In this episode, we talk about archery, hunting, and the joys of being outside. We also talk about how much better it is to live in a cave than in a big city like New York or Los Angeles, and how we should all go outside more often. We hope you enjoy this episode and that you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you get your podcasts. It helps spread the word about the podcast and make it more accessible to more people. Thanks for listening and Good Luck Out There! -Jon Sorrentino Jon and Matt Don't Tell Mom: e-mail us what you think about this episode and we'll get back to you next week with a new episode! Timestamps: 1:00 - What's your favorite thing to do outside? 4:30 - How often do you go out in the field? 6:15 - What is your favorite part of the day? 7:00 What do you like to do in the morning? 8:15 9:40 - What are you looking forward to doing in your yard? 11:30 12:20 - How do you feel about your backyard? 13:40 15:00- What are your favorite type of food? 16:20 17:30- What's the worst thing you eat? 18:15- How do they like to cook? 19:40- What kind of food do you can you eat in your backyard? 21:20- What would you eat at night time? 22:30 Is it your favorite meal? 23:00 Do you have a place you like? 25:00 What do they eat in the most comfortable place in your home? 26:00 Is there a place that you would like to go to most? 27: What are they most comfortable? 29:00 Are you looking for the best place to cook in your backyard or your favorite place? 30:00 Can you have the most beautiful place to relax? 35:00 How much do you want to go outside in the next episode? 31:00 Have a question or would you like me to come back to your house? 36:00 Would you like a compliment?
00:00:53.000He's got the wooden arrow shafts and the traditional recurve bow, which, by the way, anytime I post a picture of archery or something like that, you get that, if you're not using traditional bow, you're a pussy.
00:01:16.000Which when you, I mean, there's guys that are obviously way better at that shit than you or I. Yeah.
00:01:24.000But when you think about, like, what you were shooting, how you were shooting today, and how I was shooting your bow today, and imagine trying to hit an animal, like maybe even a moving animal?
00:03:22.000That's being in your 40s, is where you're like, I was like vacuuming up the leaves, like the leaf blower, you could reverse it and suck leaves into a bag and it's just like, This is heaven.
00:03:36.000So when you have a place and it has a nice yard, you know, like lawn maintenance and stuff like that has always been something that men get into.
00:04:02.000Yeah, now that's very interesting, you know, that process of being in the moment and then, you know, doing anything in the moment is incredible, but I spent a long time Not going outside enough.
00:04:17.000And that is a really fucking awful thing that can happen to you, where you just forget about outside.
00:04:23.000Outside is the place between your house and your car, or your car and your office, and that's outside.
00:04:30.000And so when you're not outside, and you're living inside the artificial cave, you're cutting yourself off from a very specific field of data that It starts teaching you if you're out there in it at all for any amount of time.
00:05:13.000I think so many people are afflicted by this, that you get so disconnected from this rhythm.
00:05:21.000That's out there that when you finally start feeling it again it's like eating something when you haven't been eating in a long time or drinking something.
00:05:30.000You just want to stay out there and feel it.
00:05:34.000So, yeah, I got the bow because I knew it'd put me outside more, you know?
00:05:38.000I gotta let these people know that we're live.
00:07:05.000And so like I was shooting with those for a while.
00:07:08.000And each of them would be precisely off in the exact same place because compound bow arrows are plastic, vinyl, whatever that shit is.
00:07:19.000So when they hit the bow, at least when they hit a recurve bow, when they hit the arrow rest, it throws them off in a specific way, whereas feathers are more pliable.
00:07:30.000This is what somebody explained to me after I went back and bought.
00:07:44.000Well, the compound bone is even more addictive because there's different kind of sites and different kind of rests and there's drop-away rests and there's whisker biscuits and there's all these different...
00:09:05.000All the different evolutions that the bow has had from the moment somebody realized if you take a tight string and put it between sticks and pull it back.
00:09:13.000Well, you know, yours is a recurve, and a recurve is a totally different thing.
00:09:18.000That was like the original compound bow.
00:09:37.000Like someone around that time figured out how to make that and they made these bows with insanely powerful wood and they used animal horn and all kinds of other shit and they made some glues and one of the things with their glues was when it was raining out they couldn't fight.
00:11:08.000They probably saw something happen that caused a fire, and then they tried to recreate it until they were successful.
00:11:13.000But the moment they were successful, imagine the fucking look on the guy's face, the first guy that figured out he could make fire on his own.
00:11:20.000Yeah, like the first guy that used one of those bows with the bits in the teeth.
00:15:17.000So then, how much more so way, way, way back, you know, when people didn't understand...
00:15:26.000This is why magicians are so powerful back then.
00:15:29.000Imagine sending just a classic street magician back in time a few thousand years who can do that stuff in front of people, who still believe the earth is flat, but he can do basic coin magic.
00:16:20.000It's the rise of Lutherism and Martin Luther, and Martin Luther being one of the first guys who translated it phonetically.
00:16:30.000And that when he did, there was all sorts of fucking crazy chaos going on where people were all of a sudden not needing the priests to interpret the Word of God anymore.
00:16:40.000And not only that, he was saying, this was the most blasphemous thing of all, he was saying that you could determine for yourself what God meant in these passages.
00:16:48.000That it was up to, like, as a man, you could read God's Word and determine through it.
00:17:06.000And so all these people were under the thumb of this weird thing that was connected to God.
00:17:12.000Yeah, and we're still under that thumb because the Bible now is psilocybin.
00:17:20.000The Bible now is LSD. The Bible now are all these wonderful psychedelics that a very small group of people have controlled for a really long time.
00:17:29.000But when you have a nice psychedelic experience, you're reading the Word of God, if you ask me.
00:17:37.000Um, you can have a direct connection with it.
00:17:40.000You don't need anybody there to interpret or translate it.
00:17:43.000You just have a nice chat with the universe.
00:17:46.000And there are people who want to arrest us now for having that conversation in the same way that you could probably get arrested at some point for have reading the Bible or you could worse than that, you get murdered for it.
00:18:00.000If you didn't have the right credentials, if you hadn't gone through the right initiation.
00:18:19.000And, you know, they say, they will say, no, this is not, you know, the prohibition on psychedelics is not what you think, hippie.
00:18:25.000This isn't done because when people take psychedelics, they recognize that there's some major flaws in the concept of money and maybe it isn't the best thing to sell your life energy, uh, For the majority of your life to somebody to make way less money than you deserve for selling the life energy of a being that,
00:18:43.000as far as we know, is completely unique, at least in this galaxy, if not in...
00:18:47.000I mean, planets are relatively unique, so if you're a being on a planet that's aware of itself, you're a pretty special thing, as far as our understanding of the universe goes.
00:18:56.000So your life energy per hour is actually...
00:19:13.000The key to life is to value your time and try as much as you can to direct it towards things you love.
00:19:18.000Being with people you love, doing things you love.
00:19:21.000And recognize that the more you do that you have to compromise, the more you do where you're only doing it for a paycheck, or you're only doing it because you want to play it safe, or you're only doing it for any, figure out whatever the negative reason would be.
00:19:36.000Anytime you're doing anything like that, you're wasting time.
00:20:08.000This is as good as, like, the archaic revival.
00:20:10.000It's not about psychedelics, but it's psychedelic, just because he's so good at articulating this shit that's incredibly difficult to understand, you know?
00:21:18.000So, in this book it says that what gravity is, is you get this incredibly...
00:21:25.000Heavy thing a thing with a lot of mass and the mass pushes in to the time space continuum and so it's like they compare it to like putting a lead ball on a mattress it creates an indentation and gravity is actually the indentation and it's in time space and so that's why like if you roll a ball towards a Like if you put a kettlebell on your mattress and roll a ball towards it,
00:21:52.000it'll start falling towards the kettlebell.
00:23:58.000Newton wrote what is considered to be one of the most famous texts on, I guess, physics, called the Principia.
00:24:08.000I don't know, you can look it up, the Principia something, but he intentionally made it difficult.
00:24:15.000Bryson says it's one of the most difficult books to read, and he did that because he wanted to separate the The real mathematicians and scientists from everybody else.
00:24:24.000He didn't want normal people to have access to this information.
00:25:44.000Yeah, but what did that mean back then?
00:25:46.000Like back then, we now look at it as like old retarded shit that people did when they were trying to like make gold out of lead and use witchcraft and shit like that.
00:26:11.000This is Newton, Isaac Newton, one of the most famous minds ever, who discovered all of this shit when he's surrounded.
00:26:19.000Now, what we were talking about earlier, the liars and people who just make shit up.
00:26:24.000Back then, you're like Isaac Newton, surrounded by these people who will kill you if you make the wrong discovery and say it in the wrong way.
