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explicit versus implicit understanding the point of this episode is to give you a deeper understanding of understanding what is understanding have you ever wondered about that how does understanding work it's a very mysterious thing understanding is not the same thing as knowledge you can know for example that the Eiffel Tower is located in France you can know that as a fact that's well and good could be true could be false so you could of course have a false belief false knowledge but that's not the same thing as understanding to understand something for example when you understand how the engine in your car works that's a different thing than just factual knowledge there's understanding there when you understand how your computer works or something like that understanding is actually one of these things that we take totally for granted yet we're using it all the time throughout life it's actually a very mysterious thing and it's hard to put your finger on what exactly understanding is because it's so vague and amorphous and yet it's so central to how we live life it's so important and that's exactly the point is that it's amorphous so we're gonna have to work with that and this episode here is going to be just the beginnings of laying the foundation for understanding what understanding is by the end of this episode you're still not going to understand what understanding is but you'll be a little bit closer and to get you there we're gonna be talking about the difference this distinction that I call the explicit versus the implicit distinction there are really sort of two types of understanding explicit and implicit so what does this mean let's give you a bunch of examples and definitions so explicit here I just pulled these from the dictionary just went online and pulled a bunch of different dictionary definitions for explicit this is illuminating let's take a read here vote fully revealed or expressed without vagueness implication or ambiguity fully developed or formulated unambiguous in expression definite specific specific and exact fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated leaving nothing merely implied described or shown in realistic detail definite and unreserved an expression outspoken so that's explicit in other words this is stuff that's concrete that's material that's manifest that's actualized these are all synonyms for that now let's contrast that with implicit quote capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed implied tacit unspoken not stated directly involved in the nature or essence of something though not revealed expressed or developed potential something is understood but not clearly stated involved in Tangled suggested but not communicated directly that's implicit in other words are actualized unmanifest or the essence of a thing the amorphous essence of a thing that can't be quite put into words so of course explicit versus implicit this is a duality one of many many dualities that we've talked about definitely make sure you watch my three-part series called understanding duality where I give you a list of hundreds of different dualities and I explain how they work and how they reconcile and how they collapse so the key here lesson that I want you to bring in from that three-part series is remember I told you that all dualities must eventually collapse and of course that's going to be the case with implicit and explicit as well but for now before we start collapsing them let's first work to separate them in order to distinguish them so that they're clear in your mind because right now it's a confused mess for most people so reality of course is both made out of explicit things but also implicit things and it's the implicit that I really want to focus on because the explicit is kind of obvious and we all know about it it's all the material stuff of life the stuff that's just spelled out it doesn't take a lot of intelligence or consciousness to to understand but then there's the implicit so the problem here is that society and science because these are collective social endeavors both society is and Sciences science is a social endeavor if you don't know they both have a bias towards the explicit why is that well of course because when you're working collectively with other people it's really helpful to be able to communicate and to express your understanding otherwise how do we come together and create a set of norms or how do we build a consensus that's what science is science is building of a consensus amongst a group of many people it's a cultural activity it's not merely measuring things it's measuring things but then agreeing on our measurements agreeing on our standards of measure and so forth agreeing on how to interpret what we're measuring and then society at large of course we need to come up with laws rules ethics norms for how to create a good decent peaceful society and for that we need to come to some sort of consensus so there's this inherent bias just in the fact that we're being social creatures that we tend to favor that but that becomes a problem because then there's the other side of the coin the implicit aspect of reality which gets ignored because it's difficult to express it's difficult to talk about and so because of this the implicit gets treated as less than it gets denigrated it gets treated as unreal as imaginary as a fantasy or as the explicitly objective stuff this creates a problem because this biases our understanding only to the explicit actually makes us dumb our culture conditions us to assume that everything can be explicate 'add and if it can't be explicate 'add it's assumed that it must not be true because hey everything kuru can be explicated right but how do you know that did you actually go through some sort of experiment to prove that everything true can be explicated no because you'd literally have to go through the entire universe to prove that so clearly it was never actually proven empirically by science that everything that's true can be explicate 'add and in fact the opposite is the case which I'll be showing you with examples in a moment here there are many many things within reality which cannot be explicate a-- deafer and in canada in fact there are many examples within science where this is the case many examples within madame at mathematics we'll be getting that to that in a moment so the problem here is that the implicit goes unacknowledged and undervalued in our culture and all throughout school and as you were raised and the culture that you were brainwashed with has so skewed your mind to the explicit understanding that most people don't even know that there is such a thing as implicit understanding or implicit aspects to reality so that's what this episode is working to correct try to comprehend this just because a thing cannot be easily shared doesn't make it any less true or any less important and consider the possibility that there might be some things which are true in reality which can never be shared with anybody or ever communicated yet they are still true and they might still be very important so if if that's true what I just said that's a big deal that's also a very big problem for us as a society because if there are things that are true but which cannot be spoken well how do we disseminate those things how do we teach those things how do we get other members of society to agree with us about these things this becomes one of the core epistemological binds that we find ourselves in in life is that there actually are very important truths which simply cannot be shared and yet they need to be shared because if these truths are not shared then mankind falls into devilry and depravity and falsehood and society becomes sick and dysfunctional and yet at the same time if you do share these truths you can never share them so I see you're stuck in this bind that's that's one of the whole tricks and problems with this work that we're doing with all the stuff that I teach naturalised at org is a lot of the things I teach are the implicit aspects of reality which are difficult to share which is why you didn't learn them through school and through your culture notice that you have many intuitions in your life that you cannot easily articulate and yet at the same time honoring these intuitions and following these intuitions is crucial to your development and crucial towards truth seeking if you're interested in seeking the truth so let's stop beating around the bush and give you an example so that you're clear about what I mean by implicit so the best example that I came up with is the natural numbers you know 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 the integers that keep going to infinity now here's the challenge try to explicate the natural numbers try to make them all explicit let's try 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 let's see you you you see the problem here we can keep going forever when do we stop you can't ever explicate all the natural numbers why not because there's an infinite number of them you'd have to explicate forever so the natural numbers are actually we might say implicit the infinitude the entire set of natural numbers is implicit because it generates forever it's like a forever expanding object now of course this seems very obvious and you might wonder well so what what's they deal but here's my question to you how is it possible that even though we all agree that even if you lived for a hundred years counting numbers you would never be able to explicate all the natural numbers how is it possible that you're able to understand that the natural numbers are actually infinite I mean if you insist on being very strict and there are these people who are really you know who love to pretend like they're very scientific and very rational and very skeptical and very strict you know no nonsense just hard-nosed no rule stuff no airy-fairy stuff just very very factual objective people these types who like to insist that everything be strictly proven and demonstrated and no mystical nonsense so if you're not that type of person then how can you understand what infinity is because there's there's two facts here fact number one is that the natural numbers do keep going on