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The best science of the modern world. Number one, it's telling us the universe is alive and it is conscious. We are not the product of random processes, random mutation, and we're much more than lucky biology. Consciousness informs itself through its creations. We are a living and connected universe.
We live our lives based upon the way we have been taught to think about ourselves. We live our lives based upon our story. We choose our relationships based upon our story. And I want people to think about this. Every person that's in your life right now is based upon your self-esteem, your sense of self-worth, the way you've been taught to think about your relationship to other people and worrying. So, the people that you invite into your life, the people that you invite into your home, and we're all adults here, and this is important, the people you invite into your bed, your most intimate relationships are all based upon your story, the way you've been taught to think about yourself.
We heal our bodies based upon our story. When we go to a a a medical professional or a a holistic uh professional and they say that something is happening with us that may not be in our best interest, something in our body is happening that may not be in our best interest. The way we respond to that information is based upon our story.
Our social policies, our world is changing. Boy, is it ever. My world is changing, your world is changing. Wherever you are in the world watching us, you are impacted by a change like we've never seen before. And the way that we respond to that change is based upon our story, our social policies, the laws that we enact, policies that we embrace, the way we treat one another in our homes, in our communities, in our society, in our nation and between nations. So all of a sudden you begin to see when we talk about our story rather than being academic on the back burner and and something just interesting it's on the front burner for all of us. It's up for all of us. Nothing could be more important. And this even covers the way that our body functions, our response to contagions in the environment, our immune response, our longevity, our resilience, our intuition, all are based in the way that we access these things according to our story.
And this is interesting because so the question is where you know where's our story come from? We all have a story. We may not be consciously aware of it, but it's there. Story comes from our family. There is a battle playing out for our story right now because the stakes have never been higher, Shaman. The stakes have never been higher on this planet. There's a battle for our thoughts. There's a battle for our beliefs. And I think we all sense that. What we may not know is there's a battle for our very humanness. The very essence of what it is that separates us from all other forms of life and makes us so unique. The very essence of those potentials is now uh being threatened.
I was taught that we live in a universe that's dead and inert. It's a universe that happened by luck, by accident when all of exactly the right parameters aligned in exactly the right way and exactly the right time to give us what we have today. And within that dead inner universe, I was taught that we we as humans are the product of an accident of biology, what's called lucky biology. Random mutations that have led to us being who we are today through a process that I was taught was made possible through competition and conflict. I was taught that competition in nature in conflict is what assured the success of our species, our ability to win out over other species. All right. Now, that's that is a broad brushstroke overview of of the old story.
Now, I'm going to to contrast that the new story, the best science of the modern world. Number one, it's telling us the universe is alive and it is conscious. That we live in a living universe where rather than being the rare exception you would expect life to occur because we are a living and connected universe. Uh the new science is showing us and this is this is so powerful that the fundamental rule of nature that Charles Darwin in 1859 when he he released his theory uh of of the origins of of of the origin of species was the title of the book he released in 1859 and he put forth this theory that uh that the fundamental rule of nature is is competition and conflict and that we live in this world of scarcity. We've got to fight for our survival. And and he he coined that. He named it survival of the strongest.
When I say this to young people in an audience, they say, you know, cool, Greg. 1859 was a long time ago. So what? We're in 21st century. We got the internet. You know, we've got Tik Tok, high-tech. Who cares? What difference does it make? And it's a good question. And my answer surprises them because what I say to them is is yes, we're in a modern world, but the foundations of our society were put forth in the late 1800s in the early 1900s based upon the story that was believed at that time. The story that we are separate. The story that nature's based, the fundamental nature is competition. So it's no surprise our economic system that's collapsing and is so unfair is based upon this false assumption of competition. Uh corporate structure is based upon the competition. The where we the way we share vital resources, food, energy, water, medicine with our global family are based upon this false assumption. And now it's being tested because the world has changed. And those ideas that worked sort of in the other world are failing us in this world. And the good news is that we have a new story to fall back on. And it's a story that's based in truth, honest factual science. It's a science that is rarely shared in the mainstream. And that's that's the big picture.
And now when it comes to us, the science is also showing us that we are not the product of random processes, random mutation, and we're much more than lucky biology. I I have to be very clear when I when I say what I'm about to say. I'm a scientist. Uh I'm a degreed geologist is my my uh my first degree and I am not a denier when it comes to evolution. I believe in evolution. I've seen it in the fossil record for many forms of life for plants, animals and insects. The data does not support evolution as the story of anatomically modern human emergence. What are called amh anatomically modern humans. The data fails us. Something extraordinary happened 200,000 years ago. Modern humans emerged upon the earth. And I'm I'm saying this now because it's going to be important when we get into our potential. Because in the old story, we have been led to believe that we emerged on this planet in a a biologically primitive form and through a long slow gradual process we have evolved to the point we are today.
