The Radical Brilliance Podcast

Today's episode of the Radical Brilliance podcast is with Dr. Vlatko Vedral, professor of quantum technology at Oxford University. I hope that it will blow your mind as much as it did mine. The more that I explore the cutting edge of quantum physics, the more new insight I have about what is happening in our world. We all get locked in the echo chambers of mutually exclusive narratives of meaning, which we defend literally as if we were under physical attack. The shift in how we understand reality, which Dr. Vedral explains in this video, may be what we need to move collectively from defending singular points of view to the capacity to easily embrace opposite narratives in a relaxed way.

So often when we listen to conversations with “experts,” they are people who have written the books, mapped out the landscape, and created a lifetime of credentials. Often, of course, these experts are baby boomers, now in their 50s 60s or beyond. Eric Hoffer once said, “In times of rapid change, it is the learners who will inherit the earth, while the knowers will be well-equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” We are in times of rapid change. Our very survival hangs in the balance. Things are changing so quickly, that it is the young and malleable minds who will determine the future of human life on this planet. For this reason, I really loved having this conversation with Raj. He displays a very mature and balanced perspective on everything from the economy, to the environment, to social and political systems. Please enjoy this conversation, and get us your feedback at radicalbrilliance.com/ podcast. 5:46 -- The world through the eyes of a millennial 14:16 -- The skill of filtering information 21:30 -- Who can you trust? 30:20 -- Finding common humanity 37:00 -- Trends in the new world / “You are your most valuable asset”

The latest episode of the Radical Brilliance podcast is with Joe Mechlinski, the author of "Shift the Work," and the founder of Shift. His organization has a long track record of supporting organizations, from tens to thousands of employees, to change the work environment. Most of us find ourselves in unprecedented times of uncertainty. Just a few months ago, the economy was booming, unemployment rates were low, and everyone was busy hopping on and off planes to exotic destinations, eating in restaurants, dancing and going to parties. When the COVID19 pandemic hit, all of that went into stasis. Suddenly, we found ourselves staying at home, many businesses were forced to close or experienced great struggle, and millions of people are out of work. Now, we wonder what comes next. Whenever there is a time like this of great disruption, we never go back. What comes after never looks like what came before. The same was true for both World Wars, for the Great Depression, and for the Spanish Flu. Times of great calamity also bring opportunity for great innovation and evolution. In this conversation with Joe Mechlinski we explore how to ride times of turbulent change in a business environment, and how to thrive -- not only financially, but by becoming an agent of evolution. 4:30 -- Why go back when you can go forward? 15:12 -- Life without our costumes on -- the value of authenticity 20:51 -- What to do with the vacuum of clear vision of leadership?  30:12 -- Rethinking life and work 42:28 -- The perils of outsourcing  49:12 -- Agents of evolution

Welcome back to the Radical Brilliance Podcast.  This week our guests are Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan, talking about the power of tribe. Us homo sapiens have always done better when we collaborate. Truth is… we need each other, whether we're willing to admit it or not. Historically, we all used to live tribally just in order to survive. But, over time, tribal ways were largely abandoned or actively destroyed, especially with the rise of urban development, systems of governance, religion, industrialization and colonization. Though many indigenous tribes have survived, most of global society drifted (or was forced) away from the land and the ways of living with one another and the earth. Our social support units shifted then to the extended family… which narrowed down to the nuclear family… and then to the American dream where each individual has the opportunity to strive and become successful… but alone. We can't wind the clock backwards. And - even if we could - there are many aspects of those ancient tribes we wouldn't wish to emulate. But we DO have an opportunity to learn from those who came before and consider how we, in this individuated/post-industrialized society, can return to what really matters. And we have an opportunity to consciously and deliberately create a sense of tribe that works for us now. Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan have done some brave work in forging the path for the rest of us. Please enjoy this podcast with two visionaries and trailblazers. 3:23 -- Historical precedence, current need  13:07 -- The role of leadership  21:09 -- Intentional communities and commitment  32:24 -- A few best practices and learnings 47:43 -- Importance of transparency, connection and intimacy

"No one really knows why they're alive until they know what they would die for." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Death plays an essential role in the cycle of creativity. There's no light without darkness and there's no life without death. The most beautiful gardens grow from rich and dirty compost. As a society, we regularly try to cheat death and avoid discomfort but we're really just cheating ourselves of the opportunity to feel, grieve, fear, rage, fall, fail, learn, and eventually grow -- all necessary steps along the path to creating something meaningful. Alex Ebert is constantly creating. He makes music and art, designs apps, writes books, founded a nonprofit, and even made a film, which we'll discuss in this episode. He's also pretty comfortable with discomfort and facing his own mortality. Find out about how these things are all related in our conversation here. And enjoy. 3:01 -- Creation and mortality, the role of gratitude 12:00 -- Truth, raw humanity, and the crucible 25:04 -- Different understandings of death, rites of passage, ritual and society 40:49 -- "Losing is learning", the initiation of parenthood

