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May 17, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Mike Adams interviews Randall Fitzgerald, acclaimed Author of The Tao of Intuitive Luck
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
And as you know, I talk about, well, cosmic reality quite a bit, and also the reality beyond our physical being, consciousness, the mind, and how the mind is actually both a receiver and a transmitter of information.
And there's so much more to this.
And our guest today is an expert in an area, what he calls...
Intuitive luck?
His book is called The Tao of Intuitive Luck.
His name is Randall Fitzgerald.
He's the author of several fascinating books, including one that I talked about years ago called The Hundred Year Lie about the FDA. But he joins us today to talk about the cosmos and consciousness and how we can make the rules of the universe work in our favor.
Welcome to the show, Mr.
Fitzgerald.
It's a pleasure to have you back on.
Mike, it's a pleasure to be back with you after all these decades.
I can't believe it's been this long.
So welcome to the show, Mr.
Fitzgerald.
Pleasure to be back with you, Mike.
It's an honor to have you on, and of course I've admired your work for so many years.
I can't believe we haven't spoken during this time, but here you are now with an extraordinary book as it's been explained to me.
I haven't read it yet, but I'm familiar with some of the basic concepts, but please give our audience just a quick background of who you are, what this book is about, why you decided to pursue this area of knowledge of cosmic truth.
So my background is in newspapers and magazines.
I started out in the 1970s in Washington, D.C., where I spent 20 years working for various newspapers.
I wrote for Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal.
For many years, I was the roving editor of Reader's Digest magazine.
And then I started writing books on eclectic subjects.
I have a rather eccentric range of interest from health, especially natural health and Good evening, all the way to the realms and frontiers of science and consciousness.
So, I'd always been interested, beginning with a magazine that I produced back in the late 70s, called Second Look.
I'd been interested in the whole frontiers of Science in connection with the search for extraterrestrial life, the origins of civilization, and the nature of consciousness.
And this latest book really is about the nature of consciousness by focusing in on intuition.
Intuition is something which quite often we take for granted, but is, along with the rational mind, a very important player in our consensus reality and also in our individual pursuit of happiness in life, because intuition is like an early warning system.
And it manifests for people in various ways.
For everyone is different.
It manifests physically in various ways.
Some people sense that knowing of intuition through their bodies, through a feeling in their stomach, the solar plexus, through a racing heart, or through mental imagery.
It occurs a variety of ways.
So I wanted to focus in on the science research.
Looking at all the various ways we experience intuition and also the research on how can we better access intuition?
How can we manage it or control it in such a way that it benefits us?
That's truly fascinating, but let me ask you, why did you choose the word luck for the title?
Because, as you know, in the reductionist scientific materialist world, the term luck refers to something that is utterly random and spontaneous without cause, and I don't think that's the context in which you're using the term luck.
Well, luck actually is wedded to intuition in several ways.
Yes, luck is random.
We have the law of averages, of probability theory.
We know that luck is something that occurs based on chance.
And chance is often random, but sometimes there's a limit to that, in the sense that consciousness itself can influence luck, and it influences luck through intuition.
For instance, there's a professor of statistics that I quote throughout my book named Mike Orton.
He said, Cal State University.
And he once said that games of chance are in casinos like metaphors for the uncertainties of life.
Everything that seems out of control in life, you know, the probability theory equations about What interactions will produce.
And he said the best way to observe the laws of chance in motion is to go to a casino and watch people play games of chance at cart tables, dice, or slot machines, because there's almost instantaneous action and reward at work.
And the reward sometimes, usually, is actually a loss.
But still, when intuition arises, when someone gets an intuitive feeling or intuitive voice that says, play this slot machine, this particular one, right now, and you obey, and then You get a reward, you get a jackpot, or you get something out of the ordinary, and you've obeyed your intuition, and it has produced something that is beneficial to you.
Now, most mathematicians would say, this itself, even though it might be a synchronicity, is something predicted by the law of averages, by chance.
But when it happens repeatedly, when someone's intuition is on target in a streak, so to speak, Then it's beyond that realm.
It gets into the realm of consciousness actually influencing the physical world.
And this is where the whole subject of parapsychology comes in.
There's been decades of research, and I read hundreds of these studies that have been done by reputable institutions, reputable scientists, and have been replicated at times that tend to show that Human minds can influence, for instance, random number generators, which are the microchips inside of slot machines.
A lot of random number generator research has been done to show that there is a slight influence that occurs.
It's not a big influence, that's a slight one.
