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The Joe Logan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
We just missed the fabulous conversation about your hair.
joe rogan
I would not wear headsets if I are we recording right now?
Yeah, we're we're going now.
gregg braden
So did you ever know Wayne Dyer?
joe rogan
No, I didn't know Wayne Dyer.
Do we do we have Wayne Dyer on the podcast ever?
Like way, way, way, way, way back in the day.
gregg braden
I was uh I was on a cruise with we had the same publisher, Hayhouse is our publisher, and we were on a cruise just off Australia.
Of course, the sun's out there, and Wayne came out and he's got a very shiny head.
He said, uh Greg Braden.
I said, Yeah.
He says, You see this?
And I said, Yeah.
He said, This is a solar panel for a sex machine.
unidentified
Okay.
gregg braden
And I I couldn't I couldn't match that, you know.
So I said, I said, Well, you see this?
I said, These are every one of these, every one of these hairs is a highly advanced, finely tuned antenna to higher dimensional state spaces of information.
And so that was our joke about hair and and no hair.
joe rogan
Imagine if like that's what made you enlightened how much hair you had, and when it started to fall out, you got dumber.
gregg braden
Like I said, they they every decade of my life they're saying if you have it this decade, you can keep it.
So when I hit my 70s, they said that's interesting.
You got this this so you can probably keep it.
joe rogan
So yeah.
If you have minoxidal, like if you got like really good at it today, and there's a bunch of different uh DHT inhibitors that are topical that they can use.
My friend Derek from Derek More Plates More Dates, it's a website.
He's got a bunch of like protocols and how to save your hair.
So people want to save their hair.
Um but we were talking about Art Bell when we came in here because there's a photograph of art on the wall that like was one of the most important things for me to put up.
Like we talked about it, and Jamie and I were like, oh, you gotta get it, we gotta get a metal picture of Art Bell.
Because that was the guy, man.
When I was driving home from the comedy store at like one o'clock in the morning, and I was listening to AM radio coast to coast with Art Bell from the Kingdom of Nye.
It was my favorite.
This is like all for me was kind of pre-internet, too.
Like maybe you know, the internet existed, but it wasn't the thing that it is now.
There was no podcasts.
gregg braden
No, but you know, the crazy thing is the stuff that was on that program that was all fringe is what everybody's talking about every day.
Totally mainstream at lunch at lunch right now.
joe rogan
Area 51, Bob Lazar, totally mainstream.
gregg braden
You know, he was so kind to me.
He had me on this program before I had my first book.
I self-published my first two books, and I was doing talks uh all over up and down the the West Coast, uh up in the Vancouver, and he had heard somebody in his shop had been the one of those talks, and he invited me on.
No book.
And uh and then he had me on a number of times after that.
And so I I've I was very honored to be on there.
And you know, we talked about everything, man.
He could uh that was the thing.
You could talk about anything, anything you wanted to do.
joe rogan
It was also like art was a show where you could get real information, and you could also get complete horseshit.
And you had to be able to discern what is what, but art treated everyone with equal respect.
Like you could call him up.
Art I'm a werewolf.
He's like, interesting.
Tell me more.
It was never like, bitch, you're not a werewolf.
You're just mentally ill.
You need to get some Prozac or whatever they give you.
gregg braden
Well, you still you still gotta be discerning today.
joe rogan
You know, I think I say it's well today, you more so than ever because of AI and because of bots and what's going on.
gregg braden
I think it's important to have have an open mind, but not a gaping mind.
unidentified
And uh unfortunate use of terminology, but uh yes, I I agree.
Well wholeheartedly.
gregg braden
You know, part of the reason for that, and you know this.
We we have a global audience.
Uh a lot of those people are very hurt, unresolved, hurt, they're right on the edge.
They're very fragile personalities.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's true.
gregg braden
And what they hear on the radio can be interpreted in a million different ways, and it's uh you know, I think there's responsibility that comes with saying things.
If you're gonna say it, make sure it's accurate.
joe rogan
Yeah, and uh your intention, like what are you trying to do?
Like uh I'm never trying to hurt someone's feelings.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Someone's listening, I'm I want you to have a better life.
I want your life to be better.
You know, and this is an interesting thing about whether it's bots or whether it's you know an actual human being talking about stuff.
The way you approach life um and the way the people around you approach life is very contagious.
And if you're doing it in a very positive and a loving way and a friendly way, in a communal way, that's contagious.
It's really good.
It's good for everybody.
But if you're bitter and shitty, it's bad for everybody.
What art was was like very friendly and and you know, and fascinated by all these things, and he was a real pro.
You know what I mean?
It's just like so when I did his show, it was like one of the highlights of my life.
And I I got to do the internet version.
I never got to do the radio version.
So he was on the internet at the time at a time.
I don't think he was maybe he was on some radio stations, but mostly I think it was an internet thing.
But I was like, yes, I'm on with our bells.
gregg braden
Mine was all by phone.
It was all landlines.
joe rogan
Yeah, I was at my phone too.
Yeah, I did it from my house on the internet, you know.
I think I did it, you know, with a headset or something, but I did.
gregg braden
Well, he paved the way and we're here today.
joe rogan
Well, he made interesting subjects.
You know, like I remember when they were talking about uh things like the face on Mars.
And you're like, what?
That sounds so kooky.
And then you see pictures, you go, hey man, what is that?
Why don't I hear about that in school?
unidentified
Yeah.
gregg braden
Well, we had Richard Hoagland on night after night after night after night for weeks on end when when that came out.
And actually that face on Mars had a lot to do with my my career path, actually.
joe rogan
Well, so what is your take on all this?
Because one of the things that happened was with the face on Mars is the initial images were very grainy but fascinating.
Because it did kind of look like a face, but maybe even more remarkable because sometimes there's faces like in the side of a rock, it looks like a face.
More remarkable was the geometric pattern of the base of it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And so I I kind of dismissed that when the second images came out.
So this is the original image.
This is the original image that freaked everybody out.
They were like, oh my God, there's a face on Mars.
And then they came up with these upgraded images, and I was like, well, that's not a face.
It's just weird shadows, and it's probably just a mountain.
But man, that's an odd shape.
gregg braden
Or that face has been doctored.
joe rogan
It could be true.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But also, then I looked at it and it was like um that shape is interesting.
Like it almost looks unnatural.
Then the new images from very close to Cydonia that show a very clear square.
This one's nuts.
Because this one is somewhere in the neighborhood of between three, it's p plus 300 meters.
Like they don't know how much longer it is than 300 meters, but it's the minimum size of this thing is 300 meters across.
And it's a full-on square.
Right angle, right angle, right it's like, what the hell is that?
gregg braden
Well, as as pull that picture up, Jimmy.
As a geologist, I was fascinated when Hoagland uh first started talking about what was happening here.
joe rogan
What's up, Jamie?
unidentified
Which one?
joe rogan
Oh, that one, yeah, yeah.
The one that we bring up all the time.
jamie vernon
Well, I know it's which one though.
joe rogan
Oh, it don't matter.
Just click on any of them.
jamie vernon
Some of them are doctored, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, the non-doctored one, the one next to it, like they're right there.
Look at that.
That's cr absolutely crazy.
gregg braden
So I don't know if you I'm very familiar with this image.
I don't know if you can see with your mind's eye, you're looking the lower left, that's a 90-degree angle.
If you can see the rest of the 90-degree angle up at the top and over at the side, if you can trace out that is one massive right there.
Yeah, now you can see it.
Yeah, the computer is has cleaned it up.
Nature does not work in 90 degree angles.
You're not going to get wind erosion.
Wind is called aolean erosion.
Fluvial erosion is water erosion.
You're not going to get 90 degree angles from from wind or water.
So one of the tenants in archaeology, when you see 90 degree angles, there's an intentionality underlying that that structure.
If if it were a one-off, you could say maybe it's a fluke, and it's not.
And this is on Mars.
Jamie, I don't know if you can do this.
Uh through freedom of information, NASA had to release all of the lunar images up through uh the Clementine mission.
And they didn't want to do that.
And when they did release them, they ended up pixeling out a whole bunch of stuff, which made it look even more obvious than it was.
joe rogan
They're just fucking with us at this point.
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.: So you gotta say, what is it on on the the lunar surface that we paid for with our tax dollars that we're not supposed to be seeing?
And these were these were uh tower structures.
Can you see the Clementine?
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know.
Are there any undoctored, unblurred versions of it that someone seen them in the back of the office?
gregg braden
I haven't seen them in the public domain.
joe rogan
But you've seen them privately?
gregg braden
No.
What I'm saying is what the through freedom information, what have you ever seen the undoctored image?
No, what they were forced to release, why in the world would they be pixelating the images that are on there that actually make them look even even more obvious than they are?
So what we're seeing, what Hoaglin was talking about, what you're seeing on Mars is not happening in the vacuum.
It's happening, we're seeing the same thing on the lunar surface to varying degrees.
On Mars, there were three-sided, four-sided, five-sided pyramids.
joe rogan
Well, the one in the upper right-hand corner.
That's odd.
jamie vernon
I think it's the same thing.
gregg braden
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's very odd.
gregg braden
So here's here's the kicker.
We're sending the Viking probes, Viking one, Viking II in the 70s, went to Mars.
19,000 images were captured from the orbiting uh part of the mission.
The other craft landed on the surface, and I I can just imagine being on the surface seeing this.
It's it's like this this thing is like a spider comes down the cloud of dust and this little tube pops up and some sticky dental floss stuff shoots out, and then they reel it in to collect dirt and microbes and they reeled into broth because they're looking for evidence of life on Mars and it's happening next to massive monuments and geometric structures that are now dated about 50,000 years BP before present.
So they're looking for microbes and signs of life next to the most massive signs of life that you could imagine.
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
These uh you said they're dated to 50,000 B. C. These structures.
unidentified
BP.
gregg braden
BP BP before present.
joe rogan
So how do they know that?
gregg braden
Those were uh when the Sidonia mission, these that's the Sidonia scientists are are estimating 50 50,000 years, and the same with the the lunar.
I mean I'm hesitant.
joe rogan
But the Sidonian how do they estimate that?
If they're using probes from that farm.
gregg braden
It's relative dating.
You know, they're looking at strata and things like that.
And from the lunar sites, you know, they brought back samples.
And I'm hesitating because I don't know how deep you want to go with all this, but these are deep as you want.
Well, the you know, the samples that came back from the lunar surface had traces of um of metals that do not occur nationally in ma in nature, naturally in nature.
They are the product of um, you know, advanced uh machinery.
joe rogan
Which what metals are these?
gregg braden
These were metals that came back when they they brought back from the Apollo mission.
Uh and I think they brought back oh I don't even remember the names.
That's one Jimmy can look up, what the metals were that came back, and they don't know where those those metals are.
joe rogan
So is this metals from Cydonia or is this metals from the moon?
gregg braden
This is from the lunar the lunar sites and the crater.
joe rogan
So the structures on the moon?
How old they they think they're the same age as the structure of the 50,000.
gregg braden
They're estimating 50,000 BP.
You know, there's a race for the moon right now.
And I'm fascinated by this.
You know, there was a time only two nations on Earth had the money and the technology to to go to the moon.
It was a former Soviet Union and former United States, because neither one's the same country anymore.
And uh both those countries have been so broke, they haven't been able to do it.
India and China are now sending the probes to the moon.
We were going to the moon during the Cold War.
And it was uh it was a crazy time.
It was actually a very civilized war.
I mean, the governments were at war, but the scientists were still cooperating.
And there was an agreement that we would not share publicly what was found on the lunar surface.
And Russia did the same thing.
China was never part of that agreement.
So China has said when they land, they're going to televise live what they find on the lunar surface to the people of the Earth.
My sense, Joe, and this is this will lead into a whole conversation we're going to have here.
I think they'll find uh the archaeological structures that we know are there that we've seen in the photographs.
The inscriptions on those on those structures, we're going to be able to read.
Because there's a a thinking that those structures are from E.T.s From another time, but the evidence suggests they're from us, from a time in our past, a cycle of civilization where we did great and beautiful things by working together until we destroyed one another through war and that we're repeating that cycle again.
So when they send it to that, like drawing a lot of conclusions.
joe rogan
Isn't there other possibilities for what happened to that?
gregg braden
Well, here's this is where I'm going with this.
When they when they see what's on those temple walls, they're they're going to see inscriptions in languages that we already recognize.
unidentified
And that will be the smoking gun, like CUNY's.
gregg braden
Because this is what the the researchers who are working on these projects right now, and they're combining this with so many of what the ancient texts have always told us.
And this is where it gets into a really kind of a sticky conversation because it depends on how you know people interpret these things.
I'm excited for this reason.
This is obviously no ordinary time in the history of our world, and they're pushing for war.
We're on the verge of global war.
What would it mean if we found on the surface, on the lunar surface, evidence of us, humans from another time, uh leaving a message in our own languages, cuneiform, Sanskrit, uh those kinds of things.
It could be one of the most unifying factors, right when we're on on the precipice of war.
joe rogan
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
I completely agree, but we have to make a lot of leaps in order for that to be real.
Like we haven't seen any writing.
So why would they assume that there's a bunch of different kinds of writing in different languages?
Um who's that?
gregg braden
Well, when our space program.
I think uh you've had guests on that have talked about this in the past, I think.
When our space program was active, uh there were broadcasts from the lunar surface that were cut off, and astronauts had seen things that they were not allowed to see and not allowed to share.
joe rogan
That's what I heard.
It sounds fun.
It sounds really fun.
I want to believe that.
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
Well, and some of them are leaving this world now, and on their you know, on their deathbed, they're they can't believe that this hasn't been made made public already.
So there have been, you know, recordings and videos and things, and I I think they're authentic.
joe rogan
Right.
But this does it, there's like we haven't got boots on the ground at Sidonia, right?
gregg braden
So not Sidonia's Mars.
joe rogan
Trevor Burrus, well, uh exactly.
So how are they seeing these inscriptions?
Are you saying these inscriptions are on the moon?
gregg braden
Yeah, lunar surface.
joe rogan
I'm sorry.
But I was confused.
I was confused.
So these astronauts are saying that on the surface of the moon, they saw writing.
unidentified
Aaron Ross Powell, Jr.
gregg braden
They've seen structures.
joe rogan
Structures.
gregg braden
Massive structures.
joe rogan
But what about the writing there?
gregg braden
They uh there were reports that they had seen the writing, but we can't verify those.
We can't verify those.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
So this is just uh pothead talk.
Well, you know, yes, and kind of a little bit, a little bit, because we d if there's no evidence at all that it's not even an interview with a guy who talks about when I was on the moon, I saw writing.
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
gregg braden
Well, then this is where you start going into the ancient texts and the traditions that are relating our our relationship to intelligences from from beyond this world.
joe rogan
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
Yes, there's a lot of that.
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
And there's there's a lot of that.
joe rogan
There's a lot of that in various religions, too.
It's r it's very fascinating.
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
gregg braden
Well, this is this is what I think is important.
It is in religions, but I think you can break out their historical text and there's religious text.
So if you're reading the Bible, there's religion and history in the Bible.
If you're looking at Sumerian, uh Akkadian, um Babylonian text from the Mesopotamian era, they're telling similar stories, and and you've had guests on talking about this where the stories are similar, but they're the religion uh is not part of that.
And so uh I think what we're doing, we're kind of beating around the bush uh to a deeper conversation here, and that's why I've hesitated a couple of times, because I I just don't want us to you know to um to get so far down one side that oh don't worry about that.
joe rogan
That's what this show is all about.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Because people are always in the middle of talking about one thing and they pivot.
