Tree Of Knowledge - L,L,&L W/ Glenn Ambrose

In this episode I compare the Garden of Eden story, the Toltec Tree of Knowledge story and a Rumi quote, all to explain our evolution throughout the 3 levels of thinking. Cool stuff!
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Welcome to Life, Lessons & Laughter with your host, Glenn Ambrose. Hello, Welcome to the show, Everybody. Welcome, Welcome. I think this podcast has the potential to be a pretty darn cool one. We will see. We will see how it unfolds. Um. . . But yeah, It's something that's been kind of coming into my awareness in different ways lately. So I decided to chat with y'all about it. So I wanted to talk about the tree of knowledge. And the understanding of this and there's kind of. Probably three main ways I'm gonna touch on it. The Adam and Eve story from the Old Testament and the Bible. The Toltec version from The. The voice of knowledge. By Don Miguel Ruiz, That book, And then also a Rumi quote that I've come across just recently, Which I thought was kind of cool that it tied into it. So. So where do I begin? Where do I begin? Yeah, I'm going to begin by talking about the three things that I just mentioned, Because I think that will lay the foundation. For where I'm going with this podcast. So I'll, I'll, I'll give you a little snippet though, Like where I'm going with this podcast. Is I want to show the difference through our evolution of our existence here on earth. So the evolution from going from a basically a non-thinking state. To a thinking state where we're consumed by thoughts, Which is where we are now, To evolving to a state that's above that. Okay, Above the state of constant thinking. So those are the three states and we'll see how it goes. Maybe you can keep those in mind as I'm talking. Maybe I'll dive into them as I go, We'll see. So, Well, I'm going to start with, With the, Uh, Adam and Eve story, You know, Just cause that's the one that, That more people are familiar with. So, So basically the tree, You know, The tree is the tree of the voice of knowledge. Or not the voice of knowledge, But the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Right? So. So the tree represents knowledge of good and evil and moral choice slash disobedience. So as you can tell, I'm reading this. I did a brief summary of each of these. In the Old Testament, The fall. Is a literal or spiritual act of willful disobedience against God's direct command. God said, Don't eat this. They ate it. They disobeyed him, And then they're punished. So already you can kind of see the theme in the Old Testament, Especially where a lot of things are portrayed as God being spiteful. Angry, You do what I say or else I punish you. You know, There's a kind of theme to that. So personally, I don't resonate with that. If I can't picture a loving God doing it, Saying it, Then I don't think it's true. I think it's just a way to get the point across because that's kind of how society was, You know, For. For the last 10, 000 years before it was kind of a, Cause I said, So society, You know, Everything was cast systems. Um, You, You, You didn't question what religion you were. You didn't question what you did for work. You didn't question what cast you were in or class you were in, Depending on the society. Like it was, You just did what you were told. And I mean, Even in the household, You know. You know, If beating your kids wasn't a problem back then, You know, It wasn't like, Oh no, They're going to be. Emotionally. Disturbed when they get older. Like that didn't happen until that didn't start happening until a few generations ago. Where our sensitivity levels started rising and beating our children just was no longer feasible because it started causing psychological and emotional damage. So we had to change out of that. It's all part of the shift, In my opinion. But back then it was. So having a God, Portraying a God in a way where you do what I say or else I'm punishing you, That's basically how all of society ran. It's, It's. It's relatable to the people back then. Right? But as things have changed, It's not as relatable now. I think this was why I had a hard time relating to it when I was a child being raised like that. I digress the story, But that that's the story, You know. So then they talk about paradise lost, Divine consequence, God expels them from Eden to keep them from the tree of life, Which is actually the tree of life represents the knowledge of good and evil. That's the fruit of it. The core problem, Sin, Broken relationship with God, And physical spiritual death. We're cast out, We're bad, Blah blah. So that's the That's the brief summary of that, Right? And then I'm going to go into the Toltec version. The Toltec version is that there's the tree and the fruit. The fruit represents absorbing human concepts, Lies, And self-judgment. So again, It's very similar because it's Lies, Judgment, Self-judgment. Right? So this is knowledge of good and evil. Judgment, This is good, This