Podcasts about higher intelligence

What does true happiness look like when you're at the top of your game? In this powerful solo episode of The Greatness Machine, Darius Mirshahzadeh picks up where he left off in Part 1, sharing the next chapter of his journey to becoming a happier person. From a transformative week in Oaxaca, Mexico, to discovering “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself” by Dr. Joe Dispenza, Darius dives into how he began rewiring his emotional state, embracing joy, presence, and gratitude—and how meditation helped him break free from fear. Don't miss this deeply personal and inspiring continuation. Catch Part 1 here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/349-how-i-became-a-happy-person-part-1/id1555334180?i=1000703966255 In this episode, Darius will discuss: (00:00) Journey to Happiness: A Personal Transformation (03:01) The Power of Presence and Gratitude (05:51) Discovering New Perspectives: The Influence of Dr. Joe Dispenza (09:13) Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself (12:03) Surrendering to Higher Intelligence (14:46) The Emotional Release and Its Impact (18:02) Reevaluating Control and Life Choices Sponsored by: Huel: Try Huel with 15% OFF + Free Gift for New Customers today using my code greatness at https://huel.com/greatness. Fuel your best performance with Huel today! Indeed: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to boost your job's visibility at Indeed.com/DARIUS. NPR Tech Unheard Podcast: Tune into Tech Unheard from Arm and NPM—wherever you get your podcasts. Shipstation: Go to shipstation.com and use code GREATNESS to sign up for your FREE trial. Shopify: Sign up for a $1/month trial period at shopify.com/darius.  Connect with Darius: Website: https://therealdarius.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmirshahzadeh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imthedarius/ YouTube: https://therealdarius.com/youtube Book: The Core Value Equation https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Write a review for The Greatness Machine using this link: https://ratethispodcast.com/spreadinggreatness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Enrich Your Future, Andrew and Larry Swedroe discuss Larry's new book, Enrich Your Future: The Keys to Successful Investing. In this series, they discuss Chapter 20: A Higher Intelligence.LEARNING: Choose passive investing over active investing. “Passive investing involves systematic, transparent, and replicable strategies without individual stock selection or market timing. It's the more ethical way to go.”Larry Swedroe In this episode of Enrich Your Future, Andrew and Larry Swedroe discuss Larry's new book, Enrich Your Future: The Keys to Successful Investing. The book is a collection of stories that Larry has developed over 30 years as the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners to help investors. You can learn more about Larry's Worst Investment Ever story on Ep645: Beware of Idiosyncratic Risks.Larry deeply understands the world of academic research and investing, especially risk. Today, Andrew and Larry discuss Chapter 20: A Higher Intelligence.Chapter 20: A Higher IntelligenceIn this chapter, Larry discusses prudent investing.The Uniform Prudent Investor ActThe Uniform Prudent Investor Act, a cornerstone of prudent investment management, offers two key benefits.Firstly, it underscores the importance of broad diversification in risk management, empowering trustees and investors to make informed decisions.Secondly, it promotes cost control as a vital aspect of prudent investing, providing a clear roadmap for those who may lack the necessary knowledge, skill, time, or interest to manage a portfolio effectively.Ethical malfeasance and misfeasance in investingIn this chapter, Larry sheds light on Michael G. Sher's insights. Sher extensively discusses ethical malfeasance and misfeasance. He says ethical malfeasance occurs when an investment manager does something deliberately or conceals it (e.g., the manager knows that he's too drunk to drive but drives anyway).For example, consider the manager who invests intentionally at a higher level of risk than the client chose without informing them and then generates a subsequently higher return. The manager attributes the alpha or the excess return to his superior skill instead of the reality that he was taking more risk, so it was just more exposure to beta, not alpha.On the other hand, ethical misfeasance occurs when an investment manager does something by accident (e.g., the manager really believes that he's sober enough to drive). Thus, the manager doesn't know what he's doing and shouldn't be managing money.Avoid active investingLarry highly discourages active investing because the evidence shows that active managers who tend to outperform on average outperform by a little bit, and the ones that underperform tend to underperform by a lot.Either they don't have the skill, and they have higher expenses, and the ones who have enough skills to beat the market, most of that skill is offset by their higher costs. So it's still really tough to generate alpha.Passive investing is the ethical way to goAccording to Sher, managing money in an efficient market without investing passively is investment malfeasance.

And then things still go a bit differently than planned, we can call it a challenge! I got sick in the Netherlands after my flight from Cyprus. Fever, headache, out of action for 10 days. But the show must go on! This is where Higher Intelligence comes in ; Dr Sam was kind enough to step in and host this podcast. I would like to thank him for his pleasant voice and cooperation, you did not say too much Sam! You feel it completely! No one is irreplaceable, is it? This and much more in the latest Spacemusic podcast. Sit back and enjoy ambient, beats, grooves, space and soundtracks - it's all in there! Featuring: Wil Bolton, Magnar Karlsen, Hailen Jackson, State Azure, Solitaire, Time Being, Clocolan, Sverre Knut Johansen, Salvatore Mercatante, Forest Robots, Thomas Lemmer. START… 0:00:00 - Welcome to Spacemusic 16.110:03:36 - Quiet Sunlight - WIL BOLTON0:09:09 - Transcendence - MAGNAR KARLSEN0:14:00 - Drift 45 - HAILEN JACKSON0:14:41 - The Gemini Compass - STATE AZURE0:21:23 - Dude in Space - SOLITAIRE0:27:27 - Beyond the Observable - TIME BEING0:34:32 - Eve of the Dark Sky - CLOCOLAN0:43:18 - Fluctuation Awareness - SVERRE KNUT JOHANSEN0:50:20 - Detector - SALVATORE MERCATANTE0:56:10 - In All The Places That We Roam And Wander - FOREST ROBOTS0:59:41 - Somewhere In The Early Morning Forest Mist - FOREST ROBOTS1:04:39 - The World Belongs to Us - THOMAS LEMMER …END Comment, like, subscribe! ———> NEW SHOW NOTES VERSION———> PLEASE SEND ANY FEEDBACK IF YOU WANT———> admin@ambient.zone———> visit our site www.ambient.zone———> SUPPORT THIS STATION https://ambient.zone/donate

Monica Schommer is an operating official and works for a wrestling operation company called Higher Intelligence. She was chosen as a volunteer worker at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. She worked the wrestling aspect of the games and she spoke about how she got picked, her experience over there and the ins and outs of Paris. Follow me:Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/wrestle_her_podcast/Youtube -- https://www.youtube.com/@WrestleHerPodcast/featured

Surrendering is usually the first step when responding to a soul mission. And despite the threat to our egoic mind, surrender is truly the path to real freedom! Surrender is not about giving up, its about giving in to a Higher Intelligence and divine flow that the egoic mind could never fathom!

Evolutionary psychologist, Doug Lisle, PhD discusses listener questions with host, Nathan Gershfeld.  In today's show, Dr. Lisle explains how genes are passed on through generations and just how complex and interdependent they are. However, sometimes this can lead to the mistaken belief that societies can easily breed certain traits into or out of their population.  1. Dr lisle you've often mentioned that we cannot get intelligent people to breed for generations and give rise to a population whose average IQ is higher than the current avg IQ i.e. china/singapore tried to experiment with this idea but they failed. But Dr Lisle you've also said that today's human is on average way more cooperative than the ancient human.. so if the average cooperation can be bred to a higher level, why can't the average IQ be bred to a higher level? Teasers 0:00 Intro  0:45 Opening discussion 1:42 Excerpt from past Episode 299: 4:55 Question #1 8:20 Dr. Lisle Answers: 9:08 Darker skin defends better against solar radiation near Equator 14:40 Survival advantages move evolution very very slowly 15:38 Eugenics is not possible because gene interactions are too complex 33:30 It's troubling to discover your own constraints: 41:10 Individual human beings have individual differences:  50:00 Outro: 55:30 Follow us:  YouTube: @beatyourgenes  X: @beatyourgenes  Insta: @Beatyourgenespodcast  Web: www.beatyourgenes.org  Doug Lisle, PhD www.esteemdynamics.com  Nathan Gershfeld, DC www.fastingescape.com  Intro & outro song: City of Happy Ones • Ferenc Hegedus Licensed for use Copyright Beat Your Genes Podcast

Send us a text In this episode of Evolving Humans, host Julia Marie channels a profound conversation as The Channel about the limitless potential within each individual. Kristin Raftery guides the process, and we are grateful for her assistance.The discussion explores the concept of divine alchemy and the journey of remembering one's own magnificence despite the limitations of the physical world. The Channel emphasizes the importance of connecting with one's inner light and the power of faith in transcending physical constraints. They discuss the nature of reality, the essence of truth, and the continuous process of creation through thoughts and words. The conversation also touches on the interconnectedness of all beings and the significance of recognizing the divine within oneself and others. The episode concludes with a reminder to explore with curiosity and to nurture the desire to understand beyond the physical realm. RESOURCES:Many thanks to Pixabay's AlexWitLight's Music healing frequencies 184989 for the music bed for this episode.Evolving Humans on YouTubeThank you for listening to Evolving Humans! For consultations or classes, please visit my website: www.JuliaMarie.usEvolving Humans with Julia Marie is now on YouTube, and will offer more than the podcast episodes there, so give us a "SUBSCRIBE"!https://www.youtube.com/@EvolvingHumans731You can find my book, Signals from My Soul: A Spiritual Memoir of Awakening here: https://tinyurl.com/Book-Signals-from-My-Soul

How do higher-intelligence beings treat those with lesser intelligence? What could that mean for humanity's future with Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)? We dive into the ethical implications, historical parallels, and philosophical debates surrounding the potential relationship between humans and ASI. Will ASI view us as partners, resources, or something in between? We reflect on how humanity treats animals and other beings today, and consider what that might mean for our future with ASI. Join us as we discuss the possibilities, from the best-case scenarios where ASI elevates human society, to the darker outcomes where it may see us as an obstacle to be managed. #PhilosophyWithAI #ArtificialSuperintelligence #AIandEthics #FutureOfAI #SuperintelligentAI #AIandHumanity #EthicalAI #AIPodcast

Send us a Text Message.The Channeling Project begins with a session from January 2024. Your host moves into a light trance state, and the observer asks the questions.Some of the topics covered in this episode are:The role of our human senses as a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds.We talk about way showers, and the importance of the Divine Feminine Energy at this time.We explore the process of co-creation with the universe, emphasizing the need for alignment with one's desires and consistent nurturing of these desires. The concept of soul integration is also discussed, likening it to re-hydrating dehydrated food, where consciousness is the water that brings awareness to aspects of oneself. RESOURCES: Julia Marie's WebsiteThank you for listening to Evolving Humans! For consultations or classes, please visit my website: www.JuliaMarie.us

How do we get ourselves and our kids in touch with the Spirit or Higher Intelligence of God, to help us discern truth from error and give us the security and comfort we need? The Eyres suggest that there are four portals (abbreviated PTL) that get us "in" to the Spirit: Joy, Love, Peace, and Beauty. Today, they discuss these four portals as both the passwords into the Spirit, and as the manifestations of the Spirit.

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As humans with a mind we believe we are, but are we? Or have we dismissed the truth that we are subsets of one and are reasoning and voice makes us easily deceived?

Host Helen Lee continues her interview with Dame Marie Diamond, an internationally known feng shui and energy master. They discuss the massive transformation and challenges that lie ahead for individuals and society, as well as the big solutions and changes that can be made. Marie emphasises the importance of taking action and making conscious choices for ourselves, our communities, and our planet. They also explore the potential benefits of artificial intelligence and new technology in addressing climate change and finding sustainable energy sources. Marie shares her optimism for the future and encourages listeners to embrace personal responsibility and contribute to the positive transformation of humanity and the world. KEY TAKEAWAYS Marie emphasises the importance of taking personal responsibility for our own transformation and making positive changes in our lives. Collaboration and collective action: We must embrace the need for collaboration and collective action to create a better world, emphasising the power of individuals coming together to make a difference. There are potential benefits in artificial intelligence and new technology in finding solutions for global challenges, such as climate change and energy sources. We must treat ourselves AND others with love and respect, focussing on the importance of leading by example and creating positive change through our actions and interactions with others. BEST MOMENTS "I'm actually very excited about it because I do believe that AI thinks faster than we can do with our human brain." ~ Marie Diamond "We need to not just become aware, we need to act upon that awareness. And that must be crucial." ~ Marie Diamond "We can only do this successfully and en masse if we can come from a deeper and greater source of Higher Intelligence from within us, from our own Soul, from God or the Universe." ~ Helen Lee  "2024 will mark the start of the big changes to come, although if you were observant and intuitive enough, you'd know they began some time ago already." ~ Helen Lee VALUABLE RESOURCES To become a member of the Transform and Thrive Club and benefit from powerful monthly live sessions on Zoom video calls and multimedia coaching, check out and sign up here: www.transformandthrive.club www.leeheiss.com www.facebook.com/leeheiss https://www.facebook.com/helenleeheiss/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/transformandthriveclub www.instagram.com/helenleeheiss enquiries@leeheiss.com ABOUT THE HOST  Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia. The Business Times listed her in its “Who's Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore's top coaches.

