Word count:20321
[Music] Division versus unity in this episode we're going to talk about the engine that drives all of reality this is it the engine is division and unity and we're gonna explore this through a long list of examples because really everything in life that you see is an example of this and it'll be amazing when you see this high level pattern that I'm about to show you how all of reality is gonna suddenly start to make sense have you ever wondered what's really going on here in life like is there some sort of reason rhyme or reason to it or if stuff just happening accidentally is is there a purpose a point a goal is it just a thing that's out of control or is there some logic to the mechanism and of course what you see is that there's some logic to the mechanism it's a very high order of logic it's it's a logic beyond mere human logic see all of reality is an interplay between division and reunion that is what's happening everything is about this this this includes the the social human levels that we're talking about includes relationships it includes your personal life and what's going on with you it includes your birth and death but even aside from all that human stuff it includes what's happening with biology with chemistry with physics and even beyond all that it's really profound when you start to see how this shapes everything that's happening in your life at a practical level it really puts everything into context it allows you to take a step back and to see kind of like what is the rhyme and reason of reality and then you also see how ingenious it is to it's not just a stupid process that's happening blindly the way that many materialists are scientists fool themselves into believing so we can start off by noticing that the history of mankind if you are a student of history is a series of divisions and reunions and it unfolds like a fractal all of reality unfolds like a fractal divisions within divisions reunions within reunions consciousness polarizes and depolarizes it expands and it contracts back it diverges that it reckon verges and it keeps doing this forever eternally and that is the dance of consciousness or infinite mind so let's start to get into some of these examples very common everyday examples for example the hydrologic cycle have you noticed how water works on this planet that we're on pretty important resource water but how does it really work well basically we could say that it starts in the ocean a giant puddle of water that's what the ocean is and then that evaporates through heating so it starts being unified as a unified body giant body of water then it heats evaporates as it does so of course all the little particles they separate from the puddle they rise into the atmosphere and now they're suspended in the atmosphere and they form clouds of course the clouds are individualized divided from each other and some clouds then reunite forming bigger clouds eventually when enough clouds unite enough of the divided clouds unite there's enough reunion going on that you get a giant column of cloud of these water particles and then from that Union now we get a precipitation literally precipitation the Union divides itself into individual rain droplets millions and billions and trillions of them and of course they all fall down and then what happens they form individual puddles but then those puddles they get large enough you know they're divided puddles then they get larger and then they start to merge together into larger puddles streams rivers then those little rivers run together to form larger rivers so the division reunites even further goes all the way down the land until it all Rican verges and reunites back to its which is the ocean or maybe it gets locked somewhere underground or it gets locked in some sort of lake but eventually all of that will also evaporate it at some point it'll all reemerge back with the ocean sea pretty cool how that works right pretty profound actually when you think about it something so simple like like rain you never thought about it being an example of division and reunion but that's just the tip of the iceberg think about for example a very common case let's say you make a morning smoothie maybe you've watched my video about my super blueberry smoothie if you're making one of those let's say for your morning meal that's a great example of division and reunions so how does your smoothie get made well it starts off as just elements earth water and the Sun basically then what happens well over a long period of time those elements they grow into plants trees fruit trees that's what you're putting in your smoothie so you've got plants growing individual plants so the plants have to divide so first of all to get a plant at all one plant that plant has to unify separate elements of Earth water sunlight of course the earth is composed of a bunch of different elements but we're just calling it earth for simplicity of the soil you know it has to unify those arrange those in some sort of unified structure which is the plant that plant that can bear fruit of course the fruits now individually on the plant because one plant can have many fruits and what is a fruit really but just a division of a plant literally the fruit contains partial DNA fragmented divided DNA of the plant because these fruits are used to then reproduce other plants you know the fruits have to be pollinated so forth DNA combines to create a whole new plant and but then you you know your smoothie has multiple different fruits so so at some point in evolutionary past there was a proliferation of different species of plants humans divided fruits they you know they grew different types of apples if you're putting apples in your smoothie or they groove different species or varieties of blueberries if you're putting those in your smoothie different varieties of bananas got bred and genetically modified or whatever they did to them to to get different species of them so that created a proliferation of different kinds of fruits then of course those are picked then some super marked it has to aggregate all the fruits because you got to go to one supermarket to find all the fruits for your smoothie that's usually what you do so a lot of work and effort was put in by the supermarket to get supply chains of all the different fruits that you might want for your smoothie you go there you pick them all out put them in one unified basket take them all home then you chop them up and then you throw them into your blender and then your blender literally takes them divides them into little pieces but then all those pieces get blend together and reunited into your smoothie and then you drink this smoothie and then furthermore it doesn't end there what happens your body further now it has to it has to do the opposite of what you did the blender unified all the little bits of fruit together but now your body has to undo that process by chemically digesting all the fruit pieces and breaking them down subdividing those further into individual molecules and proteins that your body can then use those nutrients minerals and vitamins and so forth can can then use those to nourish the cells in your body of course what are the cells in your body but subdivisions within your body each cell has its own requirements and needs and all those divided cells then work together in coordination as a unit to create the body and to create a sense of you a sense of separate self that you have your ego mind see and then of course your body is just a division within consciousness so you see the general pattern here this is what life is doing at all levels up and down the the chain it's doing this at microscopic levels and at macroscopic cosmic levels it's doing this consciousness and this is consciousness it's it's polarizing and depolarizing it's diverging Andry converging and doing this over and over and over again because there's nothing else for consciousness to do but this and it's doing this an infinite variety in infinite situations with infinite intricate 'no sand sophistication and it's producing all of this amazing stuff from televisions to trees to fruit smoothies to to children to animals and everything else species are a great example because species proliferate and go through actually it's called a process of speciation you start off with one species but then usually that species is living in some geographical area but then something happens you know the geology changes a mountain range occurs a new forest grows a new lake forms which then divides let's say a mountain range you know arises which divides what was one unified species now into two species and you know at first they're one species just divided into two geographical areas but then over time because the geography is gonna change the two areas aren't gonna have the same geography let's say this area gets more rain than the other area so this is dry this is wet and so the species I have to change to adapt to the dry or the wet environment and then over over millennia you get totally different species starting from one you see and that's a process of division but of course then what might happen is that over time you know the wind erodes the mountain range and the species now there's a like a little Canyon between the mountain range or somewhere now the species reconverge they meet each other if they can interbreed if they interbreed with each other and now some some now unified new third species comes some sort of hybrid from these two different ones who are still able let's say to interbreed because they're not that far apart yet and then that third one is some new thing which is again you divided and now you reunited them and then of course that third species will go on and the same process will happen with it again and through this process we got all of life on this planet all a variety from bacteria to fungi to plants to single-cell organisms and then mammals birds and humans and primates and then after we got humans in Africa they started to migrate out of Africa that's the the best theory I think we have so far if you track the genetics basically all human genes go back to somewhere in Africa and so hundreds of thousands of years ago maybe even a million years ago humans Homo sapiens emerged from Africa and then started to proliferate and we were basically one species and one race at that point started to proliferate into the Middle East through Egypt I assume and then up from there through Europe and into Russia and into Asia and then into the South East Asia into China and then from there down into Polynesia and into Indonesia and to Australia even and then all the way to Alaska and then through down through Alaska into the Americas and down into the south Americas and then basically that happened and then we got the different races we got the the Asian races we got the African races we got the white northern races we got the Indian race we got the Austin Australian Aboriginal race and we got the Indonesian races and all this and for a long time because there were so few humans and the planet relatively was was so large relative to how few humans it or that we could live in little pockets it was very easy to just go off in the wilderness and start your own tribe I mean it wasn't easy it was very difficult but it was easy in the sense that you didn't have much competition and so during this period there was a proliferation of human races cultures and tribes and civilizations and then they actually many of them became disconnected from each other the aboriginals never spoke with the with the Chinese and the Chinese probably never spoke much with the Europeans for a long time until you know they grew each of these little pockets they grew more and more and more to the point where now they became large civilizations with hundreds of thousands of people in each city you know millions of people in one city and then there was technology there was trade there were ships there was Commerce and so slowly the Europeans the Chinese started to do trade with each other there was the Silk Route and there was trade or seas and eventually the Europeans came over to the Americas and started to do trade and started to interbreed of course now you have interbreeding between different races and so what happens first we had the division which created the different races now we have the interbreeding and intermarriage between different races and so now how we get some sort of mix in between you know white person black person you know they have a child in the chair a child is usually somewhere in the middle you know sometimes there's variants there but usually the child is kind of half light half black or half asian half European or half whatever half European half Native American that's basically what the Mexicans are and the South Americans Spanish plus the original natives and so through this now of course we get a reintegration reunion literally and of course we're still seeing it to this day and we're not nearly done with this process the because globalization is still happening right now and if you think about it if this process keeps going for thousands of years you know as the globe becomes more interconnected airplane travel becomes even faster and better we get supersonic travel maybe we even built teleport machines that allow you to just teleport from one side of the globe to another side of the globe really quickly in an instant what's this gonna do this is gonna erase all of those old boundaries you're not gonna have Europeans and Australians living separately in Africans it's all we're all gonna intermingle and ultimately really there's gonna be one race we're all gonna [ __ ] each other and interbreed until you're not gonna have black people and white people and brown people and yellow people we're all gonna be some lukewarm mix of all