1 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:11,240 sky, a single question has been asked countless times by countless numbers of 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,720 the same experience throughout the ages. 3 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:18,359 The question they've asked speaks directly to the very core of every challenge that will 4 00:00:18,359 --> 00:00:21,519 ever test us in life no matter how big or how small. 5 00:00:21,519 --> 00:00:27,440 It's at the heart of every choice we'll ever face, and it forms the foundation for every 6 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,440 decision we'll ever make. 7 00:00:34,439 --> 00:00:39,439 by countless humans during the estimated 200,000 years or so that we've been on this 8 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:41,679 earth is simply this. 9 00:00:41,679 --> 00:00:42,679 Who are we? 10 00:00:42,679 --> 00:00:49,439 In what may be the greatest irony of our lives, following 5,000 years of recorded 11 00:00:49,439 --> 00:00:54,880 and technological achievements that stagger the imagination, we still have not answered 12 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,399 this most basic question of our existence with certainty. 13 00:01:02,759 --> 00:01:08,120 The way we answer the question of how we've come to be as we are penetrates to the 14 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,200 of every moment of our lives. 15 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,799 It forms the perceptual eyes, the filters, through which we see other people, the world 16 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:19,439 around us, and most importantly, the way we see ourselves. 17 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:25,400 Recent discoveries confirm that when we approach life knowing that our bodies are 18 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:35,680 in ourselves that does just that, it mirrors our belief. 19 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:41,239 Our self-esteem, our self-worth, our sense of confidence, our well-being and our safety 20 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:46,480 each stem directly from the way we think of ourselves in the world, from who we say yes 21 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:51,319 to when it comes to choosing a life partner and how long our relationships last once we 22 00:01:57,599 --> 00:02:03,560 in our life are based upon the way we answer this single, timeless question. 23 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,159 Who are we? 24 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:12,199 Harold Ure, a twentieth-century Nobel Prize-winning chemist, said, and this is a 25 00:02:12,199 --> 00:02:18,360 of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel 26 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:31,759 On Saturday, February 28, 1953, two men walked into the Eagle Pub in Cambridgeshir... 27 00:02:31,759 --> 00:02:35,479 and they announced a discovery that would forever change the world in the way we think 28 00:02:35,479 --> 00:02:36,879 of ourselves. 29 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:43,520 At noon that day, Cambridge University scientists James Watson and Francis Crick 30 00:02:48,159 --> 00:02:54,120 secret of life," end of, quote, Watson and Crick had just made their breakthrough 31 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:59,240 of the double helix pattern of the DNA molecule, nature's code for life. 32 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:05,280 Well, DNA is held within each cell of our body in thread-like structures that are 33 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:06,280 chromosomes. 34 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:11,639 As humans, we have twenty-three pairs of these chromosomes in our cells. 35 00:03:18,479 --> 00:03:19,479 genes. 36 00:03:19,479 --> 00:03:24,800 It's the codes contained within the genes and the chromosomes that determine everything 37 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,879 about the function of our bodies, from the regulation of hormones and our blood 38 00:03:29,879 --> 00:03:35,960 and how fast and to what size our bones grow, the size of our brains, the kind of eyes we 39 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:44,680 body temperature, and so much more. 40 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:49,639 So with the discovery of this magnitude, it would seem that the greatest mysteries of 41 00:03:49,639 --> 00:03:52,840 our existence would be solved. 42 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,439 And many have been. 43 00:03:54,439 --> 00:04:01,319 However, it's because of the deeper insights that the DNA discoveries have made possible. 44 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:13,080 to interpreting where the new information fits into the accepted human story. 45 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:19,279 In 1987, a paradigm-shattering discovery was made in the Cosskis region of Russia, near 46 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:24,160 the border between Europe and Asia, buried deep in the earth. 47 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:31,160 And a place called Mesmyskia Cave, scientists discovered the remains of a Neanderthal 48 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:41,839 So for reference, the last ice age ended about 20,000 years ago, meaning that this 49 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,439 alive during the ice age. 50 00:04:44,439 --> 00:04:50,379 William Goodwin, PhD from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, commented on the 51 00:04:50,379 --> 00:04:56,319 discovery saying, quote, "It is something of a mystery how this child's remains were 52 00:04:56,319 --> 00:04:58,279 so perfectly preserved. 