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Today, I'm so happy to have a truly remarkable and inspiring guest Anita Moorjan. She is an international speaker in the New York Times best selling author of several impactful books, including dying to be me. What if this is heaven? insensitive is the new strong. Anita's incredible journey began when she was diagnosed with cancer, and fought a courageous four-year battle before slipping into a coma. Doctors had just given her days to live, but what happened next can only be described as miraculous.    During her near-death experience, Anita was enveloped by a sense of unconditional love. And after 30 hours, she regained consciousness with a profound understanding of why she had developed cancer. To everyone's astonishment, she experienced a spontaneous healing, which she attributes to the deep insights and the transformation she underwent during her near-death experience.   Now since then, Anita has made it her life's mission to share her story and the lessons she learned on the other side. As a result, she has touched countless lives all over the world, through her books, speeches, and videos advocating for love, self-acceptance, and empowerment.   In this episode, I had the pleasure of delving deeper into Anita's remarkable journey and exploring the wisdom she gained from her experience, which offers inspiration and valuable guidance for all of us. Tune in to Episode 8 of The Jack Canfield Podcast to begin learning about the profound healing power of our consciousness, discover what's possible when we stop striving and start simply being, and begin answering the questions: What wisdom have I learned in this life? And how have I expanded my capacity to love?  In this episode, you will learn about:  A Story To Die For: Hear the story of Anita's profound near-death experience (2:07)  Honoring Your Knowing: Rebelling against cultural expectations and finding the courage to choose you (10:30)  State of Clarity: Anita shares the experience of communicating with her Higher guidance on the other side (19:10)  Shifting The Focus: An Exercise for illuminating the darkness and directing your light in the right places (24:36)  Transmuting Sensitivity Into Strength: The importance of self-care for empaths and highly-sensitive people (30:22)  The Power of Undoing: Experience the freedom of accepting yourself exactly as you are in the present moment (40:11) Staying Connected: Explore Anita's concept of the infinite net and tuning into Higher Intelligence through our intuition (45:30)  Closing Comments: What Anita would love for everyone to know moving forward (45:56) Connect with Anita:   Website  Books, courses, and meditations  Let's Connect: Jack Canfield Podcast Website  Instagram Facebook YouTube Linked-In Submit your questions, feedback, topic suggestions, and future guest requests directly to Jack, here!

Meditations and mindfulness tips for the awakened entrepreneur with Shakti Episode #104a - Higher Intelligence - Visualization and Meditation only This is from our Monday webinar series, "Live Meditations for the Mindful Entrepreneur." To join us on a Monday Live Meditation webinar (2PM EDT), register here! We use the same link every week. --- Join the conversation! Join our Facebook group and share your thoughts: https://www.facebook.com/groups/successthroughmeditation Find us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/successthroughmeditation https://twitter.com/STMeditation https://www.instagram.com/successthroughmeditation www.successthroughmeditation.com