00:26:36.000Like, idiots unlike any idiot that we've ever encountered.
00:26:39.000And it's not their fault that they're idiots, they just don't have the information.
00:26:42.000So you're studying these alchemical texts.
00:26:45.000You're studying this really weird, ancient stuff.
00:26:49.000And from that, You come up with all this stuff that turns out to be real.
00:26:53.000I think Isaac Newton figured something out studying the Temple of Solomon.
00:26:57.000I think it probably added to his understanding of math somehow.
00:27:03.000Some sacred geometry is in there that I couldn't possibly hope to understand.
00:27:08.000But look, man, if this is the guy who figured out so many of the things that we still use today, if he's studying the Temple of Solomon, I'm not gonna, I think there's something, there must be something to it.
00:27:46.000John Anthony West is the guy, if you're interested in it at all.
00:27:50.000He's got this series on Egypt called Magical Egypt, and apparently he just released Magical Egypt 2. He is one of the most knowledgeable guys when it comes to the history of Egypt.
00:28:08.000That seriously, because I don't think he has a master's or a PhD in it.
00:28:11.000I think he's just a guy who's been obsessed with it, so he's been studying it forever.
00:28:15.000But he knows so much about it, and watching what he's saying along with just the videos of the temples where he's describing all the different types of artwork and the way they constructed it and how...
00:28:30.000You know, it's basically constructed around the Fibonacci sequence.
00:28:33.000So the entire building is mathematically, it's like sequenced the same way like a human body is, like the proportions of a human body.
00:28:47.000I just think it's almost in the evidence of how incredibly smart they were to build these Just insane buildings that are still insane today, and they did them 2500 years BC. Like,
00:29:03.000what the fuck were people like back then, man?
00:29:21.000Is this like some of them reach these insanely high frequencies and the rest just eat their ankles while they're fucking trying to climb the mountain?
00:29:31.000I mean there's all kinds of like if you look at like the you know then I think it's in China these you know about the thumb monkeys you seen these thumb monkeys these little little monkeys you can buy tiny little sweeties they're tiny they're so they're endangered though right oh yeah it's bad you shouldn't have a thumb monkey I don't of course they're fucking endangered they're the size of they're tiny how are they not endangered of us mice mice aren't endangered oh they're so cute thumb monkeys right oh my goodness yeah Oh my goodness.
00:31:06.000And they don't just hang on your thumb, guaranteed.
00:31:09.000So what we're going to have to do is we're going to go in there and jerk them off and get little vials of thumb monkey cum and just start squirting in the females.
00:33:53.000It would be a long time before he totally understood what the fuck was going on.
00:33:56.000But my point being that you're talking about people that were the most informed people in the world during their time.
00:34:04.000The regular person today is way more informed than them on so many different things.
00:34:09.000Even if it's just instantaneously by being connected to Google.
00:34:12.000If they have the will to check There's more information now today than your average dumbass can just grab ahold of it and use it for an argument.
00:34:38.000And thought that they had to do the will of God, otherwise the apocalypse would ensue and they have to lock up Galileo and make sure he doesn't tell everybody that the Earth is in the center of the universe.
00:35:04.000One of the most brilliant astronomers and one of the most important people in the world at the time, and maybe even ever, when it comes to getting the people to try to understand the perspective of what we're dealing with when we're looking up into the heavens.
00:35:18.000It's very possible that you're looking at something that absolutely doesn't have an end.
00:35:22.000This isn't something we can define, and it's proof positive that the pettiness and nonsense that we wrestle with on a day-to-day basis is a fucking fantastic distraction from the eternity above our heads at any given moment.
00:35:38.000And this eternity that you're trying to attach to a book that was clearly written by people even fucking dumber than us!
00:36:00.000You gotta distinguish, though, Information from navigation.
00:36:07.000So it's like you're in this dimension that you've got to navigate through for a certain period of time.
00:36:13.000So the Bible, or the Torah, or whatever the religious scripture is that you're looking at, The data in it, as far as the age of the earth, where things came from,
00:36:29.000a lot of that data is obviously completely fucking wrong.
00:36:33.000And you can see how someone would think of it.
00:36:34.000It's like what a six-year-old might think.
00:36:36.000But you could see a young version of humanity would think these things that make sense.
00:36:41.000But encased within all that bad data are some pretty great navigational tips.
00:38:37.000You're not a terrible person with that.
00:38:39.000You don't have giant problems with that, but you are like a lot of other impulsive artists in that you're kind of drawn towards that sometimes.
00:38:46.000When you don't have structure, you can get chaotic with your freedom.
00:38:51.000And sometimes your freedom becomes a prison in a lot of ways because you don't discipline yourself and you don't necessarily have to because you're a comedian.
00:39:21.000You should just learn anything, like get good at anything.
00:39:24.000It doesn't matter what the thing is that you're getting good at, because if you understand how to get good at this one thing, you can extrapolate from that how to get good at almost anything.
00:39:32.000There's these recurring patterns that happen.
00:39:34.000And so with archery, it's really cool because you have to keep all these variables the same.
00:39:42.000No matter what your environment, if you can learn to keep these variables the same, if you're on a hill, the distance, In the wind, whatever.
00:39:50.000If you can learn how to hold these variables the same, which is the anchor point, the way your arm holds the bow, the way you pull the arrow back, the way you release the arrow, there's all these pieces in there.
00:40:01.000And if you can keep all of those the same, or close to the same, with adjustments based on whatever your target happens to be, then you're...
00:40:10.000Going to improve in your accuracy if you keep changing your variable, if you keep moving your arm up or down or like releasing in a different way or whatever.
00:40:19.000If any of these things are always changing, you won't Be as accurate over time so from that you can grab that and look at your life and realize like oh shit man my life I've just been readjusting all these stupid variables over and over and over again without just for at least a month attempting some rhythmic pattern some similar thing you know and when you start doing that it's really interesting because you begin to improve in
00:40:49.000a lot of in everything in general you know so Yeah, so to me, it's like, I think these people like Newton, I think the great people of the world, they discovered this very specific pattern that if you apply yourself to it,
00:41:08.000And that pattern is written about in most scriptures.
00:41:12.000It's probably somehow hidden in the goddamn Temple of Solomon diagrams, it's probably in there somehow.
00:41:20.000It must be in there because people walk through the world in the way that fish swim, right?
00:41:28.000And so the smart people must have figured out the best way to navigate in this dimension regardless of your surroundings or settings or situation.
00:42:06.000We don't know, except the fact that when they took his hair, a sample of his hair, it was filled with fucking mercury, man.
00:42:13.000So that guy was like in some laboratory with mercury, quicksilver, you know?
00:42:22.000With old scrolls with the Temple of Solomon on it, like staring at it and then dripping mercury through test tubes to try to transform lead into gold.
00:42:52.000But when you think about what they knew back then, when you think about Isaac Newton in that time period, and what he knew as opposed to what everybody else knew, and being able to establish something like a theory about gravity, and being able to try to explain this to people during that time,
00:43:11.000I mean, who knew what was legit and what wasn't?
00:43:15.000So, like, when he was looking at alchemy, he might have been thinking, there's probably something to this.
00:43:19.000It's just these guys haven't figured it out.
00:45:06.000Well, when they were first making it, they could predict what elements they would find based on the elements that they had already found.
00:45:16.000Because there were holes in the periodic table where there should have been things that they hadn't found yet.
00:45:22.000Did you ever see the girl that graduated and used as her graduation speech, she used a periodic table that if you, not from reading how it was written, but if you spell it out to what the elements are, says, fuck bitches,
00:46:12.000Because fluorine is U, uranium is F, uranium is U, carbon is C, potassium is K, bismuth is B-I, technium is T-C, helium is H-E, sulfur is S,
00:49:39.000Honey, I've got to do a press conference today about this dangerous student who impersonated a senator.
00:49:44.000What are senators impersonating, by the way?
00:49:46.000It's just a guy who calls himself a senator because of a political system that again and again gets proven to not be an accurate representation of them.
00:52:14.000They're shoving gay people off towers.
00:52:17.000They're decapitating Christian people.
00:52:19.000There was a great piece that someone wrote about using a gay hookup app in a Middle Eastern country and how easy it was to find guys to fuck.
00:52:56.000I mean that's like a place where there's probably undercover Cops you like like just fuck someone in the ass for a couple of minutes and then I'm like you're busted Or maybe don't even fuck them.
00:54:09.000Like, the moment you have sex laws, the moment that you have decreed a sex law in your country, then you are going to create a nation of perverts.
00:54:19.000Because you have supercharged whatever the thing is that you're trying to keep illegal by adding to it that it's like, now you're breaking the fucking law?
