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Denzel Washington, welcome to Inspire Vision. Our sole purpose is
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to elevate the lives of others and to inspire you
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to do the same.
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Lair, Welcome to the show.
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Doc. Thank you so much. I really appreciate the opportunity
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to be with you.
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Well, I'm really excited on this one. It's I think
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this is going to be really fascinating. You have had
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an interesting life and you've had a very interesting focus
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for many years. Could you share with the audience a
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little bit about how you got to this point? And
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also how you started writing all these many books that
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you've written.
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Yeah, be happy to I've been doing yoga now, for guys,
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since nineteen seventy three when I first moved to San
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Francisco from the other side of the country, North Carolina,
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and yoga was a or meditation was part of the
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yoga routine that I learned, and I've been doing that
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just as part of my daily practice for all these years. However,
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about ten years ago, I had moved from the East
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coast to the West coast to take a sizeable promotion
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and was headed for the top of my profession. When
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I realized that I was in a difficult situation with
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a really a very a terrible boss, abusing employees, misusing funds,
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running the program into the ground, and I just had
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to speak up. So I went to the people above
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us and let them know what was going on. An
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investigation was done, she was fired, but they fired me too.
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He said I was a troublemaker. Well, yeah, what that
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meant was that I was a trouble maker. I was
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making trouble for them, pointing out that there was not
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much supervision going on, and having to go through all
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this investigation and so forth, and that was devastating. I
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mean that basically ended a thirty year career doing business
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consulting for the US Small Business Administration and kind of
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working my way up and headed for a stage director position.
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So it was devastating. You know, I lost my income,
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I lost my job, and you know, my ego was
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terribly wounded by that experience. And I didn't really know
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what I was going to do next. Ended up moving.
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I was in San Diego. I ended up moving to
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the Bay Area, where my son and grandchildren live. And
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really it started taking a real deep dive into my
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meditation practice for therapy and began journaling about my experience,
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and it was really an awakening. It was a time
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of awakening. It was a time of new understandings of spirituality.
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In fact, what I would say at this point, looking
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back on it, is that I had made soul contact.
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I had contacted my higher self and began to have
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a conversation with what I now called High c by
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way of journaling. And what would happen is I would
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I would sit at night and I would write, and
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it would just feel like spirit was just flowing through
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my hands right on to the right on to the keyboard,
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and that was really the genesis of the books. I
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had never intended to be an author, but after about
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one hundred and fifty thousand words in my journal, I
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realized I had material for some books, and I began
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to write. And I've been writing ever since. Now have
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six books. I have two more in the works, and
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they're all the subject of meditation, mindfulness, manifestation. My next
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book is on making soul contact, and also have one
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coming on health and wellness from a spiritual perspective. So
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it's become a passion. I continue to do some business consulting,
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but it's the thing that I'm really passionate about and
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I love talking about it well.
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And you know, I think meditation is just amazing. I
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got involved in it a few years ago. I had
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attended a week long course with a gentleman that is
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very you know, well known in his meditation program and
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I found it fascinating. And since then I've tried to
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meditate practically every day. Sometimes I miss today, but I
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try that. But what I've found is this really interesting
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is they talk to different people who meditate and talk
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about meditation. There's such a variety of approach, and I
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know that you have a very specific one, which you
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call a higher conscious meditation. What I'd love for you
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to do, though, is kind of explain for you what
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has been your experience of the benefits of meditation and
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how does it really work that way?
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Yes, well, the benefits are many. In fact, one of
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the books that I wrote is on the subject of
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the amazing benefits of meditation. And the interesting thing I
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think that the book indicates is that there's been some
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really thorough scientific research on the subject of the benefits
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of meditation. Roughly three thousand plus studies have been done
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that show that on all levels emotional, mental, and physical levels,
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meditation has positive benefits as it relates to all kinds
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of conditions, everything from depression to psoriasis. Uh. And I
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found personally that my quality of life, especially as I
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took some a deep dive into my meditation created my
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higher meditation, higher consciousness meditation process, my life has just
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improved dramatically. My well being, my sense of my place
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in the world, my contact with what I would call
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five dimensional reality has has just exploded, if you will. Uh.
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Having done a lot of meditation over all of these years,
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it really won't. Wasn't until I took this deep dive
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that I began to realize how surrounded by spirit we
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are and how that spirit infuses our lives. And so
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when I meditate, I just get this really nice They
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call it bliss, you know, kind of elevation and awareness
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and a feeling of joy and happiness. And I do
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it twice a day along with some mindfulness practices throughout
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the day to kind of keep tuned up as a
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way of maintaining an elevated state of awareness. And the
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results of that have been as the research shows, you know, mentally, emotionally, physically,
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I'm in you know, great physical condition. Mentally, emotionally, I'm
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I'm happy to be alive. I'm happy to be doing
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my work. I'm I'm happy to be around the people
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that I'm around. I mean, good circumstances, things and people
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seem to just flow into my life.
