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is to understand this brain chemical, dopamine.

Secret #1 Dopamine:

Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter. Your body makes it, and your nervous system uses it to send messages between nerve cells. That’s why it’s sometimes called a chemical messenger. Dopamine plays a role in how we feel pleasure.

What is the effect of dopamine on the body?Inside the brain, dopamine plays important roles in executive functions, motor control, motivation, arousal, reinforcement, and reward, as well as lower-level functions including lactation, sexual gratification, and nausea. The dopaminergic cell groups and pathways make up the dopamine system which is neuromodulatory.

Because when you haven’t met someone before, and you’re getting to know them,all the ingredients are there to stimulate dopamine.

Newness.

And there’s no history, you’re completely -where are we going with this?What’s going to happen?And that stimulates this brain chemical,

and in men, dopamine stimulates a hormone called testosterone.

Secret 2: Testosterone

So suddenly, men’s testosterone levels are surging.

A hormone in both men and women

Testosterone is a hormone found in humans, as well as in other animals. The testicles primarily make testosterone in men. Women’s ovaries also make testosterone, though in much smaller amounts.

The production of testosterone starts to increase significantly during puberty, and begins to dip after age 30 or so.

Testosterone is most often associated with sex drive, and plays a vital role in sperm production. It also affects bone and muscle mass, the way men store fat in the body, and even red blood cell production. A man’s testosterone levels can also affect his mood.

Low testosterone levels

Low levels of testosterone, also called low T levels, can produce a variety of symptoms in men, including:

• decreased sex drive
• less energy
• weight gain
• feelings of depression
• moodiness
• low self-esteem
• less body hair
• thinner bones

While testosterone production naturally tapers off as a man ages, other factors can cause hormone levels to drop. Injury to the testicles and cancer treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation can negatively affect testosterone production.

Chronic health conditions and stress can also reduce testosterone production. Some of these include:

The average man at 50 has half the testosterone levels he had as a young man.

It starts to drop.A lot of things contribute to that, but one of the things is marriage.(Laughter)You know,

I’m 62, but I went through the 50s with my friends,and several of my friends got divorced, and they came alive!

I’m not recommending divorce to come alive,(Laughter)but I am recommending learning new relationships skills to come alivein your marriage.But it’s like, suddenly,

when you’re with somebody new, just going somewhere new, it stimulates dopamine, and for men, dopamine stimulates testosterone,

and for men, testosterone lowers stress.Stress – and I don’t mean stress in your life,life is always stressful, problems everywhere.But how do we react to lifeis dependent on our hormone response to life.And for men, testosterone is the hormone that helps men keep their stress levels down.Most people don’t know this, but I learned this when I started -it was like 30 years ago, I was reading -20 years ago, maybe 30, somewhere in there.I was about to go see the movie Grumpy Old Men,

and I was also readingthat one of the differences between young men and old menwas men’s testosterone levels go down.And then I made the link: Grumpy Old Men.Think about men when they haven’t been laid for a while.(Laughter)They get grumpy, they’re irritable,and yet we always thoughtthat testosterone caused all that irritability.But actually, for men, it’s estrogen.(Laughter)It’s all those grumpy old menhaving super high estrogen levels and low testosterone.Who knew?!One of the biggest risk factors for heart disease, prostate cancer,for men is low testosterone.All men with depression have low testosterone.That’s why depression is very different for a man than for a woman.

Secret # 3 Depression

Depression for a man is that feeling:”Nobody wants me; I am not needed anymore.Basically, I’m out of work.””Nobody there to respond to me.Nobody there for me to fix, help, serve, support.”So, being out of work is the major depression for men, or being in a marriage where you feel you can’t do anything to make your partner happy.I get to see, as a marriage counselor for over 30 years, people often on their last exit, because

I’m famous, people say, “Oh yeah, you go see him,”so I get the tough cases.(Laughter)But it’s a challenge.And what I hear again and again, from men, I take the men aside,”What is the problem here? What’s going on here?If we can fix one problem what would that be?””John, the only problem here is my wife’s not happy.”That’s it.I do these seminars, workshops, at my ranch, for four days, and we start out with men in one room, women in the other.

Without my influence, I have the men write down their complaints a bout their wives, relationships, women, in one room.Women do it in another room, and then we spend the whole four days working on that.And men have one sheet, and women have five.(Laughter)And men’s list is one or two words: critical, complaints, nags, punishes, not interested in sex – that’s the longest one they come up with.(Laughter)There’s that list over there.And women got all these lists, so

it gets a big long list:everything is a long sentence, and if this, then that, all that stuff.(Laughter)

Understanding depression in women

Depression can impact every area of a woman’s life—including your physical health, social life, relationships, career, and sense of self-worth—and is complicated by factors such as reproductive hormones, social pressures, and the unique female response to stress. However, it’s important to know that you’re not alone. Women are about twice as likely as men to suffer from depression but depression is treatable and there are plenty of things you can do to make yourself feel better.

Of course, the Catch-22 of depression is that feeling better requires action but taking action when you’re depressed is difficult. However, while you may not have much energy, you probably have enough to take a short walk around the block or pick up the phone to call a loved one, for example—and that can be a great start to boosting your mood and improving your outlook. It’s important to also learn about the factors that cause depression in women so you can tackle the condition head on, treat your depression most effectively, and help prevent it from coming back.

Signs and symptoms of depression in women

The symptoms of depression in women vary from mild to severe (major depression) and are distinguished by the impact they have on your ability to function. Common signs of depression include:

• Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. You feel as if nothing will ever get better and there’s nothing you can do to improve your situation.
• You don’t care anymore about former hobbies, pastimes, and social activities you used to enjoy.
• Appetite changes often leading to significant weight loss or weight gain.
• Changes in your sleep pattern.
• Feeling angry, agitated, restless.
• Feeling fatigued, sluggish, and drained of energy.
• Trouble concentrating, making decisions, or remembering things.
• Increase in aches and pains, including headaches, cramps, breast tenderness, or bloating.
• Suicidal thoughts.

Secret 4: Hippocampus

Hippocampus is a brain structure embedded deep in the temporal lobe of each cerebral cortex. It is an important part of the limbic system, a cortical region that regulates motivation, emotion, learning, and memory.

The hippocampus is thought to be principally involved in storing long-term memories and in making those memories resistant to forgetting, though this is a matter of debate. It is also thought to play an important role in spatial processing and navigation.

And men go, “See?”(Laughter) (Applause)I got a few claps for that, which I’m not asking for,but that’s what excites men.I made a difference.

That’s why men love their dogs so much.(Laughter)When I come home, my dog is happy I’m alive!(Laughter)It touches something so deep inside of every man.Through the whole evolution of man,

men were out there in the dangerous world,if you came home alive, they celebrated.(Laughter)Now it’s, “Oh, he’s back.”(Laughter)You left the lights on the living room last night before you left.(Laughter)That’s what I get!So men go,

“She was just happy -“What is a man thinking,”If she was just the way she was when I married her.”When men get married, they want you to stay the same – as if you can.I realize that women will never be the same,

they’re like the weather.(Laughter)It’s always changing:it’s sunshine, blue sky, puffy clouds, rain storms, lightning strikes, hurricanes,(Laughter)tornadoes.If you’re from Mars, you have these instincts that do the worst thing when you’re with a Venusian.On Mars, when there are tornadoes, what do we do?

Secret 5: Oxytocin
Lowers stress for women & orgasm

Oxytocin is a neurotransmitter and a hormone that is produced in the hypothalamus. From there, it is transported to and secreted by the pituitary gland, at the base of the brain. It plays a role in the female reproductive functions, from sexual activity to childbirth and breast feeding.

The two main actions of oxytocin in the body are contraction of the womb (uterus) during childbirth and lactation. Oxytocin stimulates the uterine muscles to contract and also increases production of prostaglandins, which increase the contractions further.We find a ditch and lie low.(Laughter)It’s not what women expect you to do.When that tornado comes in, you’re supposed to, like, stand there.(Laughter)”Is something the matter?”(Laughter)If you read any of my books, you know what you have to say when every cell in your body says, “I can’t take it anymore.I’ve got to find a ditch and lie low.

Let me get my car and drive somewhere.”Instead, you stand there and just keep looking.And when there’s a break you say, “Huh.(Laughter)Tell me more.”(Laughter)She feels like: I’m married to Superman.(Laughter)Afterwards that you could do that, and I teach people how to do that -you have to at least know what you’re trying to do, here.Because married men say,”No matter what I say or do, it makes it worse.”

And I say, “That’s because what you say and do is wrong.(Laughter)It just doesn’t work!You’ve just told me it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work.”But what does work?Nothing.(Laughter) (Applause)Nothing!You cannot make a woman happy!(Laughter)You cannot change the weather.It changes by itself.Women are grown ups, they can feel better, they can get happier, they know how to do it.Just their way of doing it is different from ours.All I have to do when I’m stressed out is sit down.(Laughter)Men have a switch back here,

as soon as you sit down,(Laughter)blood flow stops to your brain.(Laughter)They did some experiments on that.They have women at the end of the day sit down, have men sit down,

and they measure the brain activity.Women sit down, their brains speed up,(Laughter)more blood flow.And you say, “What are you thinking?”And she says – which any woman in this room can predict -“Well, while sitting on this couch,I’m thinking of all the things I should be doing that I’m not doing while I’m doing this silly experiment.”(Laughter)Then they do the man, and the man is sitting there,and you look at the scans: nothing’s happening!(Laughter)Is it broken?(Laughter)What is this?And she is like,”Whoa!”So you ask him, “What are you thinking?”And you all know the answer to that question if you’ve been married.He says, “Nothing!”(Laughter)And now he’s got evidence, “See, honey. I’m not withholding from you.”(Laughter)”I don’t have big secrets. I’m not hiding my problems from you.I’m trying to forget them.(Laughter)Why do we have to talk about them?”Because one of the primary ways that men cope with stress -and remember, what’s the hormone that lower stress for men?Testosterone.So the hormone that lowers stress for men is testosterone.If I’ve got all these problems in my life, and I’m solving them,I’m releasing testosterone,

Secret 6: Cortisol

Think of cortisol as nature’s built-in alarm system. It’s your body’s main stress hormone. It works with certain parts of your brain to control your mood, motivation, and fear.

Your adrenal glands — triangle-shaped organs at the top of your kidneys — make cortisol.

It’s best known for helping fuel your body’s “fight-or-flight” instinct in a crisis, but cortisol plays an important role in a number of things your body does. For example, it:

• Manages how your body uses carbohydrates, fats, and proteins
• Keeps inflammation down
• Regulates your blood pressure
• Increases your blood sugar (glucose)
• Controls your sleep/wake cycle
• Boosts energy so you can handle stress and restores balance afterward

How Does It Work?

Your hypothalamus and pituitary gland — both located in your brain — can sense if your blood contains the right level of cortisol. If the level is too low, your brain adjusts the amount of hormones it makes. Your adrenal glands pick up on these signals. Then, they fine-tune the amount of cortisol they release.

Cortisol receptors — which are in most cells in your body — receive and use the hormone in different ways. Your needs will differ from day to day. For instance, when your body is on high alert, cortisol can alter or shut down functions that get in the way. These might include your digestive or reproductive systems, your immune system, or even your growth processes.