is bad. It's the same thing with the toll tech version, The fall. The way they say it is believing a mind filled with lies, Creating an inner voice that says you aren't enough. So they don't say, The Toltec version isn't that God got upset with you and cast you out. The Toltec version says, That once they they absorbed this poison, You know, Which is the lies and self judgment, Negative perspectives, Once the fall happens when we believe these lies. So when we take in the poison of of these of these lies of judgment and and one thing is good and one thing is bad and where the judge and and all of a sudden we start judging ourselves and we believe this stuff. Oh, I must be bad. And then they represent that as humans fall. So paradise lost is self-inflicted. Humanity lost paradise by living in an illusion and judgment instead of truth. Yes, Living in illusion and judgment instead of truth. The truth being that we are divine beings and we are enough and that we're good as we are. The core problem, Living in mental illusion, Fear, And self-rejection. So we're rejecting ourselves. We're living in the mental illusion that we're not good enough. We're caught up in this trap of judging ourselves and everyone else. And that's what's causing our misery. They don't have a reference to God casting us out. They're just saying that we kind of, Once we consume this poison and believed it, It became our reality. Oh. And then that quote that I just came across recently, This is the last one, Is this roomy quote. Well, I believe it's Romy. Is said, And I just shared this on social media today. It says, The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everyone took a piece and looked at it, Thinking they had the whole. So I saw that, I think it was yesterday or something, And I immediately flashed to Adam and Eve's story, The Toltec version, Because I was like, Oh, Wow, OK, So, You know, God had the mirror. And it fell and they. . . And it broke and then everybody took. Just a section and thought that they were looking at the whole. So it's like. So they don't have the whole truth. We're functioning from a portion of it. And then we look at our piece of the mirror and we go, Oh, Like I'm in possession of the truth. Like I know what's good. I know what's bad. I have the right for judgment of others. And if they don't match what's going on in my piece of the mirror, Which I think is the whole mirror in this quote, If they don't match up with what I see in my mirror, Then they're bad and they're wrong. And it doesn't match up to the truth because I am in sole possession of the truth. And they're like, Well, Wait a minute. That's just a piece. It's not all of it. But they don't know that. They don't know that they're not. Holding on to all of it, Right? So relating that to this story. Before the fall. Was when the mirror was complete. In Eden. Adam and Eve lived in objective truth. Objective truth, Experiencing divine reality directly without fixed concepts or a mental filter. OK, So so bring that. OK, So this is I'm actually glad I did it this way. Thank you, Because it ties right into what I said at the beginning. So. The beginning level is down here below thought, Right? So this is where humanity started at the level below thought, Which here is represented by what I just read. Before the fall of humankind, Before we left Eden, When we were in Eden, We were below the level of thought. We weren't sitting in there judging. It's almost like an animal just living on instinct. Instinct. They're not caught up in incessant thought. They're not constantly judging everything. They know they have everything they need. They're just walking around living their lives, You know, Without thought that they're below the level of thought because they don't need thought because they haven't gotten to that level yet. God's got everything. God gave them a world of abundance. They don't need to think. They don't need to think to live a satisfactory life, A happy life. Right. They just have everything that they need. So they're, They're cool. Without thinking, God supplies everything that they need. So that's before the fall, That's in the Garden of Eden, After the fall. Shattered pieces. Eating the fruit represents humanity adopting individual belief systems and ego-driven knowledge. Each person holds on to their own limited shard of truth, Their opinions, Judgments, And personal beliefs, Mistaking their small perspective for the absolute truth. If that ain't us, Man, I don't know what is. In short, The fall was the moment humanity traded undivided divine truth for fragmented individual illusions. Damn. Ugh, Salt. We were below the level of thought. Everything was cool. We're in Eden. We have everything we need. Everything's golden like pancakes. Right. So we're good. Then all of a sudden we eat the tree of knowledge. We ingest the poison from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. We, The mirror breaks, Whatever. Now all of a sudden, We think we know. We