And a slight influence, when it comes to games of chance, can skew the results in your favor.
And I would point out, I'm familiar with some of those studies that you're citing, the slight influence repeatedly over time breaks out of the statistical boundaries of what could be considered chance.
I mean, this clearly is influence.
And I just want to bring in, I'm not trying to plug my own things here.
This is not for sale.
It's free.
But I wrote a book called The Contagious Mind a couple of years ago that talks about similar things, that the mind is broadcasting information and knowledge, and it's actually contributing to a framework of patterns of nature, as Rupert Sheldrake and it's actually contributing to a framework of patterns of nature, as Rupert Sheldrake talks about the morphic resonance.
That's one way to describe these things.
And then you have a quote for your book, The Tao of Intuitive Luck, from Dean Radin of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which has done extensive research in this area that you're referring to.
And I'll get to my question here in a second, but I'm just trying to establish the context for the audience that what you are saying and what the studies that you're citing are saying is that the mind...
Exists beyond the skull that the mind influences, the fabric, the causal reality of the universe in ways that can be detected through statistical analysis of so-called games of chance.
Is that correct?
Yes, and whether we call it the holographic mind or, gosh, in mystical terms, it's often called the Akashic Records.
Yes.
There's a repository that minds can connect to, and that's where we get...
Inspiration, etc., etc.
However one wants to define it, it is about the non-physical realm.
It is about information theory, and it's about information theory applied to human consciousness.
So then, if the world were to recognize this and embrace it, rather than trying to dismiss it, because I believe we live in a world where we are taught that consciousness is an artifact of neurology, and that consciousness therefore isn't real, and that therefore you don't have a real choice, that you're just like a biological pinball machine...
Bouncing off the walls of reality.
And that's the overriding philosophy that we're taught.
You know, the science.
You have to trust the science.
But if that paradigm were to shift, what changes would that bring about in our world, if suddenly everybody realized that what you're saying is true?
Well, utilizing intuition in that way as a tool for human interactions It would help to create a much more transparent world.
It would be trusting our gut instincts, as it's often called, to the extent that we see through the promises of politicians.
The claims being made by fringe scientists who are seeking to make a buck.
We see through all aspects of human interactions where deception is an operative word.
And I think that would facilitate a much better world in so many different respects.
I completely agree with you.
Wouldn't it also demonstrate to people that we are all connected through something that transcends our individual brains?
It's very easy to isolate groups of people today or to denigrate groups of people to say, well, they're not even human.
They're just animals, let's say.
But when you realize that we're all not just human beings and the physical being, but we're conscious beings, that we actually contribute to To the fabric of the cosmos of the universe.
We actually alter, collectively especially.
I mean, talk about that.
What about the power of, you know, a million conscious minds focusing on one thing?
What does that do?
Interesting.
At Princeton University, you're probably familiar with the subjects.
It was a global look at how human consciousness and the attention, the focus of the attention of millions of minds, might impact the quantum world from the standpoint of random number generators in computers scattered across the planet.
So at Princeton, in In the engineering department, they did quite a few studies that examined, for instance, in the aftermath of 9-11, what was the impact of human consciousness and attention suddenly as a result of the events in Washington, D.C. and New York on September 11th.
As a result of those events, what happened when so many people We're watching the news and their minds were gravitating toward the events happening on 9-11.
And what they discovered is that there were quirks that occurred in the patterns, the random number of patterns that were being spit out in the printouts from these computers.
And there seemed to be an overall collective Mentality at work that was influencing the subatomic world.
Other studies were done at Princeton as well, looking at many other events.
But major events like 9-11 seem to have the greatest impact, seeming to indicate that this web of consciousness, as you refer to it, is focused and at work.
Whenever human events are dialed in to a particular channel.
So doesn't that speak to the real goal of the controlled media that no doubt you've seen over your years of work, how much of the narratives are scripted and controlled and not based on what would actually enhance and empower humanity,
but so many of the narratives are designed to focus attention on specific topics in order to Then potentially in order to alter human consciousness in a collective way.
Does that make sense?
Well, it does, and I get back to whether it's conscious or unconscious as a process.
Now, obviously, at the individual level, when you have producers and editors making decisions about what coverage will be given to what particular subjects, what news stories will be given priority and precedence over others, etc., all of those decisions collectively, of course, Tend to reflect a mindset.
And it's a mindset that can be formed in journalism schools and broadcast journalism schools and universities around the world based on the teaching methods, based on the teaching patterns and information used in order to program a particular approach.