forever they don't stop and you can keep explicate the forever and fact number two is that you actually understand that you understand that so don't try to play dumb and say like oh well we don't really know Leo we don't know maybe the numbers stop at some point because you know maybe after a few trillion it just stops how do you know if you haven't explicator them all but you do there's an understanding that takes place here that's what I want you to notice you can actually you can take a child who is just learning numbers for the first time and you can actually if you did a very careful experiment you can have the child like count up one two three maybe give them some marbles to count one on one marble two marbles three marbles four marbles and then you can actually kind of lead them through that process and then you can ask him like well when does this stop how many marbles can we have and the child will sit there and think about it think about it think about and then he'll have an insight he'll have an understanding of he'll say oh it doesn't ever end these marbles we can have as many marbles as we want it's infinite at some point in your life in your career in mathematics in school you also realize that so my question to you is how did you realize that because if you're a stickler for only the hard facts well the hard facts are that no human ever has ever has ever been able to explicate the natural numbers so what I'm suggesting to you is just the fact that you're able to understand that natural numbers are infinite that's already a mystical phenomenon that's going on your understanding of that but you're overlooking it because you're just taking it for granted you are your mind or your consciousness is somehow coming into contact with something implicit something transcendent which are the natural numbers and somehow the mind is able to grok it obviously you're knowing here cannot be explicit its implicit knowing so how is that possible start to just wonder about that that's a mysterious thing how is it possible for you to know that stop taking that for granted stop assuming that it's obvious and in that it's easy it's like oh well everybody knows that it's just it's just a matter of adding one plus two plus three and you just keep adding more and more and more and it's just as no this is this is mysterious spooky mystical stuff that's happening so your mind see is your mind is so clever that it's able to grasp a thing holistically intuitively implicitly without having to go through every step and prove every step along the way you can just say one two three four five six seven eight nine ten and then by that point you start to your mind goes AHA I've grasped all of the numbers at once I don't need to keep counting any further I've grasped their essence or their nature and that I understand clearly is endless you see so even though your mind is too finite to be able to count all the numbers it's still capable of grasping infinity this numerical infinity all at once but if I ask you what are the steps show me the steps prove to me explicate to me how you understand or how your mind grasped infinity in this case you can't do it because when I asked you that when I asked you to demonstrate every single step of how you grasped infinity that itself would be infinite you see I'm asking you to explicate something that's implicit infinity is implicit I'm asking you to explicate it but you can't explicate it because it would take forever but yet you can still get it that's some spooky stuff that I suggest you stop taking for granted and you start to contemplate and wonder about how that's possible and just wonder at the amazement of it that's an amazing thing you're able to do here's another example there's something called transcendental numbers pi e and others that you learn in school humans know the number pi you know 3.14159 six whatever it is humans know that number two one truly trillion digits decimal points but here's the astounding thing is that no matter how far we calculate how many decimal points further were still never any closer to getting to the end of pi I want to read you this quote from cliff pic over about this curious phenomenon of Pi he writes quote in 1882 German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann proved that pi is transcendental finally putting an end to two and a half thousand years of speculation in fact he proved that pi transcends the power of algebra to display it in its totality it can't be expressed in a finite series of arithmetic allure algebraic operations using a fixed size font it can't be written on a piece of paper as big as the entire universe end quote that's pretty amazing just one number pi turns out to be infinite and endless and what's even more amazing is that this German mathematician Ashley was able to explicate or to prove he was able to prove that basically pi is transcendental that's pretty amazing how is it possible to prove that something is infinite using finite symbols here are some more examples a coffee cup I got a coffee cup right here very simple object and I might ask you is this a is this an object that we can explicate is this an explicit object or an implicit object and you might say and you know modern physics will probably tell you something along the lines of very kind of simplistically the materialist paradigm will tell you well yeah Leo here's the classic definition of an explicit object everything about this object here it is it's all known in fact what we can do is we can we can create a list of every possible fact about this object and eventually we'll get to the bottom of it and we'll have a complete description of this entire object and that will be that and we will know everything about this object that's sort of the metaphysical and epistemic paradigm with which scientific materialism approaches that object and basically the entire world but it's patently false that's actually not how it works because the list of properties of this object is literally infinite if you want to make a list of all of the properties of this object you're gonna have to list how soft it is how hard it is how tall it is how small it is how big it is how much mass it has how much energy it has how much electrical charge it has how much heat it has its temperature and so forth then after you get done with all those you're gonna have to start to list literally every position of every molecule in it and you might say well so what we can do that I mean yeah it's gonna be a very large list it's gonna be trillions of molecules that make up this cup but we can you know if we had a really good measuring system and a computer and a lot of time we could maybe go through and actually calculate the the position of every molecule in this cup and then we'll be done because supposedly there's a finite number of these molecules right well but that assumes that every molecule that's the end it just stops it atoms but it's about atoms at atoms have subatomic particles there's hundreds of subatomic particles you can keep breaking them down further and further and further and if you know a little bit about quantum mechanics there's not even such a thing as a particle down there really these are probability clouds various quantum field equations and of course this cup you're not able to understand what a cup is in isolation from its environment and from the entire universe because when you get to that very quantum level the particles in this cup are entangled with the rest of the universe see and it's possible for you to actually become directly conscious that this cup has no bottom to it it goes on forever you can keep zooming into it more and more and more and more and more forever this is an infinite cup you can view it from infinite angles you can zoom into it forever you can zoom out of it forever and you can list its properties forever and no matter how much you describe and talk about this Cup you will never get to the bottom of talking about that about this Cup you could spend a thousand years talking about this Cup and you will not be any closer to the end of talking about this Cup now of course some wise asses heroes olia but what about the Planck length the Planck length for quantum mechanics tells us there's a there's a rock bottom floor to reality below which you cannot get and supposedly at that level everything is quantized and there's just like little little bits you know sort of like pixels on a screen and once you you know no with all those pixels represent just like on a TV screen then that's it you have a full representation of the cup and there's nothing more this is this is fantasy this is not how it actually works there's no such thing as a bottom to reality reality reality is bottomless it's infinite now you might want to rollio but how do you know it's infinite oh well here's the problem you're asking me to explicate to you how I know infinity but I could ask you the same question about the numbers the natural numbers how do you know they're infinite you have to grasp it with your consciousness implicit understanding or intuition so what I'll tell you about this Cup is that I become directly conscious that reality is infinite to the bottom most level it has no bottom the cup goes on forever and what I'm suggesting to you is that you can become directly conscious if you work at it that this cup is infinite but of course this is not easy to do this requires enormous superhuman levels of consciousness which you don't currently possess because you haven't practiced it but if you sit for 10 years in meditation staring at that cup for 10 hours a day you might be able to do it or maybe take a psychedelic you might be able to do it so for now just you know take my word for it although of course I'm not telling you this as a belief I'm just telling you at this as a possibility that you can prove for yourself so I'm not asking that you believe me that this cup is infinite I'm just kind of like giving you my conclusions here you know you have to understand that what I talked about is just the tip of the iceberg of everything that I know and all the work that I've done I can't possibly give you all the work that I've done everything that I've become conscious of through one of my videos it's just the tip of the