As an expert in personal transformation, I thought I had seen it all. Tried hundreds of modalities, and developed some as well. Read and written countless books, and coached thousands of people on how to be their best. So imagine my surprise when I stepped onto a Fusion dance floor and found myself completely blown away by the deep life lessons being offered to me in such an unassuming form.   Dance is a metaphor for life. Everything we need to work on in our personal and professional lives (e.g., leadership style, communication skills, ability to collaborate with others, ease of innovation) will be revealed as we learn to partner dance. This is especially true in Fusion Dance — which implicitly invites a certain level of mindfulness in its practice. Justin Riley, one of the founders of Fusion Dance, has no qualms about linking the lessons he's learned in dance to inform and improve every aspect of his life. In this episode we talk about dance as a surprisingly powerful tool for personal and even global transformation. Enjoy. 3:07 -- Dance: More transformative than coaching? 22:22 -- History of Fusion Dance 33:53 -- Why dance is good for entrepreneurs?

What conditions enable our highest creative states? What's the role of skill in creativity? Is the creative impulse emotional or intellectual? Please enjoy this provocative conversation about the what, where, and how of ideas with brilliant mind, Forrest Landry. 4:00 -- Conditions that enable creativity 21:06 -- Creativity to what end? 35:21 -- Creation versus discovery 44:15 -- “The process that allows the light to emerge”

How do the words, "Anything is Possible" make you feel? Maybe you feel relief when you read them. Maybe excitement. Maybe something that previously seemed inaccessible just opened its doors for you. Or maybe you're a skeptic. "Surely they don't mean 'anything is possible,'" you think. Does it seem ridiculous? Consider this: If you look for proof that an idea, a project, some future scenario is totally impossible -- you won't find it. There's not enough data to support your hypothesis. That's because everything is constantly changing. 100 years ago there's no way we could have predicted what our world would look like now. Not only is the belief that "anything is possible" true (or at least possible!), it's also USEFUL. When we practice incorporating the belief into our lives as a mantra or motto, things begin to change. We take more risks, we see more payoffs. We try new things, we live bigger and bolder. Joe Vitale is an expert in the Law of Attraction. He's overcome incredible hurdles in his life, achieved a ridiculous amount of success, and it's all because he allowed himself to believe that "Anything is Possible." Obviously this theory has implications not only for our personal lives but for the future of humanity. Enjoy this conversation. 3:20 -- What are the principles underlying the idea, “Anything is Possible”? 14:21 -- How can we apply these principles of, “Anything is Possible” for humanity?  25:54 -- The best possible future  35:35 -- “Who says?” Question it all

The words "private enterprise" and "social change" haven't always gone hand in hand. From tobacco companies, to big banks, to the military industrial complex -- the examples of harm done in an attempt to make money are numerous. Numerous, but waning. In this week's episode we will discover how companies with values and a mission actually do better financially. We'll talk about how organizations (for-profit and non-for-profit) do better when they have a thriving revenue model to support their activities, and how significant change is possible when the money-driven companies get on board with beneficial products and policies to keep up with the marketplace. After all, it's not just producers that make positive change through business in our world: consumers, voting with dollars, keep good companies accountable and have the power to convince baddies to do better. Please enjoy this conversation with one of the most skilled and insightful leaders in conscious business, Rinaldo Brutoco. 5:07 -- What's the highest expression of business? 20:48 -- How to get businesses to be of greater service to society? 31:32 -- What's the best possible future of business?

There are so many good reasons to write a book: Writing can help organize our thoughts or come to new understandings about the material we're presenting once we go through the process of putting it all on paper; writing can be emotionally gratifying -- cathartic and/or joyful; writing can help uplift and preserve diverse perspectives and cultures that deserve representation. If you have something to contribute to the world (and, by the way, everyone does), then consider writing a book. Bill Gladstone, renowned literary agent behind some of the greatest books of the last century, shares his thoughts in this episode. Enjoy. 4:57 -- The State of the Book 15:32 -- When you have something important to contribute… 23:31 -- How to increase the chances of your book being discovered? 31:38 -- Writing for a better world  37:43 -- How to start your book 44:22 -- Tips to overcome writing challenges

More or less everyone alive today agrees that this is a very pivotal time, not only in human history, but equally in the history of the earth itself. Never before have we faced so many unresolved problems. Not only is our survival threatened as a species, but so is the survival of many other species we impact, and even the biosphere in which we all live. Equally, this is a time of great promise. The quality of life has never been so great: the possibility to live in good health and to devote our attention to the pursuit of things we love and feel passionate about, instead of simply physical survival. The contemplation of different possible future scenarios has been called “futurism.” Barbara Marx Hubbard was a famed futurist, as is Peter Russell. David Houle gave up his career in mainstream media to devote his life to the informed study of potential future scenarios. This is a longer episode and packed with very useful information. 3:22 -- Why is the future more important now than ever? 12:22 -- The role of the American Dream in climate change 27:23 -- Steps to overcoming denial 41:27 -- Starting a revolution 54:18 -- How to expand the “We” consciousness 64:41 -- The best possible future

