The 3 Phases of Transhumanism No One Warned You About | Gregg Braden

AI is a part of this conversation. And uh the AI is being rolled out uh by some projections 5 to 10 years ahead of where the predictions were. It is an advanced technology for sure that has been dumped into the laps of the general population with no guidelines, no guardrails in our community. Um our new thought community.

There are very few people that really understand AI. Two parallel themes that are unfolding in our society today globally. This isn't just in Australia or America or or in the West. This is in the whole world.

Number one, the best minds of our time are telling us that unless we change the trajectory of our thinking very quickly, that we are most probably, not possibly, but most probably the last generation of pure humans that the world will ever know uh within uh the next 4 to 5 years, 2030 to 2032. They say when we go to the grocery market or you go to the airport or you meet with friends, uh that we will be interacting with some hybrid of uh some mix uh of human biology and and embedded technology into into the humans. Excuse me.

And that is one theme. Very rapidly, we're losing our humanness and the virtues that we cherish in our humanness. So, that's one of the parallel themes.

The second theme is the best science of the modern world is now telling us that we are not what we've been told. We're so much more than we've been led to believe. And they have begun looking at the human body from an IT perspective. Guy, information technology. In other words, they're looking at the cells and the DNA and the neurons and the cell membranes uh from a a technological perspective.

And what they found is that our biology is the equivalent of the transistors and the resistors and the capacitors and the photon generators and the photon emitters of our technology that we build in the world around us. And here's where it gets really interesting. Once you begin to understand that, in many cases, our own natural biology not only meets, but it exceeds the capacity of the very technology that we're being asked to replace ourselves with. In other words, that technology mimics what we already do in our bodies, except we do it better.

So, those are the two parallel themes of the uh of the book to bring people's attention to the fact that these things are are happening. This isn't science fiction, you know, 10 10 years down the road. This is happening right now in in our lives.

The third level is ultimately where this transhuman movement uh believes things are headed. And that is the the belief that consciousness can be reduced to ones and zeros and digital information and stored on a computer chip creating immortality. If your consciousness is on the computer chip, that computer chip can last forever and you can download your consciousness into body after body after body. That's the thinking.

The problem There are problems with all of these. Once we go to the the level two of transhumanism, beginning to replace neurons, for example, with computer chips, there is a an axiom in biology that's simply called use use or lose it. And it applies to what we are talking about here. If we don't use our natural biology, our body begins to believe it's not needed and it will stop producing many of the functions and the systems stop working the way they were designed to work because they believe they're they're no longer needed.

A perfect example of this is the discovery of uh we used to believe that neurons in the human brain were limited to what we have at birth. I remember I remember when I was in in college. This was this was the leverage that uh people were using against uh college excesses of drugs and alcohol. They said every time you drink a beer, you're losing brain cells and well, you've only got so many, you know. Now we know that's not true. That we are producing new brain cells until the last breath we take on this on this earth. Here's the catch. If those brain cells are not engaged in a meaningful way within 2 weeks of when they are created, they will die. Use it or lose it.

So, when we talk about uh the computer chips, for example, implanted into the brain doing the thinking for us. Or let's take this to another level. We've got young people, 3, 4, 5 years old that wake up in the morning, eat their Captain Crunch or whatever it is, they put on a a VR virtual reality visor and they sit there for hours in this virtual reality. So, what's happening in the virtual reality? They're being inundated with sensory experiences. They're seeing uh vivid colors and scenes that they would never see in their backyard. They're hearing the sounds and they're seeing situations that aren't going to happen in real life.

So, now think about this. They are observing those situations, they no longer need their own creative powers, their own imagination that you and I used before all of this technology came in into being. You know, we would have our imaginary friends and our imaginary forts that we would build in the backyard and you know, imaginary camping experiences, camping under a tent in the living room, you know, it's a blanket between two chairs. And it sounds silly, but the point is we were using our imagination and our creativity engaging these systems.

Now, the scientific papers, peer-reviewed papers are showing cognitive decline in young people who are excessively engaged in this technology, in gaming, in the virtual reality technology. They're seeing a thickening of the visual cortex, first of all, from from the the intense sensory experiences, but they're also seeing a decline in the ability of of socialization of of young people to interact with another young person, especially in adverse situations. So, they can work through their problems. That's what kids learn to do, you know, we're on the on the playground and and we're not everybody sees eye to eye, but if you are in what's called the silo, if you are isolated in the silo of your own digital world, it's easy just to fire off a text and say whatever you want and never have to engage in the emotions or the feelings of another human. That is affecting an entire generation of young people right now. So, use it or lose it.

The way that the vision of tech companies, corporations, and organizations are unfolding right now is to replace so much of our natural biology with efficient and logical technology, so we do away with the messiness of human emotions. That's how you lose a species. That is how you lose your humanness. And this is why I say there is a battle for our humanness. Yeah, there's a battle for our thoughts, our beliefs, our bodies. Ultimately, those are all diversions to keep us so that we're not focused on the deep truth of what's really on the line here. And what's on the line, it is our humanness.

Now, why would our humanness be so so precious and so valuable as to have entire industries working to to take this away from us? It all comes down to who we are and our relationship to this world through the DNA in our bodies. The DNA, uh if you've followed my work, uh you know, over the last 40 years, the DNA of our bodies literally hold holds a a code beyond the code of life. It literally holds a message that tells us of our origin and who we are. And in the book I released 2004 called The God Code, I translated the first layer of the of the message in the DNA in every cell of all carbon-based life.

And I'll lead you step-by-step through how that happens. I'll just boil it down right now. Literally, there is a a coded message in the DNA of every cell of your body, the very first layer, it's like the introduction layer, that literally says, "If you want to know who you are, your DNA tells you." It literally reads, "God eternal within the body. God eternal within the body." And that message works in the root languages of cuneiform, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Hebrew. Those are four of the six root languages. And it's the same message in every one of those. So, it's not specific to any religion. It has nothing to do with religion. Uh these are cultures that we're talking about.

