curious

I felt curious about everything I could see.

Görebildiğim her şeye karşı merak hissettim.

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And curious means wanting to know more, wanting to learn more.

Ve meraklı, daha fazlasını bilmek isteyen, daha fazlasını öğrenmek isteyen anlamına gelir.

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But, let's just look at it together, since it is in the clip, and you're probably curious.

Ama gelin buna birlikte bakalım, çünkü klipte geçiyor ve muhtemelen merak ediyorsunuzdur.

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I understand... if you don't... want to, though. Ow! [Whimpers] I'm sorry! [panting] [Kaufmo roars] [yelps] [shouting, panting] [dramatic music plays] [curious music plays] [Kaufmo growls]

Yine de... istemiyorsan... anlarım. Ah! [İnliyor] Özür dilerim! [nefes nefese] [Kaufmo kükrüyor] [havlıyor] [bağırış, nefes nefese] [dramatik müzik çalıyor] [merak uyandıran müzik çalıyor] [Kaufmo hırlıyor]

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We have a bit of an issue here! [curious music] [boing!]

Burada küçük bir sorunumuz var! [merak uyandıran müzik] [boing!]

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Let's just say my Curious George doll is no longer curious. [snorts] [laughter] [music] Ta-da! [screaming] Are we greeting each other this way now?

Meraklı George oyuncağımın artık meraklı olmadığını söyleyeyim. [kıkırdama] [kahkahalar] [müzik] Ta-da! [çığlık] Artık birbirimizi böyle mi selamlıyoruz?

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On the morning of the 17th of April, 2013, the journal Annals of Mathematics received a curious email.

17 Nisan 2013 sabahı, Annals of Mathematics dergisi ilginç bir e-posta aldı.

We're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove it

Zhang spent the next year finalizing his proof, and then on the 17th of April, 2013, he sent off that curious email to the Annals of Mathematics. Now, the Annals gets a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis every other day, so they're like, okay, surely this isn't gonna work out, but whatever.

Zhang sonraki yılını kanıtını tamamlamakla geçirdi ve ardından 17 Nisan 2013'te Annals of Mathematics'e o ilginç e-postayı gönderdi. Annals'a iki günde bir Riemann Hipotezi kanıtı gelir, bu yüzden "tamam, kesinlikle işe yaramayacak ama neyse" diye düşünürler.

We're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove it

are. This has been an amazing experience. Let's go help more people. It was lovely meeting you, thank you. Uh, and in case you're curious, if a kid doesn't want to be in the video, they don't have to be in the video, and we still grant their wish. Like this kid right here. Didn't want to be in the video-- that's perfectly fine. The viewers at home, how could they help support

olduğuna bak. Bu harika bir deneyimdi. Hadi daha fazla insana yardım edelim. Sizinle tanışmak çok güzeldi, teşekkür ederim. Ve merak ediyorsanız, eğer bir çocuk videoda yer almak istemiyorsa, videoda yer almak zorunda değil ve biz yine de dileğini gerçekleştiriyoruz. Tıpkı buradaki çocuk gibi. Videoda yer almak istemedi-- bu tamamen sorun değil. Evdeki izleyiciler, destek olmaya nasıl yardımcı olabilirler

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hello video viewers how are you doing today so here's another video from me to you and in this one i'm going to tell you a story i'm going to be reading extracts from this book uh the war of the worlds this one actually has two books in it but i'm just going to be reading from extracts of the war of the worlds a classic science fiction story written by h.g wells okay there will be text on the screen so you can read with me and i'm going to start recording the audio for my podcast in just a second okay so you will be able to listen to this as a normal episode of the audio podcast so i think it's probably time do i need to say anything else to you i don't think so um i mean i'm gonna say the mo the main part of this will be me reading the story to you and it's a cracking story it is it's a fan it's one of my favorite books of all time and so yeah reading stories is a great way to to work on your english and reading and listening at the same time is obviously a very good idea so the main focus will be on just telling the story to you and trying to make it interesting and entertaining and explaining a few things as we go to make sure you understand um but i'll do a little introduction at the beginning i've got some things to say about my aims for the episode and also about the writing style that you can find in this because this is quite an old book it's over 100 years old now so the language is a little bit different to the english that we use today but it's that's good that's really interesting it's good to get a broad range of english exposure okay time to start recording the audio then and then we'll begin and you'll see the text on the screen in a second okay here we go hello listeners welcome back to luke's english podcast i hope you're doing well today out there in podcast land so it's story time in this episode because i'm going to tell you a classic english science fiction story the story is called war of the worlds by h.g wells the classic storyteller who also wrote the invisible man and the time machine and you've probably heard of war of the worlds because it is definitely one of the most famous and most influential science fiction stories ever written now i know that science fiction is not everyone's cup of tea right but i do hope that you stick around and listen to this story because i think this is just particularly good writing and the story is very exciting immersive and memorable so it should be a really enjoyable way to pick up some more english i won't be reading the whole book of course but i will be reading some selected extracts and giving you a summary of the key details in the first part of the story okay so if you want you could you know pick up the story yourself pick up the book and read the rest anyway i'll be i'll be covering sort of main parts of the first section of the of the book let me tell you my aims for this episode because i'm you know i'm trying to be serious about this trying to do this properly to help you learn english so i've got some aims objectives for the episode so first of all first and foremost i'd like to entertain you with a really engaging story in english and stories are a great way to get more english into your head and if they are exciting and immersive stories then that's even better secondly i want to show you a slightly old-fashioned version of english which is really rich in descriptive language and more formal in style than today's english it's good to be exposed to diverse versions of the language old-fashioned english is much more like modern formal english right so especially formal writing that we write today is much more like old fashioned english was all the time so basically studying a bit of old-fashioned english is quite a good lesson in style it will help you to understand formal english writing a little bit better maybe and this can generally just strengthen your english in various ways and i'd like to help you notice some nice bits of vocabulary along the way and as we know having a broad range of vocabulary is essential in achieving truly advanced english and this story is very rich in descriptive language also i'd like to inspire you perhaps to read the rest of the book and reading is such an important thing to do for your english and maybe you're looking for interesting books to read in that case you could consider this one it's not too long i've got a copy of the book here with me you can hear the pages of the book there and um yeah so i don't know how many pages is the war of the worlds it's it's about 173 pages long it's it's pretty short really by most standards so i think it's doable you could consider reading this if you want to know the whole story so this is also available as a video episode on youtube and if you watch you can see me recording the podcast with the text on the screen next to my face i don't know what's going to be more horrific the contents of this story or just seeing my face up close i don't know which one is going to be more frightening for you anyway so you can watch the video it's on my youtube channel and then you can listen and read at the same time and you can see me telling the story if that helps you can also read the entire text i'm reading from on the page for this episode at teacherluke.co.uk right so let me give you the context of the story and give a few comments about the writing style this is going to be fairly brief and then we'll jump straight into the actual proper you know contents of the story here so war of the worlds has been adapted lots of times in films most famously the 2005 steven spielberg film with tom cruise which you might have seen and another film version in the 1950s set in los angeles an audiobook musical version read by richard burton and an infamous dramatized radio series by orson welles this is the original alien invasion story this book was one of the very first stories to ever explore these themes and to describe these kinds of things in such a realistic way this is the one that has inspired so many others and in my opinion none of the other versions of this story or copies of this story can compare to this original version from 1897. the writing is very realistic and journalistic in style written from the first person perspective of a guy just experiencing the events as they happened and describing everything in great detail here's a note about the language and the writing style so the language is pretty old-fashioned you know it's from 1897 victorian times but it's really well written and it should be interesting for you and useful for your english to explore another slightly different version of this language exposure to to different types of english makes your english stronger i think and as we pass through this i will point out particular words or phrases as we go and perhaps compare this to normal modern plain english so it could be an interesting comparison uh sometimes i mean i've got to focus on telling you the story that's my main focus my main aim but every now and then i'll stop and just clarify or explain things or give comments on bits of english that we'll see comparing the styles of languages actually gives you more perspective on normal modern english and how formal written english today still retains some aspects of old fashioned language there's quite a lot of language you might find in legal documents or other very formal situations you know words like therein hereby forthwith and sing and things like that are quite common in this book as well as certain structures longer sentences and choices of words which mark this out in a particular style this is very descriptive literary language from over 100 years ago it's more complex than today's english more formal than today's english and very specific in its descriptions this will probably be a challenge for you but i'm here to help and i will explain things as we go also this is quite scary stuff i have to add actually that having re-read some of this story in preparation for this episode i hadn't realized just how terrifying the story is personally i really enjoy the thrills that you get from a story like this but if you are feeling a bit force sensitive today you might want to get a pillow or hide behind the sofa or something like that a couple of useful links and sources i should name before starting so here are a couple of links i have found useful in making this episode first of all project gutenberg so i have uh several paperback copies of this book myself um but i also found the book online at guttenberg.org that's g-u-t-e-n-b-e-r-g guttenberg.org this is a website which shares stories and books which are now in the public domain and the war of the worlds is in the public domain so you can actually get free online versions of this story and i got mine at gutenberg.org in fact there is a link to the html version of this book uh which you'll find in the description in fact all links and things links to parts two and three of this episode series you'll find those in the description too any useful stuff there they're going to be in the description including course hero study notes uh there's a website called coursehero.com which has useful summaries of the story and other useful information and i paraphrased and took some of the you know quoted some of the um summaries from coursehero.com as well okay so we're we are ready to start the story now okay so let me summarize the opening chapters in fact i'm going to read the i'm going to read the opening uh i'm going to read the opening paragraphs of the book to you now these paragraphs set the scene in which the events take place and note the somber tone and specific choice of language somber tone it's like dark and serious and the specific choice of language by the way i should mention that the main character of this story we don't know his name he's an unnamed narrator a narrator is someone who is telling the story but we know that he's a middle class educated man who writes philosophical papers and is interested in science that's all we know basically the story is written in the past tense as if he's looking back on those events and has written a full account of what happened so let's start then with the first few paragraphs of this story chapter one the eve of war the eve of war this is like you know just before the war okay um and here we go so no one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own that as men busy themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water that's a great opening to a book don't you think that is one single sentence as well by the way one sentence one long sentence um no one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly meaning closely with great focus uh and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own that as men busyed themselves about their various concerns as men meaning people went around in a busy fashion um about their various you know issues concerns that they had to deal with they were scrutinized scrutinized meaning studied and examined very carefully and watched closely and studied perhaps almost as narrowly or specifically as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water so if you are a scientist looking at microorganisms on a slide in a drop of water through a microscope in the same way these intelligences have been watching us which is quite interesting comparing us to microorganisms which kind of gives us a sense of just how more advanced and more powerful these other intelligences are let's continue with infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs serene in their assurance of their empire over mata it is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same so complacency when you're complacent it means that you are confident and self-assured you're relaxed because you're certain that everything is all right that you're doing really well okay and the idea is that uh people humans are complacent in their position in the natural order of things that we are the dominant species on earth we don't have many predators that are a daily concern and this has made us complacent that we are we've just very self-assured that we are um you know that we are um the masters of our environment and with infinite complacency men went to and fro meaning went here and there back and forth over this globe about their little affairs their business affairs serene in their assurance of their empire over mata serene is calm and peaceful we were so calm and peaceful in our assurance in our certainty of our empire over mata that we were the we were the ones in control of everything of stuff mata it is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same infusoria i suppose means like the little microorganisms in the drop of water under the microscope okay no one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable it is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days at most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon mars perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise so apparently before the events of this story people were you know people maybe thought there might be some life on mars but probably inferior to us and they would probably welcome a visit from us because we would be there to help them and you know they would bow down to us as our as their colonial masters kind of thing yet across the gulf of space minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us and early in the 20th century came the great disillusionment that's a good opening opening um extract from a from a book don't you think across the gulf of space golf meaning the space the the the emptiness of space minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish so in the sense that our minds are greater than the animals and in the same way their minds are greater than ours so we become like animals to them um and these their intellects are vast meaning massive huge and cool so unemotional and unsympathetic as well they don't care about us regarded this earth watched this earth with envious eyes they were jealous it does explain later in this pat in this uh chapter that basically the martians um they live on mars right and you know mars is further from the sun than the earth it's the next planet away from the sun and their planet is getting cooler and cooler all the time so we these days we've got global warming but in the story the martians are afraid of global cooling and it's making their habit their planet uninhabitable i'll explain this in a minute and so they are looking at earth because they would like to colonize the earth in order to survive as a species and early in the 20th century came the great disillusionment the great disillusionment meaning a great change in human consciousness when we realized we were no longer or we weren't actually the top of the food chain so let me summarize the story up until chapter four i'm going to start reading from the book again at chapter four so that opening chapter describes how um species i think it's a species uh a species of intelligent creatures on mars has had been observing us for many years before the events of this story the opening chapter goes on to explain that the martians were planning to invade earth because their home planet was steadily getting cooler year after year due to the fact that it's further from the sun than the earth they faced extinction on their own planet and so they set their sights on their nearest neighbor earth with its warmer atmosphere and closer position to the sun and with their superior mathematical knowledge and technology they decided they would colonize earth in order to survive they spent years observing us and planning the invasion and by the way here's a note sort of language note i'm using present tenses from now on to describe this story and this is a normal way to retell the plot of a book film or play right and since i am sort of recounting uh the plot of this book i'm using present tenses okay this is because the events of the story are permanent because they never change they are written into the book that way so we can use present tenses to summarize the story of a book or film in english and it's probably the same in your language too all right so let's keep going now the the narrator of this story has a friend his his name is uh ogilvy and ogilvy is a respected astronomer a scientist who observes the the stars he has a telescope and uses it to observe the night sky including the surface of mars our nearest neighbor so ogilvy is our friend and he's an astronomer six years before the main events of the story ogilvy invites the narrator to an observatory a place where you can observe the sky to study mars after another astronomer reported a dramatic explosion of gas on the surface of the planet which seems to be directed towards earth the narrator observes a similar explosion as he watches through the telescope right so scientists have observed explosions on mars and ogilvy s says to the narrator come over to the observatory and have a look at mars and so he looks through the telescope and while he's looking he sees some of these explosions now um ogilvy doubts the existence of life on mars and speculates the phenomenon may be related to meteorites or volcanoes many other people witness the phenomenon which repeats itself at midnight over a total of 10 days so midnight every night for 10 days explosions on the surface of mars nobody at the time is concerned or worried about the explosions on mars six years later some people see a falling star right but a falling star is essentially a piece of rock an asteroid which burns through the earth's atmosphere and maybe lands to earth as a meteorite so some people see a falling star a meteorite which flies through the night sky with a bright green flash and lands nearby near the nearby where the narrator lives on horsel common horse all common is a large area of grass meadows and trees sort of just south west of london again nobody assumes there is anything weird going on ogilvy the astronomer is interested in the meteorite and finds it on the common he goes down to investigate and he finds it as it has landed it has formed a large crater of sand so it's impacted on the ground pushing all the sand uh you know to to the sides creating a sort of sand pit so the object is lying at the bottom of a kind of large sand pit in the middle of an open area of grassland surrounded by buildings and trees the meteorite that ogilvy finds is quite odd it's in a cylindrical shape like a long can of coke sort of a cylinder cylinder kind of shape like a long can of coke or maybe a um a can of beer or something odd sort of cylindrical shape but ogilvy thinks that it's made of rock because it's covered in a kind of crusty layer it's also extremely hot and he can't get near it but he notices that there are weird sounds coming from inside it he assumes these are noises caused by the object cooling but as he continues to observe it he realizes that something funny is going on the crusty layer is slowly falling off like ash as the object cools revealing a kind of metallic surface underneath and even weirder than that the end of the cylinder appears to be turning very slowly as if it is unscrewing very slowly ogilvy suddenly assumes that the cylinder has people inside it and decides to get help and off he goes to try and get help but nobody believes him eventually he finds a journalist who is willing to check the cylinder henderson his name is a crowd of people begins to gather as word spreads about men from space stuck inside a cylinder on the common people don't quite realize what's going on but they are incredibly curious normal life continues with people stopping by to have a look at the object in the sand pit before continuing their normal routines so the narrator of the story goes down to horsel common to check out what's going on a larger crowd has gathered there he manages to squeeze through the crowd which is getting more and more excited and adjective and agitated a small group of scientists including the narrator's friend ogilvy are in the pit attempting to work out what is happening the narrator observes what is going on and comments on how most people are not really educated about this kind of thing and they haven't worked out what's going on but he assumes that the cylinder must be extraterrestrial it must be you know from somewhere not on earth from outer space he observes the end of the cylinder moving and as it turns it's revealing a kind of shining metal thread uh metal thread i'll give you an example of that on a screw you get you get metal thread trying to show you an example here on the video there you go this is this is a metal thread you see this is this is a kind of screw so as as the end of the cylinder is is slowly unscrewing it's revealing uh this kind of metal thread like it's a screw wow technology all right um the next chapter describes what happens when the end of the cylinder finally drops off revealing what is inside so i'm now going to read chapters four and five with comments and explanations as i go so picture the scene on the middle of a grassy common with trees and buildings in the distance not far from london the object has landed in the sand creating a kind of pit people are crowding around the ob the the end is unscrewing from this thing no one really knows what's going on the narrator approaches the pit containing the cylinder uh crowns of people are all around the pit trying to see what's happening they're pushing each other a bit and things are quite tense you know when a large crowd forms people start pushing and shoving and it's often quite stressful ogilvy and some of the other scientists and henderson the journalist are in the pit the sun is starting to go down as well in the distance right so chapter four the cylinder opens the crowd about the pit had increased and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky a couple of hundred people perhaps there were raised voices and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on about the pit strange imaginings passed through my mind as i drew nearer i heard stent's voice keep back keep back a boy came running towards me it's a move-in he said to me as he passed a screw-in and a screwing out i don't like it i'm a going home i am i went on to the crowd there were really i should think two or three hundred people elbowing and jostling one another the one or two ladies there being by no means the least active so there's people jostling like sort of jostling for position pushing and shoving and including a couple of ladies in there who are also doing a fair amount of shoving and pushing and elbowing he's fallen into the pit cried someone keep back said several the crowd swayed a little and i elbowed my way through everyone seemed greatly excited i heard a peculiar humming sound from the pit a humming sound would be a kind of [Laughter] that sort of thing i say said ogilvy keep these idiots back we don't know what's in the confounded thing you know so i say is a bit like kind of saying uh oh for goodness sake or oh god or something like that it's an exclamation i say very old-fashioned keep these idiots back we don't know what's in the confounded thing the confounded thing that's like in what's in the damn thing or in the bloody thing for the most part the language is really quite similar to the way we speak these days but just occasional words and some structures are different i saw a young man a shop assistant in woking i believe he was standing on the cylinder and trying to scramble out of the hole again the crowd had pushed him in the end of the cylinder was being screwed out from within nearly two feet of shining screw projected that's about 60 centimeters someone blundered against me they bumped into me and i narrowly missed being pitched on top of the screw i turned and as i did so the screw must have come out for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the gravel with a ringing concussion so he turned because someone pushed him and the screw must have fallen out while he wasn't looking because it as it landed it kind of went boom made a ringing concussion sound i stuck my elbow into the person behind me and turned my head towards the thing again for a moment that circular cavity seemed perfectly black i had the sunset in my eyes i think everyone expected to see a man emerge possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men but in all essentials a man i know i did but looking i presently saw something stirring within the shadow grayish billowy movements one after another and then two luminous discs like eyes then something resembling a little grey snake about the thickness of a walking stick coiled up out of the writhing middle and wriggled in the air towards me and then another okay he looked into the darkness into the shadows and saw something stirring something moving around like maybe the beginnings of movement um something stirring within the shadow grayish billowy movements grayish kind of grayish in color kind of gray billowy this is a good one so to billow is a verb and so two examples smoke billows if there's a lot of smoke pouring out that kind of movement the way the smoke moves out in ever increasing circumference is it it billows also if you have a big sheet like a bed sheet and you've hung it out in the garden and it's being blown by the wind the sheet will billow like that as well so grayish billowy movements unclear one above another and then two luminous discs like eyes luminous means sort of glowing in the dark slightly then something resembling a little grey snake about the thickness of a walking stick coiled up so to coil uh snakes coil in a circle so this coiled up means it kind of uncoiled itself out of the writhing middle and wriggled in the air towards me a sudden chill came over me there was a loud shriek from a woman beside behind a shriek is a kind of a scream a shocked and frightened scream i half turned keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still from which other tentacles were now projecting and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me i heard inarticulate exclamations on all sides exclamations like shouts and you know words spoken in shock inarticulate so people not really able to express themselves just noises of shock and and terror there was a general movement backwards i saw the shop man struggling still on the edge of the pit i found myself alone and saw the people on the other side of the pit running off stent among them i looked again at the cylinder and ungovernable terror gripped me i stood petrified and staring ungovernable terror ungovernable meaning uncontrollable terror gripped me held held him i stood petrified and staring petrified means frozen unable to move and staring is looking intensely a grayish rounded bulk the size perhaps of a bear was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder as it bulged up and caught the light it glistened like wet leather a grayish a big grayish rounded bulk a bulk is a sort of a large round kind of heavy shape the size perhaps of a bear was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder as it bulged up to bulges to kind of expand and swell as it bulged up as it came up out of the cylinder and caught the light it glistened like wet leather so to glisten so if something is wet and the light catches it it kind of glistens it's a bit like glitter sort of shines shimmers like like a like a wet road in the middle of the night in the moonlight in this case this odd thing glistened like wet leather in the light two large dark colored eyes were regarding me steadfastly the mass that framed them the head of the thing was rounded and had one might say a face there was a mouth under the eyes the lipless brim of which quivered and panted and dropped saliva the whole creature heaved and pulsated convulsively a lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder another swayed in the air so two large dark-coloured eyes were regarding me watching me steadfastly like without moving without blinking the mass that framed them the head of the thing was rounded and had one might say a face there was a mouth under the eyes the lipless brim of which quivered and panted so the mouth was there the brim of the mouth brim could mean like the the edge like the edge of a cup is the brim of a couple or the edge of a glass okay but the brim in this case the brim um of the mouth is like the edge of the mouth and it's the lipless brim so they don't have lips there's just a weird edge of them of this of its mouth and it quivered and panted so to quiver means to shake quickly shake like that sort of um if you're very cold you might quiver but the mouth of this horrible creature is quivering shaking and it's panting as well so pant is like what a um a dog does on a hot day if it's been running around it will pant it sticks its tongue out and like that so the thing is horrible it's quivering and panting and it's dropping saliva from its mouth the whole creature heaved and pulsated convulsively it heaved suggested that it sort of was maybe breathing with difficulty or moving heavily and it pulsated sort of hmm pulsate is sort of like maybe throbbed uh convulsively like without being able to stop itself it just sort of like maybe a bit like maybe um uh blowing up a balloon and as the balloon swells up and goes down up and down up and down it's pulsating convulsively oh my goodness those who've never seen a living martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance the peculiar v-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip the absence of brow ridges your brow is basically the area above your eyes your eyebrows your hair your forehead um no brow ridge so just flat from the head flat all the way over to the eyes the absence of a chin beneath the wedge-like lower lip the incessant quivering of its mouth that's like shaking and moving quickly the gorgon groups of tentacles the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth above all the extraordinarily intensity of the immense eyes were at once vital intense inhuman crippled and monstrous there was something fungoid in the oily brown skin something in the clumsy deliberation of the of tedious movements unspeakably nasty even at this first encounter this first glimpse i was overcome with disgust and dread wonderful descriptive language so let me just go through some of those things again i've talked about the absence of brow ridges uh quivering of its mouth the gorgon groups of tentacles so gorgon this comes from greek mythology um medusa the gorgon the gorgons were three sisters and they had uh snakes for hair and um if you look them in the eyes you would turn to stone they were that scary and cursed so gorgons were mythical creatures with snakes for heads so they have gorgon groups of tentacles so sort of evoking uh the story of medusa there the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in in the in the strange atmosphere so tumultuous meaning sort of like um uneven and desperate so breathing heavily um the evident heaviness evident meaning obvious the obvious heavy the obvious heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth and above all the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes were at once vital intense inhuman crippled and monstrous there was something fungoid in the oily brown skin fungoid meaning like a fungus fungus that would include things like mushrooms and mold so the the uh the oily brown skin was somehow kind of like a fungus in texture something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty even at this first encounter this first glimpse i was overcome with disgust and dread whoa a glimpse is a quick look he was overcome overpowered with a sense of disgust and dread and i feel like this is a bit like if you spend any length of time staring at a nasty looking insect or even just a picture of a nasty horrible looking insect imagine the most horrible insect or s or just spider and staring at it or staring at a picture of it it kind of makes your skin crawl almost sort of instinctively that's what he was feeling just even glimpsing at it at this thing made him completely disgusted and full of dread on an almost sort of genetic level suddenly the monster vanished it had toppled over the brim of the cylinder and fallen into the pit with a thud like the fall of a great mass of leather i heard it give a peculiar thick cry and forthwith another of these creatures appeared darkly in the deep shadow of the aperture so the monster disappeared because it toppled over it kind of fell over the brim of the cylinder and fell into the pit with a thud like the fall of a great mass of leather kind of fell on the ground as if it was someone had dropped a big pile of leather on the ground thunk i heard it give a peculiar thick cry and forthwith meaning immediately another of these creatures appeared darkly in the deep shadow of the aperture the aperture meaning the opening of the cylinder i turned and running madly made for the first group of trees perhaps a hundred yards away but i ran slantingly but i ran slantingly and stumbling for i could not avert my face from these things so he started to run away maybe about 100 yards but he was running sort of diagonally and he kept looking back there among some young pine trees and furs bushes i stopped panting and waited further developments so he ran under the cover of some trees and just sort of waited the common round the sand pits was dotted with people standing like myself in a half-fascinated terror staring at these creatures or rather at the heaped gravel at the edge of the pit in which they lay and then with a renewed horror i saw a round black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit it was the head of the shop man who had fallen in but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun now he got his shoulder and knee up and again he seemed to slip back until only his head was visible suddenly he vanished and i could have fancied a faint shriek had reached me i had a momentary impulse to go back and help him that my fears overruled everything was then quite invisible hidden by the deep pit and the heap of sand that the fall of the cylinder had made anyone coming along the road from chobham or woking would have been amazed at the site a dwindling multitude of perhaps 100 people or more standing in a great irregular circle in ditches behind bushes behind gates and hedges saying little to one another in short excited shouts and staring staring hard at a few heaps of sand a barrow of ginger beer stood a queer derelict black against the burning sky and in the sand pits was a row of deserted vehicles with their horses feeding out of nosebags or pouring at the ground wow what a powerful scene so everyone's seen the aliens very briefly and run away and run back and they're sort of paralyzed with fear staring from different vantage points at the pit but everything seems kind of peaceful weirdly enough and h.g wells paints this lovely picture this kind of weird bizarre kind of post-apocalyptic atmosphere a barrow of ginger beer so a bit ginger beer is a drink a barrow of ginger beer would be i guess a cart of ginger beer just like an object a queer derelict black against the burning sky queer meaning strange and a derelict is is like a building or a machine that nobody uses anymore it's been abandoned maybe it's damaged or something so this sort of cart with ginger beer in it stands like a queer derelict like a strange un um a strange abandoned machine black against the burning sky silhouetted and in the sand pits was a row of deserted vehicles with their horses feeding out of nosebags or pouring the ground um right here's a summary of chapter four okay everybody how are you doing you're right you're managing to stay focused i don't know if it's difficult to stay focused during this i know the story well now i've read it many times so i know like i know it sort of really really closely the first time you listened to this it might be a little bit confusing some of the language is a bit specific anyway i'm now going to give you a summary of chapter 4 what we've just read in plain english just to make sure that you are understanding everything so as the sun sets as the sun goes down the narrator returns to the pit where a few hundred people have gathered a boy warns the narrator that the end of the cylinder has unscrewed itself and the narrator forces his way to the front of the crowd to get a better view ogilvy warns the people to stay away and reminds them of its unknown contents one man is pushed into the pit by the jostling of the crowd the end of the cylinder comes off and falls into the pit the narrator and the crowd are horrified by the grotesque octopus-like appearance of an alien who slowly and painstakingly emerges from the cylinder painstakingly slowly carefully taking a lot of a lot of effort to get things right with a lot with some painful effort it emerges from the cylinder they seem heavy and struggling to breathe in the atmosphere the narrator and the crowd run away from the pit but many including the narrator stop to watch the aliens from a nearby tree line the sun sets leaving enough light to just see the silhouette of the shopkeeper as he tries and fails to get out of the pit alive and that's the end of part one this will be continued in part two what do you think of the story so far listeners come on it's pretty evocative stuff don't you think the descriptions of um moment by moment action the weird grotesque descriptions of these aliens these weird lumbering um aliens what's gonna happen next well you can keep listening or keep watching uh with part two which um if you're certainly the youtube version should be available now okay and the podcast audio version will be available very soon but if you are watching on youtube check the uh description you will probably find links down there uh for uh parts two of this and part three as well okay nice one thank you for listening thank you for watching don't forget to like and subscribe if you're on youtube and listen to luke's english podcast which you can get at teacherloop.co.uk and wherever you get your podcasts for more stories conversations and interesting content to help you learn english listen to my podcast okay that's the end of this part of the video uh we'll pick up the story again in part two but for now it's time to say goodbye bye bye bye bye bye right that's the end of the video nice one nothing more to add here but um stick around and watch part two the story gets more dramatic there's some brilliant moments to come but that's the end of this part for now you

