Episode 791 Scott Adams - The News First, Then I Will Rewire Your Brains to Relieve Anxiety
My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Law enforcements https://clearview.ai facial identification app The impeachment kill shot that Alan Dershowitz will deliver Senator McSally versus Manu Raju Hit piece anti-Trump book by two Washington Post reporters Dalia al-Aqidi campaign ad is really, really good...she's talented Gen IV nuclear is being promoted by Congressman Tim Burchett "Ego death" anxiety relief begins at 27:10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you would like my channel to have a wider audience and higher production quality, please donate via my startup (Whenhub.com) at this link: https://interface.my/ScottAdamsSays I use donations to pay for the daily conversions of the original Periscope videos into Youtube and podcast form, and to improve my production quality and search results over time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please subscribe to my channel…it REALLY helps. Like my video? Hate my video? Let me know, VOTE! Please leave a comment, let me know how I'm doing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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View segment →Boom. Hey everybody, come on in. For some of you this will be the best day of your life. You don't know it yet, but that's the fun part. Sometimes life sneaks up on you.
We're going to be talking about the headlines in a minute, and after that I'm going to show you some techniques for getting rid of your anxieties of all kinds. Won't work for every person, but for some of you it will probably be life-changing, so stay tuned for that.
But first, oh ho yes, first you've got to have a little thing called the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or a mug or glass, a tankard, a chalice, a canteen, a decanter, or a flask. A vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that is the dopamine hit at the end of the day. The thing that makes everything better. There's the simultaneous sip. Go now.
That's the kind of sip that gets your weekend going.
So I've told you before how weird my life is. My life is so weird it's hard to imagine what it's like to be me. Let me tell you about my experience in the last twenty-four hours.
I got my televisions fixed in my house. Had some technical problems. And so I decided to watch some television. So I turned on one show and I'm watching Fox News and "The Five," my favorite show. And I turned on the TV and they're talking about me. Like Greg was mentioning something that I'd mentioned. And I thought, how weird. I'm turning on the television and the television's talking about me.
And then later I saw an article. I saw an article somewhere on the internet. It was in Forbes magazine and it was about the value of mushrooms as hallucinogens that can help people with a whole variety of mental issues. And I thought, well this is an interesting article because I have an interest in this. I'll talk about it a little bit later. So I'm reading the article and the article's about me. I mean it's not the entire article about me, but I'm one of about five people mentioned in the article who have brought up this topic as something beautiful. I thought, how weird. I turn on the television, it's about me, and then I read an article, one of the few articles I was interested enough to actually read the whole article, and it's about me.
This morning, about five minutes ago, somebody was nice enough to tweet me a video in which MMA champion, you know, one of the greats of all time, Conor McGregor, his coach, a guy named John Kavanagh, is talking about training Conor McGregor. Now y'all know Conor McGregor, right? One of the most famous athletes of all time. If you don't follow MMA, maybe you haven't heard of the name, but within that world he would be one of these superstars that everybody knows.
And John Kavanagh, I want to ask about his training. He says that they're going to use systems instead of goals, and then he name-checks me. So apparently I'm some important part of Conor McGregor's training. Is that a weird world? Imagine waking up to that. I was strange.
So I'm very, very happy for anybody who finds value in that stuff, these systems being better than goals. And now I'm a bigger fan of Conor McGregor than ever before, so I'd like to see him win since he's using, at least to a small extent, he's using something that I promoted in my book, "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big." I think it's over my shoulder there.
All right, let's talk about some of the news, and then at the end I'm going to cure a number of you of some anxiety problems. If you don't think that's real, stick around, because I know some of you don't. Others of you are saying to yourself, I've been watching this guy for a while and I didn't believe any of the other things he predicted until they happened, and I didn't believe the effect it would have on me until it did.
How many of you joined me in the simultaneous sip today and actually raised a glass? Or in many cases, I'm hearing, John, I know your wife is watching, sometimes they do the simultaneous sip without a cup in their hands. Did you think that you would ever be addicted to the simultaneous sip? Probably not. And that was a very small example of your brain being rewired in a way that's just fun, right? Nobody gets hurt. It's just fun to do the simultaneous sip.
After I talk about some news, I'm going to rewire your brains again and you are going to be amazed. In some cases. Other cases. Everybody's different, so you'll all have a different experience.
Let's talk about the news first. The New York Times had a big article today about an app called Clearview AI. And it's an app that runs on the phone, I guess mobile devices, and law enforcement is using it to identify faces, to get the identification of somebody just by their face.
Now apparently what the app has done is it has scraped, that's sort of a technical word, scraped. In other words it went into other databases and grabbed faces. Apparently there's access to Facebook data, at least the photos that are available. Venmo has a bunch of faces and some other sources. So this app has an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude more available faces in this database than even the ones the systems that law enforcement was already using.
So law enforcement already could identify a face in some cases if they had you in their database. But until this app came along you couldn't just take a picture of a dead guy on the street and his name would pop up. They didn't have that. So there are actually a whole bunch of examples around the country where police literally, they'll find a body with no identification, snap a picture of it, and the social media or any kind of social media or internet presence pops up immediately. So they've apparently solved a whole bunch of crimes from this.
Now people of course are worried about the privacy aspect of it. And I think the founder, when he was interviewed, I totally agree with his take. I think somebody else was interviewed for it. And that is the privacy sort of a thing of the past. There really isn't any chance that this won't be a universal kind of product. So they're just providing the service that solves a whole bunch of crimes and it's a technology you're probably going to see anyway. There wasn't any way around it. But wow, just think about that.
Now the future uses that people talk about but are not yet the actual uses. So at the moment it's sort of focused on law enforcement, so they're the ones who get the contracts to use this thing. But people are saying what happens someday when you've got the goggles on and you can just tell everybody's identity just walking through a crowd. You know, what kind of abuse would there be, etc. So those are all issues that society needs to grapple with. But wow, just the fact that that exists and it works and it's solving crimes. Pretty amazing. It's called Clearview AI.
The teams for the impeachment defense and prosecution, if you can call that loosely speaking, have been formed. It looks like the Democrats have on their team a bunch of people who are unheard of and some I have that don't seem too impressive. So that's what the Democrats have. Now maybe they're great because, like I said, I haven't heard of them, so they might be terrific. I don't know.
But it turns out that the Republicans have wisely lined up their own team and they have the ultimate kill shot on the team. So Alan Dershowitz is on. He would say, I just saw an interview with him, he would say he's on the side of the Constitution. So in his view of his job he's not defending this president, he's defending all presidents because this is such an important thing. It'll reverberate through time. It would affect any president.
He, Dershowitz, says, and I think it's completely credible when he says it, that he would give exactly the same defense for a Clinton or a Democrat. It wouldn't matter who it was because it's not about the person. It's not about even the situation. It's about the Constitution.
But here's the fun part. Remember this. The Senate can kind of make up its own rules and they can decide whenever they want to, after hearing I think the opening arguments, then they can decide whether they want more witnesses.
Do you know what Dershowitz is going to do to this thing? Dershowitz is going to be presumably part of the opening statements. After Dershowitz says even if everything that is alleged about the president is true, the Constitution does not recognize this as impeachable, what will the Republican-led Senate do?
After Dershowitz, one of the most renowned, respected, knowledgeable, experienced experts on constitutional law, after he says yeah, it wouldn't matter what the details are, everything that they've alleged falls into the category of not impeachable, here's why. And I heard a brief explanation on one of his interviews. So the abuse of power charge for example is not one of the intended impeachable offenses. Indeed apparently there's a history, a written documented history of the founders discussing whether that should be part of impeachment, and they expressly discussed it and specifically declined to put it in the Constitution. It was a decision.
So you don't have to worry about the gray area. There's no gray area. It was discussed, it was documented, they decided clearly not to put it in the Constitution because they didn't want that to be one of the things you could be impeached for. And that's their case. That's the end.
After Dershowitz speaks, Mitch McConnell can say all right, let's make this a two-stage process. And I think this would be very fair. Stage one: Are the things that are alleged, we don't even have to worry about if they're true or untrue, we don't have to worry about the way you're spinning it, you don't want our version or their version. If it's all true, would it be impeachable? We just heard our expert say no. Let's first vote on that. If these allegations are true, would it be impeachable? Before we dig into witnesses and finding out if it's true.
I think once he says it's not impeachable you can just end the whole thing or at least you could vote to end the whole thing and you would have all the cover you need.
So one of the things about Dershowitz is if you watch him long enough, I've been watching him for a long time and I'm actually blown away every time he talks. I'm blown away at this skill. Dershowitz never wastes a word. Now he's really good at hitting the two-minute hits so he can put more content in fewer words than anybody you've ever seen. I mean he's really amazing. So I think he's the kill shot. I don't think anything else is going to matter. Dershowitz is going to just clean the table and there's not going to be anything left to discuss after he's done. I think anyway.
That's an option.
Senator Martha McSally insulted CNN's Manu Raju. Manu Raju asked her a question as she was walking down the hall and she said you're a hack. I'm not answering your question. You're a hack.
Now of course the CNN hosts were deeply offended and want an apology and think that's inappropriate. But I have to say this has got to be some of the blowback from the last debate and the way they treated Bernie. I mean it kind of felt, remember I said the other day it felt like a turning point. It felt like the point where people no longer accepted that the news is anything like news but rather it's just part of that political process.
The funniest part was watching, I just watched a little clip of Jeffrey Toobin, their legal, one of their legal experts, and he was defending the accusation that CNN makes up its news. And he said unambiguously that's not true. You know, I'm paraphrasing. He didn't use these exact words but he was defending the accusation that CNN is fake news.
And I thought to myself, if you're on TV defending whether your news channel is actually making up the news, you've already lost. Here's what you never want to do on the air under your own news network: defend the accusation that you're making up the news in general. He's not defending that there was one particular thing that was right or wrong but rather that the entire network does or does not just make up the news. It just invents it. And if you're defending that, well that's a weak position. I think I would have rather maybe stayed away from that if I were him.
So there's a new hit piece book by two Washington Post reporters. Do I need to say more? There's an anti-Trump book written by two Washington Post reporters. Can I just stop there? Anything else we need to say? I don't think so. And I think that's a whole story because everything else you hear about this has no credibility whatsoever.
But here's their allegation. Reportedly in 2017 I think it was, President Trump was alleged to have been angry at his generals about not winning in Afghanistan and not winning at all. And this is what the two totally credible Washington Post reporters, I say with a twinkle in my eye, totally credible because the Washington Post of course is an anti-Trump organization. He's alleged to have said, quote, you're all losers. Do you think that President Trump looked at a room full of the greatest generals in American, at least currently in American history, and said to them you're all losers? You don't know how to win anymore.
The commander in chief told the meeting attendees, allegedly according to the book, quote, the president's tirade continued with Trump telling the military officials I wouldn't go to war with you people. You're a bunch of dopes and babies. He told the room, according to the Post excerpts. And then apparently that's after that is when Rex Tillerson insulted the president saying he was, and eventually Tillerson got fired.
