This is Going to Hurt. Everything You Know is False. | Annaka Harris on Impact Theory
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What if everything you think you know about yourself is wrong? Most people have the intuition that they have a self separate from their body and brain, and that they can control their experience with conscious will. But what if that isn’t true? Best-selling author Annaka Harris is devoted to challenging our deepest intuitions about the nature of consciousness and the self. On this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, she discusses experiments on the cutting edge of physics and neuroscience, and explains why those experiments matter. The result is a fascinating conversation that will leave you questioning some of your most cherished, comforting intuitions.
SHOW NOTES:
Consciousness is exactly as mysterious as it seems to be [2:29]
Annaka defines what consciousness is [4:54]
Tom and Annaka discuss the story of Phineas Gage [6:31]
Annaka talks about the difference between consciousness and high level thought [9:14]
There is a basic level of consciousness that doesn’t involve awareness of consciousness [11:35]
Challenging intuitions is a basic element of the scientific method [14:58]
Is there outer evidence of conscious experience? Is consciousness doing anything? [18:46]
Upending comfortable intuitions is eventually a freeing experience [20:57]
Annaka explains how the brain binds disparate signals to make them seem congruent [22:23]
Annaka and Tom discuss how much unconscious brain functioning we take for granted [27:09]
Annaka describes the false sense of self and conscious will [29:53]
We make decisions before we are aware of them [33:41]
Annaka discusses the question of whether or to what extent plants are conscious [35:30]
Trees take care of their own kin, and defend their kin [40:48]
What if consciousness is a field like gravity? [43:39]
Annaka describes the double slit light experiment [46:13]
• The Double-Slit Experi...
• Double Slit Experiment...
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Measuring an event can change the past [51:41]
Annaka discusses problems with the views that consciousness emerges from life [54:25]
Annaka shares the impact she wants to have on the world [1:03:06]
QUOTES:
“There’s something jarring about learning that the things that feel most true to you about reality are possibly not structured that way.” [21:29]
“We feel that consciousness is behind our willed actions, when in fact, there is a lot of neuroscience to suggest that it’s actually the reverse. It’s at the end. That all this processing happens, a decision gets made, and we’re kind of the last to know.” [31:54]
“We have no evidence that consciousness is due to complexity.” [1:00:24]
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The ego knows how to hide, while fooling you into thinking it's not there anymore.
...and other people's egos know that they can convince you to be stupid enough to agree with the notion.
Mick0722MX when the new age movement is just another religion created by the d3vil
Who told you it's not there.
@@ohsoleohmio sigh...why is everything about religion and the devil...that shit getting old.
All the while it( ego) never even really existed. Just concepts and thoughts and beliefs , false self .
“When the people fear their government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty” - Thomas Jefferson
Thought provoking! Replace the word government with the word leaders. Either way you land you end in chaos.
He also said that the flames of liberty must be fanned with the blood of patriots. Stating that bloodshed is means to maintain freedom sounds like propaganda. How many lives have been lost through the belief in this statement? Indoctrination of belief systems is just a method of control. When you truly examine Jefferson you'll find he was not what is taught in school. This not to say that your choice of historical quotes was not valuable. It is a so well know quote that Anonymous and the movie V for Vendetta have used a variation those words. Unfortunately the government doesn't fear it's people nor does it's masters. I'm sure you are well aware of that governments have only served up their people instead of serving them.
@It Doesn't Matter You are absolutely correct it doesn't matter what history tells us. It is just perception of what history tells us. History tells us that faces on money and carvings in stone do in no means change the current predicament sociaty faces. Einstein a freemason said reality is just a well maintained illusion. Does his statement make him a better person. One might say he was of great value to sociaty. Without his equations would the development of atomic bombs have been possible? Everything is just a matter of perception.
So lets stand up and scare these goverments
This quote didn't end well...
I'm 62 yo. "What is consciousness?" Has been my biggest interest as long as I can remember. Feels so good to listen to others talk about it. I'm learning now that I am not alone in this. Thank you for this wonderful conversation! 🙏
Wow, it was hard enough growing up with this kind of interest in the 90's I can't imagine doing it in the 7....oh wait..it was probably more accepted back then, or I guess it depends where you lived and what your friends were into?
@@UntangledKnots If you were it hippie, it was part of the scene.
Start meditating then you will understand more. You will understand that we are NOT our bodies.
Or do Ayahuasca to spead up the process. 😂😂😂
here's a question for you to contemplate. who is the you that asks your conscious self what is consciousness?
can the tongue taste itself?
what is the sound of one hand clapping?
Contemplate these questions long enough you will arrive at an answer, but the moment you try to articulate the answer, you'll forget.
it happened to me and i wanted to laugh and cry at the same time, I wanted to share it with everyone, but the idea only lasted a few seconds.
Love reading the comments. Surely looks like a large segment of humanity is interested in exploring consciousness itself. I am one of these types and glad to know I am in good company.
The fact that i can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, Share abit of knowledge and it becomes another's, Smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Lot of talk with little being said
@@R3N3G it's not little being said, it's little being understood.
what about anxiety issues
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@@R3N3G lots of I THINK ,I THINK and I THINK in this conversation. Very Blah indeed !
“We behave based on what we believe. So we might be behaving our lives away based on false or inaccurate or disempowering beliefs.” - John Assaraf on another great episode of Impact Theory
People do this all the time with religion. I like to call it the bane of civilized society because it is such an obviously self-falsifying concept and yet so many people have such flawed thought processes that they can't see the lunacy that religion is.