Secret 7 Focus : Fortunately, focus is a lot like a mental muscle. The more you work on building it up, the stronger it gets.

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Your body, Earth and the cosmos are calling out to you.
 
Each does ask  (your body and the Cosmos) asks to please “help me bask”. 

Your body is exposed to warmth and light, typically from within and from the sun.    You create your own body temperature- you on your own maintain degrees of close to 99.

You are hot!!!

You create activated vitamin D in your body from Sunlight!

Your body responds to the cosmos around us!
There may be so many things about you, you do not know and it is time you engage in your brilliance.

Just like a cell phone full of apps. Applications that is. You have so many apps that you are not aware of yet!

Okay: Yes. You have limits too…

On average, your body can go about three weeks

without food or it can go three days without water.

YOUR BODY CAN only go about Three MINUTES without Breathing!

You have applications that work better when you give to your body food, water, and air. Simple.

To try to improve your health, or to understand all of the applications that are available inside your body – Healing, Feeling and Thriving you might change your food and water.

You may not recognize that there is something you can’t even go even one minute without comfortably.

You do this about 23,000 times a day.

Breathing.

In fact, I’ve spent the majority of my life

coaching friends, clients, and athletes how to improve them.

What thousands of people have taught me, thousands of hours of research and traveling the world has taught me is simple and profound!

If you’re breathing sub-optimally, dysfunctionally, or flat-out wrong,

it’s almost impossible for your body to function optimally! It is almost impossible for you to Ascend let alone, heal, feel and thrive!

Fixing this problem starts by taking a new look at your heart.

Each beat of your heart is the result of the interplay

of the two branches of the autonomic nervous system.

The sympathetic, what we call the fight-or-flight response,

and the parasympathetic, which we call the rest-and-digest.

So the new way of looking at health by looking at heart rate,

doesn’t look so much at the number of beats per minute,

as the space between them,

which is called heart rate variability.

This heart rate variability is and your sympathetic and parasympathethic systems is part of living in the Dualistic world. When you begin to  do the work of ascension

There is an ancient practice that allows something greater than your own nervous system in a dualistic world!

In a healthy person with a robust nervous system,

let’s say their heart beats 60 times a minute

– you might assume it’s beating once a second,

which it is, but that’s only the average.

You see, in reality, it would be something like this: 0.96 seconds,

1.02 seconds,

0.99 seconds,

1.04 seconds, and so on.

This is because each beat of your heart is a result of this two internal systems!

Your two branches of the autonomic nervous system are the internal system!

The sympathetic is very vigilant.

It always wants to accelerate your heart rate!

it’s always looking for emergencies.

It’s looking to keep you safe.

The parasympathetic is just the opposite,

it wants to calm you down and slow your pulse.

Because it wants to use all the energy it can

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”

Rumi


The energy of the cosmos:

In different cultures, energy is known by different names. The word “energy” is referred to as:
Ki in Japanese
Chi in Chinese
Prana in Hindi
Qudra in Arabic

The divine Light energy: Noor or Nur is activated and a heartful activation as a living Vision!

And a heartful activation -celebration of living our vision- and showing up fully as our heart self!
One for all and all for one,,,ONE_LOVE – ONE LOVE- ONE LOVE!!!!
Your Heart Beat Sounds. One Love – Thaaaaat thrrrrrup  -One love- One LOVE –
LET LOVE TAKE OVER YOUR HEART> LET GOD< OR THE UNIVERSE< OR ALLAH OR JESUS<BUDDHA < ONE LOVE TAKE OVER YOUR HEART!!!!

I’m talking about  be here now –AWAKEN YOUR HEART! 
YOU HAVE MADE IT YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH!!!!

Take a look around. You made a body, you live in a town!!!

  The sympathetic always wants to accelerate,

the parasympathetic wants to calm you down.

In an ideal state, if we’re relaxed,

our sympathetic is always waiting in the background.

It’s still vigilant, but it’s not dominating.

The unfortunate truth

is that today, for most of us chasing wealth, health, happiness,

trying to get the kids to school, sitting in traffic,

most of our heartbeats are being dictated

by some level of that sympathetic nervous system.

In fact, low heart rate variability

has been associated with all cause and cardiac mortality.

Things like acid reflux,

erectile dysfunction,

restless leg syndrome,

low back pain,

anxiety, depression.

This is because

when we’re in that sympathetic overdrive,

our body is in that state, that state of panic.

Your angry boss, your finances,

trying to get the kids to school without spilling my coffee again, right?

All these things add up.

And we end up breathing very shallow, and we get very poor at exhalation,

and our hormones are all out of whack.

When we take a proper breath, our diaphragm is going to descend,

and it’s going to pull oxygen into our lungs.

When we’re in sympathetic dominance, we’re using prime movers,

big muscles to breathe.

When we take a proper breath,

that diaphragm is actually going to push on our internal organs.

Your kidneys will actually move 2-3 centimeters with a proper breath.

And if you think about that – the vitality of the internal body

moving fluids around, keeping them healthy –

it all comes back to breathing.

When we take a proper breath,

we’re going to get 360 degree expansion of our torso.

It’s not just a belly breath, it’s definitely not a chest breath,

we’re going to get expansion everywhere.

We’re going to get better at detoxifying our own body

and delivering more nutrition to our cells that we’re giving it in our diet.

I’m going to give you a couple of exercises

so you can take this home and learn how to take control

and get yourself out of sympathetic dominance

and into a state of believing in yourself again.

Research into people with low back pain,

just four or five weeks of exercises similar to the ones I’m going to show you,

showed an increase in heart rate variability,

and alongside that,

it showed an increase in self-efficacy.

These low back-pain patients, even with no improvement in pain,

felt less limited by their pain.

In a world of “I’m too sick. I’m too fat. I’m too old,”

that’s the key.

If we see HRV as our resilience, then chronic stress,

sympathetic overdrive, busy schedules, and always being on the go

is literally robbing us of our vitality.

It’s robbing us of our ability to live an emotionally rich life,

to chase our dreams, to chase wealth, chase health.

The fast track to getting yourself out of sympathetic overdrive

is to breathe with your nose.

So, right now, I want everybody to just take a big breath in your nose.

(Inhales)

Hold it for a second,

and exhale three times longer than it took you to inhale.

Go ahead.

The first exercise – go ahead, exhale, sorry.

So now, we’re going to upgrade this.

That’s the fast track.

The better decision: every morning when you wake up,

before a meeting, we’re going to block one side of your nose,

and I want you to take ten breaths, then do the other side.

As you get better, you’ll inhale one side, exhale the other.

This is an amazing quick fix to calm you down

before an important meeting.

I’ve seen incredible results in people with digestive problems

using this before meals.

Because traditionally, they run, they’re stressed out and busy,

and I’m going to shove this in my face.

When you calm down before a meal, you get that blood.

You don’t want the blood,

you can’t be running from a lion when you’re going to eat,

you want that blood in your digestive system

to give you some help.

So that’s a great exercise.

The next few I have used with everybody,

from the general population, a 73-year-old man with low back pain,

all the way to professional athletes,

and here they are.

We all went through very similar developmental milestones

at three months, six months, nine months, 12 months.

That is when your body learned how to use breath

to create a positive internal environment.

And we had no preoccupations at this age, no stress.

Your body remembers these positions.

When you get into these positions –

this is what you should do when you go home –

get into these positions and breathe.

Don’t count reps – that’s stressful.

Breathe – three, four, five minutes in each of these positions.

And remember, when I’m in this position,

I should feel expansion 360 degrees.

My entire torso should expand.

Same this here, and same thing here.

This type of exercise has actually replaced

the majority of our stretching with professional athletes.

Because most tightness – “Oh, I’ve got this hamstring’s tight” –

most tightness is tight

because the brain is trying to stabilize an unstable torso.

When we learn to use air to fill our torso effectively,

our hamstrings magically let go.

Our shoulder pain goes away

because we’re using the right muscles.

Do me a favor right now, straighten your arms,

put them next to you.

Push into your chair just a little bit,

not too hard because we don’t want to get you guys all jacked up.

Push into the chair just a little bit and take a big breath in your nose,

and exhale

– three seconds for the exhale, one second for the inhale.

(Inhales) (Exhales)

And you should feel a bit different

because if you’re using any muscles except your diaphragm,

we’re pre-occupying, we’re getting those doing something different instead.

Does anyone feel like this is a little bit harder to breathe in?

Because you don’t have as many options to get air in this position,

you can only use one or two things.

So take a few breaths.

The last exercise is a test.

I want you guys to lie on your back.

You can prop your feet up if you want to, but it’s better if you don’t,

and try to blow up a balloon from this position.

When we’re running from a lion,

our body prioritizes inhalation far more than exhalation.

Exhalation is when we’re getting rid of toxins.

Inhalation is when I’m giving my body the oxygen it needs to not die.

So we get weak in our expiratory muscles.

So when you go home –

a lot of our athletes will do this ten or 15 times before a workout

to get the breath where it needs to be, get the stability where it needs to be,

and to activate the right system.

It’s a great exercise.

Together, these three exercises

are going to give your body exactly what it needs.

You’re going to be more efficient at delivering nutrition to your cells;

you’re going to be more efficient at expelling toxins;

you’re going to increase your heart rate variability.

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It’s such a powerful epiphany… and one that I want you to experience, too.

ONE_LOVE – ONE LOVE- ONE LOVE!!!!
Your Heart Beat Sounds. One Love – Thaaaaat thrrrrrup  -One love- One LOVE –
LET LOVE TAKE OVER YOUR HEART> LET GOD< OR THE UNIVERSE< OR ALLAH OR JESUS<BUDDHA < ONE LOVE TAKE OVER YOUR HEART!!!! ALLAH was the first word we all used for the calling of GOD.  When you ALLAH – you use the original call to GOD!!! GOD knows – God knows – you are calling out to hm with love into your heart with whatever word you use.

LOVE, PEACE, JESUS, QUANYEN, MOTHER MARY, MARY MAGDELINE try letting it all in! Try letting in Beauty, Surrender, Hope, Open–à Hopen (Miracle Makers Academy inside joke!) …..

Breathe, Be, Heal, STABILIZE YOUR HEART BEAT! Let LOVE< GOD< OUR ONE SOUL COMMAND YOUR BODY!!!!

Feel, LOVE,  acting today as Love moving everyone you love to Our one dream.  LOVE and BELOVED!!!!

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9/9/2019   Alanna shares her experience

I have worked with Dr. Sarah in many many ways over the past 4 (and some) years and I feel confident to call her my great friend, mentor, soul sister and soul tribe!

I have worked with Dr. Sarah 1 on 1 in private sessions and she was able to take me to greater heights and speak to me on a soul level. I have also worked numerous conscious events along side her and I know first hand the work she does is pure and nurturing and so is her overall message she brings to the world…. it’s very empowering to witness a Miracle Maker in action.

I became a member of her private mastermind group called the Miracle Makers Academy where I interact with incredibly successful and wise people with huge hearts. She has the ability to gather wonderful people with a purpose so well! I have to mention Greg Larsen- her husband who has also been an impactful mentor and role model. He rocks! If you want an example of good parents who hold the home down and do the great work- here they are!  

