Transcript (machine generated): In my program, the signature program, the Breakthrough Experience, I discuss two aspects of the mind or two minds or two aspects of the brain, depending on how you perceive this. Some scientists believe that there's just purely a brain. They're basically existential individuals that are basically empirical and they're focusing on purely brain neurochemistry, neurology, and they believe that the brain and all the mind functions can be purely explained by the brain. And that's what I call the imminent minded approach, which is inseparable from brain tissue. And then there's also a transcendent mind, and this is Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who depicted as the transcendental and imminent minds. And the transcendental mind was to access what he described as the ideal forms that Plato referred to, this is where there's things that deal with abstraction and conceptualization and living a really transcendent, amazing life.

And I'd like to discuss that. Cause in my Breakthrough Experience program, I want to introduce people to a glimpse of what that possibility is. So if you've got some paper, pen to write, II'd like you to take some notes and try to keep up with what I'm about to share. First of all, Empedolcles, the philosopher centuries before the time of Plato, believed that there was in the universe, two major aspects, love and strife. He was the one that was responsible for the basic four elements that we have heard about that have influenced many philosophers through the ages, all the way to Carl Jung and his ideas, and fire air, water, and earth, if you will. And he said, when the elements are integrated, you have love. And when the elements are disintegrated, you have strife. And Heraclitus, Heraclitus, whatever you want to call him, he believed that there were pairs of opposites and there were always complimentary opposites in the universe. And when they were joined together you had sort of a synthesis of that, which was like Empedocles idea of love.

And I've been teaching the Breakthrough Experience for 31, almost 32 years. And I have been assisting people with my Demartini Method on taking the mind from the imminent state, which is judgment to the transcendent state, which is love, through a process, a methodical, scientific, reproducible process to help a person, help an individual transcend their judgments and get on with their life. So get ready to take notes. So here we go. When you are filtering your reality through your senses, your senses deal with contrast and they deal with judgment. They can't perceive without that contrast. So the moment you are judging somebody and looking up to them with an infatuation and you're conscious of the upside, but you're not conscious of the downside, you're conscious of the positives, you're unconscious of the negatives. You're conscious of the things that support your values or unconscious of the things that challenge your values. You awaken, in your autonomic nervous system, the parasympathetic nervous system, and you seek it with an impulse towards it to consume it like prey.

Cause you're looking that for anabolic purposes to grow the body. And when you do, you have split your full consciousness, into conscious and unconscious halves. So you're not seeing what actually is there. You're seeing what you filter with your subjective biases there, as a survival mechanism. Also when you're perceiving somebody that you resent and look down on, and you're conscious of the negatives and unconscious of the positives, conscious of the downsides, unconscious of the upsides, conscious of things that challenge your values, unconscious of things that support your values. You look down on them and you activate the sympathetic nervous system, a fight or flight response to avoid them with an instinct. So you have an impulse towards things you attract to, and an instinct away from things that you're trying to repel from. So you're attracted with an emotion, an impulse, or repelled with an emotion with an instinct. Now, whenever you do that, you're dividing full consciousness into conscious and unconscious halves.

And this is because of again, survival, and it's a subconscious bias. And it's stored in the subconscious mind, which then filters our perceptions and adds to our distortions of our reality. Our imminent mind, the one that is inseparable from the brain, the one that neuroscientists agree that exists and no one would deny that, which is reflexive in nature, although sometimes complex reflexes, utilizes these contrasts and judgments to avoid and seek like an animal in the wild, so it's sometimes called our animal, reflexive mind. This is the imminent mind. And as a result of it, we store all of those judgments in our subconscious mind, which is a fancy word electronically for all of the electronic imbalances of chemistry and balances of electronics in the brain, in neuro associative complexes. This is what we've called the subconscious mind. And it's stored there and we'll keep reverberating as noise in the brain until those are brought back into balance.

Cause these imbalances, where you're conscious of one, unconscious of the other, store there. Now each of you have probably had moments when you've been infatuated with somebody to such a high degree that you're blinded to the downsides, ignorant to the downsides and they occupied space and time in your mind and ran you. Or you've been so resentful to somebody, again, blind to the upsides, ignorant of the upsides and so resentful that you couldn't sleep at night. You were so preoccupied and they occupied space and time in your mind, in the mind. So anytime you have an imbalanced mind and you divide your full consciousness into conscious and unconscious halves, which are stored in the subconscious mind, your noise in the brain is loud. And many times when people go into meditation and they got all this noise in the brain, that's vying for attention and all these things that distract them, all of those subconsciously stored imbalances are trying to find their other side to balance them out, to liberate the mind to free it.