It's an old concept "You become what you think about the most"
Fill your mind with useless crap and see the results in your life.
Correct but wen u see it's all thought bullshit programming by the elite, advertising, consumerism. The inside out revolution michael neil taught me so much
@@darrenwalshe8513 -- I've never heard of Michael Neill, but I will definitely check out his books. Thanks for the reference.
@@dienekes4364 please do xx
The illusion of free will is so powerful that I do not believe it is possible to truly accept that it is an illusion. We cannot perceive our behavior in a way that is not based on the belief that we are choosing how we behave.
I have had 2 near death experiences, a motorbike crash and a stroke. Both times I was floating and flying but I couldn't move. And when I started breathing again it was very painful and my body felt like a Ricketty Old Steam Engine Pumping Blood and coming back to life !!!! And I didn't black out at all and was aware of what was going on around me !!!! The strange thing was it was a very pleasant experience both times !!!!
I'm a New Scientist reading geek, and lifelong atheist... but... there are things I have experienced that cases me to cling to science as if it's a life preserver. There is just too much of it for me now at 50 to keep ignoring. Noting as concrete as your, but here is a short story for you.
Back as a 20yo I took up ninjitsu. Just a martial art in the local community centre. About a year in the sensei decided to do a 'quiet night' where we would do sensory training rather than physical. I wasn't all that interested and just assumed by 'sensory' he meant being more reactive to sound or light or something physical. But later he mentioned "Kuji Kiri". So after some meditation we knelled with him behind. We were meant to reach out with out senses (hearing I thought) to hear him about to attack me from behind.. with a sword. I was to roll out of the way of danger and he would stop mocing when he saw me move. A few more senior students took thsi test and failed. I moved in to position not know what I was doing, so I assumed I would fail too. But, I tried as hard as I could to hear a sound like a rustle of his clothes... it was dead silent... so I tried SO HARD to hear him coming, muscle primed to jump... and then I heard the sound (I have goosebumps writing
emembering this). I heard a sound so overpowering it made me jump. The sound was like a cross between screeching tyres before a car crash and a Trumpet. The sound scared the crap out of me. I blasted out of the kneel and rolled clear. The whole class was looking at me astonished as the teacher had only moved an inch when I moved. I had assume I failed as I turned around the the katana was still over his head.
The teacher was impressed and I think kind of sad. This was exactly what SHOULD be happening to pass the 5th dan test which I was nowhere near and I think for him it wasn't working out well. That sound! It was as abrupt and someone clapping cymbals together next to your ears... but there was no sound anyone could hear. But... where did that come from?
I've carried that for my whole life. I cannot rationally come up with an explanation to this even 30 years later.
@@nathanielacton3768 What I'm wondering is, what would make you're sensei sad or feel that it wasn't working out well? Is it not his goal to teach this stuff? So you'd think he'd be proud and happy. O_o
@@51MontyPythonYeah he was, but I know that he had been trying to achieve this for a few years and did not grasp most of the time. Then, somehow I just tried it once and somehow it just worked effortlessly.
The key to understanding that is that he was traveling to Japan to meet with Hatsumi and submit himself for the 5th Dan test, and this test was the main barrier for most people passing.
Here is how Wikipedia describes it: "In order to attain fifth dan (godan), fourth dan practitioners must submit to a sakki (or godan) test before the sōke to establish that they are able to sense the presence of danger and evade it, which is considered a fundamental survival skill.[7][37] After passing this test, a practitioner is considered to be under the protection of the Bujin, or Guiding Spirits, and is entitled to apply for a teaching license (shidōshi menkyo). "
In the schools I trained int there was from long memory 9 green belts, 9 brown the 10-15 blacks. So, like 30 ranks. I was 3 off the bottom and already passing the hardest test to get in to the top 5... without anywhere near the actual skill, and I wasn't a particularly fast learner either.
When my son was a young teenager. he was riding his bicycle and was struck unconscious by a car. He later told me he saw himself standing by the side of the road looking at himself under the bicycle and the car. He said to me, `I thought I was dead`. This only proves to me that the soul or spirit is the conscious part of us.
Exactly, I was so disappointed that this didn’t come up at all during the conversation, the fact that we aren’t able to ‘see’ and process information with just our eyes and brain!
@@lauras3263 exactly, this is were the answer reveals itself, were the creator shoes his hand for just a brief second, a telepathic experience, a NDE, etc...you found the answer because you were brave enough to ask the relevant question.
Finding Sams voice almost a decade ago completely changed my life. His wife is equally interesting, intelligent & fascinating. What a power couple. Thanks for the content!
They must spend an awful lot of time together because they talk _exactly_ the same.
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im finding it difficult to think of a more fascinating conversation ive ever listened to. thank you for sharing this
If Everything You Know is False, then everything you have ever learnt is false, and everything you will ever learn is false, therefore everything she is saying is false? Saying "Everything You Know is False" assumes you know everyone everyone knows, thats an insane statement.
I remember being called crazy when I was around 13 years old for expressing the idea that consciousness might be fundamental to the universe. Now it's almost a trendy idea, but it's nice to see someone like Annaka who is actively trying to approach the idea scientifically. Science and faith don't have to contradict. Faith just picks up where the science is lagging and later when it catches up we can get a more concrete picture.
Science and spirituality are one
Thers stuff tht i think about about wen i was in 2 grade its now coming tru
The Universe is whatever you want it to be !!!! Faith will be true if you really believe, the same as if you are Miserable, your life will be Hell.
@@DJK-cq2uy This concept is from Donald Hoffman, Edward Witter, Michio Kaku and other very clever scientists !!!!
who ever said science and faith are contradictory? you have to have some faith in the scientific method to follow it. belief in "science" is a faith in its own way.