Working with someone with such insight, wisdom, knowledge, a Doctors degree, a medical background, palm reader, Intuitive all in one is super favorable and very impressive. What’s most impressive to me is her constant community involvement and showing up for the people.

I’m happy she has these mastermind events where people can see her in person and connect with her on a personal level even if they can’t afford a full session with her.

She is a community leader and role model. A true mystic and magical woman who has medicine for those who seek to heal their mind, body and spirit.

This review is merely a thank you and referral to anyone who reads this because I truly know the benefits of working with her and how you can transform your life just having one conversation.

Dr. Sarah has so much to share with the world. Her gifts and talents are too many to count- I would need triple Goddess Kali arms to count all the ways she can help someone. She is considerate and knows how to connect people together. She knows how to listen to your body’s consciousness and help heal wounds on all layers and levels.

I deeply and sincerely recommend Dr. Sarah to anyone who is wanting to find out their souls purpose and mission in life. See her for your health, see her for clearing old patterns of behavior, see her for building your inner strength, and definitely ask her about her mastermind miracle makers academy so you can attend her potlucks and events.

This review may be a bit all over the place but it’s really because I have so much to share about her! I hope you can experience Dr. Sarah at least once in your time.

Thank you, Dr. Sarah Larsen, I’m a better, brighter and more conscious Alanna because of your guiding light.

I’m also a lot funner too! She is fun to be around.

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.  
~Carl Sagan

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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.  

LOVE Story of the man who found “Angel Lobes” in human brains!

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/science/10maclean.html

Dr. Paul D. MacLean, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who developed the intriguing theory of the “triune brain” to explain its evolution and to try to reconcile rational human behavior with its more primal and violent side, died on Dec. 26, 2008 in Potomac, Md. He was 94.

In the late 1940s, while he was a young researcher at Yale, Dr. MacLean became interested in the brain’s control of emotion and behavior. After initial studies of brain activity in epileptic patients, he turned to cats, monkeys and other models, using electrodes to stimulate different parts of the brain in conscious animals. He then recorded the animals’ responses and, in the 1950s, began to trace individual behaviors like aggression and sexual arousal to their physiological sources.

Dr. MacLean (pronounced mac-LANE) termed the brain’s center of emotions the limbic system, and described an area that includes structures called the hippocampus and amygdala. Developing observations made by Dr. James W. Papez of Cornell, he proposed that the limbic system had evolved in early mammals to control fight-or-flight responses and react to both emotionally pleasurable and painful sensations. The concept is now broadly accepted in neuroscience.

Dr. MacLean said that the idea of the limbic system leads to a recognition that its presence “represents the history of the evolution of mammals and their distinctive family way of life.”

In the 1960s, Dr. MacLean enlarged his theory to address the human brain’s overall structure and divided its evolution into three parts, an idea that he termed the triune brain. In addition to identifying the limbic system, he pointed to a more primitive brain called the R-complex, related to reptiles, which controls basic functions like muscle movement and breathing. The third part, the neocortex, controls speech and reasoning and is the most recent evolutionary arrival.

In Dr. MacLean’s theory, all three systems remain in place and in frequent competition; indeed, their conflicts help explain extremes in human behavior.

In the 1970s and ’80s, aspects of Dr. MacLean’s model were popularized by the astronomer Carl Sagan and the novelist Arthur Koestler.

The triune brain theory remains controversial. Dr. Thomas R. Insel, a neuroscientist and director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Rockville, Md., said the theory was “outside the mainstream of scientific effort,” but added that Dr. MacLean’s research had opened the door for neuroscience to “ask big questions about consciousness and philosophy, instead of the more tractable questions about vision and movement.”

• Reptilian or Primal Brain (Basal Ganglia)
  
  Paleomammalian or Emotional Brain (Limbic System)
  
  Neomammalian or Rational Brain (Neocortex)

Paul Donald MacLean was born in Phelps, N.Y. He graduated from the Taft School and Yale, where he also earned his medical degree in 1940.

Dr. MacLean was named an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale in 1951. He later became an associate professor of physiology there before moving to the National Institute of Mental Health in 1957. At the institute, he was chief of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior in Poolesville, Md., and retired in the early 1990s.

In 1990, Dr. MacLean explained his theory in a book intended for specialists, “The Triune Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral Functions.”

Dr. MacLean’s wife of 64 years, the former Alison Stokes, died in 2006. The couple lived in Mitchellville, Md., and on Grindstone Island, near Clayton, N.Y.

He is survived by a daughter, Alison Cassidy of Potomac; four sons, Alexander, of Lincoln, Mass.; David, an endocrinologist, of Middletown, R.I.; James, of Rockville, Md.; and Paul Jr., of York, N.Y.; a brother, the Rev. Burton MacLean of Pomfret, Conn.; and 13 grandchildren.

Writing in The New York Times in 1971 and surveying the problem of intolerance and violence worldwide, Dr. MacLean found that “language barriers among nations present great obstacles.”

“But the greatest language barrier,” he concluded, “lies between man and his animal brains; the neural machinery does not exist for intercommunication in verbal terms.”

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I was wondering how do you measure if ordetermine if the electromagnetic fieldof a body is coherent or not and alsocan you influence the electromagneticfield and alter happenings in the bodyor is it only from body out okay sowhile you might be able to give a betteranswer than I will but you know thereare there’s Kirlian photography that hasbeen used amongst you know these yogicpractitioners where you can actuallylook at the the field electromagneticfield and then you can also loosen ityou know which part of theelectromagnetic spectrum it is this isvery early stages but right noweverybody here is radiating anelectromagnetic field that is at leasteight feet from where they are that canbe detected and we are creatinginterference patterns so at a veryfundamental level we are regulated by weare regulating we are monitored by andwe are monitoring each other’s biologyand emotional states and states ofconsciousness so the yogic expression iswhen a person is firmly established inin non-violence then all beings aroundhim cease to feel hostility includinganimals and so on because their field iscoherent but as I said these are veryearly stages there and still theoreticalmodels being developed but something wewant to do very much so your heartradiates an electromagnetic fieldwhich is very powerful obviously becauseyou know the pacemaker cells there andthe brainyou

