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So go to richer within dot com. 22 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:55.480 You'll find everything you need there. Get ready for this one. 23 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:59.599 And I had a little trigger on this preparing for 24 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:07.319 this one today's episode? Is this only human? Or maybe 25 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:08.120 something more? 26 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:08.919 What? 27 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:11.919 Now, here's what I want to say about this. We're 28 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:15.759 going to talk about this only human? How do we 29 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:20.039 know whether there's something more? How do we understand what 30 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.599 the word human is? Now? I know I go off 31 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:25.919 on the pop culture thing every once in a while, 32 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:29.319 but I got to tell you that's Spielberg movie Discover 33 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:33.080 What Disclosure Day. That really gets you to think about 34 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.199 some things you never thought about before. But the whole 35 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:42.639 point of this is why can't we be both? Why 36 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:47.879 can't we be all of it? Do you think maybe 37 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:52.400 that whoever you believe in was you know? I mean, honestly, 38 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:54.560 I grew up thinking the stalk drop me off. So 39 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:57.479 the stork flies in and drops the baby offs like 40 00:02:57.520 --> 00:02:59.199 they didn't tell me the real story about that for 41 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:04.680 a long time. But then some days we discovered that 42 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:09.680 bird didn't bring nobody in. But then we don't know, well, 43 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.840 then who am I? What am I? And what could 44 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:17.199 I become? See? This is what We're going to talk 45 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:21.680 about what is the lens that we're looking through as 46 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.439 we look at our lives? What are we looking through? 47 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.879 And do you believe that you're going to be leap 48 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:34.080 frogging ahead in the way of life you want? Believing 49 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:37.199 you're only human? I'm not going to answer that question, Catherine. 50 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:45.680 I think you should answer that one. 51 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:44.199 In two words. 52 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:48.240 Yeah, let's do it. You know, here's a funny story. 53 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:50.199 You know. I started when I was a kid, and 54 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:51.960 I think I mentioned that to you, but I started 55 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:55.000 really badly, all right, And I remember, like it's got 56 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:56.599 to be in fifth grade when we start to use 57 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:59.439 the word human and science and stuff like that, and 58 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:02.479 I could not get that word out. And so I 59 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.199 was a little triggered by this episode because I had 60 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:08.080 practiced it. And when I practiced the episode, I started 61 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:10.840 to stutter the word human. Okay, we can do a 62 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:14.960 whole show on that. But it's so interesting how we 63 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:19.199 absorb things in our life, how we either remember things, 64 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:23.600 but then I remember what happened that allowed me to 65 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.959 say that word. Now, clearly I started for the next 66 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:31.759 twenty minutes, but let's talk about could the moment that 67 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:35.639 I reached that I actually could utter the word human 68 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:40.399 in the middle of fifteen million other versions of it. 69 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:42.000 Could it have been something more? 70 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:47.399 Catherine, Well, it sure sounds like it to me. And 71 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:51.399 I also want to say that when we talk about 72 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:57.439 this today, there's no right answer, right and what There's 73 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:01.519 no right answer and there's no wrong answer. It's simply 74 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:05.600 an exploration so that people may begin to think about 75 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:09.360 what you've been thinking about and describing, Well, how does 76 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:11.720 it feel to me? And what does it do to 77 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.360 me on my insides? How do I feel when I 78 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:21.839 think I am only human? I am a human being? 