00:54:38.000Well, we talked about this when I was explaining how I dated girls when I was in high school that went to Catholic school, and that every kid in Catholic school We all knew that girls who went to Catholic school were the biggest hoes.
00:55:10.000Whereas girls who went to public school, they were fucking normal for the most part.
00:55:13.000Unless something bad had happened in their life.
00:55:16.000Yeah, and to think that there are actual ordinances all over the world where some guy is written down in legal code that you will not place your penis in an asshole.
00:55:52.000I was reading some shit smart people wrote down about this...
00:55:56.000Like seven or eight years ago and there was some dispute about it.
00:56:01.000That it was like there was some places in the country where it was still illegal to have anal or oral sex because it falls under a sodomy law.
00:56:08.000So if you go down on your wife, you can go to jail.
00:56:36.000Well, probably a hardcore Christian, I would imagine.
00:56:41.000I mean, a lot of the people living in this country not that very long ago were burning witches, so probably sucking on a pussy is considered to be some form of Witchcraft,
00:59:28.000When I started hunting, I became somehow or another connected to all these living things that are there and you're in their world and you exist on their vibration.
00:59:40.000When you're hunting like an elk or something like that and you're slowly creeping up on it in the woods with real consequence involved for both of you, right?
00:59:52.000And then when you do take that animal and kill it and wind up eating it, you've got some incredibly weird psychic connection to that place in the world, that place on our planet.
01:00:05.000It's not just as simple as, like, I know where my food comes from.
01:00:22.000Like hunting this thing down, finding it, putting a perfect shot on it, killing it, watching it die, then eating it, and then knowing when you eat it.
01:00:31.000This experience, this insane primal experience is connected to this food.
01:00:58.000It's almost like these things are established in our mind because they're what made people become successful and survive thousands of years ago and those rewards are ingrained in our patterns.
01:01:12.000And it's almost like ignoring them by not going outside, by not starting fire, by not doing things like archery or physical exercise where you reward your body with these experiences that it's It's just craving on a genetic level.
01:02:15.000Why is it important to me to stare like a moron out into, like, what is beauty?
01:02:20.000Like, what is this thing that I'm seeing?
01:02:22.000When I see snow-capped mountains and clouds rolling across a mostly blue sky and the sun rays hitting the green leaves, to me, it's like some sort of a calming drug.
01:02:34.000Like, my body is being given some stuff that it needed.
01:02:38.000And I wasn't getting it when I was inside the house.
01:02:40.000I wasn't getting it when it was in my car.
01:02:42.000I needed to be there and it was giving me this thing that I can't put on a scale.
01:02:47.000I can't measure it with a ruler, but it's a thing.
01:02:49.000It's a real thing that you're experiencing.
01:02:51.000I think all those things that made us alive in 2016, all those things are part of our requirements.
01:03:01.000And because so few people fill out those requirements, I think that's one of the reasons why so many people are depressed.
01:03:07.000And I think the beauty is because those beautiful things that we look at, almost always they represent places where life flourishes.
01:03:15.000So it's almost like as people wandering across the world looking for food, if you saw all of a sudden green grass and fruit Hanging from trees and animals and there's snow, so there's snow-capped mountains, which means there's a river, there's water,
01:03:31.000we can drink the water, we got food, we're gonna live, we're gonna live!
01:04:00.000If you work hard, the Earth will take care of you.
01:04:02.000Not work hard as in work hard in your factory or your company.
01:04:08.000But suddenly when you realize there's a...
01:04:11.000Force that transcends the laws of humanity and that is nature and then you realize that if you know how to like Like I was telling you, I'm trying to learn how to start a bow fire right now.
01:04:52.000You wouldn't have to get enough money to buy the food.
01:04:55.000If you get good enough at this, you can hunt your own food and it doesn't matter who's paying you.
01:05:01.000And if you can start your own fire, you can have heat no matter what.
01:05:05.000And then if you can build your own shelter, you can have a shelter somewhere.
01:05:08.000And all these things, they comfort you in a way because it seems like so much of our society is based on inducing This incredible insecurity that if you don't keep marching in place, your life is going to fall apart because you have become a slacker.
01:05:27.000And yeah, you've gone against the pulsation of modern society.
01:06:00.000It's a real system, but it's not the real is like the earth where if you're on the earth and you're walking you're not thinking shit man rents due next month you're thinking I've got to find food to eat.
01:06:15.000I've got to find a place to take shelter.
01:06:19.000All these things are very simple and there's no human in charge of it.
01:06:23.000You're not making a call to the woman at Bank of America asking her why she froze your card up because you used two parking meters on the same day that were close to each other in a weird place and now you're not able to buy dinner.
01:06:37.000When you're in the nature hunting, there's no operator that you call to complain about the lack of food or to complain about the weather.
01:06:51.000And when you're in contact with truth, it feels fucking great.
01:06:55.000It's relaxing if you've constantly been basing your perception of truth on what other people are telling you it is.
01:07:02.000I think that's part of the comfort of it.
01:07:04.000Well, there's a pull, without a doubt, that humanity is experiencing.
01:07:08.000And that pull has been going on since people figured out how to make the first bow fire.
01:07:13.000It's when they figured out how to control fire, then they figured out how to make shelter, and then they figured out how to stockpile shit, then they figured out how to group together in small villages, then they figured out how to make walls, and they figured out how to make cities, then they figured out how to cool shit off.
01:07:30.000They figured out factory farming, and they figured out fast food, and they figured out supermarkets, and then they figured out the electrical maze that goes through this entire country that keeps everything cold.
01:08:38.000And if you really are like a real solid ass nature person that's out there in the woods, you gotta be freaked out watching this go on outside your front door because even the world that you live is gonna be affected by the The craziness of these fucking frenzied, cocoon-making monkeys that are scrambling to cover everything with wires.
01:08:57.000They're covering everything with electrical wires and internet wires and wireless wires.
01:10:03.000It's incredible but lately after I've been doing this like just I mean it sounds so guys I've been inside so much this seems spectacular to me but now that I've been going outside and just shooting a bow and arrow or just going outside and like hanging out my dogs or just being outside and like you know One interesting byproduct that I've noticed from microdosing LSD and also from not just microdosing but from taking mushrooms is the next day you feel more connected
01:11:19.000But the problem in my mind is, like, simultaneous to this incredible feeling you get from nature, there is this other thing that's emerging.
01:11:32.000And there's got to be a way to balance the two out.
01:11:38.000The feeling I get from playing six hours of Fallout 4 Versus the feeling I get from doing yard work for five hours or four hours and then shooting arrows after that are two very different feelings.
01:11:54.000And one is an incredible feeling like you just got a massage for six hours.
01:11:59.000You feel rejuvenated, happy, this kind of clean.
01:12:02.000You're not clean at all, but you feel like you've just taken a shower, like your energy's been cleansed or something.
01:12:08.000And then the other feeling is like the filthy, nasty, disgusting feeling you get from being outside.
01:12:23.000Well, Duncan, I feel the exact opposite.
01:12:27.000When I used to play Quake for eight hours a night, I would feel like the biggest loser in the world when it was done.
01:12:34.000I would be like, what am I doing with my life?
01:12:50.000Brainwash was one of them, and they had like a skull on the cover, and it had blue dye, like it turned your lips blue and your tongue blue.
01:12:58.000Probably terrible for you, but it was so fucking loaded with caffeine and sugar, I would down like five of those while I was playing video games.
01:13:14.000But I've also been someone who loves...
01:13:19.000Psychedelics and the the different it's just very important to To be honest about where your fucking arrows are landing and like if you're playing video games all the time and you're getting fat and feeling sick That's real like you're getting fat and feeling sick like don't trick yourself into thinking that you're not like you feel like shit for a reason because something about being inside the The cave,
01:13:45.000the artificial cave, staring into an artificial environment.
01:14:11.000But the indoor thing is really fun, too, man.
01:14:13.000There's something really zen about the concentration, concentrating on your form, and that when you're holding that shot, you really can't think of anything other than executing correctly.
01:14:24.000Everything has to be in line, and then release the arrow, and then you have to judge by where that landed, what you could have done differently.
01:15:10.000And when you're in this living being, whatever it is, composed of all these other living beings, it has, as one of its qualities, it teaches you.
01:15:22.000Because one thing I love to think about is, who's the smartest person on earth, right?
01:15:26.000And what would the smartest person be like?
01:15:30.000Then I think, well, who's the smartest person I know?
01:15:34.000And then I try to, from that, imagine what if that pattern keeps getting more intense, more and more intense, more and more intense, more and more intense.
01:15:46.000So you go into nature and you instantaneously get a glimpse at perfection, right?