what I believe is that the surest way toactually influence or change the way youinfluence the world is when you changeyour relationships with yourself youknow when I heard the theme for thesafest expanding influence I had astrong feeling that I have to share whatI have to share I have to share mymessage and I literally force my team toallow me to come back on the stage toshare with you and surprisingly what I’mgoing to talk about it’s probably alittle bit contradictory to the wholetheme of the event which is expandingyour influence and I’ll try to explainwhy the thing is that influence orinfluencing people is actually a vectorthen it’s a force for the direction wehope that something that we do or we weare or maybe something that we say isgoing to change people around us isgoing to change the world so there isthat vector in it what I’m going to talkabout is a buzzword but I hope we can gobeyond the buzz is authenticity or beingyourself being a true self and that isan internal process it is it has nodirection you cannot be authentic forsomeone else because it is being true toyourself it’s being yourself so what I’mgoing to talk about is that you know themoments that you’re trying to givedirection to your fanta city to come toshow show your authenticity to someonelet’s say or to make a point throughbeing authentic you’re giving adirection to it and it loses its coreits essence of being internal processand becomes a show rather than trulyauthenticity so that’s what we are goingto talk about because I believe and I’mgoing to make a tiny logical jump rightnow here but the rest of my 28 minutesI’m going to explain what happened inthat logical jump what I believe is thatthe surest way to actually influence orchange the way you influence the worldis when you change your relationshipwith yourself and if you’re in personalgrowth you know the first rule ofpersonal growth which is that nobody cando anything with you or to you youcannot transform you cannot grow youcannot learn through someone else or youcannot someone and make someone else dothat for you you have to do it yourselfthis is the process which comes throughyou so if you understand that you knowthat actually whatever happens to you isyou react to whatever happens in theworld people who have been in arelationship for a long time they knowthat we can’t change our partners wecan’t we have this whole desire to makethem a little better to teach themsomething but actually what happens isthat if you’re in a long time in arelationship we learn to adjust ourbehavior to each other our behaviors butnot the motivation which is beyond thatbehavior so if you take that that firstrule of personal growth that you do notreally change other people then thewhole idea of influence becomes in a wayan illusion and the only thing that wecan change is ourselves as arelationship with ourselves a verysimple example if somebody if ourpartner let’s say does something to usand we feel something about that whathappens is that there is an action andwe attribute or we give it a certainmeaning we interpret it in a way whichis not maybe even true and then we reactto our own interpretation so if we lookat it from this point of view then itmakes sense to actually sort out ourrelationships with ourselves firstbefore we try to have an illusion ofchanging the world so what I believe isthat authenticity is not really choiceit’s a prerequisite for a lot of thingsbeing yourself being honest withyourself being true with yourselfactually accepting yourself and lovingyourself is a prerequisite to beinghappy to living a fulfilled life andit’s a prerequisite to actually havingany meaningful impact on people in yourlife or having an influence in thatmatter and the thing is that when we areborn we actually know what it is to beourselves and I won’t and have to warnyou we’re going to talk aboutauthenticity this whole half an hourthat I’m onstage and authenticity is notreally a switch which you can switch onand switch off at well it is more like aI don’t know cold or whatever it isattached to the parachute when you jumpout of the plane and you pull that cordthe chute opens and that’s it you can’tput it back together and get back intothe plane the same thing thatauthenticity was being honest withourselves the moment you learn it backit doesn’t go away anymore you cannotlive the old way so this is this is awarning if you’re going on that pathit’s it’s like in a movie you’re goingon an adventure and you have to go allthe way through you will have to go intothat scary dark cave and grow through itand then come out on the other side sothe thing is that of course we we areborn authentic we are born real we don’tput on anything to be accepted but thenwith time of course we learn to put onmasks and this is normal when we arekids we are being told you have tobehave in a certain way please behavebe polite right so we start learning toput on the masks to put up in the maskof politeness of civility the mask ofbeing interested in the person who istalking to you sometimes the mask ofbeing upset and angry if you havechildren you will relate a child doessomething to us not to us child doessomething something naughty and we wantto make a point this was wrong and weput in the mask of being upset mommy isangry it’s a mask unfortunately we dothat with grownups as well we sometimesdon’t let go of our resentment and webehave as we upset with someone to makea point to make a point that you need tochange something so we put on thosemasks and it is okay because we havedifferent roles you know in the morningI was a student right now I’m speakinghere on stage sometimes I’m a mothersometimes I’m a child so we have thoseroles we have those masksit’s fine it is absolutely fine theproblem is that sometimes we forget whatis behind them we start identifyingourselves with those masks and I want totalk about why do we do thatwhy do we put on the masks the thing isthat our one of our strongest needs isto connect and it is an evolutionaryneed because to 12,000 years ago when welived in in well very much like animalsus as animals as a biological species weare not very we’re very easy prey rightvery easy food so of course for us beingrejected from the tribe was the matterof life or deathI’m not saying anything new here but thething is that evolutionarily our biologyhasn’t changed so much in 12,000 yearsso of course right now rejection alsofeels like the matter of life or deathand we might say that oh come on we weall understand but the truth is ourbiology takes it as the question of lifeor death that’s rightrejection is so scary it’s so painful sowe put on the masks to be accepted andit’s fine because people who don’t wearany masks are very authentic the waythey are and their expression ofsometimes not very pleasant people to bearound unfortunately so it’s fine it’sfine to put on the masks but we have tounderstand that that mask is actuallystanding between us and the connectionsobrina Brown who I love very much she’sthe researcher she’s a sociologist she’sa TED speaker and author I’m sure a lotof people you know her she researchedwhat makes people feel strongconnections and what she discovered wasthis there’s another buzzword there shediscovered that people who are capableof creating strong connections arepeople who believe that they’re worthyof lovethe way they are right now they believethat they’re worthy of love it doesn’tmean that they don’t want to becomebetter but they believe that they arestill lovable they’re people who havethe courage to show themselves the waythey are to the world and the buzz wordvulnerability but the meaning thatBrown boots into that and it isimportant is this vulnerability is ourability to act despite the uncertaintyof how our action is going to be takenso it’s not about sharing the darkestsecret about ourselves it’s actuallywillingness to act without knowing howthe world is going to receive you so forexample if you’re sharing a joke to easeout the mood it is an act ofvulnerability if you’re approachingsomeone that you don’t know initiating aconflict it’s an act of vulnerabilityand of course if you’re sharing a darkpainful moment for the first time it’salso an act of vulnerability I think itis important to understand what itreally means because unfortunately bothauthenticity and vulnerability can bemasks that we wear and a mask issomething that stands between us and avery strong little connection so I findit paradoxical we put on a mask so thatwe accepted by the world yet to beaccepted and to truly make strongconnections we have to learn to take offthe masks and I believe that the trueproblem of current society is is theloneliness epidemic we live in thisworld where we are separated by a lot ofpeople who live in big cities in bigbuildings in my building we have so manypeople I can’t even imagine to count howmany people live in in in the buildingwhere I live on social media we havehundreds thousands of friends some of ushave millions of followers we learn tocommunicate in a certain way don’t replya message to thoughts it’s creepy don’twrite very long message it’s creepywe live in the world of superficialbite-size communication and we are soobsessed with our reach while what weneed to remember is how to connect withpeople truly connect Jay shawty wastalking about that when you make threesteps wide you have to also go deep notjust white so I believe that wellactually have known it’s not that Ibelieve it’s researchresearch shows that the number onekiller in the contemporary societysocial isolation and lonliness becausewe’ve unlearned the art of connecting oftruly connecting authenticallyconnecting you can say that its researchshows that if we think that cancer orcardiovascular disease killers know inreality it’s social isolation yourchances of surviving cancer are muchhigher if you have strong connections inyour lifestrong meaningful connections in yourlife it is so bad that in UK they havethe ministry to deal with socialisolation I want to come back to themasks because the masks are the thingsthat actually separate us fromconnecting truly with people and one ofthe masks which I think is the mostdangerous is the mask of affection it’sthe mask that we put on and we associatewith it we it becomes our our identity alot of us a lot of us who want to becomebetter we have a beautiful picture ofwhat it is to be the best version of meand it is good understand me correctlyI’m in business of helping people totransform and grow I want people to wantto be a better version of ourselves butthe thing is that when we wear it as amask and associate with that there are alot of dangers for example I’m anenlightened human being I believe inlove and I live love how can I not likethat person no it’s impossible I believein love I don’t like but I can I cannotnot like that person what do we do weresort to a very old classical escapemechanism reaction formation wouldpretend that we like that person webehave as if we like that person we tryto convince ourselves rather thandealing with a question why does thisperson trigger that feeling in merather than being honest with ourselvesright oh another example I’m a strongpersonI’m optimistI’ve been through so much and I’m stillstanding how can this littleinsignificant problem make me feel sobad it’s impossibleI’m an optimist shake it off you knowpush through anybody who understandspsychology knows that these methods notonly do not they not work they’reactually dangerous because theyundermine our emotional well-being sowhat I’m trying to drive at is if wehave that mask of perfectionist that weassociate with it has those dangerousplaces where we’re going to ignorecertain things which don’t fit thatpicture of perfection this is not what Iwant to be I can no I don’t want toassociate for that so do it what do wedo we put it in the closet we close thedoorand we stuff disclose it with more andmore feelings like that and that’s howover time we forget what we truly arebecause we don’t acknowledge what wefeel to the endI love the saying bye nothing actuallyI’m referring to Ken Wilber he said wehave a weird obsession about the lightside everything light and beautiful butif we acknowledge the fact thateverything came from one source whetheryou believe in God or universe a BigBang whatever you believe in if weacknowledge the fact that everythingcame from one source then why do wedemonize the dark so when I’m talkingabout being authentic I’m talking aboutbeing honest with yourself and learningto love yourself love the full spectrumof yourself not just the facade ofperfection that we build but also allthe other rooms of the building eveneven the basement even where we don’twant to go so I’m going to share a storywith you I was born in Soviet Union andin Soviet Union we didn’t believe muchin two individuals we had a systemindividuals were part of the system andluckily it’s a life of a pet you knowthe system tells you how to besuccessful so I had this what I callHermione syndrome I had to be successfulby the scenario that the system gave meI started well I went to good UniversityI got a good degree I got a good goodjob I got married mmmstatistically we are supposed to havetwo children I have two children a boyand a girl hmmstatistically correct by the age of 40 Ihad built a perfect life a work that Iloved I truly love my work businessfamily travels meaningful life but Irealized that the only place where canafford myself to to acknowledge thatmaybe I’m struggling with certainemotions maybe maybe I’m not that happymaybe there is something about me whichI don’t understand how to deal with thatthe only place where I could acknowledgethat was when I went to the bathroom andlocked the door and nobody could see mebecause my picture my mask of perfectiondidn’t have space for messed up me Icouldn’t afford to show it to anyoneand that unfortunately unraveled a verylong process of self-discovery how doyou know where to dig at that time lastyear at 40 I decided I’m done I’m donefeeling guilty and ashamed for what I amit’s time I accept myself what I ambecause I can become better yes I canbecome better but I cannot become betterif I don’t acknowledge where I am rightnow if I don’t accept what I have towork with and to accept means also toactually be honest and actually see whatyou have to work with so how do you knowwhere to dig usually the places where weare lying to ourselves because trust me16 years in personal growth I know thatmost of us most of us believe that weare honest with ourselves we understandourselves we know ourselves that’s whatI felt last year I was I was sincere Istill am but the truth is that sometimesthe deception that’s the essence ofdeception the self-deception is about usnot even realizing that sometimes we arenot living our own life so my life lastyear started unraveling my beautifulfacade of perfect life started breakinginto piecesI had a disney castle it was made out ofLegos LEGO pieces are still there intactI’m putting it back together I’m notsurewe’ll come out of that but I believemaybe spaceship definitely not a disneycastle so you know I’m actually muchhappier I still don’t know what’s goingto happen there’s a lot of uncertaintybut one thing that makes me happy I canjust be myself I don’t have to pretendthat’s the easiest thing I don’t need todo anything I didn’t need to prove Idon’t need to show I can just be myselfit’s so easy so liberating so SusanDavid she has a venture I love her sheis a psychologist she has a beautifulbook called emotional agility it shouldbe a must read in every schoolso Susan David has a very veryinteresting idea we cannot judgeemotions the moment when you feelsomething and you tell yourself oh no Ishouldn’t be feeling like that you knowI shouldn’t be liking that person or youknow you lose a job and you’re actuallyfeeling excited about the newopportunities rather than feeling scaredsociety expects you to feel scared oryou know any feeling we’re like whereeverybody’s happy and you feel uneasy oreverybody is sad and you feel actuallyat peace every time you tell yourself Ishouldn’t be feeling that that’s whereyou should dig if that’s the place whereyou can find out such interesting thingsabout yourself and Susan David talksabout that there are no right or wrongemotions don’t put pluses and minuses tothem good bad positive negative emotionsjust are you know emotions are given tous the same way that pain is given toour physical body there is a conditionwhen you can’t feel pain and it is asdisease because if you don’t feelphysical pain you can go out on a joglose a limb and not notice that the sameway with our emotions we’re givenemotions to pay attention to certainparts of our life and the moment when wejudge them we are not dealing with whatI they’re given to us so how do youstart the path to uncovering yourself isnotice the times when you tell yourselfI shouldn’t be feeling like that I havetwo children I love them I really lovethem but when I come to events like thatI’m most and immersed in work and Ienjoy it I enjoy to the point where Inot even remember that I have childrenfor four days before I would feelcognitive dissonance I shouldn’t befeeling like that I’m a bad man now Ijust accept the fact that contrary to myown expectations work it’s superimportant to me we find those places todig into in areas which have chargedwith strong emotions it’s oftenrelationships unfortunately it’s veryoften our sexuality our emotionalexpression for a woman young woman todecide that children is not her path isa scary choice is a scary decisionbecause that’s not what society expectsfrom her for a young man to decide thathe doesn’t want to earn moneythat’s not his it’s a scary thing andwhy should he if he doesn’t want so whatI’m earning you is that every time whenyou catch yourself thinking oh Ishouldn’t be feeling her that loo deeperyou might discover a lot of interestingthings about yourself so there are fewtools that you will need to deal withthat process the first one would be toactually learn to deal with pain loatheto deal with negative I’m sharing someof my teachers because I can’t go deepinto this suffix I don’t have enoughtimeGalen took down one of the FS speakershe talks beautifully about dealing withpain Susan David and brunette brown towhom I have referred they’re alsoamazing dealing with pain person whotaught me courage you would need courageis actually how record and anotherinteresting thing you will need andthat’s the scariest is to communicateyour new youth to the world and this isthe guy he’s a personal friend he’s ateacher unfortunately he teaches only inRussia but he teaches the open dialogueprinciples it’s not about radicalhonesty it’s about honesty with yourselfand also a healthy way to communicatewith the world so let me come back to towhat happens nextafter you find your path to yourselfafter you discover who you truly areafter you realize that the life that youhave built might not be completely whatyou wanted it’s communicating that tothe world and that’s the scary partbecause we are afraid topeople that we love and the thing washurt it’s very interesting you see ifyou’re a parents you would really relateto that but people who don’t havechildren but have people that they loveand their life they would also relate tothat when a child is born parent wantsthat child to be happy so what do we dowe do everything that the child doesn’tfeel pain we protect them from pain yetall of us understand that being is aninevitable part of life it’s going tohappen whether we like it or notno matter how enlightened and smart weare it’s going to happen so why do wedeprive our children of the ability tolearn how to cope with somethinginevitable in safe environment and we doit to our loved ones all the time we tryto protect our loved ones from painsacrificing our own truth