79 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:25.800 And then there's because there's three phrases that we hear 80 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:32.839 a lot, right, I we're only human one, two we 81 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:39.720 are human beings having a spiritual experience. And three we 82 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:46.279 are spiritual beings having a human experience. So we'll be 83 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:52.199 looking at these in terms of identity and experience. So 84 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:56.480 these are the lens through which we live our lives 85 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:03.279 and create our identities. So thinking of I'm only human, 86 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:06.560 I mean why even say only I was going to 87 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:11.079 ask you that let's just say I'm human. I'm I'm human, 88 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.399 And I think the point of and maybe why it's 89 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:20.160 I'm only human is because that leaves room for compassion 90 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:26.639 when we make a mistake, when we're feeling like, you know, 91 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:32.399 just human like, and what if it's limiting, what if 92 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.879 it's kind of an excuse. There's a song in the 93 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:40.160 seventies called I'm only human, right, No, I'm only human 94 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:42.759 bone to make mistakes. 95 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:44.480 And I'm like, guess what. 96 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:46.800 I read the lyrics when I remember that song, and 97 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.279 it was a guy asking for forgiveness because he had 98 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:52.720 an affair. Excuse me and forgive me because I'm only human. 99 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:57.279 I'm like, uh huh, yeah, So can we use it 100 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:03.040 as a limitation perhaps, And so there's different ways to 101 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:04.000 look at I'm human. 102 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:06.199 I mean, yes, we are human. 103 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:10.439 We are flesh and blood and bones, and we have 104 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:15.319 evolved into this physical temple and some people believe and 105 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.639 that's all there is and that's okay. And when I die, 106 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.800 that's all there is and that's okay. And I mean, 107 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:27.360 that's it, and that's okay. That's one lens. And I 108 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:31.560 think that for me, when I feel the most human 109 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:38.040 is when I look in the mirror and I see 110 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.800 myself maturing over time. I'm going to put it that way, 111 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:46.839 and sometimes it's not so easy. It's not so easy 112 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.959 sometimes to watch myself change in that way, and so 113 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.959 I feel very very human in those moments. I feel 114 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:59.000 very vulnerable in those moments. And when I am doing that, 115 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:07.920 I feel myself literally getting smaller because I'm identifying with 116 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:14.079 a self that I know is only here for a while. 117 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.959 I know this body was it built to last forever 118 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:21.959 as a human body. You know, I don't know what's 119 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:25.959 going to happen in the future, but I wasn't meant 120 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:30.040 to live forever in this physical temple and what I 121 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:35.279 really want to. So that's kind of where I think 122 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:41.960 it goes into, you know, feeling human. I'm not denying it, right, 123 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.559 I'm not denying that I feel that way sometimes and 124 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:51.679 that I can also expand my own consciousness with choice 125 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.919 and with creativity and with possibility. Okay, so then this 126 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:59.000 is what I'm seeing, This is how I'm feeling. How 127 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.440 can I experience differently? What can I do? 128 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:02.840 Right? 129 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:06.440 So that's what I can do about that. With the 130 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:11.039 I'm human and what I'm feeling particularly human, or when 131 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.960 I'm pouting about something and I'm feeling human and small, 132 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:15.679 I mean, I feel nice, lovey when you talk that 133 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:20.120 look at my body is actually contracting. I'm feeling smaller 134 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:21.120 and it shows. 135 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.960 Yeah, but you know that's a cop right. You know, 136 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.840 you know when people say I'm only human, you understand 137 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.440 what that means. When they do that, that means I 138 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.600 Am not going to be accountable for my stuff, and 139 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:35.000 I'm just going to tell you how I'm only you, 140 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:37.480 and you're going to accept that and love me anyway, 141 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:39.200 and you're not going to ask me a follow up 142 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.320 question unless you're Linda. But beyond all that, that is 143 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:47.200 one of the greatest relationship cop out things that is 144 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:53.039 said between two people. Right, Try saying that to your boss. Okay, Whoopsie, 145 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:55.840 But what you're talking about is so great. I love 146 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:56.960 that we're talking about this. 147 00:09:57.960 --> 00:09:58.159 You know. 148 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:00.639 I was on a panel once and they asked me, 149 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:03.840 They asked everybody in the panel, would you freeze yourself? 150 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:07.320 Freeze your body? What's the expression? What is that? 151 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:09.519 Free on time capsule or something? 