Whoever is reading this, one day you will be living your dreams! Congratulations to you 🙏💫🌟
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Thank you 🙏
anonymous anonymous you’re welcome! ❤️
You too!
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I really cant get enough of your shows! Gosh, in a perfect world, you would bless us with daily impactful interviews. I find myself replaying some of my favorite episodes every day. My morning begins with Impact Theory (my AM motivation). Thank you Tom & team!
Tia N. Jones here too
@OverzealousPoodleWhopper WORD! "The more you come to someone else seeking advice, the more you sell yourself out to never solve your own problems and become your own person." Beautifully stated truth.
True!!
explaining something no one will ever understand, what a fantastic job.
If it is "something no one will ever understand", it can't be explained. As long as we don't understand it, nobody can possibly know if it can be understood.
Clever lady! I've had experiences similar to what she's saying where I seem to experience my body moving a split second after it actually happens. So I end up on the back foot trying to catch up to what the body/mind is doing.
Reminds me of a text from MV Summer's book I read recently:
"Now you have become a product of your society, a product of the expectations of society and a product of your own personal thinking. But you have lost contact with the deeper thread and meaning of your life. And even if you are successful and achieve your goals, it will be empty, and the joy will be short lived, and they will come at a great price of time, energy and effort. And the rewards will be momentary and fleeting. This realization, which is so denied and avoided, is the beginning of a greater promise for you." (Building the Bridge to a New Life)
I hope these texts can help other people too, who also are searching for their meaning and purpose in life. You can read it online for free.
Thank you Jari!
This connection to purpose is so important.
Thank you, Jari.
I genuinely resonate with this. Over and over again I received what I thought I wanted, only to find it hollow and without substance. Learning that I have a purpose in this life has truly set me free from so much that has held me back for decades. Thank you for sharing this here.
just discovered this channel! the world needs more mind-opening content like this. thank you for what you do Tom!
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This is nothing but new aged nonsense. You are not gods, there is only one God. We are not all interconnected, those who are not born again are not part of the Kingdom of God. We are NOT all children of God, only those who have repented and accepted Him as Lord and Savior.
Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to eternal salvation. He is the ONLY name by which man is saved. All who perish without repentance will be condemned, as confirmed in scripture.
There is no other truth. Only Jesus Christ is the truth.
So true.... My biggest sadness is how hard some of us try to let others know who or what we are, or how hard we love others..... Yet it is missplaced by th ones we trying to share ourselves wth....... No matter th disappointment it shld never become a shame...... Love th nothingness of the our shared reality..... We are th end product of each other.......
Poetic. Powerful.
I honestly have no idea what you were trying to say there.
I am not the voice in my head. I am the stillness that defines the voice.
you are energy, you express and define yourself in this reality through the things you enjoy doing and the thought patterns which occupy your mind, thoughts are energy in its rawest form, because everything physical derives from thought or consciousness, "all is mind, the universe is mental" - the kyballion
@@marcr3170 Can you explain the difference between a thought and a feeling? Not trying to be difficult. I would like to better understand. I have always thought that our brain was something of a tool in which we are able to navigate the physical , our binary reality. That there was more to me than that.
@@johnunderwood9575 I recommend you direct further questions to me.. as i am a real teacher and everyone else here doesn't really know anything. LOL 0 uh seriously. The Kybalion was written by beings on the metaphysical/moral/intellectual NATURAL LOVE path which stalls or terminates in 6th sphere.
NATURAL LOVE beings have not received divine_love which transforms your soul over time to a new divine_type (& adds new chakras to your spirit_body) and makes that soul legitimately IMMORTAL with the capacity for infinite growth including progression from 6th to 36th sphere soul_realms. To put this into perspective, Buddha and Lao-Tzu are still in 6th sphere. And virtually everyone on this thread will discarnate to middle-ish planes of 1st sphere. - You are a FEELING half-soul. Your sexual preference (hetero or homo) is determined by the gender of the other half of you.
The mind is really a product of your spirit_vessel. Both your spirit and material Earth vessels are mere EFFECTS. All cause and real healing occurs by addressing emotions and feelings resident in your half-soul... which is YOU... a free-will consciousness.
I keep coming back to your interviews because I deeply appreciate your tact, intelligence, understanding, and capabilities as an "interviewer", as it's done so naturally it's like you've been good friends with everyone you have on.
Your intelligence specifically is refreshing, as you really do your homework and always seem to be able to grasp and deeply understand so many ideas and information that would often seem difficult to many or most. Yet you're able to explain or get them to explain things so easily.
There's something really special about you, Tom! So grateful for your channel.
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Wish he would address convid, cerveza bug with one or more of the 35,000 doctors and scientists who have signed a statement backing Nobel prize winner and thw CREATOR of the PCR test stating it can NOT DETECT ANY VIRUS and you CAN NOT CATCH A VIRUS, PERIOD. And the ma$k does not protect you from getting something the CDCs own document says, they have not isolated the sars COVID 2 virus. Also the CDC's documents state that 94% of announced cerveza bug deaths were actually from other things like pneumonia, heart attacks, respiratory disease and from pre existing conditions and the remaining 6% of the deaths were from the seasonal flu with pre existing conditions. Their immune system was so weakened that it couldn't fight back and the flu was the last straw much like when your back goes out while trying to pick up a newspaper. It wasn't the weight of the paper that caused it. It was EVERYTHING up yo that point. Will YOU have the courage to address this HF ead on without dancing around it . . or won't your handlers/friends allow it?