merhaba video izleyicileri bugün nasılsınız bugün benden size bir video daha ve bu videoda size bir hikaye anlatacağım bu kitaptan alıntılar okuyacağım uh dünyalar savaşı bu aslında içinde iki kitap barındırıyor ama ben sadece h.g wells tarafından yazılmış klasik bir bilim kurgu hikayesi olan dünyalar savaşı'ndan alıntılar okuyacağım tamam ekranda metin olacak böylece benimle birlikte okuyabilirsiniz ve podcast'im için ses kaydına birazdan başlayacağım tamam yani bunu sesli podcast'in normal bir bölümü olarak dinleyebileceksiniz sanırım artık zamanı geldi size başka bir şey söylemem gerekiyor mu sanmıyorum um yani şunu söyleyeceğim bunun ana kısmı size hikayeyi okumam olacak ve bu harika bir hikaye gerçekten tüm zamanların en sevdiğim kitaplarından biri ve evet hikaye okumak ingilizcenizi geliştirmek için harika bir yol ve aynı anda hem okuyup hem dinlemek kesinlikle çok iyi bir fikir yani ana odak noktası sadece size hikayeyi anlatmak ve bunu ilginç ve eğlenceli hale getirmeye çalışmak ve anladığınızdan emin olmak için ilerledikçe birkaç şeyi açıklamak olacak um ama başlangıçta küçük bir giriş yapacağım bölüm için hedeflerim ve ayrıca bunun içindeki yazım tarzı hakkında söyleyeceklerim var çünkü bu oldukça eski bir kitap artık 100 yıldan fazla oldu bu yüzden dil bugün kullandığımız ingilizceden biraz farklı ama bu iyi bu gerçekten ilginç ingilizceye geniş bir yelpazede maruz kalmak iyi bir şey tamam o zaman ses kaydına başlama zamanı ve sonra başlayacağız ve bir saniye içinde ekranda metni göreceksiniz tamam işte başlıyoruz merhaba dinleyiciler luke'un ingilizce podcast'ine tekrar hoş geldiniz umarım bugün podcast diyarında iyisinizdir bu bölümde hikaye zamanı çünkü size klasik bir ingiliz bilim kurgu hikayesi anlatacağım hikayenin adı h.g wells tarafından yazılan dünyalar savaşı görünmez adam ve zaman makinesi'ni de yazan klasik hikaye anlatıcısı ve muhtemelen dünyalar savaşı'nı duymuşsunuzdur çünkü kesinlikle şimdiye kadar yazılmış en ünlü ve en etkili bilim kurgu hikayelerinden biridir şimdi bilim kurgunun herkesin zevkine göre olmadığını biliyorum değil mi ama umarım burada kalıp bu hikayeyi dinlersiniz çünkü bunun özellikle iyi bir yazı olduğunu düşünüyorum ve hikaye çok heyecan verici sürükleyici ve akılda kalıcı bu yüzden biraz daha ingilizce kapmak için gerçekten keyifli bir yol olmalı elbette kitabın tamamını okumayacağım ama bazı seçilmiş alıntılar okuyacağım ve hikayenin ilk bölümündeki temel detayların bir özetini vereceğim tamam yani isterseniz hikayeyi kendiniz alıp kitabı alıp geri kalanını okuyabilirsiniz neyse kitabın ilk bölümünün ana kısımlarını ele alacağım bu bölüm için hedeflerimi söyleyeyim çünkü ingilizce öğrenmenize yardımcı olmak için bunu düzgün bir şekilde yapmaya çalışıyorum bu yüzden bölüm için bazı amaçlarım hedeflerim var her şeyden önce sizi ingilizce olarak gerçekten ilgi çekici bir hikaye ile eğlendirmek istiyorum ve hikayeler kafanıza daha fazla ingilizce sokmak için harika bir yoldur ve eğer heyecan verici ve sürükleyici hikayelerse bu daha da iyidir ikincisi size bugün ingilizcesinden daha resmi bir tarzda ve betimleyici dil açısından çok zengin olan biraz eski moda bir ingilizce versiyonu göstermek istiyorum dilin çeşitli versiyonlarına maruz kalmak iyidir eski moda ingilizce modern resmi ingilizceye çok daha benzer değil mi yani özellikle bugün yazdığımız resmi yazılar her zaman eski moda ingilizceye çok daha benzer yani temel olarak biraz eski moda ingilizce çalışmak tarz konusunda oldukça iyi bir derstir resmi ingilizce yazıyı biraz daha iyi anlamanıza yardımcı olabilir belki ve bu genel olarak ingilizcenizi çeşitli şekillerde güçlendirebilir ve yol boyunca bazı güzel kelimeleri fark etmenize yardımcı olmak isterim ve bildiğimiz gibi geniş bir kelime dağarcığına sahip olmak gerçekten ileri düzey ingilizceye ulaşmak için esastır ve bu hikaye betimleyici dil açısından çok zengindir ayrıca belki de kitabın geri kalanını okumanız için size ilham vermek isterim ve okumak ingilizceniz için yapılması gereken çok önemli bir şeydir ve belki okumak için ilginç kitaplar arıyorsunuzdur bu durumda bunu düşünebilirsiniz çok uzun değil kitabın bir kopyası burada yanımda kitabın sayfalarını duyabiliyorsunuz ve um evet dünyalar savaşı kaç sayfa bilmiyorum yaklaşık 173 sayfa çoğu standarda göre oldukça kısa gerçekten yani yapılabilir olduğunu düşünüyorum hikayenin tamamını bilmek istiyorsanız bunu okumayı düşünebilirsiniz bu aynı zamanda youtube'da bir video bölümü olarak da mevcuttur ve izlerseniz podcast'i yüzümün yanında ekranda metinle kaydettiğimi görebilirsiniz bu hikayenin içeriğini görmek mi yoksa sadece yüzümü yakından görmek mi daha korkunç olacak bilmiyorum hangisinin sizin için daha korkutucu olacağını bilmiyorum neyse yani videoyu izleyebilirsiniz youtube kanalımda ve sonra aynı anda dinleyip okuyabilirsiniz ve eğer yardımcı oluyorsa hikayeyi anlattığımı görebilirsiniz ayrıca bu bölüm için teacherluke.co.uk adresindeki sayfada okuduğum metnin tamamını okuyabilirsiniz tamam size hikayenin bağlamını vereyim ve yazım tarzı hakkında birkaç yorum yapayım bu oldukça kısa olacak ve sonra doğrudan hikayenin gerçek düzgün içeriğine geçeceğiz dünyalar savaşı filmlerde birçok kez uyarlandı en ünlüsü tom cruise ile 2005 steven spielberg filmi belki görmüşsünüzdür ve 1950'lerde los angeles'ta geçen başka bir film versiyonu richard burton tarafından okunan bir sesli kitap müzikal versiyonu ve orson welles tarafından rezil bir dramatize edilmiş radyo dizisi bu orijinal uzaylı istilası hikayesidir bu kitap bu temaları keşfeden ve bu tür şeyleri bu kadar gerçekçi bir şekilde tanımlayan ilk hikayelerden biriydi bu diğerlerine ilham veren hikayedir ve bence bu hikayenin diğer versiyonlarının veya kopyalarının hiçbiri 1897'den kalma bu orijinal versiyonla kıyaslanamaz yazı çok gerçekçi ve gazetecilik tarzında olayları olduğu gibi yaşayan ve her şeyi büyük bir detayla anlatan bir adamın birinci şahıs perspektifinden yazılmış dil ve yazım tarzı hakkında bir not işte dil oldukça eski moda 1897 viktorya döneminden kalma ama gerçekten iyi yazılmış ve sizin için ilginç olmalı ve ingilizceniz için bu dilin biraz farklı bir versiyonunu keşfetmek yararlı olmalı farklı ingilizce türlerine maruz kalmak ingilizcenizi güçlendirir bence ve biz ilerledikçe belirli kelimeleri veya ifadeleri işaret edeceğim ve belki bunu normal modern sade ingilizce ile karşılaştıracağım bu yüzden ilginç bir karşılaştırma olabilir bazen hikayeyi size anlatmaya odaklanmalıyım ana odak noktam ana amacım bu ama ara sıra durup sadece açıklığa kavuşturacağım veya açıklayacağım veya göreceğimiz ingilizce parçaları hakkında yorum yapacağım dillerin stillerini karşılaştırmak aslında size normal modern ingilizce hakkında daha fazla perspektif verir ve bugün resmi yazılı ingilizcenin hala eski moda dilin bazı yönlerini nasıl koruduğunu gösterir yasal belgelerde veya diğer çok resmi durumlarda bulabileceğiniz oldukça fazla dil var therein hereby forthwith ve sing gibi kelimeler bu kitapta oldukça yaygındır ayrıca belirli yapılar daha uzun cümleler ve bu stili belirleyen kelime seçimleri bu 100 yıldan fazla bir süre öncesinden çok betimleyici edebi bir dildir bugünün ingilizcesinden daha karmaşık bugünün ingilizcesinden daha resmi ve betimlemelerinde çok spesifiktir bu muhtemelen sizin için bir zorluk olacak ama yardım etmek için buradayım ve ilerledikçe açıklayacağım ayrıca bu oldukça korkutucu şeyler aslında bu bölümün hazırlığı için bu hikayenin bir kısmını tekrar okuduktan sonra hikayenin ne kadar korkutucu olduğunu fark etmemiştim şahsen böyle bir hikayeden aldığınız heyecanlardan gerçekten keyif alıyorum ama bugün biraz hassas hissediyorsanız bir yastık alıp kanepenin arkasına saklanmak isteyebilirsiniz veya buna benzer bir şey başlamadan önce adlandırmam gereken birkaç yararlı bağlantı ve kaynak işte bu bölümü yaparken yararlı bulduğum birkaç bağlantı her şeyden önce project gutenberg bu kitabın birkaç karton kapaklı kopyası bende var ama kitabı çevrimiçi olarak guttenberg.org'da da buldum yani g-u-t-e-n-b-e-r-g guttenberg.org bu artık kamu malı olan hikayeleri ve kitapları paylaşan bir web sitesidir ve dünyalar savaşı kamu malındadır bu yüzden bu hikayenin ücretsiz çevrimiçi versiyonlarını alabilirsiniz ve ben kendiminkini gutenberg.org'dan aldım aslında bu kitabın html versiyonuna bir bağlantı var açıklamada bulacaksınız aslında tüm bağlantılar ve şeyler bu bölüm serisinin ikinci ve üçüncü bölümlerine bağlantılar onları da açıklamada bulacaksınız orada yararlı şeyler var açıklamada olacaklar course hero çalışma notları dahil coursehero.com adında hikayenin yararlı özetlerini ve diğer yararlı bilgileri içeren bir web sitesi var ve ben coursehero.com'dan bazı özetleri alıntıladım tamam yani şimdi hikayeye başlamaya hazırız tamam yani açılış bölümlerini özetleyeyim aslında kitabın açılış paragraflarını şimdi size okuyacağım bu paragraflar olayların gerçekleştiği sahneyi kuruyor ve kasvetli tonu ve belirli dil seçimini not edin kasvetli ton karanlık ve ciddi gibi ve dilin belirli seçimi bu arada bu hikayenin ana karakterinin adını bilmediğimizi belirtmeliyim o isimsiz bir anlatıcı anlatıcı hikayeyi anlatan kişidir ama onun felsefi makaleler yazan ve bilimle ilgilenen orta sınıf eğitimli bir adam olduğunu biliyoruz temel olarak bildiğimiz tek şey bu hikaye sanki o olaylara geri bakıyormuş ve ne olduğuna dair tam bir hesap yazmış gibi geçmiş zamanda yazılmış o zaman hikayenin ilk birkaç paragrafıyla başlayalım bölüm bir savaşın arifesi savaşın arifesi bu savaşın hemen öncesi gibi tamam ve işte başlıyoruz yani 19. yüzyılın son yıllarında hiç kimse bu dünyanın insanınkinden daha büyük ama yine de onunkiler kadar ölümlü zekalar tarafından keskin ve yakından izlendiğine inanmazdı insanlar çeşitli endişeleriyle meşgulken bir mikroskopla bir su damlasında çoğalan ve sürünen geçici yaratıkları inceleyen bir adamın incelediği kadar dar bir şekilde incelendiklerini ve çalışıldıklarını inanmazdı bu bir kitap için harika bir açılış değil mi sizce bu da tek bir cümle bu arada bir cümle bir uzun cümle yani 19. yüzyılın son yıllarında hiç kimse bu dünyanın keskin yani yakından büyük bir odakla ve insanınkinden daha büyük ama yine de onunkiler kadar ölümlü zekalar tarafından yakından izlendiğine inanmazdı insanlar çeşitli endişeleriyle meşgulken insanlar meşgul bir şekilde etrafta dolaşıyorlardı çeşitli sorunları endişeleriyle uğraşmaları gerekiyordu incelendiler incelenmek yani çok dikkatli bir şekilde çalışılmış ve incelenmiş ve yakından izlenmiş ve belki de bir mikroskopla bir su damlasında sürünen ve çoğalan geçici yaratıkları inceleyen bir adamın incelediği kadar dar veya spesifik bir şekilde incelendiler yani eğer bir bilim insanıysanız bir mikroskopla bir su damlasındaki bir slaytta mikroorganizmaları izliyorsanız aynı şekilde bu zekalar bizi izliyor ki bu oldukça ilginç bizi mikroorganizmalarla karşılaştırmak ki bu bize diğer zekaların ne kadar daha gelişmiş ve daha güçlü olduğuna dair bir fikir veriyor devam edelim sonsuz bir memnuniyetle insanlar küçük işleri için bu küre üzerinde oraya buraya gidip geldiler madde üzerindeki imparatorluklarına dair güvenceleriyle huzurluydular mikroskop altındaki infusoria'nın da aynısını yapması mümkündür yani memnuniyet memnun olduğunuzda bu kendinize güvendiğiniz ve kendinizden emin olduğunuz anlamına gelir rahatsınız çünkü her şeyin yolunda olduğundan eminsiniz gerçekten iyi gidiyorsunuz tamam ve fikir şu ki insanlar doğa düzenindeki konumlarında memnunlar biz dünyadaki baskın türüz günlük endişe duyduğumuz çok fazla yırtıcımız yok ve bu bizi memnun etti ki biz sadece çok kendimizden eminiz ki biz yani biz çevremizin efendileriyiz ve sonsuz bir memnuniyetle insanlar küçük işleri için bu küre üzerinde oraya buraya gidip geldiler yani oraya buraya ileri geri gittiler işleri için madde üzerindeki imparatorluklarına dair güvenceleriyle huzurluydular huzurlu sakin ve barışçıldır biz her şeyin kontrolünün bizde olduğundan madde üzerindeki imparatorluğumuzdan o kadar emin ve huzurluyduk ki mikroskop altındaki infusoria'nın da aynısını yapması mümkündür infusoria sanırım mikroskop altındaki su damlasındaki küçük mikroorganizmalar demek tamam hiç kimse uzayın eski dünyalarını bir insan tehlikesi kaynağı olarak düşünmedi veya onları sadece üzerlerindeki yaşam fikrini imkansız veya olasılık dışı olarak reddetmek için düşündü o günlerin zihinsel alışkanlıklarından bazılarını hatırlamak ilginç en fazla karasal insanlar mars'ta kendilerinden daha aşağı ve misyoner bir girişimi karşılamaya hazır başka insanlar olabileceğini hayal ettiler yani görünüşe göre bu hikayenin olaylarından önce insanlar belki mars'ta biraz yaşam olabileceğini düşündüler ama muhtemelen bizden daha aşağı ve muhtemelen bizden bir ziyareti memnuniyetle karşılarlardı çünkü onlara yardım etmek için orada olurduk ve bilirsiniz önümüzde eğilirlerdi sömürge efendilerimiz gibi bir şey yine de uzay boşluğunun karşısında zihinlerimize bizimkilerin ölen canavarlarınkine olduğu gibi olan zihinler geniş ve soğuk ve sempatisiz bu dünyaya kıskanç gözlerle baktılar ve yavaşça ve kesinlikle bize karşı planlarını çizdiler ve 20. yüzyılın başlarında büyük hayal kırıklığı geldi bu bir kitaptan iyi bir açılış alıntısı değil mi sizce uzay boşluğunun karşısında boşluk yani uzayın boşluğu zihinlerimize bizimkilerin ölen canavarlarınkine olduğu gibi olan zihinler yani bizim zihinlerimizin hayvanlardan daha büyük olması anlamında ve aynı şekilde onların zihinleri bizimkilerden daha büyük yani biz onlar için hayvanlar gibi oluyoruz ve bu onların zihinleri geniş yani devasa kocaman ve soğuk yani duygusuz ve sempatisiz ayrıca bize önemsemiyorlar bu dünyaya kıskanç gözlerle baktılar izlediler kıskançtılar bu bölümün ilerleyen kısımlarında açıklıyor ki temel olarak marslılar mars'ta yaşıyorlar değil mi ve mars güneşten dünyadan daha uzak güneşten bir sonraki gezegen ve gezegenleri her zaman daha da soğuyor yani bugünlerde küresel ısınmamız var ama hikayede marslılar küresel soğumadan korkuyorlar ve bu onların gezegenini yaşanmaz hale getiriyor bunu bir dakika içinde açıklayacağım ve bu yüzden dünyaya bakıyorlar çünkü bir tür olarak hayatta kalmak için dünyayı kolonileştirmek istiyorlar ve 20. yüzyılın başlarında büyük hayal kırıklığı geldi büyük hayal kırıklığı yani insan bilincinde artık besin zincirinin tepesinde olmadığımızı veya aslında olmadığımızı fark ettiğimizde büyük bir değişim tamam şimdi hikayeyi 4. bölüme kadar özetleyeyim kitaptan tekrar 4. bölümden okumaya başlayacağım yani o açılış bölümü mars'taki akıllı yaratık türlerinin bu hikayenin olaylarından yıllar önce bizi nasıl gözlemlediğini anlatıyor açılış bölümü marslıların dünyayı istila etmeyi planladıklarını çünkü ana gezegenlerinin güneşten dünyadan daha uzak olması nedeniyle yıldan yıla giderek soğuduğunu açıklıyor kendi gezegenlerinde yok olma tehlikesiyle karşı karşıyaydılar ve bu yüzden gözlerini en yakın komşuları olan dünyaya daha sıcak atmosferi ve güneşe daha yakın konumuyla diktiler ve üstün matematiksel bilgileri ve teknolojileriyle hayatta kalmak için dünyayı kolonileştirmeye karar verdiler bizi gözlemleyerek ve istilayı planlayarak yıllar geçirdiler ve bu arada işte bir dil notu bu hikayeyi anlatmak için şimdiki zamanları kullanıyorum ve bu bir kitap film veya oyunun konusunu yeniden anlatmanın normal bir yoludur ve bu kitabın konusunu anlattığım için şimdiki zamanları kullanıyorum tamam bu çünkü hikayenin olayları kalıcıdır çünkü asla değişmezler kitapta o şekilde yazılmıştır bu yüzden bir kitap veya filmin hikayesini ingilizce özetlemek için şimdiki zamanları kullanabiliriz ve muhtemelen sizin dilinizde de aynıdır tamam o zaman devam edelim şimdi bu hikayenin anlatıcısının bir arkadaşı var adı ogilvy ve ogilvy saygın bir astronom yıldızları gözlemleyen bir bilim insanı bir teleskobu var ve mars'ın yüzeyi dahil gece gökyüzünü gözlemlemek için kullanıyor en yakın komşumuz yani ogilvy arkadaşımız ve o bir astronom hikayenin ana olaylarından altı yıl önce ogilvy anlatıcıyı mars'ı incelemek için gökyüzünü gözlemleyebileceğiniz bir yer olan bir gözlemevine davet ediyor başka bir astronom gezegenin yüzeyinde dünyaya doğru yönlendirilmiş gibi görünen dramatik bir gaz patlaması bildirdikten sonra anlatıcı teleskoptan izlerken benzer bir patlama gözlemliyor tamam yani bilim insanları mars'ta patlamalar gözlemlediler ve ogilvy anlatıcıya gözlemevine gel ve mars'a bir bak diyor ve o teleskoptan bakıyor ve bakarken bu patlamalardan bazılarını görüyor şimdi ogilvy mars'ta yaşamın varlığından şüphe ediyor ve fenomenin meteorlarla veya yanardağlarla ilgili olabileceğini tahmin ediyor birçok başka insan 10 gün boyunca toplamda gece yarısı kendini tekrarlayan fenomeni tanık oluyor yani her gece gece yarısı 10 gün boyunca mars yüzeyinde patlamalar o sırada kimse mars'taki patlamalar hakkında endişeli veya kaygılı değil altı yıl sonra bazı insanlar bir kayan yıldız görüyor değil mi ama kayan yıldız esasen dünya atmosferinde yanan ve belki bir meteor olarak dünyaya düşen bir kaya parçası bir asteroittir yani bazı insanlar parlak yeşil bir flaşla gece gökyüzünde uçan ve yakınına düşen bir kayan yıldız bir meteor görüyor anlatıcının yaşadığı yerin yakınında horsel common'da horsel common londra'nın güneybatısında büyük bir çimenlik çayırlar ve ağaçlar alanıdır yine kimse garip bir şey olduğunu varsaymıyor astronom ogilvy meteorla ilgileniyor ve onu common'da buluyor araştırmaya gidiyor ve indiği gibi buluyor büyük bir kum krateri oluşturmuş yani yere çarpmış tüm kumu kenarlara iterek bir tür kum havuzu oluşturmuş yani nesne binalar ve ağaçlarla çevrili açık bir çimenlik alanın ortasında büyük bir kum havuzunun dibinde yatıyor ogilvy'nin bulduğu meteor oldukça garip silindirik bir şekilde uzun bir kola kutusu gibi bir silindir şekli uzun bir kola kutusu veya belki bir bira kutusu veya garip silindirik bir şekil gibi ama ogilvy bunun kaya olduğunu düşünüyor çünkü kabuklu bir tabaka ile kaplı ayrıca son derece sıcak ve ona yaklaşamıyor ama içinden garip sesler geldiğini fark ediyor bunların nesnenin soğumasından kaynaklanan gürültüler olduğunu varsayıyor ama onu gözlemlemeye devam ettikçe komik bir şeylerin döndüğünü fark ediyor kabuklu tabaka nesne soğudukça kül gibi yavaşça dökülüyor altında metalik bir yüzey ortaya çıkıyor ve bundan daha da garibi silindirin ucu çok yavaş dönüyor sanki çok yavaş vidalanıyormuş gibi ogilvy aniden silindirin içinde insanlar olduğunu varsayıyor ve yardım almaya karar veriyor ve yardım almaya çalışmak için gidiyor ama kimse ona inanmıyor sonunda silindiri kontrol etmeye istekli bir gazeteci buluyor adı henderson common'da bir silindirin içinde sıkışmış uzaydan gelen adamlar hakkında haber yayıldıkça bir kalabalık toplanmaya başlıyor insanlar neler olduğunu tam olarak anlamıyorlar ama inanılmaz derecede meraklılar normal hayat normal rutinlerine devam etmeden önce kum havuzundaki nesneye bakmak için duran insanlarla devam ediyor yani hikayenin anlatıcısı neler olduğunu kontrol etmek için horsel common'a gidiyor orada daha büyük bir kalabalık toplanmış kalabalığın içinden geçmeyi başarıyor ki bu giderek daha heyecanlı ve ajite oluyor anlatıcının arkadaşı ogilvy dahil küçük bir bilim insanı grubu çukurda neler olduğunu anlamaya çalışıyor anlatıcı neler olduğunu gözlemliyor ve çoğu insanın bu tür şeyler hakkında gerçekten eğitimli olmadığına ve neler olduğunu anlamadıklarına dair yorum yapıyor ama silindirin dünya dışı olması gerektiğini varsayıyor yani uzaydan bir yerden olmalı silindirin ucunun hareket ettiğini gözlemliyor ve döndükçe bir tür parlayan metal diş ortaya çıkarıyor metal diş size bunun bir örneğini vereceğim bir vida üzerinde metal diş alırsınız size burada videoda bir örnek göstermeye çalışıyorum işte bu bir metal diş görüyorsunuz bu bir tür vida yani silindirin ucu yavaşça vidalanırken bu tür bir metal diş ortaya çıkarıyor sanki bir vida vay teknoloji tamam şimdi silindirin ucu nihayet düştüğünde içinde ne olduğunu ortaya çıkardığında ne olduğunu anlatan bir sonraki bölüm yani şimdi ilerledikçe yorumlar ve açıklamalarla 4 ve 5 bölümleri okuyacağım yani sahneyi londra'dan çok uzak olmayan uzakta ağaçlar ve binalar olan çimenli bir common'ın ortasında hayal edin nesne kuma inerek bir tür çukur oluşturmuş insanlar nesnenin etrafında toplanıyor uç bu şeyden vidalanıyor kimse neler olduğunu gerçekten bilmiyor anlatıcı silindiri içeren çukura yaklaşıyor kalabalıklar çukurun her yerinde neler olduğunu görmeye çalışıyorlar birbirlerini biraz itiyorlar ve işler oldukça gergin bilirsiniz büyük bir kalabalık oluştuğunda insanlar itmeye ve kakışmaya başlar ve genellikle oldukça streslidir ogilvy ve diğer bilim insanlarından bazıları ve gazeteci henderson çukurda güneş de batmaya başlıyor uzakta tamam yani bölüm dört silindir açılıyor çukurun etrafındaki kalabalık artmıştı ve gökyüzünün limon sarısına karşı siyah duruyordu belki iki yüz kişi yükselmiş sesler vardı ve çukurun etrafında bir tür mücadele dönüyor gibiydi yaklaştıkça zihnime garip hayaller geldi stent'in sesini duydum geri dur geri dur bir çocuk bana doğru koştu bir hareket dedi bana geçerken bir vida içeri ve bir vida dışarı hoşuma gitmiyor eve gidiyorum ben kalabalığa gittim gerçekten sanırım iki veya üç yüz kişi birbirini dirsekliyor ve itiyordu oradaki bir veya iki kadın hiç de en az aktif olanlar değildi yani orada birbirini iten kakışan insanlar var aralarında oldukça fazla itişip kakışan ve dirsek atan bir çift kadın da dahil o çukura düştü diye bağırdı biri geri dur dedi birkaçı kalabalık biraz sallandı ve dirseklerimle yolumu açtım herkes çok heyecanlı görünüyordu çukurdan garip bir uğultu sesi duydum bir uğultu sesi bir tür [Gülüş] o tür bir şey olurdu ogilvy dedi ki bu aptalları geri tutun confounded şeyin içinde ne olduğunu bilmiyoruz bilirsiniz yani i say bir tür yani aman tanrım veya aman tanrım veya benzeri bir şey söylemek gibidir bu bir ünlemdir i say çok eski moda bu aptalları geri tutun confounded şeyin içinde ne olduğunu bilmiyoruz confounded şey yani lanet şeyin içinde ne olduğunu veya kanlı şeyin içinde ne olduğunu demek çoğu kısım için dil bugün konuştuğumuz yola gerçekten oldukça benzer ama sadece ara sıra kelimeler ve bazı yapılar farklı woking'de bir dükkan asistanı genç bir adam gördüm sanırım silindirin üzerinde duruyordu ve tekrar delikten dışarı çıkmaya çalışıyordu kalabalık onu içeri itmişti silindirin ucu içeriden vidalanıyordu yaklaşık iki fit parlayan vida çıkıntı yapıyordu bu yaklaşık 60 santimetre biri bana çarptı bana çarptılar ve neredeyse vidanın üzerine düşmekten kurtuldum döndüm ve döndüğümde vida çıkmış olmalı çünkü silindirin kapağı çakılın üzerine çınlayan bir sarsıntıyla düştü yani döndü çünkü biri onu itti ve vida o bakmıyorken çıkmış olmalı çünkü indiğinde bir tür boom yaptı çınlayan bir sarsıntı sesi çıkardı dirseğimi arkamdaki kişiye soktum ve başımı tekrar şeye doğru çevirdim bir an için o dairesel boşluk mükemmel bir şekilde siyah görünüyordu gün batımı gözlerimdeydi sanırım herkes bir adamın ortaya çıkmasını bekliyordu muhtemelen biz karasal insanlardan biraz farklı bir şey ama tüm temellerde bir adam biliyorum ben öyle yaptım ama bakarken şu anda gölgenin içinde bir şeyin kıpırdadığını gördüm grimsi dalgalı hareketler birbiri ardına ve sonra gözler gibi iki parlak disk sonra bir yürüyüş sopası kalınlığında küçük gri bir yılana benzeyen bir şey kıvranan ortadan kıvrıldı ve havada bana doğru kıvrıldı ve sonra bir tane daha tamam karanlığa gölgelere baktı ve bir şeyin kıpırdadığını gördüm hareket eden bir şey yani belki hareketin başlangıçları um gölgenin içinde kıpırdayan bir şey grimsi dalgalı hareketler belirsiz birbiri üzerinde ve sonra gözler gibi iki parlak disk parlak karanlıkta hafifçe parlayan anlamına gelir sonra bir yürüyüş sopası kalınlığında küçük gri bir yılana benzeyen bir şey kıvrıldı yani kıvrılmak yılanlar bir daire içinde kıvrılır yani bu kıvrıldı demek bir tür kıvrılan ortadan dışarı doğru kıvrıldı ve havada bana doğru kıvrıldı ani bir ürperti geldi üzerime arkamdaki bir kadından yüksek bir çığlık geldi çığlık bir tür çığlıktır şok olmuş ve korkmuş bir çığlık yarı döndüm gözlerimi hala diğer dokunaçların çıkıntı yaptığı silindire diktim ve çukurun kenarından geri itmeye başladım etrafımdaki insanların yüzlerinde dehşete yerini bırakan şaşkınlığı gördüm her tarafta anlaşılmaz ünlemler duydum şok ve dehşet içinde söylenen kelimeler gibi ünlemler anlaşılmaz yani insanlar kendilerini gerçekten ifade edemiyorlar sadece şok ve dehşet sesleri genel bir geriye doğru hareket vardı dükkan adamının hala çukurun kenarında mücadele ettiğini gördüm kendimi yalnız buldum ve çukurun diğer tarafındaki insanların kaçtığını gördüm stent aralarında silindire tekrar baktım ve yönetilemez bir dehşet beni kavradı taş kesilmiş ve bakıyordum yönetilemez dehşet yönetilemez yani kontrol edilemez dehşet beni kavradı onu tuttu taş kesilmiş ve bakıyordum taş kesilmiş yani hareket edemez ve bakmak yoğun bir şekilde bakmak bir ayı büyüklüğünde grimsi yuvarlak bir kütle yavaşça ve acı verici bir şekilde silindirden yükseliyordu şişerken ve ışığı yakalarken ıslak deri gibi parlıyordu grimsi büyük grimsi yuvarlak bir kütle kütle bir tür büyük yuvarlak ağır bir şekil ayı büyüklüğünde yavaşça ve acı verici bir şekilde silindirden yükseliyordu şişerken şişmek genişlemek ve kabarmak gibi şişerken silindirden çıktığı gibi ve ışığı yakaladığı gibi ıslak deri gibi parlıyordu yani parlamak yani bir şey ıslaksa ve ışık onu yakalarsa bir tür parlar parıldar yani parıltı gibi parlar yani ıslak bir yol gibi gecenin ortasında ay ışığında bu durumda bu garip şey ışıkta ıslak deri gibi parlıyordu iki büyük koyu renkli göz bana kararlılıkla bakıyordu onları çerçeveleyen kütle şeyin başı yuvarlaktı ve bir yüzü var denebilirdi gözlerin altında bir ağız vardı dudaksız kenarı titriyor ve nefes nefese kalıyor ve salya damlatıyordu tüm yaratık kabardı ve konvülsif bir şekilde zonkladı kabardı yani bir tür belki nefes alırken zorlanıyor veya ağır hareket ediyor ve zonkladı yani bir tür belki zonkladı konvülsif bir şekilde yani kendini durduramadan sadece bir tür belki bir balon şişirmek gibi ve balon şişerken ve inerken yukarı aşağı yukarı aşağı konvülsif bir şekilde zonkluyor aman tanrım yaşayan bir marslıyı hiç görmemiş olanlar görünüşünün garip dehşetini zar zor hayal edebilirler sivri üst dudağı ile tuhaf v-şekilli ağız kaş kemiklerinin yokluğu kaş temel olarak gözlerinizin üzerindeki alandır kaşlarınız saçınız alnınız um kaş kemiği yok yani baştan gözlere kadar düz kama benzeri alt dudağın altında çenenin yokluğu ağzının sürekli titremesi yani sallanması ve hızlı hareket etmesi dokunaçların gorgon grupları garip bir atmosferde akciğerlerin gürültülü nefes alması dünyanın daha büyük yerçekimi enerjisi nedeniyle hareketin bariz ağırlığı ve acı vericiliği her şeyden önce devasa gözlerin olağanüstü yoğunluğu bir kerede hayati yoğun insanlık dışı sakat ve canavarca idi yağlı kahverengi deride mantar benzeri bir şey vardı hantal hareketlerin sıkıcı hantal kasıtlılığında tarif edilemez derecede iğrenç bu ilk karşılaşmada bile bu ilk bakışta iğrenme ve dehşetle boğuldum harika betimleyici dil yani sadece bu şeylerden bazılarını tekrar gözden geçireyim kaş kemiklerinin yokluğundan bahsettim ağzının titremesi dokunaçların gorgon grupları yani gorgon bu yunan mitolojisinden gelir medusa gorgon gorgonlar üç kız kardeşti ve saçları için yılanları vardı ve eğer gözlerinin içine bakarsanız taşa dönüşürdünüz o kadar korkutucu ve lanetliydi yani gorgonlar kafaları için yılanları olan efsanevi yaratıklardı yani dokunaçların gorgon gruplarına sahipler yani medusa hikayesini çağrıştırıyor garip atmosferde akciğerlerin gürültülü nefes alması yani gürültülü yani bir tür düzensiz ve çaresiz yani ağır nefes alıyor dünyanın daha büyük yerçekimi enerjisi nedeniyle hareketin bariz ağırlığı ve acı vericiliği bariz yani açık bariz ağırlık ve acı verici hareket ve her şeyden önce devasa gözlerin olağanüstü yoğunluğu bir kerede hayati yoğun insanlık dışı sakat ve canavarca idi yağlı kahverengi deride mantar benzeri bir şey vardı mantar benzeri yani bir mantar gibi mantar mantarlar ve küf gibi şeyleri içerirdi yani yağlı kahverengi deri bir şekilde doku olarak mantar gibiydi hantal hareketlerin sıkıcı hantal kasıtlılığında tarif edilemez derecede iğrenç bu ilk karşılaşmada bile bu ilk bakışta iğrenme ve dehşetle boğuldum vay bakış hızlı bir bakıştır iğrenme ve dehşet duygusuyla boğulmuştu ve hissediyorum ki bu biraz iğrenç görünen bir böceğe veya hatta sadece iğrenç görünen bir böceğin resmine bakarak herhangi bir süre harcarsanız en korkunç böceği veya örümceği hayal edin ve ona bakarak veya resmine bakarak neredeyse içgüdüsel olarak cildinizi ürpertiyor bu onun hissettiği şey sadece bu şeye bakmak bile onu tamamen iğrendirdi ve dehşetle doldurdu neredeyse genetik bir seviyede aniden canavar yok oldu silindirin kenarından devrilmiş ve büyük bir deri kütlesinin düşüşü gibi bir sesle çukura düşmüştü garip kalın bir çığlık verdiğini duydum ve hemen bu yaratıklardan bir diğeri açıklığın derin gölgesinde karanlık bir şekilde belirdi yani canavar ortadan kayboldu çünkü devrildi silindirin kenarından bir tür düştü ve büyük bir deri kütlesinin düşüşü gibi bir sesle çukura düştü sanki biri yere büyük bir deri yığını düşürmüş gibi thunk garip kalın bir çığlık verdiğini duydum ve hemen yani derhal bu yaratıklardan bir diğeri açıklığın derin gölgesinde karanlık bir şekilde belirdi açıklık yani silindirin açılışı döndüm ve çılgınca koşarak belki yüz metre uzaktaki ilk ağaç grubuna doğru gittim ama çaprazlama koştum ama çaprazlama koştum ve tökezledim çünkü yüzümü bu şeylerden çeviremedim yani bazı genç çam ağaçlarının ve çalıların arasına doğru kaçmaya başladı nefes nefese durdum ve daha fazla gelişmeyi bekledim yani ağaçların örtüsü altında koştu ve sadece bekledi kum havuzlarının etrafındaki common insanlar tarafından noktalanmıştı benim gibi yarı büyülenmiş bir dehşet içinde bu yaratıklara veya daha doğrusu yattıkları çukurun kenarındaki yığılmış çakıllara bakıyorlardı ve sonra yenilenmiş bir dehşetle çukurun kenarında yukarı aşağı zıplayan yuvarlak siyah bir nesne gördüm içeri düşen dükkan adamının kafasıydı ama sıcak batı güneşine karşı küçük siyah bir nesne olarak görünüyordu şimdi omzunu ve dizini yukarı çıkardı ve tekrar geri kayıyor gibiydi sadece kafası görünene kadar aniden yok oldu ve zayıf bir çığlığın bana ulaştığını hayal edebilirdim geri dönüp ona yardım etmek için anlık bir dürtü duydum ama korkularım her şeyi geçersiz kıldı o zaman tamamen görünmezdi derin çukur ve silindirin düşüşünün yaptığı kum yığını tarafından gizlenmişti chobham veya woking'den yoldan gelen herkes manzaraya şaşırırdı belki 100 kişi veya daha fazla azalan bir kalabalık hendeklerde çalıların arkasında kapıların ve çitlerin arkasında büyük düzensiz bir daire içinde duruyor birbirlerine kısa heyecanlı çığlıklarla az şey söylüyorlar ve bakıyorlar birkaç kum yığınına sertçe bakıyorlar bir zencefilli gazoz el arabası yanan gökyüzüne karşı garip bir terk edilmiş siyah duruyordu ve kum havuzlarında atları yem torbalarından beslenen veya yeri eşeleyen bir sıra terk edilmiş araç vardı vay ne kadar güçlü bir sahne yani herkes uzaylıları kısaca gördü ve kaçtı ve geri koştu ve farklı bakış açılarından çukura dehşet içinde bakarak felç oldular ama her şey garip bir şekilde huzurlu görünüyor ve h.g wells bu güzel resmi çiziyor bu tür garip tuhaf bir kıyamet sonrası atmosfer bir zencefilli gazoz el arabası yani zencefilli gazoz bir içecektir bir zencefilli gazoz el arabası sanırım bir zencefilli gazoz arabası sadece bir nesne gibi yanan gökyüzüne karşı garip bir terk edilmiş siyah garip yani tuhaf ve terk edilmiş yani kimsenin artık kullanmadığı bir bina veya makine belki hasarlı veya bir şey yani bu zencefilli gazozlu araba garip bir terk edilmiş makine gibi duruyor garip bir terk edilmiş makine yanan gökyüzüne karşı silüet halinde ve kum havuzlarında atları yem torbalarından beslenen veya yeri eşeleyen bir sıra terk edilmiş araç vardı um tamam işte 4. bölümün özeti tamam herkes nasıl gidiyor iyisiniz değil mi odaklanmayı başardınız mı bilmiyorum bu sırada odaklanmak zor mu bilmiyorum hikayeyi iyi biliyorum şimdi birçok kez okudum yani çok yakından biliyorum bunu ilk kez dinlediğinizde biraz kafa karıştırıcı olabilir dilin bazı kısımları biraz spesifik neyse şimdi 4. bölümün özetini sade ingilizce ile vereceğim sadece her şeyi anladığınızdan emin olmak için yani güneş batarken güneş batarken anlatıcı birkaç yüz kişinin toplandığı çukura geri döner bir çocuk anlatıcıyı silindirin ucunun kendiliğinden vidalandığı konusunda uyarır ve anlatıcı daha iyi bir görüş elde etmek için kalabalığın ön tarafına doğru yolunu zorlar ogilvy insanları uzak durmaları konusunda uyarır ve onları bilinmeyen içeriği hakkında uyarır bir adam kalabalığın itiş kakışıyla çukura itilir silindirin ucu çıkar ve çukura düşer anlatıcı ve kalabalık silindirden yavaşça ve acı verici bir şekilde çıkan bir uzaylının grotesk ahtapot benzeri görünüşüyle dehşete düşer acı verici bir şekilde yavaşça dikkatlice işleri düzeltmek için çok çaba sarf ederek bazı acı verici çabalarla silindirden çıkar atmosferde nefes almakta zorlanıyor gibi görünüyorlar anlatıcı ve kalabalık çukurdan kaçar ama anlatıcı dahil birçoğu uzaylıları yakındaki bir ağaç hattından izlemek için durur güneş batar dükkan sahibinin silüetini sadece çukurdan canlı çıkmaya çalışırken ve başarısız olurken görecek kadar ışık bırakır ve bu birinci bölümün sonu bu ikinci bölümde devam edecek hikaye hakkında şimdiye kadar ne düşünüyorsunuz dinleyiciler hadi oldukça çağrıştırıcı şeyler değil mi sizce anlık eylemin betimlemeleri bu uzaylıların garip grotesk betimlemeleri bu garip hantal uzaylılar sırada ne olacak peki dinlemeye veya izlemeye devam edebilirsiniz ikinci bölümle ki bu kesinlikle youtube versiyonu şimdi mevcut olmalı tamam ve podcast ses versiyonu çok 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I'm always uh curious to know what you think.