53 00:05:03,399 --> 00:05:07,959 where we humans fit on the evolutionary family tree. 54 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:13,759 Using forensic techniques, scientists were able to extract the mitochondrial DNA from 55 00:05:13,759 --> 00:05:16,720 one of the baby's ribs for analysis. 56 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:22,439 And the reason that mitochondrial DNA is key when it comes to the question of human 57 00:05:22,439 --> 00:05:26,360 is because we inherit it only from our mothers. 58 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,439 the Neanderthal baby girl. 59 00:05:36,439 --> 00:05:40,480 Using the most advanced techniques with results that are accepted in the highest 60 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:48,199 law, Russian and Swedish scientists tested the Neanderthal infant's DNA to see how 61 00:05:48,199 --> 00:05:50,759 hers was to that of modern-day humans. 62 00:05:50,759 --> 00:05:55,720 In other words, the scientists wanted to know if the Neanderthal girl was actually one of 63 00:06:01,519 --> 00:06:06,839 The results of the first studies were published in obscure scientific journals a... 64 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:15,319 quote, "The Neanderthal MT DNA sequences were substantially different from human MT DNA," 65 00:06:15,319 --> 00:06:16,680 end of quote. 66 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:21,360 And although this single statement sounds relatively benign, it's the equivalent of 67 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:32,879 The researchers at the University of Glasgow Human Identification Center published the 68 00:06:32,879 --> 00:06:39,379 results of their own investigation, comparing Neanderthal DNA to that of modern humans. 69 00:06:39,379 --> 00:06:45,199 The results of their study were shared in a way that made sense to even the most 70 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:49,920 reader, and the meaning of what they found could not be dismissed. 71 00:06:56,199 --> 00:07:03,800 and directly stated that modern humans, quote, "were not, in fact, descended from ... 72 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:04,800 end of quote. 73 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:10,319 So, if we're not descendants of Neanderthals, then who were our ancestors? 74 00:07:10,319 --> 00:07:11,399 Who are we? 75 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:17,360 Where do we fit on the tree of evolution, or do we even belong in Darwin's evolutionary 76 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:18,360 family? 77 00:07:23,759 --> 00:07:30,639 other pre-human beings, such as Australopithecus, the famous Lucy, and Hom... 78 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:36,600 handyman, we were taught that there was another member of the evolutionary family 79 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,680 It was a close ancestor as well. 80 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:46,480 In those days, the name used for these distant relatives was the name Cro Magnon. 81 00:07:52,459 --> 00:07:55,160 the reason will be self-explanatory. 82 00:07:55,160 --> 00:08:04,319 The new name used to identify the former Cro Magnons is anatomically modern humans, 83 00:08:04,319 --> 00:08:08,040 simply as AMH. 84 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:14,920 Scientists generally agree that AMHs first appear in the fossil record about 200,000 85 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:27,959 anatomically modern humans appeared on Earth 200,000 years ago, the oldest DNA discovered 86 00:08:27,959 --> 00:08:35,279 from them so far is from a man who lived in Siberia about 45,000 years ago, anatomically 87 00:08:35,279 --> 00:08:42,000 modern human, further advances in genetic technology, allowed for the comparison of 88 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:55,279 A team of European scientists compared the DNA from the two anatomically modern humans, 89 00:08:55,279 --> 00:09:01,600 one that was 23,000 years old and the other that was 25,000 years old, with the DNA from 90 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:07,639 the remains of Neanderthals who were variously dated as living between 29 and 91 00:09:08,639 --> 00:09:16,039 An article on the findings published in National Geographic News states, "Our resu... 92 00:09:16,039 --> 00:09:23,080 to the evidence collected previously in different fields, making the hypothesis of... 93 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:27,960 heritage' very unlikely." 94 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:34,600 So once again, the Neanderthals, often portrayed as primitive cavemen in movies a... 95 00:09:39,759 --> 00:09:46,519 So now that we know who our ancestors were not, the focus of paleoanthropology has 96 00:09:46,519 --> 00:09:48,840 to discovering who we are. 97 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:54,340 The DNA studies have narrowed the broad field down to one particular candidate and it's 98 00:09:54,340 --> 00:09:59,080 not the candidate supporters of Darwin's theory expected. 99 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:06,399 they. 100 00:10:06,399 --> 00:10:11,200 Any differences between contemporary bodies and those of the anatomically modern humans 101 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,679 of the past are so slight that they don't justify a separate grouping. 102 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:21,679 In other words, although ancient humans didn't necessarily behave like we do, they 103 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:28,200 like us, they functioned like us, and they appear to have had all of the wiring in their 104 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:39,039 So stated another way, we still look and function as they did over 2,000 centuries 105 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:42,480 our incredible technological achievements. 