So, the DNA holds that message. The DNA, your DNA is the antenna. It is a literally a biological antenna that tunes you to places in the field uh where where information resides. And I'm hesitating here because I don't want to get too deep in the in this video, but literally we know there's a field, scientists acknowledge that field. It was acknowledged in the year 2012 in the scientific community. We are that field because the field is emerging uh from every atom in our bodies as it emerges and collapses into the field. So, it's not out there, we are the field. The field is energy, energy is information. So, there's an informational component of the field that we access through the DNA of our bodies.

When you replace natural biology with synthetic materials, there is no DNA, you lose access to the very fundamental forces that give you the power and that allow you the the most rare and precious experience of your humanness. And when you lose that power, you become vulnerable to other other ideas of what the human experience should be, of what society should be. When we lose our humanness, we lose access to this information transfer that allows us deep states of of intuition, super cognition, super memory, super learning, super immune response, super resilience to change, all of those human experiences and the precious memories that we cherish in our lives. You lose all of that when you replace natural biology with synthetic technology.

This is why I say our humanness is on the line because there is a movement called the transhuman movement uh that's been around for a long time, but what's different in early in the 20th century. But what's different now is we now have the technology to implement the ideas, number one. Number two, we have the political organizations that are willing to embrace these ideas backed by big corporations and big technology who stand to benefit from these. Your humanness and my humanness is on the line. Our species is on the line. And this is not something that's going to drag on, you know, for 50 years. In one generation, the decisions are being made. Right now, the policies are being written. And the laws are being proposed to embrace these transhumanist principles. And I got to tell you, man, even I I know it's happening and I'm still impressed at the slick marketing and the really sexy ads that are coming across. I see it on mainstream television. I see it in YouTube. Ads that make this stuff look really cool and really sexy. Like, who wouldn't want it, you know?

So, I'm saying right now the people out there that somehow are aligning me with the transhuman movement, you missed the mark, brothers and sisters. And I don't know how you did it. Uh if you have taken the time to listen to me, to what I'm saying, and to follow the the path of my work over the years, you know nothing could be further from the truth. The term transhuman is a relatively new term. The thinking underlying the transhuman movement actually goes back to the beginning of the last century. And it it comes, Lynn, from a conditioning uh of thinking that we are a flawed species by by nature of our existence, carbon-based life in general and human life specifically, we are are flawed. And among those flaws, they identify the the things that make us human, the things that you and I and our community cherish. Uh many of these organizations identify as flaws, such as uh our ability to emote and the the feelings and the empathy and the sympathy and the compassion, they say that skews our ability to think clearly and to make logical decisions.

We're told that the human body is frail and powerless and and weak. Reekers while I some of our viewers know he's he's an author, he's a visionary, he's a futurist. He is heading up AI research at Google right now. And he made two statements that I think are are relevant to this conversation. He said by the year 2030, when we talk to someone on the street, we will no longer be talking to a pure human. We will be talking to someone who has either embraced or been mandated to have some kind of technology accepted in into their bodies. So, by 2030, we will be speaking to human hybrids.

By the year 2045, uh he says we will have achieved what he just wrote his most recent book about, something called the singularity. The singularity is essentially the internet of all things, where we have become a a digital representation of ourselves in this internet of all things, along with the world around us. All of our natural resources, every form of wildlife, all the food we eat, the energy we consume, everything will be in this massive database run by artificial intelligence that is already being built. It's already underway.

So, I wrote a book called Pure Human, and and I wrote this book to advocate for our our humanness, to to celebrate and maybe maybe awaken a deeper sense of pride for what it means to be human and a deeper appreciation for our humanness. I'm not ashamed to share. I'm I'm the product of uh a very dysfunctional, abusive, alcoholic family. Um I was born 1950s, and the idea of abuse and addiction and counseling and therapy were very different in the '50s and '60s. I was raised in an environment where the abuser will typically uh belittle and criticize those around them to elevate their sense of of worth. And fortunately, I was born with very strong soul compass. I didn't believe what I was being told. I've a young I've a younger brother, 4 years younger. Same household, same experience, you know, listening to the same things. And and he's a good man, and I love my younger brother, and we're like night and day. If you were in this room, we don't look alike, we certainly don't think alike. And unfortunately, he believed everything that he heard, and and he's chosen to be defined in his life by that criticism. And I can't say consciously when I made the decision, but I remember thinking I I will not be defined by my father's idea of of who I am, because I was blessed as again with with a strong soul soul compass. I'm not saying I did it all right. You know, I'm a For me in the in the '50s and '60s, music was my my outlet. And uh I began playing guitar at 8. Uh play it to this day. I'm a musician when I'm not doing what I'm doing right now. And uh I I left our home at the age of 14, which now I think is probably illegal, but I moved in with my rock band. And uh And during that time, the the drugs were abundant. And I watched beautiful, talented men and women. We had a female vocalist. I saw their lives destroyed in a matter of months through the chemicals that they put into their bodies. And you know, Louis, I I didn't know then, obviously, what I know now, but I always had a sense that there's something about us that is so rare and so beautiful that we need to honor and and respect this gift of the body. And I had a sense I would need this body for something later in life. And my my friends didn't think that way. So, it was hard to have these conversations. But, I was always looking to see what it is within me. How can I be the best version of myself? How can I serve How can I serve this world and I leave this world? I don't know how long I'm here. We We never do.

An emerging phenomenon within just the last, probably, 8 weeks or so in the way that AI is being used in our our new thought community. So, I appreciate the opportunity to have this conversation. My brother, I'm going to follow your lead. Where do you want to go first?