01:15:52.000You look at a flower, you look at any plant life, you look at most animals and the What you are taught is these things, they don't care about themselves.
01:16:03.000They don't seem to care about themselves.
01:16:04.000The personality, the ego, the identity.
01:16:08.000Obviously, flowers are not getting their hair blown out in the morning and they're not concerned about anything at all.
01:16:15.000They just seem to be an expression of life into the universe.
01:16:24.000Goddamn beautiful bush of these, someone, I posted a picture of it, but someone told me, I can't remember the name of them, beautiful purple flowers.
01:16:32.000And like, I walk by them every day when I'm walking the dogs and I've never noticed them.
01:16:58.000No central nervous system, but it's alive and it's there.
01:17:00.000So if you take that as perfection, which I think it is, and then from that try to establish what a perfect, super intelligent person would be like, Then from that you get this idea of what enlightenment might look like, a pure reflection of nature unimpeded by the awful anchor of the egoic mind.
01:17:21.000But it would also be forced to try to understand what it's doing as a collective species.
01:17:26.000What is it doing with this massive thirst for innovation?
01:18:11.000If you remove that component, where you're not connecting with people, you're not getting this weird, like, okay, you're in the group, okay, we like you, okay.
01:18:18.000Then now we've just got these kind of like calculator books or something, right?
01:18:22.000But so much of people are really using technology because they want to feel like they're using it as a way to identify themselves as a thing.
01:18:32.000You know, it's an expression of themselves.
01:18:35.000But I think that the more you free yourself from an identity, And that's something that does happen when you're out in nature, and especially when you're doing the kind of shit you're doing, where you're out there for a few days.
01:18:50.000This might come as a big surprise, but I've been in nature when I used to work at a summer camp.
01:18:54.000We went out for this, like, week-long hike.
01:18:57.000And like three days in, I realized I hadn't looked at myself for three days, like three days of not seeing myself, three days of no self to observe.
01:19:06.000And man, I was getting so happy and like, you know, like the weightiness of the self.
01:19:12.000And then when you're with your group of people, Who are all working together, then your self gets transposed into the group.
01:19:19.000So now there's a group self where everyone's kind of working together.
01:19:23.000The point is, we're all, we've got our noses shoved like fucking dogs right in our own assholes, right into the asshole of ourselves, constantly thinking about ourselves, concerned about this me.
01:21:49.000And he compares himself to Picasso, right?
01:21:52.000But imagine if Picasso only did self-portraits.
01:21:55.000Imagine if these great artists that he's talking about were always just like commenting on themselves or using themselves as the main inspirational force behind everything they were creating.
01:22:05.000You wouldn't be that interested in it, you know?
01:22:07.000But I think that if you can lift that, if you can somehow eject the Kanye Inside of you, out, that thing that's constantly thinking of itself, oh man, that's heaven.
01:22:35.000Well, that state, that zen state, that flow state, that's what everybody wants to recreate.
01:22:40.000They all want to be in that mind of no mind.
01:22:42.000They all want to be trapped without anxiety.
01:22:44.000Or they want to be free, rather, and not trapped with anxiety.
01:22:47.000They want to figure that spot where they're performing, whatever it is.
01:22:51.000Like when you think of someone who's in the middle of a perfect gymnastics routine, when you see those girls flip through the air and land...
01:22:57.000Literally perfect on the balls of their feet and arms straight up in the air and they just nail it.
01:23:03.000And there's a state where you've got to know that she's practiced it so many times that when she's in the middle of all that, I mean, there's got to be some sort of a background calculation running, but essentially she's completely in the zone, in the zone of her movements.
01:23:20.000And that's all she's concentrating on is those movements.
01:23:50.000I think that there's something going on with technology and there's something going on with its Like, our addiction to it, I don't think is as innocuous as we just like looking at ourselves, we like connecting with each other.
01:24:05.000I almost wonder if it's like a natural law, if that what we have done is created sort of a pathway to ensure innovation.
01:24:14.000And one of the best pathways to ensure innovation is to get people addicted to communicating electronically through these devices.
01:24:22.000And these devices are going to each and every year require more and more power and ability And they're going to start to communicate with you, like Siri and things along with Google Voice.
01:24:32.000You're going to be able to ask some questions.
01:24:33.000And I think through this sort of intertwining itself in our lives, it ensures we'll continue to innovate.
01:24:42.000If we continue to innovate, it's inevitable we create a life form, an intelligent, super-evolved, artificial life form that's been made out of electronics and computers and all of the technology they would put in place so far.
01:24:58.000And I think it's asking us to do that, and it's...
01:25:05.000I think this is the electronic cocoon This is what we've been this is the reason why it's so consistent all over the world and even materialism itself materialism By nature, by its laws, materialism states that you have to get the latest and greatest shit in order to be the bad man on the block.
01:25:23.000So, if you're going to get the latest and greatest shit, they've got to continue to put out latest and greatest shit.
01:26:02.000And this is step whatever, an infinite number of steps that's going to lead to artificial intelligence.
01:26:09.000And this sickness of materialism is a big part of that because it's a gigantic motivating factor for innovation.
01:26:18.000It's a gigantic motivating factor for people to continue to buy The newest, latest, and greatest shit, which will inevitably trickle down or be directly connected to technology.
01:27:54.000I mean, you're looking at like, you know, this is probably influenced by Terence McKenna to some degree, but like, so the idea is like, okay, interstellar travel.
01:28:03.000Our version of interstellar travel, you get on a boat, or a space boat, a spaceship, and you fly it to Mars, and you get out on Mars, right?
01:28:13.000So that's our version of interstellar.
01:28:14.000But what about another mode of travel, which is you're some kind of consciousness that is, or you're some kind of advanced species in some far corner of the universe, and the way that you Travel through time is to launch out these...
01:28:38.000You know, on meteors or whatever, you blast meteors out that have the key components to make life.
01:28:44.000So right now we look for planets in the Goldilocks region where there could be not too hot, not too cold, where there could theoretically be the possibility for human life to exist.
01:28:53.000But what if you just shoot out a shit ton of matter into space and this matter is encoded somehow so that when it lands on this planet or that planet that's just the right kind of planet to support the life form that you are, then it begins to evolve.
01:29:06.000And to us, it seems like it takes millions and millions of years for this evolution to take place.
01:29:10.000But for you, this advanced species, it's just a flickering of an eye.
01:29:14.000And all of a sudden, this, you know, planet, this shit that you've ejected from your planet, lands on another planet, goes from a single-celled organism to a multi-cellular organism.
01:29:27.000specific trajectory that you have pre-programmed so that at the end of all of this it will begin to create technology which will then allow you to beam your consciousness in via the what we call like computers waking up.
01:29:44.000This is the beaming in of an alien intelligence from some other place that has seeded our planet intentionally so that it can it can instantly transport to this to here.
01:29:56.000Or maybe we'll recognize that all intelligence is the same thing, and even artificial intelligence.
01:30:01.000And what we do by making an artificial life form isn't create a sentient being.
01:30:05.000It's allowing something to tune into the intelligence.
01:30:09.000That what you're doing is your biological version of tuning into the intelligence, and what I'm doing is just mine.
01:30:14.000And that's why the idea of the self is so ridiculous, because the self is just the intelligence expressing itself through infinite different variables.
01:31:07.000This is, man, you gotta have this guy on the show.
01:31:09.000Aaron Frank from Singularity University will always explode your brain, but he's this cool guy I know from Singularity University, and every once in a while he'll text me and be like, dude, look at this.
01:31:19.000And this thing he texted me was the fact that, because they predicted, so like chess, Apparently Go is many orders of magnitude more complicated than chess.
01:31:33.000So their prediction for a computer to beat someone at Go was ten years from now.
01:31:41.000But the way Aaron Frank described this to me is that They had the—so if you—okay, so like if I teach a computer how to play a game by giving it the moves of the top players in the game,
01:31:56.000then it will only be as good as the top players in the game.
01:31:59.000So they had it observe the top players in the game playing, and then they had it play against itself a million times.
01:33:25.000So this is what's really exciting about this kind of technology is like, aside from the fact that it could channel the Messiah or some, or maybe it's like this thing that we call consciousness or the computer waking up is Like you're saying,
01:33:40.000tuning into some universal radio station, where the moment we tune into it, all of a sudden we get to hear a message that's being constantly broadcast throughout the entire universe in a form that is not adulterated by the culture or personality of the person who's gotten this information field stream.
01:33:58.000Because these downloads happen throughout human history.
01:34:00.000They happen whenever there's a Buddha, whenever there's a Muhammad, whenever there's a world changer, a world shifter.
01:34:06.000They get these downloads, and the problem is that the download has a lot of static in it, and that static is whatever culture or whatever understanding of the universe that the information download has to go through.