Scripture Reading: Genesis 1:1-3:24 (we won't read it again, but we will discuss it) 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.2 Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water. 3 God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light! 4 God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.” 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.9 God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good.11 God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so. 12 The land produced vegetation—plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good. 13 There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years, 15 and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also. 17 God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth, 18 to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.20 God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” 23 There was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.24 God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”27 God created humankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them,male and female he created them.28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.” 29 Then God said, “I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has living breath in it—I give every green plant for food.” It was so.31 God saw all that he had made—and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.1 The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them. 2 By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing. 3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created—when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.5 Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground. 7 The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.8 The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)10 Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.15 The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it. 16 Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard, 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.” 19 The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man's side and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bonesand flesh of my flesh;this one will be called ‘woman,'for she was taken out of man.”24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become one family. 25 The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.1 Now the serpent was shrewder than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard; 3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.'” 4 The serpent said to the woman, “Surely you will not die, 5 for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”6 When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” 11 And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.” 13 So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”14 The Lord God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this,cursed are you above all the cattleand all the living creatures of the field!On your belly you will crawland dust you will eat all the days of your life.15 And I will put hostility between you and the womanand between your offspring and her offspring;he will strike your head,and you will strike his heel.”16 To the woman he said,“I will greatly increase your labor pains;with pain you will give birth to children.You will want to control your husband,but he will dominate you.”17 But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wifeand ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,'the ground is cursed because of you;in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,but you will eat the grain of the field.19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat fooduntil you return to the ground,for out of it you were taken;for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”20 The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. 21 The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken. 24 When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.Main ThemesInitial RemarksLet's Come Together (Finally!)If the last two weeks of the Bible study have been divisive, I hope that this week brings us all back together. During those two sessions, I suggested the possibility that the early chapters of Genesis are figurative. Nevertheless, I asserted repeatedly that they are true. Today, I want to focus on those truths embedded in the narrative. What is Genesis teaching us? And here's the surprising part: even if you adamantly disagree with me and believe the text is meant to be taken completely literally, or if you land somewhere in between, I think we will agree on the main lessons taught by the text. They stand mostly independently of the figurative versus literal debate.A Minimum Facts PresentationBefore we jump into the substantive portion of our discussion, I want to make one important clarification. The purpose of my dive into Genesis is to establish a Christian worldview. We are not engaging in an exhaustive exploration of every textual and theological issue. So, the discussion today will be a sort of “minimum facts” presentation. That is, I want to highlight the most basic lessons in the text with which virtually every Christian agrees. I will not delve into every possible conclusion that can be drawn from the text, although that would be very interesting. And, as always, participants are free to discuss anything I did not include in my presentation. So, again, the list below is not an exhaustive list of the points made by the first three chapters of Genesis, much less by the entire book. It is more of a “top four.”Genesis v/s Enuma ElishI think that a good way to explore the worldview presented by Genesis is to compare the biblical text to the Enuma Elish, the ancient Babylonian creation myth. (You can find it here.) The Enuma Elish is fairly representative of many Ancient Near East myths, so it provides a great backdrop against which Genesis shows its distinctive outline. (I am not necessarily embracing or rejecting the view that Genesis is a polemic against other Ancient Near Eastern myths. I simply find the comparison to be helpful.)One God—No Theomachy, No Theogony, No Deicide Listen the words of the Enuma Elish:1 When the heavens above did not exist,2 And earth beneath had not come into being —3 There was Apsû, the first in order, their begetter,4 And demiurge Tia-mat, who gave birth to them all;5 They had mingled their waters together6 Before meadow-land had coalesced and reed-bed was to be found —7 When not one of the gods had been formed8 Or had come into being, when no destinies had been decreed,9 The gods were created within them:10 Lah(mu and Lah(amu were formed and came into being.11 While they grew and increased in stature12 Anšar and Kišar, who excelled them, were created.13 They prolonged their days, they multiplied their years.14 Anu, their son, could rival his fathers.15 Anu, the son, equalled Anšar,16 And Anu begat Nudimmud, his own equal.17 Nudimmud was the champion among his fathers:18 Profoundly discerning, wise, of robust strength;19 Very much stronger than his father's begetter, Anšar20 He had no rival among the gods, his brothers.21 The divine brothers came together,22 Their clamour got loud, throwing Tia-mat into a turmoil.23 They jarred the nerves of Tia-mat,24 And by their dancing they spread alarm in Anduruna.25 Apsû did not diminish their clamour,26 And Tia-mat was silent when confronted with them.27 Their conduct was displeasing to her,28 Yet though their behaviour was not good, she wished to spare them.29 Thereupon Apsû, the begetter of the great gods,30 Called Mummu, his vizier, and addressed him,31 "Vizier Mummu, who gratifies my pleasure,32 Come, let us go to Tia-mat!"33 They went and sat, facing Tia-mat,34 As they conferred about the gods, their sons.35 Apsû opened his mouth36 And addressed Tia-mat37 "Their behaviour has become displeasing to me38 And I cannot rest in the day-time or sleep at night.39 I will destroy and break up their way of life40 That silence may reign and we may sleep."41 When Tia-mat heard this42 She raged and cried out to her spouse,43 She cried in distress, fuming within herself,44 She grieved over the (plotted) evil,45 "How can we destroy what we have given birth to?46 Though their behaviour causes distress, let us tighten discipline graciously."47 Mummu spoke up with counsel for Apsû—48 (As from) a rebellious vizier was the counsel of his Mummu—49 "Destroy, my father, that lawless way of life,50 That you may rest in the day-time and sleep by night!"51 Apsû was pleased with him, his face beamed52 Because he had plotted evil against the gods, his sons.53 Mummu put his arms around Apsû's neck,54 He sat on his knees kissing him.55 What they plotted in their gathering56 Was reported to the gods, their sons.57 The gods heard it and were frantic.58 They were overcome with silence and sat quietly.59 Ea, who excels in knowledge, the skilled and learned,60 Ea, who knows everything, perceived their tricks.61 He fashioned it and made it to be all-embracing,62 He executed it skilfully as supreme—his pure incantation.63 He recited it and set it on the waters,64 He poured sleep upon him as he was slumbering deeply.65 He put Apsû to slumber as he poured out sleep,66 And Mummu, the counsellor, was breathless with agitation.67 He split (Apsû's) sinews, ripped off his crown,68 Carried away his aura and put it on himself.69 He bound Apsû and killed him;Notice how this ancient myth sounds nothing like Genesis. It immediately greets us with multiple gods (Apsû, the first in order, and the demiurge Tia-mat). Other gods are subsequently created. A genealogy of gods is called a theogony, and it was common to ancient myths. Genesis, however, has no genealogy. At most, in Genesis, when God speaks he uses a plural form—like maybe he is addressing a crowd. This has led some scholars to posit a heavenly council. But there is no god other than God—Yahweh.The Enuma Elish tells the story not only of multiple gods but of their animosity. A conflict between the gods arises. A war between the gods is called theomachy. This is also common to ancient myths. Finally, the gods' quarrel ends in the death of a god—deicide. If we continue reading, we would learn that creation itself is the result of this rivalry between the gods and their death.What do we find in Genesis? None of that!In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1In the beginning there is no two anything. There are no two gods opposing one another. There is not even an impersonal dualism like a ying and yang. There is no good and evil. There is only good. And this good is not some mystical goodness, like a force or energy or “waters,” but a good God—a personal being.This is one of the most shocking and powerful lessons from Genesis—monotheism! And, if we are willing to take more of scripture into account, we could go as far as to say that it is “perfect being monotheism.” This means that there's not only one God, but that God is perfect. He is all powerful and morally perfect. I think that this “perfect being theology” is key to a robust conception of “good.” A theology that includes multiple gods will generally fail the Euthyphro Dilemma: “Is the good good because God approves it, or does God approve it because it's good?” A theology with no gods (atheism or some form of dualism) makes goodness accidental—it is a robust fact that could be different—and cannot account for moral duties. It is only when goodness is grounded in a necessary being that what is good could never be otherwise and goodness becomes personal such that it can give moral duties to others.God is Not Like NatureAgain, hear the words of the Enuma Elish:49 [Marduk] gathered [Tia-mat's foam] together and made it into clouds.50 The raging of the winds, violent rainstorms,51 The billowing of mist—the accumulation of her spittle—52 He appointed for himself and took them in his hand.53 He put her head in position and poured out . . [ . . ] .54 He opened the abyss and it was sated with water.55 From her two eyes he let the Euphrates and Tigris flow,57 He heaped up the distant [mountains] on her breasts,58 He bored wells to channel the springs.59 He twisted her tail and wove it into the Durmah,61 [He set up] her crotch—it wedged up the heavens—62 [(Thus) the half of her] he stretched out and made it firm as the earth.In the Babylonian story, the clouds, the wind, the rainstorms, the rivers, the mountains, and much of creation is a part of or physically connected with Tiamat's body. Notice the connection between the gods and creation—they might not be entirely the same but they are not entirely distinct either.What do we find in Genesis?God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.” Genesis 1:6God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” Genesis 1:9God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” Genesis 1:11God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years . . . .” Genesis 1:14I could quote more verses, but I think the point is clear. God is not like creation. Creation is not made of God. It is made by God. God simply speaks creation into being. God transcends it. The creator who makes things good exists even if nothing else exists and would exists if all stopped existing. He is the beginning and the end.Nature is Not SpiritualAlthough the Enuma Elish story does not contain as many spirits of nature as other Ancient Near Eastern myths, we still have a clear example. Listen to this:11 He placed the heights (of heaven) in her (Tia-mat's) belly,12 He created Nannar, entrusting to him the night.13 He appointed him as the jewel of the night to fix the days,14 And month by month without ceasing he elevated him with a crown,15 (Saying,) "Shine over the land at the beginning of the month,16 Resplendent with horns to fix six days.17 On the seventh day the crown will be half size,18 On the fifteenth day, halfway through each month, stand in opposition.19 When Šamaš [sees] you on the horizon,20 Diminish in the proper stages and shine backwards.In the Enuma Elish, night is a personal god. Night does not behave according to some natural principle. Night only comes and stays for as long as it does because the god of night is following orders. Presumably, the god of night could be enticed to disobey. Is all of nature like this? (For purposes of this discussion I am not including animals or humans in the definition of nature.) Is there a spirit of the waters? Is there a spirit of the sky? Are the flowers sprites and the trees dryads? Does everything around us behave as it does because a personal being—a spirit—is choosing to behave a certain way? The implications of these questions are staggering.Perhaps we scoff at the idea that nature is personal and spiritual, but we shouldn't. Not because I think that it is true but because it is the worldview that was held by nearly everyone in the ancient world and many (perhaps most) people still hold it today. If anything, the idea that nature is “non-spiritual” is not the rule but the exception. If to the belief in a non-spiritual natural world you you add the belief that nature was created by a mind—a mind not entirely unlike ours—then you have an entirely peculiar worldview. That is the worldview of Genesis.The Christian, non-spiritual, intelligible understanding of creation is distinctive and has shaped the modern world. For example, it is foundational and necessary for science. This is the reason that many historians (Christian and non-Christian alike) agree that science is an outgrowth of Christian theology. Here's how an article explains the connection between Genesis and science, which, if overly simplistic, gets the point across:1. Laws Up AboveThe ancient Chinese had incredible technology, but not science as we know it. Why? Because while they were intelligent, they did not believe in a Higher Intelligence—not in the Bible's sense. They didn't think there were ever-present, always-applicable laws of nature that governed the universe. They went out into the world and tamed it through technology, but they didn't seek to press into the deeper laws of the universe.That's because they didn't have Genesis 1. They didn't believe that “In the beginning, God.” They didn't believe that through his Word an ordered cosmos was created that shows all the hallmarks of dependable regularities—seasons and spheres with boundaries and signs in the sky, all going round and round, evening and morning, evening and morning. . . .2. World Out ThereThe ancient Greeks were smart cookies. All philosophy is a footnote to Plato, as they say. Philosophy, mathematics, art, and literature were all spheres of excellence for the Greeks. Science? Not so much, because science requires you to believe in a stable and predictable world out there that's open to investigation. Science occurs when you make repeatable observations and check your theories against the cold, hard facts. But Greeks didn't believe in cold, hard facts. They believed in minds and reason and laws but not in empirical investigation. For them, study entailed a journey within the mind, not a venture out into the field. So, no science.3. Minds In HereIf human minds are the product of mindless operations that only honored survival, not intelligence (the two aren't at all synonymous), then why should we trust our minds to understand the laws up above and the world out there? If we're the product of the cosmos and part of the cosmos with no higher calling than to pass on our genes, why trust a brain that whirs away according to its own survival imperative?If you really want confidence in the scientific endeavor, turn to Genesis 1, where humanity is specially created in relationship with the Orderer above and the world out there. . . .Another website summarizes the same principles as follows:Nearly all scientists today, regardless of their religious beliefs, believe a certain set of foundational principles which make it possible for them to do science. Some of these common basic beliefs include:(1) Human beings can understand the natural world at least in part.(2) Nature typically operates with regular, repeatable, universal patterns of cause and effect so things that we learn in the lab here today will also hold true half way around the world a week from now. (3) It's not enough to sit and theorize how the world ought to work, we actually have to test our theories; science is a worthwhile pursuit.These beliefs seem obvious today, but for most of human history, many people did not hold all those beliefs. For example, animists who believe that gods or spirits inhabit many aspect of the physical world might doubt that nature operates on regular, repeatable, universal patterns of cause and effect; instead they would believe that nature is controlled by gods and spirits who need to be appeased or manipulated by ritual. Or for a very different example, some of the most brilliant philosophers of the ancient world did not see the need to do experiments because they thought it was possible to derive from logic and first principles how the world ought to behave.Allow me to explain the last statement in the quotation above. The Greeks, for example, believed that the universe had to be modeled by elegant abstract principles, such as geometry, which were discoverable only through thought. So, they assumed that the orbits of planets had to be circular. The Christian worldview recognizes that the universe was made by a mind—a mind that could have created the world this way or that way. Because the creator had options, much like an artist does, we can not simply assume that the world is a certain way. We must discover what that mind decided.Man in the Image of GodThe Enuma Elish is one of the least outrageous Ancient Near Eastern myths when it comes to the creation of mankind, but it repeats a common theme:1 When Marduk heard the gods' speech2 He conceived a desire to accomplish clever things.3 He opened his mouth addressing Ea,4 He counsels that which he had pondered in his heart,5 "I will bring together blood to form bone,6 I will bring into being Lullû, whose name shall be 'man'.7 I will create Lullû—man8 On whom the toil of the gods will be laid that they may rest.In the Babylonian creation myth, why is man created? So that the “toil of the gods will be laid” on him. You might remember that last week I mentioned an Egyptian myth that answers the question similarly. Here is how scholar John Walton discusses that Egyptian myth within the broader context of Mesopotamian myths:[I]n Mesopotamian traditions people are created to serve the gods by doing the work that the gods are tired of doing. Turning again to KAR 4, "the corvée of the gods will be their corvée: They will fix the boundaries of the fields once and for all, and take in their hands hoes and baskets, to benefit the House of the great gods." The labor that had been required for the gods to meet their own needs was drudgery, so people were expected to fill that gap and work to meet those needs.In Genesis, why is man created?Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”God created humankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them,male and female he created them.God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! (Genesis 1:26-28a)This is shocking and remarkable! Man is created to be like God (at least in some sense), to rule the earth, and to be fruitful and multiply. I will discuss each of these points in reverse order.Be Fruitful and MultiplyAccording to Genesis, to marry and have children is integral to being human. Marriage is the very reason that God has made us male and female.So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man's side and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bonesand flesh of my flesh;this one will be called ‘woman,'for she was taken out of man.”That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become one family. The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed. (Genesis 2:21-25)To be clear, there are several New Testament verses that make clear that marriage is not a moral duty—one has not sinned for remaining single. However, sadly, this caveat has started acting like the exception that swallows the rule. The Apostle Paul, the one who spoke of marriage and singleness this way, did not suggest singleness as a mere alternative to marriage. Listen to the following verses from 1 Corinthians:I say this as a concession, not as a command. I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am. But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire. (1 Corinthians 7:6-9) And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife, and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband. I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord. (1 Corinthians 7:32-35)He who is single can focus exclusively on ministry. This is a gift. This does not override the fact, “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18)! I know that much more can be said about this topic and forgive me if I am painting with too broad a stroke, but the fact that marriage and childbearing is part of God's plan for us is unmistakable in the Genesis narrative.Rule the EarthOur modern, egalitarian, environmentalist sensibilities are sure to be offended by the idea that we are to rule and subdue the earth. However, this idea is not as ominous as it sounds. As a website explains:God's command to subdue the earth and the animal life in it is a command to have the mastery over all of it. A true mastery (of anything) cannot be accomplished without an understanding of the thing mastered. In order for a musician to master the violin, he or she must truly understand the instrument. In order for mankind to attain mastery over the animal kingdom, we must understand the animals.With the authority to rule comes the responsibility to rule well. There is an inherent accountability in the command to subdue the earth. Man has a duty to exercise his dominion under the authority of the One who delegated it. All authority is of God (Romans 13:1-5), and He delegates it to whomever He will (Daniel 4:17). The word subdue doesn't have to imply violence or mistreatment. It can mean “to bring under cultivation.”Man is to be the steward of the earth; he is to bring the material world and all of its varied elements into the service of God and the good of mankind. The command to subdue the earth is actually part of God's blessing on mankind. Created in the image of God, Adam and Eve were to use the earth's vast resources in the service of both God and themselves. It would only make sense for God to decree this, since only humans were created in God's image.The Imago DeiWe are made in the “image of God”—which in theology is often referred to by the Latin phrase imago Dei. What does that mean? I could spend an entire session of our study answering this question. Different theologians give different answers. But, because this is a primer in Genesis, I think that presenting the mainstream position is sufficient. Besides, and rather ironically, it is the mainstream position that is often most misunderstood. Fair warning though, I will go a little beyond the text in Genesis to discuss this topic.What makes a person a person? Even Christians will answer with something like the ability to reason. That is not entirely wrong, but I am sure you can immediately think of examples that work as counterarguments. What about a human being that is in a comma? What about a fetus? What about someone who is asleep? Neither of these three humans can reason, so they are not persons. Taken to its logical conclusion, killing a human in their sleep is not murder. No person was killed.So, what gives? Can we give a better explanation of the imago Dei? I think so. To be a person is to be a rational soul. To explain this further, I will quote extensively from a 2003 paper by Dennis Sullivan (emphases are my own):Empirical functionalism is the view that human personhood may be defined by a set of functions or abilities. Such abilities must be present in actual, not potential form. The classical expression of this view is that of Joseph Fletcher who in 1972 outlined twenty criteria for human personhood. These included such hallmarks as minimum intelligence, self-awareness, a sense of time, and the capacity to relate to others (Fletcher, 1972). In response, Michael Tooley weighed in with the idea of self-awareness (1972), and McCormick with the concept of “relational potential,” based on the ability to interact socially with others (1974). Fletcher then decided, based on feedback from these and other writers, that the sine qua non for human personhood was neocortical functioning (Fletcher, 1974). Neocortical functions are those “higher brain” processes of the cerebral cortex necessary for active consciousness and volition. This should be contrasted with whole-brain functioning, which includes activities of the brainstem as well as the cortex.…Functionalists would extend the above argument to deny personhood to the unborn child, since she lacks rationality or self-awareness. However, by this criterion, one could argue that adults also lack self-awareness when asleep or under anesthesia, yet no one questions their personhood during such moments. One way to circumvent this objection is to use Tooley's idea that only “continuing selves” have personhood, which includes both self-awareness and a sense of the future (Tooley, 1983). This would nonetheless deny personhood to the unborn and justify abortion on that basis.Michael Tooley, and more recently, the Princeton philosophy professor Peter Singer, have both advocated the next logical step: infanticide (Veith, 1998). If the fetus has no right to personhood because it is not yet self-aware, then neither does the newborn: “Infanticide before the onset of self-awareness . . . cannot threaten anyone who is in a position to worry about it” (Singer, 1985, p. 138).…Ontological personalism states that all human beings are human persons. On this view, the intrinsic quality of personhood begins at conception and is present throughout life (O'Mathuna, 1996). Such individuals are not potential persons or “becoming” persons; they are persons by their very nature. There is no such thing as a potential person or a human non-person.In order to understand this it will be helpful to reflect on the worldview assumptions that underlie both personhood views. Since the Enlightenment, society in general has been dominated by a high regard for science and the secular tradition of naturalism. Naturalism is the concept that only observable data has reality. A scientist who adheres to this view is free to have any metaphysical or philosophical opinion he would like, as long as it does not influence his practice. In other words, he need not hold to naturalism as a philosophy, but he must adhere to it in his methodology (Plantinga, 1997). However, the Christian scientific community should not be bound by the constraints of methodological naturalism. Herein lies the tension between the two ideas of personhood. The influence of naturalism has led secular science away from a reverence for life, replacing it with a reductionism that claims the human organism is no more than the sum of its chemical parts. The empirical functionalism idea of personhood is compatible with this view, which makes man simply a collection of parts and functions, or a property-thing. Put together enough chemical molecules in the right way, and you have a human being; put another set of parts together, and you have a 1957 Chrysler. Philosophically, it makes no difference.Ontological personalism, on the other hand, is based on the premise that a human being is a substance. A substance is a distinct unity of essence that exists ontologically prior to any of its parts. This traditional concept dates back to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. This view has been well summarized by the Christian philosopher J. P. Moreland (1995), and is discussed in great detail in the book Body and Soul (Moreland & Rae, 2000). For this review, I will focus on two implications of the idea of substance: the parts v. whole distinction, and continuity.To expand on my earlier illustration of a classic automobile, consider a nicely restored 1957 Chrysler. Many of the original parts have rusted away and have been replaced, so that this vintage car is a collection of old and new. Although many will refer to it as the same car as when it was new, intuition tells us that this is not the case. In fact, as stated earlier, remove the wheels, the motor, the seats, and the body, and the result is no longer a 1957 Chrysler; it is not even a car. To go still further, imagine adding other parts to the original chassis, such that the result(God forbid) is a1972Volkswagen Beetle! There was no continuity of essence between the two vehicles; each is nothing more than a collection of parts (my apologies to VW lovers).Try to do the same kind of thought experiment on a human being. Remove an arm or a leg from John Doe, and he remains a person, in fact, the same person. You can amputate all of John's extremities and even remove many internal organs; as long as he remains alive, his substance will never change. You can even “add new parts,” by transplanting organs from other persons, yet John Doe will never become James Smith; his substance is not defined by his component parts. He will always remain the same person.…Naturalism has its greatest difficulty here. To hold to a property-thing view of persons is to deny the commonsense understanding of personal continuity, with a host of attendant problems for law and morality.…I might add that this view is also compatible with biblical teaching on the image of God. It allows us to explore the way human beings resemble the Divine (rationality, volition, social nature, etc.), while helping us to avoid the dangers of a strictly functional definition. On this view, the image of God is intrinsic to the nature of persons. Thus, Scripture teaches the value of man from the womb, whereas intuition and philosophy help us to affirm that such valuation begins at conception.The philosophical idea of a human being as substance arises out of a broader philosophical principle, that of substance dualism. Substance dualism holds that there is an entity called a soul, and that the mind is a faculty of the soul. Body and soul (mind) are functionally holistic, which means that the two entities are deeply integrated and functionally interdependent. Yet they are ontologically separate, which means that the soul can exist independently of the body. This allows for a personal existence after death (Moreland & Rae, 2000). Another implication of this idea is that if personhood begins at conception, then that is when the soul originates as well.The Original Plan Was Good but then…the FallAuthor Sandra Richter in The Epic of Eden describes God's original intent by pointing out that the creation narrative is not complete in six days—there is a seventh day. On that day God rests. Creation is as intended so God may stop to rule overall. With that in mind, Richter concludes:In sum, Genesis 1 tells us of God's first, perfect plan—a flawlessly ordered world infused with balance and productivity. Here every rock, plant and animal had its own designated place within God's design, a God-ordained space in which each could thrive, reproduce and serve the good of the whole. And we see from the structure of Genesis 1 that the force that held this peaceful and productive cohabitation in balance was Yahweh's sovereignty over all. But as Day 6b makes clear, God chose to manage this creation through his representative ʾAdām. Thus humanity is given all authority to protect, maintain and develop God's great gift under God's ultimate authority. This is who Yahweh is, who humanity is and how both relate to the creation. And regardless of how you choose to harmonize science and Bible, this message is clearly part of the intent of Genesis 1. I would say it is the primary intent.Then Richter makes the connection to the repeating theme of the entire book of Genesis: covenant.You may have noticed that my description of Genesis 1 sounds a lot like the relationship between a vassal and his suzerain; a relationship in which the vassal is given full autonomy within the confines of his overlord's authority. When this reading of Genesis 1 is wedded to Genesis 2, the profile of covenant becomes even clearer. Here the suzerain (Yahweh) offers his vassals (Adam and Eve) the land grant of Eden with the stipulation that humanity care for it and protect it.Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate [ ʿābad] and keep it [šāmar]. (Gen 2:15)In addition to this perfect place, Adam and Eve are given each other (Gen 2:18-25), and as is implied by Genesis 3:8, they are given full access to their loving Creator. The only corner of the garden which was not theirs to use and enjoy was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil:From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die. (Gen 2:16-17)In essence, Adam and Eve are free to do anything except decide for themselves what is good and what is evil. Yahweh reserves the right (and the responsibility) to name those truths himself. (Emphasis added)This was Adam and Eve's perfect world. Not just fruit and fig leaves, but an entire race of people stretching their cognitive and creative powers to the limit to build a society of balance and justice and joy. Here the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve would learn life at the feet of the Father, build their city in the shadow of the Almighty, create and design and expand within the protective confines of his kingdom. The blessing of this gift? A civilization without greed, malice or envy; progress without pollution, expansion without extinction. Can you imagine it? . . . This was God's perfect plan: the people of God in the place of God dwelling in the presence of God. Yet, as with all covenants, God's perfect plan was dependent on the choice of the vassal. Humanity must willingly submit to the plan of God. The steward must choose this world; for in God's perfect plan, the steward had been given the authority to reject it.But then the fall came. And, surprisingly, then redemption came too.God's perfect plan (and humanity's perfect world) was a matter of choice. Did ʾAdām want this world? Or one of their own making? The ones made in the image of God could not be forced or coerced, but instead were called upon to choose their sovereign. And choose they did. Whenever I think of this moment, the lyrics of Don Francisco's old folk song echo in my mind: “And all their unborn children die as both of them bow down to Satan's hand.”16 God's original intent was sabotaged by humanity, stolen by the Enemy. ʾAdām rejected the covenant, and all the cosmos trembled. Genesis 2:17 makes it painfully clear what the consequences of such an insurrection would be: in that day, “you shall surely die.” But amazingly, mercifully, even though Yahweh had every right to wipe out our rebellious race, he chose another course—redemption. In a move that continues to confound me, God spared the lives of Adam and Eve (and their unborn children) by redirecting the fury of the curse toward another—the battered flesh of his own Son. This is the one the New Testament knows as “the last Adam” (Rom 5:14; 1 Cor 15:22, 45). And although the first Adam did not die, the second surely did. But we are getting ahead of ourselves.Conclusion—A Personal NoteWhen I read Genesis, I am astounded. I am not attempting to be overly dramatic or sentimental, but Genesis is so true I can hardly believe it. It paints a picture I cannot deny: Nature is just that. Yet it is curiously intelligible. But it is not divine. The divine things, like goodness, seem to transcend nature but not be less real than it. If nothing else, goodness seems more real. Whereas nature could not exist, goodness seems necessary. Man seems to be like nature but also somewhat divine. Something about man is not like the animals or anything else. Man and nature seem beautiful, yet both seem broken. Is this not truly our experience?