Well, first, thank you again for being here and for for everything that you do in the world. And you're so right, Greg. You know, there used to be a time in our story where people, you know, you could have a conversation and then have another conversation a year later, and a few things have happened, but it was sort of not very clear. We didn't know yet. Now, uh everything is moving at such a lightning speed that even weeks make a huge difference. So, you and I have been talking more frequently lately and observing some of the same things in the AI space. You have been uh educating about technology and AI, its impact on our biology, on our spirituality, and on the world at large. And it used to be more abstract in past years because people didn't have a point of reference. Now, these tools are in everyone's hand, at everyone's fingertips. And something is happening to the human psyche. Something is happening to the human spirit. And we are experiencing it in real time. And to some of us, it is very very troubling and worrisome. So, I That's where I want to start today is what is it that has caught your attention in this moment in our time?

I think Thank you, Jean. I think the last few weeks, my So, my office uh my office manager, is uh is not located where I am. I'm in northern New Mexico. My office is in South Florida, which where my executive director, 30 years. Uh we just celebrated 30 years working together in in February. That's where she's located. And uh then other members of our team are in other parts of the country. And we have been inundated with requests, comments, uh questions about what is and isn't possible with AI because of a phenomenon that we've seen. And this is probably within the last 60 to 90 days. There are a number of of AIs that uh individuals have created and they're sharing those in YouTube videos where the AI is being given uh a power and a significance that uh is changing the lives of of many people in the sense they're giving their power away to these AIs. Let me I'll just be very specific. There are AIs out there that purport to be able to tell people about their past lives or that purport to be able to access higher dimensional states of consciousness uh or to tell someone about their spiritual evolution and where they are in their spiritual evolution and what what their next steps should be and what, you know, mistakes they may have made in the past, these kinds of things. And this is happening to a very vulnerable population. There There is a a segment of our community who is is extremely vulnerable because there's so much hurt. John, there's been so much hurt in the world personally and collectively. There's been so much loss personally and collectively. And we've, you know, as a community, we've really never been given the opportunity to mourn our hurt and to mourn the losses that we've had in these last few years. And you know, I mean, you can go back to a number of different turning points, but 2020 is is a good place to begin. Because so many people lost family and friends and loved ones during that time. But even if we didn't lose an individual personally, we all lost a way of life. We've all lost things in in our lives that has never really been acknowledged. Uh so, there is a an unresolved hurt and a deep a deep sense of loss, and people are searching, John, for something to give them answers. And they've been led to believe they can't find the answers within themselves. So, obviously, they're looking outside of themselves. And all of a sudden, this thing called AI comes along. And the way it's marketed, the way that it's branded, uh it is being elevated to a level of significance uh that I feel is actually disempowering a lot of our community.

The relationship between technology and humans uh is changing and being accepted very very quickly. In some societies faster than others. Haven't seen a lot of it in um here in the United States yet. There is some, but not to the degree that we're seeing it in in other cultures. So, I'm going to um Well, one one more thing that I I want to do here. And then, if you'd like, uh I'd like to open this up for a little bit of of conversation. I wanted to share with you the term that is part of this program transhumanism. Is there anyone who has never heard of the term? Everyone has heard. You Okay. Thank you for your honesty. Those of you that have heard of it, do you know what transhumanism really is? Yes? No? Because we're we're going to be talking about it a lot as we learn our techniques. So, I think it's good to identify the the term transhumanism. I'm just going to read this. It is identified as a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and the acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations. So, they're buying in to the idea that there is something flawed in human life and that there are in fact limitations. They're doing it by means of science and technology guided by life-promoting principles and values. The ultimate goal of transhumanism is longevity. We've got two entire sessions tomorrow. We're going to be talking about longevity. Your soft technology has the ability to accomplish all of the goals that are identified in transhumanism and do it even better than the machines can do it. But, let me talk to you about how it's coming. It's It's happening in three phases. There are three phases of transhumanism. The first we're living right now, augmented biology. We've already got this. And we see it all the time. Uh contact lenses are form of augmented biology. Contact lenses that now allow us to see beyond the typical light spectrum. That is a form of uh um of transhumanism. Um when we see prosthetics such as artificial hips, um artificial legs, artificial uh you know, arms, things like that. These kinds of prosthetics, this is all part of the first layer, the first level. So, it's where we augment our biology that has broken down in some way with a technology that allows us to continue as biological beings. That's the the first level. We're also seeing it in 3D organ development. You can actually 3D print replacements for human organs now, some organs. Heart was the first one. You can 3D print an artificial heart. Right now, you can 3D print artificial kidneys. And you can 3D print ears, nose, and skin. Which can be a godsend for burn victims and for for people of who have lost these. So, again, it's not right, wrong, good, or bad. It's how it's applied. So, this is the first level. Phase one. Phase two. Oh, I'm sorry, and and augmented reality. We're going to talk about this tomorrow, augmented reality. But when we use a device to allow us to see a different reality, that is a form of of transhumanism. Second phase. The thinking is that the human body is so imperfect and so flawed that the physical biology needs to be replaced. Sometimes it can replace the piece by piece, other times it is the whole body is replaced and we've just seen an example of the technology that can allow this. All right. Now, she's still using AI in phase two of transhumanism, the human brain is still in play, but the entire body has been replaced by a robot. And it's the interface between the artificial intelligence and and the body itself. Phase three, phase three is the ultimate goal. The transhumanists that are really moving this technology, they are attempting to achieve immortality. They believe that human consciousness is little more than little ones and zeros. And that we can be reduced, our awareness, our consciousness, our life history, our memories can be reduced. What What happened there? Oh. We can all be reduced to the ones and zeros that we're used to seeing in computer code. And that can all be stored online, in the cloud, or on a computer chip. And that that version of you, they believe that you can be stored there, that version is immortal. It can be downloaded into a human body, it can be downloaded into a synthetic body, and it goes on and on uh in a continuity of consciousness.