To information, massaging information for public consumption.
So all of that can play a role at both the conscious and the unconscious levels.
Now, let me give out your website.
It's thedao of intuitiveluck.com, and dao is spelled T-A-O, thedao of intuitiveluck.com.
That's also the title of one of your books.
You have several other books here, Alien in the Mirror, Cosmic Test Tube, Lucky You, and so on.
These are fascinating topics.
Now that we're having this interview, I want to check out some of these books.
But what is Cosmic Test Tube all about?
Oh, yeah.
Well, it is an encyclopedic compendium of all of the theories and evidence ever proposed up until that point.
The book came out in 1999, but everything had been proposed up until that point about the Search for extraterrestrial life, about visitation by extraterrestrial life, about interactions with non-human beings or entities of consciousness.
It is basically taking all of the literature produced up until that point.
Condensing it, summarizing it, and showing the patterns in the material over time as ideas evolved, as theories evolved.
That book had a new edition, which came out last year, called Alien in the Mirror, which took all of the material from the 1900 all the way up to last year and also summarized it.
So it's a rather big book.
It's over 24 or 500 pages.
A lot of material and I spent many years on it.
But it's part of my fascination with how theories and ideas and conspiracy theories tend to evolve over time.
Okay.
All right.
I got to say right now, You're invited to come back on and talk about just that book.
Oh, I would be honored.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
This is a subject of great fascination to our audience as well.
I think it takes a very tiny mind to think that we are alone in this great cosmos, right?
You know, clearly we're not the only ones in all these galaxies, not even just our own galaxy, but It's interesting because we're working on an AI project where we're training language models on alternative information and herbs and natural health and medicine and releasing those models for free to the public.
Someone contacted me from an institute just two days ago that is donating 2,600 books on UFOs and aliens to our project.
And I was just thinking, oh, you just gave me like eight months of work for all my computers to crunch all that stuff.
But it seems like you've compiled the best evidence or the most available evidence in this book, Alien in the Mirror, and maybe I should be using that book first.
I would hope so, because it takes all points of view.
I even look at the skeptics, the debunkers, and all of the books they produce.
I condense them and condense the ideas and contrast them to the believers.
I contrast all of those to the scientists in the SETI program and their books and their ideas.
So it really is encyclopedic in scope and it's very broad.
And it takes in a lot of subject matters that ordinarily might seem unconnected in the public mind.
Wow!
Okay, truly fascinating.
We'll mark that down as another interview to do with you coming up.
But let's get back now to your newest book, The Tao of Intuitive Luck.
And one of the promises that's implied in your book and in your work is that people can use this, they can harness This intuitive luck in order to enhance their own lives.
What are some of the practical things that you talk about that people can do in this manner?
Well, some of it is round up the usual suspects.
For instance, meditation.
I mean, meditation is the basis for so much in the way of natural health, natural mental health especially.
In the case of luck and intuition, what I found was through reading about the experiments in which meditation was used, where people in parapsychological experiments meditated beforehand in order to clear the mind,
It's important to have a program, a technique to use to take out all of the unnecessary mind chatter, clear the mind, get your internal guidance system operating at optimal level in order to pick up these signals, in order to send the signals, in order to be a channel.
It's important to have that sort of clarity, and it comes with practice, of course, with meditation.
But there are other practices one can do.
In order to set up a vibration, I mean, everything is vibratory.
Whether it's the cell that's vibrating, or whether it's the neurons vibrating with each other that produce thoughts.
Life is about vibrations.
So if we do chanting, something that, for instance, creates a vibration, that's helpful.
It facilitates part of this process of accessing intuition more clearly and with greater repetition.
So all of these, and there are probably a dozen different techniques that I explore in the book, and all of it is science-based.
Okay, so the power of the spoken word is something that's even, of course, mentioned in the Bible and other religious texts from around the world.
And that's also consistent with the idea of positive affirmations.
Do you believe that the spoken word, not just thinking about it, but speaking it, that there's some method by which it imprints more strongly intention upon the fabric of the cosmos?
Yes.
And the research indicates that.
There's been quite a bit of research on that.
And at the individual level and at the level of setting an intention, manifesting it, I mean, one doesn't have to be an adherent of, you know, the old secret, the secret book.
And movie, a documentary, in order to know that there is a type of law of attraction, and it's vibrations.
It's vibratory.
It's a foundation, becoming a foundation now, of physics and has for quite some time.