This is where the science fiction has become science fact. Uh many of our viewers probably remember the movie, the first movie Jurassic Park, the best Jurassic Park. When scientists were able to extract the DNA from the fossilized remains of ancient forms of life, that was science fiction when that movie came out. It now is science fact. We have the ability to extract the DNA from the bone marrow of fossilized remains of ancient forms of life, including those that I was taught were my ancestors that I descended from when I was in school back in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. And here's the deal. It is like an earthquake that has sent shock waves through the world of evolution and biology because what DNA is telling us shaman we compare the genome of the forms of life that we used to think were that we descended from with our genome today we haven't changed we emerged we appeared mysteriously on earth 200,000 years ago with all of the extraordinary potentials and capabilities that we have right now when we appeared as anatomically modern humans.
There were mutations in our DNA uh in our our genome. There were a human chromosome number two is one of the most uh astounding. It uh it is the product of a fusion of pre-existing chromosomes that after the fusion happened, genes were added, genes were taken away to stabilize that fusion. Gives us uh the the extraordinary neoortex that we have in the ability for empathy, sympathy, compassion, self-regulation. Chromosome 7 is what gives us chromosome number seven in primates. 75 million years it was stable and exactly 200,000 years ago there was a little switch that linked the brain with the tongue with the mouth that gives us the ability for complex language and speech. So scientists say that there was an intervention but they have to leave it at that because they cannot say science is not equipped to go beyond telling us what they can tell us what happened but they can't necessarily interpret how or why.
But the average human it said has about 50 trillion cells give or take in the human body. Every one of those 50 trillion cells has an electrical potential about 0.07 volts. And you say well that's not very much. And I say, "Well, you're right till you do the math. 0.07 volts times 50 trillion cells." And think about that. We have an electrical potential in our bodies about 3.5 trillion volts of electrical potential. What would happen if we could harness that and direct it toward our own healing or toward our longevity enzymes that we all have in our bodies or toward our intuition or toward our resilience or toward uh deep states of of inner knowing that are revealed in so many of our most ancient and cherished spiritual traditions. Well, if we could do that, but it doesn't end there.
Every one of those 50 trillion cells, it functions as a transistor. Just just like in a resistor. Just like the old transistors and resistors and our our old television sets, some of you remember those or or the old telephones. Now they're miniaturaturized on to the chips in the computer that is in the machine you're watching me on or on the mobile phone. Every one of our cells does that. We are resistors. We are transistors. Every one of our cells is a capacitor. It stores information and releases it when it reaches a certain threshold. Every cell in our body releases photons of light and is a photon receptor. We receive photons of light. Light is information. We are constantly interacting with our external we call the external environment. The field through this exchange of collapsing and emerging photons. Every cell in our body has antenna on the outside that are attuned to electromagnetic frequencies and the very DNA DN and the genes in the DNA also function as antenna. We are gated circuits. We store and retrieve information in memory just like we do on the computers and so much more.
Many of the powers that be do not know what we're talking about. So, so that the choices and decisions that they're making are based upon the old story. And this is why I say the story the stakes never been higher. We have a planet at stake and life on the planet is at stake. And and I think what's important is rather than judging those people for the choices that they're making or judging ourselves and there is a conditioning it's based upon this story of competition, struggle and separation. We have been taught shaman to demonize the things that no longer work for us. We've been taught to demonize and hate to to justify moving in a new direction, making new decisions.
From my perspective, uh I think it may not serve us to do that. We all we all have had a lifetime of feeling uh uh inadequate of our stories telling us, you know, that we're not worthy of right and wrong and good and bad and comparing ourselves to success and failure and and all of that only works if you have some model that you are comparing yourself to. But if you let that model go, then everything we've done in the past is simply our experience. It's our learning curve. And we have to say that it worked because we're here now. It worked to get us where we are. And now that we have new understandings, we can let those understandings go. Bless them. Let them go with grace. It's not so much about a mistake or about goodness or badness or rightness or wrongness or revenge or any of that. This is a new day. It's a new world. We are perhaps more unified in that understanding than we have been for a very long time. The whole world knows that we're in this together and that we're going somewhere. But here's the beauty of this conversation. Where we're going hasn't happened yet because we're creating it through what we understand right now. And as we embrace these understandings that we're talking about, and they have a lot of implications. They have social and political implications. Certainly imp implications in in terms of of energy and and where our energy in the planet comes from and how we feed one another and how we heal one another. So story is a big deal. So if we can if we can move from this point forward without judging ourselves or judging others in the past I think it's a really healthy way to do this.