Now do you believe that those were his exact words? Okay, I don't. Now they could be. I think it's entirely possible that those are somewhere in the general neighborhood of his message. I think that's very believable. I think it's very believable that he thought his generals could be more, let's say, winning-oriented than they have been, especially in Afghanistan. That all makes perfect sense.
But do you think he looked at them and said you're all losers, you're a bunch of dopes and babies? To which I say maybe. Somebody said maybe at the same time I did in the comments. Maybe. Suppose he did. How do you feel about it? How do you feel about it? Suppose, suppose that's exactly what he said to the generals. You're all losers. You're a bunch of dopes and babies. I wouldn't go to war with you. What if he did say that? Do you care? I don't. Not really. I don't really care.
What happened since then? They happened in 2017. What has been our experience with the military since then? We're doing a lot of winning, seems like to me. So it's possible he gave them some tough love. I don't know if that's true or not. You certainly couldn't take that as true. But I'm not sure it matters in any real way.
Dan Bongino tweeted out, that's how I saw it, a campaign ad by somebody who's a Democrat. No it must be a Republican competitor to Ilhan Omar. So somebody who's competing for Ilhan Omar's seat. And it is one of the most amazing videos or ads you've ever seen.
I turned it on just because Dan Bongino knows that it was great. He had like little fireballs at his tweet. I thought, oh that's a lot of little fireballs, Dan. It must mean something. So I turn it on and I'm hooked in the first five seconds. It's kind of a long ad but five seconds in I was so hooked I went into a separate room so I wouldn't be disturbed until I got to the end.
Now I'm not going to say it's the best political ad I've ever seen in my life because the stuff that Brad Parscale is creating is pretty darn good. And you know I praised Bernie Sanders in his last campaign. Had a great commercial, one of the best. So there have been some great campaign commercials. But when I saw this, this is in the top three. I mean it's really, really good. So you'd have to see it yourself to know what I'm talking about.
But here's the cool part. She's very qualified. Well the cool part is that she's an American born in Iraq. So she had experience with a lot of the Saddam Hussein reign. Now she's an American. She's running for Congress. And here's the amazing part. Her charisma. Oh my God, her charisma.
You know one of the things we talked about with AOC and with, yeah, and I would say with Ilhan Omar, you could dislike their policies or you could like the policies but independent of their politics their charisma just jumps off the page. You could just like Ilhan Omar all you want. I know some of a lot of you are Republicans. You probably do. But you got to give it to her. She is really charismatic. When Ilhan Omar is on the screen I do stop and watch because she's got that x-factor, that thing that makes you want to pay attention. And it's not her looks. It's just, it's not any one thing. It's a little package.
Anyway the woman who is running for Ilhan Omar's seat, her first name is Dalia, and I'll tell you her last name but not until later because there's a story there. So Dalia has a voice and a presentation that reminded me of my favorite actress on a series called "The Expanse." How many of you have seen the sci-fi show "The Expanse"? There's a character there who plays the, I don't know, she's the president of Earth or Mars, I can't remember, president of one of them. And she's got this really interesting Iranian accent. So she speaks English but she's got an Arabian accent and it's the kind of accent you could listen to all day. I mean it's just delicious. You're just listening to this actress. Every moment she's on screen, again, in movie terms she chews up scenery. When she is on screen you stop what you're doing and you listen to every word. It's just like listening to music when she talks. It's just beautiful.
And this competitor to Ilhan Omar, Dalia, she has that voice, you know, a version of that. And you listen to it, you're like, oh my God, do I want to listen to more of that? Apparently it's an Iraqi accent and it's just beautiful. It's just a beautiful voice. I mean really powerful. So it's got power, it's got passion, and man does she have charisma. I would love to know how she was discovered.
Now she's got all kinds of experience across different fields so she's got the full talent stack experience because she's been through different domains. And I did not think that it would be possible to have an able competitor to Ilhan Omar but there it is. That is a really strong politician.
All right, so look for that. Oh here's the punch line and I hate to say this because I only have good things to say about her. Somebody's telling me she's Iranian. So is her accent also Iranian? Because Iraq is our experience but she may have some Iranian blood. I don't know. It doesn't matter.
But here's the unfortunate part. This is her last name: Dalia Al-Aqidi. Now when I pronounce that you say well that's a nice last name, Al-Aqidi. I like that. Sounds good. Here's the problem. When you see it written it looks like Al Qaeda. Now it doesn't look like it but your brain just goes there automatically because Al Qaeda is a little too close. So that is the simulation. Just with us because she's got that much talent and then she has that last name. Hmm. I hope that doesn't stop her.
You know I've told you how the republic has morphed into more of a, social media is driving politics now. Here's a good example of that. I'm looking through my Twitter feed and I see a tweet by Congressperson Tim Burchett, Tennessee congressman. And the Tennessee congressman tweets this to President Trump. He says keep pushing development of fast reactors using 95 percent of nuclear waste for fuel is a game-changer.
So he's talking about generation four, you know, new types of nuclear power. And I thought to myself, whoa this is great. There's a congressman tweeting at the president. You know this obviously he understands the importance of this field. And I thought this is great. So I thought I should follow this guy. So I go to follow him and I noticed he follows me. So he was already following me and he might be listening to this for all I know.
He's also following Mark Shellenberger who you know as our favorite advocate for generation four and nuclear power. And so I'm pretty sure that some of his, at least some of whatever formed his opinion probably came from a variety of sources but I think Mark Shellenberger probably helped inform this guy, this congressperson, who is now informing the president.
And when you see this it just gives you chills because you see something close to like a curated democracy or a best-idea-wins democracy where only the good ideas are the ones that bubble up. And so you can see these good ideas bubbling up from social media. You know that Congress just heard from Michael Shellenberger and he was using the phrase green nuclear deal. And you see all these ideas basically coming from Mark Shellenberger. He's been promoting them. I boost Mike Shellenberger's signal. I boost Mike Shellenberger's signal and now there's a congressperson boosting the signal to the president exactly the way it's supposed to work.
All right, that's just some good news.
All right, we're going to change topics right now. I'm going to raise my hands in the air because later when I edit this I might edit down to the first part with the politics and just keep the second part that's coming up.
In the second part I told you I was going to cure some of you of anxiety-related problems. Some of you may not believe that's true. Some of you probably think it's probable. Now all of you are going to have a different experience and some will have a profound experience. Some of you may cry. Some of you may scoff. A lot of you will just change the channel.
But let me go through the presentation and you can leave whenever you feel you would like to. I'll give you this following warning. I am going to be rewiring the brains of the people who stay. I'm a trained hypnotist. Most of you know that. And what I'm going to be talking about has some basis. Now none of it is dangerous. There's no risk of anything bad happening to you. I promise you that.
Likewise for those who have been watching me for a while there are two things that hypnotists do that have already been accomplished. I wasn't trying to do that in this context but it happened. One of them is credibility. You have to have credibility in the hypnotist, your therapist, your doctor. It helps. I have credibility to many of you because you've been watching me for a long time and you wouldn't be watching unless you thought I had some credibility. So the first part is satisfied for most of you.
Second part is pacing. This is what hypnotists do. They match you in some way until you feel compatible with them and then whatever message comes from the hypnotist feels like it's something very comfortable and familiar because you've already paced them or matched them in some way.
Now unintentionally, wasn't what I was trying to do, but those of you who have been doing the simultaneous sip, those who've been watching me for a while have somewhat accidentally paced me, meaning that you feel some comfort with me. That's requirement number two.
So the first two requirements of hypnosis have been satisfied. I'm not going to put you into a trance per se but I am going to have you go through a guided visualization which I think you will find in some cases profound. In other cases you all feel, I think so. Everybody will have a different experience from this.
All right, let me give you some background. This is called the pre-talk in hypnosis. This is also a part of the technique. So I'm going to make you feel comfortable with what I'm going to do next as part of the technique.
All right, here's some background. I keep hearing from people, and maybe you saw yesterday, that I had cured them of their Trump derangement syndrome prior to the election in 2016 or in some cases after. And so many people have told me that independently they thought, huh, there must be something to that.
So here people had a specific kind of anxiety, fear that the world would be destroyed by this orange monster. And there's something I did or some things I did over time which caused people, and they're telling me, I'm not making this up, this is what they report to me, lots of people, lots of them lost their anxiety and felt comfortable with the president after they listened to me. So that's one example of where I know based on reports from lots of people they had a specific kind of anxiety that I cured.
But I heard an even more interesting example the other day and it came from somebody who reported having a lifetime of anxiety, crippling mental problem, anxiety, the kind that really ruins your life.
Now our anxiety disorders take many forms. You could be afraid of, and I may be using the language a little differently than maybe an expert in mental health would, so take it as an approximate. So anxiety would describe somebody with a phobia, fear of the public, fear of danger, fear of this. Might describe somebody who had OCD. OCD is kind of anxiety because you feel if I don't do this thing ten times or whatever the number is some bad luck will happen. So sort of this general anxiety, fear.
Many, many of you probably are experiencing anxiety in the last several years that you had never felt before. And there's something about modern life and about, I don't know, maybe it's about the news business that gets people worked up. Maybe it's our technology. But whatever it is there's a gigantic whole ball of different anxiety-related problems that people have.
So there's one individual told me a few days ago that I had cured a lifetime of anxiety problems. And I thought to myself I did? What was it I said? And so I asked what was it I said that cured a lifetime of anxiety problems that all the medical professionals couldn't make a dent in. And this person told me and I started to connect it with other things I knew and develop an idea of what causes it.
Now let me give you some more background and I'll pull this all together. I've talked, and of course you've seen it in the news, about how hallucinogens, specifically psilocybin that comes from hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD, and some other hallucinogens are being used by medical professionals to cure various anxieties from PTSD to all kinds of stuff. And almost instantly, in other words one dose in some cases is curing people of a lifetime of mental problems. And there's so much of that and there's so many stories of it that it's considered one of the most exciting fields in mental health.
Now if you read up or if you've had the experience as I have of having any kind of hallucinogenic experience, I did mushrooms in my twenties and I talked about how it was one of my most meaningful experiences, and I read about other people's experience, and the most common thing that people say is that they describe it as ego death. Ego death.
Now if you've never experienced ego death and you've never experienced any kind of hallucinogenic experience at all that doesn't mean anything to you. If I said hey, ego death, what does that even mean? So everybody probably has sort of a personal experience that they tend to describe that way. It's exactly how I described it before I had ever heard anybody else use those terms. It was exactly the words I used. It's ego death.
Now for our purposes I'm going to define your ego as that part of you that makes you feel special. The thing that makes you feel like you're special and important. That's your ego. I'm giving you a very friendly definition. You know, so no deep psychology here. But the thing that makes you really feel special is your ego.
And let me tell you why this is important by an analogy. Now analogies are not good for persuading, as I often say, but they're good for explaining a new concept. So here's the new concept.