152 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:12.399 And I had four other of my colleagues on there 153 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:14.159 and they're like, oh, no, I live in the life. 154 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:17.240 I said, oh yeah, I freeze myself in a minute. Okay. 155 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:20.080 Then it just generated all of this sick discussion on 156 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.120 why they thought I would do that, and I stopped 157 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:25.960 the panel. I said, dude, wait all of you. I 158 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.120 wouldn't do it for some psychological I want to age, 159 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:33.159 I said, I think the future and the technology we're 160 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.600 going to develop in the future. I don't want to 161 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:42.200 miss that, you know, part of this journey. Talk about this, 162 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:46.080 because let's talk about aging aging for a minute, and 163 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:52.399 aging gracefully versus what's happening now. Loneliness is in epidemic 164 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:58.679 form M regarding to aging. Did you know that I am. 165 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:03.279 I'm not surprised by that. And that's where I feel 166 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:08.559 like when we start talking about human beings having a 167 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:17.159 spiritual experience, then that expands from loneliness into knowing I'm 168 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:23.000 never ever alone. And so if I'm obviously I'm a human, 169 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:28.480 I am human. I am a human being and having 170 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:32.039 e spiritual experience. Having spiritual experiences, well what does that 171 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:37.600 mean to me? A spiritual experience is something beyond my 172 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:42.759 rational mind. It is often spontaneous. I didn't plan it. 173 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:45.919 I mean, sometimes I plan things and I'm thinking, well, 174 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:48.000 this would be a great thing to do, and I 175 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.639 trust that I'm going to go deeper and something wonderful 176 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.799 again him Most of the time it is totally spontaneous. 177 00:11:55.600 --> 00:12:00.639 And I'll give you an example a recently, and these 178 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:06.200 spiritual experiences also for me, are this spontaneous experience of joy, 179 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:10.240 of awe, of being completely in the moment, of like 180 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:16.840 forgetting all my age, forgetting my quote unquote limitations, forgetting 181 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:18.279 what I should do, what I shouldn't do, what I 182 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:20.480 can't do, what I'm supposed to do. And I'm whatever age, 183 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:22.559 whatever culture says you can and can't do it, do they? 184 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:26.960 I am nowhere anywhere near that ill limitation. I am 185 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:32.279 in the moment. And so recently I went to Mount Shasta. 186 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:36.080 I was at a meditation retreat, and they had this beautiful, 187 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:39.960 beautiful river that was flowing right between right in the 188 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:42.279 middle of the property. It had a couple bridges over it. 189 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:46.080 And one of the afternoons we had off for a 190 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:48.759 couple of hours to have some quiet time. All I 191 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:51.240 put on my bathing suit and I went down to 192 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.279 the river. I had the whole place to myself. I 193 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:56.360 was on the up river from everybody else, and I 194 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:00.679 spent the entire time crawling around in my bare feet, hands, 195 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:05.799 the dipping in little swimming pools and little little pools 196 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.000 of water, just like a little river rat, just like 197 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.399 a kid. And so to me, I felt I was 198 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:18.279 so embodied right and having a spiritual experience. Part about 199 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:22.360 it was because I was in that place of awe 200 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:25.519 and joy and playfulness. I was singing camp songs I 201 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.159 hadn't remembered in decades. I was singing to the river, 202 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:30.879 I was talking. You know, you know what a kid 203 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:34.720 does when they're playing, And so to me, that is 204 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:40.399 that human being having a spiritual experience. It was timeless. 205 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:42.360 I mean when I finally did look at my watch, 206 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.600 I'm like, oh, I'm immediately from dinner and being very 207 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:52.480 full of life. And it's this sense of being less 208 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:56.600 myself than ever and yet more of myself. In other words, 209 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:01.279 I was not self conscious. I was simply playing in 210 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.440 the moment. So spiritual experience doesn't have to be a 211 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.120 big dramatic thing or a big religious thing. It can 212 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.399 happen in stillness and in nature and in laughter or 213 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:16.600 in deep connection we are just This leads us to 214 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:22.480 recognize that right here and now, we have that available 215 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:24.919 to us, and that we are not separate from it. 216 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:27.879 To get back to your question and point about this 217 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:33.759 epidemic of loneliness with that expanded spiritual experience and that 218 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.519 awareness never alone. 