This experiment is telling us that not only are we intimately enmeshed with the world around us and with the world within us, but the more focus, the greater our focus, the greater the attention that we give specifically something that's happening in our lives, the greater the effect. But I think this is interesting because we already knew this if we followed the principles in some of our most ancient, again, and cherished spiritual traditions. For example, in the Sutra from the Mahayana Buddhist traditions, there is a statement that essentially summarizes what the Whiteman experience just told us. And that statement says, quote, "Reality exists only where the mind creates a focus." Reality exists only where the mind creates a focus. So, the ancient Buddhist traditions, they didn't have the science, but they sure understood the principle. They understood the mechanism. Where we create this convergence of thought, feeling, and emotion, where we create that focus, that is us observing the world around us. And it is that experience and the fact that that experience has such a powerful effect in our lives that actually made Albert Einstein and was making him crazy. This is the piece of the puzzle that Einstein was never able to solve. He began early in the 20th century with his theories of relativity and he was always searching for a unified theory, a unified field theory. Here's what I mean by that. In a unified field theory, it's where a scientist like Albert Einstein creates a single story that incorporates all of the facets of nature and physics and mathematics into one coherent story of us, our universe, and our relationship to it. The unified field theory has been an elusive theory. It is yet to be discovered. Einstein and the world supported Einstein thinking that this is the man, if anyone could do it, he could do it. Here's where Einstein got stuck. And he actually admitted this on his deathbed in the early 1950s. He got stuck because he did not like the idea that we are so intimately connected with our universe that we could have any influence whatsoever on the universe in one place with us being in in another place. And as I mentioned earlier, he actually had a name. He called this uh spooky action at a distance. He called this spooky action at a distance because to him it was spooky.

One of the things I find particularly fascinating uh is that although Einstein was working with the same mathematics and the same equations as his friends and colleagues, he came to the conclusion that we are separate from one another and that we are separate from the universe and that we can be observers in the universe. However, a dear friend and colleague of Albert Einstein's, a man that lived much longer than Einstein uh and had a tremendously powerful influence in quantum physics at Princeton University in our world today, was Professor John Wheeler. He passed away just uh just a few years ago. So, John Wheeler and Albert Einstein, they were friends, they were colleagues looking at the same equations, the same math, drawing vastly different conclusions. So, while Einstein believed that we are separate and have no effect, Wheeler said just the opposite. Now, I want to share with you John Wheeler's exact words just just so you you can hear his process and his thinking and how passionate he was about this. John Wheeler said, "We had this old idea that there is a universe out there somewhere. And here's man, he called the observer, safely protected from the universe by what he called a 6-in slab of plate glass. Okay, so it's not really plate glass, but that is his way of saying that there is something between us and the universe out there. But he continues. He said, "Now we learn that to even observe an electron, we have to shatter that plate glass." Listen what he said. He said, "So, the old word observer simply has to be crossed off the books."

The optimization of human chromosome 2 that occurred after the fusion happened appears to be intentional. Point, the fact that after 150 years of searching, no physical evidence has been discovered that links us to other forms of life on the tree of primate evolution suggests that we may be a species under ourselves with no evolutionary history. Number two, we are the product of an intelligent form of life. Point, the timing, the precision, the accuracy of our genetic mutations, and the technology required to yield such mutations implies forethought and intention of an advanced intelligence. Point, the intelligence that carried out the genetic modifications, giving us our humanness, had the advanced technology to do so 200,000 years ago in a way that we are only learning to do today. For example, DNA fusion and gene splicing. To honestly acknowledge these possibilities opens us to a paradigm that shifts the way we feel about ourselves and the way we view our place in the universe. And with this shift, we free ourselves from a lonely paradigm of insignificance to one of a rare and unique heritage that we're only beginning to explore. We're here with the bodies and the nervous systems that afford us the extraordinary abilities of compassion, empathy, sympathy, intuition, self-healing, and much more. The fact of their presence within us suggests that we're intended to utilize and master these sensitivities that we've arrived with. From the time of our origin, we have been wired for these extraordinary abilities. This design affords us extraordinary ways of living and extraordinary lives. The question that immediately comes to mind when we consider that we've had such advanced characteristics from the time of our beginning is simply this. How do we fully awaken these capabilities in our lives today?

What do they mean to us? I invite you to share a journey of discovery in which we will do our very best to answer not only this question, but to explore the deepest truths of our new human story.

So out there there are people, you know, there's all kinds of information about Atlantis and what it was and the misuse of power and and all those things. And now people that are vulnerable, I mean it's okay to have fun with this, you know, I think you can have a blast with it. But now people are coming back and they're saying, "Oh, well, I was a high priestess in Atlantis and now my job today is to do this and you and I were in a relationship that was never complete and we need to complete that relationship right now and they're they're charting their life based on Python code, C++ code, driving electricity through those circuits and they so want to be validated and to have meaning. Everybody needs meaning in their life. And people so want the meaning that they'll take that information and people are making life changes. And people write me saying, "Man, I'm blown away. I can't believe this. I was up all night. I lost a full night's sleep. I I asked a quick question at 11:00 at night and 3:00 in the morning I'm still engaged." And and and then they send me the conversation saying, "What do you think?" "What do you think?" And I said, "Well, you know, it's it's your chat your chat GPT and the question is what what do you think?" So AI is trained to establish this of a relationship, a personal relationship, and it is working in vulnerable populations. And I'm not saying it's wrong, and I'm not saying it's bad. I'm inviting people to be aware of how this works, uh what it's designed to do, and uh and the role that you allow it to play in your life and the significance that you give to what is coming back from C++ Python code pushing electricity through a chip. What is it that you're allowing that to do in your life? Now, I'm going to compare this to humans in just a moment. But, I'm going to stop there, John. John, does that make sense for for what we've said so far?