thinkingthinking that if we pretend thinkingthat if we if we if if we sacrifice ourhappiness that the people around us aregoing to be happier the thing about painis unfortunately we all have our ownjourneys and sometimes our journeys needto teach us lesson and we have to gothrough them and if somebody comes andhelps you to avoid that lesson guesswhat will happen you will get it anywayagain so that’s the thing unfortunatelysometimes in life we have to take thingsphilosophically and I have this weirdthing about me I try to look abouteverything in life philosophically Iidentify myself as everyday lifephilosopher so how do you communicateyou truth to the loved ones knowing thatit might hurt them that’s actually thescary moment about being true toyourself what do you choose tocompromise what’s important to you sothat your loved ones don’t feel hurt orto stay true to your truth and actuallywitness your loved ones going throughpain when me and vision decided toseparate apart from that being a verycomplicated emotional process for bothof us the thing I was most scared of wastelling my parents and my children andof course my mom didn’t take it verywell she was in denial she was upset shetried to convince me that I’m wrong wellwe are wrong essentially because it wasa mutual decision we heard a lot thatcomments you guys what are you doingyou’re going to hurt people in your lifewhat do you do in that moment do youstay true to what you know it’simportant for youso it was hard with my mom I didn’t wantto talk to her for a while because Iknew that if I talk to her I’m going totry to convince her that I’m right toconvince her to feel differently aboutwhat’s happening but on the other hand Ialso understood that what she’s goingthrough is her own reaction to what Ienvisioned have decided it’s not abouther me and vision anymore something wedecided had triggered something in herand it is her own journey it is her ownbeam because in all honesty nothingchanged for her in her life at allso for a week I didn’t dare to talk toher and sure enough in a week she calledshe called it she said you knowChristina I started thinking about myown life and I realized that for 25yearsI chose not chose I was afraid to makethe choice to stay true to what I am andfor 25 years I would lock up myself inthe bathroom like I did to cry was itworth itshe said you know after I understoodthat I understand that what you’re doingis brave and even if the whole world isagainst you I’m going to support yourchoice and that goal that was somethingwhich I needed to hear because of courseI was doubting if what we chose withwhat we knew we knew that it wasimportant for us if we are doing theright thing knowing that people in ourlives are going to be hurt so not tomake it tooblew me years ago I used to work withrefugees and refugees in Asia havereally sad stories they usually loseeverything in their lives includingtheir loved ones and so I saw a lot ofmisery obviously on one side on theother side main mission we’re buildingup mind valley and mine riley is allabout you know helping people to livemore 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okay so that’s how everyone here showedup and when I was working with thecompany that produced this video therewas a lot of discussion why it takes 200million sperm to fertilize one egg andthe only conclusion some people came tois that guys don’t like to stop fordirections they’re always in a hurry soit takes 200 million for one egg in anycase so at that moment you had 23,000genes half from your mother and halffrom your fatherfor those of you or not and I believe alot of people here obviously arescientists or biologists or physiciansbut in case of any lay people here geneis a stretch of DNA that codes for aprotein it’s also a unit of heredity andDNA’s of course stands fordeoxyribonucleic acid there are threebillion base pairs that go to make thehuman genome but only four lettersstanding for those chemical bases Ididn’t go on inside to see in timing ATCand G which is the alphabet of all lifethe life of a fruit fly the life of abacterium the life of a rhinocerosa banana chimpanzee or a human being sowhile the English language has about 26letters not about it has 26 letters lifehas only four letters and it’s thecombination of these letters that givesus the 23,000 genes that make a human’sI go to the actual carbon hydrogenoxygen and nitrogen that goes into theDNA originally came from a dyingsupernova so the oxygen going to yourbrain right now and your himLerman or the carbon in your fingernailsthey may have come from differentgalaxies it takes almost the entireuniverse to conspire to create thatzygote that life begins with the humanlife and in those nine months ofgestationthere is the recapitulation of all ofevolution so there’s a there’s anexpression used by some biologists thatontogeny repeats phylogeny so duringthose nine monthsyou remember literally Yardley’s yourgenes remember the history of life onour planet which began about 3.8 billionyears ago with the first livingorganisms called chemoheterotroph ikhyperthermophiles that lived on the rimsof volcanoes and ultimately evolved intoall of life so during those nine monthsall of that memories there 65% of yourgenes are the same as a banana 80% arethe same as a mouse about 70% of thesame as a fruit fly and almost 99% 98point something are the same as achimpanzee so it’s a very interestingjourney to gestation and then throughembryo Genesis which involves literallynot only evolutionary memory but cosmicmemory because of the fact that in orderfor the cosmos to be what it is you haveto have certain constants and I’m not anexpert I know dr. Larry Smarr sitting inthe back and we’ll find probably faultwith what I’m going to say but theuniverse is very fine-tuned for life andmind I have had conversations withFreeman Dyson who said three riddleshave puzzled him all his lifenumber one the unpredictable movement ofatoms notis an unpredictable movement of atomsnumber two a universe fine-tuned forlife and mind and number three our ownconsciousness so there’s a big mysterydespite what you hear about the Big Bangand the fact that 96% of the universe isactually dark matter and dark energyonly 4% is atomic and of that 4% that isatomic 99.999% is invisible interstellardust so the visible universe with thebillions of galaxies and now we are toldtrillions of possibly habitable planetsnot just our galaxy but Andromeda Virgoand on and on is point zero one percentof the total universe that is atomic andas you know atoms are particles andparticles have a dual nature there arealso waves as particles they occupyspace in time they have units of massand energy and as waves they exist onlyas possibilities so I think some of themystery is lost about our existence whenwe look just at little bits and piecesand my definition of spirituality is toreach and the reinvent of our ownmystery the mystery of our existence themystery of life the mystery of how thatdouble-stranded DNA throughapproximately 50 replications only 50replications becomes almost a hundredtrillion cells that it takes to make ahuman being and this process ofmorphogenesis and differentiation whereone becomes two becomes four becomeseight and so on you have more cells inthe human body than all the stars in theMilky Way galaxyremembering the mystery of existencefrom the moment of the Big Bang rightthrough burstingburning stars and the creation of atomsand ultimately of DNA and then of lifeand not only human life but thereplication of all life as we emerge andthen as you come out of the wombprovided it’s not a caesarean sectionthen you inhale the secretions of yourmother the vaginal secretions youswallow them you’re covered by them andthis is the second inoculation of whatwould could really be called the secondgenome to point to additional genes thatcome from microbes approximately 2,000species so for every gene that you haveyou have approximately 150 times morebacterial genes and now life begins andyou know hopefully there’s a lot ofcooing and cuddling and singing andtouching and licking and kissing andexperience starts to happen and as aresult of this and the interactionbetween the microbiome and the humangenome but more importantly theexperience of life in the form of thefive senses sound touch sight tastesmell but also emotional connectionsbetween family and baby between motherand baby between the limbic emotionalbrain of the mother and the emotionalbrain of the baby who’s watching hereyes listening to her voicewatching her facial expressions and bodylanguage because there’s no linguisticlanguage you have a third structure thatstarts to develop what we now call theepigenomesheet of proteins above the gene andthis exquisite interaction between thegenome that you inherited the microbiomewhich represents literally the ecologyof the earth and the epigenome which isthe result of experience experienceperceptual experience emotionalexperience nutrition sleep and movementand now emotions you have the epigeneticmechanisms that start to regulate geneexpression and of course the gene istalking to the microbiome it’s anamazing cosmic symphony that is beingenacted that we call life so I first metRudy at a TEDMED after brain conferenceand I met him in the men’s room in theurinal and I said to Rudy do you thinkreally our brains and our genes arenouns or verbs and he said let’s gooutside and we’ll talk and we started anemail communication which led to ourcollaboration and when we say supergenes we actually mean thiscollaboration between genes microbiomeand epigenome so here’s what I’d like topresent you you know week I come from atradition which my training was as ofcourse a medical doctor and internistand then an endocrinologist and theneuroendocrinologist but I also have abackground in eastern wisdom traditionswhere the ontological primitive realityof everything is consciousness so youknow we have a different ontologicalassumption in the Western world wherethe basic idea is that everything israndom that mutations are random but ifyou look at the eastern wisdomtraditions they say beyond all thisphysical stuff beyond the forces andelements of nature beyond the atomsbeyond the particles beyond thepossibility waves is is underlying andyou don’t have to buy into thisphilosophy but it helped me in my growthis something called consciousness andthat consciousness is self-organizingits self evolving its self regulating itis recursive it remembers its ownhistory and then as it evolves it’s notonly recursive but it expresses itselfas complementarity so mind body are oneunit just like we use waves particles asone one idea or our mass energy as oneidea in the West mind body is one unitand mind body complementarities of thisdeep underlying self-regulatingself-evolving self-organizing recursivecreative deep intelligence at the heartof the universe and that there is nosuch thing as a structure there is nosuch thing as a thing when you look atanything you end up seeing that it’s anactivity so the human body is anactivity the universe’s and activityparticles are activities the body mindis an activity and the human body isthen understood as a dynamic activity ofseeming non change in the midst ofchange what we call homeostasis in theWest but it’s only seeming non changebecause from the moment of birth yourbody is also changing through you knowit’s developing and there are mechanismsfor not only differentiation as you areborn but after birth mechanisms lyingdeeply hidden within your genome as youknow only 2% of DNA is coding so therest is now called intergenicwhere there are mechanisms forregulation for when puberty will comewhen senescence will start and the wholelife cycle will repeat itself so basedon this we look at the human bodyas an expression of all these thingssensory experience sleeping wakingbreathing nutrition metabolismenvironment nature universe butcomplementary to that thoughts feelingsemotions desires memories imaginationinsight intuition creativity this is allone dance and by understanding thisdance we can see that the human body isnever still so when we look atbiological mechanisms in terms ofmolecular biology we’re actually notfully understanding the deeper activitythat is constantly in motion so this isnot a unique notion in the East theGreek philosopher Heraclitus is wellknown for saying that no man can stepinto the same river twice because it’s anew man it’s a new river so now I thinkwe can start to look at thisscientifically the body that you’reusing right now to listen to my lectureis not the one that you came in with alittle while ago you can look at any ofthese processes but even if you think ofthe simple act of breathing with everybreath you breathe in 10 to the power of22 atoms with every breath you breatheout 10 to the power of 22 atoms thatultimately are coming from all the cellsof your body so at this level you’rebreathing out bits and pieces of yourheart and kidney and brain tissue andtechnically speaking we’re allintimately sharing our organs with eachother all the time okay so you know thephysical body that you have right now isnot the one that you had even a littlewhile ago in less than one year youreplace 98% of all the molecules andatoms of your body so you’re replacing astomach lining every five days your skinevery month your skeleton every threemonths believe it or not and even theDNA which as we saw holds the memoriesof millions of years of evolutionarytime the actual stuff the carwhen the hydrogen the oxygen it comesand goes every six weeks like migratorybirds so this is my year 2016 model andthe last time I came to UCSDto give a lecture Paul brought me in thesame automobile but with a differentbody okay so this is one of the biginsights in Eastern wisdom traditionsthat you have a being that is a constantbut experience is never a constant soyour mind your thoughts your emotionsthe molecules of your body areexperiences you are having as a morefundamental consciousness and so withthis then all the modalities oftreatment become looking at these thingsthat cause the change in our bodies okayso the modalities of treatment areactually looking at activity and howthis sensory experience eating breathingdigestion metabolism elimination thoughtfeeling emotion desire personalrelationships social interactionsenvironment all seen as one unifiedholistic activity there is no divisionbetween mind and body no divisionbetween biological organism andenvironment or even the universe becauseit’s all one phenomenon it’s all oneunified activity and according to thiswisdom tradition it’s an activity in anontological primitive that is calledconsciousness so I could talk about thatin great detail at some other time butyou know the opposite of this holisticactivity of course is what has becomethe number one epidemic of ourcivilization that we call stress whichis defined in the West as that which isperceived as stress that which isperceived as as a threat either physicalthreat or psychological threat but youknow interestingly there’s no word thatis equivalentof stress in the Vedic or Ayurvedictradition there isn’t I remember goingto a conference with Maharishi MaheshYogi in the early 70s where people weretalking about stress and he listenedvery carefully and after they all lefthe said he called me and he said what isthis stress I had to explain to him whatit was and he kind of nodded uh-huh homebut he didn’t really get it because theway he defined stress ultimately as wegot to know him was not that which isperceived as a threat but that whichinterferes with the spontaneousexpression of the invisible awarenessthat manifests as mind body and allphenomenon anyway I don’t have tobelabor this point that it has becomethe number one epidemic of ourcivilization which can start with mentaland emotional disturbances ultimatelylead to behavioral problems andultimately to physical disturbances andthere’s no one system in the body thatescapes whether you’re looking at theimmune system or cardiovascular systemor inflammatory bowel disease or justabout any disease so given that when westarted working with Paul I said thisthe system of Irena is very elaborate bythe way it talks about every experienceexperience of color experience of smellexperience of taste sensual experiencesexual experience mental experience so Isaid let’s take a few of these importantthings to start with of course at ourCenter we do go into all the you knowhow each color each taste every possiblesmell affects your what we callpsychophysiological body type but let’slook at five most important pillars ofphysical well-being and we identifiedthese so in Ayurveda by the way sleep isa spiritual experience deep sleepparticularly is the experience ofreturning to your state of fundamentalbeing fundamental awareness which isbeyond subject and object but we know ofcourse that sleep a lot of attention iscoming to sleep now and in the West andthat it probably is one of the mostefficient ways to improve your healthand immunity but very little is talkedabout unconscious processing that occursin sleep that there is in fact a lotmore activity in deep sleep in terms ofcreativity and consolidation of memoryand and self-regulation that becauseevery day with sleep so sleep is aspiritual experience as understood inthe Ayurvedic tradition it’s one of thestates of consciousness so you know wehave seven states of consciousnessdefined in the Vedanta waking statewhich is presumably everyone here is inthat state and then there’s the dreamstate and then there’s the deep sleepstate which is returning to baselineconsciousness but then there are fourother states beyond that transcendentalconsciousness where you have a glimpseof the observer in the midst of theobservation it’s not very difficult youcan just experience it right now asyou’re listening to me just turn yourattention to is listening so as you’relistening to me just be aware of who’slistening so this is presence and whatis it the presence of just awareness andit’s the most self regulatory state andthen this is called the fourth state andthe fifth state is when you can have theexperience of this presence which is theobserver in the midst of observationeven during sleep and dreams it’sreferred to as being local and non-localat the same time beings in the spiritualdomain and the physical domain at thesame time it’s also referred to asmake consciousness so that would be thefifth state the sixth state is where youfeel the presence and every object ofyour perception and the seventh state iswhen you realize that there’s only onepresence and we are all differentiatedaspects of that one presence so this isa very fertile area of research nowbecause we are trying to map the brainin different states of consciousness asdefined in eastern wisdom traditionsit’s not only with emotions but actuallywith what we call higher states ofconsciousness where you go beyond wakingdreaming sleeping into these moreexpanded states and the the basis oflooking at this is that according to theVedanta and our Veda reality isdifferent in different states ofconsciousness biology is different indifferent states of consciousnessperception is different in differentstates of consciousness and as we expandinto these states there’s more intuitionmore insight more creativity andultimately because it’s non-local andtherefore not subject to time there isthe absence of the fear of death andthese states are states that peopleaspire to in the wisdom tradition ofVedanta of which Iowa there’s only oneoffshoot it’s all about expandingconsciousness so we have then taken thatunderstanding and then combined it withmeditation and so with in the last threeyears or so we’ve been looking at youknow there’s a lot of talk these dayseverywhere you go people are talkingabout mindfulness and so onbut actually meditation