think we know what's right and what's wrong and what's good and what's bad and what, And all of a sudden we're the judge. And we don't have the information necessary to be the judge. Like we don't understand life. We're never going to, Not truly. I mean, When I woke up spiritually, I understood all kinds of things that like I thought was beyond my comprehension, Right? But I still don't pretend to understand in detail the mind of God. Honestly, I don't think we're capable of truly understanding the magnitude Like we would have to understand everything in the entire universe to understand truly the mind of God and to have the perspective that we need to judge what's happening on earth. Like, Who are we to judge? We don't. . . We don't have the information. This is literally what being prejudiced means. It means pre-judging, Judging without having the necessary information. That's what being prejudiced is. And we are all prejudiced because we are constantly judging without access to 90 to 99% of the information necessary to know what's right, What's wrong, What's good and what's bad, How things are supposed to be working. Instead, We sit around here judging everything and everyone. Like we know, Like how? It's, It's comical, You know, It's spiritual laughter, Because it's non judgmental, When you laugh spiritually, When you start seeing things as ridiculous as they are. Because like, I mean, Hey, I still slip into judgment sometimes. And the so I'll talk about myself as to not trigger anybody, But we all do it. Like, Whatever upsets you, Right? Anything. The car could, Oh, Hang on, I gotta mute my phone. The car could break down or somebody could be rude. There we go. Somebody could be rude to us or whatever. And we go and we're like, That's ridiculous. This is this is a load of crap. This shouldn't be happening. And we just, Like, We say that like it's fact. Like it's fact. This shouldn't be happening. Or when somebody passes, Like, Oh, They passed away too soon. Oh, It was before their time. They left us before their time. I heard that on a watching some football yesterday. Somebody passed away. And apparently, You know, It's nobody I knew. It was on TV. Apparently, They were a very nice person. And they were reflecting on the fact that this person passed, Which was really nice. And I'm sure their family appreciated it. And how much everybody loved this person. But then at the end, They're like gone too soon. Gone way too soon, And I'm like, Eh. Really? Like you know better than God? Like the the entire universe is set up at this precision, Like where if the earth was like a millimeter off, Then the entire we'd get burned up by the sun. And there's all this precision and divine intelligence and knowledge and and specifics all throughout the universe. But we know when somebody is supposed to die and they were supposed to die 20 years from now. He died now. Like, Really? That's. Could you explain to me how you know that? As if I'm a dummy, Because I don't understand. I don't understand. Could you show me the contract where everybody lives 88. 32 years? I didn't, I don't remember signing that or seeing it. Like it's so we constantly judge stuff and we have no idea what we're talking about. And we just act like it's fact. Yeah, That shouldn't happen. Well, Because I didn't like it, That's why. Oh, So whatever you don't like shouldn't happen. That's reality on earth. You know, And when we look at it, It is it's silly. It's literally comical because we do it. We all do it on a daily basis. The entire society is run like this. People are constantly complaining and experiencing suffering and resistance to what they don't like constantly every single day, Multiple times a day. And then if you take that right, If you like and what the problem is, Is nobody slows down to look at it. And see if it even makes sense. It's just societally acceptable, Socially acceptable. So everybody does it. And then everybody else around them goes, Yeah, I hear you, Man. I hear you. And and so they're getting supported by all the people around them. So they just think it's fact. And they like nobody has stopped to just think about it for a minute. And if you simplify it and show it to them. They go, Well, That doesn't make sense. I know. It doesn't make sense. We would never, Ever walk around walking up to people and say, Um, Hey, So I figured out life and the way life works here on planet Earth is that everything is supposed to go my way, Aligned to my preferences. So whatever I like is supposed to be happening on planet Earth. In my life, Outside of my life. Everything that I'm exposed to is supposed to go the way that I think it should in my particular mind. All of planet Earth. And the interesting part is. . . Like everything can't go different ways. So even though there's 8 billion people on the planet, Everything is supposed to go my way. And then the other almost 8 billion people are just there. You're all wrong. And that's life and that's how it's supposed