Sizin ne düşündüğünüzü bilmeyi her zaman, ıı, merak ederim.

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I'm curious about what you think. But again, at the end of the day, I'm the boss and I decide.

Ne düşündüğünüzü merak ediyorum. Ama yine de günün sonunda patron benim ve kararı ben veririm.

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Nice little valley. I'm curious how deep

Güzel küçük bir vadi. Karın ne kadar

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should try to be more curious about important things well it's simple green means the car should go yellow means slow down red means car cars have to [Music] stop don't interfere with that light

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looked into the tinted spectacles of my friend and rival, Mr. Barker. It was a curious foregathering and set us both smiling. It seems that he had been engaged by Dr. Ray Ernest's family to make some investigations and had come to the same conclusion as to foul play. He had watched the house for some days and had spotted Dr. Watson as one of the obviously suspicious

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I'm really curious how this tastes. Oh, I hope it's good.

Tadının nasıl olduğunu gerçekten merak ediyorum. Ah, umarım iyidir.

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up. I'll tell you what, I liked my little grill, worked really well. All right, this is a really nice shelter; I'm curious to see how it performs in bad weather though. Maybe I can come back during

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Well, you know where you are better than I do. I was just curious. Why don't you just calm down, Phoebe?

Eh, nerede olduğunuzu benden daha iyi biliyorsun. Sadece merak ettim. Neden sakinleşmiyorsun, Phoebe?

