Truth is the Solvent that Dissolves Illusion

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The Ancients Decoded Reality

Truth is the Solvent that Dissolves Illusion

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[music] When I die in the name of rest. Going to

[music] go to the place that's the best. Going to lay me down [music] to die.

Going up to the spirit in the sky. Going up to the spirit in the sky.

That's where I'm [music and singing] going to go when I die. When I die and lay to rest, I'm going to

go to the place that's [singing] the best [music]

since I was like 10. I've been obsessed with ancient [music] texts. And I do mean obsess. I read them

and [music] still read them like people read data reports. I compare all the versions and the translations, line by

line comparisons, [music] and something has always bothered me.

I've been digging through ancient texts since I was little. [music] And not like a handful, not like 10 or 20, I'm

talking over 190 sacred writings from every corner of human civilization.

Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic, Tauist, Gnostic, Egyptian,

Mayan, Hermetic, Confucian, Sumerian, indigenous. These are texts written thousands of miles apart, thousands of

years apart with no way to influence each other. And yet somewhere between the lines, they're all whispering the

exact same message. And it's not similar. It's not a kind of like message. It's the exact same five truths

over [music] and over. So, this video isn't body language and persuasion, and

it's definitely not about religion in any way. So, if your level of certainty

about the world is super high, this might itch a little, and you know that certainty in human behavior shows up

when something needs to be protected. So, you do not have to agree with any of this to get something powerful from it.

All right? There's something worth considering

regardless of [music] your faith or your background. First, if God or ultimate

truth [music] is real, then it or he or she existed way before any book, any

language, or one [music] single tradition ever appeared, which means

that truth wouldn't belong to just one place or one people. Second, [music]

when civilizations that are separated by oceans and centuries

describe [music] the same insights about reality and human nature and meaning,

it suggests they were observing something [music] universal rather than inventing

something locally. And just like gravity existed before we

ever had a name for it, and mathematics works the same everywhere on Earth,

truth, and I [music] mean truth with a capital T, doesn't change based on

culture or belief. It just [music] gets described through different and very

flawed human lenses. This is why the deepest [music] spiritual experiences

sound so unbelievably similar across traditions. And I think it's why history's greatest teachers [music]

didn't try to fracture humanity, but they tried to wake it up to something it already carried inside of it across

every culture, every timeline, every belief system humans have ever built.

When I first saw the pattern forming, it didn't feel like research in any way.

[music] It felt like finding a message that humanity buried [music] like fragments

of a treasure map that we as a species were unconsciously developing for some

future generation to find. And I think there are a few things that nobody wants to be said out loud. First, if truth is

real, if it's fundamental, it should show up everywhere [music] in every era,

every tribe, every myth, every scripture. And I think that it actually does.

But somehow, I think we miss something. We get lost in the arguments about who's

right. We get lost in [music] the differences, the translations, the rituals, the politics, and the fear. We

[music] started defending our favorite book instead of noticing what all the books were trying to say. If you can

imagine dozens of civilizations who never met, they never traded language. They never shared a single word with

each other all describing the same fundamental truths of reality. What

would that mean? What would that force us to consider? [music] Because if that's true, then the

greatest spiritual secret on Earth was never hidden at all. It was just

scattered like a puzzle all across our species story. And if all of those

pieces could come together, we might see something pretty astonishing.

But before we talk about the message they left us, you have to understand why these truths [music]

were actually hidden in the first place. And they were hidden. This isn't debated. I promise it's not conspiracy

and churches and governments that did it. It's way older than that. Before we go any further, you need to understand

something that almost everybody gets wrong about all these ancient texts, cuz I know there's a lot of videos out there

that talk about them. These ancient texts were not trying to be mysterious. They weren't trying to be poetic. They

weren't trying to confuse anybody. They were trying to describe the utterly indescribable [music]

by using a human brain and human language that was never [music] designed

to grasp any of this at all. That is truly the core problem. Language.

So language, [music] any language is a cage. It's a net with

holes that are [music] way too wide to catch something that's truly infinite.

