so welcome to category eight your
spiritual life this is one of the most
important categories we've spoken about
our mind we've spoken about our body now
we talk about that essence of us that is
so hard to describe that billions of
people feel Israel is tangible if you
call it your spirit or your soul now the
interesting thing about this category is
that this is one of the categories that
is most filled with rules and many of
these rules go back thousands of years
and so we live in a world today where
people can be highly religious or people
can be highly eighty years they can
dismiss anything that cannot be
validated by science the good thing
about the world today is that there's
also a large group of people in the
middle people who often call them spell
it selves spiritual but not religious
now interestingly as of today as of this
year I'm recording this video the
spiritual but not religious group is the
fourth largest life adherents in the
world after Christianity Islam and
Hinduism so it's a very interesting
group and it's growing and growing and
growing
according to author Greg Epstein it now
measures perhaps 1 billion people so you
could be highly religious you could be
spiritual but not religious you could be
an atheist but what we're going to talk
about here will work for you no matter
where in this spectrum you lie and keep
in mind that it is a spectrum there are
very few people at the edge perhaps
crazy fundamentalists who believe that
everything in their religious book is
true in the world today but honestly
they do number a smaller percentage the
vast majority of religious people are
decent folks who do have somewhat of an
open mind and then there are those
people at the other end
atheists who are completely hardcore
that they will not accept anything that
even smells like spirituality some will
not even pay any attention to meditation
that too is changing as science is
beginning to show that certain practices
like meditation can bring phenomenal
good as of this year there are 1400
studies supporting meditation so even
hardcore atheists are now beginning to
see that there is some element
of spirituality that we can embrace now
the important thing to know is this
spirituality is still something highly
unmeasurable but we do not need to know
what it is or how it works to be able to
gain its benefits think about the Sun
for seven thousand years since the dawn
of civilization we've been using the Sun
for navigation for agriculture for
warmth for direction yet nobody knew
what the Sun was the ancient Egyptians
thought it was the god raaah sailing
across the sky no one really knew other
cultures thought it was a giant fireball
that rotated around the earth it's only
in the last few hundred years that we
figured out that the Sun is a star
it's a giant helium hydrogen filter more
nuclear reaction that the Earth revolves
around it's the center of our galaxy but
it didn't stop us from figuring out how
to use the Sun for the prior six
thousand eight hundred years of human
civilization likewise with spirituality
we don't have to really know what it is
we don't have to define the soul we
don't have to figure out what makes
meditation work to start embracing some
of these practices so have an open mind
as we explore this category but
spirituality is an important part of our
lives whether it's the practice of
gratitude or the daily prayer that you
do to many people it brings peace it
brings wisdom and it makes them better
human beings but while we do say that it
is also important to understand what is
not spiritual it is important to
understand that spirituality today has
been corrupted by brutes and many of
these rules come from the dogma of
organized religion so let's talk about
that for a moment you can be religious
but you do not have to buy into every
bit of dogma that your religion says is
true as I designed this course I decided
to set a hard foot on the ground when it
comes to tolerating or dismissing
certain dogma if your religion tells you
for example that gay people are somehow
sinners that is dogma and we
need to wipe that out from human
history their aspects of spirituality
that are not spiritual and you can tell
that they are not spiritual in a couple
of
simple ways we'll come to that in a
moment but if your Dogma teaches you to
hate if your dog my teaches you that you
have the sole access to the one god then
your Dogma is probably so what
you want to learn to do is to separate
dogma from the beautiful aspects of
religion to help you move towards pure
spirituality and the spirituality that
we're talking about here is nothing more
than the spiritual ideas so common in
all religions in all spiritual books it
is the idea that we are somehow all
connected that we need to respect each
other that we need to take care of the
common good that earth as a living
organism relies on all of us and we need
to cooperate and do no harm to others
when you view spirituality as a set of
those beliefs and you're ready to shed
the Bs dogma
whether it was implanted in you from
your parents or your preacher you take a
big step towards being truly spiritual
and moving away from being a
fundamentalist prick so let's talk about
spirituality in my book the code of the
extraordinary mind I make an important
statement I say this your spirituality
should be discovered not inherited what
I'm saying here is that spirituality is
something that no one has a monopoly on
and therefore it is up to each of us to
discover our own spirituality you can
take extracts from your organized
religion you can read new-age books you
can explore someone else's religion but
be sure to create your own spirituality
and one of the things we're gonna do in
this exercise is to let you set goals on
spirituality but be sure that you're
setting goals that speak to your heart
your soul and are not simply causing you
to restrict yourself based on the bruise
of your culture or your religion your
forefathers your educators your teachers
your preachers your mother's and your
father's this has to be your
spirituality for this exercise to work
if not you're just embedding yourself
more into Bruce if you tell yourself I'm
not gonna eat that certain type of food
because a 2,000 year old book said so
why I need to dress a certain way or I
need to pray a certain number of times a
day or any
to dislike a certain type of person or
certain culture than that my friend
could be you restricting yourself and
doing exactly the opposite of what this
particular category is about so let's
first talk about the discovery of
spirituality how do you go about
discovering new models of spirituality
and I want to be very honest with you
here I'm gonna share my discoveries but
keep in mind that this is just me you
should not be following me you need to
make your own decisions so I grew
spiritually through two books - books
fundamentally changed my life and these
