Let It In with Guy Lawrence

#133 My awesome guest this week is Donald Hoffman with a mind-bending conversation. Donald Hoffman is a cognitive psychologist and popular science author, and in this episode, he talks about our perceptions of reality and then makes us question it. Do we see the world as it truly is? How can we understand the relationship between the physical world and consciousness? Drawing from his inspirations and his own books and papers, Don teaches us about evolutionary theory and how it shapes our perceptions into illusions. In short, how has evolution made our brains perceive reality the way we do? Cool right? I definitely thought so. I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did! About Donald: Donald David Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist and popular science author. He is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California Irvine, and he studies consciousness, visual perception and evolutionary psychology using mathematical models and psychophysical experiments. His research subjects include facial attractiveness, the recognition of shape, the perception of motion and color, the evolution of perception, and the mind-body problem. (Should I include more Biographical data?) Key points with time stamp: Don's work in his own words (5:04) What makes Don passionate about his work? (6:08) Are we getting close to the answers of our difficult questions on this world and our perception of it? (9:53) How important is it to question reality? (11:19) Is there a deeper reality that creates our version of reality? (14:44) How we create Space-Time (20:04) What do we mean by "we?" What is identity? (27:39) Evolutionary theory on how our senses perceive realty and why (31:54) Why is the truth hidden from us? (33:37) Life and the unknown (39:11) Why is the meditative experience stepping into the unknown? (40:26) The effects of a meditation practice on Don's life (43:48) The reception of The Case Against Reality in the science world (45:44) Don's morning routine (48:56) What's next for Don? (49:56) What Don leaves the listeners with (52:22) So here we have all the main talk points and the time stamps, let me know which ones you'd rather keep and which one's you think can be skipped. Mentioned in this episode: The Case Against Reality (2019), book by Donald Hoffman https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution-Truth/dp/0393254690 I wasn't able to really get the shoutout at the beginning of the episode? Could you help me with understanding and writing what you meant? Michael Faraday James Clerk Maxwell Nima Arkani-Hamed Edward Witten David Gross Hadron Collider Chetan Prakash Journal of Entropy Objects of Consciousness- Paper by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash (www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00577/full) Kurt Goedel and Goedel's Incompleteness Visual Intelligence (1998), book by Donald Hoffman Gottfried Leibniz and The Monadology Donald's Twitter: twitter.com/donalddhoffman Donald's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/donald-hoffman-8b92b613 Read more about Donald Hoffman and his work here: www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality-20160421 www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-illusion-of-reality/479559 www.ted.com/speakers/donald_hoffman About me: My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en My website: www.guylawrence.com.au www.liveinflow.co www.letitin.com.au

#132 My awesome guest this week is Peter Panagore. Honestly, this episode is mind-blowing. Peter had an NDE (near-death experience) whilst ice-climbing. He recounts the whole story, along what happened when he died, and how he adjusted to life after the whole experience. My jaw was open for most of this conversation, and it will certainly leave you wondering in awe of this magical experience we call life. Enjoy! About Peter: Global Audible Best-Selling Author of Heaven Is Beautiful: How Dying Taught Me That Death Is Just The Beginning, entrepreneur and ordained pastor, Rev. Peter Baldwin Panagore, MDiv, broadcast for fifteen years (2006-2018) for a daily two-minute spot on two NBC TV stations with Daily Devotions (brand) just before the morning's weather. Storytelling, communicator, public speaker, pastor, and storyteller, Peter had thirty million views annually on TV (Nielsen Ratings) and uncounted listeners on FM and AM across Maine and New Hampshire, and around the nation. Peter graduated from Yale University where he completed his MDiv with a focus on the practices and writings in the classics of western mysticism. Get more of Peter Here: www.peterpanagore.love – He previously served as a United Church of Christ minister and pastor in Maine and Connecticut. He now speaks from pulpits, stages, and on national and international media about Near Death Experience, the Reality of God, Christian mysticism, meditation, and prayer. – Reverend Peter Panagore, M.Div (Yale) has had two near-death experiences, the first while ice climbing in 1980 and the second in 2015 due to a heart attack. In this episode, he recalls his near death experience in March 1980 when he went ice climbing along the Ice Fields Parkway in Alberta Canada with an experienced ice climber. He shares their countless misfortunes on their descent, how he was overcome by exhaustion and hypothermia. He recalls being in a proverbial tunnel and in those minutes, he has experience hell, forgiveness, and unconditional love. He also has encountered God. – He has kept his Near Death Experience while ice climbing a secret for twenty years. When Rev. Peter died on the side of mountain along the Ice Fields Parkway in Alberta Canada, his life was forever changed. Panagore's death experience resulted in an intense spiritual journey that has continued for decades. The experience compelled him to pursue a master's degree at Yale Divinity School, focusing on systematic technology and Christian mysticism. – He now runs a global spiritual counseling service for "closet mystcs", and has been practicing Zazen/Centering Prayer and Kundalini/Kriya Yoga for forty years. He is also focusing on the mystical teachings of the Bible. – His pursuit is God, and God alone. He continues to seek oneness of being. He believes that the only reality is God is real. After his NDE, he has been praying every day for his death. He is no longer afraid in the face of death. Resources mentioned on Podcast (any references to websites, books, podcasts, mentors, poets) • William Blake • William Wordworth • William James- Varieties of religious experience • Emanuel Swedenborg- best know for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758). He began to experience mystical dreams and visions in 1744. • Transcendentalism in New England: A History by Octivus Protingham • The Bhagavad Gita- the most famous of all Indian scriptures, is universally regarded as one of the world's spiritual and literary masterpieces. • Psychedelic effects Ayahuasca (John Hopkins University)- high dozes of hallucinoges can and do create unitive state of beings of non duality that have the same or similar lasting after effects of near death experience. Key Points he would like to leave to the listeners: The only way out is in. God is love. Everywhere. All the time. Love is the treasure of life. The more you give away, the more you get to keep. "I know I am not from here. I know where I am from. I know where I am going. My adventurous soul is free to explore, and I am always pushing the edges socially, culturally, prayerfully, theologically, mystically" Learn more about Guy: www.guylawrence.com.au Learn More about Live In Flow Retreats and Coaching: www.liveinflow.co