iceberg my video is explicate implicit and much larger sort of like the iceberg under the water effect you only see the tip the tip is the explicit part the rest the iceberg is the implicit part most of reality is implicit the problem is that when you expect me to explicate all of it for you that itself is the mistake that's the core mistake that science makes is that it approaches the study of reality with the assumption that all of it can be explicated and if it can't be explicate it isn't true that turns out to be a dogma of science that turns out to be false and it turns out to be one of the fundamental fundamental limitations of science because you can keep doing science for a billion years and you can keep describing and measuring and explicate are-- ality and you will not be any closer to the end of it and that's fine you can do that there's nothing wrong with doing that but the mistake is not getting that that's what you're doing you see science would be a lot better off if science understood that what it's doing is that it's explicate the implicit and that it will never ever complete that process and how do we know that through implicit understanding you see a scientist will say olio but you don't really know that prove it but you see when you take that stance that is the very problem that I'm talking about this is a meta problem this is an epidermal logical problem it's in a sense it's it's more fundamental than science its meta scientific a meta scientific problem a problem that can't be solved within science is that you have to go outside of science prior to science to be able to understand the limitations of science and the limitations of your demand that all of reality can be explicate 'add it can't let's give you some more examples let's give you some more common ones not such nerdy ones like for example the punchline of a joke you spoil a joke when you over explain it what makes a joke a joke is that there's something implicit there the punchline that your mind in one instant Grox it's like oh yeah and it's funny there's there's a sort of a a reversal a twist that happens within the punchline of a joke that makes the situation funny and imagine if you were a type of person that was so serious about life that when somebody told you a joke you were so literal about it about interpreting it you weren't intuitive at all you weren't willing to to go into the implicit at all you were just completely explicit that you didn't get it you never got what a joke is you've never laughed at any joke in life because you just hear the jokes very strictly and then you asked the person to explain it to you and by the time they explained it - it's no longer funny ever had that happen to you I think I should tell a joke I guess at this point to demonstrate this what's so with a joke that I know okay there's a there's a funny one interesting one so Sherlock Holmes and Watson his companion they went to the desert camping and they set up a tent and they they lay there in the tent and they go to sleep and then in the middle of the night you know they go to sleep looking at looking up at the looking up at the sky and then they go into their tent they go to sleep and then so in the middle of the night Sherlock Holmes wakes up Watson and he says Watson look up and tell me what you see tell me what you deduce and so Watson looks up at the night sky and he looks at the stars and he says wow there's so many stars up there it looks like there's thousands of the millions maybe even billions and you know can you imagine homes if if only 1% of those stars had planets and only 1% of those planets had life how many different life forms and aliens and creatures must be out there in the universe that we haven't even contacted yet so so homes what I deduce is that there must be the universe must be teeming with life and Sherlock Holmes tells him no you idiot somebody stole our tent tada you get it so see there's something implicit in the punchline there's something unspoken that's what makes it funny and if you need it to be described to you then you don't get it and that's sort of the problem that's happening with science is that science is so fixated on everything being turned literal and explicit that it misses the punchline of life the punchline of reality and mysticism is really sort of the antidote to that mysticism is the exploration of the implicit aspects of reality which science neglects because it's only focused on the explicit another example for you is flirtation and sub communication flirtation is implicit if it's done right and if you take flirtation and you make it explicit you ruin it and a lot of men who first start to learn how to flirt with women and I have to go through this process because I was I was really bad at flirtation because I was so explicit that I had no subtlety I didn't understand the subtle art of flirtation I mean I had to learn that I'd sort of like rewire how my brain thinks in order to think in an implicit way to be able to flirt with women and to attract then see but a lot of like very nerdy artists are autistic guys they they don't know how to flirt and there's a really there's a really good example that I'm gonna steal here from slaw Boise Jack who's a philosopher post modernist philosopher and it's his example about coffee and flirtation so some movie I forget which movie he stole it from some movie so there's a guy and a girl they have their date they come back to the outside of the girl's house and so you know the girl is trying to you know figure out how to get the guy and so she says oh would you like to come upstairs for a coffee and the guy says oh I don't drink coffee and she says oh that's okay I don't have any see that's flirtation that's something is being communicated but it's not being explicitly stated and that's exactly what you need for successful romance to take place now imagine if the guy was autistic and he needed everything to be fully explicate to him and so the girl said that and he said oh so you mean we're gonna come upstairs and [ __ ] is that what she mean cuz you don't have coffee that mean we're gonna [ __ ] right so if he said that that's it the girl would never [ __ ] him he ruined it see but he has to be clever and and wise enough intuitive enough to understand that we have to keep it subtle you can't just explicitly tell a girl that we're gonna go [ __ ] it's not gonna work but the way scientists approach life in reality is they're like that autistic guy where when the girl is like hey you know come upstairs for a coffee and the guys like oh so you mean I'm going to insert my penis into your vagina oh please please tell me more here let me take out my clipboard and let lets let's write out all the things we're gonna do how many times do you want me to insert my penis into your vagina isn't gonna be 20 times 30 times and then are we going to do some more stuff is there gonna be cunnilingus involved is there gonna be oral sex and what kind please describe it all to me this is what science is doing with reality but by the time you end up doing that that is you see that very process of approaching reality and life that way in that explicit way something is lost in that process but many of these scientifically minded types who are very against mysticism just as a Dogma they're against it they don't get what they're missing so the point of this communication is to help you to see what we're missing so in this communication what I'm doing is I'm noticing notice what I'm doing is I'm giving you examples similar to what we did with the natural numbers like the example 1 2 3 4 5 so as I'm giving you more of these examples I'm hoping that at some point it gets through to you and it penetrates into your into your skull and you have an epiphany where you realize like oh I've been approaching my entire life in this very limited explicit fashion and there's there's all these other aspects of life that are in place that I have been missing out on that's what I'm hoping you get so by explicate Ingush I'm hoping you're gonna grasp something implicit by the end of this episode will that happen depends on you depends on how intuitive you are depends on how holistically you're able to think about the things that I say here so if you haven't gotten it yet let's keep going I got more examples for you so just to touch a little bit more upon the flirtation business when you're trying to attract women as a man the most important thing for attracting women is the sub communication getting your sub communication correct what is sub communication it's all the stuff that you don't say which is actually doing the speaking for you when you're speaking to a woman and you're trying to attract her so for example you know most guys if you tell a guy if you tell just like a total newbie hey go go approach that girl and try to attract her and flirt with her he'll immediately get in his head and he'll be he'll be confused and he'll be wondering like okay well what should I say what are the perfect lines that I need to tell her to get her to fall in love with me but see that's thinking about it all wrong that's thinking about it explicitly there is no particular line that will get a girl to fall in love with you rather the way you attract her is in the way you approach and in the way you present yourself it's actually the sub communicating the subtle cues that you don't even know you're doing it's at the subconscious level it's your eye contact it's your tone of voice it's how you square up with her it's how you present yourself it's how confident you are it's how easy you are about yourself it's how fearless you are because if you come up to her and you're mumbly and you're stumbly and you're scared and you're shy and you're meek and you try to supplicate to her you can't keep eye contact with her and you're worried about what kind of lines to say maybe you have a memorized line that you think is cool and you're gonna say that I need to try to impress her with your coolness if you do it that way you're guaranteed to fail not because you said the wrong words but because of the way in which you sub communicated yourself you see because she is reading your sub communications for honest signals of your masculine energy she doesn't care about the words you use