106 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:49,360 So it's the fact that members of our species, the Homo sapiens, have not changed since the 107 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:54,960 date when our earliest ancestors first appeared in the fossil record that poses a 108 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:04,759 The set of all human DNA, the human genome, was the first DNA sequence of any vertebrate 109 00:11:04,759 --> 00:11:06,919 to be entirely mapped. 110 00:11:06,919 --> 00:11:12,200 The international effort that made this mapping possible was called the Human Geno... 111 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:18,679 or HGP, and it was the result of the largest cooperative biology project in the history 112 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:20,799 of humankind. 113 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:35,559 were then applied to other living things, while the results were nothing short of 114 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:43,720 Genetic mapping revealed that there is only a 1.5% difference that separates us from 115 00:11:51,879 --> 00:11:56,840 of our DNA is the same as that of a common house cat. 116 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:02,000 So the big question that comes with these kinds of revelations is simply this. 117 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:10,399 If we have so much in common with other creatures genetically, then why are we so 118 00:12:10,399 --> 00:12:11,720 from them? 119 00:12:17,759 --> 00:12:25,679 Genome Project, and the discovery is this, that a single gene can be activated in 120 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:31,019 ways and to do different things to different degrees. 121 00:12:31,019 --> 00:12:37,580 What this tells us is that it's not so much about what or how many genes we have in 122 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:49,600 It's more about how those genes are activated, or more precisely, how they are 123 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:56,659 The Fox P2 gene, for example, now understood to be directly linked to our ability to form 124 00:12:56,659 --> 00:13:07,519 complex speech and language, Fox P2 is shorthand for the word fork head box prote... 125 00:13:11,419 --> 00:13:18,259 Located on chromosome number seven, the Fox P2 protein is coded from a gene that has the 126 00:13:18,259 --> 00:13:24,340 same name, Fox P2, and is present in both humans and chimpanzees. 127 00:13:24,340 --> 00:13:30,179 And this fact tells us that there is something more than the gene itself that's 128 00:13:30,179 --> 00:13:31,179 here. 129 00:13:31,179 --> 00:13:37,299 There's something in the way the gene expresses itself that gives us the ability... 130 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,279 Scientists knew from earlier research that there was a gene that is connected to the 131 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:49,200 Scientists knew from earlier research that humans and chimpanzees both possess this F... 132 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:56,200 They also knew that the human version of the gene changed or mutated at some point in t... 133 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:03,200 and that that change happened really fast, didn't happen slowly and gradually as the 134 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:19,200 Well, this is a pivotal discovery because for the first time the specific mutation in Fo... 135 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:24,200 was scientifically linked to our capacity to create language. 136 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:31,200 Additional studies took this research even further and determined when this particula... 137 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:49,200 the mutations in Fox P2 that make our complex language possible "happened in the same ti... 138 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:56,200 A BBC News World Edition report clarifies this relationship and it states that our 139 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:08,200 arose in the last 200,000 years of human evolution" end of quote. 140 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:17,200 So the speed and the precision of the mutations in Fox P2 occurring in just the 141 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:24,200 are further examples of the kind of change that simply does not fit into the theory o... 142 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:35,200 The question now is, are we willing to accept what this DNA is telling us? 143 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:40,200 Because humans are classified as the most complex and advanced member of the primate 144 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:48,200 it was reasonable for scientists to expect that we would have more chromosomes than o... 145 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:53,200 This is where an unexpected twist to our DNA story begins. 146 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:03,200 they have more chromosomes than we do with a total of 48 in their overall genome. 147 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,200 Ironically, humans have only 46. 148 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:11,200 In other words, it looks like we're missing two chromosomes when we're compared to 149 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:16,200 Mystery of where those chromosomes went appears to have been solved, but in doing ... 150 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:34,200 A closer look at our genetic map shows that what has been thought to be our missing DN... 151 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:42,200 It's been with us all along, only it's been modified and rearranged in a way that wasn... 152 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:57,200 actually contains the smaller missing chromosomes found in the chimp genome. 