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I've always said that science fiction is just science that hasn't been proven yet every experience that your brain has literally every memory that you recall every emotion that you experience every person that you meet every scenario that you're in is constantly molding and shaping your brain in my research what I found is that inability or frustration around manifestation is because I don't believe I deserve that thing if you're able to dig down to that underlying belief that's when you can do really powerful work this is a must this is not a spiritual belief if you can't do that you will be so emotionally disregulated it can ruin your life are there any other ways in which our hundreds of thousands of years human biology now living in modern times is screwing us I've realized the importance of this one thing that has been staring Us in the face for as long as we've been humans but we have become so disconnected from it one of the questions that I ask people to consider is has your life panned out exactly as you always dreamed that it would the gap between being and becoming is the greatest source of unhappiness in your life when you relate to Consciousness what are the possibilities of you thinking it existing outside of our own neurology I'm probably going to say something you wouldn't expect hello beautiful beings welcome back to the know thyself podcast where every single week we get the honor and privilege to sit down with a brilliant mind to learn more about the true nature of self and the world around us at deeper levels every single week Our Guest today is a leading neuroscientist a best-selling author a podcast host a medical doctor and in my eyes she's really bridging science and spirituality and the understanding of both in such a beautiful way when we use the words Law of Attraction intuition manifestation what do we literally mean and so we're going to be diving into that and the science that grounds it to Earth and how we can really choose the direction we want to go in life and be effective stewards in what we're creating in life so Dr tart thanks for being here thank you so much much for having me yeah my honor where I want to start today because this is the no they self podcast and it's very fitting is uh is actually about interoception uh and so I've always loved finding ways in which I can grow my own self-awareness so what is interoception and what have you found are the most effective modalities to really raise that self-awareness that is such a great one to pick for know thyself absolutely um so most of us know about the five senses that we have have um but less people know that we have a lot of other senses like thermoception for temperature proception is understanding where your joints are in space um notion is for pain and Inception is an understanding of the state of the physiology of the inside of your body so it's things like how do you know when you're hungry how do you know when you need to use the bathroom um and if you've got young children then you see that from zero to two they go from not being able to recognize those signals at all to being able to control their bowels and their bladder um and you can really take it further than that I think you're probably picking up on the piece where I said that I can tell about two days before I'm starting to get sick like a cold or flu um and I think the reason that I think there's two reasons that I have honed that skill one is obviously I went to medical school so I understand the body inside out but the other one is that I've had over 20 years of yoga practice now and in yoga you connect your mind and your body very much so you just become very aware of biof feedback from your body people who do a lot of sport I think would say the same thing and then there are just some people who are really good at reading body language and listening to their own body you know this may have been a thing since childhood and then of course there's all the people who have the potential to to grow that skill I'm so curious about all the different ways that we can grow awareness like you spoke to the many different facets in which we can um in arenas of our own physiology and mindset and uh I'm curious what you think about extra sensory perception like outside of just our five senses what people call the six sense what uh yeah what's the reality of that do you feel so I actually call inter reception the six sense um but yeah there is that phrase in like common you know pop language or whatever um so I've become much more interested in this recently for a variety of reasons and if we have a spectrum from science to spirituality I would say the reasons go along that Spectrum so much more on the science side of things we do know that some of our hormones are released into the atmosphere through our sweat so um the steroid hormones like cortisol estrogen and progesterone particularly so this is the reason that women who live together or work closely together synchronize their um menstrual cycles within two months it's because particles of those hormones are in our sweat and they're released around us and if we're interacting with each other closely then they will go into our skin and you know Al to the levels of hormones in other people and regardless of your gender this happens with cortisol the stress hormone so there's an evolutionary explanation to this which is that we needed to respond to the stress levels of the leader of the tribe and so in this day and age regardless of gender like I said depending on where you are in the hierarchy of an organization or a family or a group you know social group we do feel the stress levels of the um most senior person so it's like in a troop of gorillas the stress level of the silver back gorilla affects the other gorillas more than ones who are equal to each other and so if you think that we are communicating let's say non-consciously through the effect of hormones that may be in the atmosphere around us and that's already the physiology of communicating outside of our bodies right um and then I've always said I grew up in the 70s that science fiction is just science that hasn't been proven yet so a lot of things that I watched on Star Trek and Star Wars when I was a kid are you know I mean the other day because we were in La I was walking down the road and this thing that looks like a shopping cart but it's a robot was walking towards me saying I am on delivery and it was just on its own and you know in London we didn't have those yet so I was a bit like wow that's very science fiction so you know if you've honed your interception if you've honed your intuition and let's add in if you're very close to someone so you know them really well I do believe it's possible to you know think of someone and then they message you or to like just have a sense someone's going through something and you should call them is that what you meant when you were asking sure yeah I just picking up on and we can dive deeper into intuition here and what that means in your eyes but having those gut feelings having those uh senses of a direction that you might move in you might sense danger you might sense opportunity and it's really your ability to pay attention to more subtle frequencies and energies that are happening all around us that are invisible to the naked eye and so uh yeah when people refer to gut feelings and intuition I'm just curious for you to break that down a little bit more what that really means so I actually want to pick up on something that you've just said which I think is really important which is noticing things that you may not have been conscious of or you may not have noticed you know if you're in a rush or you're distracted mentally the reason so basically there are a lot of things going on around us that we filter out and that's because we're bombarded with so much information continually that it's actually an advantage to us to filter out some of that information so the best example ex is that you're not aware of your clothing on your body all day cuz once you put it on and you felt that you don't really need to be reminded of that every minute of the day you're kind of overwhelming in a burden to exactly so that applies to other things and that's naturally filtered by the brain not necessarily with us directing it we can direct it but if we don't then the brain will filter out things that it doesn't think are important to us surviving that day and so you can imagine in the modern world where there's you know even more information now than there was let's say 100 years ago that the brain is filtering out those things but if you want to be really in tune with the people that you love or just your environment you want to be really present and mindful then you can certainly direct what gets filtered out and what doesn't so you can pay attention more um than your brain might naturally ask you to or let you because it's focused on your survival then I think it's a connected but slightly separate thing which is how much you listen to or tap into your intuition um so I do speak about six different ways of thinking obviously there are many more and we do them all and they combine but it's just a a very simple framework to break down the way that we we think which is mainly through logic which is you know data and things that we know then through emotions which are things that we feel um motivation is why we do the things that we do why we get drained by certain things and don't want to do them so just understanding what makes you really like keep going when things are tough and what kind of makes you give up physicality which is that brain Body Connection we've already mentioned due to interception um creativity which is thinking outside the box thinking of a you know a potentially different future different reality and then intuition and intuition Falls a lot between physical and emotional so the emotional centers of the brain are deep inside the brain and they're the size of your clenched fist so you know yours is slightly bigger than mine but it's proportional for your body and then around that about the same thickness we have the cortex which has more of the logical Pathways of the brain and because you can't remember everything that you've experienced in your whole life but everything that you've experienced has had an impression on your brain body system we believe that we keep our working memory up here these are the things we need to remember every day to do our job and live our life and then through a process called hean learning which is named after the neuroscientist Donald Hebb and is really simply explained by neurons that fire together wire together we believe that our wisdom and our pattern recognition get pushed deeper and deeper into the brain into the spinal cord and even into our gut gut neurons and that's why intuition is sometimes called gut instinct so basically the lessons that you've picked up in life the wisdom that you've learned through repeated patterns that could be as deeply held in your neurons as like deep down in your G so you're not conscious of it but it still guides the the decisions that you make now what I found over the last 10 years or so particularly the 10 years I've been teaching at MIT Sloan which is Business Leaders is that people would really rely on their logic and say things like well you know I'm not going to make a really important decision like hire or fire on intuition because you know that's not is it even a thing as we've been able to scan brains and learn more about how these neurons connect up and store information I really see particularly the older generation of leaders saying that is absolutely the main way that I will make my most important decisions and I'm I'm like that you know I will make my most important important life decisions based on intuition and the way that I have helped myself to understand how much that is the right thing for me is through journaling so if I journal and I'm I'm writing like you know what should I do in this situation my gut's telling me this but logic tells me that or my emotions tell me something else I basically plot out how things pan out depending on which modality I use to make my decision yeah it feels like the conscious thoughts that we have are just the tip of the iberg of our deeper intelligence and you spoke to something really important there which is the intelligence that gets stored in our spinal cord in our gut and that we can pay attention and start to listen to that deeper and deeper and that it's really important as we have tens of thousands of thoughts that are happening every single day in our brain that are for the most part kind of the same as we've been accustomed to and familiar with I'd love for you to speak into how it's really important to be mindful of The Impressions that we accumulate because then that does become stored becomes who we are and how we perceive reality which is then going to be a direct correlation to what we continually attract in our life yeah absolutely so every experience that your brain has which me you have so like literally every memory that you recall every emotion that you experience every person that you meet every scenario that you're in is constantly molding and shaping your brain so um because of a field of research about neuroplasticity we understand how much more flexible and impressionable the brain is throughout our lives this may start to change I don't even want to use the word decline you know around the age of 70 where sometimes things like sequential memories can become a bit disordered but our wisdom and judgment becomes like a superpower so it it can change towards the end of life but really throughout most of our working life let's say um the brain is very open to being changed by everything that it experiences and the longer that an impression has been held in the brain the more deeply embedded it is into our neural architecture so particularly things that we experienced from the age of n to 7 but also 7 to 14 and then onwards but you know those periods really because they're the longest ago and if you had a repeated experience or a highly emotional experience then those are the two main reason that things get imprinted into your brain repetition and strong emotion and so it's funny I I am five and a half years older than my brother and I was telling my psychologist friend that I had a very strong memory of um speaking into my mother's belly button and then listening to see if my brother would answer me and in my memory that happened once and I just remember it really strongly but he said to me you must have done that many times for it you know for a 5-year-old to have to still have hold that memory so other things like that like the parental expectation societal expectation how competitive your school was the kind of people that you hung around with words that were used about you when you were a kid those things they run deep in your brain and they like you said they do affect your perception of everything else that happens in your adult life and you know one of the main areas of work around that is what's called Shadow work and psychology which is the things that you perceived as a child would mean that you wouldn't be loved and looked after by your main caregivers so those sorts of things whether it's like oh you know stop showing off or stop running around like that those things get put into your Shadow like you know I mustn't talk highly of myself I mustn't you know sort of like do things at speed if other people can't keep up those are the things we try to hide about ourselves and usually around the age of midlife crisis or whatever you want to call it you know those things can really like come up and have to be dealt with and integrated like a lot of those oppressions that we accumulated often in an unconscious state from like 0 to 7 7 to 14 uh they happen in a manner where we would where we don't fully have the memory of how how they happened and that then builds and accumulates into a stack of Impressions that are subconscious holds and becomes the Persona in which we look through the world and so I'd love to talk a little bit about identity because fundamentally we're going to continually attract what we believe we're worthy of what we believe we deserve which is kind of all on the Bedrock of who we think we are and so I'd love for you to share a little bit about uh identity the science of it and how that's uh really the the foundational pillar in which how we experience everything but then you know in particular um how we manifest in life so then there's an area of research called ghosts um the original research was ghosts in the Executive Suite because it was explaining how the leaders of today are affected by those childhood Impressions but my colleague at MIT um Professor Deborah anona wrote a really amazing article in Harvard Business review about ghosts in your neural architecture from your childhood and how they affect you you know whatever you're doing whoever you are um and identity is one of them so actually there are the other thing are the values that your family held or your social structure you know when you were growing up held boundaries that were held in in your family in your social structure secrets that were kept roles in the family and identification which in childhood tends to be comments like oh you're just like your father um and so those things are quite intertwined so for example if you have a secret in your family and the common example are you know someone that was an alcoholic or someone that was gay that wasn't talked about then you start to program shame around those things and so that affects your identity so the secrets that are kept in your family affect your identity the boundaries that were kept in your family so some families have a really open house and people can just drop in and they can stay over um they can just join a meal unplanned and some families everything's very planned and you know has to be like invited in advance and kind of um you know not spontaneous again those things also affect your identity because it's your ability to be flexible and spontaneous versus your you know inability to function in a world where that may be happening um and roles obviously also affect your identity so let's say now you're in the workplace and your role as a child was to be the messenger so let's say your parents had a lot of arguments and didn't speak to each other and said things like Andre go and tell your mother you know whatever um that's also going to play out in your adult identity um and you're absolutely correct you mentioned a few things but in my research what I found is that the inability or frustration or success around manifestation always boils down to your level of deservingness of the outcome that you're looking for so in terms of the way this works with neuroplasticity is that you have to perform a certain action in the material world to bring what you want into your life to perform that action with confidence you have to have a certain thought process that tells you if I go dating I'm going to meet someone really nice and be able to settle down and have a family versus if I go dating I'm going to meet a series of guys who are going to treat me really badly and it's going to damage my self-esteem even further you can see the path that you know those two people are going to go down and it's the same for asking for a raise asking for promotion setting out to start your own business any sort of health or fitness goals and so behind that thought process will be a set of beliefs that may be conscious but may be subconscious as well so you do not even know that that's what you believe about yourself that is starting off the thought process that is either either preventing you or allowing you with trust and faith you know to take a healthy risk so if you're able to dig down to that underlying belief that's when you can do really powerful work to affect your manifestation and whatever the particular phrase tends to be it usually does equate to inability to manifestation is because I don't believe I deserve that thing the secrets the boundaries the roles uh that values values so those things that we pick up because children you know they don't often do what their parents say but they become who they are inevitably and so I'm just I'm so fascinated in the Deep ways and I know you've studied Carl's Young's work uh quite extensively in the process of taking our unconscious material to our conscious awareness to be able to work with these things and I just think that's really important to get to the root of it cuz then you're kind of just swimming on the surface of think better thoughts and you know but like the root of it is still a rotten tree and so you're you're going to kind of keep finding yourself coming back to the same experience of Life attracting the same Partners um yeah so anything you want to touch on there before I move on yeah just really to reiterate what you've said but um so in the process of neuroplasticity the Practical process like day-to-day is Raising awareness of the thing that you wish to change or you know awareness around what it is that you want to attract into your life focusing attention on opportunities to bring that into your life deliberate practice is the action part which you know I'm really strong on you can't just sit there and think about what you want and not do anything and then the accountability piece but you're AB absolutely right that raising from non-conscious to conscious is is the absolute key if you can't do that you you you are you're skimming on the surface you might be able to change a few behaviors but you're not changing the underlying belief so I always just say raising awareness is 50% of that battle of change but the process for that is bringing from non-conscious to conscious what it is that's holding you back anything else you want to share on the neuroplasticity of being able to reinvent ourselves so we might have the desire of you know fill in the blank whatever it might be whether it's a partner career more money a general sense of well-being um and yet uh if we really struggle to bring the unconscious to the conscious um what are some of those tools that bring into people's action that uh you found most most transformative um I want to go with a bit of just like the philosophy around it first and then maybe get down to some tools but um so we have we've talked about not being aware of unconscious beliefs and and trying to raise that but the other piece that I think is really important is you know you've talked about something that we desire I actually call it magnetic desire which is a desire that is so strong that you will keep going when it feels like nothing's changing and you know the biggest reason that people don't change is that when it gets tough we think oh well this isn't meant to be so I'll give up and I'll move on to something else magnetic desire is when your head heart and gut so your logic your emotion and your intuition are fully aligned you know if any one of those things is saying I'm not sure if that's what I really want for myself then it's you can't like all three of them have to be aligned and the desire has to be very strong because it's too easy and what I see a lot is people say that they want things like a family or a certain job or a certain amount of money because that's what their peer group are doing and what you have to really work out is what you want for yourself regardless of what everybody else is doing that you really want for personal reasons and not for what I would call the wrong reasons which is that you know materialistic reasons or peer social comparative reasons once you find something that you really want and you've got that strong desire and it's well aligned in your brain and your body your ability to be patient which is part of the process will be much higher and the reason that it's part of the process is even if it's a psychological thing that you're changing physical work is going on in your brain new neurons are growing neurons are connecting up with each other pathways are being melinated which is insulating them for like faster conduction that is hard work you need to eat more you need to rest a lot um it's literally physical work and whilst that's happening you're tired your motivation is being challenged but then it reaches a Tipping Point where you have enough neurons and a strong enough pathway that you can do the new Behavior that's required to get what you want and get out of those old patterns and then suddenly you know you know that feeling it feels that everything's fallen into place but that can be after quite a long period of feeling like nothing's working out everything's falling apart and definitely not in place yeah yeah so that that process of head heart integration Mind Body Spirit unification I think is ultimately the evolution point of where we're headed as a human species but on an individual level is the goal you brought up a really important point of first you have to even know what you want right you have to know what you actually desire and often that's a byproduct of uh releasing all of these old stories and identities that we talked about earlier what do you feel like ultimately people Tru truly want it might manifest in however people look in their life and how they think they're going to get it but what are the core tenants of what humans um truly uh you feel need and want well as you mentioned I am a fan of car yung's work and so I believe that self-actualization and individualization are the ultimate goals in life and and what that means is you Reaching Your Potential you becoming the best version of yourself you you know for want of a better phrase living your best life um and I think it's very easy on with social media to think living your best life is a set of things that are determined externally um there is an idea of what a best life looks like but that may not be your best life or my best life um so you know really understanding your purpose I mean having a purpose that transcends yourself is really important in terms of your own mental health your physical health your longevity but it contributes to those things because it's the healthiest state for you to be in and if you're striving for something that is not authentic for you and is very externally validated that causes disease in the system you know and it can literally make you sick or it can just make you unhappy um and what happens in that scenario is that you may achieve the amount of money that you want to earn or the place that you want to live but deep down you're not actually happy so finding out what it is that will truly make you happy and and I'm not even really saying that you know like being super happy all the time is is the goal it's the thing that means that you are the person that you're meant to be in the place that you're meant to be doing the things that you're meant to be they're not completely selfish things that you are absolutely flourishing in gratitude which means that you know the the bonding hormones and the feelings of trust and Joy are um you know going around your blood and and um impacting your immune system and a positive way and really allowing you to be the best version of yourself that you can be you really just spoken into authenticity bringing ease in your life and I guess the opposite of authenticity whether it's pretense or just not feeling like you're expressing your true nature then would be the opposite which is disease right and so uh yeah and um and so I know we wanted to mention just a few action things as well on the other side of really coming back into that authenticity were there some practices that you did want to mention before we move on yeah so one which we've kind of touched on the theory of but it's important to actually do is to and I do think journaling is a great help for this is to try to be very aware of the repeated thought patterns that you are having and start writing them down start really noticing how often you are thinking this thing um there may be a few so whether there are themes um whether it's a particular recurring thought or themes to then really try to dig underneath that what must I believe about myself to be having that thought on repeated basis and there's a variety of things you can do here one may require some sort of external help like therapy or a coach or you know a really psychologically minded friend that can remain as neutral as possible that you can speak with or it could just be journaling by yourself but doing that work to understand what the underlying belief is and then using that belief to create a mantra or positive affirmation that is the opposite of that that belief so even if it feels like it's not completely true at the moment it does need to be quite bold so that every time you have the negative or the low self-worth thought you can replace it with the the positive affirmation and that actually comes from a Buddhist teaching which is replace every negative thought with a positive thought but it's very much backed up by neuroplasticity because in the brain you can't undo a pathway that's already there you can only overwrite it with a new desired pathway whether that's a thought or an action or a belief so if you immed as soon as you can and then eventually before you even really start fully having the negative thought you think of this positive manttra you say it out loud you write it down you share it with friends what as much as you can you have it you know maybe I have um affirmations written up on my bathroom mirror so that at least every morning and every evening I see them um you can start to overwrite that belief in your brain I really love the understanding of it's simply neural Pathways that we're strengthening right and if we've cultivated and accumulated Impressions to the point where we are very custom to having a pessimistic outlook on life we can eventually get to that point where we can have an abundant look outlook on life as we start to strengthen you know the neurons that wire together fire together so can you speak to mil and sheath and how we can really uh strengthen those so one of the questions that I ask people to consider is has your life panned out exactly as you always dreamed that it would and if not where are the gaps because that can help you start to identify what your purpose or your dreams might be and you know when we were kids before people said oh don't do this don't do that don't say this we actually genuinely had quite a strong idea of what we wanted to be who we wanted to be so maybe going back to some of your childhood dreams as well there are all ways of helping you work out your purpose um and it may be that let's say you want you wanted to paint and draw and you know you loved that maybe for various reasons you can't be an artist full-time as your profession but you could bring back painting and drawing into your life and just see how much joy that brings you and what else it opens up so that's an example um yeah so in terms of how deeply embedded all these impressions are that we pick up in life there's three ways that we embed information in our brain one is called neurogenesis and that is that the fact that we have little embryonic or baby nerve cells floating around in our brains now from 0 to two there's a lot of them in our brains and you know there's a massive amount of growth in the brain from 0 to two from being completely vulnerable and unable to even Survive by yourself to walking talking potentially up to five languages simultaneously in the first two years of your life um having opinions you know being able to control your bladder your bowels make choices Etc it is definitely less so in the adult brain but we know that those embryonic cells exist around the hippocampus part of our brain which is where we lay down memories so obviously for a large part of our lives a majority of Our Lives we are able to lay down new memories um and you asked me before about extrasensory perception so I do believe from what we know at the moment that we will find that there are embryonic cells in other parts of the brains but we we just don't know that yet the second and most common form of neuroplasticity in the adult brain is sinapic connection so neurons are you know they have a a long body and at either end they have what's called a a sinapse and it's kind of like a bud at the end of the neuron between two neurons there's a gap and when an electrical signal passes down a neuron it induces the release of chemicals into that Gap that are taken up by the other sinaps so there's a preoptic um end and a postoptic end and that's how messages pass down long neural pathways through from neuron to neuron and the ability to connect up with other existing neurons is quite strong in our brains and my favorite example is learning a new language so when you learn a new language you're using neurons that are already in your brain because you know how to speak um but you're just coding that for a new language and then the third part is myelination which you're right is a fatty sheath that coats some neural Pathways and it means that that pathway is more insulated so we have faster conduction of electrical and chemical messages along that pathway now there's a reason reason that we have some fast Pathways and some slow Pathways we don't want everything to be a fast pathway so if you put your hand into a fire your reflex to snatch your hand out of the fire is a fast pathway but your pain reflex is a slow pathway because if you felt the pain