Suppose I said to you I would like you to take this potato, just a regular uncooked potato, and could you walk it a half a mile that way and give it to somebody. Now forget about why you need to deliver this potato. That's not important. But if I say could you take this potato and deliver it over there and you've got the time and the inclination to do that, would that give you any anxiety? Probably not. Because what's the worst that could happen? You drop the potato. Well it's just a potato. You lose the potato. It's just a potato. You get busy and you don't make it with your potato. What's the difference? It's just a potato. That person can get a new potato. Potato has no value.
Now let's say instead of a potato, could you take this priceless painting by Picasso and just walk it down the street to where it needs to go, to the museum. Could you do that for me? Now let's imagine it's a world where there's no crime so you're not worried about crime. You're only worried about the safety of the painting. And all you're doing is just carrying it a half a mile that way. I'm giving it to the museum.
How much anxiety would you have if you were holding a priceless, irreplaceable painting and you're just walking down the sidewalk with it? You'd be plenty worried because of the value of the painting. You'd worry that a bird would do something, that the wind would come up and put some dirt on it. You'd worry that you'd trip. You'd worry that somebody would come along. You'd worry that a car would splash water on it. It would be your fault. You'd have to pay for it. You'd have all kinds of things to worry about. And it's only because the painting is so valuable. The potato was not.
So what you need to learn is to be the potato. Don't be the painting. Be the potato.
Now why is it that a psychedelic experience would give you ego death and would turn you from somebody who's trying to deliver a priceless painting into somebody who says no care in the world, it's just a potato? And here's my hypothesis.
The hypothesis is that when you have the ego death you have nothing to worry about because there's nothing to protect. And I think that the way that you come about that is indirectly. The way that you get to that is by being in the hallucinogenic experience you see your environment completely differently for the first time. And yet, and here's the important part, you understand it. You see your world as if it's brand new but you still understand it. And by the way other people experience it, explain it the same way.
Now once you've experienced that you could have a completely different set of subjective interpretations of your environment. What does that tell you about your old view of the world? It was subjective. It wasn't right. More importantly it wasn't important. The way you always saw the world before that first time you saw it differently was never real and it was never important.
And if the way you see the entire reality is unimportant and you just feel that you're part of that larger reality and that it is subjective, you suddenly start to feel that you are not that important. But here's the important part. You never lose the sense that you need to take care of your life and your health and all that. There's no danger. You simply take your unreasonable fear of protecting yourself and it comes down to a normal, well I have to eat today, I've got to sleep, God you know if I cross the road still got to look both ways. There's no downside. You still would be fully protective of yourself but you'll just learn that you're more like a potato than like a priceless painting.
Once you get that feeling that your ego is not important, what would you ever be afraid of? Would you be afraid of the future? No. There's nothing to be afraid of because there's nothing at risk but a potato.
So I'm going to walk you through something, a set of thoughts that will reproduce what a hallucinogenic trip would do. So I'm going to give you without the hallucinogens and therefore without the risk of a bad trip or any illusion. There's a small risk but you won't have any of that. I'm going to give it to you without that.
All right, and bear with me. It's going to take a little bit of setup and then we're going to do it.
The first thing you need to know, and this will be helpful, is that there are different filters in the world and you have probably experienced them. For example, did you know that in quantum physics a particle that exists on the other part of the universe that has never been seen and never been measured in any way doesn't actually exist? Did you know that? This is actual scientific truth. Matter, the actual building blocks of our reality, we know don't actually exist except as probability until a human or a machine or an animal or something that can see something and detect something, until something is seen and detected it doesn't actually exist.
Now all the things in your room around you exist in a sense because you're looking at them, somebody has measured it, touched it, looked at it. But scientifically we know, and by the way this is not anything controversial, this would be something every scientist would agree, matter doesn't exist until it's witnessed by a machine or a person. What's that mean? Well it probably means that there's some subjectivity to your perceptions.
Let me give you some other examples. Religion. How many people are walking around, they have different religions. If somebody is let's say a Hindu and they believe that they have reincarnated and are going to reincarnate and they're standing in the same room with somebody who's a Muslim or a Christian, are they experiencing the same reality? I would say no.
I would say now if you believe that everything that's happening to you is God's will that's not really the same reality as a person who thinks it's their own doing or the person who thinks they're in a simulation. These are completely different subjective realities.
You also know because you've been following me for a while, you know that in politics we can look at the same set of facts and see a different movie. I call it the two movies on one screen. You've seen it a hundred times. You see it every time anybody looks at a document. I see this, a crime. I obviously see a crime. I'm looking at the same document. So you can see in real time on the news every single day that people who are sincere and they're not lying, in every case there are liars in the news but they're not lying about their perception. They are looking at the same stuff you are but they're seeing a different reality. Normal. Completely common.
Once you understand that you can start to release on your preferred version of the world. Yeah you've seen it with the optical illusions like Laurel and Yanny that you could hear the Laurel or the Yanny. You've seen the ones where you can think a different word and then the word you're hearing starts to sound like that word but then you can think of a different word and the sound you're hearing that's the same sound sounds like the other word. You see lots of tests like that and again it's showing you that your impression of reality is subjective.
Now here's another framing that will change your frame. Instead of seeing the world as there's you and then there's this reality that's sort of fixed and you're just looking at it, think of yourself as almost like the person in the robot's head. Think of your body as a big old robot. In this case it's a moist robot or biological robot. But imagine yourself as a person in the control room inside your head. You're looking at your eyes and you're controlling this big robot that is your body. Just think about that.
And then think about the fact that there are different filters, as I call them, on your perceptions. And so sometimes your big robot body is hungry. You know that you see the world differently when you're hungry. Things bother you that wouldn't bother you. You're angry about things you didn't need to be angry about. But you're not really seeing those things. You're seeing it through a filter of your own hunger and it makes you angry sometimes. Likewise if you're tired that's a different filter. Likewise if you're an optimist you're seeing the world through a different filter. If you believe you live in a simulation you're seeing the world through a different filter. If you have a different religion it's a different filter.
Once you start to understand that your filters are interchangeable and it has nothing to do with you, whoever is you, whatever is this thing called you, your preferences, your experiences, your memories, whatever it is, it can be all kinds of different things in terms of how it sees the world but you don't really change. Not that much anyway. What changes is your filter. Take your filter down. Hey this president is a big old monster. Change the filter. Oh he just operates differently. Now I see it through a different filter.
This mental exercise of being able to see the world as a filter will depersonalize things and give you very close to your escape route. But we're going to take you all the way there in a moment. And it goes like this. Are you ready? Here's the payoff in the next few moments. Some of you, not all of you because everybody's going to have their own experience, some of you are going to have a deep experience in the next minute or two. Watch this.
All right, I want you to relax. I'm not going to hypnotize you but I'm going to take you through some guided imagery. You don't have to close your eyes. In fact keep them open. Keep your eyes open. Take a deep breath. Loosen your shoulders.
And now I want you to imagine, not as if it's true but just imagine, that everything you see in your environment, your room, the device you're looking at, the table, the objects, whatever you were using to drink, imagine them as if they're a virtual reality. Imagine that you're not in a real reality but rather you're in a virtual one. Now it's a special one because if you touch something you can feel it but imagine that's just an illusion.
And imagine without touching anything you just look around and you look at an object. Pick an object in your room and just look at it and imagine instead of it being real that it's a perfectly rendered virtual reality simulation.
Now watch how that makes you feel. Just feel yourself in the moment. Just looking at your environment. Don't think of anything else. Don't think of anything outside of your direct immediate experience. Look at them and imagine them as a virtual reality construct and see what happens. Do you feel it? Yeah, some of you are already feeling it. Keep doing it. Stay in the moment. Stay in the moment. The future doesn't matter. Just look at your objects. Look around you and imagine that they're not real. They're subjective. They're just like a virtual reality.
Now do that and then repeat. The first time you do it some of you will have a profound experience. You see in the comments somebody says goosebumps. Somebody else, no experience whatsoever.
For those of you who have had a lifetime of anxiety issues keep these thoughts in mind because it's the setup as much as the exercise. Think about life as filters. Think about your ego as unimportant, worth protecting but it's not the be-all end-all. Just see yourself in a simulated subjective reality and know that you can change the subjective reality if you need to. You have control.
You can see in the comments somebody is crying. Some of you, not all of you, some of you were just released from a lifetime of pain, a lifetime of anxiety. Some of you just got released. Some of you will be released later. You'll think about this and you won't be able to get it out of your mind and you'll repeat the exercise on your own. You'll look around wherever you are. You'll imagine it as a virtual reality and it will give you the same sensation that people have when they experience ego death and it will free you.
And that's all you need and I'll end it right there. And you have a great life.
boom hey everybody come on in here for some of you this will be the best day of your life you don't know it yet but that's the fun part sometimes life sneaks up on you we're going to be talking about the headlines in a minute and after that I'm going to show you some techniques for getting rid of your anxieties of all kinds won't work for every person but for some of you it will probably be life-changing so stay tuned for that but first oh ho yes first you've got to have a little thing called the simultaneous if and all you need is a cup or a mug or glass a tanker chelators Diane a canteen drug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything better there's simultaneous it go now that's the kind of sip get your weekend going so I've told you before how weird my life is my life is so weird it's hard to imagine what it's like to be me let me tell you my my experience in the last 24 hours I got my televisions fixed in my house had some technical problems and so I decided to watch some television so I turned on one show and I'm watching Fox News in the washing of the five my favorite show and I turned it into TV and they're talking about me like you know the Greg was mentioning something that I'd mentioned and I thought how weird I'm turning on the television and the televisions talking about me and then later I saw an article I saw an article I'm somewhere on the Internet it was in Forbes magazine and it was about the value of mushrooms as hallucinogens that can help people with a whole variety of mental issues and I thought well this is an interesting article because I have an interest in this this I'll talk about a little bit later so I'm reading the article and the articles about me I mean it's not the entire article about me but I'm one of about five people mentioned in the article who have brought up this topic as something beautiful I thought how weird I turn out of the television it's about me and then I read an article one of the few articles I was interested enough to actually read the whole article and it's about me this morning about five minutes ago somebody was nice enough to tweet me a video in which MMA champion you know won one of the Great's of all time Conor Mc.
Gregor his coach a guy named John Kavanagh is talking about training Conor Mc.
Gregor now y'all know Conor Mc.
Gregor right one of the most famous athletes of all time if you don't follow MMA people you haven't heard of the name but within that world he would be the you know these superstars that everybody knows and John Kavanagh I want to asked about his training he says that they're gonna use systems instead of goals and then he name-checks me so apparently I'm some some important part of Conor Mc.
Gregor's training is that a weird world imagine waking up to that I was strange so I'm very very happy for anybody who finds value in that stuff these systems being better than goals and now I'm a bigger fan of Conor Mc.