153 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:02,200 In other words, at some point in the past, for reasons that remain controversial, 154 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:18,200 While scientists acknowledge that the mutations definitely occurred in Fox P2, 155 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:25,200 and that they happened within the time frame that correlates with the rise of the 156 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,200 they can't really tell us what caused that change to happen. 157 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,200 So I'll share the discovery in two ways with you. 158 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:45,200 First, in the scientist's own technical language, from the proceedings of the 159 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,200 to reveal the details of the discovery itself. 160 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:04,200 And this is a quote from the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 161 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:27,200 and marks the point at which two ancestral ape chromosomes fused to give rise to 162 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:32,200 I know that's a technical description and I wanted you to hear it in the researcher's ... 163 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:44,200 It appears that long ago, two separate chromosomes from chimpanzees, and these we... 164 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:52,200 were merged or fused into the single larger chromosome that is now our human chromosom... 165 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,200 It's the key that gives us our humanness. 166 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:09,200 I want to be absolutely clear that what I say next is not the conclusion of peer-reviewe... 167 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:16,200 Although I've spoken with mainstream scientists who have told me that they susp... 168 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:24,200 yet they are reluctant to speak publicly about their suspicions and fear of losing 169 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:39,200 and an unbelievably good run of biological luck to explain the fact that we exist as ... 170 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:46,200 The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that, number one, we are the result of an 171 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:52,200 Point, the mutations in Fox P2 and human chromosome 2 are precise. 172 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:08,200 Point, the optimization of human chromosome 2 that occurred after the fusion happened 173 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:14,200 Point, the fact that after 150 years of searching, no physical evidence has been 174 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:28,200 Number two, we are the product of an intelligent form of life. 175 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:33,200 Point, the timing, the precision, the accuracy of our genetic mutations, 176 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:41,200 and the technology required to yield such mutations implies forethought and intentio... 177 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:57,200 in a way that we are only learning to do today, for example DNA fusion and gene 178 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:05,200 To honestly acknowledge these possibilities opens us to a paradigm that shifts the way... 179 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,200 and the way we view our place in the universe. 180 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:29,200 We're here with the bodies and the nervous systems that afford us the extraordinary 181 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:44,200 From the time of our origin we have been wired for these extraordinary abilities. 182 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:50,200 This design affords us extraordinary ways of living and extraordinary lives. 183 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:05,200 How do we fully awaken these capabilities in our lives today? What do they mean to us? 184 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:15,200 I invite you to share a journey of discovery in which we will do our very best to answe... 185 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,200 Now today I'm very honored to have Greg Braden joining me. 186 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:41,200 Greg is a five-time New York Times best-selling author, scientist, and pionee... 187 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:40,200 So Greg, thank you so much for being my distinguished guest today on Quantum Minds 188 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:58,200 And I was thinking about this as I was dialing in. This is like a dance, and you'... 189 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:03,200 And my sense is our time is going to go by very quickly today. So here we go. 190 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:08,200 Here we go. Well, thank you for trusting me to, I guess, lead the dance this time. 191 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:28,200 And then after that, I actually attended one of your weekend workshops, a three-day 192 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:51,200 and then how you also really cited your sources that people like me could follow u... 193 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:13,200 So I'm very much looking forward to this conversation, and I want to dive into all 194 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:28,200 And if you saw me in Seattle, that was a while ago, I think my hair was probably a 195 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:09,200 And I think that is a powerful and a very timely message for our global family and t... 196 00:26:54,200 --> 00:27:13,200 And one of the areas that you really have discovered some pretty fascinating researc... 