of your hand burning immediately you'd be incapacitated so what tends to happen is you snatch your hand out of the fire and then after a few seconds you're like wow that really hurts I can feel it now um and again that's an evolutionary mechanism to help us escape from predators yeah I just love the analogy that cultivating an abundant outlook on life is like learning how to play the piano like you're just creating these new Pathways and it's going to be a process and a journey and that's actually uh that's an inviting perspective yeah I actually did that during the pandemic because I don't know if you know but I take on a new neuroplastic plasticity learning every year and so in the summer of the pandemic I I was learning to play tennis again which I had up until the end of high school but then not since then and it was so interesting to see that muscle memory and just the kind of mental memory come back as well so my progress on that was quicker than if I had been trying to learn a completely new sport that I'd never played before and I could see that you know it's obviously very tangible um and then you know there was definitely a period of time during the pandemic where this is extremely privileged but I felt really depressed about the fact that I couldn't travel anywhere and I sort of thought you know I'm alive I'm healthy I'm actually in like nice surroundings you know for being locked up at home this is not okay and can I do here what I've seen myself do with tennis and so I basically did six months of being able to with less effort see all the positives in a day rather than focus on what wasn't happening that I wanted to happen and a little bit like I said with the whole Tipping Point thing I was working on it and it was fine and then there was literally a moment where I kind of stepped outside and I just looked around at the flowers and the sky and the weather and thought this is just so beautiful I'm so happy to be here and and immediately recognized this is quite different to the way I had been thinking for a few months and it it's important to share with um our audience that the strongest gearing of the brain is called loss avoidance or loss aversion and that is a survival mechanism which makes us two to two and a half times more likely to focus on loss or potential loss than the equivalent amount of reward or potential um you know gain and so it is really easy to focus more on the things things aren't going right than the things that are that's natural for us so just flipping ourselves to noticing more the positive things because they are there and even if they're not you know then to take it to the next stage and bring more positivity into our lives is the mechanism of abundance which is one of the six things you know that I mention in terms of um manifestation which is changing that gearing to being more abundant in your thinking rather than scarcity the magnetic desire that mentioned earlier um and the patience cuz sometimes it can take you know longer than you would like and you need to keep your motivation going and there's some other things around it but those three are the main ones to be really aware of so that proclivity to like perceiving what could be lost is that that's just like an evolutionary mechanism again that's kind of deep deeply embedded for you know fear is there a reason for that um I just I try to think of like as newborn babies come into into this world what are we biologically wired for what is nurtured through childhood um and then what we can do about it so yeah it's just uh because obviously having the fundamental Buddhist tenant of clinging in aversion and being uh aware acutely of what we could lose um is deeply within our psychology and biology uh anything else you want to share as to why yeah so when we lived in the cave we had threats from predators from the weather from tribes that weren't you know the same as us or aligned with us and so to survive we had to be at least twice as much on the lookout for things that could you know things that could bring in disease things that could bring in like scarcity of food we had to be mindful of those things in terms of things that we would consider to be rewards today they were complete luxuries you know you in cave times we would only really indulge in those activities if we had a massive store of food if the weather was really good if we fought off all of our enemies you know um so it just wasn't as important to our survival and that's a wiring that you know how I said wiring that's been in your brain from zero to seven is is really deep and affects like everything that you might think about a wiring that's been in you know in the human species for so long also runs deep some of these things do change so like a really sweet one is that in in those times when we lived in the cave and we lived in a nomadic hunter gatherer kind of way we didn't live in unit families the you know men's priority was to impregnate as many women as possible to make sure that their Gene survived and they didn't have to stay and look after them they just had to make sure that if they you know impregnated five women then one would probably surv one baby would survive is that linked to the testost on oxytocin balance to that we were talking about before yeah I guess it it would be but we can come to that later um in in this day and age most societies do ask that we live in a unit family that the father stays with the family like you know after he's impregnated the woman and for a long time men would be going against their you know testosterone profile to want to do that but what we've seen in the last let's say decade is that when a man becomes a father for the first time his testosterone levels drop and the lyic system which is the emotional part of the brain that I said was the size of your clenched fist that becomes rewired by oxytocin the bonding hormone so the father wants to stay around and protect the baby because he feels bonded to the mother and the baby rather than feeling competitive with his testosterone so that means that something that we have changed as a society has actually then created a biological imperative for men and families um but this survival mechanism it hasn't changed that much even though our threats now are primarily psychological for you know for most people in the modern world um and not so much physical we still have that tendency to focus on losses rather than gains but we are able to override it if we're aware of it amazing quick tangent then do you want to that one piece about find it so fascinating yeah yeah it's so it's less related to like families um but it's just to do with sexual interactions between men and women so when um and you know I just want to say that the research isn't clear on other genders and that's why I'm focusing on on the you know the heterosexual interaction is that in a sexual interaction between a man and a woman so the bonding hormone oxytocin that is involved in child birth in breastfeeding in bonding between newborn baby and mom so it's kind of like the love Bubble hormone that is released by women um and during sex during sex and similarly to the fact that women do have testosterone but men have about 17 times as much that they're circulating through their body during the day men also do release oxytocin but the way that The receptors respond to oxytocin is completely blunted by the testosterone so what that means in Practical life is that if a woman sleeps with a man enough times and keeps releasing these bursts of oxytocin she is going to bond to that man AKA falling in love for a man if they are not already in love with the women and they're having casual sex then the amount of testosterone that circulating at the time will minimize the effects of the oxytocin meaning that he will not NE necessarily bond with the woman and you know like I say whether it's reality shows or listening to your single friends we do tend to hear this story quite a lot that you know well you know he said we're keeping it casual but we were having sex and I hoped he changed his mind and he didn't kind of scenario yeah no I just think that it's really interesting to look into the biology of that because that is a common experience I think a lot of people have the male female relationship Dynamics especially with sex that people are having it casually um before we move on are there any other ways in which our hundreds of thousands of years human biology now living in modern times is screwing us because it's like it's so recent to have technology in the internet and what we've all become accustomed to but it's so new to how we've evolved and so is there anything that sticks out as to how that is a recipe for disaster in certain cases I want to slightly push back on the way that you phrased that cuz I am getting that feedback on social media and so what I really want to say is knowledge is power and I'm saying these things so that if people have experienced that in their personal life but they weren't aware of the science behind it that they can use that information to you know make it work for them so for example the scenario about as a woman you may Bond more than you would like to if you repeatedly have casual sex with someone knowing that could change you know what some people do so it's good to know right yeah and similarly we've mentioned a few other things like that like how the stress hormone cortisol leaks out of your body in your sweat and so you can get affected by the stress levels of people around you that could potentially screw with you if you didn't you know if you weren't aware of the fact that um be aware of who's draining your energy or making you feel super stressed and either go and sweat that out through aerobic exercise or get off your mind through journaling or speaking to a friend or therapist um but the main one that I really want to come to because I've been doing some research into neuro Aesthetics recently or neuro arts and I've realized the importance of this one thing that has been staring Us in the face for as long as we've been humans but we have become so disconnected from it for all the reasons that you've just mentioned because we've got devices because we're switched on 24/7 we have artificial light um is the importance of nature to our health and our mental health so you and I might have different taste in music or art although having looked around your house we've got definitely similar taste in art but you know we might not um but nature is the one palette that we all agree on because we've all existed in it since the beginning of time and I'm obviously not going to say exactly where you live but when you invited me you know to come to the studio it's such a beautiful place that I've been to before I wanted to have the drive here and be in that place and see the views because I know that that will be good for me today um so what has tend what well interestingly during the pandemic we all maybe did actually consciously spend a bit more time in nature but I have to admit that since I've been able to move back to the city travel more again I'm not spending as much time in nature as I did during the pandemic and that's at the back of my mind that I regret it but equally you know priorities and just like the rush of life again has definitely had a negative impact on that so when we spend time in nature um we kind of know that it's got you know mental health benefits and health benefits and um there is research that shows that if you spend enough time in nature on a regular basis it actually can increase your lifespan and not just that you live longer but you live healthier for longer but um one of the areas of research that I've come across recently is so I love going on Safari and I learned quite a few years ago that if a tree gets nibbled a lot by by a giraffe and so it's kind of losing its ability to like send the seeds out and grow more of itself it sends chemical messages in the air to other similar trees around who make themselves bitter so the giraffes won't eat them who yeah so cool yeah I thought that was cool but wait till you find out my latest thing which is that trees and plants some more than others release chemicals called phytonides that actually boost our immune system they trigger the release of natural killer cells in our immune system that can fight off more infections and Cancers so we're constantly you know fighting off small infections and Cancers and not even realizing that that's happened obviously when they proliferate massively and the immune system can't keep up with them that's when we become sick but if you ideally you know Forest bathing as where this all came from but if you go out and spend time you know by the ocean or in the mountains or in the forest even if you have more plants in your house and you know if you have a garden rather than just a Terrace or a deck or whatever then you are getting the benefits of um those chemicals from trees and plants isn't that incredible just by being in close proximity to them yeah yeah I've always just felt the the benefit from keeping like life really it's just plants and um and now living where I live now which I moved here about six months ago I totally feel the difference I mean it's something that we all intellectually know when we go on Hikes or go in the water we just feel our nervous system be more regulated and suddenly our problems don't have as much of a grip on us um but that's wild to to see some of the science behind that as well oh I didn't know you'd only moved six months ago so yeah you've really you're in the kind of time period of feeling that difference yeah yeah and I also feel there's something inherently linked to our human creativity with that um I'm curious if there's anything that came up for you there there's so much that I want to dive into you with but I feel like the more that we find ease within oursel with which can come byproduct of being in nature more uh we get more access to just kind of like this effervescent creativity of of wanting to express instead of the alternative yeah so it's really interesting that you've come to that conclusion um intuitively because when we spend time in nature what we're essentially doing is beholding Beauty and there's two forms of creativity beholding and making and they're connected they're both good for you for different reasons but when you are consciously spending more time beholding Beauty which you're doing without even thinking about it by being in nature then it connects up in that pathway in your brain to wanting to make Beauty as well and so whether that's drawing painting singing chanting humming dancing um and again let's relate this back to when we were in the cave you know we were talking about how why we would look out for loss more than reward well even before we could speak we were like beating drums we were dancing we were humming we were doing cave paintings and we used to think that cave paintings were a way of demonstrating the success of a hunt but we understand now that it was much more planning the hunt because we couldn't speak to each other I couldn't say to you let's go and kill a woolly mammoth today because then we'll have loads of you know fur and fat to get through the winter um but if I could draw that with you and help you know get you to understand that's what my plan was but in those days it was literally all about survival we didn't really do things for fun everything had a reason so why were we dancing and humming and beating drums um and you know obviously we were walking barefoot in nature and we were looking at the stars in the sky so all of that mindfulness you know beauty stuff was happening but we had to be creative as well being creative was contributing to our immunity to our health to our longevity to our connections as a tribe in fact the authors of the book your brain on Art Ivy and they actually count being in nature as a creative activity so when they quote their research it's about the benefits of creative activities on your mental health your health and your longevity and being in nature is just another one of those yeah it feels like that switch I just love all that so much it feels like that shift of seeing creativity as a luxury that you know people who have free time can do to actually it's the necessity to having a healthy human psyche yeah beautiful I love that frame of beholding beauty being linked to expressing creating Beauty because I totally feel that intuitively I'm sure so many people do as well Chelsea who's our main girl behind the scenes right now actually goes out and Hikes and paints the mountain ridges that she sees in real time which is so cool like being able to merge those I think is so rad uh that's that's wonderful so I'm glad I asked that because I wasn't planning on it but that's that's good to know and hear um all right I want I do want to touch on the Law of Attraction a little bit more here because it's a big part of your work book and and your in your book The Source you you touch on this and all the podcasts that you go on quite a bit um I think a lot of people got exposed to the film The Secret when they were younger and it was great thing because it put a lot of people on their spiritual path they're like just into a different way of thinking and more open way of perceiving things uh it also served as really not doing a great job of actually explaining how that really works and kind of keeping it on uh uh more of the woooo mystical side of things and so I'm I'm curious just for you to ground in what the Law of Attraction means in your eyes cuz obviously we're constantly manifesting and attracting in our life what is the law side of it yeah so I looked into this before I 100% committed to writing the source and so you know what I want to say about the secret and Ronda is that she brought into massively into common culture the fact that you can do things to bring what you want into your life I think it was left at the level of less Agency for people because it was explained by the power of the universe and like vibrations that were outside of yourself and so I felt it was really important to add to that that cognitive science so that's the power of your mind and your brain and you using that in a directed way underlies your ability to bring into reality in the material world the things that you think about and desire in your mind um and also kind of more in retrospect realize that if it is the power of your mind if it's your mind if it's what you believe if it's what you think if it's what you then go out and do as a result of that then you can feel really empowered by that whereas even if you think it's I sit at home and I think about the house that I want or the job that I want and then you know I notice more things and certain good things happen it still feels very external and you know to me that's not being in the driver seat of your life and it's great if you know Wonderful coincidences and serendipities also happen but you've got to be feeling like there are things that I can do to make this happen and you know that what I'm really passionate about is people understanding how much potential they hold in their brain and so the more that people think I at least I'm part of this if not necessarily absolutely the driver of it yet um that is the start of a journey where you can minimum co-create with whatever might be going on around you but absolutely you know create like I said your best version of yourself and your ideal future so the laws of attraction I mean there's a lot of disagreement about actually what they are and how many there are so I looked as broadly as I could kind of wrote it all down and my mission was can any of these claims be backed up by cognitive science so psychology or neuroscience and literally 80 or 90% there was an immediate connection for me um some took a little bit harder work to prove if you like and then in the end I said look there are some which I can't explain by Neuroscience at the moment but it's not going to harm you so you can either leave it out or you can do it anyway just Bas based on like on faith but we've kind of already talked about it Andre it's literally about being able to notice and grasp opportunities that will take you closer to the things that you know you want in your life and being able to do those things because you have the thoughts that direct your brain to filter out the wrong things but pay attention to the right things and tag the right things in order of importance both emotionally and logically so that you're able to notice those in your daily life and that you have the you know underlying belief like we said that you deserve those things um it really just comes back down to that yeah that switch from lack mindset to an abundant Outlook that we spoke to earlier uh that's that's great now how does how does stress affect our ability to usefully take advantage of creating the life that we want because you know stress makes us stupid so totally I'm so glad you asked that actually um so when we are stressed our adrenal glands which are in our lower back above our kidneys are releasing more of the stress hormone cortisol so stress and cortisol are completely aligned they always go together and there are receptors in your brain that are constantly monitoring the levels of cortisol in your blood and we have an amazing adaptive stress response which means that you know if suddenly there was like thunder and lightning we would like be aware that there's potentially danger to this house and we might you know do some actions based on that and then as soon as we know we've secured the house and maybe the storm has passed we you know our body's reset to a healthy kind of nervous State when we're under chronic stress those levels of cortisol are higher than they should be more of the time as a baseline just constantly there higher so there's a normal range depending on your age and your gender and the time of day and The receptors in your brain and are aware of what that those levels should be when it sees that those levels are higher than that on a sustained basis it perceives an imminent threat to your survival and there's a lot of things that happen in response to that um but in the brain the blood flow will get re re-rooted so to be creative and think flexibly and regulate our emotions and manage any biases that we might have the blood needs to be flowing to all the extremities of the brain but under chronic stress those receptors will push the blood flow down to what I call survival mode which is the parts of your brain that you need to wake up in the morning um provide the basic needs for yourself and your family get yourself to your desk job and sit there and look like you shouldn't get fired but not actually be able to perform at your best be much less able to trust and collaborate so kind of at the time that you need your the highest functions of your brain the most your blood flow is literally working against you and that's why presentism which is when you go to work but you're not really productive costs businesses way more than absenteeism so my advice to people is when you realize that you're really stressed take a day or two off and try to like reset your nervous system because you'll be so much more productive if you're able to like release that blood flow around again um trying to work against your brain you know when your brain isn't working with you is like you know trying to push a heavy weight uphill it's it's it's kind of counterproductive so that's why rest and nature and you know kind of mindfulness and creativity are so important to just manage those stress levels yeah I think it's so important to speak into a little bit about physical and emotional Fitness as well because I could hear some people way in the back saying you know I need to I want to create this life and I have this desire I have a vision board we can talk about your action board and and some tips there in order to effectively manifest that I need to reduce my stress because all my blood is is not going to where it needs to um but on the flip side I gotta I got to feel less stressed to get those things and to get those things I will feel less stressed and it's like a a rat wheel it's kind of confusing U but uh but I would just love for you to speak into resiliency and also being patient along the process there because um often times in this culture especially in modern society Western culture we want things right away we don't like to cultivate and work towards it and uh yeah I think it's important just to remind people to give themselves compassion along the process of attracting what they want because it is a process so let's start by really backing up your question by saying that you know I said other things are going on when we've got high levels of cortisol as well so one of the other ones is that we because we talked about the blood flow in the brain when you've got high levels of cortisol going through the blood in your body it's actually eroding your immunity so in terms of resilience it's lowering your immune response which at the most basic level means you're much more likely to get colds and flu in the winter and that when you do get a cold or flu that it's more likely to last for longer than a few days and sometimes you know what we see now is that these colds and flu are lasting for weeks um at the other end of the spectrum people who are chronically stressed for a long time can end up getting heart attacks like I've personally coached people or had people in my class at MIT that have had stressinduced heart attacks even when you know they're in their 40s they don't have high blood pressure they don't have high cholesterol so really understanding that cortisol is the enemy of your resilience and that so in a way you know one of the things I say is that F you know do all the work that you need to do to manifest be clear on what you want like you know build up your selfworth and you know grasp the opportunities that you can but equally don't get stressed about it and like you said it sometimes does require patience it can become very frustrating I'm stressed and I'm stressed yeah I'm stress and like you know nothing's working out for me and like manifestation doesn't work and you know it's very easy to go down those paths especially if you're compromised physically and mentally so to realize actually that part of manifestation is managing your stress and building up your mental and physical resilience and that comes back to I have to repeat you know the basics as well as we can go into some other things but making sure that you're getting adequate length and quality of sleep and we don't know why exactly but regular sleep and wake times are really boosting the you know beneficial impacts of your sleep so within an hour going to bed and waking up at the same time each day um eating nutrition dense foods and do you remember I mentioned neurogenesis as the kind of most complex and least likely version of neuroplasticity in the adult brain well there are two things that really contribute to that one is aerobic exercise and one is um eating mostly plant-based but particularly dark skinned Foods so eating blueberries instead of strawberries black beans instead of calini beans um purple sprouting broccoli instead of of green broccoli all of those things are good but if you can add in like the darker colors then that um the um anthocyanins in the skin of those foods are super antioxidants that promote neurogenesis even further staying hydrated not being sedentary and then managing your stress and so under that falls things like mindfulness techniques whether that's meditation yoga time in nature um mindful eating um and then I think everything else that we've said like like you said understanding that it is a process that it is hard physical work even though it feels very psychological and intangible um that it does often take longer than you would like I mean and what I find personally is that it happens in sort of like rhythms and Cycles so there are times where I'm kind of feeling like be careful what you wish for because everything's happening at the moment and you know I have learned that when it feels like that that's when I will ask more for the things that I want and that equally there are weeks or months where it feels like nothing's happening and hard as it is I've kind of had to accept that and get used to that too I feel like for the most part I've kind of viewed wealth as just like an overall state of well-being and not just like Financial income which a lot of people attribute to and so yeah I think it's important obviously all those reminders of like taking care of our physical self because if you feel good about life then you're successful like that that that ultimately is what it comes down to so I'm just curious how you navigate the dance between being and becoming you know the the feeling of wanting to expand limitedly and create and and do better financially and expand our career and and express ourselves creatively but then also coming back into feeling completely fulfilled inherently within your presence in this moment you know so I'm just curious how you navigate the dance I'm probably going to say something you wouldn't expect me to so the gap between being and becoming is the greatest source of unhappiness in your life so if you think about there's two there's two circles there's current self and ideal self or current and ideal life if those two things are overlapping that's like 100% happiness the further apart they are the more unhappy you are so I'm not saying that you shouldn't have goals or want bigger or better things in your life but the way to get there is to be ultimately grateful for everything you have in your life right now and to look at those two circles and think about them in two ways one is that I could strive to change my current life to my ideal life and understand what it is that you have to do to a achieve that and go back to what we said at the start which is that why are you trying to achieve that is it because it's what you really want or is it because it's what everybody else is doing or you could say I'm going to make my current life I'm going to say that's my ideal life I'm I'm just going to be happy with the life that I have now so yeah you know I have an action board and it has things on it that I want and I look at it regularly and we mentioned a book that we both like before so you know it's part of what I learned from that I Master Key System Master Key System yeah which you know you have to go through it and do the exercises but what you understand at the end of that is believe in the truth of what you wish to manifest so part of my practice is looking at the things on my action board and visualize them being true feeling it in my body feeling it in every sense and then giving gratitude for the fact that they're true but and you know of course I work hard but not overly striving to get things in my life that are going to put my nervous system out of sync you know kind of being patient like being on that path but mostly just being very grateful for everything that's happening right now I mean I think you know if you're lucky enough to have come through the pandemic healthy and not having lost a loved one then what it made a lot of us realize that you know you can have a gr gratitude list that's 10 or 100 things long and it can have so many amazing things on it but really if you can wake up every day and say I'm alive and I'm healthy that's actually enough and it's it's a huge privilege cuz lots of people have really like had to sare that in the the face in the last few years not being true yeah it's you know I feel like it's it's important to have goals and like a vision of a future that excites us but if we always feel like we're not where we want to be that sucks yeah yeah yeah so I love how you just brought kind of the importance of the how good we feel about life around us is the unification of both of those to where we are living a life of alignment and who we are being is in the becoming process and we can still aspire to create things in life which is beautiful because we're all inherently creative beings and that's part of our nature but uh yeah always feeling like we're just never fully satisfied or we're not where we want to be that that doesn't feel like a joyful life to be experiencing no that's a really lovely summary of it and I think the reason that it's important is because when we are on this journey of becoming we're achieving things along the way but the natural tendency for a lot of people is to kind of say well I've ticked that one off so now I'll put that behind me and I'll move on to the next thing it's constantly moving on to the next thing and it's hardly ever really celebrating your successes so you know the Gratitude in every day but also celebrating your successes because all that's going to do is tell your brain that you know when I focus on what I want and I work hard around that and I you know live in gratitude and abundance those things happen and so that's going to move you away from the cortisol state of fear towards the oxy oxytocin state of love and trust and you know in which state do you think the Law of Attraction Works more abundantly it's so interesting to feel into that when we attract things or we have a desire to create a successful podcast or release a book that does well or you know whatever our goals are in a in a way for it to even come in we kind of have to expect it and so I feel like we oftentimes don't create the space for reflection to appreciate what has been created which is kind of sad because like you