Gregor than ever before so I'd like to see him win since he's using at least a sub small extent he's using something that I promote it in my book kind of failed almost everything and still win big I think it's over my shoulder there all right let's talk about some of the news and then at the end I'm going to cure a number of you of some anxiety problems if you don't think that's real stick around because I know some of you don't others of you are saying to yourself I've been watching this guy for a while and I didn't believe any of the other things he predicted until they happened and I didn't believe the effect it would have on me until it did how many of you joined me in the simultaneous sit today and actually raised a glass or in many cases I'm hearing John I know your wife is watching sometimes they do the simultaneous sip with without a cup in their hands did you think that you would ever be addicted to the simultaneous that probably not and that was a very small example of your brain being rewired in a way that's just fun right nobody gets hurt it's just fun to do the simultaneous step after I talk about some news I'm going to rewire your brains again and you are going to be amazed in some cases other cases everybody's different so you'll all have a different experience let's talk about the news first New York Times had a big article today about an app called Clearview AI and it's an app that runs us on the phone I guess mobile devices and law enforcement is using it to identify faces to get the identification of somebody just by their face now apparently what the app has done is it has scraped that's sort of a tactical word scraped in other words it went into other databases and grabbed faces apparently there's access to Facebook data at least the the photos that are available venmo has a bunch of faces and some other some other sources so this app has you know an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude more available faces of this database that even the ones the the systems that law enforcement was already using so law enforcement already could identify a face in some cases if they had you in their database but until this app came along you couldn't just take a picture of a dead guy on the street and his name would pop up they didn't have that so there are actually a whole bunch of examples around the country where police literally they'll find a body with no identification snap a picture of it and the social media or any any kind of social media or internet presence pops up immediately so they've they've apparently solved a whole bunch of crimes from this now people of course are worried about the privacy aspect of it and I think the the founder when he was interviewed I kind of not kinda if I totally agree with his take I think somebody else was interviewed for it and that is the privacy sort of a thing of the past there really isn't any chance that this won't be a universal kind of product so they're just providing the service that solves a whole bunch of crimes and it's a technology you're probably going to see anyway you know there wasn't any way around it but Wow just think about that now the the future uses that people talk about but are not yet the actual uses so at the moment it's sort of focused on law enforcement so they're the ones who get the contracts to use this thing but people are saying what happens someday when you've got the goggles on and you can just tell everybody's identity just walking through a crowd you know what kind of abuse would there be etc so those are all issues that society needs to grapple with but Wow just the fact that that exists and it works and it's solving crimes pretty amazing it's called Clearview AI the teams for the impeachment defense and prosecution if you can call that loosely speaking have been formed it looks like the Democrats have on their team a a bunch of people who unheard-of and some I have that don't seem too impressive so that's what the Democrats have now maybe they're great because I like I said I haven't heard of them so they might be terrific I don't know but it turns out that the Republicans have wisely lined up their own team and they have the ultimate kill shot on the team so Alan Dershowitz is on he would say I just saw anything with him he would say he's on the side of the Constitution so in his in his view of his job he's not defending this president he's defending all presidents because this is such an important thing it'll reverberate through time it would affect any president he Dershowitz says and I think it's completely credible when he says it that he would give exactly the same defense for a Clinton for a Democrat it wouldn't matter who it was because it's not about the person it's not about even the situation it's about the Constitution but here's the fun part remember this the Senate can kind of make up its own rules and they can decide whenever they want to after hearing I think the open arguments then they can decide whether they want more witnesses do you know what Dershowitz is going to do it to this thing Dershowitz is going to be presumably part of the opening statements after Dershowitz says even if everything that is alleged about the president is true the Constitution does not recognize this as impeachable what will the republican-led lead Senate do after Dershowitz one of the most renowned respected knowledgeable experienced experts on constitutional law after he says yeah it wouldn't matter what the details are everything that they've alleged falls into the category of not impeachable here's why and I heard a brief exclamation on one of his interviews so the abuse of power charge for example is not is not one of the intended impeachable offenses indeed apparently there's a there's a history a written documented history of the founders discussing whether that should be part of impeachment and they expressly discussed it and specifically declined to put it in the Constitution it was a it was a decision so you don't have to worry about the gray area there's no gray area it was discussed it was documented they decided clearly not to put it in the Constitution because they didn't want that to be one of the things you could be impeached for and that's their case that's the end after Dershowitz speaks Mitch Mc.
Connell can say all right let's make this a two-stage process and I think this would be very fair stage one are the things that are alleged we don't even have to worry about they're true or untrue we don't have to worry about the way you're spending it you don't want our version or their version if it's all true would it be impeachable we just heard our experts say no let's first vote on that that if these allegations are true would it be impeachable before we dig into witnesses and finding out if it's true I think once he says it's not impeachable you can just end the whole thing or at least you could vote to end the whole thing and you would have all the cover you need it so one of the things about Dershowitz is if you watch him long enough I've been watching him for a long time and I'm actually blown away every time he talks I'm blown away at the this skill Dershowitz never wastes a word now he's really good at hitting the the the news you know two-minute hits so he can he can put he can put more content in fewer words than anybody you've ever seen I mean he's really amazing so I think he's geez the kill shot I don't think anything else is going to matter Dershowitz is going to just he's going to clean the table and there's not going to be left everything else to discuss after he's done I think anyway that's an option senator martha mcsalley insulted CNN's Manu Raju Manu Raju Esther a question as she was walking down the hall and she said you're a hack I'm not answering your question you're a hack now of course the CNN the hosts were deeply offended and won an apology and think that's inappropriate but I have to say this has got to be some of the some of the blowback from the last debate and the way they treated Bernie I mean it kind of felt remember I said the other day it felt like a turning point it felt like the point where people no longer accepted that the news is anything like news but rather it's just part of that political process the funniest part was watching I just watched a little clip of Jeffrey Toobin they're they're legal one of their legal experts and he was defending the accusation that seeing them makes up its news and he said unambiguously that's not true you know I'm paraphrasing he didn't use these exact words but he was defending the accusation that CNN is fake news and I thought to myself if you're on TV defending whether your news channel is actually making up the news you've already lost here here's what you never want to do on the air under your own news network defend the accusation that you're making up the news in general he's that he's not defending that there was one particular thing that was right or wrong but rather that the entire network does or does not just make up the news it just invent it and if you're defending that well that's a that's a weak position I think I would have rather maybe stayed away from that if I were him so there's a new hip piece book by - Washington Post reporters do I need to say more there's an anti-trump book written by - Washington reporters can I just stop there anything else we need to say I don't think so and I think that's a whole story because everything else you hear about this has no credibility whatsoever but here's their allegation perrolli in 2017 I think it was President Trump was alleged to have been angry at his generals about you know not winning in Afghanistan and not winning at all and this is what the two totally credible Washington Post reporters I say with a twinkle in my eye totally credible because Washington Post of course is an anti-trump organization he's alleged to have said quote you're all losers do you think that President Trump looked at a room full of the greatest generals in American you know at least currently in American history and said to them you're all losers you don't know how to win anymore the commander in chief told the meeting attendees allegedly according to the posts quote of the book the president's tirade continued with Trump telling the military officials I wouldn't go to war with you people you're a bunch of dopes and babies he told the room according to the post excerpts and then apparently that's after that is when Rex Tillerson insulted the president saying he was and eventually Tillerson got fired now do you believe that those were his exact words okay I don't now they could be I think it's entirely possible that those are somewhere in the general neighborhood of his message I think that's that's very believable I think it's very believable that he thought his generals could be more let's say winning oriented than they have been especially in Afghanistan that all makes perfect sense but do you think he looked at him and said you're all losers you're a bunch of dopes and babies to which I say maybe somebody said maybe at the same time I did in the comments maybe suppose he did how do you feel about it how do you feel about it suppose suppose that's exactly what he said said to the generals you're all losers you're a bunch of dopes and babies I wouldn't go to war with you what if he did say that do you care I don't not really I don't really care what happened since then they happened in 2017 what has been our experience with the military since then waiting a lot of winning seems like to me so it's possible he gave them some tough love I don't know if that's true or not you certainly couldn't take that is true but I'm not sure a batters in any in any real way Don the dad gone Geno tweeted out that's how I saw it a campaign ad by somebody who's a democratic now it must be a Republican competitor to Ilan Omar so somebody who's competing for you Alon Omar's seat and it is one of the most amazing videos or ads you've ever seen I turned it on because just because Dan Bungie knows that it was you know great he had like little fireballs at his tweet I thought oh that's a lot of little fireballs Dan it must mean something so I turn it on and I'm hooked in the first five seconds it's it's kind of a long ad but five seconds in I was so hooked I went into a separate room so I wouldn't be disturbed until I got to the end now I'm not going to say it's the best political ad I've ever seen in my life because the stuff that Brad parse Cal is creating is pretty darn good and you know I praised Bernie Sanders in his last campaign had a great commercial one of the best so there have been some great campaign commercials but when I saw this this is in the top three I mean it's really really good so you'd have to see it yourself to know what I talked about but here's the cool part she's very qualified well the cool part is that she's an American born in Iraq so she she had experience with a lot of the Saddam Hussein reign now she's an American she's running for Congress and here's the amazing part her charisma oh my god her charisma you know one of the things we talked about with AOC and with yeah and I would say with Elon Omar you could dislike their policies or you could like the policies by independent of their of their politics their charisma just jumps off the page you you could just like Elon Omar all you want I know some of a lot of you were Republicans you probably do but you got to say you got to give it to her she is really charismatic when when Elon Omar is on the screen I do stop and watch because she's she's got that x-factor that thing that makes you want to pay attention and it's not it's not her looks it's just it's not any one thing it's a little package anyway the the woman who is running for Elon Oh Marcy - her first name is Dalia and I'll tell you her last name but not until later because that's there's a story there so Dalia has a voice and a presentation that reminded me of my favorite actress on a series called the expanse how many of you have seen the Syfy show the expanse there's a character there who plays the I don't know she's the president of Earth or Mars I can't remember president of arms and she's got this really interesting Iranian accent so she speaks English but she's got an Arabian accent and it's the kind of accent you could listen to all day I mean it's just delicious you're just just listening to this actress every moment she's on screen again Perez like she just yeah in in in movie terms she chews up scenery when she is on screen you stop what you're doing and you listen to every word it's just it's like listening to music when she talks it's just beautiful and this this competitor to Ilan Omar Dalia she has that voice you know a version of that and you listen to it you're like oh my god do I want to listen to more of that apparently it's an Iraqi accent and it's just beautiful it's just a beautiful voice I mean really powerful so it's got power it's got passion and man does she have charisma I would love to know how she was discovered now she's got all kinds of experience across different fields so she's got the full non loser think experience because she's she's been through different domains and I did not think that it would