And sometime during the day, it comes together with aha's and sometimes at night in dreams, these parts are trying to disk scan and clean out the fragments that aren't integrated, so you can actually rest at night and not age because all of these disorientations, these judgments cause ageing, cause you store them in your memory and the compensatory imagination to compensate for that. And that memory and imagination adds the arrow of time, which is entropy, which causes ageing. And this is the imminent mind in full force. And every one of us live that way, at times. And nobody escapes that. And we have that in common with the animals. It's our survival model. We do it anytime we live in our lowest values and lowered values or attempt to anyway, anytime we're not fulfilling our highest values, the amygdala comes online and we live with subjective bias.

We store things and judge things. And it's a mechanism of survival because when we're out in the wild, we had to get our adrenaline going and we had to have bias in order to accentuate the infatuation with prey or accentuate the resentment to predator to get the adrenaline up, kicked up enough to be able to run after the prey or get away from the predator. So our fight or flight and our rest and digest sides are imminent minded reflexes there as a survival mechanism. On top of that, you might say ahead of that, accrued on top of that is a transcendent mind. And a transcendent mind is the one I've been working on since I was 18. Ever since I read Leibniz's work on the Discourse on Metaphysics and also Dirac's work on the integration of pairs of opposites. And the transcendent mind occurs and only awakens, and only emerges, when we have a perfectly balanced mind.

And I mean, a perfectly balanced equation in the mind. Because when we're conscious of the upsides and unconscious of the downsides, or conscious of the downsides unconscious of the upsides, we're not being ourselves. Why? Because when we looking up to something we infatuate with, we minimize ourselves in turn. So if we exaggerate their upsides and minimize our downsides, we'll exaggerate our downsides and minimize their upsides, relative to them. And we'll be too humble to admit what we see there, that we put on the pedestal inside us. And that minimization is not our authentic self. And when we would go look down on somebody and we're conscious of the downsides and unconscious of the upside and exaggerate ourselves with conscious of the upsides unconscious of the downsides, we go into pride and our pride is not our authentic selves. So anytime we judge we move out of inauthenticity.

We move out of a state of certainty and we go into a world of uncertainty and persona, the masks that we wear, the facades that we wear, of who we are, not the true nature. This is what personal development is about. Persona, personal, means mask. The real essential being is the integration of those two, but only get to be experienced or awakened when we have a perfectly equilibrated mind. And this is called equanimity or objectivity. And the moment we have a perfectly balanced mind, which is the purpose of the Breakthrough Experience, the Demartini Method. The purpose of that is to ask a scientific, reproducible duplicatable series of questions to make you conscious of the unconscious, to equilibrate the mind and balance out the equation. And the moment you do that, and you have a perfectly equilibrated mind and equanimity of the mind and equity between you and other people, which is what the method is designed for, your heart opens.

See, when you're looking up to somebody you infatuate, when you look down, you resent. And many people confuse the dopamine rush of infatuation with love, which is not love, it's just a dopamine rush and serotonin rush. And the resentment they think is, hate, and they think these are pairs of opposites, but the reality is true love occurs when you synthesize this thesis, this anti thesis, this proposition, this opposite proposition and put them together. And the synthesis and synchronicity of those two states put in perfect balance and the synthesis and synchronicity of pride and shame put in perfect balance, the elevated self esteem and depressed self esteem of your nature, the personas and masks that you wear, when they're perfectly integrated, the essential being the soul comes to the surface, the state of unconditional love.

There's no conditions. See, if you infatuate, there's a condition. If there's a resentment, there's a condition, but in a perfect equanimity, there's an unconditional state, the soul. That's why Henry James says, 'Nothing of the senses will ever satisfy the soul.' The only thing that satisfies the soul is 'Thank you. I love you.' When you have a perfectly equilibrated mind you have, thank you. I love you. And I've proven that literally a hundred thousand people doing the Breakthrough Experience and also consulting with people. So the moment you actually equilibrate that by asking questions that make you conscious of what has been unconscious. So in other words, if you're infatuated and you ask a question, what is the downside? You are able to bring that polarity, which is above the mean back into the mean, and that's called extracting meaning out of that experience, that you're infatuated by finding the downside. When you're resentful,

and you find out what you're unconscious of, you find the mean again, cause you find the thing that balances it, which is the mean. So you're asking questions that make you conscious of the upsides. Your intuition is always trying to find the downsides to the up and the upsides to the down to try to get you into the center where you're transcendent. The transcended mind is the authentic self. The transcendent mind is where you have certainty. The transcendent mind is when you are authentic, the real you, the unconditionally loving you. Now, every human being wants to be loved and appreciated for who they are, but how can you expect to be loved and appreciated for who you are if you're not even being willing to be who you are? So as long as you're proud, you're not being who you are.