we're under the illusion of thinking that we're going to feel a certain way once we achieve the thing but then we invariably feel achieve the thing and then we think the feeling is in the next thing and it's just like this continual pushing off that feeling of a joyful presence into the someday in the future and so I think that's just such an important reminder to create that space for reflection there's actually another piece of research around that which I've never discussed before but it's called the hedonic treadmill MH yeah and it's the the most famous research around it is from lottery winners who you know let's say it's like a it's multi-millions you know life-changing that obviously you become ecstatic for a short while but it it's shocking how quickly your happiness levels revert to what they were before another more day-to-day example that might be more um what we're all used to is that if you have a really delicious meal when you eat the first bite of that you release like lots of dopamine and other Feelgood endorphin and hormones and you know you feel very joyful but each successive bite has less impact and it returns to to neutral very quickly so you know that's what we're doing that like like you said we're achieving things feeling happy for a short burst and then returning to normal so it's like we're constantly seeking that reward and so I'll just Loop that back to how I answered the question in the first place you can't be happy if you're constantly looking for something better and gratitud list many things that you speak to can allow you to just uh reflect on how probably for most people that are listening to this there are billions of people on the planet that would kill to switch positions in life with you right now you know like how grateful we are to have the basic luxuries that we have is uh we so easy to forget yeah I think going to experience in a third world country or like when I went to Nigeria I really got to see you know that one happiness is definitely not tied to material wealth often case there's an inverse effect that we see uh but uh but then also if somebody can be so grateful for so little um and of course they have their own various challenges but uh what does that say about what we can feel for the level of abundance that we're you know lucky to have yeah amazing that was really great uh is there any truth to like the the the thought of we only use 1% 5 5 10% of our brain I'm sure you've heard it a lot but we like I think we're always told that and what do people mean when they is there any truth to that yeah so funnny enough I was actually having this conversation with someone recently because they asked me about neurom myths that bug me yeah so I think the thing to say is that what exists as exist as neurom myths now are things that we used to think were true but we now know that they're not as scientists but sometimes those phrases they stay in popular culture for a lot longer um so since we been able to access sophisticated scanning Technologies to to look at the brain and the body we've understood some things differently to how we understood them before because prior to that the only way we really understood how the brain worked was if we looked at brains where something had gone wrong so if someone had a stroke or like a neurosurgery if someone had like a brain abscess or a brain tumor then as we felt around you know that area of pathology we might notice oh you know this is when we touch this part of the brain affects the way the person can speak or you even things about how we understand that the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa so for that reason things like left brain and right brain became very overstated and once we understood that it doesn't work in the very you know hemispherical way that we had understood it before and that is probably the biggest one that stay you know the left brain right brain thing I remember when I was writing the source which came out in 2019 I said oh I'd love to do a a special box on the fact that you know left brain right brain is not how you know we understand that things work anymore and the editors said what do you mean and they said well no no readers are not going to agree with that and I said it's not for them to agree like I've got the research here and if you think that it's even more important to tell people that that's you know that's not how the thought that our logical and emotional sides are split between left and right yeah and that either you're right brained or left brained you know and I'm something else and so you know what we understand now is that there's a bridge that connects the two there are two hemispheres but they're much more connected than we thought before and if you think about two hemispheres like this we thought there was a bridge that just kind of went from the end of this one to the end of that one but actually it fans massively into both sides the Corpus colome yeah and so it's just much more complex than that and also it's it's not about the two sides it's about the lyic system with you know more emotional stuff and then the the cortex around it and how they interact with each other and that's different when we're stressed to when we're in a you know good State as well but the um I think I believe the neurom myth is that we only use 10% of our brains and that was the basis of a movie called Lucy with Scarlet H which is a great movie Morgan Freeman starts off incredible voice it would have been a good movie you hate it because of the but I liked the H there's just so many good parts of it but I hear you on the on the sprad I love the idea that we can access more potential in our brains um but it's just not true that we only use 10% of our brain we use all of our brain we use different parts of it at different times for different things sometimes it's much more interconnected than others um interestingly when we're um indulging in Creative activity it's the most connected music is like massively connecting different parts of the brain brain um you know when we're doing creative things we we're using the visual parts of the brain the auditory Parts the imagination centers the association Center which connects all of that up and you know we're probably moving as well so yeah I think rather than think about it like that to think that you know are there ways of thinking that I'm not accessing as much as I could we tend to focus on reusing our strongest pathway so you know for me that's definitely intuition and probably logic but like I said with my yoga practice I've definitely built up my physicality aspect much more um with age and wisdom I've regulated my emotions much more um always been pretty motivated and you know i' I've shared very widely now that building up the creative pathway in my brain is like the area that I'm really focusing on at the moment so everyone can do that exercise on themselves they can either put those six ways of thinking in order of preference or they can understand that there's like one or two or three that you use like most of the time because you're comfortable with that um one or two that you could use if you know had to in a different kind of scenario and then maybe one or two that you underuse that you could kind of try practicing more interesting very fascinating all right I want to try to take you into some Uncharted Territory I thought you've been doing that um so first off I do find it very interesting that you've been studying various different indigenous wisdom and so I would love for you to bring up what have been some of the most eye-opening uh pieces from indigenous wisdom and ancient wisdom Traditions that you found that are really applicable to modern times that would be most beneficial for people thank you so much for asking about that I've really enjoyed um digging into that and it's it's like literally in the moment changed my life each time I've you know sort of learned a thing a thing like that so are you're learning about conversations with indigenous individuals basically yeah and experts as well so um a bit of both um we've actually mentioned some of the things already because I have integrated them into my life so much already so you know time in nature making and beholding you know creative things and if we want to connect that to what I've learned from the um indigenous groups of people that I've spoken with things like adorning yourself so interestingly as we were setting up I asked you about your jewelry and you know a lot of men don't wear as much jewelry as you are wearing um but when we consider ourselves as Divine beings of course we're more likely to Adorn ourselves because it's that's what you would you know if you have a child or a pet that you love or you you know worship a deity then it is about having um flowers around the deity or putting jewelry on the child or you know a beautiful collar on the pet um so that is thanks for thanks for acknowledging I'm a deity that's clearly why I'm wearing my jewelry to be good with that's obvious obviously why you invited me podast um and you know all the things I mentioned already like humming chanting mantras singing dancing um and this episode hasn't come out yet but I I spoke to someone who's studying Sufi mysticism and so you know she very specifically talked about love and an exercise to like um kind of hum or chant the vibration that induces love which I would call oxytocin around your body and has an impact on the people around you as well so there might be certain words or sounds that people can use to do that um and another area that I've explored with which is more ancient cultures are more comfortable with than us are things like reincarnation near-death experiences past life memories terminal Lucidity and mindsight so terminal Lucidity is where people who have Dementia or they've had some kind of brain injury like a stroke and lost their levels of consciousness so you know either their memory or their ability to recognize people or understand the passage of time suddenly become completely Lucid towards the end of their life so this tends to happen in the last hour or day before death and when you say completely Lucid they remember everything so they go from having forgotten that they even have children to recognizing their children knowing their names speaking to them in the usual parental fashion that they used to and really getting to say goodbye and being very loving um I wish that for everybody I know I know so you know everybody who's lost somebody who whose Consciousness was altered that can happen and it can be like an amazing experience but unfortunately it usually also means that the person is very close to death um but still maybe not well everybody would rather have that period of Lucidity than not have it for but you know I mean we're not very good at death and loss so it's p it's painful um what the professor that I spoke to about that made me understand is that you have to prepare yourself for death throughout your whole life and it just comes back to the same things Andre that we spoke about being grateful being being kind being compassionate if you do that as much as you can throughout your life you're going to have less regrets on your deathbed you're you know I'm not the first person that's saying this but you're not going to be lying on your deathbed saying I wish I earned more money or I wish I gained higher status in life you know so that's one way of looking at it um mindsight is something really incredible which is a near-death experience erience but in a very smaller cohort of people who have been blind their whole life so they've never actually seen maybe the most that they've seen is they can distinguish light and dark but they haven't had Vision um and then where they have a near-death experience they can see so if you put all of these things together the fact that some children have seem to have memories of a different life that you can become very lucid even though you've got um you know a generative process in your brain or an injury to your brain that you can see if you've been blind um it does make you wonder about how connected Consciousness has to be to the physical form and the fact that they can maybe move apart and come back together again and of course it poses the question about what happens after physical death so in an you know different ancient cultures there could be a belief in reincarnation there can be a belief in the spirit world um there can be a belief in Reading signs um and so all of those things can help us to become more comfortable with death and therefore allow us to live our life in a better or you know slightly different way um and and just you know in summary because I do actually think we've covered most of the things it really does come back to a connection with with nature and the land and the cycle of nature the seasons um the you know eating seasonally and eating plant-based respect for Animals respect for you know vulnerable groups or marginalized groups um you know I guess all the things that actually make you happy in life rather than the things that we tend to think of when we talk about manifestation yeah incredible yeah I see you as somebody who's very much so like a doctor of the future I feel like in the direction we're moving it's really important to have the language of modern science but then also not neglecting the incredible intelligence that's been cultivated through these wisdom Traditions that have preceded modern society and have so much to share um and so when you're speaking to whether it's terminal Lucidity uh or mindsight you or ndes or uh and the upper I'm just so curious at the upper limits if there is one but the upper potential of of human um ious and what we can do for example in like Maha samadi where people can cultivate the ability to at will leave their own body whether or not people believe that there's these yogic claims of what becomes possible as you go on that path of the science of yoga being one of Union and so I'm curious what you make of the realm outside of what science is currently able to understand and dictate but nonetheless people have very real experiences and often don't feel the need to try to explain explain it logically yeah I would say that you you know you're absolutely right yoga the meaning of yoga is Union the meaning of ir Vader is the science of life and so and the Vaders are as far as we know the most ancient scriptures um that exist in the world and the the yogis the people who practiced um ayurveda and yoga and yoga is not just doing poses it's something like much bigger than that yeah um just one limb of what that's just one of eight limb of yoga um so there are reports of of people from those ancient times who you know meditated for hours and days and weeks in grottos and the Himalayas um being able well you know there are things we actually know about like being able to walk on hot coals being able to like not feel pain and then the other cities as well right which are like these spiritual superpowers yeah what we would call spiritual superpowers that are less explained but include things like like what you said of um your Consciousness or your spirit being able to leave your physical body um and understanding and potentially communication with people on a different plane so you know depending on what your beliefs are about what happens to someone when they die whether it's reincarnation or that their Consciousness from this life exists in a different astral plane and you know whether or not you can communicate with that there are so many things like that that haven't been proven by science but what I want to say is they keep coming up in Cycles I'm extremely flattered and you know grateful for you saying that I'm a doctor of the future but I already have icons in my life who are people who are doctors who are let's say 20 30 years older than me that I know they've gone there because they they talk about it maybe as much as I'm willing to at the moment but I think there are things that you know that they're not talking about so and they're well-known people Dr Bruce lip deac Chopra Daniel seagull these are people who before I was really on that path of of let alone being a you know being able to speak about this publicly but even exploring it for myself were you know MDS or scientists or both who were talking about really spiritual things and I was kind of like is that allowed can can you know can you do both are we supposed to be talking about this stuff um what bumps me out is not being open I know and that's why I am trying to be more open than definitely I was comfortable with a few years ago because what I have appreciated is that because I've got a PhD in neuroscience and a medical degree and a teach at MIT if I can't have the courage to talk about these things then you know how easy is it to just ridicule other people that do and what I have found is that when I have talked about things like life after death with people I so many people have opened up with stories about it and when I've said why have you never talked about this before they've said because people will think I'm crazy um but by giving people permission especially if you come from a background where people don't expect you to talk about that because they think that you wouldn't think it's true um by being more open about that I think you know we are hopefully as a society and a culture opening up those conversations which at minimum can be of so much comfort to people who've experienced loss and disconnection and that you know to me where we talk about self-actualization and reaching your Highest Potential if I can make any contribution to people feeling less lost and lonely and disconnected that would be me achieving you know that would be me self-actualizing so so if that means that I'm brave enough to talk about things that wouldn't be normal in my profession then I'm willing to try and I'm willing to see what the feedback is and if it's wrong then maybe I'll course correct but at the moment I'm just you know getting such gratitude and lovely feedback about it I'm just really excited and curious to see where this can go and and that's why you know when you invited me onto a podcast and I kind of checked you out um I you know I could just see that you were all about love and you're a lovely person and you're like open and spiritual and I wanted to speak with you yeah I feel like it's it would be ideal to have thought leaders who have a lot of credibility whether it's in modern science or our authority figures to be completely unex pregated and sharing their whole truth and right now we do live in a society that would often shame and try to cancel people that are sharing something that isn't scientifically valid and it's kind of a bummer that we have this materialist reductionistic view of just like just even being able to have the conversations and explore and talk about these things because some people seem to have very clear experiences and there's repeated studies you know especially with like ndes where people have these experiences and uh just to be open in the exploration of seeing what might be there and there's just the the the pursuit of science can be applied to spirituality because it's really just trying to truthfully understand how things work I'd love to mention two people in case you haven't um heard of them so Dr Bruce Grayson who's written a book called after and Dr Jim Tucker who's written a book called before they are brother they're not Brothers their colleagues at the University of Virginia they're both psychiatrists they were both absolutely not into spirituality um but as they were having their you know younger careers of Psych iatrist kept coming across so for Bruce he kept coming across examples of near-death experiences and for Jim he kept coming across examples of past life memories and children and at the start of their careers because they've been in their careers for like 50 plus years now there were very few documented cases of either of these things but now there are so many and it is absolutely true that there are more of them in the sort of Eastern cultures where people believe in reincarnation but there are enough now in the United States of America including in very Christian um families who that's not in keeping with their beliefs that um yeah it's now it's now an area of scientific research it's not an area of spiritual research um yeah there's a fascinating documentary on Netflix called surviving death that has episodes on um near-death experiences re Incarnation mediums signs all you know it's just I find it fascinating um and there is more and more science you know starting to be able to explain some of these things yeah it's so so interesting n Nicola Tesla has that quote I'm paraphrasing of when whenever we put the human Intelligence on uh discovering more about spirituality and that's where our energy and focus goes to then we'll make more discoveries in 10 years than we have in a thousand you know which is oh I love that yeah it's it's important you know we've had Dan seagull on the show as well yeah we talked about his he had like a trauma that affected his default mode Network and his perception of identity and self which gave him a more you know like a joyful experience of life and it's just you know I think it's important to keep that Fascination open I'm definitely going to listen to that because I interviewed Dan for my online program at MIT Sloan and I had the opportunity to say him that when I changed career so I'd been a doctor in the NHS and then um I did an Executive coaching course and I tried to start up a freelance practice as a coach and what I realized was that most coaches in the UK anyway fell into either the category of like a retired business person or um a former psychologist and because I was an MD psychiatrist I didn't fall into either of those categories I was actually rejected from um a group that was like the society for psychologists and Executive coaching they wouldn't let me join look at you now um they did later ask me to do a keynote that's funny that works I know um so I felt very alone at that time you know I'd left my former career all the stability and certainty of that I was starting out something new I didn't feel like I was accepted by any group and I read mindsight by Daniel seagull and I saw that he was an MD psychiatrist he' created this amazing model and that literally made me felt like there was somewhere that I belonged and I got to say that to him when I interviewed him years you know I was a professor at MIT by then um with a very successful coaching business so yeah I got to say that I mean he'd already agreed to be interviewed but when I said that to him it was a real little Bond it was really nice yeah yeah that's that's beautiful I'm curious what you know and I'm perhaps bringing you to the edge of what you might want to even Explore or share but when you relate to think about Consciousness what what are the possibilities of you thinking it being fundamental and existing outside of our own neurology is that something you're even willing to entertain like is a possibility do this feel weird to bring up as a as a neuroscientist I'm sure especially with your colleagues who often case think you know no brain no consciousness right um Eastern indigenous wisdom Traditions would say otherwise yeah where what say you um until very recently I would have said I'd be willing to like have that conversation but I probably yeah well I would definitely say that you know there was no evidence for it to be true until a little bit less recently than that I would have said absolutely not about 15 years ago when I changed career I had a conversation with a psychologist friend and this is actually known as the hard problem of Neuroscience you know this what does can you know Consciousness exist without physicality um and I said to him obviously all thoughts and emotions and everything that makes us human emerges from neurons and chemicals and he said Tara how could you say that he's a lot older than me he's a mentor of mine and I said how could you not and I completely believed that as a neuroscientist that the only way that anything to do with Consciousness can occur is that it emerges from these neurons and chemicals and electrical signals I have to say I have definitely moved you know way along from that so like I said probably like during the pandemic where I actually said that you know we're heading for a mental health crisis the only thing that can avoid that is some kind of spiritual Revolution and then since then because you know a lot of people that I know and myself personally experienced a lot of loss during that time I would I well I'll tell you I I have experienced it myself so I have experienced um evidence of Consciousness existing outside physical body it's like a neuroscientist AA meeting I have I'm coming out the closet and um but no that's beautiful because I know so many incredible AC people in Academia that have had experiences that like I'm sure you just are are so like tightly held of like even mentioning that which I think is is wild but I understand when your identity and career are wrapped up in it um but you're also speaking speculatively and saying this is just my experience and not like we can prove this and this is the absolute truth well it's it's my experience and like I've said once I've started sharing that with people I've heard so many stories like it and I've you know I've delved into like you know interviewing the the director of the Victor Frankle Institute whose research is on Terminal idity and um looked into the research from University of Virginia and stuff so it's very exciting you know and I think having said this on your podcast I would love it if your listeners would share any experiences that they've had like that because I think this is the only way that we can help each other um and let's not be another generation of people that nearly get there and then don't make it you know and everybody else has to start again from scratch so that experience that you had was it uh was it amidst like in a yoga practice was it do you want to share anything did it have Have you shared anything about that I mean so for me it was never during yoga or meditation it's experiences that I've had either like like sleep is obviously a bit of a transcendental State um yeah no I've I've I've had so many now it's like once you it's a bit like manifestation once you believe in manifestation you fit like I said you're like be careful what you wish for and it's the same with um you know whe whether you want to call it extra sensory perception or signs or communication across Plains it's the same once you understand it and recognize it it's it's happening all the time yeah I'm very fascinated obviously I have conversations like this on my show because I've had plenty of experiences where I have experienced myself like outside of my body I've experienced creating distance from my own thought and emotion and for individuals that are so closely identified with the body as themselves I could understand how that would be triggering but nonetheless it's it is what it is people take it take the experience for what it is but um I'm curious also what you think about the pineal gland because in eastern Traditions you know it's thought of the seed of the Soul potentially an antenna that connects you know through higher consciousnesses anything that you want to share on what the pineal gland is does yeah so just like as a segue into that it's probably worth mentioning although it's obvious that you know I come from an Indian culture from a Hindu culture so I was brought up absolutely being told that reincarnation was a fact so you know when you say you mentioned two things specifically being able to create a distance between your yourself and your thoughts and your feelings this is a must this is not a spiritual belief if you can't do that you will be so emotionally disregulated it can ruin your life you know it can affect your relationships it can affect your health so you know just to make it like really accessible all you have to do is look at the videos on the headspace app that that teach you that you know you you must not identify with your emotions you don't have to identify with your emotions you can have an emotion it doesn't mean you know if you feel anger it doesn't mean that you're an angry person it means that you can experience anger temporarily um and equally you know if you have a moment of gratitude it doesn't mean you're a grateful person it's something you have to cultivate all the time so that one is I wouldn't even consider that as an alternative thought the being able to you know the experience of of being outside your body probably because you know my parents were first generation immigrants from India to the UK I was you know brought up with yoga and ayurveda and reincarnation I was experiencing that as a child and then I think I lost that ability or because I probably lost the belief in it because I started you know questioning things like that um there are plenty of people that say they do that that one is a bit more spiritual but sure a lot of materialists would say well you're having the experience of being outside of yourself within yourself but how do you prove that so it's like yeah yeah exactly um and then there are things that are like you know way more difficult to explain than than those things and I have completely forgotten the question the P or gland okay the P so um like when I looked at the laws of attraction I've looked at the chakras of the body and been able to align them with like various glands throughout the body like kind of in similar places and um so the pineal gland is often calcified so it can um take on calcium from the body and just that kind of gets embedded around it so when we look at brain scans it actually appears as white in the area of your third eye and so that for a long time has led to people saying that it is your third eye um which is like the seat of your soul um and so again you know we don't know it's not proven but it does appear on brain scans in that sort of you know area and whether or not it is the and tenor or you know doesn't really matter I think you know what matters is that we perceive it potentially as a physical representation of the third eye it's more important to understand potentially what the third eye is and why it might be important in your meditation practice or you know in the way that you consider your spiritual health um yeah I can probably only go that far with that one right now yeah well there's also I mean it makes sense and we're again touching in areas here where we don't know but we're just exploring the potential um and also understanding that a lot of people have very interesting experiences with that in conjunction to a spontaneous remission or healing that that occurs also yeah I mean you know I'm just going to be really honest and not say something about an area that I don't know enough about and that's an area I don't know enough about and I think I think I've said more than I've ever said before because of you um yeah I just don't know enough about that but you you know I'm going to go down a rabbit hole with that now yeah it's great maybe I've been using all your cues with the you know we were talking about how warm tea can create bonding and make you feel more comfortable and then I heard you talk down the Diary of CEO looking into the left eye not that I've been intentionally doing that but I could see all these like spiritually Mak valan kind of you know techniques to to be able to connect with people um that's interesting uh well this whole conversation's been so fascinating for me and gave me a lot to think on with just our connection to Nature the reality of how attraction works and just a lot of grounded you know applicable things things I think for our audience to take home is there anything that you feel is like on your heart or mind that you want to share before we start to wrap up I think you know it always comes down to me to I I just really hope that people something resonates from this conversation that makes people realize how much potential they've got in their brain and that maybe there was something they always wanted to do or talk about or think about that this conversation would have given them the courage to do and that you know yes I'm a scientist and I very much believe in science and I love Neuroscience but at the end of the day I think the most important things in life are love and gratitude and and that actually I shouldn't have said but I should have said and because the science completely backs that up incredible thank you so much for sharing yourself you have a second season of a podcast book anything else you want to share promote we'll of course provide links for thank yeah I mean I'm very much focused on season two of my podcast at the moment but you're diving deeper into the indigenous wisdom side of things right yeah so cool thanks that's rad well I'm excited I feel like we'll run it back in the future and I'm excited to just connect with you more and thank you so much for sharing yourself definitely thank you yeah of course so everybody that's been tuning in to this episode of the know self podcast thanks and uh I would love for you guys to listen to Dr tera's advice and write in the comments below some experiences that you've had share and like you know activate this community and and let us know what particularly resonated with you and then also would love to hear more of your own personal experiences and uh until next time okay well thank [Music] you