Caring about what other people think of us isn't just societally conditioned, it's biologically programmed thanks to the way humans have evolved over time. We feel we need to fit in, we need to be accepted, in order to be successful. But arguably the most creative people on our planet have done just the opposite: they come up with original ideas totally independent of what other people may think. They face (or disregard) fears of critique and rejection in order to bring forward something truly inspired. Inspiration may come from within, or from the great and mysterious beyond, but  -- as Alex Ebert describes here -- GREAT works of art or science NEVER come from following the herd. Please enjoy this brilliant interview about the courage to create. 4:00 — Review of Celestial Archeology 7:30 — Search for truth and authenticity 14:02 — Driven by meaning 26:26 — The role of social anxiety in keeping us small and divided 34:25 — Facing the fear to create something great 43:33 — Away from social anxiety towards social care and trust in humanity

Are good ideas born among the stars? Do they get transmitted to us through some mysterious satellite of the heavens? Or do good ideas come from within us, from our brain making connections across the billions of data points we actively and passively collect throughout our lives? Is there such thing as an original idea that borrows from previously-shared ideas? Are ideas exclusive to individuals or can groups come together to ideate? Join us in conversation with Daniel Schmachtenberger as we explore answers to these questions and more. As you will hear, an examination of where ideas come from develops into a discussion about how to develop good ideas — for ourselves and for the benefit of the wider world. 2:50 -- Where do good ideas come from: Downloading vs uploading? 22:03 -- Can combining existing ideas produce an original idea? 30:00 -- Taking different perspectives to arrive at good insights… and create the best possible future 41:26 -- The potential of multi-perspectives in collaboration 48:26 -- Conscious evolution: Letting go of what you think you know

Many entrepreneurs start businesses with a vision on how to improve the quality of life. Pretty soon, the founder of a company discovers that he or she cannot perform every function alone. You need an accountant, customer support, project management, a sales team... and then an executive to manage the whole operation. After a while, the founder of the company discovers that what began as an avenue for creative expression has become a kind of prison. Instead of the business serving the original inspiration, the visionary is now in service to the business. At that point, many leaders complain that their life is no longer their own, and as a result, relationships, family, health, recreation, and spiritual connection all suffer. Eric Edmeades is a great proponent of making a business work for your vision, instead of giving up your vision to work for a business. Please enjoy a very practical roadmap for creating "business freedom." 3:24 -- Premise of Business Freedom 23:03 -- “Freedom to” vs “freedom from” 36:00 -- How to move away from the kind of work you dislike 48:18 -- How to train staff effectively 59:04 -- Delegation 73:14 -- What to do once you're free?

In chapter two of the book Radical Brilliance, we distinguish between two kinds of thought. "Horizontal thoughts," with which we are mostly familiar, are simply regurgitations of what we have heard or thought before. Almost everything that passes through the mind during the day is a repetition of something from the past. "Vertical thought," which is much more unusual, arises from the depths, out of stillness. It means thinking a thought that has never been thought before, which becomes speech that has never been spoken before, and actions which have never been taken before. Many people become confused about how to distinguish between these two different kinds of thought. How do you know the difference? What is your worried mind, overthinking as usual? What are your reactive feelings, responding to the world in desire or fear? And when is it inner knowing speaking, which is connected to a greater intelligence, beyond the mind. Sonia Choquette is one of the greatest experts alive on harnessing this kind of intuition. Her book, "Trust Your Vibes" has become the go-to reference on how to trust your knowing without thinking. 3:00 -- How to begin working with intuition 9:44 -- Accessing intuition through play 14:46 -- How do I know what's true intuition?

If you've become at all familiar by now with the Brilliance Cycle, you'll know that true originality and contribution requires the coexistence of four very different phases of activity. 12 to 3 is the spontaneous arising of fresh creative energy out of stillness. 3 to 6 is the realization of intentions into measurable results. 6 to 9 is where we fully integrate and learn from our mistakes to develop humility. 9 to 12 is where we recognize the limitations of our humanity, and turn to something beyond ourselves. Today's podcast is useful in the 6 to 9 quadrant. In order to shift from fight or flight, sympathetic nervous system activity, into the parasympathetic activity where learning can happen, we need to be able to slow down. Sometimes pausing, going slower, produces greater results. Dr. Srini Pillay, an associate professor at Harvard University, will share with us the importance of taking frequent pauses between phases of focused activity in order to create more brilliant results. 3:11 -- Early experiments in focus and productivity 12:50 -- 5 disadvantages of focusing 22:22 -- Benefits of unfocused time 27:35 -- Strategies for balancing focused and unfocused time 48:30 -- A role-playing game