mindfulnessfirst of all is an inappropriate wordbecause when you’re practicingmindfulness you’re not using your mindthe awareness of the mind is not themind the awareness of a thought is not athought the awareness of an emotion isnot an emotion so mindfulness is here tostaywill don’t object to the word and awhere fullness would be clumsy so butthis is one aspect of meditationthere are other aspects of meditationsuch as self-reflection such astranscendence such as emotionalcultivation of emotions like lovecompassion joy equanimity empathy sowhen you look at the total package ofmeditation which is what we do it thatyour presenter is when people takeinstruction meditation they’re taughtfirst what is called Vipassana whichwould be the equivalent of mindfulnessbut it’s being aware not only of yourbreath but of your thoughts of youremotions of your mental space of yourbody of your internal space which a lotof people actually do when they practiceyoga in one form of another so there isthat aspect there’s reflection Who am Iwhat do I want what’s my purpose what ami grateful for all these have differentbiological components you know it’sobvious that whatever mental experienceyou have has to have a biologicalcounterpart but nobody’s actually lookedat all these different aspects so wedecided to do that with reflection withmind what we call mindfulness withtranscendence and also with bodyawareness and awareness of sensationsimages feelings and thoughts and so thisis a very comprehensive program and thatwe have a retreat for that lasts a weekand we chose to call it the seduction ofspirit and we I was lucky enough to beintroduced to Elizabeth Blackburn who asyou know is a Nobel laureate who won theNobel Prize for telomerase and hercolleague Alisa Appel and then Rudy atHarvard Eric Schadt at Mount Sinai andof course with Paul’s help and our ownphysicians we first actually just lookat telomerase activity and we found thatin one week of our retreatsTellem race had gone up by 40% which wasvery unexpected and to Elizabeth thenlooked at telomere length which had alsoincreased and at this point we did awhole bunch of molecular work so welooked at several genomes and we lookedat those genomes that were responsiblefor genes that were responsible for selfregulation homeostasis wound healing andheart health and we found that they’dall increased their activity some 17fold over baseline this paper by the wayis under review it in nature at themoment we’ve been asked to resubmit itas as usual with a few with a fewCorrections so we hope to see itspublication very soon and all the genesthat were responsible for inappropriateinflammation including genes associatedwith cardiovascular disease which by theway the risk factors for cardiovasculardisease are the risk factors for almostevery other chronic illness diabetesAlzheimer’s they all went downsignificantly so much so that EricSchadt whose slide this is at Montana hesaid at one of our conferences he said Ican predict with 98% accuracy who ispracticing this particular meditationthat I have a this is a geneticsignature for this meditation sosomebody in the audience said dr. Sharpedo you meditate she said no said are youplanning to he said no so but you justshowed us the slide he said yes I’mgoing to figure out how to make a drugout of thisthat’s how we think as scientists anywayso this work has now extended and we arealso looking at what is now called biofield science because as you know everybiological organism creates anelectromagnetic field around it and youcan look at this electromagnetic fieldtoday through technology and you canunderstand it even at a more fundamentallevel is the bio field a quantum likeprocess is it emerging from the quantumvacuum because what we perceive as thebody in classical physics is actually aperception for which we don’t even havean explanation right now for example asyou’re looking – at me well that’s goingto arise these photons and all that’sgoing to your brain is an actionpotential and all that’s happening inyour brain is ionic shifts wrong alongcell membranes how do you experiencethis no one knows that’s called the hardproblem of consciousness and you knowit’s very obvious that the experienceyou’re having right now seeing mecouldn’t be happening in your brainwhat’s happening in your brain iselectrochemistry but you’re experiencing3-dimensional reality with color andsound in all these textures you can’texplain this and nobody even asks themselves we can’t explain perceptualexperience we can’t explain mentalexperience we can’t explainemotional experience so all we can lookat his biological correlates but there’sno explanation this room doesn’t fitinside your brain so what is happeningand so you know when in the traditionthat I come from it says you’ve got youknow instead of asking yourself what’sthe biological basis of consciousnessyou should be asking how isconsciousness expressing itself asbiology because ultimately theontological primitive is onlyconsciousness which then we experienceas energy matters space-time and all ofthat so thankfully these these wonderfulscientists that we’ve been able to gettogether are now creating a model for usto study the human bio field and alsogiving us a physics perspective and youknow the human bio field can be measuredabout eight feet from where you are andaccording to Ayurveda anyway in Vedantathe bio field is an expression of yourstate of consciousness so if you’reagitated if you are feeling resentmentand anger and grievance and you’re in ain a right or you you’re involved in aterrorist organization or whatever thenyour bio field will be very incoherenton the other hand if you are in a stateof meditation and peace and equanimityyour bio field will be coherent and ourbio fields all interfere with each othercreating interference patterns and theremay be such a thing as a collective biofield which Maharshi is to talk about inthe early 60s and 70s that if you havethe presence of peaceful people theycreate peace not by what they say not bywhat they do but the presence and so nowat least we have a theoretical way tolook at that and of course now we havethose science of epigenetics that canlook at markers in these states ofconsciousness so while we are veryinterested in diet lifestyle environmentdrugs in utero and childhood developmentvery much more interested in howconsciousness influences theseepigenetic mechanisms I’m not going togo into details of this but you knowthat these are very specific on/offswitches that are turned on and off as aresult of experience and that experiencecan be mental experience it can beemotional experience it can be spiritualexperience and you can actually seewhat’s happening in both the bio fieldin the epigenetic mechanisms and geneexpression so this is also part of ourcalabrianow with Eric Topol and his group thatPaul Mills and I in our Center arecollaborating with and we have a coupleof papers already out in frontiers inhuman neuroscience which are looking atthe cardiovascular and nervous systemchanges during meditation and digitalstudies of both heart heart ratevariability heart activity electricactivity and brain activity and theseare these changes happen immediatelywithin seconds and this is another thingthat I found out found in the NewScientist and went to the source butit’s very interesting article publishedin Nature communications that basicallysays that your state of consciousnesscan influence gene expression and anWireless powered optogenetic designerself implant so you have a group ofpeople in meditation and theirbrainwaves are being transmitted to thisto these Mouse DNA and you can see theactivity suggesting once again thatconsciousness is not only transpersonalbut john species I was thinking the dogin the White House has no idea thatObama is an important guy okay he has noidea what the Oval officers okay howdoes he and Obama relate to each otherwell they share some kind ofconsciousness and so if Obama is nice tohim he backs his tail basically and he’shappy and so consciousness not onlytranscends our personal identity itextends across species so that’s againgoing back to eastern wisdom traditionsconsciousness sleeps and rocks andminerals consciousness dreams and plantsconsciousness starts to wake up atanimals and then humans it says Who am Iand what’s going on so it becomesself-aware in human beings so this isactually the journey of evolutionis also the journey of the evolution ofconsciousness in this tradition as Isaid you don’t have to buy into thismodel but it does help explain a lot ofthings ok so these are the higher statesof consciousness that are part of ourliterature transcendence peakexperiences flow non-local awarenesswhich means beyond subject object splitintuition and creativity is anexpression of that and then archetypalawareness which is basically symbolicexpressions of collective consciousnessand ultimately having an experience ofthe source of all creation so what wehave started now is this new study it’scalled SBT AI SBT I stands for selfdirected biological transformationinitiative so Rudy and I wrote anarticle about this and then everybodysaid let’s also participate and now wehave this whole collaboration everyoneyou can see here who are collaboratingwith us and this is a very extensiveambitious study that is looking ateverything that we do in ayurvedaincluding urbanised massage includingAyurvedic herbs including apredominantly plant-based diet includingyoga meditation and what we callconscious communication consciouscommunication is communication where thepurpose of speech is only to create joyand healing and equanimity and theexperience of empathy and compassion andlove and so we are looking at just abouteverything so these are ourcollaborators rudy is looking at wholegene genome sequencing Alzheimersrelated amyloid beta protein cytokinelevels and epigenetic changes and thenat Mount Zion again all the informaticsmicrobiome pristine is helping with thatsanford-burnham we’re working withscripts to look at mobile a EEG and ECGheart rate variability and electroelectric activity during physicalactivity sleep and during breathingtechniques with prana there are about ahundred and eight pranayam techniquesbreathing techniques that we can look atbut what we also want to look at is nowbio field in a big way and that’s ournext protocol that we have IRB approvalfor where we can actually look atcollective bio fields and how intentionand emotion influences that so this iswhat is being done at UCSC with the helpof Paul Mills and his team at Dukethey’re doing metabolomic analysiscorrelating with mood assessmentsCristina’s doing microbiome assessmentand of course Elizabeth is doing otherthings including my truck mitochondrialDNA health we are actually collectingterabytes of data right now which isbeing analyzed and some of papers are insubmission and some are still beinglooked at also looking Christine islooking at the bi-directional trafficbetween gut and brain and how thatrelates to everything from inflammatorymarkers to short chain fatty-acids andhow that relates to mood and cognitionand this is a paper that Paul led ledthe investigation where people werekeeping a gratitude journal and writingdown at the end of the day I am gratefulfor looking at inflammatory markers andoverall state of well-being this paperhas just been recently published andthat’s the summary of the paper this isfrom another institution which though isthat even the simple practice ofgratitude changes brain activity causesneurogenesis and synaptogenesis in theprefrontal cortex so these are some ofthe studies that are in progress nowincludingbreast cancer survivorship study danMacario Macario is here somewhereintegrative oncologist and helps us atthe Chopra Center and he’s thankfullythanks to him we have a lot ofoncologists in this area from UCSD whoare going to help us with this study weare planning to look at the pineal glandas you know in meditation melatonin goesup and melatonin is associated with manyhormonal changes elsewhere as well andthen I Redick massage movement yoga andalso exercise and we are also looking atactually different aspects of yoga youknow the word asana and yoga means seatof awareness so when you do thesedifferent asanas different yoga posturesthey all have different effects ondifferent nerves in the body so one ofthe most important of course is thevagus and now there is evidence that ifyou stimulate the vagus which isapproved by the way for intractableepilepsy that some people who havechronic asthma rheumatoid arthritis orirritable bowel they get better and soit seems like the vagus nerve is one ofthe most important nerves it influencesthe tone of your voice your lungcapacity your heart rate variability butthen it goes into your gut and itinnervates almost every organ in theabdomen and then there’s bi-directionaltraffic so there’s a lot of potentialfor looking at different yoga posturesand you know people like Smith Kline andGlaxo and others are doing what iscalled bioelectrical medicine wherethey’re actually implanting electrodesin these nerves and then stimulatingthem from the outside and I met withsome of these rnd people and I said wecan do this with yoga and breathing andthey said yes but how do we makeokay so specific components of yoga canaffect cognitive emotional behavioraland autonomic output and so we are alsolooking at the role of emotions and howthat affects self-regulation opiatesdopamine serotonin immunomodulation andnow particularly looking at nutritionbecause in Iraida your food is not goodunless it has seven colors of therainbow and the six tastes of life andif you include the six tastes of lifewhich are sweets are solved bitterpungent astringent and the seven colorsof the rainbow then you have all themicronutrients and triphala is a veryimportant i’ll Redick herb it’s triphalameans three fruits three herbs and ithas not only antioxidant effects butcould possibly affect gene expressionGoogle Lu is another very important herbthat is used as a cholesterol-loweringagent but it seems to regulate geneexpression as well and these are some ofthe herbs that have been used to treatinflammation so this is our next projectwe have a lot of work to do and see whatthe combinations do so I’d like toconclude shortly with these ideas Icould talk a long time because physicalwell-being emotional well-beingspiritual well-being are important butso are social well-being your networkand family and friends your communitywell-being your financial well-beingyour career well-being these are allpart by the way even though Gallup isnow doing kind of very good measurementsof this and metrics on this in a waythat these are all addressed as Dharmaand karma and other words for it buthere’s the bottom line your body is aprocess it’s not a structure there areno nouns in the universe there areconventions of language at a fundamentallevel your body is an energy andinformationfield but at an even more fundamentallevel it’s part of a consciousness fieldit’s it’s formless call it what you willthe quantum vacuum or whatever but theontological primitive of the universe isformless and how do which of course wethink comes all energy all informationand mind body as one unitmind body as one unit your genes likesinfluenced by your thoughts emotionsrelationships social interactions andenvironment you can change the structureof your brain to optimize physicalemotional and spiritual well-beingthrough practices spiritual practicesyou can change the wiring of your brainthis presumably all the people who arein genetics know this but I did not knowthis until five years ago that only 5%of disease related gene mutations arefully penetrant that there’s aone-to-one correspondence between themutation and the disease and that’sholds true for Alzheimer’s for canceryou know baraka gene is a fullypenetrant gene but there are so manygenes involved in breast cancer that Iinfluence their expression is influencedby lifestyle and this is something thatDan and this group are going to help uselucidate that you can change yourrelationship to time that actually readsets your biological clock so let me trya little experiment and I’m going to usePaul for the experiment Paul are youaware right now okay so I asked Paul ishe aware and he said yes and so who didhe consult before he answered thequestion okay obviously everybody isaware you otherwise you wouldn’t belistening to my lecture so I’m going totry another experiment very quickly togive you a little bit of insight I’mgoing to ask the same question are youawareand I don’t want anyone to answer ittill I raise my hand is that a dealare you aware so are you aware is athought yes is a thought in between isawareness is consciousness so now if Iask you the same question are you awaredon’t answer it just slip into beingaware of being aware it’s very easyare you awareand the presence that you feel is simpleawareness and this is the mostintelligent state the highest state ofintelligence is just awareness and overhere the self-regulationself-organization evolution homeostasisyou name it so even though we doelaborate meditations at our Center thepurpose is to live here to live inawareness where sensations imagesfeelings and thoughts on the screen ofawareness are just coming and going andyou are a silent witness of them so youcan be engaged and you can be detachedat the same time and so this is calledyoga in action ok one can be in thestate of awareness all the time and thiswould change your relationship to timebecause you’d always be present as yousaw even in that question there waspresenceare you aware am i aware there’spresence and ultimately then awarenessis the key to transformation now we areexpanding on that and I’m not going togo into that but here’s the last thing Iwant to say and I’m going to even thoughtime is an illusion I can see the talkmoving thereso what I’ll say is that according tothe tradition I come from says you canhave everything you want but ultimatelyyou’re going to grow old there’s goingto be infirmity and you’re going to dieok that was what happened to the Buddhayou know he had everything and he saidyou know there’s still the problem ofold-age suffering and death and so hedrew upon the great traditions that camebefore him because thetradition goes back 6,000 years BC andBuddha was 24 you know it was 200 yearslater than this tradition but buddhadrew on thishe said human suffering comes from notknowing the true nature of realityclinging on to that which is transientillusory that’s basically a movement inconsciousness every thought everyfeeling every emotion every sensoryexperiences is in consciousness soconsciousness is that in whichexperience occurs consciousness is thatin which experience is known andconsciousness is that out of whichexperience is made and all experiencesonly for things sensations imagesfeelings thoughts sensory experiencethey said and if you noticed this you’llsee it’s just a movement in your ownbeing and but what happens is you’retrying to hold on to something that itis impossible to hold on toit’s the superstition of materialismyou’re afraid of that which is transientyou’re identifying yourself with thefalse constricted habitual sociallyinduced hallucination called the ego andyou’re afraid of deathmany summarize did they say and he saidthe solution of that is try and figureout what is the true nature of realitythe formless being in which allphenomena arises and subsides and isperceived as form so every form is aphenomenon and every phenomenon is amovement in the formless being which iswho you really arenow that’s summarizing a lot of lot oftradition in a short time but the keyends up being meditation meditation isnot just to manage your stressmeditation is to wake up to your trueidentity thank you very muchthank youthank youyou