I've always said that science fiction is just science that hasn't been proven yet every experience that your brain has literally every memory that you recall every emotion that you experience every person that you meet every scenario that you're in is constantly molding and shaping your brain in my research what I found is that inability or frustration around manifestation is because I don't believe I deserve that thing if you're able to dig down to that underlying belief that's when you can do really powerful work this is a must this is not a spiritual belief if you can't do that you will be so emotionally disregulated it can ruin your life are there any other ways in which our hundreds of thousands of years human biology now living in modern times is screwing us I've realized the importance of this one thing that has been staring Us in the face for as long as we've been humans but we have become so disconnected from it one of the questions that I ask people to consider is has your life panned out exactly as you always dreamed that it would the gap between being and becoming is the greatest source of unhappiness in your life when you relate to Consciousness what are the possibilities of you thinking it existing outside of our own neurology I'm probably going to say something you wouldn't expect hello beautiful beings welcome back to the know thyself podcast where every single week we get the honor and privilege to sit down with a brilliant mind to learn more about the true nature of self and the world around us at deeper levels every single week Our Guest today is a leading neuroscientist a best-selling author a podcast host a medical doctor and in my eyes she's really bridging science and spirituality and the understanding of both in such a beautiful way when we use the words Law of Attraction intuition manifestation what do we literally mean and so we're going to be diving into that and the science that grounds it to Earth and how we can really choose the direction we want to go in life and be effective stewards in what we're creating in life so Dr tart thanks for being here thank you so much much for having me yeah my honor where I want to start today because this is the no they self podcast and it's very fitting is uh is actually about interoception uh and so I've always loved finding ways in which I can grow my own self-awareness so what is interoception and what have you found are the most effective modalities to really raise that self-awareness that is such a great one to pick for know thyself absolutely um so most of us know about the five senses that we have have um but less people know that we have a lot of other senses like thermoception for temperature proception is understanding where your joints are in space um notion is for pain and Inception is an understanding of the state of the physiology of the inside of your body so it's things like how do you know when you're hungry how do you know when you need to use the bathroom um and if you've got young children then you see that from zero to two they go from not being able to recognize those signals at all to being able to control their bowels and their bladder um and you can really take it further than that I think you're probably picking up on the piece where I said that I can tell about two days before I'm starting to get sick like a cold or flu um and I think the reason that I think there's two reasons that I have honed that skill one is obviously I went to medical school so I understand the body inside out but the other one is that I've had over 20 years of yoga practice now and in yoga you connect your mind and your body very much so you just become very aware of biof feedback from your body people who do a lot of sport I think would say the same thing and then there are just some people who are really good at reading body language and listening to their own body you know this may have been a thing since childhood and then of course there's all the people who have the potential to to grow that skill I'm so curious about all the different ways that we can grow awareness like you spoke to the many different facets in which we can um in arenas of our own physiology and mindset and uh I'm curious what you think about extra sensory perception like outside of just our five senses what people call the six sense what uh yeah what's the reality of that do you feel so I actually call inter reception the six sense um but yeah there is that phrase in like common you know pop language or whatever um so I've become much more interested in this recently for a variety of reasons and if we have a spectrum from science to spirituality I would say the reasons go along that Spectrum so much more on the science side of things we do know that some of our hormones are released into the atmosphere through our sweat so um the steroid hormones like cortisol estrogen and progesterone particularly so this is the reason that women who live together or work closely together synchronize their um menstrual cycles within two months it's because particles of those hormones are in our sweat and they're released around us and if we're interacting with each other closely then they will go into our skin and you know Al to the levels of hormones in other people and regardless of your gender this happens with cortisol the stress hormone so there's an evolutionary explanation to this which is that we needed to respond to the stress levels of the leader of the tribe and so in this day and age regardless of gender like I said depending on where you are in the hierarchy of an organization or a family or a group you know social group we do feel the stress levels of the um most senior person so it's like in a troop of gorillas the stress level of the silver back gorilla affects the other gorillas more than ones who are equal to each other and so if you think that we are communicating let's say non-consciously through the effect of hormones that may be in the atmosphere around us and that's already the physiology of communicating outside of our bodies right um and then I've always said I grew up in the 70s that science fiction is just science that hasn't been proven yet so a lot of things that I watched on Star Trek and Star Wars when I was a kid are you know I mean the other day because we were in La I was walking down the road and this thing that looks like a shopping cart but it's a robot was walking towards me saying I am on delivery and it was just on its own and you know in London we didn't have those yet so I was a bit like wow that's very science fiction so you know if you've honed your interception if you've honed your intuition and let's add in if you're very close to someone so you know them really well I do believe it's possible to you know think of someone and then they message you or to like just have a sense someone's going through something and you should call them is that what you meant when you were asking sure yeah I just picking up on and we can dive deeper into intuition here and what that means in your eyes but having those gut feelings having those uh senses of a direction that you might move in you might sense danger you might sense opportunity and it's really your ability to pay attention to more subtle frequencies and energies that are happening all around us that are invisible to the naked eye and so uh yeah when people refer to gut feelings and intuition I'm just curious for you to break that down a little bit more what that really means so I actually want to pick up on something that you've just said which I think is really important which is noticing things that you may not have been conscious of or you may not have noticed you know if you're in a rush or you're distracted mentally the reason so basically there are a lot of things going on around us that we filter out and that's because we're bombarded with so much information continually that it's actually an advantage to us to filter out some of that information so the best example ex is that you're not aware of your clothing on your body all day cuz once you put it on and you felt that you don't really need to be reminded of that every minute of the day you're kind of overwhelming in a burden to exactly so that applies to other things and that's naturally filtered by the brain not necessarily with us directing it we can direct it but if we don't then the brain will filter out things that it doesn't think are important to us surviving that day and so you can imagine in the modern world where there's you know even more information now than there was let's say 100 years ago that the brain is filtering out those things but if you want to be really in tune with the people that you love or just your environment you want to be really present and mindful then you can certainly direct what gets filtered out and what doesn't so you can pay attention more um than your brain might naturally ask you to or let you because it's focused on your survival then I think it's a connected but slightly separate thing which is how much you listen to or tap into your intuition um so I do speak about six different ways of thinking obviously there are many more and we do them all and they combine but it's just a a very simple framework to break down the way that we we think which is mainly through logic which is you know data and things that we know then through emotions which are things that we feel um motivation is why we do the things that we do why we get drained by certain things and don't want to do them so just understanding what makes you really like keep going when things are tough and what kind of makes you give up physicality which is that brain Body Connection we've already mentioned due to interception um creativity which is thinking outside the box thinking of a you know a potentially different future different reality and then intuition and intuition Falls a lot between physical and emotional so the emotional centers of the brain are deep inside the brain and they're the size of your clenched fist so you know yours is slightly bigger than mine but it's proportional for your body and then around that about the same thickness we have the cortex which has more of the logical Pathways of the brain and because you can't remember everything that you've experienced in your whole life but everything that you've experienced has had an impression on your brain body system we believe that we keep our working memory up here these are the things we need to remember every day to do our job and live our life and then through a process called hean learning which is named after the neuroscientist Donald Hebb and is really simply explained by neurons that fire together wire together we believe that our wisdom and our pattern recognition get pushed deeper and deeper into the brain into the spinal cord and even into our gut gut neurons and that's why intuition is sometimes called gut instinct so basically the lessons that you've picked up in life the wisdom that you've learned through repeated patterns that could be as deeply held in your neurons as like deep down in your G so you're not conscious of it but it still guides the the decisions that you make now what I found over the last 10 years or so particularly the 10 years I've been teaching at MIT Sloan which is Business Leaders is that people would really rely on their logic and say things like well you know I'm not going to make a really important decision like hire or fire on intuition because you know that's not is it even a thing as we've been able to scan brains and learn more about how these neurons connect up and store information I really see particularly the older generation of leaders saying that is absolutely the main way that I will make my most important decisions and I'm I'm like that you know I will make my most important important life decisions based on intuition and the way that I have helped myself to understand how much that is the right thing for me is through journaling so if I journal and I'm I'm writing like you know what should I do in this situation my gut's telling me this but logic tells me that or my emotions tell me something else I basically plot out how things pan out depending on which modality I use to make my decision yeah it feels like the conscious thoughts that we have are just the tip of the iberg of our deeper intelligence and you spoke to something really important there which is the intelligence that gets stored in our spinal cord in our gut and that we can pay attention and start to listen to that deeper and deeper and that it's really important as we have tens of thousands of thoughts that are happening every single day in our brain that are for the most part kind of the same as we've been accustomed to and familiar with I'd love for you to speak into how it's really important to be mindful of The Impressions that we accumulate because then that does become stored becomes who we are and how we perceive reality which is then going to be a direct correlation to what we continually attract in our life yeah absolutely so every experience that your brain has which me you have so like literally every memory that you recall every emotion that you experience every person that you meet every scenario that you're in is constantly molding and shaping your brain so um because of a field of research about neuroplasticity we understand how much more flexible and impressionable the brain is throughout our lives this may start to change I don't even want to use the word decline you know around the age of 70 where sometimes things like sequential memories can become a bit disordered but our wisdom and judgment becomes like a superpower so it it can change towards the end of life but really throughout most of our working life let's say um the brain is very open to being changed by everything that it experiences and the longer that an impression has been held in the brain the more deeply embedded it is into our neural architecture so particularly things that we experienced from the age of n to 7 but also 7 to 14 and then onwards but you know those periods really because they're the longest ago and if you had a repeated experience or a highly emotional experience then those are the two main reason that things get imprinted into your brain repetition and strong emotion and so it's funny I I am five and a half years older than my brother and I was telling my psychologist friend that I had a very strong memory of um speaking into my mother's belly button and then listening to see if my brother would answer me and in my memory that happened once and I just remember it really strongly but he said to me you must have done that many times for it you know for a 5-year-old to have to still have hold that memory so other things like that like the parental expectation societal expectation how competitive your school was the kind of people that you hung around with words that were used about you when you were a kid those things they run deep in your brain and they like you said they do affect your perception of everything else that happens in your adult life and you know one of the main areas of work around that is what's called Shadow work and psychology which is the things that you perceived as a child would mean that you wouldn't be loved and looked after by your main caregivers so those sorts of things whether it's like oh you know stop showing off or stop running around like that those things get put into your Shadow like you know I mustn't talk highly of myself I mustn't you know sort of like do things at speed if other people can't keep up those are the things we try to hide about ourselves and usually around the age of midlife crisis or whatever you want to call it you know those things can really like come up and have to be dealt with and integrated like a lot of those oppressions that we accumulated often in an unconscious state from like 0 to 7 7 to 14 uh they happen in a manner where we would where we don't fully have the memory of how how they happened and that then builds and accumulates into a stack of Impressions that are subconscious holds and becomes the Persona in which we look through the world and so I'd love to talk a little bit about identity because fundamentally we're going to continually attract what we believe we're worthy of what we believe we deserve which is kind of all on the Bedrock of who we think we are and so I'd love for you to share a little bit about uh identity the science of it and how that's uh really the the foundational pillar in which how we experience everything but then you know in particular um how we manifest in life so then there's an area of research called ghosts um the original research was ghosts in the Executive Suite because it was explaining how the leaders of today are affected by those childhood Impressions but my colleague at MIT um Professor Deborah anona wrote a really amazing article in Harvard Business review about ghosts in your neural architecture from your childhood and how they affect you you know whatever you're doing whoever you are um and identity is one of them so actually there are the other thing are the values that your family held or your social structure you know when you were growing up held boundaries that were held in in your family in your social structure secrets that were kept roles in the family and identification which in childhood tends to be comments like oh you're just like your father um and so those things are quite intertwined so for example if you have a secret in your family and the common example are you know someone that was an alcoholic or someone that was gay that wasn't talked about then you start to program shame around those things and so that affects your identity so the secrets that are kept in your family affect your identity the boundaries that were kept in your family so some families have a really open house and people can just drop in and they can stay over um they can just join a meal unplanned and some families everything's very planned and you know has to be like invited in advance and kind of um you know not spontaneous again those things also affect your identity because it's your ability to be flexible and spontaneous versus your you know inability to function in a world where that may be happening um and roles obviously also affect your identity so let's say now you're in the workplace and your role as a child was to be the messenger so let's say your parents had a lot of arguments and didn't speak to each other and said things like Andre go and tell your mother you know whatever um that's also going to play out in your adult identity um and you're absolutely correct you mentioned a few things but in my research what I found is that the inability or frustration or success around manifestation always boils down to your level of deservingness of the outcome that you're looking for so in terms of the way this works with neuroplasticity is that you have to perform a certain action in the material world to bring what you want into your life to perform that action with confidence you have to have a certain thought process that tells you if I go dating I'm going to meet someone really nice and be able to settle down and have a family versus if I go dating I'm going to meet a series of guys who are going to treat me really badly and it's going to damage my self-esteem even further you can see the path that you know those two people are going to go down and it's the same for asking for a raise asking for promotion setting out to start your own business any sort of health or fitness goals and so behind that thought process will be a set of beliefs that may be conscious but may be subconscious as well so you do not even know that that's what you believe about yourself that is starting off the thought process that is either either preventing you or allowing you with trust and faith you know to take a healthy risk so if you're able to dig down to that underlying belief that's when you can do really powerful work to affect your manifestation and whatever the particular phrase tends to be it usually does equate to inability to manifestation is because I don't believe I deserve that thing the secrets the boundaries the roles uh that values values so those things that we pick up because children you know they don't often do what their parents say but they become who they are inevitably and so I'm just I'm so fascinated in the Deep ways and I know you've studied Carl's Young's work uh quite extensively in the process of taking our unconscious material to our conscious awareness to be able to work with these things and I just think that's really important to get to the root of it cuz then you're kind of just swimming on the surface of think better thoughts and you know but like the root of it is still a rotten tree and so you're you're going to kind of keep finding yourself coming back to the same experience of Life attracting the same Partners um yeah so anything you want to touch on there before I move on yeah just really to reiterate what you've said but um so in the process of neuroplasticity the Practical process like day-to-day is Raising awareness of the thing that you wish to change or you know awareness around what it is that you want to attract into your life focusing attention on opportunities to bring that into your life deliberate practice is the action part which you know I'm really strong on you can't just sit there and think about what you want and not do anything and then the accountability piece but you're AB absolutely right that raising from non-conscious to conscious is is the absolute key if you can't do that you you you are you're skimming on the surface you might be able to change a few behaviors but you're not changing the underlying belief so I always just say raising awareness is 50% of that battle of change but the process for that is bringing from non-conscious to conscious what it is that's holding you back anything else you want to share on the neuroplasticity of being able to reinvent ourselves so we might have the desire of you know fill in the blank whatever it might be whether it's a partner career more money a general sense of well-being um and yet uh if we really struggle to bring the unconscious to the conscious um what are some of those tools that bring into people's action that uh you found most most transformative um I want to go with a bit of just like the philosophy around it first and then maybe get down to some tools but um so we have we've talked about not being aware of unconscious beliefs and and trying to raise that but the other piece that I think is really important is you know you've talked about something that we desire I actually call it magnetic desire which is a desire that is so strong that you will keep going when it feels like nothing's changing and you know the biggest reason that people don't change is that when it gets tough we think oh well this isn't meant to be so I'll give up and I'll move on to something else magnetic desire is when your head heart and gut so your logic your emotion and your intuition are fully aligned you know if any one of those things is saying I'm not sure if that's what I really want for myself then it's you can't like all three of them have to be aligned and the desire has to be very strong because it's too easy and what I see a lot is people say that they want things like a family or a certain job or a certain amount of money because that's what their peer group are doing and what you have to really work out is what you want for yourself regardless of what everybody else is doing that you really want for personal reasons and not for what I would call the wrong reasons which is that you know materialistic reasons or peer social comparative reasons once you find something that you really want and you've got that strong desire and it's well aligned in your brain and your body your ability to be patient which is part of the process will be much higher and the reason that it's part of the process is even if it's a psychological thing that you're changing physical work is going on in your brain new neurons are growing neurons are connecting up with each other pathways are being melinated which is insulating them for like faster conduction that is hard work you need to eat more you need to rest a lot um it's literally physical work and whilst that's happening you're tired your motivation is being challenged but then it reaches a Tipping Point where you have enough neurons and a strong enough pathway that you can do the new Behavior that's required to get what you want and get out of those old patterns and then suddenly you know you know that feeling it feels that everything's fallen into place but that can be after quite a long period of feeling like nothing's working out everything's falling apart and definitely not in place yeah yeah so that that process of head heart integration Mind Body Spirit unification I think is ultimately the evolution point of where we're headed as a human species but on an individual level is the goal you brought up a really important point of first you have to even know what you want right you have to know what you actually desire and often that's a byproduct of uh releasing all of these old stories and identities that we talked about earlier what do you feel like ultimately people Tru truly want it might manifest in however people look in their life and how they think they're going to get it but what are the core tenants of what humans um truly uh you feel need and want well as you mentioned I am a fan of car yung's work and so I believe that self-actualization and individualization are the ultimate goals in life and and what that means is you Reaching Your Potential you becoming the best version of yourself you you know for want of a better phrase living your best life um and I think it's very easy on with social media to think living your best life is a set of things that are determined externally um there is an idea of what a best life looks like but that may not be your best life or my best life um so you know really understanding your purpose I mean having a purpose that transcends yourself is really important in terms of your own mental health your physical health your longevity but it contributes to those things because it's the healthiest state for you to be in and if you're striving for something that is not authentic for you and is very externally validated that causes disease in the system you know and it can literally make you sick or it can just make you unhappy um and what happens in that scenario is that you may achieve the amount of money that you want to earn or the place that you want to live but deep down you're not actually happy so finding out what it is that will truly make you happy and and I'm not even really saying that you know like being super happy all the time is is the goal it's the thing that means that you are the person that you're meant to be in the place that you're meant to be doing the things that you're meant to be they're not completely selfish things that you are absolutely flourishing in gratitude which means that you know the the bonding hormones and the feelings of trust and Joy are um you know going around your blood and and um impacting your immune system and a positive way and really allowing you to be the best version of yourself that you can be you really just spoken into authenticity bringing ease in your life and I guess the opposite of authenticity whether it's pretense or just not feeling like you're expressing your true nature then would be the opposite which is disease right and so uh yeah and um and so I know we wanted to mention just a few action things as well on the other side of really coming back into that authenticity were there some practices that you did want to mention before we move on yeah so one which we've kind of touched on the theory of but it's important to actually do is to and I do think journaling is a great help for this is to try to be very aware of the repeated thought patterns that you are having and start writing them down start really noticing how often you are thinking this thing um there may be a few so whether there are themes um whether it's a particular recurring thought or themes to then really try to dig underneath that what must I believe about myself to be having that thought on repeated basis and there's a variety of things you can do here one may require some sort of external help like therapy or a coach or you know a really psychologically minded friend that can remain as neutral as possible that you can speak with or it could just be journaling by yourself but doing that work to understand what the underlying belief is and then using that belief to create a mantra or positive affirmation that is the opposite of that that belief so even if it feels like it's not completely true at the moment it does need to be quite bold so that every time you have the negative or the low self-worth thought you can replace it with the the positive affirmation and that actually comes from a Buddhist teaching which is replace every negative thought with a positive thought but it's very much backed up by neuroplasticity because in the brain you can't undo a pathway that's already there you can only overwrite it with a new desired pathway whether that's a thought or an action or a belief so if you immed as soon as you can and then eventually before you even really start fully having the negative thought you think of this positive manttra you say it out loud you write it down you share it with friends what as much as you can you have it you know maybe I have um affirmations written up on my bathroom mirror so that at least every morning and every evening I see them um you can start to overwrite that belief in your brain I really love the understanding of it's simply neural Pathways that we're strengthening right and if we've cultivated and accumulated Impressions to the point where we are very custom to having a pessimistic outlook on life we can eventually get to that point where we can have an abundant look outlook on life as we start to strengthen you know the neurons that wire together fire together so can you speak to mil and sheath and how we can really uh strengthen those so one of the questions that I ask people to consider is has your life panned out exactly as you always dreamed that it would and if not where are the gaps because that can help you start to identify what your purpose or your dreams might be and you know when we were kids before people said oh don't do this don't do that don't say this we actually genuinely had quite a strong idea of what we wanted to be who we wanted to be so maybe going back to some of your childhood dreams as well there are all ways of helping you work out your purpose um and it may be that let's say you want you wanted to paint and draw and you know you loved that maybe for various reasons you can't be an artist full-time as your profession but you could bring back painting and drawing into your life and just see how much joy that brings you and what else it opens up so that's an example um yeah so in terms of how deeply embedded all these impressions are that we pick up in life there's three ways that we embed information in our brain one is called neurogenesis and that is that the fact that we have little embryonic or baby nerve cells floating around in our brains now from 0 to two there's a lot of them in our brains and you know there's a massive amount of growth in the brain from 0 to two from being completely vulnerable and unable to even Survive by yourself to walking talking potentially up to five languages simultaneously in the first two years of your life um having opinions you know being able to control your bladder your bowels make choices Etc it is definitely less so in the adult brain but we know that those embryonic cells exist around the hippocampus part of our brain which is where we lay down memories so obviously for a large part of our lives a majority of Our Lives we are able to lay down new memories um and you asked me before about extrasensory perception so I do believe from what we know at the moment that we will find that there are embryonic cells in other parts of the brains but we we just don't know that yet the second and most common form of neuroplasticity in the adult brain is sinapic connection so neurons are you know they have a a long body and at either end they have what's called a a sinapse and it's kind of like a bud at the end of the neuron between two neurons there's a gap and when an electrical signal passes down a neuron it induces the release of chemicals into that Gap that are taken up by the other sinaps so there's a preoptic um end and a postoptic end and that's how messages pass down long neural pathways through from neuron to neuron and the ability to connect up with other existing neurons is quite strong in our brains and my favorite example is learning a new language so when you learn a new language you're using neurons that are already in your brain because you know how to speak um but you're just coding that for a new language and then the third part is myelination which you're right is a fatty sheath that coats some neural Pathways and it means that that pathway is more insulated so we have faster conduction of electrical and chemical messages along that pathway now there's a reason reason that we have some fast Pathways and some slow Pathways we don't want everything to be a fast pathway so if you put your hand into a fire your reflex to snatch your hand out of the fire is a fast pathway but your pain reflex is a slow pathway because if you felt the pain of your hand burning immediately you'd be incapacitated so what tends to happen is you snatch your hand out of the fire and then after a few seconds you're like wow that really hurts I can feel it now um and again that's an evolutionary mechanism to help us escape from predators yeah I just love the analogy that cultivating an abundant outlook on life is like learning how to play the piano like you're just creating these new Pathways and it's going to be a process and a journey and that's actually uh that's an inviting perspective yeah I actually did that during the pandemic because I don't know if you know but I take on a new neuroplastic plasticity learning every year and so in the summer of the pandemic I I was learning to play tennis again which I had up until the end of high school but then not since then and it was so interesting to see that muscle memory and just the kind of mental memory come back as well so my progress on that was quicker than if I had been trying to learn a completely new sport that I'd never played before and I could see that you know it's obviously very tangible um and then you know there was definitely a period of time during the pandemic where this is extremely privileged but I felt really depressed about the fact that I couldn't travel anywhere and I sort of thought you know I'm alive I'm healthy I'm actually in like nice surroundings you know for being locked up at home this is not okay and can I do here what I've seen myself do with tennis and so I basically did six months of being able to with less effort see all the positives in a day rather than focus on what wasn't happening that I wanted to happen and a little bit like I said with the whole Tipping Point thing I was working on it and it was fine and then there was literally a moment where I kind of stepped outside and I just looked around at the flowers and the sky and the weather and thought this is just so beautiful I'm so happy to be here and and immediately recognized this is quite different to the way I had been thinking for a few months and it it's important to share with um our audience that the strongest gearing of the brain is called loss avoidance or loss aversion and that is a survival mechanism which makes us two to two and a half times more likely to focus on loss or potential loss than the equivalent amount of reward or potential um you know gain and so it is really easy to focus more on the things things aren't going right than the things that are that's natural for us so just flipping ourselves to noticing more the positive things because they are there and even if they're not you know then to take it to the next stage and bring more positivity into our lives is the mechanism of abundance which is one of the six things you know that I mention in terms of um manifestation which is changing that gearing to being more abundant in your thinking rather than scarcity the magnetic desire that mentioned earlier um and the patience cuz sometimes it can take you know longer than you would like and you need to keep your motivation going and there's some other things around it but those three are the main ones to be really aware of so that proclivity to like perceiving what could be lost is that that's just like an evolutionary mechanism again that's kind of deep deeply embedded for you know fear is there a reason for that um I just I try to think of like as newborn babies come into into this world what are we biologically wired for what is nurtured through childhood um and then what we can do about it so yeah it's just uh because obviously having the fundamental Buddhist tenant of clinging in aversion and being uh aware acutely of what we could lose um is deeply within our psychology and biology uh anything else you want to share as to why yeah so when we lived in the cave we had threats from predators from the weather from tribes that weren't you know the same as us or aligned with us and so to survive we had to be at least twice as much on the lookout for things that could you know things that could bring in disease things that could bring in like scarcity of food we had to be mindful of those things in terms of things that we would consider to be rewards today they were complete luxuries you know you in cave times we would only really indulge in those activities if we had a massive store of food if the weather was really good if we fought off all of our enemies you know um so it just wasn't as important to our survival and that's a wiring that you know how I said wiring that's been in your brain from zero to seven is is really deep and affects like everything that you might think about a wiring that's been in you know in the human species for so long also runs deep some of these things do change so like a really sweet one is that in in those times when we lived in the cave and we lived in a nomadic hunter gatherer kind of way we didn't live in unit families the you know men's priority was to impregnate as many women as possible to make sure that their Gene survived and they didn't have to stay and look after them they just had to make sure that if they you know impregnated five women then one would probably surv one baby would survive is that linked to the testost on oxytocin balance to that we were talking about before yeah I guess it it would be but we can come to that later um in in this day and age most societies do ask that we live in a unit family that the father stays with the family like you know after he's impregnated the woman and for a long time men would be going against their you know testosterone profile to want to do that but what we've seen in the last let's say decade is that when a man becomes a father for the first time his testosterone levels drop and the lyic system which is the emotional part of the brain that I said was the size of your clenched fist that becomes rewired by oxytocin the bonding hormone so the father wants to stay around and protect the baby because he feels bonded to the mother and the baby rather than feeling competitive with his testosterone so that means that something that we have changed as a society has actually then created a biological imperative for men and families um but this survival mechanism it hasn't changed that much even though our threats now are primarily psychological for you know for most people in the modern world um and not so much physical we still have that tendency to focus on losses rather than gains but we are able to override it if we're aware of it amazing quick tangent then do you want to that one piece about find it so fascinating yeah yeah it's so it's less related to like families um but it's just to do with sexual interactions between men and women so when um and you know I just want to say that the research isn't clear on other genders and that's why I'm focusing on on the you know the heterosexual interaction is that in a sexual interaction between a man and a woman so the bonding hormone oxytocin that is involved in child birth in breastfeeding in bonding between newborn baby and mom so it's kind of like the love Bubble hormone that is released by women um and during sex during sex and similarly to the fact that women do have testosterone but men have about 17 times as much that they're circulating through their body during the day men also do release oxytocin but the way that The receptors respond to oxytocin is completely blunted by the testosterone so what that means in Practical life is that if a woman sleeps with a man enough times and keeps releasing these bursts of oxytocin she is going to bond to that man AKA falling in love for a man if they are not already in love with the women and they're having casual sex then the amount of testosterone that circulating at the time will minimize the effects of the oxytocin meaning that he will not NE necessarily bond with the woman and you know like I say whether it's reality shows or listening to your single friends we do tend to hear this story quite a lot that you know well you know he said we're keeping it casual but we were having sex and I hoped he changed his mind and he didn't kind of scenario yeah no I just think that it's really interesting to look into the biology of that because that is a common experience I think a lot of people have the male female relationship Dynamics especially with sex that people are having it casually um before we move on are there any other ways in which our hundreds of thousands of years human biology now living in modern times is screwing us because it's like it's so recent to have technology in the internet and what we've all become accustomed to but it's so new to how we've evolved and so is there anything that sticks out as to how that is a recipe for disaster in certain cases I want to slightly push back on the way that you phrased that cuz I am getting that feedback on social media and so what I really want to say is knowledge is power and I'm saying these things so that if people have experienced that in their personal life but they weren't aware of the science behind it that they can use that information to you know make it work for them so for example the scenario about as a woman you may Bond more than you would like to if you repeatedly have casual sex with someone knowing that could change you know what some people do so it's good to know right yeah and similarly we've mentioned a few other things like that like how the stress hormone cortisol leaks out of your body in your sweat and so you can get affected by the stress levels of people around you that could potentially screw with you if you didn't you know if you weren't aware of the fact that um be aware of who's draining your energy or making you feel super stressed and either go and sweat that out through aerobic exercise or get off your mind through journaling or speaking to a friend or therapist um but the main one that I really want to come to because I've been doing some research into neuro Aesthetics recently or neuro arts and I've realized the importance of this one thing that has been staring Us in the face for as long as we've been humans but we have become so disconnected from it for all the reasons that you've just mentioned because we've got devices because we're switched on 24/7 we have artificial light um is the importance of nature to our health and our mental health so you and I might have different taste in music or art although having looked around your house we've got definitely similar taste in art but you know we might not um but nature is the one palette that we all agree on because we've all existed in it since the beginning of time and I'm obviously not going to say exactly where you live but when you invited me you know to come to the studio it's such a beautiful place that I've been to before I wanted to have the drive here and be in that place and see the views because I know that that will be good for me today um so what has tend what well interestingly during the pandemic we all maybe did actually consciously spend a bit more time in nature but I have to admit that since I've been able to move back to the city travel more again I'm not spending as much time in nature as I did during the pandemic and that's at the back of my mind that I regret it but equally you know priorities and just like the rush of life again has definitely had a negative impact on that so when we spend time in nature um we kind of know that it's got you know mental health benefits and health benefits and um there is research that shows that if you spend enough time in nature on a regular basis it actually can increase your lifespan and not just that you live longer but you live healthier for longer but um one of the areas of research that I've come across recently is so I love going on Safari and I learned quite a few years ago that if a tree gets nibbled a lot by by a giraffe and so it's kind of losing its ability to like send the seeds out and grow more of itself it sends chemical messages in the air to other similar trees around who make themselves bitter so the giraffes won't eat them who yeah so cool yeah I thought that was cool but wait till you find out my latest thing which is that trees and plants some more than others release chemicals called phytonides that actually boost our immune system they trigger the release of natural killer cells in our immune system that can fight off more infections and Cancers so we're constantly you know fighting off small infections and Cancers and not even realizing that that's happened obviously when they proliferate massively and the immune system can't keep up with them that's when we become sick but if you ideally you know Forest bathing as where this all came from but if you go out and spend time you know by the ocean or in the mountains or in the forest even if you have more plants in your house and you know if you have a garden rather than just a Terrace or a deck or whatever then you are getting the benefits of um those chemicals from trees and plants isn't that incredible just by being in close proximity to them yeah yeah I've always just felt the the benefit from keeping like life really it's just plants and um and now living where I live now which I moved here about six months ago I totally feel the difference I mean it's something that we all intellectually know when we go on Hikes or go in the water we just feel our nervous system be more regulated and suddenly our problems don't have as much of a grip on us um but that's wild to to see some of the science behind that as well oh I didn't know you'd only moved six months ago so yeah you've really you're in the kind of time period of feeling that difference yeah yeah and I also feel there's something inherently linked to our human creativity with that um I'm curious if there's anything that came up for you there there's so much that I want to dive into you with but I feel like the more that we find ease within oursel with which can come byproduct of being in nature more uh we get more access to just kind of like this effervescent creativity of of wanting to express instead of the alternative yeah so it's really interesting that you've come to that conclusion um intuitively because when we spend time in nature what we're essentially doing is beholding Beauty and there's two forms of creativity beholding and making and they're connected they're both good for you for different reasons but when you are consciously spending more time beholding Beauty which you're doing without even thinking about it by being in nature then it connects up in that pathway in your brain to wanting to make Beauty as well and so whether that's drawing painting singing chanting humming dancing um and again let's relate this back to when we were in the cave you know we were talking about how why we would look out for loss more than reward well even before we could speak we were like beating drums we were dancing we were humming we were doing cave paintings and we used to think that cave paintings were a way of demonstrating the success of a hunt but we understand now that it was much more planning the hunt because we couldn't speak to each other I couldn't say to you let's go and kill a woolly mammoth today because then we'll have loads of you know fur and fat to get through the winter um but if I could draw that with you and help you know get you to understand that's what my plan was but in those days it was literally all about survival we didn't really do things for fun everything had a reason so why were we dancing and humming and beating drums um and you know obviously we were walking barefoot in nature and we were looking at the stars in the sky so all of that mindfulness you know beauty stuff was happening but we had to be creative as well being creative was contributing to our immunity to our health to our longevity to our connections as a tribe in fact the authors of the book your brain on Art Ivy and they actually count being in nature as a creative activity so when they quote their research it's about the benefits of creative activities on your mental health your health and your longevity and being in nature is just another one of those yeah it feels like that switch I just love all that so much it feels like that shift of seeing creativity as a luxury that you know people who have free time can do to actually it's the necessity to having a healthy human psyche yeah beautiful I love that frame of beholding beauty being linked to expressing creating Beauty because I totally feel that intuitively I'm sure so many people do as well Chelsea who's our main girl behind the scenes right now actually goes out and Hikes and paints the mountain ridges that she sees in real time which is so cool like being able to merge those I think is so rad uh that's that's wonderful so I'm glad I asked that because I wasn't planning on it but that's that's good to know and hear um all right I