197 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,759 that I want to dive into. And I think in your Awakening Zero Point book, even, which is way 198 00:27:24,759 --> 00:27:31,240 back, you talked about these superhuman abilities. You talked about regeneration, 199 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:38,120 superimmunity, and so many gifts that are there to be unlocked within our DNA. So wh... 200 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:53,320 the book Awakening Zero Point is written in 1986. And we certainly know more now than ... 201 00:27:53,320 --> 00:28:02,040 1986. And so there are places in the book where the information needs to be updated.... 202 00:28:10,759 --> 00:28:17,560 and geologist with a strong multidisciplinary background in the life sciences. So marine 203 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:23,240 biology as well as math, physics, computer science, and astronomy and archaeology. An... 204 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:31,000 because it's that diverse background that has allowed me to stay current with the new 205 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:42,600 called Science. And it comes out every month. But there are so many discoveries that are 206 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:48,519 they now supplement. They have been for years now. They supplement that with a weekly 207 00:28:48,519 --> 00:28:56,519 describing the discoveries that have been made in the past week. So all of this has ... 208 00:29:04,519 --> 00:29:12,920 Teresa, was the realization that we literally are a highly advanced technologically 209 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:18,440 soft technology. And I'm saying this now because we're going to tie into this 210 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:24,920 conversation. Literally a soft technology. And rather than computer chips and artificial 211 00:29:32,039 --> 00:29:41,320 neurons and ion potentials moving across cell walls. But we have the unique ability to 212 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:53,320 to upgrade on demand, to up-regulate genes on demand. And the key access points to our 213 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:06,920 all about thought, feeling, emotion, breath, and focus. And different combinations of 214 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:14,440 how they're used. So when I began to understand that we are a technology, 215 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:19,880 and this was, I mean, it's no accident. The timing is no accident. When I was working ... 216 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:36,039 and 60s, they took up a whole room. And they weren't the microcircuits that we see toda... 217 00:30:36,039 --> 00:30:44,360 the laptops. And when I began to understand that we are this technology, and that we a... 218 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:59,880 how far do these parallels extend? How programmable are we? And to what degree ca... 219 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:06,600 up-regulate our own technology? And this led me to look at DNA in a way that was very 220 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:11,560 than we were thinking of it back in those days. I mean, a lot of people just thought 221 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:23,640 DNA, was just floating around inside the cell nucleus. And now we know, of course, that'... 222 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:29,800 true. And I'm going to say this now, we'll tie into this as well. The DNA actually is 223 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:39,000 in a protein that is called chromatin. And it is the way that the chromatin encapsulates 224 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:54,200 is locked down tight, I mean, you can just kind of visualize this. When it's locked d... 225 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:59,240 the DNA is still there, it's still functioning, but it cannot function as 226 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:06,519 express as completely. And when it is looser, and the ability of the DNA to express is 227 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:21,960 we have the ability to silence specific genes, is largely related to whether or no... 228 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:29,320 is wrapped tightly or loosely. And this is the bridge, this is where it gets really 229 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:42,760 I've seen some of the research that shows that when we're, as you're saying, feeling 230 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:49,960 and expressing more positive emotions, compassion, gratitude, things like that, 231 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:57,800 within us relaxes. And as does that that coiling or that spooling of the DNA. And y... 232 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:08,920 And so it's almost like it's, as it's wrapping around the histone, then into the 233 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:15,960 it's changing the conformation or the structure of the DNA and how much of it's 234 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:23,080 be expressed, or which genes can be accessed to build the amino acids and the proteins ... 235 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:33,880 other, and there's some epigenetics, of course, some of the work of Bruce Lipton a... 236 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:40,280 So what research have you seen that is indicating these keys of being able to acc... 237 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:46,600 Well, you just covered a lot of ground. So there is an emerging science, Bruce Lipton... 