that and then what what are you gonna do all those boundaries were erased but it's not gonna end there because of course once we do fully unified by that point we're gonna have space travel we're gonna send humans to different planets maybe even to other solar systems maybe we build a teleportation device inside their solar system and then we can travel there really fast but if we do that then there's gonna be a new diversification see we're gonna begin the whole process over again because some people gonna colonize Mars so be they're going to colonize the moon some people call an eye some other solar system of course each of those will have different geography and again the process of speciation will begin again the people on Mars will do too you know low gravity will grow taller their heads will grow bigger whatever the people on the moon will something else will happen to them people on some aquatic planet will grow flippers and fins and gills and whatever else and then that will happen and then of course after that happens then and then we invent some sort of even faster and better traveling technology we'll be able to get them to start to interbreed with each other and then of course that's just humans what about when humans start to encounter aliens and then of course as soon as we start to encounter aliens we're gonna have sex with them and then we're gonna interbreed or even if we can't physically interbreed for whatever reasons if our genetics are similar enough to allow for viable offspring which is probably likely we could still get their DNA or they can get our DNA and we can do cloning you know by that point we'll be advanced enough to do cloning and we'll do advanced genetic engineering and we can just think like human genes and then alien genes and create some new hybrid creature and then that will happen and then will breed with it mm-hmm if we can and so this this process just is another example of divergence and convergence of consciousness that's what this is but notice that there's a problem when people don't understand that this is what's going on at a high level they get attached to these boundaries and they say oh well but my indian culture is the best culture i got to preserve my indian culture or i got to preserve my american culture or my german culture and then people fight to the death to preserve their german culture or whatever see or their race and then people get scared over things like immigration or cultural appropriation they get offended by this as though somehow it's unnatural for a white man and a black woman to have sex or something like that I mean literally this is what people believe 50 or 100 years ago they would have told you your parents would've told you that it's unnatural for you to to get married with someone of a different race or of a different culture in fact your parents could still probably be telling you that you know I bet for most of you if you're uh like a white woman and you try to try to get married to a black man you bring home a black man your parents are gonna have a problem with it maybe I mean it depends how progressive your parents are but many of them still will see and then people get really defensive about this but what are you defending against I mean these divisions that have happened they're not gonna last see when you see this bigger pattern when you understand what all of life and all of consciousness is doing then you stop resisting the reunion otherwise people act ignorant li and they somehow get offended by reunions happening or they can also get offended by divisions happening - it's not as simple as reunion being good and division being bad in fact good and bad is a division and they need to be reunited you see none of this is good or bad all of it is the play of consciousness see just by using your mind to walk around the world and to judge things that's good this is bad that's good this is bad that itself is the process of consciousness diverging and then converging see the way you were raised most of us in school and by your parents and by your peer group they taught you how to judge they taught you how to divide the world using your mind and then by watching actualize that org a lot you know I teach you the opposite often I teach you how to stop judging I teach you how to see the interconnectedness of diverse things divided things we're using the mind to integrate things here with this teaching most of the time of course we do some division as well but but mostly we're more interested in reunification and so by the time you're done with this work here that we're doing you start to reunite good and bad and you stop looking at the world that way and that's a different way to live life and then your experience of life changes as a result of that usually it becomes better how about war is a great example of unity and division so again we have two groups of people two tribes that separate and isolate themselves and at first there's peace because they're separate they don't interact very much but then as they both grow they start to encroach on each other's territory and they also start to see that all of those other guys they have valuable resources that I might want I might want to steal their land or steal their their a cattle or steal their women or whatever I might want to enslave them and use them for labor I might want to you know steal their houses and live in their houses and so then the two start to plot against each other and this isn't this is division now we have a war but what is a war really a war is one group trying to absorb the other group usually a war is not about total eradication very rarely does one group of people just wish to completely eradicate the other group of people sometimes that happens you know like in really toxic situations like with the Nazis I think that that that was literally their intent was to exterminate the Jews not to absorb them but in most other instances it wasn't like that and in fact even the Nazis didn't have that intention towards other countries around them mostly they wanted to absorb other countries like they didn't go to France and try to exterminate exterminate all the French know they tried to basically absorb the French so but this absorption what is that but réunion to absorb is to reunite now of course then there's a question of who's absorbing who but also it's very interesting because he if the Nazis actually did manage to go to France and to like just so overwhelmed the Europeans that they you know they got a stranglehold over the whole continent militarily and they were able to you know create a hundred year reign of the Third Reich nor whatever and they started to assimilate the French but see it couldn't have been how Hitler fantasised it would be it couldn't just be that all of Europe would be assimilated under the Nazi culture and all the Nazi aryan ideals it would also be that the Nazi ideals would be influenced by the French culture or the Polish culture or the Russian culture or whatever you know they'd they dominated and so there would be a mutual reconnection of the two it wouldn't simply just be that only the Nazi ideals and culture would dominate over everybody else now I'm not saying that would have been equal you know it depends it's not always an equal reunion some some parts can contribute more than other parts but but something new would have resulted from that and that's of course one of the things that someone like Hitler doesn't really quite understand when he's hatching his grand plans for in a world domination but usually the two sides you know after a lot of fighting neither side wins neither side is really happy with the war both sides suffer massive casualties and massive suffering then they realize the stupidity of their ways and then they make a ceasefire and they create a truce and there's an agreement a peace is reached and of course this peace is usually under some larger unified banner so after World War two we got the European Union we got the United Nations these were higher larger umbrella organizations whether Europeans realize that hey you know if we have a third world war we're gonna kill each other forever so we better unite under a larger banner recognize that all stakeholders here have a say everybody deserves to be heard we got to work together coordinate because we got bigger fish to fry rather than fighting each other and that's how it was historically small tribes had to band together through war a lot of times they have to be conquered and dominated to unify them so some big chieftain comes along forcefully unifies the tribes but why does he do that it can seem like it's very oppressive and egotistical to do that but there's a there's an even deeper intelligence behind it is that the unification is necessary because they have a common enemy who's an even bigger tribe somewhere you know on another continent at one point at one point they'll have to face so it's smart for the European nations to band together and create the EU because they got America to deal with they got China to deal with they got Russia to deal with and so if they weren't united they could easily be picked off and divided and conquered by one of those larger powers see so a lot of times the unity is necessitated by a common enemy and for example if aliens came to earth tomorrow Independence Day style and started to attack us if they were stupid egotistical aliens had they started to attack us and they came in violence and not in peace and in love then what would happen all of the petty little disagreements that we have right now between China and Russia and Europe and Africa and America these would all become irrelevant at least for a while while we're fighting off the the aliens because we have to unite as a species to fight off because our survival you know is so threatened that if we don't defeat these aliens and none of us will be alive so of course we're gonna unite and we're gonna fight those aliens and let's say we defeat those aliens yeah the independence a style it's a bit outlandish but let's say we managed to do that okay so we defeat the aliens now what now you know we're united we were divided now we're united but in in this in this reunion we would start to again fight with each other because now the common enemy is gone and now we're gonna get back to our petty squabbles our petty little differences and we're gonna divide ourselves again until some new aliens come and they don't have to reunite again that's what's going on how about clan warfare in the Middle East you got the Sunnis and the Shia's fighting with each other you have dictators like Saddam Hussein who try to unify these tribes into larger nation-states the Middle East is still a very very tribal culture Spa dynamics staged purple in a lot of places in the Middle East so they still have a lot of development and growth to do and in the Middle East it's still difficult just to maintain a country because if you don't have a tyrant like Saddam Hussein holding that collection of people together through cruelty and authoritarian tactics what's most likely to happen is exactly what did happen after the u.s. invaded Iraq and destabilize the region is that the the different competing interests the Sunnis and the Shia's and the Kurds and so forth they all divide up and they each want their own little region they don't want to be united they don't want to have a democracy and then of course larger stakeholders in the region like Iran or maybe even Russia or something you know they also they're opportunistic so they want to exploit these law smaller countries and these smaller new regions they're easy to destabilize they're not as united as they were before under Saddam so now they get in there they infuse money they infuse weapons and military because you know they want control and they want to manipulate all that for their benefit they want the oil and so forth and then you got various terrorist groups that are eyes that want to reunite everybody and some sort of Islamic caliphate and then of course but the Sunnis and Shiites you know that's that's a division within Islam but then each of those if you go on Wikipedia you can research this I was looking at just today they have individual subdivisions within the Sunnis and within the Shiites many of them sometimes up to a dozen different subtypes of Sunnis and subtypes of Shiites she is and and so isn't that interesting is that even the Sunnis and the Shia's themselves can't be united because they have different opinions about how their religion should be organized how it should be actualized and how it should be embodied in the world how it should be taught and so forth what kind of laws should be passed how about the 13 American colonies when the United States was founded the key word there is United it's right there even in the name of the country United States it's a unity of divided things which is just another metaphor for what reality is it's a unity of divided individual things so we had the thirteen colonies originally we had the Articles of Confederation that was prior to the forming of the United States and at that point people were happy with that situation they wanted a lot of independence and autonomy the individual colonies they have many many of the founding fathers were very apprehensive about forming a United States they believed that it should just be 13 individual loose colonies but then higher wisdom prevailed and people realized pretty quickly that hey you know what we're gonna be attacked by them by the by the English we're gonna be attacked by the French maybe we're gonna be attacked by other nations in the future so we got a rally together and so they did and they created the United States but still even though the United States is united as one country still there's a lot of difference in division we