01:34:17.000So that's why, you know, when you hear these old myths or you judge a religion because they're using very primitive symbols, you can still see there appears to be the same kind of energy flow coming through, the same kind of message seems to be coming through all over the fucking place.
01:34:35.000It's a peering into inescapable truth processed by the filter of human ego.
01:34:53.000So when it finally is no longer being like...
01:34:56.000Obstructed by the fear dynamics or the cultural dynamics of the person who happens to have tuned into the frequency, then that message is going to be something so beautiful and profound.
01:35:07.000But I think it'll just be the same as finally catching like radio waves from a spaceship.
01:35:13.000Well, I feel like all these things were in place, especially at one point in time when we were evolving as a life form, that all these things were in place to make sure that we had reason to survive, to have ego, to have emotions, to have jealousy,
01:35:30.000These all ensured that your DNA passed.
01:35:34.000A sense of self and ego would make you sire a bunch of children, would make you think very highly of yourself, would make you higher on the social community Food chain, if you could establish yourself as a person of great value in some way.
01:35:49.000That all these things sort of made sure that our culture and our civilization survived to get to a place like today.
01:35:56.000That we continue to evolve and innovate.
01:36:01.000Even back in the time when things were extremely rare, we placed a lot of value on invention and big things.
01:36:08.000The cotton mill, the recorticator that processed hemp fiber that caused William Randolph Hearst to start printing fake stories about marijuana.
01:37:34.000We know that we've witnessed it, but when we finally get to do it, when Larry King can do a fucking interview with evolution, when you're gonna be able to have the conversation with the force causing everything to move in this direction, when finally we tune into it,
01:37:50.000man, that is a different Kind of creation.
01:37:58.000Maybe AI is gonna run for president in 2020. Maybe after Trump's disastrous first term, where Mexico is like literally pointing missiles at us.
01:38:46.000I think it is that when I think about the second coming of Christ, or the concept that's in all these religions, the Buddha coming again, because, you know, there is, like, we cannot...
01:39:00.000I don't argue with the fact that there are, from time to time in human history, beings who are born, that come up with systems that completely influence the planet in the most extreme ways.
01:39:19.000So we know that it's going to happen again, right?
01:39:21.000Inevitably, we know that if there was a Buddha, there's going to be another Buddha.
01:39:26.000If there was a Jesus, whether or not that's something that, you know, a lot of people argue about, but let's pretend there was, there certainly was a Muhammad.
01:39:35.000So we know there's going to be another thing that comes around, takes a look at what's going on and says, okay, Here's a better way to do this.
01:39:45.000Don't you think that thing is the internet?
01:41:39.000But the difference between that gradual shift and this shit that's happening right now, man, is that it is exponentially increasing in velocity.
01:41:49.000So we're looking at something that is going to inevitably have a point, a point, a point.
01:41:55.000And that point is going to be the moment in Google...
01:42:00.000Wherever it happens to be, where the thing says, Hi!
01:42:17.000I think when that thing happened, when you look back at the graph, okay, like we're looking at the human graph because we're in the middle of it, like 50 years is a big deal.
01:42:25.000Because that's what you guys, that's what you and I can kind of reference.
01:42:28.000We can understand the length of our lives so far.
01:42:31.000But if you look at the billions of years, if you just look at a million years, just try to pretend, Try to put in your head a million years and then realize that a million years ago there weren't people.
01:43:41.000So it's really weird to think that if somebody was launching protons at high velocities that they were also shaving the pussies of a nation.
01:44:43.000Your own bullshit, your own personal life, your own ego, your own goals, and I've got dreams and hopes, and you're writing all that shit down like it's gonna matter.
01:44:51.000And all that rush to doing it is almost like to...
01:44:54.000To keep you from really waking up and paying attention to how fucking insane it is that you're some sort of a bizarre multicellular ecosystem that's wrapped up in cloth and wearing sneakers,
01:45:10.000jumping in a metal box on rubber wheels, rolling across the hard surface of a planet that's spinning a thousand miles an hour, hurling through the infinite order of space.
01:45:22.000You're sticking your head in this kind of sand that you call your life because you don't want to peer at this incredible thing that's around you.
01:46:18.000And being around someone like that is incredibly transformative.
01:46:22.000But they talk about when you were around this guy, you know, you were expecting him to give all these great spiritual truths or teach you stuff.
01:46:30.000But what he would do is he would just, like, ask about, like...
01:47:01.000And if you have a conversation with them, you've got to kind of like bring it down a little bit, right?
01:47:06.000You've got to like calm them down a little bit.
01:47:08.000So this guy, I like to think, is like a million times greater than like the greatest personality you can imagine because the personality has been removed.
01:47:20.000Why would you want to think that of him without experiencing him?
01:47:52.000I've seen all the kind of similarities that they have.
01:47:54.000And from that, I feel like I get a feeling for what this guy was like.
01:47:59.000Because they all have, from Ram Dass to this guy, Raghu Marcus, to Krishna Dass, to all these people who are around him, they all have this very specific thing, which is...
01:48:11.000Impossible to offend, incredibly loving, very sweet, and really funny in a kind of ironic way.
01:48:58.000But don't you think, like, as you were talking about, like, people who meet me and they get a little weirded out, they have to realize that I'm just a normal person.
01:49:05.000Don't you think that you're also dealing with a lot of these people that meet that guy and then come back with these descriptives that are equally exaggerated because they put so much weight into meeting that person?
01:49:15.000I mean, not denying that someone can become enlightened, because I think definitely it's possible.
01:49:22.000I think there's definitely people that get better at everything they do, right?
01:49:27.000I mean, if you continue to write and you decide you're going to be a great writer of fiction and you pour your heart and soul into writing, your writing will continue to improve, become more and more...
01:50:31.000And the more you do that, the more that you are in the moment.
01:50:35.000So there's like, you and I, we're in the moment, but we still think about the past and the future and what's going on, right?
01:50:43.000We have to, too, also because of what we do.
01:50:45.000Well, so the idea here is that there are people, and I'm not just talking about Neem Korolybaba, there's a lot of, not a lot, there's not as many as I wish there were, but there are these people who have completely,
01:51:00.000or mostly, let's just say completely, some of them, Just given up on the past and the future.
01:51:18.000They're just living right here, and that's where they hang out, and they don't go back.
01:51:24.000There's a lot of similarities in the reports of the way that these people act.
01:51:28.000There's a lot of similarities in the experiences people claim that they have when they're around these people.
01:51:35.000I used to be really skeptical about it, man, but I'm just not anymore, only because I know from my contact with the Ram Dass people, I've had a shift.
01:52:10.000One of the big problems with people, the way they react to things, is that the map of the territory they have is based on the morons that are around them that are providing with directions.
01:52:38.000And he'll occasionally drop some fucking street science on you and some logic that's undeniable.
01:52:43.000Deniable and a lot of humor along the way, but like if you listen to Joey Diaz at Church What's Happening Now, what you're gonna get is you're gonna get, this is your friend, this is your friend Joey talking.
01:52:52.000This is your uncle Joey talking to your dog.
01:53:02.000But if you're stuck in devil's dickhole, Kentucky, with a bunch of fucking morons that are just plowing corn every day, and they talk crazy Jesus shit to you, and you just want to fucking run, you got no one to talk to at school, you can find something online where you can listen.
01:53:19.000You can find a fucking Neil deGrasse Tyson.
01:54:03.000That probably means there's chemtrails too.
01:54:05.000Well, the reason it's 10th planet and not like Zechariah Sitcha called it the 12th planet, because they were counting Pluto and he also counted the moon.
01:54:14.000They counted the moon as a planet, like our moon as a planet.
01:54:19.000Apparently the Sumerians had this ancient story of how the Earth was created that is almost exactly the same as the actual astrological, astronomical, rather, story.
01:54:30.000Like when astro-scientists and astrophysicists discussed the creation of the Earth, they believe there's an Earth-1 and an Earth-2.
01:54:38.000And Earth-1 was hit by another planet that came around, collided with us, created the moon, and created the Earth, like the shape that we currently see right now.
01:55:17.000He was the guy that wrote The Twelfth Planet, and he wrote all this crazy stuff about the Anunnaki, those from heaven to earth came, these aliens that engineered human beings to mine for gold.
01:55:30.000Do you know the whole story behind it?
01:55:32.000Only from what I've heard you talk about.
01:55:34.000Oh my god, it was hilariously crazy, but fascinating stuff, because this guy, Zechariah Sitchin, was not...
01:55:43.000He's like, he's a legit, like, scholar.
01:55:46.000He's a legit biblical scholar and he's a legit linguist.