And the people who wrote these texts, they knew that. That's why lau opens the

[music] tao deqing with the most brutally honest sentence in the ancient

texts altogether. The dao that could [music] be spoken is not the eternal

dao. The meaning is the moment that you try to explain ultimate truth, you've

already distorted it and filtered it and tried to contain it. Jesus understood this too. He literally tells the

disciples that he speaks in parables because most [music] people aren't ready to comprehend the truth directly. They

didn't have language for quantum [music] physics and non-duality or consciousness models like we do today, which is still

an infantile language. They had to compress the infinite into words. So,

every ancient culture hit the exact [music] same wall. How do you describe

an experience bigger than thought itself with a language that's built out of

thought? How do you describe God? Unity,

[music] infinity, consciousness with a vocabulary built for farms [music] and

weather and trading spices and chickens with each other. How do you tell people

the universe is one [music] before they even understand atoms or galaxies or even their own mind?

The answer is you can't. So they did the only thing that they could. They spoke

in metaphors and symbols [music] and myths and stories, poetry and parables

and riddles. And sometimes it was just silence. And they didn't do this to hide

the truth. The truth was just too large to fit through the doorway of our

primitive little language. If you can imagine standing in front of a sunrise

so [music] massive and overwhelming that words feel absolutely stupid to describe

it. Now imagine trying to explain [music] that sunrise to somebody who's never seen light before. This is why

ancient texts seem contradictory. The problem wasn't the message. It was the

translation. Different cultures, [music] different metaphors, different symbols. It was the same truth filtered through

different and extremely human limitations. And when you finally zoom

out far enough, the differences disappear. The metaphors line up, the

symbols overlap, and in my [music] estimation, the contradictions dissolve. You start to see that these were

fragments of maps. And once I noticed that, something [music] insane happened.

The patterns in these texts started connecting like constellations across

all these continents, across millennia, across belief systems that supposedly

are against each other. They weren't opposing each other at all. They were [music]

completing each other. And that's when these five truths revealed themselves. [music]

So here's where we go next. If every civilization on Earth discovered the same truths, if humans who never met

somehow described the exact same reality, the question becomes,

what exactly did they all see? Here's what they all agreed on. This is

the first truth, the one the ancient world tried their absolute hardest to

communicate to us. And it's also the one that we've [music] gone the farthest away from. You are not separate. You

never were and you never could be. Every single ancient civilization on

earth figured this out. In the upanishads in [music] from India, they

had a saying called tatwam usi. I think that's how you pronounce it. But it

basically means you are that not connected to it, not loved by it. You

are the divine wearing this [music] human costume. Jesus even said this. He

said the entire kingdom of God [music] is within you. Not in a building or book in you. In the ancient Sufi texts

they said you are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. If you look at hermetic texts all

is one. If you look at Daoism, everything is the Dao expressing itself in 10,000 forms.

If you look at the ancient Mayan text which is called the Popal VU, you see heart of sky, heart of earth. This is

the universe as a single living being. Even looking at Buddhism, there is no separate self. If you look inside the

Cabala, which is one of my favorite quotes, they say, "Creation is one emanation divided only in appearance."

And if you look into quantum physics, what are we starting to discover? [music] Everything is one field fragmented by

perception. Different cultures, different metaphors, same exact truth. There is no you versus the world. There

is only this one universe like experiencing itself from your point of view. Separation is what they're trying

to show us is a hallucination. Being divided is a glitch in humanity and

isolation [music] is not really real. This is the kind of the metaphor they're trying to get us to understand. When a

wave rises up out of the ocean, it looks separate. It has its own little shape.

It has its own motion, its own lifespan, but the wave is not actually a thing.

It's the ocean just for a few seconds, expressing itself in a temporary form.

When you were born, that was the ocean rising. When you die, the wave goes back

into itself. You never stopped being the ocean. You just forgot for a minute. [music] And when every ancient texts

says things like one spirit, one God and father of all, as above, so below, you

are that. The kingdom is within. All is mind. Everything is the Dao. They're all trying to point [music] at the same

thing. You are the universe aware of itself. You are the divine looking out

through human eyes temporarily. You are not the world. The world is in you. And

here's the super raw part that they didn't say outright. Every mystic hinted at this. If you aren't separate, then

your entire life, your [music] entire identity, your whole entire world view might just be built on a

misunderstanding. And that misunderstanding is what makes most of us suffer. Because the moment that

you've believed that you're separate, you start fearing loss and death and rejection and scarcity. And we start

chasing significance and validation and control. [music] We start defending our little ego like it's sacred. But the

moment that we remember what we actually are, [music] the fear goes away. Conflict all dissolves. Loneliness goes

away. [music] Death changes meaning entirely. And life becomes something

that we can finally understand. A single field of consciousness somehow playing

out as billions [music] of expressions trying to remember itself. This is why

truth number one sits at the foundation of everything else. Because if we are not separate from each other and if