I am an addictions counselor and really intrigued by this discussion. I'm definitely going to have to get this book!!! Also, I have believed for many years that the universe is alive. When I hear people say that life is a rare phenomenon that just happened to find its way to this planet via happenstance of chemical processes, I disagree wholeheartedly. I believe that the universe is consistently seeking ways to express its consciousness in any possible way, the more complex, the more interesting for the organism. All of us are part of "her."
We are all One but at the same time each of us is so unique.
Gaia is arguably the truer God in a sense....🤔
"It"
As soon as you try to pinpoint truth it's already gone, it's ever changing... One cannot catch it or hold it, one can only be in a state of presence to experience it here and now. Any thoughts or words about it are making truth disappear. One cannot show others truth, one can assist them to find it for themselves... 💜
I simply wish to thank you both for my own "awe" this day...thank you!!!
Useless ideas can attract more possibility of success. Creative ideas will dominate the world because creative idea seems useless at first sight.
The more she shares on these subjects, the more attractive she gets.... I dunno, I've only been able to talk to one woman like this- not nearly on this level, mind you. But, yeah. Just expressing that, I love humans with beautiful minds, friends and romantic alike. I'm glad to know there's a community who is passionate about human development. Gives me hope for the world! Bless you all!
i have never been more detached from whats around me after i found this channel ,learned soo much that now i spend most of my awake time thinking about everything
That's awesome jdragon! Me too. Perhaps we as a species are expanding our awareness. Consciousness becoming aware of itself.
Annaka Harris is truly incredible. What an amazing discussion ... good Job Tom for setting this up!
how is she truly incredible? She is dopey enough to wear a wedding ring. How pathetic is that. Married immaturity. Dumb asses. She cant even figure out how immature marriage is and Annaka is truly incredible you think?
Something about her constant smiling is annoying me
It's her eyebrows, I'm sure, looks like she's always hedging but it's just the brows
Now THIS is a conversation. Definitely one of my absolute favorites Tom, you punch in extremely well in this conversation and did an amazing job at explaining what you did just as well as her
I've been a big fan of Sam Harris' work on theist issues, consciousness, etc....
But Annaka might be edging him out a bit....at least lately.
I find her insight and style super refreshing and very interesting. She's not just "Sam's Wife" ....she's legit in her own right.
oh grow up.
Tom, thanks for taking me down the rabbit hole even deeper, to question every single thing I thought I knew. WOW.
"Challenging intuitions is a very important part of the scientific process." Fantastic quote.
bullshit. nothing special here dude.
Intuition is a layer tied to understanding and learning. I've spent my entire life disconnected from that layer. Once I figured out how to connect to that layer, I experienced intuition for the first time, I realized that layer has always been there. When we grow and mature during childhood, we grow into that pre-existing layer. It was a scary experience because that layer just picked up like it was never missing, and seemed like there was a voice in my head, only you cannot hear it and it just fills my head with so much information that's not possible when I'm disconnected from the layer.
I kinda agree.
So many ooohhs and aaahhs! I especially related to the discovery that decision-making in your brain actually comes before your conscious of the idea. Because for me, especially when stress is high. I get these ideas and then I have to stop myself after the idea itself has surfaced and I say oh no I can’t do that for moral reasons. My conscious doesn’t make the decision it observes it after the fact
You'll really start a mindblow when you realize the decision to not do it came just as mysteriously as the initial decision to do something. O.O
Hi Tom, I wish you had Eckhart Tolle on your podcast and further dive into consciousness. He says "if you're looking for consciousness, you will not find it, because the thing you're looking for is the thing that is looking" 😊🙏
The Realist! And you are that! Pleezebelievit!
lol. He is very right
No. Consciousness is the thing you are looking at shaking hands with looking at it.
I guess consciousness could be also regarded as some sort of capacity or motivation to strive for understanding the mysterious backgrounds of reality..even if you realize that you cannot handle the "basic points" or final truth, it is still a driving force within us that tells us that there is much more in our lives which is worth looking for..
@@MrEmotional33 No, that would be motivation or willpower. Consciousness is basically just the flavour- or spice layer beneath awareness. You are noticing yourself being aware of something.
Questioning the foundations of reality can be frightening unless you have the optimistic belief that the outcome will be positive.
Thrilled to see these questions are being brought forward…the truth shall set us free ✨
We aren’t simply the sum total of our life experiences, but rather our perceptions of those experiences.
ehich are always being affected by our past
which lol
Well, and what we DO with them, right?
@@sgarrett9446 Agreed.
Can i just say Sam Harris is so lucky to have found a wife who's into this stuff? I wanna chat for hours and hours about consciousness with people too but I just don't know anyone who wants to even spend more than 10 minutes on the topic LOLOOL.
They are a super attractive neuroscientist/philosopher power couple. So jealous.
I know the feeling ;-)
I think he found a rare gem. Just get on the NYT best seller’s list and a couple Ted talks and maybe you’ll have a power friend set you up with another likeminded power person lol. Let’s be honest, we couldn’t hang with her.
feel you !
Welcome to the Club! Buddy! ;-) It is really tough to find such people in the daily private life..and btw. some women with scientific backgrounds happen to be extremely sexy ;-)
"...I like to be clear that we really don't know...." The ancient Vedic scriptures say that if you discuss reality at the speed of mind for eternity you will still never arrive at the truth. Yep. We really don't know. At least we know that ! :)
In a book called SuperNature by Lyall Watson he speaks of a study done using oysters which are taken inland from the ocean, put in a tidal simulating tank, and kept in a lab with no windows. Those oysters adjusted the time they opened according to the new position of the moon as it was in the new location, without ever being able to see it. Consciousness. ❤
After watching these videos for over a month and buying into all the books and promotions I realized I'm just a tool to make these master manipulaters richer. Thanks for making me feel a part of something bigger!