are the books the first is conversations
with God I was given this book on a
camping trip in Colorado in 1998 by a
friend and this book opened my eyes to
the idea that there was a different
vision of God that we could embrace I
grew up in a religious household and
within a year or so of reading this book
by Neal Donald Walsh and subsequent book
stay about nine books in the series but
start with book one I gave up religion
today I consider myself highly spiritual
but I do not follow any religion I
follow aspects of different religions
but no one religion because I find that
limiting and against everything I teach
the second book that expanded myself
spiritually is autobiography of a yogi'
this book became famous recently because
Steve Jobs label this his favorite book
of all time in his biography Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson Isaacson said that
this was the only book Steve Jobs had on
his iPad in the month he died and at
Steve Jobs funeral this was the book
that all guests received as a gift it's
hard to say exactly what aspects of this
wonderful book Steve liked but I can
tell you I love this book so much within
one week of reading it my life started
shifting and I've read it several times
in my life it is a book written by
Paramahansa Yogananda who was a man who
introduced many Eastern philosophies to
the United States so those are some
books I like there might be books you
like feel free to dive into your snows
books and use the knowledge and wisdom
from those books to set your
spirituality but remember many of the
greatest spiritual books out there today
would not
books written hundreds of years ago
they're books written in the last decade
maybe even in the last year
spirituality just like every other
aspect of the human race is constantly
evolving so learn from the old yes but
also learn from the new and bring both
together to create your own spiritual
ideas as for my spiritual idea I call it
the Gothic l theory when you're done
with this particular video on the next
page of this chapter I've set aside a
simple four minute video that explains
the Gothic L theory it was also
described in my book the code of the
extraordinary mind watch that video and
think about how can you create a similar
theory about spirituality for yourself
the coracle theory is simply something I
created for my own self it gives me four
principles with which I lived my life
and I believe that with these four
principles I'm able to live a good life
a decent life and be tapped in
spiritually you may have different
principles that you want to follow but
the Gothic all theory helps give you a
clue on how you two can create your own
spiritual ideas and you can keep them
with you
now here a couple of things to think
about when it comes to spiritual ideas
ask yourself these questions before you
go into this exercise what value
spiritual values do you believe in why
do you believe in these values what
aspects of your religion do you truly
love what aspects do you think you might
be able to discard would you like to
move deeper into a spiritual aspect you
already have or discover something
completely new or experiment by mixing
and matching different practices there
is nothing wrong with that what is your
highest aspiration for your spiritual
practice would you like to learn new
spiritual ideas such as say lucid
dreaming creative visualization
mind-body healing intuition energy work
or more are you stuck within models of
spirituality enforced upon you by
cultural religion that you are afraid to
discard because you are afraid to hurt
those you love well discount them
secretly you don't have to tell those
you love but you are free to craft your
own inner beliefs in the privacy of your
own soul so with those ideas let's go
straight into the exercise I'm gonna set
the timer for three minutes and you're
gonna write down some of the ways you
want to grow spiritually
so let's begin where are you now
spiritually and where would you like to
grow would you like to move deeper into
the spiritual practice you already have
or try out a difference for ritual
practice
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what is your highest spiritual
aspiration
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how many times a day would you want to
engage in spiritual practices whether
it's meditation or prayer or going to a
holy place of worship or reading a
spiritual book
how would you like to feel on a
day-to-day basis fully in tune with your
spiritual practice
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what new aspects of spirituality would
you like to learn there are many
programs today that help us expand
different aspects of our spiritual
practices programs such as lucid
dreaming learning to go into deep states
of meditation programs that teach us how
to overcome fear worry or stress
mindfulness practices courses that teach
intuition
empathy
or energy work
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which spiritual teachers that you want
to explore
what new spiritual books do you want to
commit yourself to read it
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what spiritual Ginny's like soul vana do
you want to maybe have a membership too
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would you practice your spiritual growth
individually all with the group
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how would you remind yourself of your
values on a day to day basis what are
these values that you want to hold on to
and live and breathe
and our time is up so I know that was a
tough one
spirituality is still something that's
so hard to define but I think you can
see where we are going with that so
before we move on I want to leave you
with a couple of tips on how you can
further find to you in your spiritual
practices I started mine value because
aspects of spirituality really appealed
to me and I found that when I worked on
my spiritual practices practices such as
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and better and better at my career
you've read my story perhaps in my book
the code of the extraordinary mind so
you can see why I would start a company
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grow yourself spiritually I've always
found that by exploring different
courses and different aspects of
spirituality we make ourselves become
more whole I've met masters in my life
and it is remarkable what they are able
to do from being able to instantly
accelerate healing to being so intuitive
they can tell you things about yourself
without them possibly knowing and I know
yes there's lots of skepticism out there
but as an engineer I know what is
from what is real and I can't
explain how all of this work but it is
amazing to see what the human mind is
capable of when we really dive in deep
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