#131 Miguel Franco joins the podcast today. He is a Consciousness Engineer who mentors business leaders in the process of superconscious activation so they can achieve and sustain high flow performance, enjoy their well-being and prosperity, and help others to do the same. He has over 35 years of research and teaching experience in the field of human consciousness, and he uses science-based and practical approaches in his work. In this episode, Miguel shares all sorts of experiences all the way to the mystical experiences as well, and his personal journey. Get more of Miguel Here: www.superconsciousexperience.com - At age 3, he began having experiences of psychic phenomena in which he termed "experiences that were not from this planet". He recalls seeing lights or luminescence in his room, used to hear voices like messages coming through. - Being born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, these things are very common. So his curiosity about psychic processes and phenomena started picking up at a very young age. - When Miguel was 12, he started connecting with Shamans from the Amazon. In fact, his dad and cousin were friends with one of the pioneers in making contact with tribes in the Amazon. He got connected with an indigenous guy from the Amazon Tribe who has been travelling from the Amazon to Sao Paulo for a few years to make contact with civilization. He started learning from the guy's perspective. They believe that spirit is everywhere and in everything. They don't believe that there is God. It is more like the spirit of the tree, the spirit of the fish, the spirit of the animal. Basically, the form of spirit is energy. - In Brazil, they have a large population that are part of a philosophy science called Spiritism philosophy. There are thousands of spirits centers in Brazil and these centers teach mediumship or channeling. The centers are very effective and they have a spiritual guide. And their teaching is mixed with Science, Religion, and Philosophy. - Miguel shared some of the fascinating experiences he had in the center. One of them is they close their eyes and start writing like a discography. It seemed like they were downloading information, with their eyes closed writing at a very high speed using pen and paper. Another fascinating experience he shared is they could immediately shift to any kind of language they are asked to write and they would continue writing in that language. - Their teaching was also based on Christianity. There were a lot of religious messages in a sense. And they adopted this because they have want to have a peaceful coexistence with Catholicism in Brazil. Catholics have their understanding but this Spiritual Philosophy opened up the understanding in a much bigger way. - Miguel believes that his psychic ability is a skill and anybody can learn it. But his journey to this was not only about curiosity. He wanted to have a deeper understanding and control over his abilities in order to function well in society. - Studying engineering helped him have a very good grounding and knowledge in Science. Because it is based on pragmatic and analytical thinking, searching for explanations and not based on mystical experiences. His mission was to be free of those interpretations that are aligned to the concept of Gods & goddesses. - Miguel had a near-death experience through a car accident at the age of 21. He was unconscious for 2 days and lay flat for a year and he couldn't move. During the days when he was unconscious, he remembers vividly that he was in the universe where there's only pure joy and a lot of love. But when he regained his consciousness, he realized that he was really in bad shape after a series of operations. But until that moment, he woke up very joyful and was experiencing pure joy. In that experience, he recalled a voice saying "Go back to your body" and that's when he came back. - After studying Engineering, he went to study to two largest psychic schools in America. These schools taught Miguel to focus his own energy because his courses allowed him to own his space and run the energies he has in his body. They do meditation for 2 to 3 hrs. The whole training starts with getting to know your own energy system and one way of doing that is to read another person's energy system. He attended this school for 6 years. He developed more than meditation technique, it is more of a practice. - He developed a neutrality regarding religion. But he had a desire of creating a theory of everything. That something could bring together all the different things that exist, and that everything can coexist. He wanted to bring unification and the key to that is unconditional love. So that's how everything can coexist peacefully. - He became very passionate about car racing and at one point he even used to race go-karts with Ayrton Senna when they were in their early teens. - His teaching career started after being featured in a book that was about "channeling". His first book is called Perception which leads him to publish a second book, In The Age of Intuition. And one of his students reaches out to him to start their own center. They co-founded a training center in Sao Paulo. - He presented his second book in one of the largest HR Conferences in Sao Paulo and his book was the best seller of the conference. It was the largest Latin America HR Conference and everybody was selling books on Management and he presented Energy Management but the work was well received. - When Miguel started teaching to corporations, he worked with a manufacturing company and they asked him to create a program to bring coherence to their energy fields. That led him to create a year-long program that allowed him to engage with employees in a regular basis through car racing. The program was focused on increasing performance and well-being in the workplace. He got sponsored to do racing and he built a team in America. They sponsored Miguel to teach throughout the year a program where he could demonstrate how to build oneself into the state of high flow performance, achieve results, and overcoming limitations. - Because of his car accident, he had been experiencing consequences due to the tragic experience. He had to close down his business in Brazil. The doctors found out that he has a brain tumor and he got really sick. Even the techniques that he taught for a living did not work for him. There was a total shutdown of his system. He considered it as a very humbling experience. That's when he came up with the ego components. Destruct these behaviors and not only fixate on energetic approach. "If our attention is not driven by our core intentions, it becomes driven by our environment or circumstances or by habitual penance of thinking and behaving" Learn More about Live In Flow Retreats and Coaching: www.liveinflow.co Learn more about Guy: www.guylawrence.com.au