See hermetics🙏
I've seen through observations that people think they are using the reasoning for their activities when it's mostly subconcious reactions and then they rationalize it afterward. We lie and delude ourselves continually to feel good about ourselves.
Mr and Mrs Harris. What a power house. I can only imagine their conversations....
The questioning is the most important. She’s asking the right ones it definitely seems that will set us up for the ones to follow, that’s excellent !
Tom this was a great interview! Very informative. I particularly liked your clarifications. This made things much simpler. From one teacher to another, you are a great educator.
why thankyou for all the praises. hmmmm i am special arnt i?
@@user-vi5nj6pc7whi User, I'm certain that you are worthy of accolade in your own right. God bless!
Reading older books has helped me gain insights on this. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. That literally runs through all things. We are creators
no, look around you we are destroyers
@@kristinrutherford8779 i dont believe so. I believe we are who we choose to be.
@@kristinrutherford8779 Shiva is you.
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@@miguelchippsinteligente6072 Really Interesting. I believe science compliments a lot of religious texts
I would like to hear a discussion about the theological implications about the double slit experiment.
Great interview. Thanks for posting it!
Found this such a fascinating conversation. Thanks Tom for having Annaka on the show.
Please have her back for a longer talk. So good!
I am amazed by my cat who somehow reads my thoughts without me saying a word, every single night at different times when I decide to go to bed and think this to myself without saying it verbally, my cat like on autopilot jumps up whether she is asleep or just laying down relaxing and starts to eat some biscuits, it really amazes me how she is able to know what I am thinking when it comes to going to bed.
The movie 'Go" has an excellent scene with a cat that reads a young man's thoughts.
@@andrewmclaughlin2701 Spirits around me including my guides read my thoughts in real-time. This is a normal ability of all 50 billion discarnates of Earth in last 160000 years. Spirits (ie dead people) may be directing your cat. That said, all animals with a CNS (central nervous system) have a spirit body. Animals obviously have consciousness but operate via instinct not free-will. They do not have a soul like humans.
@@andrewmclaughlin2701 Just today I was looking at my cats biscuit dispenser, and thought to myself I should clean up the few biscuits that have fallen between it and her water dispenser, within a few seconds she jumps down from her bed and cleans up the biscuits herself WOW WOW WOW I am in AWE to say the least. She really can read my mind.
@@fullboostturbo1 children do it all the time too... so many times i think of something absolute random and they say it out loud
It's like the saying "We are spiritual beings having a human experience." I believe our higher self directs our experience.
Fascinating talk! I learned so much and now understand my love for tress and why I love ❤️ to hug them! Thank you so much ! I need to buy your 📖 book!
Thank you Tom for providing a wonderful forum in which so many diverse, enlightened people can come and share with all of us what they have learned. You are a beacon in the night, lighting the way for others. Much appreciated:)
Everything is God stuff--including us. Great probing video.
Thoroughly engaging and thought provoking. Much appreciated, thanks.
The film she’s referencing about authoring a book with locked in syndrome is The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Masterful film. Schnabel has made some great films. Before Night Falls is incredible.
Once I was having a very deep conversation with a friend who, at one point needed a book to refer to, to finish a point he was making. As he left I spoke to his Mentally Handicaped Daughter that had been listening to us talking. I noticed that she was following the conversation. Now, mind you this young woman (23yr old) had suffered from cerebral palsy her whole life. She had the "Brain Function" of a 5yr old.
After he left I looked her straight in the eye and said, "You understand exactly what we are talking about, don't you.?" She said, "Yyyyeeesss..."
At that moment I knew that there was a 23yr old woman trapped inside that hindered body. Fully intact. She just could not communicate it.
Her "Consciousness" was fully aware.
So freaky
Vulcaneer900, your ignorance is showing. VERY FEW persons with so-called "cerebral palsy" have any cognitive or mental or psychological impairment. They typically have great difficulty speaking, which is caused by their inability to control the muscles for speech, and thus people ASSUME they are "mental" or whatever.... Most persons with so-called cerebral palsy are mentally normal. Or they WOULD BE, if they weren't so oppressed, abused, misunderstood, etc.,etc.,etc.,
And, you really don't know exactly what so-called "cerebral palsy" **IS**, do you?
90%+ of the time it's a PHYSICAL BIRTH INJURY, and NOT any kind of "mental" problem....
@@silentumexcubitor6747 Well, thank you for that Special Insight, Dr. excubitor.
How old is the Genius trapped inside of you.?
@@Vulcaneer900 Thank-you for asking. Ancient. (There's nothing "trapped" inside me....) I've had 3 close friends with cerebral palsy. That "young woman" you're talking about is PROBABLY NOT actually "Mentally Handicapped" as you put it. "She had the Brain Function of a 5yr old"....????....wtf?.... I seriously doubt that. Cerebral palsy rarely, if ever, involves
any legitimate "mental handicap", unless they have the great misfortune to be taken to a psychiatrist, who usually puts them on neuro-toxic psych drugs. So feel free to be as butthurt as you want, - I'm trying to insult you, because you deserve it. Your comment itself was incredibly RUDE, CONDESCENDING, and IGNORANT. You don't know squat about cerebral palsy. The most typical cause is the umbilical cord getting wrapped around the neck during the birth process, resulting in a lack of oxygen to the CNS. In the healing process, the body sacrifices conscious neuro-muscular control for the sake of the "mind-brain", which is usually pretty "normal", whatever that is. Despite your expressed lack of education and your glaring ignorance, I also deemed you worthy of a little EDUCATION. I'm no genius, but I AM very well self-educated. Plus the 3 close friends I've had, who had cerebral palsy, and told me ALL about it..... You're welcome..... Live long and prosper, eh?....