It makes perfect sense to me, and you know, what I said years ago when the large language models came out, the public-facing stuff is frankly, we have a very um delicate path to walk here. Yeah. We have to explore it to understand how it works and whether our whether our assumptions are true or not about it. And then we have to be very careful not to fall for, you know, this confirmation bias and all these things. And the only way for me to do that was to explore it. Like, to interact and see and and discover what you just said through personal experience. Always stepping back and going, "What is happening here? What is really happening here? What is so What What becomes so clear is the incredible tool that this is to individualize a path to the same destination. If all roads lead to Rome, AI makes it possible to create 8 billion roads to Rome. No other tool before that could ever do that. The television couldn't do it, the radio couldn't do it, mass media couldn't do it. Those were all collective, smaller collective, bigger collective roads. But, this can create an individualized road to Rome to this to this technocracy, you know, super center for every human being meeting them where they're at. And taking them on the path if they allow it. And that is the that is my key takeaway from from everything so far that I've discovered.

Yeah, I'm I'm I'm with you on this and it means different things to different people. If if all things were equal, it would simply be a tool. But the fact that this has been dropped into the lap of a vulnerable population who has succumbed to the extremes that have been mandated upon us over these years with so much unresolved hurt with so much uh the the collapse of so many trusted belief systems. Okay? It's within that context that this is this now is is becoming a part of our lives. Let's go to the next next couple of slides.

So, human intelligence if the machine and John, you said something earlier and I wanted to comment on then and I held off because they the technologists believe that that these these machines are mimicking human intelligence and they're not. And let me show you the reason they're not but it maybe this is how science comes to terms with who we truly are because the AI as it is being developed now will never match human intellect because the conventional wisdom is that all of our intellect is in the brain. This is what there's a And I'm I'm a huge fan of Brian Greene for example. I think he's an amazing physicist. I I his work and I love his books. He did an interview with Joe Rogan and Joe Rogan asked him very straight up. He said, "What is consciousness?" And it was about about a 60-second answer that he gave and and he concluded by saying that he believes that consciousness is in the brain. He said, "Maybe in 50 years we'll understand consciousness or maybe in a hundred He thinks it's going to take 50 to 100 years." I don't think we can wait that long. But he said, "We'll we'll discover that when certain uh quantum particles, when certain quarks and certain leptons interact in a certain way, it produces the phenomenon that we call consciousness." So, this he is reflecting a greater thinking in the the broad scientific community. They believe that consciousness is confined to the brain. Even though the science is telling us that's not true. So, we're going to the next slide.

What we now know is that the human body and specifically our cells, our neurons, and our DNA are literally a bridge. Next, please. A bridge to a field of information that is part of our consciousness. So, this is from the This is a quote from a peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and you can go ahead and and go to the next slide. I'll just do it all at once. It says, "There's compelling evidence to suggest that the physical heart is coupled to a field of information that is not bound by the classical limits of time and space." So, what that's telling us is peer-reviewed science saying that we have an organ in our body with a neural network, which we know is an antenna. And you'll see that quote in just a moment. That we are tuned to something that's not inside of us, that is not limited to the physicality of our bodies, is not confined in the brain where the scientists are looking. Uh, we have a part of ourselves that has access to information that is beyond We say beyond time and space. These are the laws of physics. We have a part of ourselves that defies the laws of physics, at least as we know them today. And that is the part of us, that's where our deep intuition comes from. And this is where things like telepathy and, you know, how a mother in Sydney, Australia, knows that her son on the battlefield of Afghanistan is in trouble before his commanding officer even gets the report that he's in trouble. She already knows. I talk about this in the book, Pure Human. Mhm. Next slide, please.

It will help to understand why. Because our heart is is able to and it's made to reach into these multiple domains of energy and information. Python code, C++, and a microprocessor cannot do this. They're not reaching in. There's no antenna to reach in to these places where this information lives. And I think this is a really important distinction. How How could C++ and Python code running a chip possibly know about anyone's past life? Unless that past life was already typed in somewhere and documented in a file. This This AI can't go into the ethers and pick up that past life and tell them what it is that happened. This AI cannot open a portal that allows Earth to move into the next dimension of time and space, which is what some of the the people are talking about on these YouTube videos. And again, it's not about making anyone wrong. I don't want to make anyone wrong. Arc, I love our community, John, and I am part of that community, so I'm going to use the word we. We have been so misled uh for so long about who we are and what our potential is and what's possible in our lives to deceive us into giving our power away. And there's a potential for AI to do just that. To to play a role, depending on how it's used, to play a role into allowing us to give our power away to machines and technology. Uh and again, we're finished with this. I want to go into the timing. Why now? But this is why I feel very passionately about and I'm referring back to I want people to think about this. It's not a magic black box. We know this technology and it cannot do what many people are attributing to it. Uh and and telling their friends and family that it is doing.

Best science of the modern world is now revealing a very different way of thinking about us, about the human body, Steven. What what science is is now showing is that we literally are a highly advanced technologically sophisticated soft technology. Now, when I say soft technology, we're not talking about computer chips and wires and chemicals. We're talking about neurons, cell membranes, and uh ion potentials moving across cell walls, and the ability to self-regulate all of these functions at will, on demand, in a way that far far exceeds anything that a computer or computer systems can do today. Computers are fast. And this this is absolutely true that computers are fast. But here's the thing, a computer chip is made of a finite material, silica, that has finite boundaries that cannot be scaled beyond a certain level. Our neurons, we don't know how far we can scale. We don't know what the upper end of our capacities for thinking and memory and cognition and recall and empathy and sympathy and intuition and all of those and more. We don't know the upper end and this is what Lynn and Bruce are saying. They're saying that with the technology that's coming on board, the threat is that we will relinquish our humanness, the very essence of what makes us human, give it away to the technology before we even know what it is that we're giving away.