Have you ever had an amazing idea that never really went anywhere? Maybe you tried to share your amazing idea with others but they just looked back at you with blank stares. How many brilliant innovations never launch, how many books never get written, how many start-ups fail -- just because a strong enough case wasn't made for them? Just because the creators couldn't get investors, customers, audiences to care? Sam Horn has mastery in condensing complex ideas and understandings down into bite-size chunks. Often, this is a dilemma for people who want to make a great contribution. Ideas may seem complex and multidimensional. But today people have very short attention spans so we have to find ways to express complex ideas in few words. No one does this better than Sam Horn. She ran the Maui Writers Conference for many years, and she's a master of creating a powerful impact skillfully with language. Enjoy the podcast. 3:12 How to have a great idea that reaches people 12:00 The role of imagination in explaining an idea 19:33 The empathy telescope   29:02 “Who am I?” Syndrome

Everybody wants more money, more new shiny objects. Everybody needs food and clothing and shelter and relationships. But the one thing most people in Western culture feel they don't have enough of is time. We often view time as a limited commodity, a little like the money in your bank account. If you have $300, spend $100, you've only got $200 left. What if time itself was actually expanding and contracting? What if “an hour” sometimes passed very quickly and sometimes went very slowly? If time was speeding up and slowing down uniformly all over the planet, an hour would still be a full revolution of the big hand from 12 back to 12 again, but how long it takes to do that could vary. When we shift from a Newtonian to a Quantum experience of time we realize that it is created out of a unified field. Gay Hendricks pointed out in his book, The Big Leap, you are that out of which time is created. Please enjoy this fascinating conversation with Roger Hamilton about how we can deliberately affect the speed at which time moves. 5:28 -- Ripping the fabric of established reality 18:21 -- Controlling time in your business 22:54 -- Slowing down consciousness, speeding up time; slowing down time, speeding up consciousness 32:58 -- Slowing down time technique 39:49 -- Our natural ability to recall the future 43:50 -- About Roger Hamilton 51:10 -- The value of time and how it relates to wealth 59:15 -- Achieving more success by being in the flow

Particularly among baby boomers, many people have had relationships to a spiritual teacher, joined a community (or Sangha) and subscribed to a particular philosophical orientation. A relationship with a teacher can be many things. It can lead to dependency on things outside yourself. It can lead to a craving for approval, fitting in, and a fear of missing out. A relationship with a teacher can easily become a way to make up for what we didn't get with mommy and daddy. Also (sadly, not always) a relationship with a great teacher can become a catalyst for real freedom. Until his death in 1997, thousands of people came into contact with H.W.L. Poonja. Many met a sweet old man (or sometimes a very abrupt and confronting lion), and then moved on. Many had strong peak spiritual experiences which then dissipated, and they also moved on. A few people, experienced a deep and abiding shift into freedom: into knowing their true nature beyond discursive thought and reactive feeling. Please enjoy this very warmhearted conversation with Isaac Shapiro. 5:35 -- New ways of seeing, new ways of being (Isaac meets Papaji) 18:03 -- New ways of seeing, new ways of being (Arjuna meets Papaji) 30:25 -- The service of being present -- the journey of teaching 39:31 -- How discomfort leads evolution and the importance of leaning in 60:15 -- Keys to awakening for the sake of contribution

There are approximately 2.3 million species on this planet. Only one of them accumulates possessions beyond their immediate needs for survival. Only one species uses the earth's resources in a non-renewable way, and only one species has developed a complex system initially generated by the bartering of goods and services. This is us. Money is such a complex topic because it doesn't really exist. It is created by group consensus. Babies don't understand money, nor do indigenous people, nor do cats, or dogs, or any other animals. Because it doesn't really exist, we each develop a unique and personal relationship to money. Some of us are afraid of the money monster. Some of us despise the money fiend. Some of us lust for the money seductress. But very few of us have money as our friend. We are delighted this week to welcome Ken Honda, who has developed a way, based on his own experience, to have a friendly, happy relationship to money which fully supports the desire to do good in the world. 17:18 -- How can money change the world? 23:18 - Future of money 29:32 -- Practical steps for making more money 34:25 -- Success stories