@@silentumexcubitor6747 OOOh, a Trekie Too. Big surprise.?
All jabs aside, I was talking about "Consciousness" As it is separate from the brain. But you missed that point. The whole video is about "Consciousness".
Nuff Said.! Go Away Now.!
"Joy as a form of awe" - and creating work that activates that experience.....
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I have been interested in this subject ever since I took L.S.D. many years ago, although its not an addictive drug I think I was mentally addicted to it for a couple of years or so, hard to remember, I counted about 30 trips and then lost it, I suffered later on but have always remembered the times I had out of body experiences, once hovering above myself when I was laid out on a couch and looking down at my body, extremely strange like a lot of the drug experiences I had. So I found this video really interesting thankyou.
What does out of body experiences have to do with this discussion?
Hi Monty seemed to be right at the time, must have lost too many brain cells,love and peace, Mick.@@51MontyPython
"There is a sense in which we are kind of just experiencing life play out” 35:34 That's a relaxing sentiment, but please prove how matter generates a mental experience before arriving to that sort of conclusion about human life.
Tom, i love your obvious ability to track these deep ideas - and ask relevant questions!
you can see the focus and intelligence in her eyes without big ego
And those eyebrows are killer.
When new information concerning the nature of reality may with new discoveries run counter to our logic, not our intuition. It's our intuition that can open us to new "illogical" way of understanding reality.
I am so grateful for her .
I'm grateful for her inspiration & truth. ♡♡♡
As a Meditator with 40 years of daily practize and exploration of consciousness, I must say that Annaka Harris book ‘Consciouss’ surpasses everything from the West I have read so far! Wow! Finally some western words of sense!
And therefore when I hug a tree and send it love, it's going out to ALL the Trees!
What's really crazy, is the "communication" is "managed" through a vast network of mycelium (fungi)... a completely separate "species", forming a relationship of symbiosis between all of the various tree species and the mycelium, which all work together and in support of each other for a host of different purposes.
For contrast... look at us.
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Paul Stamets (as far as I know) is pretty much the "top dog" in mycology... but, I don't really keep myself current on the matter.
I have a few friends who are really into that though, who mention various things from time to time.
"A 'species' of mushroom was developed that will digest the material that cigarette filters are made from." (Those never go away on their own)
"Another 'species' was developed which can digest plastics."
And most interestingly, "A 'species' was (or is being) developed which could potentially feed on radioactive wastes, leaving no traces of radiation, and even resulting in mushrooms which are edible."
Those are just a few samples my friends have told me of.
On the "freakier" side... there is a mushroom "breed" whose life cycle involves attracting a certain ant to eat it, and it then grows into the ant's brain and essentially "hijacks" the ant ,eventually killing the ant. I don't recall the details very well, but, I believe it does this so that the ant transports it to a new food source to "inoculate".
Any who... if mycology is of interest, Paul Stamets is a great source of information to dive into.
Yes!!
I will never cut my grass again.
Because everything and everyone is connected..
She changed the definition of consciousness. Most people don’t agree with that definition.
Massive oversight in my opinion is that consciousness is not necessarily the same as "awareness". Where it gets incredibly complex is to understand that our nervous system is likely an interface that connects our body with "consciousness" -> the field that connects everything. And as she said consciousness is on a continuum and we can experience different levels. There is also a subconscious level in the human Psyche. The subconscious is often seen as just the automatic processing that happens without our awareness. But I believe it is actually a higher state of consciousness. We access it to some extent in dreams, but the information needs to be "translated" in its essence to something we can process with our understanding in this place of reality. It comes at us with emotions and images and storylines. Humans have known for a long time that stories are powerful, because they can transmit ideas in a way that enters our subconscious. That is often where real change and agency occurs. So the conclusions she draws are much too simplistic and ignore a lot of other factors. Time is also an illusion in itself that likely does not play the same role in the larger consciousness, so the experiments about the brain signaling you will move your hand before you decide to do are incredibly flawed when interpreting them from a limited standpoint. When I was much younger I also believed in a more deterministic world. Quantum mechanics challenged that. Then I experienced some extreme states of consciousness (Psychosis due to extreme stress), where at one point I even became aware of my awareness of consciousness, which is hard to even describe. But when you go there you can observe/experience a lot about our universe. I encourage everyone interested in consciousness to explore the subconscious. And start thinking about what the heck dreams are and experiment with lucid dreaming and alternate states of consciousness. If you have a lot of trauma or lack a sense of trust/grounding/security in the world be cautious and get guidance. Going into other states of consciousness without also being grounded in this reality (Psychosis) is a horrifying experience. All the best!
Very true, conflating awareness & consciousness is an example of taking for granted sensory input as reflective of reality, instead of constructive, similar to projecting concepts of self into dreams.
@@Gnaritas42 What would be "evidence" for you? There is plenty of observations in science that point to this as a way reality works. Look into quantum mechanics for example, even just the double slit experiment calls for a model where consciousness is a sort of "outside" property to matter. Now you can dismiss this, but there are studies on OBE's and past life experiences that are also science, as science is about observing our world and trying to explain what is happening. Look into all the accounts of people with NDEs too, even neurologists, people who had no brain activity. Then look into the morphic resonance field. Or even how many ancient cultures or even beliefs in countries today (like Japan) believe there is a universal consciousness that connects everything. There are many angles from which to look at this. Some I am sure you would dismiss out right. But I think in search for truth we need to try and take into account as many data points as we can.