be possible to have an able competitor - Ilan Omar but there it is that is a really strong politician all right so look for that oh here's the punch line and I I hate to say this because I only have good things to say about her as as her yeah I only have good things to say about her somebody's telling me she's Iranian so is her accent also Iranian because Iraq is our experience but she may have some Iranian blood I don't know it doesn't matter but here's the unfortunate part this is her last name Dalia al Aikido now when I pronounce that you say well that's nice last name elaqid oh I like that sounds good here's the problem when you see a written it looks like looks like Al Qaeda now it doesn't look like it but your brain just goes there automatically because as al Qaeda is a little too close so that is the simulation just with us because she's got that much talent and then she has that last name hmm I hope that doesn't stop her you know I've told you how the Republic has morphed into more of a social media is driving politics now here's a good example of that I'm looking through my Twitter feed and I see a tweet by Congress person Tim Burchett Tennessee congressman and the Tennessee congressman tweets this to President Trump he says keep pushing development of fast reactors using 95 percent of nuclear waste for fuel is a game-changer so he's talking about generation 4 you know new types of nuclear power and I thought to myself whoa this is great there's a there's a congressman tweeting up the president you know this obviously he understands the importance of this field and I thought this is great so I thought I should follow this guy so I go to follow him and I noticed he follows me so he was already following me and he might be listening to this for all I know he's all so far following March Snyder who you know as our as our favorite advocate for generation 4 and nuclear power and so I'm pretty sure that some of his at least some of his let's say whatever formed his opinion probably came from a variety of sources but I think mark Schneider probably helped inform this guy this Congress person who is now informing the president and when you see this it just gives you chills because you see something close to like a curated democracy or a or best idea wins democracy where only you know the good ideas are the ones that bubble up and so you can see these good ideas bubbling up from social media you you know that Congress just heard from Michael Sheldon Berger and he was using the phrase green nuclear deal and you see all these ideas basically coming from our Schneider yeah he's been promoting them I dislike no Mike Sheldon Berger is boosting his signal i boost mike Shellenberger signal and now there's a congressperson boosting the signal to the president exactly the way it's supposed to load all right that's just some good news all right we're going to change topics right now I'm gonna raise my hands in the air because later when I edit this I might I might add it down to the first part with the politics and just keep the second part that's coming up in the second part I told you I was going to cure some of you of anxiety related problems some of you may not believe that's true some of you probably think it's probable now all of you are gonna have a different experience and some will have a profound experience some of you may cry some of the you may scoff a lot of you will just change the channel but let me go through my let me go through the presentation and you can leave whenever whenever you feel you would like to I'll give you this following warning I am going to be rewiring the brains of the people who stay I'm a trained hypnotist most of you know that and what I'm going to be talking about has some basis now none of it is dangerous there's no there's no risk of anything bad happening to you I promise you that likewise for those who have been watching me for a while there are two two things the hypnotists do that have already been accomplished I wasn't trying to do that we in this context but it happened one of them is credibility you have to have credibility in the hypnotist your therapist your doctor it helps I have credibility to many of you because you've been watching me for a long time and you wouldn't be watching unless you thought I had some credibility so the first part is satisfied for most of you second part is pacing this is what heaven is dis do they match you in some way until you feel compatible with them and then whatever message comes from the hypnotist feels like it's something very comfortable and familiar because you've already you've already pasted them or matched them in some way now unintentionally wasn't what I was trying to do but those of you who have been doing the simultaneous sip those who've been watching me for a while have somewhat accidentally paced me meaning that you feel some comfort with me that's requirement number two so the first two requirements of hypnosis have been satisfied I'm not going to put you into a trance per se but I am going to have you go through a guided visualization which I think you will find in some cases profound in other cases you all feel I think so everybody will have a different experience from this all right let me give you some background this is called the pre talk in hypnosis this is also a part of the technique so I'm going to make you feel comfortable with what I'm going to do next as part of the technique all right here's some background I keep hearing from people and maybe you saw yesterday that that I had cured them of their Trump derangement syndrome prior to the election in 2016 or in some cases after and so many people have told me that independently they thought huh there must be something through that so here people had a specific kind of anxiety fear that the world would be destroyed by this orange monster and there's something I did or some things I did over time which caused people and they're telling me I'm not making this up this is what they report to me lots of people lots of them lost their anxiety and felt comfortable with the president after they listen to me so that's one example of where I know based on reports from lots of people they had a specific kind of anxiety that I cured but I heard an even more interesting example the other day and it came from somebody who who reported having a lifetime of anxiety crippling mental problem anxiety the kind of really ruins your life now our anxiety disorders take many forms you could be afraid of and I may be using the the language a little differently than maybe an expert in mental health would so take it with take it as an approximate so anxiety would describe somebody out of phobia fear of the public fear of danger fear of this might describe somebody who had OCD OCD is kind of anxiety because you feel if I don't you know do this thing 10 times or whatever the number is some bad luck will happen so sort of this general anxiety fear many many of you probably are experiencing anxiety in the last several years that you had never felt before and there's something about modern life and about I don't know maybe it's about the the news business that gets people worked up maybe it's our technology but whatever it is there's a gigantic whole ball of different anxiety related problems that people have so there's one individual told me a few days ago that I had cured a lifetime of anxiety problems and I thought to myself I did what was it I said and so I asked what was it I said that cured a lifetime of anxiety problems that all the medical professionals couldn't make a dent in and this person told me and I started to connect it with other things I knew and develop an idea of what causes it now let me give you some more background and I'll pull this all together I've talked and of course you've seen it in the news about how hallucinogens specifically psilocybin that comes from hallucinogenic mushrooms LSD and some other hallucinogens are being used by medical professionals to cure various anxieties from PTSD to all kinds of stuff and almost instantly in other words one dose in some cases is curing people of a lifetime of mental problems and there's so much of that and there's so many stories of it that it's considered one of the most exciting fields in mental health now if you read up or if you've had the experience as I have of having any kind of hallucinogenic experience I did mushrooms in my 20s and I and I talked about how it was one of the most my most meaningful experiences and I read about other people's experience and the most common thing that people say is that they describe it as ego death ego death now if you've never experienced ego death and you've never experienced any kind of hallucinogenic experience at all that doesn't mean anything to you if I said hey ego death what does that even mean so everybody probably has sort of a personal experience that they they tend to describe that way it's exactly how I described it before I had ever heard anybody else use those terms it was exactly the words I used it's ego death now for our purposes I'm going to define your ego as that part of you that makes you feel special the thing that makes you feel like you're special and important that's your ego I'm giving you a very friendly definition you know so no no deep psychology here but the thing that makes you really feel special is your ego and let me tell you why this is important by an analogy now analogies have not good for persuading as I often say but they're good for explaining a new concept so here's the new concept suppose I said to you I would like you to take this potato just a regular uncooked potato and could you walk it a half a mile that way and give it to somebody now forget about why you know why you need to deliver this potato that's not important but if I say could you take this potato and deliver it over there and you've got the time and the inclination to do that would that give you any exact sighting probably not because what's the worst that could happen you drop the potato well it's just the potato you lose the potato it's just a potato you you get busy and you don't make it with your potato what's the difference it's just a potato that person can get a new potato potato has no value now let's say I said instead of a potato could you take this priceless painting by Picasso and just just walk it down the street to my you know where it needs to go to the museum could you do that for me now let's imagine it's a world where there's no crime so you're not worried about crime you're only worried about the safety of the painting and all you're doing is just carrying it a half a mile that way I'm giving it to the museum how much anxiety would you have if you were holding a priceless irreplaceable painting and you're just walking down the sidewalk with it you'd be plenty of worried because of the value of the painting you'd worry that a bird would do something that the wind would come up and put some dirt on it you'd worry that you'd trip you'd worry that somebody come along you'd worry that a car would splash water on it it would be your fault you'd have to pay for it you'd have all kinds of things to worry about and it's only because the painting is so valuable the potato was not so what you need to learn is to be the potato don't be the painting be the potato now why is it that a psychedelic experience would give you Y go death and would turn you from somebody who's trying to deliver a priceless painting into somebody who says no care in the world it's just a potato and here's my hypothesis the hypothesis is that when you have the egodeath you have nothing to worry about because there's nothing to protect and I think that the way that you come about that is indirectly the way that you get to that is by being in the hallucinogenic experience you see your environment completely differently for the first time and yet and here's the important part you understand it you see your world as if it's brand-new but you still understand it and by the way other people experience it explain it the same way now once you've experienced that you could have a completely different set of subjective interpretations of your environment what does that tell you about your old view of the world it was subjective it wasn't right more importantly it wasn't important the way you always saw the world before that first time you saw it differently was never real and it was never important and if the way you see the entire reality is unimportant and you just feel that you're part of that larger reality and that it is subjective you suddenly start to feel that you are not that important but here's the important part you never learn you never lose the sense that you need to you know take care of your life and your health and all that there's no danger you simply take your unreasonable fear of protecting yourself and it comes down to a normal well I have to eat today I've gotta sleep God you know if I cross the road still got to look both ways there's no downside you still would be fully protective of yourself well you'll just learn that you're more like a potato then like a priceless painting once you get that feeling that your ego is not important what would you ever be afraid of would you be afraid of the future no there's nothing to be afraid of because there's nothing at risk but a potato so I'm going to walk you through something a set of thoughts that will reproduce what is that what a what a hallucinogenic trip would do so I'm going to give you without the hallucinogens and therefore without the risk of that any illusion might have there's a small risk but you won't have any of that I'm going to give it to you without that all right and bear with me it's going to take a little bit of setup and then and then we're going to do it the first thing you need to know and this will be helpful is that there are different filters in the world and you have probably experienced them for example did you know that in quantum physics the a particle that exists on the other part of the universe that has never been seen and never been measured in any way doesn't actually exist did you know that this is actual scientific truth matter the actual building blocks of our reality we know don't actually exist except as probability until a human or a machine or an animal or something that can see something and detect something until something is seen and detected it doesn't actually exist now all the things in your room around you exist in a sense because you're looking at somebody is measured it touched it looked at it but scientifically we know and by the way this is not any there's nothing controversial this this would be something every every scientist would agree matter doesn't exist until it's witnessed by a machine or a person what's that mean well it probably means that there's some subjectivity to your perceptions let me give you some other examples religion how many people are walking around they have different religions if somebody is let's say a Hindu and they believe that they have reincarnated and are going to reincarnate and they're standing in the same room with somebody who's a Muslim or a Christian are they experiencing the same reality I would say no I would