As long as you're resentful, or shamed, you're not being who you are. But when you're actually in the center, you're being authentic. And in that moment of authenticity, in a moment of grace, moment of love, moment of certainty, the moment of presence, not past or future, memory and imagination, but the moment of presence, that's when you have the greatest certainty and the greatest potential to have your inner most dominant thought become your outermost tangible reality. You're a creator there. The whole purpose of the Demartini Method is to take whatever you've experienced that you've judged and stored in the subconscious mind, which weighs you down with gravitational entropy and ages you, and asking a series of very precise questions, scientifically demonstrated, to reintegrate those parts, synchronously, where you are lightened up. And radiantly certain with love and gratitude and presence, and you have an enthusiasm and an inspiration in there.

You can live an inspired life. Now, you know, I rarely ever go through a presentation on talking about values. And so in this case, let's tie this together with values. When you live by priority, your highest value and stick to the highest priority thing you can be doing moment by moment through the day, you have the highest probability of being objective. And objectivity means even minded, neutral minded, actually completely a balanced equation. When you are infatuated, you don't have a balanced equation. You're not neutral. You're subjectively biased. You have a confirmation bias on the positives and disconfirmation bias on the negatives. You have a false positive on the positives and a false negative on the negatives. So you're not seeing things as they are, you're seeing things as you have skewed them with a survival bias. But the moment you're balanced and the moment you live by highest values, where you're most objective, where you embrace pain and pleasure in the pursuit of a purpose, your highest value is your purpose.

So every time we do the Demartini Method and every time we equilibrate the mind, we reawaken our purpose. We reawaken our mission and we reconnect with our inspiration. We reconnect with the love of what we're here for. And we have an orientation of equity between ourself and others. See, when we look up to people, minimize ourselves, we go into altruism and sacrifice ourselves for others and try to live in other people's values, which is futile and self-depreciative. And when we we're resentful, we get self-righteous and proud, and we try to project our values onto them and get them to live in our values, which is again, futile and not authentic. But when we have equanimity and balance, we have equity between ourselves and others, equanimity within our prides and shames are balanced and we're authentic. And we live with the most power, because we're disempowered when we're disowning parts. When we're too humble to admit what we see in them is inside us it's a disowned part.

When we're too proud, it's a disowned part. All the disowned parts we have are disempowering. But when we realize nothing's missing, I say in the Breakthrough Experience, at the level of the soul, the state of unconditional love, the authentic transcendent self, the immortal you, the timeless mind ageless body you, that right there doesn't have the ageing process. It doesn't have anything missing. Nothing's missing to the soul. At the level of the essence of the soul nothing's missing as the Bonpo Lama taught me when I was in Nepal, but at the level of the existence of the senses, things appear to be missing because we're too proud or too humble to admit what we see in others is inside us. And we're trapped in judgment and strife as Empedocles said, instead of love, which is radiance. Now, Immanuel Kant said, when we're in the imminent mind, we're in the phenomenological world, by the senses, which are skewed with hallucinatory aspects.

And we're not seeing what's really there, actually there, we're dealing with our own personal reality, which is individualized. It's our own hallucination of the world. But the moment we access the transcendental, we transcend that hallucinatory world. We access the ideal forms that Plato described. We access the transcendent mind as Immanuel Kant says, or maybe William James has described about as the higher mind, not the lower mind. And this is the state which is full bouquet of expression of the human potential. Every week, when I'm doing the Breakthrough Experience, that is one of the primary aims of the program to give people a glimpse, to teach them the science, to show them how to duplicate that, to show them how to take no matter what happens in their life that they've ever judged, there's nothing they've experienced in their life that they've judged that can't be turned into love and back into the immortal.

There's nothing mortal that can interfere with the immortal visionary. Once they know the science of how to do so. That's been my mission all these years, developing the Demartini Method to give people access to that transcendental. Majority of people go through their life, living, reacting, judging from one next judgment to the next. They don't even know that this transcendence aware, they don't even know that it exists. They don't even have, they may have a glimpse of it, but they have no idea how to access it again. But there's a science to accessing it. There's a science of doing it. You can sit for hours and hours and hours and do meditation and maybe hit and miss it sometimes. And you might come out and maybe escape with it, but you won't integrate information with certainty. Even Ken Wilber addresses the weakness of some of the meditative techniques for actually cognitively integrating the pairs of opposites.