And so, if we take it to its logical And natural extreme, it's something that connects us all and also at the same time gives us a sense of meaning, even a sense of awe about life.
We often don't realize and uncover fully because we're so caught up in the minute details of life that tend to bog us down and distract us.
Yes, yes, and the mobile phone interruptions that have been with us about one generation, which is changing things in dramatic ways.
But let me ask you a trick question next, kind of a follow-up to the last question.
About the power of the spoken word.
Now, there are...
How important is the presence of consciousness behind those words, conscious intention?
Because there are, of course, today, there are AI-generated avatars, and there's AI text-to-speech programs.
And, you know, we're working on an AI program for a different reason, not to trick anybody, but to present knowledge to people.
But somebody could have, you know, a room full of AI computers with speakers speaking out positive intentions That sound human but it's just silicon behind it.
Would that have the same effect as a conscious person doing it?
In other words, can this phenomenon be synthesized through machines or does that not count?
That is not just a trick question.
It is becoming one of the ultimate questions.
In the book, The Tao of Intuitive Luck, I talk about the cosmic trickster.
Now, the cosmic trickster is manifesting through AI now.
And the cosmic trickster is an ancient idea.
It's an idea that there's an energy form.
The Greeks call it Hermes.
And it's a form that tricks the human mind.
And it tricks us in various ways.
Internally, it can trick us with our own delusions and our habits of mind.
It can trick us from the standpoint of wanting to believe and the entire intention set of wanting to believe.
Can manifest a very illusory sort of consensus reality, which is the potential that we face now with AI, that AI can, in its collective entity sort of way, because it's becoming an entity into itself, that it can manifest.
An illusory consensus reality that the human mind will have difficulty, individual minds particularly, in determining what is real and what is mass-produced.
Well, absolutely, but I need to ask you back to the question, though, can a synthesized spoken word Alter the causative reality of the cosmos in the same way as a human conscious intention spoken word.
I can only speculate with you about that, Mike, because it's not something that I've studied.
It's not something that I'm smart enough, actually, to know the cutting edge of in terms of the current philosophical thought about the implications of AI. It's something I could spend the rest of my life, in fact, studying.
Maybe I will, with your inspiration.
Well, you know, one of the reasons I ask that question, consider this possible scenario where, let's say, somebody online offers a prayer service for you, except the prayers are carried out by computers.
And so, like, we'll have a hundred...
Popes praying for you, but they're simulated popes or whatever.
You get the idea.
And then they can even take a video of a bank of a hundred laptops all speaking out prayers for you.
And somebody selling that service might say, you know, this is more powerful than just one person praying for you.
This is a hundred virtual avatars praying for you.
And you would ask the question, does this count?
Is it scammy?
Is it legit?
You know, right?
Those are the kinds of questions that will come to mind.
So there's an experiment, a series of experiments that could be done to test the placebo effect.
You could have a placebo triggered by AI, Or you could have it triggered by one individual or a collection of individuals in a prayer group somewhere.
Testing that would be an interesting process.
Yeah, it sure would be.
And I would certainly open up a whole range of possible experiments that could be done looking at the impact of placebos and belief As the interaction is triggered by either AI or human consciousness.
And on the dark side, maybe there's like a dark secret government somewhere that actually has like a deep cave full of thousands of computers and they're all praying to enslave humanity at every moment, right?
Like they've cracked the code to keep us enslaved.
You have a wonderful mind, Mike, and I can see many science fiction novels ahead for you.
Oh, yes, absolutely.
Well, but that's the thing, is that here we are, we're living in a cosmos that is so mysterious and so intriguing, and you strike me as a particularly curious individual.
I think curiosity drives a lot of your work, and I consider myself to be curious as well, and also very open-minded about what's going on.
Most people live in such a mundane, simpleton, materialistic, flat-earth version of reality.
Yes, and abject fear.
Most people live with Being singed by fear every day, by the news headlines or whatever it is.
And being in a fear-ridden society is not healthy.
And that's where having optimists and hopeful people around and having pleasant and positive thoughts is so very nurturing and therapeutic.
And that's what I hope to do with some of my books like The Tao of Intuitive Luck.
It has a very hopeful and optimistic side to it in the sense that you too can harness your intuition and it can be utilized to benefit your life in so many wonderful ways if you just open your mind to the possibilities.
Let me ask you this question with a personal event that affected me strongly as well.
I think our audience will resonate with this, but there are many times in my life where I've received intuitive information and then I chose to ignore it.