219 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:40.200 You know, I ponder something very interesting I want to 220 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:45.360 tell you, and it's related to this topic, but i'll 221 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.720 tell you what it is. The minute that I had 222 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.080 to go to study like the Bible, into this and 223 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:53.519 that and that, all the stories. I love the stories. 224 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:55.799 I love them all, And you know, I have a 225 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:58.320 different view of it now. But I was always fascinated 226 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:04.360 about one thing. He lived six hundred years and I 227 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:09.559 always thought about that. So my little childlike brain one day, right, 228 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:15.039 of course, it was not the right answer on the exam, 229 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:20.679 said well, that's because he didn't live a life of 230 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:25.159 a human. He lived a life following and being and 231 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:28.200 having his higher power within him. Okay, it was the 232 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:32.200 wrong answer, but it led me on a pathway. So 233 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:35.480 you see, part of this is embedded in what we've 234 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:43.519 talked about previously. Right, what if we weren't human? M 235 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:47.960 how do we look at our humanness? Is that a 236 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:51.200 word humanness? How do we look at this earth skin 237 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:57.600 we're in beyond what we think are limitations because this 238 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:00.919 thing we got here, this is a magnet, magnificent they 239 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:04.919 our bodies are humanness? Can you. I mean, do you 240 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:09.320 know how incredibly crazy this system is we have. 241 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.360 I do, and And what you're pointing to, doctor pad 242 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.799 is that six hundred years you were right as a kid. 243 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:20.039 That was a metaphor because when we look at the 244 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:26.559 question of are we spiritual beings having a human experience, 245 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:31.480 that means we're timeless. You know that that was actually 246 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:36.399 coined by Pierre Dear de Chardon, the French philosopher and 247 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:42.720 Jesuit priest. I've also heard people saying we are spiritual 248 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:49.360 beings practicing being human, that we're spiritual beings learning to 249 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:55.679 inhabit humanness. So you know, people like Carl Sagan, we 250 00:16:55.759 --> 00:17:00.480 are consciousness experiencing itself. Another way to say that, right, 251 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:02.480 I feel like it is another way to say that. 252 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:08.079 And so it's about really this, instead of spirituality being 253 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:12.440 something that I occasionally experience, what if this is actually 254 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:19.279 my nature? What if I am that already? And maybe 255 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:22.240 that's why we have such a rough rub when we're 256 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:29.000 experiencing anger or despondence or anything like that, because that infinity, 257 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:32.839 that infinite consciousness that knows all and is all joy 258 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:35.440 and beauty and harmony is like WHOA wow? Really, where 259 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:39.640 did that come from. Oh, yes, I'm practicing being human 260 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.480 and this is part of it, right, This is part 261 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:47.839 of it and such a beautiful thing. It also opens 262 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:52.720 the question of who am I beyond this physical temple, 263 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:58.759 beyond my emotions, beyond my cultural identity, my ethnicity, all 264 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:03.000 of these things. Who am I beyond all of the labels? 265 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.200 If you will, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with labels, 266 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:11.440 And yet who am I beyond that? What if at 267 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:16.880 essence I am a whole? And this is the classroom 268 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:21.599 and where I get to remember and to express that 269 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:27.359 wholeness and find those places where I lose that sense 270 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:34.160 of my self consciousness. I become less self consciousness and 271 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:40.240 more fully alive, more fully present, more fully me without 272 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:47.079 all of that and being in those moments. I had 273 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:53.559 a really powerful moment, unexpected at the beach, very clouded ay, 274 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:58.160 very overcast, one of those very mysterious days where if 275 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.160 I went five feet I couldn't see a person behind me, 276 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:05.119 you know, ten feet or so. Ocean was very very close. 