It doesn't matter.
gregg braden
Well, I think this is all tied into disclosure.
And what's happening, the reluctance to have the full disclosure.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
We've talked about that multiple times.
Were you in that documentary, The Age of Disclosure?
gregg braden
No.
joe rogan
No.
You've been in a lot of documentaries.
gregg braden
I have been in the line.
I've been in the line.
And a lot of what I said was left on the cutting room floor.
joe rogan
Always.
gregg braden
And there's a couple of reasons for that.
One thing I learned, Joe, and maybe you've learned this as well.
If you're going to be in the documentary, ask if you are on the front end of the filming or the back end of the filming.
joe rogan
What does that mean?
gregg braden
Here's the reason.
Are you one of the early interviews or are you one of the later interviews?
unidentified
Okay.
gregg braden
And here's the reason.
They'll develop an arc in a storyline.
And if you're early on, they're going to ask you questions to support that arc in that storyline.
Five interviews down, somebody's going to come on and they're going to introduce something and and the producer is going to say, oh, there's a new arc and new storyline, and now everything that you interviewed for may not be relevant in that conversation anymore.
joe rogan
So I don't think you can control that.
So you can ask.
gregg braden
You just ask.
You say, where am I in the in the shooting process?
And if if you're the first one, say you know, maybe come back and interview me.
joe rogan
Yeah.
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gregg braden
So a little bit later on.
joe rogan
Is it your belief that there was a civilization on Mars that were us and that we migrated to Earth and then eventually populated Earth?
Is that what you're thinking?
Or that we coexisted in both places.
gregg braden
I think we did.
joe rogan
And it sounds so crazy to say.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It does.
It does.
Well, you you probably travel in different circles.
But I mean to the rational rational people.
Most people hear that and they go, what there were people on Mars?
But as time goes on and more and more discoveries we we find out just about the structures that are on Earth and how old they might be.
And the actual age of Homo sapiens, like how old we might actually be.
Where a lot of like they found that skull in China the other day that was uh they just have you seen this?
It's a million-year-old Homo sapien skull, but apparently there's some debate about it.
It's going they're going back and forth.
But at the very least, it's in the conversation of human beings possibly have existed, at least in this form for a million years.
Which is kind of nuts.
gregg braden
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, the founder was published the other day.
jamie vernon
They found it in 1990.
unidentified
What?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
What I found the other day?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
I've read it on the beach.
unidentified
I know.
jamie vernon
I was going through the story yesterday.
What happened was some team reconstructed parts of that skull with new methods that are now available.
unidentified
And they suggest that it could say that it was.
jamie vernon
I think it was actually one of those we've talked about, the big head, the longie.
joe rogan
Oh, right.
jamie vernon
It's one of those as well.
gregg braden
Yeah, one of the long elongated.
Was it Homo sapiens?
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Well, they're the branch from the Denisovan just thing.
gregg braden
So this is the thing.
joe rogan
What is it called?
jamie vernon
I get confused.
I just saw I remember Longie was the thing that they were saying this.
joe rogan
Julien's.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
Okay, that is the other one.
unidentified
That's it.
joe rogan
That's the big-headed one.
Anyway, point being.
gregg braden
I'm skeptical about those because they find one fragment and there's a lot of in interpretation that's going on there.
The consensus has been for a long time that we we appeared.
Uh I'm just going to preface this by saying I'm a degree geologist, I believe in evolution, evolution is a fact.
I've seen it in a fossil record for plants, animals, insects.
Darwin's theory of evolution breaks down when it comes to humans.
And it breaks down for this reason.
We now can do what used to sound like science fiction.
If you ever saw the the first Jurassic Park where they pulled the DNA out of the fossilized remains of ancient forms of life.
In the movie they brought them back to life.
To the best of my knowledge, we haven't done that.
What we have done is we can extract that DNA from the bone marrow of fossilized remains of beings that we used to believe were our ancestors.
And what's happening is, and if this is a mind blower, we know that we didn't descend from Neanderthal.
We shared the earth with them, certainly, and and some people have some Neanderthal DNA because of that, but we did not descend from them, and we didn't descend from many of the other forms that you see on those traditional trees.
You know, you've got modern humans here and all these all these lines connecting, but if you look close at the lines, most of them are broken lines, Joe, because there's no solid evidence.
It's called inferred or speculative relationships.
I've got I've I've got a picture of it here if we want to see that.
But what they're showing is that we showed up about 200,000 years ago.
Now there's a little evidence that may have been back as as far as 300,000.
But the the kicker is that we can now look at the DNA and reverse engineer it and say, what did it take to get where we are?
And what scientists are now calling the the smoking gun, and there's still a lot of controversy around this, is uh human chromosome number two.
Human chromosome number two is the second largest chromosome in in every cell of the body.
It's got about twelve hundred or so genes in that chromosome, and just one of them, uh gene TBR number one, is responsible for most of the brain that we have for our neocortex.
So our humanness, our empathy, sympathy, compassion, love, our cognitive abilities, uh the mirror neurons, all these kinds of things are because of that one gene.
Well, where this gets really interesting is where did chromosome two come from?
And scientists have the answer, but they don't like the answer.
Because uh chromosome II is the product of of a fusion.
Uh proceedings from National Academy of Sciences, the volume Genetics says this very clearly.
We conclude that the origin of human chromosome II uh is the product of an ancestral fusion of telomere-to-telomere fusion of two pre-existing chromosomes.
That does not happen in nature.
It can't happen in nature.
So here's here's what they're saying.
You got two fully, two fully form, fully functional chromosomes, and uh on the end are the the telomeres uh that protect those chromosomes when the cells divide.
And that's why they're on the end.
They take the hit.
It's a trauma in a cell when those when those chromosomes are pulled apart and some of the DNA doesn't make it.
So nature puts telomeres on the end to take the hit, so the good DNA remains intact, and that's why it's on the ends.
Human chromosome two, those telomeres are right in the middle of the chromosome where they shouldn't be, because those chromosomes were fused together about uh uh 200,000 years ago when we appeared, and if that was the only one, you could say, well, maybe it's a fluke.
Chromosome number seven.
I'm a musician when I I'm not doing what I'm doing now, long before I was uh a researcher.
And one of the things I always used to to wonder about, you know, we share 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, but you don't hear chimpanzees sing.
You know, you're never gonna hear chimpanzee sing leads up one stairway to heaven.
And you ask, well, why not?
I mean, 98% of the DNA is we share with them, but it's because of of chromosome seven.
And for about 175 million years, this chromosome was stable and all primates, all of them, orangutan, gorilla, chimps, all the primates.
All of a sudden, there's this little this little switch of a couple of genes that connected our tongue and our brain and our jaw, and we can sing and we can have complex speech like no other form of life.
It happened 200,000 years ago.
What are the odds of that happening when chromosome 2 is fusing?
So I've worked with scientists uh my whole life, both in academia and in uh in the corporations.
I was a problem solver for Fortune 500 companies uh through the late 70s, 80s, and 90s.
And one of the things I've seen about scientists is fascinating, is that there is one way of thinking that says we take all the evidence and we force it into a pre-existing model, like all the new discoveries, trying to force that into Darwin's theory of evolution, or we allow the new evidence to lead to the story that it tells.
And this is where science is stuck right now, because the old theory, Darwin's theory of evolution is in trouble, and it's the DNA is the reason it's in trouble.
It's no longer superficial or you know, fossil evidence.
I mean, the DNA is telling the story.
Uh and the new story suggests at the very least uh the a scientist has to say there's been some kind of intelligent intervention.
And this is where science gets stuck, because science is it's not equipped to talk about any kind of an intelligent intervention.
But that ties in to everything that's happening now, you know, if we're going to talk about ancient civilizations or if we're going to talk about we've been here before, are we going to talk about what it is that is the disclosure, all of those kinds of things.
So science is kind of at the crossroads right now.
There is something called the standard model, and that applies to evolution, and what the evidence suggests is that we are the product of an intelligent and an intentional act.
Who or what that is, that's where it gets it it can get sticky.
Uh the universe.
We've had physicists on here, and really good physicists, that and some of them are not aware of some of the new information that's come out now.
But when I was in school back in the 50s, 60s and 70s, I was taught that the universe is dead, inert, just cold, uh, and we happen to be lucky biology.
You know, that's that's kind of what they used to teach.
Now, physicists are suggesting the universe is alive, it is intelligent, and it's conscious.
And one of the reasons for this, and you can go to the NASA website and you can you can look at some of these images, the uh James Webb Space Telescope, they're showing galaxies that are in proximity of something that is dangerous to them, like an exploding, you know, whatever.
And what they'll do is they'll create jets from the center, uh both directions, these jets that actually move them out of the way.
And I talk about, I've got a new book, and I talk about that in the new book.
Uh so it's documented in the book.
They actually move them to uh a safer place.
And you say, well, maybe that's a fluke, it's a one-off, and now that they have found that.
They found it happens time and time again.
joe rogan
So space itself is conscious in some form.
gregg braden
Conscious, okay, conscious and intelligent, and those are two very different things.
But that is a very different story.
If if our universe is alive and intelligent and conscious, and we're the product of an intentional act, we solve our problems, Joe, and we build our world based on the way we've been taught to think about ourselves.
We use our resources.
We um we apply our technology based on the way we've been taught to think about ourselves.
And we have been taught that we are a flawed form of life, that uh we are powerless victims of the world around us, and because of that, this is going to lead into this whole conversation.
Because of that, we need a savior.
And that savior is being touted as technology.
So now we are living at this time where we're being Encouraged, indoctrinated, coerced, mandated sometimes to embrace the technology outside of our bodies because we have been conditioned to believe that we are a broken, flawed form of life.
And you're seeing this play out in the AI conversation.
You're seeing it play out in um what's called the transhuman movement, the the intentional movement to replace our humanness with computer chips in the brain, chemicals in the blood, RFID chips under the skin.
And it's all playing out right now, Joe.
I mean, this this can't go on for you know another twenty years because it's moving too fast.
This is the generation, right?
And this I'm very passionate about this.
The experts are saying unless we change our trajectory right now, we very probably are the last generation of pure humans that the world will ever know that by 2032, when you go to the supermarket or go to the airport, the people you talk to will be some hybrid, maybe some more and some less, but will have some kind of technology embedded into their into their bodies.
I was on a panel recently, and I was with a group of scientists, and they said, well, what's wrong with that?
You know, isn't that the next step?
Isn't that our our natural step and and uh and our evolution?
And I said, No, it is not, and here's the reason.
When we replace our natural biology with synthetics, our natural abilities begin to atrophy.
Cells will let me just give a perfect example.
Um we used to be taught when I was in school, I was taught that we're we're born into this world with a fixed number of brain cells.
And every every beer I drink in college.
joe rogan
Yeah, I remember that.
gregg braden
All right, you're gonna I'm gonna lose some brain cells.
Well, what I'm gonna say next is not a reason to drink the beer.
But what they found, there's a part of the human brain, it's the hippocampus that is producing new brain cells until the last breath we take on this this earth.
But there's a catch.
And the catch tells the story.
If we do not use those new brain cells in a meaningful way within about seven to ten days, the body says, Oh, you didn't use it, so you must not need it, and those cells will atrophy and die.
joe rogan
That makes sense because I always feel dumber when I come back from vacation.
gregg braden
Are you drinking beer on the on vacation?
joe rogan
Not this time.
No, but sometimes, yeah.
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gregg braden
But that principle, so it it's called use it or lose it.
We've all heard that.
That principle applies to every system in the human body.
It applies to our cognitive abilities, to our reproductive system.
And when we replace our natural biology with these synthetics, this is exactly what's happening.
And it's we've been doing this long enough.
Virtual reality goggles, for example.
They've been around long enough.
Psychology magazine has published article after article.
If you take young kids with malleable brains, parents are busy, they want to entertain them.
So they sit them on the floor, put a virtual VR goggle on three or four hours a day, and say, hey, So here's the kid.
They're just sitting there like this.
And they're seeing images that they would never see in their backyard and colors and sounds and situations.
But here's the thing.
It's all being done for them.
They are not using their imagination like you and I did when we were kids.
They're not using their imagination.
So now what's happening is there are parts of their brain that are atrophying.
So they are uh diminished cognitive abilities, diminish language skills, diminished communication skills.
But listen to this.
The visual cortex, which is what they're using to watch everything, is enlarged in the brain.
The visual cortex gets bigger because that's what can you exercise.
That's what they're doing.
Now because of epigenetics, all of that can be reversed.
When the kids are put into a healthy environment, go outside and play with your friends, you know, they're young enough that they can reverse that.
unidentified
Right.
gregg braden
But I spent a lot of time with shamans in um in the Yucatan and in um in Peru, Costa Rica, places like that.
And they've they found the same thing.
Uh the shamans that maybe do, you know, 5,000 ayahuasca journeys because they're leading groups, and every time the group does it, they do it.
So, you know, they're doing that.
Their visual cortexes are enlarged, but their other abilities are diminished.
Now, if you're a shaman in the jungle, maybe that's no big deal.
But if you're a software engineer in Silicon Valley writing code for nuclear triggers, and on the weekends, you know, this is what you're doing every weekend chronically, uh, it could be a problem.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
Have they done studies on that where they've shown the declined ability or cognitive function due to psychedelic use?
gregg braden
Uh yes.
They have.
joe rogan
Um, but any specific psychedelics?
gregg braden
Ayahuasca was one, and and I hesitate because there are different different kinds of ayahuasca, different uh it's called a brew, different kinds of brew.
joe rogan
So is the idea that people are overdoing it, they're doing it too much.
gregg braden
Well, I want to be clear about this.
One off, I don't think there's any any problem if it's done therapeutically.
And I'll give you a perfect example.
I I was speaking at a facility.
I was invited as a guest speaker to go with a cohort uh through seven-day programs.
And part of that program was ayahuasca, part of it was breath work, part of it was body work, part of it was natural uh raw food, uh, you know, the the whole gamut.
And there was a woman and her husband who came, and they were both healthy, they couldn't have a baby, they couldn't conceive.
Her eggs were good, his sperm was good, the doctors couldn't figure it out.
And they said there's there's something else going on.
So they came to to this program, and the woman, and one one time, she had uh a plant medicine experience, and in that experience, a being came to her and reached in and pulled her heart out, and it was all black and had stuff all over it, and and the being cleaned it off and put it back in, did the same thing with the womb.
And she had had she'd been traumatized as a child, had been abused, uh had not resolved that, apparently, uh, you know, on a deep emotional level.
And so there was a part of her that felt that she wasn't worthy to conceive, and it was being it was shown up that way, and in her plant medicine experience, this is what worked for her, and they were they conceived shortly after I think they conceived that week while they were there when they they did the numbers backwards.
Now, as a scientist, can you prove that?
Or you can say there's a high correlation between the time that an individual has an experience like that and when you know when they successfully conceive.
But that's a one-off.
And I I don't that therapeutically I don't think there's anything it's it's not gonna be harmful one-off.
It's the chronic use for recreation.
That's where we get into the Trevor Burrus.
joe rogan
Well, it seems to me the people that uh I have encountered that use it maybe a little bit too much, uh they seem to have uh a loss of a perception of how other people see them.
They they they get slippery, like the world gets slippery.
They they act weird and they don't know they're acting weird, and it seems like there's like a a a piece of the interface has been damaged.
If that makes any sense.
gregg braden
Aaron Powell It makes total sense.
And uh I knew no matter where we go in this conversation to start with, it's gonna bring us back to to the same to the same place.
And I can show you exactly where that slipperiness comes from in just a moment.
unidentified
Okay.
gregg braden
When When we get there.
