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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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Already, welcome to the show.
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Thanks doctor Doug. Im so delighted to be here.
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I notice you're closing your eyes. I assume was a
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little quick meditation for a few seconds.
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That's right, That's exactly right.
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I love that.
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So hey share with the audience where you're from and
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also kind of the story the background.
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It's always fascinating to me.
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Everyone has a different journey, a different story about what
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brings them to the point of doing what they're doing now,
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which is why we have you on the podcast.
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Yeah, thank you. Well, I'm based in California, Northern California,
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so that's where I'm calling from. And my story really
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starts as an ecologist. Well it starts as a child
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who absolutely was in love with the environment and who
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did a lot of camping and backpacking and you know,
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scampering around the oceans of California and tide pooling and
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things like that. And then I became a conservation scientist
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as a career, and I studied that and I did
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that career for twenty five years working for your conservancy,
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and I had a really beautiful, prosperous career there. But
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about in my mid forties, I came to a point
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where a number of things collided in my personal life.
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One was I got mold poisoning, so I had a
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really significant health crisis. And the other was I had
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that I guess you'd call it maybe spiritual crisis, that
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feeling you know, after your kids are you know, you're
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not just in diapers anymore. I don't know if you
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have kids or not, but my kids. Okay, there we go.
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So you know, you come out of the haze of
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early of your kids, you know, you can actually feel
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like you can be a person again. And I was
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really sad, really sad about the planet, really sad about
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what humans are doing, feeling like nothing I did as
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an environmentalist whatever be enough, and feeling weighted down by
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the destruction of the planet. And I would say that
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it just my heart felt really heavy, and it was
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a sense where like when I was younger, I had
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that kind of you know, we're going to beat this,
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We're going to do you know, humanity is going to
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rise up, And it just didn't feel that way anymore,
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and fed it just felt like I just felt really defeated.
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And despite the fact that you know, I had everything
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in the world in sense of, you know, a loving husband,
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and my kids were successful, and I had a really
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good job, and I didn't really know how to be happy.
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That's the bottom line. I wasn't happy. And I was like,
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if all of this has happened and I'm not happy,
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you know, how could I ever be happy? And do
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I even have a right to be happy? You know?
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Do I have a right to be happy? When so
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many people in the world are suffering, or so many
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animals are suffering, and that existential crisis in my own
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minds kind of wrestling sent me on a path of
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meditation and spiritual questing. I'd been actually into spirituality kind
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of throughout my life, but this sent me on a
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much deeper dive into that, and I did do a
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lot of deep meditation. I was meditating two hours a day.
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And the things that I discovered and the realizations that
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I had so profoundly changed my life. And I did
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find the happiness and the joy that was missing, and
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I got well through not through alternative medicine, through frequency,
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and I was so inspired by what had happened that
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I wanted to help others find the same joy and
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happiness and well being that I'd found.
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Oh wonderful. You know, it's so interesting. I mean, the
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world right now, as you say, is just a nightmare.
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And it's interesting to me that you know, initially we
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want to just try to save everything, and yet I
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think you've hit on such an important point. If we
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can number one save ourselves, and then number two start
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to reach out.
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Even if it's just with the one.
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Ultimately, if we can keep doing that, hopefully generations down
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the line, things are going to be so much better.
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Yeah, yeah, I you know, I think that's the path
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of devotion and service and that you know, that is
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its own path of awakening. Really, you know that what
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you said, and I say this to my clients all
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the time, like this is a put on your own
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oxygen mask first situation that we're in, you know, like
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we have to find our own well being and we
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can't expect others to do it for us. And that's
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that's the essence of the spiritual journey, in the spiritual quest, right,
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I mean, that's that's what we're here for. And then
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we turn around and we devote our lives to helping others.
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Yeah, and you know, I want to talk about spirituality.
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It's interesting as I was looking at different podcasts, I
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saw one that, quite frankly, was a little bit strange,
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and I was fascinated by the you know, the aspect
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of what they were saying, because you know, when we
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talk about spirituality, so often people think of religion and
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that type of thing, theology, and yet this podcast that
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I was listening to was really battering it down, you know,
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from a theological situation saying people have lost this concept
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of God and this whole purpose. And so as you
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look at it, and you know, I don't mean to
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be intrusive here, but as you talk about spirituality, are
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you speaking of a non god spirituality or are you
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talking about that inner light that each of us as
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children of God have received.
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Oh, that's such a beautiful question. So, I mean, there
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is a lot of confusion and mixing of religion and spirituality.