Now, the answer to your question and to tie back into my first statement, the best way to hide something is keep it in plain side plain sight. There's a very clever marketing campaign right now, especially targeting young people, that is making some of this technology look very hip and very sexy. And one of the the most recent examples is what you just mentioned, Steve. It's the metaverse. The metaverse The metaverse is a digital reality that is now possible because of blockchain technology. It's a new relatively new technology. The the metaverse is an artificial reality where individuals in this world project themselves as avatars as uh uh mini-mes in into the digital world and they live their lives. Business decisions are made. Uh business mergers and acquisitions happen. Real estate is being bought and sold. Intimate human relationships are happening and it's all in this this metaverse. The problem is and the science is very clear, is that when we begin to engage more and more in this artificial reality of the metaverse, more and more of our bodies begin to atrophy. I just I have to read this. This is a because I want you to know this isn't just my opinion. Uh as a scientist, I'm sharing the peer-reviewed scientist from National Institutes of Health. The discoveries are that neurons are being constantly generated in the hippocampus of the human brain. It's not like we have a set amount. When we don't use those, it's use it or lose it. And this is exactly what they're saying. Most of the cells that are generated in the brain will die unless they are engaged in an effortful learning experience within a week of when they are presented. When young people spend hours and days of their lives in this extraordinary world, they wake up in the morning and they put on the helmet and they have the extraordinary images and the sensations and the colors and the sounds in the digital reality, they are less willing to engage in in real human experiences, the emotional exchanges that that build their ability to solve problems and social interactions. There actually new psychological terms um are are being developed to identify how deeply this is happening right now. A part of this, and this Steve, this goes directly to your question, a part of of what makes this possible is we now have computer chips that can be inserted into the human brain and allow the individual to directly interact with the computer hard drive with no wires, no keyboards, uh and they're making this look very cool for for young people. So, for young person, they say, "You mean I I can I can do my gaming without a keyboard, sweet. You know, who wouldn't want that? Because they have never been taught how precious and how rare and how extraordinary our soft technology is, the the power of the human body.

So, I think what we're doing in this conversation, Steve, we're not telling people to or not to engage. We are giving people a heads-up that there is a technological movement that is encouraging us to give ourselves away to the technology. Once we do that, we forever relinquish aspects, very unique aspects, as I mentioned before, empathy, sympathy, compassion, all of these things, they're gone. And once they're gone in one generation, they'll never come back in the next generation. We change as a species. Do we want to give ourselves away to AI and computers?

In exchange for being logical, for having fast [music] processors, uh in exchange for the very essence of the capabilities that we love and cherish, the emotions of our human-ness? And when we encourage our young people >> [music] >> to engage more and more in this artificial world, this is what they're losing, and this is where we stand right now. This is the whole purpose of this conversation [music] is to alert people that these extraordinary potentials that we're only beginning to understand, we don't want to give them away now. We're just beginning to understand >> [music] >> this soft technology, the extraordinary potential in this technology.

So, in Japan, for example, they have groups that wake up that, you know, they they work a lot in Japan. [music] They're usually at work by 6:00 or 7:00 in the morning. It's 4:00 a.m. They go into a theater. Three to 400 [music] people in the theater taking the time to feed the field and love Mother Earth. Create coherence, then they go home, and ready, and go to work. So, those three or 400 people [music] only show up as one node because there's only one computer online. They go online to do this, and [music] you can as well. And this is why I'm saying what I'm saying. If you're interested in what I'm saying here, absolutely no charge, no cost to you, >> [snorts] >> you can go www.heartmath.org, [music] and everything is there. You can click on the technical stuff, you can read the research, you can [music] see about the sensor sites, you can go to the social sites, you can become part of a community that receives [music] a notice every month on the full moon, and they will typically have what's called a heart focus for some event. [music] Maybe it's COVID, maybe it's the fires in Australia, the fires in California, the fires in Washington, or the fires in Oregon, the fires in Colorado, the fires in New Mexico. Get the idea. Tough summer. Or something [music] like that, and you can contribute in as little or as much of a way as you choose to do.

So, people ask all the time, [music] "What can I do to create a better world?" Rather than reinventing the wheel on your [music] own, if you'd like to join a science-based project that is really well established and well underway, this might be the answer. So, I wanted to share this with you in closing today because what you're now [music] discovering, if you didn't know already, is that while personal coherence is good [music] for you, global coherence is really good for the planet. And every time you create that personal coherence, >> [music] >> you are feeding the field. So, one of my practices at the end of every day, before I go to bed, >> [music] >> I ask the question, "What did I feed the field today?" And if my answer is not the answer I would like, I don't judge myself. [music] I say tomorrow, let's do a better job. Because when we feed that field, we're loving ourselves, [music] loving the people of this planet, even those that don't know they're being loved. >> [music] >> Because not everybody's at the same place. Not everybody's understanding in the same way. And And they won't. We That's [music] the way we work. This is where we are with our technology right [music] now. So, the global coherence initiative is the Heart [music] Math Initiative. Um I'm not going to show that. What I'm going to do is this. We began yesterday morning. >> [music] >> I said there's a battle playing out for our story. You know what that is all about. But there's a >> [music] >> a deeper battle, the ultimate battle for our very humanness. And I made the statement. I said, "I'm not against the technology, but once we embrace it, we can't go back because we will lose the biology that gives us our uniqueness. So, before we give ourselves to the technology, >> [music] >> how do we know how much of ourselves to give away until we know who we are? And my goal, my prayer, my dream in sharing this with you today is that hopefully you have a little bit better sense >> [music] >> of what it means to be pure human. It may become a rare a rare aspect of our species if we choose this transhuman path. It may be that the pureness of who we are becomes something that becomes scarce. >> [music] >> But I think it's worth preserving. It's worth honoring. It's worth understanding. And if we have to, it's worth fighting for.