have individual states 50 of them they have their own laws their own court systems see so we function as both a unity but not just a total unity of of just a complete merging together we merge together but still remain individual to some degree we remain autonomous to some degree and that's what's happening all up and down the chain of reality of course the European Union is the same thing the EU was formed after World War two that brought economic prosperity and peace to the region which was really good for them but also it brought their own problems because certain players in the EU are not contributing as much of their players certain players are dragging the whole thing down they're exploiting it whatever you know different countries want to maintain their nationalist identities because of course you know those spotlight a message blue people in Poland or in Hungary or in Italy or in France or in Germany they don't like the idea of some European identity they want their German identity they want their Polish identity their what their Hungarian identity they want their Italian identity and so you have nationalist parties rising right now in all these different countries you have brexit what is brexit so we had a reunion of the European uniform ation European Union that was good for a while but now we have we have fractures we have a division with the brexit thing happening but of course see the bridges of thing is so difficult precisely because the Union is so beneficial that it's really difficult to leave it you would think all let's just leave the EU and just be by ourselves well if you do that you're probably gonna have a worse life than you did when you were in the EU but many of those stage Bleu people who are for brexit you know all they care about is their British identity they're basically nationalists and so they don't want to be beholden to some sort of higher entity called the EU and the same thing happens United States you know the United States many right-wingers and conservatives saij blue people they don't like being beholden to some United Nations something larger than the United States yet at the same time if we want to have peace in the world we want a more globalized interconnected world where people can travel freely and do trade freely and easily around the world where we have internet all around the world and people can talk and share around the world we want to have some sort of unified laws see so we have to to interconnect the different nations that's what the EU is for and that's very important but many right-wingers don't understand this they think this can somehow be avoided you can't avoid this the world is gonna become globalized technology will demand it people will demand it Travel will demand it you know you want to be able to travel to someplace in Africa and not get your head chopped off and the only way that's gonna be possible is through globalization see you want to make sure that if you're sitting in America on your computer and some somebody from Nigeria hacks your bank account and steals a bunch of your life savings you want to make sure that you can sue them in court and not have that difference between you know just because there's an atlantic ocean between you two doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to sue some nigerian who stole all of your money in america right now that would be very difficult to do but in a hundred years and a thousand years we're gonna have international laws international courts which will make it very easy to sue people from Nigeria or America or Australia or Canon or wherever else see so those are some of the benefits now of course to get those benefits there are costs so there's like I said there's no purely positive and purely negative there's trade-offs always when you unite things and there's trade-offs when you divide things and that's tricky there's no clear simple black and white answers about how much shouldn't we be united and how much should we be divided it's really a combination it's division within unity within division within unity within division within unity it's a it's a nest picture one of those Russian dolls those nesting dolls that's that's what it's like it's oh it's a fractal of this and it goes all the way up and all the way down try to imagine for example how your body would function if every individual cell in your body wanted to maintain maximum independence and autonomy for itself like and even we could even take this to a to a bigger level like each get in your body let's say that each organ in your body didn't want to unite and coordinate but it wanted to be arrogant and just do whatever wanted to do like your heart was gonna only pump the blood to those places where it wanted to but it wouldn't pump the blood to the kidneys or it wouldn't pump the blood to your hands or to your feet because it didn't like those it wanted to be free see you you couldn't be alive this way to get a complex organism you need sophisticated coordination and this is what many libertarians and right-wingers don't understand about how society and civilization works because they only tout individualism as though an individual's is with some absolute good and freedom as though freedom is an absolute good freedom is not an absolute good and individualism is not an absolute good all of reality is deeply interconnected and no part of reality is totally free or totally independent of the other parts and certainly this is not possible with in any biological life-form in fact the individual cells in your body have to be very selfless and very willing to participate in some sort of larger cause or purpose in order for your body to function as it is because if every cell in your body just wanted to do its own thing and it said [ __ ] you to everybody else I'm just gonna be a libertarian I'm gonna follow the libertarian ideals of just whatever is good for me that doesn't work and of course it doesn't work in a society either humans can't behave this way and still maintain a highly coordinated society where we have amazing things like space travel and jumbo jets and airports and international laws and the internet and so forth for that stuff to happen there needs to be massive coordination it needs to be very sophisticated delicate and nuanced you can't just live as though you're living for yourself if you want to live that way in that kind of society then you're talking about living in a more primitive state than hunter-gatherer tribes in the Amazon because even they need to coordinate significantly to be able to survive in that jungle see this is what the libertarian mind doesn't understand is just how much human life and survival is contingent upon collectivism and it's actually only because of the enormous and sophisticated collectivism collective organization of hundreds and thousands of previous generations of humans that we've been able to become so technologically advanced to the point where now you could be a libertarian in current times and you can sit back and you're in your apartment by yourself thinking that you're an individual and that you're not part of a society and that you can just you should be able to do whatever you want you should just have total freedom you should be free to own a gun you should be free to own a tank should be even a little free to own a rocket launcher you should be able to freeze to say whatever you want to say you should be able to free be free you know I should be able to be free to start a business and to exclude whoever I want I can exclude gay people I can split black people I can exclude some you know short person I don't like whatever because hey you know freedom but that freedom is only possible through this massive collective organization that we have and you have to appreciate your role in that you see it's the height of arrogance to think that somehow you are entitled to freedom and to individualism you're not entitled to these things at all not at all this is a benefit that you earn through lots of coordination and cooperation otherwise you'd probably be dead already your entire family line would have been exterminated a long time ago if humans truly operated on their under these libertarian principles of maximizing freedom and individualism now with that said of course there's also the opposite danger there is a danger of becoming too integrated to merge together it is possible to trample individual right it is possible to create some sort of monstrosity borg collective where everybody is just like a pawn or a cog in the machine so to speak and there's no privacy there's no freedom and you're basically completely enslaved so what's the right way to build society well it's not through any one of these ideologies it's through a very delicate interplay between all the nuances and details of this see which is why no individual ideology like communism or libertarianism or capitalism or whatever else none of these will actually be sufficient to create the kind of society we need to create if it was as simple as coming up with some sort of stupid black-and-white ideology that just said oh we got to maximize workers rights to the hilt or we got to maximize corporate freedom or we got to maximize individual gun rights or whatever if it was that simple we would have already done it and we would be living in a utopia it's not that simple the devil is all in the details and then we're we're politics and economics gets really screwed up is when people adopt these simplistic ideologies thinking that they understand how to build a great society without realizing this very delicate interplay between division and unity which is happening all the time not just in society but you know society is just one instance of a much larger pattern that we're talking about here how about China's treatment of Muslim minorities and the Tibetans you know try it china is trying to build a unified civilization in the hopes of achieving that they're willing to go to great lengths they're building a massive surveillance state their citizens are not able to participate and vote in many ways we might say that China is sort of going towards that extreme of overall a collectivist overly trampling on individual rights you know they don't respect religious minorities they're they're doing terrible things with their Muslim minorities they're sending him into indoctrination camps reeducation camps basically concentration camps treating them terribly you know the stuff they did to the Tibetans quite terrible as well various crackdowns they're doing in Hong Kong also problematic you know but from their point of view what is China doing all this for are they evil is that what they're doing now of course of course not China is actually doing it out of love love of courses Union reunion another word for reunion is love so from the Chinese perspective they're doing this because it's important for them to become a superpower in the world they spent a lot of time in poverty they have over a billion of people most of whom weren't who were in poverty or you know just as recently as fifty years ago and so they need to do a lot of rapid development and they have been doing that and in many ways they're they're outpacing Americans and they're gonna be the biggest nation in the world they're gonna be the biggest superpower in the world pretty soon they're gonna be the biggest economy in the world pretty soon and so they're emerging as a world superpower and from their point of view that's more important than maintaining individual religious rights see now I'm not justifying what they're doing I'm not saying that what they're doing is good or bad there are trade-offs you see the mistake is to look at the China situation to see oh the Chinese are so evil because they don't respect privacy and they're bad to the Tibetans and they're bad to the Muslims no it's a mixed bag there are certain things that the Chinese are doing which are very problematic and there are certain things that our Chinese are doing it which are great which are helping the whole world you know they have mmm giant manufacturing centers that allow for the production of most of the world's products at cheap prices which enables you to enjoy the luxury that you enjoy here in America you see so while you're sitting here simpleminded Lee criticizing the Chinese you're simultaneously not realizing how much you're benefiting from what China's has been doing over the last 50 years see so this isn't about judgment or criticism of anybody it's about realizing that there's something much larger going on in the universe here consciousness is going through a process of polarization and depolarization division and reunion it's not about good and bad it just is what it is before you judge it understand what it is that you're judging understand how complex and sophisticated it is understand that all of your stupid little ideologies whatever they are are utterly inadequate to explain and to understand and to navigate what's coming in the future you know the Roman Empire is a great example of division and reunification there were many different individual city-states all across the Mediterranean the Roman Empire came to power they dominated all the way up to Britain all the way down to Spain and even into Africa and into Egypt and all this they dominate all this land and all the way out to Persia all the way into Germany but then they got too big the Roman Empire was so massive that then started to decay it was hard to keep that order and that giant monopoly on the Mediterranean intact and so slowly the other nations and tribes started to pick them off from the sides there was internal corruption internal division and then it all fell apart and then it reunited 2,000 years later now we have the European Union which in a certain sense is almost like a version 2.0 of the