Now one of the places where this is coming up because the world is changing and because of our story that has taught us that we are powerless victims of a world that we cannot control. There is a greater desire to create stuff out there external technology to replace our soft technology so that we feel good and safe in the world. Feel good about ourselves, feel safe in the world. And we're also being told that that we need this external technology to achieve our greatest potentials and in whole in mass that movement is being called the transhumanism movement. I I'm not anti-technology, but here here's the thing, and this is a conversation that scientists have had since I've been in the scientific world. There are two schools of thought when it comes to scientists. Some scientists believe that because we figure out how to do something, it gives us the license to go forward full throttle and do that. Other scientists say because we figure out how to do something doesn't mean that we need to carry it to its greatest expression that we need to throttle that discovery with things like morality with human values. And this is where technology and transhumanism is coming in. The technology is available right now to replace much of of the human body. And and because the story has led people to believe, some people that carbon-based life, that's us, we're carbon-based life is imperfect, that carbon-based life is flawed, that we are the product of lucky biology in a lucky universe to begin with. Their thinking is that we need to replace this flawed carbon-based body with machines.
Here, here's the slippery slope. We've all heard the expression, use it or lose it, and our biology functions in in a very similar way. We are this extraordinary, highly advanced, technologically sophisticated soft technology that has the ability to self-regulate, self-heal, to heal our own bodies, to regenerate, to rejuvenate in a way that no other form of life has. And when we begin to replace the neurons and glands and the blood and the chemicals in our bodies with computer chips and wires and other chemicals, we begin to lose those capabilities. They atrophy if we don't use them. Now, in one generation, if we stop using certain classes of neurons, then the connections of those neural networks begin to atrophy. In the next generation, the body says, "Well, I guess we don't need those anymore, and they may stop producing altogether." And we're actually seeing this happen as technology is beginning to replace in some societies our most intimate human relationships. And I I'm I'm talking about human intimacy in terms of emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy. Is being replaced by technology uh and games. And what's happening in those societies is the birth rate is declining because infertility is increasing and sperm counts are dropping. Use it or lose it.
We have right now uh the ability to implant a a computer chip to implant a computer chip into the human brain that gives us direct access to the hard drive of our computer without the use of a keyboard. So when I say this in an audience of of young people, I have no children of my own. So I learn a lot from the young people in my audience. What they say, the first thing they say, they say, "Wait a minute. You mean I could do my gaming without ever using a keyboard?" But because they've never been taught how precious and rare and I'll just go the extra mile and say sacred, not from a religious perspective, but from a deeply spiritual perspective, how sacred this internal technology is. And if you've not been taught that, then your responsib my computer hard drives. So, it's being offered recreationally. And this is the thing. If we embrace these technologies recreationally in one generation, uh what is it that we're compromising? And so, again, I'm going to be clear. I'm not saying it's right, wrong, good, or bad. I'm not saying do it or or don't do it. What I am saying is that we need a cautionary pause because we are at the crash rate. Transhumanism and biology, what it means to be human. When we compromise our humanness and those abilities begin to atrophy, we we need to know what how much of our this is the question. How much of ourselves do we give away to the technology? How much of our humanness do we give to the technology? We can't answer that until we know who we are.
Consciousness informs itself through its creations. I think that's a big big statement. That consciousness teaches itself and reminds itself of who it is through the things that consciousness builds. So music, I'm a musician. I I love that idea. Books, poetry, sculpture, dance, movement, technology, all of the external technology that we're building in one way or another mimics what we already do, except we do it better. AI cannot be programmed for empathy and sympathy and compassion. And the question is, do we cherish those values enough to embrace them within ourselves before we compromise our very humanness with a technology based on an old story?
I talked about I mentioned a computer chip in the brain. And I don't want to leave people with a sense that it's wrong to do these things. It's not right, wrong, good, or bad. That's how we apply it. There are instances where uh men and women coming back from the battlefields of Afghanistan, Iraq, halfway around the world have lost in some cases two two legs and one arm and and come home to their families in that condition. And if that computer chip can communicate with the brain to a prosthetic that allows them to hold their children in their arms and to brush their own teeth and wash their own hair and one man is now playing the piano as the expert pianist that he was because of that technology. Wow, what an awesome, beautiful, powerful, just oh brings tears to my eyes. So we have done that. We've created that. It's about how we apply.