277 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:08.079 We have these little sand pipers that go along and 278 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:11.680 the little ladies that it goes very very very fast. 279 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:17.119 And I was standing there just watching the sandpipers, and 280 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:25.759 in a second, everything disappeared. There was nothing except for 281 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:31.000 that moment. There was nothing. I was aware that I was, 282 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:38.640 and yet everything else simply dropped way back, just like that. 283 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:42.039 And then just like that, the wave comes in. The 284 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:44.599 people emerged from, you know. And so these are those 285 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:49.559 beautiful moments of transcendence where when we take the time 286 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:55.359 to drop everything, really, whether it's in nature, whether it's 287 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:59.079 on your meditation pillar, whether it's a moment during the 288 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:06.400 day during meat to drop into that mourness, that is possible. Again, 289 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:09.160 not everybody relates to that, and I respect that and 290 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:17.799 I get it completely, and so it's a beautiful possibility. 291 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:21.880 And I also think and believe that we can live 292 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:22.960 in all three in one day. 293 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:24.279 Yeah. 294 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:26.680 Right, There's days I spill a lot of milk, and wow, 295 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.240 do I feel human also? Just now I spill milk. 296 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:34.240 But there's days when I feel more human and nothing 297 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:36.960 wrong with that, and I'm very embodied. And then I 298 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:43.119 have these wows, these moments of timelessness, and this thing 299 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:45.559 you can't make up, you can't buy it, you can't 300 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:50.279 read it, you can't learn it. It simply is. And 301 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:53.680 then the moments of just feeling that there is something 302 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:57.960 greater and infinite moving within me that I am part 303 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:02.359 of and am in that river, in that river of life. 304 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:07.119 And aren't these things, though important and help us move 305 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:12.160 beyond the anger, the jealousy, the envy, like the mistakes. 306 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:15.359 We did a show on shutar Wodakuda almost but you know, 307 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:20.160 we have to have some remedy, but we keep looking 308 00:21:20.200 --> 00:21:25.039 outside like a pill, potion, lotion or maybe I should 309 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:27.799 just you know, watch that live streaming whatever that is 310 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:31.079 for twenty four But you're talking about looking at this, 311 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:37.160 you know, looking at the beauty of our humanness. Yeah, 312 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:41.400 understanding it, but also understanding that ain't the only thing 313 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:42.160 we've been given. 314 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:46.400 Yes, And in that I love what you just said 315 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:51.359 about the beauty of our humanness. And it's about recognizing 316 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:59.440 the immense within the every day, right, that expansiveness within 317 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:02.880 every day. And so you know, we're not here to 318 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:08.839 escape our humanity nor be defined by it, like you're saying, 319 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:14.480 but to inhabit it more consciously. And there's a choice 320 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:20.279 point at any given moment, right, Yeah, Yeah. 321 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:24.039 You know I came to my own conclusion on why 322 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:26.559 Seth lived nine hundred and thirty five years. I don't 323 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:29.200 even know. They're just a bunch of people. I came 324 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:33.960 to my own conclusion about that many many years ago. 325 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:36.079 Some people say it's not true, so I was just 326 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:39.920 wasting my time with all their brain power. But to 327 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:47.200 your point, we are powerful beyond belief, beyond measure. Yeah, 328 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:52.319 we really are. But the reason we are is because 329 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:56.680 we are more than our humanness. And that's what you're 330 00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:59.400 reminding us of today, and you're going to walk us 331 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:04.119 through a way to reflect on that on an ongoing basis. 