you're not separate from the universe, then what comes next is the operating system of reality. Number two, fear is

an illusion and love [music] is the truth. So if the first truth is that you're not separate, the second truth is

the one that keeps shaping your entire life without you realizing it. [music] Fear is the greatest lie ever told. Love

is the only thing that's real. Every ancient text, [music] it doesn't matter the culture, it doesn't matter what language, repeats

the [music] same idea so many times it's almost suspicious. The most repeated phrase [music] in the

entire Bible is fear not or do not be afraid. A quote from Jesus says,

"Perfect love casts out [music] fear." We hear the Buddha say, "Hatred does not

cease by hatred. By love alone is hatred healed." [music] In the Bhagavad Gita we read the path of devotion, love leads to

liberation. The path [music] of ignorance, fear leads to suffering. The Daqing we see courage comes from love,

paralysis [music] comes from fear. In the Dharmapata we read the mind is everything. [music]

Meaning that fear starts in the mind and not the world itself.

In ancient Sufi wisdom, we [music] specifically see from Roomie, "Your job

is not to seek for love, but to find and remove the barriers you built against

it." How beautiful is that? All these civilizations that never spoke a single word to each other somehow arrived at

the same conclusion about reality. Fear is an illusion that keeps us asleep.

[music] And love is the frequency or the thing that wakes us up. Fear shrinks

self and love expands the self. Fear breeds ego and love dissolves it.

[music] Fear isolates you and love reminds you who the hell you actually are. Fear makes you chase approval,

validation, and money and control. [music] It makes us compare oursel to everybody else. Fear makes us live like

something is missing. Love in the ancient sense isn't romantic. [music]

What they mean is oneness. It's alignment. It's essentially the recognition that we're made of the same

[music] stuff, the same light or the same source, whatever you want to call it. That's why fear feels bad because

it's biologically incompatible with what you actually are. Every mistake you've ever made, every relationship that blew

up, every regret you [music] carry, every time you sabotage your own potential, it's all fear.

Every spiritual leader across time was basically saying you're suffering [music] because you're believing a lie.

The moment that you drop fear, you don't just all of a sudden find love. You're

not finding love. You're returning [music] to it. It's your default state. That's why we're born with it. Is the

only real thing underneath all the noise is just that. But all the [music]

ancients didn't stop there. They all said the same thing next. something that modern science is finally catching up

to. [music] And if love is real and fear is an illusion, then who's creating the

illusion? Your mind. Which leads us to truth number three. Your mind is not a

camera. It is a projector. So your brain doesn't record reality. It generates reality. I'm talking about the most

ancient spiritual teaching on [music] earth. And it's the most modern scientific discovery at the same time.

But let's go back. If you look at the dharmapara, we see what you think [music] you become. If you look at the

hermetic texts, the all is mind. In the Hindu vanta, we see maya, the world you

perceive is shaped by the mind's illusions. [music] And then back to the upan shads again, the universe arises

from consciousness. That's pretty [music] straightforward. And even looking back at Plato, he says reality

is the moving image of eternity. And the translation for that would be the mind

shapes what you perceive. If you look at quantum physics, observation changes the

behavior of matter, physical [music] particles. So I think the meaning here is consciousness is not inside the

universe. The universe [music] is inside consciousness. Every single culture was [music]

screaming this exact same thing. Your mind is not reacting to life. It's

constructing [music] the version of life that you're experiencing. Your fears, your beliefs, your identity, your memories, your

stories, all those patterns you have in your life. We think that they're interpretations. What they are is

filters [music] that reshape reality before reality reaches you. This is why

two people can live through the exact same moment and [music] experience two completely different things. This is why

suffering usually comes from inside and not [music] outside. This is why so many

ancient texts focus way more on inner world than outer world. And this is

probably also why every spiritual path teaches [music] stillness and silence

and presence and meditation and surrender. And I think this is because the moment that we stop letting fear

hijack the projector, we start seeing reality pretty clearly for the first time. If your mind shapes reality, then

every limitation you hold is one that you unconsciously built. And every breakthrough that you're chasing is just

one little thought pattern away. Truths one, two, and three combine into a

single explosive idea. If you're not separate, if fear isn't real, if your mind is essentially shaping everything,

then the only thing standing between you and freedom is the part [music] of you that believes otherwise. And this brings