Because I'll say it right now, there's a part of us that doesn't live inside the body, but that the body tunes to, and I'm using that from an engineering perspective, that the body tunes to through the antenna of neurons and DNA.
And this is where it's fascinating conversation.
Scientists now, a segment of scientists are beginning to look at the human body as more than soft, sticky, wet, gooey, mushy, you know, cells and skin.
Joe, they're actually looking at us from an IT perspective.
And this sounds crazy, but they're looking at the human body from the perspective of information passing through and communicating with the world around us.
That we are such an advanced form of life.
We're not primitive computer chips and wires and chemicals.
We're more than that.
We're neurons and cell membranes and ion potentials moving across cell walls.
And the ability for us to self-regulate what is now being called soft.
We are a soft technology.
The ability to do that is the core of all the ancient and cherished spiritual traditions in the mystery schools, how we go about regulating this technology.
So now let me just break that down a little bit.
I mentioned during the Cold War, it was a very civilized war.
I remember it was 1980s.
I was uh I was working, I was civilian working on contract for the DOD and with a civilian security eye the yellow badge.
It wasn't a high, it's secret clearance, it wasn't like top secret or anything.
But we had access to research papers that were coming in from the Soviet Union.
Even though we were at war on one level, the scientists were still cooperating.
And the Soviets were the first that sent these diagrams of a human cell as a circuit diagram.
Now, this is a mind-blower.
I mean, it wasn't a metaphor.
Literally, the every human cell is a gated circuit.
It's got an input, an output, it has transistors, the equivalent of transistors and resistors and capacitors.
Every cell produces about .07 volts of electrical potential.
And you say, well, that's not very much.
And I agree, and then you do the math.
We've got about 50 trillion cells in the body.
50 trillion cells times 0.07 volts, it's about three three and a half trillion volts of electrical potential in the human body.
Every cell is the equivalent of uh of a transistor, every cell is the equivalent of a resistor of a capacitor.
We're photon emitters, and there's a whole science now about reading the photon emissions from humans.
And we're photon receivers, and we store information just like a computer chip.
And uh this goes on.
Blockchain technology.
Our DNA stores information, and the way that it's described is that it is secure, it's transparent, and it's immutable and it's distributed.
And those are exactly the terms being used for blockchain technology today, because blockchain technology in the world actually mirrors the technology of human DNA.
We have a record in you and I, every human body, we have a record of every successful genetic transaction for our species.
It is transparent, it's immutable.
If you know how to look for it, it's not hidden.
It's secure and it's distributed across all the nodes that we call humans.
This goes on and on and on.
The the point is that we are the only form of life that can consciously self-regulate all of this technology and apply it to our healing, to our intuition, to our resilience to change, to any of these kinds of things.
And the ability to do that is the secret that has been hidden within the mystery schools, within the religions.
Uh and it is the reason for everything that you're seeing happening in the world today.
There's a concerted effort, Joe, to deny us our ability to express our humanness.
And part of that effort is replacing our humanness with technology.
So that's a big statement, and I know we'll but that's fairly recent, right?
joe rogan
The the effort to stop people from expressing their human humanness.
That's not recent.
gregg braden
Well, so now we're going to get to the crux of it.
So here's and I wasn't sure how we'd get into this.
I lost my mom to COVID just a couple of years ago.
And right before she died, she looked at me and she said, Greg, the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
And I always got the going to hell part, and I never knew exactly what the handbasket.
joe rogan
I never understood that phrase.
What is that phrase?
gregg braden
I I don't know.
But I knew what she meant.
And what she meant was it the world looked scary to her, Joe, and it does a lot of people.
It looked like things were happening for no reason, for no apparent there was no apparent structure.
It looked like things are just popping off here and there out of control, it looked crazy, and she's she said, you know, this isn't my world anymore.
Well, we are in the middle of a process.
The process has a beginning, it has an end, we're in it.
The only way out of it is to go through it, and that's why I'm excited to have this conversation with you.
Two parallel themes that are playing out on our world right now, and we we can explore both of them.
One, there is a concerted effort for the first time in the history of our world to remake the stated intent to remake our world and to remake our bodies.
Now we've never had the technology to do that, but we we do now.
So that the intent to remake the world and remake our bodies, that's one conversation.
The other conversation, the best science of the modern world, is showing us that we're not what we've been told.
We're so much more than we've been led to believe, and we're about to give our humanness away to the technology before we even know what it means to be human if we remake our bodies.
So this is and this is in this generation.
This this cannot drag on for five years, ten years, because all the tech is being pushed on us so quickly.
I'm a systems thinker.
And rather than get into the weeds of the Democrats and the Republicans and liberals and conservatives, and which is all important, and we can have that conversation, but there's something much, much bigger that's playing out here, and it literally we're in a battle for our humanness.
And if we don't claim our humanness, there are powers and forces that will stop at nothing to deny us our humanness.
One of the reasons they're denying it is what we just said, because it's through our humanness that we have these extraordinary potentials that empower us as sovereign, critically thinking, self-regulating human beings.
And it's very difficult to play out the agendas that are proposed for the world upon populations that are sovereign, critically thinking, self-regulating human beings.
unidentified
So just like Well, the problem seems to be power and control.
joe rogan
That's the problem.
And the only way to have power and control over people is to limit their ability to express themselves and then keep them at each other's throats.
Well, that that is those are two things that are happening all the time with with social media.
The people that manage social media are consistently trying to limit the reach of people that have voices or narratives that don't approve, that they don't approve of.
And ultimately what you're seeing in other countries is moving to digital IDs.
This is just implemented in Europe and in the U.K. You're seeing it in a lot of places where you're gonna have to need that to work and vote and travel.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it'll be even more of a constriction on your ability to express yourself, particularly when you think about the U.K., which has had more than 12,000 arrests for very mild social media posts.
gregg braden
Isn't that crazy?
I mean, I can't believe it.
I I've been watching this stuff play out.
joe rogan
Fascinating, and the the fact that the our mainstream media is relatively silent on this is insane.
You're seeing a complete total attack on one of the most fundamental principles of the Western world, which is your ability to express yourself.
And your ability to call out that you think that the policies that are being implemented in your country are destructive.
That that's people have always been able to do that.
These people are not calling for violence.
They're not they're being arrested for wild things.
People are being arrested for liking posts.
They're being arrested.
Some people were i investigated for viewing posts.
12,000 people arrested by the police in the U.K., the same place that just implemented digital ID.
I mean, this is an Orwell nightmare coming to life right in front of our face and no one's flinching.
No one in America is freaking out about what's happening in the U.K. at all.
I mean, you get people online that are kind of freaked out by it, but they're way more freaked out by nonsensical things like whether or not what Jimmy Kimmel said in his monologue was offensive.
They'll they'll go to the ends of the earth to fight that.
gregg braden
Well, they're programmed.
That's the programming.
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
Well, it's easy.
That's a that's a simple thing and it doesn't freak you out.
Like if you could get Jimmy Kimmel canceled, fuck him.
If you could do that, like you have some power.
You you have power.
But what you really don't.
If you look at what's going on like in the UK, what what they're what they're learning over there is that they are in a tyrannical government.
And it's slowly but surely it's got it's got its back, it's got the hooks in, it's putting the rear naked choking.
It's got them locked up.
And they've got to do something about that.
gregg braden
Why do you think that's happening?
joe rogan
Why?
Because of what we talked about.
Power.
Power and control and resources.
And a very limited amount of people are controlling a n a huge amount of people, a limited amount of people with fantastic access to resources and the ability for the first time in human history where you have individuals that are in charge of companies that are po they can shift the entire narrative of the world.
So they're doing it through these tech companies for the first time ever, totally unanticipated, 20 years ago didn't exist.
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
gregg braden
So I'm saying for the first time, the tech allows for the remaking of our humanness.
joe rogan
Well, it allows for new methods of control and resource extraction.
And we found out that data itself is a fantastic resource and worth billions and billions of dollars.
So some of the richest companies that have ever existed, they're data companies now.
That that's kind of nuts, and that's like a we miss that.
But this is all the same thing that happens with kings and with emperors.
It's control.
You gotta limit the people's ability to r rebel, limit their ability to gather resources, keep them at each other's throats ideologically, keep them fighting over the dumbest shit possible, including the color of their skin.
Fight over everything.
What what good gods you believe in, what foods you eat, what fucking computer you use.
Keep them fighting over everything and then get social media bots to continue that fight going all day long.
Meanwhile, closer and closer and closer to total control of the population.
Where they're even openly stating it.
Hillary Clinton said in an interview, if we lose if uh we can't control social media, we lose control.
gregg braden
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, yeah, you're not supposed to have control over other human beings.
Yeah.
You're gonna lose the thing you're not supposed to have.
An elected official is supposed to be a representative for the people.
You're supposed to be a person who's a public servant where you go out and you do this incredibly moral and ethical and beautiful thing where you sacrifice your time for the betterment of your community and your society instead of just a means of extracting fantastic wealth that is totally unprecedented and that shouldn't exist in the first place.
You shouldn't be able to take that fucking job and then immediately go and start working for some Fortune 500 company making billions of dollars.
Like that's crazy if you're a a government employee in uh involved in any regulatory fashion and then you go and work for the very industry you were regulating.
Or if you're uh a person who runs for office and you get in office, and then all of a sudden you're worth hundreds of millions of dollars when your salary is 170,000 a year.
Like it's It's real obvious what's going on.
It's just wealth extraction.
And the way that the way to do that is with control.
You have to have control over people and you have to be able to censor them.
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
gregg braden
Everything you uh yes, and everything you're talking about is part of a bigger picture.
So how deep you want to go?
joe rogan
All the way to the bottom.
So do you but do you think the bigger picture is natural?
Like these are natural patterns that human beings follow when they get power and control over people.
Because that does seem to be the case.
It's just on a much grander scale now.
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
I think what you're talking about, power and control, lust and greed, there are individuals that have a propensity for those things that are going to fall into those roles very easily.
They're pawns.
They don't even know that they are supporting something much darker.
joe rogan
And what do you think is the source of this much darker thing?
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
unidentified
Okay.
gregg braden
So this will open the door to answering Sedonia and everything else that we've done, so we're not we're not totally beating around the bush, we're going to bring this all together.
I wasn't sure how deep you want to go with this, Joe.
And what I'll say is I'm going to acknowledge things we're talking about for a lot of people is a very different way of thinking.
And it certainly is different from what I was conditioned.
I was born and raised in northern Missouri, a rural community.
My first degrees in geology and computer science, this is a very different way of thinking, and it's where the evidence is leading us.
What the our most ancient and cherished texts, whether you're talking about religion or or not religion.
They say that we are born into uh an ancient struggle that began long before we ever got here.
Uh and for lack of a better term, and this is where words words are powerful and they carry a lot of baggage.
It's it's a struggle between good and evil.
All right?
We're born into the struggle between good and evil.
It's not a religious struggle.
When we talk about evil, I think it's important to quantify what that evil is.
And to do that, we have to talk about who we are.
There's something inside of us, Joe, and this is where science is stuck.
This is where science and spirituality come together in a beautiful way, and this is where language may fail me.
So I'm going to do my best.
There is something inside of us that is so rare and so precious and so ancient and sacred and powerful and beautiful that there are forces that have in history and are currently working to deny us access to this force.
The force is the reason for the ancient texts, the spiritual traditions.
And there's two ways that we we can have this conversation.
You can say we can do it from a biblical perspective and talk about angels and demons.
We could do it from a high-tech perspective and talk about an advanced civilization from another world in another time, and you're talking about the same thing.
Exactly the same conversation.
As to our origin, uh there was an intentional intervention that created us.
Biblical traditions are giving us one perspective.
The Mesopotamian texts are telling us that we are the product of the blood of uh of a higher form of life.
And now the archaeological sites are revealing that those what's reported in those Sumerian texts actually existed.
I I was a member back in the 90s.
joe rogan
What specifically did they report in those archaeologically?
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
gregg braden
The well, let me say I I was a in the nineties I was uh a member of uh an organization called BAR, Biblical Archaeology Review.
And the idea is that you you follow the in the instructions in the text and you go someplace and you dig and there is what the text is talking about from 3,000 years ago.
So they use that to try to validate the events, not not the religiosity, but the events.
In the Mesopotamian texts, when we talk about the king's list, you've had guests on that talked about the the king's list in Sumeria that talks, it literally says when the kingship descended from the heavens to the earth, and then it gives the list of the kings, uh, and then there was another flood, and they evacuated and they came back, and then they created humans.
And it actually lines up date-wise with the 200, 250,000 years uh of when we were created, but there's no religion involved.
Um two different languages.
Are we talking about an advanced civilization and our relationship to them a long time ago?
Are we talking about angels and demons from a long time ago?
Are we talking about uh beings with uh with wings in the religious tradition, or or when you look at the Sumerian traditions, the kings all had wings as well.
joe rogan
Right.
gregg braden
But they're telling the same story.
And what the story is that we are an intention we're the product of an intentional act, and we were imbued with a force that was greater even than those who created us.
And that there has been an effort from that time to deny us that force.
joe rogan
Well, how do you know that our force is greater than those that created us?
gregg braden
I don't know this.
joe rogan
Where are you getting that from?
gregg braden
That is from if you're familiar with the Gnostic texts.
Uh in the Gnostic texts, the So the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1946-47, the oldest unedited records of the Old Testament, pushed push the date back a thousand years.
The in 45 and 46, the oldest records of the New Testament and the texts that were excluded were discovered in the little village along the Nile in Egypt called Nag Hamadi.
Uh it's can I just tell it's a crazy story.
unidentified
Sure.
gregg braden
There's not much firewood uh along the Nile in Egypt, and there was a woman uh who needed kindling to feed her family, to build the fires to feed her family and heat their home.
And she she told her son, go find some kindling, and he was very resourceful, no trees, so he found an old tomb.
And in the tomb were clay vases, and he opened those vases, and there were uh documents that were very dry and brittle and made great kindling.
joe rogan
Oh no.
gregg braden
And we don't know how many were lost uh before the authorities were noted, but right now they're thirteen bounds.
joe rogan
They they cooked a bunch of them?
gregg braden
They burned, they used them for fuel.
unidentified
Oh my god.
gregg braden
But but so here but here's here's what's left.
What's left, there were uh thirteen bound books representing over fifty texts.
They were the oldest records of the New Testament, uh and they were the records that were excluded by the Catholic Church.
joe rogan
Is there any images of these books?
gregg braden
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jamie, can you find those?
gregg braden
Well I'm not sure what's going on.
I brought this for you.
unidentified
All right.
gregg braden
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
gregg braden
So there's there's the thirteen uh bound texts.
So among these were things like the Gospel of Thomas, which is considered the second most heretical book uh in the Nag Hamadi library.
There's the Gospel of John, also called the Secret Book of John, also called the Apocryphon of John, which is considered the first most heretical book.
Uh there are books from Gnostic women, Thunder Perfect Mind is a book by a Gnostic woman that's in there.
The Gospel of James is in there.
So these, and I'll be very clear, uh, if you had Wes Huff here, I know you've had before, and I think he's he's a brilliant scholar, uh, he would say that these are not accepted because of they're not accepted by the church because of dating and because of,
you know, the there's a lot of reasons, but there's a lot of new research showing that these are worthy of um of exploring with the same validity that we give to the other texts that were.
joe rogan
Were they dated to?
gregg braden
The uh they're dated the late first, early second century, somewhere right around there, some of them later.
Um the uh the book of John, the the secret book of John, what makes it so exceptional is that he believes, he said that it was dictated to him by uh Jesus of Nazareth after his crucifixion.
So it wasn't before, it came after.