They are useful. They can be in conjunction with this tool, but you can merge those together into application, but learning this tool, the Demartini Method at the Breakthrough Experience, it can be helpful in learning the transcendent state. The transcendent state is almost a mystical state for some people. People who've never experienced it, they go, Whoa, I don't even know what to do. It's a spiritual experience for people. I've had people in the Breakthrough Experience where they've gone through the Demartini Method. They've judged somebody in their life that was, that they've resented. It could be anything. It could be a partner. It could be somebody that raped them. It could be somebody that beat them. It could be somebody a bully. It could be somebody at work, that they've been resentful to somebody, or infatuated with somebody, either pole, some hero or villain, doesn't matter.

And we go through methodically asking questions that add reflection to the mind, that add ownership to the traits, allows you to balance out the equation, dissolve the infatuation resentment, dissolve the prides and shames, dissolve the labels that you have about them, which are subjectively biased, and actually break the fantasies and nightmares that you're storing in the subconscious mind and then get present and see the synchronicity of opposites. See I discovered something 20 years plus ago, that at the exact moment something's happening in your life, the transcendental mind is fully conscious of the other side. We go through and we think there's an event that goes on, I asked people in the Breakthrough Experience, 'Go to a moment where, and when you perceive this individual that you're judging to be displaying or demonstrating some specific trait, action, inaction that you despise most for instance.', 'Okay, you're there, great.

Where are you? When are you, what specifically are they demonstrating? What exactly is the focus of it? The context of it, and at the exact moment, who are they doing it to? Are they doing it to you? Great.' At that exact moment, close your eyes and get present there. And you will blow your mind that when you realize and discover that at that exact moment that you perceive that, your perception could not have occurred if it didn't have a contrast and there was something of the exact opposite nature going on at the same time. Now, if you only see one and not the other, you'll be infatuated or resentful, but if you see simultaneously both of them, you will be neither and you won't let the imminent mind run. You, you won't be impulsive and instinctual and distracted from being present with a magnificent moment of love at that moment. Because love's the synthesis and synchronicity of complementary opposites

and that's all that was there in that moment. When I do that in the Breakthrough Experience and show people that, their minds blown, because they go 'Wait a minute, I thought, I'd been running a story,' - see people want to be victims of their history and run a story about how they'd been hurt or how they've got this fantasy or whatever, infatuation, but these are incomplete awarenesses and they are judgments that'll weigh you down and they're stored in the subconscious mind. And they cause you phobias of the future as instincts from things that were painful, that you never saw the benefits to, or philias and fantasies that keep trapping you and hooking you. That's what's outer sales people are looking for when they're hooking you. And as long as you have those you're run by your external world. I said on 'The Secret', until the voice and the vision on the inside is louder than all those extrinsic sources on the outside,

don't expect to master your life. Because as long as you're externally driven and blaming things on the outside or giving credit to things on the outside, you're not realizing that it's nothing but a reflection of you. In Bardo Thodol, the 'Tibetan book of The Dead', at the moment of a person's passing there's a message in there that says, 'At the moment of your passing, you'll be confronted by both peaceful and wrathful deities, but fear not for they're nothing more than projections of your own mind'. And what we do is we have things we infatuate and resent, the angels and the demons, the heroes and the villains, the saints and the sinners, the virtues and the biases that we project onto people, but they're really nothing more than projections of our own nature that have been disowned. And so once we realize, that they are reflections and integrate them,

we activate the super conscious mind as some people call it, or the cosmic conscious mind as Richard M Bucke calls it, or the spiritual soul if you want to call it that, or the transcendent mind, many people have had different names. Some people call it the spiritual mind, the higher aka mind, the higher mana, the Huna's, all around the world there's been different names for it. But that's a real state, that's duplicatable, that's reproducible, that I can demonstrate, that I can show you, I can teach you how to do it. And it is profound because the authentic you is sitting there. And don't expect people to love you when you're not even being you, your authentic you. When the ancient philosopher said know thyself, the knowing your highest value, which is the telos, which is the thing that gives you objectivity and access to equanimity and access to the transcendental mind and access to the soul,

that's what they're describing. That's the ontological essence of your being that transcendent state. And it's the teleology, when it says, know why you're here. You know, what's my purpose on the planet. Well, that's it. You're teleology, your telos is your highest value. It's the pathway of objectivity. It's the most efficient, effective pathway to fulfill the greatest amount of voids with the greatest amount of value. So if you want to have the greatest value, you want to make the biggest contribution, you want to go out and do something extraordinary, you want to be able to be yourself, you want to make the biggest difference being unique to yourself and not conforming and diluting yourself, then it's basically the path of equanimity and the transcendent mind. The imminent mind takes no effort. Any animal has got it. You got it. You have a survival mechanism. Anybody can live in survival.