us to the most dangerous truth of all. [music] The enemy is not the world. The

enemy is the ego. So if those first three truths show you

what you are, the fourth truth [music] shows you what's been blocking you from the beginning. So the ego is the only

real enemy here. It's the only enemy that you're going to face. No demons, no bad luck, no other people, not the

world. Every ancient text, every mystic, all these enlightened teachers, they all

gave us the exact same warning. The thing that we call us, the thing that you call you is the thing that's hurting

you. If we look in the Bavad Gita, we see the self must conquer the lower self. If we read Plato, he says, [music]

all sins come from excess self-love. If you read the words of Jesus, unless a

man dies to himself, he cannot live. In the words of the Buddha, suffering

begins with attachment to the self. In the da deqing we see he who defines

himself can't know who he truly is. Different continents, different countries, same diagnosis. The ego is

not your personality or your identity. It's not your sense of eye. Let me give you a definition of ego that's going to

change your life if you adopt it. The ego is the story that you built to

survive your fears. It's a mask. It's a guard rail. It's a little protective

suit that we stitch together from trauma and insecurity and expectations and and

some conditioning and that suit becomes our prison. But the ego desires one big

thing, separation. It needs to feel separate [music] to exist. Separate from

other people, separate from the big universe, separate from the divine, separate from truth. The ego has to be

able to compare. It feeds on better than, worse than, smarter than, more

deserving than, more important than. So basically the ego needs three things. It needs hierarchy, conflict, and

recognition. So it needs to win, to be right, to be special, to get defended by you. This is why it never shuts the f

up. The ego is the voice that says they're judging you. You're not enough. You're falling behind. What if you lose

everything? Or what if they don't like you? You need to prove yourself. You need more. You need control. But here's

the ancient secret almost nobody realizes. The ego's entire existence is

based on fear. And fear is already not real. This means that your ego is a

hallucination. It's a survival instinct that doesn't understand who you actually are. You're the ocean. The ego is a

ripple that thinks it's the entire Pacific Ocean. You are the divine. The ego is a child pretending [music] to be

the king. This is why every ancient tradition told you to let it go. Not because they wanted you to be moral or

have some enlightenment and go out and buy linen pants and [music] wooden bead necklaces and like that. They

didn't want obedience or anything or even purity. It's because you can't experience truth while you're holding on

to something that isn't true. [music] You can't be infinite while you're clinging on to a story that makes you

small. You can't feel oneness while you're protecting a self that doesn't exist. You can't wake up while you're

defending the dream. And once you drop the ego, even if it's for a little second, you'll feel something terrifying

and [music] beautiful. You never needed it. You were always complete. The armor was the wound. Ancient teachings weren't

obsessed with humility. They were obsessed with liberation. And once the ego falls apart, the final truth appears

immediately. And this is the final truth that ties the entire universe together. This is truth number five. Everything is

connected. This one shows up everywhere from ancient temples to modern physics

laboratories. [music] Everything's connected. Everything is one system. Everything influences

everything. That's how everything it gets. In the hermetic texts, we see this principle of as above, so below. In the

Cabala, we see all creation emerges from a single tree of life. In quantum

physics, no particle is truly separate. Every particle has some entanglement. In

Daoism, we see the this idea of opposites are not enemies. They're

complimentary forces of the same source. In the Mayan popo vu, this is where we

see the universe is one living organism. In Buddhism, we have the concept of

what's called interbeing. Nothing exists independently. And in Sufi mysticism,

the soul is a thread in the same cosmic fabric. Even if you look at the Egyptian

pyramid texts, we see the soul [music] returns to the stars from which it came.

In ancient Native American wisdom, uh they have a phrase that's I think pronounced makuya o yasin, which is we

are all relatives. Essentially saying with all beings I am related.

Nothing stands alone. So every action ripples, every emotion radiates, every intention vibrates through the whole.

You are not some separate node in the universe. You're a neuron in a cosmic

brain [music] firing inside of infinity.

And your [music] life is not happening to you. Your life is happening with you, through you, and as you. And suddenly

all five truths click together like a lock snapping open. You're not separate.

Fear is an illusion. Your mind shapes reality. Ego is the enemy. Everything is connected. So if all that's true, then

you aren't [music] a human trying to become spiritual. You are the universe temporarily being human. You're already

spiritual. [music] So everything you've ever been scared of, everything you've obsessed over, everything you've doubted

in your life, everything that you've ever questioned before comes down to remembering what you were before the

world told you who to be. [music] And that's what the ancients were trying to wake us up to.