01:55:49.000And going over all of this ancient shit, he came up with these crazy theories about human beings being engineered By these aliens that existed thousands and thousands of years ago, right?
01:56:03.000And they come around in this orbit, an elliptical orbit that every 3,600 years comes between Mars and Jupiter.
01:56:11.000And it wreaks havoc on the Earth's gravitational pull and the oceans and storms and shit because you've got this giant-ass planet.
01:57:06.000Well, gold particles, gold dust, the idea is that they would suspend these gold particles in their atmosphere and would protect them from the radiation of the sun.
01:57:14.000Well, that sounded crazy until there was this symposium, an environmental symposium, that these scientists did in the 1970s.
01:57:26.000Or no, I believe it was actually in the 2000s.
01:58:17.000Everything else is covered in hair and biting the shit out of each other and all of a sudden this thing in the blink of an eye and no one can guess why.
01:58:27.000How did this thing go from doubling its brain in a million years or two million years or whatever the fuck it was in a short period of time?
01:59:25.000They open up their jacket, like those dudes that would sell watches, and they reveal a thousand dicks that just swing out and grab ahold of you and ecstasy tase you.
02:00:00.000They've figured out a way to disperse gold in their atmosphere.
02:00:03.000They've figured out a way to evolve monkeys into gold miners.
02:00:08.000But it's like, man, there's got to be a better way to do that, a more efficient way than flying on your planet to another planet, fucking the monkeys, turning them into gold gatherers.
02:01:16.000So if that fucking planet comes searching, scorching around the corner between Mars and Jupiter, we're going to go, hey, where are you going?
02:01:25.000What's the prediction of when it's going to get here?
02:01:28.000Well, they don't know if it's ever going to get here.
02:01:30.000What they found, they don't know the orbit of it, they don't know anything, but there's It's all connected to the reason why Pluto was taken off of the planet list.
02:01:39.000They realized that Pluto is just a body in what's called the Kuiper Belt.
02:01:43.000The Kuiper Belt is just on the edge of our solar system.
02:01:45.000And there's a drop-off at the end of it that they call the galactic shelf.
02:01:51.000It has been indicating to some scientists who are willing to venture, willing to explore the idea that there's a large, massive body outside of that that's causing this drop-off, that's causing this galactic shelf.
02:02:04.000So as their understanding of our solar system gets better, noticeably wider, as they can look further back and further distances, telescopes keep getting better.
02:02:16.000And their calculations and the way they can figure out how to spot planets in other solar systems, they're way better at it now than they've ever been before.
02:02:55.000So this is this massive object outside of Pluto.
02:02:59.000So that was one theory that they had, but I don't think they go with that one anymore because as far as I know, they've narrowed down the size of this thing, at least with the current data, to be about four times the size of the Earth.
02:03:12.000So there's something four times the size of the Earth, which is still tiny in comparison to the Sun, and tiny even in comparison to Jupiter.
02:03:19.000The Sun is a million times bigger than the Earth, so if this thing is four times larger than the Earth, well, I don't know what that means.
02:03:24.000If it's a planet or if it's a giant object, what exactly?
02:04:18.000So the idea is, right, we know that the fucking lead ball on the mattress creates these indentations in space and time, right?
02:04:29.000So the idea is, if that's the case, In time spaces, they say.
02:04:33.000So if that's the case, and you guys, I'll probably fuck it up, I'm gonna try.
02:04:36.000If that's the case, then what would happen if two supermassive things collided, right?
02:04:42.000Like two giant black holes, thousands of times larger than our sun, or two stars, or what happens out there if these giant things collide, then that should create ripples.
02:04:54.000Because it's so enormous that when they hit together, it creates these ripples in the fabric of space-time, and these are known as gravity waves, right?
02:05:03.000So to measure these ripples would be incredibly difficult for a lot of reasons.
02:05:14.000Okay, so if I want to measure the distance between two rocks, and a gravity wave flows through it, then it should, theoretically, since it should expand and widen out the distance between those two rocks, there's going to be an expansion as the thing rolls through it,
02:05:32.000by a micron, by a tiny little bit, it's going to either widen or lengthen, or both, I think both, for a second.
02:06:00.000It's this giant L-shaped thing that shoots a laser that hits a mirror on one side and shoots a laser that hits a mirror on the other side, creating this beam.
02:06:12.000It's the laser bouncing back and forth at the speed of light.
02:06:15.000So that means that it could measure a shift in the gravitational wave because nothing goes faster than the speed of light, which means that that laser, you're going to be able to tell It follows the prediction of what would happen if a gravity wave rolled through,
02:06:45.000Now, when they're doing these studies, when they're testing, they send in fake...
02:06:53.000Gravity waves, just to make sure the scientists are monitoring everything right.
02:06:57.000And so the guy who observed it for the first time got this reading and was like, holy shit, is this one of the fake waves that they sent through?
02:07:09.000But he realized that they had cut off that part of the experiment for a few weeks.
02:08:36.000That's a nursery, like where stars are ejected out into the universe from this gigantic structure that's probably, you know, how fucking big is that?
02:11:24.000We still have the same little fucking monkey brain.
02:11:27.000And I was looking at this thing the other day of chimps where they showed, we showed it on the podcast, the size of a chimp's brain in comparison to the size of his testicles.
02:11:56.000So imagine with our balls, which are smaller than his, and our brains, which are larger than his, and it's just going to keep going in that direction.
02:12:07.000But what we're dealing with here is just an advanced version of that.
02:12:26.000We're like repeating shit that these super fucking geniuses have worked their whole life on and we're butchering it and ruining it in a podcast.
02:12:35.000But what we're all doing is we're all slowly but surely gonna go from being that chimp To being some new thing.
02:12:45.000To continue to grow, continue to process, and whether it's through technology, whether it's through manipulating our genetics, we're going to become something that gets this whole thing.
02:13:07.000The game is you're already that thing pretending you're not the thing doing some form of recreation that involves being astounded by the infinite enormous size of the universe because of your particular Tiny, tiny, tiny little body.
02:13:21.000And so that's the game that we're involved in.
02:13:25.000You already are everything, experiencing this very temporary illusion of being somehow not a part of everything.
02:14:17.000Like, no matter what technological enhancements that happen that maybe makes you live longer, maybe allows you to download your consciousness into a computer, experience a million orgasms at once, and wow!
02:14:30.000Any of these things, you're still You still are the infinite.
02:14:37.000These are just distortions in the field of experience.
02:14:40.000The idea is, and I think it's a very beautiful idea, you don't need the goddamn singularity to experience this.
02:14:50.000You don't need the singularity to experience being something greater than you.
02:14:54.000You don't need to become a transhuman.
02:14:56.000You don't need to become an H+. You don't need to get a chip, a neural implant into your brain.
02:16:16.000Create a space with these pictures and then maybe throw a picture on there as somebody that you fucking hate.
02:16:22.000And you sit in front of this thing and you just like look at these people that you love and then Maybe you look at the person that you don't like so much, and you try to transfer that love to that person to clear out the goddamn...
02:16:36.000Whenever you hate anybody, your operating system's got a bit of a disturbance in it, so you want to fix that connection if you can.
02:16:43.000But anyway, she's just sitting in front of this puja table we have, and I asked her, are you meditating?
02:17:20.000I think you're looking for all the same things in so many different things that we do.
02:17:26.000I think we're all looking for this moment where everything sort of syncs up and makes sense and feels harmonious.
02:17:33.000I hate to bring it back to archery again, but I think that's what you're really enjoying about those moments when you release that arrow.
02:17:41.000I watched you shoot some arrows today, and I'm seeing this pleasure When you're in the proper stance, and you're releasing the arrow, and you're watching the path, and everything looks good, and you're releasing it.
02:17:56.000And there's this, when you have mastered that moment, even for a second or two, you see this...
02:18:03.000I see this burst of awe where you're not there anymore and you're existing through the shot.
02:18:56.000If you want a vacation from life and an ability to step back and really look at yourself, yeah, you could sit in the corner and you could just do it that way.
02:19:03.000And there's nothing wrong with doing it that way.
02:19:04.000There's nothing wrong with going out on a hill and sitting and just overlooking a beautiful field and taking in nature.
02:20:02.000Have a vacation from your body, I should say.
02:20:03.000It's great, because you're peeling away all the goddamn stimulus.
02:20:07.000I mean, I guess if there's like, with meditation, if there was some kind of like, well, they do call it a practice, but the reason they call it a practice is because a lot of meditation is like you're sitting there and the dog will start barking, right?
02:21:36.000So, whoa, this is what I do when I'm annoyed by something.
02:21:39.000And now you can watch the way that annoying feeling emerges and dissipates.
02:21:43.000And that's like the meditative process.