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Oh and that's cool. I mean, you know, you mentioned
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the higher conscious meditation, you talk about manifestation, you talk
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about mindfulness, and those those are all related, and I
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want to go into each one of them. But one
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of the things that struck me and just brought a
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question to my mind as I was preparing for this
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was this concept of manifestation because you hear so much
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about having your you know, your bored in front of
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you and all of these types of things, and and
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I know for many people the thought of hey, if
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I just have my you know, my dream board up
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there and if I just think about it, I'm going
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to manifest that's going to happen. What has been your
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experience in that and what are your thoughts about manifestation
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and how does it really work?
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Yes, I've tried all forms of manifestation that I was
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able to come across, from the secret to doing vision
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boards and all of that, and what I found was
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it didn't work very well. I think it works for
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some people, just for me, it didn't seem to work
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very well. And I concluded that the reason that that's
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the case is that a lot of the practices, manifestation
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practices are ego based. That they're about what does the
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ego need and want, you know, BMW and my driveway
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tomorrow just appearing out of nowhere, or all kinds of
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promises you know, are made with that kind of those
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kinds of practices. H And what I realized that was
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that and this is partially as a result of my
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interaction with my higher consciousness. I realized that there was
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a better way, a more spiritual way to do manifestation practice.
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So I developed a manifestation practice called the best Possible
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Outcomes process, and it kind of goes like this. It's
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real simple. I ask for the best possible outcome as
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it relates to my oh my, my my podcast with
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Doug this morning, and then pause for a moment, get
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a sense that Spirit has engaged, or my higher consciousness
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has engaged, and then I offer thanks for to High
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c for its involvement in my life. Now that sounds
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real simple, but it's got some, I think, very powerful
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principles built into it. First, there's an ask, but the
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ask is very general. It's not specifically for a BMW
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to pear in my driveway tomorrow. But if I have
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a need for transportation, I ask for the best possible
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outcome as it relates to my transportation, with the thought
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that Spirit knows what I need and want for my
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highest evolution, for my greatest growth and evolution, and will
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provide or I will attract by virtue of the vibratory
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rate that I achieve in a meditative state, I will
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attract that which I need for again for my greatest growth,
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and that I trust then spirit to know what it
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is that I need and want and for that to
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begin to appear in my life. It may not appear
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right away. I just continue to trust that that's the
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case because I know that I've turned it over to
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that that that consciousness, to that awareness, to that spirit,
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to that my soul for that manifestation to occur. And
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then I offer thanks for that, in other words, gratitude,
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and it lifts me up. But it also then relieves
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my ego mind from having to produce something but instead
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to allow not produce well.
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And you know, you talk about ego, and I can't
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help the smiling because I've had a lot of chat
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about this, read some interesting books about how ego, as
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you mentioned, you know, when when we're talking about the
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secret or talking about some of those other things, is
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so ego based that this is what I'm looking because
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I'm gonna feel better at whatever it happens to be.
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And this concept of eliminating the ego, and you know,
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Buddha refers to it as the non self, and I
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find that fascinating that even way back then, he recognized
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what ego could do. And so he's saying to the people,
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learn to develop a non self or that ego does
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not affect you. And that's really what you're talking about.
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I'm curious because you talk about the high see higher consciousness, meditation,
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you talk about the spirit. Can you explain to the
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audience what you're really meaning by that?
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Yes, well, let's let's use Buddha's concept of non self.
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there's a a I think all of us know that
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we've got a soul, that we've got higher consciousness. But
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how often did you, as a youth or a person
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coming up here, from a teacher, from parents, from anybody,
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about the fact that you had a higher self. And
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I think that's what he means by self, which is
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the opposite of non sel, you know, right right or
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in the same ballpark, when we talk about that, that
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we all have that part of us that h is.
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In my case, it feels like a friend, a companion,
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a a part of myself that again informs, that surround owns.
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That is that loving part of me that loves me
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and from which I can love outward. So you know,
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my experience of that is one again of companionship. It's
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one of conversation. I have ongoing conversations and again I
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use I like to use UH, I like to use
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journaling as a way of having that contact. But if
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you if you read my books, what you'll find is
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an ongoing conversation with that part of me that I
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would call soul or higher self. And that's what I'll
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be writing about in great detail in my next book
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on that subject. So it's a what what I've done
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is to offer tools that allow one to make contact
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with that hires and have become acquainted with that higher
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self and to develop a relationship with that higher self.
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So I'm offering tools that I was never offered early
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in my life, but which have become very important later
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in my life.
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Well, and it is you talk about your higher self,
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and you know, so many people that are really into
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meditation talk about the quantum field, and many of those
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I think are pretty well avoiding any type of quote
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religious element to that. As you talk about spirit, as
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you talk about higher self, my impression is there is
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an element of something there that is available to be
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able to tap into that can really create some real
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opportunities and affirmations and all those types of things. So
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I know one thing, for instance, you're right about the