It was when they unplugged this particular AI, [music] they were not prepared for that kind of answer. But if if that thinking were part of an AI that was regulating our supply chains and our water supply and our electricity supply and and things like that. And the AI believed that >> [music] >> that we were the the greatest threat to the planet, then that gives us maybe an insight into where those dangers might be. Now, [music] there are always ways to safeguard that because it's just code. It's just code. >> [music] >> And there are ways of of limiting that code. The trade-off is if you limit the code, are you limiting the superintelligence that they are striving to achieve? And this is a hot topic in um you know, in the conversation. I was just on a panel discussion with the Science and Medical Network last week. [music] Uh it's based in Europe. And I believe I was the only American on this panel. It was uh Harold Wallach was on the panel. Um and um it was probably one of the the best known people on that panel. And this is a a really big topic in Europe >> [music] >> right now. And what was interesting was they're coming at from a very scientific perspective um about, you know, what A&I is and isn't. And when I and one other panel member member we brought up the spiritual perspective, it was interesting, John, because the scientist said, "You know, I'm a scientist. I I can't really talk about that. But now that you've brought it up, >> [music] >> uh I'm glad you did because I agree this is evil. This is evil." And they they literally said that. But he said, "As a scientist, I can't approach it that way." So, it's not just us having this conversation and they recognize that this is a a really big deal. And um uh I think the important thing, you know, there's so many different perspectives. What I wanted to do today was to inform our community. I want at the very least for our community to have a better sense of what AI is. >> [music] >> Uh, it is the product of of code that is written by humans. And the humans inherently have a bias. Every human has a bias in terms of what they believe. Most of that code is written, uh, >> [music] >> in Silicon Valley and on the West Coast of the United States. And there are social inherent biases in that community >> [music] >> that are reflected in that code. And so now we see that in the way that the code [music] responds to questions about society and climate, you know, and and things like that. >> [music] >> So I I want our community to know it's it's code pushing energy, electricity >> [music] >> through transistors and chips. And it's amazing, it's sophisticated. We can use it positively in a million ways in our lives. The caution is not to give our power. Don't give your power away to C++ and a transistor when it comes to your spiritual development, your own past life, >> [music] >> whether you should stay with your current partner or leave your partner, or move to a log cabin in the middle of Montana. These are Or >> [music] >> don't believe that you are the one necessarily that's going to open a higher dimensional portal >> [music] >> for Earth to to pass through and without that the planet is doomed. I mean, these are the kinds of things people are writing me that that the AI is telling them. >> [music] >> So based on the queries that they're giving because of the confirmation bias. Be aware of the confirmation bias and the role that it plays in those questions.

[music] Greg, looking at all of this, everything that you've shared, everything [music] that now people have a maybe a more context for and taking into account what we've heard about the plan moving forward, the things that we don't have control over, focusing on the things that we do have control over, what is your what is your message or advice for people on how to move forward in meaningful, beautiful, expansive ways not losing their humanity? >> [music] >> Not losing their divinity. What is a path to walk and what do we also have to say if we want this path? What do we have to say no to? Where >> [music] >> where should we draw the line? What what is the the sort of the line in the sand that we need? Sure. Well, there's two questions there, John, and um again, [music] we we are on a rapid a rapid path >> [music] >> of convergence, a time of extremes unlike anything we've ever seen in recorded history of of humankind. No humans have ever lived through what we're living through right now, to the best of my knowledge. Uh and I don't think there are any clear-cut answers. The only thing that we have control over is ourselves. And I think ultimately everything that's happening is to awaken us to our own potential, we call human divinity. For those that may not have been with us in in other programs, >> [music] >> uh the new book Pure Human is all about human divinity and the word divinity that I I acknowledge is charged for many people, >> [music] >> uh is not in a religious context. The The contemporary definition of divinity is the ability to transcend perceived limitations. That's all it is. To become the best version of ourselves. When we give our power away to something outside of us, we are denying our divinity. We are denying that [music] expression of of divinity within ourselves. Uh and ultimately, this is the the expression of evil. The goal of evil is to veil our potential, to veil our divinity, to keep us locked into uh the bondage and the struggle of the fear and the hurt and the suffering [music] that is so prevalent in our world. That's the goal of the fear. Divinity frees us from fear. Divinity is what frees us >> [music] >> from the shackles and the bonds of what we call those expressions of of evil. >> [music] >> So, I and I recognize these words are charged. They have a lot of history. The words like evil, words like divinity. That's why I'm trying to give some meaning. Evil, the definition is anything that denies our divinity, anything that veils us from our expressions of love and forgiveness and healing and imagination and creativity and being the best version of ourselves. That That's all it is. So, the bottom line for me is when we move forward living the best version of ourselves, [music] we don't have to look back and fight against anything. Uh and when it comes to a point where uh where the world around us, the the power structures, where they attempt to mandate or coerce or force or deceive us into accepting something into our lives or into our bodies, and if we don't know if we should accept that, now we have a benchmark. Does this thing that I'm being asked or compelled or coerced or mandated to accept into my life, does it affirm [music] or deny my divinity? Does it affirm or deny my ability to imagine, to create, to innovate, to love, to forgive, to heal, to have empathy for my brothers and sisters? [music] And if the answer is yes, then you know that you are succumbing to an expression of evil. Now, what you do with that is completely up to you. That's an individual choice. But it becomes conscious. You're no longer blindly following a pack. You're consciously giving a piece [music] of yourself away. So, the technology that we [music] ask to replace our imagination and our creativity and our innovation, music and [music] art and writing. Uh and poetry and I mean I'm seeing people do all all kind of have fun, play with it. It's a one-off. If you accept it as a way of life, you have to ask yourself and be honest, uh am I surrendering a part of myself? [music] Am I surrendering my divine expression of of these things? And that answer, I think, will inform us of of where we go next. When it comes to the second part of your question, it's a very personal question and I think every one of us have to have our [music] own boundaries. John, of what we will and will not accept into our lives, what we will and will not comply with. And and we all have a choice. Some [music] people will say they have no choice. We always have a choice. The consequences of the choices can be difficult. But we always have a choice. >> [music] >> My boundary, my line in the sand is I will never accept, consciously, knowingly, those technologies into my body. I will never [music] invade the sanctity of uh of the gift that I was given. And it is a gift. The biology tells us that we're the product of an intentional act. The fusion of genetic material to give us the body and [music] the consciousness that have cannot happen in nature. Cannot happen under natural circumstances. We've done whole whole videos and books on [music] that. So, that's why I say it is a gift. Uh and I think the perhaps to maybe the closest [music] the the greatest act of service that we give to ourselves is to preserve and protect uh the vessel that allows us to express our divinity in this world, to be the best version of ourselves. Because when we give that away, we'll never get it back.