What is the Prophecy that Indigenous of Many Lands shared in Oral -Fireside Chats?

“The souls of these first people would return in bodies of all different colors: red, white, yellow and black. Together and unified, like the colors of the rainbow, these people would teach all of the peoples of the world how to have love and reverence for Mother Earth, of whose very stuff we human beings are also made.”

“The Elders would serve as mnemonic pegs to each other. They will be speaking individually uninterrupted in a circle one after another. When each Elder spoke they were conscious that other Elders would serve as ‘peer reviewer’ [and so] they did not delve into subject matter that would be questionable. They did joke with each other and they told stories, some true and some a bit exaggerated but in the end the result was a collective memory. This is the part which is exciting because when each Elder arrived they brought with them a piece of the knowledge puzzle. They had to reach back to the teachings of their parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents. These teachings were shared in the circle and these constituted a reconnaissance of collective memory and knowledge. In the end the Elders left with a knowledge that was built by the collectivity.”

Stephen J. Augustine

Hereditary Chief and Keptin of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council

Oral societies record and document their histories in complex and sophisticated ways, including performative practices such as dancing and drumming. Although most oral societies, Aboriginal or otherwise, have now adopted the written word as a tool for documentation, expression and communication, many still depend on oral traditions and greatly value the oral transmission of knowledge as an intrinsic aspect of their cultures and societies.

Furthermore, discussions of oral history have occasionally been framed in oversimplistic oppositional binaries: oral/writing, uncivilized/civilized, subjective/objective. Critics wary of oral history tend to frame oral history as subjective and biased, in comparison to writing’s presumed rationality and objectivity. In Western contexts, authors of written documents tend to be received automatically as authorities on their subjects and what is written down is taken as fact. Such assumptions ignore the fact that authors of written documents bring their own experiences, agendas and biases to their work—that is, they are subjective.

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In the United States what are the stories?

The Native Americans see the birth of a white buffalo calf as the most significant of prophetic signs, equivalent to the weeping statues, bleeding icons, and crosses of light that are becoming prevalent within the Christian churches today. Where the Christian faithful who visit these signs see them as a renewal of God’s ongoing relationship with humanity, so do the Native Americans see the white buffalo calf as the sign to begin life’s sacred hoop.

“The arrival of the white buffalo is like the second coming of Christ,” says Floyd Hand Looks For Buffalo, an Oglala Medicine Man from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. “It will bring about purity of mind, body, and spirit and ; unify all nations—black, red, yellow, and white.” He sees the birth of a white calf as an omen because they happen in the most unexpected places and often among the poorest people in the nation. The birth of the sacred white buffalo provides those within the Native American community with a sense of hope and an indication that good times are to come.