say now if you believe that everything that's happening to you is God's will that's not really the same reality as a person who thinks it's their own doing or the person who thinks they're in a simulation these are completely different subjective realities you also know because you've been following me for a while you know that in politics we can look at the same set of facts and see a different movie I call it the two movies on one screen you've seen in how a hundred times you see it every time anybody looks at a document I see this a crime I obviously a crime I'm looking at the same document so you can see in real time on the news every single day that people who are sincere and they're not lying in every case there are liars in the news but they're not lying about their perception they are looking at the same stuff you are but they're seeing a different reality normal completely common once you understand that you can start to release on your preferred version of the world yeah you've seen it with the optical illusions like Laurel and Yanni that you could hear the Laurel or the Omni you've seen the ones where you can think a different word and then the word you're hearing starts to sound like that word but then you can think of a different word and the sound you're hearing that's the same sound sounds like the other word you see lots of tests like that and again it's showing you that you worry that your impression of reality is subjective now here's another framing that will change your frame instead of seeing the world as there's you and then there's this reality that's sort of fixed and you're just looking at it think of yourself as almost like the person in the robots head think of your body as a big old robot this case it's a moist robot or biological robot but imagine yourself as a person in the control room inside your head you're looking at your eyes and you're controlling this big robot that is your body just think about that and then think about the fact that there are different filters as I call them on your perceptions and so sometimes your big robot body is hungry you know that you see the world differently when you're hungry things bother you that wouldn't bother you you're angry about things you didn't need to be angry about but you're not really seeing those things you're seeing it through a filter of your own hunger and it makes you angry sometimes likewise if you're tired that's a different filter likewise if you're an optimist you're seeing the world through a different filter if you believe you live in a simulation you're seeing the world through a different filter if you have a different religion it's a different filter once you start to understand that your filters are interchangeable and it has nothing to do with you whoever is you whatever is this thing called you your preferences your experiences your memories whatever it is it can be all kinds of different things in terms of how it sees the world but you don't really change not that much anyway what changes is your filter take your filter down hey this president is a big old monster change the filter oh he's just operates differently now now I see it through a different filter this mental exercise of being able to see the world as a filter will D personalize things and give you very close to your escape route but we're going to take you all the way there in a moment and it goes like this are you ready here's the here's the payoff and next few moments some of you not all of you because everybody's gonna have their own experience some of you are going to have a deep experience in the next minute or two watch this all right I want you to relax I'm not going to hypnotize you but I'm gonna take you through some guided imagery you don't have to close your eyes in fact keep them open keep your eyes open take a deep breath loosen your shoulders and now I want you to imagine not as if it's true but just imagine that everything you see in your environment your room the device you're looking at the table the objects the whatever you were using to drink imagine them as if they're a virtual reality imagine that you're not in a real reality but rather you're in a virtual one now it's a special one because if you touch something you can feel it but imagine that's just an illusion and imagine without touching anything you just look around and you look at an object pick an object in your room and just look at it and imagine instead of it being real then it's a perfectly rendered a virtual reality simulation now watch how that makes you feel just feel yourself in the moment just looking at your environment don't think of anything else don't think of anything outside of your direct immediate experience look at them and imagine them as a virtual reality construct and see what happens do you feel it yeah some of you are already feeling it keep doing it stay in the moment stay in the moment the future doesn't matter just look at your objects look around you and imagine that they're not real they're subjective they're just like a virtual reality now do that and then repeat the first time you do it some of you will have a profound experience you see in the comments somebody says goosebumps somebody else no experience whatsoever for those of you who have had a lifetime of anxiety issues keep these thoughts in mind because it's the setup as much as the exercise think about life as filters think about your ego as unimportant worth protecting but it's not the be-all end-all just see yourself in a simulated subjective reality and know that you can change the subjective reality if you need to you have control you can see in the comments somebody is crying some of you not all of you some of you were just released from a lifetime of pain a lifetime of anxiety some of you just got released some of you will be released later you'll think about this and you won't be able to get it out of your mind and you'll repeat the exercise on your own you'll look around wherever you are you'll imagine it as a virtual reality and it will give you the same sensation that people have when they experience ego death and it will free you and that's all you need and I'll end it right there and you have a great life
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some of you this will be the best day of
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but that's the fun part sometimes life
sneaks up on you we're going to be
talking about the headlines in a minute
and after that I'm going to show you
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anxieties of all kinds won't work for
every person but for some of you it will
probably be life-changing
so stay tuned for that but first oh ho
yes first you've got to have a little
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better
there's simultaneous it go now that's
the kind of sip get your weekend going
so I've told you before how weird my
life is my life is so weird it's hard to
imagine what it's like to be me let me
tell you my my experience in the last 24
hours I got my televisions fixed in my
house had some technical problems and so
I decided to watch some television so I
turned on one show and I'm watching Fox
News in the washing of the five my
favorite show and I turned it into TV
and they're talking about me like you
know the Greg was mentioning something
that I'd mentioned and I thought how
weird I'm turning on the television and
the televisions talking about me and
then later I saw an article I saw an
article I'm somewhere on the
Internet it was in Forbes magazine and
it was about the value of mushrooms as
hallucinogens that can help people with
a whole variety of mental issues and I
thought well this is an interesting
article because I have an interest in
this this I'll talk about a little bit
later so I'm reading the article and the
articles about me I mean it's not the
entire article about me but I'm one of
about five people mentioned in the
article who have brought up this topic
as something beautiful I thought how
weird I turn out of the television it's
about me and then I read an article one
of the few articles I was interested
enough to actually read the whole
article and it's about me this morning
about five minutes ago
somebody was nice enough to tweet me a
video in which MMA champion you know won
one of the Great's of all time Conor
McGregor his coach a guy named John
Kavanagh is talking about training Conor
McGregor now y'all know Conor McGregor
right one of the most famous athletes of
all time if you don't follow MMA people
you haven't heard of the name but within
that world he would be the you know
these superstars that everybody knows
and John Kavanagh I want to asked about
his training he says that they're gonna
use systems instead of goals and then he
name-checks me so apparently I'm some
some important part of Conor McGregor's
training is that a weird world imagine
waking up to that I was strange
so I'm very very happy for anybody who
finds value in that stuff these systems
being better than goals and now I'm a
bigger fan of Conor McGregor than ever
before so I'd like to see him win since
he's using at least a sub small extent
he's using something that I promote it
in my book kind of failed almost
everything and still win big I think
it's over my shoulder there all right
let's talk about some of the news and
then at the end I'm going
to cure a number of you of some anxiety
problems if you don't think that's real
stick around because I know some of you
don't
others of you are saying to yourself
I've been watching this guy for a while
and I didn't believe any of the other
things he predicted until they happened
and I didn't believe the effect it would
have on me until it did how many of you
joined me in the simultaneous sit today
and actually raised a glass or in many
cases I'm hearing John I know your wife
is watching sometimes they do the
simultaneous sip with without a cup in
their hands did you think that you would
ever be addicted to the simultaneous
that probably not and that was a very
small example of your brain being
rewired in a way that's just fun right
nobody gets hurt it's just fun to do the
simultaneous step after I talk about
some news I'm going to rewire your
brains again and you are going to be
amazed in some cases other cases
everybody's different so you'll all have
a different experience let's talk about
the news first New York Times had a big
article today about an app called
Clearview AI and it's an app that runs
us on the phone I guess mobile devices
and law enforcement is using it to
identify faces to get the identification
of somebody just by their face now
apparently what the app has done is it
has scraped that's sort of a tactical
word scraped in other words it went into
other databases and grabbed faces
apparently there's access to Facebook
data at least the the photos that are
available venmo has a bunch of faces and
some other some other sources so this
app has you know an order of magnitude
or two orders of magnitude more
available faces of this database that
even the ones the the systems that law
enforcement was already using
so law enforcement already could
identify a face in some cases if they
had you in their database but until this
app came along you couldn't just take a
picture of a dead guy on the street and
his name would pop up they didn't have
that so there are actually a whole bunch
of examples around the country where
police literally they'll find a body
with no identification snap a picture of
it and the social media or any any kind
of social media or internet presence
pops up immediately
so they've they've apparently solved a
whole bunch of crimes from this now
people of course are worried about the
privacy aspect of it and I think the the
founder when he was interviewed I kind
of not kinda if I totally agree with his
take I think somebody else was
interviewed for it and that is the
privacy sort of a thing of the past
there really isn't any chance that this
won't be a universal kind of product so
they're just providing the service that
solves a whole bunch of crimes and it's
a technology you're probably going to
see anyway you know there wasn't any way
around it but Wow just think about that
now the the future uses that people talk
about but are not yet the actual uses so
at the moment it's sort of focused on
law enforcement so they're the ones who
get the contracts to use this thing but
people are saying what happens someday
when you've got the goggles on and you
can just tell everybody's identity just
walking through a crowd you know what
kind of abuse would there be etc so
those are all issues that society needs
to grapple with but Wow
just the fact that that exists and it
works and it's solving crimes pretty
amazing
it's called Clearview AI the teams for
the impeachment defense and prosecution
if you can call that loosely speaking
have been formed
it looks like the Democrats have on
their team a a bunch of people who
unheard-of and some I have that don't
seem too impressive so that's what the
Democrats have now maybe they're great
because I like I said I haven't heard of
them so they might be terrific I don't
know but it turns out that the
Republicans have wisely lined up their
own team and they have the ultimate kill
shot on the team so Alan Dershowitz is
on he would say I just saw anything with
him he would say he's on the side of the
Constitution so in his in his view of
his job he's not defending this
president he's defending all presidents
because this is such an important thing
it'll reverberate through time it would
affect any president he Dershowitz says
and I think it's completely credible
when he says it that he would give
exactly the same defense for a Clinton
for a Democrat it wouldn't matter who it
was because it's not about the person
it's not about even the situation it's
about the Constitution but here's the
fun part
remember this the Senate can kind of
make up its own rules and they can
decide whenever they want to
after hearing I think the open arguments
then they can decide whether they want
more witnesses do you know what
Dershowitz is going to do it to this
thing Dershowitz
is going to be presumably part of the
opening statements after Dershowitz says
even if everything that is alleged about
the president is true the Constitution
does not recognize this as impeachable
what will the republican-led lead Senate
do after Dershowitz one of the most
renowned respected knowledgeable
experienced experts on constitutional
law after he says yeah it wouldn't
matter what the details are everything
that they've alleged falls into the
category of not impeachable here's why
and I heard a brief exclamation on one
of his interviews so the abuse of power
charge for example is not
is not one of the intended impeachable
offenses indeed
apparently there's a there's a history a
written documented history of the
founders discussing whether that should
be part of impeachment and they
expressly discussed it and specifically
declined to put it in the Constitution
it was a it was a decision so you don't
have to worry about the gray area
there's no gray area it was discussed it
was documented they decided clearly not
to put it in the Constitution because
they didn't want that to be one of the
things you could be impeached for and