238 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:59,240 now today called epigenetics. He was taking cells, putting them in a petri dish, same 239 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:04,600 different environments became expressed differently. They became muscle cell or bo... 240 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:09,800 you know, heart tissue or whatever it was. All that changed was the environment. The 241 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:16,280 exactly the same. So that was the foundation for what we now know is epigenetics. Epi i... 242 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:30,280 called an epigenome. So most people are familiar with the genome, but the epigenom... 243 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:37,960 that the access points to the DNA. Some of these are very familiar and some are not. ... 244 00:34:46,599 --> 00:34:55,559 the environment, those all influence the ability for the DNA to express. But one of 245 00:34:55,559 --> 00:35:02,599 epigenetic access points is the internal environment. And I'm just going to keep 246 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:13,000 self-regulate through thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs, the way we think about 247 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:20,440 way we feel about our relationship to the world, breath and focus. So what this mean... 248 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:26,840 in a world that's changing faster than we've been conditioned to accept that change. An... 249 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:32,519 been conditioned to hinge our sense of well-being, Teresa, on the world around us... 250 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:41,480 But if the world, if there's relative peace in the world, the stock market looks good, 251 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:50,440 retirement, IRA 401(k), kids' education, everybody's healthy, and there's food in t... 252 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,600 we're feeling like it's a pretty good day. But when those things start to change, 253 00:35:54,600 --> 00:36:01,800 they create this tension in our bodies, the unresolved stress. And we know it leads to 254 00:36:08,199 --> 00:36:15,880 And it makes a lot of sense when we live in fear. These are all aspects of fear. We're 255 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:23,800 that chromatin, and the DNA is unable to express as fully. And we see that our immu... 256 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:28,840 for example, takes a hit. And we all know this when we live in stress, the immune 257 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:38,199 pioneering research organization, Northern California, their dear friends, colleagues. 258 00:36:38,199 --> 00:36:43,000 I've worked with them since their inception. I'm not their employee, but they've allowe... 259 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:48,680 to share their content as an independent author and also give me access to the 260 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:55,480 So the research that they did was with DNA outside of the body. So it was not in the 261 00:37:00,519 --> 00:37:06,840 and this was from the umbilical cords of newborns. So it had not been damaged 262 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:12,280 through a lifetime of environmental stress, ultraviolet lights, chemicals, toxins, all 263 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:21,559 pristine DNA. And they isolated it in a device that allowed them to measure, and y... 264 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:33,960 different emotions, here's where it gets interesting. The emotions were generated f... 265 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:40,280 so the DNA wasn't even inside the body. So the emotions of the heart were creating a 266 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:46,600 or influencing the field that was actually influencing the DNA. And the bottom line, 267 00:37:52,600 --> 00:38:00,760 anger, fear, hate, jealousy, rage tightened that DNA, just like a little knot, and 268 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:06,680 conformation, tightened it up, and it was not able to express fully. And just the opposi... 269 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:14,440 compassion, appreciation, gratitude, all relaxed the DNA. Now, one of the interesti... 270 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:27,960 does not seem to have the same impact. However, love is the umbrella, the general 271 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:36,119 encompasses appreciation, gratitude. These are expressions of love, compassion, care.... 272 00:38:36,119 --> 00:38:41,480 love is without using the word love is what allowed the greatest expression of the DNA 273 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:50,360 Can I just have a question on that for some occasion? So you're saying that the DNA 274 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:56,119 outside the body was then being influenced by a person who was experimenting with those 275 00:38:56,119 --> 00:39:02,039 certain emotions. So that mean, would that mean then that not only are we able, with ... 276 00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:07,480 emotional state, to program our DNA, we can also influence another person's DNA 277 00:39:14,519 --> 00:39:19,400 influence. We don't control, we don't manipulate, but we definitely have an and ... 278 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:25,640 you know, you walk into a room with people that you love and care about. And you have... 279 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:30,840 you have dinner with friends that that you have just a really good connection with an... 280 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:36,840 and you're buzzed, you know, you feel good for hours afterwards. You're not sleepy. Y... 281 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:49,000 communication with the world around us, as well as the world within us to different 282 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:56,440 so the the heart math experiments were the first that were in this was a Roland McCra... 