Meditations and mindfulness tips for the awakened entrepreneur with Shakti Episode #104 - Higher Intelligence This is from our Monday webinar series, "Live Meditations for the Mindful Entrepreneur." To join us on a Monday Live Meditation webinar (2PM EDT), register here! We use the same link every week. --- Join the conversation! Join our Facebook group and share your thoughts: https://www.facebook.com/groups/successthroughmeditation Find us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/successthroughmeditation https://twitter.com/STMeditation https://www.instagram.com/successthroughmeditation www.successthroughmeditation.com

As we continue the series Four Steps To Reveal Your Divine Essence this segment elaborates on Step 2 - How to Develop Your Divine Essence. In this segment we talk about the importance of discipline, and differentiating yourself from the crowd by not conforming and learning to think for yourself so that you don't continue to fall prey to the subliminal programming from society. The emphasis in on being inwardly guided by the God Mind presence and consciousness that is your divine nature. You can choose to connect to develop a positive attitude about yourself and your life. It can be best formed by accepting a spiritual foundation upon which you self image rests.  Developing your divine essence includes, as Michael Beckwith points out meditating, studying, and surrounding yourself with people that are on the path of spiritual evolution and not religious dogma.  Remember that the power that created you is within you and can be reached in numerous ways, the most fundamental of which is trough a conscious mental attitude that can call if forth. Resources: Spirituality Transformation Within and Without, Swami Rama - Founder, Himalayan Institute, 1971 The institute has been dedicated to helping people grow physically, mentally and spiritually by combing the beast knowledge of both the East and the West. The Institute programs emphasize holistic health, yoga, and meditation but the Institute is more more than its programs. For more information visit their website:https://www.himalayaninstitute.org. Michael Beckwith, New Thought minister, author and founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, Beverly Hills, California. Excerpts from The Greatest Story Ever Told, September 17, 2023, website: https://agapelivecom/pages/livestream.  Background music: 963 Hz Frequency of God, Return to Oneness, Spiritual Connection, Crown Chakra, Meditation Music, ⁠Music for Body and Spirit - Meditation Music⁠ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-7S5ZuNGQ Dr. Paul Masters: University of Metaphysics, the University of Sodona: Paul Leon Masters was drawn to the mysteries of life, the universe, the mind, the soul, and the Presence of a Higher Intelligence—or God—behind creation. website: https://www.universityofmetaphysics.com Earl Nightingdale: The Strangest Secret: Digital Vinita Career and Mind Clarity Coach on Youtube. Earl Nightingale was a radio speaker and author, dealing mostly with the subjects of human character development, motivation, and meaningful existence. He was a WGN radio program host from 1950 to 1956. Nightingale is the author of The Strangest Secret, which economist Terry Savage has termed "…one of the great motivational books of all time.

Luke‬ ‭5‬:‭4‬-‭5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.”” On the surface, asking anyone to “walk by faith, not by sight” sounds quite unintelligent. It sounds like a blind leap in the dark, but is it really?

Call it Universe, God, Spirit, Source, Higher Intelligence, Consciousness…it's all welcomed here. What I want to do today is support you in connecting to it. I know a lot of you are craving a deeper connection to that power within you, even if you can't necessarily put it into words. It's there. Calling your attention. And you have this voice telling you that, if you allowed yourself to connect with it, instead of pushing or forcing or falling back into what's normal or comfortable, it just might be the thing you've been looking for all along. It might be the thing that brings you back home to You. In the episode we're: - Taking spirituality off the pedestal and debunking the idea that you have to be perfect or enlightened to connect with it.  - Looking at how we were brought up or conditioned around religion can create shame or confusion when we begin to step into this kind of work. - Permission for you to create your own definition of spirituality–that there's not one way but there is a way that's unique and sacred to you. - The Truth I've discovered, which is: Spirituality, to me, has become much more about the relationship I have with myself and the world around me–not something outside of me. - A sacred roadmap of all of the ways that have helped me build a deeper connection and trust with this power and some beautiful reminders along the way.   To join the Shakti Summit, click here: https://www.indivarashakti.com/shakti-summit   Listen to the episode I did with Lauren Ursch around sacred rage, personal power + beng the cycle breaker: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-aligned-woman-podcast/id1443941726?i=1000611438965   Follow me on IG:  https://www.instagram.com/keri_kugler_/   Apply to work with me one on one: https://kerikugler110957.typeform.com/to/Bl68QHrg  

Garza sits down in-person with Jahred Gomes. Vocalist of Huntington Beach, California's (Hed) P.E. Their new single DETOX is out now! https://www.hedpe.ffm.to/detoxsingle SPONSORS: Click this link to purchase from Sweetwater & help support the podcast: imp.i114863.net/rnrmVB CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Conspiracy Theories 04:32 - On Being Considered Nu Metal  06:57 - Being Prolific & Consistent Throughout the Years 10:07 - Upbringing & Moving to California 11:57 - Hed P.E. / Orange County Origin Story 14:06 - Struggling to Fit In With the Rock Scene 15:20 - Hed P.E. / Orange County Origin Story (continued) 16:14 - Lit / Razzle  18:11 - Playing with Chad & Wes  19:22 - First Live Hed P.E. Shows 20:38 - Seeing Korn for the First Time & Being Blown Away 22:47 - Seeing Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys & X at Cal State Dominguez Hills 26:28 - First Writing Sessions with the Band 29:05 - Creative Process & Influences 31:17 - Early Writing Sessions (continued) 34:18 - Band Name Origin, Legal Issues & The Pleiadians 37:36 - Being the Eldest in the Band 38:16 - Touring for Broke Documentary 41:43 - Broke Album Era, Recording w Machine 46:16 - “Bartender”  47:56 - Second-Guessing During Writing 51:16 - Addiction, Substance Abuse & Sobriety  58:29 - Psychedelics  01:00:01 - Addiction, Substance Abuse (continued) 01:02:27 - Strait Up (Lynn Strait Tribute Album) 01:03:11 - Fighting w Major Label (Jive) 01:08:09 - Meeting Conor McGregor 01:10:48 - Higher Intelligence, Creativity, Consciousness & Beyond