So if the ancients all knew this, if the truths were sitting in the open for thousands of years, how the hell did we

lose it? How did humanity go from cosmic awareness to this psychological dumpster

fire that we're living in today? It wasn't a conspiracy. Personally, I think it was something a lot simpler. It's

much darker and it's a lot more human. We just forgot who the hell we were. We

got hypnotized by who we thought we needed [music] to be. So the moment that humans started building civilizations,

we needed to gather a bunch of resources. We need to protect our borders. We need to survive these

[music] crazy harsh winters. Fear became a tool. And then after tens of thousands

of years, fear became a habit. And then fear became a culture. [music] And everything that fear touches, obviously

it corrupts. That's why every single ancient text, even the Bible, they warn

us about the same exact traps of greed and ego and power and materialism and

comparison, desire, [music] control, and attachment. They weren't trying to teach us to be moral. This had

nothing to do with being a moral person. They were describing [music] psychological malware in Dao DeQing.

When wealth and honors lead to arrogance, it brings evil. If you read

the Quran, you're going to see, "Do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading

corruption." In the Bible, it says, "Do [music] not store up treasures on

earth." You read the Buddha and it says, "Cleing is the root of [music] suffering." Every tradition saw this

coming. The moment humans forgot who they were, they'd try to fill this emptiness with every single thing they

can except the truth. And that's exactly what we did as a

people. We built entire civilizations on top of a lie that we're separate. These

giant economies on top of the lie that we're all lacking. And we all built identities on the lie that we're not

enough. The ego that starts off as a small little tribal safety mechanism

became this global operating system. We started comparing and competing and

hoarding and fearing and posturing, consuming, scrolling, performing. We

turned [music] life into a weird little scoreboard. And we made success a really, really good-looking costume.

[music] And we traded all of our meaning for dopamine. We replaced being still [music] and mindful. Maybe just let's

call it boredom. We replaced boredom and silence with lots and lots of noise and [music] distractions. But I think the

biggest one of all is we stopped asking who am I? And we started asking who do

they think I am? We traded a lot of truth for distraction. And the worst

part is the distractions got really really effing good. Scary, sexy,

addictively good. So, we engineered apps that hijack our nervous system. We have news cycles that

feed off of our cortisol and our stress. We have algorithms now that weaponize our attention. We have cultures that are

built on outrage and tribal division. If you live in America, you're in the middle of it. And we didn't just forget

all these ancient truths. We built a world designed to choke the life out of

them. And if you look around, you can see the symptoms everywhere. Anxiety is

normal. Depression is common. Addiction is everywhere. Loneliness is an epidemic

we're in the middle of. Attention spans are collapsing. People don't even know how to be bored. Replaced wisdom with

content, contemplation with distraction. We became the most technologically

advanced species in history and simultaneously the most spiritually disconnected.

Again, it's not cuz this truth just disappeared somehow. It's because the noise got louder than the signal.

[music] The ancient warning was not a metaphor. It was a prophecy. The

prophecy is if you forget yourself, you will forget everything that matters.

But there's another part the ancients also agreed on. Once the [music] illusion gets to the point where it gets

unbearable, once the noise gets super overwhelming, once the ego starts to

look like a crazy Jenga tower, that's when [music] people start to wake up.

And right now in this era, in this generation, [music] we are seeing that

start to happen. The illusions are cracking. The distractions aren't

working as well as they used to. My friend Shawn Ryan did an entire series about this called SCOP. People are

starving for something real and they don't know why. And this brings us to this final [music]

section. What did the ancients say about this awakening? Is it really an awakening? And what is it going to mean

for our life? So if forgetting makes us suffer, then remembering is what sets us

free. And every ancient tradition, everyone [music] with no exception, they didn't just warn us about ego and fear

and illusion. It also left very detailed instructions for what happens after the

collapse. They left us a road map for waking up and the patterns are

unbelievably clear once you know what to look for. And they don't give you a bunch of rules and dogma and rituals,

just internal transformations. So, let me show you exactly what they said. Number one, waking up begins with truth.

In the Bible in John 8:32, the truth will set you free. Not

obedience, not faith, truth. Truth about yourself, about the mind, about fear and

ego. Truth is the solvent that dissolves the illusion. In the Avestra, which is a

Zoroastrian uh text, we see the quote, "Truth is the best good. It is the

[music] everlasting light." From the Buddha, we see the quote, "There are three things that cannot remain hidden.