283 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:02,440 Ryan were the two scientists at this time. I missed them back in the early 90s, 92, 95, 284 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:15,480 this is real stuff that we're talking about. The idea that a non physical force, such a... 285 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:23,720 emotion generated through the heart field could influence physically the DNA in the 286 00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:29,720 That was a novel concept. That was a, I mean, in colloquial terms, that was the mindblower. 287 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:43,240 And that was that this pristine DNA was isolated and placed into a vacuum tube. 288 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:50,600 And the word vacuum implies that nothing is in there. No air is in there, but we know 289 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:56,920 still exist within that vacuum. And the reason this is important is because photon... 290 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:04,360 building blocks of the atom, of physical matter. So what they were doing is it was ... 291 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:13,079 to see if the non-physical stuff that our world is made of, light, photons, could be 292 00:41:13,079 --> 00:41:20,599 by the physical stuff that we are made of, DNA. And what they found, they measured th... 293 00:41:26,519 --> 00:41:34,360 expected, no size there. And when they introduced the DNA into the vacuum, those 294 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:42,119 being random to becoming ordered, and they aligned themselves along the axis of the D... 295 00:41:42,119 --> 00:41:49,559 So what we're seeing is the scientific evidence of what our most ancient and 296 00:41:55,159 --> 00:42:01,960 have the ability to influence, not control, not impose our will, not manipulate, but w... 297 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:09,239 the physical world through non-physical means. So now you put this all together, 298 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:17,480 is changing the shape of the DNA, and that shape determines the quality of the 299 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:29,400 world is made of. And you take that middle piece out, and what you're saying is emoti... 300 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:36,440 our physical world. Even more than that potentially. Now are you referring to the 301 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:45,719 from Dr. Peter Garia? Yeah, so even more than just influencing the photons, when they to... 302 00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:58,360 and ordered, which means that the DNA is informing the quantum vacuum, and there's ... 303 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:04,279 or something happening there that is structuring that vacuum that is, our DNA i... 304 00:43:04,279 --> 00:43:10,440 to be able to connect that quantum vacuum. Yes, well it's even more than that. I had, 305 00:43:18,759 --> 00:43:24,039 every indigenous community. Every indigenous community I have visited, they share a common 306 00:43:24,039 --> 00:43:33,319 belief that everything is connected, and that we are part of that connection. For a long 307 00:43:33,319 --> 00:43:38,679 early in my life, I was school back in 1950s, 60s, and early 70s is when I was in school, 308 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:55,480 toward the end of his life to unify the forces of nature, the electromagnetic forc... 309 00:43:55,480 --> 00:44:01,960 strong and weak nuclear force, to find an eloquent story, an equation that would tie 310 00:44:11,799 --> 00:44:17,880 privilege of being at the CERN superconducting supercollider in 2017, whe... 311 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:22,920 of controversy around CERN, and we can talk about, a lot of it is unfounded. I will sa... 312 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:31,559 of it is unfounded. But in the experiments that were being conducted there, they were 313 00:44:37,159 --> 00:44:44,359 ideas are changing now. But the bottom line is, from the first few fractions of a seco... 314 00:44:44,359 --> 00:44:52,359 our universe began, there is a field of energy, and it was confirmed in CERN in 20... 315 00:44:52,359 --> 00:44:59,000 they announced it on July 4th, 2012, Independence Day in the United States, whi... 316 00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:10,199 is now on board with the fact that to some degree, there's a field that's there. Now,... 317 00:45:10,199 --> 00:45:16,119 talked with our dear friend and colleague, Nassim, and we've had lengthy conversation... 318 00:45:16,119 --> 00:45:24,840 believe that what was found at CERN is an expression of a deeper field. But the poin... 319 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:34,679 gone to the conferences now, and they still do this. These esteemed scientists will st... 320 00:45:34,679 --> 00:45:41,079 podium, and they'll say, there's a field out there, and their hands do this. I'm out of 321 00:45:41,079 --> 00:45:46,679 There's a field out there that connects all things. They're still separating us from t... 322 00:45:46,679 --> 00:45:54,599 the reality is that every atom, the average human has about 50 trillion cells in the 323 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:11,319 this field and collapsing back into the field in this eloquent dance. We are the field, ... 324 00:46:11,319 --> 00:46:18,279 we shift our perception, when we shift our thought, feeling, emotion, belief, breath, 325 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:30,119 wrinkles in the field. We are disturbances in this field held in place by the consciousness 326 00:46:30,119 --> 00:46:38,920 that gives us life. When that consciousness leaves, we become homogenous with that fie... 327 00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:44,279 We go back into the fundamental element. It's a very different way of thinking, but this is 328 00:46:51,639 --> 00:47:02,920 that's happening in that field. If I may, I actually visited CERN in 1998 as a recruit... 