Roman Empire now of course it's not dominated by Rome anymore but but that was in a certain sense like what the European Empire was trying to do what the Emperor's and Caesar and Augustus especially we're trying to do I think they're ideal for the Roman Empire was something like the EU with of course on top so of course that was in their self-interest to do that but but you can see that it wasn't actually an evil intention it was actually coming from a loving place they wanted to unite all the different city states and tribes of the Middle Eastern area so that there could be peace there could be prosperity that could be easy trade there could be roads there could be ship ship travel and there could be common currency right cuz this is good for everybody when you can unite the problem is how do you get millions of diverse divided peoples and entities and organizations to all agree on uniting together you see because they all have their own self agendas they all have their own unique needs the people in the north have different needs and the people in the south and the people in the east versus the people in the West so who gets to say how we structure this Empire and then there's a battle over that and in that battle of how to unite us is the very thing that ends up just dividing us you see the year the Soviet Union similar situation happened there at the height of the Soviet Union there were like 20 different satellite states of the Soviet Union of Russia and then with the fall of communism and the collapse of the Berlin Wall all of that divided see as it's funny because in in Berlin the Berlin Wall you know there's that separation between East and West Germany so as that wall fell and Berlin and Germany got reunited from being divided the opposite thing happened with the Soviet Union the Soviet Union which was united now became divided now you have all these individuals states that split off from Russia interesting how that works is one better than the other no there's trade-offs to each sometimes things get so divided that it becomes untenable unsustainable and a reunion is deeply craved and needed that's what happened for example with East and West Germany in Berlin the Berlin Wall or sometimes you have the opposite is that the Union gets so extreme and it becomes so unstable and untenable that it has to break apart and it has to divide which is what happened with the Soviet Union couldn't be maintained it's very interesting that even spirituality is not immune to this you would think that all will spiritual people because they're there studying this stuff they should have a deep grasp of unity and they should be able to maintain unity at all times but this is obviously not the case if we look at religious history what do we have we have different religions arising different churches at first there United you know Christianity was originally United but of course even when I say that already it's not true because Christianity was a division of Judaism so originally we had what we might say we had a United Judaism but then of course even within Judaism that split apart into various groups one of which became Christianity then the Christians you know they rose to power and they took over the Mediterranean region and it was a united Christianity at first but then that broke apart into the Catholic Church and that broke apart into the Orthodox Christians and the Catholic Church broke apart into the Protestants whereas the Catholics then those broke apart even further than when Christianity came to America that broke apart even further then we got Mormons then we got you know all the different denominations of Christians the I don't even I don't even know them all the Episcopalians the Presbyterians the whatever we thought all those see you see even the most spiritual people can't keep their [ __ ] together they divided and of course Islam was just an offshoot basically of Judaism and Christianity and then of course Islam couldn't keep their [ __ ] together either because then you had the Sunnis yet that Shias you had the whatever the Kurds and others and then each of those even those couldn't keep their [ __ ] together because even they had to split apart even further and of course you might say oh well Leo that's that these are the Abrahamic traditions in the West in the East it's better no it's not it's even worse in the East in the East there was Hinduism tons of different schools of Hinduism in the East there was Buddhism which was basically an offshoot of yoga and Hinduism and then Buddhism itself started to split into the three major schools of Audrianna Theravada and whatever else I'm forgetting the Tibetan Buddhist and then and then those split even further and further further and then you got Sean from China which was the predecessor to Zen then you had Zen in Japan then in Japan Zen split into RINs eyes it rinse eyes in Soto's then and then there's others then Zen came to the west and now in the West we have basically a Western American version of Zen see even Zen you might say Zen is the most hardcore or the most like uncorrupt of spiritual traditions no even they can't keep it together and yoga is this way - what about yoga how many schools of yoga are there there's hundreds hundreds you could even take one school of yoga like take Kriya yoga which I'm a fan of how many versions of Kriya yoga exist probably hundreds why does this happen see that's my question to you I want you to contemplate ask yourself why does this happen why does it keep happening this isn't something that happened once or twice it's not some sort of fluke or accident this always happens why does this happen if there's one God and one truth why does this happen while the war why different sects why different countries why do we care about maintaining borders between countries why do we form different alliances why do we have different tribes that fight each other why do people have a problem with globalism why do people have a problem with nationalism why do we have different races why do people have a problem marrying or having sex with other races why do we have racism I want you to find the larger pattern here look at it from birds I you look at it from a God's eye view how about the example of the rise of the Internet you know when the internet first started there was a massive proliferation almost like speciation of different small mom-and-pop websites everybody was starting their own website their own storefront their own blog their own platform their own social bookmarking site their own social media site their own forum but then over time as the internet became more commercialized things started to solidify more and a lot of these little mom-and-pop web sites and stores and so forth they got at first we had this diversification this division and then we start to get a unit unification we started to get larger platforms that came out on top we got Facebook we got YouTube we got Google we got Amazon we got a few of these key websites that dominate the majority of the Internet there aren't a hundred different video sharing sites there's only one or two there's not a hundred different social you know friend platforms there's like one two maybe I don't even know if myspace is around anymore there's like only one search engine basically oh there's Bing there's a few others but they're so small compared to Google that for all intents purposes there's one there's basically one website that dominates all e-commerce which is Amazon ain't this sort of monopolization of the internet now you might say oh this is terrible well it's terrible from the point of view of little mom-and-pop shops the gold rush era of the Internet is over it's very hard to start your own very successful website these days because most of the niches are already taken and well occupied and it sort of sense that's terrible you know I was I was involved with the internet from the very beginning almost like I remember I was on the Internet in 95 96 and I remember I started my first website I created a website back in 98 it was a Pokemon web site I was into Pokemon I was literally just like 12 years old but I was so interested in the internet I I learned how to do HTML and I coded my own Pokemon website I don't think I even published it live but I like I put a lot of energy into this Pokemon website but it was good it was a good experiment learning experience for you know future stuff that I'd create you know that's no longer possible to really do and so you might say it's terrible that we have a few of these large companies dominating everything well in a certain sense it's terrible but in another sense it's great because you know Amazon's very convenient you can go to one place and buy all your stuff there good prices good shipping the shipping can only be so fast and now they have one-day shipping the only reason you can have one-day shipping is because you have the economy of scale of unifying you know why it's essentially a bunch of different ecommerce sites together into one and that's what allows for really fast shipping and really low prices their profit margins can be a lot smaller than if you had a bunch of mom-and-pop shops same thing with Facebook if we had 10 different friend websites where you meet your friends you know everybody's would have wood it would all be split apart you couldn't really go to one place to talk with all of your friends because one friend would be here other friend would be there you'll be hard to get them all together so the whole value of Facebook is that you unify them all together but of course that value is exactly what's the problem with it because once everybody is unified together it just becomes this incestuous cesspool of just like you know the same friends all jerking off to each other wasting time together and all of them of course being milked and exploited then by Facebook so there's pros and cons where people really go wrong is they get stuck on one end of the pole or the other end of the pole and they either think Facebook is all evil or something or like YouTube is all evil Amazon is all evil and they don't see actually what is being provided there by this unification then we have what's going on in the corporate sector which is we have over the last 50 years there's been a lot of mergers and acquisitions of companies there's been a lot of monopolies making going on in the last 50 years companies because the antitrust laws in America are so terrible they're basically unenforced and so large companies buy up smaller companies they just keep buying him up and buying him up and buying him up and buying him up to the point where it's becoming toxic because it's getting hard to start a company even because these larger companies how do you compete with AT&T how do you compete with Disney how do you compete with Amazon how do you compete with Google how do you compete with coca-cola used to be a lot easier than it is now cuz these companies have hundreds of billions of dollars to to beat all their competitors with and even if you do succeed they'll buy you out in fact that very process of starting a company on being bought out by a bigger company that is the very process we're talking about here of divergence and convergence division and unity because when you start a small company what you're trying to actually do when you start because you want to compete against the big guys so first what you want to do is you want to differentiate yourself from the big guys you want to say that all where this little company we give you personal service we're not these corporate giant overlords we we love our customers more we cater to our customers more blah blah blah so in this way we're differentiating we're dividing ourselves from those giant corporations but then as we grow we become more successful because people like that they come to us they buy our stuff they love it there's a great customer and a corporate relationship that we got going but that grows the business as as we grow bigger as a corporation we become more greedy we stopped caring about our customers as much and we become more interested in reuniting with our competitors so now all the sudden you know once my company is big enough now I want to be bought out by those people that was competitors that I hated because if they can buy me out I can walk away with a giant sum of money I don't have to care about anymore and then this little company that started now becomes a part just an organ in the larger organization of AT&T or Disney or Google or whatever else and then sometimes we even have the opposite trend where companies become so big and so bloated these mergers that even the companies themselves realize that this is not workable even they don't want it so you have giant mergers like AOL Time Warner and then they decided oh we got a we got to split it off sell off a o L or something or you have for example eBay which purchased PayPal and then they spun off PayPal into its own company after they bought it which you would think like why would they do that well because they found that it wasn't it wasn't effective to have this one giant corporation so it was better for them to split off and to be individual and so they did that and maybe in the future they'll reunite again who knows and now that we have these giant monopolies what are we gonna have we're gonna have a populist uprising in America and we're gonna have progressives come into power and they're gonna put some strong antitrust measures into place I'm gonna start splitting up these companies like Facebook Google Amazon AT&T Disney these companies really need to be split up because it's getting to the point where it's really hurting average ordinary citizens because these companies have so much money so much power that they're they're almost getting bigger than the government so they're