because words are easy to fake she knows that you can memorize some line and you can use that line on a thousand girls that's easy to fake but what you can't fake is being a genuinely expressive authentic masculine man with that kind of nice confident energy and a [ __ ] you know laid-back sense of humor and authenticity and a bravado and confiden that's something that's very difficult to fake and so what a lot of people don't understand about how it attraction works is that the whole way that you get good as attraction as a man is that you actually you don't try to find some trick to get in the woman's pants no you actually change yourself as a man to become that kind of person who can exude the authentic honest signals that she will later pick up on and will attract her and that's genuine attraction rather than sort of fakery see and of course the woman is doing all of this without any awareness that she's doing it it's all happening automatic on her end so many women don't even understand that this is happening they just have an intuition and women are extremely intuitive and one of the reasons women are so intuitive is because over thousands of years of men trying to trick them into bed women have had to learn how to suss out the the real men from the fakers see women are more explicit by their nature their mind works in a more implicit manner than a man's mind a man's mind is more autistic and it wants everything explicate 'add and that's a lot of times why men get frustrated by women in relationships for example you ever get frustrated if you're a man with a woman where it's like the woman has some sort of problem she's crying or she's upset or whatever and you're trying to comfort her and you know if you were comforting a man you could just ask your man friend just like okay what what's the what's the deal let's work through your problem brainstorm some solutions and then I'll give you some advice and then we'll just move on everything will be fine but you can't do that with a woman with the woman you have to you have to read between the lines you have to kind of like intuitively guess what's going on and then you know she'll tell you all nothing is wrong you know she might be crying but you'll say oh nothing is wrong or she might be angry but she'll say oh I'm not really angry there's no problem and then you know if you're a dumb guy you'll say Oh there's no problem well Leo she said there's no problem so there's no problem right wrong she said there's no problem that means there is a problem it's exactly the opposite now as a man we think like well why can't you just be [ __ ] straightforward with us if there's a problem why can't you just say there's a problem why does she have to deny it and play these games because she's she's operating from a different paradigm she's operating from an implicit paradigm so if you want to get good with women as a man you have to learn to to tune into that different paradigm and then things will go well for you and if you try to be overly explicit with women in all these situations then you're gonna find yourself rejected and and heartbroken as they leave you until you learn your lesson and that's a large part of what learning how to be good with women is for a guy is is learning these learning how to think differently see men like to get everything spelled out literally whereas women like to be a lot more intuitive another example of the implicit is in movies in a really good movie they show you things rather than just telling you things so if you're a good writer you will write a scene where something gets shown to the audience without being explicitly stated for example you could have a movie scene if it's written by an amateur writer it'll be two guys you know they're in a room and it's just a UH exposition dump of dialog one guy will tell the other guy I am angry at you because you did XYZ to me something like that that's not nearly as masterful as showing it without saying it so if you're a good writer you have to kind of think backwards and if you think about like okay how can I show the audience that guy a is pissed off at guy B for reasons XYZ but not say any of that in the scene so it'll be through a look it'll be through what he's doing I'll set up the scene in such a way where maybe he's acting passive-aggressive or you know you know guy B has like a favorite a favorite object of his and you know guy a who's pissed off he steals it and breaks it or something you know and that is what communicates to you that guy is pissed off at guy be so explicit is not always better and then for those of you nerds who are really you know scientifically minded and rationally minded there's the example from logic I talked about this in a lot of length in my episode called the metaphysical implications of Google's incompleteness theorem where Google basically discovered and proved that all logics are inherently limited in that there's always stuff that's true within a logical system that cannot be proven or demonstrated by the logical system itself there are sort of meta truths that require a meta logic to the first-order logic there's a second-order logic that needs to be added on top of it in order to explain all the truths at the first-order logic level but then there's other truths at the second-order logic level which can't be described by second-order logic you need a third level of third order logic and then there's additional truth of the third level now that are created which can't be described by the third level there needs to be a fourth level and so on to infinity that's what basically Google's incompleteness theorem shows there are always truths which are outside of any logical symbolic system which cannot be proved it and coudl prove that see and so there's an infinite number of orders of logic and a different number of different types of logic contrary to what many scientifically and rationally minded people like to think see so Ashley logic itself is transcendental and truth transcends logic you can create a million different orders of levels of logic and you will still not be able to capture all of truth within your logic it's impossible what qoodles incompleteness theorem shows is that if your logic is complete it necessarily contradicts itself and if your logic is incomplete or rather if your logic is if your logic doesn't contradict itself then it's necessarily incomplete that's a twisted strange loopy conclusion which is the consequence of the fact that truth cannot be encapsulated in any kind of symbolic system and we'll talk about that a little bit more in a moment here about why that is here's another example of the implicit let's say you're getting into meditation and you learned that the monkey mind is the enemy in your life and you want to silence the monkey mind and so basically what that means is you want to stop thinking so you sit down you try to meditate you center yourself and then you start to say to yourself okay I'm thinking all the time and now I want to stop thinking let me stop thinking ah I've done it I've stopped thinking oh no that's a thought oh that's another thought oh no that's another thought wait a minute okay I got to stop thinking let me stop thinking okay hold on three seconds from now I'm gonna stop thinking one two three I did it oh no that's a thought you see what's going on here you can't use the mind to stop thinking but of course it takes a lot of practice for the mind to be able to grok that because the mind every time it stops thinking it wants to think some more wants to think about how it stopped thinking which is just more thinking which is sort of the self-defeating process so what needs to happen through meditation is it there you need to implicitly grasp some sort of new approach which is a non thinking approach to life and it's hard to grasp that because that that can't be done with the thinking mind see it can't be done explicitly there's no explicit like formula you can follow to stop thinking and you need to grasp that and the mind is resistant to grasping that because it's stuck on thinking here's another cool example this is an example of reading between the lines and I like this phrase reading between the lines because this is something that I want to really teach to you as a life lesson but first let me present it to you with just this specific one example notice the following if you're a writer no matter how much you write it will always be possible to read between the lines of what you've written for example Shakespeare you know Shakespeare wrote a bunch of stuff and we can go back and read Shakespeare's work and we can wonder well he yeah he wrote these lines these are the explicit lines of what he wrote but what did he really mean by those lines did he mean a B or C which did he mean now you might say well wouldn't it be easier if Shakespeare just wrote exactly what he meant because it seems like Shakespeare was kind of ambiguous in certain places I know writers generally are ambiguous sometimes they write sentences which are ambiguous you don't know if the writers trying to say a B or C or something else so how do we know which way to interpret them and you might say wouldn't it be nice if the writer just you know was extremely explicit all the time and and just literally wrote everything he thought and you would say well that would work right but it wouldn't because it's always possible to read between the lines of what was written how would you know that the writer was fully explicit you might say well the writer could write at the end of his book he could say okay in this book I have written everything that I wanted to write and everything in this book is completely explicit and exactly the way it is and it should be read completely literally the end but you could always wonder well is he being genuine about saying that or is he playing coy is he serious or is he joking is he playing some kind of trick on me is he being honest or dishonest is he fooling himself so you could always wonder these things which sort of leads us to the paradox of honesty um if you're wondering whether somebody is honest you can't determine that by asking them to explicitly tell you what does an honest or not so let's say that I'm a dishonest lying thief and you and and you're