In my experience, it was always a horrible mistake.
Over time, I learned to listen to intuition.
And every time that I've listened to intuition, it has been extremely rewarding, but usually it required a leap of faith, because there was not evidence in my consciousness or observation of why I should be doing this thing, just rather strong intuition, and I had to trust that and take that leap of faith, and then it paid off.
It's like faith is required somehow.
What's this all about?
Yes, well, I quote a number of people along this line in the book.
Here's one quote from Oprah Winfrey.
She said, I trusted the still small voice of intuition my entire life.
The only time I've made mistakes is when I didn't listen.
Oh my gosh.
I just said the same thing that Oprah said.
Now I'm freaked out.
You did.
You did.
And you deserve to be with Oprah on a stage talking about this because it is quite important.
I think I'm banned from Oprah, by the way.
I don't think anybody in the mainstream will ever have me on.
But that's beside the point.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Well, you're in good company out there on the periphery, because it's on the periphery that we get a perspective on life and human interactions that ends up being prophetic.
Indeed.
So, in any respect, back to Oprah and that trusting the small, still voice of intuition.
Yes, it is a whispered voice quite often.
And quite often, our rational mind And sometimes with good reason, ignores that voice because we haven't all learned how to trust the voice.
And how do we trust it?
We have to experiment.
We're all guinea pigs in our own life experiments.
All of us.
And whether we're doing it consciously or unconsciously, we're engaged in experiments where we test whether our intuition is on target.
I mean, if it's as simple as standing in line at a grocery store and you're looking at five or six different lines and you're trying to decide which line am I going to stand in that's going to be the fastest.
And you look and your rational mind says, over here, there are only a couple of people with few things to be checked by the checker, so let's stand over there.
So you go over there and stand there, and then there's a malfunction or something happens, and you're standing there for a long time because it wasn't about the quantity.
It was about the quality of the information.
And then your intuition has told you, no, you've got to stand over here, and you fail to listen.
And sure enough, if you had listened, you would have gone through the line faster.
You would have found a parking space that you were searching for.
Whatever it might be.
You know, something simple, or it can be something major.
I can't date this one woman.
I see something in the future that's going to be negative.
I better stay away.
But you don't.
And then it comes true and you say, I wish I'd trust my intuition.
But there are lots of ways to look how to test your intuition, how each one of us can test it is part of what the book is all about because there are lots of ways, lots of little personal experiments we can do.
Wow, that's a very powerful message.
I'm really glad to be able to talk with you today, and I regret that this is so short compared to what you and I could explore, but we'll do it again.
We'll have you back.
We'll talk about your other books and maybe explore some more topics here.
Let me give out your website.
Again, it's thedao of intuitiveluck.com, and dao is spelled T-A-O. And our guest today is Randall Fitzgerald, and his books are available on Amazon, Barnes& Noble, and other booksellers, and they include Alien in the Mirror, Lucky You, The Hundred-Year Lie, Cosmic Test Tube.
And Randall, is there anything else you'd like to add before we wrap this up today?
No, Mike, but I would like to speak with you again because everything, all of those books are intertwined and interconnected, and we can explore those interconnections the next time.
Absolutely.
And look, let me pose a question that we can talk about next time, too, because you and I are both into nutrition, natural health, and we understand that toxicity in foods alters the functioning of the physical brain, which impacts or suppresses our ability to access the non-physical mind.
So there is a direct link between what we choose to eat or not eat and the results that we get with our consciousness.
And that's a link that not a lot of people understand.
Because the non-material mind is translated through the physical neurons in order to get into our physical being.
Yes, toxins in food create toxic brains which create toxic thoughts.
Absolutely.
100%.
So let's write that down.
We'll make a note, but let's talk about that next time, and then we'll get into aliens and whatever else you want to talk about.
But it'll be a fascinating conversation.
I can't wait.
Look forward.
Happy trails.
Okay.
Thank you, Randall.
It's a pleasure to have you back on again.
Thank you for all your work and contributions to our world.
So that's Randall Fitzgerald, everybody.
Extraordinary man.
Extraordinary writer.
The Tao of intuitive luck.
If you want to find out how to improve your results and the power of your consciousness to make positive decisions and have positive impacts in your life, if things aren't just going in the right direction and you think you deserve better, you probably do.
And there's a way to access that, and this book can help you learn how to do that.
So check it out, and his website as well, thedowofintuitiveluck.com.
Thank you for watching today.
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