able to manipulate the government too much see there needs to be a delicate balance between the size of the government inside the corporations because if the corporations become so rich and so powerful they overtake the government then this undermines democracy and then basically you become enslaved to the corporation because you don't have a say in what the corporation does at least with the government you get a vote once every few years not with the corporation not unless you own half of its stock or something like that which nobody does the corporation's basically in a is a tyranny in effect or an oligarchy rather than a democracy see how about the whole process of just birth and life birth is a division or a polarization within consciousness consciousness literally splits itself into two different organisms creating a sharp distinction between two parts of itself then this organism grows up it runs around and eats other organisms see the only way an organism can survive is by eating other organisms unless you're unless you're a plants maybe even if you're vegan you're still eating other organisms you're just really in denial about it so you're eating these other organisms but what is the process of eating just to put one organism in your mouth is already the process of réunion you divided yourself from the other organism now you're eating this other organism you're putting into your body you're reuniting with it you're using his energy to fuel you see then of course your excreting those parts of it that you can't utilize and that process of excretion is a process of division so see just by eating that's a reunion excretion is division then of course to have different mammals you have different genders of mammals that creating of a male or a female mammal is itself now a division sort of within the species then of course that is done so that we could have sex that allows for a reunion in the future so that gets reunited and in that very process of reunion is when a new birth happens so male feeling will come together new birth happens as they're united at the very moment of maximum union is when the next division is created which is literally the next birth so the egg and the sperm come together they meet and then that meeting of them creates a new united entity Hill zygote or whatever you call embryo and and that thing then then grows and separates from the parents creating a new being or a new life pretty cool huh very beautiful when you think about it but it doesn't end there now you have your little embryo you know the fertilized union of the egg and the sperm so they all mixed together to create one cell at first it's just like one cell then what happens how do you get a human you have to subdivide that cell so you cut it in half then you cut that in half you cut that in half cut cutting in half every cell keeps cutting in half and then quickly you get millions and billions and trillions of cells through what a process of division this division all ultimately leads to one unified baby this baby come becomes old enough it divides from the mother there's a division baby comes out cut the umbilical cord now the baby is divided on its own in individuated unit of consciousness but this baby still needs the mother so now there needs to be a new reunion so debate as soon as the baby is divided from the mother in the doctor brings it back to the mother after running a few health checks brings it back to the mother now the baby is sucking on the mothers teat reunion see but of course over the years the baby grows up the baby becomes more independent but the baby still lives with the parents within the family so the family is now a unit but eventually the baby becomes a teenager the teenager starts to rebel against the parents again a division now is forming what was a cohesive family unit now there needs to be a separation because the the teen eventually needs to leave the nest and totally separate from the parents and start their own family and this whole process begins again and of course then the parents die the parents get old and die through a process of reunion the very death of the parents will be a reunion of the parent into infinite consciousness and then the child will grow up and ultimately die as well and when the child dies the parent and the child literally reunite in the very opposite of the birth process tada that's what's going on nothing else but this how about atoms at the physical chemical level you have atoms which are individual units of stuff of matter and then they come up with Maalik they constitute up molecules you know you get a bunch of atoms together that makes a molecule that's a union then those molecules unified together even further to create a protein then those proteins unify further to create a cell which unify further to create an organ which unify further to create an organism which unify further to create a family a tribe ethnicity a nation a planet species how about the way that various intellectual fields sub-specialize so early on in human history there was no science no religion it was all basically philosophy there was one intellectual pursuit which was philosophy which included natural science or the early beginnings of it it included some religion some mysticism and other things like this it even included mathematics but then as these different fields started to develop on their own they started to split off from philosophy so from philosophy we got Natural Science and ultimately modern science and then from philosophy split-off mysticism and religion and and then of course each one of those that split off then itself became further sub specialized so science split off then science split into chemistry biology physics psychology sociology mmm and all the other ologies but then each one of those split even further so physics split into quantum mechanics splitting the general relativity split into cosmology split into us astronomy or yeah astronomy and on and on even even those so within even within quantum mechanics there's different subfields of quantum mechanics same thing with mathematics mathematics split off then mathematics split off into other mathematics you have topology you have statistics you have geometry you have calculus you have trigonometry you have God knows what else and then each of those keeps splitting and splitting and splitting as this happens human knowledge becomes siloed and very fragmented slushee you could spend 50 years studying one little narrow sub sub sub sub sub field without seeing the bigger picture and now what's starting to happen is that scientists and others are starting to realize that wait a minute we can't just go into the direction of infinite specialization forever we need to start to communicate between these different siloed subfields and so now the big trend in academia is you know how do we get different fields talking to each other how do we get like chemistry and biology talking to themselves how do we get psychology and physics talking to themselves what kind of interesting interconnections there and so the science now the newest science the most cutting-edge science is about reuniting what was divided siloed knowledge and so this is now the emergence of systems thinking in holism and now there are attempts to find the grand theory of everything the theory of everything is only found by now taking all of this fragmented knowledge and unifying it together and asking ourselves ok from the big picture if we zoom all the way out what is all of this different science mathematics philosophy religion what is all of it pointing to what is all of it telling us and of course that's that's where my work comes in I'm very interested in holism and theories of everything and so that's kind of what I'm giving you is I'm integrating all the different areas of knowledge from psychology sociology developmental psychology physics and mysticism and religion and all this so we're combining it all together self-help business marketing politics economics we're trying to unify it all so that we can understand like what what is human life about right now science and religion or science and mysticism are separated still and some people believe it should be that way but it's not going to stay that way science and mysticism will reconverge together and that's part of what I'm doing with my work is helping in the future to get that reunion to happen so if we really want to advance science the next level then what we need to do is we need to start to integrate science with the deepest insights of mystics we got a integrate psychic phenomena with with science we got to integrate the first person with the third person the objective with the subjective we need scientists doing meditation we we need scientists doing yoga we need scientists doing psychedelics we scientists having paranormal experiences themselves and studying the stuff and integrating it and then spreading it throughout culture and society now that will happen there's a lot of resistance to it but it's already starting to happen slowly it'll it'll take hundreds of years to fully actualize that but it's starting to happen that's the that's the reunion of science and mysticism see originally 2,000 years ago they were the same discipline then they separated and now they're gonna reunite in the next thousand years how about 3d modeling have you ever 3d modeled something those of you who had I used to be big into 3d modeling I did a lot of work in Maya and 3d studio max was my favorite for 3d modeling work and how do you make a detail 3d model usually the way that I would begin is I would just literally begin with a square you take a cube a cube volume you start with that and then let's say you want to create some sort of creature or dragon or something you take that then you start to subdivide it almost likes subdividing an embryo to create a human it's almost the same process in 3d modeling you start to subdivide the polygons you split it you extrude it extrude it some more extrude some more subdiv that one a little bit more a little bit more and each time you subdivide it you can get finer detail you can subdivide and pull out individual polygons extrude them create legs crates tail create arms create claws create fingers all of this this is a process of subdivision and then what's interesting about it is that you don't stop there once you've got your whole extruded shape the whole dragon let's say then you you actually now you begin the process of reunification now what you do is you create these things called smoothing groups which means that you take individual parts certain subgroups certain subgroups of polygons on your model that you want to be like smoothed out you take those like if you were building a car for example you might take one side of the car combine these polygons on the door and then you apply a smoothing group to it designating this to be one kind of smooth shape and then you create another smoothing group for the top of the car for the roof another one for the hood another one for the taillights and front lights and so forth and in this way you create these different smoothing groups and then you assign different textures to it and then ultimately all of this subdivision and all of this reunification creates the ultimate grand unity of the one individual model object that then you can take you could put that into a 3d scene you might have built a scene with different other 3d objects you take individual objects were divided objects individual files right each model has its own file but then you can come combine them all into one scene like if you're creating a movie or something or a video game put it all into one scene which is made up of individual distinct files that it's pulling objects from and then you can render that to create one unified picture or movie or whatever how about caste systems like in India they had the caste system of different hierarchy of castes and now that that caste system is started to crumble in Europe there was also a caste system it was called the ancien régime and then with the French Revolution what that was about was breaking down the caste system because before the French Revolution you had the aristocrats and the nobility and the landowners then you had all the sort of like serfs and plebs down below then you had the bourgeois class all this and all of this had to kind of crumble with the French Revolution and now in the West we don't really have a caste system although now with rampant capitalism run amok and neoliberalism run amok what we're getting is we're sort of getting a new caste system which isn't based on titles and nobility and our stock recei but is based purely on your wealth so we're now starting to get a division this gross income inequality where the millionaires and billionaires are getting richer and the rest of the 99% are stagnating and even experiencing a decline in their in their in their wealth and so this has been going on for the last 30 or 40 years in America especially since basically Reagan came into power and now it's coming to a head people are getting pissed off about it we're having populist uprisings and eventually this is not going to be sustainable this gross income inequality is not gonna be sustainable and they're gonna have to be right now there's a division that was created in last 30 or 40 years since Reagan that divisions gonna have to collapse s there's gonna be a redistribution of wealth which is why there's a now a renewed interest in talking about socialism people like Bernie Sanders and so forth coming to the prominence and popularity and this will just keep going more and more and more there will be a more and more interest in socialism as the income gap grows wider and wider and wider and then if if someone like Bernie Sanders comes to power or some other Democratic