doing business with me and I'm a con artist also and so you're worried that I might con you and lie to you and you know bilk you out of your hard-earned money and you ask me Leo are you honest are you gonna steal my money from me what'll I tell you of course not I would never lie to you I'm the most honest person in the world I would never I'm not a con artist I would never steal money from you you can totally trust me let's go into business together it'll be great are you gonna trust me see it makes it it does no good to ask me whether I'm honest or not if I'm dishonest to determine whether I'm honest that's a meta that's an implicit meta thing that's outside of the scope of our conversation you can't really encode that into the first order level of our conversation because honesty is about that it's a meta issue you see you can't make it explicit it's an implicit thing which goes back to the point about flirtation with women the reason women have to listen to your sub communication rather than to your first order communication to your words is because it's very easy for a man to just lie to a woman with words it's easy for a man to come up to a woman say oh I'm a millionaire I have a fast car and I'm awesome and I'm you know I'll be a great husband and all this you can tell her all that but can she trust you no she can't trust you because you know she knows that you want to get her into her pants at any at any cost so you're gonna lie so what she has to do is she has to go meta or read your sub communication to make sure that the guy isn't trying to [ __ ] her see she's looking for honest signals the stuff that's difficult to fake words are very easy to fake this is not a bug of reality this is a feature of reality this is not a bad thing essentially how reality works at a deep metaphysical epistemic level that's what I'm trying to show to you and this this notion of reading between the lines is extremely important in this work that we're doing you can't just approach reality in this dumb explicit manner where you only read the lines and nothing between the lines a lot of religious people suffer from this problem because they read a Bible or some sort of holy text or they listen to some words from some guru and they take them so literally that there's no room for interpretation in their mind but the whole trick to all spiritual writings and teachings is that they're always talking about something transcendent and implicit which can never be spoken so if you try to approach spiritual texts with this explicit mentality you're always going to get it wrong because the true heart of what it spirituality trying to point you towards mysticism is trying to point you towards is the implicit and transcendent that which cannot be put into words that which can only be sort of pointed to vaguely and then it's your job to to realize the finger is pointing at the moon so basically what I'm trying to tell you here is that to a certain degree all understanding is implicit there's different degrees of understanding and implicitness or explicit as to understanding you can't make someone understand something that they don't understand that might seem like a tautology and it might seem like a vacuous statement but actually it's a very profound statement to get somebody to understand somebody to get under to get somebody to understand something you have to explicate more and more of that thing until eventually you're hoping that they grok it intuitively and if they lack that intuitive grokking ability no amount of explication will be enough for them to get it there is no substitute for understanding or for grokking even within mathematics you might say well leo it's obvious that one plus one equals two and everybody can get it no the whole point is that it's not obvious that one plus one equals two it's obvious to you because you take it for granted but at some point in your life it wasn't obvious that one plus one equals two that was something you had to understand and that was a leap in consciousness that happened see and if you were incapable of making that intuitive leap of consciousness you would not know that one plus one equals two if you try to tell a donkey that one plus one equals two the donkey won't get it you might say well that's because the donkey doesn't understand English that's not why I mean of course the donkey does not understand English that is of course a problem but that's not the fundamental problem the fundamental problem is that the donkey can't grok it and in fact all mathematical proof hinges on personal intuitive understanding so the irony about mathematics is that people who proclaim mathematics as the ultimate apps of the truth and you know the most scientific of things the most objective and indisputable of things the irony of that position is that what these people don't understand is that there can be no mathematics without personal direct intuitive understanding a mathematical proof cannot work without that in the same way that I said before if you take a donkey and you show him his reflection in the mirror and you try to point and you try to like get the donkey to recognize his own face in the mirror it's not gonna work the donkey isn't capable of it not because the donkey is stupid per se but because there isn't that intuitive leap in a sense for a donkey to be able to recognize his own face in the mirror a mystical insight needs to occur which us humans take for granted see when you get up in the morning and you go brush your teeth and you look in the mirror every morning at your own face and you recognize that as being you you don't think of that recognition of yourself in the mirror as being a mystical experience you think of it is just like it's obvious it's just a an objective scientific fact there I am but there's nothing objective or scientific about that fact that's a mystical understanding it's just so commonplace and you share it amongst everybody else in your tribe so much and your culture that you just take it for granted and you've called this science or objective but there's a mysterious understanding how do you actually know that that thing in the mirror is actually you some kind of recognition had to take place there that was intuition at work you shouldn't certainly didn't go through some sort of proof process it's not like you sat down one day looking at a mirror than you said okay here's a freckle on this cheek and there's a freckle on that cheek and here's a nose and there's a nose and here's a lip and there's a lip and here's a tooth and there's a tooth and there's a hair here and a hair they're all oh it's me I proved it you didn't go through that process you grasp it intuitively instantly at one point in your life and most creatures on this planet can't do that if you can supposedly crows can do it certain chimps and monkeys can do it Apes I think [Music] maybe a few more animals can do it I think like Ravens can do it or something um and and that's about it maybe dolphins I don't know and so this takes us to the issue of God now of course so why is there this all this confusion about God how do you come up with a proof for God you can't come up with a proof for God because God is implicit God is everything so how do you prove God you can't the only way you can understand what God is is to realize that you are God do you understand that right now that you are God are you conscious of that no you're like that donkey in that mirror you don't get it and so I mean I could help to kind of explicate more and more of God to you but at some point no matter how much I exploit eight at some point you got to grok it or you won't get it and you will just sit there and deny that there's a God you just don't get it and there's no substitute for forgetting it other than getting it you have to get it you can't make someone understand something they don't understand there's no substitute or shortcut for understanding understanding is it you either get it or you don't of course it can be helpful to explicate God in the same way that it can be helpful when we're dealing with a child to explicate the natural numbers 1 2 3 4 5 until the child gets it so if we took for example a group of a hundred children who or I don't know let's say five years old or something like that children who basically didn't know numbers we took a hundred of them and then we sat them all down and we just did a science experiment where we we took a big whiteboard and we started writing out one two three four five and then we told the children as we're doing this what we told them raise your hand at the moment that you under and that numbers are infinite and endless so a few children a very small percent of children would raise their hand immediately because they already get it but most of them wouldn't so you'd have to explicate so you'd have to say ok 1 2 3 4 5 by the time you got to 5 a few more children would raise their hand because they would get it that it's good this gonna keep going forever but many children still wouldn't get it they're a little bit slow not as intuitive as the other ones so we got to keep going 6 7 8 9 10 a few more would raise their hand by the time we got to maybe 50 the number 50 the majority then we're ready to raise our hand but if you still wouldn't you know they're in third they're lagging behind so we would keep doing this until one we hope that they would all get it at some point but but some of them wouldn't get it even if we went to a million so that person is a lost cause that's a problem with their intuition so it's exactly the same way with God if you're trying to become conscious of God what God is except it's a little more tricky with God because it's it's so it's so devilishly tricky and twisted that we explicate more and more of God to you through various spiritual teachings and through meditation exercises and so forth guided meditations and so on and their self inquiry practice and so on you keep doing that doing that through psychedelics as well you can keep explicate more and more and more of God until one day it becomes so [ __ ] obvious that you're like oh all of this is God oh okay I get it now duh of course but it took all years and years sometimes decades of explication for you to get to that point and every person will