I'll get our champs. I hope you're bloody terrific. So something that's fascinated be me for a long time is the kind of knowledge and understanding and awareness and insight and knowing that I have, that you have, that we have that we don't know why we have it, Like, how can I know something that I've never been told or taught or trained or educated on? How do I have?
Doesn't mean I get everything right all the time, of course, neither to you, I'm sure, But have there been so many times in my life where some what we would call instinct or tuition or innate wisdom or perhaps divine guidance or intelligence or I don't know, whatever the fuck it is, But it's like a knowing that you and I have that we somehow know without knowing why we know it. I know that seems ridiculous, but it's not,
and it exists. Now. As someone who studies the mind and studies the brain formally, I have to admit that there is so much I believe. Well, firstly, there's so much that I don't understand and know. There's far, far, far more mountains more that I don't know and understand and will never than I currently do or ever will, right, So I think we need to be brave and courageous and humble and aware and honest and say that we don't really know. We don't really understand the mind properly.
We understand the brain more than we used to, but even now we still don't fully, even nearly fully understand the brain. The mind. What the fuck is the mind anyway? It's a construct. It's something we invented, you know. It's a term that we use to explain the stuff that happens in the brain. The thinking, the awareness, the decision making, the interpretation of data. Call that the mind. But we also know that, you know, while we can prove we've got an elbow or a knee, or a left ear
or a right ear, we can't prove we've got a mind. Right, So it's a slippery slope. This cognition, this thinking, this knowledge, this awareness, this consciousness that arises from fucking where I don't know. Try and talk to a philosopher and a psychologist and a sociologist and a bunch of other different alleged experts around consciousness. You'll come away more confused than you will clear, because we still don't really understand the mind.
We still don't really understand consciousness, but I believe strongly, which doesn't fit within a scientific or academic or research framework necessarily. But guess what, that's okay, because there's so much that we don't understand, and just because we don't
understand it doesn't mean it's not true. And this is a real propensity people have who are very attached to a certain way of looking at things or being or talking or believing, is that when something exists or potentially exists that's outside the walls or boundaries of their beliefs or their ideology or their science or their understanding, then they tend to often go, that's bullshit, that's not real,
You're an idiot. The truth is, there is far more, even in twenty twenty five, this is my belief anyway, there is far more that none of us understand than we do understand, including the alleged Genii that walk amongst us. So I am I am suggesting, your honor. I am suggesting that there is a mountain of knowledge and awareness and truth and understanding and insight. People might call it intuition or gut instinct or in nat wisdom, or perhaps divine guidance, or maybe these are just labels for shit
we can't explain. Maybe it's all of that, maybe it's none of that, But there is definitely stuff that we intuitively let's use that word no, or understand that we've never been told or taught or trained or educated on. You know what I'm saying. Like, there's absolutely a kind of knowledge that does not come from books, that doesn't come from degrees or PhDs, or research papers or Ted talks or amazingly enough, the You project or Fatty Harps. There's just a bunch of stuff that you and I
have access to. I can't explain it. I believe there's a level of knowledge and awareness, whether it is instinctive or intuitive or whatever that means. But there's an intelligence that you and I can access when we I believe when we get out of the story that oh, all of that is mumbo jumbo bullshit. Now, just because it doesn't fit within my framework of logic or my framework of science or my internal database what I know, understand,
have experienced believe, that doesn't mean it's not true. It just means for me at this point in time, I don't get it. But just because you know, if you if you try to get me to explain many many things like how the fuck an iPhone works, I don't know. I cannot explain to you how it works. Like if you said, tell me how this doesn't even matter, you
could ask me a million things. I know how to use it, I know how to access it, I know how to download things, I know how to cert But if I had to try to explain to you from a technological point of view, what I couldn't But that doesn't mean that I can't benefit from the thing that I don't fully understand. Are you with me? And I think this kind of knowledge that we have access to is a little bit like that phone that you and I have access to that we don't really understand. Even
I've got a new car recently ish. It's not fucking amazing. It's a nice car, but it's got so much technology. If I couldn't explain to you how nearly all of the shit in that car works. But what I can do is I can drive it. I can use it. I can benefit from it. I can access it. It can take me places, it can make my life easier, it can help me. It can be a tool that
I use I think so too. While of course education and actual knowledge and understanding and resources and tools are amazing things that we cognitively and psychologically can access, but then there's this other space that isn't about, like I said, books or degrees or podcasts, and not something that can be downloaded from the internet. We can't google it, you can't. It doesn't ask for permission this kind of knowledge. It
doesn't speak in paragraphs. It whispers at nudges, It punches you in the face, it tugs at your sleeves, and sometimes it kind of overwhelms you. And it's not always logical. But then what's logic, Well, logic is what we think makes sense. Logic is us trying to understand something, interpret something, process something, give meaning to something using a particular scientific model or framework or psychological process. That to us is
what we call intelligent or logical. Now, not everything through that lens is going to look like it's real, is going to look like it makes sense. Think about all of the things over we've been around three hundred thousand years, right, Imagine imagine for two hundred and ninety nine thousand of those years and more explaining three hundred people sitting in
a metal tube flying across the sky. Well, for all of the people living until one hundred and fifty years ago or one hundred years ago, but for all of humanity, that would have been a ridiculous, fucking idea, totally illogical, because at that point in time we didn't understand. We didn't understand, and there are things that happen that are real. There is truth that is real, There is there is I believe there is an I. By the way, clearly I'm not I'm not trying to tell you how to
do this or why to do this. I just think it's important that in the middle of all the conversations about the brain and the mind that I talk about, without pointing you in a direction or telling you what to do or what not to do, or in fact, without making any kind of suggestion, just going, hey, there's this thing that exists. I think there's this kind of intuition, this knowledge, this awareness, this wisdom, call it what you want.