OMG! Most challenging conversation to follow yet. This one is another level. thank you, Tom!
"The brain is not a closed system" I love that ❤
Pan Opticonsciousness, it is, but it will be stolen and rebranded. The math is "mine," but all will feast on it. Solipsism is not solipsistic if it is a collective conscious phenomenon. Entropy is the fact that the brain has CONSCIOUS processing inputs and outputs (NOT a closed system), to the extent that the substance or property leaves a trace. and this is the thing science needs to miss to keep talking, but not to me. They are denying everything; now that there is a gun to their heads psychically, let us see how fast they can grow up.
@@dsm5d723 You will be assimilated,
Am I the only one anticipating profound, practical insights into achieving or comprehending consciousness/mindfulness, only to end up feeling disappointed and without answers?
35:44 - consciousness is us cheering ourselves on for still being alive.
and feeling pain and wanting to fuck
Wow!! I thought I was crazy to write about this!! Now I feel so much less alone in my theory!! Can't wait to sit beside you Tom!!
On one of my ceremonies with Ayahuasca I was given an experience of being a snail. It was really weird experience but at that moment as a snail ... I felt moving, I felt the ground, my snail body and being just in simple presence.
Its a bit hard to explain haha
"It's a bit hard to explain haha." I think we are born reveling in the present and just being, but are forced to conform as an obedient part of a society. Maybe. "Being just in simple presence." I think you just did explain. 💯
@MMARE369 You should look up Dr. Eban Alexander and listen to his discussion of his conscious experiences while in a coma. You will LOVE his discussion.
this chic in this talk cant even experince being unmarried. Married Dumbasses wearing Wedding rings..
I became a Wolf!
No Joke!
In a Ceremony in Brazil.
In Sao Paulo State Countryside.
Powerful!
Cannot Explain too!
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I don't think society has much to do with it.
Early humans would not have survived by just "being".
Hunting, for example, requires looking to the future and planning a course of action, as well as using experience from the past to hunt more effectively.
Perhaps a mushroom can just "be", but a human cannot.
Jiddu Krishnamurti inquires deeply into this subject of " consciousness ", out of which " insight" arises.
Listening Attentively to his dialogues is enlightening.
Self Knowledge seems to be the key.
Its an inside job.
Find out by looking inwardly, using critical Thinking.. aka asking the correct questions, never seeking answers.
Namaste 🙏
I've experienced a lot of these asynchronicities. From this I realize my body is subject to much more than just physics, but also, Biochemistry
Tom, thank you for bringing the outliers, the challengers, the doers, the thinkers and the lovers! Awesome stuff.
I had a NDE or near death experience as a child. I was aware of another dimension around me where energy beings spoke to me. I heard them and felt them. I knew there was no such thing as death then. You should be having people with near death experiences on your show. Like Eben Alexander. He had a NDE and remembers it very well.
I used to communicate with somebodies in my dreams as a child. Who, I have no idea. I visualized them in my dreams as My Little Ponies (adorable in retrospect!). I still remember the last dream I spoke to them. They told me it would be the last time we spoke and I cried and threw a tantrum which didn't bother them or annoy them at all, but they never did come to speak with me again. I hope one day I'll be able to know what that was all about.
Pants gettin warm?
@@amouramarie me too...Santa Claus told me so
I've had 2 near death experiences. A motorbike crash when I was 18 yrs and a stroke when I was 40 !!! It felt like I was Flying on both Occasions, and I didn't want to come back !!!
"Awe and curiosity?" I'm in love.
She's so totally into him. Body language says everything!
So very nice to see that 'pre Covid' hug! I miss those.
You fear what you are TOLD to fear. Very obedient aren't most people. it apparantly doesn't matter the truth is being suppressed and the truth is IN the CDC's own documents, just NOT on the news. They see us as stupid and too lazy to READ or research or simply watching and listening to other doctors speaking out. Cognitive dissonance is too strong and runs deep. The ego will do anything and EVERYTHING not to admit it's been deceived.
so hug someone .. its all lies .... listen to this woman. Everything is an illusion..... like the vaccine being a cure. It actually is creating the variants .... live your life!!
@@tooshay7396 amen, the liars are people like you dismissing the seriousness of this pandemic
@@kazzj62 lol variants showed up 9 months before the first vaccine became available. nobody said it was a cure, take your jab and be quiet
I have never heard of a discussion like this, except in my own head!
Thank you!
the fractals can get really pretty between getting up from ones theater seat and unplugging the projector....leaving the theater is another matter....
I propose that consciousness and freewill are both the ability to transcend time and bring into existence parts of what we can imagine.
This lady is brilliant loved this interview. The beauty of science is it has no opinion just a blueprint for interpretation. The hidden life of trees” plants are incredibly intelligent & forests symbiotic root network is something we could learn from in terms of resource sharing. Thank you both hoping for a part 2 In The Near future
The thought process is not required for cognition and much of our daily functions. Simply being present and aware without thinking is actually a far more productive state, while using analytical thought and reflection/projection are tools on our belt for specific tasks.