#130 My awesome guest this week is Gay Hendricks, a New York Times bestselling author and his books include Conscious Loving and The Big Leap. His book The Big Leap had a huge impact on my life, and it's certainly a book I highly recommend. I was excited to bring Gay onto the show to talk about his latest book: Conscious Luck - Eight Secrets To Intentionally Change Your Fortune. What if you could create your own luck? What if living a charmed life―being lucky in love, lucky in money, lucky in your chosen work―was within your control? The good news is that it's all entirely possible…when you know how!. About Gay: Gay Hendricks has been a leader in the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind therapies for over 45 years. After earning his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford, Gay served as professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Colorado for 21 years. He has written and co-authored (with Katie) 35 books, including the bestseller Conscious Loving, used as a primary text in universities around the world. In 2003, Gay co-founded The Spiritual Cinema Circle, which distributes inspirational movies and conscious entertainment to subscribers in 70+ countries. Gay has offered seminars worldwide and appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS and others. Get more of Gay Here: www.hendricks.com www.heartsintrueharmony.com Learn More about Live In Flow Retreats and Coaching: www.liveinflow.co Learn more about Guy: www.guylawrence.com.au Let It In Academy: www.letitin.com.au

With the arrival of my baby daughter, I'm taking a month off podcasting. Each week I am selecting some of my favourite episodes, and republishing them here :) #57 My awesome guest this week is Dr Alberto Villoldo, a medical anthropologist, psychologist & shaman. It's not often you get neuroscience and shaman in the same sentence, hence why I loved this conversation so much! He has devoted 25 years of study to the healing practices of the Amazon and Andean shamans, and Alberto Villoldo, PhD, is really teaching people how to actually grow new bodies. Imagine creating in your own body an immune system that resists disease … heals quickly and efficiently … and significantly slows your aging process. Now that's a conversation worth having. Enjoy! About Alberto: Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist, psychologist and shaman, who studied the spiritual practices of the Amazon and the Andes for more than 30 years. While at San Francisco State University, he founded the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory to study how the mind creates psychosomatic health and disease. Founder of The Four Winds Society, he instructs individuals throughout the world in the practice of energy medicine. Dr. Villoldo has written numerous bestselling books, including Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment (with David Perlmutter MD), Shaman, Healer, Sage; and WSJ bestseller One Spirit Medicine. About Guy: https://www.guylawrence.com.au/about/ Live In Flow: https://www.liveinflow.co/