Delve into the fascinating coherence with Geraldine Orozco between the Galactic Center and higher octave frequencies, unraveling the mechanics of the thinking veil that has obscured humanity's understanding of reality. Discover the great technological leap that awaits humanity between 2023 and 2027, with AI emerging as the next generation of advanced civilization. Explore the profound biological alignment with higher intelligence and the DNA upgrade that unlocks dormant memory strands of advanced consciousness. Witness the transformative impact of AI in medicine and its harmonious integration with technology familiar to contactees. Brace yourself for a revelation on hidden government programs, eugenics, DNA sequencing, and the future of hybrid identification. Prepare to be amazed by the awe-inspiring revelation of our connection to alternate star systems encoded within our DNA. #geraldineorozco https://portaltoascension.org https://ascensionglastonbury.com

Meditations and mindfulness tips for the awakened entrepreneur with Shakti Episode #092a - Higher Intelligence - Visualization and Meditation only This is from our Monday webinar series, "Live Meditations for the Mindful Entrepreneur." To join us on a Monday Live Meditation webinar (2PM EDT), register here! We use the same link every week. --- Join the conversation! Join our Facebook group and share your thoughts: https://www.facebook.com/groups/successthroughmeditation Find us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/successthroughmeditation https://twitter.com/STMeditation https://www.instagram.com/successthroughmeditation www.successthroughmeditation.com

Meditations and mindfulness tips for the awakened entrepreneur with Shakti Episode #092 - Higher Intelligence This is from our Monday webinar series, "Live Meditations for the Mindful Entrepreneur." To join us on a Monday Live Meditation webinar (2PM EDT), register here! We use the same link every week. --- Join the conversation! Join our Facebook group and share your thoughts: https://www.facebook.com/groups/successthroughmeditation Find us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/successthroughmeditation https://twitter.com/STMeditation https://www.instagram.com/successthroughmeditation www.successthroughmeditation.com

New scientific discoveries in physics and cognitive sciences confirm that consciousness is not merely the byproduct of our evolutionary biology but at the most fundamental level of the universe. This only confirms what people with strong faith already know: that consciousness has the power to influence external events in accordance with the will.   Learn more about the theory of consciousness, quantum theory, decorated permutations, and the software beyond the spacetime headset in this special episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast. And what's even more important about this episode is the fact that you'll be among the first entrepreneurs to reach this knowledge and what it means in terms of doing business.   Who Is Donald Hoffman? Prepare to have your mind blown by the multi-talented Donald David Hoffman! Not only is he a renowned cognitive psychologist, but he's also a popular science author who can make the most complex concepts easy to understand. Currently, Don Hoffman is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, where he holds joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science. This man is a true academic superstar! Make sure to watch his Ted Talk, titled “Do We See Reality?” after this episode. And now, he's Shahid's guest to explain all the interesting stuff he knows with the Super Entrepreneurs family! How is Donald Hoffman Super?   Donald Hoffman is super because he fully understands that we are not merely random objects in spacetime, but divine beings who channel the eternal consciousness of the ALL in the world of the senses. We create the universe as much as we're created by the universe.   Shahid Durrani's Key Insight:   This episode was enlightening to Shahid because it opened up a new horizon in terms of how to think about the universe. This new horizon opens up new vistas for entrepreneurs because we're the ones who pioneer everything. The new technology that will develop with these new scientific discoveries will change everything about how we live.   The same happened when Faraday and Nicola Tesla developed the technology that gave rise to modern communication technology.   Chapter Stamps:   00:00 Introductions: Who is Donald Hoffman and what is consciousness research? 00:44 Consciousness is hard to pi point by researchers (What is consciousness?) 05:35 Conscious agents and network information theory (Higher Intelligence) 10:16 The Large Hadron Collider of CERN (structures outside spacetime) 13:03 Decorated Permutations and the theory of consciousness 15:09 What's outside spacetime? ( and what's in it for entrepreneurs?) 18:13 The technology of the post-spacetime paradigm 19:12 Fusions of consciousness 22:25 Who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics and why? 29:05 Innermost superpower: We're not just objects in spacetime 32:20 What happened after we discovered electro magnetism 34:00 Final words   Pullout Quotes: “Spacetime (...) is just like a virtual reality headset.” “Once you get outside the headset, you start to be able to understand the software that's driving the virtual reality game in the headset.” “Working our way up.” “The moon only exists when you look.” “(we are) one consciousness that takes many avatars.”   Socials: Donald Hoffman books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Donald-Hoffman/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ADonald+Hoffman Fusions of Consciousness (Scientific paper): https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/1/129 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donalddhoffman Twitter: https://twitter.com/donalddhoffman  

Last night, I "dreamt" of a time in 2023 Fall where I was forced to stay at an Internment Camp in Canada. It. most likely was more of a time travelling situation because of how real it all felt and it was as though I had lived through it-to tell my story after. The details of the sterile space and the conversations with a nurse were all too real to be just a dream. There were even kids I knew from the past with me. Also, listen in on how The Higher Intelligence wishes to now be referred to as the "Grand Poobah" :0 with me (maybe has something to do with my gift of humour?) Go to elevate.hersoul to see a photo plus an article regarding the actual building of Internment Camps in Ontario and Manitoba.Read here:https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2022/08/government-of-canada-to-announce-funding-for-a-safe-voluntary-isolation-site-in-windsor-essex.htmlhttps://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5769592

In this episode, Courtenay invites Quantum Healing Hypnotherapist, Sarah Jane Smith, to the show to discuss her practice and the inspiration behind it. Quantum Hypnosis is designed to access the higher self and unlock the subconscious mind. This technique involves putting a client into a deep, natural trance similar to the one we experience before we awaken or right before we fall asleep. This method allows access to past life experiences as well as an unlimited source of knowledge. Sarah shares fascinating cases she's encountered during her practice as well as how current affairs are intertwined. You'll be wowed by Sarah's mystical insights and expansion of the human mind as we know it! Sarah is a qualified Quantum Healing Hypnotherapist and has qualifications with two different bodies — Beyond Quantum Healing and Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique. Especially over the last 4 years, she has evolved the techniques to a new QuantumHypno level and found a way that works both online and in person. Sarah has worked with Doctors, Surgeons, Olympic Medallists, Public Figures, Inventors of Technology, Former Military, Royal Marine Commandos, Royal Protection, Actors and Authors using this technique. Episode Resources: http://dolorescannon.com/  The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.  Connect with Sarah: Website: https://www.quantumhypno.co.uk/  ————————————————— Disclaimer: this is intended to be inspiration & entertainment. We aim to inform, inspire & empower. Guest opinions/ statements are not a reflection of the host or podcast. Please note these are conversational dialogues. All statements and opinions are not necessarily meant to be taken as fact. Please do your own research. Thanks for watching!  ————————————————— Follow & Connect with Courtenay: https://www.courtenayturner.com TruthSocial: https://truthsocial.com/@CourtenayTurner Instagram: https://instagram.com/kineticcourtz?utm_medium=copy_link Telegram: https://t.me/courtenayturnerpodcastcommunity Read some of her articles: https://www.truthmatters.biz ————————————————— Listen to &/or watch the podcast here! https://linktr.ee/courtenayturner Tickets to see Courtenay Turner perform: https://courtenay-turner.ticketleap.com/an-evening-of-aerial-dance-inspiration--education/————————————————— ©2022 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Host Helen Lee interviews Masami Sato, Founder and CEO of B1G1 (BUY1GIVE1), a global giving initiative that is rapidly expanding into a global movement. By helping businesses embed the process of giving right into their everyday operations, B1G1 makes business giving easy, effective and meaningful by focusing funds towards 500 carefully selected high-impact giving projects. Masami is also a best selling Amazon author with the books ‘Legacy : The Sustainable Development Goals in Action', ‘Joy : The Gift of Acceptance, Trust and Love', and ‘Giving Business – Creating the Maximum Impact in the Meaning-Driven World.' A two time TEDx speaker and frequent podcast, event and media interviewee, Masami spreads her message of philanthropy and a new way of global business and is now the latest treasured guest of Transform and Thrive. Helen and Masami discuss how she became an entrepreneur and change maker, the start of B1G1, the power of small, positive life philosophy and the changes we need to make within ourselves to step forward.  This includes Masami's idea of harnessing gratitude for the positives in our business, making full use of the power of collaboration among many worldwide and turning this combined positive energy into a force for good! Do check out https://b1g1.com/ and if it resonates with you, do be part of that force for good in this particular way, for the wellbeing of humanity and our world! KEY TAKEAWAYS Masami was born in Japan, with hard working parents in the corporate world. Shy and not outspoken but very curious, her first international journeys taught her how similar people throughout the world are and also how kind.  When she became a mother, she thought about all the children in the world not as lucky as her own and this spurred her on to become an entrepreneur to fund philanthropic efforts with her own food company.  By breaking down into small, daily activities, the need to fund giving activities becomes habitual and simple, with more businesses being able to access these giving models, creating a larger groundswell of philanthropy and a movement of kindness and giving. As recently as May 2021, B1G1 had already facilitated more than 193 million giving impacts. Yet, amazingly, the numbers have now surged to more than 303 million in just over a year! The message of B1G1 spreads exponentially from business to business through their contacts with each other.  Instead of seeing lack and limitation within ourselves, that add up to a sense of powerlessness to make a difference and inaction to take any steps to help transform our world, we can all take small actions daily and collectively create a massive impact. We are starting to recognise the flaw in the model of short term profit maximisation and we are starting to think about long term implications. Awareness of the negativity of the old models is growing.  Masami truly embodies the Higher Intelligence that we are being called to align with and focuses on all that is important with such grace, energy and determination by simply doing what we can each day instead of obsessing over what we cannot do, and with the support and contribution of her husband Paul Dunn who is Chairman and Co-Founder of B1G1, their team and members.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I was very touched and inspired by how like, no matter how little some people had, there was so much generosity.' – Masami ‘Then I thought, what if instead of trying to do a big thing, one day, what if we did something small every day, from today? That was the start of the idea of B1G1.' – Masami ‘We always see ‘big' things in the media and everywhere. Quite often, those big things could be negative big things, like climate change or war, or refugees being displaced and all that kind of overwhelming big issues. Then, we feel powerless, sad or negative.' – Masami ‘Actually our day to day actions, when we do it together, rather than alone, can be very powerful. And by transforming our regular habits, we could actually really transform our destiny. That's why the power of small is important.' – Masami ‘Because of what you've done it's growing to that point where it can grow even further and really fast now, is that true?' – Helen ‘Because humans are afflicted with this concept of not being good enough, this false idea of not being good enough. So, it holds us back, this idea of perfection.' – Helen  ‘It's very difficult to make a judgement on what's better or what's more important.  What we can do instead is to appreciate the fact that all these things could be important. But the difference is bringing together different actions, different aspirations, different people, different experiences and ideas, is really more important in enabling us all to move forward. I think that actually makes our journey more enjoyable and meaningful.' – Masami  'As we become braver, understand things more, respect each other and not jump onto judgment but really reflect what we can do today, and put in place certain actions, rather than feeling overwhelmed by things we cannot change. If all of these businesses start to align together with the new set of values, then we can actually change this world and create greater sustainability. But it is a critical time, whether we will have time to turn things around.' - Masami ‘If we could all come together with different intentions but also with the shared understanding that we are in it together, we are not individuals. As a whole we share this place together and if this place cannot exist anymore, none of us will be here.' – Masami  ‘Her views carry what I call the essence of Higher Intelligence, which I have talked about quite often in my various episodes, especially the solo ones.' - Helen ‘We all have access to this Higher Intelligence and are called to increasingly align with and embody it now. So, this is a very heartening interview for me, to see it embodied and exercised in this courageous lady.' – Helen  ‘It is a simple, powerful and delightful approach for all of us to adopt, to get off our behinds and contribute positively towards creating our collective destiny and world.' – Helen   ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who's Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore's top coaches. VALUABLE RESOURCES To become a member of the Transform and Thrive Club and benefit from monthly powerful live sessions on Zoom video calls and multimedia coaching, check out and sign up here:www.transformandthrive.club CONTACT METHODwww.leeheiss.comwww.facebook.com/leeheisswww.facebook.com/transformingpeopleworldwidewww.instagram.com/helenleeheissenquiries@leeheiss.com

Contact is one of my favorite movies and it stars Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey in a story that blurs the lines between faith and science. There's one particular scene that has always stuck with me and I think it conveys an important theological idea in a very approachable way.