The sun, the moon, and the truth." Every awakening starts here. The moment we stop running from reality and start

seeing it. This is why suffering is what happens before awakening. Cuz pain

breaks the illusion that we all kind of hide behind. So number two, waking up

requires presence. Every tradition says awakening doesn't happen in the future.

Not someday. It doesn't happen when you're healed and calm and ready. The Buddha tells us don't dwell in the past.

Don't dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment. In the Daqing,

they say if you are depressed, you're living in the past. If you're anxious, you're living in the future. If you're

at peace, you're living [music] in the present. And Jesus said this in the book of Matthew 6:34.

Do not worry about tomorrow. If we read Plato, he [music] says, "Time

is the moving image of eternity. It's just right now." Presence is not a

spiritual idea. You can get rid of the whole concept of the word spiritual.

It's a doorway back into reality. The ancients [music] were not saying be

mindful. What they're telling us is stop living in an illusion. Don't live in a fake

world. Number three, waking up [music] requires compassion and service. And

every single ancient text links awakening with compassion. [music] And it's not compassion because you're a

morally good person. It's compassion because you recognize the truth. Because if I see you as myself, compassion isn't

morality. It's just me [music] taking care of me. If you read the Quran, you see the quote, "Give to the needy, the

orphan, the captive." In the Bible, it says, "Love your neighbor as thyself, as

yourself." In the intellects, Confucious uh 12:2 says, "A gentleman seeks virtue." And

Plato says, "Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Compassion is something that we

recognize. We don't learn it, we recognize it. So once [music] you stop believing that

you're separate, love and compassion becomes the only behavior that makes any sense at all. It doesn't mean like I'm a

good moral person. It just means I'm acting in something that makes perfect sense. Step four, waking up requires

stillness and self-nowledge. This shows up everywhere. In the Upanishads, we see know thyself and you shall know the

universe. Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth [music] living. In the yoga

sutras, yoga is the stealing of the mind. In the ancient Nagamadi text,

which is um in Gnostic Christianity, it's a type of Christianity. Know yourself and you will be free. And the

Buddha tells us in stillness, [music] truth reveals itself. Awakening is not adding new ideas. Never ever let

somebody sell you on this idea. [music] It's not going out and buying beads and adding new ideas. This is removing

noise. Awakening is about stripping stuff away, removing illusions and

stories and ego and fear until what's left is the thing that was always there.

It's you without distortion. And number five, waking up transforms suffering

into wisdom. In the Bible, in Romans 5:3, suffering produces perseverance.

[music] Perseverance, character, and character hope. In Buddhism, we have the four

noble truths. Suffering is the path to enlightenment. If you look in the

Bhagavad Gita, you'll see in compassion I destroy the darkness of ignorance with

the lamp of knowledge. [music] In the Egyptian pyramid texts, they say the soul ascends through trials. The

ancients are not giving us some brochure promising us a life with no suffering. [music] They're promising you a life where

suffering becomes a catalyst for something. Which brings us to point number six about awakening. Waking up is

just remembering what you are. When you put all these pieces together, truth, presence, compassion, stillness,

transformation, every ancient tradition lands in the same place. Awakening

[music] is not becoming something new. It's remembering something ancient,

something deeper [music] and original that you've always been. If you look in the Cabala, they say each soul is a

spark of [music] the infinite. On the Emerald Tablet, it says all is one. In the popo vu, humans are the divine

remembering itself. The final step of awakening isn't learning a bunch of new motivational It's recognition.

It's a flash of remembering, oh, I'm not separate. I never was. I just forgot for

a minute. Awakening is not a a destination that you get to. It is a return home. And it will be shitty at

first. And if this didn't feel new to you, it's because it wasn't. [music] You are remembering. I think the real

unsettling part isn't how radical any of this is. It's how obvious it feels once

we hear it. You were never missing something. [music] You were taught to forget. And awakening doesn't feel like

fireworks and stuff like that. It feels like stress. Then it feels like relief.

It's like you're setting down a huge ass backpack that you didn't realize you were carrying cuz you've been holding it your entire freaking life. The pressure

to become somebody, to prove something, to defend yourself, all of that built on

this misunderstanding. The world does not change when you wake up. Your relationship to the world is what

changes. Fear loses its authority. Ego loses its grip on you. The noise stops

convincing you that it matters. It's just because you saw something clearly. And the truth was never really hidden.