There's something that you and I can access. It's that insight, that understanding, that knowledge, that awareness that you and I have sometimes without knowing why the fuck we have it? How do I know that? How do I I've had many times, and I've shared quite a few on this show, and I won't bore you a store, but many times where I have not been thinking about anything particularly and then all of a sudden, I've had a sense or
a feeling or whatever you want to call it. I would almost call it some kind of download where I feel like I should do something or I shouldn't do something, and I pay attention to that, and in the paying of attention, I avoided something that could have been very problematic. Now you can listen to that and go, that's fucking bullshit.
I don't blame you, I agree. I I pride myself on my logic, on my rationale, my reason my ability to think clearly, express communicate clearly and logically, you know, use my brain, use my mind, tap into my resources.
But also, if I'm being as honest as I can be, there are things that have happened to me and around me, and because of me, and in spite of me, there are things that have happened in my life that make absolutely no sense based on my understanding of what sense is, based on my understanding of how the world works and what is logical and the mind and the brain. I believe your honor. I just believe that there's a kind of knowledge and intelligence and truth that exists outside of
my understanding and my knowledge and my brain. I don't know how it works, but I don't need to know how it works to perhaps believe in it. Think about how many people believe in a god that they can't prove.
How many people believe the for example, what Christians called a salvation story, that this guy called Jesus came and he hung around thirty three years, and then he died on the cross and he was resurrected from the dead, and he you know, all of these things that you and I can't prove, right, we don't have proof, But a lot of people have faith. A lot of people believe, and that's okay. So not everything that we believe, not everything that we have faith in, do we necessarily need
to have hard evidence or unequivocal proof. I think, you know, it's in that split second feeling that you get before your brain has time to run the numbers and to
figure it out. That that quiet certainty that sometimes you can get or feel in the middle of the noise, like that knowing that bypasses language and the decision that makes absolutely no sense on paper, but all the sense in your body or in your soul or in that other place that exists that I can't ex explain and doesn't fit in within the parameters of my very small
brain and understanding. And I think sometimes that knowledge or that that whatever it is, that truth shows up as clarity, like all of a sudden, I know, I'm clear now nothing's changed, but everything's changed. Sometimes it's a red red flag.
Sometimes it's an uneasiness that logic can't explain. But when you go, oh, there's something wrong, but there's nothing evidently wrong to your eyes or your senses, nothing's changed like practically, logically intellectually everything's fine, but you somehow know that it's not. And then you lean into that and you realize later, wow, I don't know where that came from. That, but that came from somewhere, and that was wisdom, That was truth, That was that was knowledge, that was something for me
to access. Sometimes you know that. Sometimes it's a strange sense of peace in the middle of what could be chaos. And of course, as I said, alright ready, like science doesn't love this stuff, of course, and that's cool. I'm literally a scientist a couple of times over and a researcher, and I get it. But science is not who I am, and a scientist is not who I am. It's it tells you part of who I am, and tells you
about my job and my work and my research. But you know, as even as a scientist, what we want to do, which is very hard, and to be honest, I don't think many scientists do. It is to get our own feelings, our own emotions, our own personal beliefs, our own bias, our own fear and anxiety and embarrassment and desire to be right. We need to get all of that shit out of the way if we really
want to know what is capital. I underline nine times what is true or what might be true, because the problem is, and I've said this many times before, with any kind of belief or any kind of perspective that you might have or idea or philosophy or practice or habit or behavior or group that you belong to. When that way of thinking, when that oh, I know what is truth, I know what is right. I know that
we are right and they are wrong. When that kind of thinking is intertwined with your identity will now you are unteachable because if I question your thinking, I question your identity. And this is the tough thing. Some things that are true don't make sense. And some things that are true we can't measure. We can't hold it up, we can't see it, we can't poke it, we can't replicate it in a lab. We can't explain how somebody just knows. I mean, I think in a way, not totally,
but in a way. Neuroscience is slowly catching up. The gut has its own neural network. The body stores memory. We know that. We know that pattern recognition operates beneath the conscious, conscious mind, conscious awareness. And your brain. As fucking incredible as your brain is, your brain is incredible. It only knows what it knows. Your brain only knows what it's been taught and told and trained. But as we know, intelligence is not only the domain of the brain. Intelligence.