wake up at their own pace some people need a few days some people need a few years some people need a few decades some people need a few lifetimes to wake up here's another example for you of implicit versus explicit I was at a workshop a while back with Peter Ralston he was teaching this workshop and I'll never I'll never forget this we were talking about language the nature of language language is a very interesting thing to contemplate and anyways mmm he was explaining basically how all symbols are sort of a relative and meaningless we project meeting onto symbols that's all nice and fairly easy to understand but there was a moment where my jaw dropped in my understanding of how symbols work and how language works and that's when I understood that the act of pointing at a thing with your finger that that itself is a meaningless act that we are projecting meaning onto so you might say like how does a child know what the word cat means well you would say probably something like the parents say the word cat and then they take their finger and they point at a cat that thing over that furry tailed thing over there they point at it they say Cat Cat Cat Cat and the child goes oh yeah okay so cat is is that thing that the parent is pointing at and that's first of all recognize that that's a pretty big leap in consciousness to be able to recognize at all the word cat is somehow connect to that furry thing over there that's a that's a pretty amazing thing the human consciousness is able to do but but there's something even more amazing here what's even more amazing is that the human consciousness is able to understand that this that this thing here this act of pointing that this that this has a meaning to it beyond what it actually is more than just a finger because if you go to a donkey and you point to a donkey hey hey look back there and you point this way the donkey is not gonna look at your you know where you're pointing the donkey is just gonna look at your finger and see a finger he's not gonna see a pointer so just to understand that a finger is a pointer he's already a momentous leap in consciousness that's a highly implicit and intuitive activity so it's not just that the child is connecting the sound cat to a furry creature over there it's that the child is first understanding the meaning of this pointing activity and that there is even such a possibility as pointing at all when I realize that that's when my jaw dropped that's a mindfuck right there when you understand the significance of that that a pointer is something that your mind is projecting onto reality there's really no such thing as pointers until you imagine that there are the finger is not really a pointer wow that's deep so reality is transcendental what does that mean sounds like a fancy philosophical ordered sounds like it's just a word salad doesn't mean anything well no it means something here's a definition for transcendental again gathered for merits online dictionaries quote surpassing or superior mystical supernatural metaphysical abstruse which means difficult to understand or obscure and abstract a function that cannot be expressed by a finite number of algebraic operations not expressible algebraically in terms of variables and constants idealist lofty categories that have universal applications such as being oneness truth and goodness extremely special and unusual and cannot be understood in ordinary ways beyond the human experience things that lie beyond the practical experience of ordinary people and cannot be discovered or understood by ordinary reasoning extra categorical categorical attributes of being that's transcendental so basically what transcendental means is that no matter how much you explicate reality there will always be more left over which is implicit and unexploited and that is in a sense the very essence of reality itself reality is a thing which is endlessly being explicate it without ever ending reality is like a bag of marbles and you can pull out at one marble two marbles three marbles four marbles and you can keep pulling out these marbles forever and they never end and you might wonder that's impossible that's crazy how could that be this breaks the laws of logic and science and physics and all this no it doesn't break the laws of anything if you look around you carefully you'll see that this process of an infinity being explicate 'add from going from the implicit to the excellent is happening all the time in all places whether it's a coffee cup or it's the natural numbers that you learned in in grade school or it's anything and literally any object around you as infinite can be explicate forever I guess it would be more accurate to say that reality is like a bag out of which we can just pull objects of any kind we can pull out a marble we can pull out a fish we can pull out a cat a dog a building a car a tree sex male/female a planet a galaxy a universe a star a meteor a dinosaur and a human and we just keep going and going and it's an endless bag of anything you want that's basically what infinity is now okay be careful though to distinguish when I talk about infinity there's sort of two infinities the infinity I was talking about the very beginning the numerical infinity of the natural numbers that's infinity with a lowercase I so just it's the infinity of numbers and then when I'm talking about infinity of the entire universe I'm talking about absolute infinity that's the nature of what God is it's absolute infinity that's the nature of what everything is absolute infinity that's not a numerical thing don't confuse that with numerical infinity absolute infinity is actual infinity actual infinity is what is happening right here right now is everything it's all the physical stuff that you see that's actual infinity so be careful to distinguish those two and not blur them together numerical infinity is just 1 infinity within absolute infinities the absolute infinity contains an infinite number of lower infinities so I want you to take seriously the possibility that the deepest truths and understandings in life are necessarily irreducibly implicit requiring intuition and consciousness that can't be replaced or substituted with anything else cannot be fully articulated cannot be broken down into a linear sequence of steps cannot be formally proven and that none of this is a weakness that this is actually a strength because this is what allows reality to be endless if it wasn't this way reality would be finite and we would quickly get to the end of it and it would be rather boring and and kind of bland because we would know everything the amazing thing about reality is that it's endless you could never know it you can keep trying to know what forever and that process will never end but at the same time even though that's true you can also grasp the fact that it's unknowable or that it's infinite absolutely infinite as a whole in the same way that you can with the natural numbers so don't make the mistake of thinking like well if reality is infinite that means that we can't really know that it's impossible to know that and therefore we're screwed no no that's not what it means that would be the same mistake as a child seeing me writing on a whiteboard one two three four five and the child say oh well we're screwed now because obviously you know we're not gonna sit here forever and count up all these numbers no you can actually understand that this goes on forever and that that is the nature of numbers that they go on forever you can know that without explicitly knowing what the trillionth number is and that's an amazing thing that your mind is able to do your mind ape is able to holistically understand a thing without having to explicate in a linear sequence all of its finite steps but if you keep insisting that we have to explicate everything now there you're screwed but in that case you're screwing yourself which is what I want you to recognize you're artificially limiting your own self your own mind your mind is capable of going infinite if you let it but if you demonize the infinite and if you demonize paradox and if you demonize and diminish the implicit and you deny that it exists well then you've limited yourself to being limited see so you have to be careful about how your own mind limits you in this situation so why is it that truth with a capital T the ultimate truth why can't it be explicate it because of oneness because everything is one that means knowing and being are necessarily entangled because the explicitly implicit and they're entangled the truth cannot be explicate for the same reason that a hand cannot grasp itself because it is itself explication is a subset of truth for explication to occur truth needs to be there first is not limited to explication but explication is limited to truth because for a thing to be it has to be true for explication to be it has to be true it has to exist for my words to be able to describe reality first they have to be real then they could or could not faithfully represent reality both are possible words can lie or they can be more honest but either way they have to exist see this means words are second-order they're not first-order true this first order which is why you can't explicate all of truth because truth is infinite and your words your thoughts pictures symbols whatever you want to use to do your explication all of that is finite explication articulation explanation communication proof these are always indirect it's a type of translation and something is always lost in translation that's what I want you to to understand here it's a handicap to go through life expecting all of it to be explicate 'add this is one of the handicaps of science that science is gonna have to overcome to transcend in order to really deeply start to explore reality this is going to be a synthesis of science there's gonna be a coming together in the future of science and mysticism because the two were never really at odds science does some great stuff with this explication work and mysticism does some great stuff with it with its penetrating into the implicit aspects of reality and both our two sides of the coin that really need to work together in tandem when they're too separated from each other and the two sides don't talk to each