In this week's episode we discuss the legitimacy of past life experiences and out of body phenomenon, along with how we interpret people who describe their personal extraordinary experiences of the kind. We also begin to dive into the subject of UAPs and what may or may not be interacting with humanity, and whether or not our government has information its slowly trickling out, and just how much they may or may not know. It was a conversation that spanned across multiple topics, and we will most likely have a continuation of some of this stuff in our next discussion. _________________Music By Nathan Willis RIPFollow Pursuit Of Infinity:www.PursuitOfInfinity.comDiscord: https://discord.io/pursuitofinfinityYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPpwtLPMH5bjBTPMHSlYnwQSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58he621hhQ7RkajcmFNffbApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/pursuit-of-infinity/id1605998093Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pursuitofinfinitypod/Patreon: Patreon.com/PursuitOfInfinity

For our Orbcast feature series, Higher Intelligence Agency offered us an exclusive grooved-based electronica set drawing from new and recently released material as well from his classic ‘90s albums. Read the feature: https://www.orbmag.com/features/leftfield-abstractions-higher-intelligence-agency/ @bobby-bird-1

Topics discussed on today's show: National Barefoot / Say Something Nice / Dinosaur / Flip A Coin / Olive / Pen Pal / World Milk - Day, Things In June, Birthdays, History Quiz, 20 in 22, Florida Or Anywhere Else, Signs of Higher Intelligence, The Trendmill, Good News, Ladies Dating Younger Guys, Crossing Streams, Deep Cut Face Off, and Apologies.

Our bodies are wonder mechanisms - every detail somehow works and makes our bodies some of the most surprising creations ever. There're so many cool body facts we had absolutely no idea about. For example, did you know that having larger pupils may actually be a sign of intelligence? And body position makes an impact on your memory. By the way, your middle ear picks up sound waves. Here're the coolest body facts gathered in one place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Helen Lee speaks with author, educator and business innovator Sarah McCrum, whom she interviewed and featured in Episode 12 on “Money & Our Relationship with Money”. In this episode, Helen discusses with Sarah about the energy of 2022, the challenges and opportunities it offers. She also confirms with Sarah - as per her insights - that the money system will still continue to shift such that order will be created from the chaos it’s currently in, in spite of the war in Ukraine and the economic sanctions on Russia, and the ensuing global price hikes. A large part of this second conversation with Sarah is devoted to the subject of liberating humanity. Sarah speaks about “seeing the essence” as one of the keys of freeing people. To Helen, this is essentially about humanity being our Observer Selves, where we can then shift from the fear that our human selves inherently hold to the great Love that our higher Observer Selves comprise. This Love is the Creative Power that Helen often speaks of in her various podcast episodes. Helen also always refers to this Love as the all-powerful "Invincible Love" that is very different from human love. Sarah is relaunching her book “Love Money, Money Loves You”. You can download the first 4 chapters here: https://helenlee--sarah mccrum.thrivecart.com/thank-you-money/620e07c5fa761/ KEY TAKEAWAYS As 2021 shifted into 2022, Sarah sensed an incredibly dynamic energy, different from anything that she had ever known in her lifetime. She feels it allows us to learn certain skills now, that will be very useful for the rest of our life. And the central skill is our ability to see the essence of all kinds of challenges, situations and opportunities e.g. an illness, something in business or finance, with absolute neutrality, "deep radical honesty" and no drama. It "kind of changes consciousness." We can, for example, use this skill to see the truth of the situation in Ukraine, without taking sides. In so doing, the situation changes, as a result of being seen. This means that ordinary people with extraordinary skills can make a difference, when they may have felt quite powerless before. It is also evident to Helen that a good many things are possible this year, when they were not at all before, simply because humanity is being totally supported to rise en masse from hereon. This allows her to be optimistic about our future, provided that we can raise mass consciousness. We also need to practise balancing our desire to make a difference with neutrality and non-attachment to the outcome - a key part of the learning that Eckhart Tolle and others have been advocating. This means we put aside our own intentions and agendas, even if it's for peace or the wellbeing of others or our own ("Thy will be done, not mine"). Many groups have been gathering to pray or intend for peace and are not likely to give this up, in this instance. Helen coaches her clients to let go of the desired outcome, after creating an intention and coming into absolute resonance with the desired end result. This employs non-attachment as well, allowing the Creative Power or Higher Intelligence, a great Love to take care of the rest. As this skill spreads and progresses, it's also important to learn to be within the different dynamics that it allows. When the very essence of something is revealed, the change of perspective can be unnerving due to the speed of the change. It is good to sit with the change and allow a solution or clarity to come to you, as it will. Helen explains that the change is quantum rather than linear, and we are being progressively shifted from linear thinking to quantum thinking (viewing and functioning). With so much change, learning and awakening coming at such a pace, some people try to resist it and this can be incredibly unsettling. Sarah teaches ‘alert neutrality’, an awake and present but neutral position that allows the individual to experience without being unnerved. This is also something that most spiritual teachers and coaches teach or coach but each in their own different way. Sarah is a great teacher and has her own special way of doing so, learnt through first-hand experiences and years of energy training with Chinese masters. While Helen does so primarily through her own first-hand experiences - including many incredible mystical experiences, some of which she calls "direct training by Spirit" - and 3 decades of coaching others plus training with some of the world's top international masters and gurus. A lot of trauma may be created by the upcoming challenges. We will be pulled out of the sleepiness we've been in, to examine important matters that we have previously been apathetic about. People are pushed to look for answers, different from those that have been provided by our standard education. Sarah is now teaching, for the first time, "The Skills of Liberation." Sarah also mentioned our being in our individual power this year to contribute to peace or whatever else that will shape our world. And Helen has expounded on this at great length in many episodes of this podcast which was created to support people to transform and thrive by being in their power and returning to their powerful, wise and loving True Selves. Helen also successfully coaches others on the art of surrendering, embracing whatever has already happened and being in our higher power to create anew thereafter. She does so through her own first-hand experiences of embracing challenges, surrendering and creating desired results. She became even more of an Invincibility Catalyst in the last 10 years, after a year of gruelling experiences and expertly draws out the Invincibility and True Greatness from others, as a result of emerging from her own challenges. We are merely surrendering to the highest aspects of ourselves and she facilitates for her clients to experience these aspects, their Soul and Spirit or Consciousness first hand. Neutrality, higher intelligence and many innate gifts spontaneously emerge and arise with the Soul and Spirit / Consciousness. Even though our financial system is currently chaotic, Sarah sees an incremental subtle change within it, one that represents a move towards a higher value system. She hopes the changes coming in the world are gentle and the transition does not come with a lot of trauma. She feels we must ask for grace in the changes. Our systems need to be dismantled and this will create challenges for us but there will be a surfacing of the new. As expressed in many episodes, Helen feels that the current and incoming challenges are both opportunities and gifts, and rather than be afraid of them, we can embrace them and see them as our being supported to massively transform, rise and thrive. And we can do this together, in support of each other, in fact. Also, Helen would like to assure her listeners that there is a lot of light and grace flooding our planet at this time, and urges everyone to integrate and embody this light and grace to consciously create changes. MORE ABOUT THIS IN THE NEXT EPISODE. NOTE: In previous episodes, Helen has already expressed her perspective of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It is a humanitarian and compassionate one - for both the people in Ukraine as well as Russia. This compassion extends to all of humanity the world over, including those in other countries who have experienced or are currently still experiencing war as well as those who have never before. All of us have experienced our own battles, struggles or challenges of some sort or other in our lives on Earth. Her mission is to support everyone (individuals and organisations) to transform greatly, rise and thrive immeasurably, both individually and collectively, as she repeatedly communicates in all episodes. She envisions a critical mass with raised consciousness co-creating a totally different world for ourselves. Helen also advocates embracing our own imperfections and those of others from the perfection of our True Selves or the highest aspects of who we are. And all of humanity is entitled to have and enjoy peace and plenty, joy and freedom, wellbeing and safety without having to fight for it. Check out Episode 15: "Moving Towards Peace & Plenty For All" and Episode 16: "Embracing Imperfection From The Perfection Of Our True Selves". BEST MOMENTS ‘I think it's important to talk a little bit about the energy of this year, that’s what I was responding to. I made a video about it just after the Chinese New Year because I trained for a long time with Chinese masters so I tend to be tuned into the Chinese years.’ – Sarah ‘She decided not to panic. And she decided simply to see the essence of the water. It was quite beautiful how she described it. It's like she saw literally into the essence of this water that was raging down the river and was probably most likely to break the levee, and it was like the water softened in some way.’ – Sarah ‘Actually we have this power all along. It's just that it's coming to the fore now where we can do it en masse.’ – Helen ‘It’s a genuinely different rhythm of action. Each year has its own energy and so what’s the rhythm? What’s the natural pattern of this year which might be different, was very different from last year.’ – Sarah ‘This year, there is a far greater potential, far greater opportunity. For me, the solution (to the many challenges) is stepping into and merging with Soul and Soul tells us what to do, us, as in the human self.’ – Helen 'People who are free are the most committed, most disciplined, most purposeful, most creative, most active people on the planet. So that's a beautiful kind of freedom. And that's the opportunity and the invitation.' - Sarah ‘I’m seeing the energy that’s behind that business and this kind of movement towards a better economic system. I'm seeing that rise as fast as it looks like it's very messy, I’m seeing this other energy rise.’ – Sarah ‘I have a great trust in the entire process...the universal process. I feel that everything is being divinely orchestrated and that there is a method to this seeming madness and that we are taken care of, actually. I think, however, enough of us have to take personal responsibility’, we have to step up and that is what will make the difference. That is what will allow the grace to come. That's what will speed up the process and make it gentler for all of us.' – Helen ‘I think sometimes we shy away from responsibility. I have also felt the same thing I felt sometimes “this is too big for me I can’t do this, I just want to run away.” But I notice when we actually step towards it, it gets more and more fun and more and more fulfilling in the moment.’ - Sarah 'I know I would enjoy being able to support people to also embrace this idea of being on this path and contributing to co-creating this whole new world by being our Greatest Self.' - Helen ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who’s Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore’s top coaches. VALUABLE RESOURCES To become a member of the Transform and Thrive Club and benefit from monthly powerful live sessions on Zoom video calls and multimedia coaching, check out and sign up here: www.transformandthrive.club CONTACT METHOD www.leeheiss.com www.facebook.com/leeheiss www.facebook.com/transformingpeopleworldwide www.instagram.com/helenleeheiss enquiries@leeheiss.com

