes, I believe in
17:48you." His commands were simple.
17:50"Get up and walk." He raised Lazarus
17:53from the dead. What did he say? "Come
17:54forth, Lazarus."
17:56Simple commands that commanded reality.
17:59Very much like God in Genesis, right?
18:01Let there be light and there was.
18:04So, miracles, perhaps, are a byproduct
18:08of unbroken conviction. Does that mean
18:11that you can fly?
18:13I don't know. Ask the yogis who were
18:15witnessed to have levitated, right? Now,
18:18you say, "All right, Dave, that's fine,
18:19but why don't they do it publicly?"
18:20You'd have to ask the yogis or the
18:22saints or whoever's performing miracles,
18:24but maybe it is because other people's
18:27doubt
18:28can influence their ability to perform.
18:30Maybe if Christ said to somebody, "Do
18:31you believe?" And they said, "No." And
18:33he'd be like, "Well, I can't help you."
18:34But because you do believe and you're
18:35open to it, I can come in
18:38with my superconsciousness and
18:40manipulate reality, right? Perhaps
18:42that's what made Christ the greatest
18:43miracle maker of all. Is his public
18:45spectacle, right? In any case,
18:48whether we're talking about walking on
18:49water or miracle healings or the miracle
18:51of transforming your life
18:53from one of scarcity and striving to one
18:55of abundance and ease, it is clear we
18:57have a significant influence on our
18:59reality. It's clear that when we change
19:02our mind, we change our brains. And as
19:04we do that, neuroplasticity reorganizes
19:07our nervous system and it is a fact that
19:10our brain and our nervous system are
19:12vibrationally interactive with the
19:13reality around us, right? None of this
19:15is new age or requires a leap of faith.
19:18That's why I say
19:20your nervous system is a portal to
19:22miracles, right? The only question is,
19:24what's your limit? And my offering to
19:27you is that there may be no limit at all
19:31if you decide to take up the challenge.
19:33You may create miracles even greater
19:35than the greatest miracle maker of all
19:36time. But what do I know? That's just
19:38what I think and I want to know what you
19:39think. You can comment in the comments
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