But the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Thomas is one of the probably the most controversial.
It's 11 sayings that were recorded by uh by Thomas, and the book says Didymus Thomas was uh was the name.
And it's almost like it it's different from all the other books in that it is each saying is is a teaching unto itself.
And what he is saying are I'm again I'm hesitating because we're just covering so much ground here.
What Yeshua was his name, what he was teaching was so profound for his time.
There were outer teachings and inner teachings.
The outer teachings were for the masses, and it's primarily what you see in the Gospels.
The inner teachings were for those initiates that could really understand what it was he was saying, and that's what the Gospel of Thomas uh appears to be.
It did come from a later time.
I don't think it invalidates that uh uh you know what it is that is being said in there.
What is it being said that's so controversial?
But the bottom line, and this is one I think that is probably one of the most well-known, where he says what you have, what you bring forth from within you will save you, and what you don't bring forth from within you will destroy you.
He's saying there's a power inside of us that has to be expressed.
And these texts are all about how we awaken that that power.
Okay, so the name, I'm gonna use a word and then I'll define it.
The name that has given to that power traditionally is called divinity, but it has nothing to do with religion.
So that association is made because there are schools of divinity that make that, and they're they're great schools, they do great things, but the contemporary definition of divinity, I I love this, the ability to transcend perceived limitations, and that's it.
So the ability to transcend, to become more than perceived.
Joe, you and I, our listeners, we are we are living limits that probably aren't even real.
We're living within limits that we have been indoctrinated to accept about ourselves.
Divinity is our ability to become the best version of ourselves.
Expressions of divinity, imagination.
I mean, no other form of life can do what we do with imagination.
And we I want to talk about that in just a moment.
But it's more than just a picture in your mind.
An image in the mind is setting into motion a cascade of chemical effects in the human body that literally change us.
We are changed in the presence of the right kind of imagination, and the books tell us how to do that.
So imagination, creativity, innovation, empathy, sympathy, love, compassion, healing, forgiveness, these are expressions of human divinity.
It's what sets us apart from all our forms of life, it makes us such powerful beings.
The purpose of evil, and this might be the most important thing that we say today, because it's a nebulous concept, good and evil, until you until you give it a benchmark.
The purpose of evil is to deny human divinity.
The purpose of evil is to deny us our greatest expressions, imagination, creativity, the ability to communicate and share ideas, empathy, sympathy, self-healing, all of those things.
So in a very real sense, Joe, anything that denies those things is an expression of evil.
So when we find that algorithms are denying us the ability to communicate our ideas from this perspective, that's an expression of evil.
We find we put something into our bodies that prevents us from healing our own bodies.
That is an expression of evil.
What the Gnostic texts are saying is that we are in a process that has a beginning and an end.
And the purpose of the process is to deny humankind.
Our own humanness, that has been playing out over eons, and now the technology is allowing it to play out to a greater degree because things like AI, things like misused, I'm not anti-AI, it's how it's used.
Uh things like computer chips in the brain, computer brain interface, all of these things, what they're doing, Joe, is they are denying our humanness, use it or lose it.
We've if we're using technology in place of our imagination, for example, and the psychology journals are full of articles about this.
People that chronically use artists, musicians.
My wife is a voting member of the Grammys, and we just had this conversation.
You've got musicians who go to Chat GPT and say, hey, write me a song, and now put some music to that song, and now you enter it with the Grammys, and you are competing against a human who has labored 30 or or so years to master their voice and an instrument, and you say, is that fair?
Well, they're they're struggling with that right now.
But so these are all expressions of of anything that denies our humanness, uh from that perspective is an expression of evil.
unidentified
Who is doing that?
gregg braden
That is what those texts are all about.
That's what the texts are are are are talking to us about.
jamie vernon
Here's that interesting.
Oh, this is gospel of Thomas 114, that's how it ends.
joe rogan
Simon Peter said to them, let Mary go away from us, for women are not worthy of life.
Jesus said, Look, I will draw her in so as to make her male, so that she too may become a living male spirit similar to you.
But I say to you, every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.
Okay.
gregg braden
So what they're talking about is what is going on.
Pull up, I'm not sure why you chose that one.
jamie vernon
I've got just a little bit of a good idea.
gregg braden
But let me pull up uh number two.
joe rogan
That's a very interesting part.
gregg braden
Well, we can we can talk about it because he it's in code.
He and he's talking about the the the marriage, the sacred marriage of masculine and feminine.
Uh and it's when you he said when you make the two one and the inside like the outside, then you will say the mountain move and the mountain will move, and what he's talking about is honoring the masculine and the feminine, and that's more than just a metaphor.
I mean, there's a whole thing that goes with that.
Can you bring up uh saying number seventy?
Or number 10.
jamie vernon
Oh, star 70.
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
So 70 says, Jesus says, if you bring it into being within you, then that which you have will save you.
If you do not have it within you, then that which you do not have within you will kill you.
Jesus says, I will destroy this house and no one will be able to build it again.
gregg braden
This is the thing.
He's in the the Christian doctrine, we're led to believe that he was a peacemaker.
unidentified
And what it says very clearly in the Gospel of Thomas, he he says, and if you go to the early when I was looking it up, this uh the c Catholics say that some of this stuff Jesus did say.
gregg braden
Oh, he said it.
jamie vernon
Some of it he did not say, and some of it's flat out and made up.
gregg braden
They have a problem with the with the dating, but they also have a problem, it doesn't support the narrative.
That was this is what the so there were two councils.
There was a council of Carthage and the Council of Nicaea, uh, and this is where they excluded these documents, but they had been accepted prior to that.
Just like uh Enoch.
Uh you've heard people in here talk about the book of Enoch.
And that was accepted before these as well.
So these were what these are, they're inner teachings not meant for the masses, um, based upon the the concepts that he's sharing, and this is where he's saying there is something inside of us.
And the rest of the gospels, this is what uh Philip and Thomas are talking about, is that we are imbued with this force given to no other form of life.
It's uh a light, uh it is an intelligence.
And when we are fully empowered in in this intelligence, we are sovereign, critically thinking beings, and we are no longer susceptible to and vulnerable to the agendas and the ideas of others, and and there are multiple agendas that are out there.
So from this time, and now if if when you go to the the Sumerian text, they say the same thing.
They're saying when they beheld what it was that they had created, that it had more light, more power than those that created it.
Then you get Into the whole conversation of Genesis, you know, where it says God created man, but that's a translation error because the original text say Elohim, and Elohim is a plural.
Some people will say it's not.
There's exceptions to that.
But it says Elohim said, let us create man in our image.
So even if Elohim is not plural, us implies more than one God.
So the point of all of this, and we can drill down into the weeds and all these, but it appears that there was a collective of intelligence that is responsible for for us.
Okay.
That's not science, though that's the text.
Now you look at the science, the DNA is telling us that 200,000 years ago, there were mutations that cannot happen in nature that imbued us with the ability to communicate with one another and all of these things that were that we're talking about.
And almost from the moment that we were imbued with these things, there was an attempt to deny us our power, and that attempt continues today.
So I think a good case can be made.
Everything you're seeing happen in the world.
It's all important.
The wars, uh uh, the economies, all the conversation of climate is all important, and there's a level where it has become a distraction to keep us spun up in fear so that we because we're so close, Joe, we're so close as a species to awakening this fundamental force within us.
The closer we get to that awakening, the more chaos you see in the world to keep us distracted.
And I'll give you a perfect.
joe rogan
What is causing this awakening?
unidentified
I think consciousness is um here's so is this the battle that we have to fight, though?
joe rogan
Is this like because it seems like there's always a pull and a push.
unidentified
Right?
gregg braden
I think it's it's a battle um or struggle, depending on on what language you want to use.
There's a deeper conversation, and I think we're going to get to this in in a minute.
But what I want to go back, I said I would I would uh elaborate on this.
There's a part of us that doesn't live in our bodies.
Science is struggling with this, but there's a scientific experiment.
I've got it here, but if you can bring it up.
So let me just find it.
Let me just tell you about it.
Well, I labeled each one and I've got a T-sheet here.
But you'll be able to see it when it's on there.
So here this is a mind blower if you haven't heard this.
And if you have, let me know.
I won I don't want to be redundant.
joe rogan
But tell everybody else if I have.
gregg braden
Okay.
So 2022.
Well, let me ask this.
joe rogan
Okay.
gregg braden
Do you remember when you were a kid a game called Pong?
joe rogan
Pong.
Like ping to do.
gregg braden
Pong was a key, I think it came out in 72.
And it was so primitive, Joe.
It it's like a it's like a tennis game on a screen.
But computers were new, and we'd never seen anything like I would go to work.
Uh I I was in a secure area at DOD working on the Peacekeeper Missile Project after lunch, guys would come in on their CRT screens, and they'd be mesmerized.
They couldn't help it.
They were mesmerized with this game of Pong, this little boom, boom, boom, boom, and that's all it was.
Okay.
So the point is Pong w was perver pervasive in in our culture.
Everybody knew what it was.
All right.
2022, scientists did an experiment, and I've got it, uh he can find it, or I've got it on that.
Uh you can bring it up if you want to see it.
I actually Pong is on there if you bring up the Pong file.
jamie vernon
This is part of the problem with the PowerPoint stuff, this this kind of stuff happens.
I don't think that's what you intended to show, is it?
gregg braden
Well, you can see you can see part of it.
jamie vernon
But that's the one.
gregg braden
Can you back up?
No, I'm it's back a couple of slides, and there's the there it is right there.
And you should be able to, is it going to animate it for us?
joe rogan
Well, I think most of the how Pong works.
gregg braden
Okay, there it is.
jamie vernon
I used to have it when I was trying to say the thing you were trying to get me to show, which is the next slide, is it's it's got an error in the Trevor Burrus.
gregg braden
Well, so here so here's what they did.
2022, scientists took neurons, but there was no human attached.
And they put them into a petri dish to keep them alive, and they hooked up the neurons to a computer chip.
So now you've got a uh uh a biology technology interface.
All right.
So the neurons are hooked up to a chip.
The chip was put into a computer that was loaded with pong.
The neurons began playing the game of pong, even though there was no human attached to the neurons, and the longer they played, the better they got.
They were actually learning how to play Pong better.
And now the scientists are struggling with a question.
How does a neuron not attached to a human in a petri dish know how to play Pong, where are the instructions?
Okay, so I remember when I was a kid, uh Einstein had died, and they had his brain thin sectioned in a uh the University of Kansas because they wanted to see what made his brain different from everybody else.
And it looked pretty much like everybody else's, with one exception.
He had a whole lot of folds in his brain.
So when you stretch those folds out, he had more surface area, he had more neurons.
So they're thinking, but there was Equals M C square wasn't in the brain.
All right.
So now they're looking at those neurons, they're saying, where's the instructions for Pong?
You know, and they're trying to figure out where it is.
Well, here's what this experiment is telling us.
The instructions aren't in the neurons.
The neurons are a biological antenna, a molecular antenna that tune to the place in the field where Pong is pervasive.
All right, the field.
There was a time when the field was a metaphor.
You know, uh metaphysical people, spiritual people, you say, oh, yeah, you know, it's it's out in the field.
July 4th of 2012, the CERN superconducting supercollider made an announcement that they had discovered a field that had been predicted by Peter Higgs, the physicist Peter Higgs.
Well, they found the Higgs boson, and what that implied was that there was a field supporting the boson, and now it's accepted science.
They say, oh yeah, there's a field.
So but here's the thing.
I was at a conference recently.
Here's what the scientists are doing.
This is a hoot.
They're still saying this.
They're saying, oh yeah, there's a field out there that connects everything, and their hands are doing this.
The field's not out there.
We're the field.
Okay.
50 trillion cells in the human body.
Every one of those cells has about a hundred trillion atoms emerging from the field and collapsing into the field.
Right now, you and I, we're constantly the atoms in our bodies are emerging and collapsing into that field.
We are the field, and that is what makes us so powerful.
This is why we can heal our bodies almost instantaneously when we know how to access this part of ourselves because we hold the blueprint that tells those atoms how to express when they come into the body.
So if you've got something you don't like in your body, what you do is you are using the gift of imagination to create a new blueprint for that atom to come into.
And that sounds crazy to some people.
And there's a lot of science that's struggling with this.
But when you get into the quantum world, you get into the fact that the Higgs field exists, you get in to the fact that the imagination in the mirror neurons of the human brain.
Mirror neurons were only discovered in 2004.
And the thing about mirror neurons is they don't know the difference between watching an experience and having experience.
So for example, you can be on the couch on a Sunday afternoon watching the Joe Rogan show with an exciting guest.
You're just laying there, but your heart might be racing and your body's perspiring, your muscle, or maybe you're watching soccer, because your neurons don't know the difference between watching and having the experience.
This is why porn is so addictive, because the mirror neurons don't know the difference between having and witnessing the experience.
They're going to kick up the same addictive chemicals, the same dopamine, the same uh levels of adrenaline, watching the image that they are having the image.
Here's where our power comes from.
Because the image can be imagined when we are able to hold an image of ourselves fully enabled, fully capacitated, fully healed, fully awakened, hold that image.
What we're actually doing is we're programming the body.
And this is something shamans know this.
And I live in northern New Mexico.
Our indigenous healers all know this.
I spend a lot of time in Peru and the Andes, the uh the Andean Peruvians.
They use different language.
So the point of all of this is we're not what we've been told, and we're so much more than we've been led to believe.
And it is the attempt to deny that power that is driving so much of what we're seeing happening in in our world today.
joe rogan
And so you think the motivation of that attempt is evil?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
That's what we're giving in to.
That's why they're enacting all these levels of control, and that's why they're suppressing people, releasing bots on the internet.
It's literally an expression of evil.
gregg braden
And evil's not dark, not necessarily darkness.
A lot of people confuse these.
Darkness is simply a polar force.
We we live in a binary world.
We've got to have light and dark, plus and minus boys and girls.
You know, we live in it the darkness is a passive polarity.
Evil has an active stated purpose.
And the purpose of evil has always been, whether you're looking at those ancient texts or the Sumerian texts, uh Mesopotamian texts, it's always been to deny to deny us the greatest expressions of our humanness.
And now we live in a time, this is no ordinary time in history.
There none of this is happening in a vacuum.
We're barreling down the road toward this convergence of so many natural cycles and the date 2030 that has been identified by the United Nations, by the WEF, by a number of corporations, by Ray Kurzweil, in terms of AI implementation.
They're all looking at 2030.
And what you're seeing are the powers and the forces of the world jockeying to be in the best position when this date is upon us.
And I'm not saying it's like January 1st, 2030, but the United Nations, for example, they've got, and again, I don't know if I'm being redundant here, but they've got uh the UN SDG 2030, UN United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, they want implemented by the year 2030.
They're not getting much traction because they're not good ideas.
Uh the goals, if you read them on the outside, Joe, they're they're deceptively beautiful.
Who doesn't want food security?
Who doesn't want the end of poverty?
Who doesn't want the end of disease?
Now you look at the fine print.
How will they achieve those goals?
And that's where it gets very concerning.
They haven't had much traction because the idea the way to get there is concerning.
They're not good ideas.
Now we look at World Economic Forum.
I know you've had people talking about WEF.
They've been around since 1971.
They meet once a year in Davos.
You know, they talk about what they would like the world to look like, and they have every right to do that.
Uh some of their ideas are very dystopian, in my opinion.
Things like uh you will own nothing and be happy, you know, we've heard that.
unidentified
Yeah.
gregg braden
Or the the Great Reset uh is the term that they coined, or the fourth industrial revolution.