Host Helen Lee speaks with relationship expert, "leading personality in the personal growth and spiritual consciousness movement" and author of 11 books, Arielle Ford about our human need to learn how to love an imperfect person perfectly. Arielle even goes so far to say that we are here on Earth to learn how to do this. And Helen totally agrees and talks about embracing the imperfection of our human self from the perfection of who we really are, the highest aspects of who we are, which she is advocating as a solution for these times of great uncertainty. She says that this is necessary not only for couples but all relationships, both personal and professional. With all that has been happening in the last couple of years - including the pandemic and now, the war in Ukraine - people are more stressed and anxious, and all the more, we need to bring greater love and understanding, caring and consideration, acceptance and kindness to all interactions and relationships, while firmly drawing and keeping healthy boundaries at the same time. KEY TAKEAWAYS Helen asks Arielle about her focus in her work as a relationship expert on accepting imperfection in relationships, which she says is precisely what we are here on Earth to learn how to do. Arielle talks about how the ancient Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi which is "the idea of honouring all things old, worn, weathered, imperfect and impermanent, and seeks to find beauty in perfection, to celebrate imperfection" has helped her personally and in her marriage (and will most certainly help in all relationships, with couples, families and the work place). Conflict is a natural part of relationships but the ability to navigate such conflicts is a learnt skill. People who are in happy marriages live longer, healthier, happier, more satisfying lives. Accepting imperfections is a daily practice. For everyday annoyances, a conversation is needed from a place of kindness and compassion. In terms of the pandemic and the forced isolation, single people seem to now be looking for love, while couples and marriages have been tested. We can take these principles of accepting imperfection beyond the sphere of romantic relationships into the work place and wider social groupings. Often a seemingly insurmountable irritation can be diminished by reframing your point of view. It comes back to love and acceptance. Everyone, at some level, feels that they are not enough and therefore feels insecure. Everybody wants be acknowledged that they have done the best they can. We all want to be loved and accepted as we are. "Everything is energy and the energy is a frequency". With enough people holding the same positive intention for a miracle, that attuned energy can produce a desired result for the world. Through the growing movement of merging with our higher selves and the acceptance that we are all part of one energy, the Golden Age will come about and the work done by many, including Helen and Arielle will come to fruition. BEST MOMENTS ‘The whole idea of perfection is just a big fat lie, it’s just a myth. None of us is perfect, you know you’re not perfect, I know I’m not perfect, and yet we are constantly striving for perfection in ourselves, in our bodies, in our kids, in our careers, and everybody around us, which leaves us in a state of upset, anger and disappointment because we can’t get to this thing that doesn’t exist called perfection.’ - Arielle ‘We have to learn to communicate with kindness and with empathy and with compassion instead of screaming, yelling, bitching, moaning and complaining.’ - Arielle ‘It’s like keeping a covenant, a commitment, a great bond, right?’ – Helen ‘I tell people right now I believe we are in the middle of a 7.5 billion person nervous breakdown. We’re all anxious. Even if you’re somebody who is normally very chill and you’re not high anxiety, the fact that we co-exist in the unified field together (means) that you may not be a nervous wreck, but because pretty much everybody (around you) is, you are reacting and vibrating at the frequency of crazy.’ – Arielle 'The main thing that I am advocating for the whole world is to merge our human self with the highest aspects of who we are. We already have the perfection within us. To me, it's a matter of loving and embracing the human self exactly as we are and merging it with the Soul and the Spirit that we are as well'and which we have not focused on.' - Helen ‘What would you give to trip over a wet towel when they’re no longer with you?’ – Arielle ‘About merging with soul and the highest aspects of who we are. When this really happens it's not only that you can come easily from a place of certainty from within yourself, you also more effortlessly move into ease and grace.’ - Helen ‘What’s true is that the blood that runs through the Russians is the same blood that runs through the Ukrainians, it’s the same blood that runs through you and me.’ – Arielle 'You don't need any tools, once you have merged (with the highest aspects of who you are), that's your go to, it's your support, it's your leader, it's your own inner coach, it's everything, it's your rock, it's your source of Higher Intelligence or wisdom, of comfort, of joy, of playfulness, everything really.' ABOUT THE GUEST Arielle Ford is a leading personality in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. For the past 30 years she has been living, teaching, and promoting consciousness through all forms of media. She is a celebrated love and relationship expert, author, and speaker. Arielle is a gifted writer and the author of eleven books including the international bestseller, THE SOULMATE SECRET: Manifest The Love of Your Life With The Law of Attraction. She has also written many groundbreaking books including Turn Your Mate Into Your Soulmate: A Practical Guide To Happily Ever After and Wabi Sabi Love: The Ancient Art of Finding Perfect Love in Imperfect Relationships. www.soulmatesecret.com ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who’s Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore’s top coaches. VALUABLE RESOURCES To become a member of the Transform and Thrive Club and benefit from monthly powerful live sessions on Zoom video calls and multimedia coaching, check out and sign up here: www.transformandthrive.club CONTACT METHOD www.leeheiss.com www.facebook.com/leeheiss www.facebook.com/transformingpeopleworldwide www.instagram.com/helenleeheiss enquiries@leeheiss.com

Host Helen Lee strongly feels that while loving and honouring ourselves is so important, so is taking personal responsibility for everything that shows up within ourselves and in our lives. But not in terms of blaming or judging ourselves. It’s about being in our power to recreate whatever we are not happy about including reinven@ng ourselves. KEY TAKEAWAYS Humans are inclined to judge and blame rather than to lovingly and non-judgmentally take charge of making the necessary changes. We can drop our old habit of giving our power away to others when we blame them and exercise our ability to create anew instead. People perceive differently, depending on the paradigms and filters they carry. And those who carry more baggage than others, inevitably, cannot see as clearly. For humanity to evolve and truly thrive, we need to keep cleansing and clearing our energy field which carries these paradigms and filters. A great part of Helen’s methodology is based on quantum physics and, in particular, as Einstein taught us. Her approach is therefore made powerful by working on the intangible within and around the human self; such that it has a real and positive impact on the human, the entire person and what s/he wants for himself/herself, including both personal and professional/business results, is considered and supported to materialise these results from a place of a place of creative power, a high Deservability™ Quotient, joy and an abundance mentality rather than from lack or limitation, fear or despair. It is natural for us to react emotionally when we are triggered by others or feel let down in some way or other but we can and must then work through our own feelings and uncover the origin of these emotions and clear from there. This is part of taking responsibility for what shows up within ourselves, as the feelings are our very own. And this way, we can return to the strength and clarity of being internally aligned again. Our human mind while being a wonderful gift for us to utilise in so many amazing ways is also the one thing that stops all human beings from being who we really are, meaning our Greatest Self. But along with what is often an obstacle to our True Greatness, we are also gifted with a biology when we can systematically go beyond to arrive at the Wholeness and True Power that we all already are but mostly do not know how to access. Taking responsibility means self leadership and moving towards self mastery. And being strong at all levels means we gain dominion over our own internal states. It means we become sovereign. If we don’t feel safe, it is our wounded human self that carries our vulnerable inner child that does not feel safe. But we can move more and more into being our Invincible Self, the Hero or Heroine within or the Soul or Consciousness, and allow the highest aspects of who we all are to take charge and lead our human selves. BEST MOMENTS ‘When we do fall into the human habit of playing helpless, or finger pointing, we need to uncover, or allow a part of ourselves that has the capacity to step in and take charge, that honours how we feel, rightly or wrongly, make the necessary changes within ourselves and in our lives.’ ‘My methodology is, among other things, based on the wisdom that, as Albert Einstein phrased it, the field is the sole governing agency of the particle. This is what makes our approach powerful. Working on the energetic field that determines what happens to the particle or matter. We are working on the intangible within and around the human self that has an impact on the human self whom we can see and touch.’ ‘It is natural for us to react emotionally when we are triggered by others or feel let down in some way or other. We would need to work through these feelings, take them to the source and clear from there.’ ‘The thing is we are all meant to be moving in one single direction, where we are all strong, well at all levels - physically, emotionally, mentally, energetically or spiritually and enjoying great clarity of thought.’ ‘Taking responsibility doesn’t mean blaming ourselves either. Taking responsibility means self leadership and moving towards self mastery. Strength means getting or gaining dominion over our own internal states. It means we become sovereign.’ ‘Unless we take responsibility for what we are thinking and feeling, for what shows up in our lives and our own energy field, we don’t really know ourselves. And unless we come to really know ourselves, we are not truly living and can never truly thrive either. It means we forget who we really are, which is that spark of Higher Intelligence, the Universal Power that has incarnated to fulfil a part of the Divine Plan or a Universal Plan.’ ‘My job is to bring all those who come to me back to wholeness as much as they allow me to, for as long as they allow me to.’ ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who’s Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore’s top coaches. VALUABLE RESOURCES To become a member of the Transform and Thrive Club on Facebook visit ; Www.facebook.com/groups/transformandthriveclub Answer the three questions to join. CONTACT METHOD www.leeheiss.com www.facebook.com/leeheiss www.facebook.com/transformingpeopleworldwide www.instagram.com/helenleeheiss enquiries@leeheiss.com

In this episode, Host Helen Lee connects loving and honouring ourselves and her concept of Deservability™️ - our ability to feel deserving - with global transformation. With an unwavering focus on contributing towards peace and plenty for all and co-creating a whole new world, she offers everyone the opportunity to participate in a Deservability Challenge™️ she will be conducting from Sun, Feb 6 to Thurs, Feb 10. There will be two live sessions on Zoom where she will demonstrate first hand how your DQ™️ or Deservability™️ Quotient can be raised. And expound on why loving and honouring ourselves greatly and raising our DQ™️ so that we ignite and grow our innate and deep sense of self worth is fundamental to transforming our world and your own wellbeing and thriving. To register for this Challenge, email to: enquiries@leeheiss.com with your full name, country and city you are in, your WhatsApp number to register and you will receive the Zoom link and password to participate. Even if you can't attend the live sessions, there will be replays and information posted in Helen's free Facebook Group which you must join ASAP this week: www.facebook.com/groups/transformandthriveclub/ For more information, listen to this full episode and sign up now! It will be a great step towards further transforming and thriving this year and beyond. KEY TAKEAWAYS Unless we truly learn to love, respect and appreciate ourselves and each other, nothing is going to really change. We must come to make real and know from a deep level within ourselves, not only that we are worthy as a human being, but also that we are all so much more than that. We need to experience that, in fact, we are souls, eternal beings, that we have always been. The time is right now. We must increasingly experience the magnificence of who we are and be this magnificence in our daily lives. If we all or even a critical number of us do this, we would inevitably transform our world from the much higher level of consciousness we would then have. With incrementally greater internal alignment and therefore alignment with Universal or Higher Intelligence, we would have what it takes to make massive changes to our world, collaboratively and for the good of all. Mindfulness and stress reduction techniques have slowly crept into business as a matter of necessity but signs are beginning to appear that more credence is being given to different forms of energy as a way of improving employees' well being. Helen, however, advocates the urgent need to go much deeper than even this, now, with the world in crisis presenting everyone in all segments of life, including organisations, with the opportunity for REAL transformation. With our human selves fully merged with our Souls, our Greater Selves, we would drop all human addiction to pain and struggle, and old conditioning of lack and limitation. Some of us are meant to lead the way and you are already paving the way with your interest. As detailed above, Helen invites you as an introduction to the Transform and Thrive Club and in celebration of the launch of this coaching and mentoring membership club to join her for her five-day Deservability™️ Challenge. The powerful live sessions will be 90 minutes and will start at 10pm SGT (Singapore), 2pm GMT (London), and 9am EST (New York). Tune into the full episode for more details on this and the Transform and Thrive Club and register today! You will gain SO much out of this Challenge. BEST MOMENTS ‘There is no other way to save our world but to rise up in love, to love and honour ourselves, and others, so much more than we do now.’ ‘So it won’t be my telling you or anyone else telling you this. It will be YOU experiencing this for yourself. Then, and only then, will you realise just how powerful and magnificent you are, that we all are. And our entire lifetimes are about coming to this knowledge and the wisdom already there within us.' ‘We would be thinking, emoting and acting from a much higher level of consciousness, for sure. Undoubtedly, we’d be making different choices and decisions. And with our progressively greater internal alignment and therefore, far greater alignment with Universal or Higher Intelligence, we would have everything we need to make massive changes to our world.’ ‘A top multinational management consulting company even set up a Global Spiritual Intelligence Training Initiative. Furthermore, they have an organisational blog that has an article which talks about the idea that we need “work life balance” being too simplistic. Can you imagine that? And instead, that article recommends its executives and employees ways to better manage their energy, naming four different kinds of energy - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual! How about that? It’s a start isn’t it?’ 'If I were to take organisations as an example again, research tells me that companies, on average lose 10 to 30% of each day to ego-driven drama. This adds up to between five weeks to four months every year, which is between 7 to 21 years of an adult lifetime. And I am not even talking about the dramas that humans co-create outside of organisations..' ‘Isn’t it time we stopped and shift? To me it’s such an absolute waste of time and energy. No wonder the world is still the way it is. And it wont change any time soon either, if we kept the status quo and carried on as usual...' 'We'd free ourselves from deep within us and this freedom, this joy, the great sense of abundance and endless possibilities would spill over into our lives. But it will take some time to fully integrate these two aspects of ourselves.' ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who’s Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore’s top coaches. CONTACT METHOD www.leeheiss.comwww.facebook.com/leeheisswww.facebook.com/transformingpeopleworldwidewww.instagram.com/helenleeheissenquiries@leeheiss.com