Welcome to episode 15 of the Radical Brilliance Podcast. Today's guest is Robbe Richman: who is going to talk about the X Pill. Robbe was instrumental in creating the culture at Zappos, and went on to found "Zappos Insights" which trains other companies to emulate the same kind of customer oriented culture. Robbe wrote a book about corporate culture called “The Culture Blueprint.” When we investigate what it takes to be truly brilliant, people have all kinds of ideas about what we need to add to our lives, and also what most gets in the way. Clearly, one of the things that most significantly hampers leading a brilliant life is holding on to old beliefs that no longer serve us. A lot of these beliefs are unconscious. You have probably experimented with all sorts of ways of dissolving belief already: the work of Byron Katie, the Sedona method, or Awakening Coaching. Through an experiment he conducted initially at Burning Man, Robbe Richman stumbled upon “The X Pill." It allows us to let go of limiting beliefs simply through a ritual and ingesting a pill. It has proven to be remarkably effective. In this episode, Arjuna offers himself up as a guinea pig to let go of a limiting belief, and to set a new intention with the Expo. Let's see if it works!

Welcome to episode 14 of the Radical Brilliance Podcast. Imagine this: a group of people gathered together in a large warehouse, or another big open space. Loud music is pumping. Everyone is taken over by the music. The atmosphere is thick and high. Greatest time had by all. Fantastic DJs. Okay, fantasy over. Now tell me: at what time of day did your visualization happen? Most people will say 2 AM. Today I want to introduce you to Radha Agrawal, who has totally reinvented the possibilities of dance as a group. She has created “Daybreaker,” which happens in big cities all over the world, usually starting at 6 AM. Instead of alcohol and ecstasy, green smoothies and breakfast treats are served. Instead of mean bouncers, you are greeted by a hugger. Instead of a place to lay down and crash, enjoy the yoga class. Welcome to the world of Daybreaker, with Radha Agrawal 4:56 -- What is Daybreaker? 12:02 -- Current trends in community, spirituality, politics, and information exchange - how we're processing it all and what we're doing about it 20:03 -- The medicine of movement  27:24 -- An innovator's utopia

There are many ways to understand the way that things are rapidly changing at this time.  a lot of these views are very discouraging: global warming, terrorism, financial instability, etc. But there are other lenses that we can look through, where we understand that this is also a time of rapid evolution. Almost as an unavoidable response to the nature of our times, we are forced to shift into a more integrated state of consciousness. Some people see this in terms of a "spiritual" ascension, some see it in terms of a balancing of masculine and feminine energy. Perhaps one of the most convincing ways to understand this new phase of evolution is the movement from the dominator model to the cocreative model. The term "co-creation" was coined by Barbara Marx Hubbard, and was an integral part of her book "conscious evolution." But the actual granular living of co-creation was mapped out by Carolyn Anderson and Katharine Roske.  In this episode of the radical brilliance podcast I talk with Carolyn about the nitty-gritty how to of living a life of co-creation.

Episode 12 of The Radical Brilliance Podcast is with Andrew Horn who is the husband of Miki Agrawal who we heard from in episode four. Andrew is a serial entrepreneur who founded the company Tribute, which allows us to create moving videos to celebrate a birthday, wedding anniversary, or some other important life event. In this podcast, Andrew talks about his new book Social Flow. Have you ever noticed that when very little is at stake in a conversation, you feel relaxed, easy, confident, and connected? As soon as the stakes go up a bit, you feel tenser and unnatural. A great example is dating. Go out with a friend for an evening who is not a romantic possibility and you probably will feel relaxed and easy-going. On the other hand, if you go out for the evening with someone you really really like, there is a chance of feeling nervous and tense. Social flow gets blocked when there is more at stake. In this episode, Andrew is going to apply his understanding of social flow to an extremely important topic: entrepreneurs who need to raise money for important social projects. It is often when we need to raise money that we feel this tension most acutely. Not only will this episode be useful to understanding social flow in general, but if you do need money for your next project, it will give you tips on that as well. 4:44 -- From social anxiety to social flow -- being comfortable with who you are and what you're offering 22:21 -- How does social flow help you raise money? / Creating the perfect pitch 38:06 -- Having an aura of inevitability 46:54 -- Closing the deal 51:02 -- Lining up your early investors 59:08 -- Reframing “No”

Episode 11 of the Radical Brilliance Podcast is with Clare Dubois, the founder of TreeSisters. Clare is a dramatic example of someone who got a “calling” which she could not but obey. You will hear in this podcast how she had a car accident: drove her car into a tree. It was in those few moments of shock and suspension of normal reality that she heard the voice which gave her the next steps. In a way, we are all in some kind of relationship with that voice, either waiting for it to speak to us, or in resistance to it, or if we are lucky, completely taken over by it. The work that Clare is doing is vitally important to the restoration of the biosphere, but it is also a really inspiring story how we can, all of us, tune into a calling beyond our own immediate desires, fears, and beliefs. 4:05 -- How do you know what you're “supposed to” do? 11:13 -- A mystical moment of divine intervention 17:00 -- Seeding mass behavior change [in the face of planetary collapse] 23:00 -- Are we too late? 30:13 -- What's a good way to lead a human life in order to be part of the solution? 41:00 -- Leading a life of convenience and profit vs saving the planet for future generations 44:00 -- Tree Sisters and the role of the feminine in healing the planet