Um they haven't gotten much traction, but they recognize that their goals were similar to the U.N. So in 2019, these two organizations joined forces.
They signed a formal document.
So now the WEF ideas are have traction through the UN uh implementation of these sustainable development goals.
And uh the goals can be beautiful.
I'm not against the goals at all.
It's how we go about do we honor ourselves and do we honor our humanness as we achieve those goals?
And there are very different ideas about what you know what it is that means.
I have a video clip uh WEF.
Do you do you see that on there?
Can we bring that video clip up?
Because in one sentence, uh Klaus Schwab states that the goal for the fourth industrial revolution.
And if he doesn't have I just want you to hear it in his voice, he said the Goal is the merging of the natural world, the digital world, and the biological world, our biological identity.
He said the goal of this fourth industrial revolution is to merge all of those into this massive database run by AI.
And uh here, here what's that?
You can hear it.
Should be the next one.
klaus schwab
It's at the end, what what's the force industrial evolution we lead to is a fusion of all physical, our initial, and all biological identities.
gregg braden
Did you hear how he paused before he said biological?
unidentified
Yeah.
gregg braden
Did you catch that?
So he's saying, okay, the physical world is already tokenized.
We already we have a digital ID for every elephant, all the forests, the oceans, all of the energy resources.
That's that's already tokenized.
The digital world is already digital, so that's tokenized.
Then there's a pause, he said, and of course, our biological identities, because he knows the implication of what he's saying.
That's us.
And right now, we are not fully implemented in into that system.
But that statement, and the reason I wanted to share that, that is what's driving everything you're seeing happening in the world.
What all the the implementation of the technology, with that statement is driving the implementation of that technology.
The AI, uh, the way that we are being indoctrinated to accept it, first accept it in our lives, and then develop a dependency upon that AI.
Ultimately there will be some kind of compliance.
We'll be told we need to use the AI in order to, you know, accomplish certain things, do our banking or you know, whatever it is, it's all being driven by AI.
That sentence is a very, very powerful sentence.
joe rogan
It also couldn't have been delivered by someone who looks more like a villain in a movie.
gregg braden
Or sounds like one.
Well, yeah, are you familiar with Klaus Schwab?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, we have a photo of him in the bathroom where it was wearing that crazy Darth Vader outfit.
gregg braden
I saw that in the bathroom, and I was it was dark in the bathroom.
joe rogan
Like who the hell would dress like that?
Who would say the things that that guy Jamie find that photo, please?
Who would say the things that that guy has said like that with that accent and dress this way?
gregg braden
Well, this is exactly well, this is this is why we're having this conversation.
Joe, you know, I'm I'm advocating for our humanness.
Uh I believe we are there it is.
joe rogan
Like what are you wearing, bro?
Like, don't go out dressed like that.
We don't talk like that.
When you talk like that, you've got to wear suits and you gotta look real normal.
gregg braden
What are this?
What are the emblems?
What are the emblems?
jamie vernon
An event where everyone was wearing that.
joe rogan
Yeah, whatever.
Don't wear it.
If you talk like Darth Vader, don't wear it.
gregg braden
But see, all of this is happening from people.
This is happening from people that are afraid of our humanists.
They don't know what it means to be human.
They're afraid of dying.
The transhumanists are afraid of dying, so they want to live forever.
joe rogan
Right.
Well, they're also extremely wealthy and they want to control the masses.
And that's what I'm saying.
gregg braden
Well, this is the control.
joe rogan
Is the doing it this way?
unidentified
Again.
joe rogan
Yeah.
gregg braden
There is a fundamental, it's a very ancient.
If you don't know this, the world looks like it's spinning out of control for no reason.
When you begin, and you don't have to think about it every day, but when you look at the big picture, and you can see there's a fundamental struggle between if you want to use the language good and evil, it it's a charged language, and I know that.
And that's the language that we're using.
But the denial of our human potential.
And so the the best way, what do we do about that is if the purpose of the evil is to deny our humanness and our divinity, we triumph by living the best version of ourselves.
We triumph by imagining freely and sharing ideas and creating and and don't be afraid to have empathy and sympathy and compassion.
And and now you have a benchmark because when something comes up on social media or something we're asked to do something, we say, well, I don't know if this is a good thing or not.
You ask yourself, does it affirm or does it deny my humanist?
Is it affirm or deny my ability to imagine, to create, to love, to forgive, empathy, sympathy, compassion, to share ideas, deep intuition.
Does the firm or deny those?
And then that'll tell you what you need to know.
What you choose after that is up to the individual, but it won't be a blind choice.
And I think this is this is up for us right now.
Okay, so now evil in technology and the algorithms of social media that are designed to break the social bonds that have always held us together as communities.
And you know, this began right around 2011, I think was the Occupy movement, and it pitted the rich against the poor, 99% against one percent.
That's a very real issue.
And we Joe, we could have used that and and come to the table and had a conversation and a healing that would bring us closer together as a society.
But it was weaponized to drive us apart.
And then the same thing happened.
Men against women, blacks against whites, Christians against Muslims, Jews against Muslims.
Now it's male against female, and the genders are being blurred.
All of this by design, breaking the social bonds that hold families and communities and societies together because we're more vulnerable when we lose these bonds.
And the the algorithms that do that.
I mean, I'm fascinating.
As a computer scientist, uh I'm I'm fascinated by this.
We have what are called information silos.
So there's uh uh parents and their kids, and the mom goes to work, and you know, she goes on YouTube and and queries a bunch of stuff.
And you know what happens is the the algorithm just starts feeding you.
I mean, it's everywhere.
You're feeding one perspective of what it is that you've just queried.
Meanwhile, dad's at work, he's doing the same thing, his algorithm is giving him a separate perspective.
The kids are doing the same thing, and now they meet at the family dinner table, and everybody believes that their story is the real story, it's the right, it's the true story.
That breaks the social bonds.
And we're seeing this happen.
We're seeing this happen in in our society.
And you know, there is a it's following an algorithm that's very easy.
Are you familiar with Saul Alinsky?
I think you're probably rules for radicals.
Yeah, rules for radicals.
This is exactly what it's following.
He said you you choose a target, you freeze that target, you isolate it, you personalize it, and you polarize it.
And that's exactly what's being it's it's a simple algorithm, and that's exactly you think of all those things we just talked about.
All of a sudden it's all you see in the news, you're freezing it for everybody to see.
You're personalizing what is that, how how are you getting ripped off, and how's it hurting you if you do that?
Uh and then and you polarize that, and it just drives people apart because they believe what they're what they're being shown.
joe rogan
And so my invitation Add that to the fact that people are addicted to social media.
So they're addicted to being inundated by all this propaganda and all this all these various competing narratives.
gregg braden
Yeah.
joe rogan
You can't leave your phone alone.
It's more and more addictive every time you pick it up.
The the newer ones are even better, the screens are even bigger.
Now you've got a foldable one, opens up to a tablets in your pocket, and people are just full-on addicted to what is a lot of negative information, far more than you would get just living your ordinary life.
gregg braden
Aaron Powell, you don't see much information you don't see joyous information that brings us together very often, do you do you?
Do you see anything?
joe rogan
Well, you can if you curate your feed well.
But the problem is if if you spend any amount of time, you're gonna be you're gonna be impacted by some ideas that you don't like.
You know, there's gonna be a lot of negativity.
Like there's a lot of things that uh X shows me that I did not sign up for this person's page.
I do not know.
They just showed up in my feed.
I do not follow them, but all of a sudden it appears, and I read it and I'm like, oh, this is fucking horrible.
This is ta like what a terrible take.
And you see people arguing in the worst, most evil way possible, for ter uh celebrating people's deaths and hoping more people die, and you're like, oh my God, I gotta get out of here.
That is evil.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you I mean, I'm not saying that those human beings are evil.
I think most of those human beings don't even know what they're doing.
gregg braden
Exactly.
joe rogan
They don't even think of it as real life.
They think of it as it's called shit posting.
You know what shit posting is?
You know what people just post things for for the lulls.
They're just supposed to get reactions out of people, and there's a lot of that going on.
There's a lot of people expressing their boredom with negativity, expressing their frustration with their station in life with negativity online, and then feeding into it, arguing with other people instead of addressing their own individual real life problems, they start looking at all these things that they're creating online.
That's their primary focus, like throughout the day is these stupid ideological battles they're having with people that might not even be real people.
It's evil.
It's kind of evil.
It is and Because it's robbing what you're saying.
It's robbing you of your opportunity to achieve a higher level of humanity.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
gregg braden
Well, I think what you said is really important.
Because they have are participating doesn't mean that they're evil people.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
unidentified
Right.
gregg braden
And even that even goes for I think most people.
joe rogan
Even people that do a lot of horrible acts.
gregg braden
I agree.
But see, then this is why I said what I said earlier.
We can tie into this people who have a propensity.
They have a spiritual weakness.
This is a this is a spiritual battle, not religious, but it's a deeply spiritual battle that's playing out on earth right now.
And it's showing up in every facet of our lives, whether we want to think about it or not.
People that have a propensity for greed, because that's their spiritual weakness, or a propensity for power or control.
They will fall into those roles.
They don't even know what and I've worked with people and I've been in organizations and I've seen it happen.
They're naive, many of them.
Some of them know exactly what they're doing.
There are some that know exactly what they're doing, but most of them are very naive and they want to be relevant.
And so they will follow the pack is is what they will do.
And so this is where I I think you can recognize this is where discernment comes in.
To recognize it without judging it, because this is a spiritual battle.
And at the end of the day, what matters, Joe, is what do we become in the presence of what the world shows us?
What do we allow the events of the world to make us into?
Do we allow an election that didn't turn the way that we had wanted to reduce us to the most primal levels of hate and revenge and anger, something we'd never do in a million years, but we succumb to that.
Or do we do recognize what it is that has happened?
And it doesn't mean we have to agree with it.
But the question is, do we make the decisions from our love of the families behind us and our friends and and our community, or do we make our decisions from the fear of what we perceive as our enemy in front of us?
And that happens every moment of every day.
I've been in I have been in a business meeting with uh uh someone who is pure evil.
Pure evil.
And the first time it happened, it caught me off guard.
And then I learned.
And it will never happen.
unidentified
Uh actually tell me what the meeting was?
gregg braden
Uh I can't.
joe rogan
Um give me some details?
gregg braden
Aaron Powell It was it was a business.
It was in this industry that we're in right now, in the information industry, the publishing industry.
And I was with an individual uh who I'm hesitating in the the the words that I use here.
I found myself saying things that I would never say in a million years while that individual was looking at me and smiling because he was somehow inciting me to to say those things.
Uh it was almost like in some way there was a force that I had not learned to reckon with.
I have since learned.
joe rogan
Were you young at the time?
gregg braden
I was an adult.
I was younger than I am now.
Yeah.
And uh and you know, this is this comes up for all of us in different ways.
joe rogan
So you but you're not taking responsibility for the words that are coming out of your mouth.
gregg braden
I couldn't stop it.
That was the weird thing.
I couldn't.
joe rogan
But do you think that was anxiety?
gregg braden
I mean, I don't think I don't know what it was, Joe.
I heard me.
I heard myself say I was dissociated.
I I heard myself saying them, and I didn't want to say them.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
couldn't you attribute that to a lot of psychological factors like anxiety and stress and and you know the anticipation of this moment.
gregg braden
I could accept power structures.
I could, except that he was looking right at me and he had this this smile, and when I saw him again, he tried to do the same thing again and it didn't work.
joe rogan
But see, this is my problem with this.
If you're not taking personal responsibility for the words that are coming out of your mouth.
gregg braden
I did.
joe rogan
Right.
But you're saying that this guy forced those words to coming out of you.
And that that is where it gets a little slippery because of why do you why would you not just assume that it was your own anxiety, your own stress level.
People behave out of pocket sometimes.
They think outside of their own character sometimes.
They talk out of character, and then they go, well, I don't even know why I was saying that.
I'm sorry.
You know, that happens.
gregg braden
I agree.
I agree with you a hundred percent, Joe.
And that's there are other circumstances that I I I just can't talk about.
joe rogan
So but you think this person was actually an evil person.
gregg braden
Oh, I know, yeah.
I know that I know that this person was.
And and uh other people have had similar experiences that that um continue to have similar experiences.
joe rogan
Well I don't doubt that there are l legitimately actually fully evil people in the world.
And I think there m there's a lot of evidence that those people have existed historically.
I mean you think about some of the atrocities that people have done throughout history, just I mean, obviously Hitler.
But I mean, you you could go through history.
You could Genghis Khan, I mean you you could there's so many people that have done unbelievably evil things in this world.
gregg braden
When that happens, and it's happening today.
I mean, it's happening today.
Right now, you don't have to look at look at history.
Those are perfect example to to do what is happening there w when it comes human to human, the only way that the uh a human, one human can perpetrate that onto another is to to sever the relationship to their divinity.
All right.
And we have the choice to do that.
We can we can deny our divinity, we can have it taken from us by those who have power over us, or we can technology can deny our divinity.
But someone who uh and that is closely linked to the soul, which is not the spirit.
So the soul is our localized, you know, lifetime experience.
When we sever that relationship, uh that is what allows an individual to carry out those kinds of atrocities.
Because an individual who is connected to their divinity and their soul could never look at another human in the eye and hurt them the way that we know that it has happened in our lives.
And it has it's happened throughout history.
So my focus, what I'm I'm really passionate about, and it's not just like any old time in history.
We're on the precipice, Joe.
I mean, the decisions are being made within the next couple of years as to whether or not we will give our humanness away to technology, or if we allow the technology to serve us but not enslave us.
AI is an example of that.
Uh the brain-computer interfaces that are going on BCI, that's a big conversation going on right now.
And if if we get lost in the weeds of just AI or just the BCI, it's easy to do that, but I think it's important to keep there's a bigger picture.
There's a struggle.
There's an ancient struggle going on here.
And it is because this is what's so powerful.
It's because there's something inside of us that's worth the struggle.
And our children are not being taught that.
Our young kids are being told that they're a flawed form of life, they need something outside of our bodies.
We need to protect our kids.
joe rogan
What do you think that thing is?
You think that's what the soul is?
Aaron Ross Powell, Jr.
gregg braden
I think it's our our divinity is the ability to express, and this is going back to the Gnostic texts.
This is why they were heretical.
Because the Gnostic text said that we have a hotline to a higher realm, that we don't have to go through uh an intermediary, that we Are imbued with this spark or whatever language you want to use, uh given the northern form of life, and that when we awaken that, that we we become God like, not God, but God like.
And this was the message of Yeshua in the Gnostic texts.
And that's the message that was denied and called heretical, because the if we are that then we don't need an intermediary.
So I think what we're looking at right now is is do we love ourselves enough?
Do we love ourselves enough to accept the gift of our humanness and what it means to be human and what it means to be divine and not bring religion into the conversation.
But and maybe just find another word if people aren't comfortable with that word.
But I I really want people to know, and especially, you know, I do live events with these young kids, Joe, and they've been taught to worship technology.
The computer chip is God, AI is God.
And then I show them, and I've I've showed some studies.
Um Northern California did a study and they compared a human brain to a microprocessor.
And you say, well, how can you make that comparison?
I said that.
The microprocessor has about the same number of transistors that the human brain has of synapses in the brain.
Interestingly, it's about the same number.
And so they ran all these tests, and what they found literally the human brain, okay, the computer chip, is it fast?
Yes.
Is it efficient?
Yes.
Is it scalable?
You can only scale the chip.
It'll only run as fast as the physics that of the stuff it's made of will allow, the silicon or whatever it is.
And then it tops out.
The human brain, is it fast?
Yes.
Is it efficient?