That's the lowest level of Mazlow's hierarchy of needs. That's down into 'got to's, and 'have to's' and 'needs', where you're living by the imperatives of the injected values of others, you're ruled by the superego of moralities from external hypocrisy, and you're not basically living authentically transcendent and creating the rules by design instead of living by duty. Instead of following the crowd you're building and leading the crowd, I'd much rather lead the culture than follow the culture. I'd rather be the transcendent than the imminent. And Kohlberg in psychology talking about moral development said, that at first you avoid pain and seek pleasure, that's the first morality, an animal has that. Then you have subordination to individual authorities, mothers, fathers, preachers, teachers, then subordination to collective authorities, communities, cities, States, nations, morays, traditions, conventions. And finally, you have transcendence, where the authentic you is able to express itself

and the transcendental mind is able to overrule the imminent mind. That is what I'm interested in. Now it takes no effort to do the other, and no matter what you do, you'll always grow and learn by experiencing it so you never completely get rid of it. You use it wisely, because the imminent mind, the design of the imminent mind is to tell you what you haven't loved. Tell you what you haven't balanced in your life and give you an opportunity to now master that too. Benson's law says that anything we practice consistently and repeat consistently, we become skillful at and become masterful at. If we live by our highest values and delegate the lower priorities and be of service to other people, in a state of fair exchange and sustained equity, we will automatically build equity, build assets and accumulate the self development and the love and the wisdom that nobody can take away from you, it can be accumulated and you can go on and do something with more profound leadership roles.

The Breakthrough Experience that I teach for 1,109 times now, is designed to give you that tool. So if you have not experienced a transcendental mind, or if you have experienced it randomly and had no idea how to reproduce it and create it, and have it at any time in your life, come to the Breakthrough Experience so I can show you how to do that. Because it's a profound mastery of life when you get that, and there is a science to it, it's not a hit and miss. It's a reproducible, duplicatable, questioning process that makes you cognitive. That's using neuroscience, it's using philosophy and it's using psychology to its fullest, to give you the fullest expression of your, if you will, the divine nature within you. When they said the human will now matches divine will, at this point, this is what it's describing. Divinity is the full self expression,

the spiritual actualization, the transcendental inspired state that you have access to that is available no matter what the experience is. No matter what happens to you, it's nothing to do with that. We have control over our perceptions, decisions, and actions, that we can take whatever's happened in our life and wake up that transcendental. I've had people go through the most outrageous stuff. People have been through things that they want to blame people for. And there's nothing that you've experienced in your mortal body, that you can't access the immortal soul and transcend. So if you have any interest in doing that, then please let me show you how to do that by learning the method, the Demartini Method, at the Breakthrough Experience. And please take advantage of what we're doing here with these little presentations. I'm absolutely certain that this is a reality, it's duplicatable,

and if you haven't experienced it, come and experience it because you, you won't, you will never see life the same way. You know, it's, once you have had this experience, the trajectory of your life has a different meaning, different pathway. There's no way, as Viktor Frankl in the concentration camps was able to have meaning out of things that other people were dying over and what led him to create his logotherapy and his In Search of Meaning pathway, this is what's available to any human being on this planet. We don't have to be victims of history. We become masters of destiny by allowing the transcendental mind to overrule in settings where the imminent mind has been running our life extrinsically. I want that voice and vision on the inside to govern, not the outside. Because if we subordinate to the other side, and live in shadows we will never stand on the shoulders of giants.

So I just wanted to share that little principle with you. It's real, it's duplicatable. Please come and take advantage of learning how to acquire it and use it and apply it and share it with the people you care about and love and pass the torch to other people. And also, I just want to make sure that you know, that we have, if you've enjoyed what I just got through saying here we have the Dr. Demartini Show, which is a podcast. We've got our website that's filled with information, there's events that are live that are going on. There's radio, television, newspapers, magazines, podcasts, there's YouTube, there's all kinds of things. Please take advantage of our things and please pass the torch to other people. Let them know about the education we're offering. It's not a self help, you know entertainment system exactly.

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