to work. And when it doesn't do that, Then there's something wrong. Like God screwed. The universe screwed up. Didn't add reality to what I thought should be happening. So that's an accurate view of reality here on planet Earth. Like nobody would say that. And yet, It's how we interact with reality on a daily basis. Every time something happens that we don't like, We get upset, Like it's not supposed to be happening. Like, Why? Like, If you get a flat tire, Like, We're like, That shouldn't, This is horrible. This is ridiculous. We get upset, You know, And that's, See, That's the other thing. Part of why I say this is because we get upset. Otherwise, Why would we be getting upset if it was supposed to happen? If we understood that sometimes when a truck is delivering a box of nails to a construction site, And it's at the back of the truck, And somehow it gets ripped, And a couple nails spill out in the road somewhere, And then you drive over it, Is just pointed just in a perfect angle and you hit it with your tire and your tire goes flat, Then that means God screwed up. That stuff just happens. Sometimes there's a car accident and maybe there's some glass and they sweep up 99% of it and a little piece gets left. Maybe there's a little rock that somehow broke off of a bigger rock and has a sharp edge and somehow pierced your tire. Maybe a branch fell off of a tree. Like there's so many different ways we could get a flat tire. Maybe. At the tire factory. Somehow everything isn't perfect 100% of the time. And I don't even know how they make tires, But. But somehow there was some slight manufacturer's flaw in a particular aspect of your tire and caused it to blow. Like not 100% of tires are made 100% correctly 100% of the time. Maybe. Or God's a moron. You pick. You know, It's silly. It's silly. So So yeah. Sorry, That just made me laugh. So here we are, You know, Here we are, We're living in this reality. And if you know, If you guys are following what I'm saying, Like, Hopefully, You can see how it we started at the below the level of thinking. Where, You know, We're just zippity doo done like around life, Kind of like the animals not thinking. Everything, We had everything we need, We're in complete bliss, Just being alive, Everything was cool. And then all of a sudden, Something happened. And we started developing this, This way of thinking, You know, Maybe we ate an apple, Maybe somebody broke a mirror, Maybe we didn't know that the fruit we're eating had poison lies in it, And we consumed it. And then all of a sudden, We started believing it, Whatever. That represents the level of thinking. Because we're in constant judgment. I mean, Really, If you want to look at the biggest problem of thinking, Besides its just incessant nature of constantly going where we are in life, In our evolution, It's the judgment. Constant judgment of ourselves, Of other people, Of everything that happens. This is bad. This is bad. This is bad. I'm bad. You're bad. They're bad. Everybody's bad. But like, Sometimes I'm good, But I'm not good enough. But like, This is what the level of thinking comes in. And the more, You know, It was gradual. So first we start develop thinking and it was probably manageable. It probably came in and took over 10 percent of our of our thinking. And then over time it takes takes over 50 percent of our thinking. Now most people it's consuming. Just about 100% of their waking hours and their sleeping time. So their mind is incessantly just going, Going, Going. And most of it is judgments on things. Oh, I know what that is. That's a lamp. That's a table. That's a car. That's like, Why do you need a narrator to tell you that's a car? You don't know what a car is? Of course you know what a car is. You don't need the voice in your head to tell you it's a car. You can just look at it and know it's a car. Try it sometime, Like try to stop your thinking. Like one way is to put your attention in your body. You know, I did a podcast on this before. Put your attention on your body and your brain stops thinking. Like also another thing like, Sometimes playing with your senses can affect it. So like smell. Smell the air, You can't think when you're smelling. So look at a car and don't label it and just go. So your mind stops. Or any object, And then just be like, Okay, Now think back to a couple seconds ago when I was inhaling, Because as soon as you inhale, Your brain is going to say, That's a car. As soon as you stop. Be you're aware of what's happening inside of you. Did you know that that was a car before you stopped inhaling? Did you know it was a car? Of course you knew it was a car. But then as soon as you stopped inhaling, Your brain went, That's a car. You know, This is how incessant our thinking is. We don't need that. We are awareness. We are consciousness. So when when we're looking at something, We know what it is like, Like really what it is actually in its essence. We can actually connect to its essence sometimes if we really look