Yes.
Is it scalable?
What what is the top end of a human brain?
And the answer is we don't know.
Because every time we push a human brain to what we think is the limit that we've been taught to accept, this is the beauty of our divinity.
What we do is we morph and adapt and open up a whole new vista of potentials.
The Tibetan monks, a perfect example of this.
When I was in school, again, back 50s and 60s, we were taught that uh the human brain maxes out about 40 hertz, 40 cycles per second, all the medical books, textbooks, everything.
And then these Tibetan monks came along and they said, Wow, if we do a certain kind of meditation, you know, we'll exceed that.
And then they bumped a doubled it.
They went to 80, 80 hertz.
The scientists said, okay, so maybe we got it wrong once, but the human brain can't possibly do any more than that.
And the the monks said, Well, you know, if we do a different kind of meditation, then you know where this is going.
And they push it up to 100 hertz, and then they they had to come up with another brain state called gamma, and then they push it to 120 and 130 and 150 and one and they 200 cycles per second.
Now they have to call it hyper gamma.
But then they even went the other direction, Joe.
This is a mind blower.
We typically think when the human brain shows less than one cycle per second of processing, less than one hertz, that person's not there anymore.
And the monks were able to consciously drive their brain state to .5 hertz, less than one.
They're very conscious, they're very awake.
They're just in a way different state of mind.
And that opens the door to a lot of questions about, you know, what does it mean when you see low brain activity?
Is someone actually in a healing state, or are they really not there?
Or you know what I think it deserves more study.
But the point of all of this, and there is a point, is that through nothing more than breath and focus.
So nothing external, no chemicals, no machines, those Tibetan monks demonstrated that we not only meet, but we are exceeding the brain capacity that we thought we had in the past.
joe rogan
Aaron Ross Powell The fascinating thing about them is you would have to do what they do to be able to understand how their brain functions.
You would have to Have meditated for 30 plus years in the same exact way to achieve these states that they achieve.
Otherwise you're just guessing about what that's like.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
gregg braden
I led groups in the Tibet from the from the mid-90s to the early 2000s.
And we we would go to 12 monasteries and two nunneries over 26 days, and we would sit with these people, and through the translators, they would teach us.
And you don't you could spend that kind of time, but the beauty is you don't have to.
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
So to get to their level, it's not like other things like you get really good at guitar by practicing for years and years.
It's not the same thing.
unidentified
It is.
gregg braden
No, you there is practice and there is discipline.
Absolutely.
And I'm not denying that at all.
joe rogan
Trevor Burrus, Jr.: What I'm saying is like there's an Eddie Van Halen of being a monk.
You know what I mean?
gregg braden
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Like the regular guy can't tread like that.
Right.
You but Eddie Van Halen played guitar for thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of hours with a d incredible focus and became Eddie Van Halen.
If you're a monk, you know Eddie Van Helen is.
To be a virtuoso, to be a Steve Ray Vaughn, to be uh Jimmy Hendrix.
Like it it requires immense amount of time.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
I would imagine to get really good at that kind of meditation, it it would be a similar thing.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
gregg braden
There's a discipline.
joe rogan
There is a discipline and um But are there levels that get reached like when someone's like a true master, they've been doing it for twenty years, they can do something, they can get to a state that other people can't get to.
gregg braden
There are, Joe, and what I want to say is there are levels that you and I can do right this minute.
Uh I think I don't know if you've had any of the folks from the Institute of Heart Math.
Uh it's a pioneering research organization in Northern California, been around since 1994.
Uh I've worked with them since 95.
They explore the power of the human heart beyond being simply uh a pump in the body.
That's probably the least of what it does.
And what they have done and made very accessible to the average person is the ability to create coherence between the heart and the brain, and that can happen in a heartbeat.
So here's what I mean by that.
1991.
By the way, I I want to honor your time.
Are we okay on time?
unidentified
Okay.
gregg braden
Has it been an hour yet?
joe rogan
We have more than an hour, yeah.
We're almost two hours.
gregg braden
I know I'm I'm I'm kidding.
joe rogan
Don't worry about anything.
Just let's talk, all right.
I'm having a great time.
gregg braden
I'm too, thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, 91 uh scientists discovered in the human heart.
Um I mean, 91 is not that long ago.
unidentified
No.
gregg braden
And scientists are thinking, okay, we we got the body nailed.
You know, we know how this works.
We do heart transplants, they're successful, so we must have this all figured out.
They discovered 40,000 specialized cells in the human heart, uh, called sensory neurites.
And when I say discovered, they've always been there, but nobody looked because they're like neurons, Joe, but they're not in the brain.
And you think, well, why are there neurons in the heart?
joe rogan
Right.
gregg braden
They think independently, they feel independently, and they process independently from the neurons in the human brain.
And so right there, there's a whole conversation about when we have trauma, our trauma is recorded in two different places.
You can do talk therapy in the brain, if you don't address the heart, it may feel incomplete to have that therapy.
But so here's why I'm sharing this.
Now we've got two neural networks, one in the heart, one in the brain.
The Institute of HeartMath made available the techniques through Three very simple steps to harmonize two neural networks into a single potent system.
And we are the only form of life that can do this at will, on demand, we choose.
We're the only form of life that can sit in a chair and say, in this moment, I choose to create the term is coherence.
And the coherence, optimum coherence is a low frequency, 0.1 hertz.
So we're the only form of life that can choose to create 0.1 hertz between the heart and the brain, harmonizing two organs become one potent system in the body.
And when that happens, man, there's a whole cascade of things.
So let me two categories.
Passive, passive benefits, just from harmonizing the heart and the brain.
You supercharge the immune system.
And this is something I've done at least once a day since 90-5 when I learned it.
And sometimes multiple times a day.
Superimmune response.
You awaken longevity enzymes that everybody has in the body that often go dormant for some people as they as they age.
You can wake them up pretty quick.
Stem cells, you can wake them up pretty quick.
Resilience to change.
And this is fascinating to me because when young, we all know this.
Young kids are really resilient to change.
I come from a very dysfunctional alcoholic family.
We moved, my father left when I was 10.
We moved every year.
And I went to a different school every year and had to make new friends every year.
And it took a lot of resilience to do that.
I could do that then.
I'd probably have problems doing something like that now.
Because typically as we age, we lose resilience.
That is directly linked to what's called heart rate variability, HRV.
So every heartbeat that goes boom-boom-boom-boom.
It's the QRS complex.
And the time from one peak to the next to the next to the next varies.
When we're young, it varies a lot, and that gives us resilience.
When we age, it becomes more regular, we lose our resilience, set in our waves.
Through harmonizing heart and the brain, you can actually uh uh reset that heart rate variability to the point where it was when you were younger.
And it doesn't take long to do that.
So those are our passive benefits.
Now, active benefits, once you're in that space, and this is where the really juicy stuff happens, deep intuition.
So this is where you do uh precognition.
You have the ability to, your heart will sense an event before it actually happens, and there's science showing why that is.
Like so many people knew 9-11 was going to happen before it happened, and I'm not saying they did this, but they they knew intuitively that this is a way to awaken that kind of intuition on demand.
Uh deep intuition on demand.
Um there are 1,300 positive biochemical reactions from harmonizing the heart and the brain.
All right.
joe rogan
And what is the method you use to harmonize?
gregg braden
Three three steps.
One is you shift your focus from your mind into your heart.
And I've led groups with indigenous people all over the world for 40 years, and the way they all do this is they'll always touch their heart to bring their awareness to their heart center.
Some people use a finger or two, if you're in the in the Mayan cultures in Mexico, they use a full palm.
Uh you see this in the Middle East.
Uh you people will greet one another with a full palm, or Buddhists will do it like this and nestle that uh prayer mudra right there.
And the point is that your awareness will always go to the place on your body where you feel the touch.
Like if I touch my arm, all my my awareness went there.
That's the first step.
joe rogan
So you meet someone, you put your hands on your heart to bring awareness to your heart.
gregg braden
Yeah, yeah, you can do it, do it that way.
This is what they do.
So the first step in heart-brain coherence uh developed by the Institute of Heart Math.
Uh you shift your awareness from your mind into your heart, first step.
Second step is to slow your breathing.
And the the key here, it's not just enough just to slow it, but you exhale for a period of time longer than you inhale, because we all breathe at a different rate.
So, for example, if we inhale four four counts and release six, okay, that might work for me.
Somebody at you know, a higher elevation might do it differently.
But the point is when you release, when you exhale for a period of time longer than you inhale, that triggers the relaxation response, parasympathetic nervous system.
You're telling your body it's a language.
And what you're doing is you're telling your body, I am safe.
joe rogan
Because that's the only time you're right, and hyperventilating is the opposite.
gregg braden
Yeah, you don't want hyperventilation.
unidentified
Yeah.
gregg braden
So second step is you're you're breathing uh slower, longer on the exhale, focusing as if your breath is coming from your heart while your focus is on your heart, two steps.
The third step is where you create 0.01 hertz.
You feel a feeling, a positive feeling because you choose to feel the feeling.
And this is deceptively powerful, Joe, Because most forms of life, including humans, only have a feeling in response to what the world shows to them.
We have the ability to have a feeling because we choose to have the feeling.
And what the science is showing is that the feeling of gratitude almost 100% works for everyone.
We all can sense gratitude.
I mean, you can think of words like compassion, that means different things, different people, love means different things.
But we can be grateful for for our children, our families, our lives, something like that.
And when we feel that feeling, it sends a signal, a very low frequency, point 0.1 hertz from the heart to the brain in the presence of the slower breathing.
And that harmonization between the heart and the brain is what r gives all the benefits that we just shared.
Everything, you know, superimmune response, stem cells, uh, longevity enzymes, all of those things.
And it's also if people do affirmations, this is the place.
An affirmation is a message to the subconscious.
And you have to speak in a language that the subconscious recognizes.
And the coherence between the heart and the brain is like a hotline to the subconscious, but you don't have to be hypnotized.
So when you're saying affirmations, if you if you do it during that time, they're even even more potent.
Uh and you know, we could spend a lot of time talking about the role of imagination, mirror neurons, all of that happening within the presence.
But the point going back to what you were were mentioning about the Tibetan monks.
Yeah, you can study years learning what they're learning, and there are benefits that we can access pretty quickly.
And it's science-based.
I mean, this is all peer-reviewed, this is the the beauty of the Institute of Heart Math.
They publish in peer-reviewed journals and they've done much more.
I'm just scratching the surface.
If anyone is not familiar with that, I invite people to go to WW HeartMath, H-E-A-R-T, M-A-T-H dot org, and it's all free, you can check it out.
joe rogan
Aaron Powell So do you believe that the connection between the heart and the mind when you achieve that state that it increases your intuition?
gregg braden
Absolutely.
But the between the heart and the brain.
joe rogan
What did I say the heart and the heart, heart and the mind.
I said the heart and the mind, the heart and the brain.
gregg braden
And what you said, this is such a good question, Joe, and here's the reason.
And this is one of the places where it's so powerful.
I mean, you can use this stuff in a business environment for this very reason.
When we look at the world and solve our problems from our mind, our brain, brain's left and right brain.
So, you know, you've got logic and intuition over here.
Those are the ego loops.
And the brain will will always work in polarity.
That's where you're going to get right and wrong, good and bad, success, failure, worthy, not worthy.
And the ego, man, it'll spin you up in those loops for hours.
But here's the thing, the heart is non-polarity.
It's not, it's not a polar organ.
So when you harmonize the heart and the brain, what you're doing is you're bypassing the ego loops.
And here's where that can be powerful.
I did this in a corporate boardroom.
I was I was the the youngest uh so I was the first tech ops manager at Cisco Systems, 1990, when they uh got the RFP for protocol converter so that all the branches of the armed services could computers could talk to all the others before the the first Gulf War.
And when I would go into the boardroom with an idea, and I knew that I was going to be criticized.
Uh I'm also a Cancerian male.
And if you know anything about it I've never heard anybody use that term.
Yeah, well.
joe rogan
Cancerian.
gregg braden
Yeah.
Well, that's my I'm that's my sign.
My birth signs in case.
joe rogan
I understand what it is, but I've never heard the term.
gregg braden
And um very uh emotion plays a big role in our it doesn't have to, but you know, it's a it's a stereotype, but it happens to be true for me.
joe rogan
Right.
gregg braden
Emotion plays a big role, criticism coming from an alcoholic family.
Uh my father was the abuser and the criticizer.
And I've spent my whole life, you know, working to I'm still healing, you know, from that.
So when somebody would criticize my ideas, uh, you know, it'd be hurtful.
I'd I'd take it personally.
When you move into the coherence and you're not taking that criticism through good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure.
Now you can be much more objective.
And you can listen to it.
And when they're finished, you can say, well, you know, have you ever considered this?
Because you haven't reacted.
joe rogan
And it's a really powerful place to Well, it's certainly worse if you're talking to a good faith actor, someone who's really wants to talk about stuff and has a legitimate criticism.
But most of the time when people are criticizing you, they're trying to hurt your feelings.
gregg braden
They are.
I never read my book reviews on that design move.
joe rogan
I mean, it's not that criticism is bad.
Criticism is critical.
Like you you can learn a lot from intelligent people from their um perspectives of things.
I've learned a lot from other people's criticism.
But the difference between that and d dwelling on criticism.
That's the part where people get wrapped up in their own identity and and also interpersonal conflicts.
If you if you're a kind of person who like you're naturally argumentative and then someone says something, you're like, that's not fucking true.
And you want to say something back, but it's just it's a lot of negativity and a lot of wasted time.
And the way I try to describe it, uh especially to uh emerging famous people.
And I'm like, you have to think of your life as if like your energy is a number.
Like you have a hundred energies for the day.
Like it's a unit.
And if you're spending 30 or 40 of those energies on 30 or 40 of those units on social media and of criticism and of negativity, it's gonna rob the 60 percent that you really enjoy.
It's gonna rob your time with your friends, your family, your hobbies, your job, your community, whatever the f whatever you really love, hanging out with your dog.
You know, like this people right now that are going on a walk with their sweet, sweet dog and they're thinking about some mean post that someone made and the mean shit they're gonna say to get back at that person.
Meanwhile, they're with this beautiful animal and that if you got on your knees, you go, Are you having a good time?
They give you kisses and they put their paw on.
Like you're having so much fun.
It's so beautiful and loving, and you're thinking about something stupid that has no bearing on this moment.
And you can't escape.
You can't escape.
You're like psychically connected to this negativity.
gregg braden
That's a tool.
It's a powerful tool.
joe rogan
That's why I tell them it's not worth it.
gregg braden
Well, this helps to be objective, so you can hear the critic.
I'm open to criticism.
But it should be one-on-one.
joe rogan
Honestly, one-on-one with compassionate people.
gregg braden
Not my Amazon book review.
joe rogan
Well, there's people out there that are critics, and this is uh an important distinction.
They're critics because they don't have anything to contribute.
And they didn't want to be critics, especially professional critics.
A lot of them wanted to be professional writers, but their work was not good.
Like Roger Ebert wrote one of the craziest scripts of all time.
Have you ever read it?
gregg braden
No.
joe rogan
You ever heard of it?
gregg braden
I know Roger Ebert, I know the script.
joe rogan
Like out there.
Like wasn't it like hyper sexual?
What was it about?
Anyway, widely panned as being fucking terrible.
But this is the guy that is the guy that back in the day was the guy to review movies, and it would be so snarky and so bite.
But you have to realize, like look at him.
Look at these people.
Look at the way they talk.
Do you uh d is this the kind of opinion you value?
Like why is this the thing that gets elevated?