332 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:09.400 Yes, it be my delight and my honor and my 333 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:13.000 pleasure to do that. So I fondly call this a 334 00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:20.880 spiritual mind SPA treatment. So prepare for the SPA. So 335 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:26.519 anyone listening, just continue to listen. If you're doing something 336 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:29.759 that's okay, And if you're in a space really to 337 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:33.079 take that moment to center in. I invite you to 338 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:36.160 relax into whatever seat you are, you can even be 339 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:40.720 lying down wherever you are comfortable and feel safe, to 340 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:45.480 close your eyes and receive a deep breath from your 341 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:49.440 belly all the way up the middle of your chest 342 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:51.240 and your ribs all the way up to your heart 343 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:57.599 and simply let it go. Simply allow the breath to 344 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:02.640 guide you into a space of calm, to receive, To 345 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:09.960 receive this spa a remembrance that there really is only 346 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.480 one thing going in here, on any time, any place 347 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:18.039 that we live in the lap of a loving and 348 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:25.440 an infinite universe. It is all that There is no circumference, 349 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:28.920 and there is no center to it, because it is everywhere, 350 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:33.359 And so this means right here and right now, it is. 351 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:37.480 It is all of the power imaginable, all of the 352 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.480 power that shifts the plates in the earth and sets 353 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:44.880 the stars ablaze. It is all of the presence, the 354 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:47.720 presence that is the life force itself, that is energy, 355 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:53.559 that energy that is inexhaustible and inextinguishable. It simply infinitely 356 00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:57.799 changes form. And it is that infinite intelligence, the perfect 357 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:03.119 pattern of all of life, the Fibonacci code, the planets. 358 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:03.640 In their orbits. 359 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:10.119 We don't do that, but this infinite intelligence does. And 360 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:14.160 guess what this is Who we are because we are 361 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:20.039 embodiments of the very same power, presence, and intelligence. We 362 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:24.279 are here by divine design and divine appointment to be 363 00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:29.079 uniquely are authentic selves. For there is only one around 364 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:33.720 one of us in this physical temple, expressing as consciousness 365 00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:37.279 itself as all of this life and the joy and 366 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:40.880 the beauty and the harmony that is infinite and is 367 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:44.640 always present. This is who and whose we are, for 368 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:49.599 we belong to the universe as its beloved expressions. And 369 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:52.880 so I speak this word with great joy and confection 370 00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:57.480 for everyone within the sound of my voice, that everyone 371 00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:01.359 is a beautiful embodiment of this. Everyone is a star 372 00:26:01.559 --> 00:26:06.559 wrapped in skin billions of years in the making as 373 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:12.200 them one time around. Only way to express this to 374 00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:15.680 live it. And so I affirm for them, and I 375 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:21.400 call forth a knowingness of their innate power to be that, 376 00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:25.759 to be and express their unique selves, to do that 377 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:28.880 which they feel called from the inside out to do, 378 00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:33.720 to live that life that is wonderful beyond their deepest imagination, 379 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:38.039 to steep in the potential of the something more and 380 00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:42.720 follow its urgings, because it is the evolutionary desire back 381 00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:46.519 of all of creation, that is that impulse within them. 382 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.759 And as they do, more good unfolds than they had 383 00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:54.200 even imagined, and they allow it to be. And so 384 00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:57.960 in gratitude I know that this is their spiritual birthright, 385 00:26:58.200 --> 00:27:01.319 it is our spiritual birthright. And in that knowing I 386 00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:06.519 released this word into the cosmic womb of infinite potential, 387 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:12.000 the infinite field of possibility, that place of absolute, unconditional 388 00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:17.079 love that always says yes, yes, my beloved, and you 389 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:20.279 are my beloved. It is my joy to give that 390 00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:23.079 unto you, which is your heart's desire, for yours and 391 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:29.160 mine are the same. I bow to this. I welcome 392 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:31.240 it to be so, and I released this, and we 393 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:33.880 let it be, and so it is. 394 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:40.200 So it is. Catherine, thank you so very much. If 395 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:44.160 people want to have his personal experience with you for 396 00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:46.359 whatever is going on in their lives, what is the 397 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:48.079 best way for them to contact you? 398 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:53.000 Contact me through richer within dot com and I'll get 399 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:56.559 right back to you. You can also listen to other 400 00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:59.880 talks as well on all of the on the Transformation talk. 401 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.599