at things like a tree. As soon as we label it as a tree, It's just a tree. Right. But if we're not labeling it as a tree and we're just looking at it, We could actually feel its essence. We could feel the aliveness in it. And it'll probably look more dramatic and more beautiful and more light. Like it's because you can see the aliveness in it. It's just the colors are brighter. The like when we're not labeling it, As soon as we label it, We shrink it right down to an object. So then we're like, Oh, It's this. It's the same as the word tree. Say, No, It's not. It's way more than that. It's. . . You know don't label it don't put words to it and it's you're you're looking at it and you're like oh Just take it in. It's much more than what the. . . A four letter word can. Represent. So that's what happens when, When, Like when we're not caught up in the incessant stream of thinking of labeling and judging, You know, And this is where we're going. This is why. Everybody's teaching mindfulness and presence and being in the now and consciousness and whatever other word you want, Awareness, Whatever other word you want to put to it. It's being in the present moment, Not caught up in the incessant thinking. Just being where you are. And now in our evolution, We're rising above the level of thinking. See, This is how we evolve, Like first where we don't even need thinking. We're kind of like the animals. We got everything we need. We're in perfect bliss. But then we wanted more. That's what evolution is. It's an evolutionary impulse that is in everything. Every flower wants to grow. Every tree wants to grow. Every animal wants to grow. Everything is in constant expansion. The universe is expanding. That's the nature. Of consciousness, It's just becoming more and more and more advanced versions of itself. So we're sitting here and we're like, Hey, Man, Everything's cool. This is bliss. Right. But there's this and we didn't think, Oh, I want to think because we didn't have the ability to think. So it was this unconscious evolutionary impulse just reaching for more. And it came up with thinking. I wanna think. If I can think, Then I can create things of my own, And I can use my imagination through my thought, And I can build things, And I can create things, And I can develop tools and harness fire. And all of a sudden, We start doing this stuff, And it's cool for a long freaking time. Until it takes us over. And we don't even know, We completely lose the essence of who and what we actually are. We're not, You know how I was talking about the essence of that tree. That's a freaking tree. We are an advanced. Organism that's more complex, More profound, More evolved than a tree. So our essence is even more than the tree. We're amazing. Like, I mean, Just our brain, How our brain works is amazing. How our heart works is. It's unfathomable. Our brains can't even comprehend how our heart works fully or anything else in our body works fully. We don't know how our body works, Most of it. There's more unknown about our bodies than there is known. This is what cracks me up half the time when people like lean on science so much, Like it's fact or something like science is literally not fact, Literally, Like everything that was scientifically proven 1000 years ago is different now. We won, Oops. We thought it was this because it seemed like that when we did some experiments. But then now we figured out it does this, Our bad. And we don't even understand how we work. I mean, I'm not saying that science hasn't created some cool stuff. It has. I mean, That's the whole reason why we wanted to think is kind of because of science, Because we can understand our surroundings better and we can develop things. But thinking that our science is smarter than the universe is ridiculous. Like. You know, Our science is not better than nature. I think nature has like just on earth has like a 35 billion year advantage on us. So, Yeah, I think. I'm going to, If I got man or God, I'm going to go God's more intelligent. Um. . . So. But this evolutionary impulse comes, Right? And we want to think. So then we're thinking. And like I said, It did wonderful things. And now we're at the point where human beings don't ask, Should I? We have no responsibility with our thinking or with our inventing. We don't ask, Should I do anything? How is it going to affect human beings? How is it going to affect life on this planet? How is it going to affect the planet itself, Seeing how it's our home? We don't consider any of it. We just go, Can I? Because we're so attached to our thinking. We think, If I can build something, Then I'm awesome. That's how attached to thinking we are. We're like, If I can, If I can build a bomb that could literally like blow up half the earth, Instead of a 16th of it all at once, I'd be awesome. No, You wouldn't. You'd be irresponsible. That's what you'd be. You know, Why do we need that? Is that a good idea? No, It's not a good idea. Right. So we're just caught up in