With the arrival of my baby daughter, I'm taking a month off podcasting. Each week I am selecting some of my favourite episodes, and republishing them here :) #70 This week I welcome the awesome Dr John Demartini to the show. He has read over 30,000 books, been teaching for over 40 years, and it is safe to say John is an inspiration who walks his talk and knows his stuff. It was truly an honor to have John on the show today. We went deep pretty quickly, but we also discussed the heart of the matters and what can be holding us back in life and preventing us from having our own breakthrough experience. About Dr John: Dr. John Demartini is a world renowned specialist in human behavior, a researcher, author and global educator. He has developed a series of solutions applicable across all markets, sectors and age groups. His education curriculum ranges from corporate empowerment programs, financial empowerment strategies, self-development programs, relationship solutions and social transformation programs. His teachings start at the core of the issue, addressing the human factor and range out to a multitude of powerful tools that have proven the test of time. About Guy: https://www.guylawrence.com.au/about/ Live In Flow: https://www.liveinflow.co/

With the arrival of my baby daughter, I'm taking a month off podcasting. Each week I am selecting some of my favourite episodes, and republishing them here :) #67 My awesome guest this week is good friend Josh Komen, author of New Zealand's best-selling book 'The Wind At My Back' This is quite possibly the most heart-moving, powerful podcast I have ever done, and I don't write those words easily. What-ever you do, be sure to take time out and let this interview unfold, and be moved and inspired. Be sure to share this with anyone who needs a dose of love and inspiration. Enjoy! About Guy: https://www.guylawrence.com.au/about/ Live In Flow: https://www.liveinflow.co/

With the arrival of my baby daughter, I'm taking a month off podcasting. Each week I am selecting some of my favourite episodes, and republishing them here :) #62 My awesome guest this week is Bruce Lipton. If you are tired of coming up against your own limiting beliefs to hold you back, then this episode is for you!. This conversation goes deep, but more importantly, we cover 'how' we can create long-lasting change in our lives. Get ready to become the master of your fate, from what the wisdom in our cells taught us. His internationally best-selling book 'Biology Of Belief' had a huge impact and it was an honor to have him on the podcast today. Enjoy! About Guy: https://www.guylawrence.com.au/about/ Live In Flow: https://www.liveinflow.co/

With the arrival of my baby daughter, I'm taking a month off podcasting. Each week I am selecting some of my favourite episodes, and republishing them here :) #26 This week my awesome guest is Anita Moorjani. Her story is mind-blowing. What is even more incredible is how she lives her life now as a true light and inspiration for others. Anita doesn't settle for anything else than her authentic self and lives life fearlessly with true courage and kindness. Anita Moorjani is the author of New York Times best-selling books 'Dying To Be Me', and her latest book 'What If This IS Heaven?'. She is also an international speaker and a woman with a remarkable story. After a 4-year battle with cancer, Anita fell into a coma and was given days to live. As her doctors gathered to revive her, she journeyed into a near death experience (NDE) where she was surrounded by unconditional love and deep wisdom. In this place, she was given a powerful truth: HEAVEN IS NOT A DESTINATION; IT IS A STATE OF BEING. Anita's NDE has captured the hearts and attention of millions across the globe. She has been a featured guest on The Dr. Oz Show, Fox News, The Today Show, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, the National Geographic Channel, as well as The Pearl Report in Hong Kong, Headstart with Karen Davila in the Philippines, and many others. About Guy: https://www.guylawrence.com.au/about/ Live In Flow: https://www.liveinflow.co/

With the arrival of my baby daughter, I'm taking a month off podcasting. Each week I am selecting some of my favourite episodes, and republishing them here :) Episode #14 with Joshua Mantz. This is one incredible podcast episode. I was truly moved and honoured to have Josh on the show. Josh served as a platoon leader and was shot and killed by an enemy sniper. He flatlined for 15 minutes (yes you read that right) before being brought back to life. We discuss what went on in those 15 minutes and the decade long emotional struggle he would endure as he sought to find meaning in a "second life." About Joshua: Josh was serving as a Platoon Leader with the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq when he was shot and killed by an enemy sniper. The bullet first severed the aorta of one of his men before ricocheting into Josh's leg and severing his femoral artery. He went on to flatline for 15 minutes before being revived by the medical team, and retains full recollection of the event. Physically, Josh made a complete recovery and continued to excel in his career. But internally, he was collapsing. He'd soon come to understand that his near-death experience would pale in comparison to the decade long emotional struggle he would endure as he sought to find meaning in a "second life." It took traveling down many dangerous paths, false starts, suicidal spirals, and bouts of depression before Josh uncovered the truth behind trauma. He found that many of the things that plagued him had little to do with the experience of dying itself. Instead, the void he was experiencing was being driven by guilt, shame, and the microscopic details of events that didn't even seem to be traumatic on the surface. It's this experience that has ignited a passion in Josh for helping others grappling with emotional trauma, and now informs his work within Darker Souls. He is a firm believer that all of us have the strength to overcome our experiences and regain control over our lives. Learn More About Guy: https://www.guylawrence.com.au/about/ Learn More About Live In Flow Retreats: https://www.liveinflow.co/