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At its heart, though there are many paths, and the
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truth is is that some people do find their way
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through Christianity or Judaism or Hinduism. And I would never
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be one to put any of that down. You know,
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I have a very blended religious history. I grew up
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with a Christian mother and a Jewish father, although it
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was quite secular in my house. But I have cousins
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who are devout Jews and they live beautiful lives, and
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I would never judge the path that they've taken and
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where that deep Judaism has gotten them. If that works
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for them, God bless them. I mean literally, I really
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feel that. And at the same time, I think that
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spirituality in general is pointing to the same one truth
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that transcends any given religion, religion maybe the path that
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a specific person gets to, but there is, ultimately, in
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my view, one God. There's one divine source, consciousness and way.
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Whether you call it God or living universe or service consciousness,
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whatever name you put on it, it's the same thing.
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It's the animate, living, a live, intelligent space that is
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operating in all of our lives, that is holding all
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of us, that is making everything that we see, in
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everything that we experience possible.
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Well, and I think that's so important.
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You know, so many people and you get into Christianity
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and so forth, Oh we were born in sin and
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all of that kind of stuff, which I don't happen
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to agree with, but I think it puts such an
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imprint of I'm not good enough type of situation in there.
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And yet if you look at it, and this is
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how I do it personally, is I look at it
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from the standpoint I guess, do I believe in God absolutely?
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And do I believe that we are children of God? Absolutely?
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And do I believe that His light is within each
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one of us?
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Absolutely?
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And so I think that's where the key comes in that,
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as you say, you know, we may use different words
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to explain that. But the reality is that within each
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one of us there is that light, there's that goodness,
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there's that love that so often has been somehow modified.
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In fact, I was listening just yesterday. I thought it
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was such a great example of talking about eggs and
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how so often we are within that eggshell and it's
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very difficult to break out of the egg shell. But
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it's only when we do that that we really start
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to experience the goodness of life.
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Yeah, yeah, beautiful, I completely agree, And I think you
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bring a good point. You know that. I mean, spirituality
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is its heart. Is what you're speaking to, is that
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this transcendent truth of the radiant being of light, God, source, universe,
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and what we call religion, you know, the dogma would be,
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you know, a specific belief like you know, we're born
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and sin, which is not what this transcendence crutuality.
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Is speaking to.
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So you know, that's to me where the distinction goes.
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But if we were to still the essence and the
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heart of the transcendent truth of each religion, they are
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they're apart from the specific dogma. I believe they're all
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speaking and pointing to the same one thing.
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Well, and you know, I've studied that, not as in
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depth as I'd like to, but as fascinating to me
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when we look at Hinduism, as Zaoism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism,
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all of those. If you get back and start to
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ignore all the stuff that man has created as a
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religion and get back to those original teachings from each
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of the leaders of the individual what we would call
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philosophies or religion, it's fascinating to me that they all
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come in with the same philosophy, may slightly different approach,
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but it's all the same philosophy of becoming, Yes, truly
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become who you really are.
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Yes, I agree with you.
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Yeah, So I love that.
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So, you know, you talk about different things, and I
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know that you approach on your website.
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I loved how you use the three a's. I think
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that's so fun.
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You know, so you've got awaken your true nature, attune
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to the living universe, and then align your wild heart.
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But you kind of go through each one of those
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and what brought you to that concept and philosophy in
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helping people?
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Yeah, well what that embodies. And there's actually a fourth one.
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I didn't put it right there.
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At the top.
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But there's a fourth one, which is allow, allow the flow.
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And all of those four embody the core truths of
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the path of inner rewilding. And that is a path
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that I that I created, That that cap sures the
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essence of the principles that I that were essential to
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my own path. And I actually have a book that
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by that name, in a Rewilding Really, yes, I do.
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And I in that book I describe both my path
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and then sort of my own story and then like
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a like a self help or teaching for you know
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what I'm about to describe. But in that path, these
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four these four points are like a mandala for me.
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They're like points on a compass, you know. So awakening
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we start in the east. Awaken to your true nature,
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which is this essential truth that we're just talking about
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right now, the recognition that you're not separate from source,
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that you are source. It's that simple. And you know,
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I have specific exercises and pointings back to your true nature.
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But that is the dissolving the illusion that we're separate.
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You know, that the ego is a separate identity, or
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that we're walking around as separate beings. And how we
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transcend that understanding is that core essence of the awaken
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to your true nature peace. That is the heart of
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all the spiritual teachings, right, So that is the first
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But then I don't stop there, because we can awaken
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to our essential true nature. But we also have physical bodies,
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and our physical bodies are energetic, and there's this physical
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reality going on here. So how do we relate to
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that physical universe and how do we learn to live
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lives not just from an awakened nature, but actually more
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in tune and in coherence with this living three D
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and forty and five universe that we're experiencing. And that's
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what the attune to the living universe part is. So
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then it's about sort of starting to tune in and
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learning how we and into this subtle energies of the universe.
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That's the atune piece. And I think in my own
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journey it was such an aha to kind of put