Socialist comes to power then they will try to narrow that gap by doing a redistribution of wealth the mistake that many people make is they they they think that there's one absolute good here they think that either redistributing wealth is the best or capitalism rampant capitalism is the best but that's not the case the case is that it's a delicate balance between these two things and it's going to change over time depending on what is needed at the time when this is not understood that only deepens our problem because people get ideological about like all taxation is evil or socialism is evil or redistribution of wealth is evil no it's not but neither is capitalism evil to see people also then if they like redistribution of wealth then they get this idea that well if socialism is good that means capitalism must be evil but that's also not right both extremes are wrong which is not to say that we take the middle point between the two it's a dynamic equilibrium it depends right now our pendulum has been swung so far to the to the right with neoliberalism and with rampant capitalism in libertarianism that now it needs to swing back to the left to socialism and democratic socialism and redistribution of wealth and higher taxation and populism once that is you know goes too far then we got to swing it back again to the opposite end how about the social justice warriors versus the anti-socialist warriors so the social justice warriors are the ones who want more unity and the anti social justice warriors are the ones who might want more individualism and less collectivism more division how about the example of global warming how does global what are we happy well there are oil deposits separated divided from each other all over the earth underground a bunch of different pools of oil all separate and divided we also have a bunch of ice on mountain ranges and in the North Pole and in the South Pole this ice is water that has been separated and divided from the ocean from the ordinary hydrological cycle so this ice doesn't really change much it just kind of sits there it's locked divided but then as we tap the soil suck it out and burn it what happens is that we reunite the oil with the rest of the planetary system it used to be locked into just a pool now we reunite the oil with the atmosphere by melting it as we do that of course the planet warms up and this melts the ice on the the locked ice on the north and south pole and on the mountain ranges and as this happens we're reuniting that divided and separated ice with the with the ocean and the the kind of normal functional hydrological cycle it's no longer locked of course that increases the the whole diameter of all the water on the planet leading till rising sea levels and as that's happening what's happening is that we're actually taking and we're taking the energy because the energy of the of the core of the planet which is really hot at the center of the planet and we're reuniting that we're we're merging that with the outer cold temperature of outer space in which the planet is situated so constantly temperature from the plant is leaking from the atmosphere and so forth into outer space trying to create an equilibrium between outer space and the earth so eventually over billions of years if the earth just sits here it will all of its internal temperature will dissipate out into space and it will become cold and then of course the Sun is doing the same thing it's it's the leaking energy out from its core some of it is hitting the earth warming up the earth so the temperature difference between the Earth and the Sun there's a we might say there's a division between the two because one is low temperature there's high temperature but that Sun is leaking its energy out and it's trying to find an equilibrium an equilibrium just means a reunion and eventually the Sun will burn itself out and reunite with the empty space that it's found in how about within relationships intimate relationships at first you two are totally divided man and woman let's say then you two meet you start to date start to fall in love romance happens and you're both desperate to get together and to reunite and so you do that you reunite you have sex it's wonderful that's what you really want but do you want to stay in that Union forever of course not as soon as you have sex immediately there's a countervailing force which pushes you apart and now you want your space you're too close together it's too much intimacy so you want to separate after sex but then of course you like the sex so you want to come back together have sex again so you do that but then the more you have sex the more you want to separate again and so the more you have sex the more you fight the more you fight the more you make up the more you make up the more you fight again and so there's this this delicate balancing act between intimacy and distance which is happening all the time because the problem with too much intimacy is that you lose your sense of identity in your sense of selfhood your sense of autonomy you know you to move in together and now all the sudden your life feels cramped you can't you can't have all the same freedoms you used to have once you're moved in with your girlfriend or your boyfriend now you got to share the same toilet the same bed the same kitchen and all this not that leads to more fighting then when you used to leave live separately of course there's benefits that come with it too eventually maybe you get married of course that is a reunion but then the marriage becomes 2 to 2 United to be comfortable you want your autonomy back so you get divorced right that's all this is that's all it is how about gender roles genders are first divided into male and female for many thousands of years mankind has lived this way because that was important a strong division between male and female was important because the physiological difference between the two were more prominent important back then when technology wasn't sophisticated now the technology has equalized men and women at a physical level now that physical prowess is not so important anymore now male and female can can basically do the same job in many cases and also the importance of the family is less important now that we have overpopulation and so this old notion of being gay versus being straight the importance of being straight is not a big deal anymore and so now we have um more people going gay we have people blending the boundary between male and female transgenderism and various other kinds of genders and people want to use gender different gender pronouns and all this sort of stuff and this is freaking out a lot of traditional people why is it freaking them out because the old boundaries are getting questioned and broken down but really if you understood this giant perspective that I'm sharing with you here is you would have understood that there's nothing sacred about the male-female boundary or between gay and straight one is not better than the other these are artificial boundaries these boundaries were created these boundaries will be destroyed division and reunion we've had a lot of division on this front for thousands of years now we're getting some reunion but people are people are worried about it you know there's a big brouhaha about transgender bathrooms what is that literally people want to reunite bathrooms after they've been divided for thousands of years and then people freaked out over it well you wouldn't freak out if you saw this larger perspective that I'm sharing with you which is not to say that you have to have only one bathroom there might be some value in keeping them divided but also if it turns out that there's value in uniting them you should be open to uniting them see this is what it means to have an open mind you're not attached to anything you're willing to go with whatever works not with some tradition or some ideology that was programmed into your mind by some people in the past we have a lot of different cuisines where are these cuisines come from we have the French cuisine Italian cuisine Japanese cuisine Chinese cuisine Indian cuisine you know these were developed over a thousands of years because these different ethnic groups lived in different parts of the world which had different fruits different vegetables different animals different products they had to use what was local to feed themselves and of course around this developed different kinds of cuisines but now we have a fusion of cuisines that's what it's called fusion there are fusion restaurants which combined French and Japanese this is like the latest trend in fine fine dining combining different cuisines American with Italian or Italian with Chinese or whatever and then you get interesting new combinations but then some people are purists and they say well you know that's not authentic Italian food that's not authentic Japanese food because you've corrupted it by unifying it with or fusing it with French or with something else you know they want the pure bread they want the original French fruit unadulterated by any other influences but if you take that rigid position then you're missing out on the beautiful fusions that could fusion dishes that could be created you see there's there's pros and cons there's certain value in maintaining the integrity and purity of French cuisine as it used to be in the olden days but then there's a lot of amazing stuff that you'll miss out on if you are just closed-minded in that way and to purist you're gonna miss out on a bunch of like cool fusion dishes but then also if you fuse all the cuisines together that's also not good because if everything is fused together just becomes one muddled mess you know you don't want to go to restaurant which literally fuses Japanese Chinese French Italian American Russian and African all into one single dish that would probably taste very gross and then if you had only one dish in the world you would be sick of it you'd want diversity imagine if we made a soup out of every ingredient that every culture on the whole planet ate this giant stew this infinite stew which is just as a complete muddled mess it has a flavor of everything has sugar pepper salt you know garlic in there fish and meat and vegetables and fruits all of it together into one this would be the nastiest thing and you'd be so sick and tired of eating it every day you'd want something more individuated and you'd invent it and that is literally what the universe is doing see the universe started out as this giant infinite stew completely undifferentiated but then it's sort of you might say it got bored with itself and it wanted to differentiate itself and to specialize speciaiiy itself into all sorts of different ways but then as soon as it did that now it got lonely and it got frustrated with all the divisional limitation created now it has to reunify itself and get back to that original stew state that's what death is and then once you're dead then you'll be bored of that and then you'll come back and you'll you'll incarnate is something else some other creature and then you'll get bored of that and then you'll go back into the infinite stew then you'll come back out again actually looking at the example of stars is really cool you know I was talking about the Sun earlier so the Sun will eventually release all of its gases or actually no let's let's redo that how does it start even get born the Sun gets bored by a bunch of diffuse gases in matter uniting together under gravity gravity is the force of réunion literally the physical force of réunion is gravity it's really the physical equivalent of love matter reunites together creates a giant ball of hot gas that's the Sun these atoms first it's very light atoms like hydrogen and lithium and so forth they fuse together and create heavier atoms and heavier atoms and heavier so really what's happening you might say is that the molecules are basically having sex with each other and creating denser and denser molecules and this whole thing is becoming this denser and denser denser denser ball of of matter in the Sun until eventually the fusion becomes so dense it's such a deep reunion that it explodes and a bunch of this matter flies out throughout the universe but also a bunch of it clumps together even further creating a dense black hole a black hole is like the ultimate culmination of reunion and then this black hole now sucks the stuff into it because it has so much gravity is so dense that even light can't escape it after a certain you know after paths the event horizon and so that's just like sucking everything in is it becomes so so dense it's just like a black hole is basically the physical embodiment of love of course the love is so deep it'll kill you so don't come close but that's what love does see if love is too strong literally it kills you which is why you're terrified love the ego is because the ego is built on division the ego is a division it came out of unity so the ego is always struggling to maintain its division from its environment and reunion is what the ego calls death but even the black hole it doesn't stop there the black hole doesn't just stay a black hole there's out actually something called Hawking radiation which means that the black hole gradually radiates from from like the north and south at the poles it gradually radiates little particles molecules so that all the stuff and all the information particles it sucks in eventually over millions and billions of years we'll all radiate out in the black hole will dissipate so this is just an example of how a perfect reunion can't stay a reunion forever it will divide itself again and what about the Big Bang our entire universe as they say started out just a little tiny singularity smaller than a mustard seed that was all the matter in the universe all the energy