other because they both hate each other they both think the other is wrong that's when you get um a dysfunctional system like we have right now there's value to both the implicit and the explicit it's just a matter of getting the balance correct and not denying one in favor of the other here's a list of examples of things that cannot be explicate 'add truth the absolute consciousness and God all of those are the same thing you can't ever explicate those that is the ultimate nature of reality non duality awakening enlightenment this cannot be explicate 'add love intuition a gut feeling a hunch have you ever had a gut feeling that something is wrong about a situation but you can't quite put your finger on it if I asked you to articulate and describe why you think this is a bad situation you shouldn't enter into this situation you can't say what it is you just know you shouldn't enter that situation you shouldn't go to that building you shouldn't enter this marriage you shouldn't be hanging around this person and sure enough you know a year later you discovered you know that building collapsed this person got killed in a car accident and this marriage would have been terrible for you or whatever you know but if the scientists ask you you will well where's your proof where is your proof that you knew this you ain't gonna get proof this is something that's deeper than proof can reach other things that cannot be explicate a sunset and orgasm a vision a psychedelic trip a mystical experience the paranormal and extra sensory perception ESP insight the reason behind creation all of creation there's a reason to it and you might wonder well what's the reason Leo I can't explicate and see it's implicit you'll only get it when you get it there's no point in me trying to tell it to you you ain't gonna get it can't be put into words reading people's emotions and intentions that's implicit stuff your life as a whole is really implicit you can't explain your life to anybody what it's like to be you and to live as you this is something that is unique to you only you know what it's like to live in your shoes and to experience life in the way that you experience life only you have that unique experience and no matter how many biographies you write or whatever you're never gonna be able to explain to anybody what it was like to live as you the only way other people can know what it's like delivers you is actually to live through your life by being you literally that's the only way everything else is a poor translation Zen is another good example of the implicit Zen koans the way that the Zen masters teach you know when you first start learning Zen from a Western perspective especially if you're kind of scientifically minded the way that I was when I started learning Zen reading about it this was maybe 10 years ago reading my first books on Zen and you know one of the biggest things that baffled me was like why do these Zen masters speak in riddles why can't they just be straightforward and tell me what the [ __ ] they're trying to say why do they ought to beat around the bush with their stories about birds and frogs and fish and this and that and monks doing mysterious things just tell me what the [ __ ] you want to tell me and I'll I'll know it but of course they can't because the whole point of Zen is that they're trying to point you towards the absolute which is inexplicable by its very nature you can't explicate enlightenment which is why that masters speak in riddles it would be helpful for you if you're trying to learn Zen or you're pursuing spirituality to realize that you know I see people often on the forum for example on the actualised forum they will you know post endless questions about God about enlightenment about Awakening about this about spirituality question after question after question just like a verbal diarrhea of questions but at some point the student in this process needs to understand that your questions can be forever your questions turn into a distraction because when you're asking a question that assumes that you could just get an answer and then you're gonna read that answer you're gonna believe that answer that's like okay now I got it but you don't got it if you think you got it you don't got it when it comes to this work you've got actually contemplated and go for that intuition the answer needs to come from inside of you not from my words which again creates one of the biggest traps of all of the work with actualize that org the biggest trap is that you're gonna listen to all the things I say you're gonna take it all literally and you're gonna think you're out you're gonna think that you understand what I said but actually all you have are just beliefs and ideas just mental masturbation and armchair philosophy and you haven't actually done any of the work to become directly conscious of the things that I speak about and that that's gonna be very problematic for you it's gonna create suffering for it's gonna screw up your whole life so watch out be careful of that trap so finally in conclusion you might wonder well Leo so what how is any of this practical here are the practical takeaways of what you should do about the things you learn in this episode first of all acknowledge that reality is implicit acknowledge that the implicit is as real as the explicit secondly stop expecting and demanding everything to be explicate to you thirdly learn to be silent and to appreciate the wisdom of silence it's in the silence that you get your deepest answers it's through the silence that you reach the implicit not through constant talking and debating in yabbering and jabbering and opinion izing and all of this fourthly start to rely more on your intuition this is a huge huge component of becoming a highly advanced human being is really working on trusting your intuition well listening to your intuition feeling it honoring it because one of the biggest challenges with your intuition following your intuition it's not that you have to silence yourself enough to even hear it which is the first problem most people are so distracted by watching TV and their smartphone and all this crap that they don't even hear their intuition another big part of the population doesn't even believe that intuition is a thing or if they do then to them intuition is just some sort of you know woowoo airy-fairy thing that shouldn't be taken seriously because science is what's real and intuition is just some new-age nonsense so you gotta overcome that but even after you overcome those two hurdles there's going to be the biggest hurdle is that once your intuition starts talking to you and you start listening to it it's gonna tell you some scary stuff it's gonna tell you things about how you could change your life in in ways that you don't want to change it's gonna be a threat to your ego which is precisely why you're drowning it out all the time with video games and other crap because your intuition is guiding you towards truth towards love towards consciousness towards God but this is not easy this is difficult work it's almost like learning to use the force from Star Wars could you imagine the absurdity of a scientist in the Star Wars universe flying to Yoda's planet Dagobah in the Empire Strikes Back flying to his planet in the swamp and he'll the scientists and a team of scientists you know with their notepads and their lab coats white lab coats they go to Yoda's Hut they locate it then you know they stay they get their tape measures they start measuring the diameter of Yoda's Hutson and then they you know they start measuring the diameter of Yoda's ears and how long they are in the hairs and everything they treat it like a lab animal and then they start asking questions like okay so tell us about this force that you know about this spooky force what is this force like can you quantify it for us can you explicate it for tell me how does this force work this is why what does it do where does it come from and where's it going where'd it come from and and what and why and how and this and this and how do what kind of experience can we run on it this is not how the force works at that point he would just force choke that scientist you see that's not how you approach learning the force it's a different paradigm it's more heart-centered more intuitive more holistic the problems that our culture has demonized this and has called it mu airy-fairy stuff subjective stuff stuff that your mind is making up stuff that you're imagining it's demonized it with these sorts of labels and that's a great shame and so what we're doing in this episode is we're trying to reverse that that misconception that culture has spent to you about the nature of the intuitive and the implicit and the transcendental another takeaway here for you that's practical is stop trying to explain or to justify your highest divisions and motivations and intuitions to others if you have a vision for your life that you feel in your heart is something you got to follow something that's important if you feel that it's important for you to seek the truth or to follow some life purpose or to go to some career to be an artist to be a musician to you know be a teacher or a doctor or whatever if you feel this if you have a vision for for mankind it's your job to honor that and not to justify it or to explain to others because there will be many may say or your parents will say oh oh you wanna you want to pursue the truth oh well well how you gonna pay for your food who's gonna pay for your rent you know that's how parents often think about such things it's like all you want to become a musician how so so like why don't you become a lawyer instead that'll earn you more money but you gotta you gotta trust your own vision and a vision is an intuitive thing it's a very personal thing only you can know whether your vision is appropriate for you and whether your vision is gonna be appropriate for the people around you and for mankind as a whole if you start to approach visions for your life in some sort of scientific autistic manner works like all will let me prove whether this vision is good or not you've already screwed up visions are like the force you got to learn to to trust and cultivate your visions to make your vision stronger and more powerful