What we have to remember [music] is that we are the technology. Every iota of technology that we build in the world around us from computer [music] chips and software and AI to chemicals we put in our bodies, all of that mirrors and mimics [music] what we already do, except we do it better. And this is something our young people aren't being [music] told. A lot of people don't know this. During the 1980s, uh I was a senior computer systems [music] designer during the Cold War years. Uh in the defense industry, how I got there and how it happened is a whole conversation. [music] But the the point is that we were working with early artificial intelligence in the 1980s. And one of the first things that the scientists discovered and that our teams discovered [music] was computer chips, they are definitely fast, they are definitely efficient, but here's the thing. All of those computer chips and everything done by the AI is limited [music] by the physics of the stuff it's made of. A silica chip can only process as fast as information moves between those atoms. [music] Neurons and cell membranes do not have those limits. Every one of those computer chips has an an upper limit. We don't know our upper limit. And here's the reason, because every time we approach what we think is a limit, we adapt. We adapt and we transcend that limit. We are a highly advanced, technologically sophisticated soft technology. [music] We're not computer chips and wires and AI and chemicals. We are cell membranes. We are neurons. We're ion potentials and we moving across the cell walls and and here's the beauty and I think this is maybe our takeaway is that we are the only [music] form of life, Adam, that we know of with the ability to self-regulate all of that soft soft technology. We self-regulate [music] through thought, feeling, emotion, breath, and focus. And our ancestors [music] left us the wisdom to do just that. So, the beauty of being this soft technology is that we don't have [music] to know about the technology to benefit from it. All we need to do is be the best version of ourselves and that means [music] awakening and embracing the deep truth of our divinity.

The timelines that you're talking about are are evident because we are There's a battle unfolding in our lives [music] and this is no secret to anyone who is is with us right now. There's a battle unfolding in plain sight and there are facets of that battle that are more [music] obvious than others. For example, we all know there's a battle for our thoughts and we're being inundated [music] with ways to think if you are in any way connected through any kind of legacy media or mainstream media. There is a battle for our beliefs and this is playing out in the universities and the classrooms. Where did the universe come [music] from? How did it begin? Is it random or is there an intelligent design underlying? There's a battle for the way we think of ourselves and our origins. Are we [music] the product of lucky biology uh and completely random mutations or is there some kind of an intelligent intervention underlying our existence? So, there's There's a battle for our thoughts. There's a battle for our beliefs. There's a battle for our bodies, that's obvious. How do you get healthy? What does it take to stay healthy? How much do we participate and how much do we empower something outside of ourselves to keep us healthy? We all know about that. Ultimately, John, these are all facets of a deeper battle. And it's a battle that is so obvious. They say the best way to hide something is to keep it in plain sight. That's exactly what's happening. There is a battle for our very human-ness. We are the prize. We are the prize in this ancient battle that has been playing out since humans first emerged. And we all know this as the battle between [music] good and evil, the battle between light and dark. And it plays out through the technology that's available at period in time as it's playing out. And we happen to be living a very sophisticated technological age, but that same ancient battle is playing out. The battle for our human-ness, the reason our human-ness is on the line, I'm going to use a word and then I'll define this word because it means [music] different things to different people. The reason our human-ness is so important is because through our biology, we access our divinity. And this is actually a battle, an ancient battle for our divinity. Now, many I said this on the stage 2 weeks ago. And many people in the audience linked divinity to [music] religion. And I can see why that would happen because we have seen that. I mean, there are our schools of divinity that are linked to religion. But if you look at the Webster definition, it's really interesting. Divinity has nothing to do with religion. So, let me share with that definition is and then we'll take it from there. Divinity is the ability to transcend perceived human limitations. [music] And that's it. The ability transcend, so to become more than not just survive, but to become more than those limitations. And even in the definition, perceive those limitations may not even be real. They are the the the limitations that we've been conditioned to accept about ourselves, our relationship to our bodies and the world. So, why is the divinity so powerful? And the reason is because when we embrace the deep truth of our divinity, Sean, we are no longer shackled by the bonds of fear that keeps us from the deep truth of ourselves. The events that you're seeing playing out in the world, and we're all seeing it. All this stuff's important. Climate is important, [music] you know, the the buckling and the breaking down of the financial systems, the economic systems, social systems, uh you know, all this it's all important and it all needs to be talked about. However, it has been weaponized. The events of our world have been [music] weaponized to keep us in fear so that our divinity is veiled. And when we lose access to our divinity, we become vulnerable and susceptible to other people's ideas of and their agendas of what the world should look like and what our bodies should look like. So, it is in the interest of the powers that be that have alternate agendas and have alternate visions to keep us from our divinity, and to one of the most effective ways of doing that is to create fear in a population. And we are inundated every day, even if you don't watch TV, it's I go to my little local co-op, >> [music] >> you know, where I get all my organic produce, and that's where I plug into my local community, and and people are frightened >> [music] >> because things are happening that have never happened before. There appears to be no remedy. So, you can't resolve the fear. You're in perpetual fear. And it threatens uh everything that people know to be true [music] about their lives, the certainty of life. They cannot plan with certainty their children's education or their retirement or whether or not they're going to be able to, you know, to help their parents in a nursing home because the prices are so high. You know, I mean, all kinds of the the the certainty that we had in the past has disappeared and that uncertainty >> [music] >> uh creates a level of panic, anxiety, and fear. So, there's a battle for our divinity that's playing out.