and matter in the universe was just you know the like a little mustard seed including you and me all of us were over this little dot and then what happened it polarized it exploded it inflated and then out of this came hundreds of different atoms molecules and things you know quarks and leptons and protons and neutrons and electrons and whatever other kind of weird particles exist all that came out of this that was the process of polarization from that came the planet came the Sun different solar systems came humans came animals all this stuff human societies all the technology we have today came from all that that was the process of polarization and then what's gonna happen and what's happening now is that eventually the whole thing is is gonna start to approach heat death the universe will cool down and cool down everything will kind of equalize into that infinite stew until it becomes a totally indistinguishable unity and notice when it becomes a total indistinguishable unity you might say well so then how does the universe restart because if it started as a little dot and now it blows up and spreads out and just becomes totally flat and even then that's it it seems like the universe just kind of exhausted itself and it was just this one bang and that's it but here's the trick that many scientists and others don't understand is that if this thing flattens out into a completely indistinct massive infinitely flat object that infinitely flat indistinguishable thing is indistinguishable from the singularity from which it originated so literally the end is the beginning therefore creating a perfect strange loop such that when the universe ends it will just be the beginning of the next universe that's one possibility I'm not sure that that's exactly what will happen scientists are still debating about whether there's gonna be an infinite expansion and a total heat death or whether the universe because you know the space-time can be curved different ways the universe might expand out to a certain point and then they'll start to contract back in but if that happens that also leads to the same result because if it does start to with what's called do the Big Crunch you know it goes out expands then it starts to crunch back together eventually it'll all merge back together to the into the one little tiny singularity that will be the complete reunion of all energy and matter and then once that happens of course it'll blow up again and the whole thing will begin anew but really there's not much of a difference between whether it does the Big Crunch or it does what's called the big rip the big rip just means that it expands out forever and just becomes completely indistinct because either way zero and infinity are identical the beginning in the end are identical it's a perfect loop reality is and so if you have a singularity just imagine it this way if you take a circle and you collapse it down to a to a point with zero dimension that point as soon as it literally has zero dimension it also simultaneously expands out and has infinite radius zero radius and infinite radius are actually identical this is what a lot of scientists don't understand see that's one of the benefits so understanding on duality then you can understand the stuff and then you can do better cosmology and better physics and so forth and finally I'd like to point out to you what entropy is entropy maybe you heard of this this is a physical concept which is traditionally defined as a measure of disorder or order depends on whether you say there's high entropy or low entropy so usually high entropy means a lot of disorder low entropy means a lot of order but scientists don't quite fully understand what this is they treat it mathematically but what does entropy really mean entropy is just a measure of unity or division because unity is the inverse of division and divisions are Cu inverse of unity and so entropy usually is called like chaos as a measure of chaos so high entropy means that a system is very disordered and like in a high entropy system you can't have life for example because life depends on order basically a lot of randomness but that's not really what entropy is entropy is not chaos or disorder entropy is high entropy is unity total unity a lack of distinction a lack of division where you can't tell anything apart total unity is God or love as an absolute it's absolute truth that's what we're trying to reach with awakening is to realize total unity you might say it's that state of the singularity before the Big Bang and then low entropy and what life is really all about is about division so entropy is a concept from thermodynamics that basically tells us how all of life unfolds how all of physics unfolds how molecules spread themselves throughout the universe and so of course all that molecules are doing is they are moving towards greater and greater levels of unity and this drives everything this drives your air conditioning this drives your car this drives the Sun this drives your metabolism of your body everything is driven by by heat and by fluctuations and entropy basically see to have motion at all the only way we can have motion is through a division because you need to create one position here and one position here that means there needs to be a difference between positions and now only now can we have a sense of motion and then to actually fuel that motion with energy there needs to be an energy gradient there needs to be high energy here low energy here and then there needs to be some sort of like path that goes from high energy to low energy so that they they equalized out but after they completely equalize out if all positions and all energies equalize throughout the whole universe and there's no differences in distinctions between anything anymore literally we're in total unity and so of course in total unity and total non-duality in total oneness you can't have anything distinct you can't have anything specific and of any forms you can't have any motion there isn't a sense of time if you want those things if you want motion division space-time you have to divide consciousness and that's the key that science doesn't understand yet is that science thinks is these are physical processes that are happening randomly accidentally for whatever unknown reasons that's not what's really happening what's really happening is that this is consciousness subdividing itself intelligently on purpose by design so that it could experience itself as God and as love this is what God is so what science that understand is that science is in the business of studying God it's just that science is always looking at a little at God through a through a little magnifying glass so it's always looking to narrow to actually see the the entirety of God because to see the entirety of God you need to completely zoom out you got to take off your glasses and all of your microscopes and telescopes you got a completely zoom out and then you see God and then you can zoom in and you can see individual aspects and parts of God facets of God of which there is an infinite amount of them but that's that's what science is doing but it doesn't know that it's doing this because it's too it's too siloed and it's not holistic enough to realize this yet it's not conscious enough yet this is a meta scientific discovery because science itself is a division within consciousness so the recent science can't understand the ultimate nature of consciousness is because science is just a small part of consciousness whereas consciousness is the totality you can't grasp the totality with the part science is in the business of dividing consciousness whereas to grasp what consciousness is you need to be in the business of unifying consciousness and that is where mysticism and meditation and yoga come into play in fact yoga literally means in Sanskrit Union Union the union of all things and especially subject and object perceiver and perceived life and death matter and energy mind and body that's the business of yoga see and if if scientists actually did some seriously okay they would understand this but they don't but they will in the future so we're getting there I'm getting there see here's an interesting little thought experiment let's say we take a container just a glass box and we put two gases in it and we put a glass sheet or barrier between the two so that we have two gases that are different now they're divided what's gonna happen over time over time this glass barrier is going to decay little holes we're gonna form it's gonna rot it might take thousands of years but eventually the glass barrier will decay the seals in the barrier will will have to break down and when that happens these two gases will start to mix together and mix together until they're completely mixed and you just have one uniform container and if we wait long enough even the outside of the container will all dissolve and decay and unify and if we wait really really long all of it will just become one unified indistinguishable stew an infinite stew of particles perfectly even that would be the highest entropy that would be perfect unity see and this is the natural tendency of all systems take any sort of ordered system like you could build a statue you could build a house you could build a car you could you know build a snowman outdoors and then just leave it there and see what happens build a skyscraper or leave it there for a thousand years see what happens it's gonna all crumble and collapse all the order is going to all the division that you did to maintain that it's all gonna break down and it's all going to unify so what does life have to do to fight against that see if you want if you're interested in maintaining a certain shape or structure like let's say you build a snowman and you really want that snowman to keep being a snowman for longer than a few days what needs to happen you need to give that program thatthat snowman some programming instructions which allow it to move in its environment in such a way that maintains its snowman shape you're gonna have to tell that snowman to avoid the Sun during the day hide under a tree call me the gold code live inside of a refrigerator for a while then maybe come back out in the wind in the winter time and during the summertime you got a hibernate otherwise you'll die you got a program the snowman with fear fear of the Sun fear of the summer fear of stoves fear of anything that will melt that snowman see and if you do that then that snowman might live for longer than a few days maybe they'll live for a week maybe for a month maybe for a year maybe for a hundred years but eventually it will die it will melt and once it does melt it will unify with its surroundings and it will become infinite love see the snowman came for love and it returns back to love just like you it's really crucial to appreciate that unification comes with costs and benefits it's not an absolute good even the ultimate unification of death comes with costs and benefits so when you fully merge into infinite love what's the cost the benefit is that you're in total peace you're an infinite bliss and there's no more problems there's no more survival there's no more worry you don't have to worry about sex you know if they worry about money you don't have to worry about any of the human stuff you've worried about and you're perfectly at peace and happy but the downside is is that you're totally indistinct you're not any particular way you're no way whatsoever you're nothing the downside of that is that you can't enjoy an ice cream cone you can't know what it what vanilla tastes like you can't enjoy sex you can't know whether a human being is you can't enjoy having a cat or a dog because you literally are merged with the cat and dog you are the vanilla you are the sex you are every possible thing merged into one thing see so if you want to know what vanilla tastes like you have to incarnate as a human if you want to know what sex is you need to divide yourself into male and female so that you could reunite and have sex if you want to know what war is you could divide yourself into two rival tribes and then go kill each other if you want to know what death is you have to have life if you want to know what reunion feels like you have to divide yourself see if you're totally reunited you're so reunited that you don't even have a way to tell what it feels like to be United you're so United that there's not even a difference or a distinction between unity and division see so if you want to know what it feels like to reunite you have to divide if you want to know what it feels like to become God you have to create the illusion of not being God that's a very real trade-off that's the only problem with God is that God is nothing and so totally indistinct that it can't even really know itself because even the process of knowing oneself requires there to be a knower and a known because knowledge is a dualistic divisive enterprise or pursuit God can't really know itself because it is itself God can only know itself through a limited incarnation and then of course all knowledge of God becomes limited because it's divisive knowledge by its very nature is divisive and then people wonder well why can't I know God why doesn't God reveal itself to me because God is nothing God is completely indistinct how can God reveal itself to you when the nature of God is lack of distinction to ask God to reveal itself to you is to ask God to limit itself for you see that's a problem because if God showed up to you and in the form of Jesus or if God showed up to you in the form of Ganesha or God showed up to you in whatever form a bearded man in the clouds you know whatever you would think oh my god that's what God is it's that it's that shape but that's not what God is ultimately God is totally indistinct it's