Episode seven of The Radical Brilliance Podcast is Vishen Lakhiani, the founder of Mindvalley. There is an overwhelming amount of information on the web, in books, seminars, and online courses, about how we can be the best versions of ourselves. Lots of people talk about this and have inspiring ideas, models, and practices to teach. Unfortunately, not everybody walks their talk as impressively as we might like. It is one thing to write a book about the seven steps to becoming the best possible you, but to actually live as the best possible version of yourself in a way that is impressive, not only to you, but everyone close to you, that is a different matter. I have known Vishen for more than 10 years, and I honestly cannot think of anyone who has been through a more dramatic transformation than he has. Through a deliberate continuous exploration, he has hacked every aspect of his life, his diet, his body, his ability to learn, the way he shows up as a father, everything. Vishen is not just talking about personal transformation, he is embodying it. Enjoy this conversation. 6:47 -- Engineering yourself for success 12:03 -- Upgrading your system for living 17:27 -- Taking on new models of reality 20:09 -- Setting goals based on desired personal experiences 26:30  -- Planning for growth to achieve your goals 28:46 -- Happiness is contribution 37:31 -- Top 3 practices to 10x your effectiveness

Episode nine of the Radical Brilliance Podcast is with Aaron Bigelow, Sophie Wingerd and Jordan Sheffield. You have probably heard the statement,“The future of medicine is energetic.” Contemporary medicine deals with the analysis of the signs and symptoms of disease to arrive at an accurate diagnosis: the recognition of a specific pathological state. It then prescribes remedies to make the presenting symptoms go away: usually pharmaceutical drugs or surgery. This does not always take into account that the human being is a complex whole which includes not only physical functioning (like a machine) but also emotional well-being, mental agitation or calm, and a sense of “inner peace”. Energetic medicine recognizes that all these manifestations: physical, emotional, mental, and “spiritual” well-being result from an underlying energetic field. This recognition of the energy body and the possibility to influence it has been at the basis of Chinese medicine, many kinds of shamanism, Reiki and all other kinds of energetic healing. In recent years we've seen the introduction of technology that claims to influence the human magnetic field. Some of these devices are used by acupuncturists, others are available for home use, but nothing yet has claimed such powerful results as the Ampcoil. Aaron and Geneva Bigelow specifically developed this device to address symptoms of Lyme's disease. They have had spectacular results: alleviation of symptoms and test results changing from positive to negative in as short as 30 days. Nothing else is been known to do that. The Ampcoil is a powerful device which restores the body to its natural electromagnetic frequency, in tune with the earth itself. This podcast is packed with useful information as well as some dramatic healing stories from all three of the presenters. Enjoy the ride. 5:00 -- What is energy medicine?  10:40 -- A story of miraculous healing  26:26 -- The part we play in our one healing 32:00 -- A second case study  43:27 -- Resetting the nervous system and rewiring our beliefs 50:49 -- How does this thing work!? 55:30 -- Clearing emotional dis-ease to create from joy 60:50 -- Super-functioning 72:11 -- With crisis comes opportunity

Episode eight of the Radical Brilliance podcast is with Dr Sue Morter, who I've known for many years. Her father, Dr. Ted Morter, developed a very innovative new form of chiropractic, which I have benefited from immensely. But in the last years, Sue has gone way beyond her training as a chiropractor. She has developed powerful insight about the electromagnetic impact of incarnation. Wow. Say that again? OK. All too often we focus on the ways that we have been traumatized personally. My father left home when I was four... No one listened to me... I didn't get held enough...   My uncle was abusive... All of these things are absolutely real and serious, but when we each focus on our personal story of traumatization, we overlook the much bigger and more powerful trauma of contracting down from our original nature as limitless consciousness and being compressed into an experience of being a human body limited in time and space. In this podcast, Sue calls this the "splat" of incarnation. When we understand and have compassion for the very trauma of incarnation itself, we can develop a much more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of how to unravel that trauma and to be the most brilliant version of ourselves. 7:03 --  You ARE that to which you aspire 11:04 -- SPLAT and the friction that gives us the opportunity to evolve  21:53 -- Healing the bandwidth of humanity and including ourselves in the wholeness 30:37-33:29 -- TRIGGER WARNING: Rape content  39:53 -- Repairing the circuitry to handle the frequency of our true nature / Fixing our circuitry without doing  50:24 -- Practices to come home to yourself  55:50 - What to do with all the extra energy