until you're able to use those visions and enforce them for the vision is really something implicit that's coming out and then into the explicit some more practical things allow your understanding of things and situations to be intuitive and abstract really get good at thinking in abstract ways this topic of abstraction is so important that actually there's a entire separate episode long episode I'll have about that get good at reading between the lines remember that example that I gave you there are many situations in life where you need to read between the lines in attracting a mate in a relationship in a marriage with your children with your students if you're a teacher reading between the lines with your health if you're feeling something in your body read between the lines there when you're reading spiritual texts when you're listening to spiritual teachings when you're in business you can read between the lines of things read between the lines of the data that's being presented to you that's what makes you a great business leader read between the lines of people's words what they tell you so forth read between the lines of the things that I tell you of my work there's a lot in my work that lies between the lines of what I say that which goes unspoken also practically speaking understand that others read between the lines of what you say and do you it's possible to read you like a book even better than a book just by washing your face your emotions your body posture your language all this sort of stuff and you can get good at that other people can get good at that too this is a valuable skills in art form also practically understand that there will be always gaps in communication and things will always be lost in translation take that into account especially when you're listening to deep teachings after you finish watching one of my episodes you could always ask yourself okay so that's what leo ashley said but one of the things he didn't say that are important in this episode what was he communicating that got lost in translation that can be a fruitful question to ask in various situations stop demanding proof for everything there are many things in reality that cannot be proven that doesn't make them false that's just the nature of reality and also stop trying to prove everything to others too there are many aspects of life that you can't prove to another if they can't understand it they can't understand it and that's their own problem their own limitation you know don't stop don't start beating a donkey over the head because he can't understand that one plus one equals two just realize that that is the donkey's nature that's where the donkey is at meet the donkey where he's at so he can't understand that one plus one equals two beating him over the head with it cursing at him and judging him and demonizing him he's not gonna help him so only gonna piss him off make him angry and he bites you and lastly what I want to point out to you here is that really this episode and the next episode that I have planned about abstraction I hope to release that after this one they're gonna sort of dovetail together they're laying the foundation for not only understanding what understanding is but they're laying the foundation for what is called vision logic or post rationality there's the pre rational there's the rational and then there's the post rational the post rational is not irrational it includes the ability to be rational about things but it goes beyond it's also transcendental you can call it trans rational as well as post rational same thing vision logic is the ability to have logical thinking but not to be so limited by that logical thinking that it's also visionary it's highly highly intuitive that's what you want to be working towards and so I'll have more episodes in the future to help you to understand what vision logic is and maybe how to practice it more there's a lot that could be said about that but we're just starting to kind of like lay a foundation for it so now you're starting to understand vision logic is that kind of logic which is not purely explicit but recognizes the implicit the transcendent and learns how learns the art of sort of tangoing with the transcendent because you can't grasp a hold of a transcendent in the same way that you can with the non transcendent stuff see it's it's a different way of of dealing with reality of thinking about reality it's it's more like you might say it's kind of a fuzzy logic not a strict form of logic but fuzzy logic that's actually a thing they have a whole subfield of logic which is called fuzzy logic kind of interesting so so yeah so there you go the question is now do you understand what was said here and if you do understand what is that what is understanding what did you understand from this episode how did you understand it what is that thing that you understood understand maybe not contemplate it contemplate what understanding is try to locate understanding in your direct experience don't think about understanding so much as observe yourself in the process of understanding or in the process of struggling to understand that's also useful so if you didn't understand anything here and you feel all confused and misunderstood then look at that observe that and wonder so what is misunderstanding then because if you can understand what misunderstanding is that's a form of understanding there you go that's a roundabout way of understanding understanding all right that's it I'm done here please click that like button for me you can support me on patreon if you like this kind of work go to patreon.com/scishow I'm really grateful for those it helps to give me a little bit more peace of mind with this work that I'm doing it allows me to invest more time and effort into doing research so that I don't have to be constantly putting out as much content so that my content can be better and deeper and it doesn't have to be as dumbed down as it would be if I didn't have a you know an independent source of income and I had to like always be trying to sell you something or advertise something to you so I'm really grateful for being able to have that kind of financial independence that patreon offers so thank you for that and what do I want to say here as a final thought hmm yeah ever every one of my episodes requires very careful reading between the lines so much is left unsaid and so one of the one of the lessons I hope you learn from this episode that you apply to all my other videos that you watch in the future is that when you watch my future videos you're gonna watch them more carefully trying to read more between the lines trying to you know intuitively pick up on what's being communicated it's not so much about the words that I'm saying that are important it's what I'm trying to get across to you it's the essence of what the words are trying to point to again it's the finger pointing to the moon don't pay attention to the finger pay attention to the moon that it's pointing at at the same time even though I say that I have to again qualify it here again because there's a trap because when I tell you to read between the lines there's also the other danger you could swing the pendulum too much in the other direction so you can be too literal with the teachings that's bad or you could swing too much in the other direction where you start to read so much between the lines that you start to project all of your own personal biases and fears and ego stuff into what I'm teaching and saying so you might be you know you might be so paranoid like oh well Leo said this and this does that means something there like this like you know like for example I released that those episodes that I release about um me and my living room there when I uh you know taping one of my awakenings or something people see the three symbols behind me in the back the decoration and they say oh my god it's it's a 666 what does it mean what does it all mean is this a secret Illuminati thing there's a devil thing what is Liam trying to teach us I I hid in a lesson what oh my god it's explained it to us and it literally means nothing your mind reads it is 666 until you guys told me at 666 I didn't even notice it I've had it there for years didn't even notice it it means absolutely nothing see so sometimes as they say a cigar is just a cigar not everything has meaning in fact all the meanings are projected there by your mind so be very careful because if you're starting to you know if you have a paranoid mind you start to read between the lines of everything your mind is gonna show you exactly what you expect to see whatever your self biases are whatever your worldview is your mind will see that in my teachings if you're a devil you're gonna use my words to deepen your devilry so be careful that's always been the problem with spiritual teachings from the very beginning of civilization there have been spiritual teachings but the people who are reading these teachings they either read them way too literally missing the essence of them or they misinterpret them according to their own paranoid self biased projections and knees and fears and then they distort the teachings and apply the teachings to do enormous evil those are you know two ends of the of the spectrum two traps two extremes that are traps and then you know striking the right balance that's that's an art form being able to read a spiritual text or listen to a spiritual teaching and to to try to suss out and and grasp exactly what the teacher was intending for you to get not necessarily what he said but what he intended you to get that's the key so when you're reading the Bible it doesn't matter what the Bible says what matters is did you get the essence of what was intended as the purpose of these writings by the Mystics who wrote them if not then the whole exercise of reading the Bible is completely useless in fact it's worse than useless it's a it's gonna deepen your devilry so keep that in mind and make sure you stay tuned for the next episode which should be about abstraction if it's not gonna be the exact next one it might be one or two you know into the future so maybe wait a few weeks it's gonna come out it's really gonna be like a a part two and build on top of everything we built upon here you