Patañjali's "Samadhi Pada" describing the exact nature of mind, what it is, and more so what it not is. I was lecturing on this subject last night, it's siëntific, when closing the eyes one can see what one is thinking, one cannot be that which is seen, one can only be which is seeïng🧐To understand it one has to turn the attention inward, the act of inner observation as he calls it, this is what meditation is🧘♀thus attaining to a correct peception of things. The body is a vehicle, the mind is the software, memory, the program installed depends on the sociëty&culture one is born in. I will leave it here, for now send a tropical hug from Brazil -- 😘
My theory is that the four-second time delay before we make decisions is the same reason they have a seven-second delay on live TV. It enables the producers and editors to stop the live feed if something crazy happens. The four-second delay is so that the controllers of our simulation can interject if things aren't going the way they want it to. A second theory is that that is the latency of any feedback system we are interfaced with. I also have a theory that dogs and any other predatory animals are in tune with this because they can only survive by anticipating the moves of their prey. This is why your dog knows what you are going to do a few seconds before you even knew what you were going to do. I once had a dog that used to catch balls that I would throw and bounce off the roof. The instant the ball left my hand, he would run to a point and the ball would bounce off the roof and land right into his mouth with him not having to move his head more than 2 or 3 inches. So he was able to perfectly predict the trajectory of the ball the instant it left my hand, which still had to travel 5 yards, bounce off a 20-foot- high roof and then come back and land in his mouth. How? Of course, all my theories are just fun theories and I don't even believe them, but they are interesting food for thought.
I have the live taping of the Super Bowl half time ward robe malfunction.
I guess you never pump faked and the dog went to where you might have thrown but you didn't. We do it in football and basketball all the time.
I have a theory that your dog didn't actually do this.
@@AZ-kr6ffor it did, but a few times could have just been a lucky coincidence and it’s no controlled study on this phenomena.
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That's what I mean... There could be many, MANY explanations, but the bottom line is that the dog didn't do what he's saying it did.
When it comes to contemplating consciousness I want to postulate a question.
If an ant was wondering what gravity was or why it is alive, how would you know?
If you can’t answer that question, how do you know that that has never happened?
I think that one of the assumptions we have to challenge first is our own superiority complex. I think we confuse our ability to communicate and share ideas and what we can do with our opposable thumbs with the quality of consciousness and higher level thought. It maybe that most other animals are also capable of similar depth of thought, just because we have no evidence of what they are thinking about doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
I had exactly the same thought. She says that a worm's sensory experience is minimal. How does she know that? Because it can't be measured through "scientific" methods? So much of the debate on consciousness - as this conversation demonstrates - is guess work and conjecture, and driven not by a deep longing to humbly understand, but driven by human and "scientific" arrogance.
Sarah Schwarz - yes exactly!
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I would like to know more. If the "arrogant" scientific method isn't the way to understand consciousness, then what is the path to true understanding in your opinion?
@@rehannoon8709 I don't have the answers, but the approach is totally convoluted We can't seek to understand consciousness without acnowledging the soul. I don't believe that the soul or consciousness are tangible in any way because they belong to another realm. These "scientists" are making a claim that they can understand this realm completely independently of divine knowledge. This for me is impossible, no matter how advanced the science or the tech. BTW this is meant generally and not specifically to this lady. I really couldn't listen until the end.
@@sarahschwarz9972 I understand what you mean. That scientists think they have all the avilable resources to make assumptions and conclusions, when there could be a whole realm of visions, objects, feelings, really any sensory or thought experience that we as humans do not have access to, not as long as we are detached from our "higher selves" that could perhaps have the capabilities to reach what you call divine knowledge. However, believing that this divine kniwledge exists and that their is another realm besides the physical is also an assumption itself, so I believe that scientists deserve the credit for the discoveries they are making on this realm, because they have no way to access knowledge in any other way. As long as they realize at the end of the day that the knowledge they have accumulated only represents the portion of reality that can be percieved by us, and might not be the true reality of the universe, the scientific method is leading us somehwere in my opinion although I am not entirely sure where.
Wooo !!! Very leading edge, forward thinking individual. I believe there is a universal cosmic consciousness we are unable to see or understand. It's a complete level beyond our own. Some are tapping in through L.O.A.
Satire
You could be describing me and the Italian Molester, 50+ years ago: I thought, "Gee. I guess this is what they mean by 'straight from the shoulder.' But if I break his nose he won't be able to drive us back to the autostrada. Gee, I guess this is what they mean by 'pulling your punches.'" Personally, I've ALWAYS thought about my thinking (I had the best of all possible parents), and then thought about thinking about thinking, and so on. I just can't figure out which layer I should call "me."
28 mins into this fascinating discussion, I realized that when my phone memory gets too low (very often, I must stress) my phone develops Agnosia. ie. Videos appear as disjointed freeze-frames.
It's a sort of analogy I guess? 🙃
I had a brain tumor removed and my son told me it changed my sense of humor. Sometimes I think I will never fully recover.
Check out the Cum Town podcast it's good for some chuckles
She’s beautiful and love the way she’s inspired to tell us what she knows! Ty
Even the Great Self can't know Itself but through us.
Consciousness increases our uniqueness which is the whole point of our being the creative aspect.
Accidentally, Sam introduced me to Mindfulness, years ago. Now, his wife sparks my intelligent, creativity, and curiosity. What a wonderful couple. Thank You!
Consciousness is NOW. The never ending state beyond the realms of the human mind.
this interview was so mysterious..the message i mean... awwe inspiring
Reminds me of that famous quote by CIA Director William Casey, in 1981: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
Very cool interview. I think many people often contemplate what consciousness is. I think an organism has consciousness when it is able to learn. Because that requires memory and recollection and a conscious action to a specific situation.