that's their case
that's the end after Dershowitz speaks
Mitch McConnell can say all right let's
make this a two-stage process and I
think this would be very fair stage one
are the things that are alleged we don't
even have to worry about they're true or
untrue we don't have to worry about the
way you're spending it you don't want
our version or their version if it's all
true would it be impeachable we just
heard our experts say no let's first
vote on that that if these allegations
are true would it be impeachable before
we dig into witnesses and finding out if
it's true I think once he says it's not
impeachable you can just end the whole
thing or at least you could vote to end
the whole thing and you would have all
the cover you need it so one of the
things about Dershowitz is if you watch
him long enough I've been watching him
for a long time and I'm actually blown
away every time he talks I'm blown away
at the this skill Dershowitz never
wastes a word now he's really good at
hitting the the the news you know
two-minute hits so he can he can put he
can put more content in fewer words than
anybody you've ever seen I mean he's
really amazing so I think he's geez the
kill shot I don't think anything else is
going to matter
Dershowitz is going to just
he's going to clean the table and
there's not going to be left everything
else to discuss after he's done I think
anyway that's an option
senator martha mcsalley insulted CNN's
Manu Raju Manu Raju Esther a question as
she was walking down the hall and she
said you're a hack I'm not answering
your question you're a hack now of
course the CNN the hosts were deeply
offended and won an apology and think
that's inappropriate but I have to say
this has got to be some of the some of
the blowback from the last debate and
the way they treated Bernie I mean it
kind of felt remember I said the other
day it felt like a turning point it felt
like the point where people no longer
accepted that the news is anything like
news but rather it's just part of that
political process the funniest part was
watching I just watched a little clip of
Jeffrey Toobin they're they're legal one
of their legal experts and he was
defending the accusation that seeing
them makes up its news and he said
unambiguously that's not true you know
I'm paraphrasing he didn't use these
exact words but he was defending the
accusation that CNN is fake news and I
thought to myself if you're on TV
defending whether your news channel is
actually making up the news you've
already lost here here's what you never
want to do on the air under your own
news network defend the accusation that
you're making up the news in general
he's that he's not defending that there
was one particular thing that was right
or wrong but rather that the entire
network does or does not just make up
the news it just invent it and if you're
defending that well that's a that's a
weak position I think I would have
rather maybe stayed away from that if I
were him so there's a new hip piece book
by - Washington Post reporters do I need
to say more there's an anti-trump book
written by - Washington
reporters can I just stop there anything
else we need to say I don't think so and
I think that's a whole story because
everything else you hear about this has
no credibility whatsoever but here's
their allegation perrolli in 2017 I
think it was President Trump was alleged
to have been angry at his generals about
you know not winning in Afghanistan and
not winning at all and this is what the
two totally credible Washington Post
reporters I say with a twinkle in my eye
totally credible because Washington Post
of course is an anti-trump
organization he's alleged to have said
quote you're all losers do you think
that President Trump looked at a room
full of the greatest generals in
American you know at least currently in
American history and said to them you're
all losers you don't know how to win
anymore
the commander in chief told the meeting
attendees allegedly according to the
posts quote of the book the president's
tirade continued with Trump telling the
military officials
I wouldn't go to war with you people
you're a bunch of dopes and babies he
told the room according to the post
excerpts and then apparently that's
after that is when Rex Tillerson
insulted the president saying he was
and eventually Tillerson got fired
now do you believe that those were his
exact words okay I don't now they could
be I think it's entirely possible that
those are somewhere in the general
neighborhood of his message I think
that's that's very believable I think
it's very believable that he thought his
generals could be more let's say winning
oriented than they have been especially
in Afghanistan that all makes perfect
sense but do you think he looked at him
and said you're all losers you're a
bunch of dopes and babies to which I say
maybe somebody said maybe at the same
time I did in the comments
maybe suppose he did how do you feel
about it how do you feel about it
suppose suppose that's exactly what he
said said to the generals you're all
losers you're a bunch of dopes and
babies I wouldn't go to war with you
what if he did say that do you care
I don't not really I don't really care
what happened since then they happened
in 2017 what has been our experience
with the military since then waiting a
lot of winning seems like to me so it's
possible he gave them some tough love I
don't know if that's true or not you
certainly couldn't take that is true but
I'm not sure a batters in any in any
real way Don the dad gone Geno tweeted
out that's how I saw it
a campaign ad by somebody who's a
democratic now it must be a Republican
competitor to Ilan Omar so somebody
who's competing for you Alon Omar's seat
and it is one of the most amazing videos
or ads you've ever seen I turned it on
because just because Dan Bungie knows
that it was you know great he had like
little fireballs at his tweet I thought
oh that's a lot of little fireballs Dan
it must mean something so I turn it on
and I'm hooked in the first five seconds
it's it's kind of a long ad but five
seconds in I was so hooked I went into a
separate room so I wouldn't be disturbed
until I got to the end now I'm not going
to say it's the best political ad I've
ever seen in my life because the stuff
that Brad parse Cal is creating is
pretty darn good and you know I praised
Bernie Sanders in his last campaign had
a great commercial one of the best so
there have been some great campaign
commercials but when I saw this this is
in the top three
I mean it's really really good so you'd
have to see it yourself to know what I
talked about but here's the cool part
she's very qualified well the cool part
is that she's an American born in Iraq
so she she had experience with a lot of
the Saddam Hussein reign now she's an
American she's running for Congress and
here's the amazing part her charisma oh
my god her charisma you know one of the
things we talked about with AOC and with
yeah and I would say with Elon Omar you
could dislike their policies or you
could like the policies by independent
of their of their politics their
charisma just jumps off the page you you
could just like Elon Omar all you want I
know some of a lot of you were
Republicans you probably do but you got
to say you got to give it to her she is
really charismatic when when Elon Omar
is on the screen
I do stop and watch because she's she's
got that x-factor that thing that makes
you want to pay attention and it's not
it's not her looks it's just it's not
any one thing it's a little package
anyway the the woman who is running for
Elon Oh Marcy - her first name is Dalia
and I'll tell you her last name but not
until later because that's there's a
story there so Dalia has a voice and a
presentation that reminded me of my
favorite actress on a series called the
expanse how many of you have seen the
Syfy show the expanse there's a
character there who plays the I don't
know she's the president of Earth or
Mars I can't remember president of arms
and she's got this really interesting
Iranian accent so she speaks English but
she's got an Arabian accent and it's the
kind of accent you could listen to all
day I mean it's just delicious you're
just just listening to this actress
every moment she's on screen again Perez
like she just yeah in in in movie terms
she chews up scenery when she is on
screen you stop what you're doing and
you listen to every word it's just it's
like listening to music when she talks
it's just beautiful
and this this competitor to Ilan Omar
Dalia she has that voice you know a
version of that and you listen to it
you're like oh my god do I want to
listen to more of that apparently it's
an Iraqi accent and it's just beautiful
it's just a beautiful voice I mean
really powerful so it's got power it's
got passion and man does she have
charisma I would love to know how she
was discovered now she's got all kinds
of experience across different fields so
she's got the full non loser think
experience because she's she's been
through different domains and I did not
think that it would be possible to have
an able competitor - Ilan Omar but there
it is that is a really strong politician
all right so look for that
oh here's the punch line and I I hate to
say this because I only have good things
to say about her as as her yeah I only
have good things to say about her
somebody's telling me she's Iranian so
is her accent also Iranian
because Iraq is our experience but she
may have some Iranian blood I don't know
it doesn't matter but here's the
unfortunate part this is her last name
Dalia al Aikido now when I pronounce
that you say well that's nice last name
elaqid oh I like that sounds good
here's the problem when you see a
written it looks like looks like Al
Qaeda now it doesn't look like it but
your brain just goes there automatically
because as al Qaeda is a little too
close so that is the simulation just
with us because she's got that much
talent and then she has that last name
hmm I hope that doesn't stop her you
know I've told you how the Republic has
morphed into more of a social media is
driving politics now here's a good
example of that I'm looking through my
Twitter feed and I see a tweet by
Congress person Tim Burchett Tennessee
congressman and the Tennessee
congressman tweets this to President
Trump he says keep pushing development
of fast reactors using 95 percent of
nuclear waste for fuel is a game-changer
so he's talking about generation 4 you
know new types of nuclear power and I
thought to myself whoa this is great
there's a there's a congressman tweeting
up the president you know this obviously
he understands the importance of this
field and I thought this is great
so I thought I should follow this guy so
I go to follow him and I noticed he
follows me so he was already following
me and he might be listening to this for
all I know he's all so far following
March Snyder who you know as our as our
favorite advocate for generation 4 and
nuclear power and so I'm pretty sure
that some of his at least some of his
let's say whatever formed his opinion
probably came from a variety of sources
but I think mark Schneider probably
helped inform this guy this Congress
person who is now informing the
president and when you see this it just
gives you chills because you see
something close to like a curated
democracy or a or best idea wins
democracy where only you know the good
ideas are the ones that bubble up and so
you can see these good ideas bubbling up
from social media
you you know that Congress just heard
from Michael Sheldon Berger and he was
using the phrase green nuclear deal and
you see all these ideas basically coming
from our Schneider yeah he's been
promoting them
I dislike no Mike Sheldon Berger is
boosting his signal i boost mike
Shellenberger signal and now there's a
congressperson boosting the signal to
the president exactly the way it's
supposed to load all right that's just
some good news all right we're going to
change topics right now I'm gonna raise
my hands in the air because later when I
edit this I might I might add it down to
the first part with the politics and
just keep the second part that's coming
up in the second part I told you I was
going to cure some of you of anxiety
related problems some of you may not
believe that's true
some of you probably think it's probable
now all of you are gonna have a
different experience and some will have
a profound experience some of you may
cry some of the you may scoff a lot of
you will just change the channel but let
me go through my let me go through the
presentation and you can leave whenever
whenever you feel you would like to I'll
give you this following warning I am
going to be rewiring the brains of the
people who stay I'm a trained hypnotist
most of you know that and what I'm going
to be talking about has some basis now
none of it is dangerous there's no
there's no risk of anything bad
happening to you I promise you that
likewise for those who have been
watching me for a while there are two
two things the hypnotists do that have
already been accomplished I wasn't
trying to do that we in this context but
it happened one of them is credibility
you have to have credibility in the
hypnotist your therapist your doctor it
helps I have credibility to many of you
because you've been watching me for a
long time and
you wouldn't be watching unless you
thought I had some credibility so the
first part is satisfied for most of you
second part is pacing this is what
heaven is dis do they match you in some
way until you feel compatible with them
and then whatever message comes from the
hypnotist feels like it's something very
comfortable and familiar because you've
already you've already pasted them or
matched them in some way now
unintentionally wasn't what I was trying
to do but those of you who have been
doing the simultaneous sip those who've
been watching me for a while have
somewhat accidentally paced me meaning
that you feel some comfort with me
that's requirement number two so the
first two requirements of hypnosis have
been satisfied I'm not going to put you
into a trance per se but I am going to
have you go through a guided
visualization which I think you will
find in some cases profound in other
cases you all feel I think so everybody
will have a different experience from
this all right let me give you some
background this is called the pre talk
in hypnosis this is also a part of the
technique so I'm going to make you feel
comfortable with what I'm going to do
next as part of the technique
all right here's some background I keep
hearing from people and maybe you saw
yesterday that that I had cured them of
their Trump derangement syndrome prior
to the election in 2016 or in some cases
after and so many people have told me
that independently they thought huh
there must be something through that so
here people had a specific kind of
anxiety fear that the world would be
destroyed by this orange monster and
there's something I did or some things I
did over time which caused people and
they're telling me I'm not making this
up this is what they report to me lots
of people lots of them lost their
anxiety and felt comfortable with the
president after they listen to me so
that's one example of where I know based
on reports from lots of people