Wouldn't you rather have the opinion of someone who really enjoys going to the movies and has great things to say about perform.
It's like someone who's enjoying it, not someone who wants to be pissed off so they could say the snarkiest, shittiest.
And have you ever seen the videos of the two of those guys arguing with each other off camera?
Those are amazing.
gregg braden
They called them bloopers.
And I I like the bloopers better in the reviews.
joe rogan
Because that's the real guys.
They're really shitty guys.
They're they're super shitty to each other.
They're both so nasty to each other.
It's like so those are the people that are dictating what is good and bad in culture, that's nuts.
gregg braden
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the problem with criticism.
That's the problem with critics.
A lot of them are shitheads.
gregg braden
Yep.
Uh I think that's a good idea.
joe rogan
So you're getting the opinions primarily of shitheads.
unidentified
Aaron Powell, Jr.
gregg braden
But see, but what you're doing through coherence is that you're defusing that the shithead uh criticism from having the impact on you so that you're thinking about it while you're out walking your dog on a beautiful day.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
Well, that's a beautiful thing if you can do that.
If you can separate yourself from what they said.
But the only way you could really do that is if you are 100% happy with what you've done.
So if you write a book and that book you're you nailed it, you love it, it's amazing.
If someone's like really critical of it, suffer you.
But the thing that I made is perfect for the people who like the thing that I made.
You know?
And that's if you can get to a place where you could do that, that's great.
But you have to know that you put your all into what you did so that you don't feel bad about other people's negative opinion of it.
But if you have some thing like I kind of half-assed that, I could have spent more time on this.
I I wasn't really committed to that.
If you're doing that, then the criticism hurts because you know it's valid.
gregg braden
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
gregg braden
Well, if you're if you're going to do some I think whatever we do, book or you know, music or whatever it is, uh we do put a million percent into it.
I I learned this you know, my d my dad left when I was ten, and our family was devastated.
Uh my mom uh is my mom.
I have a younger brother, four years younger and myself, and mom all of a sudden was raising, you know, two boys.
And we knew we were in for some pretty rough ties, man.
We were we were more than broke.
We ended up m living in government subsidized housing and you know, it was it was a tough time.
And and mom gave me a book at ten years old.
She handed me this book and she said, I think that this is going to be useful to you in in your life.
And you may know this book.
It was by a man named Khalil Gabron.
unidentified
Sure.
gregg braden
It's called The Prophet.
And I read it to this day, and there are different pieces that mean different things to me throughout my life.
But there was one piece where he talked about work.
And in the environment I grew up in, my father hated his job, he hated to work, my friends all hated their work, they just wanted to make money.
And Khalil Gabr, uh this is on every email that I write right at the bottom.
Khalil Gabron said, work is love made visible.
And I like that because it means that when we're going to do something, you do it to the best of your ability and even more, or don't do it at all.
If you're gonna do it, do it really, really well and find a way to give meaning to what you're doing.
So, you know, I went to work, I used to work um midnight to six a.m. in a warehouse loading I don't talk about this a lot, but I was I was loading fifty-pound bags of um purena uh cat chow on the boxcars so they could go out in the morning to this distribution.
And the guys I work with, man, they hated.
They hated their job.
And I said, you know what?
If I do this just right, fifty-pound bags, if I use my my legs, I can get a pretty good leg workout out of this.
And then when I'm done with that after dinner, I'll come back and I can I can get a good upper body workout and I can use my arms and all of a sudden I was getting paid for a great workout, and they had a boxcar full of Purina cat shall and it was love made visible.
joe rogan
And and that's a great perspective.
gregg braden
Well, it has stayed with me, and and I'm saying this because if I write a book or if I do an event, anything I do, uh if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it really to the best of my ability.
If I can't do it to the best of my ability, I'll just if I don't believe in it, I won't do it.
joe rogan
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
It's hard for young people to hear that because you know they're doing a job that sucks, they just want to get out of there and go do what they love.
And sometimes a job that sucks is really good motivation to get you to work harder to go out and do the thing that you want to do that you love.
Because I I don't think I would ever appreciate the life that I have now if I didn't have a bunch of really terrible jobs when I was young.
gregg braden
Well, we we all did, and I think there is there is something to be said.
If if for a young person, I mean I used to I used to do lawns, I was a cook.
Uh none of it was my dream, but I said if I'm gonna do it, I want to do it really, I'm gonna do this really well.
joe rogan
Well, that's great attitude.
And I think that's a good idea of that was like, oh my God, this drains you of your life force.
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.: But we're better we're better for it if we can approach it in that way.
And then when you don't do it anymore, you stop doing it.
joe rogan
Well, yeah, I mean, if you have a negative attitude about something that you're doing versus a positive attitude, you could do the exact same thing with a positive attitude and actually enjoy it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And just have fun.
And especially if you're working with good people.
gregg braden
So I have a question for you.
joe rogan
Okay.
gregg braden
When you invited me here, uh I've got 40 years of of work.
Was there one particular facet of that work that you wanted to explore and talk about?
joe rogan
I've seen your work for a long time, and I've seen you say a lot of really interesting things for a long time.
Um it wasn't any one thing.
gregg braden
Okay.
joe rogan
Although there was uh a conversation that you had uh recently that I thought was very interesting.
I don't know if it was recently, but it it made it into my social media feeds recently, uh uh where you were talking to someone about climate change.
And you were talking about carbon in the environment and its actual effect versus a lot of a lot of the narrative that you hear about this Green New Deal stuff and just the climate the the the freak out, the climate freakout from the Al Gore film, which, by the way, freaked everybody out and was totally inaccurate.
It was horribly inaccurate.
This was uh a film, an inconvenient truth from 2005?
It was it before that?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
So this film freaked, literally freaked everyone out of the code.
gregg braden
So it's a PowerPoint.
He did a PowerPoint presentation.
joe rogan
Oh, it was.
Oh, wow.
unidentified
Yeah.
gregg braden
He just he gave a PowerPoint presentation and recorded it.
joe rogan
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
And this film was all about how we are fucked.
And by this time, the time we're living in right now, 2025, the Earth is supposed to be unlivable.
I mean, it's not I'm exaggerating, but like Miami's underwater, the coast.
Meanwhile, the coasts haven't moved at all.
And the some of the wealthiest, most influential people in the world buy property on the coastline.
So like that, by the way, I should tell you, you know, if the billionaires are buying beach houses, I think it's going to be okay in that regard.
But it's also like he made a lot of money off of it.
It became really weird because it became he was speaking everywhere and he made hundreds of millions of dollars.
gregg braden
He created the carbon credit system.
Yeah.
joe rogan
The whole thing is kind of nuts when you're that wrong and nobody even calls you out on it.
Like you freaked everybody out from when I saw it in 2006, all my friends were like, oh my God, we got to do something now.
We were all freaked out.
Twenty years later, very little difference.
It's not what he said wasn't true.
And there's a lot of weird inconvenient things.
One of the things that Randall Carlson brings up is one of the things about carbon is there's more green now on the surface of Earth and there has been how many years?
How many years is it been?
gregg braden
Well, NAS NASA says uh I have uh some slides called climate if we we want to look at any of the Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
And if people don't know why that would be, it was well, plants eat carbon dioxide.
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus So here's uh I mean we could do a whole three hours on this.
joe rogan
So I think we come back and do that.
gregg braden
I'm I'm a degree geologist, and I'm I began looking at climate in 1979 when I was in the energy industry uh in Denver, Colorado.
Climate change is a fact, and I want to be on record, I want to say it's it is a fact.
It's constantly changing.
And Earth is warming.
Uh and if we weren't, I would be concerned because the warming is cyclic.
And if we weren't warming now, I wonder why we're not warming now.
Uh and I want to be very clear, we need to find clean, green, sustainable forms of energy.
And we've had them, Joe, for 70 years.
If we if we were it goes even beyond thorium.
I don't know if you're familiar with thorium.
joe rogan
No, what's that?
gregg braden
So uh the Manhattan Project.
joe rogan
Sounds like an antidepressant.
gregg braden
No, no, this is it's a mineral.
It's an element.
Uh during the Manhattan Project, when they you know, did the crash program for the weapon.
They went through the periodic table to find out what elements could possibly be used to create the energy.
Uh and they chose uranium because the byproduct was the plutonium that they needed for the weapons and for the nuclear reactors.
But it's not the only element that would work.
Element number 90 uh is thorium.
Thorium uh is abundant in the Earth's crust.
It's inexpensive.
It's uh almost every nation has access to it, so it's very easy to get uh it cannot melt down like a Fukushima.
It cannot be weaponized, which is one of the reasons that that they're not using it.
The waste can become the new fuel.
It can be recycled as the fuel.
unidentified
What?
gregg braden
Uh thorium element number ninety.
and if you look it up, this is why Wikipedia is a problem.
If you look up Wikipedia and some of these other things, they'll say, well, it's theoretical.
We had thorium reactors back in the 80s.
China, Russia, the United States had them in Colorado.
There was an Indian River facility that was largely the uh run on uh it's called thori thorium salts is what they were doing.
Uh and that's just one example.
So what I'm saying is if we were serious about clean green sustainable energy, there are technologies that they would have allowed us to have that we haven't.
All right.
So I just uh I want to say that.
When it comes to this is part of our earlier conversation.
We are being taught to demonize carbon in general.
And our young people are frightened of carbon.
They think carbon is bad, carbon is evil, carbon is what we're made out of.
And so they have no problem relinquishing their carbon-based, frail, fragile, flawed bodies for the technology because they've already been taught that carbon is bad.
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
Which is bananas.
gregg braden
Well, it is banana.
joe rogan
So here's the thing I can't believe it worked.
gregg braden
Well, we've got with psych it's psychology.
There's a whole story behind that.
So I've got some images, I don't know if we want to bring them up.
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
But that's this narrow view of carbon is so crazy.
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.: First, right now, so CO2 levels right now, about 418, 420 parts per million, which is higher than it's been in 10 years, 20 years, 50 years.
That's true.
Is it dangerously high?
No.
And as a geologist, here's why I can say that.
When we go look at the geologic record, there are times we've had CO2 levels have been a thousand parts per million, two thousand parts per million.
And Earth was lush, earth was green, it was definitely a little warmer.
The ice melted, the sea levels did rise.
Okay.
That's a problem for people that build 10 feet from the sea, thinking that the sea is always going to be 10 feet away.
unidentified
Right.
gregg braden
All right.
Uh some of the the most abundant times for life during Jurassic period, uh Cretaceous, uh during during these periods.
And what's interesting is you can have very high carbon dioxide levels historically and the temperatures are low.
And vice versa, you can have uh high temperatures and the CO2 is low.
And then one of the kickers is from the Vostok ice cores.
So uh we we recognize warming was happening.
Scientists went to Antarctica.
Okay, I'm gonna back up for people that may not be familiar with this.
Every year there's a new layer of ice that is laid down in Greenland uh and Antarctica, and in that layer of ice is captured little air bubbles uh of the atmosphere and particles of pollen and particles of volcanic dust.
And we can tell from that layer what the the the temperatures have been, what the magnetic strength of the earth has been, how strong the sun has been.
I mean, all this stuff was it is a it's a mind-blower.
I'm just amazed.
Uh we actually have ice core libraries.
So I mean, very cold uh refrigerated rooms where they've seen that.
They take the core.
joe rogan
It's wild.
gregg braden
Yeah.
So scientists recognize the ice was we can pull a video that up.
joe rogan
It's so fascinating to look at if people hadn't seen it.
gregg braden
I may have some pictures and it's under climate on the power of it.
The PowerPoints.
So what they did was they said, let's we don't know what's happening, is what scientists said.
Let's capture as much information as we can before the ice melts.
So they drilled in Vostok, Antarctica, uh and they ended up going back 420,000 years of of layers of ice, continuous layers.
joe rogan
Whoa, how deep is that?
gregg braden
Um I'm not sure how how deep that is.
It's it was they drilled below that was Vostok Lake.
So they went down as far as they could uh before they hit it the lake.
joe rogan
That's a hell of a pipe.
gregg braden
It is.
And you can see uh so here's here and this was in the the eighties and nineties they were doing this.
And the real scientists know what I'm gonna say, the real geologist that are not politicized and are not beholden to academic or corporate interests that are paying their paychecks.
One of the problems is in those ice cores, the temperature actually rises before the CO2 levels.
If the CO2 is causing that rise, that's a problem.
Because you would expect the CO2 to rise first and then the temperature and that's not what the ice cores now I do have a slide of that if he wants to to bring that up.
So it suggests that something else is happening.
And when we look at um it's it's this one right um it's on the lower lower left the sec second slide on the from the lower left.
unidentified
I can't see this is a lot of slides folks.
joe rogan
There's 28 slides.
gregg braden
Yeah this is a present presentation that I gave okay right there.
So what you're seeing is the uh the red is temperature and blue yeah and the you can see that the uh the red if you're coming from the the past to the present the red is rising first and then the blue follows so the temperatures are rising first and then the carbon dioxide is rising.
Now there's a reason for that and a lot of people don't like this what's driving climate change is under our feet humans are not causing it.
All right statement and it's different than what a lot of people have heard and I'm going to acknowledge that NASA said I've got a slide showing that NASA is showing 90% of the CO2 in the atmosphere Joe is coming from the outgassing of the oceans.
All right we know from high school science from high school science that cold water holds more gas the oceans are warming and that's a fact and as they warm they're releasing that CO2 into the atmosphere the kicker is they're warming from underneath not from top.
joe rogan
So they're not you don't think they're warming from whatever we're doing to the atmosphere.
gregg braden
No.
We now we are definitely contributing to CO2 in the atmosphere but it's what would be the factor like what would be the cause of the warming from below we're going to go through this I I should probably just go I have another one on there on on um magnetic migrations.
Okay so here's now you're gonna freak me out Randall Carlson deal no no and I don't see any evidence of all the things to be concerned about.
Before the poles can shift which they do occasionally three factors have to be in place and they're not there right now.
So let me just say that.
joe rogan
Right now thank you for that because I've been freaking out about that one.
gregg braden
No they they but however we're asking the wrong question.
They're not shifting they're migrating.
joe rogan
Oh great.
gregg braden
And the migration, what happens, I'm not sure how far back to go.
So what we know is Paul LaViolette in the 1980s, I knew him before he passed.
He was a brilliant, brilliant physicist, wrote a book called Earth Under Fire that was ridiculed a lot in the 80s.
And what he said is that every once in a while on a clockwork basis, there is a volley of cosmic rays that comes, cosmic rays that come from the center of our Milky Way.
cosmic rays like they're passing through you and me right now because we're mostly empty you know our at we're 99.99 percent nothing.
joe rogan
Neutrinos and stuff like that.
gregg braden
Exactly.
And when they pass into the crust of the earth nothing happens.
In the core, the core is so dense, Joe, because of the pressure of the earth it's iron nickel and it's so dense that those they they can't pass through and it actually causes what's called perturbations and it begins to heat the core of the earth and that causes uh it shifts rotation and right now Japanese scientists are saying that the the core is slowed or possibly even stopped.
I don't know if your guests have talked about that as the core goes through these cycles so you look at the cross section of the earth there's the inner core that's solid the outer core is molten then the mantle is about 1800 miles thick, and it's it's magma, and then the crust is only about 36 miles thick.
So in the the the textbooks, the inner core always looks like it's floating right in the middle of the earth, but that's not what's happening.
When it goes when those particles are hitting it and heating it up, it actually bumps up against the outer core, causing ripples, perturbations is what they're called, uh against the mantle, and the mantle begins to seep into the crust, and it's the mantle that is heating the oceans from underneath because of that.