thinking and we think it's the end all be all. And it's how the world runs. And I mean what was it Descartes or something said I think therefore I am. I mean. And that was considered like a profound statement back then. I think therefore I am. It's the opposite. Like what if you stop thinking you don't exist anymore? Nobody figured that out after he said that like for another 200 years. Or whatever. I'm not even sure when he was around. But like, No, Where I think therefore I am. No, I am. Therefore, I could think. Like I think he had it backwards, You know. Um, But, But like we, We have, We've latched on to thinking and that's, It just rules existence and it's unconscious thinking. It's, It's not. It's not creative thinking. It's just taking a bunch of information that we've gathered and then reorganizing it so spits out something new. It's not creative. True creativity comes out of the ether. That's just in a moment of stillness, Like Einstein's theory of relativity. He didn't think that up. It was gifted to him. And then he used all the math and the science that he had been studying for years to birth that concept out of the inside of him into this earth, Into this world in a way where other human beings could understand it. So all his studying of math and science was not to come up with the theory of relativity. The theory of relativity was just gifted to him from the ethers, From God, From the universe. Why? Because he could take that conceptual gift, Use his one, Receive it because he was still, He could go into a moment of stillness and be able to receive it. Whereas other scientists are so connected to their minds, They're constantly thinking, Trying to figure it out. And they never do. Why? Because the brain isn't capable of creative thought. That's why it can only play with the information that it's been given. So Einstein was still enough to receive this gift of a concept. And he had the math and the science intelligence in his brain to birth it into this world as a gift to the rest of us. Now what we're doing, So we've been caught up in that incessant level of thinking for a very long time, And it's taken over more and more and more of us. So now what's that evolutionary impulse doing? What's it saying? I need more. I got to go to the next level. I can't just stay. I can't stay here. And look, It's causing all kinds of problems. So now I'm forced to evolve into another level. When does evolution take place in a species? When it needs to, When it's necessary for its survival, That's when. And check out where we are right now. There's no more continents to take over. There's no more like and we've got we've got enough weapons that we can just blow ourselves right off the entire map if we chose to. So like our species is literally in danger of its own survival because of its incessant thinking. And it's non-control over its level of thinking. So now evolution is pushing us up where it's that evolutionary impulse. There must be something more. This is a mess. Look at all the problems we're creating. We have to do better. So then that's the evolutionary impulse that has us reaching for our source, Reaching for the sun, Reaching for the next. It's just natural, It's what we do. It's the plant growing towards the sun. It's our revolution. So here we are, Rising above the level of thinking. We can still drop down and use our thinking whenever we want. That's the gift of being above it. Below it, We're screwed, We can't use it. This is what happens when we're drinking alcohol, Taking drugs, Watching television, Scrolling on our phones. Using relationships, Sex, Shopping, And anything else that we can think of as a distraction. You know, We're like, Oh, Like, I'm gonna relax. I'm gonna watch a movie. It's like, So what you're doing is you're occupying a certain aspect of your brain to dumb it down so you're not caught up in that incessant level of thinking. So you're dropping below the level of thinking. You're just occupying a section of it. So it drops below the level of thinking. So you're not thinking so much now. I enjoy watching movies. It's not that we have to stop watching movies, But we do need to understand what what we're doing, Because like I remember when I was really stressed out, When I was you know, I had my business and my son was young and I was single parenting and and I was stressed out and and somehow I I was like, I'm going to lose my mind. So I cleared my schedule. For a weekend and I sat home and I think he went over a friend's house or something. And I watched movies all weekend and just ate pizza and ice cream and just did nothing. And Monday, When I got up and started working again, I was just as stressed out as I was Friday night. And I was like, What the hell, Man? I just took a whole weekend off and I'm not. I'm still as stressed out as I was before. And I realized I didn't recuperate during that weekend. I didn't truly relax. My brain hadn't relaxed and recuperated, Nor did my body. So that's when I realized