nothing you see but humans are constantly confused by this because God does reveal itself and make itself known to humans through various mystical visions and so forth and then people get hung up on down and say oh well God looks like an elephant God looks like a bearded man God looks like Jesus God looks like the mother Mary God looks like something else but that's just one manifestation of God actually God is totally infinite and indistinct which means you can't grab spit you can't define it you can't say it's like this you can't draw a picture of it see which is why the Muslims are smart not to draw pictures of God of Allah and of Muhammad they do that because to draw any picture of Allah would be to diminish Allah to be true to Allah you got to leave Allah under on but then the scientists and atheists they make the mistake of thinking that all well if you can't draw God that means that God doesn't exist no he's just not understanding the situation people often resist unification and they sometimes hold unification as oppression but uh oftentimes unification only happens through great pressure you know oftentimes reunification requires war death cruelty torture murder rape of power that's part of the totality of what's going on to understand this helps you to come to peace with all the evil that happens in the world because really all the evil that happens in the world it's often just pressure to reunify it's for you reunification happening in a sort of twisted perverted way they see like ultimately Hitler was acting out of love with what he was doing his master plan was based on love but don't get me wrong it was it was very problematic in the sense that the way he was going about it was delusional because he was trying to create a unified culture or a society by conquering others he was literally trying to reunify the world through division which is insanity see literally insanity wouldn't try to do that but at the same time he sort of succeeded because after World War two led to the higher union of a European Union I don't think people would have been down for a European Union had there not been fifty million lives lost in World War two the lives lost in World War two is what was necessary to to wake people up to the idea that okay we need to unify see that's the deeper intelligence of everything that's happening I want you to notice that that even in all the evil stuff that is supposedly happening around the world all of it ultimately has a deeper intelligence you just aren't conscious of it because you're not looking at it with a wide-enough perspective now you might say that well Leo you're just justifying evil now but what you don't understand is that there is no such thing as evil there's only love there's only intelligence but from your little egotistical perspective it certainly seems like there is evil and certainly threatens you that it seems like what I'm telling you is some sort of justification for evil it's not at all I'm not talking about justifying or rationalizing anything I'm talking about how God works it's not about justifying behaviors it's about understanding the structure of all of reality and why it unfolds exactly as it unfolds the fundamental rule of reality is this that all divided entities will reunite and all unified entities will divide another fundamental rule of reality is that no one part can gain a monopoly over the whole because the whole is unlimited in every part is limited the limited will never conquer the unlimited no matter how hard it tries so it's futile all such efforts will fail right now the human species has been gaining a monopoly on this planet but this cannot last eventually the human species will not be able to maintain a monopoly on this planet so it's important to keep that in mind so that we stay humble and don't turn into massive Devils see ultimately what God is doing with it with its infinite intelligence is that it's it's seeking to maximize diversity of form because that's what it is that's what infinity is its diversity of form it's the maximum possible diversity of form so what God is its ultimate unity through diversity diversity is not the opposite of unity it is the very definition of unity in the same way that in mathematics if we take the natural number line from zero to infinity C infinity doesn't mean some very large number at the very end of that line that's not what if it means infinity means all the numbers endlessly forever together but also distinct so infinity is not a single digit out in the future somewhere on this number line infinity is zero and one and two and three and four and five and six and seven and eight and nine and ten all at once that's infinity infinity is not a number see but even that is way too limited because here what we're talking about infinity in and the natural numbers only but actual infinity absolute infinity what God is is the infinity of all possible forms not just numbers it's the ultimate unity of all diversity and why does God want diversity because that is the expression of of what it is it's pure infinite creative potential see nothing gives God greater joy so to speak than expressing its own true nature in the same way that like if you're a great singer nothing gives you more joy than singing for other people if you're a great musician nothing gives you more pleasure than then playing the violin let's say or piano for other people but if you're infinite creative intelligence and pure potential if you're infinity nothing gives you more joy than to spawn infinite diversity and to share that with who who are you gonna share with yourself because there's nothing but you you're one when your infinite you're one so you can't share your own self with anyone but yourself so what you do is you separate yourself fragment yourself into a million different pieces and then you share the joy of God with all those pieces by having them reunite and recreate you and this process goes on forever and that's what reality is and that's what your life is dada and evolution evolution is not just a biological process that doesn't happen through random mutations evolution is a universal process of differentiation and reunion Unova Lucian is driven by love and by intelligence and the key to evolution is maintaining this delicate balance intricate balance infinitely intricate balance between division and unity if you get too much division you get hell if you get too much unity you get hell you need something in between and there's no simple rules for how to balance this it has to actually unfold beware of ideologues who hold division or unity as absolute goods or beware of people who make a do allottee out of division and unity as though these two are separate things they're not separate things there are really two types of unity there is unity with a lowercase U and there's unity with a uppercase u the unity is an absolute versus unity is relative relative unity is the unity which is opposite of division absolute unity is the realization that actually the division between unity and division itself is relative and that therefore all of it is included into one single hole see unity with a capital u is a unity which includes infinite division and in fact there cannot be a unity unless there is division because how can things be united unless division is included in the unity you see if God was to exclude division from itself then it wouldn't be total it wouldn't be a true unity a true unity necessitates its own division TV infinite requires that infinity includes finiteness in the same way that look to have infinity on the number line we can't exclude the number one or zero or two or three or anything infinity on a number line includes all the numbers as soon as you exclude one number it's no longer infinity the mistake people make is they think that infinity is something separate from the number one two three four or five no it includes all those and then it goes on forever it's endless it's very important that you don't cling to division or to unity too much but that you appreciate the importance and interplay between the two sort of like the yin and the yang they're both necessary and important beautiful and valuable and also to realize that both are impermanent see my episode called understanding impermanence where I talk about this so there you have it life and reality is one giant fractal of infinite consciousness this fractal is guy this fractal is you this fractal is love this fractal is division and it is unity your birth was a division and your death will be a reunion and everything that happens in between will just be variations on that theme and nothing else can happen in reality because reality is nothing but diff Suzanne distinctions imagined by infinite mind and then unimaginable in Atlanta unimaginative distinction you just reunite what was distinct and the two were never really distinct all of it was just one unity with an upper case you over the next week I'd like you to do this homework assignment which is simply to walk around and notice how every object and situation around you is an example of in some way division and unity the car you drive the dog you have the children you have the spouse you interact with the stuff you see on the evening news what's going on in politics or in the economy when you open your closet in the morning and you look at which clothes to put on notice how all of this is variations on division and unity and the more you do that the more you will start to appreciate the wonder and magic of of life and the more all of it will start to make sense and the more appropriate your behaviors and reactions will be to what's going on around you see notice how you yourself and everything your mind is doing is also intimate intimately related with this process of unity and division how your mind is constantly dividing the world and then also reuniting the world by listening to teachings like this one all right that's it I'm done here please click that like button for me and come check out actualize that world yes my website you could find the book list you can find my blog you can find a life purpose course other resources I'll be releasing in the future the forum's there if you'd like to support me on patreon you can do that by finding a link down below actualized you know it's so yeah it's patreon.com slash actualized if you'd like to support this work so I can release more content in the future and maybe do a little bit of advertising have a little bit of budget for that I appreciate those who support me and the last thing they'll tell you is isn't it nice to be able to understand what the hell is going on in life like I want you to just appreciate how powerful understanding is just understanding not necessarily something changes in your life but just the very fact that you understand something at a high enough level that's a big deal that changes you it changes how you look at the world and it will certainly change your behaviors and attitudes in the future as well actualized that work from the very beginning has been one of its highest values has been holism I want this to be a meta teaching a teaching of all possible teachings sort of a grand theory of everything even though of course a theory or everything isn't really possible because everything is not a theory for that you need actual awakening but still there are some teachings most teachings which are very limited very partial locked into a little paradigm whether it's science or religion or even yoga or mysticism even even teachings on non duality I hope you've noticed by now if you studied some of it read some books they tend to be very narrow and limited they're not really holistic they're not really interested in comparing multiple perspectives very few enlightenment teachers really have a holistic understanding of enlightenment they're usually coming at it from a very narrow tradition one pathway that they came at it from whether it was Hinduism Buddhism Zen advisor loga Christianity whatever maybe they got some awakening but it's still limited it's still limited so one of my goals from the very beginning was to not do that to not fall into that trap to to present a teaching that was truly holistic and that really took into account science math physics evolution religion mysticism psychology sociology history in politics and all of it of course one of the challenges are trade-offs of this endeavor is that it's very sprawling right it it's it's not only is it wide but it's also deep at the same time which means that there's a lot more volume to it which means there's a lot more to listen to it takes a lot more time from you to understand it but also it's it's really is amazing when you're able to get this amount of breadth and depth in in a teaching and in your understanding of reality that's really the only reason I'm even passionate about shooting this material is that I wouldn't do it if I have to just narrowly teach one teaching the only reason I do it is because I'm passionate about the diversity of it the breadth of it and also the depth of it to show you how enormous reality is how enormous you are see to me a small narrow teaching isn't actually true or faithful to what the universe is because the universe is not small and narrow the universe is infinitely wide and infinitely deep and so I feel that a teaching needs to reflect that otherwise it's not really a true teaching it's too limited and partial now even though I say this of course my teachings are still limited and still partial it's impossible to have an infinite teaching but you know it's a matter of degree some teachings are broader than others some teachings are deeper than others and some teachings are both broader and deeper than others so if you like that stuff then you're in the right place we have more common in the future stylist agent you