they had a specific kind of anxiety that
I cured but I heard an even more
interesting example the other day and it
came from somebody who who reported
having a lifetime of anxiety crippling
mental problem anxiety the kind of
really ruins your life now our anxiety
disorders take many forms you could be
afraid of and I may be using the the
language a little differently than maybe
an expert in mental health would so take
it with take it as an approximate so
anxiety would describe somebody out of
phobia fear of the public fear of danger
fear of this might describe somebody who
had OCD OCD is kind of anxiety because
you feel if I don't you know do this
thing 10 times or whatever the number is
some bad luck will happen so sort of
this general anxiety fear many many of
you probably are experiencing anxiety in
the last several years that you had
never felt before and there's something
about modern life and about I don't know
maybe it's about the the news business
that gets people worked up maybe it's
our technology but whatever it is
there's a gigantic whole ball of
different anxiety related problems that
people have so there's one individual
told me a few days ago that I had cured
a lifetime of anxiety problems and I
thought to myself I did what was it I
said and so I asked what was it I said
that cured a lifetime of anxiety
problems that all the medical
professionals couldn't make a dent in
and this person told me and I started to
connect it with other things I knew and
develop an idea of what causes it now
let me give you some more background and
I'll pull this all together
I've talked and of course you've seen it
in the news about how hallucinogens
specifically psilocybin that comes from
hallucinogenic mushrooms
LSD and some other hallucinogens are
being used by medical professionals to
cure various anxieties from PTSD to all
kinds of stuff and almost instantly in
other words one dose in some cases is
curing people of a lifetime of mental
problems and there's so much of that and
there's so many stories of it that it's
considered one of the most exciting
fields in mental health now if you read
up or if you've had the experience as I
have of having any kind of
hallucinogenic experience I did
mushrooms in my 20s and I and I talked
about how it was one of the most my most
meaningful experiences and I read about
other people's experience and the most
common thing that people say is that
they describe it as ego death ego death
now if you've never experienced ego
death and you've never experienced any
kind of hallucinogenic experience at all
that doesn't mean anything to you if I
said hey ego death what does that even
mean so everybody probably has sort of a
personal experience that they they tend
to describe that way it's exactly how I
described it before I had ever heard
anybody else use those terms it was
exactly the words I used it's ego death
now for our purposes I'm going to define
your ego as that part of you that makes
you feel special the thing that makes
you feel like you're special and
important that's your ego I'm giving you
a very friendly definition you know so
no no deep psychology here but the thing
that makes you really feel special is
your ego and let me tell you why this is
important by an analogy now analogies
have not good for persuading as I often
say but they're good for explaining a
new concept so here's the new concept
suppose I said to you I would like you
to take this potato just a regular
uncooked potato and could you walk it
a half a mile that way and give it to
somebody now forget about why you know
why you need to deliver this potato
that's not important
but if I say could you take this potato
and deliver it over there and you've got
the time and the inclination to do that
would that give you any exact sighting
probably not because what's the worst
that could happen
you drop the potato well it's just the
potato you lose the potato it's just a
potato you you get busy and you don't
make it with your potato what's the
difference it's just a potato that
person can get a new potato potato has
no value now let's say I said instead of
a potato could you take this priceless
painting by Picasso and just just walk
it down the street to my you know where
it needs to go to the museum could you
do that for me now let's imagine it's a
world where there's no crime so you're
not worried about crime you're only
worried about the safety of the painting
and all you're doing is just carrying it
a half a mile that way I'm giving it to
the museum
how much anxiety would you have if you
were holding a priceless
irreplaceable painting and you're just
walking down the sidewalk with it you'd
be plenty of worried because of the
value of the painting you'd worry that a
bird would do something that the wind
would come up and put some dirt on it
you'd worry that you'd trip you'd worry
that somebody come along you'd worry
that a car would splash water on it it
would be your fault you'd have to pay
for it you'd have all kinds of things to
worry about and it's only because the
painting is so valuable the potato was
not so what you need to learn is to be
the potato don't be the painting be the
potato now why is it that a psychedelic
experience would give you Y go death and
would turn you from somebody who's
trying to deliver a priceless painting
into somebody who says no care in the
world it's just a potato and here's my
hypothesis the hypothesis is
that when you have the egodeath you have
nothing to worry about because there's
nothing to protect and I think that the
way that you come about that is
indirectly the way that you get to that
is by being in the hallucinogenic
experience you see your environment
completely differently for the first
time and yet and here's the important
part you understand it you see your
world as if it's brand-new but you still
understand it and by the way other
people experience it explain it the same
way now once you've experienced that you
could have a completely different set of
subjective interpretations of your
environment what does that tell you
about your old view of the world
it was subjective it wasn't right more
importantly it wasn't important the way
you always saw the world before that
first time you saw it differently
was never real and it was never
important and if the way you see the
entire reality is unimportant
and you just feel that you're part of
that larger reality and that it is
subjective you suddenly start to feel
that you are not that important but
here's the important part you never
learn you never lose the sense that you
need to you know take care of your life
and your health and all that there's no
danger you simply take your unreasonable
fear of protecting yourself and it comes
down to a normal well I have to eat
today I've gotta sleep God you know if I
cross the road still got to look both
ways there's no downside you still would
be fully protective of yourself well
you'll just learn that you're more like
a potato then like a priceless painting
once you get that feeling that your ego
is not important what would you ever be
afraid of would you be afraid of the
future no there's nothing to be afraid
of
because there's nothing at risk but a
potato
so I'm going to walk you through
something a set of thoughts that will
reproduce what is that what a what a
hallucinogenic trip would do so I'm
going to give you without the
hallucinogens and therefore without the
risk of that any illusion might have
there's a small risk but you won't have
any of that I'm going to give it to you
without that all right and bear with me
it's going to take a little bit of setup
and then and then we're going to do it
the first thing you need to know and
this will be helpful is that there are
different filters in the world and you
have probably experienced them for
example did you know that in quantum
physics the a particle that exists on
the other part of the universe that has
never been seen and never been measured
in any way
doesn't actually exist did you know that
this is actual scientific truth matter
the actual building blocks of our
reality we know don't actually exist
except as probability until a human or a
machine or an animal or something that
can see something and detect something
until something is seen and detected it
doesn't actually exist now all the
things in your room around you exist
in a sense because you're looking at
somebody is measured it touched it
looked at it but scientifically we know
and by the way this is not any there's
nothing controversial this this would be
something every every scientist would
agree matter doesn't exist until it's
witnessed by a machine or a person
what's that mean well it probably means
that there's some subjectivity to your
perceptions let me give you some other
examples religion how many people are
walking around they have different
religions
if somebody is let's say a Hindu and
they believe that they have reincarnated
and are going to reincarnate and they're
standing in the same room with somebody
who's a Muslim or a Christian are they
experiencing the same reality I would
say no I would say now if you believe
that everything that's happening to you
is God's will that's not really the same
reality as a person who thinks it's
their own doing or the person who thinks
they're in a simulation these are
completely different subjective
realities you also know because you've
been following me for a while you know
that in politics we can look at the same
set of facts and see a different movie I
call it the two movies on one screen
you've seen in how a hundred times you
see it every time anybody looks at a
document I see this a crime I obviously
a crime I'm looking at the same document
so you can see in real time on the news
every single day that people who are
sincere and they're not lying in every
case there are liars in the news but
they're not lying about their perception
they are looking at the same stuff you
are but they're seeing a different
reality normal completely common once
you understand that you can start to
release on your preferred version of the
world yeah you've seen it with the
optical illusions like Laurel and Yanni
that you could hear the Laurel or the
Omni you've seen the ones where you can
think a different word and then the word
you're hearing starts to sound like that
word but then you can think of a
different word and the sound you're
hearing that's the same sound sounds
like the other word you see lots of
tests like that and again it's showing
you that you worry that your impression
of reality is subjective
now here's another framing that will
change your frame instead of seeing the
world as there's you and then there's
this reality that's sort of fixed and
you're just looking at it think of
yourself as almost like the person in
the robots head think of your body as a
big old robot
this case it's a moist robot or
biological robot but imagine yourself as
a person in the control room inside your
head you're looking at your eyes and
you're controlling this big robot that
is your body just think about that and
then think about the fact that there are
different filters as I call them on your
perceptions and so sometimes your big
robot body is hungry you know that you
see the world differently when you're
hungry things bother you that wouldn't
bother you you're angry about things you
didn't need to be angry about
but you're not really seeing those
things you're seeing it through a filter
of your own hunger and it makes you
angry sometimes likewise if you're tired
that's a different filter likewise if
you're an optimist you're seeing the
world through a different filter if you
believe you live in a simulation you're
seeing the world through a different
filter if you have a different religion
it's a different filter once you start
to understand that your filters are
interchangeable and it has nothing to do
with you whoever is you whatever is this
thing called you your preferences your
experiences your memories whatever it is
it can be all kinds of different things
in terms of how it sees the world but
you don't really change not that much
anyway what changes is your filter take
your filter down
hey this president is a big old monster
change the filter oh he's just operates
differently now now I see it through a
different filter this mental exercise of
being able to see the world as a filter
will D personalize things and give you
very close to your escape route but
we're going to take you all the way
there in a moment and it goes like this
are you ready here's the here's the
payoff and next few moments some of you
not all of you because everybody's gonna
have their own experience some of you
are going to have a deep experience in
the next minute or two watch this all
right
I want you to relax I'm not going to
hypnotize you but I'm gonna take you
through some guided imagery you don't
have to close your eyes in fact keep
them open keep your eyes open
take a deep breath loosen your shoulders
and now I want you to imagine not as if
it's true but just imagine that
everything you see in your environment
your room the device you're looking at
the table the objects the whatever you
were using to drink imagine them as if
they're a virtual reality imagine that
you're not in a real reality but rather
you're in a virtual one now it's a
special one because if you touch
something you can feel it but imagine
that's just an illusion and imagine
without touching anything you just look
around and you look at an object pick an
object in your room and just look at it
and imagine instead of it being real
then it's a perfectly rendered a virtual
reality simulation now watch how that
makes you feel just feel yourself in the
moment just looking at your environment
don't think of anything else don't think
of anything outside of your direct
immediate experience look at them and
imagine them as a virtual reality
construct and see what happens
do you feel it yeah some of you are
already feeling it keep doing it stay in
the moment stay in the moment the future
doesn't matter just look at your objects
look around you and imagine that they're
not real they're subjective they're just
like a virtual reality now
do that and then repeat the first time
you do it some of you will have a
profound experience you see in the
comments
somebody says goosebumps somebody else
no experience whatsoever for those of
you who have had a lifetime of anxiety
issues keep these thoughts in mind
because it's the setup as much as the
exercise think about life as filters
think about your ego as unimportant
worth protecting
but it's not the be-all end-all just see
yourself in a simulated subjective
reality and know that you can change the
subjective reality if you need to you
have control you can see in the comments
somebody is crying some of you not all
of you some of you were just released
from a lifetime of pain a lifetime of
anxiety some of you just got released
some of you will be released later
you'll think about this and you won't be
able to get it out of your mind and
you'll repeat the exercise on your own
you'll look around wherever you are
you'll imagine it as a virtual reality
and it will give you the same sensation
that people have when they experience
ego death and it will free you
and that's all you need and I'll end it
right there and you have a great life