The telling of a story from one culture to another is complex; without living in the culture, we miss much of the story’s significance. However, it can still have meaning for us if we take the time to learn about the philosophy of the culture from which it came, perhaps meditating or reflecting on its place in our own lives.

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From: https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/oral_traditions/

Oral history and oral tradition

Some experts and scholars differentiate between oral history and oral tradition, but some do not. Anthropologist and historian Jan Vansina distinguishes the two as follows:¹¹

The sources of oral historians are reminiscences, hearsay, or eyewitness accounts about events and situations which are contemporary, that is, which occurred during the lifetime of the informants. This differs from oral traditions in that oral traditions are no longer contemporary. They have passed from mouth to mouth, for a period beyond the lifetime of the informants . . .

Vansina adds that oral traditions may be “spoken, sung, or called out on musical instruments only” and although they are passed down from a generation or more ago, they are not necessarily about the past nor are they necessarily narratives.¹² Vansina, however, has worked principally with oral societies in Africa. The ways in which oral societies around the world organize and understand their narratives vary.

This includes variation among First Nations’ historiographies. Stephen J. Augustine of the Mi’kmaq nation does not discern a difference between oral tradition and oral history: “When I consider the question of difference in my own Mi’kmaq language I cannot find any difference or reason why there should be a difference between oral tradition and oral history.”¹³ Some scholars have suggested that taking Aboriginal oral histories out of their native languages and fitting them into English terms such as legend, history, or story, and their corresponding concepts, may create artificial divisions.¹⁴ Stó:l? historian Naxaxahlts’i describes some of the different types of histories as understood by the Stó:l?. Sxwóxwiyam refers to creation stories, or, as Naxaxahlts’i puts it, “the stories about when Xexa:ls, the Transformers, travelled to our land to make the world right.” Sqwelsqwel on the other hand, refers to family history, or “the family’s truth.”¹⁵ Other Aboriginal groups have their own terminology for such narratives.

Anthropologist Bruce Miller uses the term oral narratives to encompass all of these meanings and to sidestep the oral tradition/oral history dichotomy, which he argues may present a false or overly simplistic division based on Western understandings. For Miller, by applying the term oral narratives, scholars can move beyond a superficial treatment of oral histories, and view them as both histories that are memorized and performed, and intellectual exercises of oral historiography informed by the agency of oral historians.¹⁶

Recording oral narratives

Oral history has been increasingly recognized in academia as a valuable contribution to the historical record. Interviews were and are recorded, transcribed, reread, and analyzed. Yet oral historian Alessandro Portelli cautions that the transcript is not the oral narrative and should not be seen as such. Transcription by its very nature must adhere to the rules and regulations of its written language—punctuation marks, for example, that give a sense of the way something was said but do not account for the rhythm or the melody of one’s voice or the variations in diction that emphasize different points or feelings. Portelli believes that narratives convey meaning that  “can only be perceived by listening, not by reading,” and that simply reading a transcript “flattens the emotional content.”¹⁸ In addition, a written document allows no immediate feedback—there is no opportunity for dialogue or spontaneity. Audio or audiovisual recordings can present similar problems—principally, that certain contexts might not translate.

Aboriginal oral histories within a legal context

It happened at a meeting between an Indian community in northwest British Columbia and some government officials. The officials claimed the land for the government. The natives were astonished by the claim. They couldn’t understand what these relative newcomers were talking about. Finally one of the elders put what was bothering them in the form of a question. “If this is your land,” he asked, “where are your stories?

J. Edward Chamberlin, If This is Your Land, Where are Your Stories?

The use of oral histories as evidence in the court of law has become a topic of much discussion and debate in Canada. Perhaps the most famous example of oral history within a legal context is the provincial supreme court case Delgamuukw v. British Columbia. Delgamuukw was the first case in which the court accepted oral history as evidence, even though Justice Allen McEachern ended up dismissing this evidence as unreliable.

In this court case, the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en peoples argued that they had Aboriginal title to the lands in British Columbia that make up their traditional territories. In order to prove their title, they had to provide evidence that they had occupied their territories for thousands of years. Without written documents to make their case, Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs presented their oral histories in the form of narratives, dances, speeches and songs.

Their testimony, however, fell on deaf ears, and while he accepted their oral history as evidence, Justice Allen McEachern concluded that it held no weight. In his now infamous ruling, he concluded that the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en’s ancestors were a “people without culture,” who had “no written language, no horses or wheeled vehicles.”¹⁹ He even cited 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes to support his views, calling the lives of the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en’s ancestors “nasty, brutish, and short.”

The case did not end there. On appeal, the Gitskan and Wet’suwet’en won a precedent-setting victory for oral history to be given weight as legal evidence. Chief Justice Lamar of the Supreme Court of Canada concluded,

The laws of evidence must be adapted in order that [oral] evidence can be accommodated and placed on an equal footing with the types of historical evidence that courts are familiar with, which largely consists of historical documents. . . . To quote Dickson C.J., given that most aboriginal societies “did not keep written records,” the failure to do so would “impose an impossible burden of proof” on aboriginal peoples, and “render nugatory” any rights that they have (Simon v. The Queen, [1985] 2 S.C.R. 387, at p. 408). This process must be undertaken on a case-by-case basis.

After Delgamuukw, a number of court cases have further defined how to interpret oral histories as evidence in court. In Squamish Indian Band v. Canada (2001 FCT 480) and R. v. Ironeagle (2000 2 CNLR 163), the court accepted oral histories as evidence but stipulated that the weight given to oral histories must be determined in relation to how they are regarded within their own societies. In her ruling in the Squamish case, Justice Simpson also noted that she might not have given the oral histories that were presented before her much weight if she had found written records that held the same information which she could use instead. Simpson further noted that the oral histories were “sometimes contradictory.” Legal scholar Drew Mildon uses Simpson’s ruling as an example of how a judge’s “doubt and skepticism” challenges the very nature of oral history: “[Oral] evidence may be deemed inadmissible. . . . simply because there is other evidence available [to use instead]. Lastly, it is characterized as contradictory (which one assumes never happens in written history.)”²⁰

In 2002, the Tsilhqot’in took the province of British Columbia to court to assert title to their lands. Justice David Vickers found that the oral histories presented to him by members of the Tsilhqot’in Nation were sufficient to prove their Aboriginal title. He also rejected the Crown’s claims that oral tradition was unreliable or should be measured against written documents, as it was equally impossible to determine the accuracy of historic fieldnotes or, more specifically in the Tsilhqot’in case, a 1900 ethnography on the “Chilcotin Indians.”²¹ More broadly, Vickers observed that “disrespect for Aboriginal people is a consistent theme in the historical documents.”²²

Delgamuukw and subsequent court cases have forced Western legal systems to reconsider the validity of Aboriginal oral traditions and their continued significance and relevance in Aboriginal societies and cultures. The Canadian legal system has begun to make adjustments to incorporate this reality, though courts still struggle to fairly consider evidence that is from a different cultural context without forcing it into a Western framework. Reception to oral history in mainstream Canadian society has begun to grow too. As law professor John Borrows suggests in the title to his article on the subject, perhaps the courts as well as mainstream society are now “listening for a change.”²³

By Erin Hanson.

Recommended resources

Archibald, Jo-ann (Q’um Q’um Xiiem). Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008.

Basso, Keith. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Borrows, John. “Listening for a Change: The Courts and Oral Tradition.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 39, no. 1 (2001), 1–38.

Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs. “Oral Narratives and Aboriginal Pasts—An Interdisciplinary Review of the Literatures on Oral Traditions and Oral Histories.” http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ai/rs/pubs/re/orl/orl-eng.asp

Chamberlain, J. Edward. If This is Your Land, Where are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground. Toronto: A.A. Knopf Canada, 2003.

Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005.

 —- The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998.

—- “Oral Tradition and Oral History: Reviewing Some Issues.” Canadian Historical Review 75, no. 3 (1994): 403–18.

—- “Invention of Anthropology in British Columbia’s Supreme Court: Oral Tradition as Evidence in Delgamuukw v. B.C.”[as per BC Studies website] BC Studies 95 (Autumn 1992):25–42.

Hulan, Renée, and Renate Eigenbrod, eds. Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2008.

Hymes, Dell. “In Vain I Tried to Tell You”: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

Murray, Laura J, and Keren Rice, eds. Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Texts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Napoleon, Val. “Delgamuukw: A Legal Straightjacket for Oral Histories?” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 20, no. 2 (2005): 123–55.

Ridington, Robin, and Jillian Ridington. When You Sing It Now, Just Like New: First Nations Poetics, Voices, and Representations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Tonkin, Elizabeth. Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. “Oral History.” In Stolen Lands, Broken Promises: Researching the Indian Land Question (2^nd ed.)Vancouver: Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, 2005. 109-119.

Endnotes

¹  Stephen J. Augustine, “Oral Histories and Oral Traditions,” in Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics, ed. Renée Hulan and Renate Eigenbrod (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2008), 2–3.

²  Hulan and Eigenbrod, 7.

³  Albert “Sonny” McHalsie (Naxaxalht’i), “We Have to Take Care of Everything That Belongs to Us,” in Be of Good Mind: Essays on the Coast Salish, ed. Bruce Granville Miller (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007), 82.

⁴  Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, eds., The Oral History Reader (London: Routledge, 1998), ix–xiii.

⁵   Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, vol. 1, Looking Forward, Looking Back (Ottawa: The Commission, 1996), 33.

⁶  Bruce Miller, personal correspondence with Erin Hanson, August 13, 2010.

⁷  John Borrows, “Listening for a Change: The Courts and Oral Tradition,” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 39, no. 1 (2001): 10.

⁸  Wendy C. Wickwire, “To See Ourselves as the Other’s Other: Nlaka’pamux Contact Narratives.” Canadian Historical Review 75, no. 1 (1994):19.

⁹  Keith Thor Carlson, ed., A Stó:l?–Coast Salish Historical Atlas ^{(Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2001), 6.}

¹⁰  For in-depth explorations of the connections between landscapes, people and their oral traditions, see, for example, Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996); and Julie Cruikshank, Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005). See our bibliography, above, for other relevant resources.

¹¹  Jan Vansina, Oral Tradition As History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), 12–13.

¹²  Ibid.

¹³  Augustine, 3.

¹⁴  Drew Mildon, “A Bad Connection: First Nations’ Oral Evidence and the Listening Ear of the Courts,” in Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics, 90.

¹⁵  McHalsie (Naxaxalhts’i), 92.

¹⁶  See, for example, Bruce Miller, Oral Narratives on Trial (Vancouver: UBC Press, forthcoming.)

¹⁷  Alessandro Portelli, “What Makes Oral History Different,” in The Oral History Reader, 34.

¹⁸  Ibid., 34–5.

¹⁹  Delgamuukw v. British Columbia [1997] 3 S.C.R. 1010, par. 13.

²⁰  Ibid., par. 87.

²¹  Tsihlqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, 2007 BSCS 1700, par. 177,  http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/Jdb-txt/SC/07/17/2007BCSC1700.pdf

²²  Ibid., par. 194.

²³  Borrows.