If intelligence can live in our body, then maybe it can live outside of our body, and maybe we can access that. I don't know. I don't know, but I do know that there's more intelligence in you and me than just the stuff between our ears. And maybe, maybe maybe there's a kind of wisdom truth intelligence that you and I can access that, as I said before, makes no sense, makes no sense based on what we believe
to be senseable. And in some ways I think like we've been told to outsource our wisdom, to trust the experts over ourselves, to seek permission, to wait for evidence, to wait for it to make sense before we move. But sometimes the body moves before the mind catches up. And sometimes the soul, whatever that is, knows before the ego understands whatever the soul is and wherever it is, if we have one. Sometimes I think the smartest part of you and me is the part of you and
me that can't really explain itself. And though I don't think every gut feeling is gospel, and yes, trauma can masquerade as instinct and fear can dress up as intuition. That's why I think, you know, self awareness matters. And as I said at the start, you know, not every inkling or every hint of anything is going to be
something concrete. But at the same time, it pays to at least pay attention, like we've got to know the difference between our conditioning and our maybe our compass, maybe our spiritual compass or our internal sat nav, you know, the programming, and what else is beyond the programming, that space maybe between old programming and knowledge and real wisdom, real insight. And I think when we do, I think when we do kind of tap into this, it just
opens a bunch of doors. I know. For me, you know, I'm very much about optimizing my brain and my mind and my cognition and learning and being a lifelong learner and understanding psychology from a behavioral and a practical and an academic and a theoretical, a real world perspective. I'm really interested in that, as you know. And I'm really interested in the brain from a biological and a neurological you know, and again from a practical point of view
and a sociological point of view. But I'm also I think I'm also equally fascinated with what else is there?
Or is there anything else? And I think sometimes instead of overthinking everything, analysis paralysis, that maybe maybe when we get out of the noise, maybe when we find some quiet time, some still time, maybe when we turn off the phone, maybe when we turn down the whatever else it is, maybe when we be still, Like I think so much we already know and maybe some of the stuff that we already know, maybe some of the stuff that you know as I'm talking to you now, that
you know things that make you uncomfortable or even scared. You know, your internal sat nab is screaming at you, your instinct, your intuition, that that knowledge that you have about that thing that you don't even know why you have that knowledge, but you know it's real, you know it's true. And I think we that kind of knowledge, that awareness, that instinct, that truth that we have access to.
I think we ignore that at our own peril. And as I said before, I'm just going to reiterate, not every inkling is some big download from some ethereal, you know, kind of philosophical overlord, or not every not every little kind of twitch that we have is some kind of amazing insight or truth or message from who knows, No No, I think for the most part, but most of our life will be controlled by the mind and the brain and emotions and interactions. For the most part, I think
that's most of our lives. But I also think that there is an element or a potential component to the human experience that we can lean into. Some people would call it spiritual insights. Some people would call it more prime primarily or evolutionarily, you know, instinct like animals have. Instinct are kind of how the fuck do animals know how to do? All the shit that nobody taught them?
You know, there's this space that we can go, I believe, So listen to your gut, respect your instincts on er inner compass, especially when it doesn't make sense, because maybe some of your best decisions won't come from your head. They might come from that quiet voice that already knows. I don't know if this resonates with anyone, this message, and as I said off the top, I didn't record it because I think there's some kind of directive attached to it, or there needs to be. But I do
think that for some people. I genuinely think for some people, this is not a message they want to hear or may not relate to at all. And I totally understand that. I don't think they're wrong and I'm right at all. I think for a range of reasons that I might go into now that is true. And not only is it true, it's one hundred percent okay, But I do think for a percentage of you, and maybe you're one of those people. I feel like you know that there is a kind of truth and knowledge and awareness and
understanding that you have access to. And I think that I could be wrong. I just think that if we have that, we must have that for a reason. Why would that be there if not to be of service to us, if not to guide us, if not to support us, if not to protect us. They're my thoughts. Let me know if this resonates with you. Head over to the you project Facebook group if you would. If you're not already a member, no hooks, catches, agendas, just become a member and let me know what you think
about this chat. Because I'm curious and also, oh I'm still talking. Oh god. Also, I think like this kind of really general me thinking out loud. It's quite a departure from let's explore the mind again. And I wouldn't mind opening this door and leaning in a little bit more if some of you are interested, because I have more thoughts. I have more thoughts. And again, I'm not trying to be the high watermark of knowledge. I am not directing or suggesting. Maybe I suggest here and there
I do. I'm definitely not directing or prescribing. Let's say that. I think I can say that honestly, but I just think that there is so much more to consider and so much more to the human experience than what most of us are currently operating within. All Right, that's me. I love your guts, so yeah,