Happens uh about every well, about every 12,500 years.
And that number, if you talk to Randall, we just did the conference in Boulder.
Uh he was in the conference that we did up there, and that uh has to do with the younger dryests.
You m if um I think you've had guests talking about so the last the younger dryest was the last time that this happened.
It happened 12,500 years before that, 12,500 years before that.
You can I've got a chart.
You can see it's like clockwork.
jamie vernon
I'm looking at that NASA thing, and it said I went to the website, it says that it's rising because the ocean is absorbing the gases, causing the water to rise over time.
gregg braden
The the ocean is that's the equilibrium.
It's outgassing.
Uh and it's also there's a an equilibrium between what we're creating in the atmosphere, and we are creating in the atmosphere.
You have to be honest about it.
We're creating carbon dioxide, and it the ocean is is what's called the sink.
It's the CO2 sink that is is heated that's soaking that up.
So what's happening, Joe, is the mantle is is being disturbed.
It is heating the oceans from underneath, releasing the carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
And that's where that's coming from.
When we look into the geologic history, uh we've seen this happen before.
And it's it's intense, it's brief, and it's what comes after that usually is a problem.
It's not the warming, it's the change.
joe rogan
Uh that this was what was interesting.
Underneath it it said covering more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface, our global global ocean has a very high heat capacity.
It has uh has absorbed ninety percent of the warming that has occurred in recent decades due to increasing greenhouse gases.
So this is acknowledging, though, that there has been an increase in the temperature because of our civilization, because of greenhouse gases.
gregg braden
There's an increase in CO2.
joe rogan
But so but it's saying an increase in warming.
And warming has occurred because of increasing greenhouse gases.
So what you're saying is these greenhouse gases we're contributing to it, but it's not the primary.
gregg braden
It's not the primary and the modeling is the problem.
Jamie, would you please?
joe rogan
So will you can I go but before we go any further?
If we didn't exist at all, uh if there was no industrial civilization, we existed like hunter-gatherers, would we have no impact?
Would it be the exact same thing, or would it be a fraction of a degree warmer because of human society?
gregg braden
I think we have to be honest.
Uh I don't have the numbers on this.
I think we have to just be honest and say we are contributing to some degree.
joe rogan
So you feel like it's a minor degree, and if even if we were hunter-gatherers, the same pattern of Earth warming would still be going on.
gregg braden
All we need to do is go back, there's an orange chart on there, Jamie.
And you look at the Jurassic Pleistocene, we weren't right.
joe rogan
So this is right here?
gregg braden
Yeah.
And you can see the black uh, I think is the is the black the CO2.
joe rogan
Yes, it says atmospheric CO2 and the blue is global temperature.
gregg braden
High it's been and look at the the the temperatures times when it's it's high.
Uh look in the orange over here when the CO2 is hard, the temperature is.
joe rogan
What's up, Jamie?
jamie vernon
It's a five hundred million years ago.
joe rogan
I know, nuts, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
gregg braden
So we weren't there.
And this is what you can see from.
jamie vernon
So then again, we don't have like a lot of data from back then, do we?
What was going on?
gregg braden
Uh data comes from different sources.
joe rogan
You've got ice cores, and then you're I know I just thought I mean just how are they getting data from 500 million years ago?
gregg braden
You get it from seafloor sediments.
joe rogan
Jeez.
gregg braden
Is one of the things you can do there.
There's a little sea creature called the globodarina.
jamie vernon
Are those tests getting better as we get like more recently in the now, I guess.
gregg braden
So so um we can go into this as as deep as you want.
What I'm want you to see here is there's not a direct correlation between CO2 and temperature in the past.
We can say that.
And we can also see that CO2 levels have been higher in the past than they are now.
Uh and Earth was lush, it was green.
Life was flourishing.
joe rogan
As Randall Carson always says, global cooling is what's really important.
unidentified
Right.
gregg braden
Now I'm going to tie it back in to what we began this conversation with.
There's a concerted effort to remake the world and to remake our bodies.
If I did a little experiment in uh January of last year, and I said, okay, what if we met all of the climate goals?
What would Earth look like?
I'm not going to push back against them.
unidentified
I just take to say what would if you just zero zero carbon.
gregg braden
We're only at 240 parts per million right now, which historically is low.
We're on the low end right now.
If we were to meet those goals, they want us to go back to we would meet the goals, it would push it back to about a hundred and or two hundred and thirty-six parts per million is what they're looking at.
A hundred and eighty parts per million is dangerously low.
So there, and this isn't something like you can just take a dial and and adjust a little bit here and there.
They are are pushing, if we were to meet those goals, Earth would have by the way, they're also pushing for global cooling of 10 degrees global average.
We're at 56 Fahrenheit global average right now.
They want 46 degrees.
The last time on Earth we had those kinds of temperatures and that kind of CO2 was the Pleistocene era.
It was not good for us.
It's not good for life.
It's not good for humans.
joe rogan
Who are they?
gregg braden
They are not.
joe rogan
Why would they want to do such a self-destructive thing?
Do they know this?
Do they know this data?
gregg braden
Aaron Powell Well, let's break it down.
joe rogan
Okay, let's step through this.
gregg braden
Climate.
joe rogan
Yes.
gregg braden
If we were to meet those climate goals, it's not good for us.
All right?
joe rogan
Let's put that as a human species.
gregg braden
As a human species.
Put that over here.
unidentified
Okay.
gregg braden
We're being pushed for war.
And I think you can see that.
And the nations of the earth that have the capability for war are waging that war, and what's happening is we're depleting our resources as nations.
We are, and I just did a search on this the other night.
Uh the superpowers are dangerously low on weapons and on the ability humans to fight in those wars.
If Earth ever needed to fight, we don't have what we need right now.
So our weapons are being depleted.
Okay, let's put that over here.
Now there's a concerted effort to break the social bonds that have held us together as societies, as nations, as communities.
And that is working very successfully.
We're we're breaking down those borders.
That's not good for us.
That's not good for anyone.
Now you look at the transhuman movement to replace us with technology, with machines to debilitate our ability for critical thinking, our ability for imagination for creativity, uh, for all the reasons that we just talked about, use it or lose it.
When we give our power away to that technology, we're not the best version of ourselves.
That's not good for us.
None of those are good for us.
So if I said that to you, what would you say to me?
Who would that be good for?
If it's not good for us, who's it good for?
joe rogan
Satan.
gregg braden
Well, now is where you go back and you look at all those ancient texts.
You look at the the tr and depending on what language you're using, if you're looking at Sumerian texts, this world um was never ours to begin with, is what those texts say.
And there is a good argument that can be made that Earth is being modified in ways that are not necessarily good for us.
Who are they good for?
That there's a whole conversation that we can have, you know, around around that.
joe rogan
So you think climate is a part of this whole agenda of control?
gregg braden
I do.
joe rogan
Yeah.
gregg braden
Well, that's the same thing.
And it's not just my opinion.
I think the evidence supports that.
Because why would we want to push this planet back?
I mean, NASA says we're greener now than we have been in 20 years.
Why would we want to push this planet back to the environment of the Pleistocene era?
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
Well, we want to have control over things all the time.
And when you see certain areas that become too hot for a certain kind of agriculture or things change or certain lakes dry up.
There's things like that that happened that people freak out about because we want control.
That's why we want to bring animals back from extinction.
Like we we won't we want control over everything around us because it makes us feel better.
But the problem with this one is you're getting people that are saying we're gonna lower the earth temperature.
Like you didn't we didn't vote on that.
Like just because it's your idea and you people are moving in this direction, you have so much money, you're making a decision for literally eight people.
gregg braden
These are unelected, unelected officials.
joe rogan
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
It's nuts.
It's nuts that they think they could spray things in the sky to reflect particles, reflective particles to to dull out the sun and lower the temperature of the earth.
That's an insane notion.
gregg braden
Especially if we're moving in the cooler anyway.
But all of this, I mean, so now we've identified these things.
I think it's useless to be angry.
I think what we do is we recognize, Joe, that all of these applications of technology are a reflection of the way we've been conditioned to think about ourselves.
When we wake up to become the best version of ourselves, then we recognize it makes sense to go clean and green.
It makes sense to to grow our food differently.
It makes sense to have different kinds of energy because we recognize our relationship to ourselves and the world around us.
Aaron Ross Powell, Jr.
joe rogan
Right, not because we're being manipulated.
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
Exactly.
Exactly.
joe rogan
So this is it could be done the right way.
Like the real issue that we have as a society, one of the not the, but war is obviously the, but one of the big ones is pollution.
Like that is undeniable.
gregg braden
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
When you see like what's going on in India with some of those rivers where it's just the the entire river is just choked up with plastic.
gregg braden
I've been there.
I've seen that.
unidentified
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
That is insane.
That as a as a human race that we allow that.
That's insane.
Like but then you look at places like is it Singapore, Jamie, that we watched that video where it was fascinating there I believe it's Singapore.
Um where they have like the most sophisticated recycling program.
Like unbelievably efficient.
And they take that stuff and use it to pave the roads.
They they burn things down, specific materials.
They have I mean, it's an insane job they do of of taking the the garbage.
So we know it's possible.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
gregg braden
It is possible.
So everything we're talking about is a consequence of what happens when we give our humanness away and we believe that we are a flawed species and that we need something outside of ourselves to be the best version of ourselves, or that we believe we're powerless, so we say to someone else, fix it and make it better.
Right.
We're now, right now, and the AI is driving this conversation.
We are at the point where we are being asked by the conditions of the world to accept the deep truth of what it means to be human.
And in that humanness, when we accept our ability that there's a part of us that doesn't live in here, what that means is the more that we can honor the antenna, the gift of the body to access that.
We become healthier, we become the best version of ourselves.
We begin to live differently.
We begin to eat differently, we begin to recycle differently, we use energy differently.
Because we're living in the world a reflection of the new honor and respect that we have for the gift of our bodies.
And nobody's telling our young kids anything like this.
joe rogan
Aaron Powell No.
gregg braden
We have to protect our children.
joe rogan
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
It would help everybody just to think that way.
It would help everybody.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Trevor Burrus, but no matter what you're trying to do with life.
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Well, this is but the AI right now is is the tip of the spear.
This is what they're using, they again the powers that be because we're so close, Joe, for the first time in A very long time on a mass level to awakening to what it means to be human.
There are pockets that are coming together, and we're saying no.
No to war.
We're saying I think in this generation, I think you will see us walk away from the use of war to solve our problems.
What happens if they throw a war and nobody nobody goes?
I think you're going to see that happen because people are saying this isn't right.
This isn't right.
joe rogan
Trevor Burrus, well, that's a very powerful message, and I hope you're right.
But if there was one thing that I feel like most people would bet on, is that there's always going to be war.
gregg braden
I think not the same.
Not the way we're seeing it, not the way we're seeing it right now.
Not the way this ties in to the disclosure conversation.
Because when you talk to the people behind the scenes in disclosure, we obviously I don't think anybody would have a problem with a flying saucer in an air Air Force hangar somewhere.
We've we've seen it in movies where you know I don't think anybody's surprised, but I don't think anybody's got a problem with with a gray alien, you know, in in an Air Force conference room somewhere.
But the implications, if we've had this relationship for so long, we know they didn't get here on a Chevy V8 engine.
I mean, they've got some pretty high tech.
joe rogan
Right.
gregg braden
Uh and what the part of the implications are that we are being asked to step up to become a different species to meet the intelligence that is being offered to us.
And there are different forms of that intelligence.
Some of that intelligence is prone to war.
And that's not the ones that we we want to necessarily um.
joe rogan
That's so hard to believe that they get so far they could travel from other places in the universe, yet they still have war.
gregg braden
That's the disappointing thing for me.
And so this is where we go back the ancient texts.
They begin with a war in the heavens, or what the Bible calls, you know, the the fall.
And the war is what destroyed a planet in our solar system.
I think Randall's probably talked about that.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
joe rogan
Well, that's the the kooky theory about Mars, too, right?
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
Well, Mars used to have an atmosphere, it doesn't anymore, and they believe that there is a compelling argument that could be made for war destroying.
I think when we get there and we see the archaeological remnants that are there, uh I think we'll have the answer to that.
But that is scary, isn't it, Joe?
You have to be so advanced and still have the still allow differences to be so great that the only way to solve them is is to hurt one another and destroy one another.
joe rogan
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
But also makes for great science fiction movies.
Because without the war in space, you have no Star Trek.
You know, you have uh no Star Wars.
gregg braden
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
Well, maybe this is where we break that cycle.
Well, maybe maybe we wake up our humanness and we accept the power of human divinity and we accept what it means, uh and we imbue our children with a deep sense of of and a healthy sense that there's something very special about them worth preserving so that they care about themselves, and then that begins to inform the way we live in the world.
We would be living in a very, very different world.
joe rogan
I think you're right, and I think you saying that is very important because it gets that word out there and people start to consider it and think about it.
And I think that's the only way people find these things is for people like you come out and have these conversations and spark thoughts in people's heads, like maybe I'm thinking and behaving and living the wrong way.
And maybe maybe we could just become more united and more positive and recognize this incredible gift that we have of this life.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
gregg braden
But look at what the science.
See, the science, the science is so compartmentalized.
And I saw this when I was working in even in the industry.
So a discovery is made in genetics and it stays in that genetic box and it gets published in some obscure the new way of thinking is looking at humans from an IT perspective.
So there are journals like the Journal of Soft Computing.
I didn't even talk about that.
The Journal of Soft Computing has just come out and said that human DNA, three-dimensional human DNA Is a fractal antenna.
Now what's that mean?
An antenna tunes to a signal, a fractal antenna tunes to a vast array of signals across the broad spectrum.
We got fifty trillion of them in our bodies.
And the journalists saying it, but who reads that?
Who's reading the Journal of Soft Computing?
joe rogan
Thank God you are.
gregg braden
Who has a beautiful hardbound copy of the Journal of Soft Computing next to their bed like I do?
joe rogan
laughter Well, the fact that you know it, you just told people, now people know.
gregg braden
But if we can begin seeing ourselves and really I think the greatest task that we're cherish, that we're that we're tasked with right now is to cherish an honor and care for the gift of the human body.
Because I believe it is a gift because there was an intervention that created the mutations that give us what we have today.
We don't know who or what, but we're not the product of natural evolution.
And until we understand fully what that is, Joe, why would we want to give that away to technology before we even know what it means to be human?
And once we give it away, we can never go back.
This is how you lose a species.
And I think we're worth preserving.
And my that's my message.
I I'm advocating for our humanness, for our divinity, for our love.
from all our forms of life.
And I think we're worth preserving.
joe rogan
I agree with you 100%.
And I appreciate you very much.
And thank you very much for coming on here.
It was a lot of fun.
Hey, let's do it again.
gregg braden
Are you saying we're finished?
joe rogan
Yeah, we're done.
We are almost three hours.
unidentified
Oh wow.
Okay.
joe rogan
Is that crazy?
gregg braden
All right, Joe.
Well, thank you very much.
joe rogan
I really enjoyed it.
Thank you.
gregg braden
You know, thank you.
You are just an amazing listener.
And I appreciate the long format and the opportunity to flesh out these ideas in their entirety.
So thank you for that.
joe rogan
Well, it's my pleasure.
Thank you for being interesting so I could just listen.
It's like but it's yeah, you know, uh I only have people on the podcast that I'm interested in.
So uh when I saw a lot of your stuff online, I'm like, this guy's fascinating.
gregg braden
Well, thank you.
joe rogan
And it was great.
I really enjoyed it.
gregg braden
Thank you very much.
joe rogan
Thank you so much for that.
unidentified
All right, thank you.
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