that I was dropping below the level of thinking. And we don't really recuperate that way. We recuperate through stillness. This is why meditation is like, Depending on which study you look at meditation, It's like 20 minutes of meditation is equal to like two hours of sleep. Like in recuperation, Our brain and our body recuperates at a rate. Like 10 times faster when we're meditating than when we're sleeping. When we're sleeping, Our brain is running half the time. You know, So. We need to rise above the level of thinking. This is our evolution. This is where we're going. Then we can thank. More responsibly and more creatively when we choose to, When we choose to use it. And we can be still and the true creativity can come into us. And then we can use our thinking abilities. We'd be like, Wow, Look at this. I just got this interesting concept. Like of free energy or something. Okay. Wow. Okay. I, Like I can, Like inside me, I know how it works. This is amazing. So now I have to engage my thinking mind and I have to take this concept that I was just gifted, That I understand inside of me. Well, I would have a really hard time explaining it to somebody because I don't have it. I don't have my intellect wrapped around it yet. I have to wrap my my thinking mind around it, Use my thinking mind to get it from the concept that it is inside that was gifted to me out into the world. Let's see. Let me think about it. Let me write about it. Let me see if I can create a formula that can represent it. That, You know, So we can go in. Grab our thinking mind and use it as a tool. And then when we're done, Go, Okay, Cool. You can, You can turn off now. And then you go and we're just that complete piece. In the present moment. And if there's action we need to take because. We're standing on the side of the road and a car is coming by and we need to step onto the sidewalk. We just find ourselves stepping on to the sidewalk. We don't think and judge. Oh my God, Look, There's a car coming. Like I, This guy must be drunk. He's driving too close to the side of the road. What a jerk. I'm better get out of the way to save my very life and make this big story and drama out of it. We just step onto the sidewalk. That's all. No thought. We just find ourselves stepping onto the sidewalk. And then, You know, And that's action or we're in a situation and we somehow we just say the perfect words. Come through us and afterwards we're like, Oh wow, That was perfect. I wonder where those words came from. The ether, That's where. Divine wisdom flowing right through us because our brain isn't constantly running, Blocking all that. It just, We're connected, You know, When we're in the present moment, We're connected to divine wisdom. So it just flows through us sometimes as action, Sometimes as words. And a lot of times as non-action, Because a lot of times there's nothing that we should be saying or doing. We just think we are intellectually, So we're constantly saying and doing things. But a lot of times, The best response verbally or in action is none. And divine wisdom knows that, So we just don't respond. And it's perfect for that situation. So this is where we're going, Pete. This is where we're rising above. We're evolving. Right. And this is that's how the these stories keep surfacing that mimic each other. To explain this stuff. This is I get a kick out of this stuff because, You know, I love the, I love the, The, The truth that The truth. I didn't intend to use that word twice, But the truth of humanity and our evolution and how we work and who we are and what we are, I love that it's represented in so many different teachings in so many different ways. Because once you start understanding this stuff, You see it's all the same. All the prophets, All the sages, All the people who came before us, All the ascended masters, Jesus and Buddha and Lao Tzu, They were all saying the same thing. Thing. And they literally did all say the same thing, All of them. They said the exact same stuff. And then you start looking at it, You start looking at it and going, Oh, That's this. Oh, That's this. Oh, That's this. It's like these people were alive at complete thousands of years apart, Some of them. Many hundreds of years apart, Others, On different areas of the world, Couldn't have known each other, You know, Like, But the information is the exact same. This is divine wisdom. This is ancient wisdom. It's been passed around. For tens of thousands of years. Through stories and symbolic meanings, And it's beautiful. So that's gonna do it. I got some chili on the stove and I can smell it and it's making me hungry. So I'm gonna go get some. All right peeps. I hope you enjoyed that and Please let me know your thoughts. You know, I just I find this stuff very interesting. This is this is what? This is a type of thing that I kind of geek out on you know the the similarities and the stories and And the truth of it all and stuff. It's beautiful So, All right. Let me know what you think