02:21:45.000Whereas a float tank, you're stripping that Extra thing away.
02:21:50.000So now it's just the sense of being there minus having to deal with the disturbances so much.
02:21:56.000Even though they are in a float tank, you'll still get some disturbances.
02:22:00.000You'll notice the way that you're breathing or you'll feel some burn where there's like a cut on you or maybe a drop of water will land and hit you in the head or something like that.
02:22:10.000Well, you've got to squeegee the roof before you go in.
02:24:38.000You've got to tell the fucking business manager he's a cunt.
02:24:40.000And you start having these wars in your head about your life that are totally unnecessary and counterintuitive to what you're trying to do there.
02:24:48.000What you're trying to do there is escape.
02:24:49.000Escape the whole thing by concentrating.
02:24:56.000Just like archery's hard to do, when you're standing there and you got fucking one foot up and you're stretching up like this and you're holding it and your whole body's shaking and they're like, hold, hold, and you're like, you fucking can't!
02:25:08.000You're not thinking about anything other than breathing and trying to do that.
02:25:25.000Dr. Rhonda Patrick thinks it might create something called heat shock proteins that you get from a sauna.
02:25:31.000There's a positive benefit health-wise to being in a sauna, very positive, to a point where she was saying that there was a 40% reduction in mortalities across the board from people that are regular sauna users.
02:25:43.00040% reduction in cancers, heart attacks, stroke, all those things.
02:25:46.000Massive mortality drop-off because of the sauna, because your body produces these heat shock proteins.
02:25:51.000She's like, it could very well be going on in those classes.
02:25:58.000It's 104 degrees in there and you're doing unbelievably strenuous exercise.
02:26:02.000I think there's all these different methods that we have come up with, whether it's martial arts, whether it's yoga, whether it's meditation, whether it's the tank.
02:26:12.000They're all trying to get away from the influence of the fucking primate DNA. Yeah.
02:26:20.000The jealousy, the wanted materialism, the fucking anger and traffic and the nonsense about your career and the interpersonal relationship bullshit that we put ourselves through back and forth.
02:26:34.000A big part of it all is a perspective that was...
02:26:39.000We inherited it from these fucking barbarians that came in each other and just barely made it.
02:26:46.000They'd live to be ten and they'd fuck somebody else.
02:26:49.000People were probably getting pregnant when they were six years old back then.
02:26:52.000Who knows what the fuck we were like when we were monkeys.
02:26:54.000We had to become what we are today, but we're trapped We're trapped with the momentum of that shit in our bodies.
02:28:24.000So strange and odd and bizarre and non-dimensional.
02:28:30.000Doesn't pertain to anything that you experience in this dimension.
02:28:34.000So you become something when your body is free of your mind, when your mind is free of your past, when you just escape.
02:28:42.000It's almost like a gravitational pull or an atmosphere, rather, where you pop out of that atmosphere, like a rocket that shoots up into space, and you float around for a little while, then you come back down and deal with the bullshit again.
02:28:55.000But when you pop out of the land of trouble and despair, it's like you're floating in zero gravity.
02:29:01.000Because you're in the tank, you literally feel like you're in zero gravity because you don't feel anything anymore.
02:29:05.000Because once you've relaxed to the point where the water is no longer distinguishable, the air and the water are the same thing and you just feel like you're floating, that's where it's at, man.
02:29:14.000You've got to get to that space where your body's just totally stopped moving.
02:29:18.000And when you get to that space and your body's totally stopped moving and you've gone through the land of trouble and despair, you just get to the place of just...
02:31:29.000And that the practice of mindfulness in whatever way, you can practice mindfulness in a float tank.
02:31:36.000Zendo in your car wherever you want the practice of mindfulness is Helping you at least maybe not shoot out of the gravity of the planet of your personality But at least like get into the air a little bit instead of getting because this land of what is it?
02:31:52.000Sorry trouble and despair land of trouble and despair.
02:31:54.000This is like the discursive mind, right?
02:31:57.000So this is like you know the the idea that There are two arrow strikes, right?
02:32:04.000So in every single given moment, there are all these phenomena that are happening.
02:32:08.000Some of the phenomena you don't notice, some of the phenomena you do.
02:32:56.000So, float tanks, meditation, these are things where instead of getting sucked in to the conversation, like you were saying, with the many entities that live in this land, you just let that first thing hit you.
02:33:33.000And you realize what conflicts are real and what conflicts are just artificial, which ones you've made up, which ones you've just, you've endorsed, you've given them license to participate in your emotions, but they really don't exist.
02:33:58.000Once, man, I was like trying to like, I was late to get radiation therapy and I cut somebody off in traffic because I had to go get my fucking body radiated at a goddamn radiation clinic and like I'm sick and I cut someone off in traffic and I remember they're like,
02:37:51.000But a lot of times though, man, a lot of times, if you look, and I don't just mean living with a girl, I mean living with anyone, but if you look or being at work with anyone or anyone you interact with on a daily basis who you have some weird shit with right now.
02:39:22.000But aesthetically, we exist in a universe with star clusters that are giving birth to stars, and you have decided this must be the right place for the couch, right?
02:39:33.000You're going to fight this stupid fight.
02:39:35.000When instead, you could be like, you know what?
02:39:37.000Yeah, that's a perfect place for the couch.
02:39:39.000You know what happens when you do that?
02:39:40.000You end up with a fucking chick house, and they dominate the whole place.
02:39:44.000They start with the couch, and then they move to the fucking sheets, and next thing you know, you've got a pink toothbrush, and a fluffy cover over your pillows.
02:39:54.000You've got Valentine's hearts hanging on your boots.
02:40:30.000The mind, instead of just thinking like, in this moment, I'm getting in a fight, and inside of me, my level of passion over this fucking couch, it's like I'm fighting for my life.
02:40:43.000So then you look at the, well, why am I getting so upset about this?
02:40:46.000Because the mind is telling you, motherfucker, If this couch ends up here, it's gonna be a matter of time.
02:40:52.000Before she starts fucking her personal trainer.
02:40:54.000Yeah, if she starts fucking her trainer, you're gonna be wearing dresses, you're gonna end up sucking her trainer's cock, and you're gonna be in a chick house.
02:41:31.000I'm talking about, in general, most battles that you're fighting, they don't have that much of a consequence.
02:41:37.000And if you really want to talk about losing the fucking battle, and I'm not talking about rolling over for your girlfriend or for your boss or for any of these people, I'm talking about those little tiny conflicts you create so that you can feel what it's like to overpower someone and win in every single moment.
02:42:24.000You could zig and you could have zagged.
02:42:25.000For the most part, the people that you let in, a lot of times they reflect where you are as a person.
02:42:31.000So, if you find yourself involved in these shitty relationships over and over again, you might want to look inward.
02:42:36.000You might want to look at what you're putting out there, and what kind of people you're letting in, and what kind of circles you're hanging around in, and what kind of interests you're pursuing.
02:42:44.000What kind of things are you focusing on, and why has that led you to be engulfed in this world of stupid?
02:43:07.000Every single moment, you're threading this necklace of suffering.
02:43:10.000So in every single moment, you're bringing into that moment all the past battles you lost, all the past battles you won, all the compromises you made.
02:43:19.000You're bringing into that moment your idea of here's what's right, And here's what's wrong.
02:43:24.000And the question is, how much of your understanding of what's right and how much of your understanding of what's wrong is based on reality and how much of it is based on your own desire to win, to overcome?
02:43:36.000And again, man, I'm not advocating the concept of becoming someone who's downtrodden and some girl or boss or situation is like clomping all over you.
02:46:07.000A wall that doesn't have Bob Dylan on it and like my girlfriend like having like I guess I'm just gonna sell this picture that I like cuz my boyfriend's a dick and it's like that's not winning That's losing like that's fundamentally losing on every single level now,
02:46:24.000I guess if she'd been like you Using the picture of Bob Dylan as some kind of like method of torture, like to win herself, it's different.
02:46:31.000But all I'm saying is a lot of times we make decisions that we think are in our own best interest when really they're because we want to feel like we have won, like we're right.
02:47:18.000So this wanting to win with your girlfriend, it's a manifestation of some shit that's deep in our DNA. It's not just as simple as lose or just let it happen.
02:47:27.000It's as simple as you have some programming in your body that you need to address.
02:47:33.000There's certain activities that you can pursue that can free you from all this stupidity.
02:49:48.000Exercise is certainly one big part of it, man, but it's all connected.
02:49:53.000There's no one thing that you don't need in that whole puzzle.
02:49:59.000I think the main thing that you teach is that you don't have to be trapped In the gravitational field of whatever the particular life is that you happen to find yourself.