want I do want to touch on the Law of Attraction a little bit more here because it's a big part of your work book and and your in your book The Source you you touch on this and all the podcasts that you go on quite a bit um I think a lot of people got exposed to the film The Secret when they were younger and it was great thing because it put a lot of people on their spiritual path they're like just into a different way of thinking and more open way of perceiving things uh it also served as really not doing a great job of actually explaining how that really works and kind of keeping it on uh uh more of the woooo mystical side of things and so I'm I'm curious just for you to ground in what the Law of Attraction means in your eyes cuz obviously we're constantly manifesting and attracting in our life what is the law side of it yeah so I looked into this before I 100% committed to writing the source and so you know what I want to say about the secret and Ronda is that she brought into massively into common culture the fact that you can do things to bring what you want into your life I think it was left at the level of less Agency for people because it was explained by the power of the universe and like vibrations that were outside of yourself and so I felt it was really important to add to that that cognitive science so that's the power of your mind and your brain and you using that in a directed way underlies your ability to bring into reality in the material world the things that you think about and desire in your mind um and also kind of more in retrospect realize that if it is the power of your mind if it's your mind if it's what you believe if it's what you think if it's what you then go out and do as a result of that then you can feel really empowered by that whereas even if you think it's I sit at home and I think about the house that I want or the job that I want and then you know I notice more things and certain good things happen it still feels very external and you know to me that's not being in the driver seat of your life and it's great if you know Wonderful coincidences and serendipities also happen but you've got to be feeling like there are things that I can do to make this happen and you know that what I'm really passionate about is people understanding how much potential they hold in their brain and so the more that people think I at least I'm part of this if not necessarily absolutely the driver of it yet um that is the start of a journey where you can minimum co-create with whatever might be going on around you but absolutely you know create like I said your best version of yourself and your ideal future so the laws of attraction I mean there's a lot of disagreement about actually what they are and how many there are so I looked as broadly as I could kind of wrote it all down and my mission was can any of these claims be backed up by cognitive science so psychology or neuroscience and literally 80 or 90% there was an immediate connection for me um some took a little bit harder work to prove if you like and then in the end I said look there are some which I can't explain by Neuroscience at the moment but it's not going to harm you so you can either leave it out or you can do it anyway just Bas based on like on faith but we've kind of already talked about it Andre it's literally about being able to notice and grasp opportunities that will take you closer to the things that you know you want in your life and being able to do those things because you have the thoughts that direct your brain to filter out the wrong things but pay attention to the right things and tag the right things in order of importance both emotionally and logically so that you're able to notice those in your daily life and that you have the you know underlying belief like we said that you deserve those things um it really just comes back down to that yeah that switch from lack mindset to an abundant Outlook that we spoke to earlier uh that's that's great now how does how does stress affect our ability to usefully take advantage of creating the life that we want because you know stress makes us stupid so totally I'm so glad you asked that actually um so when we are stressed our adrenal glands which are in our lower back above our kidneys are releasing more of the stress hormone cortisol so stress and cortisol are completely aligned they always go together and there are receptors in your brain that are constantly monitoring the levels of cortisol in your blood and we have an amazing adaptive stress response which means that you know if suddenly there was like thunder and lightning we would like be aware that there's potentially danger to this house and we might you know do some actions based on that and then as soon as we know we've secured the house and maybe the storm has passed we you know our body's reset to a healthy kind of nervous State when we're under chronic stress those levels of cortisol are higher than they should be more of the time as a baseline just constantly there higher so there's a normal range depending on your age and your gender and the time of day and The receptors in your brain and are aware of what that those levels should be when it sees that those levels are higher than that on a sustained basis it perceives an imminent threat to your survival and there's a lot of things that happen in response to that um but in the brain the blood flow will get re re-rooted so to be creative and think flexibly and regulate our emotions and manage any biases that we might have the blood needs to be flowing to all the extremities of the brain but under chronic stress those receptors will push the blood flow down to what I call survival mode which is the parts of your brain that you need to wake up in the morning um provide the basic needs for yourself and your family get yourself to your desk job and sit there and look like you shouldn't get fired but not actually be able to perform at your best be much less able to trust and collaborate so kind of at the time that you need your the highest functions of your brain the most your blood flow is literally working against you and that's why presentism which is when you go to work but you're not really productive costs businesses way more than absenteeism so my advice to people is when you realize that you're really stressed take a day or two off and try to like reset your nervous system because you'll be so much more productive if you're able to like release that blood flow around again um trying to work against your brain you know when your brain isn't working with you is like you know trying to push a heavy weight uphill it's it's it's kind of counterproductive so that's why rest and nature and you know kind of mindfulness and creativity are so important to just manage those stress levels yeah I think it's so important to speak into a little bit about physical and emotional Fitness as well because I could hear some people way in the back saying you know I need to I want to create this life and I have this desire I have a vision board we can talk about your action board and and some tips there in order to effectively manifest that I need to reduce my stress because all my blood is is not going to where it needs to um but on the flip side I gotta I got to feel less stressed to get those things and to get those things I will feel less stressed and it's like a a rat wheel it's kind of confusing U but uh but I would just love for you to speak into resiliency and also being patient along the process there because um often times in this culture especially in modern society Western culture we want things right away we don't like to cultivate and work towards it and uh yeah I think it's important just to remind people to give themselves compassion along the process of attracting what they want because it is a process so let's start by really backing up your question by saying that you know I said other things are going on when we've got high levels of cortisol as well so one of the other ones is that we because we talked about the blood flow in the brain when you've got high levels of cortisol going through the blood in your body it's actually eroding your immunity so in terms of resilience it's lowering your immune response which at the most basic level means you're much more likely to get colds and flu in the winter and that when you do get a cold or flu that it's more likely to last for longer than a few days and sometimes you know what we see now is that these colds and flu are lasting for weeks um at the other end of the spectrum people who are chronically stressed for a long time can end up getting heart attacks like I've personally coached people or had people in my class at MIT that have had stressinduced heart attacks even when you know they're in their 40s they don't have high blood pressure they don't have high cholesterol so really understanding that cortisol is the enemy of your resilience and that so in a way you know one of the things I say is that F you know do all the work that you need to do to manifest be clear on what you want like you know build up your selfworth and you know grasp the opportunities that you can but equally don't get stressed about it and like you said it sometimes does require patience it can become very frustrating I'm stressed and I'm stressed yeah I'm stress and like you know nothing's working out for me and like manifestation doesn't work and you know it's very easy to go down those paths especially if you're compromised physically and mentally so to realize actually that part of manifestation is managing your stress and building up your mental and physical resilience and that comes back to I have to repeat you know the basics as well as we can go into some other things but making sure that you're getting adequate length and quality of sleep and we don't know why exactly but regular sleep and wake times are really boosting the you know beneficial impacts of your sleep so within an hour going to bed and waking up at the same time each day um eating nutrition dense foods and do you remember I mentioned neurogenesis as the kind of most complex and least likely version of neuroplasticity in the adult brain well there are two things that really contribute to that one is aerobic exercise and one is um eating mostly plant-based but particularly dark skinned Foods so eating blueberries instead of strawberries black beans instead of calini beans um purple sprouting broccoli instead of of green broccoli all of those things are good but if you can add in like the darker colors then that um the um anthocyanins in the skin of those foods are super antioxidants that promote neurogenesis even further staying hydrated not being sedentary and then managing your stress and so under that falls things like mindfulness techniques whether that's meditation yoga time in nature um mindful eating um and then I think everything else that we've said like like you said understanding that it is a process that it is hard physical work even though it feels very psychological and intangible um that it does often take longer than you would like I mean and what I find personally is that it happens in sort of like rhythms and Cycles so there are times where I'm kind of feeling like be careful what you wish for because everything's happening at the moment and you know I have learned that when it feels like that that's when I will ask more for the things that I want and that equally there are weeks or months where it feels like nothing's happening and hard as it is I've kind of had to accept that and get used to that too I feel like for the most part I've kind of viewed wealth as just like an overall state of well-being and not just like Financial income which a lot of people attribute to and so yeah I think it's important obviously all those reminders of like taking care of our physical self because if you feel good about life then you're successful like that that that ultimately is what it comes down to so I'm just curious how you navigate the dance between being and becoming you know the the feeling of wanting to expand limitedly and create and and do better financially and expand our career and and express ourselves creatively but then also coming back into feeling completely fulfilled inherently within your presence in this moment you know so I'm just curious how you navigate the dance I'm probably going to say something you wouldn't expect me to so the gap between being and becoming is the greatest source of unhappiness in your life so if you think about there's two there's two circles there's current self and ideal self or current and ideal life if those two things are overlapping that's like 100% happiness the further apart they are the more unhappy you are so I'm not saying that you shouldn't have goals or want bigger or better things in your life but the way to get there is to be ultimately grateful for everything you have in your life right now and to look at those two circles and think about them in two ways one is that I could strive to change my current life to my ideal life and understand what it is that you have to do to a achieve that and go back to what we said at the start which is that why are you trying to achieve that is it because it's what you really want or is it because it's what everybody else is doing or you could say I'm going to make my current life I'm going to say that's my ideal life I'm I'm just going to be happy with the life that I have now so yeah you know I have an action board and it has things on it that I want and I look at it regularly and we mentioned a book that we both like before so you know it's part of what I learned from that I Master Key System Master Key System yeah which you know you have to go through it and do the exercises but what you understand at the end of that is believe in the truth of what you wish to manifest so part of my practice is looking at the things on my action board and visualize them being true feeling it in my body feeling it in every sense and then giving gratitude for the fact that they're true but and you know of course I work hard but not overly striving to get things in my life that are going to put my nervous system out of sync you know kind of being patient like being on that path but mostly just being very grateful for everything that's happening right now I mean I think you know if you're lucky enough to have come through the pandemic healthy and not having lost a loved one then what it made a lot of us realize that you know you can have a gr gratitude list that's 10 or 100 things long and it can have so many amazing things on it but really if you can wake up every day and say I'm alive and I'm healthy that's actually enough and it's it's a huge privilege cuz lots of people have really like had to sare that in the the face in the last few years not being true yeah it's you know I feel like it's it's important to have goals and like a vision of a future that excites us but if we always feel like we're not where we want to be that sucks yeah yeah yeah so I love how you just brought kind of the importance of the how good we feel about life around us is the unification of both of those to where we are living a life of alignment and who we are being is in the becoming process and we can still aspire to create things in life which is beautiful because we're all inherently creative beings and that's part of our nature but uh yeah always feeling like we're just never fully satisfied or we're not where we want to be that that doesn't feel like a joyful life to be experiencing no that's a really lovely summary of it and I think the reason that it's important is because when we are on this journey of becoming we're achieving things along the way but the natural tendency for a lot of people is to kind of say well I've ticked that one off so now I'll put that behind me and I'll move on to the next thing it's constantly moving on to the next thing and it's hardly ever really celebrating your successes so you know the Gratitude in every day but also celebrating your successes because all that's going to do is tell your brain that you know when I focus on what I want and I work hard around that and I you know live in gratitude and abundance those things happen and so that's going to move you away from the cortisol state of fear towards the oxy oxytocin state of love and trust and you know in which state do you think the Law of Attraction Works more abundantly it's so interesting to feel into that when we attract things or we have a desire to create a successful podcast or release a book that does well or you know whatever our goals are in a in a way for it to even come in we kind of have to expect it and so I feel like we oftentimes don't create the space for reflection to appreciate what has been created which is kind of sad because like you we're under the illusion of thinking that we're going to feel a certain way once we achieve the thing but then we invariably feel achieve the thing and then we think the feeling is in the next thing and it's just like this continual pushing off that feeling of a joyful presence into the someday in the future and so I think that's just such an important reminder to create that space for reflection there's actually another piece of research around that which I've never discussed before but it's called the hedonic treadmill MH yeah and it's the the most famous research around it is from lottery winners who you know let's say it's like a it's multi-millions you know life-changing that obviously you become ecstatic for a short while but it it's shocking how quickly your happiness levels revert to what they were before another more day-to-day example that might be more um what we're all used to is that if you have a really delicious meal when you eat the first bite of that you release like lots of dopamine and other Feelgood endorphin and hormones and you know you feel very joyful but each successive bite has less impact and it returns to to neutral very quickly so you know that's what we're doing that like like you said we're achieving things feeling happy for a short burst and then returning to normal so it's like we're constantly seeking that reward and so I'll just Loop that back to how I answered the question in the first place you can't be happy if you're constantly looking for something better and gratitud list many things that you speak to can allow you to just uh reflect on how probably for most people that are listening to this there are billions of people on the planet that would kill to switch positions in life with you right now you know like how grateful we are to have the basic luxuries that we have is uh we so easy to forget yeah I think going to experience in a third world country or like when I went to Nigeria I really got to see you know that one happiness is definitely not tied to material wealth often case there's an inverse effect that we see uh but uh but then also if somebody can be so grateful for so little um and of course they have their own various challenges but uh what does that say about what we can feel for the level of abundance that we're you know lucky to have yeah amazing that was really great uh is there any truth to like the the the thought of we only use 1% 5 5 10% of our brain I'm sure you've heard it a lot but we like I think we're always told that and what do people mean when they is there any truth to that yeah so funnny enough I was actually having this conversation with someone recently because they asked me about neurom myths that bug me yeah so I think the thing to say is that what exists as exist as neurom myths now are things that we used to think were true but we now know that they're not as scientists but sometimes those phrases they stay in popular culture for a lot longer um so since we been able to access sophisticated scanning Technologies to to look at the brain and the body we've understood some things differently to how we understood them before because prior to that the only way we really understood how the brain worked was if we looked at brains where something had gone wrong so if someone had a stroke or like a neurosurgery if someone had like a brain abscess or a brain tumor then as we felt around you know that area of pathology we might notice oh you know this is when we touch this part of the brain affects the way the person can speak or you even things about how we understand that the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa so for that reason things like left brain and right brain became very overstated and once we understood that it doesn't work in the very you know hemispherical way that we had understood it before and that is probably the biggest one that stay you know the left brain right brain thing I remember when I was writing the source which came out in 2019 I said oh I'd love to do a a special box on the fact that you know left brain right brain is not how you know we understand that things work anymore and the editors said what do you mean and they said well no no readers are not going to agree with that and I said it's not for them to agree like I've got the research here and if you think that it's even more important to tell people that that's you know that's not how the thought that our logical and emotional sides are split between left and right yeah and that either you're right brained or left brained you know and I'm something else and so you know what we understand now is that there's a bridge that connects the two there are two hemispheres but they're much more connected than we thought before and if you think about two hemispheres like this we thought there was a bridge that just kind of went from the end of this one to the end of that one but actually it fans massively into both sides the Corpus colome yeah and so it's just much more complex than that and also it's it's not about the two sides it's about the lyic system with you know more emotional stuff and then the the cortex around it and how they interact with each other and that's different when we're stressed to when we're in a you know good State as well but the um I think I believe the neurom myth is that we only use 10% of our brains and that was the basis of a movie called Lucy with Scarlet H which is a great movie Morgan Freeman starts off incredible voice it would have been a good movie you hate it because of the but I liked the H there's just so many good parts of it but I hear you on the on the sprad I love the idea that we can access more potential in our brains um but it's just not true that we only use 10% of our brain we use all of our brain we use different parts of it at different times for different things sometimes it's much more interconnected than others um interestingly when we're um indulging in Creative activity it's the most connected music is like massively connecting different parts of the brain brain um you know when we're doing creative things we we're using the visual parts of the brain the auditory Parts the imagination centers the association Center which connects all of that up and you know we're probably moving as well so yeah I think rather than think about it like that to think that you know are there ways of thinking that I'm not accessing as much as I could we tend to focus on reusing our strongest pathway so you know for me that's definitely intuition and probably logic but like I said with my yoga practice I've definitely built up my physicality aspect much more um with age and wisdom I've regulated my emotions much more um always been pretty motivated and you know i' I've shared very widely now that building up the creative pathway in my brain is like the area that I'm really focusing on at the moment so everyone can do that exercise on themselves they can either put those six ways of thinking in order of preference or they can understand that there's like one or two or three that you use like most of the time because you're comfortable with that um one or two that you could use if you know had to in a different kind of scenario and then maybe one or two that you underuse that you could kind of try practicing more interesting very fascinating all right I want to try to take you into some Uncharted Territory I thought you've been doing that um so first off I do find it very interesting that you've been studying various different indigenous wisdom and so I would love for you to bring up what have been some of the most eye-opening uh pieces from indigenous wisdom and ancient wisdom Traditions that you found that are really applicable to modern times that would be most beneficial for people thank you so much for asking about that I've really enjoyed um digging into that and it's it's like literally in the moment changed my life each time I've you know sort of learned a thing a thing like that so are you're learning about conversations with indigenous individuals basically yeah and experts as well so um a bit of both um we've actually mentioned some of the things already because I have integrated them into my life so much already so you know time in nature making and beholding you know creative things and if we want to connect that to what I've learned from the um indigenous groups of people that I've spoken with things like adorning yourself so interestingly as we were setting up I asked you about your jewelry and you know a lot of men don't wear as much jewelry as you are wearing um but when we consider ourselves as Divine beings of course we're more likely to Adorn ourselves because it's that's what you would you know if you have a child or a pet that you love or you you know worship a deity then it is about having um flowers around the deity or putting jewelry on the child or you know a beautiful collar on the pet um so that is thanks for thanks for acknowledging I'm a deity that's clearly why I'm wearing my jewelry to be good with that's obvious obviously why you invited me podast um and you know all the things I mentioned already like humming chanting mantras singing dancing um and this episode hasn't come out yet but I I spoke to someone who's studying Sufi mysticism and so you know she very specifically talked about love and an exercise to like um kind of hum or chant the vibration that induces love which I would call oxytocin around your body and has an impact on the people around you as well so there might be certain words or sounds that people can use to do that um and another area that I've explored with which is more ancient cultures are more comfortable with than us are things like reincarnation near-death experiences past life memories terminal Lucidity and mindsight so terminal Lucidity is where people who have Dementia or they've had some kind of brain injury like a stroke and lost their levels of consciousness so you know either their memory or their ability to recognize people or understand the passage of time suddenly become completely Lucid towards the end of their life so this tends to happen in the last hour or day before death and when you say completely Lucid they remember everything so they go from having forgotten that they even have children to recognizing their children knowing their names speaking to them in the usual parental fashion that they used to and really getting to say goodbye and being very loving um I wish that for everybody I know I know so you know everybody who's lost somebody who whose Consciousness was altered that can happen and it can be like an amazing experience but unfortunately it usually also means that the person is very close to death um but still maybe not well everybody would rather have that period of Lucidity than not have it for but you know I mean we're not very good at death and loss so it's p it's painful um what the professor that I spoke to about that made me understand is that you have to prepare yourself for death throughout your whole life and it just comes back to the same things Andre that we spoke about being grateful being being kind being compassionate if you do that as much as you can throughout your life you're going to have less regrets on your deathbed you're you know I'm not the first person that's saying this but you're not going to be lying on your deathbed saying I wish I earned more money or I wish I gained higher status in life you know so that's one way of looking at it um mindsight is something really incredible which is a near-death experience erience but in a very smaller cohort of people who have been blind their whole life so they've never actually seen maybe the most that they've seen is they can distinguish light and dark but they haven't had Vision um and then where they have a near-death experience they can see so if you put all of these things together the fact that some children have seem to have memories of a different life that you can become very lucid even though you've got um you know a generative process in your brain or an injury to your brain that you can see if you've been blind um it does make you wonder about how connected Consciousness has to be to the physical form and the fact that they can maybe move apart and come back together again and of course it poses the question about what happens after physical death so in an you know different ancient cultures there could be a belief in reincarnation there can be a belief in the spirit world um there can be a belief in Reading signs um and so all of those things can help us to become more comfortable with death and therefore allow us to live our life in a better or you know slightly different way um and and just you know in summary because I do actually think we've covered most of the things it really does come back to a connection with with nature and the land and the cycle of nature the seasons um the you know eating seasonally and eating plant-based respect for Animals respect for you know vulnerable groups or marginalized groups um you know I guess all the things that actually make you happy in life rather than the things that we tend to think of when we talk about manifestation yeah incredible yeah I see you as somebody who's very much so like a doctor of the future I feel like in the direction we're moving it's really important to have the language of modern science but then also not neglecting the incredible intelligence that's been cultivated through these wisdom Traditions that have preceded modern society and have so much to share um and so when you're speaking to whether it's terminal Lucidity uh or mindsight you or ndes or uh and the upper I'm just so curious at the upper limits if there is one but the upper potential of of human um ious and what we can do for example in like Maha samadi where people can cultivate the ability to at will leave their own body whether or not people believe that there's these yogic claims of what becomes possible as you go on that path of the science of yoga being one of Union and so I'm curious what you make of the realm outside of what science is currently able to understand and dictate but nonetheless people have very real experiences and often don't feel the need to try to explain explain it logically yeah I would say that you you know you're absolutely right yoga the meaning of yoga is Union the meaning of ir Vader is the science of life and so and the Vaders are as far as we know the most ancient scriptures um that exist in the world and the the yogis the people who practiced um ayurveda and yoga and yoga is not just doing poses it's something like much bigger than that yeah um just one limb of what that's just one of eight limb of yoga um so there are reports of of people from those ancient times who you know meditated for hours and days and weeks in grottos and the Himalayas um being able well you know there are things we actually know about like being able to walk on hot coals being able to like not feel pain and then the other cities as well right which are like these spiritual superpowers yeah what we would call spiritual superpowers that are less explained but include things like like what you said of um your Consciousness or your spirit being able to leave your physical body um and understanding and potentially communication with people on a different plane so you know depending on what your beliefs are about what happens to someone when they die whether it's reincarnation or that their Consciousness from this life exists in a different astral plane and you know whether or not you can communicate with that there are so many things like that that haven't been proven by science but what I want to say is they keep coming up in Cycles I'm extremely flattered and you know grateful for you saying that I'm a doctor of the future but I already have icons in my life who are people who are doctors who are let's say 20 30 years older than me that I know they've gone there because they they talk about it maybe as much as I'm willing to at the moment but I think there are things that you know that they're not talking about so and they're well-known people Dr Bruce lip deac Chopra Daniel seagull these are people who before I was really on that path of of let alone being a you know being able to speak about this publicly but even exploring it for myself were you know MDS or scientists or both who were talking about really spiritual things and I was kind of like is that allowed can can you know can you do both are we supposed to be talking about this stuff um what bumps me out is not being open I know and that's why I am trying to be more open than definitely I was comfortable with a few years ago because what I have appreciated is that because I've got a PhD in neuroscience and a medical degree and a teach at MIT if I can't have the courage to talk about these things then you know how easy is it to just ridicule other people that do and what I have found is that when I have talked about things like life after death with people I so many people have opened up with stories about it and when I've said why have you never talked about this before they've said because people will think I'm crazy um but by giving people permission especially if you come from a background where people don't expect you to talk about that because they think that you wouldn't think it's true um by being more open about that I think you know we are hopefully as a society and a culture opening up those conversations which at minimum can be of so much comfort to people who've experienced loss and disconnection and that you know to me where we talk about self-actualization and reaching your Highest Potential if I can make any contribution to people feeling less lost and lonely and disconnected that would be me achieving you know that would be me self-actualizing so so if that means that I'm brave enough to talk about things that wouldn't be normal in my profession then I'm willing to try and I'm willing to see what the feedback is and if it's wrong then maybe I'll course correct but at the moment I'm just you know getting such gratitude and lovely feedback about it I'm just really excited and curious to see where this can go and and that's why you know when you invited me onto a podcast and I kind of checked you out um I you know I could just see that you were all about love and you're a lovely person and you're like open and spiritual and I wanted to speak with you yeah I feel like it's it would be ideal to have thought leaders who have a lot of credibility whether it's in modern science or our authority figures to be completely unex pregated and sharing their whole truth and right now we do live in a society that would often shame and try to cancel people that are sharing something that isn't scientifically valid and it's kind of a bummer that we have this materialist reductionistic view of just like just even being able to have the conversations and explore and talk about these things because some people seem to have very clear experiences and there's repeated studies you know especially with like ndes where people have these experiences and uh just to be open in the exploration of seeing what might be there and there's just the the the pursuit of science can be applied to spirituality because it's really just trying to truthfully understand how things work I'd love to mention two people in case you haven't um heard of them so Dr Bruce Grayson who's written a book called after and Dr Jim Tucker who's written a book called before they are brother they're not Brothers their colleagues at the University of Virginia they're both psychiatrists they were both absolutely not into spirituality um but as they were having their you know younger careers of Psych iatrist kept coming across so for Bruce he kept coming across examples of near-death experiences and for Jim he kept coming across examples of past life memories and children and at the start of their careers because they've been in their careers for like 50 plus years now there were very few documented cases of either of these things but now there are so many and it is absolutely true that there are more of them in the sort of Eastern cultures where people believe in reincarnation but there are enough now in the United States of America including in very Christian um families who that's not in keeping with their beliefs that um yeah it's now it's now an area of scientific research it's not an area of spiritual research um yeah there's a fascinating documentary on Netflix called surviving death that has episodes on um near-death experiences re Incarnation mediums signs all you know it's just I find it fascinating um and there is more and more science you know starting to be able to explain some of these things yeah it's so so interesting n Nicola Tesla has that quote I'm paraphrasing of when whenever we put the human Intelligence on uh discovering more about spirituality and that's where our energy and focus goes to then we'll make more discoveries in 10 years than we have in a thousand you know which is oh I love that yeah it's it's important you know we've had Dan seagull on the show as well yeah we talked about his he had like a trauma that affected his default mode Network and his perception of identity and self which gave him a more you know like a joyful experience of life and it's just you know I think it's important to keep that Fascination open I'm definitely going to listen to that because I interviewed Dan for my online program at MIT Sloan and I had the opportunity to say him that when I changed career so I'd been a doctor in the NHS and then um I did an Executive coaching course and I tried to start up a freelance practice as a coach and what I realized was that most coaches in the UK anyway fell into either the category of like a retired business person or um a former psychologist and because I was an MD psychiatrist I didn't fall into either of those categories I was actually rejected from um a group that was like the society for psychologists and Executive coaching they wouldn't let me join look at you now um they did later ask me to do a keynote that's funny that works I know um so I felt very alone at that time you know I'd left my former career all the stability and certainty of that I was starting out something new I didn't feel like I was accepted by any group and I read mindsight by Daniel seagull and I saw that he was an MD psychiatrist he' created this amazing model and that literally made me felt like there was somewhere that I belonged and I got to say that to him when I interviewed him years you know I was a professor at MIT by then um with a very successful coaching business so yeah I got to say that I mean he'd already agreed to be interviewed but when I said that to him it was a real little Bond it was really nice yeah yeah that's that's beautiful I'm curious what you know and I'm perhaps bringing you to the edge of what you might want to even Explore or share but when you relate to think about Consciousness what what are the possibilities of you thinking it being fundamental and existing outside of our own neurology is that something you're even willing to entertain like is a possibility do this feel weird to bring up as a as a neuroscientist I'm sure especially with your colleagues who often case think you know no brain no consciousness right um Eastern indigenous wisdom Traditions would say otherwise yeah where what say you um until very recently I would have said I'd be willing to like have that conversation but I probably yeah well I would definitely say that you know there was no evidence for it to be true until a little bit less recently than that I would have said absolutely not about 15 years ago when I changed career I had a conversation with a psychologist friend and this is actually known as the hard problem of Neuroscience you know this what does can you know Consciousness exist without physicality um and I said to him obviously all thoughts and emotions and everything that makes us human emerges from neurons and chemicals and he said Tara how could you say that he's a lot older than me he's a mentor of mine and I said how could you not and I completely believed that as a neuroscientist that the only way that anything to do with Consciousness can occur is that it emerges from these neurons and chemicals and electrical signals I have to say I have definitely moved you know way along from that so like I said probably like during the pandemic where I actually said that you know we're heading for a mental health crisis the only thing that can avoid that is some kind of spiritual Revolution and then since then because you know a lot of people that I know and myself personally experienced a lot of loss during that time I would I well I'll tell you I I have experienced it myself so I have experienced um evidence of Consciousness existing outside physical body it's like a neuroscientist AA meeting I have I'm coming out the closet and um but no that's beautiful because I know so many incredible AC people in Academia that have had experiences that like I'm sure you just are are so like tightly held of like even mentioning that which I think is is wild but I understand when your identity and career are wrapped up in it um but you're also speaking speculatively and saying this is just my experience and not like we can prove this and this is the absolute truth well it's it's my experience and like I've said once I've started sharing that with people I've heard so many stories like it and I've you know I've delved into like you know interviewing the the director of the Victor Frankle Institute whose research is on Terminal idity and um looked into the research from University of Virginia and stuff so it's very exciting you know and I think having said this on your podcast I would love it if your listeners would share any experiences that they've had like that because I think this is the only way that we can help each other um and let's not be another generation of people that nearly get there and then don't make it you know and everybody else has to start again from scratch so that experience that you had was it uh was it amidst like in a yoga practice was it do you want to share anything did it have Have you shared anything about that I mean so for me it was never during yoga or meditation it's experiences that I've had either like like sleep is obviously a bit of a transcendental State um yeah no I've I've I've had so many now it's like once you it's a bit like manifestation once you believe in manifestation you fit like I said you're like be careful what you wish for and it's the same with um you know whe whether you want to call it extra sensory perception or signs or communication across Plains it's the same once you understand it and recognize it it's it's happening all the time yeah I'm very fascinated obviously I have conversations like this on my show because I've had plenty of experiences where I have experienced myself like outside of my body I've experienced creating distance from my own thought and emotion and for individuals that are so closely identified with the body as themselves I could understand how that would be triggering but nonetheless it's it is what it is people take it take the experience for what it is but um I'm curious also what you think about the pineal gland because in eastern Traditions you know it's thought of the seed of the Soul potentially an antenna that connects you know through higher consciousnesses anything that you want to share on what the pineal gland is does yeah so just like as a segue into that it's probably worth mentioning although it's obvious that you know I come from an Indian culture from a Hindu culture so I was brought up absolutely being told that reincarnation was a fact so you know when you say you mentioned two things specifically being able to create a distance between your yourself and your thoughts and your feelings this is a must this is not a spiritual belief if you can't do that you will be so emotionally disregulated it can ruin your life you know it can affect your relationships it can affect your health so you know just to make it like really accessible all you have to do is look at the videos on the headspace app that that teach you that you know you you must not identify with your emotions you don't have to identify with your emotions you can have an emotion it doesn't mean you know if you feel anger it doesn't mean that you're an angry person it means that you can experience anger temporarily um and equally you know if you have a moment of gratitude it doesn't mean you're a grateful person it's something you have to cultivate all the time so that one is I wouldn't even consider that as an alternative thought the being able to you know the experience of of being outside your body probably because you know my parents were first generation immigrants from India to the UK I was you know brought up with yoga and ayurveda and reincarnation I was experiencing that as a child and then I think I lost that ability or because I probably lost the belief in it because I started you know questioning things like that um there are plenty of people that say they do that that one is a bit more spiritual but sure a lot of materialists would say well you're having the experience of being outside of yourself within yourself but how do you prove that so it's like yeah yeah exactly um and then there are things that are like you know way more difficult to explain than than those things and I have completely forgotten the question the P or gland okay the P so um like when I looked at the laws of attraction I've looked at the chakras of the body and been able to align them with like various glands throughout the body like kind of in similar places and um so the pineal gland is often calcified so it can um take on calcium from the body and just that kind of gets embedded around it so when we look at brain scans it actually appears as white in the area of your third eye and so that for a long time has led to people saying that it is your third eye um which is like the seat of your soul um and so again you know we don't know it's not proven but it does appear on brain scans in that sort of you know area and whether or not it is the and tenor or you know doesn't really matter I think you know what matters is that we perceive it potentially as a physical representation of the third eye it's more important to understand potentially what the third eye is and why it might be important in your meditation practice or you know in the way that you consider your spiritual health um yeah I can probably only go that far with that one right now yeah well there's also I mean it makes sense and we're again touching in areas here where we don't know but we're just exploring the potential um and also understanding that a lot of people have very interesting experiences with that in conjunction to a spontaneous remission or healing that that occurs also yeah I mean you know I'm just going to be really honest and not say something about an area that I don't know enough about and that's an area I don't know enough about and I think I think I've said more than I've ever said before because of you um yeah I just don't know enough about that but you you know I'm going to go down a rabbit hole with that now yeah it's great maybe I've been using all your cues with the you know we were talking about how warm tea can create bonding and make you feel more comfortable and then I heard you talk down the Diary of CEO looking into the left eye not that I've been intentionally doing that but I could see all these like spiritually Mak valan kind of you know techniques to to be able to connect with people um that's interesting uh well this whole conversation's been so fascinating for me and gave me a lot to think on with just our connection to Nature the reality of how attraction works and just a lot of grounded you know applicable things things I think for our audience to take home is there anything that you feel is like on your heart or mind that you want to share before we start to wrap up I think you know it always comes down to me to I I just really hope that people something resonates from this conversation that makes people realize how much potential they've got in their brain and that maybe there was something they always wanted to do or talk about or think about that this conversation would have given them the courage to do and that you know yes I'm a scientist and I very much believe in science and I love Neuroscience but at the end of the day I think the most important things in life are love and gratitude and and that actually I shouldn't have said but I should have said and because the science completely backs that up incredible thank you so much for sharing yourself you have a second season of a podcast book anything else you want to share promote we'll of course provide links for thank yeah I mean I'm very much focused on season two of my podcast at the moment but you're diving deeper into the indigenous wisdom side of things right yeah so cool thanks that's rad well I'm excited I feel like we'll run it back in the future and I'm excited to just connect with you more and thank you so much for sharing yourself definitely thank you yeah of course so everybody that's been tuning in to this episode of the know self podcast thanks and uh I would love for you guys to listen to Dr tera's advice and write in the comments below some experiences that you've had share and like you know activate this community and and let us know what particularly resonated with you and then also would love to hear more of your own 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