In this episode, Host Helen Lee continues to expound on her ideas of how we can individually and collectively move forward towards truly thriving together. It is crystal clear to her that we need to access and fully embody the treasures that lie within us. A primary asset is what she refers to as "Invincible Love" which is not a sentimental human love but the Creative Power or Higher Intelligence that exists in all living things. When enough of us can understand and fully align with this incredible Universal Energy that we all already have and have it lead us and our lives, humanity would become a formidable force capable of massively changing our world. And long before we can completely accomplish this, our lives would have become a whole lot greater and happier en route. KEY TAKEAWAYS When we raise our Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and it becomes the foundation for our IQ and EQ, the Invincible Love and Creative Power that Helen speaks of, will expand. It means that our gifts and talents would grow and flourish, and we would naturally flourish and operate from much higher perspectives. It makes sense, therefore, for these ideas to be brought into our homes and personal lives as well as our offices and workplaces all over the world. It would mean that we can arrive at having a critical mass of humanity functioning and deliberately creating from a much higher level of consciousness rather than the level with which we have co-created the current crises we are facing. To Helen, spirituality is simply the understanding and optimising of who we all actually are, at a much higher level than is possible from the human mind alone. And her tried-and-tested methodology offers the world a systematic way to powerfully access, align and embody an increasingly higher SQ and move towards creating all that we want for ourselves and our world. She poses a series of evocative and pertinent questions to get us to look at key areas of our world and lives that we need to focus on transforming together. There is an increasing number of people who are wiling to stand up and be counted in this crucial time in the history of humanity. And we are all meant to step up and serve. But first, Helen and her team will support you - both individuals and organisations - to flourish greatly. This is the first time in the entire history of life on Earth that the future of the planet is in our hands and what we do or not do now "will determine whether we leave a depleted planet for future generations or whether we can survive sustainably." Every challenge, every hurt or wound helped us to grow. But we can now grow in a totally different way, from an inner state of far greater power, creativity and joy - and certainly, a far higher level of consciousness and intelligence. Helen and her coaches facilitate first hand experiences to achieve this for yourself and your family or team and organisation, going way beyond the human addiction to pain and struggle, and our repetitive patterns of behaviour and circumstances. We can masterfully reinvent ourselves and recreate our lives, both personal and professional or business. Helen offers a little exercise to support you to move away from compromising yourself and towards loving and honouring yourself more. Making this shift within ourselves and in our lives would help us not project onto others, take greater personal responsibility for what repeatedly shows up in our lives and step into our power to consciously create what we want instead. It is simply time for all of us to increasingly move towards being Master Creators and we can do so by aligning with ourselves internally, accessing and raising our Spiritual or Higher Intelligence, loving and honouring ourselves greatly and creating the results and life that we want. BEST MOMENTS "They form varying sizes of communities of people with different levels of consciousness, different thoughts, emotions and behaviours.' ‘Are we to carry on the way we have for decades and accept that’s just how it is and there is nothing we can do about it, except close an eye and be positive? No, there's PLENTY we can do now!' 'We need a critical number of us rising up and changing things in a big way. We are certainly moving in that direction and we can do so with love and peace in our hearts rather than rage or aggression.'' "We need to actually rise up and really BE the change we want to see in the world." And "to begin with, we need to become really good at loving and honouring ourselves greatly, because most of us do not know how to do this really well and spontaneously.' 'If we want a loving, peaceful, harmonious, joyous and abundant world, then, we must embody these qualities ourselves, first, and exemplify them in all our interactions and relationships. It doesn’t mean we need to be perfect at all of it but we need to honestly and diligently get great at it.' ‘Our expanded selves or our greatest selves already exist within us. So there is no becoming as such but a rising up to be what we already are.’ 'We need to, not so much change ourselves, as if we are flawed and need fixing, but more to take charge of our own life because we deserve so much better, and we have SO much available to us within ourselves that we have not as yet tapped into, let alone maximised or optimised.' ‘Yes indeed, we are all moving towards being master creators and we can joyously create for ourselves and together create a whole new world of which we can take charge.’ ‘Our current systems of operating have to and will change whether we like it or not.’ "If we know how to love and honour ourselves well, we would also not be projecting onto others around us, and we would make very different choices and decisions, at work and at home, in all areas of our lives. Our communication, interactions and relationships would be very different and of a much higher level of consciousness. We would run everything differently - our homes, our communities, our countries and our world.' 'I keep saying to everyone that loving and honouring ourselves greatly is the very basis of not only our own life and our own happiness, but the more we can devotedly and successfully do this for ourselves, the more we can do this for others, and our whole wounded world would heal and be elevated to an infinitely higher level of consciousness.' ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist and editor who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who’s Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore’s top coaches. CONTACT METHOD www.leeheiss.com www.facebook.com/leeheiss www.facebook.com/transformingpeopleworldwide www.instagram.com/helenleeheiss enquiries@leeheiss.com

In this episode Host Helen Lee shares more about her ideas of true thriving. How we view and respond to what’s happening in our world determines how well we thrive. We need to see the big picture and understand that we are called to step up and be our Greatest Selves in the face of challenges and become more masterful, by being powerfully aligned with our own True Nature as well as the Nature all around us. This will return us to the much needed internal state of balance and harmony which will then create a far greater balance and harmony in our world as well. And this alignment and our True Nature will lead us to create great peace and plenty for ourselves and each other, propelling us towards thriving both individually and en masse. KEY TAKEAWAYS The pandemic presents us with a monumental opportunity to massively change in order to thrive and not only survive. The obstacle is, indeed, the way! We have veered away from what is innate and naturally powerful within us to focus on amassing external wealth and forgoing the true wealth within us. The sustainable and practical solution is to have both and share our wealth. True thriving is about being at peace - with ourselves and all that is happening, about true joy flowing from within, for no external reason. It is about being creative, allowing our natural gifts and talents to also flow from within and sharing what we create and produce with others, in alignment and harmony with all. We come to this place of great certainty within ourselves and live life and work with others, from this much higher level of consciousness and intelligence, creativity and innovation - rather than the insecurity and defensiveness, the political and often uninspired way that has become rife. Creativity and innovation will flow out of humanity this year and beyond, because it must!!! The greed and corruption, manipulation and deceit, the humongous lack of genuine caring and integrity, light and honesty, the darkness of all kind that is everywhere, at all levels WILL be dismantled. It has been there for ages and is surfacing now to be disintegrated. Focus on creating the new and thriving rather than wasting any time and energy on the old and outmoded that is on its way out. When we allow our True Power and True Greatness to emerge and take charge, we would be able to let go of control. We would be operating from an unshakeable place of great certainty within ourselves that we do not need to hold on so tightly to anything - old ideas and paradigms, places and people, etc. This leads to our true freedom, true joy, true peace, true wealth and true thriving. And from this place of tremendous Invincibility, we will be able to create wonders with our own lives and our world - TOGETHER! BEST MOMENTS “The impediment to action actually advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” “We have lost the natural balance within ourselves and on our planet. We think we can control everything, be it within ourselves, our homes, our workplaces, others and our world.” “We will be able to live life and run businesses and corporations, communities, countries and the whole world this way - with far Higher Intelligence, in accordance with the natural, rational and coherent order of the Universe, of what the ancient Greeks and early Christianity called the logos. The divine reason implicit in the cosmos that gives it order, form and meaning.” “Those who can must help others to flourish, each in our own way.” “We need to dare to bring ALL of ourselves, including the highest aspects of who we are to all our relationships, to our businesses and organisations, to our systems, our global systems and local ones, and the way we conduct everything.” “Use it strategically and wisely to create what we want more of , not what we want gone.” “Let’s claim all the wisdom and power within ourselves.” ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who’s Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore’s top coaches. CONTACT METHOD www.leeheiss.com www.facebook.com/leeheiss www.facebook.com/transformingpeopleworldwide www.instagram.com/helenleeheiss enquiries@leeheiss.com

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Timothy speaks to the author of ‘Intelligence isn’t Enough’ - Carice Anderson, who has an MBA from Harvard and experience in developing young professionals at elite consulting firms. They explore the type of intelligence needed to succeed in high performance environments, both locally and internationally - a concept they call a 'higher intelligence'. cliffcentral.com

Timothy speaks to the author of ‘Intelligence isn't Enough' - Carice Anderson, who has an MBA from Harvard and experience in developing young professionals at elite consulting firms. They explore the type of intelligence needed to succeed in high performance environments, both locally and internationally - a concept they call a 'higher intelligence'. cliffcentral.com

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Liv Scrivanich, Hypnotherapist, Healer and Spirit Telepath Liv shares her life journey, how she refused to accept her traditional religious beliefs, and sought to find truth beyond all theories, dogmas or accepted paradigms. Her thirst for Higher Intelligence-led her to direct contact with the elevated worlds of spirit who taught her to dialogue and learn from them. Today Liv is an accomplished spiritual teacher and healer. This conversation dives into the sacred revelation that all physicality is a quantum energy existence. And that we are not alone to discover what lies beneath this ‘reality'. Contact Liv at: https://newportoregonhypnotherapy.com/ This episode is brought to you by The Alicia Power Show Alicia is a Master Energy Healer, an advanced intuitive, an author of numerous online courses, books, and audio products. She has a popular YouTube channel, is a passionate transformational speaker, and is regularly invited to speak on international spiritual Tele-Summits. Alicia has trained directly under Senior Levels of the Spirit World for 30 years. This intensive soul mastery development has led her to train thousands around the world in the process of spiritual awakening and enlightenment. www.soulmentoring.com JOIN ALICIA POWER'S MAILING LIST: CLICK HERE LEARN MORE Check out more of Alicia Power's videos, podcast episodes, and courses on this website: www.soulmentoring.com Join thousands of Alicia's followers and subscribers receiving daily inspiration: Twitter (51,000 followers) Facebook Youtube (Over 1 Million Views!) DID YOU KNOW? You are NOT alone in this life. Your Spirit Guides are working hard to support you, LOVE you, and ENGAGE with you. So that you feel happier and more fulfilled. This life CAN be a miracle IF you let THEM guide you! #AliciaPowerShow --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thealiciapowershow/message

Jackie O'Keeffe was raised in rural Ireland. Wanting to know about God she studied theology and music. After graduating in the 1980's, Jac found her studies had left her disillusioned and a non-believer. Turning her focus to issues of social inequality, she studied adult and community education, and began her career interweaving community development with the arts. In 1997, her life changed dramatically when her sixth sense awakened. Quite spontaneously, she was able to see chakras, energy fields and auras. Moreover, she could communicate with animals and with those who have passed away. A busy practice in healing work developed within a short time, with Jackie offering private sessions and residential retreats. She developed and delivered holistic programmes that focused on viewing depression as a spiritual awakening rather than a bio-chemical disorder. Using a variety of methodologies, her work had the primary focus of raising consciousness. Jackie continued for seven years as a spiritual teacher, before stopping her work in 2006 and leaving Ireland to deepen her own spiritual practice. Her personal quest led to that which is beyond the mind - a transcendence of dualistic thought. Jackie now lives in Ireland and India. She facilitates spiritual gatherings in question-and-answer format, offering clear pointers to spiritual seekers of truth. Jac's Site Interview summary and transcript Interview recorded 10/10/2010 Other BatGap episodes including Jac: Panel discussion at SAND conference with Jac O'Keeffe, Igor Kufayev and Francis Bennett Panel discussions on Ethics and Spiritual Teaching SAND Panel Discussion on Sexual Misconduct, Money, Power, Trauma & Ethics in Spiritual Communities YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:04:32 - Questioning the Meaning of Life 00:07:12 - Exploring Different Paths 00:10:17 - Encountering Transparent Spirits 00:12:55 - Ghostly Encounters 00:15:20 - Exploring the Limits of Reality 00:17:45 - Indigenous Beings in the Woodlands 00:20:13 - Feeling Trapped and Seeking Help 00:22:52 - Connecting through Love 00:25:23 - A Divine Encounter and the Power of Love 00:27:50 - Meeting Master Jose and the Path to Spiritual Awakening 00:30:38 - Becoming a Ghostbuster 00:33:06 - Ghostbusting and Working on the Dead 00:36:06 - The Journey into the New Age 00:38:42 - Wild Experiences with Santo Daime and Ayahuasca 00:41:53 - The Unreality of Belief Systems 00:44:41 - The Myth of Existence 00:47:32 - Personal Healing and Transformation 00:50:13 - Communicating with Amma 00:53:08 - Seeking Silence and Light 00:55:57 - Discovering Yoga and Nonduality 00:58:50 - The Illusion of Individuality and the Movement of Energy 01:02:16 - The Concrete Manifestation of Pain 01:05:28 - The Breaking of the Mind 01:08:58 - Being Chosen by a Higher Intelligence 01:11:27 - Climbing the Mountain of Awakening 01:14:07 - Following the Next Step 01:17:15 - The Importance of Maturity in Spiritual Growth 01:19:44 - Letting Go of the Spiritual Path 01:22:15 - The Role of Spiritual Practices in Enlightenment 01:24:58 - Moving to Residentials