Episode seven of the Radical Brilliance Podcast is with my good friend Dr. John Gray, with whom I coauthored the book Conscious Men. John is best known as a relationship expert since he wrote Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus almost 30 years ago. Although his skills are superlatively impressive in understanding the dynamics between men and women, he has helped me most in unraveling the complex world of nutritional supplements. John was diagnosed with an obscure neurological disorder many years ago, for which western science did not have an immediate solution. He embarked upon a deep and thorough exploration of the effect of many different nutritional supplements on our health and on the brain. By now, his website, marsvenus.com, has one of the most impressive collections of high quality supplements, with videos of John explaining how they can best be used. Just as an example, years ago, John recognized  the degree to which our topsoil has been stripped of minerals. Some scientists estimate that the topsoil, in which vegetables grow, had about 70% more minerals in it in 1950 than it does today. Less minerals in the topsoil means less minerals in our vegetables, which means the higher possibility of mineral deficiency. The problem with minerals is that you can't just eat them. You can't just scrape some zinc off your car battery and swallow it. Minerals need to be chelated, which means they have to be bound to another substance, often organic. John discovered that the best possible chelation for absorbing minerals is oratic acid, which is how we get nutrition in mother's milk. Magnesium orotate, Lithium orotate, Potassium orotate, are much easier to absorb than other forms of chelation. When John discovered that these kinds of mineral orotates were not readily available, he did what John does: he developed his own brand. Thats the kind of hard core nutritional guy he is. In this episode, I asked John to talk us through the 10 most important supplements to enhance brilliance. 5:04 -- The top minerals you need for brilliance 8:15 -- Hey! There's a gut controlling your brain 12:52 -- The simplest supplements to focus and calm anxiety 18:53 -- Strengthening the immune and nervous systems and protecting the brain  22:54 -- The alpha of the Omegas 24:18 -- Multivitamins 25:45 -- NADH for a natural oxygen high 28:07 -- The brain nutrient to boost memory

Episode Six of the Radical Brilliance Podcast  is with my good friend, Eric Edmeades, the founder of WildFit. The production of food has gone through a dramatic metamorphosis, all within living memory. When I was a child, there were still farms which produced not only milk, but also meat and vegetables and honey, all within the same acreage. There was no such thing as "organic" because nothing was inorganic. I can remember: the idea of food being produced in a factory instead of made from raw ingredients in the kitchen was still quite new when I was a child.  Today, many people survive on "junk food" from low-cost fast food outlets, and factory-produced food-like substances  in plastic wrappers sold in massive supermarkets. We have lost our way. In reaction to this, there is a huge movement of interest in getting back to a natural diet. Witness the proliferation of farmers markets, farm to table restaurants, and an overwhelming interest in what is natural and organic. But it can be hard to make your way through the forest of sometimes conflicting information. in my opinion, no one has done a better job than Eric in making sense of it all. Grounded in science and anthropology, he has a deep understanding of the original and natural human "dieta.” In this podcast he explains to us what humans have been eating for hundreds of thousands of years, and how even in today's modern fast world we can get back as closely as possible to the foods which give us optimal health and mental clarity.

In episode five, I interview my very favorite human being of all the human beings there are alive on the planet. Generally, when I'm preparing to record a podcast there are some logistic questions. Am I going to travel to where they live? [I've done that… I flew to New York recently to interview Andrew Horn and Mickey Agarwal, I drove to Southen California for Daniel Schmachtenberger]. Can they come to me? Or are we going to record using zoom? This was the one interview when none of those questions were necessary. I was interviewing the extraordinary wonderful human being who sleeps on the other side of my bed. Have you ever seen those shorter videos on social media where very handicapped people learn to do ordinary things? You can watch a video for five minutes of someone brushing their teeth, making it downstairs, making breakfast and even going out to buy groceries. All of this is completely gripping and fascinating when the subject of the video has no arms and legs. Then it is heroic! Extraordinary! A triumph of human nature.   I never thought that I would be able to love: fully and deeply and without restraint in this lifetime. There was too much conditioning from my family weighing me down. But seventeen years ago, I met someone who had the same aspiration: to learn to love, despite the odds. We agreed to enter into an experiment together: to practice love.  Here is our report. 11:18 -- An experiment in love / Committing to something deeper  20:22 -- Exposed! / Radical honesty 27:38 -- Starting over every day / A fresh trembling attempt at allowing love to take over 35:00 -- Universal love, polyamory, or monogamy? / Commitment as a portal into freedom 46:36 -- Committing to love itself  53:40 -- Greatest challenge of relationship  / the demons we face in achieving deeper love 