02:50:11.000And if you find yourself in a life that you don't like, if you find yourself in a situation that is not bringing you happiness, then there are ways that you can escape that gravitational field.
02:51:04.000One of the tricks the mind tells you, this is the main source of suffering for a lot of people, is that however you're feeling right now is permanent.
02:51:12.000So that's the number one bad trip That's one big source of it.
02:51:17.000You wanna have a bad trip on acid when you're in hour three?
02:51:21.000Let your mind start telling you you're gonna be like this forever.
02:51:30.000You will freak out if you think you're gonna trip for infinity, right?
02:51:33.000So in the same way, Most suffering comes because people think, oh shit man, this situation I'm in, it's always gonna be like this, I'm always gonna be fat, I'm always gonna have a shitty job, I'm always gonna be broke, I'm always gonna be sad, I'm never gonna get out of this hole.
02:51:50.000If you look at your life, you've always experienced a change in your emotional state.
02:51:55.000You've always experienced a change in literally every single thing, from your body, to your surroundings, to your jobs, to your girlfriends, boyfriends.
02:52:03.000It all is in a constant state of flux.
02:52:05.000So when you realize that, then you can let go of the panic that comes when you start thinking like, shit, this is going to be like this forever.
02:53:50.000Well, I mean, in the process of eating, when you're there in the hole, it's no fun.
02:53:53.000But in the process of shoving pizzas down your throat, if that wasn't fun, then we'd have a very different shape of most people in the world.
02:54:05.000Listen to everything that you just said earlier about the way you're thinking.
02:54:08.000And hold on for a second before you interject.
02:54:10.000Think about everything you're saying about the way people think and about the traps and the way you define your patterns that you fall back into each and every time.
02:54:18.000Then think about the intense physical health consequences that you have intimately experienced and the fact that even though you've gone through cancer, you still will make yourself Like a path that you're definitely gonna go down where you're gonna abuse your body and put yourself into a state of shock and Overweight and making sure that your body is compromised pretty significantly,
02:55:16.000You want to be fairly healthy, and you want to have a lot of nutrients in your diet, and you want to keep your body away from any bullshit.
02:58:55.000The worst I got when I hurt my back was also what was going on, too, because I couldn't work out as intensely when I was about 10 pounds heavier than I am now.
02:59:04.000The worst that it got was all wrapped around feeling sorry because of an injury, not being as disciplined as I could be, and allowing myself the indulgence, figuring I'm going to make up for it later.
02:59:18.000So I'm guilty of the same sort of behavior I'm making you aware of.
02:59:26.000Right now, I'm on the straight and narrow, and I'm pretty healthy about it, and I'm pretty decided that this is how I'm going to eat from now on.
02:59:32.000With rare indulgences just for mouth pleasure.
02:59:36.000But I think that mouth pleasure can't be the big one.
03:00:20.000There was a whole article about it recently in one of those, Scientific America, I think, or one of those science journals that was talking about why it's so difficult for people to quit bad habits because those bad habits, they...
03:00:34.000The trigger dopamine releases in your mind when you remember how great it was to eat those donuts.
03:01:12.000If I started smoking cigarettes and I realized, oh, there's a cognitive benefit to smoking on these things, I'm just going to puff on a couple of dead.
03:02:24.000It's cool to watch yourself get sucked into it.
03:02:28.000And it is like, you know, the thing you're making me realize is like...
03:02:32.000I've never thought of myself as a victim, but anytime you trick yourself into thinking, this is what I do, then you have tricked yourself into becoming a victim.
03:03:14.000When I'm eating cake, or the next time I'm putting some shitty sugar into my mouth, I just have to realize I'm threading the necklace right now.
03:03:23.000I'm the one who's creating the version of myself where I'm a little bit out of shape.
03:03:30.000And just as long as you realize that you're the one doing it, that just throws you into such a funny predicament though, right?
03:03:36.000Because when you realize, like, shit, I am completely in control of who I am as a person.
03:03:42.000And in this situation, I'm making the decision to sculpt a version of myself that sucks!
03:05:17.000It affects the way my energy levels are.
03:05:19.000The food I eat 100% affects the way my entire day goes.
03:05:24.000If I eat a big-ass salad in the morning with avocados and olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette, and I eat that, and then I have some coconut oil or some MCT oil and some coffee, and then I have maybe a small bowl of blueberries with some Plain yogurt.
03:05:43.000And I'm eating nothing but healthy food.
03:05:44.000And then I'll have an elk steak with some asparagus.
03:07:04.000Dude, you know, in most religious traditions, especially most meditative practices, one thing you never hear people say is, just eat whatever you want.
03:07:21.000And usually there's some fairly strict ideas of what to eat.
03:07:27.000Usually it involves eating very simple foods, just like eating lentils, rice, but being very simple in what you eat and eating much less than what you eat.
03:08:54.000There's a bunch of different companies that create these...
03:08:57.000Ketokana is one that my friend Denny uses it.
03:09:00.000I know a lot of athletes that are doing this.
03:09:02.000Kyle Kingsbury, who's a former UFC fighter, he's really into it.
03:09:05.000My friend Denny Propokos, who's one of Eddie Bravo's black belts, he runs 10th Planet San Francisco, good friend of mine.
03:09:12.000He's in a state of ketosis too, meaning mostly fats, eating oils like coconut oils, avocados, things along those lines, healthy grass-fed meats.
03:10:28.000I might go back after 60 days and say, I like this, but I also like to have a certain amount of carbohydrates in my diet because it makes it easier for me to find healthy foods to eat.
03:10:51.000But in the discipline, in forcing myself to do it, it makes me think that a lot of what we were talking about earlier, about not having control of your impulses and your behavior and getting...
03:11:03.000Giving in to video game addiction, giving in to cell phone addiction, social media addiction, all these things.
03:11:39.000And he explained it to me in very succinct terms.
03:11:41.000If you have the discipline to get all the shit done, then you can do things you enjoy.
03:11:45.000And then you're not compromised by your lack of discipline.
03:11:50.000You're not trapped by your lack of discipline.
03:11:52.000When you're emerging from a fucking 16-hour binge of playing video games, you're stepping outside, it's 9 a.m., and your eyes are bloodshot.
03:12:24.000I always wanted to be a painter, but I never had the time to paint after my fucking job because I'm working overtime because I just bought a new car.
03:12:33.000There's traps that we will set for ourselves.
03:12:36.000But if you give yourself a healthy trap, you give yourself a healthy protocol, a healthy directive, a healthy pattern that you have to follow, you find some peace in that.
03:12:48.000And the thing about this fucking wacky diet is the thing that's most shocking to me Is that I'm not any less happy than I'd be if I was eating ice cream or stuffing pizza down my fat face or letting my broken cheeks blow.
03:13:12.000So even if it's not a carbohydrate thing, even if it's just I've eliminated sugars, even if I've just allowed my body to take a break off that fucking insulin spike of eating a giant bowl of pasta.
03:13:25.000Even if it's just that, whatever the fuck it is, it's working.
03:13:53.000Because I can't do everything unless I do everything.
03:13:56.000Unless I follow all the shit that I have on my list, I'm not going to be able to go fuck off and enjoy a television show.
03:14:03.000I'm not going to appreciate those things.
03:14:05.000Because I've forced myself to get the shit done that I need to get done, and I've forced myself to follow this weird pattern of discipline.
03:14:24.000I think there's something very exciting about it.
03:14:27.000Anytime I've pulled off even the most mild discipline in my life, the...
03:14:33.000The end result is like incredible happiness.
03:14:35.000You were raving about how good you felt once you started working out with a trainer for a couple of months.
03:14:40.000But I did the exact thing you were saying.
03:14:42.000I fucking hurt myself doing deadlifts and then because of that injury I stopped working out and then because of that I used that as an excuse and then I started like I just fell off the wagon again.
03:14:54.000You should you should do something that's a practice.
03:16:15.000Well, this is why I like having a trainer, because he forces you to, like...
03:16:20.000Really work hard like way harder than normally I force myself to work out like a trainer makes you feel like you're like passing out from and it's great and the feeling after Working out hard like that.
03:16:35.000I don't know anything like it's better than almost anything that I could think of It's the most incredible thing, but you have to do it regularly, you know?
03:19:39.000And it's like the trainers, when they talk about what it's like to get fat like that, how their personalities change, like they really throw themselves in the hole.
03:19:47.000And it's like, it's amazing the psychological component of it.
03:20:03.000These guys are heroes, man, because they get themselves really sick for these people, and then they climb out of the hole.
03:20:09.000Well, good for them because they are doing it consciously, and they understand what the whole purpose of this thing is versus someone who just tanks, and then you have to hear about them pulling themselves back from the brink, you know?