329 00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:09,159 for one of the universities I had applied to for graduate school. I went to go and get ... 330 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:22,599 things I was thinking of researching in graduate school. What was interesting to m... 331 00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:28,279 and some of these other big accelerator experiments is that they ramp up the energ... 332 00:47:28,279 --> 00:47:33,480 smash the particles together at higher and higher energies, and then they watch what 333 00:47:40,679 --> 00:47:45,319 get more particles coming out that they didn't know of before. Ultimately, they're 334 00:47:45,319 --> 00:47:50,920 well, if we can ramp it up high enough, then we would get to the Higgs boson, the God 335 00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:59,159 that was the one that all of them came from and they created mass and all of this. Eve... 336 00:48:04,519 --> 00:48:11,000 and what the field itself that they're trying to tap into, but they're so focused on the 337 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:17,559 and on the physical side of things that there's a paradigm shift that needs to hap... 338 00:48:17,559 --> 00:48:23,880 science for them to understand that the field's not just out there, it is also in 339 00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:37,400 I think, are very much operating on a Newtonian mindset, even though they're 340 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:44,519 physics, the mindset of how they perceive reality is very Newtonian in that it's 341 00:48:44,519 --> 00:48:51,239 reductionistic, materialistic, and based on separation. Separation is that key thing 342 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:06,279 idea of how we can control nature and be separate from it and my emotions and my 343 00:49:06,279 --> 00:49:12,920 influence, but in ancient, the predecessor to science, which was alchemy, the alchemist 344 00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:21,239 no, our thoughts, our feelings, our emotions, our inner state is intimately connected with 345 00:49:26,199 --> 00:49:33,319 transformational process without also transforming myself. So the alchemists, th... 346 00:49:33,319 --> 00:49:40,759 use their physical experiments as a reflection for their own inner 347 00:49:40,759 --> 00:49:46,679 and so here we are coming back around to what we could call a new paradigm, but it's 348 00:49:54,440 --> 00:50:04,440 Yeah, what you've described is a fundamental difference in the world of physics. Einstein, 349 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:11,960 as brilliant as he was in some respects, was very attached to the idea of separation, a... 350 00:50:17,639 --> 00:50:24,920 around us and that we're lucky if we understand a little bit of it. At the same 351 00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:29,960 colleague, they went to the same, both Princeton University, same conferences, th... 352 00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:37,000 math, the same equations, very different conclusions, John Wheeler, and John Wheele... 353 00:50:43,639 --> 00:50:53,639 Wheeler for many more years pioneering this idea. What Wheeler said very clearly was t... 354 00:50:53,639 --> 00:51:02,759 is incomplete because we are building the universe. He said the act of observing, th... 355 00:51:10,679 --> 00:51:16,519 ties right back into what you were saying about CERN, the implications of what Wheel... 356 00:51:16,519 --> 00:51:23,639 just so profound because what he was saying is, here we are, as astronomers, we're 357 00:51:23,639 --> 00:51:30,440 the edge of the universe. As physicists, we're looking for the smallest particles. ... 358 00:51:35,639 --> 00:51:41,159 to look at the edge of the universe. And every once in a while, you'll see an artic... 359 00:51:41,159 --> 00:51:46,119 "Aha, we found the edge of the universe, or we found the smallest particle." Then they 360 00:51:46,119 --> 00:51:53,399 machine that looks deeper, and they say, "Oh, well, it wasn't the smallest particle, it 361 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:06,039 is that we will probably never find the smallest particle, and we will probably ne... 362 00:52:06,039 --> 00:52:12,519 edge of the universe, and the reason for that is where we find our power. The reason is ... 363 00:52:12,519 --> 00:52:20,039 the act of us observing with the expectation that something will be there as an act of 364 00:52:26,279 --> 00:52:33,239 our bodies and to the world around us, to our most intimate relationships, to our 365 00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:43,960 And it's this shift, this little shift. We are so conditioned to think of ourselves a... 366 00:52:52,279 --> 00:52:57,639 a healing in our bodies, or we want abundance in the world, you've got to give the field 367 00:52:57,639 --> 00:53:05,159 to work with so the field can reflect it back. We're conditioned to focus on what w... 368 00:53:05,159 --> 00:53:11,800 on the illness, or the disease, or the lack, or the hurt. And so the field keeps mirror... 369 00:53:17,639 --> 00:53:22,759 illustrates what we're saying here through alchemy. You give that field something to 370 00:53:22,759 --> 00:53:28,840 give it what it is that you're dreaming, that you're imagining, you know, in your heart ... 371 00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:34,039 This conscious conversation was created, produced, and recorded by Dr. Theresa 372 00:53:34,039 --> 00:53:39,480 Bullard-Wike in collaboration with Groove and Brayden, and edited by verse content and H.H. 373 00:53:44,599 --> 00:53:53,559 Quantum Minds TV is a product of the Quantum Learning Academy.