Since she was a small child, Miki and her twin sister Radha have loved the question, "Who says?" In a gentle, humorous, and playful way, they both love to disrupt the status quo and question the existing rules which keep us repeating the same things over and over. Mickey is a serial entrepreneur. She loves to step into an existing industry, shake it up in the most disruptive way possible, and then recreate it in a way that makes more sense: is more environmentally sustainable, and more economically sound. You'll hear her talk about how she has brought this attitude to movie sets, to the restaurant business, to menstrual products, and how she has initiated a worthy campaign to eliminate the need for toilet paper. Stand by to be disrupted. 6:42 -- Towers fall, tendons rip, and a life's mission is revealed 19:20 -- The innovator's first question: What sucks in your world? 24:00 -- Ingredients of brilliance 29:10 -- Support in partnership 34:50 -- Getting worth by giving worth 40:58 -- A Tushi is born 46:00 -- Key Performance Indicator: Tears of Joy

Daniel Schmachtenberger is best known for inventing the Nootropic Qualia, and now Eternis, produced by the Neurohacker Collective. But actually, that's just one corner of everything that Daniel contributes. Daniel is truly a futurist, in the same way as Barbara Marx Hubbard or Peter Russell. He is an expert on mapping the architecture of possible future scenarios, and determining the best possible future for humanity. People often asked me after Radical Brilliance was published, "So who was the most brilliant person you've interviewed?" I never hesitate for a moment. This is he. Let yourself be challenged, inspired, and motivated as Daniel explores what it takes to be an agent of evolution. 4:35 -- Becoming aware that the end is nigh 16:24 -- Civilization savers and their unexpected downsides 25:25 -- Evolution vs tool-building and how humans are extincting themselves 37:54 -- Becoming a catalyst of change / Creating self-stabilizing ecologies 45:03 -- Racing towards the worse world possible / how to ensure that life saving technologies don't become weaponized 51:57 -- A new problem-solving toolkit and taking responsibility for the whole = “Omniconsideration” 69:48 -- Different kinds of intelligence and the co-development of our own will, heart, and mind

Alex Ebert is best known as the founder and lead singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. You have probably heard (and danced to) the song, Home. You may have seen the band perform on late-night TV, or heard them front line at a music festival. Alex also wrote the screenplay to Robert Redford's film, All is Lost, for which he won an Emmy, and also for A Most Violent Year. People have always found it incredibly difficult to pigeonhole Alex or Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Some people try to say it's '70s retro... But no, that doesn't quite fit, nor does indie, or folk, or any of the other labels. In my opinion, that's because Alex is creating, originally and authentically, without imitation. That's what we mean by Radical Brilliance. In this podcast, you'll hear about his creative process, how Alex reaches out into a realm beyond human understanding and brings back little fragments from there, rather like archeology, until an entire skeleton has been assembled and becomes alive. Enjoy reflections on authentic and original creativity from an authentically and original artist... 5:15 -- A formula for transcending the moment / Celestial Archeology / Forcing oneself into freedom 14:01 -- Making a messiah 23:10 -- Art and the state of the world / Looking for the gaps in the artistic fabric of society / Being of artistic service / Radical earnesty 33:40 -- The best way to eradicate brilliance 41:52 --  Performance enhancements 52:44 -- Supplements “Daddy” will not allow / Creating a crucible / the arc of self-realization / Having transcendent experiences like its no big deal 65:54 -- What's the soil in which Brilliance can bear fruit / Rushing - Getting to the Right Now / Meet the idea as soon as it arrives 83:07 -- What my breath away / Taking chances / Eschewing everything that shackles you from your truest most potent self / Taking away the safety net

Welcome to episode number one of the Radical Brilliance Podcast. It's not just a random coincidence that our first guest is the extraordinary Lynne Twist. Lynne not only speaks about the essence of everything this podcast is about, but she also perfectly embodies it as well. Lynne was instrumental in the founding of The Hunger Project in the 1970s and went on to raise more than $2 billion to alleviate world hunger. She headed up a volunteer organization that operated in dozens of countries with hundreds of thousands of volunteers. In the late 1990s she underwent an extraordinary visionary experience, which gave birth to the Pachamama Alliance. The Radical Brilliance Podcast exists to highlight the people who have made their lives about making an extraordinary contribution. Often we assume that this kind of lifestyle involves self sacrifice, giving up the things that you enjoy and are important to you, but Lynne demonstrates and eloquently explains that quite the opposite is true. Everything we long for, everything we try and find through money, or fame, or power, comes to us naturally when we dedicate our lives to the wellbeing of as many beings as possible. Please stick around at the end of the podcast,  I'm going to condense the essence of what we got from the dialogue, and turn it into a practice that you can try out in your life for a few days. 5:10 -- Reflections on childhood 13:25 -- Getting involved in activism 19:29 -- A magical introduction 23:08 -- One way to transform humanity 33:22 -- Overcoming the inconvenience of service 40:20 -- How to take a stand with your life 51:30 -- Does spirituality help or hinder? 56:30 -- Revelations of a Shamanic journey 1:05:43 -- Meeting with Ecuador's last hidden tribe / The Pachamama Alliance is born